Like fracking, drilling down for human resources gets more sophisticated.
Worried about unwittingly employing unionists?
Don’t trust leftists?
Hate gays?
Then digital strategists Contagion might be the recruitment agency for you.
Applying for a job, the recruiters at an employment agency may ask job seekers to “friend them” on facebook so that they can get a complete profile.
Tom Bates, the social influence director for digital strategists Contagion, said employers would look at a prospective employee’s social media presence to validate what the candidate was saying about their online profile.
Contagion Strategies, (such a meaningful name)
“When I am recruiting . . . I look first and foremost on LinkedIn. I look at the experience people have, their connections, because it gives a really open, transparent, easy way to source relevant people.
“I also look at all their other social media identities to get more of a sense of who they are, outside of the one-hour interview I may have with them. I look at their Facebook and Twitter and potentially Instagram and beyond to make sure there is a good cultural fit.”
“Culture”. Hmmm, another word imbued with meaning.
“Applying for a job, the recruiters at an employment agency may ask job seekers to “friend them” on facebook so that they can get a complete profile.”
I’d say whilst I’m happy to be judged by Facebook friends by a middle management type, I’d rather leave a fresh stool sample on the middle of your desk so you could get a proper, in depth look at my character.
Unfortunately, they’re making it their business. The world is turning into a very sick and controlled place.
I have the freedom to write what I think, because I’ll never have to apply for another job. If I did, I’d have to accept that such freedom may come at a cost. I like to think that I wouldn’t change.
thanks to “social media footprint” sniffing, I burned the online profiles of mine for a while, yet, i feel a road-trip a-comin on. Yeeha
“I am a shotgun rider on
For The Standard pinto line
The desert is my brother
My skin is crackd and dry
I was ridin’ on a folk coach
And everything was fine
Til’ we took a shorter route to save some time
The bankers only fired once
They shot us in the chest
They may have wounded us but
They’ll never get the best
Of better men…
We’ll ride again.
And we’re gonna ride, we’re gonna ride
Ride like the one-eyed Jack of diamonds
With the devil close behind
We’re gonna ride.
(I’m gonna find me a reckless woman
Razor-blades and dice in her eyes
Just a touch of sadness in her fingers
Thunder and lightnin’ in her thighs).
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when i reach the other side
I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or it may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I’ll be back again, and again, and again, and again…”
and Thats’ Country folks!
(still Georgia, paraphrased of course).
Patrick Strange (Transpower) clarifies on The Nation that transmission lines are essentially ready to carry electricity efficiently from Manapouri to the North Island.
Why has it taken this long for the media to get this info to us.
As recently as last Tuesday Matthew Hooten (Nine to Noon, Tuesday 2nd April) stated that we would lose 100% of Manapouri’s power in the transmission to the North Island.
There is something really hopeless about our mainstream media…all they had to do was ask Patrick Strange but preferred to take the lazy approach and guess.
Yes CW, I have responded to a comment by Matthew Hooten on that Post. The laziness of our media is beyond belief. So not only biased towards the Right but also lazy. The sad thing is that we dont know what is fact and what is fiction…Susan Wood states that China has a 100 new Aluminium Smelters…fact or fiction, we wouldnt know?
yes, I thought S.Wood was indeed deteriorated, thankfully we had Helen to ponder on before shifting the focus to another community of faith. sigh. man, that David Shearer sure is a hard man to be fond of.
ahhh. Figures. some of your writing is amazing (if not restrained) when you emerge from your den; i must get a computer attached to the cyborg cycle to keep in touch; gets a little lonely between worlds at times. Thank God for the internet (the rider reluctantly concedes). I also enjoyed Barry Lyndon (seen so many films, just watched Incendies; recommended).
Scottish heritage… so restraint is not something I can really manage naturally. I’m probably back in my den for a while – commitments and all that… Cheers.
Lovely column from Trotter. Imagine if there was a leader on either the Left or Right that was prepared to bring together a national development conference as both National and Labour did in t he early 1960s. To presume simply that there was a thing called the nation, that was developing, and that we were all in it. That would be leadership worth aspiring to have. It’s not a fascist impulse, just a way of unifying and organising us.
Further evidence that RNZ has become the govt’s soapbox, allowing hooten to do his shouty rant routines and push his backers lines is one reason i dont listen anymore.
Morning report is toothless and mora may as well be barbie it’s so vacuous, I find checkpoint the only section with any bite.
That supports LPrent’s argument last week that the electricity should be redistributed and the whole-of-New Zealand power price should be lowered. Certainly separates “how to support Southland” and “what to do with the potential electricity” more cleanly.
Yeah, it is all in the shuffling of supply and demand. The balance of power consumption where power gets produced compared to where gets consumed merely moves a few hundred kilometers further north on average. We lose a bit more in transmission on average, but have more power available to do what needs to be done more cheaply than would otherwise be possible.
I’m always surprised when I read people talking as if the power from a dam in the lower SI is carried all the way to Auckland. It isn’t as if the packets of power are dumped into the grid witha label attached and moved discretely in the grid as a block. Railways and trucks do that. Electricity does not.
The claim that there would be a huge glut of electricity just doesn’t stack up. Key
spent too long overseas and does not understand that Manapouri is at the other
end of the country from the demand junkie Auckland. Any new consumer of electricity
would have to be near the source of the supply, otherwise the cost of supplying the N.I
would force line prices up (due to the losses on the line).
Its pretty simple, growing the NZ economy requires taking advantage of cheap energy sources and that means passing on cheap prices to entrepreneurs and homes, so they can shift their
expenditure to more productive activities.
We don’t need to grow the economy, and to do so at this point in history is folly of the worst kind. We need to conserve energy and resources for the hard times ahead (PO, CC, GFC etc)
I agree the term is loaded. But we need to lower the center of gravity of the economy away from the heights of high finance and markets. This means that the roots, the people, in the economy need more wiggle room, lower energy prices would make it easier for them to use what savings they have or get to conserve more energy and resources. The old adage nothing ventured nothing gained, all new activity has a cost to it, money, energy. The GFC essentially is a market signal that what we are doing now is out of balance with real needs because essentially very people globally – the richest – have been handed the ability to change the world economy (and have no incentive to as its to their loss if they do).
What Key represents, proposes, wants, is not growth, he wants more waste, more imbalance, more veneer of control, of power.
No, I didn’t. I thought it was about 50%. Mike Williams said it was less than that. We settled on “substantial amount”. I would be interested in learning more about why Transpower now says it is zero. Sounds unlikely to me.
Translation: whoops, I got caught making shit up again… let’s see what Google can do for me…
Doesn’t justify your claim Hoots. Just another one of your lies then, and maybe Strange’s too. Word of advice: when you’re paid to lie, do it well to give your clients their money’s worth, otherwise they might not come back.
Oh, we’ll just see Hoots show what a money-grubbing coward he is… again. And Williams again will be sucking his dick, so he’ll be happy.
It’s amazing that “Labour” want to appease this arsewipe instead of actually representing the people they were founded to represent.
[lprent: you’re starting to walk over the edge between pointed abuse and pointless abuse. Read the policy. I can’t see anything in this comment explaining why the vitriol is required apart from a statement that is as meaningless as saying “of course everyone loves the queen” ]
You expect Hooton to actually justify something he says with real evidence? Never mistake his “reasonable” tone with actually being reasonable. The cockroach is going to scuttle under the fridge again when the light is turned on.
Thin end of the wedge Geoff, he’s been at this for years and the impacts of his tactics can’t be hidden easily anymore.
Plenty of pressure going on by Tony boy and his henchmen to spin harder…beware the quiet low key ones, Ryall, Findlayson, Joyce who appears to have slunk away again with Novopay still a shambles.
ahh the right wingers usually such a dreary lot – this rant from Marie Krarup, a right wing Danish politician who just recently visited here. is so over the top it is funny, I put in one paragraph for ease and enjoyment of reading
” …dubbing the powhiri an “uncivilised” ritual, and marae a “grotesque” mark of multicultural worship.” “When we came to a naval base, we were not received with a handshake or salute by uniformed men as usual,” she wrote. “No, we were welcomed with a Maori dance ritual, with a half-naked man in grass skirt, shouting and screaming in Maori.” and she said the man performed “strange rituals and poked his tongue out.”She said she felt like an “idiot” when giving a hongi, When it was time to sing, Krarup said the waiata sounded like a Danish children’s song about a happy ladybird. She said it was accompanied by a “kindergarten-teacher-guitar-accompaniment”.The marae, or “Maori temple”, was a form of cultural self-destruction, according to Krarup.”It was decorated with God-figures with angry faces and large erect penises,” she said.”It’s a mystery to me how the poor naval officers could endure both the ceremony and the surroundings.”
Because our own right wingers don’t have an idea to share between them – they source everything from overseas. You can see this in the way they salivate about gun control and the right to bear arms, not even stopping to think that it’s neither an issue nor relevant here. They also suffer from such an inferiority complex that they need to be patted on the head regularly by the likes of Krarup and Monckton.
Mrs Krarup is lucky that she’s not another Danish person receiving a fatwah – because NZs are too civilised to react to cultural slights like that.
She’s had a great overseas experience though, observed everything with eyes wide open, like carvings with erect penises, amongst other new sights. That’s what going abroad is about isn’t it – to broaden the mind – though in some people it’s just the behind that feels the expansion.
Irritating Cliché Watch
No. 1: “OPPORTUNITY” Insight, Radio New Zealand National, Sunday 7 April 2013
Presented by Chris Bramwell
Two and a half generations ago, speechwriter Arthur Schlesinger placed the following glib little homily into a speech he had prepared for John F. Kennedy: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
Like so much else uttered by the Great Philanderer, this neat and trite little lesson was repeated and amplified for generations, and became a cliché taken up by school principals, business gurus, politicians and sports commentators—-rugby commentators especially. (I’ll write more on this last category in future.) If you hear someone using the word “opportunity” today—and you almost certainly will—he or she will almost certainly not be a critical or reflective or well read person, therefore he/she will be unaware of the provenance of the word, as well as being unaware of how utterly annoying it is.
The indiscriminate use of the word has been bothering me for many years now; I think the time has come to start a campaign to get rid of this cliché from public discourse.
Here’s a quick sample from this morning’s Insight programme, about New Zealand’s trading opportunities—sorry—in Latin America. By the way, note how the repeated use of the “opportunity” meme goes hand in hand with the repetition of official lies….
JOHN KEY: Y’ow, Latin America is a place full of opportunities for New Zea’and. Y’ow…”
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: Well, let me clarify that not all countries are characterised as stable. I’m talking about the democratic ones. There are two blocs in Latin America. The stable ones have got on top of inflation. There is massive opportunity there….”
This “two blocs” idea was also used by Nevil Breivik Gibson, when he appeared on “The Panel” last month. O’Meagher did not explain, but by “stable and democratic”, he means countries like Colombia, which are notorious for their human rights violations, and are in fact ruthlessly undemocratic. In other words, Professor O’Meagher was repeating official black propaganda.
CHRIS BRAMWELL: Colombia has emerged from years of civil war, and is starting to open its doors to the world. President Santos says he’d like a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: When I heard Colombia wanted a free trade agreement I just wanted to air-fist it. Hey there are many opportunities for New Zealand!”
NATHAN GUY: “There are many opportunities for New Zealand.”
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: People feel safe, …political security…
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: Under the military regime, Chile became open in their economy as we did. Pure. Completely different to across the Andes in Argentina, where they are just suspicious of free trade.
GLEN TYRELL: We just saw a great opportunity and the people we work with saw an opportunity…
NATHAN GUY: Opportunities to HELP these farmers with our Kiwi know-how and Kiwi knowledge is huge.
….ad nauseam, ad absurdum….
Insight, Radio New Zealand National, presented by Chris Bramwell.
The programme will be repeated night at 7:30 P.M.
Almost every person who appeared on this programme used the word “opportunity” continually and promiscuously.
It’s also ubiquitous in rugby commentaries. I will write more on that in future….
Thanx! – I’ve been looking for an explanation for John Key, Paula Bennett, Hekia Parata and quite a few others that have concocted a gathering of minds and called it the National Party.
I follow JMG and not just because he writes so well – his insights are really interesting. This one from the other day has been making me think a lot.
…the opening up of a chasm between those who are willing to face the reality of our situation and those who flee from that reality into fantasy and self-deception.
That chasm runs straight through the middle of the contemporary environmental movement, very much including the subset of that movement that concerns itself with climate change. It doesn’t run in the obvious place—say, between the techno-environmentalists who insist that everyone on the planet can have a lavish American middle class lifestyle powered by renewable energy, and the deep ecologists who see humanity as a gang of ecocidal apes yelling in triumph as they rush toward planetary dieoff. Both these extremes, and the entire spectrum of opinions between them, embrace the core presupposition that undergirds the conventional wisdom of our age.
What is that presupposition? Total faith in the invincibility of technological progress.
JMG really hones in on that and lays it all out expertly. The quote above is part of his argument which really has to be read in full so check it out, well worth it.
In terms of his point about “Total faith in the invincibility of technological progress.” I agree and maybe that is why many continue to ignore the facts staring us in the face. It seems to be part of our western hubris and it’s not working very well.
Yep. Unshakeable belief in ongoing “growth” is just one aspect of this.
In fact, I think a point was recently made (either by JMG or by a commentator) that modern civilisation has created it’s own pervasive Church that most people inadvertently worship at – with Progress as the Father (omnipotent and all present), Growth as the Son (and saviour), and Science/Technology as the Holy Spirit (bringing benefits to all that it touches).
