A bit of a hit
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Date published: 1:24 pm, July 26th, 2018 - 12 comments
Not everything can be attributed to climate change. But we’re in for a bit of a hit.
Redeveloping Public Housing
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Date published: 8:07 am, July 26th, 2018 - 116 comments
The Government is getting ready to battle the most rapacious economic force in this country, real estate capitalism, for the good of people.
Open Mike 26/07/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 26th, 2018 - 89 comments
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Daily Review 25/07/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 25th, 2018 - 17 comments
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Hate Speech Coalition Cans Canadian’s Crusade
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Date published: 2:02 pm, July 25th, 2018 - 102 comments
BREAKING NEWS:
Alt Reich hate speech tour CANCELLED
Sanctions for beneficiary bashers
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 25th, 2018 - 76 comments
Simon Bridges, who is clearly struggling for relevance, has decided to try and improve his political position by bashing beneficiaries.
Open Mike 25/07/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 25th, 2018 - 114 comments
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Трамп; проследить за деньгами!
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Date published: 6:30 pm, July 24th, 2018 - 93 comments
Is Donald Trump’s grovelling to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki proof that he is some how fatally compromised or even a long term Russian intelligence asset? There seems to be growing suspicion that it’s Moscow gold not golden showers that’s at the heart of the American President’s Putin problem.
Daily Review 24/07/2018
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Date published: 5:34 pm, July 24th, 2018 - 10 comments
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A right, Left problem
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Date published: 1:17 pm, July 24th, 2018 - 78 comments
A post suggesting that the traditional descriptive lens of “left and right” isn’t up to capturing current political realities.
Brexiting the EU
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Date published: 7:57 am, July 24th, 2018 - 75 comments
In the United Kingdom Theresa May is facing a confidence threatening Brexit crisis, the organisers of the Vote Leave campaign are facing prosecution, and an opinion poll suggests that a significant proportion of the electorate are willing to shift right to achieve a hard Brexit.
Open Mike 24/07/2018
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2018 - 87 comments
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Daily Review 23/07/2018
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Date published: 5:29 pm, July 23rd, 2018 - 31 comments
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Helen Kelly: Together
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Date published: 10:06 am, July 23rd, 2018 - 7 comments
In 2015 Helen Kelly agreed to let documentary maker Tony Sutorius – the award winning director of Campaign – into her life to document her last year of activism. The result is Helen Kelly: Together – a stunning affirmation of both her dedication to justice, and her friendships with those she fought alongside.
Scrap the spending cap
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Date published: 8:45 am, July 23rd, 2018 - 152 comments
Economist Ganesh Nana and Alan Johnson from the Salvation Army have urged the Government to relax the fiscal straight jacket imposed by its budget responsibility rules.
Open Mike 23/07/2018
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Date published: 5:54 am, July 23rd, 2018 - 119 comments
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The UN is shocked by NZ’s child poverty rates
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Date published: 11:40 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 89 comments
Earlier this year the United Nations expressed shock and concern at New Zealand’s rates of child poverty, homelessness, incarceration and violence. What is this Government doing to address these issues?
Julian Assange; Journey’s End?
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Date published: 10:14 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 165 comments
Is Julian Assange about to be arrested? Equador looks set to evict the accused rapist and capitalist tool from its London embassy.
Government with a plan
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 46 comments
The polls are great. Top work. But I’m getting worried about the entropy of this government already. Matthew Hooten and Karl Marx agree with me.
Open Mike 22/07/2018
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Date published: 5:54 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 171 comments
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My Little Eye…
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Date published: 10:28 am, July 21st, 2018 - 17 comments
Something beginning with…wtf?!
Open Mike 21/07/2018
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Date published: 5:53 am, July 21st, 2018 - 94 comments
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Daily Review 20/07/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 20th, 2018 - 16 comments
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Alt Reich Speakers get Visas; still lack Empathy, Compassion and Humanity
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Date published: 12:16 pm, July 20th, 2018 - 132 comments
Two Canadian far right bigots have been granted visas to visit NZ. Let’s make them wish they’d never left Canada, eh.
Is Matthew Hooton becoming a socialist?
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Date published: 8:38 am, July 20th, 2018 - 41 comments
Occasional Standard reader Matthew Hooton has written a cogent column on industrial relations in which he realises and accepts that wages for ordinary workers are too low.
Open Mike 20/07/2018
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Date published: 5:53 am, July 20th, 2018 - 124 comments
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Daily Review 19/07/2018
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 19th, 2018 - 30 comments
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Duck Futton
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Date published: 4:59 pm, July 19th, 2018 - 46 comments
The Australians are upset with Andrew Little expressing concern about their inhumane treatment of some Kiwis living in Australia and are throwing Donald Trump type tantrums to show their displeasure.
Happy birthday Nelson Mandela
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Date published: 12:49 pm, July 19th, 2018 - 43 comments
It is Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. Happy birthday to him. If he was alive today he would be 100 years old.
Glenn Greenwald on…
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Date published: 11:53 am, July 19th, 2018 - 113 comments
Excerpts from Glenn Greenwald speaking on Democracy Now! (h/t Adrian Thornton)
What has happened to Simon Bridges?
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Date published: 8:40 am, July 19th, 2018 - 42 comments
You would think that while Jacinda Ardern takes time out to properly introduce baby Neve to the world opposition leader Simon Bridges would be striding throughout the country like a colossus and really make a name for himself. But of late he has been rather invisible.
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