How To Get There 7/7/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 7th, 2019 - 73 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 07/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 7th, 2019 - 158 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 …
Clever visual satire on a millionaire beggar
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Date published: 10:15 am, July 6th, 2019 - 15 comments
Scott Marsh does a great depiction of Israel Folau’s essential ethics. Check out some of Scott’s other art as well.
With enough trees …
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Date published: 9:44 am, July 6th, 2019 - 65 comments
Recent scientific analysis has suggested the planting of a trillion trees is feasible and may go a long way to addressing the effects of climate change.
Open mike 06/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 6th, 2019 - 147 comments
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Daily review 05/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 5th, 2019 - 8 comments
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On my reliable commute and dipshits like Mike Hosking
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Date published: 9:24 am, July 5th, 2019 - 38 comments
Traffic and parking in Auckland isn’t helped by ignorant conservative dipshit parasitic immigrants like Mike Hosking. They really don’t get how this city can’t just keep adding roads as the roads backup after accidents. Or why it is so much safer for ratepayer cyclists to not have to contend motorists trying to accidentally kill them.
National supports 47% tax rate for top income bracket *
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Date published: 7:21 am, July 5th, 2019 - 25 comments
* this is one possible interpretation for National’s praise of the Morrisonn Government’s change to Australian tax system.
Open mike 05/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 5th, 2019 - 109 comments
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Daily review 04/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 4th, 2019 - 65 comments
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Southland and Thames think they don’t have climate crises
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Date published: 8:21 am, July 4th, 2019 - 163 comments
Regular Standard contributor Robert Guyton put up a great fight but has failed to persuade the dinosaurs on Environment Southland to declare a climate emergency.
Open mike 04/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 4th, 2019 - 154 comments
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Daily review 03/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 3rd, 2019 - 25 comments
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Tamihere wants to privatise half of Watercare
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Date published: 8:33 am, July 3rd, 2019 - 98 comments
John Tamihere has caused jaws throughout the region to drop by proposing that half of Watercare is privatised.
ANZ worried that it may be required to hold sufficient reserves
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Date published: 7:05 am, July 3rd, 2019 - 105 comments
ANZ is complaining that the Reserve Bank wants it to hold additional capital in case of a run on the banks.
Open mike 03/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 3rd, 2019 - 113 comments
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Daily review 02/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 2nd, 2019 - 43 comments
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5G flip flop
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Date published: 7:30 am, July 2nd, 2019 - 62 comments
Six weeks after banning China’s leading tech firm Huawei from contracts with U.S. businesses, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have reversed it after meeting China’s Premier Xi Jinping.
Open mike 02/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 2nd, 2019 - 150 comments
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Daily review 01/07/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, July 1st, 2019 - 54 comments
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The right wing death threat against Winston
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Date published: 10:44 am, July 1st, 2019 - 117 comments
Newshub has revealed that Winston Peters has received death threats. And the allegations involve the European far right, the Christchurch attack, the anti UN Migrant pact movement and the National Party.
How Brexit Party won the social media battle
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Date published: 8:54 am, July 1st, 2019 - 30 comments
A review of the use of social media has suggested that the Brexit Party’s campaign was far superior to that of its opponents.
Open mike 01/07/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, July 1st, 2019 - 87 comments
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Folau’s rights to free speech are not being attacked
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Date published: 8:11 am, June 30th, 2019 - 240 comments
Israel Folau’s difficulties are not examples of an attack on free speech or religious beliefs.
Open mike 30/06/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 30th, 2019 - 41 comments
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How To Get There 30/6/19
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 30th, 2019 - 66 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 29/06/2019
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Date published: 7:00 am, June 29th, 2019 - 105 comments
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Daily review 28/06/2019
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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 28th, 2019 - 13 comments
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National offers to help with housing crisis
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Date published: 11:50 am, June 28th, 2019 - 105 comments
On behalf of the National Party Judith Collins has offered to help Labour deal with the housing crisis, the one that National is responsible for.
What happened to one person one vote?
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Date published: 8:30 am, June 28th, 2019 - 34 comments
Did you know that under our local electoral system some people get more than one vote?
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