And the harder you question any one of these, the more likely you are to be singled out as a heretic or as ‘fringe’.
I think he’s wrong as far as technology goes. We may not be able to maintain the extravagant lifestyle we have now but we won’t be dropping back to grubbing in the dirt as he seems to think. Hell, it was the invention of farming that allowed us to start having surplus labour. Ok, so it also allowed the development of capitalism but that’s an unintended consequence that we can get rid of.
Places like NZ will be able to maintain a technological and machine based manufactory. That’s going to mean computers, trains, tractors and schools. As I’ve said time and time again – we have the resources to do all this and we can do it all without oil. We just won’t be able to do as much as today as we won’t have the same amount of energy available but that’s a far cry from not being able to do it at all.
“Hell, it was the invention of farming that allowed us to start having surplus labour. Ok, so it also allowed the development of capitalism but that’s an unintended consequence that we can get rid of.”
It also allowed us to start having mass warfare – if you aren’t settled you don’t have to defend resources in the same way, and the patriarchy.
I’m not sure about the surplus labour bit. If you mean societal constructs that enabled humans to have to work much harder, then I guess that is true. But the evidence suggests that in general hunter gatherer peoples had/have a surplus of time, allowing for the development of culture. Why we would want to trade that for a capacity to work harder I am not sure. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Modern tech vs grubbing in the dirt is a false dichotomy. Without oil etc we still have our human knowledge and many technologies even where wind farms and electric trains are not possible. It’s also not true that people cannot live well without those things. Even with a full collapse, it would be several generations before we had no metal and plastics for instance, which is time to adapt. The big problem here is the human mind, and its inability to respond to the sheer scale of the problem we are facing.
If you mean societal constructs that enabled humans to have to work much harder, then I guess that is true.
It was capitalism that caused that. A few people started to take the wealth of the community as theirs and then to demand even more which meant more that everyone else had to work harder.
But the evidence suggests that in general hunter gatherer peoples had/have a surplus of time, allowing for the development of culture.
True but it doesn’t allow for the development of stable locations that can be used for serious research.
Why we would want to trade that for a capacity to work harder I am not sure.
Who said we traded it away? I’m sure it was more through dictatorship, violence and oppression.
Modern tech vs grubbing in the dirt is a false dichotomy.
True but I’ve been reading Greer for awhile and he really does believe that we’re all going to be busy grubbing down on the farm after the collapse. I think we can all work a hell of a lot less while maintaining a similar living standard and that the only reason why we have to work so hard is to keep the rich rich. As I’ve said before, the one thing that no society can afford is the rich.
It’s also not true that people cannot live well without those things. Even with a full collapse, it would be several generations before we had no metal and plastics for instance, which is time to adapt.
There won’t be a full collapse. That’s what I’m getting at. Especially in places like NZ where the infrastructure exists to maintain itself.
The big problem here is the human mind, and its inability to respond to the sheer scale of the problem we are facing.
That only applies if we keep working as individuals but if we work as a community then we can see the big picture.
True but I’ve been reading Greer for awhile and he really does believe that we’re all going to be busy grubbing down on the farm after the collapse.
That says more about your own interpretation than what Greer has actually been saying. Nevertheless, once you take the fossil fuel energy inputs away from modern farming, a whole lot more human (and animal) labour will be required. That’s just the way it is.
Further you have to remember that Greer is speaking from a largely US-centric perspective (and admits that). Yes you are correct in that NZ is better placed than most other countries to face the next 100 years. But Greer is not writing specifically for the NZ situation.
That says more about your own interpretation than what Greer has actually been saying.
No, it shows that Greer has a blanket generalisation about where civilisation is going and it’s all about industrialisation disappearing from the world. This is not going to happen.
Nevertheless, once you take the fossil fuel energy inputs away from modern farming, a whole lot more human (and animal) labour will be required.
Not necessarily. Sure, we can’t make electric cars with the same performance as today’s fuel powered ones but we could make electric tractors that will work just fine. Tractors, like trains, use the same routes all the time. Or we could make the farms (well, the ones that grow vegetables anyway) as fully automated buildings – no need for tractors then. Animal farms will probably still use a lot of muscle power – just as they do today.
Further you have to remember that Greer is speaking from a largely US-centric perspective (and admits that).
And as I’ve pointed out to him there’s a lot of renewable generation in the US as well and those locations will become centres of industrialisation. NZ is just be one place where industrialisation will continue.
No, it shows that Greer has a blanket generalisation about where civilisation is going and it’s all about industrialisation disappearing from the world. This is not going to happen.
Nah you’re wrong, and getting more wrong the deeper you dig.
Didn’t you read the posts on NZ’s losses in manufacturing jobs year on year? If that’s not de-industrialisation, what is it?
Have you seen the sites of old abandoned shipyards in the UK, the old abandoned car factories in Michigan?
De-industrialisation is not a process which starts in the future mate.
de-industrialisation is the removal of all industry. This is not going to happen. And from whatever base we end up with we’ll build up again. It’ll just build up to be more diverse than what we’ve ever had before but only making for what we use rather than the delusional export market.
If we had a government that actually was there for the people of this country and not just for the rich they’d be building that diversity now.
Actually, he has, his Eco-Technic future happens after de-industrialisation. As I’ve said, I’ve been reading his words for a long time.
De-industrialisation of the western world has been happening for decades. Haven’t you noticed?
Of course I have. You may have noticed that I’ve proposed building our manufacturing capability back up?
The point that you don’t seem to grok is that we won’t lose the knowledge – it’s written down and we have the education systems to rebuild it – and even with the closing of factories our industrial base still far exceeds what was available in the 19th century. On top of that we’re not reliant upon hydrocarbons to power said manufacturing.
We just won’t be able to do as much as today as we won’t have the same amount of energy available but that’s a far cry from not being able to do it at all.
Uh, you should read the Ecotechnic Future before you start making massively wrong assumptions as to what Greer reckons will be possible or not in the next couple of hundred years.
Hell, it was the invention of farming that allowed us to start having surplus labour.
Jeremy Paxman: “Kim Jong-un, a man with a more than passing resemblance to a haggis, after all”.
Imagine such personalised comments about Cameron, Blair, Obama, Netanyahu or any other Western leader. From “spiritual heir to Stalin” to “crackpot regime”, this is what passes for balanced presentation and incisive journalism from the BBC’s flagship Newsnight.
A skewed report from Robin Denselow, shaking the locked gates of the North Korean embassy, also has ex-US ambassador Nicholas Burns and the usual array of Western policy analysts warn of Pyongyang’s ‘imminent nuclear threat’, number its ‘international violations’ and probe the ‘problem of China’ in failing to bring this “unpredictable” regime to heel.
Paxman’s package also has a placatory interview with a North Korean defector, a non-contested message from David Cameron, a Tory MP using the North Korean ‘threat’ to defend Trident and a token, moderate counterview from a Lib Dem MP.
It’s not just the brazen bias, the unapologetic absence of balance, it’s the sheer embarrassment of ‘journalism’ from BBC icons like Paxman and Simpson.
And how does one report in a balanced way about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is North Korea? That’s like climate change denialists demanding balanced reportage on global warming – ie, you are a tinfoil hat wearing nutter who needs their meds checked. The BBC doesn’t have to make things up, NK’s own propoganda is readily available and would make me laugh hysterically if it wasn’t so frightening.
And how does one report in a balanced way about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is North Korea?
The same way that one reports about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is Israel; sympathetically and dishonestly. I detest North Korea, but unlike you, I don’t feel compelled to demonstrate that by declaring my support for worse, more violent regimes.
….you are a tinfoil hat wearing nutter who needs their [sic] meds checked.
There’s an intelligent and cutting insult. I am really, really wounded. Oh yes.
The BBC doesn’t have to make things up…
But it shamelessly recycles official lies, as we saw with its campaign against the Venezuelan “dictator” Hugo Chavez recently. After you review some of that coverage, have a look at some of the disgraceful stuff John Simpson has written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Then come on here and say, with a straight face, that the BBC “doesn’t have to make things up.”
NK’s own propoganda is readily available and would make me laugh hysterically if it wasn’t so frightening.
As a dedicated recycler of state black propaganda yourself, you should cut the North Koreans a break, surely.
As far as I know, Israel hasn’t threatened a nuclear superpower, starved it’s citizens for enough generations that they are approximately 2cm shorter than their southern counterparts, or in some areas resorting to cannibalism. It’s so bad China apparently has contingency plans to invade in an effort to prevent a refugee crisis should the regime collapse. You are basically asking for the equivalent of Holocaust denial… Oh wait, I forgot antisemitic propoganda was one of your favorite hobbies…
It is a point of significant difference. It is more possible to leave, and get information out of Gaza than NK. They are not comparable, though I am not condoning Israel.
My point is that if you really wanted to highlight significant differences between Israel and NK – and of course there are differences you sanctimonious patronising twat – the very last thing you would look to would be human rights abuses.
As has been obvious every time you presume to comment, that’s not very far.
Israel hasn’t threatened a nuclear superpower, starved it’s citizens for enough generations that they are approximately 2cm shorter than their southern counterparts, or in some areas resorting to cannibalism.
Israel has systematically starved the imprisoned citizens of Gaza, and routinely cut off their water, for generations. The same criminal treatment is meted out in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank. Israeli officials recently laughed that they were “putting the Palestinians on a diet.” Not that you’d care about those facts, of course, even if you were not ignorant.
You are basically asking for the equivalent of Holocaust denial…
You know, if it hadn’t already been firmly established that you were a witless and desperate fellow, I might be offended by such nutty logorrhea.
Oh wait, I forgot antisemitic propoganda was one of your favorite hobbies…
Oh this is pr-r-r-r-r-riceless! In spite of everything, my sad friend, we have to hand it to you: there aren’t many people who, in the midst of a blitheringly incompetent, embarrassingly foolish attempt to swim out of their depth, actually come up with an entirely new rhetorical combat tool—the falsum ad self-discreditum. On behalf of every other Standardista, I congratulate you.
Oh you silly little man – I’ve never tried to implicate award winning comedians in a Zionist conspiracy. You are quite mad, such fun.
Gaza, while horribly brutalised by the Likudniks, is not actually part of Israel. Are you geographically challenged? No, just a fucking nut job.
“All I can tell you is the IMF is very supportive of what is being done by the Government in that respect.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde was full of praise last night for the direction in which the New Zealand economy was headed.
After meeting Prime Minister John Key on the fringes of the Bo’ao Forum for Asia, in China, she talked to New Zealand reporters about the general health of the economy in light of a recent assessment of fiscal and monetary policy
Of course the IMF would be supportive, they peddle corruption, theft, death, all under the guise of austerity.
Just watched the worst display of television interviewing I can remember. Susan Woods was so biased and bad mannered on Q&A this morning that I had to switch channels, it was that bad.
I thought Duncan Garner and Paul Holmes were bad but this effort took the cake.
Yep ….. why she (i.e. her – the vacuous bimbo) even managed to provide ‘evidence’ of why investigative journalism is “alive and well” (NOT). Give her some slack though Morrissey – she’s probably still grieving over the loss of NZ’s journalistic foreskin in the Hawkes Bay
Lordy! I was coming on to say just that.Caught a bit of q&a online.Is she for real?If I was Shearer I would have just got up and walked out.Question and answer it wasn’t.Sack her,she’s useless.Another harpy shrieking for key.
Who do we write to to express our concern at the clear bias exhibited in this interview? I am not Labour and I worry for the future of New Zealand democracy if the media so clearly takes sides in a debate. That was not fair or balanced, especially when you compare it with the way Rawdon Christie and others interview the PM. And for some reason he complains about the press; in case he hasn’t noticed, the vast majority of the media supports him whole-heartedly.
Does anyone know of any reasons why Susan Wood is biased? Does she do work for Sky City or any other large corporate? Does she have an agenda? Or is she a puppet who does what her masters tell her to say?
To be fair I just watched the following segment and she was just as bad interrupting Nikki Kaye about the food labelling legislation. Wood interviews like someone on amphetamines.
I think Susan Wood just has a preference for authoritarian bullies. She married a guy who’d been a prefect when I was at boarding school and he was an absolute shocker. He challenged a friend of mine (half his size) to a fight. When the guy refused, he was expelled for not obeying a prefect’s orders. I can easily see how she’d feel a deep and unrequited love for Key.
As far as I can remember, she married him sometime around 1990. (Google suggests 1989) I have no idea when the Flatley thing was, because I’ve spent a fair bit of time overseas.
Someone asked why Susan Wood would be so biased. I gave an opinion, based on some facts.
I always find it funny how it’s perfectly OK to say that right wingers in general are nasty, dumb, and lacking in empathy, with studies which supposedly show this, but not acceptable to say anything about any of them individually.
How about you come up with a picture with some geographic underlay, e.g can see the airport location, and be able to identify a directional header, thus being able to make some sense of the multitude of angles those trails are on…
Put it this way Joe, SFO is on the coast, which means the flight traffic and flight paths are not as prolific, as those trails appear to be!
You posted the link, was it purely for show, or was your intent something else?
Have a read of this nonsense explanation seeking to justify the awful state of the skies we see nowadays, as *exapanded contrail vapour*, widening/forming into clouds..
