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  1. Drug testing at music festivals

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, January 7th, 2019 -  18 comments
    Categories: alcohol, drugs, education, labour, law, Politics, stuart nash
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    Police Minister Stuart Nash has said publicly that he wants to see all New Zealand music festivals to have drug testing kits by next summer.

  2. The wonder of e-bikes and e-scooters

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:00 am, January 6th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Economy, local government, Politics, public transport, Social issues, tech industry, transport, uncategorized
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    The rise of cycleways, e-bikes, and e-scooters is steadily revolutionising commutes around Auckland, especially Central Auckland. Like public transport the economic reasons for commuters are easy to understand. You don’t get ridiculous parking costs or the lousy variable commute times of fat footprint cars jammed up on crowded roads.

  3. Political punditry in 2019

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, January 4th, 2019 -  79 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Deep stuff, Donald Trump, greens, housing, jacinda ardern, Jeremy Corbyn, journalism, labour, local government, making shit up, national, phil goff, quality of life, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The media has recently reviewed its predictions from last year and made a few new ones.  How did it go?  And what is going to happen in the next 12 months?

  4. Test embeds in comments.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:04 pm, January 3rd, 2019 -  32 comments
    Categories: admin, Media, social media lolz, The Standard, uncategorized
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    As some of you may have noticed, I’ve started testing some embeds in comments in OpenMike today. This is a test to see what is possible in posts that can worthwhile be carried over to the comments. I’ll probably make decisions on what I allow over the weekend and either add what you want or remove the ones that look like they will break the conversation.

  5. What can we do about climate change – air travel emission offset

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, January 2nd, 2019 -  257 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, disaster, Economy, Environment, global warming, sustainability, tourism, transport
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    How do you reconcile your desire to do what you can about climate change with taking air travel?

  6. Brexit vote on Tuesday

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, December 10th, 2018 -  41 comments
    Categories: Europe, International, uk politics
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    With a vote on the Brexit deal soon and with defeat a distinct possibility both Labour and the Conservatives need a Plan B and they need it inside 48 hours.

  7. National’s dead cat strategy

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:41 am, December 6th, 2018 -  56 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, articles, making shit up, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National has attempted to drown out news of further leaks, bad poll results and a reference of Maggie Barry’s behaviour to the Auditor General by staging a big stink in Parliament.

  8. Yanking our chain

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:32 pm, December 3rd, 2018 -  46 comments
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    Tracy Watkins is in Korea paid for by the US to head off any support fro President Moon’s visit here. The US security chiefs are here in Wellington today with the 40-grit sandpaper. A high-ranking Russia “expert” from the UK was here last week because they thought Winston Peters wasn’t sufficiently outraged by the Skripal false flag affair. We’re in the gun in the information wars.

  9. The bigotry of lemmings – the China scare

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 5:46 pm, November 28th, 2018 -  134 comments
    Categories: China, Economy, International, The Standard
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    I can’t think of the number of countless times that I have seen scare stories about someone wanting to take over this society and/or the world. Sometimes they are even correct about intent, but usually they are not. Usually the difference between what is insinuated and whatever facts are known makes those making such insinuations just look like attention-seeking nuts.

     

  10. China, Huawei and us

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, November 27th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, International, Politics, surveillance
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    It’s high time this government woke up to the intelligence gathering capacity and ambition of China in New Zealand.

  11. Pride and police

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:43 am, November 26th, 2018 -  110 comments
    Categories: human rights, identity, Politics
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    A guest post by Joel Walsham on the decision of the Auckland Pride Board to request the police not to march at the Pride parade in uniform.

  12. Another day and more Simon Bridges f*&k ups

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:30 pm, November 19th, 2018 -  54 comments
    Categories: cost of living, making shit up, Media, national, phil twyford, Simon Bridges, spin, tax, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has in the last 24 hours blamed Labour law changes for increasing rentals but has forgotten which ones, and has disagreed that an apology is owed to the families of the Pike River miners on the 8th anniversary of the disaster.

  13. The strange case of the astroturfed Energy Voices organisation

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 3:34 pm, November 13th, 2018 -  18 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, internet, Media, national, same old national, sustainability, twitter
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    It has been discovered that the person behind the Energy Voices website is a National Party operative and former staffer.

  14. Jeff Sessions resigns as Attorney General

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:57 am, November 8th, 2018 -  27 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Donald Trump, Politics, us politics
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    US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at the President’s request and has been replaced by someone who thought that Mueller’s investigation into POTUS went too far.

