Archive for 2020

The light rail delay is good

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:09 am, June 25th, 2020 - 16 comments

There is a solid silver lining to the delay in the Auckland light rail to the airport project.

New Zealand for the win!

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:05 am, June 25th, 2020 - 107 comments

$100,000 a year in capital gains.

Open mike 25/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 25th, 2020 - 131 comments

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Daily review 24/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 24th, 2020 - 71 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 …

We don’t have time for this shit

Written By: weka - Date published: 1:00 pm, June 24th, 2020 - 52 comments

the government can’t agree is a euphemism for NZ First blocking climate action.

We don’t know how lucky we are

Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:59 am, June 24th, 2020 - 32 comments

Looking at the rises in covid-19 infections worldwide is just damn depressing. Looking at the media and Nat supporters, the world, and covid-19 -ll I can say is thank you for the internet. And the kiwis who aren’t listening to the whining about here because they can see the slow disaster unfolding elsewhere with incompetent governments.

National is relentlessly negative about the country’s Covid response

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:03 am, June 24th, 2020 - 95 comments

You would think in the midst of a world pandemic that is threatening established countries everywhere that National would do the responsible thing and work constructively to resolve all of government issues. If you do think this you are wrong.

Open mike 24/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 24th, 2020 - 92 comments

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Daily review 23/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 23rd, 2020 - 47 comments

Humans – doing it to themselves

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:48 am, June 23rd, 2020 - 30 comments

About the only thing that surprised me was that it took so long for a pandemic to really break out into the modern world. Because our evolutionary and recorded history is mainly punctuated and constrained by disease and environmental change. We invented large cities many times in the past and lost them to plague or drought. It looks like we’re going through that phase again – just at a larger level.

Open mike 23/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2020 - 137 comments

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Daily review 22/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:59 pm, June 22nd, 2020 - 43 comments

Open mike 22/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:26 am, June 22nd, 2020 - 131 comments

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In defence of Ashley Bloomfield

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, June 22nd, 2020 - 155 comments

National and elements of the media have gone full on attack on the Government’s and Ashley Bloomfield’s Covid 19 performance. Which is unusual given that there is still no examples of community transmission and all recent infections have been picked up through the quarantine system.

Aroha Ardern Poster Banned?

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 9:24 pm, June 21st, 2020 - 66 comments

A piece of street art has got the right’s knickers in a twist. But Love conquers all.

Protesters, Anarchists, Agitators and Lowlifes

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:13 am, June 21st, 2020 - 96 comments

Donald Trump has planned to hold a political rally on the day used to celebrate the abolition of slavery at a place where one of the worst examples of white brutality on black people using advertising material containing nazi symbols. All in the middle of a global pandemic.

Open mike 21/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 21st, 2020 - 137 comments

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Open mike 20/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:03 am, June 20th, 2020 - 104 comments

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Daily review 19/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 19th, 2020 - 7 comments

Fixing Unemployment – Zoom meetup Saturday 10am

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 3:11 pm, June 19th, 2020 - 8 comments

Is it time to completely rethink how we deal with unemployment? We face a tsunami of job losses not seen in generations. Two ideas — social insurance and a job guarantee — are gaining prominence as ways to change how we deal with the problem. One provides income protection for those who lose employment, the other aims for something bolder: the elimination of unemployment. All welcome; register here.

West Auckland Shooting

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:10 pm, June 19th, 2020 - 171 comments

Two police officers have been shot in West Auckland. Is it time to arm the Police?

Things that will live

Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:58 am, June 19th, 2020 - 14 comments

Despite downbeat economic predictions and an imminent global recession, the New Zealand recovery offers opportunities for entrepreneurial success that exceed anything we’ve seen for decades.

Todd Muller and the strange tale of the Leader’s Safe

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, June 19th, 2020 - 22 comments

The Herald has reported that Todd Muller’s staff used a safe cracker to open up a safe previously used by Simon Bridges, even though they had the access codes.

Open mike 19/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 19th, 2020 - 139 comments

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Daily review 18/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 18th, 2020 - 35 comments

Responsible politics verses Gotcha politics

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:16 am, June 18th, 2020 - 215 comments

Michael Woodhouse has recently had a difficult ethical dilemma. He received information suggesting that there were major weaknesses in the Covid quarantine system. Should he do the responsible thing and point out these weaknesses to the authorities or should he play Gotcha politics?

A World That Just Doesn’t Need As Much Oil

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:22 am, June 18th, 2020 - 27 comments

BP yesterday sent a really big message that effectively now, Covid-19 is the break that tips the world away from oil dependence.

Open mike 18/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 18th, 2020 - 70 comments

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Daily review 17/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 17th, 2020 - 35 comments

Covid really is a bastard

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:30 am, June 17th, 2020 - 93 comments

New Zealand’s outstanding daily run of ducks for new Covid infections was broken yesterday after it was reported that two visitors, here for the death of a family member, tested positive. Questions are being raised about why they were not tested before being permitted to travel within New Zealand.

Viable treatment – cheap and proven

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:10 am, June 17th, 2020 - 9 comments

A medical treatment of drug used since the 1960s in medicine has proven to be effective in reducing the worst effects of human body over-reactive immune responses to covid-19 infections. This will be a boon for the countries with under developed hospital systems that are at the forefront of the current rising wave of infections. And it isn’t quack ‘science’.