Open mike 07/03/2025
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Daily review 06/03/2025
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Fox in a henhouse
Simeon Brown has appointed John Carnegie to the EECA even though Carnegie has some decidedly anti energy conservation ideas.
Open mike 06/03/2025
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Daily review 05/03/2025
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Blink twice if you are being held hostage
Vladimir Zelensky has apologised to Donald Trump for being the receipient of Trump’s appalling behaviour recently. And Trump has sparked a full on trade war with some of America’s closest allies.
Open mike 05/03/2025
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Daily review 04/03/2025
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Open mike 04/03/2025
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Daily review 03/03/2025
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Canadian billionaire linked to right wing websites buys a near 10% of NZME shares
James “Jim” Grenon spends almost $10 million to buy a ~10% stake in the publisher of NZ Herald and owner of Newstalk ZB.
3 Things To Know About This Government – 8 Things We Should All Do Now
This is an excerpt from a longer article: What Can We Do Again?
Helen Clark’s nuanced take on world events
In a recent interview Helen Clark managed to neatly summarise current world problems and express a desire for New Zealand to maintain its independent foreign policy.
Open mike 03/03/2025
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The new world order
Yesterday’s press conference involving Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky suggests that the United States is now solidly aligned with Russia against the Western World and Western values.
Open mike 02/03/2025
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The Chinese Shadowboxing Show at Sea
The World is at war and the level of mind-control is mind-blowing.
Looks like rail enabled ferries may be back
You have to hand it to Winston and New Zealand First. On the issue of rail enabled ferries they have performed outstanding work. That good that what looked like a foregone conclusion, the dismantling of the Cook Strait Rail Link, may not happen after all.
Capitawism
“Socialism only sounds good in theory!”
Open mike 01/03/2025
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Daily review 28/02/2025
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Its the end of the Media as we know it …
Two recent media related stories made me wonder if there was now formal acknowledgement that the concept that media should fearlessly and impartially report the news is now dead.
Some more thoughts about National’s vigilante justice policy
National’s forary into supporting vigilante justice raises some thorny legal issues it appears National has not thught about.
Open mike 28/02/2025
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Daily review 27/02/2025
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The Greens plan for a Green Budget
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Open mike 27/02/2025
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Daily review 26/02/2025
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USA – unreliable, undemocratic, and its citizens are not free compared to me
Read an amusing quora reply that rather crystallised my thinking on the US compared to here. It started as a click-bait clearly written by the usual American fool blinded by propaganda glare from their border mirrors. A Canadian responded with with and accuracy. But on a more serious note, if US intentions have skewed towards supporting annexations, we need to improve our military capabilities.
Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Amongst the most dangerous, extreme and downright stupid policies the Government has come up with is the decision to be announced today to allow citizen’s arrests of shoplifters
Open mike 26/02/2025
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Daily review 25/02/2025
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Radio NZ’s bizarre handling of the Bayly fiasco
This morning on Radio New Zealand there was sharp questioning of Christopher Luxon by Ingrid Hipkiss and sharp analysis by Jo Moir. But they allowed Brigette Morten air time to spin the issue in a National friendly way.
Open mike 25/02/2025
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Daily review 24/02/2025
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Repaired RSS feed highlights minister’s failing portfolios
Last week, I pointed out that Internal Affairs under Act Minister Brooke van Velden, had managed to lose RSS communications from the Beehive to the world. It’d been offline for about three weeks at that point. That was just sloppy and incompetent for the DIA who amongst other things are responsible for overseeing government technology services.