Open mike 30/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 30th, 2019 - 118 comments
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Daily review 29/08/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 29th, 2019 - 94 comments
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Crims gangs and extremists
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Date published: 9:25 am, August 29th, 2019 - 24 comments
National has chosen for political reasons to oppose the Government’s proposed gun law changes designed to address weaknesses shown up by the Christchurch terrorist attack.
Why we save rivers
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Date published: 7:15 am, August 29th, 2019 - 47 comments
An application to dam the Waitaha River on the West Coast has been declined. When looking at how to meet human needs, we need to do better than ‘how much can we get away with taking from nature?’
photo – Zak Shaw
Open mike 29/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 29th, 2019 - 133 comments
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Daily review 28/08/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 28th, 2019 - 21 comments
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Why is Jacinda Ardern so popular?
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Date published: 11:04 am, August 28th, 2019 - 239 comments
Boosting the signal to noise ratio.
Toxic masculinity
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Date published: 8:36 am, August 28th, 2019 - 153 comments
As the Amazon burns and the world looks on aghast as our lungs go up in flames Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has chosen to respond to an offer of help from the G7 by picking a fight with French leader Emmanuel Macron.
Open mike 28/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 28th, 2019 - 58 comments
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Daily review 27/08/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 27th, 2019 - 44 comments
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Missile test shows US bad faith on INF Treaty
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Date published: 4:43 pm, August 27th, 2019 - 9 comments
US’s recent test of an intermediate range missile shows that the reasons given for its withdrawal from the INF treaty were spurious. It also shows up the gullibility of our MFAT, who voted against a Russian proposal for dialogue late last year in the UN on the grounds that it was a “sidestep.”
Ross leaks again
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Date published: 9:33 am, August 27th, 2019 - 46 comments
Jami Lee Ross has released details showing National avoided restrictions against overseas donations by a New Zealand incorporated company being used to make the donation.
National are lighting political dumpster fires while the Amazon burns
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Date published: 7:15 am, August 27th, 2019 - 47 comments
New Zealand’s poster boys for late stage capitalism’s dying throes are fools of the highest order.
Open mike 27/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 27th, 2019 - 115 comments
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Daily review 26/08/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 26th, 2019 - 64 comments
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National tacks right
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Date published: 3:35 pm, August 26th, 2019 - 44 comments
National has released its economic policies for the next 12 months and they have a decidedly backward feeling about them.
China Becomes Fascist
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Date published: 12:52 pm, August 26th, 2019 - 42 comments
Those who see fascism emerging under Trump can observe the full modern version in action now in Hong Kong’s contest of protesters with the Chinese government.
The thoughts of Matt King on climate change
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Date published: 7:58 am, August 26th, 2019 - 85 comments
National MP Matt King has been caught posting climate change denial material on his facebook page.
Open mike 26/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 26th, 2019 - 112 comments
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Open mike 25/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 25th, 2019 - 137 comments
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How To Get There 25/8/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 25th, 2019 - 70 comments
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
RIP David Koch
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Date published: 7:54 am, August 24th, 2019 - 54 comments
David Koch, the man possibly most responsible for the growth of climate change denialism, has died at the age of 79 as the Arctic melts and the Amazon burns.
Open mike 24/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 24th, 2019 - 154 comments
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Daily review 23/08/2019
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Date published: 5:26 pm, August 23rd, 2019 - 43 comments
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100 Days of climate vigil
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Date published: 11:54 am, August 23rd, 2019 - 4 comments
Ollie Langridge doing the climate action mahi at parliament.
I agree with Heather
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Date published: 11:03 am, August 23rd, 2019 - 37 comments
Heather du Plessis Allan has concluded that National was responsible for leaking details about Winston Peters superannuation overpayment. And believes that it was business as usual for National.
Kill us now, or choose life.
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Date published: 7:13 am, August 23rd, 2019 - 27 comments
The Amazon burns. The Arctic is on fire. We won’t be able to eat or breath our electric cars, but we still have time to choose a different path.
Open mike 23/08/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 23rd, 2019 - 110 comments
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Daily review 22/08/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 22nd, 2019 - 29 comments
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Protect Ihumātao hīkoi to Jacinda Ardern today
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Date published: 11:09 am, August 22nd, 2019 - 55 comments
Protect Ihumātao are taking the invitation to meet to the Prime Minister. The petition is live and can be signed during the hīkoi today.
Labour and welfare
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Date published: 7:34 am, August 22nd, 2019 - 93 comments
Many of us wanted to believe that the Ardern-led compassion would apply to all New Zealanders, but Labour’s defence of highly punitive benefit sanctions tell us it doesn’t.
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