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Comment:Daily review 30/07/2021
Date published: 6:28 pm, July 30th, 2021Be interesting to see the focus of this investigation, will it be the whistleblowers or the companies failings. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/mike-bush-lead-investigation-into-talleys-ashburton-plant
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Comment:Nurses refuse pay offer
Date published: 9:29 am, July 30th, 2021I think they just need to do away with negotiating honestly this govt seems pretty gullible and has plenty of money for smart negoiaters. The owner of the Bluff Aluminium smelter noted in its results statement released late yesterday how successful its ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/07/2021
Date published: 8:14 pm, July 28th, 2021May not be so good for the gout unfortunately.
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Comment:Open mike 28/07/2021
Date published: 12:28 pm, July 28th, 2021Well i have very definite arthritis that that the doctor has nothing for, I've started using a herbal oil that gives very definite relief that the doctor says is not. I've eaten some strange things , ants, crickets and more. I don't have the flu vaccine ...
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Comment:Open mike 28/07/2021
Date published: 11:42 am, July 28th, 2021The planet may burn and we'll eat more plastic but at least we will be able to watch rugby. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/447867/nz-rugby-confirms-six-year-partnership-with-petrochemical-company-ineos
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Comment:Open mike 04/07/2021
Date published: 9:14 am, July 4th, 2021This is from a few years ago and a different country but it still true here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT03vCaL-F0
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Comment:Open mike 11/05/2021
Date published: 11:57 am, May 11th, 2021It maybe just a matter of choosing the right supplier and remaining on the good friend/ customer list. https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2112407/illegal-rare-earth-mining-surges-in-myanmar
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Comment:Open mike 25/04/2021
Date published: 7:57 pm, April 25th, 2021I liked Wilhelm Reich, love is the answer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/17/wilhelm-reich-the-strange-prescient-sexologist-who-sought-to-set-us-free
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Comment:Open mike 16/04/2021
Date published: 10:31 am, April 16th, 2021Ive always been told never to trust anyone that needs to tell you they're being honest. And I lost count how many times I was told this by the minister. Is the mass tourism he forecasts truly sustainable.
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Comment:Open mike 06/04/2021
Date published: 12:03 pm, April 6th, 2021I get somewhat cranky at the hypocrisy that seems to surround shop trading hours, and particularly on public holidays. The irony seemed to be lost on Suzie Ferguson on Morning Report this morning that she had time off, at least Friday and Monday, and ...
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Comment:Daily review 01/04/2021
Date published: 6:07 pm, April 1st, 2021Will Ron Brierley be deported to NZ as a 501?
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Comment:Open mike 12/03/2021
Date published: 10:39 am, March 12th, 2021I had the same thoughts myself, going to the local WINZ office, 3 security staff on the door to an office of vacant desks and a long queue before the single receptionist.
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Comment:Sugar is evil
Date published: 1:20 pm, March 6th, 2021Thankfully they keep us safe from the scourge of cannabis ....
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Comment:Open mike 05/03/2021
Date published: 12:39 pm, March 5th, 2021Have just finished watching Minister Kiritapu Allan presenting the press conference on the after effects of the earthquakes. An impressive performance with a very good ability to grasp and present the issues at hand.
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Comment:Open mike 15/02/2021
Date published: 10:07 pm, February 15th, 2021He had a pretty good idea of the solution.https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/car-news/forget-electric-cars-henry-fords-cannabis-car-was-made-from-hemp-10xstronger-than-steel-100-green/1384733/ . I think he offered another way, one that may not have had ...
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Comment:We Must Resist China
Date published: 7:08 am, February 12th, 2021https://www.facebook.com/groups/1334225320047371/permalink/2232614080208486/ From facebòok I know, I was thinking about where the water cannons come from but I see this today
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Comment:Open mike 01/02/2021
Date published: 1:32 pm, February 1st, 2021Meanwhile in Myanmar https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/world/asia/myanmar-coup-suu-kyi.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55882489 The clock winds back.
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Comment:Open mike 31/01/2021
Date published: 3:52 pm, January 31st, 2021Worked for Bill Hicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQq9cmMGSQc
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Comment:Open mike 31/01/2021
Date published: 11:56 am, January 31st, 2021Better than to be still watching reruns of Reefer Madness. It would be terrible to have more of these guys. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/50-most-successful-marijuana-enthusiasts-you-should-know-114790/
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Comment:Open mike 12/01/2021
Date published: 9:20 am, January 12th, 2021Prison worker 'ashamed' to have worked for Department of Corrections https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/434369/prison-worker-ashamed-to-have-worked-for-department-of-corrections I'm sick of making the comment; but the solution is so obvious, it's not ...
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Comment:Open mike 09/01/2021
Date published: 5:38 pm, January 9th, 2021https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/01/us-election-nz-based-academic-says-donald-trump-not-to-blame-for-capitol-riots-says-nz-should-butt-out.html I'm not sure academic is the way to describe this person.
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Comment:Nanaia Mahuta - Peacebroker
Date published: 7:44 am, December 17th, 2020https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3734360523294835&id=100001627729481 Àljezzera link
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Comment:The challenge to the reeferendum result
Date published: 1:26 pm, December 8th, 2020From your comment, forgive for assuming Heroin users would feature even lower on the productivity ladder, yet today I read Bob Dylan sold his lifes work for 400 odd million, not a bad earn for someone so unproductive.
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Comment:Labour's cabinet
Date published: 2:56 pm, November 2nd, 2020There also seems to be some good groupings of environmental (including conservation and climate change) that will hopefully see some real push in these areas. Haven't seen your posts for awhile and apologies for being somewhat off topic, but what did you ...
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Comment:The reeferendum fails
Date published: 10:16 am, October 31st, 2020In the end its just a plant, sow seeds and it grows, like lots of other plants, it has an effect on the mind. what makes it so special, so different from the many unregulated plants that are consumed daily without regulation or care, if the government ...
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Comment:The reeferendum fails
Date published: 4:11 pm, October 30th, 2020That's maybe why Netherlands is a very different society. The 53% of the population that know nothing don't get to impose their beliefs on the rest.
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Comment:Some consequences of Chloe Swarbrick's win
Date published: 7:57 am, October 25th, 2020Living in Onehunga don't think Labour had a candidate there. Where as Denise Lee worked very hard was very much in your face and seemed to have achieved a lot for the residents there. She just offered a lot more compared to any one else, I would say there ...
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Comment:Open mike 19/10/2020
Date published: 12:15 pm, October 19th, 2020One of the things that gets me is her comment that "she fears for the future of this country." She doesn't get that 60% or so of New Zealanders fear for the future of NZ, and that is why they voted Labour &/or Green.
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Comment:Legalise it! The Socialist case for Cannabis reform
Date published: 3:33 pm, October 15th, 2020I've been told by a few of the law enforcement types that its only because the police "can't get them for something else" that people are prosecuted for cannabis. Yea rite its not a good look when it says arrested for being brown on the charge sheet.
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Comment:Latest UMR Poll - National sinking
Date published: 10:40 am, October 14th, 2020“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.” ― George Monbiot
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Comment:NZ Medical Association drops its opposition to the legalisation of cannabis
Date published: 9:12 am, October 13th, 2020Current long term smoker, addictive yea maybe but theres some on the shelf but not feeling like smoking for the last few months so it stays there for summer. In the past smoke every day for 6 months stop to go overseas no problem, While working a ...
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- Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now o...
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- This week’s bestselling books – June 21
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