philip ( I said it first yesterday on open mike …so there!…I scooped…nardy nardy nah )
Repeat broadcast:
Another reason why New Zealand needs more Research and Development to diversify away from the dairy industry….see ‘Milk without the Moo’…. in ‘New Scientist’ 28 June, 2014
…. in this article in ‘New Scientist’, biotech company Muufi is aiming to produce a cow free milk…”we are crafting animal-free milk from the bottom up…”..using six key milk proteins”…(far easier to make than cultured meat)…via biochemical engineering…” ‘New Harvest’, an international non-profit organisation, which aims to end factory farming through advances in science and technology” …is also involved in this venture. ..(leaving out lactose and cholesterol and bacteria…product will need not pasteurisation or refrigeration)
…Looks like competition is looming fast for the dairy industry!
i often wonder at the depth of Phillips thinking, i see Phillip the heroic Greeny striding the aisles of His local Pak’n’Slave feversihly muttering to Himself about showing those polluting animal torturing dairy farmers a thing or two,
Scooping cartons of Soy Milk into His trolley He declares the blow struck on behalf of all mankind, never stopping to ponder for a moment just Where that Soy was grown via which companies GE seeds,
At home rewarding Himself for a job well done, take that dairy industry, Phillip pops the cap on the tetra pack litre of sugar laden soy milk with not a thought that such packaging whether manufactured at Kinlieth or Kawerau has as a by-product of its manufacture 1000’s of liters daily of Black Water poured directly into either the Waikato or Tarawera rivers,
Justice in its small way rewards Phillip for His efforts, situated miles below the Kinlieth Mills Mangakino outfall is the Auckland City Councils intake where, admittedly highly diluted, Phillip gets to shave, wash, and, drink of such wonders of industrial pollution on His way to what will probably be a terminal cancer bought about by the slow ingestion of minute amounts of the industrial pollution His tetra pak of soy milk directly helped create,
Welcome to the magic circle of modern industrialization Phillip, you may think you have in some way escaped it, you are of course deluded…
and the ensuing destruction of our economic-base..
Actually, this type of product/production is probably the saviour of our economic base. Won’t do much for our financials but that’s only money anyway and can written off as needed.
I have seen literally nothing about this aside from articles in NZ based on the lab’s press releases. They’re described as a start-up and they have a PayPal donate button on their website. I think it’s far too early to scream about the end of the dairy sector.
Because start-up firms are always completely accurate when they’re forecasting a launch date for a product which is entirely theoretical and untested at this stage. 🙄
Laughable, the farmers have been milking cows on an industrial scale a hundred years befor you first began your elongated Wah Wah Wah, and, when thankfully it gives out one last waaaa–aaah they will go on for another hundred years milking those cows on an industrial scale…
Hmmmm it’s going to be difficult for them to keep milking cows on an industrial scale once phosphorus fertilisers become impossible to come by in ~ 50 years (by which time diesel will be history too)
Phosphates wont run out in 50 years they will become much more expensive to extract and possibly the subject of global tension as the US has 25 yrs left and the biggest reserves (200 years) are in disputed territory in the western Sahara.Currently we waste massive quantities of the stuff right through the chain this is been addressed. There are some extremely high tech fertilizers available and some fairly significant developments in the use of beneficial fungus out of the organic side which also improve the utilization phosphates to great effect.
