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While Grant Robertson looks at the big economic picture with the Future of Work initiative, Andrew Little is working on the practical politics of building a government in waiting. A piece by Jo Moir on Stuff yesterday read: Labour looking to the Greens and NZ…
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I/S at No Right Turn writes: Our fearmongering Prime Minister Last month we learned that John Key had lied to Parliament and the New Zealand public over the "jihadi brides", letting us all think that they left from New Zealand (and that therefore there was…
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Panamanian Law Firm Mossack Fonseca is having a very bad week. The mass leaking of a huge numbers of papers have shown what many of the oligarchs of the world are doing to preserve their ill gotten gains. Radio New Zealand has described the situation: A huge leak…
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Current Deputy Mayor of Wellington Justin Lester launched his campaign for the mayoralty yesterday, running on a Labour ticket: https://youtu.be/qDUJNE35cJQ From Stuff: Wellington mayoral candidate Justin Lester has launched his campaign promising first-home builders a $5000 rates rebate, and children free entry to council pools. Lester also…
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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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Zero Hedge has published some fascinating information on the geographical location of wealth (and poverty) in 2015. Of course, electronic financial assets exist in a highly mobile deregulated 'global financial ether' but the individuals who hold those assets still have to live in the real,…
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Bernie Sanders recent bird incident suggests that Gaia supports him. The US Presidential candidate selection processes are entering interesting stages. On the right there is talk that Donald Trump has jumped the shark with his claim that women who have abortions should be somehow punished.…
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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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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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Oliver Stone is the co-creator of the outstanding Untold History of the United States documentary series. No one understands the true history of the Imperial United States better than he. Zero Hedge relays Oliver Stone's support of Bernie Sanders: We’re going to war — either…
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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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Dr Jan Wright is new Zealand’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. She has just released a report on sea level rise. The full report is refreshingly easy to read and is here. The take-home message from the report is that a projected 30cm rise in…
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Yesterday 2800 state houses in Auckland were "transferred" / "offloaded" to a new Crown/Council authority. This has been a long and contentious process. From 2015: Government offloads 2800 state houses to Auckland development company Ownership and management of 2800 state houses will be transferred to…
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The terrifying cost of Labour’s UBI Labour has been discussing the possibility of introducing a Universal Basic Income. The idea is to give every person over 18 years old a set amount of money. This will supposedly allow us to scrap the welfare system, and…
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There has been some media focus this week on the matter of "highly paid political operatives". In the interests of transparency and click-farming, we the writers of The Standard have decided to come clean on how much we are paid by Labour. It is our…
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