The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday – 13th November 2019

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  1. “Government to tackle period poverty before Budget 2020”
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/11/government-to-tackle-period-poverty-before-budget-2020.html

    (or they could just tackle poverty)

    weird how niche poverty that benefits consumer goods is highlighted – maybe they could get in a tampon sponsor and get a PPP going, yippee!

    Meanwhile under a female led PM, the Feminist Conference can not be on Massay campus anymore – due to “safety” issues… just like Don Brash being banned…

    Thanks ozzie wokie, Jan Thomas, veterinary scientist and career academic now running Massey University using ban-the-freedom-of-speech-on-campass-for-health-and-safety-reasons

    What a lovely tolerant country (sarcasm) we are with no sense of self reflection, critical thinking, big picture thinking, or irony, whats so ever in public policy.

  2. Globalism, really helping the poor and democracy… sarcasm.

    Journalists fighting oil palm plantation found stabbed to death in Sumatra

    https://asiapacificreport.nz/2019/11/06/journalists-fighting-oil-palm-plantation-found-dead-in-sumatra/

    Last week, RNZ revealed that the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies, based on an analysis of Land Information data.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/401186/nz-s-top-50-private-landowners-revealed

    Luckily we can all trade together like one big happy family only it seems to help the greediest companies and industries the most and the vulnerable locals the least…

    Palm oil giant Wilmar goes to full control of Goodman Fielder
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12211787

  3. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/403101/new-zealand-s-dying-towns

    Has Eaqub not got any self reflection, the solutions he obsesses about are what he acknowledges are increasing inequality?

    Aka his views that increasing, ubanisation, globalisation, tech change and aging is causing inequality!!!

    “We may be one country, but our regions are worlds apart from one another,” economist Shamubeel Eaqub wrote in his 2014 book Growing Apart. “Deep-seated economic forces – urbanisation, globalisation, technological change and ageing – threaten to increase these gaps in the years ahead.”

    So why would the neoliberals and The Intellectual Yet Idiot class want more migrant aged parents, making NZ more global and increasing urbanisation by selling off land overseas for forestry farming (less jobs than pastural farming), increasing the urban density with zoning changes and forcing people to leave their community for social security to places they can’t afford to live that have housing shortages!

    Hollowing out the towns

    “Changes to the social welfare system in 2007 meant that those receiving the benefit had to look for, and accept, any work that was offered to them. Apiti says these changes saw people leaving town if they could not commute to jobs outside of Kawhia, taking their families with them.”

    It’s still urbanisation that’s killing places like Kawhia while New Zealand’s overall population creeps up and up, Growing Apart author Shamubeel Eaqub says. Movement towards cities is driven by access to jobs, and jobs – especially in service industries – tend to be in cities because that’s where most people are. (In Kawhia, there are 170 people aged between 15 and 64. According to the Ministry of Social Development, more than half of them (91) are on some kind of benefit.)

    Luckily Thirsty Liquor might be on it’s way to rejuvenate the towns of NZ with those service jobs!
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/117317608/how-a-town-changes-when-house-prices-double-in-five-years

    Also tech should be the opposite of inequality, unless your government as part of the Idiot-yet-intellectual-class https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class priorities low wage tech, Chorus examples!

    But unimaginative Shamubeel Eaqub’s vision seems to be NZ as a place full of ‘service jobs’ in every corner and other possibilities aka helping the locals create businesses, are absent in any analysis nor is what happens when there is inward migration in particular of harmful products (liquor) drives up the prices of housing and locals can’t afford to live in their homes.

    Meth seems to have found it’s way to Kawhia, but maybe Shane Jones billion dollars didn’t?

  4. This will be a good practice for combatting Australian drought – Leaky Weirs. That will be the new buzz term. Can we start it here too in a big way and farmers get subsidies from the government to set these up and plan for their farm system using Natural Sequencing as in Oz. The subsidy would be in return for giving up their irrigation practices and relinquishing their legal rights to it for their property so a future owner couldn’t start up again. Most of these bozos dealing with irrigation have thought on 35 year terms.
    https://earthintegral.com/tag/leaky-weirs/page/2/

    • Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria State Water Baords are reporting some ridiculously puny commercial water quota. They’re even getting universities to rubber stamp everything. The claim is that there has been no water allocations yet Queensland Cotten has something like 3 million or a lot of bushels ready to harvest. It’s just not credible. The entire Victorian wine sector is a dust bowl. The only thing saving Australia is they saved for a rainy day.

