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What is it with National and grandiose claims of billion dollar deficits? During the past election Steven Joyce claimed infamously that there was a $11.5 billion deficit in Labour's budget numbers. No one, including all the country's leading economists, could find it. But this did…
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Actual press release from the Trump White House. The country of Iran, as an example, is responsible for a bloody proxy war against Saudi Arabia in Yemen, trying to destabilize Iraq’s fragile attempt at democracy, supporting the terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon, propping up dictator…
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National is keenly looking for someone to stand in the next Super City elections as the Mayoral candidate for the right. Someone who is well known, a household name. Someone who occupies a senior position in the party. Someone can relate to Auckland's ethnic and…
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Harry Leslie Smith, the conscience of modern Britain, is seriously ill in a Canadian hospital. Harry was visiting his son Canadian resident son John, who has been by his father's side since the 95 year took ill. John has been regularly updating Harry's twitter feed…
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Auckland Council wishes to conduct a trial of online voting at next year’s local government elections and the local boards are being asked to comment. People that know me will be aware that I am a somewhat self confessed technophile. I have owned a computer…
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China certainly has interfered in New Zealand politics, most notably by the offer of a free trade deal which delivered huge benefits to our economy. Party and government officials all stressed to us that they were grateful for New Zealand's support for their accession to…
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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 media must feel like this is becoming a daily event, where they beat up on Simon Bridges because of the crazy things he says ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc The latest episode includes his brazen claim that the increases in rentals are all Labour's fault because of…
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Two iwi who you would have hoped would know better are bullying bus drivers in the Waikato. Council of Trade Unions President Richard Wagstaff has called for donations to the welfare fund for FIRST Union members who have been locked out by Tainui and Ngai…
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There seems to be an odd thing about adopting new ways of thinking or doing things. It seems that there is usually a small group of people who practice or advocate for a particular thing, while the majority of people carry on thinking and acting…
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I was looking at Feeds on the right hand side of the site, and saw an interesting post from Briefing Papers titled "“Follow the Money” Archives new Zealand, the National Library and the Department of Internal Af..". However it appears to have been taken down…
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Six thousand people took part in an event of mass disobedience that closed down five of London's Bridges. Their motivation is inadequate political action in the face of global warming. As Jenny Jones, a Green Party peer quoted in The Guardian put it - Basically,…
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Of all of the atrocious things that Stacey Kirk has written her latest article about Pike River is a leading contender for the worst ever. Here is how it starts: It's a big price to pay for political adulation - someone's life. And if anything goes…
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So what if Labour decides to go ahead with its capital gains tax? What happens to the equity of the remaining middle class? What happens to the equity of those who were brought in under KiwiBuild? We will get the final recommendations from Dr Cullen’s…
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Late post for a Friday but I am sure there will be a lot of interest in this. And I am sure the debate will be vigorous. Because it appears that Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame has been charged with so far unknown offences. I…
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The Sunrise Movement began a year or so ago in the US and is seeking to get political action on global warming by getting 'big oil' out of US politics and securing a "Green New Deal". As proclaimed on their website - We're building an…
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In Yemen right now, children are living in the worst humanitarian crisis we have seen in the last 100 years. Yemen is on the brink of famine, and nearly every child in the country is in danger. There are reports that 14 million people are…
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