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  1. What would President Biden do?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:47 am, May 4th, 2020 -  59 comments
    Categories: climate change, Donald Trump, education, Environment, health, immigration, International, obama, science, tax, tertiary education, uncategorized, us politics, workers' rights
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    With President Trump doing what we all expected, and killing 67,000 people and counting through chronic poor leadership, and utterly ruining the U.S. economy as well, it’s time to look at what policies the alternative candidate has on offer.

  2. A Response to ‘No Exit’.

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 1:48 pm, May 3rd, 2020 -  91 comments
    Categories: culture, Environment, Ethics, global warming, religion, science
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    In a recent post, Bill hit his straps with – “Either way, wind power won’t save us. Solar power won’t save us. Carbon capture and storage won’t save us. Your God won’t save us. Nothing but ourselves will save us.”

    I felt miffed and more than a little grumpy at Bill’s flippant reference to God, and so sent through this long form response.  ~ Adam.

  3. Guest post – is it safe to lower the lockdown level?

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:41 am, April 20th, 2020 -  58 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, health and safety, Politics
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    Guest post by Karl Sinclair on what needs to be addressed before the country can be safely lifted out of lockdown.

  4. A response from the Rosa Luxemburg wing of the Labour Party

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 3:55 pm, April 15th, 2020 -  60 comments
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    According to Stephen Mills on Nine to Noon yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation as Labour leader will only be mourned by “the microscopic Rosa Luxemburg-worshipping far left sect in New Zealand.” His outburst was deliberate, gratuitous and way over the top.

  5. Lockdown 4 – do we stay or do we go?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:37 am, April 15th, 2020 -  147 comments
    Categories: health, jacinda ardern, Media, uncategorized
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    Over the next few days there will be an intense public debate about whether the lockdown should be continued or loosened.

  6. What Is This Moment Teaching Us?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 12:15 pm, April 14th, 2020 -  53 comments
    Categories: capitalism, health, health and safety, jacinda ardern, uncategorized, workers' rights
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    What is Covid-19 telling us about our response as a nation?

  7. Please sort this out MoH

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:18 pm, April 12th, 2020 -  85 comments
    Categories: covid-19, health, health and safety, workers' rights
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    Frontline home care workers and their clients still don’t have adequate protection from covid. 

  8. The end of partisan politics?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:58 am, April 8th, 2020 -  71 comments
    Categories: capitalism, Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, radio, socialism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    Throughout the world there is an increasing consensus emerging that the free market approach is failing and principled intelligent leadership from governments provide the optimum result.

  9. Not a good day for an April Fool’s joke

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:38 am, April 1st, 2020 -  24 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, dpf, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    David Farrar has shown that many of his commenters and followers do not understand satire.

  10. What about Climate Change then?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:49 am, March 31st, 2020 -  26 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, health, health and safety, science, uncategorized
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    Shouldn’t this global shock from this COVID-19 virus make us all wake up to the power of collective global action on climate change?

  11. New Zealand Tourism after 2020

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, March 30th, 2020 -  48 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, economy, tourism, uncategorized
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    Post Covid-2019 what is going to happen to New Zealand’s tourism market?

  12. Ardern’s announcement about the new 4 level alert system for coronavirus

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:31 pm, March 21st, 2020 -  97 comments
    Categories: health, jacinda ardern
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    Please be strong, be kind, and unite against Covid-19
    – Jacinda Ardern.

  13. On Mike the Moron and handling infectious diseases

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:40 am, March 20th, 2020 -  14 comments
    Categories: health, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Five days ago Mike Hosking was representing his paymasters with his reflection of their basic ignorance of history.  Then demanding caution in dealing with covid-19. Yesterday he panicked for immediate action to close the borders which government did anyway later that day. It is just dangerous to give a public platform to a dithering moron who be at home in 1918. Perhaps he should read the pandemic plan? 

  14. Relentless negativity

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:22 am, March 18th, 2020 -  57 comments
    Categories: grant robertson, health, jacinda ardern, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, uncategorized, winston peters
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    Simon Bridges has been criticised for his relentless negativity towards the Government’s urgent Covid-19 budget response and for playing politics as usual at a time when unity is required.

  15. It’s time for Auckland to work

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:44 am, March 12th, 2020 -  12 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Economy, economy, local government, phil twyford, uncategorized
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    2020 will now be the year that New Zealand will now rely on Auckland to get its shit together.

  16. Coronavirus and the State

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:52 pm, March 11th, 2020 -  37 comments
    Categories: China, Donald Trump, health, health and safety, us politics
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    A few weeks ago I slagged off the Chinese government for its response to the Corona virus and presumed that authoritarian states could never be as good as democratic states in responding to a pandemic. I want to revisit my opinion.

