Voices of Aleppo.

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Date published: 10:22 am, December 31st, 2016 - 172 comments

Ordinary Syrian people on Aleppo.

The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016

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The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016.

Open Mike 31/12/2016

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Obama’s last days

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Barak Obama is using the last few days of his presidency to do some quite radical stuff.

The ten most commented on posts of 2016

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The list of the top ten commented on posts for 2016.

Open Mike 30/12/2016

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Open Mike 29/12/2016

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Netanyahu accuses New Zealand of committing a declaration of war

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Date published: 1:49 pm, December 28th, 2016 - 126 comments

Israeli Prime Mininster Benjamin Netanyahu told Murray McCully that New Zealand supporting the rights of Palestinians in the homeland areas would be regarded as a declaration of war.

Open Mike 28/12/2016

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Pauline Hanson declares jihad on Vegemite

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Date published: 12:59 pm, December 27th, 2016 - 37 comments

Pauline Hanson is upset that vegemite has achieved Halaal status.

Israel threatens sanctions against New Zealand

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Date published: 10:31 am, December 27th, 2016 - 132 comments

Israel has responded to New Zealand’s principled stand in seeking to uphold the rights of Palestinian citizens by threatening sanctions.

Open Mike 27/12/2016

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Facebook, fake news and Donald Trump’s election

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Date published: 9:33 am, December 26th, 2016 - 72 comments

Donald Trump’s success in the recent Presidential Election may have had a lot to do with very judicious use of targeted Facebook advertising and the proliferation of fake news stories.

Open Mike 26/12/2016

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The Essential Forest-Gardener – in the end…

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Robert Guyton concludes his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.

I have an idea

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Advantage muses on the meaning of Christmas and how our response to it says a lot about who we are.

Open Mike 25/12/2016

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Well done Murray McCully

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Date published: 7:48 pm, December 24th, 2016 - 287 comments

Murray McCully has had New Zealand co sponsor a successful Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violating International Law through its resettlement policy.

Open Mike 24/12/2016

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Caption contest

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Keep it seemly …

Reason #3751 progressives should oppose Donald Trump presidency

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Date published: 8:09 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 26 comments

President Donald Trump reckons that the US must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability to make the world come to its senses regarding nukes.

Briefing Papers: And so this is Christmas…

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Date published: 6:10 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 107 comments

Alicia Sudden reflects on Christmas at The Briefing Papers: “Yet this brief annual window excludes the elephant in the room: that this poverty is a consequence of our welfare system failing to provide the support it was intended to.”

Open Mike 23/12/2016

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Keep it in the ground

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In the last days of the Obama presidency the current President is taking steps to protect the Arctic from oil drilling.

Open Mike 22/12/2016

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Nats take a plunge on the Roy Morgan roundabout

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Date published: 4:27 pm, December 21st, 2016 - 128 comments

The erratic Roy Morgan poll has swung around again, Nats down 4.5% to 45% and Labour/ Greens up up 5.5% to 43%. Worryingly for the B-team, government confidence fell a “whopping” 10 points.

Rudman on Nats’ total housing fail

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Date published: 10:24 am, December 21st, 2016 - 196 comments

Rudman: “The Prime Minister, in his role in charge of Housing New Zealand, and Smith have spectacularly failed to solve Auckland’s housing crisis over several years.”

Open Mike 21/12/2016

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Of Leaks and Hacks

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Date published: 3:23 pm, December 20th, 2016 - 24 comments

Maybe the Russians weren’t coming. Or we must believe that “KGB chief Vladimir Putin put Inspector Clouseau in charge of Russian security and left him to get on with it.” George Washington discusses the evidence. Fodder for the net-savvy

Question…

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Date published: 11:06 am, December 20th, 2016 - 84 comments

On Aleppo.

Steven Joyce rewrites history

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Date published: 8:53 am, December 20th, 2016 - 62 comments

Steven Joyce believes that doing something is the same as not doing something.

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