Apologists for Syrian fascism here, and Alt Right and Neo-Nazis all around the globe have celebrated and cheered the ongoing genocide against the Syrian people by the fascist style regime of Bashar Assad
March 15, the day of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, was marked around the world by Syrian refugees as the 8th anniversary of the beginning the popular revolt against the brutal fascist style regime of Bashar Assad.
Understandably, because of the terrible events in Christchurch, this public event had to be called off. One of the Syrian refugees queried whether they would be shot if they turned up.
On the breaking news of the attacks, some of Syrian refugees trying to get news of what was occurring in Christchurch, witnessed the terrible live stream put out by the fascist terrorist.
As events unfolded the following conversation was occurred on my facebook page;
I did not think it was as bad as it is… OMG.. now that I have seen the video I am totally shocked….
Some syrian refugees who have escaped syria to remain alive were shot today in Christchurch on the anniversary of the revolution….. This is beyond believe….
could u please send me this video….
It is so horrible you wouldn’t be the same after watching it….. I thought I am a tough man.. and I am shaken….
I saw so much when I was in syria
If you like dont send it….
It is not over yet…
I have written many times here, that apologia for fascism in Syria will have effects around the world. I witnessed fascist thugs in MAGA caps harassing Syrian refugees in Auckland protesting the fall of Aleppo. But, I never foresaw the more extreme type of fascist atrocity ever unfolding here.
I hope the authorities are giving the local New Zealand apologists for Syrian fascism some very close attention, to discover the links, they may have had with the terrorist, or the fascist circles he moved in.
For identification purposes I offer the authorities this video of the fascists harassing Syrian refugees in Auckland.
” But because there are plenty of Isis fighters still under arms and ready to fight in the Syrian province of Idlib, along with their Hayat Tahrir al Sham, al-Nusra and al-Qaeda comrades – almost surrounded by Syrian government troops but with a narrow corridor in which they could escape to Turkey; always supposing that Sultan Erdogan will let them.”
Here’s a non=warmongering woman ….. with 100 X the credibility than you Jenny …. and she tells a different story than you
In the first interview with Jimmy Dore, Gabbartd openly comes out in support of the regime change conspiracy theory.
In the second interview, when put on the spot, Gabbard dances around the conspiracy theory that the US seeks regime change in Syria. As she said the US don’t have any differences with Assad. And this is true.
The US has a bee in their bonnet about anyone, (other than themselves, and a few select others) having weapons of mass destruction.
The US has conducted two attacks against Assad’s gas weapons sites. But not without giving Assad and his Russian allies a heads up first. Attacks in which no Assadist or Russian military forces suffered any casualties.
Meanwhile the fascist genocide being conducted against the Syrian people by the Assad regime goes on unchecked and unremarked by the Western apologists for fascism.
More than this, Western apologists for this slaughter continue to enthusiastically spread and repeat the lies and propaganda of the fascists that emboldens fascists everywhere.
Jo Cox was assassinated by a fascist gunman because she supported the Syrian people against the regime.
The attack in Christchurch was conducted on the anniversary of the beginning of the popular revolt against Assad, by a gunman who self describes as a fascist.
The normalisation and acceptance of fascism in Syria has emboldened and empowered fascists everywhere.
Witness as US observers (also common Americans) speak of what they saw and learned while monitoring Syrian Elections. Understand that the US has been backing the “rebels” in Syria while in free and open elections 74% of the voting population showed up at the polls.
These are the people Jenny who have first hand knowledge of how Syrians regard their President.
God knows why you have to continue to write unfounded garbage about Syria and Syrians.
Why do you choose to lie?
Why do you continue to give implicit support to the Wahabi head choppers?
Hi Brigid, I think you have put up the wrong youtube video to accompany your comment. It seems to show someone talking about diesel injectors, and not, “….people who have first hand knowledge of how Syrians regard their President.”
I would like to see that. Could put up the proper video?
Apart from that. Your broad smear of the opposition to the genocidal regime of Bashar Al Assad, as “Wahabi head choppers,” is the sort of inflammatory language of the Islamophobes and racists witnessed in Charlottesville, and at other White Supremacist and Alt-Right gatherings.
reason 1.3.1.2
7 April 2019 at 11:21 am
But you don’t mention Fisk Jenny ? …. who has refuted your white helmets war propaganda…..
I have mentioned Robert Fisk writing on this website, more than once. Briefly; Robert Fisk is a member the Lebanon establishment, where he has lived for a long time. It wouldn’t be worth Fisk’s life to oppose the Lebanese based Hezbollah ally of Bashar Al Assad.
It was Fisk who popularised the risible, ‘they died from the dust from the dust of regime bombs, not from the gas from regime bombs’ theory to explain away the Douma gas attacks.
P.S. I would like to see where Robert Fisk has has ever ‘refuted’ the work of the White Helmets. All I can find from Fisk about the White Helmets is a random scattering of snide asides, obviously echoing the smears of others, but never amounting to more than just a few words.
Reason, if you can find even just a paragraph from Robert Fisk where he, “…has refuted your white helmets war propaganda.”
Reason, apologists for genocide and fascism like yourself get more ridiculous and discredited every day.
Citing comedian Jimmy Dore to back up your pro-war and pro-genocide position just shows how desperate you are getting
The regime propaganda of a “usa sponsored proxy war in Syria” picked up on by serial conspiracy theorist and 9/11 Truther, comedian Jimmy Dore, and cited by you makes a change from the Alt-Right and Tea Party websites that are often cited by supporters of this particular conspiracy theory.
The fact is, as Tulsi Gabbard herself admits, the US has no gripe with Assad.
Right up until the Syrian uprising this fascist dictator despite his appalling human rights record was a darling of the West including the US. So much so that the US used Syria as a the most common destination for CIA flights of Extraordinary Rendition to get Assad’s help to torture the CIA’s suspects for them.
….. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria.
… a subsidiary of Boeing, handled the logistical planning for the CIA’s extraordinary rendition flights.
The US is no more opposed to Assad, than the US was opposed to other Far Right dictators like Ben Ali in Tunisia or Mubarak in Egypt until they were toppled in popular uprisings.
The US only became involved in Syria when their main military ally in Iraq, the Kurds, became involved, and at a time when it seemed that the uprising would succeed. Now that the uprising seems to have been lost, and even the Kurds are beleagured by the regime and its Russian allies. Predictably the US under Trump’s leadership, has abandoned their erstwhile ally.
The US strategic motivation in Syria, as it was in Tunisia and Egypt, is to be on the winning side.
Will we see a proper investigation and will Camron Slater actually be held to account for his possession of stolen property?
Maybe Slater might get some taxpayer-funded lodgings in the future?
Did some research but don’t have time to compare time lines at the mo.
Anne Tolley 2011 – 2014
Michael Woodhouse 2014 – 2015
Judith Collins was police minister prior to some point in 2011 and was reinstated at end of 2015 by John Key after a period in the wilderness.
Here’s the lowdown on JC from wikipedia:
In August 2014 the book Dirty Politics, written by Nicky Hager, revealed that Collins was friends with right-wing blogger Cameron Slater and had passed on private information to him about Simon Pleasants, a public servant at Internal Affairs. Collins believed Pleasants had leaked information about Deputy Prime Minister Bill English misusing his housing allowance. Slater published Mr Pleasant’s name and details on his blog as well as the abuse and death threats that were subsequently directed at Mr Pleasants. A 3News-Reid Research poll taken at the time revealed that 63% of voters believed Prime Minister John Key should have stood Collins down over this incident. Mr Key said Collins had been ‘unwise’ and placed on her second final warning.
Winston Peters claimed he was approached to do a post-2014 election deal with National with Collins as leader. Peters went on to say he would swear an affidavit that he had been approached. Collins denied this claim. On 29 August 2014 John Key backed Collins up by stating “I accept Judith 100 per cent at her word.”
On 30 August 2014 Collins resigned her Cabinet positions following the leak of another e-mail written by Slater in 2011, which suggested she had also attempted to undermine another public servant, Adam Feeley. Feeley was Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Collins was the Minister responsible for the SFO at the time. Collins says she resigned because she believed the attacks on her had become a distraction for the National Party leading up to the election.
I’ve had a chance to do a bit of research patricia.
The home invasion and vicious assault on Mark Blomfield was in April, 2014. The minister at the time could have been Anne Tolley or Michael Woodhouse.
The slanderous blog posts by Slater (9 of them ) all occurred in April 2012 – 2 years earlier.
Blomfield has been fighting this case for seven years and made 15 formal complaints to the police during that time. The time period of the lodged police complaints cover the terms of all three former Nat. Ministers of Police.
