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Date published: 3:24 pm, January 18th, 2026 - 16 comments
Categories: democratic participation, election 2026, internet, Media, Politics
Tags: democratic mindfulness
When intensely watching the orange orangutan in the White House we miss the invisible gorilla in the oval room.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 19th, 2026 - 23 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 18th, 2026 - 8 comments
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Date published: 11:11 am, January 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Christopher Luxon is extracting utu on Chris Bishop for his pre Christmas attempted coup by making Bishop eat humble pie on his plans to allow intensification in Auckland’s inner suburbs.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 17th, 2026 - 13 comments
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Date published: 9:27 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 21 comments
To understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism, black-and-white, political framing.
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Date published: 12:18 pm, January 16th, 2026 - 17 comments
The attack on the NZ Reserve Bank is lock step with Trump.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2026 - 7 comments
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Date published: 3:01 pm, January 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
The merger of many functions of the central public sector concerned with cities, the environment, housing and urban development, and transport, was announced in the week before Christmas and is now underway. There’s plenty of good on the face of it.
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Date published: 10:49 am, January 15th, 2026 - 27 comments
Winston Peters has attacked the REserve Bank Governor Anna Bremen for publicly expressing concern about politically inspired Department of Justice attacks on US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 15th, 2026 - 15 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 14th, 2026 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 13th, 2026 - 43 comments
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Date published: 9:36 am, January 12th, 2026 - 6 comments
Mountain Tūī Opinion and Analysis on New Zealand’s “C” word
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2026 - 11 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 12:43 pm, January 10th, 2026 - 16 comments
Brooke Van Velden, responsible for refusing a firefighters’ levy increase in 2024, piled on to firefighters who have been struggling for over a year to be heard – leading to catastrophic losses & risk
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Date published: 11:32 am, January 10th, 2026 - 100 comments
The competing social media takes based on video that clearly shows that the shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Good was totally unjustified shows how dominant social discord is now considered to be more important than truth.
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Date published: 7:48 am, January 10th, 2026 - 7 comments
Tim Shadbolt’s passing shows what it’s like when a bona fide radical activist gets into power for long enough to make a permanent difference.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2026 - 4 comments
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Date published: 11:25 am, January 9th, 2026 - 10 comments
The real affordability crisis lies in the systematic extraction of income from households.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2026 - 9 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 10:57 am, January 7th, 2026 - 25 comments
Among a significant number of leaders claiming they are actively monitoring the situation in Venezuela after the US invasion and the kidnapping of President Maduro are some pointed and very relevant comments from some unusual sources.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2026 - 25 comments
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Date published: 9:39 am, January 6th, 2026 - 12 comments
The company has been accused of using outdated encryption protocols, and has been slow to respond to community concerns. And importantly, has National put our other public health data at risk too?
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 6th, 2026 - 41 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 5th, 2026 - 19 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 4th, 2026 - 64 comments
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Date published: 10:05 am, January 3rd, 2026 - 5 comments
David Seymour has spent some of his holidays meeting Argentine leader Javier Milei and praising Milei’s far right inspired destruction of local Government institutions.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 3rd, 2026 - 9 comments
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