Either way we wont run out in 50 years
Milks around $1.80 a litre… all the will in the world the yeast stuff wont be a lot cheaper certainly even if it were free i’d rather spend the $1.80… small change to avoid eating GE. I’ll bet the only place this stuff ends up in the foreseeable future is cheese in can and some other half rate products… that and nestled in with the soy milk niche area. Probably with a big sign saying Genetically engineered on it…
Given the choice I dont eat GE certainly not knowingly. But I enjoy a good bacon sandwich as well. In fact im not shy about eating some of the less popular cuts waste not want not and all that…
What I dont do is get up on the pulpit on a daily basis to preach to the animal harming omnivores. And on this particular occasion cherry picking the story to leave out what is to many a very strong negative…
Mmmm bacon sandwiches, i must admit that i weakened from my veg and fish diet last week and bought four slices of honey cured bacon with the weekly shopping,
Along with my slice of one of the three little piggies arse end i got a fresh baked loaf of wholemeal bread,
Yummy, halved the loaf made two magic sandwiches with the bacon roasted in the oven and the addition of eggs,tomato,mushroom,onion,guacamole, lashings of chillie sauce and pepper i indulged in an orgy drenched in sweat,chillie sauce and yes, dripping with bacon fat,
Lolz, far from drop dead via eating part of one of the three little piglets i was to coin a phrase in hog heaven, and, still managed to lose my kilo of body weight for the week…
first part is ok…keep your pants up and use more soap….don’t know about the church part…it may undo the first part ….especially if it is the Catholic Church…you have to watch those priests
Discussions like this never feature on New Zealand television. Never. This is essential viewing for anyone who is interested in learning something about the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Norman Finkelstein, as always, is brilliantly clear; note especially his point at the 4:00 mark about “the Israeli fear of a Palestinian peace offensive.”
Not to trivialize what you’re saying, and aware it’s not the same topic exactly, but I got this in an email yesterday:
Subject: It’s quite simple, really …
Are you confused by what is going on in the Middle East?
Let me explain.
We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.
We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.
We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.
So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends,
and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose,
but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.
If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less.
And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists
who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out.
It’s quite simple, really.
Not a bad analogy, but it does not quite get everything in context. The fact is: the toddler spat at Mike Tyson because Tyson was killing it, having already killed its parents and the rest of its family, all the while claiming that HE was the victim.
And of course Tyson is perfectly entitled to defend himself, as reported faithfully by the BBC, and Radio New Zealand, and the NZ Herald.
Morrissey
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said. You need to go for short walks to clear and relax your head between bouts on the keyboard. The reality of happenings that are filling your head are too awful to think about all the time. You will go round the bend if you don’t give yourself a holiday from worrying and suffering now and then.
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said.
I did not attack her. I respect her, and I was disappointed to hear her being so indolent on this occasion. She took my point with good grace, and agreed with me.
Here is the email she read out just after the 9 o’clock news:
Gaza is about international law—not money
Dear Kim,
You affected a world-weary sigh and made a rather flippant remark about Gaza: “Whether there’s enough money in the world to solve that one, I don’t know.”
Surely the problem has nothing to do with money and everything to do with law and justice. It’s quite clear which party in the Gaza conflict is in gross contravention of international law.
It has nothing to do with money, any more than the similar violations of human rights did in apartheid South Africa and the Jim Crow South.
Morrissey
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said. You need to go for short walks to clear and relax your head between bouts on the keyboard. The reality of happenings that are filling your head are too awful to think about all the time. You will go round the bend if you don’t give yourself a holiday from worrying and suffering now and then.
greywarbler ..(.a computer is playing funny tricks and doubling up your comments)…i heard the comment by Morrissey on radio and it wasnt an “attack” …rather a comment…to Kim Hills remark in a different context which showed she thought with a sigh that the Israeli problem is beyond any money to fix…
…i agree with Morrissey, and so apparently did Kim Hill… it is about Israeli “gross contravention of international law’ and “violations of human rights”
…points which Norman Finkelstein, the courageous Jewish campaigner for Palestinian justice, also makes
Thanks Morrissey…crosstalk link was very interesting!
