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I appreciate that has only been 23 years since the first MMP election but National is still fixated with the idea that electorates are the most important thing. If this news about its response to problems with the Census is anything to go by. From…
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The Singapore Government have just cut their forecast economic growth rate to near 0 per cent. The impact of the U.S.-China trade war is really hitting, and it's going to hit us harder too. Australia - on whose economy we are very reliant - has…
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The Taxpayer's Union (not a real union) has had some fun recently and bought multiple copies of Henry Hazlitt's book "Economics in one lesson". They then delivered copies to each MP in a brown paper bag. I am not sure why they chose this particular…
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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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It seems that throughout the world leaders of Right Wing parties are looking to Donald Trump for campaigning inspiration. In the UK Boris Johnson is forging ahead with a hard Brexit and is even getting ready for an election based essentially on jingoistic slogans and…
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I've just been reading an article from yesterday in Stuff. "Allegations of trespassing and intimidation as Southland winter grazing protest escalates". I think that the reporter completely missed the most important salient point - the police don't seem to be doing their job. The background …
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I grew up in a town, but one side of my family are farmers and I've lived in and around rural areas much of my adult life. I've seen the changes and like many been appalled at what has happened to so many lowland waterways…
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Autonomous sanctions imposed on Iran and Venezuela by the US are expressly designed to drive whole populations into poverty to bring about regime change. They are sociopathic. Based on its values, The National Party wants to make such sanctions New Zealand's policy. Extraodinary! Simon Bridges…
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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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If we thought the devastation and mess caused by a flood ripping through the old dump at Fox Glacier village was bad, just wait until a decent storm punches through the old dump of New Zealand’s fifth largest city on its coastline. It's getting close.…
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We are the frogs in the pot. We’re being incrementally desensitized via one small cruelty after the next. This is how countries slide from decency into committing wholesale atrocities against minorities. This is what the period before a genocide looks like.…
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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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Matt Blomfield has brought the Whaleoil site from the official assignee. This fulfills a long held wish of, not only Matt, but a whole pile of people that this arsehole-run paid-for defamation lying site have damaged over the years. Chapter 27 of the Margie Thompson's…
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Coalition Government is a complex thing. Having to manage relationships between three disparate parties and over 60 members of parliament would be more than enough to age you early. Overall Jacinda Ardern and Labour have managed things well. But there has been the occasional glitch. …
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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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With yesterday's announcement by the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates by 1%, some are suggesting that the government should embark on a massive public works spree to stimulate the economy while increasing national debt at low interest rates. This RBNZ move is by some…
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The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty between the United State and Russia signed by Reagan and Gorbachev in 1987 formally ended on August 2nd. On Sunday the new US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper dined privately with Winston Peters. Before and during his trip to the…
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Yesterday Advantage wrote about whether stopping flying had much meaning in a climate change world, especially for New Zealand. Maybe flying accounts for 5% of global carbon emissions, maybe 2%. It’s hardly a major Leaders at the forefront of Climate Action say flying isn’t just…
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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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A conversation in Daily Review last night about transitioning marginal farmland away from stock prompted this post about the values of wilding pines. This is a 20 year difference: Robert Guyton made these points, ... the way ahead is forward into trees, not back…
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Activist Greta Thunberg is attending a United Nations global warming summit in New York, and will get there by boat not airplane. We often hear about the hypocrisy of Green MPs and green activists burning jet fuel to have a meeting about lowering carbon emissions.…
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