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Originally posted at Boots Theory. I did a bit of a tweetstorm earlier today, inspired by seeing friends embroiled in frustrating conversations like this one and the decided slant of articles like this about the proposed Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary. https://twitter.com/MorganGodfery/status/777261116011393024 My thoughts resonated with a…
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London-based macro-economist Ann Pettifor will speak on this topic at Wesley Church, 75 Taranaki Street, Wellington, on Tuesday 20 September at 5:30pm. Ann is a member of the Green New Deal Group, which drew inspiration from the tone of President Roosevelt’s comprehensive response to the…
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Nassim Taleb could very well be the foremost risk statistician/probability philosopher of our age. The best selling author of the Black Swan, Nassim now explains a factor which is degrading the political performance of the bureaucratic Left (and the Right) and opening doors for new…
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Local Government ballot papers are being delivered right now. If we follow what happened last time not enough people will vote. Last time in Auckland the turnout was about 35%, one in three of us. I can understand the reasons. Life is so busy and between…
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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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It's Conservation Week. Get outside, show the kids nature! Shame that 2/3rds of our rivers aren't swimmable. It's no wonder that water gets into places like Havelock North's drinking supply. Radio NZ have a good comment piece about the Anthropocene Age we now live in.…
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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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National is very proud of the latest GDP-growth figures (third highest in OECD!), but are they helping you? And are they what they appear? First up Bill English is open - they're not helping you, we're not getting much wage growth. And that's a lot…
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NZ's largest union, the Public Service Association, has produced a handy guide for cutting through the buzzwords, just in time for everyone who's getting their voting papers in the mail ...
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Neoliberalism, it could be argued, has been a disaster for most New Zealanders. The ‘rock-star’ economy has grown by 3.5% in the last year (which is, in itself, a problem because you cannot have infinite growth in a finite world) but is largely sustained only…
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The Dominion Post has been given access to two polls telling slightly different stories about the Wellington mayoral race: Two polls conducted in the past week have revealed Wellington's mayoral race to be a three-way dogfight between Justin Lester, Nick Leggett and Jo Coughlan –…
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Auckland Action Against Poverty has launched a campaign to stop children being punished for the sins of their fathers. In this particular case it's where fathers of beneficiaries aren't known, so cannot be named for Work and Income to pursue them. One can see the original intention…
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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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The Maori Party are threatening to pull out of their confidence & supply agreement with National, as NRT has well-blogged in National's arrogance bites it in the arse. This would leave National with a Hair-thin majority in the House. The legislation in question - the Kermadec Ocean…
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Vic Crone said wha? Humans warming the Earth? That's contentious, Vic Crone says Take a look at cycles here on this lovely xkcd comic Vic. Vic's views very backward says top scientist, Dr James Renwick of Victoria Uni. Quite rightly so. I'm going to leave…
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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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An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: https://twitter.com/whaledump2/status/775846536500613121 Rawshark - presuming the account is still held and operated by the hacker who exposed the dodgy shenanigans between the WhaleOil blog, corporate lobbyists and senior National Party politicians - started with a screenshot from…
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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 following snippet has been snatched from an, as usual, negative piece on Corbyn in the Guardian. On Tuesday he (Corbyn) said pledged (sic) to make the Labour membership an “even more active force for good in every single community, ensuring that Labour mounts the…
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Thinking of emailing your opposition MP about a matter of sensitivity concerning the government? Well be careful with what email address you use. Because it appears that all emails are being monitored and not just for the usual things such as spam and viruses. From Radio…
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One year on, Jeremy Corbyn has transformed British politics: ... if you really want to analyse Corbyn’s achievements, it is important not to fall for the cliche that we have transformed the party but failed at “grown-up” conventional politics. In the past year, the Tories…
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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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So yesterday's Colmar Brunton poll result was not the best and allowed for Government cheerleaders such as Matthew Hooton and Phil Quin to trumpet that all is doom for the left. Labour has responded by releasing its latest UMR results which show a decidedly different…
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Fellow participants in the struggle to improve the plight of ordinary people. We can now officially give up the class struggle. Or at least David Seymour thinks so ... He claimed on Morning Report this morning that National is no longer hiding its socialist streak…
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On September 2nd, India's workers generated a strike involving between 150 and 180 million people. That would make it the biggest general strike in history. There was a strong call-out from many unions, co-ordinated by the Centre of India Trade Unions. Few in the media…
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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 latest Colmar Brunton poll is out. NZ First are the big winners on 11%, up 2%. Labour are down 3% to 26% (the lowest they have polled in the Colmar Brunton since 2014), and the Greens are up 1% on 13%. In my view,…