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  1. D Day for ETS?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:32 am, July 16th, 2019 -  75 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, ETS, global warming, Judith Collins, national, same old national, science, todd muller
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    There are rumours that the Interim Climate Change Committee will propose that agriculture is included in the Emissions Trading Scheme as an interim measure to allow a levy/rebate system that can operate at a farm level.

     

  2. The return of Banks?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:47 am, July 14th, 2019 -  28 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, john banks, local government, supercity
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    John Banks is reported to be considering another run at the Auckland mayoralty.

  3. Aussies – utterly predictable right down to the last words.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:01 am, July 14th, 2019 -  30 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, humour, Satire, sport
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    It isn’t often that I read a sports story. My view was that if you aren’t doing a sport, then what is the point in watching others doing it? Work on something that you can do. However a title on an aussie ABC article caught me – “New Zealand earn genuine respect”. Now that was unusual…

     

  4. Trump’s social media summit

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, July 13th, 2019 -  36 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Donald Trump, jacinda ardern, Media, uncategorized
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    Donald Trump’s social media summit, a white house gathering of right wing extremists and media trolls, is the complete antithesis of the post Christchurch massacre gathering organised by Jacinda Ardern to address the damage that social media can cause.

  5. 5G flip flop

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, July 2nd, 2019 -  62 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, Donald Trump, International, tech industry, us politics
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    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.

  6. Results matter

    Written By:  Richard Wagstaff -  Date published: 9:34 am, June 21st, 2019 -  29 comments
    Categories: business, class, culture, employment, equality, human rights, jobs, Living Wage, minimum wage, quality of life, tax, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    Everyone knows that getting employers to increase rates of pay and improve conditions of work takes real pressure and the only real way working people can exert pressure, in the unbalanced relationship that exists between individual employees and employers, is by acting together; collectively. And that’s what we’ve been doing week in, week out and getting real results.

  7. What have Unions ever done for freeloaders?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:39 am, June 16th, 2019 -  198 comments
    Categories: education, Media, spin, taxpayers union, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Two teachers who support individual contracts and performance pay are upset that they are not going to immediately get the benefit the Teachers Unions negotiated for their members.

  8. Farewell Mr Makhlouf

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 12:39 pm, June 13th, 2019 -  46 comments
    Categories: Economy, treasury
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    Gabriel Makhlouf will be remembered because of events surrounding the unauthorised access of Treasury information by National. History should result in him being remembered for more positive things, like the creation of a new framework that has restructured how the government spends public money from the ground up.

  9. Pollwatch: 9th June 2019

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 4:00 pm, June 10th, 2019 -  27 comments
    Categories: act, greens, labour, national, nz first, polls
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    We had both major polls out yesterday, as noted in previous stories, and boy were the results a doozy! In addition to twice my usual talk about models, we’re going to get into the assumption some people are no doubt already making- that one of the polls is “wrong,” or more technically, rogue. For those […]

  10. Deranged Jacinda syndrome

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:14 am, June 10th, 2019 -  105 comments
    Categories: Carmel Sepuloni, Dr Deborah Russell, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, Media, phil twyford, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Mike Hosking has chosen to criticise Jacinda Ardern for touring the country and speaking to communities about the Wellbeing budget rather than flying across the world to take part in a photo opportunity.

  11. Politics is like a Traffic Jam

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 7:00 am, June 9th, 2019 -  45 comments
    Categories: Politics, transport
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    Traffic jams are frustrating, waste time and money, have no cause or purpose, and they are all the same.

  12. Government under FiveEyes

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:48 pm, June 7th, 2019 -  11 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, australian politics, China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, human rights, journalism, law, Media, police, Russia, Spying, uk politics, us politics
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    Australian Federal Police chief Neil Gaughan told media after raiding the ABC that “if police did not investigate the leaking of classified information, Australia would no longer be entrusted by FiveEyes partners with intelligence that saves lives.” FiveEyes didn’t save Muslim lives in Christchurch.

     

  13. The Coming Global Economic Slowdown and New Zealand

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:45 am, June 3rd, 2019 -  49 comments
    Categories: australian politics, business, capitalism, China, class war, debt / deficit, Donald Trump, Economy, Financial markets, Free Trade, housing, International, us politics
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    With the United States – China trade war well underway, the sick chaos of Brexit is shrinking the U.K. economy and slowing much of Europe’s economy, and smaller economies such as that of Mexico in the crosshairs through further politically manufactured trade disputes, the second half of this year looks for New Zealand nowhere near as rosy as the first half.

  14. Whale Oil – the book

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:45 am, May 29th, 2019 -  15 comments
    Categories: blogs, law, Media, police, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Whale Oil by Margie Thomson is about the Blomfield vs Slater case. Lost by Cameron Slater because after 7 years of trying to delay it, he was unable to mount a credible defense before a judge. But there is a lot of detail behind that that is worrying in an internet age..

  15. Brian Tamaki, recent victim of self/God?-inflicted burns. Don't be like Brian.

    Run Brian Run

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, May 23rd, 2019 -  103 comments
    Categories: abortion, Abuse of power, brethren, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Politics
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    Brian Tamaki is set to announce the launch of a new political party today.

