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The West’s war on Iran

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Date published: 10:13 pm, June 14th, 2025 - 103 comments
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I have visited Iran twice.  I loved my time in Iran and found wonderful, cultured and kind people.When I heard the news of Israel’s attack on Iran I was apoplectic with rage and disgust.

Daily review 16/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 16th, 2025 - No comments

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Open mike 16/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2025 - 23 comments

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Open mike 15/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2025 - 38 comments

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Open mike 14/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2025 - 52 comments

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Daily review 13/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 13th, 2025 - 7 comments

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Open mike 13/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 13th, 2025 - 102 comments

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Daily review 12/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 9 comments

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Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win

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Date published: 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 37 comments

For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare provider in Australia shuts down

The other Jacinda Book

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Date published: 9:14 am, June 12th, 2025 - 79 comments

Shortly after the release of Jacinda Ardern’s autobiography comes news of the release of a new biography for which the funding of and motivation for are not clear.

Open mike 12/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2025 - 52 comments

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Daily review 11/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 11th, 2025 - 7 comments

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Open mike 11/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2025 - 48 comments

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Daily review 10/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 4 comments

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The Thunberg dilemma

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Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments

If the Madleen activism was largely symbolic, did it work?

Open mike 10/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2025 - 49 comments

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Daily review 09/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 9th, 2025 - 13 comments

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Open mike 09/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2025 - 40 comments

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The Auckland Mayoralty

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Date published: 11:07 am, June 8th, 2025 - 4 comments

With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland’s mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and Kerrin Leoni.

Open mike 08/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2025 - 44 comments

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Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up

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Date published: 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments

The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: does this mark the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? And might we hope for the same fate to befall the NZ Coalition Govt? January 2025. The richest man in the world walks into the White House as […]

Homelessness up by 58% in Auckland

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Date published: 5:35 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 8 comments

$250mn in emergency housing “savings” a year under National, while government increases corrections budget to ~$2b a year, and will surpass NZ’s ”moral and fiscal prison failure prison rate” by 2026

Trump vs Musk

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Date published: 12:20 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 16 comments

Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.

Open mike 07/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2025 - 29 comments

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Daily review 06/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 6th, 2025 - 10 comments

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Meta Ardern

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Date published: 9:26 am, June 6th, 2025 - 54 comments

This is about what’s good and what works and why.

Open mike 06/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2025 - 75 comments

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Daily review 05/06/2025

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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 5th, 2025 - 10 comments

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The trouble with using AI bots

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Date published: 9:05 am, June 5th, 2025 - 16 comments

After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.

The Three Wakas of the Coalition of Coxes

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Date published: 6:01 am, June 5th, 2025 - 6 comments

Once viewed through the right lens, the politics of the Coalition makes a lot more sense.

Open mike 05/06/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2025 - 37 comments

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