Here is Fisher’s article form the Herald a few days ago. It is clear the police dragged their heels from day one, and you can’t tell me there wasn’t some sort of political interference occurring at some point along the way. It probably wasn’t directly communicated but the message got through to someone in the police force:
Oh hell yes Sacha. And it’s been going on for decades. Back in the 1960s and 70s there was apparently a secret “special forces” police unit whose sole task was to root out communists. You can imagine how that panned out. Any poor bugger who happened to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time found themselves on a black list of suspects.
This is not quite How To Get There material – as it is a poke at BAU, rather than solution based. I do think it might provoke thought concerning what sustainable and resilient looks like.
It is a hastily scrawled out thought process, so probably ridden with error, but you’ll get the point.
Pre-industrial cheese.
Shelter belts/hedgerows, manures, forbes, grasses and nitrogen fixing plants – > sheltered pasture and tree browse/mast – > livestock – > milk – > cheese -> (market – >) consumer.
Industrial cheese.
Mines and chemical plants and energy producers provide mineral salts, seed companies provide grasses, chemical companies provide herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, trees and forbes and beneficial insects are largely gone, nitrogen fixers often fail to fix nitrogen where soil N is high, mined steel and forgeries provide wire and forestry provides timber with chemical plants supplying timber preservatives – > ‘pasture’ – > semen salespersons and genetics labs – > livestock – plus imported feeds, mineral licks (no tree browse or forbes), assorted medicines, antibiotics – > milk – > separation followed by pasteurisation and homogenisation – > cultures – > cheese – > plastic manufacturing for packaging – > trucks, ships, more trucks – > supermarket -> consumer.
The industrial model can be broken in many places. The pre-industrial model largely provides its own needs, and, with neighbors who’d all pitch in for major work and purchasing events, is resilient as well as sustainable.
I’m not sure that the industrial model has improved much at all with regards to the cheese on my table. I do imagine a hybrid of old school farming with new technology for direct marketing would kick ass for locals.
In the states (and here?) many sustainable/new traditional farmers are building consumer bases online. They then market door to door delivery and/or pick ups to their immediate area. The farmers and consumers both get a better deal by cutting out all those middle men.
Local farmers might be interested to see local examples of this type of direct marketing, and sustainable dairy production. Do we have some yet?
Joel Salatin is a very interesting guy to learn from if you want to examine old school farming at a reasonable scale. He farms like his great grandaddy, but better tech. Learning stuff from examples in the States though, it seems strange that pasture fed cattle are a novelty. 😉
I’ve worn the Green brand a long time, but not the wizard brand – anyone who actually does wizardry in western society knows that the best strategy is to not wear the brand. Not only is is hard to hit a moving target, if you don’t see a target, you never even take aim! So I don’t know these Aucklanders, and am just reposting their notice here (from Ecosophia) as a public service:
“The April meeting of the Green Wizards Association of Auckland will be held on the 27th of April 2019 at 13:00. Our inaugural meeting was a huge success with a bigger than expected turnout.”
“We are still on the lookout for a permanent venue but for now we will meet up near Aotea Square, 303 Queen St, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand. Please RSVP, or send queries and comments to GWAA[at]wormlamp.com or better still sign up for e-mail reminders at https://wormlamp.com/gwaa/.”
The saga of the keystone cops, WhaleOil & Rawshark, and the Greenhithe home invasion by a gang member toting a shotgun, wearing a Spiderman mask, in which a family was terrorized and a businessman shot twice. Not serious enough to investigate, decided the keystoners… https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12219396
Once upon a time, we could say `only in America’. Not any more, it seems! There will have to be some serious accounting done by the police commissioner eventually. Too much shit went down to be covered up any longer.
🙂
Yeah Cash flow and short term profit. That is all he is interested in.
I gather that he has had a thing against wind turbines for some time – since around 2007 – when the Scots planned to erect an offshore wind farm near one of his golf courses. 🙁 Sacrilege!
Exactly – and that just adds to his grievance. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641
Probably why he was on his high horse about “windmills” at the Repugnant convention. He has just lost in the Supreme court. I wonder if he will now petition HRH?
But as usual I don’t think any money will be forthcoming. Very deep pockets has Donnie – especially when it comes to paying.
*A radge, or radgie, is defined as someone who is mad, violently excited, furious, wild, obstreperous and dates back to the 1890s. But it can also mean someone who is sexually excited, lustful or even silly and weak-minded. In Trump’s case all of those things.
bampot Idiot; an objectionable and foolish person.
Now that is something I am very interested in.
BTW my daughter is about to head off to Edinburgh – and first port of call is “The Stand”. She is a graduate of Toi Whakaari.
Jeepers, small world. The Stand is a venue Janey took to task over contracts not allowing performers to play in other venues. As you might imagine this severely limited an already difficult career path. Those contracts were common, and evil. Still a few around I’d wager. It did get sorted I think Chortle and a bunch of other acts and venues came on board. History now. Janey’s daughter Ashley (Storrie) just played the Stand. – ‘A total revelation’ (Dawn French).
I’m working a telly script right now. It’s passed the funny test with a bunch of cynical old farts, had us in tears at times with the planned idiocy… loving it.
Best of luck for your girl. Edinburgh is an amazing experience for artists and a serious networking opportunity. If she gets the chance to meet Janey or Ashley she should. They are fantastic people and love NZ and NZ’ers.
Has “Trumpism” Making up facts crept over to the left, or was it alway present, and thanks to Pres. Trump, he now has given his name to the term ?
a response a few days ago a contributor made this statement regarding the Tomorrows Schools review
“…Some are perfectly happy with a two tier education system.
Meanwhile. The system is, failing most children.”
Perhaps on reflection the education system has fail us, when some ( akolouthos ) fail to be able to source supporting facts for their arguments, and become lazy and Make Them Up.
A Twitter account for WikiLeaks, the document trove website founded by Julian Assange, said Thursday that Assange will be ousted from his sanctuary at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London within “hours to days.”
The website tweeted Thursday claiming that a senior source with Ecuador’s State Department had informed WikiLeaks that Assange would be removed from the embassy and subject to arrest by British authorities.
Doesn’t pay to piss off your hosts – no matter what you might think.
In a blog post on the organization’s legal defense fund website, WikiLeaks claimed that the move was an attempt by Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno to cover up activities related to his use of an offshore tax haven created by his brother.
A Russian bank owned by former North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor has been accused of money laundering and lost its license, according to Bloomberg News.
The Commercial Bank of Ivanovo “failed on multiple occasions to comply with Bank of Russia regulations” on money laundering “of criminally obtained incomes and the financing of terrorism,” the Bank of Russia said in a press release.
The bank lied about its assets and reserves, the central bank said, “in order to improve its financial indicators and conceal its actual financial standing.” The bank also artificially inflated its capital to make it look like it was in line with Russian regulations, the press release said.
The central bank said most of CBI’s business involved corporate and individual loans, but 70% were “low-quality loans.”
It goes without saying that Charles Taylor is a Republican.
NZTA estimate now that each life lost on our roads costs our economy $4.5 million Dollars. So 24×4.5 is = $1008 million; – so save money and build rail for our safety government.
Best bring back rail transport, as the roads are gridlocked with trucks so put funding into rail now and let the truckers pay for wrecking the roads themselves instead of us subsidising their industry as we get nothing but deaths from them.
Government bring back all regional passenger services.
Save our lives again, and the planet also lowering climate change emissions at the same time.
Freight trucks cause 99% of wear-and-tear on US roads, but only pay for 35% of the maintenance. This $60B subsidy causes extra congestion and pollution, and taxpayers pay the bill.
It seems obvious that the heavier the vehicle, the more damage it does to roads over time. A 40,000 pound big rig probably does a bit more damage than your average 3500 pound consumer vehicle, right? It turns out that vehicle road damage doesn’t rise linearly with weight. Road damage rises with the fourth power of weight, and this means that a 40,000 pound truck does roughly 10,000 times more damage to roadways than the average car [1]!
In other words, one fully loaded 18-wheeler does the same damage to a road as 9600 cars.
Trump made two remarkably authoritarian remarks in one day
Did you even notice?
President Donald Trump made two remarkably authoritarian comments on Friday, first urging Congress to “get rid of judges” — specifically, immigration judges — and later demeaning the entire media as the “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”
But in a sign of how normalized the behavior of this president has become, neither remark amounted to much more than a blip on the news radar.
Trump made his comment about immigration judges during a question-and-answer session with reporters before departing the White House for a photo opportunity along the southern border in California.
“Congress has to act,” Trump said. “They have to get rid of catch and release, chain migration, visa lottery, they have to get rid of the whole asylum system because it doesn’t work, and frankly, we should get rid of judges. You can’t have a court case every time somebody steps foot on our ground.”
Trump’s comments marked the second time this week he has urged Congress “to get rid of judges” — a proposal that, thankfully, for those of us who value checks and balances, has little chance of gaining traction now that Democrats control the House.
The president, however, is not even trying to hide the fact he’d like to have the power to summarily deport migrants and asylum seekers, and has already demonstrated a willingness to try and seize emergency powers toward that end.
