I agree that agreed-upon changes to farming could/should be subsidised. Farmers should be assisted in reducing their greenhouse gas outputs, to maintain their viability. Much discussion could be had about how this could be done. Assistance with tree-planting schemes is the obvious first step, perhaps under the umbrella of “alternative cropping”, especially when that involves carbon sequestration, job creation and food production. Nut trees are an example, or coppiced sycamore for fuel, perhaps. It’s a space where a lot of exciting thinking could take place.
Can we look to see who or what is moving into that space and help the action along? Just by publicising what is being done, the meetings being held, the start with planting, any helpful funding, the training and pastoral care being given to young workers used and whether this is plantation, or agroforestry (not aggroforestry)!
"The IPCC report highlighted the impact of deforestation, where countries were essentially swapping native forest for food cultivation.
"This means those countries are trying to prioritise feeding their own people. And that's being done at the expense of the environment," Hoggard said."
Haven't we New Zealanders "swapped" vast swathes of native forest for … farming?
In the past but apart from the big removal of pine forest in the central north island the general direction has been more trees in this country for the last 40 years.
In the past…the vast bulk of farmland was created and there was no need for more deforestation, aside from nibbling at the edges. We did the damage then, so can't claim now to be blameless.
(early-adopter/long time) vegan here – steeling myself for the (long awaited/expected) flesh-eater backlash – that time is clearly now upon us..
and a thought for all those progressives/greens/environmentalists who awake this morning salivating for pig-flesh/eggs etc..
you do realise that the combination of yr 'progressive' ideas/beliefs – along with your (unthinking?) contributions to supporting the wholesale exploitation of/cruelty to innocent animals..(as well as helping fuck the planet – but hey..!..eh..?
that this makes you the modern-day equivalent of that historical oxymoron – the 'good slave-owner'
and as well as everything else that is wrong with the above picture – you do all realise that you are on the wrong side of history..eh..?
close..yes to the vespa – no to the leather..and yes..(historically-speaking) to the opiates – and a big no to the 'p'..(never tried homebake – had more than my fair share of heroin..)
"Many people believe dogs are carnivores. In fact, dogs are omnivores, and even wolves in the wild derive nutrition from both plant and animal sources."
I don't think I could totally go vegan now. But vegetarian meals 3 to 4 times a week, with judicious choices for other meals are fine, and the resultant weight loss has been a welcome bonus.
It has meant saving interesting recipes and learning how to use a greater variety of plant seeds flesh and leaves.
What about serving sizes?
The data in the study looked at the environmental impact for 1kg of each of the different food products.
The graph shows the impact of beef growing in the different continents is interesting and I find Asia's water use for it puzzling.
I have found that I should stick to eating a couple of small potatoes 3-5 times weekly for minimum effect, compared to a block of chocolate 1-2 times weekly – not good. And that chocolate grown in de-rainforest gives more carbon than a serving of low-impact beef. So depends where and what.
i should shoot a vid of my current dogs (two ex-pig-hunting dogs – big hulking beasts – one 17yrs old – t' other 8yrs old ) as they watch me preparing their food..
(both were pulled from death row – and are grateful for it.)
when they see that tonite they are getting a peanut sauce dressing – they almost achieve lift-off..
when they came into my life – (just over a yr ago) the 17 yr old was an emotional-mess (pig-hunting dogs – in the main – have a shit life)..wouldn't lift his head off the ground..was very scared..
he ain't 'scared' no more..
the 8 yr old was a physical mess – big sores on both hips etc.(from living/lying on concrete) – but mentally was strong – (that's 'cos he is a boofhead…a loveable one – but a boofhead nonetheless..)
both dogs are now shiny-coated/wet-nosed happy dogs..
and we have a carnivore dog living nearby – she likes to come by to clean up any small vestiges left from my dogs' dinner..
in short – carnivore dogs also luv the vegan feeds i prepare for my hounds..
in fact – i cd turn any dog vegan overnite..
and something else i have observed in over 20 yrs of having vegan dogs – is that i don't need to bathe them..
it takes 10-12 months to happen…but their hair returns to being serviced by the natural oils..
..and both now have super-shiny coats…(no maintenance needed from me..)
so yeah..dogs – like humans – are omnivores – and like humans – thrive on a healthy vegan/plant-based diet..
(ahem..!..i also have shiny-coat/wet-nose etc..heh..!..)
"So your dogs aren't naturally vegan, you're just imposing your ideology upon them against their natural instincts."
Dogs don't naturally live in houses either, nor ride in cars, sleep in kennels, sit on command…we're just imposing our ideology on them, eh, The Al1en!
Sure, RG. Domestication of dogs over thousands of years is the same as a vegan ignoring the well being of an animal by denying it the food it's body is naturally adapted for, for the sake of their own belief system.
It has to start somewhere, The Al1en. It's started with Phil; why the anguish? Do you think he's mistreating his dogs; remember, I've seen Phil's dogs; again, pictures of health and contentment.
No anguish, RG, just getting to the truth of the situation, that PU's dogs are a sad experiment against the natural order of things and, as you agreed up thread, they'd eat the meat given the choice.
Not convinced that the logic of your argument is sound, The Al1en. From what you said earlier, faeces is the meal-of-choice for labradors; should lab owners provide that in preference to anything else?
From what you said earlier, faeces is the meal-of-choice for labradors; should lab owners provide that in preference to anything else?
Sadly, for you, I didn't write that, so logic and argument in this case are humorously moot.
However, I do agree with a lot of what you write about the environment, and appreciatively acknowledge your green credentials, so while I will not take your line on the matter of ideologue fed dogs, I am predisposed to show my omnivorous side and take the veg with the meat.
"All the labs I've known have been enthusiastically coprophagic…"
"coprophagic" meaning, "the eating of excrement".
I trusted his claim, but misread Andre, for Al1en, sorry.
That said, it seems labs prefer poo over meat and vegetables.
However, I was off the mark.
Your denouement,
"so while I will not take your line on the matter of ideologue fed dogs, I am predisposed to show my omnivorous side and take the veg with the meat." is brilliant and I appreciate your finesse with language, and I thank you for your indulgence. My case is collapsed, but I'll recover from the set-back and rejoin the fray after my bath.
I do appreciate a focused thinker, btw. My excuse for missing the detail would be that I was all but fully engaged with customers buying heritage apple trees during our to-and-fro, I'm the selector, advisor and packager of said trees, but that's no real reason to miss a detail like the author's identity. Can I close with the claim that all dogs are ideologically-fed (aside from those who aren't)?
All the labs I've known have been enthusiastically coprophagic. Lay out a nice smelly one next to the carrot and sausage, and odds are they'd go for that first.
If not forcing your meat-eating pets to eat only plants is being a "good slave owner," I guess I am. Although, being cats they're not slaves, in fact they seem to regard me as a servant.
um..!..this is not 'a line of argument' – not some philosophical word-wank..
i am arguing against the industrial cruelty that is the soupcon in most peoples' meals..
and yes – 'for many moons'…i was an early adopter/learner..(more widespread now – have you noticed..?..more of me….less of you..?…keep watching that space..eh..?..it has just begun..)
and that you are addicted to animal-flesh/bye-products is yr fucken problem..eh….?
not mine..
and yes..telling that you consider yr addiction being pointed out to you – as an 'insult'..
If you're not presenting an argument, what are you doing? In writing these comments, you must be seeking to persuade, or what's the point? I know that in the past some people with poor ability to cope with a non-standard writing style have sometimes accused you of dumping word salads on people's blogs, but this time you're practically accusing yourself of it.
and i use my own name – so of course i am happy to engage on such matters in person/any forum..
is there anything i have said that is untrue..?
if you find that truth less than palatable – this is really yr issue..
i find the industrial cruelty done to animals – just so you can eat them..
..kinda 'less than palatable'..
bordering on nauseating..actually..
and in those who self-regard as green/environmentalists – who haul out the worry-beads/wring their hands as an expression of helplessness over 'what can i do?'…
There have been articles recently about how it would be too expensive for NZ to go to 100% renewable electricity. In NZ, that's utter nonsense considering that vast amount of stored hydro we already have in our existing lakes, how easy it would be for us to build new pumped hydro storage, and how cheap wind energy has become.
Nevertheless, looking at how relatively easily the US could go 100% renewable just further highlights how shameful it is that we are still burning shit-tons of coal and gas for electricity.
Collectively, we just don't care enough to elect a government that will prioritise making the change, and/or reward a government that does make the change.
We have tolerated changing the structure of our electricity system to one where protecting short-term corporate profit streams from existing assets is overwhelmingly prioritised over doing the right thing for our future. Even when doing that right thing would be better for long-term economic performance.
All of the UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe, and even Iceland have grunty grid connections. Since that spread covers a big geographic area, it would be very unusual to have low wind across the entire grid-connected area.
Im assuming most of Scotlands wind generation is offshore like that of Ireland and the rest of the UK….for the obvious reason the wind is more consistent
"Recent news report held that scotland in the first six months of the year produced 200% of its' required energy – from wind farms.."
No it doesnt. Thats because you have misread the original story , which was designed to be misleading.
The real story was that 200% was of power consumption of homes – excluding factories ( Scotland is an industrial country) , commercial, public hospitals etc.
Secondly Scotland like the rest of the UK , mostly relies on natural gas for residential heating, hot water and cooking. ( Not like NZ at all where gas is overall a small part of home energy use). Homes arent using much electricity, mostly appliances, lighting etc.
The other factor with only looking at consumption, is the production of electricity uses energy as well , losses occur in every power line big and small.In a real world its the electricity PRODUCTION number to start from.
Scotland , the supply point for North Sea gas also provides nett a considerable amount of power to England and Wales as they are part of the grid.
So reading the headline number about 'electricity for homes' ignore the massive use of fossil fuel like gas for Scotlands homes and businesses and public facilities.
Interesting interview from Kim Hill just now, ran the full hour, with a prof involved in the 2-hour doco (released July 24), The Great Hack, about Cambridge Analytica. Explores the brave new world of social control and manipulation via algorithms…
"Professor David Carroll, from Parsons School of Design in New York, is one of the central figures in 'The Great Hack', a recently released Netflix documentary looking at the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal from 2018."
"The revelations that data from tens of millions of Facebook users was being harvested and improperly used to serve targeted ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election), led Carroll to try to recover the personal data held about him through the courts."
"ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election),"
But no evidence that they had any effect on the US election whatsoever.
In fact it was Robby Mooks who ran the Clinton campaign that based all of his strategy for winning 2016 on analytics mined from personal data.
So other words the one fact we do know is that the use of mined personal date from the internet helped lose an election…not win it.
Five things we've learned about Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign from new inside account
Allcott and Gentzkow concluded, “Our data suggest that social media were not the most important source of election news, and even the most widely circulated fake news stories were seen by only a small fraction of Americans. For fake news to have changed the outcome of the election, a single fake news story would need to have convinced about 0.7 percent of Clinton voters and non-voters who saw it to shift their votes to Trump.” They added, “For fake news to have changed the outcome of the election, a single fake article would need to have had the same persuasive effect as 36 television campaign ads.”
Biden looks and sounds awful..yet again, and makes multiple gaffs on different occasions in a day of constant embarrassment for him and his team.
Surely the Dems are going to have to pull him out soon, he looks and sounds more and more senile as the primaries grind along…but who else have they got to defend their Liberal ideology?…I guess Warren could be their fall back, although she is not a perfect fit for them, it is pretty well accepted now that the establishment Dems and most 'liberal' media are running on the mantra..anyone but Bernie.
You have no idea how US primary campaign politics works. Who are these "dems' you talk about.
Candidates raise their own money and run their own campaign with it. The usual process is to keep going till the candidate ( not the Dems!) runs out of money. Joining the campaign doesent require even to be 'a democrat' – as Bernie Sanders even though a Senator wasnt. There arent any party memberships.
Actual primaries where the voters decide dont start till early next year.
If it weren't so absolutely necessary to evict Hair Fuhrer from the White House making the stakes so high, I'd be kinda interested to watch a contested convention play out.
Clinton V Barney Rubble was a contested convention.
Former U.S. Secretary of StateHillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call, defeating primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 46% of votes from delegates,
The 2008 convention, where Clinton had slightly more primary voters but less overall delegates, Clinton graciously moved a motion for Obama to be the candidate by acclamation
No we don't want to see a contested convention play out, because then the super delegates came into play and destroy the democratic process,,,but then again I guess that is exactly what the establishment want one would assume,
@Dukeofurl
No maybe you better do a refresher course in US politics, you seem to know sweet FA. The highest members of establishment democratic party were caught red handed in 2016 tipping the scales for Clinton..even Clinton arselicker and cheater for Clinter, Donna Brazile admitted that the DNC was effectively controlled by the Clinton Campaign in 2016…
The Democratic Party's ex-interim chief has accused Hillary Clinton of seizing control of the party in exchange for funding during the 2016 campaign.
Vote for Clinton in Democratic primaries 16.9 mill
Vote for Sanders 13.2 mill
hence Clinton wins. You have had this pointed out many times. The registered democrats preferred Clinton by a wide margin ( in 2008 Clinton had a small margin over Obama in primary votes but he won the delegate vote)
So Clinton wins the primary votes in two Presidentail campaigns and you think The DNC had their hand ( no idea of what the DNC really is) on the scales.
