Daily review 19/10/2021

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  1. 1

    I couldn't care less about Harry Tam, but the more important issue is that Newshub (and others) spread a false story that undermined public confidence in the Covid response. They also need to apologise now, or at least update the stories on their website:

    10 days ago they reported:

    "I am absolutely certain of my sources, otherwise I wouldn't be saying what I'm saying," said Peters, urging the media to verify the claims with officials.

    "Let them deny it, and they won't. But when the press was told yesterday at 6:30pm by Minister Hipkins that he didn't, that simply wasn't true. Frankly, we will never get through this crisis if we aren't transparent and honest."

    (the irony of the last sentence, Winston …)

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/gang-leader-harry-tam-denies-winston-peters-claims-he-helped-infected-woman-breach-covid-boundary-sparking-northland-lockdown.html

    1. 1.1

      Black Power get to use the justice system for their own ends, defending their 'honour' and 'integrity'. They have none and never did. They won't gain any using the courts.

      Black Power and Harry Tam in particular are simply a massive criminal enterprise causing huge damage to New Zealand society.

      Harry Tam can go get fucked.

      1. 1.1.1

        Point missed by a mile. Some things are true and some are not true. This was not true.

        If the Minister for Covid Response had misled us, that would be very serious. He didn't. Winston did.

        1. 1.1.1.1

          I agree, Observer. Big media people (Newshub) are being let off the hook for spreading falsehood.

          Is it any use making a complaint to one of our dip-sticky broadcasting authorities?

          No, for 2 reasons. 1) They will say it wasn't a proven falsehood when they published it – not their area to consider later revelations.

          2) Our Broadcasting Authorities are there to ensure that the likes of Newshub are not to be attacked by any other means than by guess who.

    2. 1.2

      No Winston did.

      Newshub just ran the story.

      Who would have thought such a figure head of integrity like Winston could tell bull shit.

      1. 1.2.1

        Yup. Peters has apologised to Harry Tam for saying that that HE was the Mongrel Mob member who accompanied the 2 Auckland women who breached lockdown rules by going to Northland on false pretences, & admits/accepts that if the was a Mongrel Mob member, it was not Harry Tam.

        Was also an item on One Ewes at 6. And both Stuff & Herald have covered it now as well.

        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/winston-peters-apologises-to-harry-tam-over-northland-allegation/ATO3XC6RIK2P33UNUZPCNWS2YU/

        https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300433827/winston-peters-apologises-for-alleging-harry-tam-link-with-northland-covid19-case

      1. 2.2.1

        This is the labour variation of the tired line trotted out by boomers who say things like "only real job was counting two scoops of chips haw haw… more expensive rose?"

        A good opposition can be formed by those who worked in environments different from ourselves. Chris Bishop is the real enemy on the (small) opposition front bench, student pol leader, staffer to a former prime minister and then a politician in an "Unwinnable" seat

        1. 2.2.1.1

          It's simple record. From their background comes their experience and their networks.

          New Zealand had a useless opposition in the 2017 term and a rapidly melting one this term.

  5. 5

    Frankie the pope on a roll.

    In the name of God, I ask financial groups and international credit institutions to allow poor countries to assure “the basic needs of their people” and to cancel those debts that so often are contracted against the interests of those same peoples.

    In the name of God, I ask the great extractive industries — mining, oil, forestry, real estate, agribusiness — to stop destroying forests, wetlands and mountains, to stop polluting rivers and seas, to stop poisoning food and people.

    In the name of God, I ask the great food corporations to stop imposing monopolistic systems of production and distribution that inflate prices and end up withholding bread from the hungry.

    […]

    Do you know what comes to mind now when, together with popular movements, I think of the Good Samaritan? Do you know what comes to mind? The protests over the death of George Floyd. It is clear that this type of reaction against social, racial or macho injustice can be manipulated or exploited by political machinations or whatever, but the main thing is that, in that protest against this death, there was the Collective Samaritan who is no fool! This movement did not pass by on the other side of the road when it saw the injury to human dignity caused by an abuse of power. The popular movements are not only social poets but also collective Samaritans.

    […]

    A basic income (the UBI) or salary so that everyone in the world may have access to the most basic necessities of life. It is right to fight for a humane distribution of these resources, and it is up to governments to establish tax and redistribution schemes so that the wealth of one part of society is shared fairly, but without imposing an unbearable burden, especially upon the middle class. Generally, when conflicts arise in this matter, it is the middle class that suffers most. Let us not forget that today’s huge fortunes are the fruit of the work, scientific research and technical innovation of thousands of men and women over generations.

    https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2021/documents/20211016-videomessaggio-movimentipopolari.html

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