Archive for 2020

RIP Jeanette Fitzsimons

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:04 am, March 6th, 2020 - 33 comments

Former Greens co leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died.

Open mike 06/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 6th, 2020 - 145 comments

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Daily review 05/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:28 pm, March 5th, 2020 - 55 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 …

Buttigeig 2020?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:06 am, March 5th, 2020 - 33 comments

Allowing for a Biden victory in the Democratic Party primary process, then come November, voters in the US will be voting on whether Buttiegieg or Trump will be the next President of the USA. That’s what I’m picking, and here’s why…

Can Bernie find a clutch and change gear?

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:54 am, March 5th, 2020 - 33 comments

The basic problem with Bernie Sanders campaign is that his sole political role since the start of his career has been as the archetypal outsider. He injects ideas into the political debate that didn’t get play time, but he didn’t concentrate on making those things happen. Now it is costing him.

Bridges thinks the solution to Covid 19 is tax cuts

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:14 am, March 5th, 2020 - 64 comments

Simon Bridges thinks that tax cuts are the best way to address financial stress caused by businesses by the Covid 19 epidemic. Even though businesses under financial stress will be paying little if any tax and a tax cut would have little if any effect.

Open mike 05/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 5th, 2020 - 30 comments

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Daily review 04/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:32 pm, March 4th, 2020 - 32 comments

Democratic Party Encounters Cliff. Jumps.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:58 am, March 4th, 2020 - 45 comments

Just like Blairites in the UK and the ABC club here…the Democratic Party elites in the US seem to be the dumber type of parasite that willfully kills their hosts.

Super Tuesday

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, March 4th, 2020 - 61 comments

In the US of A today is Super Tuesday. California, Texas, North Carolina and 11 other states and one territory will be voting for their preferred candidate.

Afghanistan pushes the US out

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:26 am, March 4th, 2020 - 16 comments

I have really no idea who to cheer for about the Afghanistan peace
agreement. If the Taliban were the answer, it was a pretty fucking
stupid question.

Open mike 04/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 4th, 2020 - 67 comments

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Daily review 03/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 3rd, 2020 - 31 comments

Starmer, Biden and Benji

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 11:07 am, March 3rd, 2020 - 21 comments

Two leadership races and a General election appear to be going to conservative candidates. What does that mean for parliamentary democracy?

The trouble with MMP

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:11 am, March 3rd, 2020 - 93 comments

The trouble with MMP is that sometimes members of minority parties court media attention by being overtly racist.

Open mike 03/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 3rd, 2020 - 66 comments

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Daily review 02/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:29 pm, March 2nd, 2020 - 11 comments

Climate change – the right schemes and the left despairs

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:02 am, March 2nd, 2020 - 27 comments

The Australian Liberal Government has signalled a movement away from solar and wind power to untested technologies including carbon capture, hydrogen and lithium. Meanwhile the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement is calling for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.

Open mike 02/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 2nd, 2020 - 161 comments

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The Herald creates a panic and Trump says Coronavirus is a hoax

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:37 am, March 1st, 2020 - 65 comments

If a society ever wanted to set out how to handle a pandemic the Herald’s media response and Donald Trump’s handling of the situation provide perfect examples of what not to do.

Happy cows and land restoration

Written By: weka - Date published: 7:10 am, March 1st, 2020 - 12 comments

The point here isn’t to go ‘boo vegans’, it’s to point starkly to the problems with the current food and environment debate, and show case the pathways beyond the meat/no meat binary.

How To Get There 01/03/20

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 1st, 2020 - 15 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 01/03/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, March 1st, 2020 - 53 comments

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A Welcome Change Coming.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 1:26 pm, February 29th, 2020 - 16 comments

There’s an increasing number of progressive and conservatives who are rediscovering their moral compass in these, the final days of unfettered liberalism.

National’s new conservation policy was previously announced in 2014

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:29 pm, February 29th, 2020 - 12 comments

National has announced a “new” policy that it previously announced in 2014. And that has already been implemented.

Do not deport your people and your problems to New Zealand

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:33 am, February 29th, 2020 - 53 comments

Jacinda Ardern has trashed traditional notions of how New Zealand Australia relations are conducted when making the clear point that Australia should not be exporting Australian made problems who are barely kiwis to New Zealand.

Open mike 29/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 29th, 2020 - 105 comments

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Daily review 28/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, February 28th, 2020 - 17 comments

The Corona Virus and the Car

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:42 am, February 28th, 2020 - 27 comments

We just saw the stock markets lose their composure, but the stocks taking really big hits are the carmakers who have baked their profitability future into this largest growing car market.

Open mike 28/02/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:00 am, February 28th, 2020 - 50 comments

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