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The decision by the Oversight Board of Facebook to continue banning Donald Trump is one of the biggest moves against free speech and the modern definition of its limits that the world has seen. The left may laugh now, but they should fight this precedent…
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It has been an interesting week for Labour. On Wednesday they announced a wage freeze for public servants earning over $60,000 unless, for those on lower salary levels, there were exceptional circumstances. The left did not take this well. Then yesterday Michael Wood, the twenty…
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This is probably the most mind boggling thing I’ve seen this government do. Why would you freeze wages of mid range public servants during a global pandemic instead of say taxing wealth? As Micky pointed out yesterday, over $200,000 would have made sense, but $60,000?…
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First published at The Democracy Project May 7, 2021 All around the world, governments, economists, and even neoliberal bastions like the World Bank are urging a change in the direction of economic policy away from the mistakes of a decade ago – all except here…
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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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Let’s start with the principles of the thing. There’s a contest afoot about whether democracy and individual autonomy will out-compete autocratic state control of society. What is being attacked now are principles settled after World War 2. To refresh ourselves with the Universal Declaration of…
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A few of us on the left have issues with the public service wage freeze announced by Grant Robertson and Chris Hipkins yesterday. A freeze for the wealthiest of public servants I suspect most of us would accept if not be rather happy about. But…
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Regenerative agriculture enthusiasts have been making claims about carbon sequestration for some years, the practices being ahead of the science. So it’s good to see reporting of some peer reviewed research that shows significant benefit for climate mitigation of shifting from conventional livestock farming to…
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Issues surrounding Trevor and his role as speaker of the House have been bubbling away for a while. The background is a frankly toxic workplace that we know as Parliament. For decades it has not been a safe place for workers. There is too much…
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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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On Morning Report today 'High Court lawyer' Sam Vincent called for Parliament to resolve to condemn alleged Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang. He said he spoke on behalf of Uyghur Solidarity Aotearoa committed to taking action on Xinjiang "or as they call it East Turkestan." If…
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Last weekend Judith Collins spoke to the Northern Regional Conference of the National Party. The whole weekend was spent blowing hard on the good old fashioned racist whistle. But in particular she presented an interesting take on te Tiriti o Waitangi the likes of which…
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This from SCMP columnist Alex Lo "If they look, swim and quack like US influence operations, they probably are US influence operations, especially when they come with an annual price tag of US$300 million to be authorised by law by the US Congress, of which…
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Some good news from over the weekend. Labour is planning to significantly increase the level of Jobseeker benefit. From Dan Satherley at Newshub: The Minister for Social Welfare has a goal of raising the unemployment benefit by $57 a week by 2023. Carmel Sepuloni told…
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