Interesting that contrails did not use to do anything such thing, now all of a sudden, they do, and there is a laughable attempt to explain this *new phenomenon*
Fascinating how contrails, have become necessary to explain away, with details of the *new behavior* – No one gave a thought to them previously (other than plane spotters etc), now they’re making cloud formations, and lingering in the sky, while simultaneously warming the air below them, and reflecting the sun above, thats incredible, just how do those ice crystals survive for extended periods of time while being wedged between warmer air temps, and the sun!
Amazing how a real contrail, (yes they still exist) does no such thing as described in the article, nor form into any such entity which resembles the picture associated with the article.
What “new behaviour”, you muppet?
Oh, and take a look at the temp display (or harass the aircrew for information again) for the outside air temp the next time you are in a jet. That might explain your question about the ice crystals.
And are you arguing that your hypothesised chemtrails are increasing climate change? A literally global conspiracy to increase sea levels and desrtification? Cui Bono?
Don’t know much about contrails do you, as if you did you would know what, *new behavior * referred to!
The hypothesizing was over long ago McFlock, by people much higher up the org chart than myself,. and I wish as much as you deny, that this was not happening, it is, and its got nowhere to go but come out, it already has, deep down you know it!
Its why there are so many documentaries, articles etc in the MSM (inc the BS I linked to above) talking about geo-engineering, global dimming and so on, and its ramped up in conjunction with global awareness of the programme to dump chemical substances and all manor of other crap, with who knows what consequences, into the planets life support system.
Perhaps the damage done to our atmospheric layers, stratosphere, ionosphere (mostly in the name of science), by nuclear detonations, into/through those layers, on the ground, nuclear reactor meltdowns, space programmes, ge-engineering programmes, and god knows what else, has caused so much damage, the only available option being considered, is to spray even more shit up there, and do it faster, and more frequently.
Again today from my building, high up in central AKL – heading south to north, over west akl, a nice long trail was laid, about 945. This dump was followed by another plane, flying the same heading, (non commercial flight path) only slighly higher, without leaving a trail. Neither plane was at an altitude which would have cool enough air temp to leave a vapour trail, so perhaps you can tell me what it created it at the lower altitude!
I know you want to be able to blow it off, along with those such as myself who understand these things are going on, and accept it (because WTF can we currently do anyway), it makes you hope you’re not going to proven wrong by people you would expect to be, *below you*, but that’s something you need to get over son, because its happening, that flight has departed, and its hosing down all over you, denial or not!
So YES, it could very well be a major contributer to CC, thats what geo-engineering is all about, weather modification/altering, or changing the climate!
Project Onan has an organsational hierarchy? And you’re not at the top of it ?
WHO DO YOU TAKE YOUR ORDERS FROM???
It’s the tibetans at the centre of the earth, isn’t it???
You managed to pick out the *org chart* reference, which was a tongue in cheek comment, well done.
Other than that you’re struggling McFlock, and I guess J90 has lost himself somewhere on the internet looking to make those trails in the link he posted make some sense.
SFO is located on the coast, so thats not going to be particularly easy for him, and I suspect thats also why he has not explained his intent behind the posting the photo.
Meantime, have a read of this….. Nuclear industry American style!
lol – the economic viability of fission stations is relevant to contrails how?
You’re a joke.
I figured maybe you’d think that vapour trails were a function of pressure, temperature and humidity, but you obviously think a column of air is identical all the way up. I guess in akl you don’t see many inversion layers.
“Project Onan has an organsational hierarchy? And you’re not at the top of it ?”
muzza’s role is primarily a research one.
btw, I saw some amazing chem/con trails over Taranaki on the weekend. What’s the most popular theory about the reason for spraying chemtrails over sparsely populated provincial areas?
Kenny is correct. Her aim was to rattle and disrupt Mr Shearer; so of course she could then complain he failed to clarify his aims. A touch difficult when you are continually interrupted I would have thought. To his credit Mr Shearer failed to take the bait.
Don’t be ridiculous – its standard technique to get pollies to let things slip. Cap’n Mumblefuck is quite capable of being a gibbering incompetent all on his lonesome.
You can’t let things slip when you are not allowed to speak.The last time I saw that done was on q&a by guyon espiner who did the same number on Phil Goff.I remember even Paul Holmes being stunned. wood/woods was avsolutely incoherent with rage when Shearer wouldn’t reveal his bank balance.I thought he did bruddy well not to punch her.
Jesus, she was shockingly bad. I think that is the worst, rudest and most partisan tv interview by an NZ interviewer I’ve seen. Wood should be working for Fox News. Shearer didn’t even get time to finish most sentences, and he wasn’t rambling for a change. He did surprisingly well IMO – especially never losing his cool. The two or three times he held up his hand and told her to let him answer, she did. He should be prepared to do more of that more often. In fact if he had just stopped, and said, “are you going to let me answer your questions, because if you’re not, why invite me here?”, he’d have won even more points with the viewer.
Agreed.Just watched rest.She said key “fessed up”FESSED UP! Do they read the same Boy’s Own Annuals or what.She also compounded key’s lie by saying he had checked back and “fessed up” to ringing Fletcher.She should check her facts because at last count he remembered at least three different scenario to Fletcher was shoulder tapped,all contradictory.Which one is true.It was a truly abominable,unprofessional,biased interview,if indeed it could be classed as an interview. Maybe Shearer should have asked her why she can’t keep a husband.
Just watched.
Susan Wood = psycho. She couldn’t hold back her sneering look at Helen Kelly and she was clearly relishing the bullying moments when all of them were having a go at Helen.
Wood was completely unaware of how repugnant her demeanour and behaviour were. Is that what radio live does to a person or does it just attract people like that?
Why now?
Why did Grant Robertson use the Ian Fletcher GCSB story now?
The story was being held in the armoury for use at the optimal politically effective moment.
Why now? Was it prematurely taken out of the arsenal and fired to distract attention from Shearer’s “brain fade” on the undeclared stash in the US Bank?
Shearer mentioned the signing of a ministerial certificate, I would have liked Wood to have asked Shearer if this would be one of the terms of reference were there to be an open inquiry into the GCSB.
“Its now come out that the order to “supress” the information about GCSB’s activities, signed by the acting prime minister Bill English (normally the finance minister) while Key was abroad, was the only such document in 10 years:”
It is my opinion that everything to do with Fletcher and Key and the illegal spying of Dotcom is being carefully orchestrated.
Key is the type of person who does not like open inquiries which can be confrontational especially when his integrity is being questioned. Were there to be an inquiry into Shearer not declaring his UN bank account nothing new would be learnt except for how many times the account was accessed; Shearer knew he did not declare it and rectified this and the public will either condemn him or overlook this.
Week after week the GCSB are in the news and Key is the minister in charge due to the classified issues which the GCSB operate under and this reflects on Key when it comes to the GCSB crossing the line or the minister in charge crossing the line.
Just as an aside:
“Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” is usually/often an indication of the inadequacies in available badwidth [sic] and the manipulation of it by your nearest ISP.
Solution to welfare problem found. Hyundai Country last night had a family – of 11 kids – who had never needed welfare. Albeit they are young and may not of told their parents. But even so, imagine
a family of 11 kids in S.Auckland, Bennett has nightmares about them being caught in welfare.
So it got me wondering, why not just dump large families in rural areas and let them figure it out.
Okay, the run off might actually wipe out mussel farms, but the family in the show thinks its a
worthy cause to not need welfare, so they are eager to share the load and take the burden off S.Auckland, right.
Bennett should get off her behind, on her bike, down to the sounds and start building some council estates or something, I mean look at the place, fish, hunting, growing vegies and the local WINZ is
a days travel too, no wonder nobody needs welfare (or could get it if they tried).
If only we had more families like this, who had their own business, cheap labour, and subsidies of feral fish and meat, its got to be a winner for NZ, no welfare yippy.
Maybe the rural types, living the dream, should not be so eager to bring to the attention of city dwellers how their kids haven’t needed welfare.
TVNZ should also be wary, imagine filming a women who tells their viewers, they are boring people sitting watching the show. Does she want them to be out over the Cook strait fouling the water ways, and pushing another family into welfare when their mussel farm becomes contaminated?
As mussel farms else have when developers are given a heads up.
“So it got me wondering, why not just dump large families in rural areas and let them figure it out”
Maaaaaaaaate! They’re already doing that. The indigent are being force further and further ‘out’ by agencies of Neshnool Pardy State.
So far (in the southern North Izland) PerraPerraooomoo. Woikanoi is under threat. Fear not though, there’s a National MP at the ready to enusre they don’t threaten propitty vear uuuu’s. A guy called Nathan (Nafe to his maaaates). Pure and pristine
I noted that the “return to full employment” is primarily expressed by saying that no one will be allowed on the dole for more than two years, though he did add that they would be moved into “real jobs with real training.” However, the second part did come across as an afterthought rather than an expression of resolve. But if you look at the string of comments underneath, they are no happier with their lot than we are with ours. As real economies shrink, going into politics seems to mean having a cool job rather than having a chance to change things.
Cait Reilly succeeded in challenging the programme which required her to work unpaid so a retroactive bill was passed to avoid benefit repayments and Labour whipped their MP’s into abstaining from voting.
“Minister for Murdering Disabled People ( Via HIT agency ATOS) Esther Mcvey began the assault with a vile piece of propaganda in the Daily Mail on Saturday. Mcvey claims that many people who are “officially classed ‘disabled’ are no such thing”. Her nasty diatribe comes in advance of the changes to disability benefits which will see around a fifth of disabled people lose vital support.”
” Is it any wonder we are in such a mess whilst chinless gimps like Cameron, Osborne, Clegg and Mcvey run the country like a bunch of posh teenagers who have never understood what it is to stand on your own two feet?”
“And finally Iain Duncan Smith himself appeared in The Daily Telegraph with the ludicrous claim that he could live quite easily on just £53 a week. But then that’s because he sponges off his wife’s parents – living the high life in an inherited ancestral mansion whilst tax payers fund his lavish expenses. At least Esther Mcvey scrounges off her own parent.”
“Millions stare destitution in the face this month with ruthless and reckless cuts set to throw lives into chaos. Many claimants will be left with nothing at all to buy food after paying their bedroom tax, council tax benefits, water rates and other utility bills. Homelessness is already rising and about to soar as a direct result of this Government’s policies. With unemployment also back on the rise, particularly amongst the young, parts of the country may be unrecognisible in just a few month’s time as poverty not seen in decades returns to haunt the UK.
Not content with that however, this toff Government want to add insult to injury by slandering and abusing the victims of their policies in the national press.”
how much bullshit hides in your text?
PR-Experts, politicians, ad writers or scientists need to be strong here!
BlaBlaMeter unmasks without mercy how much bullshit hides in any text.
I put in a speech by Paraata
This was the result.
Your text: 15000 characters, 2640 words
Bullshit Index :0.33
Your text shows indications of ‘bullshit’-English. It’s still ok for PR or advertising purposes, but more critical audiences may be skeptical.
This is the result from Luther King
I have a dream
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Interesting Blabla meter DV. Tried putting bits from National Party website as well as various bloggers. The worst was from Nat website but none seriously in blabla trouble.
200 partygoers creating havoc. They have enough money to get themselves high so let them pay to get themselves out of prison. Lock ’em up after turning a high pressure fire hose on them. We have bred a bolder and undisciplined group of careless sh..ts and the controls on boozing hours are too lax. A tweak to bring balance is needed.
The majority of NZ citizens predicted this scenario would develop at the time the drinking age was lowered and the rules around drinking hours were relaxed too far. The politicians (nearly all of them) know damm well they were wrong but they won’t admit it. Political considerations transcend all else.
Yes halfcrown – I have been told off for saying what I think about liquor barons.
Them and their weasly lobby group the Hospitality? whatever. Why would we think they would say anything effective to prevent binge drinking like shorter hours, and whether it would ever happen is a moot point. What we are left with is hospital. And we are a sick society with so much alcohol dependence and living for parties.
Not only that.Anyone who has to take up precious A&E time at hospitals or even further medical attention should be paid for by themselves and they should not be eligible for ACC for any injuries while under the influence of alcohol.
Beginning in 1974, Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals and Manitoba’s first elected New Democratic Party government gave money to every person and family in Dauphin who fell below the poverty line. Under the program—called “Mincome”—about 1,000 families received monthly cheques.
Unlike welfare, which only certain individuals qualified for, the guaranteed minimum income project was open to everyone. It was the first—and to this day, only—time that Canada has ever experimented with such an open-door social assistance program.
I came to this blog today for a look after being banned.
I could be a troll and wind you up, but this place is scary, there are so many here who are bitter.
It seems you are on attack all of the time – when do you have fun?
I will look again but this is not a blog that happy people like. Smile and the World ….
Have you ever considered that just maybe there are quite a lot of people with a reason not to be happy and jolly all the time?
To question the status quo does not equal being bitter.
You yourself admit to being a troll.
Enough said.
Have to agree. Not a lot of humour in a leftie. Just resentment and blame. Although a lot of folk on this blog are funny, but I don’t think it’s intentional.
Aww .. I dunno. Maybe you’re just not in tune with some of the humour. A lot things the Nats say and do make them laugh. Not a lot to laugh about for some whose jobs have disappeared and who’re worried about how to meet their commitments and needs under this government, especially with the unparalleled debt it’s got us into. Not as easy for some of these people to switch lucrative careers perhaps as it was for you. Not because they’re a bunch of lazy slackers either. Can you see things from their perspective at all, out of interest?
