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12:31 pm, July 28th, 2014 - 76 comments
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Tags: bullying, fish and game, nick smith, stifling dissent
Typical Nick Smith…
Conservation Minister threatens legal action against Fish and Game
Conservation Minister Nick Smith is threatening legal action against Fish and Game council members who accused him of trying to gag the organisation.
The defense rests, Your Honour.
Tears by tea time. He has been caught out .
Nick Smith, the gift that keeps on giving.
Smith was dissembling on Radio NZ this morning when legal action was mentioned.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/250742/minister-accused-of-political-interference
Original audio:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/20143318/nick-smith-responds-to-fish-and-game-accusations
And this directly from the Fish and Game website on the threats and empty-headed colonial nonsense from Nick Smith
http://northcanterbury.fishandgame.org.nz/newsitem/nzffa-presidents-piece-jul-2014
What is the matter with our primary producers? Why don’t they just fuck off with their shit.
Is the “come back kid”, about to be the “gone again guy”?
Nick Smith to the public of New Zealand :
“If you want computers and iphones then you must accept pollution”
which translates as :
“Your children can either play on computers and iphones or swim and fish in rivers”
Nick Smith’s world …… frikkin’ barmy
Smith is right.
It costs a fortune to take my kids fishing. Many can’t afford it.
That money should go to increasing the fish stocks – not wasted on expensive election billboards.
Quite right too: water quality has nothing to do with fish stocks, eh.
such a thoughtless partisan hack ….
At 70 cents per week per person for a family of four it costs significantly less than a computer or iphone and is infinitely more healthy (unless you drink or swim in the rivers Smith has shat in). And they look after the fish stocks, and try to look after the waterways (someone has to).
If Fish & Game did not do the work they are legislated to do then the rest of our remaining unpolluted rivers will end up being polluted to the extent this government has permitted i.e. to the extent that all life is killed, the water is undrinkable, and unswimmable.
The billboards do more to protect the waterway environment than anything else, by highlighting the issues to the public.
You are a waste of space with such a hare-brained post like that
Yeah right – ALL four in our family go fishing EVERY day of the year.
What a stupid way to work out the price when like most families I know, we fish a handful of times per year. You write that then talk about harebrained.
Our best local fishing is irrigation dams – exactly that our licence money is being used to campaign against.
That’s fishing the way it’s always been. You go to the reservoir and stand around it with your rods, apart from Graham and John on their boats, peeing off the deck.
I said per week, not per day, wanker.
And that you find the best fishing in reservoirs rather than natural streams says everything about you and your types and how you go about life. Shallow, brainless, unnatural and unsustainable.
shooting fish in a barrel
And because of reservoirs, there’s a healthier population of fish in the streams.
As anybody except a total simpleton would know.
are you from the sahara? you are wrong and you are avoiding the point about pollution of waterways through use of the dams. waster.
and a reservoirs does what do the natural ecosystem of the river john?
you know how rivers have ecosystems that support fish that you can then catch? – worked for years – not so much these days. Your own words show this when you bang on about irrigation ponds, or is it reservoirs?
cmon – let it rip. Im sure youve got a whole pond load of bile flecked stupid to go yet
Shallow even for you john, where are these ”increased fish stocks” to find a habitat when all the rivers become nothing more than toxic sewerage channels or mere streams having been raped of all their water resources,
Will recreational fishing in the year 2060 become a matter of you pays your money to fish out of a mere swimming pool one of 1000’s of fish raised for the purpose because that is where the fresh water recreational fishery is headed under the auspices of the current rape’n’pillage water management regime proposed and being implemented by the current National Government,
i take tongue in cheek issue with the wording of this Post, Nick Smith hasn’t lost ‘it’, He never had ‘it’ in the first instance and has simply failed here to keep that fact under wraps,(not for the first time i might add)…
A lot of our rivers are better than ever.
The Waikato River had e-coli faecal counts 1000% higher in the 1970s and 1980s than it does now.
