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5:30 pm, August 5th, 2026 - 23 comments
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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 …
Abdul Al Sayed v Melanie Stevens Dem Michigan Senate primary is a real measure of progressives beyond the old liberal cities.
Results overnight.
Al Sayed wins, and that's one more in the eye for AIPAC.
Bomber & FSU have commenced to circle each other like sumo wrestlers.
Complainant feels harassed by Bomber (who told us it's a group). Court must decide if media harassment of private right-wing groups is legal or not.
It is impossible to do personal attacks on a group, so Bomber may be under a misapprehension. Note that Netsafe has yet to be educated about the difference in meaning of principal and principle, but who would expect computer nerds to be literate?
First, well done on using the archived link yourself.
Second, your comment is mostly copypasta and your few own words are of dubious quality.
Nope, as it stands, this is blatant nonsense, of course, and also contains baseless speculation. Unless you can point evidence from a reputable public source that can back you up on this nonsense. I doubt it.
Your idiosyncratic negativity is clouding your thought process again. Read it again, slowly:
I could dig into your commentary more, even though it’s only a few words, but I’d be wasting more of my precious time. I’m starting to reach the end of my tether with you.
Where did he say that?
[Please leave for Incognito to deal with, thanks]
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/why-i-am-willing-to-go-to-prison-tomorrow-for-free-speech/
You can't read it there now since the judge said any report of how he sees the situation is likely to be in contempt of court so it would be best for him to take down his reports that refer to it…
[The dust settled a little on this for now, so it’s time to close this moderation of you.
If we cannot read it because a Court Judge told Bradbury to take it down, it’s a pretty dumb idea to repeat it here, isn’t it? Even worse is that you relied on your memory, which is poor by your own admission. Even worse is that you added baseless speculation (made-up facts & factoids) and sowed more confusion. You do this too often here.
You were warned about being careful and accurate here, especially when commenting on a court case that’s around free speech. You ignored those warnings, as per usual.
In general, you litigate, you fob off, you ignore moderation and continue your ways. You’ve had so many formal warnings (Mod notes), informal warnings, and even a few short-to-medium bans.
With the election campaign heating up we want to be focussing on more important things rather than spending (wasting) time on your belligerent behaviour here with no noticeable improvement in sight. Therefore, we’ve discussed this in the back-end and decided to revoke your commenting privilege till after the election with some margin, i.e., to 8 January 2027 – Incognito]
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I watched the BHN chat with Bomber last night and Bradbury did say it was a person.
With the acrimonious parting of their ways earlier this year I wouldn't be surprised if the aggrieved party was of libertarian inclination. They have been very prickly over Bomber's criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza.
During the interview he cleverly linked the FSU's silence with their attack on Vance, for asking questions of Minister Simeon Brown, in relation to his Medical Council
stackingappointments.At around 4.14 Bomber refers to 'the person'.
The interim decision* was made before the day in court – where the High Court judge was David Sharp.
Kate Devonport* is also a High Court Judge, who managed the original response to the Netsafe determination upon receiving a complaint.
Whomsoever is responsible for the use of the term principal, rather than principle, is either wrong in fact, or careless in communication.
https://www.thelawyermag.com/nz/news/general/auckland-district-court-judge-tells-blogger-martyn-bomber-bradbury-to-seek-legal-advice/584732
Citation?
Principle 5 can only apply to an individual.
So a Netsafe response to a complaint by an individual.
New media development: https://unherd.com/2026/08/the-slow-death-of-substack/
Thus a new media trend of zombiefying entrepreneurs…
[Another large copypasta with a one-sentence commentary from you that’s negative, dismissive, unconstructive, lazy, and pointless. However, the main problem with your copypasta is that you again converged text without indication or warning. Compounding this is that sometimes you do use ellipses when you truncate text but other times you don’t, so we cannot tell if, when & where you have altered the pasted text.
You have refused to give a good reason for this dishonesty of yours and you seem to arrogantly think that ignoring the moderation instructions will restore normalcy for you, so that you can continue commenting here unimpededly. Thus, leaving you in Pre-Moderation is only creating more work for the Mods and not change a thing, which leaves a fixed ban as last resort.
