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Daily review 07/07/2026

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 7th, 2026 - 2 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 …

2 comments on “Daily review 07/07/2026 ”

  1. Dennis Frank 1
    7 July 2026 at 6:14 pm

    Chinese rocket was respectful, customary, safe, standard, professional, legal, equal & open, inclusive & mutually beneficial, says official: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/us-breaks-silence-on-china-missile-test-says-beijings-nuclear-weapons-build-up-of-great-concern/QSKK5QB37RFRZOZSBH2ADJK6LI/

    In a press conference on Tuesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the process was “safe, standard and professional” and “consistent with international law and customary international practice.”… Speaking to reporters at Monday’s press conference, Ning said China would “always upholds the principles of mutual respect, equality, mutual benefit, openness and inclusiveness in carrying out cooperation with Pacific island nations.’

    A rocket with 10 positive attributes is hard to beat, yet kiwis may be unable to detect any of that impressive selection of features. Chinese diplomats posted here could study the symbolism of Guy Fawkes, in which sky-rockets commemorate the leader of a failed Catholic coup d'etat. Seductive solidarity seeping subversive sub-textual scenarios, sadly…

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  2. greywarshark 2
    8 July 2026 at 12:16 am

    This was a telling para in Martin Le Fevre's Meditations on Scoop. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2607/S00015/can-down-under-rise-up-over.htm

    …Hope and hopelessness are two sides of the same coin. Seeing things as they are is not the cause of hopelessness and despair; the refusal to see things as they are and the insistence on seeing them the way we want to see them is…

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