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Interesting reading from Bernard Hickey in The Herald on Sunday: Bernard Hickey: Shopping our way into debt ...Treasury published a paper on the rise in New Zealand's household debt to record high levels relative to income. ... It showed household debt fell relative to incomes…
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Edit - Bill suggested that I change the title of this post to more closely reflect what Stein said in her interview Jill Stein, the US Green Party presidential candidate, is a left wing woman and politician who can see past cheap political smears, irrelevant…
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Like most of you I cannot imagine how Donald Trump's campaign for the Whitehouse has not imploded completely. Certainly it is tottering badly but given what has happened over the past few weeks it should be dead and buried. Nate Silver currently gives Trump a…
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The Greenpeace press release, Greenpeace promises summer of action as oil giant Statoil signals retreat Friday, October 14: In the wake of Norwegian oil giant Statoil’s sudden exit from Northland, Greenpeace NZ is calling for a summer of action to drive Statoil and other oil…
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I worked with Helen at the CTU for about seven years from 2008. I went through my 30s as she went through her 40s there. We were under the Nats so it was a tough time for the union movement, human rights and justice. She…
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The following is a Guest Post from Robert Guyton and is part of a series appearing over 12 Sundays. Other parts can be seen here. Robert is a sustainability pioneer who along with his family grows the oldest food forest in NZ. A long time organic gardener, permaculturist…
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I have said it before. This Government is a government of spin. Thanks to Crosby Textor advice and assistance it has well honed skills in making bad news sound good. But there are limitations. National MPs are uncritical supporters of laissez faire free market neoliberalism. No matter how…
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On Tuesday, the last day of the four International Days of Prayer and Action with Standing Rock, climate justice activists from Climate Direct Action shut down all five coal/tar sands pipelines crossing the Canadian/US border by turning off the manual safety valves, and then waited until…
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Image (c) Foxy 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 …
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Originally posted at Boots Theory. Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. "We've always said, if economic and fiscal conditions allow, we will begin to reduce…
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We were partners in crime, Helen and I. We worked together on so many campaigns - from the Hobbit campaign, to the Port of Auckland dispute, to Jobs that Count, to health and safety, to a video about ACC cuts that included a mate of…
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Staunch Trade Unionist and Standard author Helen Kelly has died. Just 52 years old, Helen battled her illness the way she took on the fights in her life, on the front foot, never flinching. It's a tribute to her ticker that she took up the…
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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 …
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It seems that the strip mining of Housing Corporation so that the Government could declare a surplus is reaching its logical conclusion. Treasury is forecasting Housing Corp to be out of money by next February. From the Herald: The Government's state housing agency is set…
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National has this tactic that it uses all the time. Despite being in power for the past eight long years, whenever a problem arises it is always someone else's fault. For instance with the housing crisis it is all the fault of Auckland Council and a…
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New Green MP Barry Coates who makes his inaugural speech today. 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…
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One day after the Labour-Green-Maori Party inquiry into homelessness's recommendations have been announced and the Government is busily moving to implement one of the recommendations, or at least a watered down version of it. From Radio New Zealand: The government is going to become a…
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This is a blog post I started to write a couple of weeks ago but it was temporarily lost in the heat and chaos of the local government campaign ... Who would have thought that a surge in homelessness would result in a spike in…
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The National Government has decided to outflank NZ First and target the families of Asian immigrants to make it look like it's doing something about immigration and the linked housing crisis. It has temporarily frozen the 'parents' category for immigration, blocking the parents and grandparents…
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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 …
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I spotted this article in Zero Hedge this morning. The guts of it is that seven out of ten Americans are an inch away from poverty, live hand to mouth, and do not even have one thousand dollars (USD) in their savings account. Even worse,…
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You and I, and just about everyone, knows that capitalism's going over the cliff. When it does, the various institutional memories and purposes that make up current political, cultural and economic realities, that together by the way they inform and interact with one another give…
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Radio NZ reports: Thousands of fast-food workers are about to get fully guaranteed work hours for the first time in decades. Unite Union has reached a new collective agreement with Restaurant Brands, which scrapped zero-hour contracts last year, to ensure further certainty around workers' hours…
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From Newshub: A company that supplies products for a number of popular advertorial brands is facing increased pressure to budge on work hours and pay, after workers launched their third strike in five days. Employees at the distribution centre of Brand Developers TV Shop, which…
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Don't get me wrong, I love idealists. I like boosters who tell me it's not as bad for Progressives as things may appear. Utopians. Happy people. Party campaigners. Change the country. Win the battles. Love them all. And then after we've finished campaigning in poetry,…
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