Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 10:16 am
By JAKE JOHNSON We ve now reached stratospheric
inequality. Billionaires burning into space, away from a
world of pandemic, climate change, and
starvation.
With billionaire Jeff
Bezos set to take flight into space Tuesday aboard
an unpiloted
Blue
Origin rocket, the humanitarian group Oxfam
International blasted the world s richest man as the avatar
of a system that allows a handful of people accumulate
enough wealth to flee the planet amid widespread suffering
on an increasingly polluted, warming, and pandemic-ravaged
Earth. What we need is a fair tax system that
allows more investment into ending hunger and poverty, into
This is a welcome development while
Israel is continuing to flout international law with their
new government approving the building of 31
more illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied
West Bank alongside the destruction of Palestinian homes and
on-going ethnic cleansing of Palestinian families from
occupied East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish
settlers.
It appears this move may be linked to last
week’s request from the UN Special Rapporteur, Michael
Lynk, for countries to recognise Israel’s sponsoring of
Israeli settlers on Palestinian land in the Occupied West
Bank as “a war crime under the Rome Statute of the
Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 11:48 am
Animal disease management agency OSPRI acknowledges the
difficult situation farmers in the Buller and Marlborough
districts are facing following the extreme flooding last
weekend.
During this challenging time, OSPRI will be
extending timeframes for reporting livestock movements in
NAIT for people in charge of animals (PICAs) in the affected
areas.
These extensions continue until the local state
of emergency is lifted for each district. It is
devastating for the farmers and their communities at this
time with the animals that have been lost to the flooding.
OSPRI wants to support those farmers and has extended the
timeline for meeting their NAIT obligations, says OSPRI
Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 1:55 pm
Key insights:
According to the fully impartial
price and product comparison site, PriceSpy, consumer
buying interest for air purifications systems is cleaning
up, with popularity significantly increasing post-lockdown,
up +63 per cent year-on-year.
And it’s not just
New Zealanders who appear interested in air purification.
Other countries including Singapore and the United States of
America have reported similar growth
trends.
Despite air purification not being on
everyone’s radar yet, according to Arizton,
the global air purifier market is expected to grow, reaching
around $19 Billion by 2026 at a CAGR (compound
annual growth rate) rate of 12 per cent (2021 –
There are six positive
cases of COVID-19 to report today in recent returnees at the
border.
This number includes three of the confirmed
cases aboard the Mattina container ship, which is currently
quarantined in Bluff.
The remaining six confirmed
cases aboard the Mattina, already announced by the Ministry
this morning, are expected to be added to our confirmed
cases tally in tomorrow’s update.
One previously
reported case has now recovered.
A previously reported
case from 16 July has now been deemed as a historical case.
It has been removed from our confirmed cases tally as it was
reported as a historical case in their home