What a way to start a morning – confirming perhaps what everyone knew (or suspected) about Donald Trump. Although, to be fair, it’s easy to detect a political bias in the psychiatrist’s comments.
14 minutes.
We’ve had a sufeit of the Donald, I’m sure, but this analysis is interesting (and frightning!).
Psychiatrist: Trump Mental Health Urgently Deteriorating
This Psychiatrist is breaching the code of ethics around his profession. There is a general agreement that you don’t diagnose mental health conditions in this manner.
Its clearly not a clinical diagnosis as Trumps not his patient. But then again Trump seems to write his doctors results anyway- while he was campaigning for President and his White House doctor
Arguments over Donald Trump’s mental health, or lack of, is irrelevant. (Much as debates over Hitler’s mental health are irrelevant).
What is relevant, is that tens of millions of rational human beings follow him.
That tens of millions of American citizens feel that they are not given a voice to their concerns outside of Donald Trump, demonstrates that there is a terrible failure at the heart of our political system. This is lack of voice is most marked on the Left where candidates like Bernie Sanders are seen as beyond the pale and not worthy of mainstream Democratic Party support. Unlike the Republicans, who even against their better judgement, are prepared to hold their noses to support Trump.
To be fair, I can understand why some dems got pissy about working for the party for years, then Sanders comes parachuting in for the presidential campaign. Just as I can understand why some Sanders supporters were upset that he didn’t get the nomination (FWIW, I think the repugs and their allies would have thrown just as much shit at Sanders as they did at Clinton).
But you’re right, the leftish side of any overton window seems to tend towards “X is not ideologically sound, therefore is an enemy”, whereas the tories will often make strange bedfellows – religious zealots like Pence supporting someone like Trump, for example.
That tens of millions of American citizens feel that they are not given a voice to their concerns outside of Donald Trump, demonstrates that there is a terrible failure at the heart of our political system.
Which is the result of Representative Democracy which was specifically designed to prevent democracy in the first place and can easily be corrupted by the rich buying out the so-called representatives.
In other words, Representative Democracy easily becomes an oligarchy/plutocracy – exactly as it was designed.
Yesterday a psychologist friend at lunch stated that Trump was a narcissist rather than a psychopath or a sociopath though he had traits of those disorders.
He sent me a link in which the issue is discussed.
My friend said that a major difference is that a narcissist can feel shame, which the sociopath/psychopath does not, and shame is what drives a good deal of Trump’s actions. He caves in when he meets a strong leader and later is shamed to feel that he had been bested.
How’s that for an explanation of his volte-faces and lying?
Did you ask him if they were mutually exclusive? I’d have thought it possible for sociopaths to be narcissistic. I guess your first sentence gives an indication
By the way – where is everybody this morning? Are they hanging around at Wellington bus stops waiting to get somewhere?
I gathered from him that one key difference (no other reference intended) was that the narcissist could feel shame which the psychopath/sociologist did not. Just as Trump as a narcissist shows traits of sociopathy, so too a sociopath could have traits of narcissism. But I’m not a psychologist, though I trust his judgement. He had a huge reputation for his wotk with American wayward youth.
He also spoke of an experiment in the 1980s in Hawaii where a progressive government put huge resources into lowering the incidence of domestic violence successfully by employing counsellors and assigning them to cases. The state also enforced the compulsory registration of births and the taking of parenting lessons which could be enforced by court order. The rates went down dramatically. When a conservative government which hated the expenditure on this social harm reduction programme saying it was was waste of money returned to power, they withdrew the funding.
The rates of domestic violence returned towards previous levels.
I hope that our PM Jacinda Ardern’s control of the Children’s portfolio, and her government, will achieve results similar to Hawaii as reported above. It can be done.
Just as Trump as a narcissist shows traits of sociopathy, so too a sociopath could have traits of narcissism>
A woman I once knew was a full blown sociopath and she also exhibited narcissistic traits. People can have several personality disorders at the one time.
‘neo’ and ‘posts’ enter into it all when someone detects a minor difference between (say) liberal economic theory and what they think we have today (neo-liberalism). Eras in time with a raft of similarities but not exactery the same (going forward, to coin a term, so-to-speak, as a matter of fact, “ekshully”, ultimately [the latest buzz] and “the truth is”).
Modernity, Post-modernity (are we now in neo-post-modernity?).
Liberalism, neo-liberalism, …..post-neo-liberalism.
politically liberal? socially liberal? economically liberal. Fukyama would have it we’re in post-history (until he realised he’d royally fucked up)
(And as an aside, part of the neo-libs pervasive agenda – Croz and Txt included – is to corrupt and manipulate the language)
So as time and understanding progresses, I’d be interested to know @Mac1, whether your friend detects/has detected a growth in either narcissistic and/or sociopathic behaviour as we’ve promoted the idea of individualism/ultra-uber competitiveness/excessive ambition/the “end of history”/and there being “no such thing as society”
By the way, if t.Rump is merely a narcissist and not a sociopath, what the hell was John Key?
(Exaggeration maybe in a bid to demonstrate a point. I suspect John Key wasn’t actually bright enough, or socially aware enough to have been a sociopath but don’t be surprised if some of his next generation register on the Roastbuster scale – core!!! they’re goRGEOUS!)
I gathered from him that one key difference (no other reference intended) was that the narcissist could feel shame which the psychopath/sociologist did not. Just as Trump as a narcissist shows traits of sociopathy, so too a sociopath could have traits of narcissism.
It’s probably more accurate to say that the conditions share some traits but not all. The combination of traits is what makes it one or the other or perhaps both. The doctor above says Trump shows traits of malignant narcissism and then goes on to describe trump having traits of narcissism and sociopathy.
He also spoke of an experiment in the 1980s in Hawaii where a progressive government put huge resources into lowering the incidence of domestic violence successfully by employing counsellors and assigning them to cases. The state also enforced the compulsory registration of births and the taking of parenting lessons which could be enforced by court order. The rates went down dramatically. When a conservative government which hated the expenditure on this social harm reduction programme saying it was was waste of money returned to power, they withdrew the funding.
The rates of domestic violence returned towards previous levels.
That sounds about right. The Left put in place systems that work. The right-wing look at the new figures and declares that the successful program is no longer needed and removes it to ‘save money’ and we see a decline back to previous state where the program was needed. The decline comes with increased costs that are far more than the cost of the successful program.
I understand narcissistic personality disorder like the back of my hand. Trump is as familiar as an old movie, so let me share some intel.1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 9, 2017
I understand narcissistic personality disorder like the back of my hand. Trump is as familiar as an old movie, so let me share some intel.1/
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 9, 2017
The aged care industry seems very profitable, wonder where is the money is going?
This article from a few years ago, suggests it has been the top performers with annual returns of
35 per cent in the case of Ryman Healthcare….
Ae!
And then there’s that other little gem courtesy of the Ministry of Health which classes mentally disabled to be employers of their care givers.
Do you think we’ll get to know who the hell came up with that scheme?
I assume your mention of this issue came from the item on this morning’s Morning Report on: Families caring for adult disabled children are appalled by attempts to simplify the guidelines for how much support and money they can get. Six months ago the Appeal Court suggested the Health Ministry rewrite its policy for disability support services so caregivers and disabled people could understand it. But two documents and $3000 later families say nothing has changed.
Yep, we thought when Planet Key went into decline, it was over but now Planet Ministry seem to believe that the mentally and physically disabled requiring care are capable of getting those ACC, tax returns and PAYE into shape and are employers. Not government agencies as getting annoying issues of their books onto the helpless seems to be a neoliberal ploy … at the same time partners are apparently not allowed to be paid to be carers and I wonder if the onus will eventually fall on them to do all the paperwork… nonsensical.
Yes Once was Tim, this must be a “do as I say Not as I do” situation, as anyone who is deemed Section 9 can not be held responsible for all sorts of things.
To then say they can follow an employer’s manual and fulfill all the obligations which are complex is laughable.
It is one thing to break down “Hand washing” into a series of diagrams…. quite another to break down “Paying Tax” or “ACC” or “GST”. AMAZING!! Sarc!!
This farcical situation in the rest home industry has gone on far too long. The government need to call them out on it. While making record profits, the private providers say they are unable to pay Registered Nurses the going rate DHBs pay. They want the qualified staff & advertise this care is available, but RN cover is very thin on the ground, (one per shift in a large facility with hospital level care floor) otherwise at night, usually on call. When RN care is required, they quickly call an ambulance to transfer the resident to hospital. Another example of the private sector passing on their costs to the public taxpayer. And by the way, they pay no tax at all.
This is correct Venezia. A cousin in the sector tells me they rush round doing everything to get accredited, then it goes out the window ’till next time.
An inquiry is overdue…. but imagine what the the Nats would say!!
Another inquiry!! God knows they left a mess.
A bit like ISO9000 ?
Everything documented, but SFA followed, as long as there’s some sort of accredication certificate to hang on the wall and put everyone’s mind at ease to get the punters through
Does not seem to be any real prosecutions of aged care providers with many outrageous examples of profiteering, while relying on the age of the person so that they don’t understand what they are paying. Industry needs a clean up!
Considering many millennials are going to have to rely on inheritance to actually own a house in NZ, they might find that that dream is taken away by big business, as the consolidating multinationals take with careful contracts large chunks of assets like the retirement housing through loopholes like ‘renovation costs’ and ensuring the house can not be sold on the open market, therefore re appropriating large quantities of individual wealth back to themselves leaving the millennial penniless and increasing over time the inequality distribution in NZ.
China’s wall of debt, article below, is like NZ’s idea’s to use debt fuelled construction as a way to pretend our economy is going rockstar! Nice and easy rather than real growth and works for a bit, then suddenly you get too much construction and it all starts going wrong, because you need more than construction you also need infrastructure to support it, and real jobs outside of that area, and it’s an issue in NZ that we can’t even afford to live in the houses being constructed on the wages that many people are given! Time to diversify away from risky construction….
But China differs somewhat from these earlier cases, McMahon says.
“Most of the borrowing has been done by companies, but most of those companies are state-owned.”
So who owns the debt?
“The government has shown no inclination of taking over that debt on large scale, and debt has been taken on at the discretion of local managers under pressure from local government officials because they’re all striving hard to generate growth.”
This is the problem with understanding Western monetary systems and transferring that understanding onto other monetary systems.
See, what he’s describing there isn’t actually a debt but a deficit. There’s a difference and a fairly significant one. A monetary debt occurs when one person borrows from another. A monetary deficit occurs when a sovereign nation creates more money than what it’s getting back in taxes. In the former excessive amounts of it become a problem because it needs to be paid back and probably with interest. In the latter it can simply be ignored or simply written off so that it no longer exists and it will make absolutely no difference to the economy.
Now that the Chinese government have the buildings they can now work on building up other aspects of the economy (Factories, schools, R&D establishments) to encourage people to move into them.
We could do the same if we used solely sovereign monetary systems. Government creates the money, spends it into the economy building houses, schools, factories developing our economy and our society. The only constraint about what we could do is the availability of our own resources.
The big point here is that we need to stop confusing a government deficit for a debt because, with sovereign money system, its not. In fact, a government should never go into debt even to its reserve bank.
“The members later approached University management concerned about their ability to meet the agreement’s terms around security after becoming aware of social media posts suggesting the event could lead to violence.”
Statement from the Vice Chancellor, Professor Thomas, does not place security concerns with the left only, but with left and right wing protesters possibly clashing.
Blaming left activists comes from your link to a statement from ACT.
From the Uni statement:
Professor Thomas says she supports free speech on campus, but totally opposes hate speech. “Mr Brash’s leadership of Hobson’s Pledge and views he and its supporters espoused in relation to Māori wards on councils was clearly of concern to many staff, particularly Māori staff. Whether those views would have been repeated to students in the context of a discussion about the National Party may seem unlikely, but I have no way of knowing. In my opinion the views expressed by members of Hobson’s Pledge come dangerously close to hate speech. They are certainly not conducive with the University’ strategy of recognising the values of a Tiriti o Waitangi-led organisation.”
