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for those that missed it yesterday,
The Standard Housekeeping
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Cleta Mitchell (the Cleta Donald Trump referenced as being in the White House with hm when he made the phone call to Georgia about finding 11,000 votes), reveals a strategy the GOP is using to contest the 2024 elections.
The Trumpists are upset that Alec Baldwin is not being imprisoned for his portrayal of the Donald on Saturday Night Live (apparently his portrayal of a man who can shoot someone and get away with it is too real).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/04/21/lauren-boebert-says-alec-baldwins-charges-were-dropped-due-to-liberal-privilege/?sh=24ee0f547086
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html
It seems that National's call-to-arms on their imagined "war against farmers" may not be so universally popular in the rural sect as they thought it would.
A few farmers have spoken out that National's political posturing about ditching regulations will undo the real progress made by NZ farmers in reducing emissions, nitrates and potassium into waterways and over use of fertilisers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/131813301/farmers-say-nationals-plan-to-reverse-government-farm-regulations-could-be-a-backward-step
Even Federated Farmers' enthusiasm was less than overwhelming, citing the need to see more detail.
National is so arrogant that it simply assumes that farmers will back them in anything they say.
The "war against farmers" exists only in National's tunnel-visioned outlook and the leadership of Federated Farmers. Many others acknowledge that farming is going through tough, but necessary changes but they want to go forward rather than backward. Going forward is not generally the National Party way, they have discovered.
National and Federated Farmers leadership – "They gave a war and nobody came….." (excerpt from the song Zor and Zam by the Monkees).
Thanks
Good comment.
The narrative has to be fed continuously, to keep up the polarisation and political divide: rural NZ, the backbone of NZ’s export economy backed by National on one side and urban NZ, the backbone of the FIRE economy supported by all parties on the other side. Details are not necessary to feed the narrative. In fact, details can cloud the clear narrative message with ‘noise’ and blur the sharp line separating the two sides – PR-101 aka less is more.
When I first discovered the standard it was a seething mass of hatred directed at farmers, the left can't pin all the devide on national.
Haters gonna hate, regardless and irrespective.
I agree, it is not all on National, but National does play along nicely – cui bono?
Similarly, TS and the Left are not one and the same nor are the haters here on TS representative of the whole TS commentariat – each Author and commenter speaks entirely for him or herself unless indicated otherwise (e.g. official spokespersons using their full name, i.e., the TS ‘blue tick’).
Short version, National Party and Groundswell.
Longer version, National Party Groundswell, Counterspin, Voices for Freedom and Don Brash et al (Massey's Cossacks with tractors, quad and motor bikes) shouting we own the water.
Vernon Small on National’s lack of detail lacks the killer blow for Luxon as Leader of the National Party. Unless the polls show a marked uptick in popularity and support for National, the Party and its current Leader are toast in October – the ball is in Labour’s court with Budget-2023 in a few weeks and we’ll see soon enough if it ends up in National’s net.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/300859849/national-is-no-friend-of-change-but-the-devil-is-in-the-detail
Short thread about the recent rapid unscheduled disassembly.
https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1649512678057218050
good thread.
Comments too. Aerospace engineers with pistols at dawn.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018887153/jac-den-houting-why-everything-you-know-about-autism-is-wrong
Hear! Hear!
oh dear god, not a like button (I'm sure this is not intentional).
Just checking what it looked like and where it stores the data. Falls out of jetpack.
it didn't seem to work when I clicked on it.
It did work. But I think that it is storing the data offsite at jetpack. Really slow.
Didn’t like either of those.
After a bit of a rocky start it turned into yet another robust and captivating interview with Eleanor Catton. It must be the person being interviewed because I cannot remember ever coming away from a piece on her thinking ‘meh’.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/300855789/eleanor-catton-on-guilty-pleasures-being-a-slow-writer-and-whether-nz-is-still-home
With all the chat about new taxes, how about this one?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300858788/would-a-land-tax-help-solve-our-housing-problem
It would work well with the end of mortgage interest tax deductibility for existing property, which encourages divestment to first home buyers to invest in new builds – which require land.
Those highly leveraged should buy into partnerships/trusts to own debt free.
It is also a way to gather some revenue from those who own land and are holding out for an untaxed CG (2 years/5 years/10 years or back to 2 years if National get back in).
Voting Labour back in and a land tax on vacant land would help. The money could be used to help with infrastructure costs.
That said the constraint is not just affordable land, but also building capacity – and developers struggling with higher debt/finance costs.
Today I found out about politician Tom Paul and the NZ Land Values League.
