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https://twitter.com/auc_nz/status/1501802115173580800 https://twitter.com/BenUffindell/status/1501792516764749831 Meanwhile, Green Party MP Chloe Swarbrick's ten minute speech during the debate on Budget Policy Statement on Wednesday laid out contemporary, beyond neoliberalism positions. Full transcript here, snippets below. https://vimeo.com/686123528 This is not an unusual speech by Swarbrick, she says things like this…
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National/Act (47%) would beat Labour/Greens (46%) if there were an election held tomorrow, according to the latest One News Kantar poll. Sure, these things go up and down like a … well you know what they go up and down like. Greens at 9% appear…
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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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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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For so called economic geniuses National sure struggles to understand how to properly cost fiscal policy. Who can ever forget the 2017 election campaign and serial economics paper failer Steven Joyce's claim that there was an $11.7 billion hole in Labour’s fiscals. Even though pretty…
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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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@lottiehistory, a "history PhD student looking at the political silencing and shaming of women by men", wrote this twitter thread recently on the work women have done to participate in sport. Some snippets, here's some female sporting heroes who challenged the male domination of sport, making…
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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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National has reverted to type and in a predictable policy response to just about any problem it sees has promised tax cuts. Yesterday in his state of the nation speech Chris Luxon promised to reverse Labour's regional fuel tax, the proposed light rail tax, the…
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An organisation has been set up with the blessing of the Ukraine government to bring in volunteer fighters from across the world to fight in Ukraine against Russia. Apparently it has 16,000 volunteers from across the globe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WsIkf30Vok About 90 years ago, large contingents of…
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One of Vladimir Putin's objectives in the Russian incursion into Ukraine was to "denazify Ukraine." With the breakdown in the agreement to allow a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, this task will be much harder and the terrorist toll much higher. Once Russia has succeeded…
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Remember when Chris Luxon joined all other leaders and state that National would not meet with the protesters until they stopped trespassing and making threats? It appears that things are not as black and white as he presented. On February 15, 2022 Radio New Zealand…
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Day 3 Front page photo from RNZ, In photos: Removing the debris of a protest that ended in chaos Clashes a catalysing moment for NZ’s fringe (Marc Daalder, Newsroom) Parliament protest aftermath: Police enter 'significant investigation phase' (RNZ) PM Jacinda Ardern on violence outside Parliament: 'We will…
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New Zealand’s time as high end ingredients producer to the world has arrived. But it has big costs. While we started off at just over $2 a kilo for milk solids a decade ago, by 2019 we were at $7, and even before the war…
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Martin Luther King once said “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for…
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Day 2 Front page photo from RNZ, In photos: Removing the debris of a protest that ended in chaos Clashes a catalysing moment for NZ’s fringe (Marc Daalder, Newsroom) Parliament protest aftermath: Police enter 'significant investigation phase' (RNZ) PM Jacinda Ardern on violence outside Parliament: 'We will…
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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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Day 24 Live coverage from yesterday Stuff RNZ The Spinoff https://twitter.com/Te_Taipo https://twitter.com/sanjanah https://twitter.com/spider_hoof https://twitter.com/nzpolice
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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 Russian armed forces obviously didn't expect much resistance. I get the distinct impression that they had believed their own ridiculous propaganda (always a characteristic of dumb-arse dictatorships) and expected the Ukrainians to fall weeping in gratitude at their liberation. That clearly didn't happen. So…