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On the eve of Assange's extradition hearing in London, award-winning freelancer Jonathan Cook has written a scathing indictment of corporate journalism's collusion in ignoring his official torture. I posted an example of that here last year, where Richard Harman denied Assange was a journalist at…
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Issues relating to Covid continue to dominate New Zealand's politics. In Auckland it feels like we have dodged a bullet. The numbers of new non returning infections continues to trend downwards although regrettably there have been two recent deaths. Fingers crossed we may again have…
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Could Labour's first major policy announcement be a permanent unemployment insurance scheme similar to that advocated for by ACT? Ouch. That's the headline from a piece at interest.co.nz looking at Grant Robertson's idea of a two tier welfare system. The proposal is to have an ACC-like…
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Our cities are the nation's lungs; they recycle and accelerate external goods and transform them internally into faster circulation. Auckland and Christchurch have had tens of billions invested in them over successive local and central governments, but has this improved our strength or wealth as…
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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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Everyone has recently had an education on "Socialism" working in practice. "The sound you are hearing is" Economic ideas being shredded. And a graphic illustration of the shortcomings, of under regulated "Free market" Capitalism, Globalism, tax cuts for the rich, and the mania for monetising…
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Jacinda Ardern’s second term in office will be more challenging than her first, even accounting for such crises as the Christchurch massacre and Covid 19. In 2017, when Labour was languishing in the points and her taking on Labour’s leadership just weeks before the election,…
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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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One of the good things about 2020 is that we're so taken up with our own crises we don't have the incessant focus on the US election that we had 4 years ago. I've been largely able to ignore the debate here about this year's…
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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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Hi all, sorry about missing the post for the previous Roy Morgan poll- I've been having connection problems for a wee bit over a month that just hit at the wrong time for me to be able to write a post for that one, and my…
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Along with the grey weather, the weather around our local net is downright annoying at present. There are a massive increase in attempts to break into this site via backend systems and brute force front-end logins, a surge in scans from the search engine spider…
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Since the end of the Cold War, New Zealanders have observed a U.S. foreign policy beguiled by a set of illusions about the world order, illusions that cost them, allies, and enemies the deaths of hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded. Illusions for which…
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It was an interesting day in the Herald yesterday. It published the result of a poll which suggested that most Aucklanders were actually pretty chilled about the lockdown. But the headline suggested that the situation was much more complex. The first two sentences were: Auckland…
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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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I am surprised that National leader Judith Collins' husband David Wong Tung has not had his social media thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned. Because it looks like it could have used a good cleaning. This appeared yesterday. https://twitter.com/BobbyMiller202/status/1300231360926236677 And a dive into his social media, which…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right turn writes: RNZ has a major scoop this morning: the New Zealand Police are trying to set up a live facial recognition system: Police have been quietly setting up a $9 million facial recognition system that can take a live feed…
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