“It is clear there is heightened sensitivity and passion at this time, following the protests both against and in support of Ms Southern and Mr Molyneux’s right to be heard. Our ultimate responsibility is for the safety and wellbeing of students, staff and members of the public on our campuses and under those circumstances cancelling the booking is the right thing to do. The members of the Politics Club have acted responsibly in raising their concerns with the University and are free to meet Dr Brash at another venue if they wish.”
[My bold]
Unfortunately some hot heads on the left (as well as many on the right) do get into threatening violence. The minority of left wingers who do that do not help the left, and frustrate many of us.
Ultimately though, Hobson’s Pledge does oppose full implementation of Te Tiriti, and does that by mis-representing it. Given that Te Tiriti is a founding document of our country, there is a strong reason from restricting them from spreading it.
“Unfortunately some hot heads on the left (as well as many on the right) do get into threatening violence.”
Yep
The problem, as i see it, is that threatening violence to shut down debate on topics you don’t like does work in the short term but may also help lead to the raise of someone like Trump so long term is a bad idea
Except that if the message AOC linked to counted as “threatening violence” the person signed it and left a contact phone number. Not exactly the smartest thing to do if you’re committing a crime (sending a threat via telecommunications).
But then that sounds better than “far right wanna play victim again”
So the appropriate response is to stand up to those who threaten violence, to those who behave as bullies regardless of their political allegiances; not to give into it as Massey Uni has done.
Isn’t this exactly what anti bully advocates stress time and time again. The situation at Massey, ironically an institution that typically would not tolerate bullying behaviour, is untenable. The VC should be dismissed.
Actually the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the VC at Massey is using the treat of violence as an excuse to prevent Brash from speaking. She gives herself away with her rant about hate speak and her deliberate misrepresentation of Brash’s position.
“Actually the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the VC at Massey is using the treat of violence as an excuse to prevent Brash from speaking”
Yeah this is exactly what it is and all it does is tell thugs that if they don’t want someone to speak then all they have to do is threaten and it’ll get canned
Could also be a double bluff – the university doesn’t want to finance tory wet dreams of victimhood, so basically says if the threat is serious, it’s a safety issue.
To assess whether the threat is serious, ask the dude who wrote the letter. they even included their cell number.
The inaugural Think Big Debate is going to examine whether PC culture has gone too far and is limiting freedom of speech. Don Brash (of the Free Speech coalition), will affirm the motion and Fran O’Sullivan (business editor at the New Zealand Herald) and Simon Wilson (senior writer at the New Zealand Herald) will negate the motion. They will be joined by two of the Universities top debaters. The debate will also feature an address from Sir Anand Satyanand. With Freedom of Speech in the headlines both in New Zealand and overseas you won’t want to miss this event.
Yes. But it’s a pity the Auckland Uni Great Debate panel is skewed to the right, Pakeha, and older ages. Given current issues about racism, etc, and the Uni context, this looks a bit worrying.
I hope the Uni’s “top debaters” are more representative.
Lolz all this free speech narrative and many of them making a fuss about it don’t seem to want to broadcast or debate on the net for free with a global audience.
Am beginning to believe that for many free speech is more about supplementary income.
“Professor Thomas says she supports free speech on campus, but totally opposes hate speech. “Mr Brash’s leadership of Hobson’s Pledge and views he and its supporters espoused in relation to Māori wards on councils was clearly of concern to many staff, particularly Māori staff. Whether those views would have been repeated to students in the context of a discussion about the National Party may seem unlikely, but I have no way of knowing. In my opinion the views expressed by members of Hobson’s Pledge come dangerously close to hate speech. They are certainly not conducive with the University’ strategy of recognising the values of a Tiriti o Waitangi-led organisation.””
So find a venue and debate it. You rightie free speechers are always looking for others to do the work – get off your arse and do it yourself – you have all the advantages and power in society. You run it and own it but still it’s too hard. Lol no wonder righties are weak bullies.
Lol at least you’re not calling women mental cases for bringing allegations of pedo shit to the publics attention anymore – even a tool like you can learn – although why you did that is a mystery…
Another reason could be that the media is pushing the idea its right wing thugs only so maybe Seymours just trying to remind the media theres thugs on both sides
Just like we did in 1981, eh PR, @#6 above? There is a difference between threatening violence and acting in a way that evinced unwarranted violence in others.
Study the difference between non-violent protest and street fighting. History provides many examples from Indian non-violent protest against the English salt taxes to the rise of the brown shirts in the Thirties.
At an earlier time I had a friend who protested at the Mt John Observatory. He was accused of assaulting a police dog with his genitals.
On such notes of comedy, can I place with you my deepest sympathy, Puckish Rogue, to your no doubt profound disillusionment with the beloved Judith and her faux news. I can smell the smoke from the discarded screeds of verse from here.
The flower is that one that pretends to be a corpse so as to attract flies.
The team the rest of the nats are on is Australia.
And the muppet is Crazy Harry.
Yes PR. It seems that it has become so easy to block any event by threatening to bomb. I suppose being able to bury the source of such a threat in some distant country would help the “threatener.”
Maybe we will have to ignore such threats. But look how terrorists have totally changed the security of travellers. Shoes off please.
The Nurses Organisation have accepted the latest pay and conditions offer, with the majority voting yes in the latest ballot.
Good on the negotiating team, they’ve been put under real pressure by some of their members, but appear to have done a sterling job delivering both pay and staffing improvements.
The government have made it very clear that they were not prepared to budge.
While strikes at the point of private production and profit are generally very effective at squeezing more out of an employer,
Strikes at the point of consumption and cost are very hard to win. Instead of stopping the flow of profits, they stop the flow of expense.
I am informed of this by the massive nurses strike in Zimbabwe, where the government took the opportunity to sack all the nurses gaining a massive cost cut for the government.
At one time Zimbabwe had one of the best public health systems in Africa.
And the government was very keen to have an excuse to cut government expenditure on public health provision even more.
New Zealand is not Zimbabwe, but you get the point.
The only way out of this quandary would be for the nurses to get support from the workers at the point of profit taking.
If the nurses had voted to strike, the union leaders (if they wanted to get a win for their members) would have had little choice but to call for support strikes from the profit taking part of the economy.
A good old General strike. Be careful what you wish for because if you think the environment for Trade Union’s are tough now wait until that ever happens to see how hostile the reaction of members of the public will be.
ACT Party leader David Seymour says Professor Thomas should resign for the “cowardly barring” of Dr Brash.
“I have long feared that American-style anti-intellectual, violent intolerance would come here,” Mr Seymour said.
Oh dear Mr Seymour you are in a real muddle aren’t you. It is the two Canadians, Southern and Molyneaux who are the provocateurs with their American -style, anti intellectual, violent intolerance and you support them.
No wonder Massey University had to cancel the meeting no doubt for the safety of everyone including Don Brash himself. The invitation was extended two months ago young man. Next time think a little before you and Dr Don Brash (who should know better) jump on the bandwagon of the enablers of violence and thuggery because there are always consequences!
The problem is, blind and stupid ideology gets in the way of rational thought.
I think Massey uni should have been prepared to accept that protests would happen. Brash’s event was largely a Nat Party event, and would not have been an open debate. It would have been difficult to provide an alternative viewpoint, so protests would have been inevitable.
The bigger issue was not complying with the Uni’s commitment to te Tiriti – with no alternative views, i could see how that might have been considered a problem.
“The university said Dr Brash had been invited by the students in his capacity as a former National Party leader to discuss the party as part of a series of talks involving current leader Simon Bridges and an MP considered a potential future leader, Chris Bishop.”
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old Simon not doing great but Nats are far less reliant on bridges as leader than labour and coalition are on Arden, she chucks it in for what ever reason it’s over rover Let alone as people begin to tire of her vacuous feel good nothings and working groups, let’s have a discussion….Likewise replacing Simon probably only upside for National so stop encouraging it morrisy
“… Sitting on our hands means we are at risk of driving the Earth – and human wellbeing – beyond an irreversible point of no return.”
The study, titled Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene, says temperatures could hit the level needed to send the planet down the “Hothouse Earth” path in just a few decades.
No time for half measures
The government needs to put an immediate moratorium on all new oil exploration right now.
Noting, they could actually have helped us socialists develop dialog on positive alternatives to neo-liberalism. Nation states of socialism, being the logical replacement. The connection between Nation States of Socialism and National Socialism may still need some working through.
I was reading up on the Israeli Free Mason website… didn’t know that Hitler’s book also black listed the Free Masons. It’s only the Joos ya hear about in media these days. The lose of some 200,000 Masons is also significant. But I’m assuming Hitler didn’t mention the banking influence of the Jesuits, cheeky choir boy. That’s the art of quality propaganda. It’s not so much about lying, it’s more about excluding the inconvenient truths.
Good Morning The Am Show There are a lot of people in the same error as gone brash
that will have smoke coming out there———– because We are winding back all there inhumane discriminatory policy’s .
Last year jerry came out with the line I cant spell who was he copying trying to raise his profile into the prime minister’s office .A lot of people are not happy about the way don.s m8 have been running Aotearoa for the wealthy any other issues were swept under the carpet we no they are cheats .
As Eco Maori travels around Aotearoa I see most people smiling looking tidy they are happy ka pai kia kaha this is how people should be in a country with all the treasurer of natural resources the most for non carbon based economy’s on Papatuanuku . The Capitalist like gone want’s to keep all the gains for him and his m8 greed Eco says who cares about the side effects of there greed ie tangata dieing in the streets high suicide rate’s 5 x that of Brittan school health and housing all in a mess thanks gone.
Loyd boris jonson is a puppet of the capitalist they don’t like humane policy’s force on them from the European Union they want to set Britain up for the bankers and wealthy at the expense of the poor common person bankers don’t like being put in there place and told what to do .They think they can turn Britain into Hong Kong the bank of Europe .The captilast are greedy fools.
Your guest yesterday was talking like he wanted to get rid of the Pharmac model he was attaching it we mite need to fine tune it a bit I argree that some more cancer Drugs should funded I could see your guest want’s to scrap Pharmac .
Eco Maori will defend any policy’s that I see that are good for all tangata and attack any policys or views that I see as putting the wealthy before the poor common Kiwi’s
Equality . Ka kite ano
The threat to Democracy is wealthy people using lobbyist to minuplate policy’s and get them into Law that take away from the many poor and give to the wealthy.
Policys that does not think about the future we leave the Mokopunas and the future of Papatuanuku and all her create’s they lie about Human caused global warming because of there love of power control and mone .
The treat to Democracy is the capitalist using computa data and videos on the net to win elections feeding people with lies that’s cheating in Eco Maori’s book .
Ka kite ano .P.S I can see the capitalist money flowing into your pocket’s
Here we go trump is going to slap China with more trade tariffs he is going around Papatuanuku lying to everyone that America is getting ripped off in trade with most other nations YEA RIGHT what he forgets about is we have a computa a common sense
and Intelligence to see that all he is worried about is his voter’s polling’s and his hip pocket .
Most of the Papatuanuku is forced into using the Green back to trade in exports and imports so when we trade in US currency we have to pay a % to use this currency.
And I will bet trump has got the printing press running over time printing cash this action devalues the US mone that other country’s /people hold so its a double win for America Papatuanuku trade is about 17 trillon so American banks get a % of this mone just for running there computers thats a fact who is ripping whom trump the internet is the Equalizer . If a country trys to trade with its OWN currency they will make a excuse to fight terrorist invade that country and change the leaders we have seen this with our own eyes trump why is no media talking about Global Warming is it because you are playing with democry and have a silent ban so the world media cannot use the words Human Caused Global Warming . There is only one country that’s has there tentacles that can reach into every country and do this and trump has no morels so he will do what ever it takes to win thats what bullies do link below Ka kite ano.
Good evening Newshub that new catapult bungy jump looks really intense in Queens town that will give all the thrill seeker a good Adrenalin rush ka pai .