The DNC doesnt run the primaries in each state , nor does it tell the voters how to vote.
Look at who are members of the DNC , of course Clinton has over whelming support from that group .
That doesnt give her the voters, first she had to do something you dont understand . Its called campaigning .
Your idea of tipping scales is primary school level understanding.
And MONEY ?
Clinton spent $174 mill
Sanders spent $219 mill
Again you ignore the reality of Sanders was very well funded and still didnt win enough votes in the primaries.
Think practically not ideologically adam. Deciding that something should be done a certain way doesn't ensure success perhaps extra thought is needed and some direction (authoritarianism) also.
So silly . Thats how their system works , you get elected officials AND unions to endorse you . And she did.
Its an open contest, Sanders got heaps of endorsements too, spend more money and still lost.
Doesnt mean "the dems" make the voters vote your way. It cant, its a devolved system. The DNC runs the convention long after the primaries are over, The individual states democratic Party run their own primaries not the DNC.
DNC is 100s of elected officials , would be like herding cats
Man you really are living in a really loud echoing bubble..don't your ears hurt?
A. The DNC had/has either in it's direct employment or on file an incredibly deep instrustrucure in terms of human resources, and battle hardened political campaigners..many from Obama's two successful runs, not to mention Clintons own extensive and extremely potent team from her own previous run, Clinton had every single advantage any politician could ask for heading into that race.
B. By allowing Hillary access to the levers of power with in the DNC, Clinton would have had that huge database of information that helped Mook target voters with a precision Sanders could not, thereby spending less (if that is actually the case).
C. Hillary had an existing network of local campaigners and foot soldiers spread through out the States that Sanders was only building as the primary's unfolded, so his loss turned out to be in many ways a symbolic victory to the progressive movement, as we are seeing unfold in this election cycle.
D. All 'liberal' media attacked,slandered and undermined Sanders relentlessly through out the primary race.
E. I was actually talking about the Clinton loss to Trump and not about Sanders.
They did just that in 2016, and of course they will do it again..they (like you) are defending their defunct and discredited ideology, and will not go down without a fight that is for sure.
When did I say I wanted them to do it for Sanders? you [deleted].
You and your fellow staunch defenders of the status quo are the ones who live in fantasy, a dangerous fantasy world, where it just goes back to normal for you in your little bubble…in fact as it turns out you [deleted] would rather live in a racist right wing hell hole than see any real change that might effect you personally.
So have a nice day..
and by nice day, I mean [deleted] you.
[Not cool to lose your cool like that and you’re better than that – Incognito]
You said about Joe Biden: Surely the Dems are going to have to pull him out soon
Then perhaps you'd like to be a bit clearer about who "the Dems" are that might be able to do this and how they might be able to do it. And then, given that you're a vocal advocate of the candidate that's still coming second in most polls, explain why that sentiment isn't a blatant wish that something be done to improve the chances of your preferred candidate rather than letting a democratic process play out.
Sheesh Adrian Thornton did you miss the memo – neo libs and fake lefties always support fascism. They are too cowardly for a real positive challenge.
God forbid they actually behaved like decent human beings and raise a finger to actually help people – why would they – when they have their ideological purity to help them sleep at night.
The party side is limited to running the primaries or caucuses.
And at the moment , its the TV networks/ cable outlets who are running debates who maybe try to winnow the talking heads debates based on poll numbers. But thats not really a party thing.
BTW
"The DNC is composed of the chairs and vice-chairs of each state Democratic Party's central committee, two hundred members apportioned among the states based on population and generally elected either on the ballot by primary voters or by the state Democratic Party committee, a number of elected officials serving in an ex officio capacity, and a variety of representatives of major Democratic Party constituencies."
The primary job of the DNC is to run the National Nominating convention, about a year away.
The party system is highly devolved, with states democratic party having a lot of say over their primary. At the local level its organised down at the county/city level too.
Clintons agreement for a Joint fundraising with the DNC ?
Sanders had one too –
"Now, the JFCs aren’t loved by campaign finance or good-government experts, but they’re not entirely out of the ordinary. Before his grassroots fundraising juggernaut took off, for instance, Sanders also had an agreement for a joint fundraising committee with the DNC"
Eventually Sanders didnt need it as his online fundraising took off and he ended up spending more then Clinton.
Putting a machine between everything that we naturally need or want to do so we can't proceed independently is our biggest mistake. When the energy isn't available to us we can be helpless. I
In an individualistic society we must find the true value of individuality, having our own thoughts, management systems, and our support people with similar understandings and trustworthy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/396376/commuter-chaos-as-uk-hit-by-major-power-failures Commuter chaos as UK hit by major power failures
Individuals in the train system had to provide lights in the dark caverns using their phone lights, which would eventually peter out as batteries went flat. What then – a small torch with wind-up energy source could be good to have. One tweeter said that the doors of the train were closed and they couldn't leave. Some had to be helped by police to walk through dark tunnels after being 2 hours trapped in the train. Walking out in a line with one hand on the shoulders of the person in front would be helpful for group support and guidance and passing information from the front down the line could then be done which would be encouraging.
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An interview on this morning was an excellent interview between Kim Hill and an expert about Cambridge Analytica and the Netflix production of The Great Hack. What an interesting and chilling thing this all is. (Our clever minds are being twisted and any morals passed on, abandoned.) There was so much to take in. One coment – some of the European countries, Germany and .. can't remember, have strong laws which are "muscularly" administered. And that the UK controlling body has all the information in its hands about the USA that was gathered which is roughly everything that is worth knowing from a manipulating POV.
I am wondering if that is behind the Brexit excitement of the Cons. That there is a method in their madness that has not been identified. The Prof being interviewed was very alive to all the power that the system misused has and will bring if not 'reined' in (my pedantry – people keep spelling it reigned). He gave an example of the modus operandi of CA and said they look at the zeitgeist (my word) of an individual country's peoples and then know which buttons to push. I think he mentioned Trinidad and Tobago, not sure, where the country is divided and then they could work on manipulating that for their client's purposes.
Professor David Carroll, from Parsons School of Design in New York, is one of the central figures in 'The Great Hack', a recently released Netflix documentary looking at the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal from 2018.
The revelations that data from tens of millions of Facebook users was being harvested and improperly used to serve targeted ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election), led Carroll to try to recover the personal data held about him through the courts.
After a legal battle lasting for more than two years, Cambridge Analytica's parent company finally pled guilty to criminal charges of disobeying the British data regulator, who fined it and ordered it to hand over all the data about Carroll they had collected. It would appear that he is still to receive it!
"I’m just one person, just one reporter working from a home office in the midwest, juggling three kids with irregular writing deadlines. So the knowledge that a multibillion-dollar corporation spent so much time and attention trying to figure out how to thwart me is terrifying.
Truth and transparency are precious commodities, the foundations for the knowledge we all need and deserve about the world we live in. Without truth we cannot know what risks we face, what protections we must make for our families and our futures.
When corporate power is so intensely brought to silence messengers, to manipulate the public record and public opinion, truth becomes stifled. And we should all be afraid."
When corporate power is so intensely brought to silence messengers, to manipulate the public record and public opinion, truth becomes stifled. And we should all be afraid."
At the risk of being labled, I've just waded my way through Andrew Wakefield's book 'Callous Disregard'. It was a slow wade as there were so many footnotes and references that my slightly Aspie brain was triggered to go and verify as many as possible…because, you know, Wakefield is this anti science, anti vax, fraudulent nutbar and you can't trust anything he writes.
To say he was targeted is an understatement.
And for shits and giggles I checked out what the loudest detractors of the monsanto journalist had to say about others who have the audacity to swim against the accepted science stream.
being targeted (which I'm sure is true) doesn't mean his science was sound. On the other side, the people who went on to be called anti-vaxxers led a crazy movement that has resulted in one of the biggest sub-cultures of poor science I have seen. It's *very ideological, and creates a kind of blindness.
Pre-internet and pre-Wakefield, there was a steady, low % of the population who didn't vaccinate by choice (as opposed to people who couldn't easily access health services). They were generally informed, and tended to be from families with good standards of living, diet, non-overcrowding, and thus some disease protection from that. Public health officials have not been too concerned about them, because herd immunity can handle that low %.
What's happened post-Wakefield is a wider range of people have been scared into not vaccinating, but they're not necessarily promoting health in other ways. That's a problem when it's added to the people not vaccinating because of poverty/lack of access. We've also moved on from the days when immunity could be acquired from contracting measles, mumps or rubella.
It's highly likely that there was concerted action by vested interests online to stir up hate against anti-vaxxers. The vitriol and authoritarianism I've seen from progressives is mind blowing.
I think it's nigh on impossible to have a conversation about vaccination now, both sides are doing bullshit things, and the industry being part of that makes total sense.
I think it's nigh on impossible to have a conversation about vaccination now, both sides are doing bullshit things, and the industry being part of that makes total sense.
Yes. A while back there were a few discussions here…but in a surprisingly short time the vitriol flowed toward anyone who dared to suggest that vaccine harm is real and dismissing that small number of individuals who have suffered such vaccine injuries is simply unjust. And cruel.
My stance has consistently been that the influence of the so-called 'anti-vaxxers' is exaggerated…and that message has emerged from our Immunisation Advisory Centre…there are other factors that have led to low vaccine uptake.
However….I am of an age and of a particular group who were aware that there were serious safety concerns with early DTP vaccines and early MMR vaccines. Scout around for interweb info from NZ on this and there is just about nothing. There should be screeds. Where has it gone? Shit happened and kids were permanently harmed and there's sweet FA in our history. Dismissed. For shits and giggles I made an OIA request for the numbers of successful ACC claims for vaccine injury since records began. Bearing in mind that only the most serious harm events are accepted….I wonder if anyone can guess at an average per year since 2005? (Which is well after the time when there were many instances of post vaccine incidents….)
MoH don't seem too bothered by the non-vaccinated by choice rate and appear more focused on getting to those who are not vaccinating because of poverty or lack of access. Is the IAC part of the MoH or separate?
Reading the summary, it looks like most serious adverse effects aren't permanent or long term. Which is good. But the reporting looks inadequate, and light on detail.
I wonder how many people getting the flu shot are told about the potential side effects. I find stats so interesting. Death or disability risk might be very low across the population but catastrophic for the few people it happens to. How do people make those decisions?
that doesn't mean people are giving informed consent. In my experience, people are not often told the truth about adverse/side effects of drugs they are given. I'm sure this varies quite a bit by doctor.
There's no reason to mislead or underinform. Some docs might be more time-constrained or shite comunicators than others, but that's an issue of the wider system, not immunisation or medication in general.
And 98 serious events per year is pretty low considering the number of vaccine doses, and that some of those might not even be related to the vaccine.
There's always room for improvement, but as long as the contraindication list is correctly filled in and reviewed, this shouldn't be a difficult choice to make.
The only one who doesn’t is my GP if I get there before the workplace people come around. But I’ve had a number of discussions with him about various medical matters. I think that he is somewhat aware of my researching habits. However the nurse who actually does the needle runs through the litany anyway.
Dunno, it was months ago. List usually revolves around immunosupporessed and allergies.
This year an unvaxxed colleague went for the flu shot and ended up having a long sit-down with the doc as he went through a history check. As in I was due to leave after the post-jab wait before she was given the jab – and he did almost all the talking. So if you go in and ask about it, you might be surprised.
Surprised about what? Many people on meds aren't aware of the known side effects. You will be because you ask. Probably same for Lynn. Same for me. But if you talk to people outside of the proactive patients, lots have general ideas but haven't read the safety sheets for instance. Stories of people that have a weird illness for months that then gets discovered as being a side effect of meds is not uncommon.
It might be that doctors are more careful with vaccinations, I don't know.
That the adverse reporting is still kind of loose is not good.
All drugs have side effects, even the so-called ‘harmless’ ones. As always, it depends on many factors, e.g. dose, frequency, duration, condition of the patient, use of other drugs (causing so-called drug-drug interactions), diet (e.g. alcohol consumption), et cetera. The list of possible side effects can be very long (and frightening). Best thing is to ask your healthcare provider and the pharmacist.
Remember, no (data and information) system is perfect and no patient is the same. Many things to do with the immune and nervous/neurological systems, for example, are incomplete and/or unpredictable, which is a euphemism for saying that our current medical knowledge is somewhat limited.
That one, as well as how the science was misapplied and taken up by authorities who should have known better, seems like the great health scandal of our time.
To "swim against the accepted science stream" can be a hard row to hoe – just listen to Christine Benn (Professor in Global Health) who believes that "vaccines [are] the largest untapped resource for improving health globally.", and has had difficulty persuading the medical establishment to take her research results onboard.
