Daily review 05/11/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 5th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 05/11/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 5th, 2024 - 15 comments
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The 2024 US Election: A No-Win Scenario
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Date published: 7:18 pm, November 4th, 2024 - 50 comments
Tuesday (Wednesday in NZ) is election day in the United States of America. Where billionaires buy elections, the President is not elected by popular vote, and the nominee of the Republican Party attempted to overturn the results after he was voted out of office four years ago. Somehow, despite his crimes, Donald Trump is a coin-toss away from taking back the White House.
Daily review 04/11/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 4th, 2024 - 4 comments
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Open mike 04/11/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 4th, 2024 - 61 comments
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The strange case of the I am Hope funding
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Date published: 9:13 am, November 3rd, 2024 - 11 comments
National is scrambling to justify designated funding to the I am Hope charity after Mike King claimed alcohol was good for mental health and preventing suicide.
Open mike 03/11/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 3rd, 2024 - 34 comments
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Open mike 02/11/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 2nd, 2024 - 43 comments
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Daily review 01/11/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, November 1st, 2024 - 7 comments
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What’s up with Matt Doocey, Mike King & the $24mn of taxpayers money?
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Date published: 1:55 pm, November 1st, 2024 - 15 comments
Mike King calls alcohol a solution to mental health anguish. But evidence shows alcohol is linked to a 94% increase in suicide and has links to family violence. So what is happening with King and the $24m this government handed him in a highly “irregular” contract process?
Open mike 01/11/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 1st, 2024 - 66 comments
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Daily review 31/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 31st, 2024 - 12 comments
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When a right becomes a wrong
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Date published: 1:26 pm, October 31st, 2024 - 66 comments
The Free Speech Union is wanting an extremist right wing shock jock who the Christchurch Killer described as the person who most influenced him the privilege of visiting New Zealand to host a fundraising event.
Open mike 31/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 31st, 2024 - 38 comments
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Luxon Promotes Wealthy & Foreign Interests
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Date published: 6:28 pm, October 30th, 2024 - 12 comments
Chris Luxon continues to talk up privatisation and wealthy foreign interests from the Middle East and elsewhere. Privatisation and PPP models have been shown to cost a country – but he and ACT and NZ First seem set on their course to sell NZ assets.
Daily review 30/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 30th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 30/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 30th, 2024 - 85 comments
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Daily review 29/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 29th, 2024 - 5 comments
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Open mike 29/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 29th, 2024 - 45 comments
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Labour day
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Date published: 2:20 pm, October 28th, 2024 - 21 comments
Enjoying your weekend? Thank a unionist!
Seven days and counting
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Date published: 2:06 pm, October 28th, 2024 - 80 comments
Please American voters do the right thing. Signed the rest of the world.
#VoteHarris
Open mike 28/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2024 - 12 comments
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And we’re back again…
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Date published: 4:21 am, October 28th, 2024 - 11 comments
The Standard’s server is now in a new case that is streamlined for its new location. Mostly the same. But separating off my personal archive array. It won’t need that where the server is going. But I also fixed up a previous hardware mistake and changed one VERY old boot drive.
Open mike 27/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 27th, 2024 - 28 comments
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Act’s revenge on the Waitangi Tribunal
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Date published: 10:28 am, October 26th, 2024 - 16 comments
In what must be the most unsuitable appointment decision ever made Richard Prebble has been appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal.
Open mike 26/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 26th, 2024 - 28 comments
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Daily review 25/10/2024
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Date published: 5:30 pm, October 25th, 2024 - 9 comments
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US is spending $28 billion to colonise your brain
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Date published: 12:38 pm, October 25th, 2024 - 9 comments
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to US influence campaigns. In a staggering increase in funding for propaganda and covert action the US House has passed the Countering the PRC (People’s Republic of China) Malign Influence Fund, kicking in an extra $1.6 billion.
David Seymour Chooses School Lunches Provider With Questionable Record: Listeria, Horse Meat & Poor Quality
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Date published: 9:44 am, October 25th, 2024 - 27 comments
David Seymour said the new school lunches are the best food he’s ever eaten – but how true is it? And what has he chosen for our tamariki in the school lunch program?
Is the Epsom seat goneburger?
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Date published: 7:22 am, October 25th, 2024 - 23 comments
The North Island needs to lose an electorate seat. It appears that Epsom is the most logical seat to go.
Open mike 25/10/2024
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Date published: 6:00 am, October 25th, 2024 - 14 comments
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