Daily review 14/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 14th, 2018 - 30 comments

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The dirty politics of beating up on Karel Sroubek

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Date published: 8:30 am, November 14th, 2018 - 272 comments

You will be shocked to learn that the National Party has been less than honest about where it is getting its information regarding Karel Sroubek.

Pike River; Victory For the Families, Victory for Us

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Date published: 8:13 am, November 14th, 2018 - 121 comments

Pike River mine is to be re-entered and finally the truth will be told. Victory for the 29 is victory for all of us.

Open Mike 14/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2018 - 97 comments

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Daily review 13/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 13th, 2018 - 141 comments

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The strange case of the astroturfed Energy Voices organisation

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Date published: 3:34 pm, November 13th, 2018 - 18 comments

It has been discovered that the person behind the Energy Voices website is a National Party operative and former staffer.

Alaska or New Zealand?

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Date published: 1:17 pm, November 13th, 2018 - 71 comments

That’s the big question ‘big’ people are asking these days.

Tweet of the year

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Date published: 8:40 am, November 13th, 2018 - 15 comments

There is still seven weeks of this year left but it appears likely that the tweet of the year has been tweeted.

Open Mike 13/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2018 - 224 comments

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Daily Review 12/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 12th, 2018 - 21 comments

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Electricity again

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Date published: 3:05 pm, November 12th, 2018 - 146 comments

It is time for the Government to down the electricity corporates and regulate them in the interests of the citizen.

American midterms – revenge of young people and the decline of the NRA

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Date published: 8:00 am, November 12th, 2018 - 51 comments

In the midterm US elections a number of candidates supported by the NRA have lost out to opponents with strong anti gun views.  And the youth vote surged.  Were these events related?

Open Mike 12/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2018 - 124 comments

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Open Mike 11/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2018 - 242 comments

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The Guns of November 2018

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Date published: 5:38 pm, November 10th, 2018 - 188 comments

On 11 November 1918 the guns fell silent across Europe’s slaughter. In the Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman described how that dreadful war started by accident. Daniel Ellsberg warns us now that accidents could happen again, this time in the nuclear age. Ellsberg says first strike is America’s policy, making accidental nuclear winter all the more likely.

All that is wrong with America’s democracy

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Date published: 10:46 am, November 10th, 2018 - 40 comments

In Georgia, despite the Repbublican candidate who oversaw the election process engaging in the mass disenfranchisement of Democrat voters, the removal of voting machines to make voting in Democrat areas more difficult and baseless smearing of the Democrat candidate, the result is on a knife edge and a second vote is a possibility.

Open Mike 10/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2018 - 108 comments

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Disestablish the establishment.

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Date published: 6:04 pm, November 9th, 2018 - 29 comments

Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of  something that’s real

Daily Review 09/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 9th, 2018 - 25 comments

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Latest poll results – National in freefall

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Date published: 11:11 am, November 9th, 2018 - 81 comments

A recent UMR poll has put National support at 37%, deep in danger territory for Simon Bridges.

Open Mike 09/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 9th, 2018 - 225 comments

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Rude ‘n Terrible?

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Date published: 6:55 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 38 comments

Trump’s…I don’t actually have words for this little escapade.

ILG, a Rock, and a Hard Place

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Date published: 6:40 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 91 comments

The Sroubek beat up is still with us. Why won’t National tell us what they knew and what they agreed to?

Daily Review 08/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 24 comments

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Jeff Sessions resigns as Attorney General

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Date published: 9:57 am, November 8th, 2018 - 27 comments

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at the President’s request and has been replaced by someone who thought that Mueller’s investigation into POTUS went too far.

ScoMo’s flying bus tour

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Date published: 8:28 am, November 8th, 2018 - 20 comments

In an effort to revive sagging support levels Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is on a bus tour of Australia involving him flying and being picked up by the bus, drinking lots of beer, wearing different hats and saying fair dinkum a lot.

Open Mike 08/11/2018

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 8th, 2018 - 186 comments

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Proxy Music

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Date published: 5:37 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 39 comments

Jami-Lee Ross has passed his proxy vote to NZ First, elevating waka jumping to an Olympic sport. How bad does it have to get before the Tory caucus puts Simon Bridges out of his misery?

Daily Review 07/11/2018

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 14 comments

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Why this mid term result?

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Date published: 5:05 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 39 comments

What can we take from the US mid term election results?

Too many jobs being created

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Date published: 2:20 pm, November 7th, 2018 - 14 comments

The latest unemployment data showing the jobless rate falling to under 4% follows the equally bad 1.0% economic growth in the September quarter and a budget surplus of $5.5b, confirming the economy is going down like Donald Trump, as predicted by the ANZ Bank’s business confidence survey

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