Wee refresher on colonization: Indigenous Peoples didn't need to be colonized to acquire European innovations. Could've traded on a nation to nation basis (which was happening and was subsequently promised in treaties).
[The following is a very good reply – some would say a ‘damning’ one – to a comment (https://thestandard.org.nz/are-we-drifting-away-or-falling-apart/#comment-2000139) by Dolomedes III under a different Post: The previous government undermined science by ...
And like "off the rez" and "hold the fort", orginating in racist discourse outta North America. Admittedly, I'm sensitized to this after a few years in Nth American academia (got schooled on the term 'disseminate' for spreading knowledge...).
k/o 1. My iwi are not affiliated to Kingitanga but never underestimate the history and mana behind Tuheitia. Desipte the short time available, he will pull in the requisite attendance. (What they do with that is another question). NB: Hapu are generally ...
Bleeding Menshiviks...
NZDF pay rise covered by decline in raw numbers?
To quote another famous African American, there are house niggers and field niggers...
They get $1,200 a fortnight from me, have done for 6 years. Canadian pension, returns down to 3.9%.
Take the tie off?! The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance. He's played his role. Next...
I haven't posted here in months, maybe over a year, but any commentary on activism in NZ that doesn't at least note Māori activism is, arh, strange. The last time I systematically read anything here was about matauranga and that was, arh, weird too. I'll ...
The list of colonial vandalism up my way (Waikaremoana, a bit south of Mr. Iti) is not endless but it is rather long and of a much more serious nature than a daub of paint.
Impacts can be positive e.g., offshore turbines provide shelter for sealife. I'm not selling them but I am still burning oil...
Once interviewed a fella who had designed (but not built) a generator that used the ocean swell to generate electricity. Basically a triangular shaped platform with three independently operating sections that drove a centrally turbine. Clever. Would have ...
I don't follow, or rather don't follow for long. I wasn't aware this was a problem, or question of netiquette. Honestly I have better things to do, and my only expertise over what is displayed here is in an area that's gets little intelligent debate (...
A key publication on Maori ecological practices is Athol Anderson, 2002 "A fragile plenty" http://hdl.handle.net/1885/94194 Hard won sustainability ethic...
There is no singular definition of science which was my point about the bizarre (but I feel somehow contrived) Listener 7 attack on Maori (let's be honest, that's what it was) in defence of what is actually a social activity, i.e., research undertaken with...
The lack of replication - no two ecological experiments can be the same (and most have been very small in scale) - but I'd argue that for most sciences, the temporal component always passing into the future. (On that, I would deny Indigenous assertions of ...
The debate provoked by the Listener 7 is primarily political, not methodological. This is not the first challenge to an Indigenous knowledge system and it won't be the last. Matauranga Maori can be interpreted as a continuum of knowledge systems, from so-...
If only. More like same old, same old. Imagine the footage from all of Churchill's piss ups...
I saw 122 comments on the National party reshuffle and only 1 in this. Thought I'd try and redress the imbalance, picking up on the interplay of capital and labour noted above. Value can flip pretty quickly. I've had plant based burgers too, and will have ...
Ex PM John Key is almost always called "John Keyes" when people I know mention him at all.
No, individual Pakeha are not to blame. However, all Pakeha have benefited from colonisation and many continue to do so. So, arh, could y'all help decolonise?
Nice try but events unfold, hence disaster response and recovery always suffers for a lack of preparedness. There's no cycling back to strengthen that building etc.
What's disgusting about her? Can't be her whiteness, right...
Actually there is. The Signal Code
Why feck is NZ vaxing Europeans! ;)
Sounds like a medium sized spreadsheet job to me, team of 4 over a long weekend, then a team of 2 to surveil relevant databases.
4th wave where I am in Canada (SK). Numbers 4x last August when we were in semi-lockdown. Neighboring Alberta has dropped many rules over isolation. Hard rains gonna fall ... (cruel metaphor given the hundreds of wildfires exacerbated by climate change).
PM's role has always included pimp. I expect them to travel and fly the flag. And the current one is extremely well known and widely admired. I'd send her to the US first, then China on the way home ... and definitely take the baby.
C'mon. Most of Australia is a scorched bbq area.
Cherry duly picked...
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