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Full retreat
Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, June 27th, 2018 - 13 comments
The United States Supreme Court decision to upheld Trump’s travel ban is but the latest example of bad news for international human rights we have had over recent times.
Godwin’s flaw?
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, June 26th, 2018 - 213 comments
In which we discuss a number of quick hits: Trump thinks judges only exist to be bribed, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders can’t get a seat at a restaurant, and whether Godwin’s Law needs to be amended.
Immigration Now
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 23rd, 2018 - 74 comments
Germany has one of the very few national-level consciences on world immigration, but that is now under threat. The Trump administration and his allies appear to be actively working to topple Germany’s Angela Merkel in favour of the hard right.
New Zealand basks in the birth of the Prime Minature
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 40 comments
Day one of her life and New Zealand is basking in the birth of the Prime Minature.
Children should never be used as bargaining chips
Written By: - Date published: 8:27 am, June 21st, 2018 - 66 comments
Donald Trump has announced a “backdown” of the policy of separating children of refugees from their parents at the US border. Instead they will be imprisoned with their parents potentially for extended periods of time.
Trump will be President until 2024
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 21st, 2018 - 61 comments
It’s time to see the strong possibility of a second term of Donald Trump as United States President. What would The World Look Like?
The United States is becoming a rogue state
Written By: - Date published: 4:57 pm, June 20th, 2018 - 53 comments
The United States of America in its support for Israeli trashing of Palestinian rights and the withdrawal of support for the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the mass incarceration of children of parents who have tried to enter the United States without permission is displaying concerning signs.
This is a China Play
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, June 13th, 2018 - 36 comments
What was the game plan behind the Trump-Kim Jong Un meeting in Singapore yesterday?
Donald Trump’s unusual diplomatic behaviour
Written By: - Date published: 11:02 am, June 11th, 2018 - 44 comments
Donald Trump has chosen to insult Canadian leader Justin Trudeau and buddy up to North Korean leader Kim Jon Un all in the same week.
Trump was right … and then …
Written By: - Date published: 7:53 am, May 17th, 2018 - 17 comments
Donald Trump has had a few months of being lucky with some luck Foreign Affairs wins and good economic news. But his wreckage-trail of his consequences is becoming longer and clearer.
Trump trashes Iranian Nuclear deal because he can
Written By: - Date published: 8:38 am, May 9th, 2018 - 108 comments
Donald Trump has torn up a deal between the US and Iran that provided for limitation of its nuclear programme and prevented it from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Trumping Obama?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, May 3rd, 2018 - 9 comments
A post on big boy’s scouting medals.
Jacinda Ardern is just like Donald Trump
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, April 22nd, 2018 - 77 comments
In a gross example of click bait journalism a senior political commentator at a major media outlet has claimed that Jacinda Ardern and Donald Trump are similar.
Photoshop Wars?
Written By: - Date published: 4:03 pm, April 17th, 2018 - 56 comments
The Independent’s Robert Fisk reports from Douma, where he interviewed one of the clinic doctors who said that the images that outraged Trump, May and Macron were real, but the cause was oxygen starvation from dust, not poisonous gas. Could it be that misleading images started a bombing war? What might this say about Western values?
North Korea redux
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 7th, 2018 - 14 comments
Does being incoherent work sometimes? With the President of North Korea visiting China for the first time, meeting with the South Korean President for the first time, and preparing to meet with the Japanese President and with the President of the United States, was Trump’s approach actually right for the circumstances?
US Trade Tariffs against China
Written By: - Date published: 2:14 pm, March 23rd, 2018 - 66 comments
Make no mistake: this is the single biggest anti-trade act the world has seen since the Iranian revolution’s nationalisation program from 1979.
Facebook is in trouble
Written By: - Date published: 8:24 am, March 21st, 2018 - 80 comments
A whistleblower, Christopher Wyllie, has explained how Cambridge Analytica managed to secure the data of 50 million Americans and how it was used in the last US Presidential election.
Remember President Obama?
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, March 20th, 2018 - 79 comments
The world has changed dramatically since Barak Obama was President of the United States.
Inevitably the crazy old morons remain
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, March 14th, 2018 - 164 comments
In his usual dignified way, Donald Trump announced that he was sacking Rex Tillerson, the American Secretary of State in a tweet. And so the round of musical chairs that marks the White House’s descent into even more incompetence continues. Meanwhile the farce of the Russian election proceeds in their background of state operated terrorism in the UK. But there is some light
Arm me with
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, February 23rd, 2018 - 186 comments
Teachers in America have responded to Donald Trump’s proposal to arm teachers in response to the Parkland School massacre with a request that they be armed with anything but guns.
Mueller v Russia
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, February 19th, 2018 - 324 comments
Robert Mueller has laid an indictment alleging that thirteen Russians and three Russian entities illegally interfered with the 2016 American Election campaign.
Obstructionist losers
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, January 21st, 2018 - 50 comments
Despite controlling all three branches of the Government the Republicans have failed to get a funding bill passed and the US Government is facing shut down.
Why President Trump should be opposed by the left
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 am, January 20th, 2018 - 52 comments
Ten reasons why Donald Trump is anti worker and bad for America’s working class.
Racist dog whistling
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, January 14th, 2018 - 64 comments
We may think that we now live in more enlightened times where the scourge of racism is finally being dealt to and is no longer considered acceptable but recent events in Australia and the United States suggests that this is not the case.
Two Faced Liberalism.
Written By: - Date published: 3:31 pm, January 13th, 2018 - 89 comments
Caring and heartless.
