Daily review 27/08/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 27th, 2024 - 18 comments
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Daily review is also your post.

This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.

The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).

Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

18 comments on “Daily review 27/08/2024 ”

  1. gsays 1

    I don't know if this has been pointed out today.

    Continuing a theme of late, an excellent post on TDB by Wayne Hope. It's what it says on the packet.

    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2024/08/27/1984-year-zero-the-juggernaut-story-of-the-fourth-labour-government-and-unwinding-neoliberalism-in-aotearoa-new-zealand/

    "I will never forget the 1990 sale of Telecom under Labour. All national phone lines and associated infrastructure was sold to Bell Atlantic and Ameritech for NZ$4.25 million. Over the next decade, huge nine-figure profits were repatriated annually, consumers were stung by monopoly charges, thousands of skilled workers lost jobs, and a generation of human capital was destroyed.

    In 2024, our present government repeats the neoliberal cliches and prejudices of the Ruth Richardson era. Government overspending causes inflation, work-shy beneficiaries must be disciplined. Labour meanwhile has no avowed recollection of its economic culpability and no conception of a non-neoliberal future. "

    • Kat 1.1

      All them babies that went out the window with the bath water…….MoW / Forestry / Telecom / NZRail / Energy / BNZ to name a few…………

      • gsays 1.1.1

        Yep, and while Labour rightly cops an uppercut for their part in it, Treasury, those unelected, handsomely remunerated mandarins get away scot free.

    • Ngungukai 1.2

      Sir Allan Gibbs & Co were involved in that transaction I believe ?

  2. SPC 2

    Labour looking at fiscal rules – moving on from keeping government to 30% of GDP.

    https://thekaka.substack.com/p/labour-revisiting-3030-fiscal-rules

  3. Drowsy M. Kram 3

    Govt’s ostrich mentality inflaming climate-change crisis [27 Aug 2024]

    Forget denial. Forget avoidance. Every year we don’t act boldly merely worsens the future. It’s not surprising that the young people who will have to live through that future have stopped saying climate change is responsible, and started saying that government inaction is responsible.

    Like most of us, I don’t ignore my doctor’s advice on how to stay alive. Can we please have a government that pays attention to the climate-change planet doctors?

    Can we? Our CoC govt is certainly Acting boldly – here's hoping.

    Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. – Einstein


    Farmers Fart Tax Protest At Parliament, 4 Sept 2003
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0309/S00040.htm

    • PsyclingLeft.Always 3.1

      In a small Rural area. I well remember the fart tax and the hate in (some cases literal) directed towards Labour, Greens, in fact nearly anyone concerned about our NZ (and planets) Environment.

      The whole fart tax name was designed as dog whistle for the haters and deniers.

      And of course a great distraction for what they were doing…and had planned.

      Our World burns, while these NACT1 Nero's fiddle……

  4. adam 5

    Just so your aware, the IDF has wiped off the face of the earth Gisborne – the equivalent in population that is.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/27/israel-killed-40000-people-in-gaza-what-does-that-look-like

  5. joe90 6

    Those were my principles, then, … but, I have others

    /

    Elon Musk’s 18-year-old manifesto in which the tech entrepreneur laid out his vision for the electric car maker shortly after its first public event has vanished from the company’s blog page, along with all posts by Musk and Tesla executives before 2019.

    The “Secret Master Plan,” the company’s de facto constitution, laid out Musk’s perspective that Tesla’s key purpose was to show how electric vehicles and solar power could help fight climate change, in part by creating more and more affordable EVs — a view that has dramatically changed with the billionaire's politics in recent years.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/08/26/elon-musks-2006-climate-manifesto-for-tesla-is-gone-from-its-website-secret-master-plan/

    https://archive.li/5ZFfw

  6. Muttonbird 7

    Farrar has posted interference about the former president of a certain party who today was found guilty of 8 indecent assault charges.

    Farrar has not commented and would not comment about this case unless he was sure the name were soon to become public.

    Farrar is running the line that the certain party was "first class" in its handling of the situation, despite their first step being to set lawyers on the victim and complainant.

    • lprent 7.1

      Yep. Farrar would probably think that “… first step being to set lawyers on the victim and complainant” is the appropriate way to deal with freedom to lay complaints.

      It does rather fit the similar pattern of the ‘Free Speech Union’ who seem to think that having freedom of choice in how private property is leaded or rented out is also worth a lot of legal harassment.

    • adam 7.2

      No holding the bastards who grab for power to account then.

      Why was this not news before the election, oh that's right, right, right…