Daily review 15/10/2019

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  1. The Chairman 1
    15 October 2019 at 5:58 pm

    Well worth a look when you have time.

    https://youtu.be/hjZLZYnJ3mI?t=6

  2. A 2
    15 October 2019 at 6:25 pm

    Why is permitting KiwiSaver for investment property a dangerous idea?

    Ans: It will prevent the natural market cycle from completing, and cause first home buyers to sustain losses they might otherwise have avoided. Furthermore, it may force beneficiaries into the market as not purchasing a rental could be interpreted as denial of income.

    Dodgy stuff and as usual the most vulnerable people haven't been considered.

  3. weka 3
    15 October 2019 at 6:49 pm

    Crowdsourcing Wellington's new post-mayoral change slogan.

    https://twitter.com/LostArcNZ/status/1183965809934077952

  6. marty mars 6
    15 October 2019 at 8:44 pm

    Mallard stuffed it up – would have been a more fitting punishment to have him ask more questions not less.

    The Speaker has limited the number of questions Simon Bridges can ask in the House as a punishment for the National Party defying Trevor Mallard by not pulling down their attack ads.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/401028/national-leader-s-questions-slashed-by-speaker-over-attack-ads

    • Incognito 7.1
      15 October 2019 at 9:31 pm

      Not much to it other than leave free speech alone or ACT might gain traction and (thus) Labour/Left might lose the election.

      Did you read the comments?

    • Drowsy M. Kram 7.2
      16 October 2019 at 12:00 pm

      Thanks Grey, that's very interesting, particularly the linked Stuff article. Flynn's insights have value still – it's disappointing (to me) that this old leftie academic's preferred publisher got cold feet.

      "That means that, had Flynn been working at Auckland University now, he would not have signed the open letter from almost 900 university staff and students last week criticising the vice-chancellor for allowing posters on campus promoting the launch of a white nationalist group.

      Instead Flynn agrees with the vice-chancellor that university is where a wide range of opinions can be held and debated. That may mean tolerating opinions offensive to you. In his view, this is becoming an increasingly difficult position to hold.

      In a perfect illustration of this point, his book formerly called In Defence of Free Speech: The University as Censor was pulled by his UK publisher, Emerald, last month. It cited concerns about the possibility of contravening British hate speech laws prompting legal action, and thus costs. This occurred despite Flynn having made changes to the text after feedback from three referees including Steven Pinker (Canadian psychologist and popular science author), agreeing to alterations suggested by the editor, and being listed in the publisher's September catalogue of about-to-be published books."

      "Ironically, Flynn migrated to New Zealand from the United States in 1963 to escape the political repression of the McCarthy era. By then the self-described democratic socialist had already been fired twice from universities for his political leanings.

      Flynn's book details the repression of the right in the United States from the late 19th century to 1965. When it comes to which side is the most vicious, he is unequivocal. Nothing the left have done since comes close to the oppression of the right, he believes."

      https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/116443386/the-complicated-issue-of-hate

      It's a shame that there isn't a time machine with which to test the hypothesis that publisher Emerald's decision is due to decreasing resilience/tolerance and increasing sensitivity to offensive ideologies or points of view.

      “I feel as if I am living in a lunatic asylum,” sighs the 82-year-old professor. Jim Flynn – emeritus professor of politics at the University of Otago, honorary doctor of science, a bemedalled fellow of the New Zealand academic stratosphere – is no stranger to roiling scholarly clashes, to upending card tables, to pressing intellectual eject buttons. He lost two jobs, he tells me – in the civil rights-era American South – defending human rights now considered laughably basic.

      “I was sacked for defending Martin Luther King!” he tells me jovially.””

      https://www.noted.co.nz/planet/planet-planet/no-place-to-hide-jim-flynn-on-climate-change

  8. weka 8
    15 October 2019 at 9:12 pm

    One of the saner comments on the political polls this week from Canterbury Uni Associate Professor of Political Science Bronwyn Hayward.

    https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/1184012679251234816

    • A 8.1
      15 October 2019 at 10:29 pm

      The disapproval comes in waves that occur without obvious trigger so probs just pushed by some marketer.

  9. joe90 9
    15 October 2019 at 9:57 pm

    Because science.

    https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/1183093068901371904

    LONDON (Reuters) – Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”

    In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-scientists/scientists-endorse-mass-civil-disobedience-to-force-climate-action-idUSKBN1WS01K?

    #unitebehindthescience

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