America would never happen here!

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Date published: 9:49 am, January 22nd, 2025 - 21 comments
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Why corporate fascism may no longer be a distant dream – and how it’s closer than you might think

Open mike 23/01/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 23rd, 2025 - No comments

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In Defence of Golriz Ghahraman

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Date published: 2:11 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 20 comments

Golriz Ghahraman didn’t shoplift “again” – but recent media reports made it sound like she did. This article looks back on her history and her treatment by NZ’s political and media class.

The difference between Christopher Luxon and Donald Trump *

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Date published: 12:15 pm, January 22nd, 2025 - 13 comments

* is not as great as you think.

Open mike 22/01/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 22nd, 2025 - 55 comments

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The future dystopia

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Date published: 11:28 am, January 21st, 2025 - 48 comments

He’s baack. The man least suited to running the world’s most powerful country is now President again.

Open mike 21/01/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 21st, 2025 - 141 comments

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Luxon’s panicked reshuffle

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Date published: 1:12 pm, January 20th, 2025 - 61 comments

Christopher Luxon has conducted a major Cabinet Reshuffle with the stand out feature the demotion of Shane Reti and the transfer of Health from Reti to Simeon Brown.

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 20th, 2025 - 31 comments

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The World has too many Oligarchs

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Date published: 3:27 pm, January 19th, 2025 - 14 comments

In his final speech Joe Biden has warned the world about the dangers posed by Oligarchs supporting the right into democratic power. He is right.

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 19th, 2025 - 73 comments

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 18th, 2025 - 22 comments

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Clearing the Decks: Government replaces half of the Waitangi Tribunal

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Date published: 10:07 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 33 comments

The government has replaced half of the Waitangi Tribunal, removing three of NZ’s most highly regarded experts in mātauranga Maori.

Latest opinion poll – Labour overtakes National

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Date published: 2:21 pm, January 17th, 2025 - 62 comments

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That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes.

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NZ: The Final Atlas Network Puzzle Piece Has Arrived

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Date published: 6:41 pm, January 16th, 2025 - 28 comments

The final Atlas Network playbook puzzle piece is here, and it slipped in to Aotearoa New Zealand with little fan fare or attention from media or opposition. The implications are stark.

Reviewing the Cook Strait Ferry fiasco

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Date published: 1:07 pm, January 16th, 2025 - 35 comments

A review of the history of the Ferries issue suggests that this could be coalition ending and career ending.

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2025 - 30 comments

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The Left Went That Way

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Date published: 8:38 am, January 14th, 2025 - 37 comments

In the past two decades, election results in western Europe, Australasia, and North America have been framed as a crisis of the left. But in reality are things that bad?

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2025 - 70 comments

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2025 - 20 comments

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Labour’s Long-Sightedness and the Opposition’s Opprobrious Omniabsence

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Date published: 4:05 pm, January 11th, 2025 - 52 comments

New Zealand is sleepwalking to an unmitigated constitutional, societal, and environmental disaster under the smokescreen of culture wars.

The Los Angeles fires – could they happen here?

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Date published: 12:02 pm, January 11th, 2025 - 20 comments

With large parts of Los Angeles burning and the right still trying to divert attention and blame the question arises, could the same thing happen here?

President Biden’s Accomplishments

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Date published: 9:37 am, January 11th, 2025 - 33 comments

It’s common these days to see the rapid 2024 exit of multiple global social democrat leaders as just a post-COVID symptom of democratic impatience. But Biden achieved far more than his age-related decline obscures.

Open mike 11/01/2025

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2025 - 19 comments

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Winston’s Next Job

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Date published: 8:30 am, January 10th, 2025 - 18 comments

While he scoops up behind Minister Willis’s Cook Strait ferry disaster, he’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and our primary lead on the rise of President Trump and boy does he have a job ahead of him.

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2025 - 22 comments

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2025 - 60 comments

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Who funds the Taxpayer’s Union?

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Date published: 9:03 am, January 8th, 2025 - 31 comments

Six months late and in the middle of the Holiday Period the Tax Payers Union has filed its election year accounts suggesting that it received $2,628,721 in donations that year. And there is no indication of who from.