…as usual Norman Finkelstein is a succinct Jewish hero for fair play and justice for the Palestinians…Hamas is a threat to the Israeli government because it is the New Unity Govt of the Palestinians and it is recognised by the Europeans and UN…. and the Israelis do not want peace
….and Mouin Rabbani says it all …what the Israelis are doing bombing the Palestinians is “morally obscene”
Thank you for posting that interview Morrissey. It was helpful in gaining an insight into Israel’s latest attacks on Palestine. If anything we tend to get the Dan Arbell view, ( watered down but of that colour) reported in NZ, despite the facts of the reality for the Palestinians, occupation, loss of access to necessities and a high number of deaths during times of conflict compared to Israel. (Last I heard, it was 0 – 89 in favour to Israel in some sort of macabre tally).
@Rosie 4.5
What do you think about Edward de Bono? Here are some thoughts the creative and out of the square thinker has had on finding a way forward on the aggression.
This one is based on known stimulant, money, and based on the carrot and stick principle really. Deduct $50 million from the aid given to the Palestinians for each rocket fired into Israel. The same concept would be applied to Israel. Now you are no longer a hero to your people by firing a rocket, which in any case is symbolic, since you’ve just cost them a hospital or a school. You have to give them something to lose,” Prof. de Bono says. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090222/interview/thinking-out-of-the-mess.245931
You know, I have an Edward De Bono book “Po: beyond yes and no” (1972)which I never got around to reading. (The concept of Po, is mentioned in your second link).
Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.
The marmite/zinc deficiency theory, a bit of a dubious link to conflict no?! I took that as a joke! (A bad taste one) And say for arguments sake there was a mass zinc deficiency in the Middle east due to unleavened bread wouldn’t that lead to fertility problems? Maybe you would need to look at correlations between sources of zinc in the diet and health problems such as fertility issues before De Bono handed out rations of marmite to the Israeli Defence Force and Hamas.
Financial incentives based on withdrawal of aid, when the Palestinians have lost so much? They haven’t really got hospitals to lose as their access to medicines and equpiment has been cut off by blockades……..
@Rosie
I note your comment. “Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.”
That is a perfect example of retreat from thinking because of some authoritative person’s opinion. This is what has happened in Israel itself. The location that should now be a country has been claimed by the army and their thinking is led by generals who have used their standing to be elected to political office where they have managed to remain with the same hawkish approach until they die at an old age, many generations on from 1948.
The marmite idea was an exercise in thinking outside the square, ie what your psychology tutor and her ilk may have embedded. A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the decision to invite Dr de Bono came out of internal discussions on modernising the department.
“The idea came from thinking about how to make the Foreign Office more creative and introducing the idea that creativity can be taught. Edward de Bono is the guru of creative thinking,” she said.
It is not Dr de Bono’s first encounter with the British civil service. Last year Sir Michael Bichard, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, accused top Whitehall mandarins of stifling creativity and refusing to reform the civil service. He drafted in Dr de Bono to show civil servants how to make radical decisions.
The money idea is worth more than a derisory comment.
Trying to find new ways to break the impasse is wise, to do or think otherwise just leads to a continuation of the insanity.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” supposed to have been said by Einstein.
Warbs, I simply don’t have the answers or suggestions for a resolution for Israel and Palestine but I’m not sure Edward Be Bono does either, despite his renowned research and promotion of creative problem solving. His idea’s seem kind of ……..flippant in regard to this conflict.
I should add that I don’t blindly follow the advice of any authoritative figure, such as my former psych tutor. I’ve had a lifetime’s worth of healthy disrespect for what people in authority tell me to do or think. This particular tutor however was one cool cucumber, someone who did encourage us to think in a critical manner and gave us different views on a certain theory to consider. I had a huge amount of respect for him.
Really, I’m no one to comment with any expertise on the conflict between Palestine and Israel. I’ve just read about the history over the years and have only a little understanding of it. I also had a lot of interaction with Jewish people here in NZ( working for them for 6 years) as well as having the good fortune to experience the very kind hospitality of Palestinians here too. It’s those people’s views and experiences that sparked an interest in that region of the world, and the way I see it it’s those people that know the best way out of it.
