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The past fortnight has seen another series of back flips and reverse somersault from the White House on Tariffs. The story goes basically like this. On April 2, 2025, dubbed Liberation Day by the US Administration, Donald Trump announced a global initial 10% tariff on…
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Wellington-based poet and student Emma Sidnam penned a compelling piece about writing politically. It could be an obvious segue into political blogging, but her piece is so much more. Staying with the political theme, writings like Sidnam’s expose the arrogant dumbassery of the Coalition to…
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There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the controlled disintegration of the world economy, writes Elliot Crossan. The eyes of the world are on Donald Trump once again. The world’s…
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Faced with an inability to fund the the US government debt, Donald Trump halted his insane rush to toward a global depression. However the political system in the US that produced this global economic insanity is still there and is still nonfunctional. It is past…
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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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Big Hairy News' Pat Brittenden and Chewie will be talking to Tamatha Paul tonight. From their YT: We'll have Tamatha Paul on LIVE to talk about all the free publicity that the Sensible Sentencing Trust have giver her and the message of defunding the police.…
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An excerpt of the headlines this morning from the Mountain Tui Substack. 1. Colonoscopy wait times increase, procedures drop under National Wait times for urgent, non-urgent and surveillance colonoscopies all progressively worsened last year. Health NZ data shows the total number of publicly-funded colonoscopies dropped…
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The coalition has released the 2025 Defence Capability Plan. The headline is a $12 billion spend on the military over the next four years, and $9 billion of that is new money. We will then live up to Donald Trump's desire that the planet arms…
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The appearance of billboards targeting Green Party MP Tamatha Paul raises concerns about electoral integrity and public trust. These billboards, designed and put up by the Sensible Sentencing Trust, mimic the campaign materials used by Tamatha Paul during her successful bid for Wellington Central in…
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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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