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For those of you who haven't caught the news, the media is reporting that Jami-Lee Ross has been taken to an Auckland facility to treat a mental health problem. I'm going to be focusing on that angle of the story in this post, and largely…
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I was talking to friend last night (he’s a scientist) and he was telling me how there’s an idea within some quarters of the scientific community to take CO2 from the atmosphere and ‘chuck it’ down into the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Which is…
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So over the last week we have seen the most monumental meltdown of the credibility of a major party as you can imagine. A senior MP goes rogue and starts spilling the beans of all of the dirty politics that they engaged in for the…
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Saudi Arabian authorities have cleared up the mystery around the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It turns out it was suicide by bone saw. According to spokespeople for Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Khashoggi, a 59 year old bespectacled academic, started a fight with 15…
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We are faced with a plethora of big and scary issues. Issues that we, on a personal-individual level, cannot comprehend let alone solve. Thus, we look at our managers, bosses, or politicians for guidance, leadership, orders … Do we wait for the next GFC, global…
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It just gets worse and worse for the Nats as Jami-Lee Ross sets the agenda for the long weekend. What we've learned in the last few minutes is that Ross has had an affair with another MP. He has told Newstalk ZB who that person…
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Some wag on Trademe has advertised National Party list positions for sale. And the questions and answers were hilarious.
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National is hoping and praying that the damage caused by Jami-Lee Ross is now over. Fat chance. Each day new revelations serve to undermine Simon Bridges' leadership and National's reputation. Take for instance the latest evidence of Ross's attacking and harassing women. National has known…
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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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Rogue National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross’s recording of Simon Bridges has been widely characterised in the media as “no smoking gun”, but it sure as hell shines sunlight on myriad issues, especially the Chinese-National Party relationship. What comes out is: • Corruption within the National…
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So I think we know the story. Across various monopolistic platforms, content is getting scrubbed for no clear reason. Better than that, it seems there's some coordination being entered into, so that at the same time facebook content disappears, the same related twitter content disappears.…
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I wish this was not happening. My work is piling up and my unread unprocessed emails are getting to terrifying levels. But twitter is so interesting. Every day tweets appear that act like mini explosions and cause chaos to National's hopes of appearing to be…
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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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An ex-Mujahideen fighter alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan. A fervent Wahhibist/Salafist. A guy who believed the "Arab Spring" should be brought under Saudi control. These, it seems, are some of the facts about the supposed "dissident" journalist Jamal Khashoggi that aren't really being aired. To…
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You’d wonder sometimes why we talk about international affairs at all here. After all we’re an insignificant little country with insignificant politics and policy. Why exercise our minds at all about this stuff? The quick answer is that the mice always need to know where…
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The theory of nuclear deterrence is that if both sides have nuclear weapons neither side will ever use them, because all that would cause is the other side to respond in kind. There is an equivalent theory in politics, that you leave other MPs personal…
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Hey, Tories! Here's some free advice; Dump Simon. He's beyond saving. Let Paula have a run. Sure she's got no class, but then, she's not Judith. And that counts for something, surely? Write off 2020 and parachute the leader you want running against Jacinda Ardern…
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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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Rogue National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross in an explosive press conference said he will resign from parliament and will tomorrow lay a complaint with police of corrupt practices against party leader Simon Bridges. In a stand-up at parliament, Ross said he had he will resign…
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Embattled Nat MP Jami-Lee Ross has sensationally claimed that Simon Bridges has broken electoral law in regard to a $100k donation from a Chinese businessman. Ross claims MP Todd McClay was with him when they witnessed Bridges making a misleading electoral return. The MP has…
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No doubt like everyone else's feed my twitter yesterday was on fire. I am not sure I have ever witnessed a situation where a stand up by a major party leader has been sabotaged by an MP from his party using twitter. But that is…
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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 …