Archive for 2020

Open mike 17/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 17th, 2020 - 68 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily review 16/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 16th, 2020 - 42 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 …

National prepares to die in a ditch over racist American flag

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:10 pm, June 16th, 2020 - 26 comments

In politics there are two general theories, the conspiracy theory where events are the result of deep Machiavellian planning, and the f*ck up theory where things just happen because of human stuff ups. Todd McClay’s decision to defend the use of the Confederate Flag is that much of a f*ck up there must be a deep Machiavellian reason for him deciding to do so publicly.

Advising the country about Covid19 is unfair to National

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:28 am, June 16th, 2020 - 30 comments

National is complaining that a Government Covid19 media account liked Jacinda Ardern’s instagram page. And a National cheerleader wants all Covid 19 response advertising to stop.

Open mike 16/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 16th, 2020 - 131 comments

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Daily review 15/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 15th, 2020 - 9 comments

Labour’s List

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 12:54 pm, June 15th, 2020 - 38 comments

The Labour Party has released its list lineup. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to refresh the caucus, and it’s down to one leader’s sacrifice and another’s steller performance.

Covid-19 still raging.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:01 am, June 15th, 2020 - 25 comments

A quick look at rising second wave in the US as covid-19 digs deeper into the less populated states and counties. Because of its deliberate lack of governmental cohesion, the US is a rack of petri dishes testing different strategies. When that comes to disease control and covid-19, that strategy is a bit of a disaster.

Things that will die

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:55 am, June 15th, 2020 - 90 comments

For three decades tourism has been the great tidal surge that has made many otherwise spiralling towns stablise, and in some cases expand. Post Covid we are going to see some of these towns die.

Open mike 15/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 15th, 2020 - 29 comments

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Todd’s Odd Distress Signal

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 5:39 pm, June 14th, 2020 - 64 comments

How odd of Todd! A condescending gesture turns into a cry for help.

Open mike 14/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 14th, 2020 - 40 comments

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National has a discipline problem

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:03 pm, June 13th, 2020 - 28 comments

Yesterday saw two back bench National MPs unintentionally set National’s position on the Government response to Covid 19 and on Hamilton City’s decision to take down a statute that was repugnant to Waikato Tainui. What has happened to their messaging discipline?

Open mike 13/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 13th, 2020 - 32 comments

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Daily review 12/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 12th, 2020 - 14 comments

Kim Hill asked “Why…

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 4:51 pm, June 12th, 2020 - 31 comments

…is the US sharemarket roaring away – up 44% – while economic recovery prospects are grim?” ANZ’s Sharon Zollner’s answer on Tuesday was the Fed printing money, but worried markets were turning a blind eye to the bad news. The bad news hit today as the sharemarket nose-dived. Wolf Richter’s answer was more to Kim’s point: “Fed bails out the wealthy while America convulses in pain.”

Chris Penk has been thinking

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:54 am, June 12th, 2020 - 59 comments

Chris Penk has written a book suggesting that the Government’s Covid 19 response has been terrible. Because it was not quite perfect.

Open mike 12/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 12th, 2020 - 107 comments

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Daily review 11/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 11th, 2020 - 16 comments

Strike Force Raptor is no more

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:20 pm, June 11th, 2020 - 10 comments

National has backed away from its policy of creating Strike Force Raptor Police Unit, a unit based on an Australian force dedicated to terrorising possible gang members.

Angry Ardern

Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 11th, 2020 - 86 comments

A challenging post where Ad challenges Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Government to do more.

Open mike 11/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 11th, 2020 - 96 comments

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Daily review 10/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, June 10th, 2020 - 8 comments

Black lives matter Aotearoa version

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:35 am, June 10th, 2020 - 53 comments

The Black Lives Matter movement is causing many countries to reflect on their history and practices. And the decision of the police to discontinue the Armed Response Teams Trial and the Childrens Commissioner’s scathing report on Oranga Tamariki’s practices in the uplifting of young children, mostly Maori, from their mothers are examples of the change that is happening.

NZ Police abandon Armed Response Teams

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:05 am, June 10th, 2020 - 9 comments

We have a model of policing by consent and that means we need the vast majority of people to see as legitimate the style in which we’re policing and it’s been clear to me that there has not been acceptance of this as an appropriate style of policing in New Zealand. – Police Commissioner Andrew Coster

Open mike 10/06/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, June 10th, 2020 - 63 comments

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More Skripal bullshit

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:03 pm, June 9th, 2020 - 37 comments

Skripal’s relatives don’t believe it, Jacinda Ardern doesn’t believe it, Paul Buchanan doesn’t believe it, and I never believed it. But a story planted in the UK Sunday Times that the Skripals are here lets our media rerun the assassination attempt that failed, even though the most deadliest poison in the world was involved. Stuff website has a British Minister from Theresa May’s time rerunning the old lies,as does the NZ Herald. Fits in nicely with the SIS anti-Russian history.