Daily review 04/12/2024

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This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

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  1. Dennis Frank 1
    4 December 2024 at 5:36 pm

    Coupla folk take RM seriously & the thesis is the hikoi done lift TMP to 9%:

    https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/12/bob-edlin-roy-morgan-poll.html

    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/12/04/new-roy-morgan-poll-maori-party-soar-to-9-government-sinks-further/

    I'm not convinced, but if ONE News fronts a poll soon confirming this scenario, I'll get in behind them…

    Incidentally, Farrar is still refraining from comment on this emerging deflation of the Nat bubble.

  2. joe90 2
    4 December 2024 at 6:23 pm

    yes

    .

    https://x.com/actparty/status/1863751270500007993

    @nomad546

    The kulak is a contemptible creature.

    His interests are aligned with the ruling class and he'll happily destroy the future of the worker to remain atop his meagre pile.

    He must also present himself as a worker, affecting their manner and dress, so that they will see him as kin.

    […]

    When among the rulers, he is courteous and ingratiates himself within their caste.

    When among the workers, he must misrepresent his self interested action.
    He must tailor it's appearance and his own to appeal to those he seeks to exploit.

    His place atop his pile is all.

    […]

    Being above the rest of the serfs is enough for him. To hold the whip rather than toil beneath it and hoard a greater share of the spoils.

    He is a disposable tool to the rulers. And if his true allegiance is known to the workers?

    He is a greedy pest. A vanguard parasite.

    https://x.com/nomad546/status/1863856235755532483

    • tWig 2.1
      5 December 2024 at 10:45 am

      The Kulaks were rentier class in newly-minted Soviet Russia. Mom-and-pop inheritors of a little more land who could squeeze an extra rouble from their tenant farmers when times were tough.

  3. SPC 3
    4 December 2024 at 6:33 pm

    South Korea's new right (pro Japan) President learns to live with the parliamentary majority control of the budget.

    The association between being pro Japan and tyranny in South Korean politics would have been inimical to security partnership.

    This made the president expendable, if he did not decide to accept the reduction to external policy without a domestic parliamentary majority (something common with a second term POTUS in USA, or the French President atm).

  4. joe90 4
    4 December 2024 at 8:02 pm

    I think we've all seen this movie….

    .

    Kinshasa, Congo AP —

    A flu-like disease that has killed dozens of people over two weeks is being investigated in southwestern Congo, local authorities said.

    The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough and anaemia, provincial health minister Apollinaire Yumba told reporters over the weekend.

    The deputy provincial governor, Rémy Saki, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that between 67 and 143 people had died

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/03/health/mystery-disease-congo/index.htm

    • tWig 4.1
      5 December 2024 at 10:53 am

      Spurred by ebola, African states have worked hard to develop a pan-African CDC response to epidemics, funding surveillance, training response staff and aiming to have vaccines produced locally.

      For example, the 2022 ebola outbreak in DRC was contained and managed effectively by the national government. Don’t assume that the locals aren’t onto it, or that First World countries, eg, the US, are.

      • joe90 4.1.1
        5 December 2024 at 11:19 am

        Don’t assume that the locals aren’t onto it, or that First World countries, eg, the US, are.

        I doubt there would be an African disease response capability without those First World countries, eg, the US,.

  5. Dennis Frank 5
    4 December 2024 at 8:05 pm

    Bernard Njindan Iyke, Lecturer in Finance, La Trobe University:

    Australia gave A$14.5 billion in subsidies to major fossil fuel producers and consumers in 2023–24 alone. https://theconversation.com/for-decades-governments-have-subsidised-fossil-fuels-but-why-213467

    Why? Labour is govt, obviously! The expert spells out the traditional rationale (drug dependency) without really explaining the continuance, because academic silos make it impossible to import gnosis from the other disciplines when necessary.

    Canada spent billions on subsidies to boost its oil sands and fracking projects. Subsidies were essential in the United States’ fracking revolution. Novel approaches to extracting fossil gas and oil – boosted by major tax incentives – turned the US from a major importer of oil and gas into a net exporter by 2019… Globally, these subsidies are estimated at a staggering $10.5 trillion each year.

    Left/right collusion in maintaining fossil-fuel extraction ensures global warming will continue to escalate. Notice how the author admits defeat at the end when he asks why they persist – too hard to stop now. China, he writes, uses the same method which clearly is ubiquitous amongst nation states, so it's above ideology. The mass addiction is effectively global. It seems to be the most powerful force on the planet now. Deploying AI – designed to transform the global incentive structure – is our only hope.

  6. joe90 6
    4 December 2024 at 8:19 pm

    Buyers regret and they haven't even unwrapped it……~ schadenfreude ~

    On Monday night, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his opposition to the proposed $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel Co., vowing to block the deal when he takes office.

    Some steelworkers in Pittsburgh’s Mon Valley who support the deal — and Trump — weren’t happy.

    “I am very frustrated with the news that came out last night,” United Steelworkers Local 2227 Vice President Jason Zugai said during a panel discussion Tuesday in Washington, D.C. “I didn’t expect that to come out. So that was like a gut punch.”

    https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/gut-punch-trump-upsets-local-union-leaders-by-opposing-us-steel-nippon-deal/

  7. Anne 7
    4 December 2024 at 8:52 pm

    Deceitful creep. "Cooking the books' to make it look like Labour created the deficit and not under his watch. Beware those whose eyes are close together warned my Dad many years ago:

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/535680/health-commissioner-to-seek-apology-after-cooking-the-books-accusation

    I hope Ayesha Verral refuses to apologise.

    • adam 7.1
      4 December 2024 at 9:14 pm

      Shit down the walls levy at it again.

      You can always trust national to employ their ideologically pure mates.

    • tc 7.2
      5 December 2024 at 7:39 am

      As always they play the victim when caught at it.

      Wouldn't need to if our lazy owned media explained the $1.4b but we get this manufactured crises instead with it.

      The cost of a public health system they aren't prepared to fund is the story here not budget blowouts.

  8. Ad 8
    4 December 2024 at 10:42 pm

    I just can't believe they're discontinuing Honeypuffs.

    • Macro 8.1
      4 December 2024 at 11:05 pm

      I was completely devastated when Alison Holts "Toasted Muesli" when off the shelves crying

      Over here in Oz land Aldi have a range of fruit filled granola that is close to Heaven; and a less than $4 a packet, together with a good dollop of fresh mango yogurt mmmmmmm.

  9. aj 9
    4 December 2024 at 11:03 pm

    Diplomacy. Taken seriously.

    https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1863805726134866016

    Extraordinary anecdote about U.S. vs Chinese diplomacy in Africa: the U.S. team were speaking with their African counterparts in French via translators whilst Chinese diplomats had actually gone through the effort of learning the local African language. Something not many people know about: China's diplomatic training institutions – particularly China Foreign Affairs University and Beijing Foreign Studies University – rank among the nation's most elite schools. These institutions have extraordinarily stringent language requirements, with BFSU teaching all "the official languages of the 183 countries that have established diplomatic relations with China" (including such niche languages as Sango, Tok Pisin, Niuean or Tetum which I bet none of you have even heard of.