The Gray Mouth Bar is really scarey I have been over it in bad weather that’s a thrilling ride there even when the skipper’s had 20 years experience.
There you go boris the capitalist using the race card to bolster his voter rateing fool
My cousin shot most of the cats back home and the rats stoats possums you should see all the bird life they are thriving I like my cats I put a bell on mine he passed 3 years ago he was 7 years old big fluffy and black theirs the od pest left but not many.
Eco has been a Elon Mus fan for years good one the oil barons will be pulling out what hair they have left I have seen the smear campaign they have been running against Elon and his company’s .
Kith urban looks like he’s got a ta moko if it is Ka pai .
Ka kite ano P.S I have 3 boards going at the same time ana to kai
The Crowd Goes Wild James and Mulls its cool that these guys like Billy and Simon retire when there are ready Its a logical move.
The Chiefs did ok this year with changes of couches and all the injuries they had .
James you could put korua design on your beard I’m not aloud a beard . That’s hilarious James calling shonky Jacinda Ka pai E hoa I got a sore face now Ka kite ano
Who is this “Chiefs” group that you talk about? Are they an Anarcho-syndicalist group with an ironic name? Did they get their injuries fighting the Fascists?
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By Geoffrey Miller Prominent refugee advocate Murdoch Stephens says he is disappointed by Judith Collins’ reaction to Immigration New Zealand’s decision to grant refugee status to Kurdish-Iranian writer Behrouz Boochani. Judith Collins told media last month that “there’s a lot of concern in New Zealand about what they see as ...
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Parliament has just begun the adjournment debate, signalling the effective end of this Parliament. So it seems like an appropriate time to assess Labour's term in office. Unfortunately, its a pretty dismal assessment. Labour campaigned on one thing: change. Not just a change in who got the top jobs and ...
Our climate change policies are insufficient to achieve our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, according to independent assessor Climate Action Tracker: New Zealand won’t be carbon neutral by 2050 without much stronger policies, says an independent analysis by Climate Action Tracker. The non-profit highlighted a lack of active ...
That was clearly a huge explosion. Just after the explosion, we see a cloud of ‘fog’ moving outwards at high speed. This is a shockwave, rather similar to that which causes a sonic boom. The ‘fog’ is caused by water condensing from the atmosphere in areas of intense low pressure ...
Can we postpone this year’s election? Quite frankly, the political parties don’t seem ready for it, and aren’t about to offer voters the necessary policy choices for the unprecedented times we’re in. We’ve ended up with a campaign focused on scandal, personality and leadership, with a policy void that’s worse ...
It is the last sitting day of Parliament, and the last question time before the House is dissolved. So, are there any questions about the damning findings of the Hit and Run inquiry, and how the government plans to bring the military back under democratic control? Of course not. ...
Property speculator - John KeyThe National Party must be in dire straits to have to rely on John Key to campaign on their behalf. Not only has the former PM been in the news claiming the recently released unemployment figures aren’t accurate, the fool has also been promoting the opening ...
Nothing Too Drastic: Few would dispute that the Left, today, are few in number. Is their failure to make the public aware of and act upon the manifest failures of the present system attributable to their lack of active energy and intelligence? Or, is it simply because the Left’s ideas ...
by Don Franks This talk was given to the Wellington Anti Capitalist Alliance, fifteen years ago. The ultimate weapons of mass destruction so far seen on this planet have been used just twice, 60 years ago this month. August 6 and August 9 1945 witnessed the US atomic bombing ...
After I noticed that my name had been taken yet again in vain by my friendly antagonist Tom Hunter over at No Minister, I went over to see what the fuss was about. Nothing much, but then I discovered a post about the Operation Burnham Inquiry by Psycho Milt. I ...
The COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 was extended today, until December 1st or the tenth sitting day following the resumption of Parliament after the election. It seems like a necessary extension. While we currently have eradicated the virus in New Zealand, it is still banging at the door, and ...
One of the government's key policies - extracted by NZ First as part of its coalition agreement - is the "Provincial Growth Fund": $1 billion a year spent on creating jobs in rural New Zealand. Yesterday the Auditor-General issued a report on the fund, finding that it lacks transparency, and ...
The Warehouse, one of New Zealand's biggest retailers, has decided to stop selling coal. Good. Coal is a dirty, polluting fossil fuel, and the less of it we have out there, the better. Retailers choosing not to sell it sends a clear message that this is not a fuel we ...
The labour market statistics have been released, and they show that unemployment actually dropped last quarter. All told, there are 111,000 unemployed - 15,000 fewer than when the government took office. But before anyone thinks that the pandemic hasn't put people out of work, remember that this is for ...
Judy KavanaghI’m OK with wearing a CovidCard. But are you? There’s no point me doing it alone.The author modelling a (fake) CovidCard. I didn’t know much about the CovidCard proposal until I read Dave’s latest blog post. You would wear the card visibly on your person. It ...
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nzWhy can’t I use the battery from my electric car ...
As many good things come in threes (as the saying goes), we are happy to announce a third partnership between Skeptical Science and other websites. Fakebook.eco in Brazil is joining Klimafakten.de in Germany and Nauka o Klimacie in Poland to leverage translated rebuttal material and to make the information readily available in other ...
This interview on RNZ with Ross Tucker, the scientist who headed a review of transgender athletes playing in women’s rugby, discusses the findings of the review and what it means for women in sports. The review that World Rugby undertook had a broad range of independent experts and included a ...
Siouxsie WilesThe restrictions in place for metropolitan Melbourne now are in some ways stricter than those that were in force during New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown. A curfew is in place and most people have to wear masks when they leave their home – neither of which happened in New ...
On Friday the Hit and Run inquiry delivered a devastating report which found that NZDF had systematically misled Ministers over civilian deaths. The report called into question civilian control of the military (and indeed, military control of the military), a fundamental principle of our democracy. So you'd expect our politicians ...
Let's Do This Again: What else can Jacinda do in a political environment so bereft of imagination and courage but seek a continuance? If she trades upon the extraordinary personal qualities that she has, miraculously, carried with her into the office of Prime Minister, then I, for one, will offer ...
How corrupt are the New Zealand Police? This corrupt: On 10 February 2019, Police attended a family harm incident. The suspect attempted to run the attending officers over in a driveway with his car, narrowly missing them, before fleeing the scene. A short pursuit followed, ending when the suspect stopped ...
Parliament's triennial Review of Standing Orders was released today, and it contains a number of welcome, if minor, improvements. The ones that caught my are: A move to encourage "pre-legislative engagement" - the government consulting widely on legislation before it is introduced - by promising easier passage (e.g. with ...
Lauren Vargo, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of WellingtonGlaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers in New Zealand melted the most in at least four ...
Caroline Shaw, Anja MizdrakE-bikes are everywhere. Sales are booming and predicted to overtake sales of new cars in a few years. There were three times as many e-bikes and e-scooters imported into NZ in 2019 alone as there are e-cars in the entire country. You can’t go out in ...
New Zealand First is facing a difficult struggle to get re-elected, but Josh Van Veen, who was once a researcher for Winston Peters, argues that there is still a very significant section of cultural conservatives who oppose mass immigration and political correctness and might yet be won back over to ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Many Americans these days seem unable to avoid controversy on practically any topic, so why not embrace the discord and wade into the especially volatile arena of nuclear energy? Advocates claim it’s the only way to meet global climate goals, ...
Can we trust New Zealand’s military? There must now be serious doubt, given the landmark report released on Friday concluding the investigation into allegations made in the book Hit and Run by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson about a 2010 SAS killing raid in Afghanistan. The most recent Colmar Brunton ...
In New Zealand, we've just had the report of the Hit and Run inquiry, which found that a New Zealand led raid had accidentally killed civilians, including a child. meanwhile, around the same time, the British SAS was conducting its own raids in Afghanistan, and theirs were a hell of ...
In addition to establishing a process for setting emissions reductions plans, the Zero Carbon Act established a process for managing the risks of climate change. The first part of this is the preparation of regular risk assessments, looking at the risks to our economy, society, environment, and ecology. The first ...
Over on The spinoff, Amnesty International's Meg de Ronde has a response to Friday's release of the Hit and Run report. And in response to Attorney-General David Parker's claim that the government was being "transparent" by releasing the report, its titled "we shouldn’t have to work this hard to get ...
Story of the Week... Opinion of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study FindsAs climate change raises sea levels, storm surges and high tides will ...
There's an election next month, so you'd be expecting political parties to be telling us what they stand for and what they'd do if they'd win. But while the Greens have given us a detailed policy platform, and National has talked about roads and austerity, Labour, currently leading the polls ...
"Who's youse accusin' of innference?" Without the timely intervention of a team of top American political consultants and campaign experts, Boris Yeltsin would never have won his second term as President of the Russian Federation. The Russians waited 20 years to return the favour.WHEN IT COMES to the disinformation game, ...
As polling day in the American presidential election draws closer, things are looking bad for Donald Trump. The polls show that he is tracking well behind his Democrat rival. Most people assume that the President will be striving might and main to avoid what looks increasingly likely to be a ...
Our health professionals do an amazing job. Image credit: Wikipedia – Cardiac surgery. Finally, I have got back to these rankings. A long period in hospital and computer problems meant the June 2020 rankings were abandoned. Now, with a new personal defibrillator implanted in my chest and a new hard ...
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, July 26 through Sat, Aug 1, 2020Editor's ChoiceThe four types of climate denier, and why you should ignore them allThe shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological ...
Over the last few days, reports have emerged of people travelling from New Zealand and testing positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at their destination. First in South Korea and now in Australia. What might these positive tests mean?They’re false-positives As Toby Morris and I have explained before, there are ...
Former National Minister - Wayne MappYou could tell that the Hit and Run book by investigative journalists Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson was right on the money by the way former National Party Minister of Defence, Wayne Mapp, reacted to its now largely vindicated claims.Even though the recent inquiry into ...
So, the Hit and Run inquiry has reported back, and found some appalling shit at NZDF and NZSIS. And while they quibble a few of the details - the name of a dead child - they basicly uphold Hager and Stephenson's version of events. The SAS went to those villages. ...
We are failing to think though the interdependencies in an economy. We miss economist Bryan Philpott (1921-2000). I miss him personally – we used to have such great discussions – but this column is about how the nation misses his economic experience and wisdom. We tend to ...
Michelle Boag - LeakerThe Heron report (PDF) was released yesterday, and it was a bit disappointing to say the least. It correctly found that former National Party president Michelle Boag and National Party MP Hamish Walker were politically motivated in leaking peoples private medical information, but didn’t look further into ...
Adam Smith, Massey UniversityA recent global assessment of shark populations at 371 coral reefs in 58 countries found no sharks at almost 20% of reefs and alarmingly low numbers at many others. The study, which involved over 100 scientists under the Global FinPrint project, gave New Zealand a good ...
On different trajectories and from different ends of the political spectrum, last night’s One News/Colmar Brunton poll has the Green Party and ACT converging around the five percent mark. And, as odd as it may sound, they head into the election campaign with a lot in common.Putting the Greens and ...
Janet Stephenson, University of OtagoA proposed multibillion-dollar project to build a pumped hydro storage plant could make New Zealand’s electricity grid 100% renewable, but expensive new infrastructure may not be the best way to achieve this. New Zealand’s electricity generation is already around 80% renewable, with just over half ...
Truth In Advertising: Labour, it would seem, is the party that knows nothing about running the economy right up until the moment that it does. HOW DID LABOUR acquire its reputation for being a poor economic manager? As with most things political and historical, it’s a long story.In the beginning, the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Government rulemakers looking to decide how much money to spend to avoid adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere need a good estimate of what a warming climate will cost in social damages, for example through more extreme weather events. That point makes ...
Below is the list of gender-critical material which appeared on Redline from October 1, 2019 to October 31, 2019. Rainbow Tick threatens to pull Massey’s tick if lesbians are allowed to speak Freer Lives – a gender-critical Marxist site Freer Lives on Violence, debate and Britain’s Gender Recognition Act British ...
