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5:30 pm, June 11th, 2026 - 12 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 …
Was visiting an (even more) elderly relative this afternoon, and so took the opportunity to browse two recent print editions of The Post. A few headlines caught my eye:
CoC take home: More moans from the demonic eggbeater, green banshees brigade. Mine, Baby, Mine – it's all
mineoursSantana Minerals Limited.CoC take home: Not in my back yards.
CoC take home: NZ's response to 'climate change' must be weaker, because 'farmers'.
CoC take home: Totally worth it, eh Simeon – brmm brmm.
Is New Zealand Aotearoa back on track yet? https://vote.nz/
The opinion of Willis is more back of the envelope thinking.
The ACT Party is at least aware of this
As for NZF
Well that is the sort of singularity, of them – the ICJ and me, that he and BN and DT are famous for.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/361021652/labour-keeps-options-open-after-treasury-estimates-paris-pledge-could-cost-5-billion
Those who whip up hate, create pogroms.
The attacker was beaten by a man with a hurling stick in a republican part of North Belfast and suddenly the shankill boys give a rats about their Catholic neighbours by rioting and burning in loyalist East Belfast.
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Senior loyalist figures may have been involved in orchestrating race-hate violence in Belfast on Monday, it has been suggested.
https://archive.li/zrGZP
( https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/loyalist-figures-involved-in-orchestrating-belfast-race-hate-violence-NNO664T3W5DHVAK2GW6XP7ORJI/ )
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevl9j9y8dmo
Andrew and Ben, smoking the weed, like lets review it till it dies man, sabotaging the Golden Mile Project as a matter of process.
The money saved by NZTA c$100M, this would more than cover the cost of $20 weekly transport cost of bus and train use.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361017052/golden-mile-review-five-options-go-wellington-city-councillors
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/597842/supermarket-loyalty-programmes-not-all-they-re-cracked-up-to-be-consumer-warns
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“Food is a basic necessity, but for many households it’s getting harder to afford the food they want and need,” Consumer NZ head of research and advocacy Gemma Rasmussen said…
‘One thing that’s quite concerning to me with the rollout of the new Club+ card transition is that you now have to have a Club+ card to shop online with Pak’nSave. It means that Foodstuffs will be capturing data not only on New World but Pak’nSave and Four Square now and they use this data along with pricing analytics through a tool called Dunnhumby to understand just how aggressively they can price in certain areas.
…”Woolworths obviously has consolidated pricing across the board in New Zealand whereas we have dynamic pricing of Foodstuffs so they might know that Island Bay Wellington is a more affluent suburb and just how high they can charge a price for a particular item before people stop buying it, versus in Kaitaia they may know where the breaking point is. Collecting that data is I think not a good thing for New Zealanders and it is driving up their profitability and understanding how aggressively they can price with all that data they collect.”…
Watching you. And people who don't like sly people taking camera shots under lavatory walls while they have their pants down, well this is a bit the same. And can have a big effect as well.
Song to match – Every Breath you Take https://genius.com/The-police-every-breath-you-take-lyrics
Sting and The Police – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
The Fieldays saga where CoC politicians have engineered a media story about the Labour Party not having a stall there this year got me thinking about what Fieldays has morphed into.
It's the anti-Waitangi Day, where those attending celebrate colonialist thought, the profit motive and late-stage capitalism, and how to exploit the environment for personal gain. And it's expected, even demanded, political parties show up to be appraised on those issues.
I think the CoC is looking to manufacture any distraction they can from their butchering of the economy. This might play well at Fieldays where Ford Rangers are selling like hotcakes but government is won in the cities where things are not good.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2606/S00322/earthquakes-remain-new-zealanders-top-natural-hazard-concern.htm
Natural hazard – concerned they may be. But it is surprising it's being treated as a market-type concern, ie what everyone (the market) thinks rather than what is noticed or important.
I think that untrained politicians are our greatest unnatural hazard. A Min of Fin who is good at English. And so many making careers out of politicking – it will get to a situation similar to the disliked 'closed union shops'.
We need a mix of old academics and young, a mix of new degrees and also manual workers with education and nous, and business people. Not a bunch of performers. Elections are really leaving a bunch of voters who don't know enough to be Human Resources Managers loaded with the task of choosing others' representatives in Wellington. Where they act with Business Resource Coys which do what used to be the government's work.
Then the pollies retract in their self-advancing cabal and pursue their roles of meetings and media announcements with costly expenses. while they hack at the very ground they stand on and the strength of the public institutions that form their part of the stage scenery, the core of their role. We now are an apple core and there isn't much flesh left. If we were a business we would have faded into the shadows some time ago.
Easy to be Hard from Hair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCs1rkAXZ9o
Lyrics https://genius.com/Caissie-levy-easy-to-be-hard-lyrics
Yes Mutton, well said. Farmers are given too much attention.
Farming is is an important part of the economy, especially exports, but represents only 6% of NZ's workers and 6% of its GDP.
Not many votes there for the CoC.
I’m curious where you get that figure from.
There are a few episodes of salty language but I found it fairly informative.
Based on the thesis that the US is based on anti-intellectualism and the populace lacks critical thinking skills, it goes on to shine an uncomfortable light in all that is wrong with the land of the free.
From social media logorhythms, village idiot for a president, victim culture, school shootings, foreign wars, Hollywood, erosion of institutions etc.