Open Mike 06/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 6th, 2016 - 210 comments
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Daily Review 05/10/2016
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Date published: 5:26 pm, October 5th, 2016 - 10 comments
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Alert Memo to President Obama: it’s better to Jaw Jaw Jaw than War War War
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Date published: 10:57 am, October 5th, 2016 - 68 comments
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity advise Obama that the best way to get out of the dangerously escalating hawkish jam that parts of his government have put him in is to meet directly with Putin.
Clinton, Trump, Greeks and ideals
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Date published: 10:00 am, October 5th, 2016 - 20 comments
In a democracy what is better? A cold calculated pragmatic response or advocating for ideals that all citizens should strive, sacrifice and die for?
Phil Twyford: the Housing Crisis
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Date published: 8:00 am, October 5th, 2016 - 148 comments
Phil Twyford argues housing will be the defining challenge for the next Labour-led Government, and sets out Labour’s reform agenda.
Open Mike 05/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 5th, 2016 - 117 comments
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NRT: Targets for everything but poverty
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Date published: 9:00 am, October 4th, 2016 - 5 comments
No Right Turn on National’s refusal to set any child poverty targets, when setting targets are the way the operate – as exemplified by the target they set the same afternoon on wild kiwi.
Open Mike 04/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 4th, 2016 - 10 comments
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Colinoscopy
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Date published: 6:32 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 41 comments
In which we learn that Colin Craig had already lost another case months before being done over in his defamation trial.
Daily Review 03/10/2016
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Date published: 5:42 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 9 comments
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Goff on foreign buyers; and Vote!
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Date published: 2:06 pm, October 3rd, 2016 - 5 comments
Ban them / tax them, but lets reduce demand. And make sure you get your vote in for local elections!
How difficult to measure poverty?
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Date published: 9:47 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 104 comments
Amazing lead story on RNZ – Easier to count rodents than kids in poverty, suggests Key. There are a number of good measures, any one of which would do, but the new Children’s Commissioner just wants to get past that debate and get onto doing stuff to reduce the numbers. A government that is all […]
Donald Trump has a really big tax write off
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Date published: 8:06 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 166 comments
Donald Trump’s reluctance to release his tax returns has now been explained. He has possibly not paid tax for decades.
Open Mike 03/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 26 comments
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The middle vs the centre
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Date published: 5:00 pm, October 2nd, 2016 - 42 comments
The notion is there’s a left/right continuum and people are smoothly spread across it in a kind of a bell curve. The implication is there’s a big chunk of voters out there who think the same way politically. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.
False Equivalence
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Date published: 4:47 pm, October 2nd, 2016 - 21 comments
John Oliver excellent as always – this time on the difference in scandal quality between Clinton & Trump.
The Propaganda War
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Date published: 10:38 am, October 2nd, 2016 - 89 comments
Under the rubble of lies…
Open Mike 02/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 2nd, 2016 - 184 comments
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Our most effective Prime Minister
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Date published: 8:14 am, October 1st, 2016 - 234 comments
Ad ranks post second world war according to criteria which produces some interesting result.
Open Mike 01/10/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 1st, 2016 - 185 comments
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Daily Review 30/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 30th, 2016 - 39 comments
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He isn’t a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore
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Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments
Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.
WMBAD: #PleaseNewZealand, get out and vote
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Date published: 8:00 am, September 30th, 2016 - 14 comments
Your voting papers may be terrifying, but you have to make them count.
Open Mike 30/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 30th, 2016 - 187 comments
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Daily Review 29/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 29th, 2016 - 18 comments
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Out of the mouths of babes
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Date published: 1:35 pm, September 29th, 2016 - 15 comments
Watch five-year old Brook Blair give it to Theresa May about homeless people. Got the right answers too. Brilliant!
New GG
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Date published: 10:31 am, September 29th, 2016 - 24 comments
Congrats to Dame Patsy and how strange it’s always such a small story…
When’s the Republic coming?
Cronyism
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Date published: 9:51 am, September 29th, 2016 - 70 comments
So Paula Bennett has been giving a lolly scramble to her National mates with the Rules Reduction Taskforce.
Which is fine, because the Taskforce did great work in finding out that the ‘loopy’ rule of lolly scrambles being illegal wasn’t in fact true.
Arrest Blair’s Mate
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Date published: 8:45 am, September 29th, 2016 - 303 comments
The downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 was a Russian sponsored war crime. When will Vladimir Putin be arrested?
UPDATE: Animation and actual photos and video of the BUK launcher added.
Open Mike 29/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 29th, 2016 - 86 comments
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Twyford to chair Labour’s election campaign
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Date published: 5:41 pm, September 28th, 2016 - 56 comments
Twyford has been made Labour’s campaign chairman, which puts him charge of strategy for the election.
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