“Calums List | This Welfare Reform Death Toll Has To Stop”
“VERY IMPORTANT
If you are one of the people affected by the Welfare Reforms to such an extent that you are feeling suicidal, PLEASE contact one of the following:- Samaritans UK: 08457 90 90 90 NHS UK: 08454 24 24 24 Breathing Space UK: 0800 83 85 87 Republic of Ireland: 1850 60 90 90. Or use the SEVEN DAY RULE. Whatever you are feeling now, the old saying that suicide is permanent holds true. PLEASE make a contract with yourself. Do nothing precipitous for SEVEN days. Many, many people have found that whatever psychological anguish occurs in the darkest depths of despair, just weathering the storm and holding off for seven days is sufficient to come through and recover enough not to go that way.”
John Yankee is intending the same for us here in N$Z 🙁
” Atos benefits bullies killed my sick dad, says devastated Kieran, 13
1 Nov 2012 08:34
THE devastated youngster believes the benefits assessors’ decision to deem his dad “fit for work” led to his death from a heart attack.”
Atos benefits bullies killed my sick dad, says devastated Kieran, 13
1 Nov 2012 08:34
THE devastated youngster believes the benefits assessors’ decision to deem his dad “fit for work” led to his death from a heart attack.
A GRIEVING boy of 13 has accused Atos of killing his disabled dad.
Kieran McArdle told the Daily Record in a harrowing letter how his father Brian, 57, collapsed and died the day after his disability benefits were stopped. He had been assessed by Atos and deemed “fit for work”.
The youngster said a previous stroke on Boxing Day last year had caused a blood clot on Brian’s brain.
He was left paralysed down his left side, unable to speak properly, blind in one eye and barely able to eat or dress.
But he was still summoned to an Atos “work capability assessment” – part of the Con-Dem Government’s drive to cut billions from the welfare bill.
Kieran says he had another stroke days before his appointment because of stress, but was still determined to attend.
A month later, former security guard Brian got a letter telling him he would lose his disability benefits on September 26.
Kieran said his dad’s health went rapidly downhill. He believes constant worry about how he would survive without the cash he needed robbed Brian of the will to live.
There are already 0800 helplines for mentally ill, suicidal, addicted and other people in crisis in NZ.
So by merely handing out phone numbers to ring, will this actually stop anyone from harming themselves if they are really desperate and suicidal? It may in some cases, but if a person is really desperate, they will not bother ringing a stranger late at night – or whenever, thinking that person will really make a difference in an acute crisis, brought on through unsympathetic welfare agencies, who would not give a damn about a client’s well-being unther the new system to be phased in.
If DWP in the UK or WINZ in NZ treat clients as crims, suspects of cheating and bludgers, while they are supposed to “assist” and “support” people in need, who the hell would any client or beneficiary have trust in?
Only welfare advocates may make a difference, but such agencies staffed by them are being closed one after another, because MSD cut their funding (see BIAS in Auckland)!
I’m sure the WhaleSpew Army would all volunteer. Key would no doubt send his sons if it weren’t for an important baseball game in the US and A.
Hopefully this sort of garbage will wake a few more people up to what an abject idiot the guy is. It’ll also be interesting to see Labour’s position on this stupid announcement.
South Korea and New Zealand are both close allies of the USA. If s**t went down and the USA went in aid of South Korea (as it would) then you can bet (being thats it close to both China and Japan) that Australia would support the USA which means NZ would as well
If not for trade reasons which are certainly a consideration) then for the humanitarian aspect of unifying Korea
Or did such intel only come to light in the last week or two? Co-incident with the threats from Nth Korea?
-Appeasment never works, it only encourages the same behaviour so if North Korea do decide to attack South Korea then it would be a perfect time to invade North Korea and reunify the country
However if I was the USA I’d make sure I was fully out of the middle east and afghanistan before doing anything
Of course if the USA dont do anything its because theres no oil and if they do something its because they’re trying to take over the world…
Yep, North Korea will be defeated with all the military might of staunch Kiwi soldiers. The South Koreans really need their loyal NZ friends if attacked. Re-deployment from Bamyan is on the agenda now, straight to the border between North and South Korea. That is what I expect to come from Key’s mouth tomorrow, after what he said to NZ TV media today.
I could not believe it either, that is the shit that NZ media report, and fall for, and nobody dares to ask, is this the newest distraction attempt, to divert away from questions about Fletcher’s selection for leading the GCSB??? Kiwi media, between at times amusing, at other times to be pitied, and furthermore to be truly pathetic.
– JT confirms Ferguson was Helen Clarks man (as I stated before and was asked for proof) and quite frankly Key sounds better on this topic then Robertson does…
Radio Live soundings have been clearly to the right of the political spectrum for years, and what, apart from some comment that Ferguson was perhaps appointed to lead GCSB under the last Labour government, do you have to prove he was selected in a manner Fletcher was contacted and suggested by Key???
Yes Willie Jackson that well known tory was also questioning John Key
JT who was in cabinet says yes Ferguson was Helen Clarks man and was shoulder tapped (which he says during the interview) then thats pretty good evidence right there
(except it doesn’t fit in with narrative Labour wants to put out so of course it will be disbelieved, chocolate fish to the first person who asks for “proof”…)
Chris73 says ,
‘JT who was in cabinet says yes Ferguson was Helen Clarks man and was shoulder tapped (which he says during the interview) then thats pretty good evidence right there’
But unlike John Key
Didnt lie about her involvement in parliament,when questioned .
Didn’t lie to journalists when given the 3rd or 4th chance to come clean.
Its the continual lying ,people dont like chris 73,
You do know what lying is , Chris73?
Its the continual lying ,people dont like chris 73,
– So explain why John Key is still one of the most popular leaders NZ has ever had
You do know what lying is , Chris73?
– Listen to the audio clip (where he explains what happened) and you decide if hes lying and make up your own mind
Willie Jackson is, JT not so much but rather then discuss my opinion (much as I’d like to) why not listen to the clip and form your own opinion (i know its a difficult concept for left-wingers but give it a go you might like it)
I didn’t make it up as that suggests it was deliberate on my part instead I thought JT had confirmed it but if you want me to apologize for being mistaken then no worries
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Chris Trotter writes – Willie Jackson is said to be planning a “media summit” to discuss “the state of the media and how to protect Fourth Estate Journalism”. Not only does the Editor of The Daily Blog, Martyn Bradbury, think this is a good idea, but he has also ...
Graeme Edgeler writes – This morning [April 21], the Wellington High Court is hearing a judicial review brought by Hon. Karen Chhour, the Minister for Children, against a decision of the Waitangi Tribunal. This is unusual, judicial reviews are much more likely to brought against ministers, rather than ...
Both of Parliament’s watchdogs have now ripped into the Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s political economy and beyond on the morning of Tuesday, April 23 are:The Lead: The Auditor General,John Ryan, has joined the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah SpengemanPeople wait to board an electric bus in Pune, India. (Image credit: courtesy of ITDP) Public transportation riders in Pune, India, love the city’s new electric buses so much they will actually skip an older diesel bus that ...
The infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new ...
Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
The pair opened their first fully collaborative exhibition, Nina for Flowers, last Saturday. Gabi Lardies visited their studio to find out who Nina is and what working together was like.‘It didn’t start out like, ‘This is a show about Nina,’” says Josephine Jelicich, gripping a thermos of peppermint tea. ...
Thank you, Dr Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, for your brilliant invention. I’m another mid-20s Kiwi who had an OE last year. I hopped on my bicycle where France meets the Atlantic and cycled east. I pedalled through the Loire Valley, down rivers lined with willows and ancient wisteria-draped chateaus. I relished ...
Asia Pacific Report From France to Australia, university pro-Palestine protests in the United States have now spread to several countries with students pitching on-campus camps. And students at Columbia and other US universities remain defiant as campuses have witnessed the biggest protests since the anti-Vietnam war and anti-apartheid eras in ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)New Zealand Government’s Fast Track legislation. Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government ...
Tara Ward talks to presenter Naomi Toilalo about the new TV show that turns food waste into a three course feast. Naomi Toilalo is standing in the warehouse at Good Neighbour Tauranga, helping unpack the two-and-a-half tonnes of rejected food that will arrive at the community support hub that day. ...
Scout is our latest Dog of the Month. This feature was offered as a reward during our What’s Eating Aotearoa PledgeMe campaign. Thank you to Scout’s human, Avril, for her support. Dog name: Scout (named after the little girl in To Kill a Mockingbird – she inherited the independent spirit ...
Megan Alatini takes us through her life in TV, including ‘terrible’ daytime TV, the class of Carol Hirschfeld and her most embarrassing TrueBliss moment. When she responded to a vague newspaper ad asking “do you have what it takes to be a popstar?” 25 years ago, Megan Alatini never guessed ...
A new exhibition in Wellington showcases the faces behind your local goods and services. Back in 1977, when I was a fine arts student at the University of Canterbury, I took a series of photographs of Christchurch shopkeepers. The photos were for a calendar – a project for my end ...
Toomaj and his resistance to tyranny through his songs have become an icon for the youth of Iran, so his sentence has hit the nation hard. Toomaj Salehi is not the first artist to pay the price for standing with the people. ...
My cousin Dylan and I spotted these big eels under the bridge that summer. We watched them lounging under the dark weed, facing into the flow of water, their mouths frozen open. Dylan and I couldn’t stop thinking about those eels. The night we went down to the creek, we ...
Newsroom, home of satire. My long-running weekly satirical series The Secret Diary has moved to Newsroom and will appear every Saturday, with Victor Billot’s wildly popular satirical Odes continuing to appear every Sunday. Diaries, Odes – while serious political columnists toil at meaningful opinions and stroke their chins to an ...
Tara Ward unravels the many nuanced layers of a cartoon about talking dogs.This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. It’s not often an episode of a children’s cartoon has adults sobbing into their sleeves, but that’s exactly what happened this week when ...
Working as a doctor in developing countries to help communities achieve better health outcomes is nothing short of a life goal for Jessica Tater. The University of Otago medical student has her sights firmly set on joining the international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) when she qualifies ...
There’s an island in the far reaches of Auckland’s territory, sitting off the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, 30 minutes by air from the city or four hours on the slow boat. Aotea Great Barrier is off-grid, it has a population of fewer than a thousand people … and most ...
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author and advocate, Jim Aubrey, today led a national symbolic one minute’s silence to mark the “blood debt” owed to Papuan allies during the Second World War indigenous resistance against the invading Japanese forces. “A promise to most people is a promise,” Aubrey said in ...
Asia Pacific Report The Freedom Flotilla is ready to sail to Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. All the required paperwork has been submitted to the port authority, and the cargo has been loaded and prepared for the humanitarian trip to the besieged enclave. However, organisers received word of an “administrative ...
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side ...
Opinion by Lynley Hood. Forty years on from my 1985 Fulbright Grant, my disquiet over the war in Gaza evoked some troubling questions. The answer to my first question – What is the primary purpose of the Fulbright Programme? – was on the Fulbright NZ website. It says: US Senator, ...
The ministers responsible for green-lighting major projects need to be open about potential conflicts of interest, says Transparency International. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University It has been a particularly distressing start to the year. There is little that can ease the current grief of individuals, families and communities who have needlessly lost a loved one to men’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lichen, the first described example of symbiosis.AdeJ Artventure/Shutterstock Once known only to those studying biology, the word symbiosis is now widely used. Symbiosis is the intimate ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Hemsley, Head, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Olena Ivanova/Shutterstock “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth in 2022 to provide: ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A YouGov poll for The Courier Mail, conducted April 9–17 from a sample ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the United States could mean for Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the ...
A brief round-up of submissions on the controversial proposed law. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, submissions on the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill closed just hours after the government released a list of stakeholder organisations who were sent letters advising how they could ...
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Like fracking, drilling down for human resources gets more sophisticated.
Worried about unwittingly employing unionists?
Don’t trust leftists?
Hate gays?
Then digital strategists Contagion might be the recruitment agency for you.
Applying for a job, the recruiters at an employment agency may ask job seekers to “friend them” on facebook so that they can get a complete profile.
Contagion Strategies, (such a meaningful name)
“Culture”. Hmmm, another word imbued with meaning.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8518739/Bosses-now-hunting-your-Twitter-raves
“Applying for a job, the recruiters at an employment agency may ask job seekers to “friend them” on facebook so that they can get a complete profile.”
I’d say whilst I’m happy to be judged by Facebook friends by a middle management type, I’d rather leave a fresh stool sample on the middle of your desk so you could get a proper, in depth look at my character.
Yup, they assume people have a social media foortprint.
The recruitment industry – Yes, one of the pillars of upstanding, professional behaviour!
Social influence director? Sheesh…What next?
This seems to be more about employers wanting to poke their nose in where they have no business than anything else.
What I write on my Facebook page (which is friends only), or anywhere else on the internet is none of my boss’s business.
Unfortunately, they’re making it their business. The world is turning into a very sick and controlled place.
I have the freedom to write what I think, because I’ll never have to apply for another job. If I did, I’d have to accept that such freedom may come at a cost. I like to think that I wouldn’t change.
thanks to “social media footprint” sniffing, I burned the online profiles of mine for a while, yet, i feel a road-trip a-comin on. Yeeha
“I am a shotgun rider on
For The Standard pinto line
The desert is my brother
My skin is crackd and dry
I was ridin’ on a folk coach
And everything was fine
Til’ we took a shorter route to save some time
The bankers only fired once
They shot us in the chest
They may have wounded us but
They’ll never get the best
Of better men…
We’ll ride again.
