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Open mike 13/05/2015
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Donate to Nepal
Nepal has been hammered again. You can donate via: Red Cross Unicef World Vision or many other charities.
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Daily Review 12/05/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.
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Stop TPPA – clever placement
The TPPA is being negotiated in secret and (from leaked chapters) is damaging to our sovereignty. We should not sign up under these conditions. Full marks to these folk for clever protest placement:
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Dear NZ Labour. Listen up.
There's nothing I could add to this...the full text of his speech is here. (Thankyou Jane) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHgqAtmXuHU
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The unusual case of the disappearing blog
Social media guru Giovanni Tiso has discovered something unusual. Cactus Kate's blog is slowly disappearing from the internet. The original is still there but is completely devoid of content apart from references to right wing blogs and the occasional left wing blog. A link to the…
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Uncomfortable reading for Key
Two opinion pieces yesterday make uncomfortable reading for Key. An anonymous editorial on Stuff: Budgets and broken promises The Government is preparing the voters for a dull, do-little Budget. There is nothing new in that, of course. But nothing can disguise the fact that this…
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Open mike 12/05/2015
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Elections in the Anglosphere
An excellent summary reposted with permission from Dim-Post "There’s loads of analysis about on the outcome of the election in the UK; most of it is focused on Labour. What went wrong? Did they choose the wrong Miliband brother? Should they return to Blairism? And so…
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Daily Review 11/05/2015
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.
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Rachinger on dirty politics 4 – Ben asks for help
[Update: About a month after this post was published, shortly after The Nation covered Rachinger's account of being offered money to hack this blog, allegations were made about Rachinger's past behaviour. We're not going to give the sordid story any oxygen here, but if true…
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PM’s social media advisor lashes out on Twitter
Gwynn Compton is "Senior Advisor Social Media" in Key's office. He's involved in National's disastrous social media campaign to change the flag. And he seems to be getting pretty angry about it (ht gitso): PM's staff threatening people on Twitter. Such a good look.
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National’s innumeracy and Auckland’s Housing crisis
The Auckland housing crisis, and that is exactly what it is, poses major political threats to the Government. All Auckland landowners are having a great time, totalling up increases in land prices which seem to be increasing daily. Everyone, apart from the young and renters,…
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400ppm
A significant milestone has been passed: Global carbon dioxide levels break 400ppm milestone Concentrations of CO2 greenhouse gas in the atmosphere reached record global average in March, figures show, in a stark signal ahead of Paris climate talks Record carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the…
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Standfornz – when social media goes bad
The site www.standfor.co.nz is supposed to get us all excited about the flag distraction: "Before our country decides which flag we’ll stand for, we want to know what you stand for" It's not turning out the way the Nats intended. Random screenshot from last night,…
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Open mike 11/05/2015
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …