Open Mike 25/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 25th, 2018 - 134 comments
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Doofus of the week June 24, 2018
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Date published: 12:44 pm, June 24th, 2018 - 37 comments
The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.
The All Blacks should give up
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Date published: 10:45 am, June 24th, 2018 - 49 comments
The All Blacks keep winning everything and it is incredibly bad for the game.
Open Mike 24/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2018 - 68 comments
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The Stuart Nash fundraiser
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Date published: 2:33 pm, June 23rd, 2018 - 9 comments
Stuart Nash this week withdrew from a fundraiser organised for him by Matthew Hooton.
Immigration Now
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Date published: 8:00 am, June 23rd, 2018 - 74 comments
Germany has one of the very few national-level consciences on world immigration, but that is now under threat. The Trump administration and his allies appear to be actively working to topple Germany’s Angela Merkel in favour of the hard right.
Open Mike 23/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2018 - 63 comments
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Daily Review 22/06/2018
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Date published: 5:15 pm, June 22nd, 2018 - 4 comments
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How low can Simon Bridges go?
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Date published: 3:12 pm, June 22nd, 2018 - 90 comments
Simon Bridges was interviewed on Radio Hauraki and chose to suggest that Jacinda’s baby may vote National, cost too much money even though she was born in a pubic hospital and transported to hospital in a private vehicle, and should go to school in boy’s clothing.
New Zealand basks in the birth of the Prime Minature
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Date published: 9:41 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 40 comments
Day one of her life and New Zealand is basking in the birth of the Prime Minature.
The War on Carbon
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Date published: 6:02 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 50 comments
Or a conscientious objection to any War on Climate Change, or War on Global Warming.
Open Mike 22/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 96 comments
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It’s a girl!
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Date published: 6:20 pm, June 21st, 2018 - 25 comments
Congratulations to Jacinda and Clarke on the birth of a girl!
Daily Review 21/06/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 21st, 2018 - 1 comment
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Children should never be used as bargaining chips
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Date published: 8:27 am, June 21st, 2018 - 66 comments
Donald Trump has announced a “backdown” of the policy of separating children of refugees from their parents at the US border. Instead they will be imprisoned with their parents potentially for extended periods of time.
Trump will be President until 2024
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Date published: 8:00 am, June 21st, 2018 - 61 comments
It’s time to see the strong possibility of a second term of Donald Trump as United States President. What would The World Look Like?
Open Mike 21/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2018 - 124 comments
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Daily Review 20/06/2018
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Date published: 6:04 pm, June 20th, 2018 - 36 comments
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The United States is becoming a rogue state
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Date published: 4:57 pm, June 20th, 2018 - 53 comments
The United States of America in its support for Israeli trashing of Palestinian rights and the withdrawal of support for the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the mass incarceration of children of parents who have tried to enter the United States without permission is displaying concerning signs.
Where have our rights gone?
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Date published: 8:00 am, June 20th, 2018 - 49 comments
Great to see that the State Services Commissioner has widened the investigation into the use of private investigators hired by the state against its citizens. But. They should go further.
Open Mike 20/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 20th, 2018 - 160 comments
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Daily Review 19/06/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 19th, 2018 - 49 comments
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Givealittle legal fund set up for Renae Maihi for defence against Bob Jones’ claim
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Date published: 3:50 pm, June 19th, 2018 - 58 comments
Bob Jones has threatened Renae Maihi with a defamation lawsuit for seeking to have his knighthood taken off him. Laura O’Connell Rapira of Action Station has responded by starting a givealittle page to cover Renae’s legal costs.
Hosking poll shows overwhelming support for cycle lanes
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Date published: 8:04 am, June 19th, 2018 - 54 comments
Mike Hosking created an online poll which he must have thought would show opposition to cycleways but which has indicated that cycleways are very popular with Aucklanders.
A Question from a Room.
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Date published: 6:02 am, June 19th, 2018 - 113 comments
Take a look around the room you’re in. Or if you’re out and about and reading this on some mobile device, then take a look around the next room you enter. Closely.
Open Mike 19/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2018 - 122 comments
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Daily Review 18/06/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 18th, 2018 - 12 comments
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Bottom feeding fish redux
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Date published: 3:26 pm, June 18th, 2018 - 24 comments
Newsroom has released details of media emails sent to the police about the Clarke Gayford rumours.
Jessica Williams tweets about the stupidity of the Taxpayer’s Union
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Date published: 2:17 pm, June 18th, 2018 - 26 comments
Twitter in the right hands can be a very dangerous thing. As shown by Jessica Williams when she questioned the intellectual grunt of the taxpayers union in this series of tweets.
Sage refuses permission to mine conservation land
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Date published: 10:09 am, June 18th, 2018 - 94 comments
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has incurred attacks from the right by refusing to allow the desecration of conservation land on the West Coast.
Open Mike 18/06/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2018 - 111 comments
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