Fact Check: New Zealand’s own relationship with China might, however, be salvageable if our own Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was willing to equip its minister, Winston Peters, with a few facts. Legislating for the protection of national security – the very action our Foreign Minister is decrying – ...
I hope we can all agree that charging only certain returning expats for isolation costs is the right call. Instead of a blanket fee, which may have resulted in a small number of Kiwis deciding not to return home because of financial reasons, the Government has chosen to implement a ...
Back at the beginning of this government, the Greens made a foolish decision to support the Electoral Integrity Act - demanded by Winston Peters to keep his own backbench in line as part of his coalition deal with Labour - as an act of good faith within the coalition. It ...
SATURDAY AUGUST 1Artefact (Prime, 7.30pm). The series presented by Dame Anne Salmond screened on Māori Television, but is totally worth revisiting if you saw it the first time. Dame Anne tells the stories of taonga that highlight the history of Aotearoa. Further reading: this 2013 interview with Dame Anne by the lovely ...
Have unions and the Government sold workers short with their attempt at fixing the so-called “Hobbit Law”? Unionist Ian Powell argues that the union movement has been outmanoeuvered, and the Government has agreed to a new piece of anti-worker legislation that retains the principles of the previous National Government’s hated ...
Most of the claims made by anti-fluoride propagandists are simply wrong. Image source:Fluoridation and the ‘sciency’ facts of critics Anti-fluoride propagandists continually cite studies from areas of endemic fluorosis in their arguments against ...
An article in the EETimes suggests that advances in autonomous vehicles are not moving as quickly as expected because those working on them have confused complicated problems with complex ones. Engineering can only take you so far in complex worlds. Complicated systems tend to have fairly predictable inputs, processes and outputs. Complex systems (like ...
Last week, after Judith Collins announced that National would be cruel and vicious to kiwis caught overseas by the pandemic, and rob them at the border if they returned home, Labour looked like it was falling all over itself to cry "me too". But now, it looks like kindness has ...
If entry into New Zealand from abroad is safe, it should be allowed. People arriving from places that are Covid-free, or no more risky than New Zealand, and who get here on flights that do not intersect with risky places, should return to normal travel arrangements. Currently, the Cook ...
We've announced that we will expand the Flexi-wage programme to support up to 40,000 more people into work, or to help them start their own business. It's yet another way we're helping keep our economy moving by getting people into work and training. Read on to find out more ...
Business subsidy of on average $7500, and up to $22,000, to hire unemployed New ZealandersUp to 40,000 jobs to be supported by $311 million investment in keeping New Zealanders off the unemployment benefitRing-fenced fund to help unemployed start their own business ...
This week was the last of the 52nd Parliament: a major milestone for our Government and a great opportunity to look back at all the progress we've made for New Zealanders. This week, we increased support for businesses to take on apprentices, improved access to hospital care in Northland, and ...
Kia orana and kia ora koutou katoa. It is a privilege to be able to speak in this adjournment debate and to mark and acknowledge the fact that we are now two years and 10 months into the conclusion of a parliamentary term that has been extraordinary in so many ...
On 1 August, we marked the anniversary of Jacinda Ardern becoming the Leader of the Labour Party. On that day in 2017, Leader Andrew Little nominated Jacinda Ardern to succeed him and lead the party to victory.Now, three years on, we look back at some of the key moments ...
With the June 2020 quarter showing underemployment increasing, the Green Party is calling for a Guaranteed Minimum Income and an increase to the abatement threshold to ensure everyone has a dignified income. ...
We went hard and we went early in our health response to COVID-19, and we did everything we could to cushion the economic impact too. In fact, we can fill every letter of the alphabet with the steps we took to fight COVID-19 and ensure we were in a position ...
Investing in our people, backing businesses, and upgrading infrastructure and housing throughout the country - it's been another week of progress for New Zealanders as we deliver our plan to recover and rebuild. ...
July was another busy month, packed with key investments aimed at progressing our economic recovery as we rebuild New Zealand. We extended support for businesses, helped create jobs through local infrastructure projects, and kept working to clean up our waterways so Kiwis can access safe clean water. Check out the ...
The Green Party is calling for the Defence Force Chiefs in place between 2010-2017 to front up and explain how dishonesty, process and policy failures within the Defence Force led to ‘a series of incorrect statements in briefings to ministers and public releases’ regarding alleged breaches of international torture prevention ...
Thanks to our strong health response, New Zealand’s economy is more open than many other countries. But as COVID continues to surge around the world, the economic consequences of the virus will continue to be a challenge, which is why we have a detailed plan to help New Zealand bounce ...
Thanks to our strong health response, New Zealand’s economy is more open than many other countries. But as COVID continues to surge around the world, the economic consequences of the virus will continue to be a challenge, which is why we have a detailed plan to help New Zealand bounce ...
The Government is stepping up action to deal with environmentally harmful products – including plastic packaging, tyres and e-waste – before they become waste. ...
The Green Party are ensuring that New Zealanders who were overseas when COVID-19 hit will not be charged for the cost of isolation or quarantine if they return home to live. ...
It's been another week of creating jobs, supporting local businesses, and investing in infrastructure up and down the country - all of which are helping to keep our economy moving post-COVID-19. ...
Law changes to end tenure review and provide for better management of Crown pastoral lands in the South Island high country were considered by Parliament today with the first reading of the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill says Minister for Land Information, Eugenie Sage. ...
The Green Party have secured legislative amendments in a bill expected to pass third reading this week, to ensure better rules for school teachers and staff, so they can de-escalate children with diverse needs and cognitive differences, such as autism, rather than using unnecessary and often traumatising force. ...
New Zealand needs to be more aggressive in pursuing economic opportunities and resist the short-term thinking affecting some of its major industry, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters says.Mr Peters told Wellington Chamber of Commerce members this morning that the planned closure of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter will have ...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has ridiculed the National Party "circus", with the politician saying it was in "chaos" after the resignation of another MP.Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon announced on Monday he would retire from politics after he allegedly sent inappropriate pornographic images to a young woman. Following a ...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters today outlined what he saw as the requirements to re-open New Zealand's borders for tourists and travellers. If New Zealand was dealing solely with an Australian state such as Tasmania, we wouldn't need a vaccine, said Mr Peters, but these moves were complicated by the ...
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters appears to have prompted last-minute alterations to proposed legislation for commercial landlords and their tenants. Mr Peters told reporters on Wednesday said that he was making sure the proposed bill was in step with what the parties had actually agreed to. He said he ...
Associate Minister for State Owned Enterprise and New Zealand First List MP Shane Jones attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new NZ Post "super depot" in Wellington. The state-owned postal service, which got $280 million from the Coalition Government last month, is expanding its operations to handle surging parcel volumes. ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters, Leader of New Zealand First CHECK AGAINST DELIVERYIntroduction Good afternoon. Welcome to you all here today and party supporters watching from around the country. We appreciate your hard work keeping New Zealand First strong; thank you for keeping the faith. Sixty-three days out from Election Day, ...
The diversity of conservation boards around Aotearoa is increasing with 47 appointments to 14 of the 15 conservation boards across New Zealand announced today by the Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage. ...
A Government grant of $6.4 million will expand the Pettigrew Arena in Taradale with new indoor courts of national standard. “The project is likely to take 18 months with approximately 300 people employed through the process,” Grant Robertson said. “The expansion will increase the indoor court space up to 11 ...
The Far North tourist destination of Mangonui is to receive Government funding to improve waterfront infrastructure, open up access to the harbour and improve water quality, Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones has announced. A total of $6.5 million from the $3 billion set aside in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund ...
The Government has re-affirmed its commitment to supporting the hosting of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, which the ICC has delayed from 2021 to 2022. “This is obviously a disappointing decision for cricket players and fans around the world and for the White Ferns and their supporters here at ...
Cyclists and walkers will now have a safer way to get around Taupō, Tūrangi, and between Hamilton and Cambridge, with funding for shared paths and Te Awa River Ride, Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter announced today. “The Te Awa River Ride is the latest part of massive growth ...
Six major cycle routes will be completed in Christchurch thanks to funding from the Government’s investment in shovel-ready infrastructure as part of the COVID-19 recovery Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter announced today. $125 million will be invested to kick-start construction and fund the completion of the following cycleway ...
Plans are underway for a brand new state-of-the-art hub for Whanganui’s justice and social agencies, following confirmation the ageing Whanganui Central Police Station is to be replaced. Police Minister Stuart Nash has announced $25 million in new infrastructure spending to improve facilities for the wider community, and for staff who ...
An adjustment payment has been made to Waikato-Tainui and Ngāi Tahu under the relativity mechanisms in their 1995 and 1997 Treaty of Waitangi settlements, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little announced today. The latest payments to Waikato-Tainui and Ngāi Tahu are $2,700,000 and $2,600,000 respectively to ensure the ...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Transport Minister Phil Twyford today kicked off the start of the Auckland NZ Upgrade Programme rail projects which will support over 400 jobs and help unlock our biggest city. Both ministers marked the start of enabling works on the third main rail line project ...
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) investment of $3.78 million in Wairoa will create much needed economic stimulus and jobs, Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau announced today. PGF projects announced today include: $200,000 loan to Nuhaka Kiwifruit Holdings Ltd (operated by Pine Valley Orchard Ltd) to increase the productivity ...
Tenants in public and Māori housing may be benefiting from their own affordable renewable energy in future – a fund to trial renewable energy technology for public and Māori housing has today been announced by Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods and Associate Minister for Housing (Māori Housing) Nanaia Mahuta. ...
Hokianga will receive $2.7 million to redevelop four of its wharves and upgrade its water supply, Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones has announced. Far North District Council will receive $1.8 million from the Provincial Growth Fund for the work on the wharves. “The work will include the construction of ...
A $350 million Residential Development Response Fund is being established to support the residential construction sector and to minimise the economic impact from COVID-19, the Housing Minister Dr Megan Woods has announced. “The Residential Development Response Fund will help to progress stalled or at-risk developments that support our broader housing ...
As part of a broader plan to divert waste from landfill, the Government today announced $10.67 million for new infrastructure as part of the Resource Recovery Network across the Auckland region. “This key investment in Auckland’s community recycling network is part of the Government’s Infrastructure Reference Group ‘shovel ready’ projects ...
The Government is investing $45 million in the first stage of an ambitious urban development project for Tauranga that will employ up to 250 people and help the region grow, Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today. Phil Twyford says the funding has been allocated out of the $3 billion ...
Getting low-emission trucks on the road is a step closer with investment in infrastructure to support hydrogen vehicles, the Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods has announced. The Infrastructure Reference Group has provisionally approved $20 million for New Plymouth company Hiringa Energy to establish a nationwide network of hydrogen-fuelling stations. ...
A new trades training centre to upskill the local workforce will be built in the South Waikato town of Tokoroa through funding from the Government’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, Education Minister Chris Hipkins and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced. The Government will contribute $10.84 million from ...
The Government has agreed to repeal part of the Oranga Tamariki Act subsequent children provisions, Minister for Children Tracey Martin announced today. “There are times when children need to go into care for their safety – the safety and care of children must always be paramount,” Minister Martin said. “But ...
A $1.5 million boost to grow primary mental health and addiction services for Pacific peoples in Auckland, Hamilton and Canterbury will lead to better outcomes for Pacific communities, Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa says. Pasifika Futures has received funding to expand services through The Fono, Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest by ...
Twenty-two projects to boost the sustainability and climate resilience of New Zealand’s food and fibres sector have been announced today by Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor. The $18m funding will deliver practical knowledge to help farmers and growers use their land more sustainably, meet environmental targets, remain prosperous, and better understand ...
Employment Minister Willie Jackson welcomes an initiative that assists employers to get mature workers into New Zealand small businesses. The disadvantages that older people face in the workplace was highlighted in the whole of Government Employment Strategy. In order to address this, a Mature Workers Toolkit has been developed and ...
New Zealand and Australia reaffirmed today the need for the closest possible collaboration as they tackle a global environment shaped by COVID-19, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters said. “In these challenging times, our close collaboration with Australia is more vital than ever,” said Mr Peters. Mr Peters and his Australian ...