Take a month off – Incognito]
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The fight is between the ‘pro-fund Israel/corporates’ vs the ‘no-fund Israel/people power’ arms of the Dems. AlJazeera claims $60 mi has been poured by pro-Israel AIPAC plus corporate 'dark money' funders to prop up Stevens' campaign.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/2/how-much-has-aipac-spent-against-michigans-abdul-el-sayed-and-why
El-Sayed ahead by 1% with 95% of votes counted.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-michigan-midterm-primaries
El-Sayed has won.
“Abdul El-Sayed is Democrats’ Senate nominee in Michigan, a seismic victory for progressives that carries massive implications for both the Senate battlemap and the Democratic Party’s future.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/05/el-sayed-wins-michigan-senate-primary-stevens-01025170
New minor party names and logos have just been approved by the Electoral Commission for this election.
Mariameno Kapa Kingi's party is called Te Tai Tokorau. Seems like they have picked a specific stomping ground with that name. Liz Gunn and Kevin Alp fought over the NZ Loyal party logo, and neither won. Alp has wrested control of the party, though. There's a Free Palestine Party, but without a Palestinian flag.
Wasn't paywalled for me.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-mariameno-kapa-kingis-new-party-approved-by-electoral-commission/DFSW2HKZVNDQZJPMGELK3NP3AY/
While I don't have any issue with Kapa Kingi standing, or forming a party to do so; I do think that, in this instance, the Electoral Commission has got it wrong.
Having a party name which is the same as the electorate that she is standing for, opens the validity of the election up to question. It is entirely likely that some voters may be confused over the name of the party and the name of the electorate.
I would be equally unhappy, if Qiulae Wong (for example) had established a "Mt Albert Party" to contest the Mt Albert seat.
This from a few days ago – but an ongoing concern for people-minded citizens.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2608/S00008/strong-public-interest-in-cash-consultation.htm
Monday, 3 August 2026, 11:41 am
Press Release: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Keeping Cash Local consultation has now closed with nearly 6000 responses received, and findings are expected to be released in late September….
Thanks to all who took the time to make a submission,” says Karen Silk, Assistant Governor Money. “No decisions have been made and we look forward to analysing all submissions received. That analysis will be undertaken over the next six weeks, and we expect to release the findings later in September.”…
More information:
Access to cash – Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua (https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/money-and-cash/access-to-cash?utm_source=Reserve+Bank+of+New+Zealand&utm_campaign=cf9e7cedd6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_02_20_12_14_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c0c0e9bb78-31622faeee-25504821)
Gee ad must be the standards winston peters protected from the rules , random comments with no backing or context, unmoderated, we don't all know what aipac is
Because the Democratic Socialist arm of the US Dems is a sea-change in US politics that has not been seen since the rise of Franklin Rooseveldt and the New Deal in Depression America. Mamdani as the NY Mayor embodies muscular and rapid delivery of direct benefits to working-class americans.
It's a dramatic shift away from 'corporate' Dems, centralists who have done nothing to challenge Trump's dismantling of the democratic and federal machinery except send strongly-worded letters.
It fits into our NZ political discourse by laying out the dangers of wishy-washy centralism in a time of heated rw anti-migrant rhetoric. Trumpian dismantling has been happening here in NZ by stealth. So many independent bodies neutered, whose powers are now in the hands of Ministers or direct Ministerial appointees; the hollowing out of Parliamentary process via urgency legislation; and ACT’s Regulatory Standards legislation that makes property owners have rights above all other citizens.
Why do we have so much detail about USA electoral situations. We have certain USA individuals here who rate higher interest. Can we stick to our own country mostly, small, but amazingly important. Our pollies seem to have trouble recognising it although they live on the ground here; though with access to flying machines to travel around.
GWS, see my reply to bwaghorn just above, intended for you. My phone settings are not the most reliable to reply buttons etc here.
Thanks tWig. The smog of Trump's overheated steam bath shrouds the positive stuff for me. And I am afraid to look away from Kiwiland maneouvres in case I miss the latest debacle.
Brings a line from USA spoof 'Rinse the Blood from my Toga'- one Roman says 'They got Caesar in the rotunda', and the other says sympathetically ' 'Oh that would hurt, a sensitive place'. Maybe we will escape the rotunda eventually. (Looking at the text in the vid is amusing and probably beats Question Time in Parliament.