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Norway's government has announced it is selling out of oil exploration. It will continue to invest in energy companies that have refineries and are engaged in distribution and retail sales of oil and gas products - with significant stakes in Shell, BP, Total and ExxonMobil,…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Simon Bridges seems to feel sorry for all those disillusioned voters who voted for the Greens and Labour expecting to get a greener government, i.e. greener than the previous government, the one before, and the one before that one. I too feel their pain. Those…
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Former intelligence agent Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury investigating WikiLeaks. US district judge Claude Hilton held Manning in contempt of court and ordered her jailed after Manning confirmed she will not testify because she objects 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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Keep it seemly.
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Good editorial in the DomPost today supporting the students' strike for their future environment. I can't say the same for David Farrar opining yesterday on National radio they should strike at the weekend! For another lesson in patronising, watch Senator Feinstein meet young ones in…
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Radio networks in NZ, Australia and elsewhere have decided to terminate with extreme prejudice the music of Michael Jackson, following the release of a new documentary alleging the King of Pop committed extreme sexual crimes. Like a disgraced Politburo official in a retouched photograph, Jackson…
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National is a party with a plethora of hired "talent" researching and planning and scheming to return National to its natural position, that is ruler of us all. It does not matter that they are hopelessly inept at the leadership stuff, that they are incapable…
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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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Mark Taylor, an ISIS recruit once known as the 'bumbling Jihadi' wants to come home to NZ. Or, at least get the hell out of the Syrian jail cell he's currently occupying. The Kiwi, a former soldier here in NZ, served ISIS as a guard.…
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I was a university student back in the 1980s. Back then it was a dark time, the United States and the Soviets were ignoring the plight of the rest of the world and pouring massive resources into Nuclear Arsenals. Clearly each side thought that with…
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Ruth Dyson, in my opinion up in the top rank of great Labour women, has announced she will leave Parliament at the end of this term. Typically in advance and typically without fanfare. Her contribution to Labour and to the less fortunate in our country…
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It appears that every few days a new capital gains tax horror story is going to emerge from within National's research unit. A few days ago it was the effect on Kiwisaver accounts. The latest concerns farming. From Benedict Collins at Television New Zealand: "A…
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I’d like to give a shoutout to Minister Eugenie Sage for securing some solid funding increases for her Conservation portfolio. The first is in baseline funding from this years’ 2019 Budget, of $76 million. It’s got a particular focus on saving animals. This funding was…
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Now that we are in a proper new age of robber barons in which most states are collectively so weak that they no longer offer effective resistance against large corporations, it’s somewhat easier to refresh how we view states: they are diplomatic fronts for corporations.…
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The Greens want to reform electoral law. One of their goals is to stop donations from foreign sources happening. Sounds sensible. Other jurisdictions have similar prohibitions. It is hard to work out what the implications are. There is a requirement to report party donations from…
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