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Last night I sat down to watch the TV news. First up was an horrific item about the slaughtering of over 2000 innocents in Nigeria by Boko Haram. The reporting of it lasted approximately 1 minute, with no commentary other than the item itself. Next…
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https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/553734788881076225 As a white bipedal male I wish to apologise for Rupert Murdoch being such a dick head. Maybe most of us are peaceful but until we recognise and destroy growing levels of stupidity within our ranks we must be held responsible.
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Is it too late for a summer holiday rerun? I read this stunningly depressing piece last night, and was pondering a post, when I realised that I'd written it already, or something very much like it, back in 2009. So in the spirit of recycling...…
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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 is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up…
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bsprout on the Local Bodies blog, provides a case study, specific to Southland. At the same time, it outlines a more general pattern that can be seen in many places, each with their own local circumstances. The post below was originally posted on Local Bodies on…
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Remember after Dirty Politics broke and John Key and others insisted that the left, including the Standard, were just as bad as the right? In August last year Danyl McLaughlan summed the situation up really well with this post which included the following passage: John Key…
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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 is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up…
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Disability covers a multitude of conditions and states from birth defects to mental illness, from paralysing accidents to workplace malfeasance. Whatever the reason for a person's disability if it is to such an extent that they cannot work we condemn them to a life of…
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Walking to work today I passed by this message. I found it a very useful reminder - my thanks to whomever it was that put it up...
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Yesterday John Key was reported as saying in response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo: "Our thoughts are with the families of those who have lost loved ones, those injured in this brutal attack, and the people of France ... [t]he targeting of journalists going…
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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 is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up…
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On this day when the world defiantly stands up for freedom of speech a political activist has been arrested in Australia for wearing a t-shirt that says "I'm with Stupid". The Guardian reports: The operator of a Twitter account parodying the Queensland premier, Campbell Newman,…
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Like Karol I was shocked to wake up and read about the killing of staff at Charlie Hebdo and also the killing of two police officers, one of who, Ahmed Merabet, was reportedly of Muslim background. We should suspend full judgment on what has happened…
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It is a shocking story to wake up to. A murderous act in a beautiful city. My condolences to those close to the people who were killed, and to the people of Paris and France. Stuff reports: Three masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" have stormed…
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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 is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up…
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A long, fascinating piece by Glenn Greenwald on The Intercept this morning. Please head on over there and read the whole thing, but here are some extracts: WITH POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA GROWING, POLICE NOW MONITORING AND CRIMINALIZING ONLINE SPEECH ... Criminal cases for online political speech are now…
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(Originally published at Boots Theory, but there were requests to cross-post it to The Standard. Suffice it to say your humble moderator will not be lenient on derailing, even if it totally proves her point.) One of the strategies of the right in NZ politics…
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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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A little place by the beach - who wouldn't like to own one of those? Only one problem. As expected: 2014 Was The Hottest Year On Record Globally By Far The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has announced that 2014 was the hottest year in more than 120…
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Charlie Mitchell in the Dominion Post recently published this very interesting article giving an insight into how John Key's thinking may have developed over the past seven years. To come up with data on how often Key talked about different subjects the reporter analysed the text of…
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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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It's still the silly season, and my brain is still on holiday. However, I did think this was worth a quick laugh! In a piece on the Archivist investigating Key's deletion of his textses, the usually excellent Andrea Vance gets a bit silly herself: But…
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Over the holiday break*, I was astonished by an anonymous NZ Herald editorial - "NZ economy is in a good place and thriving". I blame the drivel in it on an inferior intellect being cooked in the warm holiday weather. It evidentially turned to mush and lazily regurgitated…
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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…