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Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:05 am, September 13th, 2024
Anyone who is inclined to hand wave the existence of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) and their role in multiple childhood diseases and disorders ... including a global increase in the incidence of precocious puberty, should read the following. The ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 5:32 pm, August 29th, 2024
That's a hoot - hope no one gets sacked for putting the CoC's hackneyed old law and order bullet points under the wrong heading.Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:36 pm, August 28th, 2024
https://inspectorate.corrections.govt.nz/reports/prison_inspection_reports/inspection_report_for_prisoners_of_extreme_risk_unit_released This is appalling. A clear breach of international law and principles of natural justice. 13 men in total held in ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:50 am, August 27th, 2024
Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:48 am, August 27th, 2024
"Working class" was defined at the top. Your definition was reductionist to the point of caricature, and illustrated everything that is wrong with being simply the left of Neo-liberalism which, in essence, is a capitulation to Neo-liberal political and ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 4:31 pm, August 26th, 2024
Your depiction of what constitutes the working class is so crudely reductionist it's hard to know whether you’re being serious, or taking the proverbial. Assuming the former, the core question is whether the NZLP continues to be the left of neo-liberalism, ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 9:50 am, August 26th, 2024
This is about as clear a statement of commitment to being nothing more than the left of Neo-liberalism as I've ever read. I'll reply when the steam has cleared from the room.Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 8:15 pm, August 25th, 2024
There’s a broad class of people who exchange their labour (of whatever sort) for a wage. There are wide variations within that class in terms of status and remuneration. It is complicated by there being sections within that broad class who are hyper- ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 6:49 pm, August 25th, 2024
That's the best Colonel Blimp impression I've read in while.Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 11:38 am, August 25th, 2024
The reason the neo-liberal forms of divide and rule have been so successful is they were grafted onto older forms of division, much like the reason the European ideology of race took so easily and grew so rapidly was because it was grafted onto older ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:52 am, August 25th, 2024
"Is there is formal process for the re-cycling of these overpaid troughers?" Sorry, too polemical; start again. "Is there a formal process for the appointment these grossly overpaid Chief Establishment Opportunists?" Try again. "Is there a formal process ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:17 pm, August 24th, 2024
Soz, not a book but verging on a pamphlet. A class-based analysis for a Marxist, like me, is predicated on there being an essential conflict in the capitalist relations of production – between the class that has nothing to sell but its labour, & the class ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 8:19 pm, August 24th, 2024
In your view what causes wealth disparities, ie what creates the layer of citizens who don't have jobs, adequate housing or any housing at all, differential health and educational outcomes, etc? Too many approaches locate these disparities in a deficit ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 12:55 pm, August 24th, 2024
My reply morphed into a blog post. FWIW. https://tewharewhero.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-con-of-first-water.htmlWritten By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:52 am, August 24th, 2024
Call me old fashioned but ad hominem insults neither strengthen debate nor serve the wider interests of the left. I detest the man but Churchill did have a great line in aphorisms – “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 9:07 am, August 22nd, 2024
A few days ago I posted a comment on a contentious thread about the dangers of the reckless use of powerful endocrine disrupting drugs (GnRH agonists) in a world that is saturated in hundreds of thousands of synthetic chemicals .... the effects of which in ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 7:58 pm, August 19th, 2024
The fact that he won his seat despite the right of the party he'd devoted his life to doing its very best to defeat him, aided and abetted by the media which had played a massive role in Labour's defeat when he was leader, hardly makes him old news. With ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:03 am, August 19th, 2024
Given Aotearoa-NZ's isolation, being an archipelago with increasingly unreliable transport links between and within the islands, and having a tiny population, the country cannot defend itself against hugely more powerful nations, and would not be of much ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 3:27 pm, August 18th, 2024
All of those things can be and now are guaranteed in other ways, such as a civil union. I'm not opposed to marriage - I've been married for over 40 years but we married because it was the easiest way back then to ensure all those things you mention (and to ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 12:55 pm, August 18th, 2024
Given the role of religiously or state sanctioned marriage in the perpetuation of patriarchal family and wider power dynamics, and civil unions, it surprised me when some lesbians and gay men lobbied for the right to marry, even going as far as replicating ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 11:16 am, August 18th, 2024
Some musings on a very wet Sunday morning. The existence of a political “left”is vital to the maintenance of the appearance of liberal democracy. In essence, Neo-liberalism has dragged the fulcrum point of the political spectrum to the right so what was ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 6:51 pm, August 17th, 2024
I find your positioning of TPM, WRP ALM and GP on the "deep left", whatever that is, a bit odd. That aside, if we had a few more "Marxist reading groups" maybe the left in this country wouldn't be in such a parlous state. Maybe I wouldn't constantly be ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 2:13 pm, August 17th, 2024
On one level I quite like seeing the the plastic libertarian spouting off because it amuses me to imagine him practising his statesman pose and delivering his little homilies to the mirror before he fronts the media. The "fundamental democratic value that ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 9:40 pm, August 16th, 2024
Several decades ago, I was drawn into researching endocrine disruption in horses because I was seeing such things as mares with the equine equivalent of PCOS; generalised obesity and patterns of grossly abnormal adipose tissue; hind gut disorders leading ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 8:06 pm, August 16th, 2024
Go for it. :)Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 12:58 pm, August 16th, 2024
The NZ health service is a mixed system; most primary health care is privately owned, sucking up huge state subsidies and patient payments. Most diagnostic services outside of the DHB-run hospitals are privately owned, again sucking up vast state subsidies ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 7:13 pm, August 14th, 2024
“The problem is that what I see is people complaining about something without ever suggesting what would fix it. .... Instead we see a almost exclusive focus on perceived problems where there isn’t any obvious expertise.” Lots of women have raised these ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 12:13 pm, August 14th, 2024
Link above. It's the quietest of blogging back waters – I'm not renowned for my technical know how or ability to market myself and if people pay too much attention to me, my inclination is to hide.Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 10:19 am, August 14th, 2024
... in human history?" Sigh. https://tewharewhero.blogspot.com/2023/09/more- ...Written By: TeWhareWhero - Date published: 6:19 pm, August 13th, 2024
With a bubble-headed corporatchnik in league with a plastic libertarian and a self-serving peacock it's hard to predict how much more dire things could get. Their mix of incompetence and viciousness gives the opposition has an open goal but they're still ...
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