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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Just watch the New Zealand media not cover this story…..
“New Zealand navy paid $700,000 to firm mired in ‘Fat Leonard’ sex and bribery scandal.
The Royal New Zealand Navy paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over four years to a ship services company run by a man now imprisoned in the US for an enormous corruption and sex scandal, the Guardian has learned.
US prosecutors say Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard for his wide girth, had cheated its navy out of nearly US $34m — mostly through overcharging port services and providing gifts to personnel, including arranging sex parties.
The New Zealand navy has told the Guardian it paid a total of NZ$710,235.04 (around £370,000) to Francis’ company, Glenn Defence Marine Asia (GDMA), between May 2007 to December 2011 “for specific ship visits in South East Asia.”
The navy told the Guardian in previous correspondence that it had used a “range of services” in Singapore from bus hire to tug provision.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/new-zealand-navy-paid-700000-to-firm-mired-in-fat-leonard-sex-and-bribery-scandal
Instead, watch it glory war like this.
‘SAS sniper kills ISIS terrorist 2.4km away using world’s most powerful rifle.’
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11860893
Muppets and puppets leading sheep.
Welcome to the neoliberal cargo cult of New Zealand.
I was wrong.
They did not ignore it.
They repeated what the Prime Minister said.
They did not investigate it.
They minimised it.
What an amazing media we have.
They be so proud of their awards.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11861045
It’s not media anymore it’s message delivery channels being web, print, tv and radio mostly all working off rebranded runsheets.
First purpose of our commercial media is to get eyeballs in front of marketers.
Second purpose is to advance social engineering desired by their wealthy owners.
Third purpose….not sure there is a third purpose.
Nothing to see here….
“Prime Minister Bill English would not say whether a review was needed, but said the navy probably needed evidence before opening up a case.
He said there was no allegation of any wrongdoing by New Zealand Navy officials.”
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/331316/labour-wants-scrutiny-of-nz-fat-leonard-links
Didn’t Keating say something similar recently….
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/defence-force-boss-slams-hagers-hit-and-run-book-incorrect
Pity we don’t have a media to put truth to power.
I despise them.
Tug provision, that’s a new trick. I’ve heard of exotic asphyxiation, but for the gross, there has to be new stimulants. Sex or money, some people can never have enough and they aren’t too fussy about how they obtain it.
There is something very strange about the behaviour of our Auditor General in his previous role heading the Ministry of Transport. Makes you wonder about the reasons for his refusal to investigate an obvious fraudster and his suitability for his current position. Good summary here:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-05-2017/is-fraudster-joanne-harrisons-old-boss-really-fit-to-lead-nzs-top-public-watchdog/
Yes Karen, there is indeed something very odd about the case.
My own experience as a former whistle blower some 25 years ago would lead me to suspect that the guilty party – in this case Joanne Harrison – was savvy enough to compromise her superiors in one way or another. It happened in my case and my superiors (involving two related government entities) ran for cover as fast as their legs could carry them.
Btw at the time, one of those entities also came under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport.
Things have advanced then Anne. Today they would zoom for cover along one of the Min of Transport holiday motorways, moving fast so that the dirt just blows away in the slipstream.
I agree Karen – I commented on this a few days back on this blog site. All I can say is how cooked will be the nation’s books be with him now as Auditor General. It’s difficult as it is believing anything this Government says now – how on earth was this appointment allowed beggars belief. Surely there must be some investigation into this, firstly how he ignored Joanne Harrison’s rorting right under his nose is dodgy at best but to then be selected for this appointment needs a thorough looking into.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/05/new-zealand-to-spend-14-billion-to-meet-paris-agreement-targets.html
the stupidity of buying carbon credits carries on , work it out you fucking idiots carbon credits achieve nothing
Agreed. A transparent way of stalling and delaying any effective action.
Also,….. Carbon credits are open to fraud and corruption. …. which New Zealand under John Keys nats was quick to abuse ….. or ‘take advantage of’ as they would describe it. …
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
“They’ve been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s — and now they’re preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.” …..
but cap-and-trade, as envisioned by Goldman ( Sachs), is really just a carbon tax structured so that private interests collect the revenues. Instead of simply imposing a fixed government levy on carbon pollution and forcing unclean energy producers to pay for the mess they make, cap-and-trade will allow a small tribe of greedy-as-hell Wall Street swine to turn yet another commodities market into a private tax collection scheme. This is worse than the bailout: It allows the bank to seize taxpayer money before it’s even collected.”
and yet most lefties support the ets , idiots
“More than 31 million people – one person every second – were uprooted in their home country in 2016 because of conflicts and disasters, and numbers will grow unless the underlying causes like climate change and political turmoil are tackled, an aid group said on Monday.”
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/one-person-second-displaced-2016
Wars, resource destruction and exploitation, extreme poverty …… and just about all corrupt power structures are enabled by the ‘tax haven’ networks….
We have become more complicit and involved with perpetrating these things, by design of National.
Repealing our John key tax haven status …. would be the most effect thing we could do on a world wide scale.
Cleaning up the damage and pollution from Nationals cow economic plan….. is what we should work on in the domestic front.
The loser and no hoper?
Fuck I hope he does it. All the people whose lives would be immeasurably improved.
Of the many things I’d not like in my backyard… (NIBY),…
“Business development facilitator John Hill said the council had signed a heads of agreement with a New Zealand-based company which was offering a modern, clean technology process to convert rubbish to energy, heat and value-added products.”
But to be pragmatic this would seem to stack up!
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/big-projects-bullers-radar
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/282757/buller-keen-on-clean-energy-plant
Waste unfortunately is a reality… and
The Coast is renown for utilising commodities…
http://www.greydc.govt.nz/our-council/consultation/Pages/sustainable-forestry.aspx
Definitely a way better proposal than damming the waitaha!
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-tale-of-two-currents/
“SUBMISSIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.
We received a whopping 14,000 plus submissions on the recent public consultation about the principle of Council allowing sustainable native logging on Council owned land. Thank you to everyone who took the time to have their say.
We are currently working through the submissions and please note that due to the sheer volume, it is going to take time to individually acknowledge every single one.”
Wow!
http://www.greydc.govt.nz/our-council/consultation/Pages/sustainable-forestry.aspx
Odd how their website changed…
http://www.eco.org.nz/uploads/Grey%20Dist%20Council%20native%20forest%20logging%20-%20ECO%20Submisison.pdf