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Let them drink beer
The Nats are so desperate to avoid taking action on sugar's role in the demographics of obesity that they've taken to talking pure drivel. https://twitter.com/TheNationTV3/status/657657404356743169?s=09 Here's the transcript: Political editor Patrick Gower sat down with Dr Coleman and began by asking him what actually happens…
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Kelvin Davis on the Christmas Island Detainees
Kelvin Davis has been performing sterling work on the issue concerning New Zealand detainees in Australia. The Guardian has reported on his visit to Christmas Island to talk to some of them. He stated that conditions were that bad there was talk of the prisoners rioting.…
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The left in Auckland
We will all have to love Auckland. Not love-hate. Love. Because Auckland needs to be given a reason to love the left, if the left are ever to achieve power again. Including Maori seats and resident list members, it's about 4035% of Parliament. That big.…
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Open mike 25/10/2015
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AECT election campaign shenanigans
The Auckland Energy Consumer Trust is currently holding its triennial elections for trustees to look after the community owned shares in Vector electricity. The shares are currently worth in the vicinity of $2.1 billion dollars. There have been rumours of plans by Michelle Boag and others…
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Scoop on the Hager Rawshark raid case
Here's something for politics junkies on a Saturday morning - Scoop on the Hager Rawshark raid case: Inside The Hunt For Rawshark - The Hager Raid Court File Scoop Independent News has secured access to the court file for the Hager Rawshark Raid Case and…
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Open mike 24/10/2015
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Daily Review 23/10/2015
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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How America is killing the middle class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufpsxQwPP1Y
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#JKLovePoetry
In the absence of a caption contest this fine Friday, Standardistas might like to turn their idle hands to poetry. Love poetry. Specifically, the very special love and yearning that John Key seems to feel for Richie McCaw. The Twitterati have made such a good…
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Key not taking us with him on the flag
John Key's antics trying to drum up support for a flag change are getting increasingly desperate: Yo Rich m8, its JK ;-) chk out my cool flg vid on the FB. Go ABs! Yes, the Prime Minister really did text the All Black captain to…
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Wallowing in extravagance
Gosh, how predictable was this: Super-ministry's $800,000 bill for media monitoring slammed An $800,000 bill for media monitoring at the Government's business super-ministry has put its spending in the spotlight again, with Labour accusing it of "wallowing in extravagance". ... The big bill is just…
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Paula Bennett and the social housing crisis
Apparently the country is facing a crisis. A senior Minister who is a potential future leader of the National Party has been tasked with handling this crisis. And the threat must be considerable because she keeps talking about it. I am not talking about climate…
housing national paula bennett phil twyford same old national spin the praiseworthy and the pitiful you couldn't make this shit up
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Open mike 23/10/2015
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Russel Norman’s valedictory speech – activists and agitators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y763GA_h3fA
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Daily Review 22/10/2015
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Pressure mounts to force Auckland to open up land
Bill English ordered the Productivity Commission do a Report on Housing in Auckland. Nick Smith is particularly excited by this statement from them: The government should be allowed to force local authorities to release land for urban development in the face of rampant house-price inflation…
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Is it time for progressives to love rugby?
1981 marks the point where - for good reason at the time - the left ceded the idea of sport to National. We still begrudge it. We begrudge it even more than the flag debate. We hate it because it's full of mean-old competition, winning…
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The equal pay initiative
Here's a headline to gladden a Leftie's heart: Government hailed for equal pay initiative The Government is winning praise for a move unions hope will lead to equal pay for all working women. ... The country's biggest union, E tu, says it's "a huge step…
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Open mike 22/10/2015
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Daily Review 21/10/2015
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Have a Drink Hoss!
So, by my understanding, in ‘three party’* Canada, the New Democratic Party sought the center and nosedived. Simultaneously, the Liberals moved left and soared. In ‘two party’ England and Wales, Labour sought the center and bumbled and scraped the ground looking for lift off. Meanwhile,…
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Tony Veitch and the power of redemption
There has been some social media chatter about recent comments by broadcaster Tony Veitch. Six years ago he was sentenced to nine month's supervision, a $10,000 fine and ordered to perform 300 hours community service after pleading guilty to injuring with reckless disregard his former…
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Canada and the TPP
From NZ's point of view one of the interesting issues arising from the Liberals' victory in Canada is whether that country will now drop out of the TPP. (This was discussed in comments following yesterday's post, but I think it bears a bit more examination).…
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Open mike 21/10/2015
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Daily Review 20/10/2015
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I LOVE these kinds of stories
"“We had an 83-year-old man walking in here to vote for the first time in his life,” she said from near a polling station in Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary." The article is about under estimating the number of First Nation voters, so ballots ran out…
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Oh Canada oh Canada
At last one of Crosby Textor's client states is turning left. In Canada it appears that the conservative Government of Stephen Harper is on the way out and not even Crosby's advice to wedge the electorate using blatant dog whistle racist tactics has worked. Justin…
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John Oliver on Key: Every pic is a dic pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGqQr8RnRRA