  16. Zero carbon bill – let the battle commence

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:21 am, May 9th, 2019 -  102 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, farming, global warming, greens, labour, national, nz first, same old national, science, sustainability
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    The Zero Carbon bill is already being attacked by farming groups who are clearly concerned at the implications for their industry.  And National is already showing signs that it will play politics with the issue.

  17. The Herald paywall

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:43 am, April 28th, 2019 -  59 comments
    Categories: clickbait, facebook, internet, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter
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    The Herald is getting ready this week to install a paywall.

  18. Letter From the United Kingdom

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 2:50 pm, April 24th, 2019 -  116 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Jeremy Corbyn’s class  performance has been driving the MSM, the Tories, and the Blairite remnants crazy

  19. Walking the Human Rights Tightrope in NZ Prisons

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:45 pm, April 1st, 2019 -  114 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Christchurch Attack, crime, Deep stuff, Ethics, Media, prisons, Social issues, terrorism, violence against women
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    The question of prisoners’ rights has hit the news today. That’s rare because we don’t normally care.

    A new Guest Post from Maggie puts the case that we walk a tightrope when we seek to simplify the complex issues at play in prison.

  20. Xi-ing Jacinda

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 8:32 pm, March 29th, 2019 -  73 comments
    Categories: China, climate change, Europe, jacinda ardern, overseas investment, tourism, trade, uncategorized
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    Jacinda Ardern will get a very warm welcome in Beijing based on immense respect for her and for New Zealand.  Xi Jin-Ping has just returned from a very successful visit to Europe, joining Italy to the Belt and Road initiative and buying 300 jets from Airbus. Pepe Escobar outlines the implications for Eurasia. Much food for thought.

  21. Simon Bridges is distancing himself from Simon Bridges

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:01 am, March 13th, 2019 -  44 comments
    Categories: electoral commission, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges did the remarkable thing yesterday of distancing himself from his own party over events he had major involvement in.

  22. Magicked-Up Weapons

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:30 pm, March 11th, 2019 -  116 comments
    Categories: australian politics, China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, kremlinology, making shit up, Propaganda, spin, uk politics, us politics, war
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    I’m glad Anne-Marie Brady will get the chance to present her “Magic Weapons” paper to the select committee examining the last election. At long last it might get given some proper critical examination, of its content as well as it provenance. In my opinion it reads like a long list of the blindingly obvious, mixed with a large dose of conspiracy theory. It certainly doesn’t show much sign of the sort of critical thinking one might expect from an academic.

  23. Venezuela, China and Russia

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:41 pm, March 4th, 2019 -  54 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, International, us politics
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    In the new world order of robber barons in which most states are collectively so weak that they no longer effective resistance against large corporations, we should start to view states as diplomatic fronts for corporations.

  24. The Green’s electoral law reform petition

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:47 am, March 4th, 2019 -  389 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, electoral systems, greens, labour, making shit up, Media, MMP, national, Politics, referendum, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The Green Party’s launching of a petition to seek changes to the electoral system has met with some Trumpian style rhetoric from the right.

  25. Cameron Slater slithers into bankruptcy

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:15 am, February 27th, 2019 -  51 comments
    Categories: blogs, internet, law, Media, Politics, Social issues
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    Yesterday Cameron Slater announced that he would be seeking bankruptcy. It is unlikely to help him to avoid the stress of dealing with the legal consequences. The three current defamation cases that he is defending so badly have very little to do with money and a lot to do with making sure neither he nor any other arsehole dares to use his vile tactics again.

  26. GCSB head Hampton gazumped by Pompeo

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 1:15 pm, February 22nd, 2019 -  18 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, interweb, Spying, surveillance, us politics
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    On Wednesday GCSB chief Andrew Hampton told a Select Committee there was absolutely “no pressure” publicly or privately on his decision to block Huawei. On Thursday US Secretary of State Pompeo publicly warned that “United States would not be able to partner with or share information with countries that adopt Huawei Technologies Co Ltd systems.” What a difference a day makes.

  27. Daily review 21/02/2019

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:30 pm, February 21st, 2019 -  40 comments
    Categories: Daily review
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    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 …

  28. Pollwatch: Colmar Brunton 18/02/2019

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:29 pm, February 19th, 2019 -  13 comments
    Categories: greens, labour, national, nz first, polls
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    Do good things come in twos? This Pollwatch suggests that perhaps they do, and that maybe the news is rosier than the last one suggested.

  29. What China crisis?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:58 pm, February 18th, 2019 -  52 comments
    Categories: australian politics, China, Europe, Globalisation, International, Media, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, uk politics, us politics
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    Claims that New Zealand is at a crisis point in terms of its relationship with China appear to be somewhat overegged.

  30. a SLEEPING cat

    Dead cats and silly sausages

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:15 pm, February 14th, 2019 -  125 comments
    Categories: labour, national, trevor mallard
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    Today in distractions: David Carter is covering for Simon Bridges’ polling results by upsetting the whole idea of non-partisan accountability of the Government to Parliament in select comittees, I give some free advice to the National Party comms team knowing they won’t pull it off, and Mallard has lost patience with non-answers

  31. $58 billion verses democracy: Bouganville

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:30 am, February 14th, 2019 -  5 comments
    Categories: Conservation, employment, Environment, jobs, Mining
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    There’s trouble on the horizon in Bouganville with its government proposing significant changes to its mining law to allow wide scale mining on the island.