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Daily review 20/09/2019
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Is Mr Chow going to Japan for the RWC?
Greta the great she should be called.
Great Wikipedia page under Thunberg, Greta
Massive climate protests in all major Australian cities today as the start of the international climate strike day. Some organisations like NZ's kids 4 climate strike have delayed the strike to next Friday. Not sure why. 22,000 at demonstration in Hobart. Tens of thousands in Brisbane where I was including many trade unionists. Brisbane's largest demonstrations since 2003 against the Iraq war. Over 100,000 in Melbourne. All due to Greta Thunberg's original Friday climate strikes.
Incredible achievement and she's only 16 years old.
And yet, according to Shadrach, "She [Greta] has achieved nothing. Zero. Nada." https://thestandard.org.nz/toxic-masculinity/#comment-1651097 (@11:23 pm)
Who/what to believe?
If you are an economics hound this will be interesting
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Disquieting, disrupting Brexit initiating bad effects on the UK economy. The Conservatives should be able to be sued for going ahead with this dodgy idea. The people at the top are supposed to be able to make excellent decisions with all the financing that they get and the hired civil servants. It is all poppycock, what companies are going to be scrabbling next. It's very destabilising.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/blog/live/2019/sep/20/pound-boosted-by-brexit-deal-hopes-as-rbs-appoints-first-female-chief-executive-business-live 11m ago 10:46 (UK time)
Thomas Cook on brink, as pound boosted by Brexit deal hopes – business live
Thomas Cook races to raise an extra £200m to stave off collapse, as the pound hit a two-month high against dollar ahead of a key Brexit meeting
We’ve got a new story running on Thomas Cook, outlining the repercussions of the company’s potential collapse, which could reportedly happen as early as this weekend.
As Sean Farrell explains, the company’s failure could put 20,000 jobs at risk, including about 9,000 in the UK.
The Civil Aviation Authority, the government-backed regulator, would be forced to pick up the estimated £600m cost of bringing the 150,000 people home.
The Department for Transport and the CAA have made preparations to bring stranded Thomas Cook passengers back to the UK, a plan known as Operation Matterhorn.
soimon went to Wanaka today and promised a maternity unit in town (if elected). The locals were a tad sceptical…
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/birthing-unit-vow-fails-satisfy
https://crux.org.nz/community/wanaka-mums-tell-bridges-dont-treat-the-maternity-crisis-as-a-political-football/
No need to quote from the reports, headlines say it all. And this is in the bluest of blue part of Waitaki, or possible future Central Otago electorate.
Ask Northland what happened to their 10 bridges.