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An ex-Mujahideen fighter alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan. A fervent Wahhibist/Salafist. A guy who believed the "Arab Spring" should be brought under Saudi control. These, it seems, are some of the facts about the supposed "dissident" journalist Jamal Khashoggi that aren't really being aired. To…
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You’d wonder sometimes why we talk about international affairs at all here. After all we’re an insignificant little country with insignificant politics and policy. Why exercise our minds at all about this stuff? The quick answer is that the mice always need to know where…
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The theory of nuclear deterrence is that if both sides have nuclear weapons neither side will ever use them, because all that would cause is the other side to respond in kind. There is an equivalent theory in politics, that you leave other MPs personal…
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Hey, Tories! Here's some free advice; Dump Simon. He's beyond saving. Let Paula have a run. Sure she's got no class, but then, she's not Judith. And that counts for something, surely? Write off 2020 and parachute the leader you want running against Jacinda Ardern…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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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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Rogue National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross in an explosive press conference said he will resign from parliament and will tomorrow lay a complaint with police of corrupt practices against party leader Simon Bridges. In a stand-up at parliament, Ross said he had he will resign…
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Embattled Nat MP Jami-Lee Ross has sensationally claimed that Simon Bridges has broken electoral law in regard to a $100k donation from a Chinese businessman. Ross claims MP Todd McClay was with him when they witnessed Bridges making a misleading electoral return. The MP has…
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No doubt like everyone else's feed my twitter yesterday was on fire. I am not sure I have ever witnessed a situation where a stand up by a major party leader has been sabotaged by an MP from his party using twitter. But that is…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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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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Simon Bridges is due to go live right now with the conclusions of the leak enquiry. Jami Lee Ross has responded by effectively announcing war. https://twitter.com/jamileeross/status/1051622391523110912 https://twitter.com/jamileeross/status/1051622414369443840 https://twitter.com/jamileeross/status/1051622475769950209 Stay tuned ... will be updated with developments. Update: I missed this tweet. Clearly Lee Ross must…
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Just in case anyone forgets, we are now getting truckie protests about fuel prices reminiscent of the first term of the Helen Clark government. This is no doubt the start of many protests to come from truckie and consumer alike. Midwives are rejecting rural clients…
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I get the impression that within National's ranks civil war is erupting. The leaking is getting worse. There have been three significant leaks this year: Newshub's disclosure that the numbers were being done on Bill English. Two weeks later he was gone. Newshub's disclosure of…
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A new political party has been announced. It's name is Better New Zealand and it wants to create, er, a better New Zealand. Its website is something to behold. A screen shot is above. It is apparently written in plain vanilla html. It is like…
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According to a piece written by Nicolas Stern for The Guardian Human activities are currently emitting about 42bn tonnes of carbon dioxide every year, and at that rate the carbon budget – allowing us a 50-50 chance of keeping warming to 1.5C – would be…
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There has been some push back against the Government's light rail proposal for Dominion Road from some unlikely sources. Councillor Mike Lee, former NZ First candidate and public transport enthusiast Jon Reeves and others have formed a new organisation NZ Transport 2050 Incorporated to advocate…
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There’s been a fair bit of sometimes nasty back and forth over Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court appointment. But the bit I’m not quite understanding is the apparent propensity of some people to believe that the better among us will tend to rise to positions of…
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Over the next week we should learn the results of National's leak inquiry. That is unless they determine the release of the results is not in National Ltd™'s best interests and they calculate that not releasing the results is less damaging than releasing them. Refusing to…
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As reported in The Herald's "entertainment section", Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab have been ordered to pay $12 000 compensation to three plaintiffs who sought damages after Lorde cancelled dates in Israel. The sum includes a component for causing 'moral and emotional injury' to the three…
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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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For decades climate scientists have predicted that global warming will cause warmer seas, stronger storms and increased participation. And in America, land of the free and the brave and led by a climate change denier, there have been two recent storms which suggest that this…
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From the City Vision website: Power account holders in the Auckland Isthmus and Manukau should have by now received a letter with a postal voting form from Entrust. Auckland needs a team at Entrust (formerly the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust) who are committed to working…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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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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The debates around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement alerted many New Zealanders to the far-reaching scope of contemporary free trade and investment agreements, their potentially negative impacts and fetters on national regulation, the inadequate protection for te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the lack of participation of…
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A good leak is something to behold. The media trumpets the news that has been leaked and the leakee looks bemused and confused. And the leaker, who knows who they are? The media cycle is dominated by the news. Reporters scurry around in increasingly smaller…
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