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Open Mike 12/11/2017
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War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr6OzLJrS2k "The Green Fields Of France" (originally by Eric Bogle) Oh how do you do, young Willy McBride Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside And rest for a while in the warm summer sun I've been walking all day, and…
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Thank You Canada!
So let me get this straight. It may be that a Liberal led government has just saved us from the rabid capitalist desires of a Labour led government? The spread of media reports are somewhat contradictory, but I'm taking it that the TPP is now…
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The House’s Man
I've long had mixed feelings about Trevor Mallard, but watching his performance as Speaker in his first question time has made it feel very likely that he's going to be our best Speaker yet. I had expressed cautious optimism at his early statements after the…
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Fair trade
Last minute save from the Canadians. https://twitter.com/radionz/status/928921752083636224 https://twitter.com/alisoncrawford5/status/928900455253417984 https://twitter.com/LouieTheRed1/status/928915445326888960 https://twitter.com/actionstation/status/928915986916417538 https://twitter.com/actionstation/status/928736101283504128 https://twitter.com/pohutukawa/status/928892896002031616 While that's all settling down, how about we look at what we could be doing instead, because we can do so much better. The Green Party's Trade and Foreign Investment Policy ____________________________________________________________________ We…
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Open Mike 11/11/2017
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Weekend Social 10/11/2017
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Doofus of the week
This award has to be given to David Bennett for continuously claiming in Parliament that the Labour-Green-New Zealand First was a socialist Government. He does not know the meaning of the word ... And also for claiming that Labour was reneging on policies before they…
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TPP11 close to being signed?
Reporting from different sources suggests that TPP11 is close to be signed. From Radio New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived at the APEC summit saying talks to conclude the Trans Pacific Partnership are "down to the wire". Discord has emerged between Japan and…
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Beneficiary for life: the joys of permanent disability in present day NZ
This Guest Post is by Kay, a long time commenter at The Standard. Living with any sort of disability full time isn't exactly what any of us sign up for. But these days, for many New Zealanders a disability not only entails managing the actual condition,…
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Open Mike 10/11/2017
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Daily Review 09/11/2017
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Reserve Bank predicts economic growth under new government
Leaving aside the issue of economic growth as a panacea, Bill English and many who voted for him say it is the be all and end all for NZ. The Reserve Bank isnt a communist lacky, right? So they will all be happy now, right?…
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The new Pay Equity Legislation
National has shown today tactically how it is going to deal with Jacinda Ardern. In Parliament three of its female MPs, Amy Adams and Nikki Kaye and Judith Collins all unloaded on Jacinda and tried to suggest that she and Labour are not interested in…
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Bouquets for the new government
Highlighting some of the good stuff and moves in the right direction, https://twitter.com/suebr/status/927702284892385280 https://twitter.com/NZPrivacy/status/928090943906967552 From Stuff, That would likely include reducing the level of data collected, so vulnerable people could not be identified at an individual level and removing the reporting on welfare liability dependency,…
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Open Mike 09/11/2017
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TPP, Corporate Coup or “Free trade”?
"Free trade" or Corporate Magna Charta. The overall benefits of "Free Trade agreements" to participants, especially smaller economies with less economic power, are often dubious, and frequently just a matter of how you rig the accounting. Leaving out externalities, like the increase in numbers on…
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Daily Review 08/11/2017
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This TPP…
The TPP was never going to have an impact on the government legislating to ban foreign individuals from buying houses in New Zealand. Some people have said the proposed change to legislation includes companies, but I haven't seen any compelling evidence to that effect. And…
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The Missing Noun.
The following is an excerpt from a Green Party communication of the 7th November thanking people for donations and anticipating the remainder of this parliamentary term. We have relied on your support throughout our campaign. You and other Green Party supporters, voters, activists, members and…
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Justice for Teina Pora
What a difference a month and a new Government makes. The last Government decided to award Teina Pora the sum of $2.5 million for the loss of 20 years of his life which he spent in jail for a crime he did not commit. It…
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Suck it up political sleazers.
It was a classic Dirty Politics ploy right out of the grubby and disgusting playbook that National has been using since the 2002 election. Titbits of largely irrelevant, but personally damaging gossip against political opponents stored away for the right time and released through sources…
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Open Mike 08/11/2017
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Daily Review 07/11/2017
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Build a bridge and get over it
It's now Simon Bridges' turn to be the one whining in the media about the new government, complaining that Labour is planning to go through with plans he himself praised in Parliament to decrease the presence of larger parties in Select Committees, a move that…
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The days of National dick waving
The spin that National are running is that they are unhappy with the move to reduce the numbers and size of the select committees and that their dick size opposition party is the largest. Unfortunately for their story it is exactly the same proposal that…
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Paradise lost
Another mass leak of a law firm's private information has occurred. And just like the Panama Papers the details are eye watering and show there are two classes of people on this planet, the uber rich and the rest of us. From the Guardian: The…
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Guns don’t shoot people, men do
With regard to the latest US shooting, I suspect we've already passed a marker in the road that suggests there is no turning back, and that whatever liberal solutions we have floating round in our heads about gun control are largely irrelevant, no matter how…
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NRT: About time too
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: ___________________________________________________________ Labour isn't wasting any time: they've just announced that they'll be introducing legislation on Wednesday to extend paid parental leave: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced paid parental leave will be increased to 26 weeks by 2020. Ardern…