And we’re gonna ride, we’re gonna ride
Ride like the one-eyed Jack of diamonds
With the devil close behind
We’re gonna ride.
(I’m gonna find me a reckless woman
Razor-blades and dice in her eyes
Just a touch of sadness in her fingers
Thunder and lightnin’ in her thighs).
I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when i reach the other side
I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or it may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I’ll be back again, and again, and again, and again…”
and Thats’ Country folks!
(still Georgia, paraphrased of course).
Patrick Strange (Transpower) clarifies on The Nation that transmission lines are essentially ready to carry electricity efficiently from Manapouri to the North Island.
Why has it taken this long for the media to get this info to us.
As recently as last Tuesday Matthew Hooten (Nine to Noon, Tuesday 2nd April) stated that we would lose 100% of Manapouri’s power in the transmission to the North Island.
There is something really hopeless about our mainstream media…all they had to do was ask Patrick Strange but preferred to take the lazy approach and guess.
People like Hooten have their own agenda beyond any journalistic intent, so I don’t think we can expect anything else from them.
The actual journos though, that is a worry. Did you see Trotter’s critique of Jane Clifton’s inability to do even basic research?
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/04/06/following-jane-clifton-down-the-memory-hole/
Yes CW, I have responded to a comment by Matthew Hooten on that Post. The laziness of our media is beyond belief. So not only biased towards the Right but also lazy. The sad thing is that we dont know what is fact and what is fiction…Susan Wood states that China has a 100 new Aluminium Smelters…fact or fiction, we wouldnt know?
Fiction. I watched her interviewing Shearer this morning. No Comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aluminium_smelters
haha, spot on DH…Thirty f#$%#* Four smelters in China.
Susan Wood, just lie to make a point…shocking. Join Jane Clifton, Matthew Hooten…
yes, I thought S.Wood was indeed deteriorated, thankfully we had Helen to ponder on before shifting the focus to another community of faith. sigh. man, that David Shearer sure is a hard man to be fond of.
I’m amazed that anyone takes Hooton seriously. Christ, even Slater calls the smarmy slimebag a “corporate whore” and that’s saying something!
whose the “icon” architectural one? (just curious)
Stanley Kubrick at the moment
ahhh. Figures. some of your writing is amazing (if not restrained) when you emerge from your den; i must get a computer attached to the cyborg cycle to keep in touch; gets a little lonely between worlds at times. Thank God for the internet (the rider reluctantly concedes). I also enjoyed Barry Lyndon (seen so many films, just watched Incendies; recommended).
Scottish heritage… so restraint is not something I can really manage naturally. I’m probably back in my den for a while – commitments and all that… Cheers.
“son of Robert” me cannie self. so Feasgar math, slainte mhath.
“Christ, even Slater calls the smarmy slimebag a “corporate whore” and that’s saying something!”
Yeah but Slater is just jealous because he’s generally relegated to being a small-to-medium-sized-enterprise whore.
Lovely column from Trotter. Imagine if there was a leader on either the Left or Right that was prepared to bring together a national development conference as both National and Labour did in t he early 1960s. To presume simply that there was a thing called the nation, that was developing, and that we were all in it. That would be leadership worth aspiring to have. It’s not a fascist impulse, just a way of unifying and organising us.
Further evidence that RNZ has become the govt’s soapbox, allowing hooten to do his shouty rant routines and push his backers lines is one reason i dont listen anymore.
Morning report is toothless and mora may as well be barbie it’s so vacuous, I find checkpoint the only section with any bite.
That supports LPrent’s argument last week that the electricity should be redistributed and the whole-of-New Zealand power price should be lowered. Certainly separates “how to support Southland” and “what to do with the potential electricity” more cleanly.
Yeah, it is all in the shuffling of supply and demand. The balance of power consumption where power gets produced compared to where gets consumed merely moves a few hundred kilometers further north on average. We lose a bit more in transmission on average, but have more power available to do what needs to be done more cheaply than would otherwise be possible.
I’m always surprised when I read people talking as if the power from a dam in the lower SI is carried all the way to Auckland. It isn’t as if the packets of power are dumped into the grid witha label attached and moved discretely in the grid as a block. Railways and trucks do that. Electricity does not.
The claim that there would be a huge glut of electricity just doesn’t stack up. Key
spent too long overseas and does not understand that Manapouri is at the other
end of the country from the demand junkie Auckland. Any new consumer of electricity
would have to be near the source of the supply, otherwise the cost of supplying the N.I
would force line prices up (due to the losses on the line).
Its pretty simple, growing the NZ economy requires taking advantage of cheap energy sources and that means passing on cheap prices to entrepreneurs and homes, so they can shift their
expenditure to more productive activities.
We don’t need to grow the economy, and to do so at this point in history is folly of the worst kind. We need to conserve energy and resources for the hard times ahead (PO, CC, GFC etc)
I agree the term is loaded. But we need to lower the center of gravity of the economy away from the heights of high finance and markets. This means that the roots, the people, in the economy need more wiggle room, lower energy prices would make it easier for them to use what savings they have or get to conserve more energy and resources. The old adage nothing ventured nothing gained, all new activity has a cost to it, money, energy. The GFC essentially is a market signal that what we are doing now is out of balance with real needs because essentially very people globally – the richest – have been handed the ability to change the world economy (and have no incentive to as its to their loss if they do).
What Key represents, proposes, wants, is not growth, he wants more waste, more imbalance, more veneer of control, of power.
No, I didn’t. I thought it was about 50%. Mike Williams said it was less than that. We settled on “substantial amount”. I would be interested in learning more about why Transpower now says it is zero. Sounds unlikely to me.
It’s not that interesting.
You’ll probably find that they don’t really factor your pronouncements into their calculations at all.
Cite or retraction for “Transpower now says it is zero” please.
Didn’t you know? You can fully trick Mother Nature and the laws of physics with PR spin.
Isn’t that what Strange was saying on Q&A? That they can get all the power to Auckland? I haven’t seen it yet.
Ah, so you made it up.
Well I never.
Correction: it looks like it was The Nation. Didn’t see that either but did see this report: http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/if-tiwai-point-smelter-shuts-no-problem-getting-power-auckland-ck-138278
Correction
Translation: whoops, I got caught making shit up again… let’s see what Google can do for me…
Doesn’t justify your claim Hoots. Just another one of your lies then, and maybe Strange’s too. Word of advice: when you’re paid to lie, do it well to give your clients their money’s worth, otherwise they might not come back.
So you don’t have a cite then.
Just admit it ffs. Or are you waiting for everyone to forget what you actually said?
Turn on the light, watch the cockroach run. Scuttle, scuttle, scuttle…
so we can expect a retraction on next Monday’s “from the Right, and from the Right” can we?
Oh, we’ll just see Hoots show what a money-grubbing coward he is… again. And Williams again will be sucking his dick, so he’ll be happy.
It’s amazing that “Labour” want to appease this arsewipe instead of actually representing the people they were founded to represent.
[lprent: you’re starting to walk over the edge between pointed abuse and pointless abuse. Read the policy. I can’t see anything in this comment explaining why the vitriol is required apart from a statement that is as meaningless as saying “of course everyone loves the queen” ]
You expect Hooton to actually justify something he says with real evidence? Never mistake his “reasonable” tone with actually being reasonable. The cockroach is going to scuttle under the fridge again when the light is turned on.
Hi Hoots, got a good dead baby joke to tell?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/8518743/Three-big-hospitals-practices-under-fire
I take this as evidence that Tony Ryall’s brownshirt tactics are starting to show their real effects.
Thin end of the wedge Geoff, he’s been at this for years and the impacts of his tactics can’t be hidden easily anymore.
Plenty of pressure going on by Tony boy and his henchmen to spin harder…beware the quiet low key ones, Ryall, Findlayson, Joyce who appears to have slunk away again with Novopay still a shambles.
Unite and big fast food chains say no to Youth Rates
This is impressive.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8516283/Thumbs-down-by-fast-food-chains-to-youth-rates
That’s good news – but New World and Pak n Save are not getting with the (fairness) programme, though.
Just more evidence for National to say trumpet and say “look, it’s purely optional, so the system works”.
To which the reply is: the evidence shows that unions work. 🙂
ahh the right wingers usually such a dreary lot – this rant from Marie Krarup, a right wing Danish politician who just recently visited here. is so over the top it is funny, I put in one paragraph for ease and enjoyment of reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8517466/Danish-politician-slams-Maori-welcome
http://mars2earth.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/instead-of-handshake.html
It is also useful to know that these extreme right wing funny thinking people are in many countries not just here.
Mrs Krarup copied and pasted those words from an article by Neville Breivik Gibson or “Sir” Paul Holmes or “Dame” Susan Devoy.
Marie Krarup + hate and look at what turns up as the first result.
I want to know why this well funded NZ think tank is importing Danish cryptofacsists here. Havn’t we enough of our own?
Because our own right wingers don’t have an idea to share between them – they source everything from overseas. You can see this in the way they salivate about gun control and the right to bear arms, not even stopping to think that it’s neither an issue nor relevant here. They also suffer from such an inferiority complex that they need to be patted on the head regularly by the likes of Krarup and Monckton.
Mrs Krarup is lucky that she’s not another Danish person receiving a fatwah – because NZs are too civilised to react to cultural slights like that.
She’s had a great overseas experience though, observed everything with eyes wide open, like carvings with erect penises, amongst other new sights. That’s what going abroad is about isn’t it – to broaden the mind – though in some people it’s just the behind that feels the expansion.
Irritating Cliché Watch
No. 1: “OPPORTUNITY”
Insight, Radio New Zealand National, Sunday 7 April 2013
Presented by Chris Bramwell
Two and a half generations ago, speechwriter Arthur Schlesinger placed the following glib little homily into a speech he had prepared for John F. Kennedy: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
Like so much else uttered by the Great Philanderer, this neat and trite little lesson was repeated and amplified for generations, and became a cliché taken up by school principals, business gurus, politicians and sports commentators—-rugby commentators especially. (I’ll write more on this last category in future.) If you hear someone using the word “opportunity” today—and you almost certainly will—he or she will almost certainly not be a critical or reflective or well read person, therefore he/she will be unaware of the provenance of the word, as well as being unaware of how utterly annoying it is.
The indiscriminate use of the word has been bothering me for many years now; I think the time has come to start a campaign to get rid of this cliché from public discourse.
Here’s a quick sample from this morning’s Insight programme, about New Zealand’s trading opportunities—sorry—in Latin America. By the way, note how the repeated use of the “opportunity” meme goes hand in hand with the repetition of official lies….
JOHN KEY: Y’ow, Latin America is a place full of opportunities for New Zea’and. Y’ow…”
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: Well, let me clarify that not all countries are characterised as stable. I’m talking about the democratic ones. There are two blocs in Latin America. The stable ones have got on top of inflation. There is massive opportunity there….”
This “two blocs” idea was also used by Nevil Breivik Gibson, when he appeared on “The Panel” last month. O’Meagher did not explain, but by “stable and democratic”, he means countries like Colombia, which are notorious for their human rights violations, and are in fact ruthlessly undemocratic. In other words, Professor O’Meagher was repeating official black propaganda.
CHRIS BRAMWELL: Colombia has emerged from years of civil war, and is starting to open its doors to the world. President Santos says he’d like a free trade agreement with New Zealand.
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: When I heard Colombia wanted a free trade agreement I just wanted to air-fist it. Hey there are many opportunities for New Zealand!”
NATHAN GUY: “There are many opportunities for New Zealand.”
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: People feel safe, …political security…
MATTHEW O’MEAGHER: Under the military regime, Chile became open in their economy as we did. Pure. Completely different to across the Andes in Argentina, where they are just suspicious of free trade.
GLEN TYRELL: We just saw a great opportunity and the people we work with saw an opportunity…
NATHAN GUY: Opportunities to HELP these farmers with our Kiwi know-how and Kiwi knowledge is huge.
….ad nauseam, ad absurdum….
Insight, Radio New Zealand National, presented by Chris Bramwell.
The programme will be repeated night at 7:30 P.M.
Almost every person who appeared on this programme used the word “opportunity” continually and promiscuously.
It’s also ubiquitous in rugby commentaries. I will write more on that in future….
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
An apposite choice of quote, my friend. Well done.
Thanx! – I’ve been looking for an explanation for John Key, Paula Bennett, Hekia Parata and quite a few others that have concocted a gathering of minds and called it the National Party.
IS Mighty River Power a ‘good’ investment?
Electricity demand in New Zealand.
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Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
I follow JMG and not just because he writes so well – his insights are really interesting. This one from the other day has been making me think a lot.
JMG really hones in on that and lays it all out expertly. The quote above is part of his argument which really has to be read in full so check it out, well worth it.
In terms of his point about “Total faith in the invincibility of technological progress.” I agree and maybe that is why many continue to ignore the facts staring us in the face. It seems to be part of our western hubris and it’s not working very well.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/the-illusion-of-invincibility.html
Yep. Unshakeable belief in ongoing “growth” is just one aspect of this.
In fact, I think a point was recently made (either by JMG or by a commentator) that modern civilisation has created it’s own pervasive Church that most people inadvertently worship at – with Progress as the Father (omnipotent and all present), Growth as the Son (and saviour), and Science/Technology as the Holy Spirit (bringing benefits to all that it touches).
