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Open Mike 09/10/2016
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Trump physically slams WWE billionaire McMahon to the ground, mercilessly mutilates him
It is inconceiveable that Americans would consider voting for a violent sociopath like Donald J Trump as President of the United States. The sheer physical violence that Trump exhibits in this clip where he, totally unprovoked, attacks an unsuspecting and defenceless bystander, his willingness to…
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Local Government election results
A running post for people to comment on local government election results as they come in. Expect results to come in from 1 pm. Edit: live results on Stuff as they arrive.
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Trumped
It looks very much like Donald Trump's run at the White House is over. In the fortnight since he was demolished in the first Presidential debate Trump polling has dropped and his rhetoric has flopped. Women, non white and independent voters are flocking to Clinton…
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Water and cultural values
October 8 – 10th is four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock on stepping up as Protectors of Water. Background and ways to take part are outlined here. This post is in support of that. Choose Clean Water and Action Station are…
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Open Mike 08/10/2016
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Daily Review 07/10/2016
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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The Chief Prison Inspector’s report on Serco and MECF
The neoliberal approach to the privatisation of services that should be performed by the state is well known. First of all get the Government to starve the state institution of resources so that it performs its role poorly. Then make a flashy offer which loses…
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Don’t despair
Originally posted at Boots Theory. I know how you feel, team. It's year 8 of a National/ACT government and things are looking pretty bleak. And it's really, really easy to spin down into a spiral of bleakness and anxiety. It's because we care. Because we…
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Campaigning South Auckland style
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Open Mike 07/10/2016
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Daily Review 06/10/2016
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Why we need to stand with Standing Rock
Standing Rock is an occupying protest at a proposed oil pipeline crossing native lands and putting the Missouri catchment at risk. It is organised by the water protectors of the Dakota Sioux. See here, here, and here for background. This more than a local water issue,…
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Davidson detained by Israeli navy protesting blockade of Gaza
A boat on which Green MP Marama Davidson was a passenger of, bound for Gaza has been intercepted by the Israeli navy. From Radio New Zealand: The yacht sailed by a dozen women was intercepted by the Israeli Defence Forces and was being towed to…
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Something to go to in Auckland tonight
Labour Party Senior Vice President candidate Eva Hartshorn-Sanders will be holding a meet the candidate event at Galbraith's Alehouse between 5:30 and 7:30 tonight. SVP plays a very important role in the party, so it's well worth checking out the candidates if you get the…
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The main risk to New Zealand according to John Key
Over the weekend, some good friends of mine had their house go to auction, and it went for well over $2 million. Foreign Chinese buyer, and welcome to the neighbourhood. This in a suburb where that price hadn’t happened before. A day earlier, the Chinese…
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Campaigning westie style …
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Open Mike 06/10/2016
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Daily Review 05/10/2016
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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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