Open mike 21/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 21st, 2021 - 90 comments

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Mothers of the Revolution

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Date published: 6:16 pm, November 20th, 2021 - 41 comments

Saw an inspiring premiere of this NZ -made movie about the amazing women of Greenham Common at the Wellington Film Festival today. Their years-long protest led to the INF treaty, a major advance in nuclear safety, now abandoned. Well worth seeing – a timely reminder in light of today’s news about NATO moving nuclear missiles around Eastern European nations on Russia’s borders.

Astroturfers of the world unite

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Date published: 9:14 am, November 20th, 2021 - 52 comments

Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered.

Open mike 20/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 20th, 2021 - 255 comments

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Daily review 19/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 19th, 2021 - 2 comments

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The pandemic response is like driving a car

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Date published: 3:58 pm, November 19th, 2021 - 11 comments

Staying safe from Covid-19 this summer can be as simple as a few basic steps.

Is This The New State We Want?

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Date published: 12:02 pm, November 19th, 2021 - 24 comments

The New Zealand state is gaining power again, but is it what we want?

National is being utterly irresponsible

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Date published: 7:46 am, November 19th, 2021 - 58 comments

In the middle of a pandemic where the numbers in hospital are increasing and a number of Kiwis have died from a virus that is spreading promising the loosening of current restrictions is the most irresponsible, stupid, foolhardy, idiotic, imbecile thing I could ever expect a political party to do.

Open mike 19/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 19th, 2021 - 97 comments

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Daily review 18/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 18th, 2021 - 18 comments

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Auckland could become a ghost town this summer

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Date published: 3:09 pm, November 18th, 2021 - 39 comments

Domestic tourism could become extreme tourism this summer.

Open mike 18/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 18th, 2021 - 88 comments

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Daily review 17/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 17th, 2021 - 47 comments

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The Mandate To Say Goodbye

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Date published: 8:38 am, November 17th, 2021 - 210 comments

In the next two weeks we will find out how many teachers in New Zealand are immune to facts, were happy to enforce vaccinations upon their children for multiple diseases over multiple decades but not themselves, and after decades enforcing state rules in daily attendance and behaviours of young people at school could not themselves be subject to that same force of state.

Down the rabbit hole

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Date published: 8:17 am, November 17th, 2021 - 83 comments

Former National MP and University Lecturer Simon Thornley are in the news after publishing a video interview questioning the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine and suggesting that the evidence that Ivermectin is useful in treating Covid is epidemiologically sound and strong.

Open mike 17/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 17th, 2021 - 150 comments

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Daily review 16/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 16th, 2021 - 19 comments

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Open mike 16/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 16th, 2021 - 226 comments

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Daily review 15/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 15th, 2021 - 52 comments

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How Covid may play out

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Date published: 8:41 am, November 15th, 2021 - 74 comments

Modelling produced for the Government suggests that weekly new covid infections  could plateau in the next two weeks.  And the modelling so far has been remarkable accurate.

Open mike 15/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 15th, 2021 - 178 comments

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COP26 Results

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Date published: 10:33 am, November 14th, 2021 - 15 comments

The deal is done. Together with lots of side-agreements, big-up pledges, finance, and no definite language the phasing out of Coal or fossil fuel subsidies.

Open mike 14/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 14th, 2021 - 265 comments

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The 2022 We Are Heading Towards

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Date published: 11:13 am, November 13th, 2021 - 34 comments

Most of us have been diminished by COVID in 2020-21 so it’s time for everyone to prepare 2022 as an honest accounting of damage to our whole society.

Open mike 13/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2021 - 149 comments

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Daily review 12/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 12th, 2021 - 33 comments

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Covid and the latest polls

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Date published: 8:13 am, November 12th, 2021 - 148 comments

The results of two polls were leaked recently both showing a drop in support for Labour.  Clearly the Delta outbreak has rattled confidence.  But National has not surged up in support and the Greens have picked up some of the former Labour vote.

Open mike 12/11/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2021 - 129 comments

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Daily review 11/11/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 11th, 2021 - 23 comments

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Shock horror, Ardern chooses to keeps her mask on

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Date published: 9:37 am, November 11th, 2021 - 79 comments

Barry Soper has accused the Prime Minister of, wait for this, not taking her mask off when she was inside visiting a vaccination centre in South Auckland.

What is gender?

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Date published: 9:00 am, November 11th, 2021 - 152 comments

“When people are arguing about gender, quite often one of them is talking about sex, one of them is talking about social stereotypes, and a third one is talking about gender identity, and they’re all shouting at each other”

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