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Open Mike 06/10/2016
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Daily Review 05/10/2016
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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Alert Memo to President Obama: it’s better to Jaw Jaw Jaw than War War War
It's timely that Ad has just written a post on the ancient Greek concepts of power and principle in the governing of nations. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) is a group of current and former US intelligence workers some of whom have spent their…
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Clinton, Trump, Greeks and ideals
Back in 428 BC Athens was in a bit of a state and a good three years into a crappy war with Sparta. Athens had been used to being led by the bodaciously awesome Pericles. Pericles was like Obama and Lincoln combined and led for…
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Phil Twyford: the Housing Crisis
Abridged text from a recent speech The Labour Party’s centenary is a great time to be talking about housing because housing plays a starring role in our party’s proud history. Housing is never far from the action when Labour is in Government. When National is…
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Open Mike 05/10/2016
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NRT: Targets for everything but poverty
No Right Turn has excellent posts on National's refusal to set any child poverty targets, when setting targets are the way the operate - as exemplified by the target they set the same afternoon on wild kiwi. [it's been noted that, apparently unwittingly, National have signed…
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Open Mike 04/10/2016
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Colinoscopy
It turns out that Colin Craig had already lost a legal battle months before his disastrous libel fight with Jordan Williams. Craig had to pay his ex press secretary Rachel MacGregor more than $128,000 after painting her as a "mistress, trouble maker, mentally unwell, a…
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Daily Review 03/10/2016
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Goff on foreign buyers; and Vote!
The story seems to be cast as Goff proposing a 15% tax on foreign buyers (the Vancouver model), when in fact he'd prefer foreign buyers only being able to invest in new housing (the Australian model), but at any rate he's for action. As he pointed…
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How difficult to measure poverty?
Amazing lead story on RNZ - Easier to count rodents than kids in poverty, suggests Key. There are a number of good measures, any one of which would do, but the new Children's Commissioner just wants to get past that debate and get onto doing…
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Donald Trump has a really big tax write off
The reason (or one of the reasons) why Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns is now clear. Thanks to an anonymous leak to the New York Times it has been disclosed that Trump claimed a trading loss of over $900 million in…
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Open Mike 03/10/2016
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The middle vs the centre
Originally posted at Boots Theory. There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle about the “political centre” in the last week or so, particularly due to the fact that Andrew Little denied its existence, instead talking about the “middle”. The thing is, he’s correct. The notion…
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False Equivalence
John Oliver excellent as always - this time on the difference in scandal quality between Clinton & Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Lfd1aB9YI
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The Propaganda War
Today's front page of the Guardian (UK edition) carries a headline on Syria where, yet again, allegations are reported as facts, and yet another video from the White Helmets' is propagated. This time we are to be moved and outraged as a medic and a…
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Open Mike 02/10/2016
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Our most effective Prime Minister
I went for “effective” which is more neutral than “best” or “worst”. Key general test was: did they change New Zealand for the good? It needed doing. RANK: 1 Peter Fraser PM 1940 – 1949 Massive nationwide leadership and mobilization through World War 2. Instrumental…
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Open Mike 01/10/2016
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