And the harder you question any one of these, the more likely you are to be singled out as a heretic or as ‘fringe’.
I think he’s wrong as far as technology goes. We may not be able to maintain the extravagant lifestyle we have now but we won’t be dropping back to grubbing in the dirt as he seems to think. Hell, it was the invention of farming that allowed us to start having surplus labour. Ok, so it also allowed the development of capitalism but that’s an unintended consequence that we can get rid of.
Places like NZ will be able to maintain a technological and machine based manufactory. That’s going to mean computers, trains, tractors and schools. As I’ve said time and time again – we have the resources to do all this and we can do it all without oil. We just won’t be able to do as much as today as we won’t have the same amount of energy available but that’s a far cry from not being able to do it at all.
“Hell, it was the invention of farming that allowed us to start having surplus labour. Ok, so it also allowed the development of capitalism but that’s an unintended consequence that we can get rid of.”
It also allowed us to start having mass warfare – if you aren’t settled you don’t have to defend resources in the same way, and the patriarchy.
I’m not sure about the surplus labour bit. If you mean societal constructs that enabled humans to have to work much harder, then I guess that is true. But the evidence suggests that in general hunter gatherer peoples had/have a surplus of time, allowing for the development of culture. Why we would want to trade that for a capacity to work harder I am not sure. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Modern tech vs grubbing in the dirt is a false dichotomy. Without oil etc we still have our human knowledge and many technologies even where wind farms and electric trains are not possible. It’s also not true that people cannot live well without those things. Even with a full collapse, it would be several generations before we had no metal and plastics for instance, which is time to adapt. The big problem here is the human mind, and its inability to respond to the sheer scale of the problem we are facing.
It was capitalism that caused that. A few people started to take the wealth of the community as theirs and then to demand even more which meant more that everyone else had to work harder.
True but it doesn’t allow for the development of stable locations that can be used for serious research.
Who said we traded it away? I’m sure it was more through dictatorship, violence and oppression.
True but I’ve been reading Greer for awhile and he really does believe that we’re all going to be busy grubbing down on the farm after the collapse. I think we can all work a hell of a lot less while maintaining a similar living standard and that the only reason why we have to work so hard is to keep the rich rich. As I’ve said before, the one thing that no society can afford is the rich.
There won’t be a full collapse. That’s what I’m getting at. Especially in places like NZ where the infrastructure exists to maintain itself.
That only applies if we keep working as individuals but if we work as a community then we can see the big picture.
That says more about your own interpretation than what Greer has actually been saying. Nevertheless, once you take the fossil fuel energy inputs away from modern farming, a whole lot more human (and animal) labour will be required. That’s just the way it is.
Further you have to remember that Greer is speaking from a largely US-centric perspective (and admits that). Yes you are correct in that NZ is better placed than most other countries to face the next 100 years. But Greer is not writing specifically for the NZ situation.
No, it shows that Greer has a blanket generalisation about where civilisation is going and it’s all about industrialisation disappearing from the world. This is not going to happen.
Not necessarily. Sure, we can’t make electric cars with the same performance as today’s fuel powered ones but we could make electric tractors that will work just fine. Tractors, like trains, use the same routes all the time. Or we could make the farms (well, the ones that grow vegetables anyway) as fully automated buildings – no need for tractors then. Animal farms will probably still use a lot of muscle power – just as they do today.
And as I’ve pointed out to him there’s a lot of renewable generation in the US as well and those locations will become centres of industrialisation. NZ is just be one place where industrialisation will continue.
Nah you’re wrong, and getting more wrong the deeper you dig.
Didn’t you read the posts on NZ’s losses in manufacturing jobs year on year? If that’s not de-industrialisation, what is it?
Have you seen the sites of old abandoned shipyards in the UK, the old abandoned car factories in Michigan?
De-industrialisation is not a process which starts in the future mate.
/facepalm
de-industrialisation is the removal of all industry. This is not going to happen. And from whatever base we end up with we’ll build up again. It’ll just build up to be more diverse than what we’ve ever had before but only making for what we use rather than the delusional export market.
If we had a government that actually was there for the people of this country and not just for the rich they’d be building that diversity now.
That’s how you’ve defined it. Greer has never defined it in that way.
De-industrialisation of the western world has been happening for decades. Haven’t you noticed?
Actually, he has, his Eco-Technic future happens after de-industrialisation. As I’ve said, I’ve been reading his words for a long time.
Of course I have. You may have noticed that I’ve proposed building our manufacturing capability back up?
The point that you don’t seem to grok is that we won’t lose the knowledge – it’s written down and we have the education systems to rebuild it – and even with the closing of factories our industrial base still far exceeds what was available in the 19th century. On top of that we’re not reliant upon hydrocarbons to power said manufacturing.
Uh, you should read the Ecotechnic Future before you start making massively wrong assumptions as to what Greer reckons will be possible or not in the next couple of hundred years.
Or was it the other way around.
PROPAGANDA WATCH
Beware the British State broadcaster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rql0b/Newsnight_04_04_2013/
Jeremy Paxman: “Kim Jong-un, a man with a more than passing resemblance to a haggis, after all”.
Imagine such personalised comments about Cameron, Blair, Obama, Netanyahu or any other Western leader. From “spiritual heir to Stalin” to “crackpot regime”, this is what passes for balanced presentation and incisive journalism from the BBC’s flagship Newsnight.
A skewed report from Robin Denselow, shaking the locked gates of the North Korean embassy, also has ex-US ambassador Nicholas Burns and the usual array of Western policy analysts warn of Pyongyang’s ‘imminent nuclear threat’, number its ‘international violations’ and probe the ‘problem of China’ in failing to bring this “unpredictable” regime to heel.
Paxman’s package also has a placatory interview with a North Korean defector, a non-contested message from David Cameron, a Tory MP using the North Korean ‘threat’ to defend Trident and a token, moderate counterview from a Lib Dem MP.
It’s not just the brazen bias, the unapologetic absence of balance, it’s the sheer embarrassment of ‘journalism’ from BBC icons like Paxman and Simpson.
by John Hilley
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1365154487.html
And how does one report in a balanced way about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is North Korea? That’s like climate change denialists demanding balanced reportage on global warming – ie, you are a tinfoil hat wearing nutter who needs their meds checked. The BBC doesn’t have to make things up, NK’s own propoganda is readily available and would make me laugh hysterically if it wasn’t so frightening.
And how does one report in a balanced way about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is North Korea?
The same way that one reports about the batshit insane clusterfuck that is Israel; sympathetically and dishonestly. I detest North Korea, but unlike you, I don’t feel compelled to demonstrate that by declaring my support for worse, more violent regimes.
….you are a tinfoil hat wearing nutter who needs their [sic] meds checked.
There’s an intelligent and cutting insult. I am really, really wounded. Oh yes.
The BBC doesn’t have to make things up…
But it shamelessly recycles official lies, as we saw with its campaign against the Venezuelan “dictator” Hugo Chavez recently. After you review some of that coverage, have a look at some of the disgraceful stuff John Simpson has written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Then come on here and say, with a straight face, that the BBC “doesn’t have to make things up.”
NK’s own propoganda is readily available and would make me laugh hysterically if it wasn’t so frightening.
As a dedicated recycler of state black propaganda yourself, you should cut the North Koreans a break, surely.
As far as I know, Israel hasn’t threatened a nuclear superpower, starved it’s citizens for enough generations that they are approximately 2cm shorter than their southern counterparts, or in some areas resorting to cannibalism. It’s so bad China apparently has contingency plans to invade in an effort to prevent a refugee crisis should the regime collapse. You are basically asking for the equivalent of Holocaust denial… Oh wait, I forgot antisemitic propoganda was one of your favorite hobbies…
Israel hasn’t starved its own citizens for generations, oh lordy no perish the thought.
It is a point of significant difference. It is more possible to leave, and get information out of Gaza than NK. They are not comparable, though I am not condoning Israel.
So what?
My point is that if you really wanted to highlight significant differences between Israel and NK – and of course there are differences you sanctimonious patronising twat – the very last thing you would look to would be human rights abuses.
ffs
As far as I know,
As has been obvious every time you presume to comment, that’s not very far.
Israel hasn’t threatened a nuclear superpower, starved it’s citizens for enough generations that they are approximately 2cm shorter than their southern counterparts, or in some areas resorting to cannibalism.
Israel has systematically starved the imprisoned citizens of Gaza, and routinely cut off their water, for generations. The same criminal treatment is meted out in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank. Israeli officials recently laughed that they were “putting the Palestinians on a diet.” Not that you’d care about those facts, of course, even if you were not ignorant.
You are basically asking for the equivalent of Holocaust denial…
You know, if it hadn’t already been firmly established that you were a witless and desperate fellow, I might be offended by such nutty logorrhea.
Oh wait, I forgot antisemitic propoganda was one of your favorite hobbies…
Oh this is pr-r-r-r-r-riceless! In spite of everything, my sad friend, we have to hand it to you: there aren’t many people who, in the midst of a blitheringly incompetent, embarrassingly foolish attempt to swim out of their depth, actually come up with an entirely new rhetorical combat tool—the falsum ad self-discreditum. On behalf of every other Standardista, I congratulate you.
Oh you silly little man – I’ve never tried to implicate award winning comedians in a Zionist conspiracy. You are quite mad, such fun.
Gaza, while horribly brutalised by the Likudniks, is not actually part of Israel. Are you geographically challenged? No, just a fucking nut job.
“Gaza, while horribly brutalised by the Likudniks, is not actually part of Israel.”
Yeah, ‘cos that’s the important bit about human rights abuses.
You are out of your depth, Populuxe. Have you ever heard of the concept of “face-saving withdrawal”?
Yoink:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/06/about-a-girl-assorted-thoughts-on-bioshock-infinite
If you have teh time + the money, Bioshock Infinite is very definitely worth playing.
Also:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera
:3
IMF apparently likes where NZ is headed,
we must be in even greater trouble than we thought 🙂
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10875936
“All I can tell you is the IMF is very supportive of what is being done by the Government in that respect.
Of course the IMF would be supportive, they peddle corruption, theft, death, all under the guise of austerity.
Lagarde is a sock puppet, executing the orders!
Just watched the worst display of television interviewing I can remember. Susan Woods was so biased and bad mannered on Q&A this morning that I had to switch channels, it was that bad.
I thought Duncan Garner and Paul Holmes were bad but this effort took the cake.
It’s Susan Wood, not Woods. Show the vacuous bimbo some respect by getting her name right, please.
Yep ….. why she (i.e. her – the vacuous bimbo) even managed to provide ‘evidence’ of why investigative journalism is “alive and well” (NOT). Give her some slack though Morrissey – she’s probably still grieving over the loss of NZ’s journalistic foreskin in the Hawkes Bay
Lordy! I was coming on to say just that.Caught a bit of q&a online.Is she for real?If I was Shearer I would have just got up and walked out.Question and answer it wasn’t.Sack her,she’s useless.Another harpy shrieking for key.
Who do we write to to express our concern at the clear bias exhibited in this interview? I am not Labour and I worry for the future of New Zealand democracy if the media so clearly takes sides in a debate. That was not fair or balanced, especially when you compare it with the way Rawdon Christie and others interview the PM. And for some reason he complains about the press; in case he hasn’t noticed, the vast majority of the media supports him whole-heartedly.
Does anyone know of any reasons why Susan Wood is biased? Does she do work for Sky City or any other large corporate? Does she have an agenda? Or is she a puppet who does what her masters tell her to say?
To be fair I just watched the following segment and she was just as bad interrupting Nikki Kaye about the food labelling legislation. Wood interviews like someone on amphetamines.
I think Susan Wood just has a preference for authoritarian bullies. She married a guy who’d been a prefect when I was at boarding school and he was an absolute shocker. He challenged a friend of mine (half his size) to a fight. When the guy refused, he was expelled for not obeying a prefect’s orders. I can easily see how she’d feel a deep and unrequited love for Key.
She married a guy who’d been a prefect when I was at boarding school and he was an absolute shocker.
Did she marry that guy before or after her mortifyingly gauche live on-air flirtation with Michael Flatley?
As far as I can remember, she married him sometime around 1990. (Google suggests 1989) I have no idea when the Flatley thing was, because I’ve spent a fair bit of time overseas.
This is none of our business.
Such intrusive, meaningless and ugly commentary is not acceptable on The Standard.
Keep such garbage to yourself.
Such “ugly” commentary would indeed be unacceptable if it was directed at a decent, hard-working, honest journalist.
However, Mr Olsen’s target was one Susan Wood, who is none of the above. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the vileness of Ms. Wood’s oeuvre.
Someone asked why Susan Wood would be so biased. I gave an opinion, based on some facts.
I always find it funny how it’s perfectly OK to say that right wingers in general are nasty, dumb, and lacking in empathy, with studies which supposedly show this, but not acceptable to say anything about any of them individually.
When your laws your culture and your very voice have been taken from you
your body is the only tool left with which to speak
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/296828.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=9936
http://rt.com/news/41-prisoners-gitmo-strike-440/
wise words
http://postimg.org/image/dm9n4o1c3/
tidy link kept getting corrupted somehow
Con trails.
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/320622512289484800/photo/1
You may find this interesting.
http://www.flightradar24.com/
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
A fascinating visit. Fantastic number of planes in the air at this moment worldwide. Thanks BM
Where is the rest of the context Joe?
Edit: Such as;
Flight altitudes, headings etc, air pressure, temp, humidity readings etc…
You can’t even tell if thats San Fran or not!
