Peak Globalisation
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Date published: 3:26 pm, August 22nd, 2021 - 72 comments
The first great era of globalisation from roughly 1840 through to 1914 took place inside a framework that we can now view as the last hurrah of empire. The logic of empire extends back to the invention of agriculture – a technology that fundamentally demands access to fertile land, rainfall and sunshine. This meant all […]
The importance of Jacinda’s 1 pm press conferences
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Date published: 11:50 am, August 22nd, 2021 - 130 comments
Jacinda Ardern has resumed the 1 pm briefings where she communicates effectively the country’s current situation and what the plan is. But National and some elements of the media are complaining, presumably that she is doing too good a job.
Open mike 22/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 22nd, 2021 - 77 comments
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The Covid vaccine may not be the nirvana
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Date published: 12:47 pm, August 21st, 2021 - 151 comments
Claims that a comprehensive vaccination scheme will allow life to get back to normal ignores the experience of Israel, which despite having a large proportion of its population vaccinated is having a surge of new infections of Covid that is stretching its health system.
Open mike 21/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 21st, 2021 - 102 comments
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Daily review 20/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 20th, 2021 - 17 comments
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Farewell Dr Michael Cullen
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Date published: 1:52 pm, August 20th, 2021 - 21 comments
Dr Michael Cullen has died, and with him goes a real standard-bearer for Labour for three decades.
RIP Michael Cullen
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Date published: 10:41 am, August 20th, 2021 - 15 comments
Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen has died.
Open mike 20/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 20th, 2021 - 157 comments
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Daily review 19/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 19th, 2021 - 11 comments
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The antidote page for all those chickens
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Date published: 3:15 pm, August 19th, 2021 - 32 comments
This is the page that I read at least once a week. With a clean brevity it gives me almost all of the strategic summary information about the progress of the vaccinations in NZ. Even it’s title is clean and clear. COVID-19: Vaccine data. But I’m trained in operations and rather more interested in reality rather than the average untrained pundit or politician who run around like a Chicken Little saying the equivalent of “the sky is falling” every other week. Thankfully they were ignored.
A little bit of understanding can go a long way …
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Date published: 11:09 am, August 19th, 2021 - 18 comments
Our online Persona is not us, but just a mask.
Open mike 19/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 19th, 2021 - 186 comments
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Daily review 18/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 18th, 2021 - 27 comments
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Here again, but Delta gives less latitude. So give less latitude.
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Date published: 8:57 am, August 18th, 2021 - 31 comments
We’re back in a Covid-19 lock down. Until we get to a very high level of vaccinations >80-90%, something that no state has yet achieved, this is our only realistic defence against outbreaks. Delta is way more infectious than previous variants. It infects the vaccinated to act as spreaders. Don’t know about anyone else. But this time I intend to exert my right to give less social latitude to idiots.
The importance of political leadership in dealing with Covid
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Date published: 8:55 am, August 18th, 2021 - 66 comments
Political leadership in the time of Covid is important. As the Government urgently swung into action and imposed a level 4 lockdown after news of a community case of Delta Covid who lived in Auckland and had spent time in Coromandel while infectious, Thames-Coromandel District Mayor and former National MP Sandra Goudie admitted to not scanning regularly.
Open mike 18/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 18th, 2021 - 84 comments
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Daily review 17/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 17th, 2021 - 40 comments
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The strange story about the fake news poll results
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Date published: 8:21 am, August 17th, 2021 - 52 comments
The Politik website’s inadvertant publishing of fake news of a drop in Labour’s support shows how fragile the system of relying on two sources for a story is.
Open mike 17/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 17th, 2021 - 119 comments
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Daily review 16/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 16th, 2021 - 14 comments
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Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
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Date published: 10:38 am, August 16th, 2021 - 66 comments
What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.
The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
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Date published: 6:30 am, August 16th, 2021 - 140 comments
President Biden is about to get a Jimmy Carter-scale shellacking with tv footage coming of Afghani Taleban going through Kabul and in short days rifling through the U.S. Embassy as they finally take over the entire country. You don’t win re-election with defeats and withdrawals, and you won’t be thanked for it in the mid-term Senatorial races either.
Open mike 16/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 16th, 2021 - 41 comments
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Bowker may be a dick but he has not breached the draft hate speech legislation
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Date published: 10:49 am, August 15th, 2021 - 42 comments
Troy Bowker has bowled out of Hurricanes Rugby but has claimed free speech martyrdom after the response to his well publicised criticism of the word “Aotearoa”. But his claims of martyrdom like his recent attacks on lefties would appear to be hopelessly overbaked.
The latest battle in the culture wars
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Date published: 8:49 am, August 15th, 2021 - 79 comments
This week National agreed to the bill allowing gender self identification to proceed to select committee which was a stark contrast to their position on the bill banning gay conversion therapy. I wonder what happened?
Open mike 15/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 15th, 2021 - 55 comments
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Open mike 14/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 14th, 2021 - 67 comments
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Daily review 13/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 13th, 2021 - 21 comments
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Down With Farmer Bashing
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 13th, 2021 - 126 comments
A Guest Post by DB Brown on how and why regenerative stock grazing matters ecologically, and where best to place our anger about climate change.
Open mike 13/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2021 - 36 comments
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