Open mike 21/05/2016
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John Oliver: Scientific studies (or why media are so useless at it)
John Oliver takes a good solid swing at the media who suck up shit press releases designed by institutions to get funding and interest groups doing marketing for their products, and the idiotic consumers of schlock ‘facts’. Or John Key who apparently thinks that money magically changes physics.
Love Trump.
A class in political sloganeering 101. Read and learn.
Daily Review 20/05/2016
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Jonathan Pie has election anger
Jonathan Pie rails against media attempts to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Labour over the recent local body election results.
Petition to forgive emergency accommodation debt
A petition: “As Minister of Social Development we call upon Minister Anne Tolley to urgently forgive all debts incurred by people who have been forced to stay in Motels as emergency accommodation….”
In the middle of a housing crisis Housing Corp is selling state houses
John Campbell is covering the homeless crisis with stories that highlight the personal tragedies that are occurring and the complete indifference of the Government to their plight.
Europe 1 Dunedin 0
In Europe different communities and countries have managed to rely solely on renewable electricity sources, but in Dunedin some locals are fighting a community’s attempt to become sustainable.
Incoherent, unfair and unaccountable
That is how officials from the Ministry of Social Development described the emergency housing system to Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett – a year ago. What has Bennett done in the year since?
Open mike 20/05/2016
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We’re going to burn it all, until we burn it down.
What does it really mean to reduce NZ’s total fossil fuel use by 50% by 2030: a warm up discussion for an upcoming thought experiment.
Daily Review 19/05/2016
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Portugal
There are bits of good news out there, but there’s a lot of denial around the mess we’re in.
Vernon Small on Key’s fiscal Tardis
Small: “Only this week Prime Minister John Key managed to spend one, save it and outline a plan to give it back to taxpayers all at the same time.”
Glib words and false hope aren’t going to cut it
This is a massive market and moral failure. The problem isn’t going to go away, it’s going to get worse, and the media are going to stay on the case. Time for National to borrow some more Labour / Green policy thinking.
Open mike 19/05/2016
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Daily Review 18/05/2016
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Labour would legalise medical cannabis
On Stuff: “Little said cannabis products should be available to anyone suffering chronic pain or a terminal condition if their GP signed off on it.”
A message for our anti-science government
Here’s some more science for the government to hate on: “Paris climate agreement cannot be met without emissions reduction target for agriculture”.
Government’s plan for housing crisis: tread water
The Government’s promised funding for 3,000 new beds for the homeless will not create any but will make sure that existing beds are kept available.
Key to Homeless: You Can Stay at Mine
Prime Minister John Key has today announced a radical plan to solve the housing crisis. The homeless are now welcome to go flatting with him in his Parnell bach. The plan includes draining the swimming pool and subdividing it into flats, putting hammocks in the palm trees and making soup in the pool cabana’s kitchen. Max Key may have to move out to make way for the homeless, but the PM described that as a painful sacrifice he was now willing to make in the light of his son’s most recent social media posting.
Andrew Little live chat 8:30am
“Join Stuff on Facebook at 8:30am Wednesday for a live chat with the leader of the Labour Party”
Open mike 18/05/2016
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Daily Review 17/05/2016
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Homeless coverage goes international
Coverage of Auckland’s homeless goes international. The working poor are now the working homeless.
The 2016 Scoop Foundation Membership Drive
Everyone says they want to support good journalism. Here’s you chance!
Tax cuts! No! Yes! Maybe! Look over there!
English is right, Key is lying and he knows it. But Key would rather we were talking about the mirage of tax cuts (again) than current events like the protection of corrupt tax havens or our homeless living in cars.
Open mike 17/05/2016
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Daily Review 16/05/2016
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Nice weather down here…
… and a freight train coming down the tracks.
We have to have poverty so we can have a tax cut
Despite record Crown debt and a crisis in the social sector National is getting ready to campaign in 2017 promising a tax cut.
NZ fishery catch 2.7 times reported – new study says
“The findings also reveal how the Quota Management System, despite its intentions and international reputation, actually undermines sustainable fisheries management by inadvertently incentivising misreporting and dumping,” University of Auckland’s Dr Glenn Simmons said.
The hidden homeless and the speculators
Speculators keep buying houses while families live in garages and cars. This is a moral failure, a leadership failure, a market failure – it is every kind of failure.
The real reason that politicians will take no action on tax haven corruption
Open mike 16/05/2016
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Make the TPP a Conscience Vote
Last week, Andrew Little gave Phil Goff permission to vote with National for the TPP. Bryan Bruce asks if it is time for all MPs to be given a conscience vote on the TPP.