Daily review 12/06/2024

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Open mike 12/06/2024

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Daily review 11/06/2024

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Open mike 11/06/2024

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UK General Election – the mood on the doorstep

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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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Open mike 10/06/2024

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Respect existence or expect resistance

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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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Fast-Track to Fast-Fail

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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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NATO escalation danger

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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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March for Nature

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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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Daily review 06/06/2024

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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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Daily review 05/06/2024

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National’s irksome incompetence is inexcusable

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When the fabric of lies unravels the gaslighting increases.

Open mike 05/06/2024

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Daily review 04/06/2024

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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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The National Party has a pattern of broken election promises

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The National Party has created a new slogan: give New Zealanders a break … in promises!

The Big Budget Backflip *

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* or is it?

Open mike 03/06/2024

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Open mike 02/06/2024

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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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