We have waterways downstream for irrigation dams that are now guaranteed minimum flowss when previously they used to completely dry up and kill ALL the fish during droughts.
yeah you might want some proof for that fairy story
yet more horseshit from john
“A lot of our rivers are better than ever.”
The majority of our rivers have degraded massively over the last 10-20 years. This is scientific fact as outlined by the likes of respected scientist Mike Joy, who has been personally attacked by far right dairying fanatics.
“The Waikato River had e-coli faecal counts 1000% higher in the 1970s and 1980s than it does now.”
Thanks to the urbanites who have cleaned up their act and their sewer systems.
“We have waterways downstream for irrigation dams that are now guaranteed minimum flowss when previously they used to completely dry up and kill ALL the fish during droughts.”
Waterways that this National government and its farmer support base have just legislated that can be polluted to an extent that kills all animal and plant life in the waterway, makes the water undrinkable, and is too dangerous to swim in. What is the use of downstream waterways if they can’t support fish john? You know these things yet you ignore them in your posts. You are dishonest in the extreme.
Wake up you useless partisan hack
The majority of our rivers have degraded massively over the last 10-20 years
And that is the current Gubberments fault?
You are obviously a bit slow mr attack.
It is the fault of a certain colonial attitude (that persists among the farming sector today).
It is the fault of human greed.
It is the fault of previous governments in allowing use of the land which cannot be supported.
It is the fault of councils in granting resource consents for activities which are clearly unsustainable (you’re familiar with the rma right?)
It is most definitely the fault of this government that it continues and is even encouraged ffs. They want to do more.
Nick Smith’s utterances make the situation much much worse. He is at fault for encouraging more pollution and shitting in our rivers.
The billboard I saw didn’t mention water quality – at all.
It was only against irrigation.
Irrigation dams often HELP fish stock. In times when drought would kill ALL the fish, they allow a continued minimum flow.
And they provide a whole new fish breeding ground and place to fish.
Some of the best fishing in Otago is Lake Onslow, Upper Mannorburn Dam, Great Moss Swamp/ Loganburn Reservoir, Greenlane Reservoir.
They are ALL irrigation dams.
pathetic
What a bunch of communists they are at Fish & Game, and obviously anti-jobs too.
What’s wrong with them? It’s not like fishing involves anything more than wading, after all.
I bet they’ve got data too, the sniveling wretches. I bet their wading stirs up the mud and causes high nitrogen levels in the water. It certainly needs further study, before they go and implement some sort of communist one-world government solution on everyone.
Pretty sure this govt fucked over problem gambling in favour of sallies cos problem gambling criticised the govt…
Yeah, National basically screwing with the democratic fabric of our society.
+1 OAB ha ha ha.
This government has never responded well when someone takes them on with facts. Cunliffe et al take note.
John
You should have accepted Brownlee’s resignation
Marvellous for fishing way up that end of the river. Pretty sh*tty for everyone else downstream of the farmers eh.
But she’ll be right mate, national party hacks are used to wallowing in it
John, Irrigation dams take water the fish would be living in anyway. Some make it better, others dont, especially those in Otago you mention that dont hold a bar to a well watered stream. Trout dont breed in reservoirs, they go up streams. Cant pull the wool over us old trout fishers. Nuff said.
Exactly ennui and was going to point all sorts of similar with john’s post. The problem was that his basic knowledge was so far short of anything useful it would have been like explaining the basics about river fishing to someone from the Sahara.
Without the reservoirs there wouldn’t be fish in the streams because they dry up every time there’s a drought.
The fishing huts are beside Poolburn Dam, Falls Dam, Lake Onslow etc for a reason.
So we didn’t have fish in our streams before the dams?
Or is your position merely that the dams are now essential because of anthropogenic global warming?
McFlock asks “So we didn’t have fish in our streams before the dams?”
Correct. According to Fish and Game, Poolburn Dam, Upper Mannorburn Dam, Greenland Reservoir etc, all became great trout fisheries when trout were introduced after these irrigation dams were filled.
To quote Fish and Game about other irrigation dams in the region –
“On the Maniototo there are several irrigation dams that have been built to collect water during the winter period for release over the summer. These dams never run dry and have
turned into good fisheries.”