Good scientists, clinicians and other experts should review and be prepared to revise the directions of their various professional 'swims' in the light of new evidence. But experts are only human – they have limited time, limited expertise, limited intelligence, etc. They all make mistakes, many are ambitious, and some continue to cling to a favourite hypothesis (swimming in the same direction) after new evidence has shown it to be false – it’s human nature. http://sciencenordic.com/no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism
"Autism is a developmental disability that can cause significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges. A report published in 1998, but subsequently retracted by the journal, suggested that measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism. However, autism is a neurodevelopmental condition that has a strong genetic component with genesis before one year of age, when MMR vaccine is typically administered. Several epidemiologic studies have not found an association between MMR vaccination and autism, including a study that found that MMR vaccine was not associated with an increased risk of autism even among high-risk children whose older siblings had autism. Despite strong evidence of its safety, some parents are still hesitant to accept MMR vaccination of their children. Decreasing acceptance of MMR vaccination has led to outbreaks or resurgence of measles. Health-care providers have a vital role in maintaining confidence in vaccination and preventing suffering, disability, and death from measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases."
"5. IMPACT OF THE MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM CONTROVERSY In the United Kingdom, the 1998 Wakefield article had a profound impact, with subsequent decreases in MMR vaccination coverage and a dramatic increase in measles cases. Public confidence in the safety of MMR vaccine showed substantial declines in the early 2000s, possibly influenced by increasing negative media coverage of the MMR vaccine–autism controversy. MMR vaccination coverage, which had consistently been above 90% for the first dose in young children in the mid-1990s, sharply declined, dropping to just below 80% by the mid-2000s. At the same time, annual measles cases increased from<100 in the late 1990s to a peak of just over 2,000 in 2012. With the retraction of the Wakefield article in 2010 and the accumulating evidence that MMR vaccine does not cause autism, MMR vaccine acceptance and vaccination coverage recovered and stabilized in the United Kingdom. By 2010–2011, first-dose MMR vaccination coverage by age 24 months climbed to above 90% and has stayed at >90% through 2017, although coverage has fallen slightly in recent years. Measles case counts have decreased, and, in 2016, measles was declared eliminated from the United Kingdom."
Year No. of cases No. of deaths % of deaths
1940 409,521 857 0.2 %
1950 367,725 221 0.06 %
1960 159,364 31 0.02 % [~1 in 5000]
1970 307,408 42 0.014 %
1980 139,487 26 0.019 % [~1 in 5000]
1990 13,302 1 0.008 %
2000 2,378 1 0.04 %
2010 2,235 0 0 %
This data shows a large decrease in the number of measles cases in the UK (presumably due to vaccination and other public health programmes plus increased hygiene in the home/community), dropping to between 1000 and 6000 measles cases per annum over the last two decades (since 1996).
The % of measles cases resulting in death has also been decreasing. From 1989 there have (thankfully) been fewer than 5 deaths per year. When the number of deaths gets this low, the annual % death rate jumps around a fair bit, from a high of 0.12% (~1 in 800; 3 deaths in 1999), to 0 % (no deaths in 1994, 1996, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015).
"In high income regions of the world such as Western Europe, measles causes death in about 1 in 5000 cases, but as many as 1 in 100 will die in the poorest regions of the world. Worldwide, measles is still a major cause of death, especially among children in resource-poor countries. In 2016 about 90,000 people died of measles. This was the first year on record when global measles deaths fell below 100,000 a year. However, in 2017 global measles deaths rose by over 20% to 110,000 deaths – over 300 deaths a day. This increase was due to gaps in vaccination coverage." http://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/measles
That link also contains a graph of number of measles cases per annum from 1996 – 2018; 2012 and 2013 were the UK’s worst years in that period.
In the last decade, New Zealand's best years (from WHO data) were 2013 (17 cases), 2015 (11 cases) and 2017 (15 cases) – since 2012 (when measles was declared eradicated in NZ) all cases have supposedly originated overseas.
2019 hasn't been such a good year, with 499 cases (and 175 hospitalisations) as of 9 August (could all of those be from overseas?) Still, barring a case of measles in a highly compromised individual, we'd be unlikely to see a measles death in NZ even at these elevated numbers. Big thanks and shout-out to NZ's public health workers. https://www.immune.org.nz/diseases/measles
The BBC understands that two power supply plants – one a traditional gas and steam-fired power station in Cambridgeshire, the other a huge wind-turbine farm in the North Sea – failed at about 16:00 BST.
EnAppSys, an energy consultancy, said the blackout may have been caused by the unexpected shutdowns of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, which is owned by the Danish wind farm company Orsted, and the Little Barford gas-fired power plant, owned by German utility giant RWE.
"National Grid data showed both of the generators dropped from the grid at around the same time. The twin outages caused a sudden loss of frequency of the electricity grid, to below 49Hz, which would have caused certain parts of the network to disconnect automatically, causing the power cuts.
The Grid is a dynamic system, the current flow is always changing , the voltage is within a small range , but the frequency is a narrow band. Outside those ranges will cause electrical equipment to fail so its cut off instead
Cripes hadn't someone paid them their regular monthly lease payment? Why should a Danish company give previous EU member UK some latitude, they have shifted the location of their political leanings? Also Germany. Oh UK what are you doing, turning yourself into an unfriendly power from being an integrated member in Europe. The corrupted Cons have a sideways slide when confronted on anything real.
The reason is failure of two separate power supply at almost the same time. Not management decisions. Fairly common. Just more unusual two at roughly same time
It is of course actually a management failure because there should be some back up in hand if such a thing happened, unlikely but needed to be envisaged.
Doesnt work like that. Are you saying a a ghost power station should have been on instant standby – the frequency loss is detected in milliseconds and computers shut off the consumers just as quick, otherwise major damage occurs to grid equipment and some consumers equipment.
There would be dozens of power stations of all types active at the time, and cables connecting to France and Netherlands.
The scary part is the grid is under higher stress and more likely to fail in mid winter from single point failures not mid summer.
Modern systems are expected to be up to the job. When they aren't they are failing. So whatever needs to be held in reserve should be, if only to trigger a switch that gets the trip fuses back on site. They have to plan for breaks in hospitals with generators. Doing things on a vaster scale has vast consequences. Perhaps huge systems are not effective and smaller localised ones with different dynamics could then help each other out.
Paul Goldsmith. All you wanted to know about him, or not!
In 2005, Goldsmith published his biography of Don Brash. While notionally independent at the behest of the book's publisher, Penguin, the book was in fact paid for by friends of Brash.
Despite protestations of the book's independence, leaked emails published by Nicky Hager after the election showed the book was indeed not as independent as Brash and Goldsmith had let on when it was published.
Pentagon experimenting with balloons that can track multiple vehicles at a time. Data is saved so it can be reviewed later. They must have had this a decade ago so I assume it's only just been ok'ed for public knowledge.
This illustrates the same problem that we have in Christchurch (this is in Norwich UK). Visionaries of today say this lovely fairground ride is a great way to view the cathedral, and enjoy the experience in a new way no doubt.
Old hands won't stand for it. The heavy presence of the established Church must be maintained. It is the appearance of the Church that is important, not the messages of the New Testament that need to be brought to our benighted times. I think new people will be brought into the church and i think that it should have a sort of powhiri to introduce the consumers and sports lovers to a large building that has thinking about ourselves and other people and finding our way through life as its chief goal; and every try is a goal for this institution.
One way or another, some of the Church Ministers are going to draw people in to the venerable old piles:
‘The central aisle of Rochester Cathedral has also been converted into a crazy golf course’.
Wouldn't it be great if the Reserve Bank stopped punishing the savers and recommended to our dozy government that it's time to drop GST back to 10% – to match Australia's – AND 'leave more money in the pockets of 'the most vulnerable' '?
A good basic idea but it benefits the well off the most. That new Audi at $110,000 will save you around $5000. Not so much on a 15 yr old Honda like mine.
The best option is raising minimum wage as it affects the low paid the most without the well paid surfing the same wave
My thinking is to get on with building up infrastructure ready for the deluge or whatever plague of something coming along. Government could offer slightly better interest for savers through government bonds and get on with things in a timely manner ie steadily and using quality stuff and NZ young men and women getting training and employment who would feel then that they had something to be proud about.
But the dozy sods have just gone the easy way to collect their money in a safe way since they abandoned citizens in 1984 to private contractors. That was on the basis that the unions weren't doing right. Now nothing is done right, everything is falling apart after receiving a quick approving pat by the 'investors'. My relative has had to pay twice for work on his house, once to the builder who was 'over-committed' and then to the subs who wouldn't give their certification till he paid them. Things fall apart, and his house would too probably if he had not kept watch and ensured proper paperwork and practice. Luckily he knows a fair bit. It's DIY but not as we know it these days. But GST lower? That is a step towards tax as a fair contribution from what people manage to make from their input into the economy; a great bit of equality with everyone paying the same, well nearly everyone.
So I don't know if there is any capability at any level in NZ for a solid well-organised forward looking entity to manage anything. If they make a change and it doesn't work out for the pockets of the plutos, they will be unpopular. So too many pollies are too busy strutting in their expensive clothes, and glossing over everything except a few key matters that they drag out to the nth degree on the basis of 'look here, this is really important that everything is done 105% right, which will be difficult. Don't look over there, keep your mind on what we decree'.
. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49285670 Brexit: Corbyn seeks clarity on 'unconstitutional' election-time no-deal The Labour leader is concerned that the UK could leave the EU on 31 October, while a campaign is ongoing and before a new government is elected.
He has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill saying such a move would be an "anti-democratic abuse of power".
It comes amid speculation MPs will table a no-confidence motion in the PM.
Wasn't there once a Cod War? Everyone who has an iron in the fire is full of no-confidence in the UK politicians. How can they hold their heads up? A clerk who made gaffes like this continuing one, would have been down the road with no reference. The UK seem mesmerised by the debacle going on around them. Get up and fight you silly blighters – start now and later as the hard yakka is under way you can put up the cautionary poster – 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.
"At this stage, there is a lot of uncertainty about the sufficiency of enforcement in a no-deal because we have 12 vessels that need to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK."
On Thursday, noted right-wing phrenology site Quillette published an op-ed (archived link) from a fella calling himself Archie Carter. Carter was a self-described Marxist-Leninist union construction worker, a devotee of Saul Alinsky, and a Mets fan — and boy, was he ever unsatisfied with his experience going to meetings of the Democratic Socialists of America. "The DSA Is Doomed," the tantalizing headline read.
It was the reddest of red meat for Quillette. A real working class Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyist union guy talking about how he tried to go to some meetings of the Brooklyn chapter of the DSA because he was sick of the two-party system and was looking for an "alternative." He attended their meetings, and all their sit-ins and protests, only to discover just how out of touch all those latte-sipping liberals at the DSA really were with the actual working class.
All Leftist Assad apologists and genocide deniers need to take note
Behind the Lines: Shane Bauer Travels to Syria to Uncover America’s Role in the Syrian War
…..I really wanted to kind of untangle our role in that war, which, you know, is one of this century’s greatest tragedies. And I wanted to understand not just the role of, you know, Obama and diplomats, but of the special forces, of the CIA and of private citizens who joined and fought on different sides of the conflict….
The US are in Syria for their own reasons. The US presence as disastrous and deadly for the Syrian people as it has been, has little or nothing to do with the so called regime change conspiracy theory, or even challenging the regime in any way, but more a matter of protecting their own interests. Even if this involves joining the wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people alongside the Assad regime and Russia.
Behind the Lines: Shane Bauer Travels to Syria to Uncover America’s Role in the Syrian War
…..The battle of Raqqa was four months long, roughly 4,000 airstrikes, and 95% of those were from American jets. I think if something like Raqqa had happened in the Vietnam War, for example, it might have been one of the most sensational parts of that war. It was, you know, just a total onslaught. And, you know, the coalition claims that they were very precise in their campaign on Raqqa, but civilians that I spoke to described a campaign that was blanketing the city with bombs…..
…… I spent a week in Raqqa. And people responded in different ways, but I would say the most common response was “We are happy to be rid of ISIS.” You know, that was kind of the main thing, that they were glad that that was over. “But why did the U.S. have to destroy our city to this degree?” You know?…..
……I don’t know if we’ve had a conflict like this where it’s not only a literal proxy war, but it just ripple — the ripples go so far. I mean, you can find major divisions just within the American left about the Syrian war, you know. And this is all over the world. You know, there is just — it reaches, I think, farther than we can even realize. And, you know, in some ways, I think these points that people — that people kind of focus in on, like particular chemical attacks, you know, they’re also just places that we can kind of fight these battles with each other, but in some ways, you know, they are maybe not as relevant as we make them. I mean, the last study of civilian casualties in Syria was 2016, and that put them at half a million, you know.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: And the vast majority of whom have been killed by conventional weapons.
SHANE BAUER: Yes. And studies have have shown that around 85% of civilian deaths have come from the Assad regime…..
The former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson has launched a blistering attack on the quality of state consultation with Māori over many years.
I thought you were smarter mm. Finlayson knew what was expected of him from his Party and had to follow the protocol and if he had tried to change it and caused a lack of settlement on the tabled considerations, he would have been out from National and perhaps delayed an inevitable deal from the Maori side, and then there might have been total pullback. It was not a conscience vote and he had to present to Maori what the government was offering, and oversee the staff involved.
