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Join us for the Hoon at 5pm, with guests Helen Clark and Robert Patman on geopolitics, plus Susan St John on the economists' letter to the PM and the IRD's idea of not taxing the NZ Super Fund
Come and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm.
Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news with special guests:
5.00 pm - 5.15 pm -
and on the week’s news on local politics, the economy, the media and more;5.15 - 5.40 pm - Former PM Helen Clark and University of Otago Foreign Affairs professor
on the latest from Gaza, Ukraine, AUKUS II and the US Presidential elections;5.45 - 5.55 pm - Special guest Auckland University savings and pensions academic Susan St John on the letter she co-wrote to the PM calling for the suspension of budget cuts.
Cheers
See you shortly
Bernard
PS 100% agree with Robert that US allies should be loudly complaining about the US vetoing the UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire resolution, when all other members supported it!
Thanks so much Bernard and team. V grateful. I thought that comment by Helen re foreshore and seabed surprising, but otherwise found the views of the hoon participants including those of Helen reflected much decency and logic.
I will make one little note re Bernard's use of 'negative feedback' a few times when it is technically 'positive feedback' - eg in a slowing economy budget cuts causing further slowing. It's nasty so negative in that sense but, if an event is occurring and it, or response to it' causes more of it to happen that is called positive feedback.
It is usually dangerous.
eg global warming causing permafrost to melt resulting in microbial activity releasing vast amounts of gases causing further warming.
(Cathrine inadvertently once said on the hoon negative feedback when meaning pos and on being asked she said it was a brain fade moment and she meant pos.)
Body homeostasis is maintained to a large degree by 'negative feedback' where something occuring causes the opposite to happen eg body temp dropping below a certain point causes, via sensors and brain functions etc, a few responses including shivering producing heat and conscious awareness of being cold so we don warm clothes and body temp rises. Science 101 lesson endeth..