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Some big decisions are due to happen today. What happens to Auckland's Covid status? Should the lockdown level be reduced or should the Government think about putting it back up? At least at a superficial level it appears that Lockdown level 3 has not worked. …
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Speaking of contagion, China is dealing with an outbreak of real estate market ebola. Evergrande is in far more serious trouble than Fantasia Holdings, and far larger, but both need to be watched. When China catches a cold, literally ... China faces the same problem…
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Once upon a time, before Google Earth, GPS, and the Internet, we were avid explorers and discoverers. This is not just ancient history, as many presently living in NZ have emigrated here in their lifetimes. We knew risk and danger and did it anyway and…
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If you need proof that the US Justice system is fundamentally flawed this case, involving the Judicially sanctioned attacks on a lawyer who took on Chevron for destroying habitat in the Amazon forest and causing misery and adverse health effects to the local inhabitants provides…
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While we have mainly been occupied with containing the current Covid-19 outbreak, world news has been looking at 11.9 million documents revealing dirty or questionable flows of capital and tax dodging by the affluent. Frequently it also looks like corrupt and criminal. What was most…
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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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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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The latest Roy Morgan poll was run between August 30th and September 26th. The headline results of Labour/Greens with 55% (increase by 3.5%) against opposition National/Act/Maori parties on 41% (up 0.5%) were good enough. But they also showed the gender split. That shows that women…
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The Government messaging around Covid-19 is becoming increasingly confusing, as this hilarious Twitter thread shows [HT to Newsroom]. Although I have a really strong aversion to authoritarian tendencies, I’m not a rule-breaker by nature. However, when understanding and following the rules around Covid-19 becomes 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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A lot has happened in the past half week with covid in New Zealand. I've barely kept up, relying on social media and news headlines while I've been distracted by other things. The main message I've had has been fairly chaotic with an undertone of…
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The Government on the whole has until now, done an excellent job of dealing with covid. The results in both fighting covid and economically, speak for themselves. Especially compared with the clusterfucks in most Western countries. I've had a bit of experience in planning, training…
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News that the head of Waikato's Mongrel Mob chapter was given an essential workers exemption to travel to and around Auckland recently has attracted derision from the usual quarters. Jason Walls reported this in the Herald: Newstalk ZB can reveal the [essential worker's] exemption was…
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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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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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While the agreement between the 19th Century anglophone maritime powers the US and the UK to admit Australia to the exclusive nuclear submarine club gained all the headlines, another much more significant and imminent agreement was reached between the US and Australian governments on expanding…
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Covid-19 is sucking up a lot of oxygen of Government and of the NZ public. It is hard to think of other things when the number of news cases goes up & down like a yo-yo and in a synchronous way our hopes for relaxing…
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Six weeks into the lockdown and things are delicately poised. The lockdown is holding the virus but it has not gone away. We are doing better than New South Wales and Victoria but a more gradual increase in numbers is not a desirable outcome. Vaccinations…
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned not only as Premier but also from the New South Wales Parliament. She was something of a go to politician for Mike Hosking, desperately seeking for a right wing version of Jacinda Ardern who he could hold…
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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 …