Later, while Air Force One was on its way to California, Trump posted a tweet in which he characterized the entire “press” as “truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”…
…The president says a lot of ugly stuff, and much of it can safely be tuned out. Still, Trump’s comments on Friday highlight how unprecedented the current state of affairs is for our country. The president aspires to being an authoritarian ruler and isn’t really trying to hide it.
Regardless of whether you take Trump’s comments literally or merely seriously, they are disturbing. Judges are a vital part of the rule of law, and the free press is important in any democracy. Those values were mostly taken for granted in this country, but should not be any longer.
Can anyone with an energy analyst background tell me why we aren’t getting a sharp spike in the oil barrel price after the increased sanctions by the U.S. against Venezuela?
Is the global heavy crude market really that distinct?
Solely transport issues constraining supply.(not demand side)
The next surprise (not really but traders never look forward of their next trade) will be the 20th December with the opening of the russian/sino power of siberia.
expect liquified gas,and coal (and international carbon trade) to submerge.i
Obviously you haven’t been driving on our single lane NZ regional roads or you would know that trucks are now ripping up our ‘soft roads’ here and every day road works are packing them temporarily just so we can drive on them slowly.
Come down Hwy two from Tauranga to Napier after you ‘heavily insure yourself’ firstly.
It will turn you into a grey headed n human with the stress of driving and scaring when a monster truck comes around the sharp corners on some hill and takes up most of the narrow road.
Give it a go.
We see a lot of this type of stupid driving here too as you see here in US videos.
We clocked a truck and trailer passing us at over 116 kms between Wairoa and gisborne.
Bernie and his tax returns: the returns themselves probably don’t matter a damn, but his approach to releasing them is yet more evidence he’d probably be really crap as prez.
Sanders refuses to engage with things that annoy him. But he is no longer a protest candidate and can no longer escape the old adage that you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. He’s running not to make a statement or drag the conversation to the left, but to be the leader of the most powerful country in the history of the world and to rescue it from its collision course with a dystopian future. People rightly want to know whether he has his act together enough to do that, particularly as they experience life under the presidency of a man who clearly does not.
Sanders’s refusal to bend on any issue, no matter how minor, may be endearing to his most passionate supporters, but he’s doing both them and the country a disservice. An unbending approach to minutiae harms not only him, but his movement — and begins to look selfish and entitled. A million people have raised their hands to volunteer to make Sanders president. They deserve more from him.
She certainly has a much better record of putting together substantial progressive legislation and putting together the necessary coalition to get it passed than any of the other contenders.
However, I do worry about her age, and whether she’s got the right political reflexes to win against the orange anusmouth. She couldn’t afford many repeats of her DNA testing debacle.
Well, I’m pretty sure the last time I expressed enthusiasm for Biden or Bernie was before it become impossible for Bernie to win in 2016. Back then I would have preferred either to Hillary. As for the rotting halloween pumpkin. surely I don’t need to clarify my views?
If Warren wins, she will become the oldest ever at inauguration. She’ll be 71 on 20th January 2021. Dementia Don was 70 at his. Ronnie “Alzie” Raygun was 69 at his.
If the idea that one of the most intense demanding jobs in the world is better filled by someone with a bit more youthful vigor and stamina doesn’t sway you, just get a list of presidents ranked by age next to a list ranked by how good they were as prez. It’s a pretty good correlation, the younger prezzes have generally been better, the older prezzes have generally been crappier.
Last night I watched Trevor Noah (host of The Daily Show) interview Sanders for 16+ mins – he looked and acted his age, and came across as genuinely progressive (IMHO.)
Bernie reiterated that he will be releasing his tax returns soon (April 15th) – @15:45 minutes. Video may be difficult to start! If someone has a better link, then please post it.
There’s no doubt he’s genuinely progressive. However, I’ve got doubts he’s sufficiently flexible and creative to work out the kinds of deals and compromises needed to actually get legislation passed. Given his very long service in Congress, his record of actually getting things passed is awfully thin.
There’s also the concern that he’s never really gone up against the Repug smear machine. John Kerry got successfully swiftboated by shit that was just made up. Whereas Bernie is on record advocating a bunch of things, such as wholesale nationalisation of a bunch of industries, that I just can’t imagine getting accepted by more than maybe 5% of Americans. Sure that was a long time ago and his position now is quite different. But smears are a whole lot more powerful if they’ve got a kernel of truth at their core.
I agree that Bernie won’t survive politically the process. He’ll be fighting small fires constantly until he turns to fight like an old wilderbeast run down by wild dogs. Not pretty.
“Jeff Flake, the mild-mannered critic of President Trump who voted with his the vast majority of the time, describes what happens when you buck Dear Leader:
Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator for Arizona and a vocal critic of the Trump administration, has revealed he received a number of threats from supporters of the president before he left office this year.
In an interview with the Guardian, Flake described several examples of threatening messages and behaviour made against him and his family that he said were currently being investigated by law enforcement agencies in Arizona and Washington DC.
“I would have liked to have done one more term in the Senate, that’s probably all,” Flake said. “But its been at a heavy cost to my family. The sacrifices they’ve been [made to make], what they had to endure …””
Over populated, understaffed, people thrown away to rot and humanity, dignity and all that is just meaningless words.
And ys, its a horror show, and it seems no one give a care or a dime
and maybe this is what we here in NZ are preventing by giving even the most horrible of criminals a bit of dignity, as not doing it is not an option.
At the end of the article are two images with pointers, don’t click on the pointers to see more images if you are not prepared to see blood and beaten/stabbed and raped men. And the overseers either participate or turn a blind eye. But then, they too are locked up until they get to go home at the end of their shift.
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TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Thursday, July 25 are:News: Why Electric Kiwi is closing to new customers - and why it matters RNZ’s Susan EdmundsScoop: Government drops ...
Hi,I felt a small wet tongue snaking through one of the holes in my Crocs. It explored my big toe, darting down one side, then the other. “He’s looking for some toe cheese,” said the woman next to me, words that still haunt me to this day.Growing up in New ...
Yesterday I happily quoted the Prime Minister without fact-checking him and sure enough, it turns out his numbers were all to hell. It’s not four kg of Royal Commission report, it’s fourteen.My friend and one-time colleague-in-comms Hazel Phillips gently alerted me to my error almost as soon as I’d hit ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Thursday, July 25, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day were:The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquirypublished its final report yesterday.PM Christopher Luxon and The Minister responsible for ...
The Official Information Act has always been a battle between requesters seeking information, and governments seeking to control it. Information is power, so Ministers and government agencies want to manage what is released and when, for their own convenience, and legality and democracy be damned. Their most recent tactic for ...
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:Transport and Energy Minister Simeon Brown is accelerating plans to spend at least $10 billion through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to extend State Highway One as a four-lane ‘Expressway’ from Warkworth to Whangarei ...
I live my life (woo-ooh-ooh)With no control in my destinyYea-yeah, yea-yeah (woo-ooh-ooh)I can bleed when I want to bleedSo come on, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)You can bleed when you want to bleedYea-yeah, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)Everybody bleed when they want to bleedCome on and bleedGovernments face tough challenges. Selling unpopular decisions to ...
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Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to support the US-led coalition in the Red ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:40 am on Wednesday, July 24 are:Deep Dive: Chipping away at the housing crisis, including my comments RNZ/Newsroom’s The DetailNews: Government softens on asset sales, ...
As I reported about the city centre, Auckland’s rail network is also going through a difficult and disruptive period which is rapidly approaching a culmination, this will result in a significant upgrade to the whole network. Hallelujah. Also like the city centre this is an upgrade predicated on the City ...
Today, a 4 kilogram report will be delivered to Parliament. We know this is what the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care weighs, because our Prime Minister told us so.Some reporter had blindsided him by asking a question about something done by ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Wednesday, July 24, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Beehive:Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced plans to use PPPs to fund, build and run a four-lane expressway between Auckland ...
NewstalkZB host Mike Hosking, who can usually be relied on to give Prime Minister Christopher Luxon an easy run, did not do so yesterday when he interviewed him about the HealthNZ deficit. Luxon is trying to use a deficit reported last year by HealthNZ as yet another example of the ...
Back in January a StatsNZ employee gave a speech at Rātana on behalf of tangata whenua in which he insulted and criticised the government. The speech clearly violated the principle of a neutral public service, and StatsNZ started an investigation. Part of that was getting an external consultant to examine ...
Renting for life: Shared ownership initiatives are unlikely to slow the slide in home ownership by much. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:A Deloittereport for Westpac has projected Aotearoa’s home-ownership rate will ...
You're broken down and tiredOf living life on a merry go roundAnd you can't find the fighterBut I see it in you so we gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsWe gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll ...
