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The John Batchelor show regularly interviews Stephen Cohen, one of the United States' most accomplished Russia experts and a contributing editor at The Nation magazine. In this excellent radio interview, Cohen and Batchelor tease out the background details of this latest important event in Syria.…
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Greenpeace: We are live at the oil industry conference in Auckland. Through non-violent peaceful civil disobedience, we intend to send the strongest message we can that New Zealand must join the global fight to quit oil and meet the greatest challenge of our time -…
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An anonymous editorial in the Dominion Post over the weekend is spot on: The public were misled by the fiction about Kiwi jihadi brides The jihadi brides affair is extremely damaging for the Government. It raises serious questions about the accuracy of claims made by…
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As National suffer the predictable result of John Key's mad scheme to change the NZ flag, the next election will present the opportunity for NZ First to decide who will lead the Government. So can we on the left trust Winston Peters? First up, I…
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Writing in the NZ Herald, Matt Nippert has exposed lies that demolish National’s economic policies. A major Herald investigation has found the 20 multinational companies most aggressive in shifting profits out of New Zealand overall paid virtually no income tax, despite recording nearly $10 billion…
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Remember our beloved Prime Minister standing up at Paris and saying that the New Zealand Government was pledging $200 million towards aid to address the effects of climate change? Well it appears the announcement actually reflects a cut. National's "generous" announcement looks like it may…
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As widely covered yesterday, Nicky Hager has received - too little and far too late - a measure of justice for the "fundamentally unlawful" raid conducted on his home and family in the wake of Dirty Politics. Here's one report: Hager gets a victory A…
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Preliminary Roy Morgan numbers for Feb 29 to Mar 13 are out. I don't see their commentary up yet however. NZF jumps 3% to 9%, putting them at their highest Roy Morgan polling in recent history. Labour increases 1% to 28%. Greens are on 14%.…
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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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Amongst its lofty goals the Taxpayers Union aims "[t]o lower the tax burden on New Zealanders". But a recent press release has it being relaxed about existing policy that increases the tax burden of ordinary New Zealanders for the benefit of rich foreign multinational corporations. The…
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Message from Action Station As you may know, our friends at Greenpeace have put out a call to climate action, specifically peaceful civil disobedience, next Monday the 21st of March. They are calling for an escalation in protest tactics at the Oil Conference at SkyCity…
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Oh this is "clever": In March last year a Bunnings' Warehouse in Wellington put out a letter to community groups, asking for help with its six-monthly stocktake. The company offered them $12.50 an hour for each person who signed up - payment worded as a…
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Post COP21 when an international consensus has been reached that the world is facing a climate change induced catastrophe National is planning on doing something, well sort of. Paula Bennett has announced that it is a matter of when and not if the Government will…
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In running the "jihadi brides" nonsense the government was lying by omission to try and drum up fear of some kind - any kind - of "terrorist" link with NZ. The distress caused to our Muslim community was obvious at the time, see: Shocked Muslim…
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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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It's been an intense day or two for Andrew Little. An off the cuff response to an innocuous question from a small local paper journo has got a lot of Labour Party haters in a froth. But why? Obviously, it's not because he said something…
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The UK has done the sensible thing for public health and introduced "a new tax on sugary drinks". Proceeds of the levy will be used (so they say) to fund school sports. Stuff has a good Q&A. Jamie Oliver has called it "A profound move…
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Remember this? Kiwi Jihadi brides on the rise New Zealand Jihadi brides are known to have taken part in "weddings" before heading to Islamic State (IS) stronghold Syria, Prime Minister John Key has revealed. In this 2015 beat-up about the risk of terrorism in NZ…
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Presented with no additional comment: Andrew Little: Labour leader Andrew Little says ethnic restaurants should be employing New Zealand Indians and Chinese chefs instead of bringing in staff from overseas. Mr Little said large inflows of semi-skilled migrants were putting pressure on jobs, especially in…
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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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Guest Post: by Simon Louisson The news for cow cockies and the wider dairy industry just gets grimmer and grimmer, but relax everyone, the banks will be fine, according to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand today. On a day when prices fell another 2.9…
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Results are coming in from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio in the US primaries. Early days in some states but at the moment it looks like a clean sweep for Clinton, and possibly for Trump (Kasich is ahead in his home state Ohio,…
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The utter destruction of the UK Labour Party under loony leftie leader Jeremy Corbyn continues apace. Or not: Shock poll offers hope to Jeremy Corbyn as Labour draws level with the Tories Labour has drawn level in the polls with the Tories for the first…
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Yesterday Andrew Little criticised the banks' failure to pass on the cut in Official Cash Rate (OCR) to we the people via mortgage / interest rate cuts: Little to banks: Pass on rate cuts or suffer consequences Opposition leader Andrew Little says Labour will consider…