Hager Hit & Run and NZ’s Asian wars

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Date published: 8:23 pm, June 5th, 2017 - 13 comments

Nicky Hager will talk about his book Hit and Run, and the issues it raises about New Zealand’s values and role in the world at 5:30pm on Wednesday 7th June at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, Wellington. The book is about important events and the incoherence of New Zealand fighting it’s longest ever war in Central Asia. This talk is particularly timely in view of this week’s visit of the American Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.

UK election goes down to the wire

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Date published: 11:00 am, June 5th, 2017 - 58 comments

In the United Kingdom the polls continue to narrow and Jeremy Corbyn continues to perform outstandingly well.  Is the upset of all upsets possible?

Arise Sir John

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Date published: 7:24 am, June 5th, 2017 - 261 comments

John Key has been awarded a knighthood. Want to know why?

Nature issues statement saying climate change cannot be negotiated with

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Date published: 6:58 am, June 5th, 2017 - 29 comments

Thus endeth the divine right of kings. It’s time to remember where our power is.

Open Mike 05/06/2017

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2017 - 95 comments

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Herald’s little oops…

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Date published: 11:55 pm, June 4th, 2017 - 12 comments

What a surprise! Not sure how long it was up, but Google cache still has a copy.

Tegg Talk – Mistaken Reveal of Government’s Latest (Already Outdated) Sea-Level Rise Projections

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Date published: 8:07 am, June 4th, 2017 - 28 comments

Denis Tegg has discovered details of Ministry for the Environment’s currently unpublished Guidelines for Local Authorities on Climate Change.  The data relied on would appear to already be outdated but suggests that towns such as Thames are going to face inundation in coming decades.

Once upon a time

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Date published: 7:44 am, June 4th, 2017 - 44 comments

Once upon a time this country stood up to American and said no to nuclear weapons. Now we dare not say yes to saving the planet.

Open Mike 04/06/2017

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2017 - 196 comments

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UK Labour campaign ad

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Date published: 5:01 pm, June 3rd, 2017 - 30 comments

Andrew Little – Last Labour PM of NZ?

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Date published: 4:48 pm, June 3rd, 2017 - 136 comments

A wee bit of speculation for a long week-end.

When Earth’s future is under attack …

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Date published: 9:25 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 36 comments

US Secretary of State and Oil Baron Rex Tillerson is visiting New Zealand next Tuesday. And 350 Aotearoa is planning to provide him with a warm reception.

It is not “clever politics” to burn the planet (you pair of fools)

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Date published: 7:27 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 41 comments

Guess which two NZ broadcasters have disgraced themselves by lining up behind Trump’s lunatic fringe denier posturing.

Open Mike 03/06/2017

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2017 - 92 comments

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Daily Review 02/06/2017

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Date published: 5:43 pm, June 2nd, 2017 - 8 comments

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Caption contest

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Date published: 3:55 pm, June 2nd, 2017 - 56 comments

Medical marijuana on prescription

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Date published: 11:41 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 11 comments

The Government starts to make cannabidiol more available.

Madman Trump withdraws America from Paris Accord

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Date published: 8:01 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 213 comments

Donald Trump has announced that the USA will be withdrawing from the Paris Climate Change Accord.

An appropriate apology and an issue that needs fixing

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Date published: 7:04 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 103 comments

The Ministry of Social Development illegally penalised a woman who refused to name the rapist father of her child. The case shines a spotlight on an issue that needs fixing.

Alone and forlorn

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Date published: 6:37 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 20 comments

Got to hand it to Peter Dunne, he is a master of tragic comedy.

Open Mike 02/06/2017

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2017 - 54 comments

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Daily Review 01/06/2017

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 1st, 2017 - 18 comments

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Postcards from the brighter future

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Date published: 10:58 am, June 1st, 2017 - 3 comments

Part of an occasional series. It all seems to be going according to plan.

UK’s hung parliament?

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Date published: 7:06 am, June 1st, 2017 - 131 comments

The Tories’ supposed landslide trickles to a halt.

English snubs kids haka

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Date published: 6:40 am, June 1st, 2017 - 19 comments

There’s the fake image building via painful social media – like spaghetti pizza and walk runs – and then there’s there’s the true character moments that go genuinely viral.

Open Mike 01/06/2017

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Daily Review 31/05/2017

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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 20 comments

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Tax cuts and 1600 deaths per year

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Date published: 2:53 pm, May 31st, 2017 - 16 comments

One of the nasty little fishhooks in the budget was the cutting of the home insulation scheme (Warm Up New Zealand). The scheme had a benefit-cost ratio of $6 for every $1 invested. Around 1,600 people die in NZ a year of cold-related factors. Hope the tax cuts are worth it eh?

A generous donation to Labour

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Date published: 11:13 am, May 31st, 2017 - 34 comments

Thank you Robert Smellie QC, I’m sure your donation will be put to great use. Smellie said: “I am a practising Anglican and as such I see socialism as being far closer to the Gospel than free enterprise.”

Eight years to an electric transport world

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Date published: 10:00 am, May 31st, 2017 - 66 comments

The pace of change in transportation may mean that some time soon private ownership of petroleum cars may disappear.

Green Party List announced

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Date published: 9:18 am, May 31st, 2017 - 21 comments

Climate change, human rights, indigenous rights, Māori and Pasifika, and fresh, young  faces on the 2017 Green Party List.

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