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I've no doubt there will be various analyses and commentaries on the Women's Marches that have taken place across the US and elsewhere. This post isn't making any commentary. This post is merely presenting video of Viola Davis giving a wide ranging, most powerful and…
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A feature in yesterday’s Domion Post Weekend lays bare the extent of the scandalous selloff of huge tracts of our high country. Charlie Mitchell’s report details how the tenure review of the high country has been conducted since it began in 1992 when many leasehold…
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Right now in the United States of America the Republican Party have control of all parts of the Government. The President is a Republican, the Senate has a Republican majority and the House of Representatives also has a Republican majority. Government ought to be a…
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Following on from Dave Kennedy's excellent post from the other day, apparently Cape Town is in the throes of its worst drought in over 100 years (link). The Globe and Mail mentions uncited calculations placing the drought as a one in a thousand year event.…
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Whatever anyone may think or have thought of the multi-faceted warring going on in Syria these past years, one beacon of hope seemed to have been burning in Syria’s north east. Seemingly neither for nor against the Syrian Arab Army, but defiantly and purposefully against…
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Yes, his racist and sexist foul mouth is on the list. Yes, international disrespect is on the list. Yes, corruptly gaining wealth as a public official is on the list. But President Trump’s big reason to be opposed by the left is how he has…
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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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Rather than apologise, it’s time the Left and the new government embraced “nanny state” as a positive, just as the gay community claimed the previously pejorative term “queer” Nanny state has been a powerful, effective term permitting initiatives to reduce behaviour that is harmful to…
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In breaking news from twitter: https://twitter.com/jacindaardern/status/954109869509914624 Congratulations Jacinda and Clarke.
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Dave Kennedy writes at localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.co.nz about the climate change impact in Southland. Over ten years ago I organised a symposium on climate change to support a Climate Change Tour being conducted by the Green Co-leaders at the time, Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman. It was Norman who fronted…
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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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The usual suspects are touting a report that suggests New Zealand is not very democratic, and ranks 39th in the world behind such democratic heavyweights such as Guatemala, Kiribati, Panama, and Colombia. Top ranked nation is Ireland, and our Australian neighbours are ranked fifth. The…
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It's the modern way, the right way, the civilised way. We and our partner and our children live in glorious, isolated union; we interact with the market, and build a life of our choosing for ourselves and our children. We take our opportunities, and as rationally…
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All parties in this government need to increase their vote share if they are to have a reasonable chance of being re-elected. What policy results will New Zealand have to vote for and campaign on in 2020? Coalition agreement points, in summary Will it attract…
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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’s great news that Hayley Holt has landed a cool new gig hosting TVNZ’s Breakfast show. It’s not so great that before she even gets on the air we have to endure the pontification of some pundits about whether or not it’s “OK”, given she…
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The language is the life force of the mana Māori. I have met Bill English once, at Hoani Waititi marae in Waitakere last Waitangi day. He initially impressed. He was welcomed onto the marae formally and then spoke in te reo Māori. His te reo…
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Reposted from I/S at No Right Turn. ______________________________________________________________ Last year, the Spanish government in Madrid dissolved Catalanoia's regional government and forced regional elections in the hope of overthrowing a seperatist majority in the regional Parliament. They lost. Catalans marched to the ballot boxes in record numbers, and re-elected…
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Someone wrote something in the Herald about why Tr*mp's first year wasn't that bad. Branko Marcetic tweeted a thread saying nope and explaining why: https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366838767235072 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366840981811200 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366843343220736 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366845557850113 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366849496301568 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366851962449920 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366854533599232 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366856827895808 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366861575843840 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366864939630592 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952366866705477632 https://twitter.com/BMarchetich/status/952747976614494208
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"Wedger" Wayne Mapp in todays's Spinoff does his best to stuff Jacinda Ardern into a Tony Blair "Third Way" box. Too glib by far. True in 2002 Blair did promise to eliminate child poverty by 2020; poverty's now the highest in 20 years in Britain.…
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