Tag: politics
Hour of Power: A new podcast
So in an effort to spread myself as far out into the internet as I can, I’m one third of a podcast with Morning Report’s Susie Ferguson and the Civilian’s Ben Uffindell.
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Between a Trump and a Russian place
I saw an article yesterday that came from early December about the current intelligence community and its panic over Donald Trump. The article, from Reuters, says that Canada is concerned about Trump’s comments around using torture and other ethical atrocities as well as his ties to Russia
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
So who saw that one coming? No-one. Big news.
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Erewhon: Where everyone is lazy and does drugs
RadioNZ (sorry RNZ) has a remarkable story up about New Zealand’s high level of immigration, and how this high level of immigration is actually bringing in a lot of low-skilled workers
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Some great things about 2016
So 2016 hasn’t been great huh? That’s the meme. That it’s been a shit year. Smacking us all right in the gooch. Terrorism, celebrity deaths, poverty, Trump, we’ve had a lot. So I thought in honour of it being such a shitter let’s take a look at some good things.
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A complete abdication of responsibility
It was a fascinating day yesterday, watching the Brexit results come in and seeing how divided United Kingdom had become.
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Why Donald Trump is good for democracy
Hello friends, I’m not going to be writing a whole lot of these pieces but I thought I’d dip my toe back into the punditry land, if only for a brief swim.
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Trump, the View From Moon Zealand
For a while now I’ve wondered when exactly we should start taking seriously what is going on in US politics around Donald Trump. How foolish of me. The time is now.
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Best of the Worst
Today I’m voting to keep a flag that I’ve wanted to change since I was six.
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The Rumi Awards 2015
Recognising some of the best and worst things that happened in New Zealand this year.
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Flagged as inappropriate
Well they’re out. The final four design have been reached and they’re all a bit terrible.
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It’s not easy being Green (while running for male co-leader)
A while back I asked the four Green Party co-leader aspirants what their favourite musical was.
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Left is right
If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative when you’re 30 you have no brain.
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Opaque transparency
It takes a lot to make me write about current events. Usually because I’m not a creative thinker
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State of the Union
I haven’t really been blogging much lately. I haven’t really felt like there was something that I should talk about.
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American Political Batshit: Defense Spending
The first thing that you have to understand about military spending in America is that we have to spend that money.
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