  17. Someone should keep a Talley

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:51 am, February 26th, 2020 -  15 comments
    Categories: election 2017, election funding, elections, Environment, Media, nz first, Shane Jones, stuart nash, uncategorized, winston peters
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    Radio New Zealand has published details of Talley donations totalling $27,000 being made to the NZ First Foundation.

  18. To Kill Democracy…

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 2:12 pm, February 22nd, 2020 -  12 comments
    Categories: corruption, democracy under attack, election 2020, International, Media, Politics, us politics
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    If major Democratic Party donors and ‘big business’ lobbyists wanted to monkeywrench democracy in the US, then here’s how they could go about it.

  19. Sustainable NZ not so sustainable after all

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:42 pm, February 21st, 2020 -  23 comments
    Categories: election 2020, electoral systems, Environment, MMP, national, sustainability
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    It appears that National’s dream of an alternative Green party that would drive the real Green Party below the threshold is in tatters with news that Sustainable NZ is on the skids.

  20. The death of Holden

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:01 am, February 18th, 2020 -  43 comments
    Categories: australian politics, Economy, tech industry, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
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    Thousands of households across New Zealand heard the announcement of the complete death of the Holden marque this week, as the death of one of the greatest binaries and one of the most closely teased and contested brands of all: Holden versus Ford.

  21. China: Guns, Germs, and Steel

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, February 14th, 2020 -  34 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, Economy, Free Trade, trade
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    The coronavirus outbreak that exploded three weeks ago in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has prompted the most severe Chinese government actions in three decades.

  22. This result could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 8:11 am, February 10th, 2020 -  13 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, International, politicans, uk politics
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    Originally posted onNick Kelly’s blog

    Nick is a Director of Piko Consulting and works as a Political Adviser in The House of Lords. 

    Listening to the results being reported while driving on that California freeway, I recall thinking ‘this result could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom’. On hearing that both Northern Ireland and Scotland had voted to stay part of the EU, in contrast to the rest of the country, it was hard to imagine that this would not become a significant issue.

  23. Oh Look! (What. a. surprise.)

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:41 am, February 8th, 2020 -  20 comments
    Categories: Free Trade, International, making shit up, Propaganda, Syria, United Nations, us politics
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    Mainstream media yet again aiding and abetting the character assassination of whistle blowers.

  24. What if plant-based wasn’t the answer?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:05 am, February 7th, 2020 -  123 comments
    Categories: farming, food
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    Instead of burning the world a bit more slowly, how about we don’t burn it at all?

  25. Southland floods and toxic waste

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:05 am, February 6th, 2020 -  45 comments
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    As Southland starts post-flood recovery, the question arises of why 10,000 tonnes of waste known to become toxic on exposure to water was allowed to be stored on the banks of a river with known flood risk in a building with known flood risk? 

  26. Pay the money back Simon

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 3:17 pm, February 1st, 2020 -  33 comments
    Categories: election funding, elections, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Simon Bridges has stated that National wants to pay the undeclared $100,000 donation back but even though nearly two years have passed since it was made it still remains unrepaid.

  27. The Fourth Estate struggling in the social media world

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 11:51 pm, January 27th, 2020 -  30 comments
    Categories: facebook, International, internet, jacinda ardern, journalism, labour, Media, political parties, politicans, Politics, twitter, uk politics
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    Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

    Ahead of the 2020 General Election in New Zealand, Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that her party is committed to run a factual election and has signed up to a social media tool to help prove it. The 2020 NZ election will be an interesting case study of whether in the social media age there can be honest political debate free of misinformation and manipulation of facts.

  28. McClay accused of supporting China’s mass detention of muslims

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:26 am, January 17th, 2020 -  51 comments
    Categories: China, human rights, International, national, political parties, same old national, United Nations
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    Freedom House has criticised National MP Todd McClay for reinforcing Chinese descriptions of the mass imprisonment of Muslim minorities as vocational training centres.

  29. Why UK Labour lost? Part 6: New Labour & Blairism

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 10:39 am, January 15th, 2020 -  10 comments
    Categories: Austerity, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, Politics, uk politics
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    Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog

    Fact is that the world has moved on from the 1980s and 90s. Politics certainly has. The types of 3rd way or centre/centre right positions that Blair and Campbell think will win just won’t anymore.

  30. Why UK Labour lost? Part 5: Antisemitism

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 6:29 am, January 14th, 2020 -  13 comments
    Categories: elections, International, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, racism, uk politics
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    Originally posted onNick Kelly’s blog