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ABs vs Australia
Will the All Blacks be the first team to defend a RWC title? For those staying up to watch the game....
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Finally Fighting for Democracy?
So I’m sitting here drinking a morning coffee and I read in The Guardian that Obama is sending troops to Syria. And I’m thinking things like “arse-hole” and “bastard” and “fuck off!” But then down the bottom of the article there’s Former US diplomat Robert…
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Petition on Slater’s hate speech
You can sign the petition to the Human Rights Commission here. https://twitter.com/actionstation/status/659951356724154368
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US ship visit and nuclear free NZ
Andrea Vance broke a potentially explosive story on One News last night: Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit (video). Nuclear ship? Red alert!! An invitation to the US has been extended, this is part of the Royal New Zealand Navy's…
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Open mike 31/10/2015
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily Review 30/10/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Food Bank Charity
I noticed the usual pre-Christmas (Christ, is that just weeks away?) call for food and donations from our ‘charitable’ organisations. That got me to thinking about why people find themselves having to step through the doors of these charities and expose themselves and their lives…
child welfare class class war discrimination Ethics food minimum wage poverty quality of life unemployment welfare
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Weekend social 30/10/2015
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Dirty Politics was in the public interest
Today's anonymous editorial in The Herald makes for interesting reading: Dirty Politics passes public interest test Blogger Cameron Slater and author Nicky Hager ... How I hate seeing these two compared in any way! ... have much in common, even beyond the emails one wrote…
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Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
For 16 years Scoop has been making an enormous contribution to the NZ media landscape. They reckon that "the news is broken", and they want to build a sustainable independent news organisation for the people of New Zealand. Scoop's Alastair Thompson will be joining us…
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Were people smugglers paid money to take refuges away from New Zealand?
Amnesty International has published a report By Hook or by Crook: Australia's Abuse of Asylum-Seekers at Sea which has rightfully been described as a damning indictment of Australia's handling of the refugee crisis. The report reviews Australia's handling of the refugee boat interception of the Pelabuhan Ratu and…
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Five years as a united Auckland
Every letterbox in Auckland received a 16 page A4 full color glossy this week entitled "Five Years as a United Auckland" Apparently five years is worth celebrating. The Councillor job interviews are coming up next year, so let's run the ruler over this glorious propaganda.…
auckland supercity len brown local body elections local government Politics
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Open mike 30/10/2015
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily Review 29/10/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Tomorrow – Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
For 16 years Scoop has been making an enormous contribution to the NZ media landscape. They reckon that "the news is broken", and they want to build a sustainable independent news organisation for the people of New Zealand. On Friday at 10am Scoop's Alastair Thompson…
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Technology and the law – and going after Hager
Technology moves much more quickly than the law, throwing up all sorts of questions about privacy, intellectual property, consent, responsibility, ownership, and more. We have one interesting case in point developing in NZ right now, with the recent supreme court ruling that a computer file…
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Open mike 29/10/2015
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily Review 28/10/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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“A creeping authoritarianism from the current government”
The reaction to Westpac handing over Nicky Hager's data to police is still playing out. Dita de Boni writes: Privacy right is not a right when not 'right' I don't know about you, but in my life I seem to recall hearing numerous times that…
Abuse of power Dirty Politics human rights journalism police Spying
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Getting mommy to dispense the drugs
Many years ago, I read John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar". It had an interesting mixture ...to create a sprawling narrative that presents a complex and multi-faceted view of the story's future world. Such information-rich chapters were often constructed from many short paragraphs, sentences, or fragments thereof —…
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Cameron prefers ornamental Lords
During his most recent election campaign British PM David Cameron promised not to cut child tax credits. That promise was a lie - as of four days ago: Tax credits cuts 'will leave key workers up to £12,000 poorer by 2020' Research reveals impact of…
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We are paying for Key and Coleman to attend the World Cup
National, the party of careful management of the country's finances and the party that opposed to any unjustified spending of tax money it created its own pet union, has engaged in expenditure that should do more than raise a few eyebrows. John Key and Jonathan Coleman…
john key Minister for Overseas Holidays national same old national the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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Open mike 28/10/2015
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Daily Review 27/10/2015
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Portugal
As initially pointed out by Draco T Bastard a few days ago in ‘open mike’, Portugal might be on the cusp of something. The President has endorsed the formation of a minority pro-austerity government. The fact that the President is a former leader of a…
Abuse of power climate change democracy under attack Economy Environment Globalisation International political education Politics science vision
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Well I’m glad we cleared that up
Steven Joyce's MBIE continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons: MBIE's 'schoolboy antics' with inflatable sheep cost taxpayers $745 Taxpayers are footing the bill for an incident with a model sheep at the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment's Christmas party last year.…
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Let’s keep politics out of Rugby
Thirty four years ago the right insisted that we should keep politics out of sport and this as the justification for the then National Government overriding advice and agreeing to allow the Springboks to tour New Zealand even though this breached the Gleneagles agreement and caused a major international…
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NZ number one in the world – and it’s all bad news
Rachel Stewart writes about a disaster for this country: New Zealand has reached the pinnacle of world number one in domestic violence There's no doubt that New Zealand's epidemic of domestic violence lies firmly at the feet of men. As does the solution. ... New…
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Open mike 27/10/2015
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Sobriety
José Mujica was President of Uruguay from 2010 until his resignation in of March this year. https://www.facebook.com/203959539740058/videos/692358027566871/?fref=nf Either you’re happy with very little, free of all that extra baggage, because you have happiness inside, or you’ll get nowhere. I’m not advocating poverty, I’m advocating sobriety.…
capitalism cost of living Economy economy political education