The recovery and forensic examination of the loader driven by survivor Russell Smith means the underground team are now moving into an area of the Pike River Mine that has not been seen since the explosion, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little said. “The fifth and last robot ...
The Government has confirmed a community-wide trial of CovidCard technology as it explores options for COVID-19 contact tracing. “Effective contact tracing is a vital part of the COVID-19 response,” Minister of Health Chris Hipkins said. “While manual processes remain the critical component for contact tracing, we know digital solutions can ...
The government is proposing changes to aquaculture legislation to improve the process for allocating and transferring aquaculture assets to iwi. Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash has introduced the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Amendment Bill to Parliament. It proposes a limited new discretionary power for Te Ohu Kaimoana Trustee Limited (ToKM). ...
The Minister of Justice has today introduced the Family Court (Supporting Children in Court) Legislation Bill – the next step in the ongoing programme of work to fix the failed 2014 Family Court reforms led by then Justice Minister Judith Collins. The Bill arises from the report of the Independent ...
A new Department of Conservation (DOC) action plan tackles the impacts of climate change on New Zealand’s biodiversity and DOC managed infrastructure including tracks, huts and cultural heritage. Minister of Conservation Eugenie Sage says extreme weather events around the country have really brought home our vulnerability to changing weather patterns. ...
A heavily scaled back international Antarctic season will commence this week, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods have confirmed. “Antarctica is the only continent that is COVID-19 free,” Mr Peters said. “Throughout the global pandemic, essential operations and long-term science have continued at ...
The Government is providing up to $30 million to help fund the NZ Campus of Innovation and Sport in Upper Hutt - an investment that will create 244 jobs. “The sports hub is designed to be a world-leading shared service for a range of sports, offering the level of facilities ...
Transport Minister Phil Twyford announced today transport projects currently in construction will continue at pace due to extra Government support for transport projects to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. To keep the $16.9 billion 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme going the Government has allocated funding from the COVID Response and ...
$50 million for further rural broadband digital connectivity has been allocated from the $3 billion infrastructure fund in the COVID Response and Recovery Fund has been announced by Shane Jones, Minister for Infrastructure and Kris Faafoi, Minister for Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media. The investment will go to boosting broadband ...
The Minister for Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media has congratulated the Ultra-fast Broadband (UFB) programme on its major milestone of connecting more than 1 million New Zealand households and businesses to UFB. “This milestone has been 10 years in the making and demonstrates the popularity of the UFB network. “Uptake ...
Landmark legislation passed today puts New Zealand on track to saving thousands of lives and having a smokefree generation sooner rather than later, Associate Health Minister, Jenny Salesa says. The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill regulates vaping products and heated tobacco devices. “There has long been concern ...
A discriminatory law that has been a symbol of frustration for many people needing and providing care and support, has been scrapped by the Government. “Part 4A of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill (No 2) was introduced under urgency in 2013 by a National Government,” Associate ...
Kiwi motorists are set to reap the benefits of a more competitive fuel market following the passing of the Fuel Industry Bill tonight, Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods says. “This Act is where the rubber meets the road in terms of our response to the recommendations made in the ...
The Government has delivered on its promise to New Zealanders to modernise tenancy laws with the passing of the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill 2020 today, says Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing), Kris Faafoi. “The Residential Tenancies Act 1986 was out-dated and the reforms in the RTA modernise our ...
New rules to protect and restore New Zealand’s freshwater passed into law today. Environment Minister David Parker and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor welcomed the gazetting of the new national direction on freshwater management. “These regulations deliver on the Government’s commitment to stop further degradation, show material improvements within five years and ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has announced the appointment of Jeremy Clarke-Watson as New Zealand’s new Consul-General in Los Angeles. “New Zealand and the United States share a close and dynamic partnership, based on a long history of shared values and democratic traditions,” Mr Peters said. “Mr Clarke-Watson is a ...
Victims of family violence can end a tenancy with two days’ notice Landlords can terminate tenancies with 14 days’ notice if tenants assault them Timeframe brought forward for limiting rent increases to once every 12 months Extension of time Tenancy Tribunal can hear cases via phone/video conference Reform of New ...
Two employment schemes – one new and one expanded – going live today will help tens of thousands of people continue training on the job and support thousands more into work, the Government has announced. Apprenticeship Boost, a subsidy of up to $12,000 per annum for first year apprentices and ...
The Government is funding a significant infrastructure package at Omokoroa which will create 150 new jobs and help transform the Western Bay of Plenty peninsula, Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford announced today. Phil Twyford says the Government is investing $14 million towards the $28 million roading and water package. This ...
By Patrick Makis in Buka Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville’s first covid-19 case. The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port Moresby on an Air Niugini flight on July 29, is stable and is being isolated in Arawa town. ABG’s Deputy Controller, Health Secretary Clement ...
The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon wants New Zealanders to amplify the resilience of Māori whānau and communities on the International Day of Indigenous Peoples on Sunday 9th of August. The theme for the day is ‘COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples’ ...
A small proportion of Covid-19 patients continue experiencing symptoms long after they test negative. Freya Sawbridge, one such ‘Covid long hauler’, describes what it’s like.Four months have passed and I’m onto my fifth relapse. The room is eerily still yet my mind spins like the stripes of a barber’s pole. ...
A new poll shows New Zealand First list MP Shane Jones coming third in the contest for the Northland seat that's being seen as crucial to his party's chances of staying in Parliament. ...
A poll in the electorate seat of Northland shows New Zealand First could be out of Parliament altogether after the election Shane Jones has a big hill to climb if he wants to take Northland and secure NZ First's position in parliament. National Party candidate Matt King is well ahead of ...
Christchurch writer Chris Stuart spent decades toggling between high-stakes overseas aid work and the strange safety of home. Out of that has emerged a crime novel: For Reasons of Their Own. I used to always tell people that when you work in war zones and disasters, you are only ever a ...
Welcome to Election Live for August 9, bringing you the latest on election 2020 and other breaking news. For key dates in the election seasonclick here. For all you need to know about the cannabis referendum click here. For the assisted dying referendum click here. 7.15am: Labour tax policy coming ...
New Zealand's unofficial poet laureate Victor Billot pens topical verse every Sunday. This week: the rotten egg laid by the outgoing coalition governmentLet’s keep moving I was sitting in my cheap motel room next to the window, smelling petrol fumes when on the TV came a lady in red ...
She’s Cheryl West, she’s Ellen Crozier, she’s the woman who makes headlines for throwaway jokes online. Sam Brooks talks to Robyn Malcolm, actor and activist.There’s nothing more compelling on a New Zealand screen than Robyn Malcolm wanting something. Whether it’s Cheryl West trying to get a lingerie business off the ...
The Labour leader returned yesterday to the Auckland Town Hall, where she was last seen riding the Jacindamania wave towards government. Toby Manhire went along to see how this campaign launch compared to the 2017 edition.A lot was the same. The big wash of red light bouncing off the Town ...
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Judith Collins is still shy of a month into the job but in her media blitz she and her arched eyebrows are everywhere, along with the party slogan "Strong team, More Jobs, Better Economy". ...
New Zealand First is pleased to announce the next tranche of candidates that will represent our values and spread our message across the country at this year’s election. We thank these hardworking New Zealanders for putting their hand up to take on the ...
A high-ranking Chinese candidate promoted over more than a dozen incumbent MPs is the biggest surprise in an otherwise orthodox National Party list for the 2020 election, as Sam Sachdeva reports The National Party has released its list rankings for the 2020 election, with the ascent of new candidate Nancy ...
The National Party is pleased to announce the appointment of Nancy Lu to the National Party’s List for the 2020 General Election, President Peter Goodfellow says. “Nancy Lu is a Chartered Accountant with a background in accounting and business working ...
Headline: A crisis of governance. – 36th Parallel Assessments [embedded content] The Port of Beirut warehouse explosion, involving 2.7 kilotons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate negligently stored in an unsecured area, crystalizes in one national tragedy a much wider trend: the crisis and decline of democratic governance world-wide.For a ...
National’s 2020 Party List is a strong mix of experience coming up through our Caucus, and new and exciting talent joining our team from communities across New Zealand, Party President Peter Goodfellow says. “The National Party is incredibly ...
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The suggestion of putting border exemptions up for auction so large companies can bring in overseas executives and key workers is naïve and totally unfair,” says Ms June Ranson, chair of the New Zealand Association of Migration and Investment ...
Looking for a wonderfully trashy movie to watch? TVNZ OnDemand now have some of Lifetime’s best dramas for your viewing pleasure. In a world of serious and credible television, the arrival of Lifetime to TVNZ OnDemand is joyous news. Lifetime is an American cable channel that churns out emotional drama after emotional drama, ...
The introduction of a $3,100 fee for returning New Zealanders will disadvantage Māori disproportionately, Phoebe Carr (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe)and Max Harris argue.The government has once again failed to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi by rushing through legislation to introduce exorbitant managed isolation fees for returning New Zealanders. This ...
7 August 2020: The Team of Six Million, a campaign group established to oppose the imposition of quarantine fees by the New Zealand Government, has expressed disappointment at the Government's urgent passing of the Public Health Response Amendment Bill to ...
In July support for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party was at 53.5% down 1% since June, but still more than double the support for National on 26.5%, down 0.5%, with just over a month to go before the election in mid-September. If ...
Welcome to Election Live for August 7, bringing you the latest on election 2020 and other breaking news. For key dates in the election season click here. For all you need to know about the cannabis referendum click here. For the assisted dying referendum click here. Policy launching soon. Get in touch ...
After initial concerns about low testing rates in South Auckland, Counties Manukau DHB has the second-highest testing rate in the country. Ōtara Health chief executive Sosefina Paletaoga explains her organisation’s role in achieving this. Covid-19 has affected us all in different ways, and for us in Ōtara, it has highlighted existing ...
Oranga Tamariki's Chief Executive appeared before the Waitangi Tribunal a day after a report from the Chief Ombudsman found the agency had used its draconian powers to uplift babies too readily in many cases A Waitangi Tribunal hearing has seen Oranga Tamariki chief executive Gráinne Moss concede her organisation harmed families during ...
"A resident of the boarding house disappeared the same day Mrs Bethany’s body was discovered": provincial gothic, with astrology, by Auckland writer Mandy McMullin. I moved into the tearooms the day I turned sixteen, 23 December 2006. The same day I met Garth. It was Saturday, a lucky day for ...
The resignation of Westland Milk Products chief executive Tony Brendish almost a year to the day the company was sold to Chinese conglomerate Yili makes a mockery of assurances that there was no conflict of interest in top management preparing ...
*Watch the video in the player below*The wheels of progress turn frustratingly slow in Christchurch’s Red Zone. Frank Film asks, is anything going to happen? Hayley Guglietta is honest about her group’s activities on vacant land bordering Christchurch’s Avon River. She admits the groundwork was commenced without official ...
On this week's Extra Time podcast: After significant investigations into cycling, football and hockey in New Zealand, now gymnastics is in the spotlight around their athletes' welfare. Allegations of multiple New Zealand gymnasts suffering from verbal and physical abuse, bullying and unsafe training methods have surfaced over the past week. And ...
She’s a lone wolf, a team player, a rebel, a leader and the nicest lady around. But what combination of those do you need to survive in government?On a cold July morning, I found myself driving around Totara Park in Manurewa in the dark. I had been invited to a ...
All around the country, people are asking ‘what’s going to happen in the 2020 general election campaign?’ That’s because they haven’t read this guide, which reveals exactly what will happen in the 2020 general election campaign.Someone has finally put this term of parliament out of its misery. We’ve had three ...
The UK car industry has run a good race in the post-Brexit lobbying stakes. But Britain’s chemical industry looks to be making a late run, if recent coverage in the Financial Times is accurate.The issue for the industry is the post-Brexit regulatory regime and how this is to be ...
