Open mike 25/04/2024

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    • Tony Veitch 1.1
      25 April 2024 at 7:57 am

      No Right Turn – on the side bar, has a good take on the implications of the High Court decision – and hopes for an appeal.

      https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/04/comity-versus-rule-of-law.html

      • bwaghorn 1.1.1
        25 April 2024 at 8:10 am

        Unbelievable weakness from the coc, to scared to turn up and back up their decisions,not to mention a waste of money and time tying up the courts,

      • ianmac 1.1.2
        25 April 2024 at 9:36 am

        Hope there is an appeal, but of course the Government will delay until the Bill is before the House. The Waitangi folk are probably right that there is no research and that the repeal is based on heresay. So it is with other Government actions so far.

  2. Phillip ure 2
    25 April 2024 at 8:18 am

    Rnz reports that Seymour spoke at the dawn service in ak..

    (I'm sure that didn't please everybody…)

    And he said that we must not forget what they fought for..

    Memo to Mr seymour:..I'm pretty sure those soldiers didn't fight for widespread homelessness/child poverty/a fucked environment…to name just a few…

    And I am pretty sure they wouldn't say they were fighting for a politician who's goal in life is to make all of those evils…just so much worse…

    Seymour:..wrong place..wrong time…in more ways than one…

  3. joe90 3
    25 April 2024 at 11:46 am

    @mehdirhasan, the best talking head on the box, has a podcast.

    https://zeteo.com/s/mehdi-unfiltered

    The ‘Debate Me’ Bro

    Mehdi Hasan’s aggressive interviewing style landed him a Sunday show on MSNBC. Until he started talking about Palestine.

    […]

    The moment Hasan knew he had Regev on the ropes was when he said that an estimated 11,000 people had been killed by the siege, citing numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry. Regev interrupted Hasan and started shouting, “That Hamas controls! You have to say that!” To which Hasan replied, “I don’t have to say what you ask me to say.” Still, he had been prepared for this, so he pulled up a graphic onscreen that compared the Palestinian death toll from the past two major conflicts, in 2009 and 2014, as reported by the Gaza Health Ministry and Israel — similar. When Hasan brought up the images then circulating online of Palestinian children being pulled from the rubble, they had the following exchange:

    REGEV: Because they’re the pictures Hamas wants you to see.

    HASAN: And also because they’re dead, Mark. They’re also people your government has killed. You accept that, right? You’ve killed children?

    REGEV: I do not. First of all, you don’t know how those people died.

    HASAN: Oh, wow.

    Hasan pressed on through his list of questions: whether Israel would bomb a school with Israeli children inside if Hamas had taken it over (“We wouldn’t allow them to take over a school in the first place”); the propagandistic tweets from Israeli leadership, including a video of an Israeli soldier falsely claiming that the days of the week on a calendar written in Arabic were the names of Hamas terrorists (“Have you made a professional mistake, ever?”); and the Israeli administration’s genocidal language (“I know my Jewish history”). For people looking for accountability from an Israeli official, the exchange provided a brief flash of sanity. Even though the interview aired on Peacock, the NBC streaming service barely anyone watches, it went viral once Hasan tweeted it out to his million-plus followers. Two weeks later, MSNBC canceled his show.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mehdi-hasan-zeteo-msnbc-palestine.html

  5. tWig 5
    26 April 2024 at 12:31 pm

    Enjoying very much reading Liam Dann's book BBQ Economics, out a month or so. He graduated during the1990's job squeeze, and says clearly his experience then puts him economically on the side of managing the economy for the benefit of all.

    The last essay I read this morning talked about economics researchers in 2005 who introduced the concept of money to a capuchin monkey troupe, where they could exchange silver disks for food.

    Soon one male monkey had swapped sex with a female for a silver disk, who then bought food with it. Then the researchers taught the troupe about gambling, Economic rationalism went out the window, and the troupe became addicted…as close as possible to the most manic of stock-market traders.