The Daily Blog Open Mic – 21st March 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Labour, the party the left can count on to let them down
Te Pāti Māori’s amendment bill proposing the removal of GST from all food products and non-alcoholic beverages was shot down after being opposed by Act, NZ First, National and Labour.
Too hard to co-ordinate with supermarkets full of alcoholic beverages – the gummint does so well out of that, so we can’t introduce hemp which would be a great new crop with lots of advantages and less policing required, which is very expensive for us. Sorry cops you won’t be able to swan around in helicopters, and set people up for criminality on spurious grounds of harm to the polity.
We already view with displeasure the disastrous theft of NZ/AO’s heart and strength by the Half-Men of Oh-Dear running us through giant management corpses. And buying up all our goodies – we have gambled our substance away under the aegis of efficiency which the pollies have used as a feint to confuse while the heist was on.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512348/gcsb-staff-who-failed-to-flag-foreign-intelligence-system-should-face-disciplinary-action-former-pm
Are we a USA lapdog?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QIn9mu0ho4
Saw this on moles. It could be that they have advantages and skills that we could follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8-wPHou1w
ChatGPT what is it.
Stephen Fry for humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4 4.42mins
We are fighting for the very soul of the world.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512238/offshore-wind-could-contribute-50b-to-economy-by-2050-report
but
‘Protecting offshore wind energy is security issue’ – Recharge
rechargenews.com
https://www.rechargenews.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
26 Pēp 2024 — … offshore wind infrastructure in the wake of geopolitical events, in particular Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Protecting offshore wind energy is
EU grid action sets course to faster offshore wind growth
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
29 Pēp 2024 — European efforts to accelerate renewable energy growth following Russia’s invasion … offshore wind capacity direct access to UK and … in new
Russian ‘spy ships’ threaten to sabotage UK energy supply
The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › … Whakamāoritia tēnei whārangi
19 Āpe 2023 — Possible targets are believed to include internet cables, offshore wind farms and connectors carrying electricity and gas pipelines, an …
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accelerating-deployment-of-offshore-wind-farms-uk-offshore-wind-champion-recommendations/seizing-our-opportunities-independent-report-of-the-offshore-wind-champion
Dec.7/23 https://maritime-executive.com/article/uk-imposes-sweeping-russian-sanctions-targeting-sovcomflot-and-shadow-fleet
In a global world of business – where do one’s loyalties lie?
Whose ‘side’ are you supposed to be on?
Whom does one support when one’s investment and wealth interests can be at risk?
https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/pwc-cyprus-russia-oligarchs-ukraine-sanctions/
A very good exposure of the rotteness in the British Labour Party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxBEaJWJNJk
The final take-away warning from Owen Jones is that a swerve to the Right by the British Labour Party the disillusionment, disappointment and cynicism it engenders in many people, will create an opening for the Far Right
Owen Jones gives as an example the return of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement to the centre of US politics.
Owen Jones could also have given Chris Hipkins ‘Captain’s call’ on a wealth tax which handed the election to the torys here.