Duck and cover
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 am, January 4th, 2018 - 184 comments
Over the past 24 hours Trump has threatened war by comparing button sizes with Kim Jon Un and Steve Bannon has described Trump Campaign’s 2016 meeting with a group of Russians in Trump Tower as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”.
What will 2018 bring for Donald Trump?
Written By: - Date published: 7:58 am, January 1st, 2018 - 181 comments
The New York Times has broken a astory suggesting that Australian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Downer informed the FBI that the Trump camp knew about the Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton’s emails four months before the 2016 Presidential election.
Man of the year and global leader of the year
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, December 30th, 2017 - 50 comments
Why Donald Trump should be considered to be man of the year and why the left should be thinking about why he is succeeding.
The United Nations gives Trump the middle finger
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, December 22nd, 2017 - 252 comments
The United Nations has responded to Donald Trump’s threat to cut aid funding if it voted to condemn America’s decision to recognise Jerisalem as Israel’s capital by overwhelmingly support the decision.
The future of the USA
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, December 19th, 2017 - 78 comments
Left and right are used to predicting the accelerated decline of America, but are we now seeing it before our eyes and in our lifetimes?
Doofus of the week – Jami Lee-Ross
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, December 16th, 2017 - 69 comments
Jami Lee-Ross wins the award this week for trying to hold up the passage of a law designed to make sure kids get enough to eat just so he could eat his lunch and then throwing the most amazing of temper tantrums when he did not get his way.
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In 2016, Chris Parker, Tom Sainsbury, Kura Forrester and Brynley Stent surprised audiences with an orgy. Now they’re doing it all again, on a bigger, shinier stage. Eight years ago, four little-known comedians, two who had just met, ended their play thrusting, sweating and panting in an over-the-top orgy. There ...5 days ago - New Zealand Government Refuses NGO Calls To Back End To Secret WCPFC Compliance Processes
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With Parliament focused on polite apology without politics, two parties leaned more into angry and argued politics was unavoidable. ...5 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne Aussiepics / Shutterstock It’s a big year in America – for wildlife as well as for politics. I’m talking about periodical cicadas. These curious creatures spend most of their ...5 days ago - Australian workers hoard more than 160 million days of untaken leave. So could you be forced to take...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Rawpixel.com With the end of year holidays looming, it’s easy to imagine Australians are getting ready to check out of the workplace and head for ...5 days ago
- The Incas used mysterious stringy objects called ‘khipus’ to record data. We just got a step clo...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Thompson, Research Data Specialist, The University of Melbourne For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a “khipu” (also spelled “quipu” and pronounced “key-poo”) to record and communicate information. Khipus were made with cords or strings ...5 days ago
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E. Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Pormezz/Shutterstock The drug semaglutide, commonly known by the brand names Ozempic or Wegovy, was originally developed to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood ...5 days ago
- You will soon be able to power your house with your electric car. Here’s how
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Syed M Nawazish Ali, Research Fellow in Transport Electrification, RMIT University 24K-Production/Shutterstock This year, dozens of new models of electric vehicles have hit the Australian market – and more are coming. New models of battery electric and plug-in hybrids come with bigger ...5 days ago
- Live: Day three and the hīkoi prepares to cross Auckland Harbour Bridge
Two lanes on the Harbour Bridge will be closed from 8.30am as well as some on and off ramps on the motorway network. ...5 days ago
- The Cost Of Silence: NZ’s Role In Standing Against Iran’s Repression
The piece highlights the recent execution of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian government, discusses New Zealand's current approach (as well as that of other democracies) toward the regime's hostage-taking tactics, and suggests an alternative, more unified approach. ...5 days ago
- Sex, abstinence and Trump: What is the 4B movement?
Some women say they are protesting Trump's re-election by swearing off men. Will the idea fizzle? ...5 days ago
- NZ’s food manufacturers are embracing the idea of a circular economy but are slow to implement it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sitong Michelle (Michelle) Chen, Senior Lecturer in International Business, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images Around the world, the growth of industry and consumption has escalated environmental damage through increased emissions, waste and pollution from landfills. The current linear economic ...5 days ago
- Horrific, heartbreaking, wrong: Who apologised, and how
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- NZ warned against ‘blood offsets’ from carbon credit breakthrough
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- Majority of landlords reject Government’s no-cause evictions
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Wednesday 13 November
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- Trump’s shadow looms over major summit
As the PM prepares to attend a major summit for the first time, the most important figure in discussions will be far away The post Trump’s shadow looms over major summit appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- Daily crossword, Wednesday 13 November
The post Daily crossword, Wednesday 13 November appeared first on Newsroom. ...5 days ago
- The politics of saying sorry
Comment: Christopher Luxon had the least baggage of almost anyone in senior positions in Parliament, going into his national apology for the abuse of children in state care.He just hadn’t been there. He only came into Parliament in 2020, became National’s leader in 2021 and Prime Minister in late 2023.The ...5 days ago
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- Xero hits record high on hopes of boost from pro-business Trump
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- Face-off against surveillance
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By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter Survivors of abuse in care arrived at Parliament today to hear the formal apology from the state which oversaw and inflicted harm on children. Public sector leaders from Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry of Health, New Zealand Police, and Ministry of Education also apologised, ...6 days ago
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- Govt Axes Specialist Māori Body Advising Pharmac Without Consulting Māori
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“The phrase "turn a blind eye" is an inherently ableist expression that wrongly equates blindness with ignorance, neglect, or deliberate stupidity. This phrase reinforces the dangerous & outdated stereotype that blind people are less perceptive, capable, ...6 days ago
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