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1. 

   Where Is The Real Green Party?

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:47 am, September 17th, 2021 -  48 comments
   Categories: climate change, Environment, greens, james shaw, science, uncategorized
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   Where’s the hairy knuckle-dragging woke when you need them?

2. 

   Dirty Politics does not work any more

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:53 am, September 11th, 2021 -  83 comments
   Categories: blogs, covid-19, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, Politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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   Egged on by a shock horror smear campaign on Cameron Slater’s latest post Judith Collins has attacked Dr Siouxsie Wiles by fat shaming her.

3. 

   Terrorist attack – Law changes may not have helped deal

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:19 am, September 7th, 2021 -  15 comments
   Categories: crime, human rights, immigration, International, police
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   A proposed urgent change in the law concerning preparing to commit a terrorist attack may not have stopped the New Lynn attack from happening.

4. 

   Judith’s very bad two days

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:12 am, September 2nd, 2021 -  50 comments
   Categories: act, covid-19, david seymour, grant robertson, greens, Judith Collins, labour, Media, national, Parliament, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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   Judith Collins’ insistence that Parliament be reconvened even at a time that the country was in lockdown level 4 has backfired spectacularly.

5. 

   The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:39 am, August 31st, 2021 -  76 comments
   Categories: afghanistan, Africa, australian politics, China, class war, colonialism, defence, Disarmament, Europe, Iran, iraq, israel, Japan, Korea, Pacific, Palestine, Peace, Russia, Syria, uk politics, United Nations, us politics, war
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   With the last flights coming out of Kabul, it’s time to review whether this US attitude to the world is a good idea.

6. 

   Ardern Needs to do More Than Manage Crisis

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:23 pm, August 25th, 2021 -  24 comments
   Categories: australian politics, covid-19, economy, jacinda ardern
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   For a country that has sought to form advantage for itself with strong and hard COVID-19 lockdowns, we’re not gaining any more advantage than yet another binge-purge cycle of supply tension and shortages, rapid economic downturn softened by tens of billions of subsidy, followed by unsustainable booms, over and over again.

7. 

   The Covid vaccine may not be the nirvana

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:47 pm, August 21st, 2021 -  151 comments
   Categories: australian politics, boris johnson, covid-19, health, Media, uk politics
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   Claims that a comprehensive vaccination scheme will allow life to get back to normal ignores the experience of Israel, which despite having a large proportion of its population vaccinated is having a surge of new infections of Covid that is stretching its health system.

8. 

   Farewell Dr Michael Cullen

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:52 pm, August 20th, 2021 -  21 comments
   Categories: david cunliffe, helen clark, labour
   Tags: michael cullen, Sir Michael Cullen

   Dr Michael Cullen has died, and with him goes a real standard-bearer for Labour for three decades.

9. 

   Ways out of the climate catastrophe

   Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2021 -  130 comments
   Categories: climate change, disaster, sustainability
   Tags: anthropocene, Glenn Albrecht, how change happens, how things change, powerdown, regenag, resiliency, symbiocene

   As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.

10. 

    National’s civil war continues

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:08 am, August 9th, 2021 -  25 comments
    Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national, racism, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    In an extraordinary move National’s board has reselected Peter Goodfellow as Party Chairperson and this has caused former MP David Carter to resign as board member and express no confidence in the leadership or in National’s chances at the next election.

11. 

    Judith’s last stand?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:04 am, August 4th, 2021 -  43 comments
    Categories: david seymour, Judith Collins, national, same old national, uncategorized
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    Judith Collins has decided to attack the Government on the use of the Te Reo name for New Zealand even though the last National Government regularised its use.

12. 

    Why aren’t Labour acting on the housing crisis?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:30 am, July 27th, 2021 -  68 comments
    Categories: housing, labour
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    Bernard Hickey calls Labour’s inaction a scandal, and it’s hard to disagree.

13. 

    Our modern Olympics

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:46 am, July 26th, 2021 -  7 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Japan, sport
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    The Olympics is an opera that runs on one orchestrated symbol after another, and this Tokyo Olympics is a superabundant tragedy.

14. 

    What If Boris Is Right?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:51 am, July 24th, 2021 -  80 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, covid-19, health, uk politics, uncategorized
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    Now that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has “opened up” the United Kingdom from many of the Covid19 strictures that it had undergone, there is a lot at stake to his reputation and indeed to the lives and livelihoods of its citizens.

15. 

    Act likes some rights but not others

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:50 am, July 22nd, 2021 -  37 comments
    Categories: act, human rights, law, law and "order", the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    Following on from its campaign to protect freedom of expression Act has come out with policy on gangs which if enacted would involve some pretty egregious attacks on freedom of association and movement and due process.

16. 

    Freedom day

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:55 am, July 19th, 2021 -  58 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, covid-19, health, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    As infection rates of Covid in the United Kingdom surge Boris Johnson has announced that today will be the UK’s Freedom day and will be removing pretty well all mandatory Covid restrictions, even the wearing of masks and social distancing.

