You won’t believe this Herald hack’s hilarious homophobia!
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Date published: 7:35 am, November 13th, 2015 - 87 comments
Really Fran?
Open mike 13/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 47 comments
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Making the Opposition the Enemy –
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Date published: 1:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 18 comments
It takes fortitude to admit you are wrong. That’s right, not weakness but, strength, courage, resilience, grit, determination, endurance, guts, and staying power. When you won’t admit you are wrong you end up having to justify wrong decisions. That takes time and energy (and money) away from what actually needs to be done for the greater good. John Key won’t admit he is wrong. Because of this he has to keep going down several paths of “wrongness”, and because he is Prime MInister, he is taking us all with him. Some people think he does admit he made mistakes. But when you examine the few instances closer (if you can find them), it looks like something else.
Daily Review 12/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 18 comments
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 …
Social media disasters – Paula Bennett tweets
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Date published: 2:30 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 27 comments
The first of what may be an ongoing series of posts where social media interaction by Politicians ends in disaster.
When survivors speak out
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Date published: 2:00 pm, November 12th, 2015 - 45 comments
Previously posted at Boots Theory. Content note: discussion of sexual violence and the experience of survivors. Yesterday I did a round-up of the women’s voices on Twitter talking about recent events in Parliament, where women MPs from the Opposition, many of them survivors of sexual violence, were thrown out of the House for taking exception […]
EPA to be gutted – for doing its job
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Date published: 10:40 am, November 12th, 2015 - 24 comments
Looks like National is planning to take over the Environmental Protection Agency.
Who would James Bond vote for?
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Date published: 10:00 am, November 12th, 2015 - 28 comments
Ad poses the theoretical question of which political party the current James Bond would support.
There are no kiwi rapists on Christmas Island
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Date published: 8:23 am, November 12th, 2015 - 169 comments
John Key’s claim that Labour and Greens support the rapists on Christmas Island has struck a snag. There are none. And the brave action of progressive women MPs talking publicly about the sexual abuse they have suffered has shown how morally bankrupt Key’s politics are.
International shame – again
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Date published: 7:34 am, November 12th, 2015 - 64 comments
Key and Carter have brought NZ international shame yet again. Males in a position of power using rape as a cheap political tactic and then punishing women for speaking up. Brighter Future.
Open mike 12/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 12th, 2015 - 143 comments
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Daily Review 11/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 11th, 2015 - 85 comments
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Great political quotes of history – the Key version
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Date published: 2:31 pm, November 11th, 2015 - 28 comments
Newsworthy imagines famous political quotes – as Key might have said them. Perhaps Standardistas can add some more…
New Zealand needs a new Speaker
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Date published: 12:00 pm, November 11th, 2015 - 85 comments
David Carter’s refusal to rule John Key’s “backing the rapists” comment out of order raises issues about his ability to properly do the job of speaker.
Human Rights, Psychos and Opposition
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Date published: 11:08 am, November 11th, 2015 - 92 comments
New Zealand’s bloody awful parliamentary debacle.
No Friends: The One about Rachel
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Date published: 10:51 am, November 11th, 2015 - 21 comments
The latest celebrity gossip is that pseudo journalist Rachel Glucina’s naff website Scout is about to do the walk of shame. Karma’s a truly wonderful thing.
Joining the dots
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Date published: 7:04 am, November 11th, 2015 - 90 comments
Was Key’s “outburst” in Parliament yesterday an outburst, or was it a strategy?
Open mike 11/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 11th, 2015 - 119 comments
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Serial fondler accuses Labour of “backing rapists”
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Date published: 4:10 pm, November 10th, 2015 - 214 comments
Serial fondler of young persons’ hair and celebrity PM impersonator John Key lost it in Parliament today.
The Christmas Island riots
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Date published: 2:18 pm, November 10th, 2015 - 99 comments
The barbaric treatment of New Zealand citizens by the Australian Government ought to attract condemnation and urgent diplomatic representations. But nothing is happening. Surely this is a time that John Key should get some guts. But instead of this he has accused the opposition of supporting rapists. Updated with video from Question one in Parliament today.
There is Hope.
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Date published: 9:00 am, November 10th, 2015 - 65 comments
Anarchism, past and present.
Maori Television’s receptionists
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Date published: 8:07 am, November 10th, 2015 - 18 comments
Two liked and respected receptionists at Maori Television have lost their jobs because they are not fluent in Te Reo. But half of the executive are also not fluent speakers yet they retain their jobs.
Inequality is a choice
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Date published: 7:10 am, November 10th, 2015 - 65 comments
Inequality is a choice. It isn’t a choice made by individuals, it is a choice made by governments. Check out Joseph Stiglitz’s new book Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity.
Open mike 10/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, November 10th, 2015 - 88 comments
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While we are at it – let’s try to save the planet
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Date published: 12:32 am, November 10th, 2015 - 49 comments
Can’t be many more important campaigns than saving the planet right? Only people power will change the current economic levers which are designed to burn burn burn. We have the chance to join with others around the world ahead of the climate talks in Paris to send a strong message to our Government that we […]
Daily Review 09/11/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 40 comments
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Minister declined to comment…
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Date published: 2:59 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 9 comments
Isn’t it amazing how many Ministers can’t wait to front up to the media when they are selling. But when it comes to after sale service they just don’t want to front?
Labour, identity, class and winning
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Date published: 2:00 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 54 comments
The question of identity politics and Labour’s direction just never go away. But maybe we’re just thinking about it all wrong.
Kelvin Davis on Christmas Island
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Date published: 1:00 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 45 comments
Kelvin Davis showed this video to the Labour Party conference on the weekend. Following news of the riot it has become a must watch.
The cost of cancer
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Date published: 12:55 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 39 comments
When people are turning in these numbers to crowd-funding for treatment something is seriously, seriously wrong.
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