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This Tuesday Nicky Hager is releasing a new book. No details have been given yet but I suspect that it will investigate Taxpayer's Union and other Astroturf organisations. And the TPU (or should that be TP Ltd) is worried. A book about the TPU has…
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National's obsession with doing whatever it can to increase the emissions of greenhouse gasses is becoming a real problem. At the beginninng of this year, National came up with a bonkers idea. In the midst of a climate crisis and faced with the need to…
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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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No. They're not right wing either. People are trying to fit them into L/R boxes, but they don't fit. They're progressive centrists of the like we haven't seen before, orthogonal1 to the traditional Left/Right spectrum. This is not the centrism of Peters or Dunne. Some…
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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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In what appears to be a really rushed move National came out yesterday and proposed the compulsory carve up of Foodstuffs. From Radio New Zealand: National has made a supermarket break-up a key part of its election pitch, proposing to sever Pak'nSave from New World…
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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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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 NZ Initiative, who gave us neoliberalism, says we need to buy four to keep one at sea. Just Defence says there are a lot better uses for the money. I'm with them. The Initiative's report is compiled by a retired Army Major-General, and is…
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Kiwisaver is the most personally consequential long term policy this election. We need to do a side-by-side of the Labour and National policies. This is what’s happening right now: 1. You contribute a minimum of 3.5% of your before-tax pay. You can put up to 6%…
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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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In the United Kingdom a huge scandal has erupted that will hopefully result in Nigel Farage, the UK equivalent of a Winston Peters David Seymour cross, being consigned to the distbins of history. Fresh from an unconvincing win over an opposition candidate whose main feature…
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We are witnessing a full-scale trade war between Canada and the United States and there’s every sign it will get much, much worse. Earlier this week Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered his address to the nation from inside a prefabricated housing factory, using the industrial…
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