Argentina gets first elected female president
We’ve been writing about Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark (btw – yesterday was the 8th anniversary of signing Ministerial warrants for the first […]
International
Rap battle: Howard vs Rudd
Somehow I missed this when it was originally posted. In case you did too…
A chat and a cuppa
From Scoop: “Clark first in Rudd queue” Kevin Rudd has pledged to broaden relations with New Zealand after a flying visit by Helen […]
Candidate match game
This is very cool. USA Today’s put together a candidate match game to help voters work out which US presidential hopefuls best share […]
Huckabee and Obama lead Iowa
USA Today reports that Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama are the leaders for their respective parties in Iowa with the caucuses now only […]
Lowlight reel: Republican YouTube debate
Watch this clip from yesterday’s Republican YouTube debate and spare a thought for our progressive mates in the USA. I like the idea […]
Fox Attacks: Iran
This looks interesting. Fox Attacks: Iran is a new short film from Robert Greenwald, director of the excellent Outfoxed. The film focuses on […]
YouTube Republican debate
Should be on around 2pm our time. Time has a good background piece. The YouTube debate site has currently received around 5000 user-submitted […]
Labor set to win in Australia
After 11 years of conservative rule, it looks like Kevin Rudd has led the Australian Labour Party to victory in Australia’s elections. All […]
Libs’ dirty tricks in Oz
The husband of retiring Liberal MP Jackie Kelly and a state Liberal official have been caught distributing fake pamphlets in Western Sydney. The bogus […]
Giving thanks for turducken
We at The Standard would like to wish our US counterparts a very happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. Of course we’d hate to think that […]
The cost of the war in Iraq
From the BBC: “The US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing nearly double the amount previously thought, according to a report set […]
International flip-floppery
Thought that we had a worldwide monopoly here in NZ on right wing flip-floppers with Don Brash, John Key et al? Think again. […]
Jon Stewart on torture
Via onegoodmove
Kerik indictment likely to tarnish Guiliani
Bloomberg reports that Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner under New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who withdrew his nomination to head the […]
The power of the web
All election addicts are casting their eyes to what is happening in other countries & especially over in Australia and in the States. […]
Reclaiming the high ground of morality and economics
Evan Thornley is a member of the Upper House of the Victorian State Labor govt. He spoke recently at the NZ Labour Party […]
UK cannabis reclassification causes decline in use
The Guardian reports that: Cannabis use among young people has fallen significantly since its controversial reclassification in 2004, according to the latest British […]
Growing poverty across the Tasman
The Australian Council of Social Services has highlighted an update on the numbers living in poverty. New figures released by Australia Fair show […]
Wish we’d had the Silver Bodgie in 1984
Bob Hawke still tells it like it is; watch his devastating rebuttal of the Liberals’ attempts to demonise unions here. He points out […]
Katine
The Guardian has launched a three year aid project with the objective of ‘together, lifting one village out of the middle ages’. The […]
Union bogey blunder backfires
Liberal Party advertising in the Australian election looks desperate, and judging by the polls is ineffective. Witness this effort, using the old demon-union-official […]
Mashup
We love remixes (well all except those German house ones of classic 80’s pop). Imagine our delight when we found this in out […]
Sweden catches the Key desease
I know there is occasionally talk in New Zealand about “becoming the Sweden of the South Pacific” but this may just have us […]
US right vs 12-year-old
A week or so ago President Bush vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children’s health insurance in the US. He […]
Trans Tasman on Clark
Articles like this – particularly in international media – must worry Key and National. How do you even begin to challenge a leader […]
The war is not over for the children
For people visiting www.thewariniraqisnotover.com, I am tempted to add another requirement for those feeling genuinely outraged at John Key’s statement on the war […]
Key doesn’t deserve the moral high ground
No surprise to hear Key in the House yesterday relying on his research unit – Fran O’Sullivan – to try and weasel his […]
Petition: John Key should apologise
Like many listeners, we were stunned to hear this from a man who wants to lead New Zealand. Key has since claimed both […]
UK police allow anti-war march to Parliament
Great photo of Tony Benn and Brian Haw from the anti-war march held in today in London (via The Guardian). Fantastic that a […]
Iraq is over & it should never have started.
I recently encountered an old ‘friend’ I’d not seen in a while. “Mugg he murmured. What a fiasco those Yanks are in over […]
Thousands expected at UK anti-war march
Sounds like John Key’s good news hasn’t filtered through to the UK yet. The Guardian reports that “Thousands of anti-war protesters will mount […]
Measuring the death-toll in Iraq
Perhaps spurred on by General Petraeus’ claim to Congress last month that civilian deaths in Iraq were down 45% since December last year, […]
Obama stops wearing flag pin
The big political news in the US in the last couple of days seems to have been Barack Obama’s decision to stop wearing […]
“100% Pure NZ” kicks off in Paris
The Prime Minister yesterday officially opened Tourism New Zealand’s giant walk-in rugby ball, situated in front of the Eiffel tower in the Champs […]
Conservative humour
Paul Krugman of the New York Times reports that “On Wednesday, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have expanded S-chip, the State Children’s […]