Daily review 24/11/2022

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  1. joe90 1
    24 November 2022 at 6:20 pm

    She's a Cheney. Of course the fix is in.

    Since Rep. Liz Cheney accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offer to serve as the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Wyoming Republican has exerted a remarkable level of control over much of the committee’s public and private work.

    Now, less than six weeks before the conclusion of the committee’s work, Cheney’s influence over the committee’s final report has rankled many current and former committee staff. They are angered and disillusioned by Cheney’s push to focus the report primarily on former president Donald Trump, and have bristled at the committee morphing into what they have come to view as the vehicle for the outgoing Wyoming lawmaker’s political future.

    […]

    Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee’s Gold Team, excluding reams of other investigative work.

    Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the Blue Team — the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.

    https://archive.ph/8NplI (wapo)

    • Peter 1.1
      24 November 2022 at 8:03 pm

      You reckon the party that holds the power will further the work "into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol" and not have it wither away?

      And the financing for the Jan. 6 attack and the part of militia groups and extremism? I mean they are the party of Law and Order and protecting the Constitution. Aren't they?

  3. RP Mcmurphy 3
    24 November 2022 at 8:13 pm

    Just escaped from the newshub homepage and it is non-stop bile and hatred for the GUBMINT and nasty and vile to boot.

    • Patricia Bremner 3.1
      24 November 2022 at 8:29 pm

      Yes the use of crime as a weapon to beat the Government, the nasty vindictive posts on face book are sickening. Some are gleeful in their blaming. It is scary and sad.

      • RP Mcmurphy 3.1.1
        24 November 2022 at 8:32 pm

        kerre woodham is nasty and stupid and it sems like she will do or say anything to please her masters.

        • Muttonbird 3.1.1.1
          24 November 2022 at 8:54 pm

          She's a terrible broadcaster and as thick as mince but appeals to her equally thick listeners.

          She should be doing nights.

    • observer 3.2
      24 November 2022 at 8:57 pm

      Presumably you mean Newstalk ZB, though Newshub is not much better.

      There is a very serious issue here, and it's grossly irresponsible for media or politicians to fan the flames of fear.

      Here's a quote from the Newshub report:

      "The National Government is fighting the election next year, they're hoping to get in, are they able to say look, when we come into Parliament we are going to hang all the murder[er]s."

      Of course the answer is 'No'. Not even the most extreme right wing Nat/ACT government is going to do that. But people are angry and afraid (understandably so) and cynical grandstanders will exploit that fear while having no intention whatsoever to do anything except use it for votes – or clicks.

      And we all know what happens when they try and ride that tiger.

      (link to Newshub: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/11/police-release-description-of-person-of-interest-in-fatal-auckland-dairy-worker-stabbing.html)

    • gsays 3.3
      24 November 2022 at 9:02 pm

      Howzabout you stop clicking or listening to it?

      Whatever you give your attention to, gets stronger.

  4. Incognito 4
    24 November 2022 at 9:03 pm

    The University of Auckland has held its first mātauranga Māori symposium, just a year after some of its academics came under fire for saying indigenous knowledge shouldn’t be directly classified as science.

    https://www.teaomaori.news/despite-not-real-science-jibe-matauranga-conference-auckland-uni

    I say good on them (i.e. the University).

    • higherstandard 4.1
      25 November 2022 at 6:29 pm

      The maori symposium at UoA is certainly a good thing to be doing.

      Also good on the academics who made comment about maori knowledge and the science curriculum.

      However, the pile on by the woke vice chancellor at Auckland and the usual hangers on in relation to the academics comments was a disgrace.

  5. Poission 5
    24 November 2022 at 9:40 pm

    Swedish Riksbank raises policy rate by .75 points citing high inflation,(8.3) there are also expected increase into 2023,with unemployment increasing to 7.9 % from 7.4 at present.

    https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-and-press-releases/press-releases/2022/policy-rate-raised-by-0.75-percentage-points/

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