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Not all the current government’s fault, but the arrival of the fuel tax this weekend heralds a number of very sharp rises in what we have to pay in order to run a car. Oil prices rose on Wednesday as a supply disruption in Canada…
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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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You may recall a few months back when it seemed the world was all in a lather about an alleged chemical attack on the suburb of Douma and the poisoning of the Skripals. "Everyone" knew what had happened in the case of Douma and "everyone"…
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Another mass shooting has occurred in the United States although this one is different. It occurred in the office of the Capital Gazette, a newspaper based in Annapolis. Current reports are that there are four dead and dozens injured. From Radio New Zealand: Several people…
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It is bad enough that National pedals through its social media stuff that is blatantly not true. But it is really annoying when senior political reporters uncritically restate what is demonstrably not true. This is what happened this morning when Barry Soper repeated National's misrepresentation…
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This is one of those stories that will bring a smile to even the most hardened left winger. In New York the fourth ranked House senior democrat, someone tipped as a possible next speaker in the House of Representatives, has lost a primary to Alexandria…
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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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From Carmel's Facebook page: Today I was in New Plymouth to launch some of the changes we are rolling out across MSD/ WINZ offices. These are a few of the changes: 1. Security guards at MSD offices are no longer required to check people's names off a…
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The United States Supreme Court has upheld the travel ban requested by the President of the United States. If you want the views of the retreating sane minority on that court, here’s a dissenting opinion. If you are a citizen seeking to travel to the…
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National is still trying to find this Government's weaknesses. It is that desperate it is going back to techniques that worked well back in 1975. It is attacking Labour over Industrial Relations and strike action. The reality is that the attack is tenuous. Sure there…
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"Flying Paper" is a 2014 film documenting the attempt by Palestinian children and youth in Gaza to break the Guinness World Record for flying the most kites simultaneously. Here's the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNTIMAVsgA During recent protests, near the so-called security apparatus that's been constructed around…
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Reposted from Nick Kelly's Blog One of the big policies the NZ Labour Party took into the 2017 election was to start reintroducing free education. Labour in the UK took a similar policy into their 2017 election, which is thought to have contributed to the "youth…
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Recent events have led to some very interesting developments and comments that I thought I'd briefly go over. The first is that comparisons to Nazism online have gotten so much more fraught than before that one of Mike Godwin's clarifications on his eponymous axiom has…
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Over the past week Jacinda Ardern has managed to have a baby, organise a feed for the press, recuperate, leave hospital and deliver as beautiful a brief press conference as you could ever imagine. She has worked hard to keep her daughter out of the…
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Reposted from Nick Kelly's blog I remember when the first Gulf War happened in 1991. Though only young I recall the 5 months from the invasion of Kuwait. The conflict was being talked up, and became inevitable. At the time I didn't realise Saddan Hussein…
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There are three general views about climate change. The first, advocated by such intellectual giants as Donald Trump and Cameron Slater is that we have nothing to worry about and recent climate disruptions are totally normal, or a consequence of moonbeams or sun spots, or…
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There was a stunning array of competition this week for that most coveted of titles. There was DPF for this outstanding piece of hyperbole. Apparently trying to get National to acknowledge that climate change is a thing is the same as trying to get Labour…
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The All Blacks keep winning everything and it is incredibly bad for the game. Compare it to Fiji with the Sevens, in which a tiny and grossly underfunded side like Fiji just pulls everyones pants down and runs away with all the cups and all the…
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Can someone remind me which party Stuart Nash belongs to? The Herald yesterday said that Matthew Hooton, hardly a left winger, had arranged a fundraiser for Nash at the Northern Club, hardly a left wing stronghold. The Herald said: Labour MP Stuart Nash pulled the…
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Germany has one of the very few national-level consciences on world immigration, but even that is now under threat. The difference in attitude and processes between the United States and Germany could not be more stark. Since we’ve seen a fair bit about the United…
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