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5:30 pm, May 8th, 2026 - 22 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 …
Yesterday:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/594574/oecd-report-suggests-raft-of-reforms-to-help-new-zealand-economy
Today:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-will-run-on-raising-super-age-as-soon-as-we-get-back-in-christopher-luxon/RTA6XYCZMBD3TND77OIZMTQRNI/
National is sending completely mixed signals on its plan to raise the retirement age for Kiwis.
They must come clean and stop confusing Kiwis whose trust levels in National and its Leader are already at an all-time low.
Two responses to the OECD report
1.Willis – nothing more than already declared was their policy
2.Luxon – we have existing policy to increase the age to 67 in the 2040's – no electoral liability in the short term.
They have no plan to deal with the decades of deficits ahead.
And the 9 years English placed no money in the Cullen Fund is on them.
Given the Cullen Fund investment return, he cost us at least $10B (conservative given compound etc).
I was going for an anti-Simeon tone.
The black and the white skin combination makes brown coffee coloured children (just right according to Arabs)(or exploitation of difference for votes Simeon Brown).
Black and white paint makes a neutral gray shade – in Peters language this is a dollar each way.
When the world gets seriously wackadoodle, one can always take an escape route, and Gordon Campbell is reminding us of one such tried & true source: https://werewolf.co.nz/2026/05/gordon-campbell-on-childrens-book-classics-the-moomins/
I recall as an away-with-the-fairies kinda kid in suburban Aotearoa in the late 1950s, being seriously impressed by Little My (see pic helpfully reproduced by him). Gosh, you mean creatures like that really exist?? Yeah, I know…
Maiki – gone.
"my comment was made in response to deeply personal and inappropriate remarks made to me that evening. "
Let's hear more about that, shall we.
*crickets
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-technology/594667/tvnz-political-editor-maiki-sherman-resigns
Only if she feels the need, I suspect. I was intrigued she didn't get the fallout for an entire year. Seems that harassing the Nat whip was felt by other Nats to be a bit of a problem. Nonetheless, when one is free of professional constraints, one has the opportunity to set the record straight if nec. Lloyd seems okay to me, and I dunno what provoked any nastiness in their professional relationship, so I'm curious like you…
I'd no great regard for the lady, but I don't think this was really a resigning offence.
Eighty years and the book thieves are still at it.
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The Great Book Robbery'
[…]
In East Jerusalem, ‘a whole Palestinian community is about to be expelled’
Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.
https://www.972mag.com/al-bustan-east-jerusalem-self-demolition/
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/silwan-ethnic-cleansing-theme-park
That's a courageous move by Luxon to make a manifesto promise to raise the age of NZSuper as soon as they get back in.
He'll declare that he misspoke.
It think it’s a weak attempt at neutralising Winston/NZF and re-route some voters back to Mother National.
It would be enacting existing policy to increase the age to 67, with no age adjustment beginning until the 2040's.
It is Luxon claiming that National already had an intent to increase the age – in response to the OECD report.
In the House, Luxon declared he was "looking forward to crucifying" Chris Hipkins.
That's as mad as John Key in the House calling the Labor Party, "The Devil Beast" .
Who notices these things?
Certainly some of us. (slight correction : When sir Key spaketh of "The Devil Beast" twas Labour..and Greens )
This 2022 Spinoff article is eerily prescient (well…not really, to those who could see ). A warning as it were…..
Hugely encouraged to learn The Greens were included!
Yellow steroids into a blue body?
Like pus into a cadaver.
Sorry.
Russel Norman really ripped into sir Key….I'd link but its either the Herald 2013 and still page locked !? or Stuff and its a pretty much a pisstake (well whats new?)
And on other ? Yes… I used my Mental Imagery white vinegar spray
: )
Luxon once again proving he is a political Pentecostal – rich and sorted (prosperity religion gospel) and degrading the environment for corporate profit (protecting the environment as a false religion).
Those Pentecostal by faith gather with their group, he does not. He is a political Christian like Trump. He is merely a social conservative.
Thus he brings the pentecostal belief in rapture advent and judgement of other into his electoral politics.
The current terminology builds on a concept of crusade against the secular left as a form of HUAC policing – he once said that Hipkins was playing with (Beehive) matches staying in politics – as if election loss was a shame or crime.
Crucifying and hell fire language from someone not really of faith is all about power on Earth, and imperial power at that. What sort, class war.
Ani O'Brien and Benjamin Doyle (claiming the non binary are a threat to their children bigotry) and Maiki Sherman (a guilty Maori woman and a white man, tell it to the Green Party co-leader)
Luxon and crucifying the one still standing Hipkins.
Dirty politics – devil beast, Key was an atheist/agnostic – right wing politicians using religious metaphor to slander the political opposition.
Under HUAC policing.
Winston Peters and excluding people and their opinions from political society.
https://www.facebook.com/winstonpeters/posts/the-media-need-to-start-asking-serious-questions-about-green-mp-benjamin-doyle-a/1192693962228559/
Ani O’Brien is a professional DP player-for-hire.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/05/hit-job-v-personal-attacks-competing-claims-as-high-profile-farmer-quits/
So it's OK for a shadowy, foreign-funded and organised outfit like the Atlas Network to interfere in NZ matters, but not a shadowy, foreign-funded and organised outfit promoting animal welfare?
WaPo on the MAGA pay-for-play support.
But in the past few months, St. Clair has become one of the right-wing internet’s most scathing and visible critics. Many of Trump’s top online cheerleaders are actually just mercenaries of the attention economy, she argues, working to turn political outrage and talking points coordinated with administration officials into paid promotional deals.
“There is no free thinking here,” she said in a TikTok video last month about the movement she joined when she was 19. “They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/07/ashley-st-clair-trump-online-machine/
https://archive.li/rWNJ6