50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-ri...ckle-down/

He's not wrong.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/36045717...ntally-ill

But I fear just another person will take his place, this war is not going to end in a hurry.
https://www.newsweek.com/yahya-sinwar-de...is-1970852

Should we be concerned or excited?
Elon Musk is certainly a visionary for the future but do we want to live in a world run by robots and autonomous cars?
West world might be a reality someday at this rate. AI is probably the bigger threat to humanity over automation in general.

It has been predicted for a while, once the long term effects of climate change started to be explored, that the weaponisation of fresh water was going to become the most important factor in future international conflicts. 

Limiting or withdrawing access, privatising by industry or nations controlling flows, polluting or cleaning up water sources - all either played down or ignored by many governments and their politicians, while those who had accepted the reality of the climate changed future quietly went to work.

We have seen it in the Middle East, in the construction of dams that affect downstream nations, but the west really ignored those issues. We've seen it in the desperation of famine, the flooding, and more recently in the greening of the Sahara, but the major changes underway in the northern hemisphere around water seem to still be sliding under the public radar. Maybe because the countries involved so far have been smaller, poorer, browner, or whatever...

But what if China, who has already constructed dams so big their weight of water actually affected the rotation of the planet - went just a little bit further. And what if that affected not just the smaller nations in Asia as China's work on the Mekong has done, but seriously threatened a much more powerful sleeping giant - India?

How might that reverberate around the planet?


https://www.eurasiantimes.com/chinas-mot...-side/?amp

According to the Child poverty action group, their research shows that 7 out of 10 Kiwis across all age groups, income & political views, supports raising benefit levels for those on the lowest level of benefits.

So,obviously got will immediately take heed of this & fix the problem...or something.



https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/b...gigDZrDhGg

Dragon band member dead. Alan Mansfield, Sharon O'Neill's partner has died from cancer in Sydney.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5310...field-dies

From the looks of press coverage Jacinda is looking radiant these days. Quite a contrast to the sallow and drawn look she displayed towards the end of her time as PM. Makes you appreciate how much vitriol and negativity she was enduring from the toxic sector of our population.

She's got a gong from Prince William! How lovely, how well earned...

After an intervention threat from govt, Wgtn CC is to hold an urgent meeting. Simeon Brown won't confirm when he'll meet with Tory Whanau. The council voted to stop the sale of its 34% stake in Wellington airport.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5309...ion-threat