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Daily review 31/12/2021
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Open mike 31/12/2021
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Daily review 30/12/2021
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Let’s punch for peace
Today's Herald editorial says New Zealand 'wisely' doesn't punch above its weight in military activities. That's not true - I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear…
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New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …
If the last few days Covid results are anything to go by we may be heading back to elimination of Covid. This would be an outstanding and exceptional result. And the pivot from the original form of elimination and fortress border to a much more…
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Open mike 30/12/2021
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Daily review 29/12/2021
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On the death of Joan Didion
We need to remember Joan Didion, who died December 23rd, as perhaps the best defensive pessimist we've ever had. She nailed the feet of her times down to the floor to make sure it talked and wept all its pain out. It's not enough to…
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Open mike 29/12/2021
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Daily review 28/12/2021
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What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …
What Starts off in Support of Alabama's Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7FBjrnSqk In this little 7 minute…
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The Standard’s 2021 political awards
It is that time of year where nostalgia kicks in and the desire to review current events dims. Where pundits try to sum up what has been a complete mess of a year in 1,000 words or less. So much has happened this year. It…
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Open mike 28/12/2021
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Daily review 27/12/2021
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Open mike 27/12/2021
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Open mike 26/12/2021
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day. What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country's covid response is going (remarkably well and don't believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which…
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Open mike 25/12/2021
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Daily review 24/12/2021
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The pandemic is resiliency training
The pandemic shows no sign of ending. There are some hopeful signs with the idea that omicron will turn out to be a milder illness and once it becomes the dominant strain we will be able to adapt to a different, kinder kind of pandemic…
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Open mike 24/12/2021
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Daily review 23/12/2021
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Our Energy Upheaval
On the 9th of August this year the North Island of New Zealand had a power blackout on the coldest night of the year. It was the first time such an event had occurred since the electricity market was formed in 1996. According to the…
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Open mike 23/12/2021
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Daily review 22/12/2021
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Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
Joanna Macy, elder of the transition movements based in life-affirming models of our future, has a threefold model of change: Holding Patterns (think conventional protest movements), Alternative Structures (eg Doughnut economics, community gardens, regenerative agriculture), and Shifting Consciousness (eg the applied philosophies of deep ecology,…
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Open mike 22/12/2021
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Daily review 21/12/2021
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Can Labor Win Australia Back?
Coming up surprising quickly in 2022 is the Australian federal election – and Labor has a good shot. This matters for a whole bunch of reasons to us and on multiple policy fronts, not only the rapid rise of gangs and violent crime in west…
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Open mike 21/12/2021
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