You know, I have an Edward De Bono book “Po: beyond yes and no” (1972)which I never got around to reading. (The concept of Po, is mentioned in your second link).
Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.
The marmite/zinc deficiency theory, a bit of a dubious link to conflict no?! I took that as a joke! (A bad taste one) And say for arguments sake there was a mass zinc deficiency in the Middle east due to unleavened bread wouldn’t that lead to fertility problems? Maybe you would need to look at correlations between sources of zinc in the diet and health problems such as fertility issues before De Bono handed out rations of marmite to the Israeli Defence Force and Hamas.
Financial incentives based on withdrawal of aid, when the Palestinians have lost so much? They haven’t really got hospitals to lose as their access to medicines and equipment has been cut off by blockades……..
De Bono is a fool. Like another supposedly clever English intellectual, Richard Dawkins, he has commented on a situation he obviously knows little or nothing about.
+1
Creative thinking beginning from false premises just gives GIGO without turning the computer on. I also find the idea of somehow fining the Palestinians $50 million for each rocket to be totally bloody obscene. Did this piece of brilliance come in an email from Tel Aviv? What a fuckwit.
I see the Israel Lobby’s Dan Arbell employed Geoffrey Palmer’s deeply flawed quasi-UN Report for propaganda purposes in the RT interview. Hope Geoff’s happy.
Under the headline “Politics will turn off youth until they find their voice” John Armstrong predicts that Election 2014 will show a record low voter turn out. His authority – a Massey University poll of 288 18-24 year olds in which –
79 % – (228) intend to vote and 21% (60) intend not to vote. While this ‘intends to vote’ percentage, is actually significantly greater than nationwide voter turnout in 2008 and 2011 it is apparently confirmatory of Armstrong’s prediction. What ?
Without mentioning the actual figures or percentages – one has to go to the Massey website to find them – Armstrong then spiels that of the 21% who intend not to vote 40% (24) say they would be “more likely to vote” were it possible to do so online. The responses of 24 out of 288 (8%) are apparently relevant to establishing, well……’something’.
Not sure what exactly but I do get the feeling that Armstrong’s subliminal wish is to tell young people, by deploying the straw man of online voting – “voting has nothing for you – you might as well not bother”.
Now why would he do that, this scion of the Herald “Democracy Under Attack” Fourth Estate ?
the headline for the same article in the odt was “how to net all those non-votes? might not be worth trying”. & the summation was basically that old catch cry ‘its all labours fault’.
21% of 18-24 year olds do not intend to vote at this election
Yeah, well that’s extraordinary from Armstrong. Surveys have estimated that 42% of 18-24 year olds failed to vote in 2011, with a similar proportion (40%) staying home on election day 2008.
If the Massey University survey is accurate then the conclusion to be drawn would have to be the absolute polar opposite to Armstrong’s.
if a tree falls in the forest and noone hears it does it make a sound?
If a tree exists outside of perception then there is no way for us to know that the tree exists. So then, what do we mean by ‘existence’, what is the difference between perception and reality? Also, people may also say, if the tree exists outside of perception (as common sense would dictate), then it will produce sound waves. However, these sound waves will not actually sound like anything. Sound as it is mechanically understood will occur, but sound as it is understood by sensation will not occur. So then, how is it known that ‘sound as it is mechanically understood’ will occur if that sound is not perceived?
OOh marty my head – thinking. I answer your comment with my favourite quotes for dealing with conundrums.
Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.
and
Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don’t like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.”
Jonathan Cainer Astrologist
I came across Maya Angelou the other day – she had died. But everybody liked her and her words live on. Good eh! Way to go.
Life Quote
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou
Sorry, something wrong with the edit function – 75% of the 60 who intend not to vote (45 respondents) – 16% of the total polled would be “more likely to vote” could they vote online. Did idiot Armstrong get paid for this rubbish ?