"The preoccupation with ''issues'' like this is so childish it's hard to believe it's not a joke being played on the reader. ''Surely this is not serious'' is a thought that must pop into many readers' minds."
"I only looked to see what the fuzz was all about!"
'Genter denies she ever threatened to resign, telling media on Thursday: "I have not threatened to resign… I don't know why you would take the word of councillors over myself."
Maybe she didn't offer to resign but said she would resign but its not looking good for her, I mean asking people to take her word over others but refusing to release the letter which would prove what happened…its not a good look
"Currently we produce and export enough dairy products for an estimated 34 million people who don't live here. There are significant costs borne by the rest of the community for that production in the loss of swimmable rivers, polluted aquifers, massive milk tanker damage to roads, and methane and carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere."
The Allblacks lost ma te wa there is plenty of time for the Allblacks to get back in form for the Rugby World Cup my brother was not happy I had to tell him about the positive things about that situation.
The South Island is having a huge Snow storm its a bit cooler we're we are.
Great that the Barrett whanau is supporting Down syndrome by letting the public see their daughter who has Down syndrome that will help lift the wairua of many people who have Down syndrome.
Thats great for Our waterways our government is investing $12 million into cleaning up our estuaries.
Ka pai JJ Phillips for stopping the train because a girl was abusing a whanau talking in their own language we have to let people know that if others are different it's not acceptable to verbally abuse people just because they are different.
Cool that the Kaipara harbor is getting government money to clean it up it was a major food basket for the local tangata whenua back in the day and it can be once again when it is cleaned up some one tryed to blame the demise of the tuatua on local tangata whenua with out thinking about the degradation of the tuatua environment because of the activity of all the locals farmers people driveing on the beaches ect WTF
Awesome that tangata whenua musician have come together to produce a wiata supporting Ihumatao.
The Hawaiians have managed to halt the building of a huge telescope on their Moanga tapu sacred mountain.
Eco Maori agrees that tangata whenua of the Papatuanuku needs to join together to champion our rights and JUSTICE for all tangata whenua People Of The Land.
I agree with Amanda the prisoner with less than 3 years to serve should have the right to vote she's correct that there are a lot of criminal that don't get locked up EXCEPT they let these criminals off because they are there actor's rats kiroie assets narks they let this type of person off on many crimes so long as they do what they are told to do. But a person like Eco Maori who respects everyone doesn't cause havoc in society but will not back down or let them intimidate ME they spend millions trying to set me up millions trying to ruin MY Credibility My good name WTF this behavior is the reason crimes keeps being a hindrance to our society's.
Cameron I agree we need to invest in fish farming it has 4 positive results one export dollar 2 it takes huge pressure off our local Fishes from where Im looking they have been hammered by over fishing how do I no this well 20 years ago there was boat loads of fish being land in Napier today only about 30% of that volume is being landed there was always a emergency job for me unloading fishing boats NOT ANYMORE. 3 our Whenua has enough pressure on it Deep sea fish farming will create export dollar with minimal damage to our environment 4 it spreads our risk not to many eggs in one basket if dairy got to grow that big 30 billion our environment would have turned into a big Mess.
Jason its great that the Wallabies won it will keep the Allblacks on their toes good for Papatuanuku Rugby.
That's a good Idea Grant Robinson having dinner with the highest bidder off trade me James has lymphoma cancer all the best.
We had one blast of Thunder and Lightning and some rain here in the Bay Im going to make sure all my solar equipment is well earth .
The real irony is from what I have been able to find out those on home detention are not prevented from voting and plenty of those are the biggest fraudsters in NZ, on that basis alone the restriction is ridiculous.
Eco Maori say have more stories about the students Strikes as this championship for the students to be left a environment that is healthy for all is their goal. What be that a grandchild telling there grandparents that they are in reality ruining their future environment the neanderthal who are running Papatuanuku at the minute are making a big MESS
The Guardian view on climate crisis: what can we do?
Curbing meat and dairy consumption is critical to tackling global heating. But the issue must not be reduced to solely
It’s easy to despair. The scale of the problems we face looms as large as the shadows cast by unpalatable leaders. What stirs some into action for the first time leaves others feeling simply overwhelmed. What can any one person do?
When the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put out a landmark report this week, warning that global heating is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, many news outlets summarised it with the injunction: eat less meat. It was an easily relatable way into the story and told audiences what they could do to help – an essential part of tackling the climate crisis. It was certainly a more accessible angle than the lengthy report’s advice on issues such as smallholders and soil protection.
The danger of such an approach is that great demands can become reduced to individual purchasing decisions, conveniently freeing politicians from making unpopular choices or businesses from reducing their profits. It isn’t a coincidence that so many issues are framed as purely personal choices. It is easier to blame dietary ignorance, sloth and greed for soaring levels of obesity than to tackle an obesogenic environment and the powerful “big food” lobby which has helped to create it. It is easier to encourage individuals to take up meditation than to tackle the social and economic factors contributing to many people’s mental health
Deforestation has soaredin the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, under Jair Bolsonaro’s watch. A new report suggests that leases from the Trump administration of public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling could lead to more carbon emissions than the entire European Union contributes in a year. In this context, focusing on dinner plates can sound trivial. Relying on the conscience of individual shoppers is not a substitute for governmental commitments to drastically curb carbon emissions and introduce the laws, taxes and investment which can produce a more sustainable society
KA KITE ANO LINK BELOW the sandflys are stuffing with my device I see they are still spraying there manufactured lies about Eco Maori all around the Papatuanuku.
Tornadoes struck Auckland and the taranaki that is part and parcel of the Phenomenon Human Caused Climate Change Ingrid.
Thats cool that the Railways showing the near misses of pedestrian close to being hit by a train that should make people think twice before crossing a rail line.
Good on the commence commion for taking money petty to court for charging up to 400 %.
That shows Eco Maori that the World system are set up to make the wealthy filthy rich the wealthy are all getting more money than they need is stuffed up.
That's a great story Paddy and last night one I think that there needs to be more resources for tamariki with speach impediments .
Mike I have already had my say on people in the hinaki jail voting.
Australian flying foxes are being devastated by heatwaves affecting Australia there huge rain forest is suffering from the heatwave caused by you know what.
Ka kite ano
I agree that Aotearoa is not keep up with the image of a free and fair society shonky drove this dumb law to ban tangata from voting while in the hinaki .
That is needed some support for impaired tangata to get jobs.
Awesome Te Rawawa buying that food market it looks like they are going to get their products from tangata whenua vegetable growers.
Its ka pai that Te Rawawa is getting involved in treating waste water in there area they have heaps of great lakes that need to be treasured Ka pai to the Rotorua council for their tau toko of this Idea Mana Wahine I have seen heaps of awesome changes in Rotorua recently.
To much seeing Waka arma racing on the Papatuanuku stage that will help lift the Tangata Whenua of Papatuanuku mana up .
Ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori has a editor I can’t say whom it is.
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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 ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
The pungent smell of gasoline in your car can be an alarming and potentially dangerous problem. Not only is the odor unpleasant, but it can also indicate a serious issue with your vehicle’s fuel system. In this article, we will explore the various reasons why your car may smell like ...
Tree sap can be a sticky, unsightly mess on your car’s exterior. It can be difficult to remove, but with the right techniques and products, you can restore your car to its former glory. Understanding Tree Sap Tree sap is a thick, viscous liquid produced by trees to seal wounds ...
The amount of paint needed to paint a car depends on a number of factors, including the size of the car, the number of coats you plan to apply, and the type of paint you are using. In general, you will need between 1 and 2 gallons of paint for ...
Jump-starting a car is a common task that can be performed even in adverse weather conditions like rain. However, safety precautions and proper techniques are crucial to avoid potential hazards. This comprehensive guide will provide detailed instructions on how to safely jump a car in the rain, ensuring both your ...
Graham Adams writes about the $55m media fund — When Patrick Gower was asked by Mike Hosking last week what he would say to the many Newstalk ZB callers who allege the Labour government bribed media with $55 million of taxpayers’ money via the Public Interest Journalism Fund — and ...
Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in. ...
The following was my submission made on the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”. This potential law will give three Ministers unchecked powers, un-paralled since the days of Robert Muldoon’s “Think Big” projects.The submission is written a bit tongue-in-cheek. But it’s irreverent because the FTAB is in itself not worthy of respect. ...
One Could Reduce Child Poverty At No Fiscal CostFollowing the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families have been added, the best known being ‘Working for Families’, introduced in 2005. ...
Buzz from the Beehive A few days ago, Point of Order suggested the media must be musing “on why Melissa is mute”. Our article reported that people working in the beleaguered media industry have cause to yearn for a minister as busy as Melissa Lee’s ministerial colleagues and we drew ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
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 ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Knight, Researcher, Queensland University of Technology Have you ever felt sick at work? Perhaps you had food poisoning or the flu. Your belly hurt, or you felt tired, making it hard to concentrate and be productive. How likely would you be ...
Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Lecturer – Creative Industries, University of South Australia Shutterstock Everyone has a favourite band, or a favourite composer, or a favourite song. There is some music which speaks to you, deeply; and other music which might be the current ...
A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
A look at the state of the previous government’s affordable housing scheme, and what could come next.Remind me: What’s KiwiBuild again?First announced in 2012, KiwiBuild was a flagship policy of the Labour Party heading into both its 2014 and 2017 election campaigns. With Jacinda Ardern as prime minister, ...
Labour in opposition will be shocked to learn which party had six years in power but squandered any chance to make real change. Grant Robertson’s valedictory speech was a predictably entertaining trip down memory lane. The acid-tongued incoming Otago University chancellor administered a sick burn to the coalition government. He ...
There’s relief for building owners bending under the weight of earthquake strengthening rules – and costs – that came into force seven years ago. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced a scheduled 2027 review of the earthquake-prone building regulations will now start this year. Owners will also get ...
Opinion: It has been announced that nine percent of roles at Oranga Tamariki will be disestablished, presumably to help fund the tax cuts promised by the coalition Government. I am reminded of the graphics used to illustrate pandemic events, where five thousand people are standing in a field and then ...
After more than two sleepless days, running through savage terrain, Greig Hamilton didn’t know if he was going to finish one of the most gruelling psychological assaults in sport. He was metres away from the finish line, a yellow gate made famous in a Netflix documentary; a race he’d dreamed ...
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The following interview with former Green Party MP Sue Kedgley came about because she features in the new memoir Hine Toa by activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku; the two knew each other at the University of Auckland in the early 70s, when they were both took on leadership roles in the ...
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is seen some as its ‘silicon shield’ against invasion – but how will overseas expansion affect that protection? The post The state of Taiwan’s silicon shield appeared first on Newsroom. ...
COMMENTARY:By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, ...
NEWSMAKERS:By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and mentor those who want to join our noble profession, and to stand for truth and justice for the people of the country. I was privileged to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA As the climate warms and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of ...
The government's plan to reintroduce a three strikes regime is being strongly opposed by lawyers, who argue there is no evidence it reduces crime or helps people rehabilitate. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Last week in a post on X, owner of the platform Elon Musk recommended people look into disc replacement if they’re experiencing severe neck or back pain. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey caught the headlines yesterday, courtesy of a blistering speech condemning the latest GST carve-up. New South Wales, he claimed, would be A$11.9 billion worse off over the ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived at Kokoda Station, Northern province, at the start of his state visit to Papua New Guinea. Both Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape will meet with the locals and the Northern Provincial government before they begin their ...
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/114882066/fact-check-are-our-farm-systems-any-better-for-the-climate
Farmers world wide could cut their emmisions if they learnt to farm like us!
Getting worse farmers to follow our practices would be step 1.
Changing our own practices to further cut emissions would be step 2.
Changing the ratio of stock-farming to cropping, in favour of cropping, while at the same time promoting a vegetarian diet, would be step 3.
Dave Kennedy's written about wintering of livestock in Southland.
http://localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-muddied-waters-of-winter-grazing.html
The rural Facebook pages I see are putting pressure on winter grazers to up their game you'll be glad to know .
Yip a reduction in intensity on dairy farms would be good .
Subsidizing alternative cropping for ten years would be the way forward in dairy areas .
I agree that agreed-upon changes to farming could/should be subsidised. Farmers should be assisted in reducing their greenhouse gas outputs, to maintain their viability. Much discussion could be had about how this could be done. Assistance with tree-planting schemes is the obvious first step, perhaps under the umbrella of “alternative cropping”, especially when that involves carbon sequestration, job creation and food production. Nut trees are an example, or coppiced sycamore for fuel, perhaps. It’s a space where a lot of exciting thinking could take place.
Can we look to see who or what is moving into that space and help the action along? Just by publicising what is being done, the meetings being held, the start with planting, any helpful funding, the training and pastoral care being given to young workers used and whether this is plantation, or agroforestry (not aggroforestry)!
From bwaghorn's farming link:
"The IPCC report highlighted the impact of deforestation, where countries were essentially swapping native forest for food cultivation.
"This means those countries are trying to prioritise feeding their own people. And that's being done at the expense of the environment," Hoggard said."
Haven't we New Zealanders "swapped" vast swathes of native forest for … farming?
In the past but apart from the big removal of pine forest in the central north island the general direction has been more trees in this country for the last 40 years.
