Open mike 21/06/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2015 - 74 comments

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Edwards on politics and the media

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Date published: 9:36 am, June 20th, 2015 - 21 comments

It won’t come as a surprise to any Standardista, but it’s good to see Brent Edwards being up front about some of the systemic problems in politics and the media.

The NRA is a terrorist organisation

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Date published: 8:50 am, June 20th, 2015 - 106 comments

In the land of the free and the brave the NRA is trying to say that the way to stop incidents such as the Charleston Church massacre is to have more guns.  And the right are trying to dispute the reality that the incident was caused by racism.

National running short of coalition partners

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Date published: 8:17 am, June 20th, 2015 - 14 comments

There’s a lot of chatter about the Conservative Party at the moment, but the Nats are the only ones who have a reason to care.

Open mike 20/06/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 20th, 2015 - 52 comments

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Daily Review 19/06/2015 #CampbellLives

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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 26 comments

Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.

Caption competition

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Date published: 3:01 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 108 comments

smith-williamson-road

Curtains for Colin Craig’s career?

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Date published: 2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 40 comments

The Conservatives have called a press conference this afternoon and it appears that Colin Craig’s tenure as leader may be terminated.  But will he be back?

National muppets

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Date published: 2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 23 comments

It’s not what you think…

Iain Lees-Galloway: how many meathooks to the head will it take?

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Date published: 12:00 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 22 comments

Some strong stuff from Labour’s spokesperson for Labour, Iain Lees-Galloway, in Question Time yesterday.

More Nat infighting

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Date published: 10:57 am, June 19th, 2015 - 24 comments

Williamson lashes out at Bridges. The Nats would usually prefer to handle this sort of conflict behind behind closed doors.

Bridges scandal

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Date published: 9:27 am, June 19th, 2015 - 22 comments

Another Nat scandal to add to the list. Rob Salmond demolishes Bridges.

Keep on rocking in the free world

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Date published: 8:19 am, June 19th, 2015 - 25 comments

Donald Trump has attracted adverse comment for using Neil Young’s song “keep on rocking in the free world” during his campaign launch.  There are a number of other examples, both local and in the US, where right wing candidates have misappropriated progressive musicians’ music for campaign purposes.

Open mike 19/06/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2015 - 72 comments

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Enter Sandman

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Date published: 6:57 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 52 comments

Nathan Guy reckons he knows what killed hundreds of kiwi taxpayer funded lambs in the dodgy Saudi Arabian model farm. Believe it or not, this time it’s not Labour! No, it’s the Sanding of the Lambs.

Daily Review 18/06/2015 #CampbellLives

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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 53 comments

Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas 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.

Bye Colin?

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Date published: 6:22 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 35 comments

According to 3 News Colin Craig is to be rolled as leader of the Conservatives. Hard to imagine, as Colin Craig is the Conservatives.

Rachel Glucina leaves Herald and joins Mediaworks

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Date published: 5:38 pm, June 18th, 2015 - 27 comments

Rachel Glucina is off to Mediaworks to run a new digital entertainment platform.

A partial list of current scandals

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Date published: 9:01 am, June 18th, 2015 - 64 comments

For those of you who are keeping score at home.

BuzzFeed?

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Date published: 8:31 am, June 18th, 2015 - 20 comments

stuffed

#Sheepgate the cabinet papers

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Date published: 8:26 am, June 18th, 2015 - 18 comments

The Sheepgate cabinet papers have now been released and show no sign of a legal dispute between the Saudi Sheep farmer and the Government, let alone one that required a payment of $4 million dollars.  And there are concerning reports that three quarters of the ewes on the “model farm” have died.

Open mike 18/06/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2015 - 155 comments

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Scary programmer

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Date published: 3:35 am, June 18th, 2015 - 17 comments

As some of you will be aware, I’m a dedicated computer programmer. So the Underhanded C Contest is just fun. That is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil. This years winner really takes the cake on that.

 

Daily Review 17/06/2015

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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 29 comments

Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives.  Daily review is also your post.  This provides Standarnistas 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.

National to extinguish private property rights!

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Date published: 3:23 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 41 comments

Shocking news I think you’ll agree.

Southern DHB sacked

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Date published: 12:36 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 53 comments

Southern DHB sacked – scapegoats for systematic underfunding of the health sector.

Then they came for the cartoonists

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Date published: 11:34 am, June 17th, 2015 - 59 comments

More bad news about our media.

The death of trickle down economics and the mess we’re in

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Date published: 7:11 am, June 17th, 2015 - 139 comments

Trickle down economics is pronounced dead by the IMF. Housing, the working poor and the economy – the policy settings are wrong everywhere.

Open mike 17/06/2015

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Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2015 - 109 comments

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Daily Review 16/06/2015 #CampbellLives

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Date published: 6:30 pm, June 16th, 2015 - 18 comments

Slightly redesigned in support of #CampbellLives.  Daily review is also your post.  This provides Standarnistas 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.

Pope Francis on Climate Change

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Date published: 1:07 pm, June 16th, 2015 - 66 comments

No beating about the bush.

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