Seems odd that they’re spending large amounts of licence money campaigning against what they call “good fisheries”.
lol
And there were no rabbits before they were introduced, either.
But there were still lots of food animals on the land and fish in the waterways.
You really are a bit of an idiot, aren’t you.
Not as idiotic as someone who bleats on about rabbits and food animals that have zero relevance to irrigation dams. Duh!
Can’t you see the relevance? Sad for you.
Anyway, I think it’s time your relentless idiocy was cut off at the knees: here’s what F & G have to say:
I think the best place for dairy effluent is John.
I think he’s more than full of it already.
John, john, john.
I get that you’re a moron. I understand it, and make allowances.
I get that you’re a fanboi zealot who will try to push the tory line against reality’s well-known liberal bias. I understand it, and make allowances.
But do you seriously expect us to believe that you missed the point that the mere fact that some introduced species (might or might not rely on some artificial topographic features to) thrive in NZ does not actually mean that no possible food or sport species existed in NZ before European or even Maori arrival?
Not even you can realistically be that stupid.
I didn’t miss the point – just didn’t expect you argue a point that
1/ had so little relevance, and
2/ showed you are ignorant of the fact that the fisheries are in much BETTER health because of the dams.
That’s two own goals.
Okay, I stand corrected.
You might really be that dumb.
You have no concept of analogy, and an inability to grasp the fact that the dams are a benefit to introduced species because the waterways have been stripped of the bank vegetation that the indigenous species utilised as their habitat.
Mind you, there might be another genuinely irrelevant analogy there that you’re incapable of grasping, too.
…and on and on John raved, jerking himself into a frenzy of partisan froth bearing no resemblance to Fish & Game’s position whatsoever.
Ridicule has a new name.
McFlock says “You have no concept of analogy, and an inability to grasp the fact that the dams are a benefit to introduced species because the waterways have been stripped of the bank vegetation that the indigenous species utilised as their habitat.”
But they locals streams around these irrigation dams haven’t been “stripped of their vegetation”.
So yet again you are wrong. Three own goals.
Yes they have.
So all those “own goals” went through your goalposts.
No it doesn’t: you’re saying it does out of politically motivated spite, lashing out like a child. It’s pathetic.
so you are from the sahara….. ffs.
“Without the reservoirs there wouldn’t be fish in the streams because they dry up every time there’s a drought.”
No they dry up because all of the natural vegetation has been stripped away by farmers leaving the land dry and barren. In times of drought in the past the land would remain moist due to this cover and streams would keep running. This stripping of the vegetation is why farmers cry 500-year drought every 5 years today. They aint droughts they are just normal dry spells. The problem is the stripping of the natural cover.
“The fishing huts are beside Poolburn Dam, Falls Dam, Lake Onslow etc for a reason.”
Yeah, it is difficult to build a hut at the bottom of the lake where the river used to be.
wake up john, you ignoramus. Pull your head out of your ideology and try thinking.
So in your world, the only reason a stream drys up is if a farmer clears the land.
In my world, we have a thing called summer.
It happens every year. Some years it’s even hotter and and it rains less than normal.
You should visit a kindergarten and get a small child to teach you about it some time.
whoosh
he stopped short of blaming climate change
100% Mc Flock.
The Nat’s are following Hitler’s pattern by setting up a problem to have to deal with first such as a convenient problem, (this time drought) and then finding their own solution of pushing previously unpalatable dams upon the landscape..
Take note opposition Parties.
The Central Otago irrigation systems support pastoral ( mostly sheep) and orchards.
The problems arise with dairying which is usually described as ‘dirty diarying’
The high cost of new irrigation schemes means that dairying is the most likely use. This was the case in the recent central Hawkes bay scheme. The restriction on Nitrogen and Phosphorus meant is was uneconomic for dairying and too expensive for everything else
Use this map to show who much of the SI is under irrigation .
Very little of the irrigated areas are good for fishing.