In the past…the vast bulk of farmland was created and there was no need for more deforestation, aside from nibbling at the edges. We did the damage then, so can't claim now to be blameless.
You might want to add Canterbury to that list
our m.s.m.(including rnz) are stepping up as defenders of the animal-exploitation industries…here in nz…
and are unquestioning in their repeating of their lies/spin/bullshit…
which is what the above link is is – an exemplar of that unthinking/factually-incorrect support…..
Feds chief Hoggard said:
""We are essential to the diets of many people, in many other countries. And we do it in an extremely emissions efficient way.""
There's much to be debated in just those tow claims. Mostly though, that's nonsense
(early-adopter/long time) vegan here – steeling myself for the (long awaited/expected) flesh-eater backlash – that time is clearly now upon us..
and a thought for all those progressives/greens/environmentalists who awake this morning salivating for pig-flesh/eggs etc..
you do realise that the combination of yr 'progressive' ideas/beliefs – along with your (unthinking?) contributions to supporting the wholesale exploitation of/cruelty to innocent animals..(as well as helping fuck the planet – but hey..!..eh..?
that this makes you the modern-day equivalent of that historical oxymoron – the 'good slave-owner'
and as well as everything else that is wrong with the above picture – you do all realise that you are on the wrong side of history..eh..?
Welcome back .
Let's wave a majic wand and all kiwis are vegans.
What would you do about the feral animals that have no predators except hungry hunters .
Releasing wolves and and a large cat would be the only option I can see.
For those who must eat meat, hunting wild game, or buying it from their hunter-mates, would be a great solution to the issue.
Mr Ure, are you a hippy?
vto – first give me yr definition of a 'hippy' – and i'll see if it's a fit…
(but i would note – the hippies got so much right..)
Or a 'Mod' or a 'Rocker'? I need a box to put you in Mr Ure.
(I suspect more Vespa than Harley, perhaps more Corduroy than Leather, probably more Homebake than P)
(/sarc)
close..yes to the vespa – no to the leather..and yes..(historically-speaking) to the opiates – and a big no to the 'p'..(never tried homebake – had more than my fair share of heroin..)
Howmany … fleas didja kill today… eh…whoar?
Gabby: Philip and his 3 vegan dogs once visited me in Riverton; I've never seen healthier dogs and Phil didn't look at all hippyish, fyi.
You mean the same Phil who lectures us about our cruelty to innocent animals forces three carnivores to eat plants?
"Many people believe dogs are carnivores. In fact, dogs are omnivores, and even wolves in the wild derive nutrition from both plant and animal sources."
Google
Give them the choice of a carrot or a sausage and see which one they go for first.
I don't think I could totally go vegan now. But vegetarian meals 3 to 4 times a week, with judicious choices for other meals are fine, and the resultant weight loss has been a welcome bonus.
It has meant saving interesting recipes and learning how to use a greater variety of plant seeds flesh and leaves.
Nothing wrong about a balanced diet. As an omnivore, I also eat vegetable only meals.
In the case of labradors, both.
lol. How about a bowl of carrots and a bowl of meat?
Labs? meat, carrots then the bowls.
Precisely.
You are onto it Robert. The labs I know live to eat and then a nice run, a woof and sleep.
Here is a link for people chewing on this tough question about the right diet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714
Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint?
What about serving sizes?
The data in the study looked at the environmental impact for 1kg of each of the different food products.
The graph shows the impact of beef growing in the different continents is interesting and I find Asia's water use for it puzzling.
I have found that I should stick to eating a couple of small potatoes 3-5 times weekly for minimum effect, compared to a block of chocolate 1-2 times weekly – not good. And that chocolate grown in de-rainforest gives more carbon than a serving of low-impact beef. So depends where and what.
i should shoot a vid of my current dogs (two ex-pig-hunting dogs – big hulking beasts – one 17yrs old – t' other 8yrs old ) as they watch me preparing their food..
(both were pulled from death row – and are grateful for it.)
when they see that tonite they are getting a peanut sauce dressing – they almost achieve lift-off..
when they came into my life – (just over a yr ago) the 17 yr old was an emotional-mess (pig-hunting dogs – in the main – have a shit life)..wouldn't lift his head off the ground..was very scared..
he ain't 'scared' no more..
the 8 yr old was a physical mess – big sores on both hips etc.(from living/lying on concrete) – but mentally was strong – (that's 'cos he is a boofhead…a loveable one – but a boofhead nonetheless..)
both dogs are now shiny-coated/wet-nosed happy dogs..
and we have a carnivore dog living nearby – she likes to come by to clean up any small vestiges left from my dogs' dinner..
in short – carnivore dogs also luv the vegan feeds i prepare for my hounds..
in fact – i cd turn any dog vegan overnite..
and something else i have observed in over 20 yrs of having vegan dogs – is that i don't need to bathe them..
it takes 10-12 months to happen…but their hair returns to being serviced by the natural oils..
..and both now have super-shiny coats…(no maintenance needed from me..)
so yeah..dogs – like humans – are omnivores – and like humans – thrive on a healthy vegan/plant-based diet..
(ahem..!..i also have shiny-coat/wet-nose etc..heh..!..)
Yeah, yeah, and if I held out a handful of flesh they wouldn't eat it?
of course they would..
why don't you look up the definition of omnivore..?
..that may help you..
So your dogs aren't naturally vegan, you're just imposing your ideology upon them against their natural instincts.
So what Pyscho said at 2.3.1.1
you haven't looked up the definition of 'omnivore' yet – have you..?
i'll wait..
"So your dogs aren't naturally vegan, you're just imposing your ideology upon them against their natural instincts."
Dogs don't naturally live in houses either, nor ride in cars, sleep in kennels, sit on command…we're just imposing our ideology on them, eh, The Al1en!
Sure, RG. Domestication of dogs over thousands of years is the same as a vegan ignoring the well being of an animal by denying it the food it's body is naturally adapted for, for the sake of their own belief system.
Come on, PU, even you know I'm smarter than that. 😉
It has to start somewhere, The Al1en. It's started with Phil; why the anguish? Do you think he's mistreating his dogs; remember, I've seen Phil's dogs; again, pictures of health and contentment.
No anguish, RG, just getting to the truth of the situation, that PU's dogs are a sad experiment against the natural order of things and, as you agreed up thread, they'd eat the meat given the choice.
Not convinced that the logic of your argument is sound, The Al1en. From what you said earlier, faeces is the meal-of-choice for labradors; should lab owners provide that in preference to anything else?
Sadly, for you, I didn't write that, so logic and argument in this case are humorously moot.
However, I do agree with a lot of what you write about the environment, and appreciatively acknowledge your green credentials, so while I will not take your line on the matter of ideologue fed dogs, I am predisposed to show my omnivorous side and take the veg with the meat.
True, The Al1en, it was Andre who wrote,
"All the labs I've known have been enthusiastically coprophagic…"
"coprophagic" meaning, "the eating of excrement".
I trusted his claim, but misread Andre, for Al1en, sorry.
That said, it seems labs prefer poo over meat and vegetables.
However, I was off the mark.
Your denouement,
"so while I will not take your line on the matter of ideologue fed dogs, I am predisposed to show my omnivorous side and take the veg with the meat." is brilliant and I appreciate your finesse with language, and I thank you for your indulgence. My case is collapsed, but I'll recover from the set-back and rejoin the fray after my bath.
I do appreciate a focused thinker, btw. My excuse for missing the detail would be that I was all but fully engaged with customers buying heritage apple trees during our to-and-fro, I'm the selector, advisor and packager of said trees, but that's no real reason to miss a detail like the author's identity. Can I close with the claim that all dogs are ideologically-fed (aside from those who aren't)?
Robert
All the labs I've known have been enthusiastically coprophagic. Lay out a nice smelly one next to the carrot and sausage, and odds are they'd go for that first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2BYVwU_M4
gee..p.m..you really are an exemplar of the 'good slave-owner' i pointed out before..eh..?
a 'progressive' with that blind-spot as big as the sun..eh..?
If not forcing your meat-eating pets to eat only plants is being a "good slave owner," I guess I am. Although, being cats they're not slaves, in fact they seem to regard me as a servant.
putting the 'missing' in 'missing the point ' there..eh..?..p/m..?
carry on..!
Auckland to Dunedin. Must be worth a few carbon footprint steaks and roast dinners.
Phil you have tried this line of argument before over many many moons. You can find a better way than insulting most other people.
um..!..this is not 'a line of argument' – not some philosophical word-wank..
i am arguing against the industrial cruelty that is the soupcon in most peoples' meals..
and yes – 'for many moons'…i was an early adopter/learner..(more widespread now – have you noticed..?..more of me….less of you..?…keep watching that space..eh..?..it has just begun..)
and that you are addicted to animal-flesh/bye-products is yr fucken problem..eh….?
not mine..
and yes..telling that you consider yr addiction being pointed out to you – as an 'insult'..
in yer own words..eh..?
If you're not presenting an argument, what are you doing? In writing these comments, you must be seeking to persuade, or what's the point? I know that in the past some people with poor ability to cope with a non-standard writing style have sometimes accused you of dumping word salads on people's blogs, but this time you're practically accusing yourself of it.
quite astonishing how defensive/attacking the messanger so many modern good slave-owners are..
hitting the marks there..aren't you p.m..?
Phil, do you behave like this in all places or only online?
behaving like 'what?'..
and i use my own name – so of course i am happy to engage on such matters in person/any forum..
is there anything i have said that is untrue..?
if you find that truth less than palatable – this is really yr issue..
i find the industrial cruelty done to animals – just so you can eat them..
..kinda 'less than palatable'..
bordering on nauseating..actually..
and in those who self-regard as green/environmentalists – who haul out the worry-beads/wring their hands as an expression of helplessness over 'what can i do?'…
and then wipe the animal-fats from their lips..?
with those same hands..
w.t.f..!…
eh..?
Assuming the worst of people thwarts a productive life.
Have you tried smothering it in peanut sauce? It works on your dogs.
There have been articles recently about how it would be too expensive for NZ to go to 100% renewable electricity. In NZ, that's utter nonsense considering that vast amount of stored hydro we already have in our existing lakes, how easy it would be for us to build new pumped hydro storage, and how cheap wind energy has become.
Nevertheless, looking at how relatively easily the US could go 100% renewable just further highlights how shameful it is that we are still burning shit-tons of coal and gas for electricity.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/8/9/20767886/renewable-energy-storage-cost-electricity
a recent news report held that scotland in the first six months of the year produced 200% of its' required energy – from wind farms..
why have we been so slow on that one..?
given we live in quite a windy country..?
why have we been so slow on that one..?
Lots of reasons, none of them honourable.
Collectively, we just don't care enough to elect a government that will prioritise making the change, and/or reward a government that does make the change.
We have tolerated changing the structure of our electricity system to one where protecting short-term corporate profit streams from existing assets is overwhelmingly prioritised over doing the right thing for our future. Even when doing that right thing would be better for long-term economic performance.
That's just two of the biggest factors.
What did they do…. on the days…. without wind philly?
Scotland has days without wind?
All of the UK, Ireland, the rest of Europe, and even Iceland have grunty grid connections. Since that spread covers a big geographic area, it would be very unusual to have low wind across the entire grid-connected area.
Im assuming most of Scotlands wind generation is offshore like that of Ireland and the rest of the UK….for the obvious reason the wind is more consistent
Burn coal and natural gas.
i guess they went and sat outside – for a pleasant change – gabby..
No, they bought electricity from another company who burns coal and gas.
i don't know what their storage capabilities are – do you..?
(or was that just a random orifice-pluck..?..on yr part..?..
Homes use 3x as much gas ( in energy terms) than they do electricity.
Wind power would mean the homes have no heating, hot water or cooking. Those canny Scots ?
pull out the kilt..?..and go for a walk..?..feeling confident sudden gusts will not disturb anyone..?..gabby..?
"Recent news report held that scotland in the first six months of the year produced 200% of its' required energy – from wind farms.."
No it doesnt. Thats because you have misread the original story , which was designed to be misleading.
The real story was that 200% was of power consumption of homes – excluding factories ( Scotland is an industrial country) , commercial, public hospitals etc.
Secondly Scotland like the rest of the UK , mostly relies on natural gas for residential heating, hot water and cooking. ( Not like NZ at all where gas is overall a small part of home energy use). Homes arent using much electricity, mostly appliances, lighting etc.
The other factor with only looking at consumption, is the production of electricity uses energy as well , losses occur in every power line big and small.In a real world its the electricity PRODUCTION number to start from.
Scotland , the supply point for North Sea gas also provides nett a considerable amount of power to England and Wales as they are part of the grid.
So reading the headline number about 'electricity for homes' ignore the massive use of fossil fuel like gas for Scotlands homes and businesses and public facilities.
sigh..!..well that is wind-power well and truly debunked..
cd someone please alert all those countries that use it..of their folly..?
say that dukeofearl person said so…
Interesting interview from Kim Hill just now, ran the full hour, with a prof involved in the 2-hour doco (released July 24), The Great Hack, about Cambridge Analytica. Explores the brave new world of social control and manipulation via algorithms…
"Professor David Carroll, from Parsons School of Design in New York, is one of the central figures in 'The Great Hack', a recently released Netflix documentary looking at the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal from 2018."