His tweet is time stamped so work it out.
http://www.isstracker.com/historical
How about you come up with a picture with some geographic underlay, e.g can see the airport location, and be able to identify a directional header, thus being able to make some sense of the multitude of angles those trails are on…
Put it this way Joe, SFO is on the coast, which means the flight traffic and flight paths are not as prolific, as those trails appear to be!
You posted the link, was it purely for show, or was your intent something else?
Joe was just showing how many people are in on the conspiracy. Did he contaminate your social experiment muzz ?
Was he really, I’ll wait until Joe confirms his intent if its all the same to you…waiting Joe
And the geographic locational context Joe, so we can have a discussion about why that link is one of your worst yet!
You’re just the tinfoil hat that keeps on giving…
It makes no difference what you, or I actually think McFlock, its going on either way regardless.
The immature jibes are becoming a feature for you now hey!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/4825779/Aircraft-contrails-stoke-warming-cloud-formation
Have a read of this nonsense explanation seeking to justify the awful state of the skies we see nowadays, as *exapanded contrail vapour*, widening/forming into clouds..
Interesting that contrails did not use to do anything such thing, now all of a sudden, they do, and there is a laughable attempt to explain this *new phenomenon*
Fascinating how contrails, have become necessary to explain away, with details of the *new behavior* – No one gave a thought to them previously (other than plane spotters etc), now they’re making cloud formations, and lingering in the sky, while simultaneously warming the air below them, and reflecting the sun above, thats incredible, just how do those ice crystals survive for extended periods of time while being wedged between warmer air temps, and the sun!
Amazing how a real contrail, (yes they still exist) does no such thing as described in the article, nor form into any such entity which resembles the picture associated with the article.
lol
What “new behaviour”, you muppet?
Oh, and take a look at the temp display (or harass the aircrew for information again) for the outside air temp the next time you are in a jet. That might explain your question about the ice crystals.
And are you arguing that your hypothesised chemtrails are increasing climate change? A literally global conspiracy to increase sea levels and desrtification? Cui Bono?
Don’t know much about contrails do you, as if you did you would know what, *new behavior * referred to!
The hypothesizing was over long ago McFlock, by people much higher up the org chart than myself,. and I wish as much as you deny, that this was not happening, it is, and its got nowhere to go but come out, it already has, deep down you know it!
Its why there are so many documentaries, articles etc in the MSM (inc the BS I linked to above) talking about geo-engineering, global dimming and so on, and its ramped up in conjunction with global awareness of the programme to dump chemical substances and all manor of other crap, with who knows what consequences, into the planets life support system.
Perhaps the damage done to our atmospheric layers, stratosphere, ionosphere (mostly in the name of science), by nuclear detonations, into/through those layers, on the ground, nuclear reactor meltdowns, space programmes, ge-engineering programmes, and god knows what else, has caused so much damage, the only available option being considered, is to spray even more shit up there, and do it faster, and more frequently.
Again today from my building, high up in central AKL – heading south to north, over west akl, a nice long trail was laid, about 945. This dump was followed by another plane, flying the same heading, (non commercial flight path) only slighly higher, without leaving a trail. Neither plane was at an altitude which would have cool enough air temp to leave a vapour trail, so perhaps you can tell me what it created it at the lower altitude!
I know you want to be able to blow it off, along with those such as myself who understand these things are going on, and accept it (because WTF can we currently do anyway), it makes you hope you’re not going to proven wrong by people you would expect to be, *below you*, but that’s something you need to get over son, because its happening, that flight has departed, and its hosing down all over you, denial or not!
So YES, it could very well be a major contributer to CC, thats what geo-engineering is all about, weather modification/altering, or changing the climate!
Lol
“Higher up the org chart”?
Project Onan has an organsational hierarchy? And you’re not at the top of it ?
WHO DO YOU TAKE YOUR ORDERS FROM???
It’s the tibetans at the centre of the earth, isn’t it???
You managed to pick out the *org chart* reference, which was a tongue in cheek comment, well done.
Other than that you’re struggling McFlock, and I guess J90 has lost himself somewhere on the internet looking to make those trails in the link he posted make some sense.
SFO is located on the coast, so thats not going to be particularly easy for him, and I suspect thats also why he has not explained his intent behind the posting the photo.
Meantime, have a read of this….. Nuclear industry American style!
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43556350/
lol – the economic viability of fission stations is relevant to contrails how?
You’re a joke.
I figured maybe you’d think that vapour trails were a function of pressure, temperature and humidity, but you obviously think a column of air is identical all the way up. I guess in akl you don’t see many inversion layers.
So really, all there is left is to laugh at you.
“Project Onan has an organsational hierarchy? And you’re not at the top of it ?”
muzza’s role is primarily a research one.
btw, I saw some amazing chem/con trails over Taranaki on the weekend. What’s the most popular theory about the reason for spraying chemtrails over sparsely populated provincial areas?
Kenny is correct. Her aim was to rattle and disrupt Mr Shearer; so of course she could then complain he failed to clarify his aims. A touch difficult when you are continually interrupted I would have thought. To his credit Mr Shearer failed to take the bait.
Don’t be ridiculous – its standard technique to get pollies to let things slip. Cap’n Mumblefuck is quite capable of being a gibbering incompetent all on his lonesome.
You can’t let things slip when you are not allowed to speak.The last time I saw that done was on q&a by guyon espiner who did the same number on Phil Goff.I remember even Paul Holmes being stunned. wood/woods was avsolutely incoherent with rage when Shearer wouldn’t reveal his bank balance.I thought he did bruddy well not to punch her.
Jesus, she was shockingly bad. I think that is the worst, rudest and most partisan tv interview by an NZ interviewer I’ve seen. Wood should be working for Fox News. Shearer didn’t even get time to finish most sentences, and he wasn’t rambling for a change. He did surprisingly well IMO – especially never losing his cool. The two or three times he held up his hand and told her to let him answer, she did. He should be prepared to do more of that more often. In fact if he had just stopped, and said, “are you going to let me answer your questions, because if you’re not, why invite me here?”, he’d have won even more points with the viewer.
Agreed.Just watched rest.She said key “fessed up”FESSED UP! Do they read the same Boy’s Own Annuals or what.She also compounded key’s lie by saying he had checked back and “fessed up” to ringing Fletcher.She should check her facts because at last count he remembered at least three different scenario to Fletcher was shoulder tapped,all contradictory.Which one is true.It was a truly abominable,unprofessional,biased interview,if indeed it could be classed as an interview. Maybe Shearer should have asked her why she can’t keep a husband.
Just watched.
Susan Wood = psycho. She couldn’t hold back her sneering look at Helen Kelly and she was clearly relishing the bullying moments when all of them were having a go at Helen.
Wood was completely unaware of how repugnant her demeanour and behaviour were. Is that what radio live does to a person or does it just attract people like that?
Remember the pivotal wikileaks video showing an Apache attack on Iraqi civilians and journalists
This PTSD destroyed former infantry man attended the scene afterwards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=mgAoUEbJLVk&feature=endscreen
And every day 22 veterans commit suicide.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/01/veterans-suicide/1883329/
Why now?
Why did Grant Robertson use the Ian Fletcher GCSB story now?
The story was being held in the armoury for use at the optimal politically effective moment.
Why now? Was it prematurely taken out of the arsenal and fired to distract attention from Shearer’s “brain fade” on the undeclared stash in the US Bank?
Yes. Next question?
Shearer’s UN bank account is now declared.
Shearer mentioned the signing of a ministerial certificate, I would have liked Wood to have asked Shearer if this would be one of the terms of reference were there to be an open inquiry into the GCSB.
“Its now come out that the order to “supress” the information about GCSB’s activities, signed by the acting prime minister Bill English (normally the finance minister) while Key was abroad, was the only such document in 10 years:”
http://www.techdirt.com/blog?tag=gcsb
It is my opinion that everything to do with Fletcher and Key and the illegal spying of Dotcom is being carefully orchestrated.
Key is the type of person who does not like open inquiries which can be confrontational especially when his integrity is being questioned. Were there to be an inquiry into Shearer not declaring his UN bank account nothing new would be learnt except for how many times the account was accessed; Shearer knew he did not declare it and rectified this and the public will either condemn him or overlook this.
Week after week the GCSB are in the news and Key is the minister in charge due to the classified issues which the GCSB operate under and this reflects on Key when it comes to the GCSB crossing the line or the minister in charge crossing the line.
Just as an aside:
“Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” is usually/often an indication of the inadequacies in available badwidth [sic] and the manipulation of it by your nearest ISP.
Solution to welfare problem found. Hyundai Country last night had a family – of 11 kids – who had never needed welfare. Albeit they are young and may not of told their parents. But even so, imagine
a family of 11 kids in S.Auckland, Bennett has nightmares about them being caught in welfare.
So it got me wondering, why not just dump large families in rural areas and let them figure it out.
Okay, the run off might actually wipe out mussel farms, but the family in the show thinks its a
worthy cause to not need welfare, so they are eager to share the load and take the burden off S.Auckland, right.
Bennett should get off her behind, on her bike, down to the sounds and start building some council estates or something, I mean look at the place, fish, hunting, growing vegies and the local WINZ is
a days travel too, no wonder nobody needs welfare (or could get it if they tried).
If only we had more families like this, who had their own business, cheap labour, and subsidies of feral fish and meat, its got to be a winner for NZ, no welfare yippy.
Maybe the rural types, living the dream, should not be so eager to bring to the attention of city dwellers how their kids haven’t needed welfare.
TVNZ should also be wary, imagine filming a women who tells their viewers, they are boring people sitting watching the show. Does she want them to be out over the Cook strait fouling the water ways, and pushing another family into welfare when their mussel farm becomes contaminated?
As mussel farms else have when developers are given a heads up.
Let’s film it as well and provide cheap entertainment to the masses. Most of our broadcasters would wet their pants at a ratings winner like that.
“So it got me wondering, why not just dump large families in rural areas and let them figure it out”
Maaaaaaaaate! They’re already doing that. The indigent are being force further and further ‘out’ by agencies of Neshnool Pardy State.
So far (in the southern North Izland) PerraPerraooomoo. Woikanoi is under threat. Fear not though, there’s a National MP at the ready to enusre they don’t threaten propitty vear uuuu’s. A guy called Nathan (Nafe to his maaaates). Pure and pristine
Labour UK: Party considers building stronger incentives to work into welfare system
Radical moves planned to make sure that people who put more into the system, get more back in benefits.
Happy happy joy joy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/06/labour-plans-shift-welfare-payouts
I noted that the “return to full employment” is primarily expressed by saying that no one will be allowed on the dole for more than two years, though he did add that they would be moved into “real jobs with real training.” However, the second part did come across as an afterthought rather than an expression of resolve. But if you look at the string of comments underneath, they are no happier with their lot than we are with ours. As real economies shrink, going into politics seems to mean having a cool job rather than having a chance to change things.
Cait Reilly succeeded in challenging the programme which required her to work unpaid so a retroactive bill was passed to avoid benefit repayments and Labour whipped their MP’s into abstaining from voting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/12/poundland-ruling-government-work-schemes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/24/labour-mps-abstain-welfare-bill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland?
Hi CV
USK Government Declares War on Disabled People and the Poor
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/government-declares-war-on-disabled-people-and-the-poor/
“Minister for Murdering Disabled People ( Via HIT agency ATOS) Esther Mcvey began the assault with a vile piece of propaganda in the Daily Mail on Saturday. Mcvey claims that many people who are “officially classed ‘disabled’ are no such thing”. Her nasty diatribe comes in advance of the changes to disability benefits which will see around a fifth of disabled people lose vital support.”
” Is it any wonder we are in such a mess whilst chinless gimps like Cameron, Osborne, Clegg and Mcvey run the country like a bunch of posh teenagers who have never understood what it is to stand on your own two feet?”
“And finally Iain Duncan Smith himself appeared in The Daily Telegraph with the ludicrous claim that he could live quite easily on just £53 a week. But then that’s because he sponges off his wife’s parents – living the high life in an inherited ancestral mansion whilst tax payers fund his lavish expenses. At least Esther Mcvey scrounges off her own parent.”
“Millions stare destitution in the face this month with ruthless and reckless cuts set to throw lives into chaos. Many claimants will be left with nothing at all to buy food after paying their bedroom tax, council tax benefits, water rates and other utility bills. Homelessness is already rising and about to soar as a direct result of this Government’s policies. With unemployment also back on the rise, particularly amongst the young, parts of the country may be unrecognisible in just a few month’s time as poverty not seen in decades returns to haunt the UK.
Not content with that however, this toff Government want to add insult to injury by slandering and abusing the victims of their policies in the national press.”
Here is an interesting tool
The BlaBlameter
HT Homepaddock
http://www.blablameter.com/index.php
BlaBlaMeter –
how much bullshit hides in your text?
PR-Experts, politicians, ad writers or scientists need to be strong here!
BlaBlaMeter unmasks without mercy how much bullshit hides in any text.
I put in a speech by Paraata
This was the result.
Your text: 15000 characters, 2640 words
Bullshit Index :0.33
Your text shows indications of ‘bullshit’-English. It’s still ok for PR or advertising purposes, but more critical audiences may be skeptical.
This is the result from Luther King
I have a dream
our text: 9317 characters, 1724 words
Bullshit Index :0.08
Your text shows no or marginal indications of ‘bullshit’-English.
At a guess, I’d say that the test itself is BS.
