Daily review 30/09/2024

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  1. Adrian 1

    I saw the RNZ stand up interview, notice how Luxon always has to have an escape route, standing outside and the only one with a microphone, but shit he is good, I’ve met quite a few arseholes in 75 years but he absolutely slays it with the taking credit for others hard work and initiative. How the fuck can he straight faced take the credit for Labour projects while bagging everything Labour did. King of the Arseholes. So glad to see at last lots of others starting to get angry as well.

    • tc 1.1

      Hes the product of his environment: elite private schools, paths opened up via networks to well paid corporate gigs and now, just like key, hes having a run out in politics.

      Just another job to chris, not as directly well paid but the indirect benefits will more than compensate over time…..kaching !

  2. Tony Veitch 2

    At a little over 7 minutes long, this Checkpoint interview with the Clutha mayor hammers the nail into the coffin of CoC hopes of retaining many marginal seats in the South Island.

    He's quite outspoken about the $14 billion in tax cuts = no hospital in Dunedin/Tasman etc.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018957761/clutha-mayor-speaks-on-dunedin-hospital-u-turn

    • aj 2.1

      Cadogan is a gem.

    • Bearded Git 2.2

      Yes Cadogan was rather wonderful…eloquent and logical while somehow still sounding folksy.

      Now people like him and the Dunedin mayor are taking National apart there is a great deal of hope at the next election. As Idiot/Savant says in his article, this is a tipping point.

      The problem for Luxon is that public hospitals have never ever been part of his life,,.they are for bottom feeders…the other 95%.

    • Ngungukai 2.3

      Southland and Otago are true Blue hell will freeze over b4 they go Red

  3. Muttonbird 4

    Federated Fuckwits blame change in land use for the demise of sheep meat and the Alliance Group's Smithfield plant.

    It was land use change alright but not to forestry, it was to dairy.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/529474/forestry-not-to-blame-for-smithfield-meatworks-closure-industry-says

    That is not even considering that while global sheep meat prices dropped it was those farmers who chose to sell to forestry for massive personal gain rather than planting on their own farms for these mythical carbon credits.

    • georgecom 4.1

      FF complain about trees destroying the rural lifestyle and rural communities. Farming went through the same rationalisation from the 1930s-50s when small farms were no longer economically viable and amalgamated with better transport and trucking able to cart milk longer distances. We saw a swathe of small daity factories closed, small farms aggregated into larger ones, rural schools and settlements hollowed out. It's not like it's anything new

  4. joe90 5

    Turmeric. They sprayed turmeric with lead chromate to enhance it's colour.

    “It’s the crime of the century,” says Bruce Lanphear.

    He’s not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist.

    Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is referring to the fact that an estimated 800 million children around the world are poisoned by lead – lead in their family’s pots and pan, lead in their food, lead in the air. That’s just about half of all children in low- and middle-income countries, according to UNICEF and the nonprofit Pure Earth.

    For decades, very little has been done about this. But this is the story of how two women – a New York City detective and a California student – followed the data and helped crack a puzzling case that spanned the globe in the ongoing “crime” of lead poisoning.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5011028/detectives-mystery-lead-poisoning-new-york-bangladesh?

  5. Muttonbird 6

    As long a Rimmer heavily fines these privileged white parents for their offspring's truancy there should not be a problem.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/529475/parents-on-travel-during-school-terms-it-s-the-cost-not-the-time

    Basically, the money saved on the flights to and accomodation in Denarau would be offset by the government fine for truancy.

    Let's see how that plays out. Methinks Seymour will come down a lot harder on low income brown families who find it difficult to navigate the demands of NZ’s protestant, colonial, neoliberal economy. Funny that.

    As for the clown parents blaming airlines for supply and demand charging well, isn't that the height of hypocrisy!

    • Incognito 6.1

      Oh come on! Children need parents-only time too.

    • It has always been the way of things. Flights to Disney Land versus working for food. Those who don't wish to see turn their heads away. A Tuvaluan boy, asked about his regular absences… “Mum does not speak english well, so I go to tell her what the Doctor says.”

  6. SPC 7

    "We don't believe in a capital gains tax or a wealth tax. We think, for people who actually generate wealth in this country, it's a massive disincentive and as I've said along the way this is a Labour government that took the keys to our economy, put the car in the ditch.

    The Prime Minister responding to questions about not paying any tax on the $480,000 of capital gain from the sale of 2 of his 6 rental properties.

    In 35 OF 36 OECD nations he would have paid tax on the CG.

    No wealth is generated for New Zealand by the CG on the properties, only himself. And he was the one who chose not to invest the money in the productive sector of the economy.

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/30/revealed-luxon-gains-almost-500k-on-property-sales/

    Here Luxon also is also opposed to an inheritance tax/estate tax.

    https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/06/11/luxon-challenged-over-his-7-houses-who-owns-more-than-you/

    24/36 OECD nations have an inheritance or estate tax (ours was removed by Richardson in the 1990-1993 period).

    We also have no gift duty (since Key got rid of that in 2013, so families could help children into homes with equity).

    Douglas opposed a CGT, but kept the estate/inheritance tax – saying he preferred an assets tax (wealth tax) to a CGT.

    • gsays 7.1

      It's an angle Luxon is open to attack from- the conflict of interest, where he directly benefits from landlording/tax breaks/capital gains.

      Unfortunately, those who should be attacking him for it, Labour, are kinda compromised in that they are 'prpoerty investors' too.

      Too many landlords in our parliament for them to solve housing inaffordability.

  7. SPC 8

    The Civilian in the Beehive can report that Barack Obama will not again be on the same golf course with John Key.

    The former New Zealand Prime Minister has sullied his reputation.

    He notes that Trump

    is a symptom of middle America in particular, feeling left behind and feeling unfairly treated.

    Yet despite noting that a Trump policy would result in the

    single biggest impact of reducing the standard of living for Americans. So I don't obviously agree with this tariff policy.

    The Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington says it could add $2,600 a year for the average American household – that’s more than $4,000 New Zealand Dollars.

    he

    still thinks overall Trump is still the better choice.

    “I think he's better for the economy.”

    For whom? Not the poor and struggling middle class. What then does economy mean – for investors/shareholders/business owners?

    The right wing economics first line will ruin society and the planet. And Trump is a threat to international cooperation and democracy within the USA.

    Capitalism first, is a dangerous cult.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350434743/why-sir-john-key-thinks-donald-trump-should-win-us-election

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