The empire strikes back
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Date published: 8:53 am, March 15th, 2022 - 146 comments
Labour’s announcement of a temporary reduction in fuel excise duties and a halving of public transport fares ups the ante on the debate on how to alleviate hardship caused by overseas induced inflation.
Open mike 15/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 15th, 2022 - 102 comments
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Daily review 14/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 14th, 2022 - 47 comments
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Open mike 14/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 14th, 2022 - 218 comments
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National’s advice to the poor – you are on your own
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Date published: 8:11 am, March 13th, 2022 - 125 comments
To help the poorest amongst us during the current times of International hyper inflation National has come up with a list of tips to help them. But no money.
Open mike 13/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 13th, 2022 - 57 comments
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Open mike 12/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2022 - 468 comments
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Daily review 11/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 11th, 2022 - 47 comments
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“Labour… stop playing by this tired, neoliberal playbook”
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 11th, 2022 - 98 comments
Chloe Swarbrick, the cost of living crisis, and what the economy is for.
Open mike 11/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2022 - 182 comments
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The latest poll
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Date published: 7:54 pm, March 10th, 2022 - 124 comments
National/Act (47%) would beat Labour/Greens (46%) if there were an election held tomorrow, according to the latest One News Kantar poll.
Daily review 10/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2022 - 60 comments
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Open mike 10/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2022 - 145 comments
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Daily review 09/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2022 - 58 comments
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National stuffs up its financial analysis – again
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Date published: 1:42 pm, March 9th, 2022 - 79 comments
For so called economic geniuses National sure struggles to understand how to properly cost fiscal policy. Its latest response to news that it proposed tax cuts would wipe out all discretionary spending in its first budget is to fudge the dates on which the cuts would be made.
Open mike 09/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 9th, 2022 - 200 comments
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Daily review 08/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 8th, 2022 - 77 comments
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Women who challenged the male domination of sport
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Date published: 11:10 am, March 8th, 2022 - 91 comments
History PhD student @LottieHistory wrote a twitter thread recently on the work women have done to participate in sport.
Open mike 08/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2022 - 239 comments
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Daily review 07/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 7th, 2022 - 29 comments
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National’s tax policy
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Date published: 8:14 am, March 7th, 2022 - 107 comments
National has proposed to reverse all tax changes implemented by Labour and claims that the cuts can be managed without damage to the state. But the figure it uses, $1.7 billion a year, includes income tax adjustments only and not the cost of the removal of other taxes.
The International Legion of Territorial Defence
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 7th, 2022 - 107 comments
However much infighting there was on the Spanish Republican side between leftists, Communists, anarchists and others, you could be confident that the Nazis were on the other side. In the Ukraine it is not so simple.
Open mike 07/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2022 - 114 comments
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Denazifying Ukraine
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Date published: 8:51 pm, March 6th, 2022 - 128 comments
One of Vladimir Putin’s objectives in the Russian incursion into Ukraine was to “denazify Ukraine.” With the breakdown in the agreement to allow a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, this task will be much harder and the terrorist toll much higher. Once Russia has succeeded however, the world will be a better place for it.
This is awkward
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Date published: 7:51 am, March 6th, 2022 - 85 comments
Chris Luxon’s public commitment not to negotiate with the Wellington protestors has been called into question by a Facebook from Maureen Pugh claiming that members of the National Party were talking to the protesters on an almost daily basis.
Open mike 06/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2022 - 233 comments
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Convoy protest aftermath 5/3/22
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 5th, 2022 - 35 comments
A general discussion post.
Open mike 05/03/2022
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2022 - 116 comments
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Daily review 04/03/2022
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 4th, 2022 - 49 comments
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Is This The Boom We Wanted?
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Date published: 11:20 am, March 4th, 2022 - 65 comments
New Zealand’s time as high end ingredients producer to the world has arrived. But it has big costs.
Real protestors do not burn kids playgrounds
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Date published: 8:10 am, March 4th, 2022 - 239 comments
Wellington protestors recent activities in torching a 100 year old Pohutukawa, burning a kid’s playground and threatening to occupy Wainuiomata Marae suggests they are being given PR advice by Vladimir Putin.
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