17. 

    Trump and Russia

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:15 am, July 18th, 2021 -  41 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, Donald Trump, Media, politicans, Russia, us politics
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    The Guardian has reported on claims of a leaked Russian Government paper which on the face of it confirms Russian support for the Trump 2016 election at the highest level.

18. 

    Why Not Support The Farmers?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:43 am, July 17th, 2021 -  106 comments
    Categories: climate change, Economy, Environment, ETS, farming, food, Free Trade, national, trade
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    The Groundswell farmers movement want the new freshwater policy scrapped, the “ute tax” removed, lots of imported labour for farm work, parts of the ETS dumped the new Significant Natural Area policy dumped, the draft policy on indigenous biodiversity scrapped and Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill stopped.  How likely is this?

19. 

    If a thousand baby flamingos die in the desert does anyone hear them howl?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 3:06 pm, July 16th, 2021 -  43 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, farming, food
    Tags: howl of a protest

    Farmers aren’t the problem here, they’re the mirror New Zealand is holding up to itself. We say we want change, despite the evidence.

20. 

    All the right words on climate have already been said

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, July 4th, 2021 -  19 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, journalism
    Tags: climate reporting, Nieman Lab, Sarah Miller

    So I was just driving around thinking, “Ugh it’s hot. Ugh there’s a new fire starting near me at least every other day. Ugh, how is this my life, also this is just the beginning, I feel like I should be waking up from this nightmare at some point and yet I am not,” when the editor finally reached me.

21. 

    Judith Collins is not John Key

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:52 am, July 2nd, 2021 -  168 comments
    Categories: blogs, internet, Judith Collins, Media, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    I honestly am not sure what Judith’s game plan.  Supporting someone who on twitter called for the lynching of a person with a contrary view is not a way to reach to the middle of New Zealand politics.

22. 

    Oppose this new hate speech bill

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:43 am, June 26th, 2021 -  206 comments
    Categories: human rights, International, labour, uncategorized, United Nations
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    Hate speech is about to get a lot more criminalised with much stronger penalties. It’s worth going back to what the Royal Commission actually considered, since that’s the basis of proposing this law. The Royal Commission in fact found that trying to protect religion from very strong opinions is simply not a good idea: … we acknowledge that there […]

23. 

    Todd’s going … who is next?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:31 am, June 24th, 2021 -  67 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, leadership, national, same old national, todd muller
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    Yesterday National suffered further damage to its ranks when Harete Hipango was outed as the MP with Parliamentary Services resources issues and Todd Muller announced that he will stand down as an MP at the end of this term nominally so that he can eventually spend more time with his family.  

24. 

    Make the film and be damned

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:58 am, June 18th, 2021 -  23 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, film, Media, religion
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    A company wants to make a film about the Christchurch mosque massacre on 15 March 2019. Maybe it should do.

25. 

    The Government’s Feebate scheme

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:00 am, June 14th, 2021 -  70 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, greens, labour, michael wood, national, science, transport
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    Labour and the Greens have announced the establishment of a Feebate scheme to incentivise the purchase of electric vehicles and disincentivise the purchase of gas guzzlers.

26. 

    The Climate Commission Report

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 5:19 pm, June 9th, 2021 -  54 comments
    Categories: climate change, ETS, labour, science
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    As they said they would, the Government has today released the full advice from the Climate Commission, taking into account all the submissions and all the big fat evidence.

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    Colonisation and widespread theft of Maori land is apparently good for them

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:53 am, June 9th, 2021 -  78 comments
    Categories: racism, racism
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    Paora Goldsmith, who last hit National headlines for botching up National’s alternative budget,  has again hit the headlines and for the wrong reasons.  And this time members of his caucus publicly disagree with him.

28. 

    Where Did Business Go?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:56 am, May 22nd, 2021 -  34 comments
    Categories: budget 2021, business, david seymour, Economy
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    Back in the day when we had useful Opposition, business leadership could be relied upon to think as if they had interests in common as business. This budget, their ability to think let alone lead has deserted them.

29. 

    Reality has a left wing bias

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:22 am, May 20th, 2021 -  54 comments
    Categories: act, chris hipkins, colonialism, david seymour, education, racism
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    Fresh from a claim that the Ministry of Education is trying to persuade kids not to eat home made lunches, David Seymour has taken aim at a new target, a radical education policy that intends to teach our kids about racism and inequality and what has happened in the country’s past.

30. 

    Hang Facebook

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:15 am, May 9th, 2021 -  30 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, facebook, human rights, Media, Politics, Social issues
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    The decision by the Oversight Board of Facebook to continue banning Donald Trump is one of the biggest moves against free speech and the modern definition of its limits that the world has seen.

31. 

    About the public service pay freeze

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:40 am, May 6th, 2021 -  45 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, grant robertson, Living Wage, uncategorized, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    A few of us on the left have issues with the public service wage freeze announced yesterday. By setting the salary level so low, at $60,000 per annum, the threat is that previous gains for teachers and nurses will be undermined.