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Open Mike 17/08/2018
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Daily Review 16/08/2018
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Is Tova O’Brien really a closet leftie?
If she is I can't say I have ever noticed her at a meeting of the People's Republic of Aotearoa Tamaki Makaurau branch (this will get the right googling furiously). But Matthew Hooton, the person that (Red) Radio New Zealand trusts to comment on how…
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Building Nations
The Building Nations event hosted by Infrastructure New Zealand, held in Auckland is happening on Thursday and Friday this week. Here's the agenda. It was sold out months ago, at $2,000+ per head. It's the peak event for construction and infrastructure funders including banks, global…
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Open Mike 16/08/2018
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Daily Review 15/08/2018
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What is the RCEP?
It’s time we paid attention to RCEP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. RPTPP was tough; this is even tougher. It’s a proposed trade agreement between Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.…
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Memo from Crosby Textor – Simon Bridges limo expenses
We have been contacted by concerned elements from within the National Party to provide urgent advice on the handling of a media crisis. Our bill has already been paid and we are happy to provide comment free of further charge. We note that over the…
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Open Mike 15/08/2018
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Daily Review 14/08/2018
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Climate change: what happens now?
Guest post from Tony Veitch (not etc.) So what happens now? What happens when the understanding, the awareness, finally filters down and enters the minds of the sheeple that we humans have done irreparable damage to our only home, Planet Earth? Whether in eight years, as…
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Racial bias in RNZ world reportage, or just giving people what they want?
A Guest Post from regular contributor Adrian Thornton: After listening to this Sunday's excellent Mediawatch piece ‘Stormy Daniels vs Yemen: No contest’ I was moved to send the crew at Radio NZ's Sunday Morning show a few excepts from an email exchange I had…
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Simon says it’s all Labour’s fault
Last night Newshub published figures showing that Simon Bridges had during his tour of the country spent quite a bit of money on hotels and limos. It was bread and butter click bait stuff. The left complained about the cost and the right, well they…
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Open Mike 14/08/2018
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Bludger Bridges
Simon Bridges, the current National Party leader, has been been found with his snout deep in the taxpayer's trough. He's pissed away more than $100,000 in just the last three months, taking an extended holiday around NZ on what he cynically calls a 'road show'.…
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Daily Review 13/08/2018
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What should ACT’s new name be?
ACT is doing a rebrand. Here at the Standard we thought we should provide a fraternal helping hand and provide suggestions for what their new name should be. Please keep your suggestions pithy and err on this side of the law of defamation.
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The end of ACT
David Seymour is clearly searching for relevance. The ACT party had its annual conference last weekend. From the look of the video there might have been 30 people there. I have been to bigger meetings of the New Lynn Labour Party. It seems that ACT…
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Open Mike 13/08/2018
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About freedom of speech
Photo thanks to Glenn Jeffrey I know that I have spent some time writing on this issue lately but it is still bugging me. Since when did the left become censors and the right become the defenders of free speech? The last month has been…
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Open Mike 12/08/2018
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A Thousand Words
Lifted from this piece ("Welcome to the Pliocene") published on the Skeptical Science web site. Data details: atmospheric CO2, temperature anomaly relative to the pre-industrial era and sea-levels relative to now measured and from palaeoclimate records. The graphic, created by "JG", is adapted from Table S1 from the paper's supporting information…
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Open Mike 11/08/2018
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Daily Review 10/08/2018
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Propaganda Wars.
“We are applying these sanctions against essentially all Russian state-owned or state-funded enterprises. That’s potentially a very great sweep of the Russian economy in terms of the potentially affected end users,” a senior official said. “It may be that something on the order of 70%…
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United Sanctions of America
The US State department has announced significant sanctions against Russia for the assassination attempt against Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were hospitalized and treated for a nerve-agent attack in March. Both survived, but local resident Dawn Sturgess died on…
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Who protects us from water companies?
Who protects us from water companies? No one. New Zealand seriously needs a water regulator. Something that will show that each catchment can withstand having that much taken out of it, and that it is being sold for a fair price, and ensures everyone has…
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Open Mike 10/08/2018
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Daily Review 09/08/2018
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Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the sad state of politics
I have mentioned before my increasing dislike of modern politics. This week UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded to ongoing accusations of antisemitism in the Labour Party, issuing this public video statement. Meanwhile the Conservative Party face renewed accusations of Islamophobia after Boris Johnson’s comments about women in…