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Ever imagine what a bull elephant's penis looks like? Well wonder no more. Biologists kicked off a #junkoff today with this challenge. I'm afraid that most of the 'junk' here is male - because that gender tends to be the showoffs? https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/636346360825008128 https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/636368058085457920 Man, how…
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Even Tracy Watkins has joined the chorus of ridicule on National's health and safety mess: National's health and safety legislation its lightbulb moment It no longer matters whether it is true or not that school playgrounds will have to close thanks to the Government's health…
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Apparently we're in another crisis. Both the left and the right often use capitalism's regular crises to legitimize political changes. (That's politics). With enough crisis-borne anxiety within a population, politicians can gain as much power as they want. And they do. Many political movements will…
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National are really losing it on the TPP. On Tuesday a farce unfolded in Parliament: Green Party trade spokesman Russel Norman repeatedly questioned associate Minister of Trade Todd McClay during Parliamentary Question Time yesterday on whether the text of the TPP could be modified once…
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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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FFS it's 2015, not 1915: Jacinda Ardern a 'pretty little thing', would 'look good' as PM - Graham Lowe Former Kiwis and Queensland rugby league coach Graham Lowe has come under fire after describing Labour MP Jacinda Ardern as "a pretty little thing" who would…
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I/S at No Right Turn writes... We can no longer trust Bill English's OIA responses Yesterday in Question Time, Winston Peters accused Finance Minister Bill English of outright lying in the response to an OIA request: “On December 16, 2014 Mr English replied to a…
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Much nonsense is written about polls. People (some of whom really should know better) try to create narratives out of noise. Long term aggregate trends matter, individual polls are just data points. Here's the latest data point: Labour's support recovers to 30s Labour's support has…
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The way that lawmaking should occur is that a bill is introduced, it is sent to a select committee for consideration, submissions from the public and professional bodies are carefully considered, meaningful changes are then made and the bill is then returned to our parliament…
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By Simon Louisson John Key says New Zealand has options in the face of a share market meltdown. The Prime Minister says that New Zealand is not like Greece (well that’s a relief). The question is how real are those options? Enormous debt built up…
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' John Key's National Ltd™ reduced yesterday's Question Time to farce in an effort to pretend that its Whangarei MP, Shane "Bully Boy" Reti, had not been caught out in another lie. This time, Reti lied about the process involved in the ratification of the TPP. In…
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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/S at No Right Turn writes: Climate change: Absolute madness The government has recently set itself a patheticly unambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 11% on 1990 levels by 2030. Meanwhile, they'rehanding out tens of millions of dollars a year to big polluters…
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Another entry in the ongoing story of Steven Joyce's ego-ministry: Steven Joyce justifies cost of $600K government website - The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's new website went live yesterday, and the first media release revealed it cost $599,872 to create it. Just two…
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Hat Tip to Coffee Connoisseur for bringing this article to our attention in Open Mike today. Service hub technology is automating call center and receptionist roles right now and this will increase in pace as more and more switch to connecting with services using…
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For all that I like to point out the multiple failings of "private providers", it is sadly the case that the state doesn't always get social services right either - and historically it has sometimes got it spectacularly wrong. This is a particularly shameful chapter:…
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We live in interesting times. Who would have thought even a few months ago that the price of oil would decline to US $40 a barrel? But it has despite being over $100 a barrel 12 months ago. And reports of an increase amount of oil…
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Every bubble must pop some time. And since GFC 1 the powers that be have been blowing up massive asset price bubbles all over the world. Now it looks like a reversion to mean in the global markets might be on the cards and be…
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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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More bad news for fans of private prisons: Kelvin Davis: 'The whole Serco experiment has failed' A Serco prison guard is under investigation following claims he was involved in a jailhouse fight with a Mt Eden Prison inmate. The Government was forced to take control…
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Jeremy Corbyn has just announced that under a Labour Government, state assets privatised by the Tories might be renationalised, with minimal compensation. I can see a certain Tory Labour "centrist" clique frowning at the 'extremist' audacity Corbyn is engaging in. Clearly the man has no…
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National is being humiliated over its "health" and "safety" bill. Is worm farming dangerous or not? Judith Collins thinks it might be: "I've been assured it's not because of worms turning dangerously; it's actually because of heavy moving equipment and things". John Key goes through…
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Thanks to Swordfish who kindly let me edit and repost his excellent comment from Mike Smith's post "The Centre of Attention". As a prelude I'd like to include an incisive comment made by Sanctuary which to me sums up the situation that Labour strategists like…
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https://twitter.com/JohnJCampbell/status/634831578435203072 In my opinion Dita De Boni (KeepingMum) will be particularly missed. She was (since Tapu Misa quietly disappeared a two years ago) almost the last remaining leftish voice at The Herald. I'm surprised she lasted as long as she did. Would the last journalist…
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In a post on Public Address titled "In defence of the centre" Rob Salmond uses a Guardian article by George Monbiot to pose the question "whether the old political orthodoxy of 'move to the middle' is, long term, a death-knell for left-leaning parties." It's good…
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