Daily review 12/04/2023

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, April 12th, 2023 - 13 comments
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  1. adam 1
    12 April 2023 at 5:46 pm

    No wonder the idiot mayor in Auckland wants to get rid of the CAB, then people won't have any help to get past the indifference of council and government bureaucracy.

  2. arkie 2
    12 April 2023 at 6:18 pm

    A list of poor decision-making and its consequences

    The latest Statistics NZ and Ministry for the Environment report on freshwater in Aotearoa New Zealand: https://environment.govt.nz/publications/our-freshwater-2023/

    The key findings included:

    • 36 percent of lake monitoring sites saw quality improve while 45 percent got worse between 2011 and 2020, based on a nutrient and algae-level measurements
    • the total amount of nitrogen reaching rivers increased between 1995 and 2015, despite farmers' efforts, simply because the number of farms grew
    • nearly half – 45 percent – of the length of our rivers is unsafe to swim in
    • even more – 48 percent – is inaccessible to migratory fish
    • by 2021, two-thirds of freshwater native bird species were either threatened with extinction or at risk of becoming threatened
    • there were more than 4200 overflows due to wet weather, blockages and failures in the year to June 2021.

    …

    The similarity of the findings contained within Our freshwater 2023 to two previous reports (in 2017 and 2020) has experts wondering, will anything ever be done to turn it around?

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487815/concerns-sobering-freshwater-report-will-fail-to-trigger-needed-reforms

    Our leaders are not acting with the urgency that is required: party vote Te Pāti Māori or Green to get more action and embolden Labour's left.

    • Hunter Thompson II 2.1
      13 April 2023 at 9:51 am

      More like non-decision making, IMO. Our so-called leaders just go with the flow.

      • arkie 2.1.1
        13 April 2023 at 10:12 am

        Non-decision is still a decision, albeit a poor one. It is the problem of managerial BAU politics.

  3. gsays 3
    12 April 2023 at 7:58 pm

    I kinda have a rule about not posting after 2 home brews.

    But.

    I am just about finish pasteurising the last third of this season's first batch of cider. Well, cyser actually. When the apple juice had largely finished fermenting it got replenisned with a few kilos of honey. Apples from Ballance and honey from Palmy.

    Delicious and quite impactful. laugh

  4. joe90 4
    12 April 2023 at 8:52 pm

    Perhaps the Covid emergency isn't over.

    /

    The Biden administration is launching a $5 billion-plus program to accelerate development of new coronavirus vaccines and treatments, seeking to better protect against a still-mutating virus, as well as other coronaviruses that might threaten us in the future.

    “Project Next Gen” — the long-anticipated follow-up to “Operation Warp Speed,” the Trump-era program that sped coronavirus vaccines to patients in 2020 — would take a similar approach to partnering with private-sector companies to expedite development of vaccines and therapies. Scientists, public heath experts and politicians have called for the initiative, warning that existing therapies have steadily lost their effectiveness and that new ones are needed.

    “It’s been very clear to us that the market on this is moving very slowly,” Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus coordinator, said Monday. “There’s a lot that government can do, the administration can do, to speed up those tools … for the American people.”

    Jha and others said the new effort will focus on three goals: creating long-lasting monoclonal antibodies, after an evolving virus rendered many current treatments ineffective; accelerating development of vaccines that produce mucosal immunity, which is thought to reduce transmission and infection risks; and speeding efforts to develop pan-coronavirus vaccines to guard against new SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as other coronaviruses.

    https://archive.li/f4L5N (wapo)

  5. joe90 5
    12 April 2023 at 9:00 pm

    Sounds like a serious fall risk. From a ninth floor window.

    Russia President Vladimir Putin has been in the news often since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict last year. According to a fresh report, the Russian President's health has gotten worse, and he is suffering ''severe pain in his head, blurred vision, and numbness of the tongue,'' causing doctors to panic, according to Metro.

    The latest development occurs while many rumours regarding the Russian President's declining health condition are circulating.

    The General SVR Telegram channel, a Russian publication that has been making allegations about Putin's ill health, issued the most recent assertions regarding the Russian President's health

    https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/putin-s-health-worsens-russian-president-suffering-from-severe-pain-blurred-vision-numb-tongue/ar-AA19IRmv

  6. adam 6
    12 April 2023 at 9:02 pm

    Is it just me or is it hard to watch real estate flunkies moan so hard, about a so small fall in house prices.

    Be nice if they got a taste in reality, with realist housing prices rather than the current inflated BS we have been served up in the last few years.

    • Incognito 6.1
      12 April 2023 at 9:12 pm

      For the most part and in the short term, falling house prices only cause psychosomatic symptoms. OTOH, rising interest rates, rents, and CoL (inflation) causes real hurt, to all of us although mortgage-free folks would be least worse off as long as they have a positive cash flow. Your Schadenfreude is misplaced and misguided.

      • adam 6.1.1
        13 April 2023 at 5:24 pm

        I disagree with your analysis.

        As for Schadenfreude what a crock of shit – the rise of house prices hurt a lot of people, just look to the rising homeless. Or the out of control rents. The over crowed houses, and piss poor state of the housing stock.

        There is no pleasure from a housing market this screwed up, nor is their any pleasure from those self same greedy wankers who created the problem, moaning about their inability to fulfill their greed.

        If Schadenfreude is your take away, then that says more about you – than a situation that is way beyond the need of a radical fix. We need housing, and the market model that liberalism offers as a solution – is an abject failure.