Daily Review 05/05/2016

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38 comments on “Daily Review 05/05/2016”

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      1. 2.1.1

        Indeed it is a perfect analogy – one which is lost on the prime minister even though he’s the author of it.

      2. 2.1.2

        How dare you!
        A bunch of people with the clap are far more valuable to an economy than a bunch of tax dodgers!
        At least all the medical treatment they require creates jobs!

    2. 2.2

      The largest cyber attack at the moment seems to be from Billiam English and his ‘social investment’ program where our personal info is not confidential and private but is there to be “shared”., even with government workers on their smartphones
      As Bill has said they have the data , why not use it?
      What could be more reasonable? (my words) “Cyber attacks are as nothing to our ‘relaxed’ government, when they are in the attack chair.

      http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/bill-englishs-big-data-grab-2016041918#axzz47Zw0q3C3

    3. 2.3

      The Panama Papers leak is a warning to New Zealand businesses to protect themselves from cyber hacking, Prime Minister John Key says.

      Yeah, I’d say that he’s more concerned with the financial details of the rich and the fact that most of them are outright thieves getting out than anything else.

      He said the massive information leak from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, which revealed global tax avoidance practices, is proof no company was safe from hacking.

      I think I prefer to think of it as thieves can and will be found out.

    1. 3.1

      Is that what Dunne is tweeting about? “My vote in favour of the Ecan Bill is an error – I have requested it be corrected and be recorded against.”
      Edit:
      Sorry my mistake I see it’s something else.

    2. 3.2

      Shouldn’t be surprised – National hates democracy. The idea that everyone having a say, even most National voters, absolutely terrifies them. They’re worried that the general populace will start correcting the imbalances that capitalism creates and actually start having a good and meaningful life rather than one of hard slog and deprivation in service to their betters that’s been set up.

    1. 6.1

      The planet’s climate is stuffed.
      When will the corporate media in New Zealand explain the weather by saying the words climate change?

      As well as the droughts in India and Cambodia,

      There is drought in Vietnam
      http://www.businessinsider.com.au/vietnam-drought-economic-slowdown-2016-4?r=US&IR=T

      and Thailand
      http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-04-11/forget-the-drought-thailands-national-water-fight-is-on

      and Ethiopia
      http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/may/02/ethiopia-famine-drought-land-restoration

      and Malawi and Zimbabwe
      http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/apr/21/drought-southern-africa-heavy-toll-students-fainting-malawi-zimbabwe

      and Venezuela
      http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/22/475250605/venezuela-announces-daily-4-hour-power-cuts-amid-drought

      and North Korea
      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/north-korea-s-food-supply-imperiled-by-water-shortages-un-says

      and Zambia
      http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/africa/zambia-drought-climate-change-economy.html?_r=0

      and Haiti
      http://thinkprogress.org/world/2016/04/15/3769857/haiti-farmers/

      and Canada
      http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/04/23/alberta-farmers-pray-for-rain-as-dry-conditions-stoke-drought-fears

      and the U.S.
      http://theprowersjournal.com/2016/04/april-2016-colorado-drought-update-from-cwcb/

      and Indonesia
      http://www.indonesia-investments.com/news/todays-headlines/indonesian-research-firm-2016-palm-oil-output-curbed-by-drought-haze/item6737

      and Micronesia
      https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=drought+2016&tbm=nws&start=100

      and Australia
      http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-01/farming-death-row-south-australia's-forgotten-drought/7309470

      2. 6.1.2

        The planet’s climate is stuffed.

        The planet’s climate is fine, life will go on – it just won’t be the life that’s here now as it simply can’t survive in the hotter temperatures.

      3. 6.1.3

        Many of those countries are experiencing drought because they are fucking with the catchment and groundwater in order to make money. Humans have lived in very dry climates for a long long time, and they do so by working with nature not exploiting it.

        1. 6.1.3.1

          Well we won’t take too long to catch up, Weka – we’re doing just that as well – using catchment and groundwater to make money.

        3. 6.1.3.3

          The dry conditions being brought on by climate change are of a different order to those experienced historically. Yes, catchment area and ground-waters are being fucked with sometimes, but that only exacerbates what would otherwise be an intractable problem; not something that will be solved by ‘working with nature’.

