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Open mike 25/05/2016
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Daily Review 24/05/2016
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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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Newshub poll – Key falls to lowest popularity
Latest Newshub poll shows little change in the party standings and Winston still kingmaker. It also shows that Key "plummets" to his lowest level ever. Key's popularity plummets to lowest level ... John Key's popularity as Prime Minister has dropped to its lowest point since…
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Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination
Nick Smith is on a roll. Hard on the heels of his success in delivering 0.75% of the new homes he promised for Auckland he has declared that the surge in the housing crisis is a figment of our imagination. Just as well he has…
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Another strong piece from Little
Andrew Little had an excellent piece in The Herald yesterday: Govt's priorities to blame for housing crisis Over the past week, New Zealanders have been horrified to learn the extent to which families are being forced to live in garages and cars because of National's…
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William Gibson on Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734417289219473408 https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734418193649930240 https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/734418933332070400 William Gibson, creator of Cyberpunk, the person who came up with the word cyberspace, author of Neuromancer which is credited with inspiring the Matrix movies as well as much more, is worried that Donald Trump may be the American fascist real deal. Hat…
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Nick Smith 0.75% successful on Auckland housing!
Yesterday Nick Smith announced - Deals signed off for 740 more Auckland homes The Government has signed off deals to build 740 homes on spare land in Auckland, some of which must be sold for "affordable" prices. Housing Minister Nick Smith confirmed this afternoon that…
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Open mike 24/05/2016
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Daily Review 23/05/2016
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Latest Roy Morgan Poll
The latest Roy Morgan opinion poll result is out. Taking the numbers at their face value and ignoring the margin of error suggests that National is up 3% to 45.5% although half of this came from its allies and from the Conservative Party. Labour is…
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Trump overtakes Clinton on average of polls
After small leads in a flurry of recent polls, Trump has overtaken Clinton on average polling for the first time: Trump overtakes Clinton in poll average for first time Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has overtaken Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in an average of…
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Grant Robertson’s pre-budget speech
Grant Robertson has just delivered his pre-budget speech. One takeaway message: "Labour's finance spokesman Grant Robertson says Labour will set out a tax package before the 2017 election to set out how it will raise revenue to address issues in education, health and housing". Today…
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Guest Post: Dancing to the Neo-Liberal Songbook
Reflections on Noam Chomsky’s ‘Requiem for the American Dream.’ A Guest Post by Tony Veitch. In his powerful 2015 documentary, Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky delineates 10 principles that motivate the Neo Liberals in the United States and, indeed, all over the world.…
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Little’s $50 a week message getting through
Good coverage for Andrew Little's speech on Sunday. Stuff: Labour leader Andrew Little: Kiwi families' pay packets $50 a week worse off under National A squeeze on "middle New Zealand" means the average Kiwi family has missed out on more than $13,000 in wages since…
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Open mike 23/05/2016
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Budget 2016 – the real deal
While the corporate class will be poring over the budget 2016 analysis from the financial elite, one organisation - the Council of Trade Unions - produces an on the day analysis of the budget's impact on the rest of us and on the public services we…
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Andrew Little’s pre-budget speech
Thanks so much for coming along today, and for giving up some of your weekend. Today, I want to talk about the type of Budget that New Zealand needs to see this coming Thursday. As every Kiwi family knows, setting Budgets is about making choices.…
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Structural injustice
Structural injustice is everywhere around us. But sometimes simple cases highlight it so clearly (ht marty mars). Compare: Outrage over teenagers' sentence A sentence of home detention for four Northland teenagers for a burglary spree totalling nearly $80,000 in stolen property has been met with…
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Greenhouse emissions taskforce
This was predictable: Greenhouse gases hit 25 year high The latest assessment of the country's greenhouse gas emissions shows they are at their highest level since 1990. The agriculture and energy sectors continue to be the highest contributors - making up 89 percent of New…
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Open mike 22/05/2016
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Climate change: time playing tricks
bIn April 2006, the American PBS network screened the documentary "Dimming the Sun" about the (then) newly discovered phenomena of "global dimming." The documentary claimed that global dimming, where man made pollutants such as soot, ash and sulphur particles in the atmosphere block out solar…
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Dodgy Niue deal back in the headlines
Remember the Niue deal? Bryan Gould - Niue contract damaging to Govt reputation And then, we have the saga of the political donation and the Matavai resort on Niue. The facts can be simply stated. The owner of Scenic Hotels, Earl Hagaman – a well-known…
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All aboard the charter schools gravy train
No surprise to find more organisations lining up to run charter schools: ACT's charter school policy will expand with seven new schools budgeted for Seven new charter schools announced by the Government will cost taxpayers up to $600,000 each to set up. The new schools…
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Open mike 21/05/2016
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John Oliver: Scientific studies (or why media are so useless at it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
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Love Trump.
This is the most moronic, ironic political slogan I have seen in some time. Who can tell me why? People have short attention spans. The unconscious picks up on words and puts them together in ways which aren't rational. What does the first 2/3 of…
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Daily Review 20/05/2016
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Jonathan Pie has election anger
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Petition to forgive emergency accommodation debt
Action Station has a petition: Minister Anne Tolley: Forgive WINZ Motel Emergency Accomodation Debt As Minister of Social Development we call upon Minister Anne Tolley to urgently forgive all debts incurred by people who have been forced to stay in Motels as emergency accommodation, by…