Daily review 17/04/2025

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, April 17th, 2025 - 10 comments
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  1. Muttonbird 1
    17 April 2025 at 7:05 pm

    There is a lot of framing at the moment that the current and future pressures on the economy are external only. A week or so ago both Luxon and Willis did special stand ups saying that any upcoming issues will not be their fault.

    It's convenient for these two who have monstered the public and therefore the private sector to have someone and someone else to blame.

    Today inflation rose and GDP forecasts plummeted but none of that is the government's fault, of course.

    Labour needs to be very vocal about these numbers and the government's responsibility for them instead of being roped into making statements about Maori Party superannuation policy.

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    • Bearded Git 1.1
      17 April 2025 at 8:08 pm

      Yes Willis and Luxon never mentioned the East Cape and Auckland cyclones nor (especially) Covid when addressing economic issues at the last election. These hit the economy by many many billions.

      But they were Labour's fault (sarc)

      Robertson did a fine job.

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      • alwyn 1.1.1
        17 April 2025 at 8:24 pm

        Can Willis and Luxon talk about cyclone Lam that hit today? (or was it yesterday)

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        • Bearded Git 1.1.1.1
          18 April 2025 at 9:15 am

          Nothing like the same scale from media reports, but Luxon has a tendency to exaggerate so who knows.

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          • alwyn 1.1.1.1.1
            18 April 2025 at 10:15 am

            The scale seems to be quite similar. The response seems to be a great deal better though.

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            • Muttonbird 1.1.1.1.1.1
              18 April 2025 at 12:20 pm

              For reference:

              Auckland Anniversary floods

              NIWA reported that an entire summer's worth of rain fell within one day in what it described as a 1-in-200-year event. The event is considered to be the worst flooding in Auckland's modern history.

              By 10:00 pm on 27 January, other locations in Auckland had reported record daily rainfalls before the day was over; the Museum of Transport and Technology had 238.4 mm and Albany had had 260.6 mm. The highest daily rainfall occurred in Māngere, with a total of 265 mm. Metservice also reported that 299.5 mm of rain fell at Albert Park in a span of 34 hours. Some parts of the city had over 400 mm of rain within a week. 27 January was declared the wettest day in Auckland on record, with 258 mm of rain at Auckland Airport exceeding the previous record of 161.8 mm. January 2023 was declared the wettest month ever in central Auckland by NIWA, with the total of 539 millimetres surpassing the 420 mm recorded in February 1869.

              Deaths – 4

              Damage – NZ$2.2 billion

              Cyclone Gabrielle

              Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that devastated parts of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the costliest tropical cyclone on record in the Southern Hemisphere, with total damage estimated to be NZ$14.5 billion. It was also the deadliest cyclone and weather event overall to hit New Zealand since Cyclone Giselle in 1968, surpassing Cyclone Bola in 1988.

              Over 140,000 landslides were mapped following the cyclone.

              The West Auckland communities of Piha, Karekare, Waimauku and Muriwai were heavily affected. Two firefighters died after being caught in a landslide in Muriwai. 224 buildings were red stickered across the (Auckland) region, meaning entry is prohibited. Of these, 130 red stickered homes were in the town of Muriwai; nearly a third of all the homes in the town.

              A flash flood swept through the Esk Valley as the Esk River burst its banks, submerging properties under 7 metres of water and burying homes in silt up to their roof lines. One house was moved 600 metres from its original position.

              Deaths – 11

              Damage – NZ$14.5 billion

              While Cyclone Tam does continue to affect the country with East Cape still expecting very heavy rain into the night, the scale doesn't seem to be quite similar at all.

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    • bwaghorn 1.2
      17 April 2025 at 8:15 pm

      Of course being thick right wingers they'll cut even more government spending and deepen the problem,

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    • Ad 1.3
      17 April 2025 at 8:29 pm

      Their excuses are sick.

      They and the Reserve Bank deliberately crashed the economy especially Wellington area and Auckland with ruthless budget cuts and higher interest rates.

      They don't control the whole economy but there's no evidence their plan is improving it. Their job is to protect us and they aren't.

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  2. joe90 2
    17 April 2025 at 9:33 pm

    Degenerate junkie goes all in on Lebensunwertesleben for autistic kids.

    /

    "Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this," Kennedy said. "These are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses/story

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