  15. Why this mid term result?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 5:05 pm, November 7th, 2018 -  39 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, Politics, us politics
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    What can we take from the US mid term election results?

  16. The Jami-Lee tapes

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:22 am, November 5th, 2018 -  141 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, national, paula bennett, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Newshub has released a further Jami-Lee Ross tape which contains a promise by Simon Bridges that if Ross stood down for health reasons he could come back in the new year and be promoted.

  17. Jacinda Ardern’s speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:03 pm, November 4th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, Politics
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    The text of Jacinda’s speech being delivered to the Labour Conference in Dunedin today.

  18. Morongate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:29 am, November 4th, 2018 -  13 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, internet, journalism, making shit up, Media, social media lolz, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In America a young 20 year old Trump supporter has been branded with the hashtag morongate for the most inept dark op smear you could ever imagine happening.

  19. Our rail revival

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:41 pm, October 31st, 2018 -  96 comments
    Categories: business, climate change, Economy, energy, global warming, greens, labour, nz first, Shane Jones, sustainability, transport
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    Yesterday the government announced that it was reversing the previous government’s decision to kill off the electric trains.  The decision is one of many recently made that suggests that the future of rail is bright.

  20. National’s Judith problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:54 pm, October 30th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, housing, Judith Collins, labour, national, phil twyford, same old national
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    Judith Collins has landed herself in trouble for publicising details of a young couple who just bought a Kiwibuild home.

  21. Let’s talk mental health

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 10:51 pm, October 21st, 2018 -  298 comments
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    With the news about Jami-Lee Ross being taken into care, now’s a good time to talk about mental health, and how it should be handled in politics.

  22. Simon Bridges is totes relaxed about his leak inquiry

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:11 am, October 13th, 2018 -  26 comments
    Categories: Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    After spending over a hundred thousand dollars on the inquiry into who leaked his travel information Simon Bridges now claims that he is no longer worried about who leaked his travel expense information.

  23. Fighting for a just cause is empowering

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 8:49 am, October 8th, 2018 -  29 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, quality of life
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    A purpose in life is an awesome Force of Nature.

  24. Jami-Lee Ross takes time out

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:50 pm, October 2nd, 2018 -  107 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
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    Jami-Lee Ross has announced he will be taking time out for personal health reasons.

  25. Trump laughed at for waving his toad at UN

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:46 am, September 26th, 2018 -  45 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, Economy, us politics
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    What can one say about Trump’s daft bragging at the UN, that raised a chorus of laughter at what he was saying. Clearly his toad is out of control.

  26. Police spying must be investigated

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:13 pm, September 17th, 2018 -  14 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, activism, Deep stuff, Media, Politics, Spying, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Amnesty International is calling for an inquiry into the actions of Thompson and Clark to be expanded to include their involvement in police activities.

  27. We are failing kids from poor families

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:21 am, September 16th, 2018 -  77 comments
    Categories: articles, class, Deep stuff, education, journalism, labour, Media, newspapers, Politics, Social issues, tertiary education
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    Kirsty Johnston has produced an in-depth analysis of the current rate of young people from poor backgrounds entering professional ranks.  And the news is not good.

  28. They got bailed out and we got sold out

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:05 pm, September 15th, 2018 -  56 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, class war, Economy, uk politics
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    Ros Wynne Jones in the Daily Mirror excoriates the excesses of the Banking system and wonders why the rest of us tolerate bankers’ behaviour.

  29. Farrar peddles climate change denial nonsense

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, September 3rd, 2018 -  151 comments
    Categories: blogs, climate change, David Farrar, dpf, Environment, global warming, national, same old national, science, you couldn't make this shit up
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    David Farrar has posted a guest post by climate change denialist Bryan Leland where he has criticised the Royal Society of New Zealand for accepting that climate change is an actual phenomenon.

  30. Australia bans Manning but lets in Au pair for rich Liberal donors

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 5:14 pm, August 30th, 2018 -  45 comments
    Categories: australian politics, clickbait, International, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Following recent news it appears that in Australia Au Pairs of the rich and connected are welcomed and helped.  Seriously ill refugees are ignored.  And click bait racists are fine but peace activists are shown the door.

  31. Simon’s first six months

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, August 28th, 2018 -  106 comments
    Categories: Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, trevor mallard, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has now been leader of the Opposition for six months.  What has he to show for his time? People are questioning his judgment over his fixation on who leaked his travel information early.

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