COVID-19: A human adapted virus
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Date published: 9:30 am, July 24th, 2020 - 23 comments
It has been obvious about COVID-19 that it is very well adapted to humans. It has evolved a good entry system to the humans, often has mild symptoms, long pre-symptomatic infectious period, and doesn’t kill many of its hosts. What has been less obvious is where it came from. It looks more like South East Asia rather than China.
Never argue immorality with a Tory *
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Date published: 8:01 am, July 24th, 2020 - 53 comments
*they will drag you down to their level and beat you through experience.
Open mike 24/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2020 - 143 comments
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Daily review 23/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 23rd, 2020 - 49 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 must welcome Kiwis home
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Date published: 12:27 pm, July 23rd, 2020 - 39 comments
With a new Immigration Minister this week, could we please get some reality to bringing our people home?
Authorised by me
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Date published: 11:00 am, July 23rd, 2020 - Comments Off on Authorised by me
I finally perused the June 2020 Third Party handbook put out by the Electoral Commission. This morning I activated my authorisation notice. Activists should consider what adverts or promotional material that they’d like me to put up in the right column on the site. It must be directly related to the election day for parliament or for the referendums. And conform to the handbook.
Open mike 23/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 23rd, 2020 - 112 comments
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Daily review 22/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 17 comments
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Winston Peters Names Alleged Super Leaker
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Date published: 4:44 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 87 comments
Winston Peters has named the person he says leaked his super details. Has ACT joined National in doing Dirty Politics?
Reasons to sack a Minister
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Date published: 12:15 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 154 comments
Ian Lees Galloway wasn’t sacked for an extra-marital affair. He was sacked because of his abuse of power.
ILG Goes
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Date published: 11:02 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 110 comments
Immigration Minister Iain Lees Galloway has apparently resigned.
UPDATE: The PM confirms that she has sacked the Minister. He will not stand in the Palmerston North seat in the upcoming general election.
UPDATE: Iain Lees Galloway releases an apology.
What is the best way for a political party to handle a sex scandal?
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Date published: 10:16 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 61 comments
Judith Collins appears to be living by her motto, giving back double, and has made public allegations that a Labour Minister has engaged in inappropriate behaviour. But is this the best way to handle a sex scandal?
Unthinkable Things
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Date published: 8:41 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 29 comments
With the government clearly watching the unravelling of Australia’s Covid-19 response and putting in place $14 billion in preparation for a second infection wave, we are clearly now in a history-in-making territory of the highest instability outside a world war.
Open mike 22/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 149 comments
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Daily review 21/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 21st, 2020 - 57 comments
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Raymond Huo resigning at election
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Date published: 3:56 pm, July 21st, 2020 - 15 comments
Raymond Huo has announced he will no longer contest the 2020 election.
Strong team?
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Date published: 7:32 am, July 21st, 2020 - 267 comments
Earlier this year National boasted that it had a strong team. But this was before two coups and the loss of seven MPs in the past few weeks, the latest for sending indecent material to a teenager which the leader initially described as a case involving mental health concerns.
Open mike 21/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 21st, 2020 - 57 comments
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Daily review 20/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 20th, 2020 - 23 comments
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Another Nat MP Quits
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Date published: 2:52 pm, July 20th, 2020 - 205 comments
Another Tory MP has quit. This time it’s first term MP Andrew Falloon.
UPDATE: The PM was informed on Friday, but chose to be discreet.
UPDATE: NewsHub are claiming that Falloon sent porn to a schoolgirl.
UPDATE: The victim was a uni student and her age means no offence was committed. Further, Falloon claims it was not him that sent the pic.
Can A Renewed Provincial Growth Fund Save Us?
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Date published: 7:33 am, July 20th, 2020 - 43 comments
With the simultaneous decline of Southland’s Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, the retrenchment of Waikato/South Auckland’s New Zealand Steel’s Glenbrook Steel mill, and the near-total shrinking of NZ Refining in Whangarei’s Marsden Point it’s not unreasonable to ask what will happen to the 10% of New Zealand who are employed in major manufacturing plants.
Open mike 20/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 20th, 2020 - 172 comments
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Wellington Central: Should Grant Robertson Stand Aside?
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Date published: 2:12 pm, July 19th, 2020 - 47 comments
Should Labour’s Grant Robertson stand aside in Wellington Central to guarantee the Greens are available to be a coalition partner?
Tourism: Death and Revival
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Date published: 11:30 am, July 19th, 2020 - 26 comments
New Zealand’s tourism economy has essentially collapsed, and it is part of a global tourism industry collapse that is so big that it may be permanently smaller. But does it have to be?
Open mike 19/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 19th, 2020 - 187 comments
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Trump’s not so bad: the disappearing hospital data during a pandemic edition
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Date published: 1:51 pm, July 18th, 2020 - 48 comments
An occasional series
Open mike 18/07/2020
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 18th, 2020 - 194 comments
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Daily review 17/07/2020
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 17th, 2020 - 42 comments
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National’s next Auckland Central candidate?
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Date published: 7:58 am, July 17th, 2020 - 38 comments
With Nikki Kaye’s shock retirement announcement National urgently needs a new candidate. One name springs to mind.
Chloe Swarbrick should stand strong in Auckland Central
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Date published: 6:07 am, July 17th, 2020 - 63 comments
Having two strong left wing women standing in an electorate is great for women, the left and New Zealand. It may also help us move away from macho politics towards both/and politics.
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