  5. Taranaki oil producer Tamarind ‘may be insolvent’ directors warn
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12284777

    Why polluting companies should not be allowed to operate without hefty bonds to make sure they can remediate any environmental impacts. Because the law as it is, is a joke!

    Directors of Tamarind Taranaki, the New Zealand business of a Malaysian oil and gas producer say the company “may be insolvent”.

    What is the government going to do about it? Turn a blind eye and let the polluters get away with it?

    Tamarind operates three oil fields according to its website, Tui, Amokura, and Pateke in the Tui Area oil field. It is the 100 per cent owner and operator of the fields.

    The company’s business model is to buy oil fields late in their production life.

    When buying fields off other companies, Tamarind assumes responsibility for any remediation costs when the field is closed.

  6. Less oil companies may stop this?

    Check out this site for the info as it looks awful as to what is occurring sadly.

    CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOW AFFECTED BY A NEW PHENONOMEN SPREADING FROM CHILE VIA THE SOUTH POLE CALLED “THE INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE” (IOD).
    QUOTE;
    “New Zealand has only just seen the effects of the strongest stratospheric warming event ever observed in the Southern Hemisphere”.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12274006
    Mom always said during the 1950’s “something good comes after the bad”

    • So all I need to do to be extra special is leave YouTube clips lying around and talk smack about Martyn Bradbury and Chris Trotter? Fuck why didn’t I do that. My IQ will have achieved level 1000 then bang Wu Tang Clan.

  7. It is so easy to be sanctimonious when you are not in pain and dying. It is selfish to divorce pity and compassionate thoughts from the broad theories of what life and death should be like. And often quoting the istorical situation – It’s always been this way (so why should it be changed now), I;ve watched my relatives die and tried to be there for them and the doctors and nurses are very good (bringing a general and resigned objective view about a particular personal pain and grief.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/403195/euthanasia-bill-passes-final-reading-in-parliament
    The member’s bill, in the name of ACT leader David Seymour, allows terminally ill adults to request a medically-assisted death.
    It cleared its second reading 70 votes to 50 in June and easily passed tonight after impassioned debate.
    However, it will still take a majority referendum result at next year’s General Election before the legislation can be enacted.

    With every bill affecting people personally taking this long, climate change will have battered us down before they pass.Let’s sit around and sip latte’s in the sun instead of trying to ride the waves of disaster. Why worry.

    Labour list MP Jamie Strange told the crowd MPs from across the House would support them in their opposition.
    National’s Alfred Ngaro, a list MP, told them the Bill was going ahead despite the direct opposition of thousands of New Zealanders, including some in the medical community – “still, here we are today”.,,,
    National MP Dr Shane Reti had asked the House, as a medical practitioner and a Māori, to vote against the end of Life Choice Bill.

  8. In the wake of the unprecedented fire emergency in Australia Scott ‘Dirty Coal Morrison’ begs for mercy from his political opponents, While showing no mercy on climate change, refusing to back down on the Adani mega coal mine and other massive fossil fuel projects that fuel climate change.

    https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/take-it-down-a-few-notches-morrison-urges-calm-as-fire-blame-game-escalates-20191112-p539zb.html

    Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is urging Australians to ‘calm down’ and turn down the rhetoric over climate change as a cause of these fires.

    But where was Scott Morrison in urging calm when Australia’s Deputy PM Michael McCormack told the Prime Minister of Tuvalu Enele Sopoaga that instead of demanding Australia “not opening your coal mines” that, if Pacific Islanders wanted to “survive” climate change they come and pick Australia’s fruit.

    As an example of extreme provocative rhetoric, Michael McCormack’s deeply offensive and racist statement would be hard to beat.

    As one angry Pacifica climate protester in Auckland put it, “Pick your own fuckin fruit”

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156816659251814&set=p.10156816659251814&type=3&theater

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