Daily Review 05/05/2016

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  2. Gangnam Style 2
    5 May 2016 at 6:31 pm

    “Panama Papers a cyber warning” – PM http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/303111/panama-papers-a-cyber-security-warning-pm

    & this gem “You might be a doctor that’s dealt with sexually transmitted diseases, and that information is confidential to that person, then all of a sudden, that information is in the public domain.” He’s a strange man…

    • McFlock 2.1
      5 May 2016 at 6:43 pm

      well, tax dodgers are comparable to the clap.

      • Muttonbird 2.1.1
        5 May 2016 at 8:58 pm

        Indeed it is a perfect analogy – one which is lost on the prime minister even though he’s the author of it.

      • NZJester 2.1.2
        5 May 2016 at 9:43 pm

        How dare you!
        A bunch of people with the clap are far more valuable to an economy than a bunch of tax dodgers!
        At least all the medical treatment they require creates jobs!

    • seeker 2.2
      5 May 2016 at 6:45 pm

      The largest cyber attack at the moment seems to be from Billiam English and his ‘social investment’ program where our personal info is not confidential and private but is there to be “shared”., even with government workers on their smartphones
      As Bill has said they have the data , why not use it?
      What could be more reasonable? (my words) “Cyber attacks are as nothing to our ‘relaxed’ government, when they are in the attack chair.

      http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/bill-englishs-big-data-grab-2016041918#axzz47Zw0q3C3

    • Draco T Bastard 2.3
      6 May 2016 at 12:09 am

      The Panama Papers leak is a warning to New Zealand businesses to protect themselves from cyber hacking, Prime Minister John Key says.

      Yeah, I’d say that he’s more concerned with the financial details of the rich and the fact that most of them are outright thieves getting out than anything else.

      He said the massive information leak from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, which revealed global tax avoidance practices, is proof no company was safe from hacking.

      I think I prefer to think of it as thieves can and will be found out.

  3. weka 3
    5 May 2016 at 6:38 pm

    http://parliamenttoday.co.nz/2016/05/southern-dhb-elections-bill-progresses-2/

    Great, it looks like Southland and Otago people won’t be allowed a say at the local body elections this year in who runs our public health services.

    Greens and NZF only parties opposing the bill.

  5. Paul 5
    5 May 2016 at 6:54 pm

    Serco up to their usual tricks, mismanaging a prison, this time it’s Wiri.
    Our taxes pay for these clowns.

  7. Paul 7
    5 May 2016 at 8:20 pm

    ….Vietnam, Thailand, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Micronesia, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and the U.S.

    The planet’s climate is stuffed.
    Wonder when the msm in NZ attributes all these weather patterns to climate change rather than talking about hos nice it is to have a warm May in NZ?
    Fools.

    • Wensleydale 8.1
      5 May 2016 at 9:13 pm

      I don’t know why they even bother interviewing Key anymore. Not only is he as slippery as a greased whippet, he routinely mangles the English language in such a way you need a fucking interpreter to understand the disingenuous shit.

      • Once was Tim 8.1.1
        5 May 2016 at 10:49 pm

        As I’ve said elsewhere, many of his former colleagues couldn’t even understand the cnut – until they got their marching orders.
        It’s interesting too, how whenever he’s lying blatantly his speech becomes rather (stereotypically) effeminate or drunken. Sssssssssslippery ssssssucking ssssssssshithead

    • AmaKiwi 8.2
      5 May 2016 at 11:44 pm

      Excellent link.

      I hope this becomes a story on The Standard. It’s another scandal brewing.

      Congratulations to Labour MP Damien O’Connor. Nice work.

    • Draco T Bastard 8.3
      6 May 2016 at 12:24 am

      “Well I didn’t see it in that way, and I don’t think anyone who travelled along with me would have seen it that way at all – I didn’t make any sales calls or anything like that.”

      People high up in a bureaucracy and being supportive of a company is selling that company.

      “It’s quite possible that an individual company that gives a donation is also the sort of situation where an MP goes and has some involvement, does something in a business or looks at something because of the varied nature of the varied trips that they do.

      “But it doesn’t stop someone, you don’t have a conflict of interest by nature because of that.”

      Yes it does as that would be the very definition of Conflict of Interest.

      • seeker 8.3.1
        6 May 2016 at 1:36 am

        “Yes it does as that would be the very definition of conflict of interest.”

        Exactly Draco. The previous sentence from key did my head in.
        I could only think,” another potty statement from key’s corrupt little mind.”
        It’s the ‘nature’ of his being, unfortunate’y for New Zealand.
        Sad,very sad.

  9. Muttonbird 9
    5 May 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Has there been a lot of pre-budget releases by this government?

    Seems that the money for “cyber-crime”, the suddenly found money for Melanoma drugs, and the 64,000 electric cars were all pre-budget dumps in order to take the heat off dear leader and his lawyer.

    I imagine even John Key is happy at the success of the healthy homes bill. It too took some of the heat off him this week.

  10. Tautoko Mangō Mata 10
    5 May 2016 at 9:08 pm

    “Protest never changes anything? Look at how TTIP has been derailed”

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/05/protest-never-changes-anything-derailing-ttip-trade-agreement

    • AmaKiwi 10.1
      5 May 2016 at 11:46 pm

      Excellent news that the Europeans are unlikely to sign up to a version of TPPA.

  11. Sirenia 11
    5 May 2016 at 10:51 pm

    That photo at the top is seriously creepy of a man with some bad karma

  12. joe90 12
    6 May 2016 at 12:04 am

    The rent is still too damn high.

    The results

    So what did we learn?

    First, spending inequality – what we should really care about – is far smaller than wealth inequality. This is true no matter the age cohort you consider.

    Take 40-49-year-olds. Those in the top 1 percent of our resource distribution have 18.9 of net wealth but account for only 9.2 percent of the spending. In contrast, the 20 percent at the bottom (the lowest quintile) have only 2.1 percent of all wealth but 6.9 percent of total spending. This means that the poorest are able to spend far more than their wealth would imply – though still miles away from the 20 percent they would spend were spending fully equalized.

    https://theconversation.com/weve-been-measuring-inequality-wrong-heres-the-real-story-56179

    • Draco T Bastard 12.1
      6 May 2016 at 12:32 am

      Those in the top 1 percent of our resource distribution have 18.9 of net wealth but account for only 9.2 percent of the spending. In contrast, the 20 percent at the bottom (the lowest quintile) have only 2.1 percent of all wealth but 6.9 percent of total spending.

      Yeah, money flows from the bottom to the top. It’s the poor paying for the rich to be rich.