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The Sunday Star Times broke the news yesterday that Northland MP Mike Sabin is in trouble paradoxically with the police. The allegation was that he was facing an assault investigation. Details were scarce but there was this cryptic comment by someone associated with the complainant:…
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The Authors of the Standard are now in holiday mode. Posting will be less regular and dependant on individual author enthusiasm. Open mike will continue every day and prepare yourself for some year in review posts and some recycling of old stuff. And as R0b…
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Black Lives Matter vs America:
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The Authors of the Standard are now in holiday mode. Posting will be less regular and dependant on individual author enthusiasm. Open mike will continue every day and prepare yourself for some year in review posts and some recycling of old stuff. And as R0b…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM Because freedom of speech and expression is something to be protected and censorship is ultimately futile ...
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Plagiarised from two years ago ... R0b posted these suggestions two years ago and they are still very relevant. Merry Christmas to one and all and may you and your families enjoy your time together and may your christmas celebrations go light on the planet yet improve…
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The Authors of the Standard are now in holiday mode. Posting will be less regular and dependant on individual author enthusiasm. Open mike will continue every day and prepare yourself for some year in review posts and some recycling of old stuff. And as R0b has…
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Keep it seemly ...
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Earlier this week a press release came out from Waikato University, announcing my appointment as Writer in Residence there for 2015. It must have been a quiet day on the news front at the NBR, because writer Nick Grant slapped together an inflammatory little piece…
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This Government has three different techniques when it wants to bury adverse news. For run of the mill reports they are released on the Friday at the beginning of a Parliamentary recess period. For bad reports they tend to dump them on days with other…
Abuse of power Gerry Brownlee john key national Politics same old national
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Stuff has published a couple of very useful, but depressing, articles based on data extracted from the 2013 census. The grimmest information is that fuel/energy poverty is increasing, with a higher proportion of households unable to afford any heating. Auckland has the highest proportion of…
child welfare cost of living energy health housing national/act government poverty
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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Another day, another crucial leak of information relating to a relentless drive by the USA to have control of as much data as they can, in as many countries as possible, regardless of public interest and to improve profits for itself. They are coming for…
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At the end of a long year including a somewhat traumatic election result and a leadership campaign and with the current circuit of christmas celebrations and the impending end of the work year I have had less time than I would like to keep up with…
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Yesterday's anonymous editorial in The Herald was a real mixed bag: Governments should never be given credit for a surplus until it is in the bank. True, though The Herald happily gave the Nats credit for a surplus all through the election campaign. The ability…
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I was born in June 1959. In October the following year, the United States put an embargo against Cuba, and it has remained in place ever since. The main reason appears to have been for purely US domestic reasons. Certainly there doesn't appear to have…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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Scott at Imperator Fish kindly lets us syndicate his posts. This one is originally here. National have long been promising the people of New Zealand a return to surplus by the end of the 2014/15 financial year. But now Treasury are forecasting a half billion dollar…
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Launching at 3pm today in Palmerston North, the NZ Meat Workers Union's campaign to highlight job insecurity will hopefully have an impact on employment practices. There are more than 20,000 meat workers, and they get a raw deal: seasonal work, dangerous jobs, casual and zero hours…
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While the events in Sydney were of course terrifying for those involved, and devastating for the family and friends of those killed, it was not in any usual sense of the word a "terrorist" attack. It was the work of a lone nutter, described as…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/544683867085352960
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The Nats are going to miss the only target they ever cared about hitting: Deficit a bitter pill for Government The Government's flagship economic promise has been holed and is in danger of sinking after Treasury forecast a deficit this year - and with doubts…
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Haron Monis was a dangerous criminal. If he was a white non-Muslim there's no doubt that's how he would be reported. But John Key is instead talking about this showing terrorism can happen here. If we take it as that a lone gunman can kill…
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Let me get this straight. An armed guy in a café takes some customers as hostages. As Colonial Rawshark has commented on a couple of threads, this is a standard armed hostage type situation. Can we expect world headlines the next time somebody lingers in…
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this morning i was alerted, through a facebook discussion, about some people having difficulty accessing emergency benefits in the lead up to the holiday season. the sort of issues being reported are: an inability to walk in to WINZ offices to apply for emergency grants. …
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The cafe siege in Sydney is over. The lone nutter there was apparently killed by police after he'd killed a hostage. The details of the nutter are revealing. See "Profile of Haron Monis, the man behind Sydney cafe siege". A writer of obnoxious letters. Currently facing charges…
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The Sydney cafe siege has ended. At about 4 am today local time Australian forces moved into the Lindt Cage after gunfire was heard. As I type this three people including the gunman have been confirmed dead and others are injured. The gunman has been identified as…
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Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the…
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In a breaking story there are reports of possibly two gunmen and up to 20 hostages being held in the Lindt Chocolate shop on Martin Place in downtown Sydney. The Guardian has reported that an Islamist Flag has been placed in the window of the…