"The revelations that data from tens of millions of Facebook users was being harvested and improperly used to serve targeted ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election), led Carroll to try to recover the personal data held about him through the courts."
"After a legal battle lasting for more than two years, Cambridge Analytica's parent company finally pled guilty to criminal charges of disobeying the British data regulator, who fined it and ordered it to hand over all the data about Carroll they had collected. It would appear that he is still to receive it!" https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018708110/david-carroll-cambridge-analytica-and-the-great-hack
Hi DF I didn't look to see if someone had put up the info about The Great Hack so have doubled up. But so important it stands being repeated.
"ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election),"
But no evidence that they had any effect on the US election whatsoever.
In fact it was Robby Mooks who ran the Clinton campaign that based all of his strategy for winning 2016 on analytics mined from personal data.
So other words the one fact we do know is that the use of mined personal date from the internet helped lose an election…not win it.
Five things we've learned about Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign from new inside account
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-failed-us-presidential-campaign-five-things-learn-book-shattered-jonathan-allen-a7715991.html
Heres an actual study from Stanford about the power of 'fake news' in peoples voting..
https://observer.com/2017/02/stanford-study-fake-news-hillary-clinton-election-loss/
Biden looks and sounds awful..yet again, and makes multiple gaffs on different occasions in a day of constant embarrassment for him and his team.
Surely the Dems are going to have to pull him out soon, he looks and sounds more and more senile as the primaries grind along…but who else have they got to defend their Liberal ideology?…I guess Warren could be their fall back, although she is not a perfect fit for them, it is pretty well accepted now that the establishment Dems and most 'liberal' media are running on the mantra..anyone but Bernie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyMh8KptqFI
"Dems are going to have to pull him out soon"
You have no idea how US primary campaign politics works. Who are these "dems' you talk about.
Candidates raise their own money and run their own campaign with it. The usual process is to keep going till the candidate ( not the Dems!) runs out of money. Joining the campaign doesent require even to be 'a democrat' – as Bernie Sanders even though a Senator wasnt. There arent any party memberships.
Actual primaries where the voters decide dont start till early next year.
Maybe you can learn something until that happens
If Nancy's backers want Joe, that's who'll run.
Nancys backers?
You need something like 15 mill democratic primary voters to do so. Plus a good portion of the states who run caucuses instead.
Ask the Brits too, how it works when the party members choose the leader and the voters favourite wins not the party hierachy's
If it weren't so absolutely necessary to evict Hair Fuhrer from the White House making the stakes so high, I'd be kinda interested to watch a contested convention play out.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/432964-democrats-may-be-headed-for-a-contested-convention
Clinton V Barney Rubble was a contested convention.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call, defeating primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 46% of votes from delegates,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Convention
The 2008 convention, where Clinton had slightly more primary voters but less overall delegates, Clinton graciously moved a motion for Obama to be the candidate by acclamation
No we don't want to see a contested convention play out, because then the super delegates came into play and destroy the democratic process,,,but then again I guess that is exactly what the establishment want one would assume,
before that happens dukiduki.
More complete nonsense. leaping from tree to tree with even more silly stuff doesnt make for good debate.
@Dukeofurl
No maybe you better do a refresher course in US politics, you seem to know sweet FA. The highest members of establishment democratic party were caught red handed in 2016 tipping the scales for Clinton..even Clinton arselicker and cheater for Clinter, Donna Brazile admitted that the DNC was effectively controlled by the Clinton Campaign in 2016…
The Democratic Party's ex-interim chief has accused Hillary Clinton of seizing control of the party in exchange for funding during the 2016 campaign.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41850797
Go to the back of the class..
Vote for Clinton in Democratic primaries 16.9 mill
Vote for Sanders 13.2 mill
hence Clinton wins. You have had this pointed out many times. The registered democrats preferred Clinton by a wide margin ( in 2008 Clinton had a small margin over Obama in primary votes but he won the delegate vote)
So Clinton wins the primary votes in two Presidentail campaigns and you think The DNC had their hand ( no idea of what the DNC really is) on the scales.
The DNC doesnt run the primaries in each state , nor does it tell the voters how to vote.
Look at who are members of the DNC , of course Clinton has over whelming support from that group .
That doesnt give her the voters, first she had to do something you dont understand . Its called campaigning .
Your idea of tipping scales is primary school level understanding.
And MONEY ?
Clinton spent $174 mill
Sanders spent $219 mill
Again you ignore the reality of Sanders was very well funded and still didnt win enough votes in the primaries.
you seem to be ignoring the reams of evidence of the dems actively campaigning for clinton/against sanders..
and how they used every dirty trick in their arsenal to effect that..
i think you need to read more widely…
It's a political party selecting a candidate, not a courtroom.
Stop whining.
God bless you reminding us how authoritarianism works Ad.
heh..!
Think practically not ideologically adam. Deciding that something should be done a certain way doesn't ensure success perhaps extra thought is needed and some direction (authoritarianism) also.
"evidence of the dems actively"
So silly . Thats how their system works , you get elected officials AND unions to endorse you . And she did.
Its an open contest, Sanders got heaps of endorsements too, spend more money and still lost.
Doesnt mean "the dems" make the voters vote your way. It cant, its a devolved system. The DNC runs the convention long after the primaries are over, The individual states democratic Party run their own primaries not the DNC.
DNC is 100s of elected officials , would be like herding cats
Man you really are living in a really loud echoing bubble..don't your ears hurt?
A. The DNC had/has either in it's direct employment or on file an incredibly deep instrustrucure in terms of human resources, and battle hardened political campaigners..many from Obama's two successful runs, not to mention Clintons own extensive and extremely potent team from her own previous run, Clinton had every single advantage any politician could ask for heading into that race.
B. By allowing Hillary access to the levers of power with in the DNC, Clinton would have had that huge database of information that helped Mook target voters with a precision Sanders could not, thereby spending less (if that is actually the case).
C. Hillary had an existing network of local campaigners and foot soldiers spread through out the States that Sanders was only building as the primary's unfolded, so his loss turned out to be in many ways a symbolic victory to the progressive movement, as we are seeing unfold in this election cycle.
D. All 'liberal' media attacked,slandered and undermined Sanders relentlessly through out the primary race.
E. I was actually talking about the Clinton loss to Trump and not about Sanders.
Anyone but Bernie *or* Tulsi (from 51s)
https://youtu.be/WFCVut00nsI?t=51
Are you saying you think the DNC should actively intervene to boost one candidate and try to suppress support for others?
They did just that in 2016, and of course they will do it again..they (like you) are defending their defunct and discredited ideology, and will not go down without a fight that is for sure.
So you want them to do it for your fantasy fetish, but whine forever when you think they did it for someone else?
The person who only got 43% of the primary votes , but outspent Clinton is supposed to be 'the winner'.
When did I say I wanted them to do it for Sanders? you [deleted].
You and your fellow staunch defenders of the status quo are the ones who live in fantasy, a dangerous fantasy world, where it just goes back to normal for you in your little bubble…in fact as it turns out you [deleted] would rather live in a racist right wing hell hole than see any real change that might effect you personally.
So have a nice day..
and by nice day, I mean [deleted] you.
[Not cool to lose your cool like that and you’re better than that – Incognito]
See my Moderation note @ 3:47 PM.
Yeah this was how I meant to say it….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwN3SoWSUrY
Yeah, so much better …
You said about Joe Biden: Surely the Dems are going to have to pull him out soon
Then perhaps you'd like to be a bit clearer about who "the Dems" are that might be able to do this and how they might be able to do it. And then, given that you're a vocal advocate of the candidate that's still coming second in most polls, explain why that sentiment isn't a blatant wish that something be done to improve the chances of your preferred candidate rather than letting a democratic process play out.
Sheesh Adrian Thornton did you miss the memo – neo libs and fake lefties always support fascism. They are too cowardly for a real positive challenge.
God forbid they actually behaved like decent human beings and raise a finger to actually help people – why would they – when they have their ideological purity to help them sleep at night.
Good luck with that.
The party side is limited to running the primaries or caucuses.
And at the moment , its the TV networks/ cable outlets who are running debates who maybe try to winnow the talking heads debates based on poll numbers. But thats not really a party thing.
BTW
"The DNC is composed of the chairs and vice-chairs of each state Democratic Party's central committee, two hundred members apportioned among the states based on population and generally elected either on the ballot by primary voters or by the state Democratic Party committee, a number of elected officials serving in an ex officio capacity, and a variety of representatives of major Democratic Party constituencies."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee
The primary job of the DNC is to run the National Nominating convention, about a year away.
The party system is highly devolved, with states democratic party having a lot of say over their primary. At the local level its organised down at the county/city level too.
Clintons agreement for a Joint fundraising with the DNC ?
Sanders had one too –
"Now, the JFCs aren’t loved by campaign finance or good-government experts, but they’re not entirely out of the ordinary. Before his grassroots fundraising juggernaut took off, for instance, Sanders also had an agreement for a joint fundraising committee with the DNC"
Eventually Sanders didnt need it as his online fundraising took off and he ended up spending more then Clinton.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16599036/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-sanders
Putting a machine between everything that we naturally need or want to do so we can't proceed independently is our biggest mistake. When the energy isn't available to us we can be helpless. I
In an individualistic society we must find the true value of individuality, having our own thoughts, management systems, and our support people with similar understandings and trustworthy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/396376/commuter-chaos-as-uk-hit-by-major-power-failures
Commuter chaos as UK hit by major power failures
Individuals in the train system had to provide lights in the dark caverns using their phone lights, which would eventually peter out as batteries went flat. What then – a small torch with wind-up energy source could be good to have. One tweeter said that the doors of the train were closed and they couldn't leave. Some had to be helped by police to walk through dark tunnels after being 2 hours trapped in the train. Walking out in a line with one hand on the shoulders of the person in front would be helpful for group support and guidance and passing information from the front down the line could then be done which would be encouraging.
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An interview on this morning was an excellent interview between Kim Hill and an expert about Cambridge Analytica and the Netflix production of The Great Hack. What an interesting and chilling thing this all is. (Our clever minds are being twisted and any morals passed on, abandoned.) There was so much to take in. One coment – some of the European countries, Germany and .. can't remember, have strong laws which are "muscularly" administered. And that the UK controlling body has all the information in its hands about the USA that was gathered which is roughly everything that is worth knowing from a manipulating POV.
I am wondering if that is behind the Brexit excitement of the Cons. That there is a method in their madness that has not been identified. The Prof being interviewed was very alive to all the power that the system misused has and will bring if not 'reined' in (my pedantry – people keep spelling it reigned). He gave an example of the modus operandi of CA and said they look at the zeitgeist (my word) of an individual country's peoples and then know which buttons to push. I think he mentioned Trinidad and Tobago, not sure, where the country is divided and then they could work on manipulating that for their client's purposes.
1-/8/2019 48 mins https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018708110/david-carroll-cambridge-analytica-and-the-great-hack
Professor David Carroll, from Parsons School of Design in New York, is one of the central figures in 'The Great Hack', a recently released Netflix documentary looking at the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal from 2018.
The revelations that data from tens of millions of Facebook users was being harvested and improperly used to serve targeted ads designed to influence the outcome of elections around the world (in countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and memorably in the 2016 US Presidential Election), led Carroll to try to recover the personal data held about him through the courts.
After a legal battle lasting for more than two years, Cambridge Analytica's parent company finally pled guilty to criminal charges of disobeying the British data regulator, who fined it and ordered it to hand over all the data about Carroll they had collected. It would appear that he is still to receive it!
Don't now how to link to yesterday but Pat wrote some chilling stuff about how Big Business operates against threats. (Hope you don't mind Pat?)
When corporate power is so intensely brought to silence messengers, to manipulate the public record and public opinion, truth becomes stifled. And we should all be afraid."
At the risk of being labled, I've just waded my way through Andrew Wakefield's book 'Callous Disregard'. It was a slow wade as there were so many footnotes and references that my slightly Aspie brain was triggered to go and verify as many as possible…because, you know, Wakefield is this anti science, anti vax, fraudulent nutbar and you can't trust anything he writes.
To say he was targeted is an understatement.
And for shits and giggles I checked out what the loudest detractors of the monsanto journalist had to say about others who have the audacity to swim against the accepted science stream.
being targeted (which I'm sure is true) doesn't mean his science was sound. On the other side, the people who went on to be called anti-vaxxers led a crazy movement that has resulted in one of the biggest sub-cultures of poor science I have seen. It's *very ideological, and creates a kind of blindness.
Pre-internet and pre-Wakefield, there was a steady, low % of the population who didn't vaccinate by choice (as opposed to people who couldn't easily access health services). They were generally informed, and tended to be from families with good standards of living, diet, non-overcrowding, and thus some disease protection from that. Public health officials have not been too concerned about them, because herd immunity can handle that low %.
What's happened post-Wakefield is a wider range of people have been scared into not vaccinating, but they're not necessarily promoting health in other ways. That's a problem when it's added to the people not vaccinating because of poverty/lack of access. We've also moved on from the days when immunity could be acquired from contracting measles, mumps or rubella.
