2pm today on MagicTalk Radio THE THUNDERDOME OF TALKBACK
This show was the first to call the severity of this pandemic – find out where we believe things go now.
politics
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Trump’s sudden horrific desire to start war with Iran while you are preoccupied with the Pandemic
The monstrous incompetence of Trump’s response to the pandemic is bad enough, but what he is secretly planning in the background while all our attention is on the pandemic is bordering on psychotic…
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How Do You Feel? What Do You Think?
NEW ZEALAND POLITICS under the Lockdown will be played out in two locations. The Beehive: where Jacinda Ardern and her key ministers and advisers will oversee the national effort to eradicate the Covid-19 virus. Parliament Buildings: where the Epidemic Response Committee, chaired by Simon Bridges, will hold the Prime Minister, her government, and the country’s leading public servants to account.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – WHAT IS MONEY? WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? DO CRISES PRODUCE SOLUTIONS?
“Leaders in the United States Senate raced to unravel last-minute snags Wednesday and win passage of an unparalleled $2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and healthcare systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic.”
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Trump’s Covid-19 Programme: Crisis Response, Turning Tables, and Corona-tion
One of the curious concepts in a crisis is the way in which the ‘old rules’ don’t so much not apply, as seem actively turned upon their head.
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Is the Pandemic a plague on free market Capitalism?
Beyond the human damage and economic implosion this is going to cost until a vaccination is actually produced, the philosophical and political criticisms to free market globalisation which has given crumbs and suicide nets to many while amassing enormous wealth for a Transnational few will start sounding louder as the pandemic deepens…
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Warren supporters won’t back Bernie – Identity Politics and modern political culture doesn’t work like that
Under Identity Politics, an ally is just someone who hasn’t oppressed or triggered you yet.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.
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Evidence of why Trump will beat Biden
This wasn’t an election, it was a cry for help!
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Super Tuesday 2020: “No, no, no, America – you’ve got it wrong!”
Retailing “revolution” in the United States of America has always been a hard sell.