Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Euan Mason,
How bad does it have to get before the wider electorate is disgusted enough to turf out the crazies in the government benches?
Possibly when the middle classes start sleeping in cars or otherwise losing jobs en masse. In any case, my idea of pitching tent cities in the leafy suburbs still stands, and 'Occupying" Generation Rentier is probably a better idea than going on rent strike.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to llew40,
surely its the job of the Labour Party support/comms team to ensure that any media photo ops match the pitch they have given?. Who is managing this stuff?
That there's a newly created vacancy for the position could have something to do with it.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Martin Brown,
Or perhaps set up camp on the verge outside Key's Parnell pile. That juxtaposition would have a nice symbolism. Public space too. Although I guessed they'd get moved on quickly on "national security" grounds.
I've already suggested on Twitter that tent cities be pitched in the leafy suburbs to make a point.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber driver, in reply to BenWilson,
It's also a shitload of money, so it's not so clear why they need such an aggressive policy. I think they literally just don't know any better.
The likes of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are basically 21st century railroad barons.
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Cracker: Breaking the Silence, in reply to linger,
Damian:
From Government pressure on scientists not to scare the public by highlighting aftershock risks in Christchurch; attacks on public health scientists such as those outlined in the Dirty Politics leaks; commercial confidentiality; to pressure from the scientists themselves as well as their peers, not to rock the boat, speak outside of their immediate expertise, or risk criticism.
You can also add anything that might hold a pin to the housing bubble, such as PCE reports on coastal properties under threat from rising sea levels:
"But committee chairman Scott Simpson was worried about the impact the report could have.
"My concern both as a member of this committee and as a local constituent MP is that the report has significant potential to have a detrimental financial impact on property owners of coastal property," he said.
Dr Wright replied that rising seas levels would hit coastal property owners in the pocket regardless."
I’m not sure exactly when a lack of scientific knowledge – and then, an open distrust of science – became fashionable; but I think it must stem from this disconnect.
I suspect that scientific evidence that's perceived to have a whiff of threatening the "bach, boat and BMW" way of life has made scientific ignorance fashionable.
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Speaker: A simple strategy for Trump to…, in reply to Kirk Serpes,
What interesting is that Latinos are suddenly signing up to be citizens in very large numbers, just so they can vote against Trump. Historically turnout in the Latino community has been pretty low but this clown might just change that. http://www.npr.org/2016/05/14/477811056/are-more-latinos-becoming-citizens-because-of-donald-trump
Yep, Trump has indeed united Americans. Against him.
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The likes of Trump are what America gets - and especially the GOP itself - when those at the very top "hire half the working class to kill the other half", in the supposed words of a 19th century railroad baron during a major industrial dispute.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch looks at the implications of a Fairfax/APN merger and what the subsequent lack of competition, including a possible paywall on any combined site, could mean for users.
Better that old media throws in the towel, instead of Murdoch-ising to justify its continued existence. In any case the ComCom needs to harden its heart and put the brakes on.
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Hard News: Forgetting what we didn't know, in reply to Marc C,
Whatever the solution, Blairism looks like a product of its time with each passing year.
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It's not just Tony Veitch's pseudo-apology that grates. It's also that people look to him as an anti-PC role model, cut from the same cloth as those who think Donald Trump will "make America great again".