Shaw says COP26 conference most important since Paris Agreement

Climate Minister James Shaw’s trip to the COP26 conference and his delegation’s use of MIQ spaces upon their return is again being criticised by the opposition.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has strongly backed the move and specifically set aside places for the group in MIQ, but that decision is also under fire.

The annual conference is being held for the 26th time this year, in Glasgow, after it was cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

ACT leader David Seymour has previously taken Shaw to task over the trip, and returned to the topic today.

“He said he doesn’t want to go to COP26, I think he should take his own advice and not go to Glasgow … he’s actually flying into a Covid hotspot boots and all and facing a Scottish pack which is ridden with Covid,” Seymour said.

Seymour said that after 25 such conferences, he did not believe the value of New Zealand attending was worth the risk.

“I don’t think the benefits of New Zealand being at the 26th Conference of Parties is going to outweigh the costs of our very very scarce MIQ space, especially if you’re taking nine – or is it 15 – people over there.

The Right are attacking Shaw for going to the Glasgow Climate Change Jamboree. They jeer it is hypocrisy to travel there and cause more climate change pollution & they sneer at the use of MIQ spaces.

James going to Glasgow is a hollow virtue signalling joke but not for these shallow reasons. Glasgow 2021 is to hammer out carbon neutral by 2050, but being carbon neutral by 2050 is bullshit!

By 2030, over 50% of the oceans will be collapsing as bio-habitats.

By 2030, East Coast cities in the U.S. can expect to see two to three-times as many flooding incidents.

By 2030, 122million will be driven into extreme poverty as  direct result of climate change.

By 2030, 100million will die as a direct consequence of climate change.

By 2030, even if the Paris Agreement is actually implemented, we will see a planet warm to 3.4 degrees by the end of this century meaning there will effectively be no future civilisation capable of surviving on a planet that warm.

By 2030, the global annual cost of global warming will be $3trillion.

2030, the number of extremely hot days — classified as maximum temperatures of more than 35C — are tipped to climb in all capital cities.

Oh.

And by 2050 we might be carbon neutral.

Yay!

See, when you actually compare what the planet will look like by 2030, being carbon neutral by 2050 looks meaningless doesn’t it?

The magnitude of what we need to do to adapt to counter the nightmare unending capitalism has wrought upon the planet is simply beyond the capacity of the current political establishment and that is most apparent with the Greens.

This is less transformative and more glacial, except there won’t be any glaciers by 2050.

If you think being carbon neutral by 2050 is a solution, you are part of the problem.

Like the NZ Green Party, Glasgow 2021 is too little, too late.

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Anti-terror law back before Parliament, but faces opposition

The bill will also:

• • Criminalise travel to, from, or via New Zealand with the intention to carry out a specified offence in the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002
  • criminalise planning or preparation for a terrorist act (and apply warrantless powers of entry, search, and surveillance to that offence)
  • more clearly criminalise weapons training or combat training for terrorist purposes
  • criminalise wider forms of material support for terrorist activities or organisations
  • extend the control orders regime so that individuals who have completed a prison sentence for specified offences related to terrorism may be subject to the regime if they continue to present a real risk of engaging in terrorism-related activities.

The government plans to have the bill passed by the end of the month.

The shock wave caused by the ISIS terrorist attack in West Auckland has frightened us all and while that fear is legitimate, it must not cloud our judgment.

We all want answers as to how an extremist who was on the Government’s radar managed to manipulate the refugee protocols to the point they were able to commit their violence while the rest of the security apparatus sat on their hands.

But the rush to pass the new anti-terrorism laws is the exact same fear that drove us to enact the original terrorism legislation that has proved to be so hopeless.

The Urewera terror raids show us how easy it is to abuse terror powers and how they inevitably end up being used against Maori.

These new terror powers enable the State to arrest and prosecute you for thinking about planning a crime, that’s an enormous empowerment of the State and with our previous history of how those terror powers get misused, I want to see the checks and balances before we hand over such enormous thought crime powers.

Let’s not forget that even if was illegal to plot a terror attack, this ISIS extremist was charged with a weapons crime which was longer than that charge so the issue is how did he manage to manipulate the refugee laws.

This was a bureaucracy screw up, handing the State even more terror powers won’t solve that.

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Judith Collins won’t resign as National leader – even if polls slip below 20 per cent

National leader Judith Collins says she does not intend to ever resign, even if her party’s polling slips below 20 per cent.

Collins was speaking to media before attending a National Party caucus meeting on Tuesday, following a dire week that saw two bad poll results and widespread criticism of her decision to attack Siouxsie Wiles for not wearing a mask while outdoors.

The National Party leader herself has admitted to getting the level 2 rules wrong while visiting Queenstown, with her mask off while ordering an ice cream at a cafe.

National hit 21 per cent support in an early-September poll from Curia – its own traditional pollster.

Wow.

She loves power the way a Great White Shark loves blood.

She’s finally reached Hitler in the bunker level crazy and is vowing to raze National to the ground just so she can hold onto the Leadership.

I mean you gotta hand it to her, girlfriend just wants it more!

To rouse the corpse of Don Brash, to cavort with the fallen one Cameron Slater and to declare that there is no poll number too low for her to manically cling to power, she’s riding the atomic bomb all the way to ground zero.

I haven’t seen self mutilation like this outside a BDSM club in Amsterdam.

To declare that you will never ever, ever, ever, ever resign is bewilderingly brave, she’s telling her cowardly National Party MPs that she expects them to fight or die.

I don’t think National Party MPs have that level of decision making or courage which is why they don’t have the bottle to take Judith out.

She is promising to sabotage who ever attempts to take her out. She has total loyalty from National’s most talentless MPs and rules by pure fear now.

It feels very scary inside the National Party now.

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10 years ago analysts were warning that China’s largest property investment company, EverGrande, was a basket case of Frankenstein ideology spawned between the Communist Party and the market forces of Chinese Capitalism.

The analysts warned the insane amount of debt wracked up was utterly unsustainable and if it collapsed billions would be lost.

That was 10years ago.

Now EverGrande has $300billion in debt and the implosion is likely to cross a debt black hole threshold and drag China and the globe into an event horizon of recession at a time when Covid is still being fought.

I think if EverGrande implodes it will trigger a mass liquidation of external property holdings and businesses meaning the Chinese investor will dump property assets in the West to shore up the domestic Chinese economy.

We can see this with WasteManagement up for sale now (an asset the Regional Council should buy). If EverGrande spreads expect the contagion to hit property prices hard as a glut of sales extinguish demand.

Expect higher interest rates as house values plummet. Watch how quickly NZ Middle class kindness evaporates when they lose 40% of their fake housing wealth.

This type of economic carnage in the West would suit China’s diplomatic goals in the wake of AUKUS.

I have argued that China’s recent crackdowns on screen times, effeminate men and Chinese Tech Tzars is driven by a paranoid and frightened authoritarian State not the bold moves of an optimistic new SuperPower.

When the economic sugar rush of fake growth passes its first bloom, the dark tyranny of war quickly angers into those hollow promises.

Pandemic + economic strife = war.

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