The Trump peace dividend: opportunity for rapprochement
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Date published: 11:25 am, November 12th, 2016 - 76 comments
Walking back the last 5 plus years of escalating military, economic and diplomatic proxy war between Russia and the United States will be difficult. But it has to be done.
Petitions
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Date published: 9:42 am, November 12th, 2016 - 6 comments
A crop of worthy petitions for you consideration: health funding, public broadcasting, environment, and Paris Agreement.
Auckland Council opposes deep sea drilling
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Date published: 9:15 am, November 12th, 2016 - 2 comments
Greenpeace on Auckland Council joining others around the country in opposing deep sea oil drilling.
Lessons?
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Date published: 8:05 am, November 12th, 2016 - 116 comments
What can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf?
Where the Democrats went wrong
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Date published: 8:00 am, November 12th, 2016 - 90 comments
The reason for the Democrats losing the recent presidential vote is contained in this video.
Open Mike 12/11/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2016 - 52 comments
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Kia kaha, Pike River families
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Date published: 7:19 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 34 comments
The Pike River families will be protesting tomorrow to get their men out of the mine that killed them.
Daily Review 11/11/2016
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Date published: 5:20 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 60 comments
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Another postcard from the Brighter Future
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Date published: 2:42 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 13 comments
In the midst of the cataclysmic big stories, we should not lose sight of the small personal ones.
Flogging the dead TPP horse
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Date published: 12:55 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 24 comments
The Nats are determined to keep flogging the TPP horse in Parliament. Someone should buy them a newspaper.
Trump scooped up the white vote that Democrats abandoned
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Date published: 12:05 pm, November 11th, 2016 - 83 comments
Trump laid siege to the Democrat’s “Blue Wall” and they didn’t respond to or recognise his strategem until far too late.
Don’t mourn, organise
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Date published: 8:20 am, November 11th, 2016 - 113 comments
What all good progressives should be doing in these POTUS Trump days.
Margins
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Date published: 7:40 am, November 11th, 2016 - 82 comments
1 in 100 US voters switch and the polls would have been right, and we’d be talking about progressive America, destroyed Republicans and the ‘blue wall’.
Post-Election Recovery Salon
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Date published: 7:30 am, November 11th, 2016 - 60 comments
Need a haven from the post-election fall out?
Open Mike 11/11/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2016 - 102 comments
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Post-US Election Discussion Post – day two
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Date published: 5:57 am, November 11th, 2016 - 267 comments
The daily general discussion thread about the US election.
Daily Review 10/11/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 10th, 2016 - 44 comments
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Michael Moore’s Morning After To Do List
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Date published: 2:09 pm, November 10th, 2016 - 24 comments
In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.
America what were you thinking?
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Date published: 10:54 am, November 10th, 2016 - 376 comments
Some thoughts on the US Presidential result.
Was Obama a good President?
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Date published: 9:00 am, November 10th, 2016 - 65 comments
How will history judge Barack Obama as president?
Open Mike 10/11/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2016 - 82 comments
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Post-US Election Discussion Post
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Date published: 5:55 am, November 10th, 2016 - 269 comments
The Day After.
Daily Review 09/11/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 9th, 2016 - 53 comments
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RMA changes back on agenda
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Date published: 11:51 am, November 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
A good day to dump bad news. Looks like RMA changes are back on agenda, courtesy of the Maori Party.
Grant Robertson: Future of Work
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Date published: 11:25 am, November 9th, 2016 - 10 comments
At the Labour Conference over the weekend, Grant Robertson announced the results of the Future of Work Commission. Ideas for policy to cope with a new age of work.
The media double standard
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Date published: 9:15 am, November 9th, 2016 - 126 comments
Andrea Vance has attacked Labour’s Ready to Work policy and claimed that the policy does not add up, despite being told how the figures had been arrived at.
Gate-gate
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Date published: 8:52 am, November 9th, 2016 - 21 comments
Somehow Brownlee’s got away with it. Felix Marwick did good work on his OIA, to find out that Gerry Brownlee’s account of events didn’t stack up. Oddly only Rodney Hide is calling him out for it. He forced his way through (entry was “not freely given”), without a boarding pass, and could have had a […]
Donald Trump is good
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Date published: 8:00 am, November 9th, 2016 - 72 comments
Advantage suggests that there may be some good come out of the Trump campaign.
Open Mike 09/11/2016
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US Election Day Discussion Post 9/11/16
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Date published: 5:55 am, November 9th, 2016 - 501 comments
The day is finally here.
Daily Review 08/11/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 8th, 2016 - 38 comments
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