Archive for 2020

Daily review 08/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 8th, 2020 - 12 comments

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Thanks Jacinda – Zero cases of Covid19 in Aotearoa!

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:15 pm, June 8th, 2020 - 93 comments

Thanks to clear and decisive leadership, an intelligent government, the decision to go hard and fast, respect for science, and overwhelming commitment to local kiwis we can celebrate a milestone, Aotearoa has no current cases of Covid 19.

Dear Hamish please keep it up

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:50 am, June 8th, 2020 - 39 comments

Hamish Price’s twitter game is proving to be a boon to Labour.

Open mike 08/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2020 - 126 comments

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Open mike 07/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2020 - 157 comments

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National Has Found a Moral Compass

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 3:46 pm, June 6th, 2020 - 34 comments

National has embarked on a moral crusade to not lose the Election.

Open mike 06/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2020 - 90 comments

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Black lives matter

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 1:09 am, June 6th, 2020 - 106 comments

The civil war may have ended slavery, the civil rights movement may have changed the legal framework ending segregation in the Southern States, but the idea that white people’s lives matter more has survived into the 21st century.

Daily review 05/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 5th, 2020 - 17 comments

Babylon’s Burning

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:17 pm, June 5th, 2020 - 24 comments

Nothing changes

Bunker boy Trump finally builds that wall

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:23 pm, June 5th, 2020 - 23 comments

This week Donald Trump has hid in a bunker, used tear gas to move protestors away from a church so that he could have a photo opportunity with a bible, and has started to build his much vaunted wall. Although it is around the White House and not on the Mexican border.

Open mike 05/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2020 - 48 comments

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How Covid 19 appears to be playing out

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:51 am, June 4th, 2020 - 108 comments

The politics of Covid 19 present difficulties for the opposition. They cannot fault execution of the plan so far and have been reduced to complaining that the restrictions are not being loosened quickly enough.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:03 am, June 4th, 2020 - 16 comments

Ok so this is the worst year I can think of in my lifetime. But apocalyptopia it ain’t.

Open mike 04/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2020 - 167 comments

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Stunned Muller

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:01 am, June 3rd, 2020 - 85 comments

Todd Muller thinks it is up to Donald Trump to decide if Donald Trump is a racist.

The wood, the trees and the ETS

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:00 am, June 3rd, 2020 - 4 comments

It’s a brutal thing to propose more taxes and costs on business during our worst economic meltdown in a century. But yesterday the Government increased the cost of Carbon. But we need to do more.

Open mike 03/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2020 - 99 comments

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Open mike 02/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2020 - 249 comments

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Is National Just Inconsistent or Incompetent?

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 7:00 am, June 1st, 2020 - 65 comments

National’s new job-creation scheme appears to be inconsistent with their desire to fully re-instate the 90-day trial period.

Open mike 01/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 1st, 2020 - 173 comments

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Open mike 31/05/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, May 31st, 2020 - 145 comments

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Twitter takes on Trump

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, May 30th, 2020 - 77 comments

Donald Trump is engaged in an escallating war with Twitter after the Social Platform hid one of his tweets calling for Minneapolis rioters to be shot.

Open mike 30/05/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, May 30th, 2020 - 51 comments

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What has the Government ever done for business?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:33 pm, May 29th, 2020 - 19 comments

Borrowing heavily from Monty Python’s Life of Brian Labour MP Deborah Russell sets out what the Government is doing for small business in these Covid 19 times.

Most leaders of the opposition are unemployed, they just don’t know it yet

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:21 am, May 29th, 2020 - 68 comments

Holy hyperbole. Todd Muller has claimed that most kiwis are unemployed although they do not realise it yet. Although in one case he may not be wrong …

Open mike 29/05/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, May 29th, 2020 - 173 comments

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Is there something wrong with Judith being white?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:17 am, May 28th, 2020 - 134 comments

Judith Collins has responded to criticisms that National’s front bench has no diversity by asking if there was something wrong being white and then saying she was sick of being demonised for her ethnicity.

Open mike 28/05/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, May 28th, 2020 - 91 comments

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How Africa has weathered the COVID-19 storm

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 12:25 pm, May 27th, 2020 - 14 comments

Ramaphosa has no doubt learnt from his predecessor Thabo Mbeki’s abysmal response to the HIV crisis in South Africa where inaction by the government caused the virus to spread quickly. Sadly it’s through these sort of deadly mistakes that politicians learn the importance of prevention in public health.

Direct small business loan scheme is now working

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:06 pm, May 27th, 2020 - 26 comments

It was interesting reading this morning that the updated small business owner loan scheme is now working (unlike the previous guarantee through the banks version). National’s new Small Business shadow minister Todd Muller should be all over this between now and the election offering helpful suggestions. I’m going to be fascinated looking at those to see what type of small business he is trying to help…