It's highly likely that there was concerted action by vested interests online to stir up hate against anti-vaxxers. The vitriol and authoritarianism I've seen from progressives is mind blowing.
I think it's nigh on impossible to have a conversation about vaccination now, both sides are doing bullshit things, and the industry being part of that makes total sense.
I think it's nigh on impossible to have a conversation about vaccination now, both sides are doing bullshit things, and the industry being part of that makes total sense.
Yes. A while back there were a few discussions here…but in a surprisingly short time the vitriol flowed toward anyone who dared to suggest that vaccine harm is real and dismissing that small number of individuals who have suffered such vaccine injuries is simply unjust. And cruel.
My stance has consistently been that the influence of the so-called 'anti-vaxxers' is exaggerated…and that message has emerged from our Immunisation Advisory Centre…there are other factors that have led to low vaccine uptake.
However….I am of an age and of a particular group who were aware that there were serious safety concerns with early DTP vaccines and early MMR vaccines. Scout around for interweb info from NZ on this and there is just about nothing. There should be screeds. Where has it gone? Shit happened and kids were permanently harmed and there's sweet FA in our history. Dismissed. For shits and giggles I made an OIA request for the numbers of successful ACC claims for vaccine injury since records began. Bearing in mind that only the most serious harm events are accepted….I wonder if anyone can guess at an average per year since 2005? (Which is well after the time when there were many instances of post vaccine incidents….)
No idea, but very curious what the number is.
MoH don't seem too bothered by the non-vaccinated by choice rate and appear more focused on getting to those who are not vaccinating because of poverty or lack of access. Is the IAC part of the MoH or separate?
…curious what the number is.
1376, average of 98 per year.
And reports from CARM here…https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/topic_sheets/adverse-event-summary.pdf
IAC is https://www.immune.org.nz/
…based at the Auckland Uni and funding from the MOH….plus…. https://www.immune.org.nz/sites/default/files/IMACSponsorweblistAugust2018.pdf
that's not a low number.
Reading the summary, it looks like most serious adverse effects aren't permanent or long term. Which is good. But the reporting looks inadequate, and light on detail.
I wonder how many people getting the flu shot are told about the potential side effects. I find stats so interesting. Death or disability risk might be very low across the population but catastrophic for the few people it happens to. How do people make those decisions?
Had the flu shot from a couple of different providers over the years. Both provided a consent form each and every time.
that doesn't mean people are giving informed consent. In my experience, people are not often told the truth about adverse/side effects of drugs they are given. I'm sure this varies quite a bit by doctor.
There's no reason to mislead or underinform. Some docs might be more time-constrained or shite comunicators than others, but that's an issue of the wider system, not immunisation or medication in general.
And 98 serious events per year is pretty low considering the number of vaccine doses, and that some of those might not even be related to the vaccine.
There's always room for improvement, but as long as the contraindication list is correctly filled in and reviewed, this shouldn't be a difficult choice to make.
They always have when I get jabbed at work.
The only one who doesn’t is my GP if I get there before the workplace people come around. But I’ve had a number of discussions with him about various medical matters. I think that he is somewhat aware of my researching habits. However the nurse who actually does the needle runs through the litany anyway.
what risks do they tell you about?
Dunno, it was months ago. List usually revolves around immunosupporessed and allergies.
This year an unvaxxed colleague went for the flu shot and ended up having a long sit-down with the doc as he went through a history check. As in I was due to leave after the post-jab wait before she was given the jab – and he did almost all the talking. So if you go in and ask about it, you might be surprised.
Surprised about what? Many people on meds aren't aware of the known side effects. You will be because you ask. Probably same for Lynn. Same for me. But if you talk to people outside of the proactive patients, lots have general ideas but haven't read the safety sheets for instance. Stories of people that have a weird illness for months that then gets discovered as being a side effect of meds is not uncommon.
It might be that doctors are more careful with vaccinations, I don't know.
That the adverse reporting is still kind of loose is not good.
All drugs have side effects, even the so-called ‘harmless’ ones. As always, it depends on many factors, e.g. dose, frequency, duration, condition of the patient, use of other drugs (causing so-called drug-drug interactions), diet (e.g. alcohol consumption), et cetera. The list of possible side effects can be very long (and frightening). Best thing is to ask your healthcare provider and the pharmacist.
If you really want to dig into it yourself as well then this is a good start: https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Medicines/infoSearch.asp
Remember, no (data and information) system is perfect and no patient is the same. Many things to do with the immune and nervous/neurological systems, for example, are incomplete and/or unpredictable, which is a euphemism for saying that our current medical knowledge is somewhat limited.
So how would you do any of it better?
The fat libel and academic collusion with big sugar.
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1159877766667546624
That one, as well as how the science was misapplied and taken up by authorities who should have known better, seems like the great health scandal of our time.
To "swim against the accepted science stream" can be a hard row to hoe – just listen to Christine Benn (Professor in Global Health) who believes that "vaccines [are] the largest untapped resource for improving health globally.", and has had difficulty persuading the medical establishment to take her research results onboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8PNlXHJ48
Good scientists, clinicians and other experts should review and be prepared to revise the directions of their various professional 'swims' in the light of new evidence. But experts are only human – they have limited time, limited expertise, limited intelligence, etc. They all make mistakes, many are ambitious, and some continue to cling to a favourite hypothesis (swimming in the same direction) after new evidence has shown it to be false – it’s human nature. http://sciencenordic.com/no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measles-deaths-by-age-group-from-1980-to-2013-ons-data/measles-notifications-and-deaths-in-england-and-wales-1940-to-2013
Might pay to have a look…
Measles in the U.K. (from Rosemary's link)
Year No. of cases No. of deaths % of deaths
1940 409,521 857 0.2 %
1950 367,725 221 0.06 %
1960 159,364 31 0.02 % [~1 in 5000]
1970 307,408 42 0.014 %
1980 139,487 26 0.019 % [~1 in 5000]
1990 13,302 1 0.008 %
2000 2,378 1 0.04 %
2010 2,235 0 0 %
This data shows a large decrease in the number of measles cases in the UK (presumably due to vaccination and other public health programmes plus increased hygiene in the home/community), dropping to between 1000 and 6000 measles cases per annum over the last two decades (since 1996).
The % of measles cases resulting in death has also been decreasing. From 1989 there have (thankfully) been fewer than 5 deaths per year. When the number of deaths gets this low, the annual % death rate jumps around a fair bit, from a high of 0.12% (~1 in 800; 3 deaths in 1999), to 0 % (no deaths in 1994, 1996, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015).
In the last decade, New Zealand's best years (from WHO data) were 2013 (17 cases), 2015 (11 cases) and 2017 (15 cases) – since 2012 (when measles was declared eradicated in NZ) all cases have supposedly originated overseas.
2019 hasn't been such a good year, with 499 cases (and 175 hospitalisations) as of 9 August (could all of those be from overseas?) Still, barring a case of measles in a highly compromised individual, we'd be unlikely to see a measles death in NZ even at these elevated numbers. Big thanks and shout-out to NZ's public health workers. https://www.immune.org.nz/diseases/measles
https://www.immune.org.nz/hot-topic/measles-overseas-and-new-zealand
The ghost of christmas to come.
The BBC understands that two power supply plants – one a traditional gas and steam-fired power station in Cambridgeshire, the other a huge wind-turbine farm in the North Sea – failed at about 16:00 BST.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49300025
'Twas them terrorists done it?
Vikings ?
EnAppSys, an energy consultancy, said the blackout may have been caused by the unexpected shutdowns of the Hornsea offshore wind farm, which is owned by the Danish wind farm company Orsted, and the Little Barford gas-fired power plant, owned by German utility giant RWE.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/09/power-cut-hits-london-and-south-east-england
The deeper reason
"National Grid data showed both of the generators dropped from the grid at around the same time. The twin outages caused a sudden loss of frequency of the electricity grid, to below 49Hz, which would have caused certain parts of the network to disconnect automatically, causing the power cuts.
The Grid is a dynamic system, the current flow is always changing , the voltage is within a small range , but the frequency is a narrow band. Outside those ranges will cause electrical equipment to fail so its cut off instead
Cripes hadn't someone paid them their regular monthly lease payment? Why should a Danish company give previous EU member UK some latitude, they have shifted the location of their political leanings? Also Germany. Oh UK what are you doing, turning yourself into an unfriendly power from being an integrated member in Europe. The corrupted Cons have a sideways slide when confronted on anything real.
Well the UK seems to have a history of deadlinism and trade agreements expiring before renewal on the 31st October.
https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1158479269493989377
EU has an even more recent history of having to make decisions it didnt want until the very last minute.
The reason is failure of two separate power supply at almost the same time. Not management decisions. Fairly common. Just more unusual two at roughly same time
It is of course actually a management failure because there should be some back up in hand if such a thing happened, unlikely but needed to be envisaged.
Doesnt work like that. Are you saying a a ghost power station should have been on instant standby – the frequency loss is detected in milliseconds and computers shut off the consumers just as quick, otherwise major damage occurs to grid equipment and some consumers equipment.
There would be dozens of power stations of all types active at the time, and cables connecting to France and Netherlands.
The scary part is the grid is under higher stress and more likely to fail in mid winter from single point failures not mid summer.
Modern systems are expected to be up to the job. When they aren't they are failing. So whatever needs to be held in reserve should be, if only to trigger a switch that gets the trip fuses back on site. They have to plan for breaks in hospitals with generators. Doing things on a vaster scale has vast consequences. Perhaps huge systems are not effective and smaller localised ones with different dynamics could then help each other out.
The South Australian Tesla batteries seem to be doing a good job – https://interestingengineering.com/tesla-battery-installed-in-south-australia-saved-the-region-40-million-in-its-first-year
Although, not in this article, it can switch in really quickly to keep the grid alive.
Paul Goldsmith. All you wanted to know about him, or not!
A future very Right Wing Leader for National?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/114877115/national-portrait–paul-goldsmith-a-career-of-tradeoffs (Thomas Coughlan often spins anti Government spinning.)
When this guy gets his hands on the finance portfolio, he is going to make Ruth's 1991 budget look like the Communist Manifesto.
Yip but atleast the actiod clown is in the right fucking party not like that douglas piece of shit.
Why is a shit from National to be preferred to a shit from Labour? Your reasoning is wonky it seems to me.
Douglas should never have been in labour he was far right . A wolf in sheeps clothing who hated the working classes.
Scratch the surface and national hates the working classes so it fits that douglas 2.0 belongs in nact.
Pentagon experimenting with balloons that can track multiple vehicles at a time. Data is saved so it can be reviewed later. They must have had this a decade ago so I assume it's only just been ok'ed for public knowledge.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/08/07/pentagon-radar-balloons-tracking-vehicles/
Wouldn't they obscure the spy satellite images?
Wellington Mayor seeks to honour anti-racism hero
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12257057&fbclid=IwAR1AHSW528Vm0Jy16jt7FU-iRgt2BoXlASHGWE3DE9aRgf8kdpYcsd8BYzc
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The action of this conductor would have taken courage. How easy would it have been to just ignore this behaviour.
To delay the train could have put her job in jeopardy. Luckilly her stand has one general acclaim from the authorities.
Sometimes it just takes one person to take a stand, and say this is unacceptable.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114904843/conductor-boots-racially-abusive-teenage-girl-off-wellington-train
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/396391/all-aboard-cathedral-courts-controversy-by-installing-fairground-ride
This illustrates the same problem that we have in Christchurch (this is in Norwich UK). Visionaries of today say this lovely fairground ride is a great way to view the cathedral, and enjoy the experience in a new way no doubt.
Old hands won't stand for it. The heavy presence of the established Church must be maintained. It is the appearance of the Church that is important, not the messages of the New Testament that need to be brought to our benighted times. I think new people will be brought into the church and i think that it should have a sort of powhiri to introduce the consumers and sports lovers to a large building that has thinking about ourselves and other people and finding our way through life as its chief goal; and every try is a goal for this institution.
One way or another, some of the Church Ministers are going to draw people in to the venerable old piles:
‘The central aisle of Rochester Cathedral has also been converted into a crazy golf course’.
Wouldn't it be great if the Reserve Bank stopped punishing the savers and recommended to our dozy government that it's time to drop GST back to 10% – to match Australia's – AND 'leave more money in the pockets of 'the most vulnerable' '?
Or is poverty abatement just talk? As usual.
A good basic idea but it benefits the well off the most. That new Audi at $110,000 will save you around $5000. Not so much on a 15 yr old Honda like mine.
The best option is raising minimum wage as it affects the low paid the most without the well paid surfing the same wave
Notice a lot of 'talk' ( meaning articles in newspapers) about how much income tax ( proportion) the well off pay ….boohoo.
While they say the lower income dont pay that much of total.
What isnt mentioned is that with GST at 15% that was how it was designed to happen.
I fact nothing at all on your 15 year old Honda.
No GST on second-hand goods.
