Daily review 25/07/2023

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 25th, 2023 - 15 comments
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  1. Dennis Frank 1
    25 July 2023 at 6:22 pm

    NZ has always been a nation of spineless creeps: Aotearoa is the positive alternative. This guy seems to know where he stands:

    "21 Maori journos got it – that's more than the entire compliment of our two major media entities in Aotearoa who between them have 700+ reporters on staff." https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/07/broadcasting-minister-willie-jackson-reacts-to-rnz-board-member-jason-ake-s-latest-comments.html

    The spineless creeps reckon Maori oughta conform to the neocolonial prescription. The PM prodded Willie to talk the guy down:

    The Broadcasting Minister is speaking to Radio New Zealand's chair over fresh comments from board member Jason Ake about the Kiri Allan scandal.

    They'll probably yank the guy from the board for doubling down. Gotta preserve the bullshit at any cost! Parasites rule forever is the Labour default position. No evidence that citizens lose their natural right of free speech as soon as they become board members, so Labour must fake it to maintain solidarity with National. Pretend that coercion is morally okay. Weasel Labour supporters here should huff & puff real loud to defend the establishment. Start now! Go for it!!

    • Bearded Git 1.1
      26 July 2023 at 7:35 am

      Dennis-For the life of me I don't know why you are defending Ake. He should STFU.

      Hipkins was right to criticise his political comments coming from a RNZ board member where political neutrality is fundamental.

      Next you will be defending Seymour for calling a snap parliamentary debate on Allan's resignation, a debate where he pretended to be concerned about her health but then rapidly moved on to use this mental health event to attack and blame the government.

      Seymour has over-stepped here, showing his true nasty colours.

      • Dennis Frank 1.1.1
        26 July 2023 at 8:07 am

        I don't know why you are defending Ake. He should STFU.

        Only if you subscribe to neocolonialism. It's obvious to me that our neocolonial institutions aged past their use-by date long ago (1970s).

        I'm not defending his views – I have only the vaguest idea what they actually are. I'm defending his right of free speech. The idea that board members can credibly be stripped of civil rights by archaic social conventions is total crap!

        We are in dire need of moral leadership and this point exemplifies how dire that need is. The PM ought not to act like a capitalist toady.

        Re Seymour, whatever posturing he's doing currently doesn't interest me. He sometimes makes a sensible point I agree with but not often. If I were bored out of my tree enough to read whatever he said I'd probably agree with you.

  2. adam 2
    25 July 2023 at 6:28 pm

    By now people should be questioning the press in NZ. I'd suggest rather than worry about fake news or independent news sources. We should really looking at News Corp and the bullshit they keep spinning. Corporate media is a model which is an abject failure to produce even half decent outcomes for society.

    The video is media watch from the ABC and the first piece about the warmest month on record is the bit to watch.

    • SPC 2.1
      25 July 2023 at 8:29 pm

      The problem is not mainstream media, it's middle class media – they will dominate under either the corporate model, or even the alternative media model (because of the dominance of money to reward such independent "influencers").

      In the 21tst C, the police are the knights serving the landed gentry to keep the rent generation precariat in their place – as per the anti-protest laws of late (against corporations). And the middle class media regard those beyond their gate as the unwashed to be demonised should they resist by having "conspiracy theories" about how the capitalist regime operates.

    • tWiggle 2.2
      25 July 2023 at 9:25 pm

      Both UK and Oz suffer badly from a corrupt media that parrots all the rw propaganda, coddling even more corrupt and inept governments, like Boris's and Scottie's and Gladys's.

  3. Dennis Frank 3
    25 July 2023 at 7:19 pm

    Been reading this cool library book by a kiwi younger-gen whizz kid: https://www.amazon.com/Optionality-Survive-Thrive-Volatile-World/dp/0473545500

    Got up to around 80% thro & he's doing a commentary on risk investment, using this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

    Right at the heart of neoliberalism you got market forces, and this thing he abbreviates to EHM is at the heart. Basically it's a metaphysical principle: markets clear efficiently with all relevant info factored in. The price agreed between buyer & seller makes the deal happen in accord with what they both know. So shared intel is the alchemy that is causal in the agreement outcome.

    If that seems vaguely magical, keep in mind that economists use an equation based on the EHM. They are also know to be so rational feelings probably curdle instantly within them due to the inherent toxicity of their microbiome. They'd be absolutely the very last suit-wearing dorks to believe in the magic of the market as a real thing.

    If you ask them if they believe it is real instead they'll say yes. If you ask if they have touched it, seen it, tasted it or detected it with other bodily senses, they will likely be rational enough to deny they have done so. If you then point out that blind faith has obviously got them by the balls, watch them closely to discern them inventing some other crazy explanation instead.

    • Blazer 3.1
      25 July 2023 at 7:42 pm

      Those theories of real market forces have been monstered long ago by rigging the game a la LIBOR,and frontrunning algorythyms.

      • Dennis Frank 3.1.1
        25 July 2023 at 7:53 pm

        And now AI no doubt! I thought it was rather impressive years ago they cut thro a mountain range, think it was upstate New York, to gain a four millisecond advantage in high-speed computer-trading.

    • SPC 3.2
      25 July 2023 at 8:32 pm

      The concept of market forces is as a form of natural law “order out of chaos”, like a god of mammon that humanity is subject to, rather than having dominion over.

      The great joke on joe public is that the elites manipulate the market all the time to take advantage of it, to grow their own wealth.

      It’s a propaganda designed to diminish the power of voters, so elites can retain privilege.

      • Dennis Frank 3.2.1
        26 July 2023 at 8:12 am

        Yes I share your view. My idealistic side always viewed the system as a bullshit scheme but I had to encompass the self-organising nature of the thing and the historical roots that reveal how it began. So now I see it as more darwinian than malevolent….

  4. SPC 4
    25 July 2023 at 7:44 pm

    The Football Ferns now have to learn to out yodel the Swiss the qualify for the next round.

    A one time poor defence of a cross and one good save by the opposition keeper and they lose a game they had the better off. And if the VAR was assessing offside by the position of the feet, rather than the leaning forward shoulder, one all.