There’s been a change in Myers Park. Down the steps from St. Kevin’s Arcade, past the grassy slopes, the children’s playground, the benches and that goat statue, there has been a transformation. The underpass for Mayoral Drive has gone from a barren, grey, concrete tunnel, to a place that thrums ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Tuesday, July 23 are:Deep Dive: Penlink: where tolling rhetoric meets reality BusinessDesk-$$$’sOliver LewisScoop:Te Pūkenga plans for regional polytechs leak out ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Tuesday, July 23, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Health: Shane Reti announcedthe Board of Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand was being replaced with Commissioner Lester Levy ...
Health NZ warned the Government at the end of March that it was running over Budget. But the reasons it gave were very different to those offered by the Prime Minister yesterday. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blamed the “botched merger” of the 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) to create Health ...
Long ReadKey Summary: Although National increased the health budget by $1.4 billion in May, they used an old funding model to project health system costs, and never bothered to update their pre-election numbers. They were told during the Health Select Committees earlier in the year their budget amount was deficient, ...
As a momentous, historic weekend in US politics unfolded, analysts and commentators grasped for precedents and comparisons to help explain the significance and power of the choice Joe Biden had made. The 46th president had swept the Democratic party’s primaries but just over 100 days from the election had chosen ...
TL;DR: I’m casting around for new ideas and ways of thinking about Aotearoa’s political economy to find a few solutions to our cascading and self-reinforcing housing, poverty and climate crises.Associate Professor runs an online masters degree in the economics of sustainability at Torrens University in Australia and is organising ...
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill. The bill sets up water for privatisation, and was introduced under urgency, then rammed through select committee with no time even for local councils to make a proper submission. Naturally, national's select committee ...
Some years ago, I bought a book at Dunedin’s Regent Booksale for $1.50. As one does. Vandrad the Viking (1898), by J. Storer Clouston, is an obscure book these days – I cannot find a proper online review – but soon it was sitting on my shelf, gathering dust alongside ...
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded to then lose the White House ...
This is a free articleCoverageThis morning, US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race. And that is genuinely newsworthy. Thanks for your service, President Biden, and all the best to you and yours.However, the media in New Zealand, particularly the 1News nightly bulletin, has been breathlessly covering ...
A homeless person’s camp beside a blocked-off slipped damage walkway in Freeman’s Bay: we are chasing our tail on our worsening and inter-related housing, poverty and climate crises. Photo: Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
What has happened to it all?Crazy, some'd sayWhere is the life that I recognise?(Gone away)But I won't cry for yesterdayThere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldYesterday morning began as many others - what to write about today? I began ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Monday, July 22 are:Today’s Must Read: Father and son live in a tent, and have done for four years, in a million ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.Multinational professional services firm ...
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025. Until now traveling ...
This weekend, a friend pointed out someone who said they’d like to read my posts, but didn’t want to pay. And my first reaction was sympathy.I’ve already told folks that if they can’t comfortably subscribe, and would like to read, I’d be happy to offer free subscriptions. I don’t want ...
National: The Party of ‘Law and Order’ IntroductionThis weekend, the Government formally kicked off one of their flagship policy programs: a military style boot camp that New Zealand has experimented with over the past 50 years. Cartoon credit: Guy BodyIt’s very popular with the National Party’s Law and Orderimage, ...
Day one of the solo leg of my long journey home begins with my favourite sound: footfalls in an empty street. 5.00 am and it’s already light and already too warm, almost.If I can make the train that leaves Budapest later this hour I could be in Belgrade by nightfall; ...
Do you remember Y2K, the threat that hung over humanity in the closing days of the twentieth century? Horror scenarios of planes falling from the sky, electronic payments failing and ATMs refusing to dispense cash. As for your VCR following instructions and recording your favourite show - forget about it.All ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts being questioned by The Kākā’s Bernard Hickey.TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the week to July 20 were:1. A strategy that fails Zero Carbon Act & Paris targetsThe National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government finally unveiled ...
Summary:As New Zealand loses at least 12 leaders in the public service space of health, climate, and pharmaceuticals, this month alone, directly in response to the Government’s policies and budget choices, what lies ahead may be darker than it appears. Tui examines some of those departures and draws a long ...
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.Leaving aside the Minister’s metaphor of ‘flooding the market’ I do not see how the ...
As previously noted, my historical fantasy piece, set in the fifth-century Mediterranean, was accepted for a Pirate Horror anthology, only for the anthology to later fall through. But in a good bit of news, it turned out that the story could indeed be re-marketed as sword and sorcery. As of ...
An employee of tobacco company Philip Morris International demonstrates a heated tobacco device. Photo: Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Friday, July 19 are:At a time when the Coalition Government is cutting spending on health, infrastructure, education, housing ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 8:30 am on Friday, July 19 are:Scoop: NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco products. The minister has ...
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments! Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds. ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. A discussion recorded yesterday is in the video above and the audio of that sent onto the podcast feed.The Government released its draft Emissions Reduction ...
Save some money, get rich and old, bring it back to Tobacco Road.Bring that dynamite and a crane, blow it up, start all over again.Roll up. Roll up. Or tailor made, if you prefer...Whether you’re selling ciggies, digging for gold, catching dolphins in your nets, or encouraging folks to flutter ...
Waiting In The Wings:For truly, if Trump is America’s un-assassinated Caesar, then J.D. Vance is America’s Octavian, the Republic’s youthful undertaker – and its first Emperor.DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of James D. Vance as his running-mate bodes ill for the American republic. A fervent supporter of Viktor Orban, the “illiberal” prime ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 19, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:The PSAannounced the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) had ruled in the PSA’s favour in its case against the Ministry ...
Te Rangi e tu nei (The sky above us) Te Papa e takoto nei (The land beneath us) Tatou katoa te hunga ora (To us all the living) Tena koutou katoa (Greetings) ...
A late change to charter school legislation will cheat educators out of fair pay and negotiating power proving charter schools are just a vehicle to make profit out of our education system. ...
In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating itself. Today the government has announced ...
It has been five and a half years since the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was established to investigate the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults within state and faith-based institutions. Yesterday, the final report - Whanaketia through pain and trauma, from darkness to light ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take action off the back of the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. ...
On Friday the International Court of Justice reaffirmed what Palestinian’s have been telling us for decades: that the occupation and colonisation of Palestinian lands by Israel is illegal and must end immediately. They also called for reparations for Palestinian’s who have lived under Israeli occupation since it began in 1967. ...
Labour calls on the Government to act after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories is illegal. ...
The 53.7 percent rise in benefit sanctions over the last year is more proof of this Government’s disdain for our communities most in need of support. ...
Aotearoa could be a country where every child grows up feeling safe, loved and with a sense of belonging in their whānau and community. But for some of our children, this is far from reality. Instead, they are trapped in a maze of intergenerational harm that they can’t escape on ...
Te Pāti Māori are calling for David Seymour to resign as Associate Health Minister in response to his call for Pharmac to ignore the Treaty of Waitangi. “This announcement is just another example of the government’s anti-Tiriti, anti-Māori agenda.” Said Co-leader and spokesperson for health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “Seymour thinks it ...
The soaring price of renting is driving the rise of inflation in this country - with latest figures from Stats NZ showing rents are up 4.8 per cent on average while annual inflation is at 3.3 per cent. ...
National’s Emissions Reduction Plan will take New Zealand further from the economy we need to ensure the next generation has a stable climate and secure livelihoods. ...
Following consultation with named parties and thorough consideration of privacy interests, the Green Party is in a position to release the Executive Summary of the final report from the independent investigation into Darleen Tana. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be asking serious questions of his Minister for Resources Shane Jones now it’s been revealed he misled the public about a dinner with mining companies that he didn’t declare and said wasn’t pre-arranged. ...
Te Pāti Māori have submitted to the Justice Select Committee against the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill. The bill will further entrench racism in our justice system and fails to focus on rehabilitation. “Reinstating Three Strikes will empower a systematically racist system and exacerbate the overrepresentation of Māori in ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee is set to make a determination on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill in the coming weeks. “This legislation will give landlords the power to kick our whānau out onto the street for no reason” said Housing spokesperson, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “Their solution to the housing ...
“National’s campaign was about tackling crime and the best they can do is a two-year long Ministerial Advisory Group,” Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said. ...
“There are more examples of charter schools failing their students than there are success stories. The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids,” Jan Tinetti said. ...
“This government is choosing to deliberately mislead and withhold information, keeping our people in the dark about this government’s agenda and the future of our mokopuna,” said co-leader and spokesperson for Health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. The call comes after the demand from the Chief Ombudsman that Associate Minister of Health, Casey ...
“Today’s climate announcement by Simon Watts makes clear the National Government is simply paying lip service to meeting its climate change targets,” Megan Woods said. ...
National is choosing to make life harder for workers by taking away the rights our communities have fought hard for. Here's how they’re taking workers backwards. ...
Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on the need for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and the risk of expanded conflict between Hizballah and Israel. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. We remain unequivocal in our condemnation of ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. “The Abuse in Care Inquiry’s report has found cases where records of the most vulnerable people in State and faith‑based institutions were ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government’s online safety website for children and young people has reached one million page views. “It is great to see so many young people and their families accessing the site Keep It Real Online to learn how to stay safe online, and manage ...
Tēnā tātou katoa, Ngā mihi te rangi, ngā mihi te whenua, ngā mihi ki a koutou, kia ora mai koutou. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and the invitation to speak at this 50th anniversary conference. I acknowledge all those who have gone before us and paved the ...
New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. “The Government's tax policy changes are legally effective from Wednesday. Delivering this tax ...
An experimental vineyard which will help futureproof the wine sector has been opened in Blenheim by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson. The covered vineyard, based at the New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, enables controlled environmental conditions. “The research that will be produced at the Experimental ...
The Coalition Government has confirmed the indicative regional breakdown of North Island Weather Event (NIWE) funding for state highway recovery projects funded through Budget 2024, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Regions in the North Island suffered extensive and devastating damage from Cyclone Gabrielle and the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Floods, and ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “Indonesia is important to New Zealand’s security and economic interests and is our closest South East Asian neighbour,” says Mr Peters, who is currently in Laos to engage with South East Asian partners. ...
He aha te kai a te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the aspirations of Ngāti Maniapoto, Minister for Māori Development Tama Potaka says. “My thanks to Te Nehenehenui Trust – Ngāti Maniapoto for bringing their important kōrero to a ministerial ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has thanked outgoing Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Janice Fredric, for her service to the board.“I have received Ms Fredric’s resignation from the role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority,” Mr Brown says.“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for ...
The Government is proposing legislation to overturn a Court of Appeal decision and amend the Marine and Coastal Area Act in order to restore Parliament’s test for Customary Marine Title, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Section 58 required an applicant group to prove they have exclusively used and occupied ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour says that opposition parties have united in bad faith, opposing what they claim are ‘dangerous changes’ to the Early Childhood Education sector, despite no changes even being proposed yet. “Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led ...
After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. “The level of interest has been very high, and from the conversations I’ve been ...
The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington and Horizons Regional Councils to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, Transport Minister Simeon ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced his intention to appoint a Crown Manager to both Hawke’s Bay Regional and Wairoa District Councils to speed up the delivery of flood protection work in Wairoa."Recent severe weather events in Wairoa this year, combined with damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023 have ...
Mr Speaker, this is a day that many New Zealanders who were abused in State care never thought would come. It’s the day that this Parliament accepts, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. At the heart of this report are the ...
For the first time, the Government is formally acknowledging some children and young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital experienced torture. The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care “Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light,” was tabled in Parliament ...
The Government has acknowledged the nearly 2,400 courageous survivors who shared their experiences during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and Faith-Based Care. The final report from the largest and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, the Royal Commission Inquiry “Whanaketia – through ...
With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “Tax relief is long overdue. From next Wednesday, personal income ...
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. The Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No3), passed its first reading this morning. “It includes a change ...
Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. The Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill and Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill make key changes to legislation administered by the Ministry ...
New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. “Competitive markets boost productivity, create employment opportunities and lift living standards. To support competition, we need good quality regulation but, unfortunately, a recent OECD report ranked New ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says lotteries for charitable purposes, such as those run by the Heart Foundation, Coastguard NZ, and local hospices, will soon be allowed to operate online permanently. “Under current laws, these fundraising lotteries are only allowed to operate online until October 2024, after which ...
The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections ...
Sir Don McKinnon will travel to Viet Nam this week as a Special Envoy of the Government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says newly appointed Commissioner, Grant Illingworth KC, will help deliver the report for the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons, due on 28 November 2024. “I am pleased to announce that Mr Illingworth will commence his appointment as ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters travels to Laos this week to participate in a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-led Ministerial meetings in Vientiane. “ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. “This will be our third visit to ...
Construction of a new mental health facility at Te Nikau Grey Hospital in Greymouth is today one step closer, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says. “This $27 million facility shows this Government is delivering on its promise to boost mental health care and improve front line services,” Mr Doocey says. ...
New Zealand is committing nearly $50 million to a package supporting sustainable Pacific fisheries development over the next four years, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This support consisting of a range of initiatives demonstrates New Zealand’s commitment to assisting our Pacific partners ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill will ensure charter schools have more flexibility to negotiate employment agreements and are equipped with the right teaching resources. “Cabinet has agreed to progress an amendment which means unions will not be able to initiate ...
In response to serious concerns around oversight, overspend and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, the Board of Health New Zealand will be replaced with a Commissioner, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced today. “The previous government’s botched health reforms have created significant financial challenges at Health NZ that, without ...
Minister for Space and Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins will travel to Adelaide tomorrow for space and science engagements, including speaking at the Australian Space Forum. While there she will also have meetings and visits with a focus on space, biotechnology and innovation. “New Zealand has a thriving space ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will travel to China on Saturday to attend the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting held in Wuhan. “Attending the Ministerial on Climate Action is an opportunity to advocate for New Zealand climate priorities and engage with our key partners on climate action,” Mr Watts says. ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is travelling to the Solomon Islands tomorrow for meetings with his counterparts from around the Pacific supporting collective management of the region’s fisheries. The 23rd Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee and the 5th Regional Fisheries Ministers’ Meeting in Honiara from 23 to 26 July ...
The Government today launched the Military Style Academy Pilot at Te Au rere a te Tonga Youth Justice residence in Palmerston North, an important part of the Government’s plan to crackdown on youth crime and getting youth offenders back on track, Minister for Children, Karen Chhour said today. “On the ...
The Government has welcomed news the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has begun work to replace nine priority bridges across the country to ensure our state highway network remains resilient, reliable, and efficient for road users, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“Increasing productivity and economic growth is a key priority for the ...
Acting Prime Minister David Seymour has been in contact throughout the evening with senior officials who have coordinated a whole of government response to the global IT outage and can provide an update. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has designated the National Emergency Management Agency as the ...
New Zealand and Japan will continue to step up their shared engagement with the Pacific, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand and Japan have a strong, shared interest in a free, open and stable Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “We are pleased to be finding more ways ...
New developments in the heart of North Island forestry country will reinvigorate their communities and boost economic development, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones visited Kaingaroa and Kawerau in Bay of Plenty today to open a landmark community centre in the former and a new connecting road in ...
President Adeang, fellow Ministers, honourable Diet Member Horii, Ambassadors, distinguished guests. Minasama, konnichiwa, and good afternoon, everyone. Distinguished guests, it’s a pleasure to be here with you today to talk about New Zealand’s foreign policy reset, the reasons for it, the values that underpin it, and how it ...
Last summer when Matairangi burned, Ginny and Tom stood at the window of their lounge, watching kākā shoot skyward from the burning trees. From the distance, they looked to Ginny like pages torn from books and thrown into a bonfire. It was Tom, voice tight, who told her it was ...
Opinion: The Canadian short story writer Alice Munro – winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 – died in May at the age of 92. Her work was about “the damage people inflict on one another in the name of love”, Deborah Treisman wrote in the New Yorker. ...
This month marks two years since the most powerful telescope ever built sent its first pictures back to earth. From its lofty vantage point, beyond the moon in orbit around the sun, the James Webb Space Telescope was tuned to observe the first stars and galaxies being born soon after ...
Comment: After Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ preview several weeks ago, I had some optimism about the Government’s emissions reduction plan. Now I’ve read the discussion document, that hope has been dashed. How can the Government propose a plan that wants to take New Zealand taxpayers’ hard-earned money, and spend ...
Christopher Luxon: hurdles The little man from National jumps hurdles in his sleep. He’s quite good at it in his dreams and even though the reality doesn’t quite match up you have to give him credit for getting up every morning and crashing into the very first hurdle of the ...
Comment: It was a good two hours into the conversation when Tyrone Marks raised the most basic of questions when I first spoke to him in 2017. “They didn’t explain the things they did to me. They never told me why. And they still haven’t. There’s no explanation for it. ...
Madeleine Chapman rounds out Death Week on The Spinoff with a final recommendation. You can read all of our Death Week coverage here. Nothing forces you to reflect on your life and relationships quite like proximity to death. For those whose nearest and dearest have died, there are reasonably obvious ...
Whitney Greene takes us through her life in television, including the TV character she’d like to plan a funeral for and her cow lung catastrophe on The Traitors NZ. “If the phone rings, I have to answer it,” Whitney Greene from The Traitors NZ warns as we begin our My ...
Maddie Ballard reviews the debut essay collection of Pōneke writer Flora Feltham.In ‘The Raw Material’, the longest essay in Flora Feltham’s dazzling debut collection, the author heads out for a run after hours of weaving and sees the world turn to textile. “Pounding along the Parade, I saw the ...
