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The basic problem with Bernie Sanders campaign is that his sole political role since the start of his career has been as the archetypal outsider. He injects ideas into the political debate that didn't get play time, but he didn't concentrate on making those things…
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Simon Bridges gave another car crash of an interview on Radio New Zealand yesterday morning. He chose to attack the country's response on Covid 19. There is an unwritten rule that you do not get all political in times of a crisis because the country…
making shit up national same old national Simon Bridges spin tax uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
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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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At the eleventh hour it seems Obama has rung round and rallied the establishment troops behind...a guy whose mental capabilities are degenerating to such a degree that he regularly fails to string sensible sentences together and forgets where he is or what office he's competing…
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In the US of A today is Super Tuesday. California, Texas, North Carolina and 11 other states and one territory will be voting for their preferred candidate. The Democrat race has sharpened somewhat. Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have both pulled out and have endorsed…
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I have really no idea who to cheer for about the Afghanistan peaceagreement. If the Taliban were the answer, it was a pretty fuckingstupid question. Nor am I qualified to talk about its costs, neither human nor financial. But the Afghanistan peace agreement is worth a…
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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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Two leadership races on either side of the Atlantic are all but over and in Israel, neo-fascist Benjamin Netanyahu is on the verge of ending the stalemate that has gripped the country's Parliament for over a year. Keir Starmer is almost certainly going to be…
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The trouble with MMP is that some politicians view it as an opportunity to court support amongst people holding decidedly minority views. Media attention is beneficial no matter what kind when all you want is minority support. When your goal is just over 5% party…
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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 …
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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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Over in Australia and despite the worst efforts of the Liberal Government the roll out of solar and wind power generation continues. The place is awash with solar energy. It has over 2.2 million solar panels. The City of Melbourne has 2,200 of these and…
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Yesterday's Herald front page was pretty appalling. Some evidence of increased supermarket activity on Friday night was amplified into a Saturday morning front page suggesting that we are in the middle of a pandemic. The cause? One person identified as having Coronavirus. One infected person…
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All those articles and memes circulating now about how terrible meat and dairy is for the environment, they're based on global statistics that don't take into account local variations. They're measuring the impact of farming like this, which isn't really farming so much as a…
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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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“We will not be able to successfully defend corrupt or crony capitalism. Honest capitalism – what we cherish, is under attack every day (…) by special interests and PACS inside the swamp of Washington DC. You know, sometimes it feels like it doesn't really matter…
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Can't they do better than this? This morning National announced a new policy and it was meant to be a biggie. https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1233498849970458625 Others were less than impressed by its actual size which is rather small in Government terms. https://twitter.com/ClintVSmith/status/1233492756594601984 Then twitter realised that a remarkably…
Conservation Environment internet making shit up national same old national Simon Bridges spin the praiseworthy and the pitiful twitter uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
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Wingnuts will become apoplectic. Jacinda Ardern has deftly but pointedly put Scott Morrison down because of Australia's inhumane treatment of people who have lived much of their lives in Australia but through the capricious application of policy now find that they are being forcibly removed…
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China gets a cold and the whole world starts sneezing. Did I say literally? (I should have called this Sars and Cars). We just saw the stock markets lose their composure, but the stocks taking really big hits are the carmakers who have baked their…
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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 thing that really annoys me about Simon Bridges is that he is meant to be a hot shot former crown lawyer but his response to law and order issues is so simplistic. And it seems to be motivated by the Trump/Dutton model of how…
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There seems to have been an upswing in New Zealand UBI discussions recently. While many progressives see value in a UBI and want to be rid of the punitive and soul destroying aspects of MSD and WINZ, we hardly ever talk about what would happen…
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