Archive for 2020

How To Get There 15/03/20

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 2 comments

Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.

Open mike 15/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 15th, 2020 - 136 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 …

Covid-19 – a political problem

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:08 pm, March 14th, 2020 - 103 comments

Juice Media on the essential facts about the spread of Covid-19. It concentrates on the United States, where personally I’m picking the US, by the end of the year, as being the biggest medico-political screw up world wide after Iran. Early wishful thinking and a lack of transparency cost lives. Pathetic bullshitting simply doesn’t help.

No Right Turn: Ghost homes should be used to house the homeless

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:05 am, March 14th, 2020 - 100 comments

Idiot/Savant writes about empty houses and the homeless.

Open mike 14/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 14th, 2020 - 135 comments

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How does the government handle a pandemic induced world recession?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:54 am, March 13th, 2020 - 152 comments

With the world’s economy in turmoil and infection rates continuing to surge the responses of different countries to the crisis shows markedly different results. And the issue could be the determining issue of this year’s election.

Open mike 13/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 13th, 2020 - 134 comments

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Daily review 12/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 12th, 2020 - 40 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 …

It’s time for Auckland to work

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:44 am, March 12th, 2020 - 12 comments

2020 will now be the year that New Zealand will now rely on Auckland to get its shit together.

Open mike 12/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 12th, 2020 - 90 comments

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Daily review 11/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:52 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 10 comments

Workers 1, Bridges 0: Minimum Wage Rise to Go Ahead

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:31 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 23 comments

Labour have confirmed that they will lift the minimum adult wage on April 1st. This is great news for workers and SME’s!

Coronavirus and the State

Written By: advantage - Date published: 2:52 pm, March 11th, 2020 - 37 comments

A few weeks ago I slagged off the Chinese government for its response to the Corona virus and presumed that authoritarian states could never be as good as democratic states in responding to a pandemic. I want to revisit my opinion.

Open mike 11/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 11th, 2020 - 129 comments

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Corrupt US

Written By: Bill - Date published: 8:21 pm, March 10th, 2020 - 60 comments

That’s not a request by the way. This post is a kind of “confessions of a cynic who allowed optimism to creep up and have a hand in thought processes” post.

Daily review 10/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 10th, 2020 - 64 comments

My reaction to a new Commissioner of Police

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:24 am, March 10th, 2020 - 15 comments

Previous readers of this site will be aware that I’m not a particularly enthusiastic supporter of the police. I’m more in the order of regarding our current police of a necessary burden on society that could do with having considerable improvement. While I find most police members to be what I can respect. I find the organisation protects some real idiots. I pity a commissioner having to deal with this.

Before the massacre the State was warned

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:43 am, March 10th, 2020 - 27 comments

Through a series of meetings that led all the way to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Head of the State Services Commission Peter Hughes, and the Police, the Islamic Women’s Council repeatedly warned the highest levels of our civil service that their community was under imminent threat. They were ignored.

Open mike 10/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 10th, 2020 - 58 comments

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Daily review 09/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 9th, 2020 - 7 comments

Red tape bonfire of the vanities

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:19 pm, March 9th, 2020 - 19 comments

National has promised a bonfire of regulations. Just like conservatives in Australia, the United Kingdom, America and previous National administrations.

No Right Turn: Parliament and the pandemic

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:54 am, March 9th, 2020 - 23 comments

Idiot/Savant writes about what the government can and can’t do with sitting and the election.

The politics of gun control

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:47 am, March 9th, 2020 - 180 comments

National and NZ First are frustrating the passage of the Arms Legislation Bill by raising issues that may appeal to extremists but will not make the country a safer place after the Christchurch massacre.

Open mike 09/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 9th, 2020 - 69 comments

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