Latest from the Beehive – We had just finished digesting an outpouring of announcements from the Beehive over the previous 24 hours or so when the Point of Order Trough Monitor shrieked an alert. A new trough had been established. While we were inspecting the contents of this new trough, ...
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Chart 1, Historical: Australian much lower than Spain, Belgium and Sweden. Chart by Keith Rankin. The known incidences of Covid19 in Spain, Belgium and Sweden are similar, although Sweden lagged for a while before overtaking the other two. In deaths, Sweden is slightly lower than ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The good news in the Reserve Bank’s latest quarterly set of forecasts is that the recession won’t be as steep as it thought last time. The bad news is it ...
Analysis: National entices voters with big infrastructure projects, Judith Collins rips into Jacinda Ardern and Parliament passes a bill that could affect every tenant in the country. ...
By RNZ Pacific France’s new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia’s restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October referendum on independence. Lecornu gave the assessment during a visit to New Caledonia House in Paris. Paris is expected to send dozens of officials and ...
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa descendants are overjoyed they can do up their wharenui, while also attracting their rangatahi back to their marae, with more than $1.5 million from the Provincial Growth Fund. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University National crises, like the pandemics that can provoke them, come in stages. Each stage presents leaders with unique problems that require mental, moral and emotional agility to manage. Change is the only constant, as ...
How is New Zealand faring in during the Covid-19 pandemic? Newsroom is taking a weekly look at the latest numbers related to the virus and the impact on the economy.Excess deaths Overseas the death toll in some countries has risen sharply, with the ...
Justice campaign organisation JustSpeak has outlined a vision for a society without prisons in its 2020 election campaign ‘ Our Justice Our Future ’. The campaign was launched last night in Wellington, to a sold out audience of supporters and volunteers. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University During the COVID-19 pandemic we’re constantly being reminded to practise good hygiene by frequently washing our hands and regularly cleaning the spaces where we live and work. These practices aim to remove or kill ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Caroline discuss the closure of ‘non-essential’ businesses in Melbourne under stage ...
Labour's campaign slogan "Let's Keep Moving" is hardly the most inspirational but reflects the conservative game plan - trade on the Covid response and stay on track. ...
By granting a permit to OceanaGold to mine under DOC land in the Coromandel, the government is not only threatening an endangered species, says Catherine Delahunty – it’s threatening future generations.I woke up angry. The government has given a 40-year permit to OceanaGold to mine under DOC land behind Whangamatā. ...
How come, after numerous condemnatory reports, Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss holds on to her job? Aaron Smale wonders if those harmed by her tenure aren't a big enough voting bloc So, what happens when a government department breaks the law and breaches its own policies? Nothing, apparently. The latest ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Review: The Meddler, screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival For movie scholars and enthusiasts, one of the worst things about the COVID-19 pandemic has been the shutting down of ...
The combination of solar panels, electricity storage batteries, smart household gadgets, and a boring looking black box is set to change forever how our electricity system works. But do we need subsidies? ...
The New Zealand Bar Assocation says misinformed criticism of a South Island judge’s sentencing of a sex offender has the potential for disturbing consequences for the justice system and society generally. The Bar Association’s President Kate Davenport ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Royal Commission into Aged-Care Quality and Safety delivered it’s interim report in October 2019. Titled ‘Neglect’, it provided a scathing insight into the aged care industry – finding it centred around transactions not care. ...
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group More than one year after the March 15, 2019 terrorist attack, an official inquiry into the mass shooting that killed 51 people and injured 49 in two Christchurch mosques has still not released any information ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Manuel, Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University Australia’s long-awaited cybersecurity strategy, released yesterday, pledges to spend A$1.67 billion over the next ten years to improve online protection for businesses, individuals and the country as a whole. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roxana Diamond, PhD Candidate, Flinders University This article has links that contain graphic content Many industries and employees have been hurt by COVID-19. But sex workers, who face stigma and discrimination at the best of times, have been hit particularly hard by ...
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in cases occurs, a doctor says. Rita Flynn isolation facility manager Dr Gary Nou said it would be a disaster if the spread of covid-19 in ...
Paige Tapara is a fast-rising young singer-songwriter whose debut EP explores themes of sexuality, coming of age, mental health and relationships. We asked her how it came together, and why she thinks it’s so important for NZ music to include voices like hers.Paige swoops into the room, a cream doughnut in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, CSIRO Universities and other research organisations in Australia have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May, a group led by Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel forecasted severe impacts for our research workforce. These included the loss ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Carnt, Scientia Senior Lecturer, School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW, Sydney, UNSW You’re rushing and accidentally drop a contact lens on the bathroom floor. Should you: a) run it under the tap and pop it in? b) spit on it ...
The Māori Party is celebrating World Indigenous Day the Māori way, surrounded by friends and whānau at a Meet-the-Candidates at the Third Place Café in Rotorua this weekend. To mark World Indigenous Day, the Māori Party wants to remind Aotearoa ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wayland, Lecturer, University of Sydney As part of new research into missing persons in Australia, I have been asking people who return after disappearing what they needed or wanted. Mary, who has gone missing four times in the last few years, ...
Forest & Bird is calling for all political parties to back an end to mining conservation land, after a permit was issued to mine the home of a critically-endangered native animal. This week Oceana Gold was granted a 40-year mining permit from the ...
Here’s a snapshot of a single day in parliament. A day where changes were made to laws that govern everything from the milk in your refrigerator to the speed you can drive your car, and to Netflix, and war crimes, and who tests your water. It was a big day.The ...
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So is the government succeeding in steering the country through the Covid-19 crisis and what it calls a “one-in-100-year shock”. And just what is it costing? These are questions which will be uppermost in the minds of voters when they cast their ballots in next month’s general election. Finance Minister ...
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A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Aug 2, 2020 through Sat, Aug 8, 2020 Editor's Choice Five Years After Speaking Out on Climate Change, Pope Francis Sounds an Urgent Alarm The encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ motivated many people ...8 hours ago
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What a way to start a morning – confirming perhaps what everyone knew (or suspected) about Donald Trump. Although, to be fair, it’s easy to detect a political bias in the psychiatrist’s comments.
14 minutes.
We’ve had a sufeit of the Donald, I’m sure, but this analysis is interesting (and frightning!).
Psychiatrist: Trump Mental Health Urgently Deteriorating
I wonder how much we think we know is just reiterated propaganda.
Skip the first five mins and from there you get a very different opinion
This tactic of using mental health as a weapon is doomed to failure and is very detrimental to suffers of mental health issues.
This Psychiatrist is breaching the code of ethics around his profession. There is a general agreement that you don’t diagnose mental health conditions in this manner.
Its clearly not a clinical diagnosis as Trumps not his patient. But then again Trump seems to write his doctors results anyway- while he was campaigning for President and his White House doctor
I’d agree with you – if Trump wasn’t POTUS. People actually do need to know.
Arguments over Donald Trump’s mental health, or lack of, is irrelevant. (Much as debates over Hitler’s mental health are irrelevant).
What is relevant, is that tens of millions of rational human beings follow him.
That tens of millions of American citizens feel that they are not given a voice to their concerns outside of Donald Trump, demonstrates that there is a terrible failure at the heart of our political system. This is lack of voice is most marked on the Left where candidates like Bernie Sanders are seen as beyond the pale and not worthy of mainstream Democratic Party support. Unlike the Republicans, who even against their better judgement, are prepared to hold their noses to support Trump.
To be fair, I can understand why some dems got pissy about working for the party for years, then Sanders comes parachuting in for the presidential campaign. Just as I can understand why some Sanders supporters were upset that he didn’t get the nomination (FWIW, I think the repugs and their allies would have thrown just as much shit at Sanders as they did at Clinton).
But you’re right, the leftish side of any overton window seems to tend towards “X is not ideologically sound, therefore is an enemy”, whereas the tories will often make strange bedfellows – religious zealots like Pence supporting someone like Trump, for example.
Which is the result of Representative Democracy which was specifically designed to prevent democracy in the first place and can easily be corrupted by the rich buying out the so-called representatives.
In other words, Representative Democracy easily becomes an oligarchy/plutocracy – exactly as it was designed.
Yesterday a psychologist friend at lunch stated that Trump was a narcissist rather than a psychopath or a sociopath though he had traits of those disorders.
He sent me a link in which the issue is discussed.
My friend said that a major difference is that a narcissist can feel shame, which the sociopath/psychopath does not, and shame is what drives a good deal of Trump’s actions. He caves in when he meets a strong leader and later is shamed to feel that he had been bested.
How’s that for an explanation of his volte-faces and lying?
Did you ask him if they were mutually exclusive? I’d have thought it possible for sociopaths to be narcissistic. I guess your first sentence gives an indication
By the way – where is everybody this morning? Are they hanging around at Wellington bus stops waiting to get somewhere?
Good joke!
I gathered from him that one key difference (no other reference intended) was that the narcissist could feel shame which the psychopath/sociologist did not. Just as Trump as a narcissist shows traits of sociopathy, so too a sociopath could have traits of narcissism. But I’m not a psychologist, though I trust his judgement. He had a huge reputation for his wotk with American wayward youth.
He also spoke of an experiment in the 1980s in Hawaii where a progressive government put huge resources into lowering the incidence of domestic violence successfully by employing counsellors and assigning them to cases. The state also enforced the compulsory registration of births and the taking of parenting lessons which could be enforced by court order. The rates went down dramatically. When a conservative government which hated the expenditure on this social harm reduction programme saying it was was waste of money returned to power, they withdrew the funding.
The rates of domestic violence returned towards previous levels.
I hope that our PM Jacinda Ardern’s control of the Children’s portfolio, and her government, will achieve results similar to Hawaii as reported above. It can be done.
Just as Trump as a narcissist shows traits of sociopathy, so too a sociopath could have traits of narcissism>
A woman I once knew was a full blown sociopath and she also exhibited narcissistic traits. People can have several personality disorders at the one time.
Yep – we can get hung up on definitions as the guest post demonstrates:
‘neo’ and ‘posts’ enter into it all when someone detects a minor difference between (say) liberal economic theory and what they think we have today (neo-liberalism). Eras in time with a raft of similarities but not exactery the same (going forward, to coin a term, so-to-speak, as a matter of fact, “ekshully”, ultimately [the latest buzz] and “the truth is”).
Modernity, Post-modernity (are we now in neo-post-modernity?).
Liberalism, neo-liberalism, …..post-neo-liberalism.
politically liberal? socially liberal? economically liberal. Fukyama would have it we’re in post-history (until he realised he’d royally fucked up)
(And as an aside, part of the neo-libs pervasive agenda – Croz and Txt included – is to corrupt and manipulate the language)
So as time and understanding progresses, I’d be interested to know @Mac1, whether your friend detects/has detected a growth in either narcissistic and/or sociopathic behaviour as we’ve promoted the idea of individualism/ultra-uber competitiveness/excessive ambition/the “end of history”/and there being “no such thing as society”
By the way, if t.Rump is merely a narcissist and not a sociopath, what the hell was John Key?
(Exaggeration maybe in a bid to demonstrate a point. I suspect John Key wasn’t actually bright enough, or socially aware enough to have been a sociopath but don’t be surprised if some of his next generation register on the Roastbuster scale – core!!! they’re goRGEOUS!)
It’s probably more accurate to say that the conditions share some traits but not all. The combination of traits is what makes it one or the other or perhaps both. The doctor above says Trump shows traits of malignant narcissism and then goes on to describe trump having traits of narcissism and sociopathy.
That sounds about right. The Left put in place systems that work. The right-wing look at the new figures and declares that the successful program is no longer needed and removes it to ‘save money’ and we see a decline back to previous state where the program was needed. The decline comes with increased costs that are far more than the cost of the successful program.
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What do they expect when aged care providers pay $6 – $10 p/h less than other nurses!!
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363509/nz-could-soon-be-short-of-up-to-1000-aged-care-nurses
The aged care industry seems very profitable, wonder where is the money is going?
This article from a few years ago, suggests it has been the top performers with annual returns of
35 per cent in the case of Ryman Healthcare….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11203208
Ae!
