Daily review 12/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 12th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 12/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2024 - 50 comments
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Daily review 11/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 11th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Open mike 11/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2024 - 71 comments
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UK General Election – the mood on the doorstep
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Date published: 10:04 pm, June 10th, 2024 - 12 comments
The UK still has the First Past the Post Electoral system. Something New Zealand should have absolutely no nostalgia for. This means that, while the campaign is UK-wide, a lot of campaign activity is directed into constituencies that are deemed marginal. In marginal constituencies, a General Election brings a conveyor belt of the good and the great supporting their prospective parliamentary candidate. In “safe seats” voters get much less attention.
Daily review 10/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 10th, 2024 - 22 comments
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Open mike 10/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2024 - 67 comments
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Respect existence or expect resistance
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Date published: 11:08 am, June 9th, 2024 - 16 comments
Yesterday’s Greenpeace’s War on Nature protest in Tamaki Makaurau suggests growing unity on the left and an increasing determination to stop the Fast Track Projects Bill from being passed.
Open mike 09/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 9th, 2024 - 10 comments
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Fast-Track to Fast-Fail
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Date published: 7:33 pm, June 8th, 2024 - 35 comments
Only a fool insists on furiously flogging a dead horse to go faster on the track.
Open mike 08/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 8th, 2024 - 5 comments
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NATO escalation danger
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Date published: 3:17 am, June 8th, 2024 - 26 comments
The destruction on 23 May of a key part of Russia’s nuclear defence means the Doomsday clock is ticking closer to midnight. A Ukrainian/NATO drone attack on the Armavir radar station north of Georgia attcked a Voronezh-DM radar which is designed to detect incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Daily review 07/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 7th, 2024 - 8 comments
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March for Nature
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Date published: 8:46 am, June 7th, 2024 - 21 comments
Be there, bring your whanau, bring friends. Make it noisy and passionate and make it count.
Open mike 07/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 7th, 2024 - 68 comments
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Daily review 06/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 6th, 2024 - 7 comments
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Lies Damn Lies and Police Statistics
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Date published: 10:43 am, June 6th, 2024 - 15 comments
Police Minister has been caught out claiming an increase in patrols in Central Auckland when a proper analysis of the data shows that the number of patrols have decreased.
Open mike 06/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 6th, 2024 - 37 comments
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Daily review 05/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 5th, 2024 - 12 comments
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National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable
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Date published: 6:05 am, June 5th, 2024 - 11 comments
When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.
Open mike 05/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 5th, 2024 - 31 comments
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Daily review 04/06/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 4th, 2024 - 4 comments
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National/Act – good at breaking public services
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Date published: 12:14 pm, June 4th, 2024 - 41 comments
Today is my 65th birthday. So I’m trying to check out a PDF letter on MyMSD which probably has some details about superannuation. But I get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET consistently. Looks like the idiots in this government have managed to screw up the efficient systems already. The MyMSD site is currently partially dead.
Open mike 04/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 4th, 2024 - 22 comments
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The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises
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Date published: 6:02 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 9 comments
The National Party has created a new slogan: give New Zealanders a break … in promises!
The Big Budget Backflip *
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Date published: 2:57 pm, June 3rd, 2024 - 10 comments
* or is it?
Open mike 03/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 3rd, 2024 - 20 comments
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Open mike 02/06/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2024 - 24 comments
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Anti-Muslim, anti-black, pro-Zionist: UK Labour goes for purge
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Date published: 4:44 am, June 2nd, 2024 - 10 comments
I attended Faiza Shaheen’s impressive candidate launch in Chingford four years ago. She aimed to take on IDS and she dented his majority. Reselected two years ago by the local Labour Party, four days ago she was deselected by a 3-person kangaroo court from the party’s National Executive Committee.
Update: Faiza Shaheen to stand as an independent in Chingford.
Putting Politics over People
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Date published: 2:00 pm, June 1st, 2024 - 24 comments
National’s breaking of its election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments is cruel beyond words.
The QE2 covenant, the Mining Company and the donation to NZ First
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Date published: 8:53 am, June 1st, 2024 - 18 comments
Radio New Zealand has broken the jaw dropping and astounding story that shows why the Fast Track Projects Bill is potentially so corrupting to the body politic and why there has to be electoral law reform to stop corporations from buying influence.
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