Andy Christiansen, one half of the experimental rock-pop duo TRiPS, shares the tunes inspiring the band’s perfect weekend and new release. “Good speakers, good food, good music, no distractions”: that’s all you need to enjoy the psychedelic stylings of TRiPS, a new band formed by Fly My Pretties’ Barnaby Weir ...
Celebrating our quadrennial opportunity to become experts in a bunch of sports we never normally watch.The games of the XXXIII Olympiad are upon us. Paris will host this year’s showcase of sporting and athletic prowess, which means some late-night and early-morning viewing for us in Aotearoa.But what sports ...
The photograph is striking and beautiful, but also disturbing – a reminder that my love for John was often entangled in shame.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand.In the spring of 1980, in Dunedin, shortly before his death, someone took a photograph ...
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Apologists for Syrian fascism here, and Alt Right and Neo-Nazis all around the globe have celebrated and cheered the ongoing genocide against the Syrian people by the fascist style regime of Bashar Assad
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/08/syria-why-white-nationalists-love-bashar-al-assad-charlottesville/
March 15, the day of the terrorist attack in Christchurch, was marked around the world by Syrian refugees as the 8th anniversary of the beginning the popular revolt against the brutal fascist style regime of Bashar Assad.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-syrian-uprising-began-and-why-it-matters-112801
To counter the pro-fascist narrative, Syrian refugees and their supporters in Auckland had been planning a public event for the evening of March 15.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2259832857627503/
Understandably, because of the terrible events in Christchurch, this public event had to be called off. One of the Syrian refugees queried whether they would be shot if they turned up.
On the breaking news of the attacks, some of Syrian refugees trying to get news of what was occurring in Christchurch, witnessed the terrible live stream put out by the fascist terrorist.
As events unfolded the following conversation was occurred on my facebook page;
I have written many times here, that apologia for fascism in Syria will have effects around the world. I witnessed fascist thugs in MAGA caps harassing Syrian refugees in Auckland protesting the fall of Aleppo. But, I never foresaw the more extreme type of fascist atrocity ever unfolding here.
I hope the authorities are giving the local New Zealand apologists for Syrian fascism some very close attention, to discover the links, they may have had with the terrorist, or the fascist circles he moved in.
For identification purposes I offer the authorities this video of the fascists harassing Syrian refugees in Auckland.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11769042
The Syrian refugee community in Auckland are trying to organise for a new date for their meeting to get the truth out about Syria.
As details come to hand I will pass them on.
The truth on Islamophobia … and the bullshit which white supremacists feed off.
Try fighting that instead of wanting more dead Syrians ….. Jenny
Or not your agenda ?
Fisk https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/25/dont-believe-the-hype-heres-why-isis-hasnt-been-defeated/
” But because there are plenty of Isis fighters still under arms and ready to fight in the Syrian province of Idlib, along with their Hayat Tahrir al Sham, al-Nusra and al-Qaeda comrades – almost surrounded by Syrian government troops but with a narrow corridor in which they could escape to Turkey; always supposing that Sultan Erdogan will let them.”
Here’s a non=warmongering woman ….. with 100 X the credibility than you Jenny …. and she tells a different story than you
In the first interview with Jimmy Dore, Gabbartd openly comes out in support of the regime change conspiracy theory.
In the second interview, when put on the spot, Gabbard dances around the conspiracy theory that the US seeks regime change in Syria. As she said the US don’t have any differences with Assad. And this is true.
The US has a bee in their bonnet about anyone, (other than themselves, and a few select others) having weapons of mass destruction.
The US has conducted two attacks against Assad’s gas weapons sites. But not without giving Assad and his Russian allies a heads up first. Attacks in which no Assadist or Russian military forces suffered any casualties.
Meanwhile the fascist genocide being conducted against the Syrian people by the Assad regime goes on unchecked and unremarked by the Western apologists for fascism.
More than this, Western apologists for this slaughter continue to enthusiastically spread and repeat the lies and propaganda of the fascists that emboldens fascists everywhere.
Jo Cox was assassinated by a fascist gunman because she supported the Syrian people against the regime.
The attack in Christchurch was conducted on the anniversary of the beginning of the popular revolt against Assad, by a gunman who self describes as a fascist.
The normalisation and acceptance of fascism in Syria has emboldened and empowered fascists everywhere.
Witness as US observers (also common Americans) speak of what they saw and learned while monitoring Syrian Elections. Understand that the US has been backing the “rebels” in Syria while in free and open elections 74% of the voting population showed up at the polls.
These are the people Jenny who have first hand knowledge of how Syrians regard their President.
God knows why you have to continue to write unfounded garbage about Syria and Syrians.
Why do you choose to lie?
Why do you continue to give implicit support to the Wahabi head choppers?
Hi Brigid, I think you have put up the wrong youtube video to accompany your comment. It seems to show someone talking about diesel injectors, and not, “….people who have first hand knowledge of how Syrians regard their President.”
I would like to see that. Could put up the proper video?
Apart from that. Your broad smear of the opposition to the genocidal regime of Bashar Al Assad, as “Wahabi head choppers,” is the sort of inflammatory language of the Islamophobes and racists witnessed in Charlottesville, and at other White Supremacist and Alt-Right gatherings.
Would you care to explain yourself?
But you don’t mention Fisk Jenny ? …. who has refuted your white helmets war propaganda.
Your a war peddler.
I’m talking about your support for the usa sponsored proxy war in Syria which has killed over 600,000 people Jenny ….
Or to put it another way ….one christchurch masscre every day …. for 12000 days …. or 12000X what happened in christchurch.
I’ve never met a person who has been at the forefront of such a western backed blood-bath ….
could you go into more detail of how you were co-opted into this effort jenny. …. I’m very interested
I have mentioned Robert Fisk writing on this website, more than once. Briefly; Robert Fisk is a member the Lebanon establishment, where he has lived for a long time. It wouldn’t be worth Fisk’s life to oppose the Lebanese based Hezbollah ally of Bashar Al Assad.
It was Fisk who popularised the risible, ‘they died from the dust from the dust of regime bombs, not from the gas from regime bombs’ theory to explain away the Douma gas attacks.
P.S. I would like to see where Robert Fisk has has ever ‘refuted’ the work of the White Helmets. All I can find from Fisk about the White Helmets is a random scattering of snide asides, obviously echoing the smears of others, but never amounting to more than just a few words.
Reason, if you can find even just a paragraph from Robert Fisk where he, “…has refuted your white helmets war propaganda.”
Put it up.
Prove me wrong.
The vast amount of the killing has been done by the Assad regime.
There is no account by anyone that disputes this.
You cannot be anti-war, if you are not anti-Assad’s war.
http://whoiskillingciviliansinsyria.org/
Reason, apologists for genocide and fascism like yourself get more ridiculous and discredited every day.
Citing comedian Jimmy Dore to back up your pro-war and pro-genocide position just shows how desperate you are getting
The regime propaganda of a “usa sponsored proxy war in Syria” picked up on by serial conspiracy theorist and 9/11 Truther, comedian Jimmy Dore, and cited by you makes a change from the Alt-Right and Tea Party websites that are often cited by supporters of this particular conspiracy theory.
The fact is, as Tulsi Gabbard herself admits, the US has no gripe with Assad.
Right up until the Syrian uprising this fascist dictator despite his appalling human rights record was a darling of the West including the US. So much so that the US used Syria as a the most common destination for CIA flights of Extraordinary Rendition to get Assad’s help to torture the CIA’s suspects for them.
The US is no more opposed to Assad, than the US was opposed to other Far Right dictators like Ben Ali in Tunisia or Mubarak in Egypt until they were toppled in popular uprisings.
The US only became involved in Syria when their main military ally in Iraq, the Kurds, became involved, and at a time when it seemed that the uprising would succeed. Now that the uprising seems to have been lost, and even the Kurds are beleagured by the regime and its Russian allies. Predictably the US under Trump’s leadership, has abandoned their erstwhile ally.
The US strategic motivation in Syria, as it was in Tunisia and Egypt, is to be on the winning side.
I was just reading the story “The blogger and the businessman – how the police failed, and new inquiries into a vicious home invasion”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219396
Will we see a proper investigation and will Camron Slater actually be held to account for his possession of stolen property?
Maybe Slater might get some taxpayer-funded lodgings in the future?
NZjester………………what the f was going on here???? Answers need to be sought about why this case was not investigated more……………………very worrying
Who was the minister of police at the time the business man was assaulted ?
Did some research but don’t have time to compare time lines at the mo.
Anne Tolley 2011 – 2014
Michael Woodhouse 2014 – 2015
Judith Collins was police minister prior to some point in 2011 and was reinstated at end of 2015 by John Key after a period in the wilderness.
Here’s the lowdown on JC from wikipedia:
Interesting stuff.
