Daily Review 19/10/2016

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  1. adam 1
    19 October 2016 at 5:44 pm

    Seems the US are supporting Iraq and Kurdish ground forces against ISIS.

    More to come.

  2. Muttonbird 2
    19 October 2016 at 7:24 pm

    Funny how whenever there’s ‘shock resignations’ of National government ministers it’s about rejuvenation and forward thinking, yet when Labour party press secretaries do the same there’s a poisonous culture in Andrew Little’s office.

    • mickysavage 2.1
      19 October 2016 at 8:51 pm

      Yep and the Minister sucking the oxygen out of the announcement of National’s Mt Roskill campaign is not exactly the thing a slick organisation normally does.

      • Muttonbird 2.1.1
        19 October 2016 at 9:03 pm

        I notice the seemingly permanent billboards along Mt Albert Road with Parata and Parmar photoshopped together are hastily being taken down.

        Wood’s campaign looks good visually from the start aided by Little’s presence early even though Watkins tried to mock him for it.

        • mickysavage 2.1.1.1
          19 October 2016 at 9:22 pm

          The Nats are giving the impression the decision was made a while ago. May not be necessarily so …

          • Draco T Bastard 2.1.1.1.1
            19 October 2016 at 10:16 pm

            The Nats always try to make it look like the decision was made a while ago. After all, if they admitted that the decision was made yesterday, which is usually the case, then they’d look like a bunch of incompetents.

        • Colonial Viper 2.1.1.2
          19 October 2016 at 9:30 pm

          That’s odd. Is a Parata scandal about to break?

          • Muttonbird 2.1.1.2.1
            19 October 2016 at 9:47 pm

            Clearly her image is seen to be damaging to Parmar’s Mt Roskill campaign. In a Stalinist move they have set about expunging Parata from the past.

            Not sure National has learned much from Northland.

            Will Steven Joyce be heading this campaign? Government limos cruising along Hillsborough Road?

  3. Manuka AOR 3
    19 October 2016 at 7:49 pm

    Archie Roach – one of this year’s artists at WOMAD in March:

  4. Manuka AOR 4
    19 October 2016 at 7:58 pm

    In Aotearoa we now have the “Vulnerable Children’s Act”. What will it mean for the future?

  5. Draco T Bastard 5
    19 October 2016 at 8:59 pm

    Book slams Uber, Airbnb, sharing economy: Walkom

    Does deregulation of taxi services benefit consumers? Slee looks at Seattle’s experience in the pre-Uber era and concludes it did not. In that city’s case, deregulation led to higher prices and worse service.

    Does it benefit drivers? Not really, says Slee. Uber describes its drivers as self-employed entrepreneurs. But in reality, they are bound by rigorous company rules and subject to Uber discipline.

    In some cases, as in the regulated taxi industry, drivers lease their cars from Uber.

    The problem with the way these things are panning is that it’s still driven by the capitalist idea of profit for a few people from the work of many. The end result will always be exploitation of the workers, higher prices for the consumers and more and more costs shifted onto the taxpayers.

    What’s Yours is Mine: reviews and other coverage

    • Molly 5.1
      20 October 2016 at 9:18 am

      I read the What’s Mine is Yours book a few years ago, before the fledglings of Air BnB and Uber took off.

      What seemed to have occurred, is what often does.

      An idea for improving the way business operates in terms of community, is appropriated and used to do the same-old “take as much money as possible” schtick.

      Green washing of companies, is now accompanied by “social enterprise” by those who use it as a marketing and promotion tool – not as a fundamental premise of their companies.

      I console myself by knowing there are a lot of people out there who have always contributed via their business practices to social equity, even if they are not the powerhouses that command public recognition. Those examples are the ones to follow.

  7. Colonial Viper 7
    19 October 2016 at 9:31 pm

    Something else also odd – is the New York Times website down or is it just me?

  8. Muttonbird 8
    19 October 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Maybe this is the reason for the Parata announcement today (something which National themselves claim they’ve been sitting on for months).

    Frank Bananarama, the guy who locks up opposition politicians for fun, slithers into the country tonight.

    Key to host him at Eden Park. Shane Jones the porn watcher to hold his hand throughout.

    It’s all there.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11732066

  9. aerobubble 9
    20 October 2016 at 2:57 pm

    Is it just my freeview thats lost the parliament channel this week?

  10. aerobubble 10
    20 October 2016 at 3:26 pm

    GBH. Does death while kidnapped become murder if fear is present? I mean how does a person locked on a balcony, unable to escape, amount to murder unless fear was present in he mind? I get that a person tied up, or in a boot of a car, dies trying to escape is manslaughter… …or is it murder? Surely once u are in the control of another and trying to escape you die, thats murder not manslaughter. A person held on a balcony,how is that not kidnap?