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Historian Malcolm McKinnon in Thursday's DominionPost states that "caution is needed when crafting victory over Russia as the primary war aim in Ukraine." Truer words were never spoken, as western hysteria rejects calls for peace and escalates to wider war. McKinnon outlines the dangers when…
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Yesterday National announced its alternative to Labour's Three Waters policy. The policy is a deep analysis of a complex problem and provides a free market alternative to an issue that will challenge policy makers for the next few decades. NAH JUST KIDDING THE POLICY IS…
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It is weird, while people are still pushing their dead furniture out onto the roadside, to even consider whether it could have been worse. But in western Auckland it most certainly could have. The absorbtive capacity of full Kauri forest compared to a subdivided landscape…
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As I type this another storm has hit Tamaki Makaurau. The North has been particularly badly hit. Mangawhai received 300 mm of rain in a seven hour period. Auckland's average rainfall in the past for February was 65 mm. And out west Scenic Drive has slumped…
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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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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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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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Here’s my prediction: Labour will not just win the October election, but it will complete a landslide of similar proportions to the 2020 election. As more polls are published and the recent trend becomes apparent, National will panic again and dump leader Christopher Luxon, installing…
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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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Maureen Pugh strikes again. She has previously sided with the anti vaccination movement, prevaricated over being vaccinated herself and then hurriedly deleting a pro protest post she put up on facebook. She was also described as being f*&king useless by Simon Bridges three National leaders…
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Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation as Scotland’s First Minister was something of a replay of Jacinda Ardern’s lightning bolt in Aotearoa last month. Both charismatic leaders were subject to widespread abuse, mostly online, and while each was, for obvious reasons, reluctant to cite this as their…
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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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According to Finance Minister Grant Robertson the repair bill for the recent cyclones will be similar to the direct cost to government of the Canterbury earthquakes, in the $13 billion region. Even if a chunk of that is, as he says, absorbed by insurance and…
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Just over seven months from the election the Labour government has been granted as great a political momentum as that leading into the 2020 election. Labour now shows all signs of pulling out of the death-stall it was trapped within under Ardern, to pulling up…
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