I’ve had a chance to do a bit of research patricia.
The home invasion and vicious assault on Mark Blomfield was in April, 2014. The minister at the time could have been Anne Tolley or Michael Woodhouse.
The slanderous blog posts by Slater (9 of them ) all occurred in April 2012 – 2 years earlier.
Blomfield has been fighting this case for seven years and made 15 formal complaints to the police during that time. The time period of the lodged police complaints cover the terms of all three former Nat. Ministers of Police.
Here is Fisher’s article form the Herald a few days ago. It is clear the police dragged their heels from day one, and you can’t tell me there wasn’t some sort of political interference occurring at some point along the way. It probably wasn’t directly communicated but the message got through to someone in the police force:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219396
We need to look at biased/corrupt senior police managers first, not necessarily the politicians.
Oh hell yes Sacha. And it’s been going on for decades. Back in the 1960s and 70s there was apparently a secret “special forces” police unit whose sole task was to root out communists. You can imagine how that panned out. Any poor bugger who happened to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time found themselves on a black list of suspects.
This is not quite How To Get There material – as it is a poke at BAU, rather than solution based. I do think it might provoke thought concerning what sustainable and resilient looks like.
It is a hastily scrawled out thought process, so probably ridden with error, but you’ll get the point.
Pre-industrial cheese.
Shelter belts/hedgerows, manures, forbes, grasses and nitrogen fixing plants – > sheltered pasture and tree browse/mast – > livestock – > milk – > cheese -> (market – >) consumer.
Industrial cheese.
Mines and chemical plants and energy producers provide mineral salts, seed companies provide grasses, chemical companies provide herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, trees and forbes and beneficial insects are largely gone, nitrogen fixers often fail to fix nitrogen where soil N is high, mined steel and forgeries provide wire and forestry provides timber with chemical plants supplying timber preservatives – > ‘pasture’ – > semen salespersons and genetics labs – > livestock – plus imported feeds, mineral licks (no tree browse or forbes), assorted medicines, antibiotics – > milk – > separation followed by pasteurisation and homogenisation – > cultures – > cheese – > plastic manufacturing for packaging – > trucks, ships, more trucks – > supermarket -> consumer.
The industrial model can be broken in many places. The pre-industrial model largely provides its own needs, and, with neighbors who’d all pitch in for major work and purchasing events, is resilient as well as sustainable.
I’m not sure that the industrial model has improved much at all with regards to the cheese on my table. I do imagine a hybrid of old school farming with new technology for direct marketing would kick ass for locals.
In the states (and here?) many sustainable/new traditional farmers are building consumer bases online. They then market door to door delivery and/or pick ups to their immediate area. The farmers and consumers both get a better deal by cutting out all those middle men.
Local farmers might be interested to see local examples of this type of direct marketing, and sustainable dairy production. Do we have some yet?
Joel Salatin is a very interesting guy to learn from if you want to examine old school farming at a reasonable scale. He farms like his great grandaddy, but better tech. Learning stuff from examples in the States though, it seems strange that pasture fed cattle are a novelty. 😉
I’ve worn the Green brand a long time, but not the wizard brand – anyone who actually does wizardry in western society knows that the best strategy is to not wear the brand. Not only is is hard to hit a moving target, if you don’t see a target, you never even take aim! So I don’t know these Aucklanders, and am just reposting their notice here (from Ecosophia) as a public service:
“The April meeting of the Green Wizards Association of Auckland will be held on the 27th of April 2019 at 13:00. Our inaugural meeting was a huge success with a bigger than expected turnout.”
“We are still on the lookout for a permanent venue but for now we will meet up near Aotea Square, 303 Queen St, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand. Please RSVP, or send queries and comments to GWAA[at]wormlamp.com or better still sign up for e-mail reminders at https://wormlamp.com/gwaa/.”
Go the green wizards! Less talk, more action!!
Because…
Adam, bloody brilliant. Should be an interesting Aussie election.
The saga of the keystone cops, WhaleOil & Rawshark, and the Greenhithe home invasion by a gang member toting a shotgun, wearing a Spiderman mask, in which a family was terrorized and a businessman shot twice. Not serious enough to investigate, decided the keystoners… https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12219396
Once upon a time, we could say `only in America’. Not any more, it seems! There will have to be some serious accounting done by the police commissioner eventually. Too much shit went down to be covered up any longer.
Same article/discussion starter @ 2.0
Kurt Cobain opted to shuffle off this mortal coil 25 years ago today.
There really is something wrong with these people.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1113961870954827776
Great comments lol.
But the orange of cancer is windmills! meoooowwwwww!
https://twitter.com/RepTedLieu/status/1114190733270036481
Which Donald Trump will read as:
Things that cause cashflow
coal ash, air pollution asbestos
Maybe the poor mans suffers from dyslexia.
https://twitter.com/RepTedLieu/status/1114190733270036481/photo/1
🙂
Yeah Cash flow and short term profit. That is all he is interested in.
I gather that he has had a thing against wind turbines for some time – since around 2007 – when the Scots planned to erect an offshore wind farm near one of his golf courses. 🙁 Sacrilege!
And he has apparently been ordered to pay costs for the case he lost.
Exactly – and that just adds to his grievance.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47400641
Probably why he was on his high horse about “windmills” at the Repugnant convention. He has just lost in the Supreme court. I wonder if he will now petition HRH?
But as usual I don’t think any money will be forthcoming. Very deep pockets has Donnie – especially when it comes to paying.
Very deep pockets has Donnie
… and well documented short hands.
Yes, a very bad case of richlexia
That’s my pal in the News a sole protester at his course in Scotland when he went to visit as US elections approached.
She covered the C so as to be legal. Hehe.
https://twitter.com/janeygodley/status/746417852408696832
hehehe. Good one! I remember seeing that one at the time 🙂
There were some excellent signs to “welcome” him – obviously he is not well liked in Scotland – for obvious reasons.
This article has a photo of one of my favourites
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/jul/14/donald-trump-scotland-thousands-protest-visit
I think Spiderman’s
“With Great Power comes Great Responsibility
Ya Radge Orange Bampot! “*
Speaks volumes.
*A radge, or radgie, is defined as someone who is mad, violently excited, furious, wild, obstreperous and dates back to the 1890s. But it can also mean someone who is sexually excited, lustful or even silly and weak-minded. In Trump’s case all of those things.
bampot Idiot; an objectionable and foolish person.
Thank you for “Ya Radge Orange Bampot!“, with definitions. Good chuckle.
Finally, Spiderman raises more than a meh out of me.
PS Janey comes over for the odd Laugh festival, and she is brilliant. So if you get the chance, well worth the ticket.
Now that is something I am very interested in.
BTW my daughter is about to head off to Edinburgh – and first port of call is “The Stand”. She is a graduate of Toi Whakaari.
Jeepers, small world. The Stand is a venue Janey took to task over contracts not allowing performers to play in other venues. As you might imagine this severely limited an already difficult career path. Those contracts were common, and evil. Still a few around I’d wager. It did get sorted I think Chortle and a bunch of other acts and venues came on board. History now. Janey’s daughter Ashley (Storrie) just played the Stand. – ‘A total revelation’ (Dawn French).
I’m working a telly script right now. It’s passed the funny test with a bunch of cynical old farts, had us in tears at times with the planned idiocy… loving it.
Best of luck for your girl. Edinburgh is an amazing experience for artists and a serious networking opportunity. If she gets the chance to meet Janey or Ashley she should. They are fantastic people and love NZ and NZ’ers.
Has “Trumpism” Making up facts crept over to the left, or was it alway present, and thanks to Pres. Trump, he now has given his name to the term ?
a response a few days ago a contributor made this statement regarding the Tomorrows Schools review
“…Some are perfectly happy with a two tier education system.
Meanwhile. The system is, failing most children.”
Perhaps on reflection the education system has fail us, when some ( akolouthos ) fail to be able to source supporting facts for their arguments, and become lazy and Make Them Up.
No.
Amazing new story/science/evidence supporting lore on Maori origin
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219164
Yes very interesting.
Thread.
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1114289527160487936
https://tttthreads.com/thread/1114289527160487936.html
Interesting development.
WikiLeaks: Assange will be expelled from Ecuadorian Embassy within ‘hours to days’
Doesn’t pay to piss off your hosts – no matter what you might think.
Follow it live here
(The best no news thread you will ever read!):
https://twitter.com/macwbishop/status/1113939914012413952?s=21
“Assexit” !! 😆
Russians laundering money into the U.S. aided by a wealthy Republican politician? Who ever imagined such a thing could happen? I’m shocked!
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article228877939.html
It goes without saying that Charles Taylor is a Republican.
Shame on our roads as 24 die in one week.
