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Open mike 14/08/2015
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Daily Review 13/08/2015
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Climate change – New Zealand not even a fast follower
Remember climate change, that almost irreversible process that is already causing havoc to the planet and will eventually make most of the planet uninhabitable? Originally New Zealand wanted to be a leader in the area and Helen Clark set an aspirational goal that New Zealand…
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TPPA Protests this week – Its our future
Details of local activity this weekend can be found on the Its Our Future website.
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David Seymour is a Puppet
Bruce Robertson and Key have played Seymour like a Puppet. It's like this was all ready to go. Just needed the right person and the right time. And what better day than a day when Westpac again issues a warning about the predictable downturn in…
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Open mike 13/08/2015
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Corbyn and the Overton Window
A recent YouGov poll in the Times predicts Jeremy Corbyn will win the UK Labour leadership on first preferences alone. If he does win, Corbyn will shift the "Overton Window" of acceptable ideas leftward but will face formidable opposition. We went to hear Jeremy Corbyn in…
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Daily Review 12/08/2015
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Andrew Little on climate change
Always a topic for robust discussion here at The Standard - here's part of a speech the Labour Leader gave to the Environmental Defence Society conference today. Let’s start with climate change. It’s happening, it will get worse before it gets better, and it demands…
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Labour did it too
Tautoko Mangō Mata has discovered the words to a mystery song buried deep in a Crosby Textor staff manual. Verse 1 If the Public have uncovered A shonky deal we made We bring out Teflon John and the full snake-oil brigade with echo chamber Hoskings…
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Free beer for all
As part of the right's never ending pursuit of confusion and diversion we have a proposal surface recently to address what they obviously think is the country's most pressing problem. Not falling income from Dairy exports, not child poverty or increasing unemployment, not the failure…
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#Sheepgate and the war of metaphor
Jonathan Freeland in the Guardian recently offered an opinion on why Labour lost the UK election earlier this year. He said this: Long before Labour lost the election, it lost the war of metaphor. The origins of the defeat go back at least to the long…
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Open mike 12/08/2015
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Daily Review 11/08/2015
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Sunshine Coast holiday a life changing experience for our Children
Recently while on Holiday in a very sunny spot, without children of my own, several sets of parents explained to me that although they had taken the children out of school, it was a good opportunity for the children to experience a different way of…
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Open mike 11/08/2015
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Daily Review 10/08/2015
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“A new union to fight for the future of work”
The two largest Labour Party affiliated unions are going to merge. From the EPMU website: Members of two of the biggest private sector unions in New Zealand have voted in favour of a merger. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, with over 30,000 members, and…
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Colin Craig’s electoral return
Seems Colin may have more legal issues to deal with. From 3News: Colin Craig is under fire for allegedly omitting election expenses on his 2014 electoral return that would have put him over the permitted spending cap. The former Conservative Party leader is being accused…
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#Talleyban. Standard Exclusive: MWU Blacklisted by Boss
Today’s strike and rally by 1000 members of the Meat Workers Union at AFFCO plants has been called off. This came about after a meeting yesterday with MWU AFFCO Shed Delegates and Andrew Talley, organised by Iwi leaders, Tuku Morgan and Ken Mair. No agreements…
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Jon Stewart – Bullsh$t is everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqmtjlSxA_g "The best defence against bullshit is vigilance so if you smell something, say something".
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Open mike 10/08/2015
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Zero by 50
To have any chance of avoiding very dangerous levels of global warming and the climate change that rides shot gun on the warming, the world must be burning absolutely no fossil fuels by, at the latest, 2050. In a world that cannot burn fossil fuels, there…
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National’s terrible deal making
(Graphic from Lamia) We are well into this National Government's third term and the weaknesses are now very clear. John Key's reputation as a formidable wheeler dealer deal maker is clearly mythological rather than real. And a series of deals have been completed based entirely on…
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Open mike 09/08/2015
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Amy Adams is confused about Judicial appointments
This week something notable and overdue occurred in the Courts of New Zealand. The first all women Court of Appeal bench presided over a case. Amy Adams posted the following tweet to celebrate this event. https://twitter.com/amyadamsMP/status/629466565738500096 But I am not sure that Finlayson deserves the praise Adams…
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250 to 300 Job Losses at Unitec in Auckland
Unitec is resturcturing. Again. This is the third restructure in 15 years. Ok, they are not farmers. But of 1100 staff between 250 and 300 of them are losing jobs. That is a lot. This government is shrinking funding and directing tertiaries that if they…
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Open mike 08/08/2015
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Daily Review 07/08/2015
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John Key’s brighter future
That was two weeks ago. Then today this happened. https://twitter.com/Fonterra/status/629493691456069632
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