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Expecting a bit much aren't you? We haven't had that since Muldoon. There were issues with his plans, but at least he had them. If the Government “interfered with the" sacred “free market’ the same people asking for a plan would be screaming about…
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Scott Morrison, or more aptly named Scotty from marketing, is at a superficial level your typical right wing leader. He jokes a lot, tries to be a lad, you cannot take him too seriously, but beneath that bluster filled affable superficial veneer lurks an evil…
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Minister Parker is firing an 18 inch gun round that he's ready to take on all with his call-in of the Otago water rights plan change. Because their plan had been outed by the Minister as crap, Otago Regional Council proposed a plan change to…
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National's review of its 2020 election performance has been completed. The contents are that bad that it will not share the results with its members and you get the feeling that hard copies only will be given to caucus members, complete with data that will…
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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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So Newstalk ZB is shocked, I tell you, shocked that Jacinda Ardern will no longer regularly appear on the Mike Hosking show. For me I am shocked that she took so long to make this decision. His show is the closest equivalent we have to…
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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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No, it’s not how you keep a 99-year-old racist alive in both public and private hospitals while the rest of the U.K. watches the deliberate destruction of the National Health Service. It’s not how you treat the memory of the most popular royal in a…
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Over in the US of A the Senate has just passed Biden's Covid stimulus bill. The bill, which allows for stimulus payments of $1.9 trillion and which provides welcome although very modest payments to American citizens, was opposed at every turn by the Republicans, even…
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So, you want to buy your first home? Firstly, congratulations! You have joined or will join the large but slowly shrinking team of rational Kiwis who think ahead and look at the future. Indeed, why toil away your life paying dead money into somebody else’s…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn on the recently published results of a two year UBI experiment in the United States, More evidence that UBIs work The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others,…
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This post will involve an interesting segway. First of all sugar is evil. It is fine in small amounts but the corporates have worked out that it helps sell their products. They have spent a few decades working out the optimal amount of sugar in…
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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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I’m fully on record that New Zealand should resist China’s authoritarian ways, and U.S. President Biden should too. But it’s all in how he does it. President Biden is clear there’s a new attitude from his CBS interview on February 7th saying that the two…
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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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Another chapter of dirty politics has reached its conclusion with Carrick Graham offering an abject apology to Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook for smearing their reputation via the Whaleoil website. I wrote about this case in 2017: Spare a thought for poor Cameron…
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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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At risk of Anglo-Saxon adverbs leaping out, it was still great to see our Great and Good business titans putting out an invitation to the government to "set a clear path out of Covid-19". What they sought was, and I quote: The status of New…
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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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Richard Heinberg writes about foundational capital and growth capital, and what we should be doing with both in the coming climate, ecological, economic and social crises. Reposted from Post Carbon Institute David Fleming, the late British economist, contributed many blazing insights; one that’s captivated my…