Open mike 22/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 22nd, 2016 - 206 comments
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The Canary – UK independent news featured on RT’s Sputnik
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Date published: 1:35 pm, August 21st, 2016 - 36 comments
The Canary: independent UK news media successfully using a democratic, socialist model. And succeeding within the highly commercial world of the MSM.
Take back our communities and create Jobs That Count
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Date published: 10:18 am, August 21st, 2016 - 22 comments
So often we lose sight of the fact that local government is about much, much more than rates. We’re launching a Jobs That Count ticket to change that.
Bregman: Socialism is a great product
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Date published: 8:08 am, August 21st, 2016 - 147 comments
Extracts from a long piece by Rutger Bregman in The Guardian. Plenty to disagree with perhaps, but plenty to ponder too.
Open mike 21/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 21st, 2016 - 135 comments
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Syrian flash point just got flash pointier
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Date published: 1:38 pm, August 20th, 2016 - 102 comments
The major powers are ramping up the stakes in Syria in a big way.
The Friday dump on Havelock North
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Date published: 9:17 am, August 20th, 2016 - 68 comments
What a surprise that the news that NZ’s worst ever waterborne disease outbreak is most likely caused by livestock should be the subject of a classic Friday 5pm news dump.
Clean up our water!
Metro: A government on the ropes
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Date published: 7:04 am, August 20th, 2016 - 58 comments
Metro: “The National-led government — with its laissez-faire approach to homelessness, house prices and mass immigration — is sailing into a ferocious storm. A newly critical mainstream media and a resurgent opposition is a powerful mix.”
Open mike 20/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 20th, 2016 - 44 comments
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Daily Review 19/08/2016
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Date published: 5:36 pm, August 19th, 2016 - 15 comments
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America bails on private prisons
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Date published: 3:49 pm, August 19th, 2016 - 19 comments
America is bailing on private prisons because they don’t work. What’s the bet that National is ‘too proud and arrogant’ to follow suit.
Cluster f*&k on cluster bombs
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Date published: 9:34 am, August 19th, 2016 - 64 comments
The Government is refusing to accept there are legal issues with Kiwisaver providers investing in manufacturers of cluster bombs. But it is also not ruling out there may be a problem.
What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?
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Date published: 8:30 am, August 19th, 2016 - 78 comments
Water is life not merely wadeable.
Between what we want and what we need
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Date published: 8:00 am, August 19th, 2016 - 122 comments
New Zealand is slowly losing faith with this Government and this is why.
Tents warehouses and driveways
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 19th, 2016 - 64 comments
Tents and warehouses have been considered as emergency housing. Working people sleeping in cars are looking for driveways to rent. Say – has anyone seen John Key lately?
Open mike 19/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 19th, 2016 - 134 comments
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Charles Hugh Smith – The Ultimate Long Game: Autarky and Resilience
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Date published: 6:17 pm, August 18th, 2016 - 28 comments
Today, electronic numbers in electronic bank accounts are the most important things to the people who lead NZ. That’s going to have to seriously change. The country’s capacity and resources in terms of food, energy, water and cultural/social resiliency is what actually counts.
Daily Review 18/08/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 18th, 2016 - 43 comments
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Check your Kiwisaver
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Date published: 12:30 pm, August 18th, 2016 - 22 comments
An excellent piece by Matt Nippert, Caleb Tutty, Olivia Carville in The Herald is generating a lot of discussion this morning. Are you unknowingly investing in tobacco and munitions?
Interest free student loans – still safe for now?
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Date published: 10:05 am, August 18th, 2016 - 58 comments
A right wing “think-tank” wants to load students up with even more debt.
UNICEF call for action on NZ poverty
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Date published: 7:08 am, August 18th, 2016 - 165 comments
Once again this country under National is rightly shamed in the international media.
Open mike 18/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 18th, 2016 - 80 comments
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Daily Review 17/08/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 17th, 2016 - 27 comments
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The Christchurch Commons
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Date published: 1:50 pm, August 17th, 2016 - 18 comments
Meanwhile, down in Christchurch the plan is to put water back in the centre of our physical, cultural and spiritual lives.
NRT: Against anti-whistleblower laws
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Date published: 1:48 pm, August 17th, 2016 - 11 comments
I/S at No Right Turn does great analysis of legislation. His coverage of the new spying laws has been excellent. Here he is on National’s clumsy and misguided attempt to re-impose official secrets. Criminalised for reading The Guardian?
Affordable housing fail – we can’t rely on the private sector
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Date published: 9:20 am, August 17th, 2016 - 55 comments
To the complete surprise of no one, private sector developers have largely waited out the “affordable houses” requirement in the special housing areas. Another National failure.
Grant Robertson on the adjusted unemployment figure
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 17th, 2016 - 206 comments
“The sad reality is that while the change in measurement might elicit a lower number or percentage it will not mean one fewer person is unemployed.”
Open mike 17/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 17th, 2016 - 19 comments
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July 2016 was the hottest single month recorded since 1880
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Date published: 6:32 pm, August 16th, 2016 - 104 comments
July 2016 was the hottest month ever in recorded modernity.
Daily Review 16/08/2016
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Date published: 5:43 pm, August 16th, 2016 - 19 comments
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New Zealand’s most shameful secret: ‘We have normalised child poverty’
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Date published: 4:01 pm, August 16th, 2016 - 175 comments
Fuck the whole “Brighter Future” New Zealand.
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