And then there’s that other little gem courtesy of the Ministry of Health which classes mentally disabled to be employers of their care givers.
Do you think we’ll get to know who the hell came up with that scheme?
@OnceWasTim – probably an accountant or economist recommendation, totally out of touch with social reality!
It has the baaarp whiff of a Coleman baaarp brainwave.
Tony Ryall – when Minister of Health in 2014.
Here is a 2014 RNZ article on this with more detail re Ryall’s decision. https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/242096/disabled-care-pay-policy-'unworkable‘
And a few more from the RNZ archives. This one on 8 Feb 2018 which also includes links to a number of other articles between 2014 and 2018.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/349903/mother-wins-battle-with-health-ministry-over-carer-pay
And this followup on Ms Moody and her son a few days later by John Campbell who spent a day with them: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018632264/the-cost-of-looking-after-a-disabled-adult-child
I assume your mention of this issue came from the item on this morning’s Morning Report on:
Families caring for adult disabled children are appalled by attempts to simplify the guidelines for how much support and money they can get. Six months ago the Appeal Court suggested the Health Ministry rewrite its policy for disability support services so caregivers and disabled people could understand it. But two documents and $3000 later families say nothing has changed.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018656967/family-carers-of-disabled-adults-appalled-at-support-changes
This ridiculous situation needs to be remedied ASAP.
Yep, we thought when Planet Key went into decline, it was over but now Planet Ministry seem to believe that the mentally and physically disabled requiring care are capable of getting those ACC, tax returns and PAYE into shape and are employers. Not government agencies as getting annoying issues of their books onto the helpless seems to be a neoliberal ploy … at the same time partners are apparently not allowed to be paid to be carers and I wonder if the onus will eventually fall on them to do all the paperwork… nonsensical.
Yes Once was Tim, this must be a “do as I say Not as I do” situation, as anyone who is deemed Section 9 can not be held responsible for all sorts of things.
To then say they can follow an employer’s manual and fulfill all the obligations which are complex is laughable.
It is one thing to break down “Hand washing” into a series of diagrams…. quite another to break down “Paying Tax” or “ACC” or “GST”. AMAZING!! Sarc!!
What is happening in Australia in aged care.. and who owns them… and who wants rebates from the government…
Profit from ageing population
https://www.asx.com.au/education/investor-update-newsletter/201504-profit-from-ageing-population.htm
This farcical situation in the rest home industry has gone on far too long. The government need to call them out on it. While making record profits, the private providers say they are unable to pay Registered Nurses the going rate DHBs pay. They want the qualified staff & advertise this care is available, but RN cover is very thin on the ground, (one per shift in a large facility with hospital level care floor) otherwise at night, usually on call. When RN care is required, they quickly call an ambulance to transfer the resident to hospital. Another example of the private sector passing on their costs to the public taxpayer. And by the way, they pay no tax at all.
Great insights, Venezia.
This is correct Venezia. A cousin in the sector tells me they rush round doing everything to get accredited, then it goes out the window ’till next time.
An inquiry is overdue…. but imagine what the the Nats would say!!
Another inquiry!! God knows they left a mess.
A bit like ISO9000 ?
Everything documented, but SFA followed, as long as there’s some sort of accredication certificate to hang on the wall and put everyone’s mind at ease to get the punters through
/semi-sarc (or maybe /neo-sarc)
Does not seem to be any real prosecutions of aged care providers with many outrageous examples of profiteering, while relying on the age of the person so that they don’t understand what they are paying. Industry needs a clean up!
Considering many millennials are going to have to rely on inheritance to actually own a house in NZ, they might find that that dream is taken away by big business, as the consolidating multinationals take with careful contracts large chunks of assets like the retirement housing through loopholes like ‘renovation costs’ and ensuring the house can not be sold on the open market, therefore re appropriating large quantities of individual wealth back to themselves leaving the millennial penniless and increasing over time the inequality distribution in NZ.
China’s wall of debt, article below, is like NZ’s idea’s to use debt fuelled construction as a way to pretend our economy is going rockstar! Nice and easy rather than real growth and works for a bit, then suddenly you get too much construction and it all starts going wrong, because you need more than construction you also need infrastructure to support it, and real jobs outside of that area, and it’s an issue in NZ that we can’t even afford to live in the houses being constructed on the wages that many people are given! Time to diversify away from risky construction….
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018656486/dinny-mcmahon-china-s-great-wall-of-debt
This is the problem with understanding Western monetary systems and transferring that understanding onto other monetary systems.
See, what he’s describing there isn’t actually a debt but a deficit. There’s a difference and a fairly significant one. A monetary debt occurs when one person borrows from another. A monetary deficit occurs when a sovereign nation creates more money than what it’s getting back in taxes. In the former excessive amounts of it become a problem because it needs to be paid back and probably with interest. In the latter it can simply be ignored or simply written off so that it no longer exists and it will make absolutely no difference to the economy.
Now that the Chinese government have the buildings they can now work on building up other aspects of the economy (Factories, schools, R&D establishments) to encourage people to move into them.
We could do the same if we used solely sovereign monetary systems. Government creates the money, spends it into the economy building houses, schools, factories developing our economy and our society. The only constraint about what we could do is the availability of our own resources.
The big point here is that we need to stop confusing a government deficit for a debt because, with sovereign money system, its not. In fact, a government should never go into debt even to its reserve bank.
So it begins
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1808/S00060/thugs-threaten-violence-at-brash-event.htm
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=B3E11F9F-2C2C-4E9B-A0AD-352E72A76BB6
“The members later approached University management concerned about their ability to meet the agreement’s terms around security after becoming aware of social media posts suggesting the event could lead to violence.”
How to stifle free speech in NZ
Step 1: Threaten violence
The end.
Yep, snowflakes gonna snowflake.
Statement from the Vice Chancellor, Professor Thomas, does not place security concerns with the left only, but with left and right wing protesters possibly clashing.
Blaming left activists comes from your link to a statement from ACT.
From the Uni statement:
[My bold]
Unfortunately some hot heads on the left (as well as many on the right) do get into threatening violence. The minority of left wingers who do that do not help the left, and frustrate many of us.
Ultimately though, Hobson’s Pledge does oppose full implementation of Te Tiriti, and does that by mis-representing it. Given that Te Tiriti is a founding document of our country, there is a strong reason from restricting them from spreading it.
“Unfortunately some hot heads on the left (as well as many on the right) do get into threatening violence.”
Yep
The problem, as i see it, is that threatening violence to shut down debate on topics you don’t like does work in the short term but may also help lead to the raise of someone like Trump so long term is a bad idea
Except that if the message AOC linked to counted as “threatening violence” the person signed it and left a contact phone number. Not exactly the smartest thing to do if you’re committing a crime (sending a threat via telecommunications).
But then that sounds better than “far right wanna play victim again”
I’m talking more generally, the more this kind of thing happens the more likely the push back will be
Except “this kind of thing” didn’t actually happen, no matter how much they squeal.
So the appropriate response is to stand up to those who threaten violence, to those who behave as bullies regardless of their political allegiances; not to give into it as Massey Uni has done.
Isn’t this exactly what anti bully advocates stress time and time again. The situation at Massey, ironically an institution that typically would not tolerate bullying behaviour, is untenable. The VC should be dismissed.
Actually the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the VC at Massey is using the treat of violence as an excuse to prevent Brash from speaking. She gives herself away with her rant about hate speak and her deliberate misrepresentation of Brash’s position.
“Actually the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the VC at Massey is using the treat of violence as an excuse to prevent Brash from speaking”
Yeah this is exactly what it is and all it does is tell thugs that if they don’t want someone to speak then all they have to do is threaten and it’ll get canned
Possibly.
Could also be a double bluff – the university doesn’t want to finance tory wet dreams of victimhood, so basically says if the threat is serious, it’s a safety issue.
To assess whether the threat is serious, ask the dude who wrote the letter. they even included their cell number.
you are using an ACT press release as a news source ?
“that free speech ‘does not come free of consequences’.- sounds like a thug ?
It was merely a criticism of the event and the hosts, the actual link doesnt threaten violence at all.
And many on the left oppose the Massey Uni Vice Chancellor’s decision.
There’s a debate happening at Auckland Uni debating Society on free speech on Thursday. Brash will be one of the debaters:
To me this isn’t a left v right issue and its good to see theres more than a few lefties that oppose this kind of thuggish behaviour
‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’
Personally I’d love to attend such an event, would be very interesting.
Yes. But it’s a pity the Auckland Uni Great Debate panel is skewed to the right, Pakeha, and older ages. Given current issues about racism, etc, and the Uni context, this looks a bit worrying.
I hope the Uni’s “top debaters” are more representative.
Fair enough.
Lolz all this free speech narrative and many of them making a fuss about it don’t seem to want to broadcast or debate on the net for free with a global audience.
Am beginning to believe that for many free speech is more about supplementary income.
Well theres also this:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=B3E11F9F-2C2C-4E9B-A0AD-352E72A76BB6
“Professor Thomas says she supports free speech on campus, but totally opposes hate speech. “Mr Brash’s leadership of Hobson’s Pledge and views he and its supporters espoused in relation to Māori wards on councils was clearly of concern to many staff, particularly Māori staff. Whether those views would have been repeated to students in the context of a discussion about the National Party may seem unlikely, but I have no way of knowing. In my opinion the views expressed by members of Hobson’s Pledge come dangerously close to hate speech. They are certainly not conducive with the University’ strategy of recognising the values of a Tiriti o Waitangi-led organisation.””
Sounds legit to me
“In my opinion the views expressed by members of Hobson’s Pledge come dangerously close to hate speech.”
In her opinion is why shes shutting it down whereas to others he’s bringing up subjects that should be debated
So find a venue and debate it. You rightie free speechers are always looking for others to do the work – get off your arse and do it yourself – you have all the advantages and power in society. You run it and own it but still it’s too hard. Lol no wonder righties are weak bullies.
Yes dear
Ha resorting to that eh – what a fuckwit lol
Yeah piss off you big man – go find a crowd of alt right hammers to hide in.
Thats nice dear
Lol at least you’re not calling women mental cases for bringing allegations of pedo shit to the publics attention anymore – even a tool like you can learn – although why you did that is a mystery…
PR, The Red Princess, when asked about it by seymour said… that her personal view was that the university had over reacted.
I think seymour is feeling a bit bummed out now, he was trying so hard to stir up shite.
To Cinny
You may well be right, politicians need exposure after all
ACT is labeling these people as left wing thugs. And there is the problem.
Why not just label them as thugs?
Update, they have chosen to cancel his speech and now Seymour is asking for the Vice Chancellor to step down. WOW!! Just heard it on the wireless.
Edit… what is the name of this political club that asked Don Brash to speak please? Maybe that would reveal more information and clarity.
To differentiate from right wing thugs I guess?
Nah, more like to drive division and disorder.
Another reason could be that the media is pushing the idea its right wing thugs only so maybe Seymours just trying to remind the media theres thugs on both sides
Yeah but the difference is right wing thugs use guns,… all the rest have a donk.
Don’t need a gun when you have a Donk – Crocodile Dundee 2 …
Just like we did in 1981, eh PR, @#6 above? There is a difference between threatening violence and acting in a way that evinced unwarranted violence in others.
Study the difference between non-violent protest and street fighting. History provides many examples from Indian non-violent protest against the English salt taxes to the rise of the brown shirts in the Thirties.
At an earlier time I had a friend who protested at the Mt John Observatory. He was accused of assaulting a police dog with his genitals.
On such notes of comedy, can I place with you my deepest sympathy, Puckish Rogue, to your no doubt profound disillusionment with the beloved Judith and her faux news. I can smell the smoke from the discarded screeds of verse from here.
“Just like we did in 1981, eh PR,”
A little before my time but peaceful, lawful protest should be protected for anyone in NZ
It sounded like a media beat up/beltway issue/fake news/nothing to see here move along 🙂
Au sujet de faux news.
