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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Perfect... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzgq5EjlK42/ And the detail https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzg_zMVlNlP/ Have a look at this and this if you need text to understand this. But for me regardless of the basis of that matter (and I'm with the people who consider that this fool needs to learn contract law),…
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There was this fascinating recent article in the Guardian which laid out in very plain terms what we know already. The best way to start addressing climate change and to start to absorb carbon dioxide while we work out how we are going to wean…
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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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Woke up this morning to read this on Stuff :- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Big delays are expected in the Auckland CBD on Friday morning due to a section of Victoria St West still being closed. * The busy road, between Nelson St…
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I know the heading is a bit naughty. National has not actually said that it wants a top tax rate of 47% for the most wealthy. But it has praised changes to the Australian tax system where this is the result and implied that New…
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Regular Standard contributor Robert Guyton put up a great fight but has failed to persuade the dinosaurs on Environment Southland to declare a climate emergency. From Blair Jackson in Stuff: "We've fumbled the opportunity to show leadership at a time when it's important that someone…
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Happy birthday to you ... 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 Auckland mayoral campaign is getting interesting. Past campaigns have been rather boring. The first one, between Len Brown and John Banks was one sided because Brown had such an outstanding campaign. The contests since have been even worse. The current campaign should be…
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ANZ has been in the news lately for a variety of reasons, none of them good. The latest is that the banking corporate whose local branch is chaired by the former National Prime Minister is now threatening some sort of economic genocide on the country…
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Happy birthday to you ... 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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Six weeks after banning China’s leading tech firm Huawei from contracts with U.S. businesses, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have reversed it after meeting China’s Premier Xi Jinping on the weekend. He flips, he flops. This incoherence underscores the bind New Zealand is in:…
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Happy birthday to you ... 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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There was some disturbing news from Newshub last night. And it rolls back to right wing extremist groups, the anti UN migrant pact protests and the Christchurch Mosque murders. From Patrick Gower at Newshub: Newshub can reveal police are investigating death threats made to Winston…
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There is this fascinating recent article at the Guardian on how the Brexit Party's success at the recent European Parliament election. They succeeded by pushing a very simple message, keeping it negative and the use of bots. From the Guardian: The Brexit party used simple…
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