Daily review 19/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 19th, 2020 - 12 comments
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South Australia’s new Covid strain
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Date published: 7:53 am, November 19th, 2020 - 16 comments
During a week in which two Covid vaccines have been announced there is disturbing news coming out of Australia where a new more potent strain of the virus has appeared in South Australia.
Resiliency politics
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Date published: 6:05 am, November 19th, 2020 - 14 comments
With news of more global stressors next year, the stories we tell right now are critical to how we build resiliency. Let’s make sure they are good ones.
No Right Turn: Climate Change – The problem of air travel
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Date published: 6:02 am, November 19th, 2020 - 147 comments
Until the pandemic, air travel was one of the fastest growing causes of greenhouse gas emissions. And its obscenely unequal, with just 1% of the world’s population causing 50% of the problem:
Open mike 19/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 19th, 2020 - 49 comments
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Trump loses the presidency, but Trumpism lives on
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Date published: 12:30 am, November 19th, 2020 - 8 comments
The reality is that the United States is a poor example of a functioning democracy in 2020.
Daily review 18/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 18th, 2020 - 7 comments
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C’mon Grant
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Date published: 10:40 am, November 18th, 2020 - 51 comments
This government must demonstrate that it has the ability to lead the New Zealand economy where it has stated it wants it to go. It does not want more headlines like the average house in Auckland now being priced at $1 million.
Trump’s chances of winning the Presidential Election through legal action
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Date published: 9:05 am, November 18th, 2020 - 19 comments
To win the Presidential Election Donald Trump has to win multiple legal challenges in multiple states. So far his cases have not gone very well.
Open mike 18/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 18th, 2020 - 99 comments
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Daily review 17/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 17th, 2020 - 13 comments
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They Are Not Morons
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Date published: 7:00 am, November 17th, 2020 - 76 comments
Donald Trump will be back for another go at the Presidency in 2024. Progressives should underestimate the possibility of his winning. Unless the remaining centre-left generates strategies that are executed so well that people feel the difference good politics makes, the elements of populism arising again will stay ready like the elements of a bomb.
Open mike 17/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2020 - 93 comments
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Daily review 16/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 16th, 2020 - 3 comments
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The million MAGA muppet march
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Date published: 9:33 am, November 16th, 2020 - 37 comments
America is in some trouble. Covid19 is surging. The third wave is hitting hard. Suddenly 100,000 daily new infections is not a scary possibility, 200,000 is. And a group of Americans have been persuaded that Trump has had the election stolen off him.
Powerdown part two
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Date published: 8:50 am, November 16th, 2020 - 90 comments
Christchurch transition engineer Susan Krumdieck lays out the realities of the various crises we are facing, and why green tech won’t save us. What can we do instead?
Open mike 16/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 16th, 2020 - 110 comments
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Open mike 15/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 15th, 2020 - 93 comments
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Open mike 14/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2020 - 101 comments
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Daily review 13/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 13th, 2020 - 8 comments
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Capitalism’s end game
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Date published: 8:07 am, November 13th, 2020 - 145 comments
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are facing a new crisis. Not Covid, although the recent case of community spread is deeply concerning. The crisis is the value of houses.
Open mike 13/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2020 - 83 comments
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Daily review 12/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 12th, 2020 - 3 comments
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Covid and contact tracing
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Date published: 4:46 pm, November 12th, 2020 - 32 comments
News of a new community case in Auckland, and the need for us all to be taking precautions and keeping track of our movements and contacts.
Some men just want to see the World burn
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Date published: 8:24 am, November 12th, 2020 - 58 comments
Normally when you lose an election you say nice things about the winner and make way for them. But is Trump doing this in the US of A? No sirree. From refusing Biden transition resources to instructing officials not to cooperate with Biden’s team to mass sackings of Defense officials to various failed cases Trump is obstructing the transition every step of the way.
Open mike 12/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2020 - 114 comments
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Daily review 11/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 11th, 2020 - 17 comments
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COVID19 Vaccine and New Zealand’s K-Shaped Recovery
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Date published: 7:00 am, November 11th, 2020 - 36 comments
IF the discovery of a potential Covid vaccine looks like a new dawn, let’s not forget that this is the accelerating point of the K-shaped recovery New Zealand have been dreading. Our already rich are on the line heading upwards. They are getting richer because of a range of our Government policies.
Open mike 11/11/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2020 - 136 comments
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Daily review 10/11/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 10th, 2020 - 48 comments
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What should the left make of the US election result?
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Date published: 7:43 am, November 10th, 2020 - 76 comments
Now the dust is settling on the US election result the one question I have is why was it even close?
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