A little bit of understanding can go a long way …
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Date published: 11:09 am, August 19th, 2021 - 18 comments
Our online Persona is not us, but just a mask.
Open mike 19/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 19th, 2021 - 186 comments
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Daily review 18/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 18th, 2021 - 27 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 …
Here again, but Delta gives less latitude. So give less latitude.
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Date published: 8:57 am, August 18th, 2021 - 31 comments
We’re back in a Covid-19 lock down. Until we get to a very high level of vaccinations >80-90%, something that no state has yet achieved, this is our only realistic defence against outbreaks. Delta is way more infectious than previous variants. It infects the vaccinated to act as spreaders. Don’t know about anyone else. But this time I intend to exert my right to give less social latitude to idiots.
The importance of political leadership in dealing with Covid
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Date published: 8:55 am, August 18th, 2021 - 66 comments
Political leadership in the time of Covid is important. As the Government urgently swung into action and imposed a level 4 lockdown after news of a community case of Delta Covid who lived in Auckland and had spent time in Coromandel while infectious, Thames-Coromandel District Mayor and former National MP Sandra Goudie admitted to not scanning regularly.
Open mike 18/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 18th, 2021 - 84 comments
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Daily review 17/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 17th, 2021 - 40 comments
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The strange story about the fake news poll results
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Date published: 8:21 am, August 17th, 2021 - 52 comments
The Politik website’s inadvertant publishing of fake news of a drop in Labour’s support shows how fragile the system of relying on two sources for a story is.
Open mike 17/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 17th, 2021 - 119 comments
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Daily review 16/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 16th, 2021 - 14 comments
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Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
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Date published: 10:38 am, August 16th, 2021 - 66 comments
What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.
The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
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Date published: 6:30 am, August 16th, 2021 - 140 comments
President Biden is about to get a Jimmy Carter-scale shellacking with tv footage coming of Afghani Taleban going through Kabul and in short days rifling through the U.S. Embassy as they finally take over the entire country. You don’t win re-election with defeats and withdrawals, and you won’t be thanked for it in the mid-term Senatorial races either.
Open mike 16/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 16th, 2021 - 41 comments
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Bowker may be a dick but he has not breached the draft hate speech legislation
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Date published: 10:49 am, August 15th, 2021 - 42 comments
Troy Bowker has bowled out of Hurricanes Rugby but has claimed free speech martyrdom after the response to his well publicised criticism of the word “Aotearoa”. But his claims of martyrdom like his recent attacks on lefties would appear to be hopelessly overbaked.
The latest battle in the culture wars
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Date published: 8:49 am, August 15th, 2021 - 79 comments
This week National agreed to the bill allowing gender self identification to proceed to select committee which was a stark contrast to their position on the bill banning gay conversion therapy. I wonder what happened?
Open mike 15/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 15th, 2021 - 55 comments
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Open mike 14/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 14th, 2021 - 67 comments
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Daily review 13/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 13th, 2021 - 21 comments
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Down With Farmer Bashing
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 13th, 2021 - 126 comments
A Guest Post by DB Brown on how and why regenerative stock grazing matters ecologically, and where best to place our anger about climate change.
Open mike 13/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 13th, 2021 - 36 comments
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Daily review 12/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 12th, 2021 - 10 comments
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Covid-19 and the risk-based border plan
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Date published: 10:58 am, August 12th, 2021 - 93 comments
Details on the government’s plan for New Zealand’s borders, and the Delta variant of Covid.
The Churchill picture
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Date published: 8:13 am, August 12th, 2021 - 165 comments
National, the party that claims to be focussed on the issues that matter decided to get upset when the Greens requested the replacement of a picture of a former UK leader who had a reputation for engaging in crimes against humanity.
We are stuck
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Date published: 7:13 am, August 12th, 2021 - 45 comments
New Zealand has one of the most concentrated and oligopolistic economies in the world, and also one of the least commercially protected societies. Will we ever be able to break out of it? If you look across our society, it is the relationships of less than 20 main companies with our government that form a […]
Open mike 12/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 12th, 2021 - 81 comments
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Daily review 11/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 11th, 2021 - 12 comments
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Open mike 11/08/2021
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 11th, 2021 - 79 comments
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Daily review 10/08/2021
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 10th, 2021 - 8 comments
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When We Needed Electricity, it Was Shut Off
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Date published: 1:49 pm, August 10th, 2021 - 104 comments
Minister Woods and Prime Minister Ardern have been reduced to asking a series of questions about why Transpower got major electricity providers to drastically cut power last night.
Advice from Oz for the anti-China media
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Date published: 11:44 am, August 10th, 2021 - 23 comments
There’s so many of them here – Guyon Espiner, Anna Fifield, Lucy Craymer, Sam Sachdeva, Laura Walters, John Daniell, Emile Donovan, Paula Penfold, reef fish with the same few sources. Australian Paul Strutynski provides the textbook in his “Guide for budding foreign policy journalists wanting to work for the Nine Network or Newscorp.”
Ways out of the climate catastrophe
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Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2021 - 130 comments
As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.
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