My thinking is to get on with building up infrastructure ready for the deluge or whatever plague of something coming along. Government could offer slightly better interest for savers through government bonds and get on with things in a timely manner ie steadily and using quality stuff and NZ young men and women getting training and employment who would feel then that they had something to be proud about.
But the dozy sods have just gone the easy way to collect their money in a safe way since they abandoned citizens in 1984 to private contractors. That was on the basis that the unions weren't doing right. Now nothing is done right, everything is falling apart after receiving a quick approving pat by the 'investors'. My relative has had to pay twice for work on his house, once to the builder who was 'over-committed' and then to the subs who wouldn't give their certification till he paid them. Things fall apart, and his house would too probably if he had not kept watch and ensured proper paperwork and practice. Luckily he knows a fair bit. It's DIY but not as we know it these days. But GST lower? That is a step towards tax as a fair contribution from what people manage to make from their input into the economy; a great bit of equality with everyone paying the same, well nearly everyone.
So I don't know if there is any capability at any level in NZ for a solid well-organised forward looking entity to manage anything. If they make a change and it doesn't work out for the pockets of the plutos, they will be unpopular. So too many pollies are too busy strutting in their expensive clothes, and glossing over everything except a few key matters that they drag out to the nth degree on the basis of 'look here, this is really important that everything is done 105% right, which will be difficult. Don't look over there, keep your mind on what we decree'.
Uni of Canterbury Students Assocn are rebuilding the Ngaio Marsh Theatre affected by earthquake. A great NZ icon, and someone to remember.
If you want to help the action – https://blogs.canterbury.ac.nz/intercom/2019/02/19/ucsa-ngaio-marsh-theatre-save-me-a-seat/
Looks like a UK snap election is on.
Boris has just cancelled all staff leave.
Has he recalled parliament to vote for the election as required under fixed term act ? Cant happen otherwise.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49285670 Brexit: Corbyn seeks clarity on 'unconstitutional' election-time no-deal
The Labour leader is concerned that the UK could leave the EU on 31 October, while a campaign is ongoing and before a new government is elected.
He has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill saying such a move would be an "anti-democratic abuse of power".
It comes amid speculation MPs will table a no-confidence motion in the PM.
Wasn't there once a Cod War? Everyone who has an iron in the fire is full of no-confidence in the UK politicians. How can they hold their heads up? A clerk who made gaffes like this continuing one, would have been down the road with no reference. The UK seem mesmerised by the debacle going on around them. Get up and fight you silly blighters – start now and later as the hard yakka is under way you can put up the cautionary poster – 'Keep Calm and Carry On'.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49302778
Brexit: Email slip-up reveals no-deal fishing patrol 'uncertainty'
In the event of leaving without a deal, the UK would become an independent coastal state and leave the Common Fisheries Policy, which is the EU's shared rules about how much fish countries can catch and where….
"At this stage, there is a lot of uncertainty about the sufficiency of enforcement in a no-deal because we have 12 vessels that need to monitor a space three times the size of the surface area of the UK."
Trolololo…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
On Thursday, noted right-wing phrenology site Quillette published an op-ed (archived link) from a fella calling himself Archie Carter. Carter was a self-described Marxist-Leninist union construction worker, a devotee of Saul Alinsky, and a Mets fan — and boy, was he ever unsatisfied with his experience going to meetings of the Democratic Socialists of America. "The DSA Is Doomed," the tantalizing headline read.
It was the reddest of red meat for Quillette. A real working class Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyist union guy talking about how he tried to go to some meetings of the Brooklyn chapter of the DSA because he was sick of the two-party system and was looking for an "alternative." He attended their meetings, and all their sit-ins and protests, only to discover just how out of touch all those latte-sipping liberals at the DSA really were with the actual working class.
https://www.wonkette.com/right-wing-site-falls-for-fake-marxist-leninist-alinskyite-construction-worker-op-ed
Democracy Now, examining the US role in Syria.
All Leftist Assad apologists and genocide deniers need to take note
As for America’s role?
The take home message;
The US are in Syria for their own reasons. The US presence as disastrous and deadly for the Syrian people as it has been, has little or nothing to do with the so called regime change conspiracy theory, or even challenging the regime in any way, but more a matter of protecting their own interests. Even if this involves joining the wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people alongside the Assad regime and Russia.
Classic – didn't say nothing or do anything when he was minister – but decides now is a good time – what a fail
I thought you were smarter mm. Finlayson knew what was expected of him from his Party and had to follow the protocol and if he had tried to change it and caused a lack of settlement on the tabled considerations, he would have been out from National and perhaps delayed an inevitable deal from the Maori side, and then there might have been total pullback. It was not a conscience vote and he had to present to Maori what the government was offering, and oversee the staff involved.
Interesting defence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
You have missed the point
The Most Important News You'll Ever Read!!!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/114903697/emily-ratajkowski-accused-of-wearing-fake-armpit-hair-for-photo-shoot
You actually read it??
Some comments:
So far, I have resisted the temptation of reading the piece or the comments but the Force is strong with this one. Recommend?
“Force“, or Farce? And NO ! Those were the best of a mercifully small collection.
Phew! That was a close shave then.
Indeed. Reading it might have a depilatory effect.
True, but it would go only skin-deep and barely scratch the surface.
Nope.
I’m not interested in hair-say.
I hair you.
when good news is bad
"It confirmed on Thursday that it was forgiving all outstanding debt owed by customers of its two Canadian credit cards."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/09/chase-bank-cancels-all-credit-card-debt-for-canadian-customers
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/julie-anne-genter-denies-claim-greens-used-leverage-over-let-s-get-wellington-moving.html
'Genter denies she ever threatened to resign, telling media on Thursday: "I have not threatened to resign… I don't know why you would take the word of councillors over myself."
Maybe she didn't offer to resign but said she would resign but its not looking good for her, I mean asking people to take her word over others but refusing to release the letter which would prove what happened…its not a good look
Is there some reason anyone other than Nat spin doctors should trouble themselves to try and find out what the fuck this letter business is all about?
"its [sic] not looking good for her"; "its [sic] not a good look". “Gone, by lunchtime even”
Rough 24 hours ahead for some.
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,-36.892,174.807,5
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=-42.4559;x=177.2205;z=6;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;
Open and transparent governance…..Orr is nothing if not honest….heres our future laid out bare,
Bernard Hickey interviews Adrian Orr
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@pro/2019/08/09/746808/why-adrian-orr-prefers-negative-interest-rates-to-qe
"Currently we produce and export enough dairy products for an estimated 34 million people who don't live here. There are significant costs borne by the rest of the community for that production in the loss of swimmable rivers, polluted aquifers, massive milk tanker damage to roads, and methane and carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/114861965/farmers-cant-cry-unfair-if-theyre-still-not-meeting-the-rules
Not watching, why would I? But just noticed the score in the rugby game tonight.
Can't help but feel sorry for that screechy fat fuck in the adverts.
Go on boydy, woohoo. Woo hoo hoo. 😆
Kia Ora Newshub.
The Allblacks lost ma te wa there is plenty of time for the Allblacks to get back in form for the Rugby World Cup my brother was not happy I had to tell him about the positive things about that situation.
The South Island is having a huge Snow storm its a bit cooler we're we are.
Great that the Barrett whanau is supporting Down syndrome by letting the public see their daughter who has Down syndrome that will help lift the wairua of many people who have Down syndrome.
Thats great for Our waterways our government is investing $12 million into cleaning up our estuaries.
Ka pai JJ Phillips for stopping the train because a girl was abusing a whanau talking in their own language we have to let people know that if others are different it's not acceptable to verbally abuse people just because they are different.
Ka kite ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
Cool that the Kaipara harbor is getting government money to clean it up it was a major food basket for the local tangata whenua back in the day and it can be once again when it is cleaned up some one tryed to blame the demise of the tuatua on local tangata whenua with out thinking about the degradation of the tuatua environment because of the activity of all the locals farmers people driveing on the beaches ect WTF
Awesome that tangata whenua musician have come together to produce a wiata supporting Ihumatao.
The Hawaiians have managed to halt the building of a huge telescope on their Moanga tapu sacred mountain.
Eco Maori agrees that tangata whenua of the Papatuanuku needs to join together to champion our rights and JUSTICE for all tangata whenua People Of The Land.
Ka kite ano
Kia Ora The Am Show.
I agree with Amanda the prisoner with less than 3 years to serve should have the right to vote she's correct that there are a lot of criminal that don't get locked up EXCEPT they let these criminals off because they are there actor's rats kiroie assets narks they let this type of person off on many crimes so long as they do what they are told to do. But a person like Eco Maori who respects everyone doesn't cause havoc in society but will not back down or let them intimidate ME they spend millions trying to set me up millions trying to ruin MY Credibility My good name WTF this behavior is the reason crimes keeps being a hindrance to our society's.
Cameron I agree we need to invest in fish farming it has 4 positive results one export dollar 2 it takes huge pressure off our local Fishes from where Im looking they have been hammered by over fishing how do I no this well 20 years ago there was boat loads of fish being land in Napier today only about 30% of that volume is being landed there was always a emergency job for me unloading fishing boats NOT ANYMORE. 3 our Whenua has enough pressure on it Deep sea fish farming will create export dollar with minimal damage to our environment 4 it spreads our risk not to many eggs in one basket if dairy got to grow that big 30 billion our environment would have turned into a big Mess.
Jason its great that the Wallabies won it will keep the Allblacks on their toes good for Papatuanuku Rugby.
That's a good Idea Grant Robinson having dinner with the highest bidder off trade me James has lymphoma cancer all the best.
We had one blast of Thunder and Lightning and some rain here in the Bay Im going to make sure all my solar equipment is well earth .
Ka kite ano
The real irony is from what I have been able to find out those on home detention are not prevented from voting and plenty of those are the biggest fraudsters in NZ, on that basis alone the restriction is ridiculous.
Eco Maori say have more stories about the students Strikes as this championship for the students to be left a environment that is healthy for all is their goal. What be that a grandchild telling there grandparents that they are in reality ruining their future environment the neanderthal who are running Papatuanuku at the minute are making a big MESS
The Guardian view on climate crisis: what can we do?
Curbing meat and dairy consumption is critical to tackling global heating. But the issue must not be reduced to solely
It’s easy to despair. The scale of the problems we face looms as large as the shadows cast by unpalatable leaders. What stirs some into action for the first time leaves others feeling simply overwhelmed. What can any one person do?
When the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put out a landmark report this week, warning that global heating is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, many news outlets summarised it with the injunction: eat less meat. It was an easily relatable way into the story and told audiences what they could do to help – an essential part of tackling the climate crisis. It was certainly a more accessible angle than the lengthy report’s advice on issues such as smallholders and soil protection.
The danger of such an approach is that great demands can become reduced to individual purchasing decisions, conveniently freeing politicians from making unpopular choices or businesses from reducing their profits. It isn’t a coincidence that so many issues are framed as purely personal choices. It is easier to blame dietary ignorance, sloth and greed for soaring levels of obesity than to tackle an obesogenic environment and the powerful “big food” lobby which has helped to create it. It is easier to encourage individuals to take up meditation than to tackle the social and economic factors contributing to many people’s mental health
Deforestation has soaredin the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, under Jair Bolsonaro’s watch. A new report suggests that leases from the Trump administration of public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling could lead to more carbon emissions than the entire European Union contributes in a year. In this context, focusing on dinner plates can sound trivial. Relying on the conscience of individual shoppers is not a substitute for governmental commitments to drastically curb carbon emissions and introduce the laws, taxes and investment which can produce a more sustainable society
KA KITE ANO LINK BELOW the sandflys are stuffing with my device I see they are still spraying there manufactured lies about Eco Maori all around the Papatuanuku.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/11/the-guardian-view-on-climate-crisis-what-can-we-do
Kia ora Newshub.
Tornadoes struck Auckland and the taranaki that is part and parcel of the Phenomenon Human Caused Climate Change Ingrid.
Thats cool that the Railways showing the near misses of pedestrian close to being hit by a train that should make people think twice before crossing a rail line.
Good on the commence commion for taking money petty to court for charging up to 400 %.
That shows Eco Maori that the World system are set up to make the wealthy filthy rich the wealthy are all getting more money than they need is stuffed up.
That's a great story Paddy and last night one I think that there needs to be more resources for tamariki with speach impediments .
Mike I have already had my say on people in the hinaki jail voting.
Australian flying foxes are being devastated by heatwaves affecting Australia there huge rain forest is suffering from the heatwave caused by you know what.
Ka kite ano
Kia Ora Te Maori News.
I agree that Aotearoa is not keep up with the image of a free and fair society shonky drove this dumb law to ban tangata from voting while in the hinaki .
That is needed some support for impaired tangata to get jobs.
Awesome Te Rawawa buying that food market it looks like they are going to get their products from tangata whenua vegetable growers.
Its ka pai that Te Rawawa is getting involved in treating waste water in there area they have heaps of great lakes that need to be treasured Ka pai to the Rotorua council for their tau toko of this Idea Mana Wahine I have seen heaps of awesome changes in Rotorua recently.
To much seeing Waka arma racing on the Papatuanuku stage that will help lift the Tangata Whenua of Papatuanuku mana up .
Ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori has a editor I can’t say whom it is.