“A demoiselle nick-named Crusher
Had a rather large rush of
Blood to the head
When she believed what she read.
Apologies? A deafening hush, sir.”
Damn strait!
Cook or Foveaux?
I just heard that Simon Bridges says she and he had a discussion on the phone last night and another in person this morning.
She said she had no discussion!
it’s all reminiscent of another tweeter we all know.
Collins is boss, what she says goes
The thought of Collins as nact leader also makes me happy.
As poisonous as hemlock, with the teamwork skills of Muldoon, and she’ll cling on to the job like a hate-filled limpet.
And NZ1 will become the major right-wing party…
The thought of Collins as nact leader also makes me…well we won’t go there
As delicate as a flower, with the teamwork skills of Richie McCaw, and she’ll cling on to the job like a love-filled muppet.
And NZ1 will become the minor right-wing party…
The flower is that one that pretends to be a corpse so as to attract flies.
The team the rest of the nats are on is Australia.
And the muppet is Crazy Harry.
Straight my dear!!
“Straight’ can’t be applied to Collins, like the word ‘discussion’, whereas metaphorically a ‘strait’ divides land as Collins divides her caucus.
A demoiselle nick-named Crusher
When the shove came to push her,
Promised her caucus
A ruckus most raucous
Rival the fall of the House of Usher.
Yes PR. It seems that it has become so easy to block any event by threatening to bomb. I suppose being able to bury the source of such a threat in some distant country would help the “threatener.”
Maybe we will have to ignore such threats. But look how terrorists have totally changed the security of travellers. Shoes off please.
“Maybe we will have to ignore such threats. But look how terrorists have totally changed the security of travellers. Shoes off please.”
Indeed, i’d think that for most people in NZ a good, stiff prison term would deter most
Big Judee been threatening people again puckers?
It is her destiny
https://pixels.com/featured/a-hero-will-rise-lesley-dehaan.html
The Nurses Organisation have accepted the latest pay and conditions offer, with the majority voting yes in the latest ballot.
Good on the negotiating team, they’ve been put under real pressure by some of their members, but appear to have done a sterling job delivering both pay and staffing improvements.
+100
Union!
There’s power in a UNION! Billy Bragg
They union officials had little choice.
The government have made it very clear that they were not prepared to budge.
While strikes at the point of private production and profit are generally very effective at squeezing more out of an employer,
Strikes at the point of consumption and cost are very hard to win. Instead of stopping the flow of profits, they stop the flow of expense.
I am informed of this by the massive nurses strike in Zimbabwe, where the government took the opportunity to sack all the nurses gaining a massive cost cut for the government.
At one time Zimbabwe had one of the best public health systems in Africa.
And the government was very keen to have an excuse to cut government expenditure on public health provision even more.
New Zealand is not Zimbabwe, but you get the point.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zimbabwe-healthcare-strike/zimbabwe-fires-16000-striking-nurses-for-politically-motivated-move-idUSKBN1HP2OR
The only way out of this quandary would be for the nurses to get support from the workers at the point of profit taking.
If the nurses had voted to strike, the union leaders (if they wanted to get a win for their members) would have had little choice but to call for support strikes from the profit taking part of the economy.
Maybe next time.
A good old General strike. Be careful what you wish for because if you think the environment for Trade Union’s are tough now wait until that ever happens to see how hostile the reaction of members of the public will be.
NOT
The Planet Is Dangerously Close to the Tipping Point for a ‘Hothouse Earth’
Yasemin Saplakoglu – Live Science, August 6, 2018
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…
If I go to hell at least I’ll burn well…
Domino-effect of climate events could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state
Johnathan Watts – The Guardian, August 6, 2018
The window to act is closing.
Now after Southern a few threatening, wannabe censors have stopped Brash from talking at Massey
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/08/don-brash-uninvited-from-massey-university-speaking-event.html
From the link:
Oh dear Mr Seymour you are in a real muddle aren’t you. It is the two Canadians, Southern and Molyneaux who are the provocateurs with their American -style, anti intellectual, violent intolerance and you support them.
No wonder Massey University had to cancel the meeting no doubt for the safety of everyone including Don Brash himself. The invitation was extended two months ago young man. Next time think a little before you and Dr Don Brash (who should know better) jump on the bandwagon of the enablers of violence and thuggery because there are always consequences!
The problem is, blind and stupid ideology gets in the way of rational thought.
I think Massey uni should have been prepared to accept that protests would happen. Brash’s event was largely a Nat Party event, and would not have been an open debate. It would have been difficult to provide an alternative viewpoint, so protests would have been inevitable.
The bigger issue was not complying with the Uni’s commitment to te Tiriti – with no alternative views, i could see how that might have been considered a problem.
“The university said Dr Brash had been invited by the students in his capacity as a former National Party leader to discuss the party as part of a series of talks involving current leader Simon Bridges and an MP considered a potential future leader, Chris Bishop.”
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363534/don-brash-s-talk-to-massey-students-canned
So the students association couldn’t invite him to speak on their own premises?
Die, FB.
Facebook Inc. FB 4.45% wants your financial data.
The social-media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking-account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services to users.
Facebook increasingly wants to be a platform where people buy and sell goods and services, besides connecting with friends. The company over the past year asked JPMorgan Chase JPM 0.03% & Co., Wells Fargo WFC 0.10% & Co., Citigroup Inc. C 0.01% and U.S. Bancorp USB 0.04% to discuss potential offerings it could host for bank customers on Facebook Messenger, said people familiar with the matter.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049?mod=e2tw
NO. NO NO NO
This has been happening for some time now. The trade section on facebook is killing trademe.
The right is extremely touchy about the subject of National’s dead duck “leader” and the poisonous woman working assiduously at replacing him.
This writer, i.e. moi, has just been pink carded over at Kiwi Blog. The crime: reminding everyone just how dire the National Party is…
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/08/general_debate_7_august_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2275095
lmao, not sure what a ‘pink card’ is, but it makes your comment stand out like dogs balls 🙂 PS love your work over there.
old Simon not doing great but Nats are far less reliant on bridges as leader than labour and coalition are on Arden, she chucks it in for what ever reason it’s over rover Let alone as people begin to tire of her vacuous feel good nothings and working groups, let’s have a discussion….Likewise replacing Simon probably only upside for National so stop encouraging it morrisy
Aha. So Morrissey carries a pink card. Is he a real Commie now?
Striking city shots and Russian-Indian Dance and song flash mob.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAn2EWgrfLk
We need to dump the “Fast Follower” Doctrine of John Key.
More than ever New Zealand needs to lead.
‘Many parts of Earth could become uninhabitable’: Study’s grim warning
Blake Foden – Canberra Times, August 7, 2018
No time for half measures
The government needs to put an immediate moratorium on all new oil exploration right now.
Hey, where Southern and Molyneux shut down at the last minute by NZ’s national security? Thats the way it’s looking to me.
Noting, they could actually have helped us socialists develop dialog on positive alternatives to neo-liberalism. Nation states of socialism, being the logical replacement. The connection between Nation States of Socialism and National Socialism may still need some working through.
I was reading up on the Israeli Free Mason website… didn’t know that Hitler’s book also black listed the Free Masons. It’s only the Joos ya hear about in media these days. The lose of some 200,000 Masons is also significant. But I’m assuming Hitler didn’t mention the banking influence of the Jesuits, cheeky choir boy. That’s the art of quality propaganda. It’s not so much about lying, it’s more about excluding the inconvenient truths.
Good Morning The Am Show There are a lot of people in the same error as gone brash
that will have smoke coming out there———– because We are winding back all there inhumane discriminatory policy’s .
Last year jerry came out with the line I cant spell who was he copying trying to raise his profile into the prime minister’s office .A lot of people are not happy about the way don.s m8 have been running Aotearoa for the wealthy any other issues were swept under the carpet we no they are cheats .
As Eco Maori travels around Aotearoa I see most people smiling looking tidy they are happy ka pai kia kaha this is how people should be in a country with all the treasurer of natural resources the most for non carbon based economy’s on Papatuanuku . The Capitalist like gone want’s to keep all the gains for him and his m8 greed Eco says who cares about the side effects of there greed ie tangata dieing in the streets high suicide rate’s 5 x that of Brittan school health and housing all in a mess thanks gone.
Loyd boris jonson is a puppet of the capitalist they don’t like humane policy’s force on them from the European Union they want to set Britain up for the bankers and wealthy at the expense of the poor common person bankers don’t like being put in there place and told what to do .They think they can turn Britain into Hong Kong the bank of Europe .The captilast are greedy fools.
Your guest yesterday was talking like he wanted to get rid of the Pharmac model he was attaching it we mite need to fine tune it a bit I argree that some more cancer Drugs should funded I could see your guest want’s to scrap Pharmac .
Eco Maori will defend any policy’s that I see that are good for all tangata and attack any policys or views that I see as putting the wealthy before the poor common Kiwi’s
Equality . Ka kite ano
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The threat to Democracy is wealthy people using lobbyist to minuplate policy’s and get them into Law that take away from the many poor and give to the wealthy.
Policys that does not think about the future we leave the Mokopunas and the future of Papatuanuku and all her create’s they lie about Human caused global warming because of there love of power control and mone .
The treat to Democracy is the capitalist using computa data and videos on the net to win elections feeding people with lies that’s cheating in Eco Maori’s book .
Ka kite ano .P.S I can see the capitalist money flowing into your pocket’s
Here we go trump is going to slap China with more trade tariffs he is going around Papatuanuku lying to everyone that America is getting ripped off in trade with most other nations YEA RIGHT what he forgets about is we have a computa a common sense
and Intelligence to see that all he is worried about is his voter’s polling’s and his hip pocket .
Most of the Papatuanuku is forced into using the Green back to trade in exports and imports so when we trade in US currency we have to pay a % to use this currency.
And I will bet trump has got the printing press running over time printing cash this action devalues the US mone that other country’s /people hold so its a double win for America Papatuanuku trade is about 17 trillon so American banks get a % of this mone just for running there computers thats a fact who is ripping whom trump the internet is the Equalizer . If a country trys to trade with its OWN currency they will make a excuse to fight terrorist invade that country and change the leaders we have seen this with our own eyes trump why is no media talking about Global Warming is it because you are playing with democry and have a silent ban so the world media cannot use the words Human Caused Global Warming . There is only one country that’s has there tentacles that can reach into every country and do this and trump has no morels so he will do what ever it takes to win thats what bullies do link below Ka kite ano.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/106093721/new-us-slap-against-china-tighter-curbs-on-tech-investment
The Europeen Union has made the correct call to just carry on trading with other nations Ka pai link below. Ka kite ano
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/eu-foreign-policy-chief-calls-on-firms-to-defy-trump-over-iran trump ana to kai
Good evening Newshub that new catapult bungy jump looks really intense in Queens town that will give all the thrill seeker a good Adrenalin rush ka pai .
The Gray Mouth Bar is really scarey I have been over it in bad weather that’s a thrilling ride there even when the skipper’s had 20 years experience.
There you go boris the capitalist using the race card to bolster his voter rateing fool
My cousin shot most of the cats back home and the rats stoats possums you should see all the bird life they are thriving I like my cats I put a bell on mine he passed 3 years ago he was 7 years old big fluffy and black theirs the od pest left but not many.
Eco has been a Elon Mus fan for years good one the oil barons will be pulling out what hair they have left I have seen the smear campaign they have been running against Elon and his company’s .
Kith urban looks like he’s got a ta moko if it is Ka pai .
Ka kite ano P.S I have 3 boards going at the same time ana to kai
The Crowd Goes Wild James and Mulls its cool that these guys like Billy and Simon retire when there are ready Its a logical move.
The Chiefs did ok this year with changes of couches and all the injuries they had .
James you could put korua design on your beard I’m not aloud a beard . That’s hilarious James calling shonky Jacinda Ka pai E hoa I got a sore face now Ka kite ano
Who is this “Chiefs” group that you talk about? Are they an Anarcho-syndicalist group with an ironic name? Did they get their injuries fighting the Fascists?