NZTA estimate now that each life lost on our roads costs our economy $4.5 million Dollars. So 24×4.5 is = $1008 million; – so save money and build rail for our safety government.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12219459
Best bring back rail transport, as the roads are gridlocked with trucks so put funding into rail now and let the truckers pay for wrecking the roads themselves instead of us subsidising their industry as we get nothing but deaths from them.
Government bring back all regional passenger services.
Save our lives again, and the planet also lowering climate change emissions at the same time.
While i sympathise with your point of view ffs get the math right!! 24×4.5 mill =
$108 million not $1008 million
Yep Barfly thanks for the correction
$108 m is a lot of loss of our economy in just one week eh?.
Trucking companies have been getting subsidies from us ‘public road users’ for many years.
Here are the facts.
https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-industry-subsidy/
The Hidden Trucking Industry Subsidy
Freight trucks cause 99% of wear-and-tear on US roads, but only pay for 35% of the maintenance. This $60B subsidy causes extra congestion and pollution, and taxpayers pay the bill.
It seems obvious that the heavier the vehicle, the more damage it does to roads over time. A 40,000 pound big rig probably does a bit more damage than your average 3500 pound consumer vehicle, right? It turns out that vehicle road damage doesn’t rise linearly with weight. Road damage rises with the fourth power of weight, and this means that a 40,000 pound truck does roughly 10,000 times more damage to roadways than the average car [1]!
In other words, one fully loaded 18-wheeler does the same damage to a road as 9600 cars.
Fairfax Australia is reporting that Morrison has put off going to the Governor General for another week. Sounds like he and the government aren’t getting the feedback that they would have liked from the Budget.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/scott-morrison-likely-to-delay-election-campaign-by-another-week-20190406-p51bhc.html
Fucker’s going full nazi
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/1114174161943851013
https://twitter.com/bradleyrsimpson/status/1114299682484834304
You wonder just how low the bugga can go.
Good analysis of these two authoritarian utterances here:
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/5/18297113/trump-authoritarian-comments-immigration-judges-media
Can anyone with an energy analyst background tell me why we aren’t getting a sharp spike in the oil barrel price after the increased sanctions by the U.S. against Venezuela?
Is the global heavy crude market really that distinct?
In the physical market tankers are coming empty to the US as they are now a major exporter,
Oil is not the limiting quality,transport is.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-21/twelve-empty-supertankers-reveal-truths-about-today-s-oil-market
The Six Day War and Iranian Revolution were the big instigators of global supply-driven spikes in the late 1970s, and caused our energy crisis.
I know that Venezuela’s exports have collapsed over the last year, yet such a massive U.S. intervention doesn’t cause the same spike.
I sure ain’t wishing for a global energy crisis, I’m just surprised at the mild impact of this major supply intervention.
Most countries are flat lining in consumption, germany ,france spain italy in the eurozone,
In asia South korea around 80k bbd less,Japan substantive fall of around 440k bbd that is consistent with its population decrease.
This McKinsey brief is consistent with most analyst sentiment: temporary oversupply leading to very large stockpiles.
https://www.mckinsey.com/solutions/energy-insights/global-oil-supply-demand-outlook-to-2035/~/media/231FB01E4937431B8BA070CC55AA572E.ashx
No shortage of long term oil demand.
Solely transport issues constraining supply.(not demand side)
The next surprise (not really but traders never look forward of their next trade) will be the 20th December with the opening of the russian/sino power of siberia.
expect liquified gas,and coal (and international carbon trade) to submerge.i
US has begun a truck traffic congestion charge in New York.
This will see every truck that enters NY city will pay a $25 congestion charge each time.
About time we did this in NZ.
Trucks need to pay there fair share and stop living off the backs of the public.
‘Stop corporate welfare within the trucking industry’.
Zero chance of that with NZTA until there’s years of reform and years of internal rebuilding.
Ad, Well we voted for change in 2017 didn’t we?
You wont’t get it this term.
Trucks in NZ are chewing up our roads ?
Skunk weed;
Obviously you haven’t been driving on our single lane NZ regional roads or you would know that trucks are now ripping up our ‘soft roads’ here and every day road works are packing them temporarily just so we can drive on them slowly.
Come down Hwy two from Tauranga to Napier after you ‘heavily insure yourself’ firstly.
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/6/5/revealed-convicted-felon-george-soros-bankrolling-attacks-on-election-integrity/
It will turn you into a grey headed n human with the stress of driving and scaring when a monster truck comes around the sharp corners on some hill and takes up most of the narrow road.
Give it a go.
We see a lot of this type of stupid driving here too as you see here in US videos.
We clocked a truck and trailer passing us at over 116 kms between Wairoa and gisborne.
Bernie and his tax returns: the returns themselves probably don’t matter a damn, but his approach to releasing them is yet more evidence he’d probably be really crap as prez.
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/05/bernie-sanders-tax-returns/
Might be time to look at Elisabeth Warren, who so far has been the most detailed, outspoken and forward thinking of the contenders.
She certainly has a much better record of putting together substantial progressive legislation and putting together the necessary coalition to get it passed than any of the other contenders.
However, I do worry about her age, and whether she’s got the right political reflexes to win against the orange anusmouth. She couldn’t afford many repeats of her DNA testing debacle.
well if you worry about her age, what about Sanders, Biden and Trump?
lol
Well, I’m pretty sure the last time I expressed enthusiasm for Biden or Bernie was before it become impossible for Bernie to win in 2016. Back then I would have preferred either to Hillary. As for the rotting halloween pumpkin. surely I don’t need to clarify my views?
If Warren wins, she will become the oldest ever at inauguration. She’ll be 71 on 20th January 2021. Dementia Don was 70 at his. Ronnie “Alzie” Raygun was 69 at his.
If the idea that one of the most intense demanding jobs in the world is better filled by someone with a bit more youthful vigor and stamina doesn’t sway you, just get a list of presidents ranked by age next to a list ranked by how good they were as prez. It’s a pretty good correlation, the younger prezzes have generally been better, the older prezzes have generally been crappier.
oh bless.
Elizabeth Warren has actual ideas.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1113576979792572416
Last night I watched Trevor Noah (host of The Daily Show) interview Sanders for 16+ mins – he looked and acted his age, and came across as genuinely progressive (IMHO.)
Bernie reiterated that he will be releasing his tax returns soon (April 15th) – @15:45 minutes. Video may be difficult to start! If someone has a better link, then please post it.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jxxzf1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bernie-sanders—a-progressive-agenda-for-the-2020-presidential-race—extended-interview
There’s no doubt he’s genuinely progressive. However, I’ve got doubts he’s sufficiently flexible and creative to work out the kinds of deals and compromises needed to actually get legislation passed. Given his very long service in Congress, his record of actually getting things passed is awfully thin.
There’s also the concern that he’s never really gone up against the Repug smear machine. John Kerry got successfully swiftboated by shit that was just made up. Whereas Bernie is on record advocating a bunch of things, such as wholesale nationalisation of a bunch of industries, that I just can’t imagine getting accepted by more than maybe 5% of Americans. Sure that was a long time ago and his position now is quite different. But smears are a whole lot more powerful if they’ve got a kernel of truth at their core.
Creativity and flexibility are generally perceived as positive qualities, but they can be misused/abused.
I’d settle for someone who sticks to their ‘guns’ and whose ‘guns’ are usually pointing the same way as mine – fingers crossed!
Also, agree re ‘art of the possible’ and all that – just not sure how much time is left.
I agree that Bernie won’t survive politically the process. He’ll be fighting small fires constantly until he turns to fight like an old wilderbeast run down by wild dogs. Not pretty.
Trump not inciting hate, no not at all.
not him.
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/someday-one-of-these-nuts-is-going-to.html
“Jeff Flake, the mild-mannered critic of President Trump who voted with his the vast majority of the time, describes what happens when you buck Dear Leader:
Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator for Arizona and a vocal critic of the Trump administration, has revealed he received a number of threats from supporters of the president before he left office this year.
In an interview with the Guardian, Flake described several examples of threatening messages and behaviour made against him and his family that he said were currently being investigated by law enforcement agencies in Arizona and Washington DC.
“I would have liked to have done one more term in the Senate, that’s probably all,” Flake said. “But its been at a heavy cost to my family. The sacrifices they’ve been [made to make], what they had to endure …””
Thug loyalty.
Prisons in Atlanta US of A.
Over populated, understaffed, people thrown away to rot and humanity, dignity and all that is just meaningless words.
And ys, its a horror show, and it seems no one give a care or a dime
and maybe this is what we here in NZ are preventing by giving even the most horrible of criminals a bit of dignity, as not doing it is not an option.
At the end of the article are two images with pointers, don’t click on the pointers to see more images if you are not prepared to see blood and beaten/stabbed and raped men. And the overseers either participate or turn a blind eye. But then, they too are locked up until they get to go home at the end of their shift.
https://splinternews.com/the-leaked-photos-showing-the-horrific-toll-of-violence-1833785740