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As previously stated I think the whole flag process its a waste of money and a distraction from the real issues. But given that it went ahead, it should have been run fairly and inclusively. Any new flag needs to have broad support - be…
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I posted earlier noting New Zealand's and the United Kingdom's change of position relating to the Syrian Refugee crisis. Yesterday Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia known affectionately by many as dickhead also did something unusual. He changed position from four days ago and acted in a…
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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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Where has our outcry been these past years as desperate refugees rode airplane undercarriages to their deaths, drowned in the Pacific or the Mediterranean and otherwise wasted away in the ‘middle of no-where’, in transit camps or detention centres? We can’t say that we didn’t…
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This Government's priorities are clear. It sells our assets, strip mines the country's primary social housing provider, and preaches austerity yet at the same time it blows our money on sheep farms in the Saudi desert and all sorts of corporate welfare. One of the…
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Reposted from No Right Turn Over in the UK, the government is carrying out an unprecedented attack on employment and union rights in an effort to return things to their C19th utopia. They've already changed legislation to make it almost impossible for unions to legally…
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In these days of increased poverty and surging housing need a responsible Government would allow Housing Corporation to invest its spare cash in building new homes and repairing clearly deficient existing homes. But the Government clearly has alternative priorities. From Radio New Zealand: Housing New…
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An interesting development in US politics: Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by nine points – poll Senator would receive backing of 41% of Democrats to Clinton’s 32% Clinton holds shrinking lead in Iowa, NBC finds Senator Bernie Sanders has opened a nine-point…
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How do you deal with a war situation that’s leading to millions of fleeing refugees? According to Winston Peters, you put a gun in the hands of all the male refugees and send them back. Brilliant.
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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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The urge to censor is still alive and well in NZ. Racy teen novel Into the River banned after Family First complaint An award-winning Kiwi novel has been banned after a complaint by conservatives, potentially sparking a wave of new restrictions on books with sexually…
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The Herald's Guy Body nails it:
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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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No need to waste too many words on this post but Cameron Slater thinks that the Red Peak flag is favoured by the left because Nazi Germany used to brand political prisoners with an upside down red triangle. I wonder if John Key still takes…
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The focus groups have spoken and the backtrack is under way. National has slammed on the breaks and dramatically adjusted course from last week when it was not going to accept further refugees to address the Syrian refugee crisis. Now it is going to do something. Identical…
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A very strong piece by Andrew Geddis last week, especially for the extensive and damning quotes from Key. Guts, guts, got no guts New Zealand is a country that stands up for its values - unless it involves the inconvenience of bringing a few more…
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I have to say I never expected this: Rainbow Warrior bomber apologises after 30 years The French secret service frogman who attached the mines which sank the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand 30 years ago apologised for his actions in an interview today…
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I wonder if the current public outpouring of sympathy for Syrian refugees is nought but a ‘fashion’, or whether it’s the beginnings of a renaissance for internationalism. My cynicism whispers to be mindful of the fickleness of any collective ‘social conscience’ and the ephemeral ‘humanity’…
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Tony Abbott is a special breed of politician. His climate change denying tendencies are well known. He hates windmills and without a sense of irony is deeply worried about their potential environmental effect while being totally oblivious to the damage that coal is causing to the…
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Happy father's day to all the fathers out there. Rather than give your dad or granddad consumerist goods that are bad for them and the planet why don't you think of making a donation to the charities supporting refugee families in the Middle Eastand Europe?…
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It is absolutely predictable. When the Young Nats ask the Government to urgently review the current refugee quota level you know a change is going to happen. This is not the first absolutely heart breaking flow of humanity requiring urgent action by nation states. But this is…
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I'm no fan of the flag process. I think its a waste of money and a distraction from the real issues. I don't think there has been any public sign of engagement or interest to be worth commenting on. Until now. Now there is Red…
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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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From Labour: Labour will on Tuesday introduce an Emergency Humanitarian Response Bill to Parliament to bring an additional 750 refugees into New Zealand this year, Andrew Little says. “We cannot stand by and wait for a review. This is a crisis and New Zealanders everywhere…