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I see mickysavage is writing a more considered post, but I just have to express my astonishment with the release late on a Friday afternoon (dump time!) that the police will not be pursuing any action against Slater/Ede for hacking Labour's website. Given a whole…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aN6eDGEc0U In celebration of what would have been Bob Marley's 70th birthday ... 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…
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Looks like (ht Danyl Mclauchlan) Malaysia is smarter than us: Malaysia will not sign any TPP pact in Hawaii As pivotal negotiations in the making or breaking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) enter the final stretch, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) has…
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From Amnesty International's website: "On 8 July 2014, Israel launched a military offensive against the Gaza Strip for the third time in less than six years. Over 50 days, both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and other serious breaches of international…
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As is being widely reported: All frontline police to carry Tasers All frontline police staff will now routinely carry Tasers while on duty, in a major change to the organisation's operational policy. ... Police Association president Greg O'Connor has backed the move, saying it will…
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The National Business Review has released its annual list of the richest New Zealanders. These are the people National and their franchises govern for; the one percent who will continue to benefit from growing inequality, who are in the queue to make more millions from…
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Everyone who has opposed the introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into their districts needs to be alarmed at a sneaky Government move to over-ride local council regulations about this matter. This applies particularly to Auckland, Bay of Plenty, and Northland council districts. The Government…
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It's pretty clear that we're not going to get anything like what the Nats promised us from the TPP. Gordon Campbell yesterday got an international perspective on the state of negotiations and his conclusion is frank: "New Zealand and Canada are being hung out to…
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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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One of the most annoying things about John Key is the soothing disingenuous way that he treats issues. He is always relaxed about issues, the effects of dramatic changes are downplayed and everyone else is wrong and he always sounds utterly convincing. Pharmac's future under…
capitalism class war Deep stuff democracy under attack Globalisation International john key national national/act government same old national us politics
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Last night the 291 crosses representing workers who have died since Pike River came to Wellington: Watered down health and safety proposals will cost lives, family members of those killed in the Pike River disaster say. "I never, ever want another mother to go through…
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What exactly does a charter school have to do in order to be held accountable? Yesterday: No investigation over school's cash withdrawals Staff who withdrew $4000 in cash from a school's account and failed to explain what they spent it on will not be investigated,…
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On RNZ this morning: TPP deal is precarious - NZ envoy New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy at the TPP talks in Hawaii has cast doubt on whether the trade deal is going to be acceptable to New Zealand. Mike Petersen said more concessions on…
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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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At his 2 pm press conference today former Conservative Leader Colin Craig announced that he is suing Jordan Williams, Cameron Slater and former Conservative leader John Stringer in defamation. From Television New Zealand: Embattled former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig claims he has been the subject…
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The Blairite Right Wing of the UK Labour Party is up in arms (and no doubt plotting) as the latest internal polls show that self-described socialist Jeremy Corbyn has taken a commanding 22 point lead against closest rival Yvette Cooper in the UK Labour leadership…
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Tim Grosser: "We need adults to do this, not breathless children to run off at the mouth when the deal is not actually finished." Sean Plunket gets a teeny bit tetchy at that. https://twitter.com/RadioLIVENZ/status/626162141012357120 https://twitter.com/toby_etc/status/626185636064722945
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John Key: "One of the claims that had been made, I think, was that someone had been thrown off a balcony - in fact, actually, Serco say that the person jumped off the balcony, or tripped, or fell. https://twitter.com/MrDuttonPeabody/status/625953949720293378 https://twitter.com/MrDuttonPeabody/status/625951279148183552
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The Nats appear to be the worst negotiators in the world. Rio Tinto. Hollywood. SkyCity. Serco. And the TPP. Here's TPP cheerleader Fran O'Sullivan this morning: Fran O'Sullivan: Kiwis the TPP deal-fixers ... At the negotiating level, broad support has been stitched up in several…
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Parliamentary question time is really important. It is the one chance the opposition has to hold the Government to account and demand answers to questions on what it is doing. Ministers are meant to answer questions honestly. If they do not do so accidentally then…
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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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(The above is a photograph of John Key subject to Deep Dreaming treatment) 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…
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The Chinese share market has recently shown strong signs of being a bubble. Following a sustained increase in share prices until July this year the market then hit severe turbulence, and previous gains have been well and truly wiped out. Emergency measures were taken by the…
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The TPP is back in the headlines with hype that agreement may be near (again). Labour has set out its bottom lines for supporting any final version. You know they make sense because our increasingly shrill PM has described them as "barking madness". So my…
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It's not a good idea in general to comment on internal polling. It isn't designed for public release, its too easy for others to dismiss, and it needs to be reflected in public polls to be reliable. So we at TS don't usually write on…
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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.