Cherry picking the central otago dams is like saying everybody lives in the treed suburbs like Epsom
Dear Nick Smith, this is an invite to join Ennui on a trout fishing tour where I will make your day by:
I suggest we come home via the Fish and Game office where you can report your concern as a license holder (yes you will need to buy one of those, a mere $120), and ask they represent you to the Minister.
…and the Lord so loved Dr. Smith that he came to him in a vision again. Saith the Lord:
“Dr. Smith, listen unto me: blessed are the waders, for I shall send to them industrial strength protective garments” and Dr. Smith did glory in the Lord’s power and went among the people to tell them the good news.
The people were filled with wickedness and lust for fresh water, and did not heed Dr. Smith, and cast him into a pond, without any industrial strength protective garments on.
Here endeth the lesson.
Amen!!!!!!
Oh and look at this ….
Nick Smith this morning on te wireless claimed he had not threatened Fish & Game, yet according to a commentator on the Stuff article, the notes of the “independent” DOC worker (who is an employee of Smith’s so hardly “independent”) say this …
“”F&G need to work out what they want to be: a statutory body [with] legislation and a relationship with Government, or an NGO?””
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10319051/Nick-Smith-denies-bullying-Fish-and-Game
Nick Smith appears to have lied. And directly threatened.
What a surprise – a National MP is lying again …. and bullying and threatening.
And how is Smith labelling Fish & Game as anti-dairy? They are anti-pollution of water. The fact that dairying occupies that space is nowt to do with F&G, solely dairy. It is their own fault. Obviously. It riles me that Nick Smith and his dairying disciples shit in our rivers. This directly affects us in a personal way. I resent it. I resent Nick Smith and his actions, and the people who pollute our waterways to this extent. I have no respect for them.
funny the stuff they release…
“National Minister labels dairy industry as polluters”
ha ha yep, exactly.
‘
Interesting to observe the attempting framing going on with this latest example of National Ltd™ defence of the indefensible. Advocates for clean rivers and fresh water are now being painted as “anti dairy industry” delineating them a threat to New Zealand’s economic stability. Surely this orchestrated “othering” of environmentalists must be the final nail in New Zealand’s “clean green 100% pure credentials”.
The John Key-led National Ltd™ government really doesn’t have much option but to attack and try to silence its critics when it comes to the environment. National’s record in this regard speaks for itself. Since John Key became Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2008 his government has . . .
‘
But wait, there’s more . . . much, much more . . .
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0903/S00452.htm <— back up on Chris Bishop
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10869801 <— irony much
It is disgusting that if you are a sportsperson you get no conviction for an offence that endangered peoples lives because it might affect their ability to play overseas, but an actress convicted for taking part in an environmental protest gets no such consideration.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1306/S00244/savage-attack-on-bee-health.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1306/S00240/positive-changes-to-fishing-regulations-announced.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1306/S00219/report-highlights-risk-of-governments-mining-agenda.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10892481
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/pollution/news/article.cfm?c_id=281&objectid=10884397
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10892985
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1306/S00647/new-zealand-waste-policies-stuck-in-the-past.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1306/S00309/environment-commissioner-releases-water-report-update.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1307/S00024/iwc-says-govt-must-act-for-survival-of-mauis-dolphins.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10895428
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10904557
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2013/jul/29/hobbit-new-zealand-lord-of-the-rings-middle-earth-oil-gas-drilling
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/us-newzealand-milk-image-idUSBRE97503H20130806
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/xinhua/2013-08-05/content_9769307.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10910158
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10913041
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-commits-2020-climate-change-target-5534697
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00273/national-admits-defeat-on-climate-change.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00257/gutted-emissions-trading-scheme-damaging-forestry.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00219/public-silenced-on-oil-well-consents.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00179/rma-changes-risk-further-damage-to-nzs-reputation.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00177/key-stacks-deck-plays-cute-with-rma.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00172/government-welcomes-king-salmon-decision.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00154/minister-must-shoulder-the-blame-for-mpis-mistakes.htm
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/planned-oil-exploration-outrages-kaikoura-residents-5535929
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1308/S00287/more-deforestation-following-ets-changes.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11115218
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9099326/Nats-plan-to-remove-right-to-oppose-drilling
http://www.3news.co.nz/Residents-against-proposed-Fonterra-mine/tabid/423/articleID/311296/Default.aspx
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1309/S00100/bills-failure-highlights-nationals-empty-slogan.htm
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/website/closed-sites/bioethics.html
http://www.indymedia.org.nz/articles/1255
Environment Canterbury (
Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act 2010
Denies access to the Environment Court for the resolution of environmental and resource