TAX ON LAND VALVES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9388, 11 June 1889, Page 6
LAND VALUES LEAGUE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7881, 17 August 1911, Page 2
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?items_per_page=10&query=LAND+VALUES+LEAGUE&snippet=true
Two cliches come to mind.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Plus ca change plus c’est meme chose.
I see those two as maxims or truisms rather than clichés, Simon.
‘Going forward’ and ‘on a regular basis’ in place of the simple word ‘regularly’ are to my mind more linked to the meaning of cliché: a hackneyed, over-used and tired out expression.
You have to remember In Vino that using three/four nominal words to describe an oral outcome that can be achieved by a singular notation of a word, is seen as an example of 'high achievers discourse' that is not available to us ordinary folk who have no claim to fame nor fortune and therefore do not require a multiple word selection process in order to maintain normal discourse.
Georgist MP for Inangahua and Buller Patrick O'Regan on the Land Values League.
https://cooperative-individualism.org/o%27regan-patrick_what-the-new-zealand-land-values-league-stands-for-1912-sep-oct.pdf
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that was Mobile version, got a bit prematurely excited.
Desky!!
that was Desktop version, but only worked once (subsequent replies can no longer place cursor in edit box, logged in or logged out).
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/good-luck-against-a-powerful-and
“Those who knew him well can expound on his friendship, wisdom, and poise. My acquaintance with him was about as fleeting as it was possible to get and yet I feel all those qualities manifested in the single email I received from him. A couple of years ago, Stella O’Malley and I wrote a letter defending JK Rowling from the death and rape threats sent to her by trans rights activists. I thought it would be an easy and safe way for comedians to stand up against the rising authoritarianism of the hysterical, misogynist Left. But hardly a single comedian of my acquaintance signed it.
Barry signed it, though. And he sent me this”
(click on the link to read what Humphries wrote).
A tribute to the late great Barry Humphries from another comedy Great Graham Lineham (Father Ted fame).
As well as being hilarious as Dame Edna, Humphries also stood up to the trans rights activitists. For his troubles he was cancelled from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, an event he established.
Unfortunately I don’t seem to be able to copy the message he sent to Graham
Here's the image:
Yes – the sole merit of reaching a certain age is that you realise the bastards have already done their worst, and yet here you are still alive and kicking.
Does anyone know what Liam Dann is writing about behind this pay wall?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/liam-dann-is-this-the-biggest-policy-u-turn-in-nz-history/3KT2BXMV3NG5HCPQ4YOKLPL3SU/
Winston Peters retiring from politics?
True where do we find that information ?
For answers to your questions, I’d start at the top and with the most recent, e.g., the press release by Kieran McAnulty on 13 April:
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/major-shakeup-will-see-affordable-water-reforms-led-and-delivered-regionally
Then click on the Related Documents in the top RH corner.
This should give you enough fodder to start doing some advanced searching using Google, for example.
Keep in mind that many things have not been set in stone yet aka subject-to-change, and anything can happen in Election Year.
HTH
Oops, clearly wrong thread in wrong Post. The dangers of reading & replying in the back-end.
Apologies.
"Nothing highlights the extent to which new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has reversed Jacinda Ardern-era policy like the incredible turnaround in migration numbers.
After months of concern that Labour’s tough immigration rules were squeezing the economy, the policy has been relaxed to the point that, suddenly, migration is smashing records."
Click on Molly's link …
https://archive.ph/JHxEH
Archived here:
https://archive.ph/JHxEH
I keep forgetting NZH is on the archive now.
About immigration numbers being up (pros and cons)
If anyone thought our infrastructure was inadequately provided/ maintained before you aint seen nothing yet….sadly our leaders (irrespective of party) only recognise one lever.
maybe Labour have solved the housing crisis 😑
"The pandemic period actually gave this country some breathing space to rethink the whole question of population, housing, infrastructure etc. And the time has been wasted. Our politicians are stuck in a rut, bereft of ideas."
https://www.interest.co.nz/personal-finance/120842/we-appear-be-making-all-same-mistakes-led-previous-housing-crisis-david
A plea from teachers to stop using education as a political football.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/300858235/exhausted-teachers-tired-of-being-political-footballs-as-election-looms
I suspect that this plea will be more than one 'bridge too far' in our adversarial political environment.
Anyone want to have a go at explaining deductive reasoning as distinct from induction, in lay person terms, with examples?
Perhaps you could start with this:
https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/inductive-deductive-reasoning/
It gives a pretty good oversight of the two methodologies with simple diagrams and examples.