Jackal: Ray Chung – Arsehole of the week
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Date published: 11:06 pm, July 12th, 2025 - 7 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, local body elections, local government, Politics
Tags: ray chung, the jackal, Tory Whanau, wellington
In the murky world of local politics, few things reek as badly as Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung’s despicable conduct. His smearing email, circulated to fellow councillors in early 2023, peddling baseless and salacious gossip about Mayor Tory Whanau, is not just a personal attack, it’s a grotesque abuse of power that exposes his utter unfitness for public office.
Open Mike 13/07/25
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Open Mike 12/07/25
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Daily review 11/07/2025
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Corporate profit and Gaza
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Date published: 3:10 pm, July 11th, 2025 - 8 comments
UN Special rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese’s latest report highlights the corporate role in enabling genocide in Gaza. Utterly predictably, she has been sanctioned by the United States.
Open Mike 11/07/25
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Daily review 10/07/2025
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The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025. Part 2: Nuclear refugees in the Pacific: the evacuation of Rongelap
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Date published: 4:30 pm, July 10th, 2025 - 1 comment
On its last voyage the Rainbow Warrior evacuated the entire population of Rongelap. Cancers, birth defects, and genetic damage had ripped through the population after US above-ground nuclear explosions.
Open Mike 10/07/25
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Daily review 09/07/2025
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What happened to the Epstein Client List?
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Date published: 9:20 am, July 9th, 2025 - 9 comments
After months and months of speculation as to its content there was a bombshell announcement yesterday by the United States Justice Department. There is no Epstein list of wealthy men who preyed on vulnerable young women.
Open Mike 09/07/25
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Daily review 08/07/2025
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Open Mike 08/07/25
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Daily review 07/07/2025
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Open Mike 07/07/25
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Reality Check Radio needs a reality check
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Date published: 2:50 pm, July 6th, 2025 - 64 comments
Reality Check Radio has on the eve of the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s hearings into the Government’s Covid response released a petition suggesting that Jacinda Ardern and others have been put on trial.
The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025. Part 1: French State Terrorism and the end of innocence.
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Date published: 9:05 am, July 6th, 2025 - 41 comments
Immediately after blowing up the Rainbow Warrior the French agents went on a ski holiday in the South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt they had for Kiwis and our police. How wrong they were.
Open Mike 06/07/25
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Open Mike 05/07/25
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Almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence from Kiwis
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Why public interest journalism matters
Keith Locke Inaugural Memorial Debate – Live
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View the inaugural Keith Locke Memorial Debate!
July 3, 2025 | Auckland Irish Club or via livestream
The moot? China is a threat to regional peace
Moderator: Simon Wilson
On the Affirmative Hon Dr Wayne Mapp, Dr Cam Calder, Andrew Dickens
On the Negative Trevor Johnston, Dr Marco de Jong, Dr Arama Rata
Open mike 03/07/2025
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Daily review 01/07/2025
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We Have a Human Right to Water, and to Democracy
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Date published: 7:01 am, July 1st, 2025 - 25 comments
National is rolling out comprehensive water corporatisation, across New Zealand. For those who don’t live in Auckland, Wellington, or other centres with commercialised water services already, this is coming to you fast. “Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run […]
Open mike 01/07/2025
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Why Asia-Pacific should back Iran
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Date published: 4:41 pm, June 30th, 2025 - 24 comments
Ceasefire will only be a pause in the long-running US-Israeli campaign for regime change in Iran. The good news for our region is that Iran’s resilience pushes back the looming risk of a US-led war on China.
State-run food stores anyone?
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Date published: 10:31 am, June 30th, 2025 - 26 comments
What if we broke New Zealand’s grocery misery with our own grocery store?
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