management matters in the
Canterbury region
Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act 2010
Enables the Minister for the Environment to choose what law will or
will not apply to Commissioners appointed to replace
the Canterbury regional councillors
http://www.rethinking.org.nz/assets/Newsletter_PDF/Issue_112/02_United_Nations_Universal_Periodic_Review_170613.pdf
http://lsa.net.au/wcb-content/uploads/lsa/files/2011/Henry%20VIII%20clauses.pdf
Henry VIII Clause
http://www.rethinking.org.nz/assets/Newsletter_PDF/Issue_112/02_United_Nations_Universal_Periodic_Review_170613.pdf
^^ law society UN submission
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/business/9107225/Rod-Oram-Time-for-economic-leadership
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9121336/Deep-sea-oil-plans-anger-stars
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/9134466/Ross-Sea-proposed-sanctuary-slashed
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1309/S00064/concerns-over-revised-plan-for-ross-sea-protection.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1309/S00059/serious-risk-in-fed-farmers-short-term-thinking.htm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9143526/Environmental-OK-for-holiday-highway
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1309/S00108/analysis-of-proposed-freshwater-rma-sir-geoffrey-palmer.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11122601
http://www.labour.org.nz/news/why-not-wholly-independent-reporting-minister
http://www.labour.org.nz/news/minister-buying-needless-fight-with-local-authorities
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/221858/doc-paper-says-dam-proposal-%27risky%27
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/222020/eight-new-o-and-g-exploration-areas-up-for-grabs
http://thestandard.org.nz/nick-smith-ruataniwha-dam/#comment-699139
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1309/S00222/coal-trumps-climate-at-supreme-court.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=11126724
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9190899/Govt-calls-for-platinum-mining-tenders
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9143526/Environmental-OK-for-holiday-highway
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11130588
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9222669/Fears-for-goldmine-grants-on-green-land
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9242194/Turoa-diesel-spill-contaminates-town-water-supply
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11137661
http://thestandard.org.nz/eds-attacks-nick-smiths-ruataniwha-dam-process/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9278305/Spill-leads-to-fuel-tank-use-review
http://youtu.be/GhpkV0aNTS0
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9302439/Digging-deeper-on-coal
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9302591/Homeowners-undermined-by-decision
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9284604/Loophole-allows-DOC-to-swap-land
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/9278492/Voluntary-groups-may-fail-rare-birds
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/rena-crisis/9247168/Rena-row-still-raging
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1310/S00198/eds-gets-leave-to-appeal-approved-by-supreme-court.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1310/S00195/grazing-not-normal-behaviour-for-dairy-cows.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1310/S00184/eds-says-proposed-new-oil-drilling-regulations-not-adequate.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1310/S00292/epa-board-appointment-announced.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1310/S00257/fonterra-gains-consents-for-coal-mine.htm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11143781
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9310767/Dirty-dairying-inspection-tipoffs-criticised
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9309575/Most-RMA-breaches-dairy-related
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9293549/Fonterra-dumping-milk-byproducts-in-Taranaki
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9306679/Buttermilk-lake-investigation-under-way
^^disposal at sea
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9285515/Record-114-000-Waikato-dirty-dairying-fine
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/8027832/74k-fine-for-dirty-dairy-farming
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/7857273/Dirty-dairying-fouling-Golden-Bay
http://inthehouse.co.nz/node/21626
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/opinion/9317016/One-rotten-apple-spoils-dairy-farmers-lot
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/9320472/Rural-water-quality-concerns-mount
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/9299807/Farmers-fighting-proposed-animal-welfare-changes
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/canterbury/9315917/Nitrate-warning-freaking-out-Cantabrians
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1311/S00125/holes-in-govts-freshwater-policy-create-licence-to-pollute.htm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9372047/Good-and-bad-in-Canterbury-dairy-report
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9366266/Big-fine-for-dairy-farms-effluent-dumping
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9385615/Aquifer-fears-spur-call-for-exploration-rethink
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9427016/Risks-of-deep-sea-drilling-kept-secret-Labour
http://inthehouse.co.nz/node/22286
Ms Adams said that the EPA only had to assess the “completeness” of an application and not its effectiveness.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11160976
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1311/S00277/urgent-action-required-in-response-to-water-quality-warnings.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1311/S00274/anadarko-oil-spill-equipment-grossly-inadequate.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1311/S00255/report-change-in-land-use-putting-pressure-on-water-quality.htm
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/228548/fears-over-possible-business-influence-at-doc
http://www.doc.govt.nz/about-doc/news/media-releases/new-doc-chief-executive-appointed/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11161882
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Hi BLiP, would you mind if I published your 5:55 pm comment as a post on The Jackal?
