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The countries that accept foreign donations to political parties
The countries that accept foreign donations to political parties are in red (source):
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Someone in Hamilton is racist as well as stupid
It is election time. Throughout the country billboards are springing up from the ground with pictures of people wanting to be civic leaders and associated words designed to persuade the public that these people understand the job and will represent them best. Graffiti and damage…
iraq Syria the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Guest post: Tane Phillips for Māori Vice President
The Standard’s authors have offered candidates for the upcoming Labour Party internal elections the chance to guest post about why they’re running. Tane Phillips has been nominated for the position of Māori Vice President. lprent: Note that, like all campaign for party position posts, this post…
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Open mike 23/08/2016
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Watershit Down
The Government has bowed to public pressure and announced what they claim is a "wide reaching" inquiry into how Havelock North and other parts of Central Hawkes Bay lost their once safe water supply. One small problem, however. Cabinet has decided that the inquiry should…
capitalism class war cost of living disaster Economy Environment farming health and safety sustainability water
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Daily Review 22/08/16
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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The cross-party inquiry into homelessness is under way
Early this year National blocked a proposal for an official inquiry into homelessness. ...Little said the decision was disappointing, as there needed to be a "cross-party consensus" on the issue. "No New Zealander feels good about children sleeping rough and families living in their cars...this…
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Racism, middle NZ and Māori
John Roughan had a thoughtful but misguided piece in Saturday's Herald: Has 'middle NZ' made no progress? ...I watched Seven Sharp's item on the resigning Mayor of New Plymouth with a certain sadness. The poor fellow has had enough of the isolation and abuse he…
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Hickey on immigration and wages
Bernard Hickey writes the best economic analysis in NZ. Here's yesterday's contribution: Bernard Hickey: Too many visas, not enough pay ... Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler is tasked with under-standing how supply and demand affects wages and prices in the economy and last week he…
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Open mike 22/08/2016
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The Canary – UK independent news featured on RT’s Sputnik
The Canary has been the UK's outstanding new online media outlet of the last 12 months. It is independent, co-operative, democratic and socialist in operation. But it is also a fully commercial enterprise. The people who work there do so co-operatively, share directly in the…
colonialism Globalisation International Media Politics uk politics
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Take back our communities and create Jobs That Count
So often we lose sight of the fact that local government is about much, much more than rates. It’s about the water that comes out of the tap – and whether it’s contaminated with campylobacter. It’s about the kinds of houses that get built in…
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Bregman: Socialism is a great product
Extracts from a long piece by Rutger Bregman in The Guardian: Socialism is a great product. When will the left give it the hard sell? It’s a perplexing question: why has so little changed since 2008? If your recall is a little hazy, 2008 was…
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Open mike 21/08/2016
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Syrian flash point just got flash pointier
The Syrian War has dragged on for years and may have now caused approximately 400,000 deaths according to a visiting UN official. Although accurate figures are impossible to come by, 50,000 to 100,000 of these deaths are from casualties suffered by Assad's decimated military forces.…
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The Friday dump on Havelock North
The Havelock North gastro outbreak is big - Timeline: Havelock North's water contamination crisis More than 4000 people in Havelock North have been brought down with gastric illness - New Zealand's worst-ever waterborne disease outbreak. The outbreak might also have killed a person, after test…
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Metro: A government on the ropes
Well known leftie rag Metro had a timely piece by Graham Adams last week: A government on the ropes John Key is taking a sustained beating over homelessness, house prices and immigration. It may yet be fatal. Homelessness delivered a serious body blow to the…
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Open mike 20/08/2016
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Daily Review 19/08/2016
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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America bails on private prisons
America, champion of capitalism, hope of the brave etc, can still do math: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less…
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Cluster f*&k on cluster bombs
Julie Anne Genter from the Greens has raised an important issue. It appears that many Kiwisaver funds have investments in the manufacturers of cluster bombs. Put to one side the morality of this sort of investment there are also legal issues which cannot be ignored.…
capitalism International kiwisaver national Politics same old national war
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What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left?
Whitebait season opened this week. Not for the last time. Yet. Graphic by Stella McQueen, via Alison Ballance "We've seen this increase in a number of our fresh water fishes becoming endangered. So 1990 20% of our forty native fishes were endangered. Now around 75% of…
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Between what we want and what we need
Why is New Zealand saying it’s slowly losing confidence in National? It’s not high childhood poverty, suicide, jailing, obesity, or domestic violence; we’ve had high levels of all of that for decades. By a whole bunch of measures, New Zealand is fine. Apparently, only 6%…
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Tents warehouses and driveways
Now here's some radical new thinking on the housing crisis! 'Tents and warehouses' suggested for homeless Real estate company Colliers International suggested the government house homeless people in tents and warehouses in an urgent report for the Ministry of Social Development. Radical and unworkable, a…
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Open mike 19/08/2016
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Charles Hugh Smith – The Ultimate Long Game: Autarky and Resilience
Charles Hugh Smith's blog "Of Two Minds" is an excellent read for those of you who are beginning to look outside the mainstream for different political and economic perspectives, including the motivations and activities of the so-called "Deep State". His latest blog entry "The Ultimate…
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Daily Review 18/08/2016
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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Check your Kiwisaver
An excellent piece by Matt Nippert, Caleb Tutty, Olivia Carville in The Herald is generating a lot of discussion this morning: Dirty secrets of KiwiSaver revealed A Herald investigation into KiwiSaver funds has found pervasive holdings - totalling more than $100 million - by members…
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Interest free student loans – still safe for now?
A right-wing think tank blurts: Interest-free student loans a 'poor use of $6 billion taxpayers' dollars': report The Government has written off $6 billion in interest on student loans in the last decade but a new report says the policy is a poor use of…
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UNICEF call for action on NZ poverty
Yesterday in The Herald: Desperate Saitu family share story of child poverty in South Auckland. The situation is so bad that The Guardian has continued its coverage for a second day: Unicef and charities urge New Zealand to act on child poverty Unicef and children’s…