The Hoon around the week to November 15

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale talking about the week’s news with:* The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer on the latest climate news, including from COP29 this week;* Robert Patman on the US Presidential elections, Israel vs Gaza/Iran/Lebanon, Ukraine/Nato vs Russia/North Korea and whether NZ now joins AUKUS.* Special guest Elaine Monaghan on Donald Trump’s win in the US Presidential elections. She is a professor of practice in journalism at Indiana University in Bloomington, and contributed to Reuters coverage of Ukraine, having long been a Reuters correspondent in Moscow, Kyiv and Washington. She was also a correspondent for The Times in Washington and co-authored the 2006 book On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence.* Special guest David Tong, Global Industry Campaign Manager at Oil Change International, speaking from COP29 in Baku.The Hoon’s podcast version above was recorded on Thursday night during a live webinar for over 200 paying subscribers and was produced by Simon Josey. (This is a sampler for all free subscribers and anyone else who stumbles on it. Thanks to the support of paying subscribers here, we’re able to spread my public interest journalism here about housing affordability, climate change and poverty reduction other public venues. Join the community supporting and contributing to this work with your ideas, feedback and comments, and by subscribing in full.)Ngā mihi nui.Bernard This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/subscribe