          Last weekend, (Dec 2015) Chinese scientists released a separate report that said the surface area of glaciers on Mount Everest, which straddles the Tibet-Nepal border, have shrunk nearly 30 percent in the last 40 years.

          (…)

          By one estimate, the 46,000 glaciers of the Third Pole region help sustain 1.5 billion people in 10 countries — its waters flowing to places as distant as the tropical Mekong Delta of Vietnam, the hills of eastern Myanmar and the southern plains of Bangladesh. Scattered across nearly two million square miles, these glaciers are receding at an ever-quickening pace, producing a rise in levels of rivers and lakes in the short term and threatening Asia’s water supply in the long run.

          Meanwhile, the chance of ‘super droughts’ or mega droughts; droughts lasting a few decades, is expected to increase to 50% from 15% for some regions (eg – the US).

  7. 7

    ….Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Micronesia, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and the U.S.

    The planet’s climate is stuffed.
    Wonder when the msm in NZ attributes all these weather patterns to climate change rather than talking about hos nice it is to have a warm May in NZ?
    Fools.

    1. 8.1

      I don’t know why they even bother interviewing Key anymore. Not only is he as slippery as a greased whippet, he routinely mangles the English language in such a way you need a fucking interpreter to understand the disingenuous shit.

      1. 8.1.1

        As I’ve said elsewhere, many of his former colleagues couldn’t even understand the cnut – until they got their marching orders.
        It’s interesting too, how whenever he’s lying blatantly his speech becomes rather (stereotypically) effeminate or drunken. Sssssssssslippery ssssssucking ssssssssshithead

    2. 8.2

      Excellent link.

      I hope this becomes a story on The Standard. It’s another scandal brewing.

      Congratulations to Labour MP Damien O’Connor. Nice work.

    3. 8.3

      “Well I didn’t see it in that way, and I don’t think anyone who travelled along with me would have seen it that way at all – I didn’t make any sales calls or anything like that.”

      People high up in a bureaucracy and being supportive of a company is selling that company.

      “It’s quite possible that an individual company that gives a donation is also the sort of situation where an MP goes and has some involvement, does something in a business or looks at something because of the varied nature of the varied trips that they do.

      “But it doesn’t stop someone, you don’t have a conflict of interest by nature because of that.”

      Yes it does as that would be the very definition of Conflict of Interest.

      1. 8.3.1

        “Yes it does as that would be the very definition of conflict of interest.”

        Exactly Draco. The previous sentence from key did my head in.
        I could only think,” another potty statement from key’s corrupt little mind.”
        It’s the ‘nature’ of his being, unfortunate’y for New Zealand.
        Sad,very sad.

  9. 9

    Has there been a lot of pre-budget releases by this government?

    Seems that the money for “cyber-crime”, the suddenly found money for Melanoma drugs, and the 64,000 electric cars were all pre-budget dumps in order to take the heat off dear leader and his lawyer.

    I imagine even John Key is happy at the success of the healthy homes bill. It too took some of the heat off him this week.

  12. 12

    The rent is still too damn high.

    The results

    So what did we learn?

    First, spending inequality – what we should really care about – is far smaller than wealth inequality. This is true no matter the age cohort you consider.

    Take 40-49-year-olds. Those in the top 1 percent of our resource distribution have 18.9 of net wealth but account for only 9.2 percent of the spending. In contrast, the 20 percent at the bottom (the lowest quintile) have only 2.1 percent of all wealth but 6.9 percent of total spending. This means that the poorest are able to spend far more than their wealth would imply – though still miles away from the 20 percent they would spend were spending fully equalized.

    https://theconversation.com/weve-been-measuring-inequality-wrong-heres-the-real-story-56179

    1. 12.1

      Those in the top 1 percent of our resource distribution have 18.9 of net wealth but account for only 9.2 percent of the spending. In contrast, the 20 percent at the bottom (the lowest quintile) have only 2.1 percent of all wealth but 6.9 percent of total spending.

      Yeah, money flows from the bottom to the top. It’s the poor paying for the rich to be rich.

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