The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 2nd May 2016

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1. HERE IS THE LATEST BAG OF LIES FROM A COMPULSIVE LIAR SINCE KEY SAiD HE HAD NO TRANZRAIL SHARES IN 2008, & WAS FOUND LYING THEN SO………

   http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0809/S00459.htm

   PM denies giving lawyer info on trust changes

   http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/302793/pm-denies-giving-lawyer-info-

   The Prime Minister says his lawyer misrepresented him when lobbying the Revenue Minister not to change the rules governing foreign-owned trusts.

   John Key during caucus

   Ken Whitney, John Key’s private lawyer, wrote to then Revenue Minister Todd McClay in December 2014, saying Mr Key had advised him the government had no plans to change the regime.

   Speaking to Morning Report, Mr Key said he did not give Mr Whitney that advice – rather, he told him he did not know of any planned changes.

   But Mr Key said people who knew him also had a right to raise any legitimate concerns to ministers.

   He said Mr McClay may have been aware that Mr Whitney was the Mr Key’s lawyer.

   “But there were eight people who went to see the Minister as part of an industry lobby group, he is one of those, and they went to raise why they believe it is an important industry.”

   Mr Key said at the time he was not aware of the outcome of the meeting with Mr McClay.

   Foreign trusts, and New Zealand’s rules, have been under the spotlight since the release of the Panama Papers, which revealed how Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca orchestrated a worldwide web of companies designed to let people hide money and dodge taxes.

   The Green Party has claimed that the foreign trust industry used its influence with the government to stop Inland Revenue from clamping down on the sector.

   Related
   PM accused of ‘half-truths’ on foreign trust links
   PM’s lawyer lobbied for foreign trusts
   Trust deposit not embarrassing – PM
   PM has deposit in foreign trusts firm

   1. Thumbs up Cleangreen.

      1. +100

2. Lies and more lies – knives out – corruption – shady back room deals – money and more money – day light robbery – swindles – tax havens

   – a synopsis for my new book – it is called ‘New Zealand’

3. I cant get Waatea on this website for tonights programe ? Couldnt get Friday niights show either ? Why I can get Checkpoint with Jphn Cambell so cannot be my computer

4. The most important issue in the history of humanity (generally ignored, of course).

   The effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide is both instantaneous and cumulative. The slowness of heat transfer from the atmosphere to the oceans means that temperatures will continue to rise even if anthropogenic emissions were to cease tomorrow.

   http://www.bitsofscience.org/real-global-temperature-trend-climate-system-thermal-inertia-7086/

   The practical effect is that, despite being extraordinarily high in absolute terms in recent times, temperatures are actually deceptively low and will continue to rise rapidly, whatever we do.

   Of course continuing to burn fossil fuels simply exacerbates the predicament our children will have to cope with (or our predicament if we are under the age of 60).

   Unsurprisingly, with atmospheric CO2 at a record high and rising at a record rate, Arctic ice cover is at a record low (just 12,195,413 km2 May 1st, 2016）and is melting at an unprecedented rate.

   https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/vishop-extent.html

   This portends an ice-free Arctic very soon and then even faster overheating and meltdown, since less ice reflects less heat back into space.

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