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I would be honoured.
You do Good Work BLiP.
wow. just wow
yep, it’s pretty out there.
q: what will they eat after the environment is gone?
a: balance. there must always be balance with these things ….
We/they are all to blame, if you want/need growth, then you have to keep fucking our environment, no growth equals no Kiwi Saver.
Labour and the greens by forcing Kiwi Saver on kiwis, have committed us to economic growth or else.
The billboard should show a Kiwi Saver fund on one side, and a ravaged world with no humans on the other.
Kiwi Saver = escapism at best.
You’re partly a lot right there mr atack.
But are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
And least we forget, it was Smith in the hot seat when we started building leaky homes, against the advice from Canada. Thanks Nick,
I use to feel sorry for Nick once. He always reminded me of someone a bit down on their luck. He has this constant bloke with a drinking problem look about him. Who after a hard night out on it, comes home feeling a bit hungry, goes to the fridge, opens the door only to smack his head as it swings out – and he has stayed like that ever since.
He was a god guy once but like all MP’s with this lot they all turn ugly after a while, it must be the culture they have as all Nat’ M.P.s are turning arrogant now.
Anybody got any video of this on their phone? It’s always been a source of disappointment to me that when really interesting things happen (lockwood smith chased from an Albany hall by angry pensioners, Nat MP leaves Dunedin meeting through toilet window) there are no TV camera’s.
Or last week when Chairman Johnny was in Christchurch for another of his smile and click moments, with the sole intention to peddle another manufactured story around the country to show how wonderful they are doing there. Usually they are highly secretive affairs, where not even local media are notified, however, word leaked out, and a size able group of protesters ambushed the scene with the main intention to put some hard questions to Key on the continual ignoring by his administration of various serious matters relating to substandard housing conditions and insurance issues. Naturally Key didn’t want to be pressed on the hard issues, so he had to called it all off and his security henchmen had to huddle him over a fence to his car and took off. Not a squeak in the media as usual. Some camera footage would have been hilarious.
Slightly sinister little piece on TV3 presenting the sob story of poor ordinary NZ bloke harshly prosecuted by nasty Fish and Game for illegal trade in salmon. No mention of the bullying by Smith strangely, just this poisonous little attempt to undermine public confidence in Fish and Game. Anyone who stands up to these bullies gets the biased Mediaworks treatment, the threats of restructuring, ….. the Whaleoil slime will be next I expect.
Nothing on TV3 news on this..WTF?
Saarbo,
TV1 is sanctioned by a selected Government panel of scrutinisers TV3 to by the looks of it as they get Government funding and have been equally threatened to do what they are told also. And we hear all media are also on warning also not slag the Government policy at this election cycle time, so effectively the media has been gaged by the Government and their storm troopers. Good that you now see the result, and hope others will as we get closer to the ballot box. Long live democracy that will return one sunny day.