Probably DT, but fun.
Interesting Blabla meter DV. Tried putting bits from National Party website as well as various bloggers. The worst was from Nat website but none seriously in blabla trouble.
200 partygoers creating havoc. They have enough money to get themselves high so let them pay to get themselves out of prison. Lock ’em up after turning a high pressure fire hose on them. We have bred a bolder and undisciplined group of careless sh..ts and the controls on boozing hours are too lax. A tweak to bring balance is needed.
The majority of NZ citizens predicted this scenario would develop at the time the drinking age was lowered and the rules around drinking hours were relaxed too far. The politicians (nearly all of them) know damm well they were wrong but they won’t admit it. Political considerations transcend all else.
“A tweak to bring balance is needed.”
You can’t do that, think of the damage it would do to the breweries bottom line.
Yes halfcrown – I have been told off for saying what I think about liquor barons.
Them and their weasly lobby group the Hospitality? whatever. Why would we think they would say anything effective to prevent binge drinking like shorter hours, and whether it would ever happen is a moot point. What we are left with is hospital. And we are a sick society with so much alcohol dependence and living for parties.
Not only that.Anyone who has to take up precious A&E time at hospitals or even further medical attention should be paid for by themselves and they should not be eligible for ACC for any injuries while under the influence of alcohol.
They’re only modelling parliamentary behaviour at street level.
My new favourite word is mincome.
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
Beginning in 1974, Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals and Manitoba’s first elected New Democratic Party government gave money to every person and family in Dauphin who fell below the poverty line. Under the program—called “Mincome”—about 1,000 families received monthly cheques.
Unlike welfare, which only certain individuals qualified for, the guaranteed minimum income project was open to everyone. It was the first—and to this day, only—time that Canada has ever experimented with such an open-door social assistance program.
Key on 3: “we could be at war with North Korea” (allies).
Meanwhile, economically, China does “the telling”.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10875936
so some good news
Lagarde waltzes like Strauss-Kahn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21858531
I came to this blog today for a look after being banned.
I could be a troll and wind you up, but this place is scary, there are so many here who are bitter.
It seems you are on attack all of the time – when do you have fun?
I will look again but this is not a blog that happy people like. Smile and the World ….
… continues doing the same old thing.
Have fun with your fluffy kitten blogs.
Have you ever considered that just maybe there are quite a lot of people with a reason not to be happy and jolly all the time?
To question the status quo does not equal being bitter.
You yourself admit to being a troll.
Enough said.
Obviously haven’t had a look at the dark side then.
Have to agree. Not a lot of humour in a leftie. Just resentment and blame. Although a lot of folk on this blog are funny, but I don’t think it’s intentional.
Aww .. I dunno. Maybe you’re just not in tune with some of the humour. A lot things the Nats say and do make them laugh. Not a lot to laugh about for some whose jobs have disappeared and who’re worried about how to meet their commitments and needs under this government, especially with the unparalleled debt it’s got us into. Not as easy for some of these people to switch lucrative careers perhaps as it was for you. Not because they’re a bunch of lazy slackers either. Can you see things from their perspective at all, out of interest?
A U$K website showing the death toll of the war on the poor instigated by the Tory scum:
http://calumslist.org/
“Calums List | This Welfare Reform Death Toll Has To Stop”
“VERY IMPORTANT
If you are one of the people affected by the Welfare Reforms to such an extent that you are feeling suicidal, PLEASE contact one of the following:- Samaritans UK: 08457 90 90 90 NHS UK: 08454 24 24 24 Breathing Space UK: 0800 83 85 87 Republic of Ireland: 1850 60 90 90. Or use the SEVEN DAY RULE. Whatever you are feeling now, the old saying that suicide is permanent holds true. PLEASE make a contract with yourself. Do nothing precipitous for SEVEN days. Many, many people have found that whatever psychological anguish occurs in the darkest depths of despair, just weathering the storm and holding off for seven days is sufficient to come through and recover enough not to go that way.”
John Yankee is intending the same for us here in N$Z 🙁
“Sick? Who gives Atos?”
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011/02/sick-who-gives-atos.html
” Atos benefits bullies killed my sick dad, says devastated Kieran, 13
1 Nov 2012 08:34
THE devastated youngster believes the benefits assessors’ decision to deem his dad “fit for work” led to his death from a heart attack.”
Atos benefits bullies killed my sick dad, says devastated Kieran, 13
1 Nov 2012 08:34
THE devastated youngster believes the benefits assessors’ decision to deem his dad “fit for work” led to his death from a heart attack.
A GRIEVING boy of 13 has accused Atos of killing his disabled dad.
Kieran McArdle told the Daily Record in a harrowing letter how his father Brian, 57, collapsed and died the day after his disability benefits were stopped. He had been assessed by Atos and deemed “fit for work”.
The youngster said a previous stroke on Boxing Day last year had caused a blood clot on Brian’s brain.
He was left paralysed down his left side, unable to speak properly, blind in one eye and barely able to eat or dress.
But he was still summoned to an Atos “work capability assessment” – part of the Con-Dem Government’s drive to cut billions from the welfare bill.
Kieran says he had another stroke days before his appointment because of stress, but was still determined to attend.
A month later, former security guard Brian got a letter telling him he would lose his disability benefits on September 26.
Kieran said his dad’s health went rapidly downhill. He believes constant worry about how he would survive without the cash he needed robbed Brian of the will to live.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/atos-killed-my-dad-says-boy-1411100
Yankee John intends the same here for our disabled. 🙁
johnm
There are already 0800 helplines for mentally ill, suicidal, addicted and other people in crisis in NZ.
So by merely handing out phone numbers to ring, will this actually stop anyone from harming themselves if they are really desperate and suicidal? It may in some cases, but if a person is really desperate, they will not bother ringing a stranger late at night – or whenever, thinking that person will really make a difference in an acute crisis, brought on through unsympathetic welfare agencies, who would not give a damn about a client’s well-being unther the new system to be phased in.
If DWP in the UK or WINZ in NZ treat clients as crims, suspects of cheating and bludgers, while they are supposed to “assist” and “support” people in need, who the hell would any client or beneficiary have trust in?
Only welfare advocates may make a difference, but such agencies staffed by them are being closed one after another, because MSD cut their funding (see BIAS in Auckland)!
WTF?!
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/132202/pm-suggests-nz-could-help-defend-south-korea
I’m sure the WhaleSpew Army would all volunteer. Key would no doubt send his sons if it weren’t for an important baseball game in the US and A.
Hopefully this sort of garbage will wake a few more people up to what an abject idiot the guy is. It’ll also be interesting to see Labour’s position on this stupid announcement.
Its good to support your allies when needed
So which “alliance” of a defence nature is there between South Korea and New Zealand?
South Korea and New Zealand are both close allies of the USA. If s**t went down and the USA went in aid of South Korea (as it would) then you can bet (being thats it close to both China and Japan) that Australia would support the USA which means NZ would as well
If not for trade reasons which are certainly a consideration) then for the humanitarian aspect of unifying Korea
You’re an idiot.
War on the Korean peninsula is not a humanitarian cause.
And you’re a fool
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8715146/Red-Cross-appeal-for-2.7m-emergency-aid-as-North-Korean-bread-basket-hit-by-floods.html
http://rokdrop.com/2011/09/16/red-cross-raises-money-for-north-korean-flood-victims/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-worried-readers-guide-to-north-korea-8563111.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/21/un-investigate-human-rights-abuses-north-korea
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/12/north-korean-children-malnutrition-un
chris73 pls.
If any of that were relevant we would’ve been in there a long time ago.
Or did such intel only come to light in the last week or two? Co-incident with the threats from Nth Korea?
How strange.
Or did such intel only come to light in the last week or two? Co-incident with the threats from Nth Korea?
-Appeasment never works, it only encourages the same behaviour so if North Korea do decide to attack South Korea then it would be a perfect time to invade North Korea and reunify the country
However if I was the USA I’d make sure I was fully out of the middle east and afghanistan before doing anything
Of course if the USA dont do anything its because theres no oil and if they do something its because they’re trying to take over the world…
lolwut?
Fuck off with your conspiracy theories chris.
funny how we never see Chris73 linking to the human rights abuses committed by the USA,
Chris73, what are your wise learnings teaching you about Guantanamo for example ?
Yep, North Korea will be defeated with all the military might of staunch Kiwi soldiers. The South Koreans really need their loyal NZ friends if attacked. Re-deployment from Bamyan is on the agenda now, straight to the border between North and South Korea. That is what I expect to come from Key’s mouth tomorrow, after what he said to NZ TV media today.
I could not believe it either, that is the shit that NZ media report, and fall for, and nobody dares to ask, is this the newest distraction attempt, to divert away from questions about Fletcher’s selection for leading the GCSB??? Kiwi media, between at times amusing, at other times to be pitied, and furthermore to be truly pathetic.
Well lets see what units would be of use…SAS seem to do quite well, medics are always useful, engineers are respected
Of course recent war experience would be gulf war one and two and afghanistan amongst the most well known conflicts
It also helps that our troops train with other countries that are likely to be involved which makes things easier for integration
No ones suggesting we have the man power to match other countries but equally we have resources that are useful in battles
Do what you can with what you have
http://www.radiolive.co.nz/John-Key-defiant-Ian-Fletchers-GCSB-hiring-appropriate/tabid/506/articleID/34521/Default.aspx
– JT confirms Ferguson was Helen Clarks man (as I stated before and was asked for proof) and quite frankly Key sounds better on this topic then Robertson does…
Radio Live soundings have been clearly to the right of the political spectrum for years, and what, apart from some comment that Ferguson was perhaps appointed to lead GCSB under the last Labour government, do you have to prove he was selected in a manner Fletcher was contacted and suggested by Key???
Yes Willie Jackson that well known tory was also questioning John Key
JT who was in cabinet says yes Ferguson was Helen Clarks man and was shoulder tapped (which he says during the interview) then thats pretty good evidence right there
(except it doesn’t fit in with narrative Labour wants to put out so of course it will be disbelieved, chocolate fish to the first person who asks for “proof”…)
“yes Ferguson was Helen Clarks man”
Give us the actual quote on that.
Its there in the audio clip, JT confirms (and Willie Jackson agrees)
Can you tell us the actual words as said rather than your interpretation please?
I’m not going to transcribe the words when the audio clip is there to listen to.
Ok I’ll do it for you. But seeing as you’re the one claiming it says xyz, you really should do this yourself.
Seeing as it’s half an hour of audio, would you be kind enough to point me to the relevant part?
Ok chris I’ve listened to the entire segment of the interview that relates to the Key scandal, and I haven’t heard anything about Helen Clark’s man.
Unless you can provide the quote, I’m calling bullshit.
See below but feel free to call bullshit as I made a bullshit call
Well once again I have to apologize for getting it wrong (again) I put two and two together and got 5
In other words I was wrong so you don’t need to listen to the audio clip, all it mentions is Helen Clark shoulder tapping but not Ferguson especially
So I’m wrong again and I apologize
Probably be better if you apologised for making it up.
Where did you get “Helen Clark’s man” from? Whaleoil?
Does the interview even mention Helen Clark? Or just “other PMs”?
Do you understand now why people ask for quotes when you make these claims, and would you be able to be a bit less of a cock about it next time?
Chris73 says ,
‘JT who was in cabinet says yes Ferguson was Helen Clarks man and was shoulder tapped (which he says during the interview) then thats pretty good evidence right there’
But unlike John Key
Didnt lie about her involvement in parliament,when questioned .
Didn’t lie to journalists when given the 3rd or 4th chance to come clean.
Its the continual lying ,people dont like chris 73,
You do know what lying is , Chris73?
Its the continual lying ,people dont like chris 73,
– So explain why John Key is still one of the most popular leaders NZ has ever had
You do know what lying is , Chris73?
– Listen to the audio clip (where he explains what happened) and you decide if hes lying and make up your own mind
Yep thanks.
He’s lying
“Radio Live soundings have been clearly to the right of the political spectrum for years”
Yep, demonstrated by the observation that chris thinks his sarcasm needs no explanation.
It’s such an extreme right-wing environment that within it, Willie and JT appear to be far to the left.
Willie Jackson is, JT not so much but rather then discuss my opinion (much as I’d like to) why not listen to the clip and form your own opinion (i know its a difficult concept for left-wingers but give it a go you might like it)
I heard it last week, didn’t hear anything like what you say is in it. Listening again right now, still can’t find your reference.
Be a good trool and tell me whereabouts in the 36 minutes it occurs, won’t you?
Particularly “Fergeson was Helen Clark’s man” or words to that effect.
I still haven’t come across it and I’m well over half way through.
I didn’t make it up as that suggests it was deliberate on my part instead I thought JT had confirmed it but if you want me to apologize for being mistaken then no worries
I apologize for being wrong
“I thought JT had confirmed it”
Confirmed what? Something no-one said?
Hey I still think Clark shoulder tapped Ferguson but I got it wrong saying JT confirmed it
So you thought JT confirmed something you made up.
So you thought JT confirmed something you made up
No, I got it wrong and unlike the majority of posters here I can admit when I’m wrong
lolz, you admit you were “wrong” because you got caught out making shit up.
John Key “is smoking dope on that one” according to Bruce Ferguson. He calls Key’s statement “outrageous.”
Former GCSB head Ferguson is now at war with John Key! Dynamite!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10876297
This morning the NZ Herald quickly pushed this piece off the front pages of its website. Read it!