Daily review 14/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 14th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Open mike 14/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 14th, 2024 - 66 comments
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A sad lament from the serial left
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Date published: 10:39 pm, February 13th, 2024 - 103 comments
Attacking leftists attempts to expose the Atlas Network of right-wing think tanks, Chris Trotter offers this gem “Morally speaking, is taking money from oil companies really all that distinguishable from giving money to oil companies every time we fill up our petrol tank?”
National and the Gutting of Local Democracy
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Date published: 7:57 pm, February 13th, 2024 - 16 comments
We have remarkably little democracy left in New Zealand.
Daily review 13/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 13th, 2024 - 9 comments
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A Trump-led Withdrawal from NATO
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Date published: 7:30 am, February 13th, 2024 - 37 comments
Just as he did in 2017, Trump is clear in 2023 that the United States should withdraw from NATO.
Open mike 13/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 13th, 2024 - 29 comments
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Daily review 12/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 12th, 2024 - 3 comments
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Who are the four lobbyists with Parliamentary swipe cards?
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Date published: 12:23 pm, February 12th, 2024 - 23 comments
National has trashed its comment last terms that lobbyists should not have special access rights by handing out four swipe cards to lobbyists and refusing to say who they are.
Open mike 12/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 12th, 2024 - 49 comments
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The apparatus behind the curtain – Part 2: The mainline
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Date published: 2:40 pm, February 11th, 2024 - 60 comments
In a guest post Seddonville Miner explores links between the Atlas Network and the Taxpayer’s Union.
The Subs and the Next War
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Date published: 11:28 am, February 11th, 2024 - 9 comments
In March 2023, former Australian prime minister Paul Keating attracted significant media attention when he described AUKUS as a manifestation of the United States’s campaign to encircle China with hostile military allies and partners.
Should America elect a well intentioned but hapless President or an evil and dangerous President?
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Date published: 9:58 am, February 11th, 2024 - 30 comments
Robert Hur, the Republican prosecutor investigating President Biden’s retention of classified documents has concluded he should not face trial because he was “well-intentioned, but sometimes hapless and forgetful”.
Alex Foulkes To Stand For Green Party Co-Leader
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Date published: 6:05 am, February 11th, 2024 - 147 comments
Faulkes describes himself as a staunch Eco-Socialist and trade unionist
Open mike 11/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 11th, 2024 - 24 comments
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Simeon Brown works to make transport system less sustainable
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Date published: 2:10 pm, February 10th, 2024 - 6 comments
This week we have seen National confirm it will cancel the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax and this will cause the cancellation or suspension of many projects designed to address congestion. And it has been confirmed that axing the clean car discount has seen sales of electric vehicles plummet. And that electric vehicles will shortly pay more to use the road than petrol vehicles.
Open mike 10/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 10th, 2024 - 80 comments
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Daily review 09/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 9th, 2024 - 19 comments
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Open mike 09/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 9th, 2024 - 89 comments
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Daily review 08/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 8th, 2024 - 28 comments
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Laura Norda strikes again
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Date published: 9:14 am, February 8th, 2024 - 78 comments
National has announced the cancellation of funding for Cultural Reports because of the cost and the abandonment of Labour’s plan to decrease the muster despite the cost.
Open mike 08/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 8th, 2024 - 16 comments
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Daily review 07/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 7th, 2024 - 1 comment
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Toitu te Tiriti
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Date published: 12:20 pm, February 7th, 2024 - 68 comments
Recent events have shown overwhelming support for the treaty among Iwi, the willingness for David Seymour to create chaos for political advantage, and that Christopher Luxton is not in control of the Government.
Open mike 07/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 7th, 2024 - 51 comments
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Daily review 06/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 6th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Ratana and The Treaty of Waitangi
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Date published: 5:25 pm, February 6th, 2024 - 10 comments
“My understanding is a guy came out as a prophet of his own religious movement in the 1870s. And politicians feel a strange obligation to be there every year. I’ve never felt that.” David Seymour is shallow as a birdbath.
Open mike 06/02/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 6th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Daily review 05/02/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 5th, 2024 - 3 comments
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A modest proposal on Waitangi day
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Date published: 1:58 pm, February 5th, 2024 - 32 comments
While the Treaty of Waitangi continues to be battered back and forth, the clear reality is that Maori, after signing the infuriating Treaty, were systematically dispossessed of their land. Any reading of the history of colonial treaties shows that treaties were the primary method of dispossession and were designed to be broken. And invariably they were.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
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Date published: 6:54 am, February 5th, 2024 - 12 comments
Originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog Many question the value of the performing arts and drama. At the start of 2024, the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office did what journalists, politicians and broader civil society have failed to do over the last 25 years. It raised public awareness of the injustice faced […]
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