Open Mike 03/11/2018
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Daily Review 02/11/2018
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KiwiBuild doesn’t fly.
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
Extinction Rebellion
In the United Kingdom, Extinction Rebellion, a new mass direct-action group modeled on Occupy, has emerged with the goal of forcing the Government to take urgent action on climate change.
Open Mike 02/11/2018
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Daily Review 01/11/2018
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Labour Party Conference 2018
It’s conference time! The NZ Labour party is into it’s second century and into Government. What can we expect from this weekend’s hui in Dunedin and what policies and positions do Standard readers think need to be pushed?
Getting rid of bitcoin could help save the planet
There is a rather simple way for the world to do something significant about climate change and global warming. All that we have to do is work out how to get rid of bitcoin.
Open Mike 01/11/2018
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Daily Review 31/10/2018
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Our rail revival
Yesterday the government announced that it was reversing the previous government’s decision to kill off the electric trains. The decision is one of many recently made that suggests that the future of rail is bright.
What is up with National?
National appears to be rattled and introverted right now. Is the continuing saga involving Jami-Lee Ross the cause?
Open Mike 31/10/2018
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National’s very bad day in the house
National had a spectacularly bad day today in Parliament.
Daily Review 30/10/2018
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Brazil, Brexit, Trump…with more to come.
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
National’s Judith problem
Judith Collins has landed herself in trouble for publicising details of a young couple who just bought a Kiwibuild home.
National badly wants Kiwibuild to crash
National is complaining that Labour is not solving the National imposed housing crisis quickly enough.
Open Mike 30/10/2018
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Daily Review 29/10/2018
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Brazil turns right
Brazil has elected as its next President a 63-year-old former paratrooper who built his campaign around pledges to crush corruption, crime and a supposed communist threat.
Media Thriving on its Own Shit.
When purveyors of propaganda come to believe their own spin and start entertaining really quite idiotic conspiracy theories and abandoning any pretense of being in possession of rational thought, then we’ve got a problem.
Open Mike 29/10/2018
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Democracy and peace in the USA
In the land of the free and the brave there is news of voting machines changing votes from Democrat to Republican candidates, mass stripping of voting rights and closing of voting booths in Democrat areas, and right wing extreme violence caused by escalating rhetoric from the POTUS.
An Ineffectual Opposition Is Bad News
An ineffectual Opposition creates a vacuum that will be filled by the Mainstream and Social Media as they will assume the role of unelected and non-representative opposition in effectuo.
Open Mike 28/10/2018
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Eye of the storm
Simon Bridges thinks that he is past trouble caused by the Jami-Lee Ross incident. But the way things are developing he may be in the middle of things.
Open Mike 27/10/2018
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Daily Review 26/10/2018
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Green Growth
Shade it any colour you like…
Open Mike 26/10/2018
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Lime Sour
Lime scooters are this year’s finger spinner. The problem is that unlike last year’s must have toy, e-scooters are a public menace.
Daily Review 25/10/2018
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Ross saga quiescent, but donations scandal needs addressing
The Jami-Lee Ross scandal may have quietened down but issues raised by his explosive tape recording of Simon Bridges still need addressing. Does the $100k Zhang Yikun donation suggest we are going down the US track and, if so, what needs to be done about that
Power and Knowledge.
We say that knowledge is power…
Duped?
Were you just taken for a ride?