Official climate change fraud
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Date published: 7:39 am, June 14th, 2016 - 136 comments
Scientists and experts have been knowingly understating the unfolding climate change catastrophe to governments and decision makers. Why? For the sake of what is “politically palatable”.
Migration
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Date published: 7:17 am, June 14th, 2016 - 32 comments
The refugee rise didn’t go far enough… but we need to stop importing cafe managers and retail supervisors and fuelling Auckland’s housing and transport problems.
Open mike 14/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2016 - 92 comments
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Kiwi Values
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Date published: 10:35 pm, June 13th, 2016 - 62 comments
Epsom hologram David Seymour reckons we need to force refugees to pledge allegiance to what he calls ‘values’. Of course, ACT don’t know value, they only know price. And haven’t we heard this sort of thing from another party in years gone by?
Daily Review 13/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 13th, 2016 - 23 comments
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Refugee quota increase “shameful and inhumane”
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Date published: 3:12 pm, June 13th, 2016 - 23 comments
Reaction to Key’s pathetic increase in the refugee quota – “shameful and inhumane” (Amnesty International), “stinks of a Government that doesn’t care” (Double the Quota).
How about a bit of balance on Hillary Clinton?
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Date published: 8:04 am, June 13th, 2016 - 275 comments
I think it’s time we stopped buying into the Trump-ite view of Hillary Clinton.
The ghost house epidemic and the invisible hand
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Date published: 7:01 am, June 13th, 2016 - 54 comments
Last year there were officially 22,000 unoccupied properties in Auckland. This year 33,000 are officially classified as empty. “Auckland’s 6.6 per cent vacancy rate is higher than either Sydney (5.2 per cent) or Melbourne (4.8 per cent), where there has been an uproar over “ghost houses” deliberately left empty by speculators trading on a soaring market”. This is madness.
Florida – 50 dead in attack on LGBT club
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Date published: 6:19 am, June 13th, 2016 - 204 comments
Coverage and image from The Guardian.
Update: Links to Obama speech and Trump claiming credit.
Open mike 13/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 13th, 2016 - 59 comments
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Essential reading – Hickey on immigration
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Date published: 10:26 am, June 12th, 2016 - 133 comments
Hickey: “Helping employers to bring in low-skilled migrants instead of investing in new technology and becoming more productive so they can pay local workers more is essentially stunting our productivity and real GDP per capita.”
Open mike 12/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2016 - 105 comments
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Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking.
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Date published: 3:14 pm, June 11th, 2016 - 60 comments
Imagine a country where the political divide is over whether to ban fracking outright or to be opposed to fracking but have a moratorium first in order to gather more evidence.
Police undermined by their own minister
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Date published: 12:59 pm, June 11th, 2016 - 100 comments
Good piece by Jo Moir on Stuff this morning, about National’s train-wreck week. Follow it up with Andrew Geddis on the legality of the Collins blurt.
Warren on Trump (and the Republicans)
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Date published: 8:42 am, June 11th, 2016 - 33 comments
Elizabeth Warren, who is positioning herself as Clinton’s potential VP, rips in to The Donald (and the Republicans) in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS).
Where is Paula?
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Date published: 8:00 am, June 11th, 2016 - 120 comments
In the middle of a housing crisis the Minister of Social Housing Paula Bennett is nowhere to be seen.
Open mike 11/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2016 - 205 comments
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Daily Review 10/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 10th, 2016 - 33 comments
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Jonathan Pie thinks Tony Blair is a psychopath
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Date published: 3:00 pm, June 10th, 2016 - 7 comments
Jonathan Pye analyses Tony Blair’s history and contrasts his statements and actions with that of Jeremy Corbyn.
There is no housing crisis in New Zealand *
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Date published: 8:55 am, June 10th, 2016 - 52 comments
* according to Nick Smith and Paula Bennett.
Banks act on housing affordability crisis (while National sits on its hands)
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Date published: 6:29 am, June 10th, 2016 - 144 comments
Despite Key’s barnstorming 2007 speech on the housing affordability crisis, National these days prefer to deny that it exists. Apparently fed up with waiting for the government to take action, banks are moving to reduce their risk and limit foreign buyers.
H1 and H2
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2016 - 191 comments
In a few months, the two most important leadership roles on the planet could be held by women. How cool is that? We’ve come a long way, world!
Open mike 10/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2016 - 135 comments
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Daily Review 09/06/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, June 9th, 2016 - 93 comments
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Robert Reich’s letter to Bernie Sanders
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Date published: 3:41 pm, June 9th, 2016 - 47 comments
The text of an open letter written by Ribert Reich to his friend Bernie Sanders.
FIFY: Bennett too embarrassed to visit marae
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Date published: 2:58 pm, June 9th, 2016 - 72 comments
National’s lies, damn lies and statistics on housing
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Date published: 10:05 am, June 9th, 2016 - 43 comments
The housing crisis is not going away, and National needs to offer something better than lies, damn lies, and statistics.
If you still need to be persuaded about New Zealand’s homeless crisis …
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Date published: 8:52 am, June 9th, 2016 - 154 comments
Eleven year old TA is bright, dedicated but homeless. She has challenged John Key to try walking in her shoes.
Time for Bernie to stand down?
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Date published: 7:02 am, June 9th, 2016 - 190 comments
What will Bernie do now?
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