Comment by spokesperson for the investors in the Rossponzi scheme on Radionz this morning was that NZ had no or weak laws to enable getting money paid back from fraudulent dealings. Dishonestly obtained money can be taken from gangs and their fences but some recipients would be ignorant of where it came from. Do they get stripped of receipts too?
Broadening the laws to allow for recovery of unfair gains could be something that Labour could promise. What has Labour said about regulating companies and surveilling them while they are operating? And then after they have stopped, repairing wrongs and recovering money?
How can we prevent these twisted amoral dishonest etc greedy shits from taking everybody down and worse stripping NZ investors of their saved discretionary money which should be available for investing in productive assets, not exiled overseas or spent on consumer goods by the king dick or dickess of the moment.?
We can bring in laws that the USA want but what about ones meant to help us? And there would be some votes in this from destroyed investors, they are regularly mentioned as having to keep working because their retirement money has been hornswoggled (lovely USA word that means cheated). There must be NACT investors who are very angry at the present system that no doubt appears adequate. But is probably like my Chinese-made shoes, look good, fit well, but covered with thin veneer of vinyl and soles as thin as ice cream wafers. .
The financial investment law and particularly the checking and surveillance part needs tightening and banks should probably have to bear more risk dare I say. But financial probity and fair dealing legislation if practical and well drawn up would be a vote winner I should think.
Aargh more gross stupidity from Paula Bennett. She just said this on the Nation and I kid you not. To a question on child poverty and if it is acceptable for kids living in benefit houses to be doing without she said:
“On average a sole parent living in one child in Auckland gets about $560 a week.
That’s the average, a lot get a lot more than that, not many get below that to be quite frank, so that’s the minimum you sort of see for a sole parent.”
So which is it?
An average?
A lot get a lot more than that and not many get below that?
It could mean anything. She is incredibly thick, even by NAct standards. We must also remember that we can never assume any of them are telling the truth.
Agree Phillip..I thought Lisa Owen did a good job.
Thought Bennett looked and sounded on the back foot. I thought she either had a cold or sounded like she could burst into tears. But it won’t be tears for those children in poverty. Tears over being challenged.
Bottom lines is a red herring. A party needs strength in numbers of MPs to push their priorities as far as they can in post election negotiations.
The Green Party states their priorities – those are the things they will aim to promote as strongly as possible in the next term of government. It’s a positive approach about what they will work for, rather than a more reactive focus on bottom lines.
If bottom lines is the drum you want to keep beating, go for it. I’m more focused on priorities, and maximising the left vote.
+1 Karol.
I just watched Shearer – what a disaster he was. Bumbling, stuttering, incoherent – I couldn’t get to the end he was so bad. Labour would have had no chance with him as leader.
What he said about the Labour Party policy on mining suggests he’s been listening to his old mate John Pagani who does PR for Oil & Gas. My only hope is the Green Party will be in a position to improve Labour’s environment policy.
Shearer should be reading up on Labour’s Policy Platform instead of listening to his old mates …. who were not (as far as I’m aware) part of putting it together.
Labour hasn’t finalised all its environment policies yet, but the Policy Platform shows where Labour intends to go and Leader Cunliffe has already stated some of these matters publicly, and in a factual manner. Goodness knows why Shearer can’t do the same !
Here’s an extract :
Labour will prioritise the development of renewable and low-carbon energy technologies for a smooth transition away from our dependence on fossil fuels. With a strong base of existing renewable energy including hydro, geothermal, and wind, we believe all New Zealanders should benefit from our use of sustainable natural resources. …………………………….. Moving away from our dependency on fossil fuels is a vital and responsible goal. While we move away from this dependency, the extractive industries will continue to be a significant part of the New Zealand economy. Labour is committed to ensuring the lowest possible environmental risk from these extractive industries.
We will have clear environmental expectations, including harm prevention, of those engaging in exploration and extraction. Future projects must meet higher standards in emergency response preparedness, liability, and ability to pay if an accident occurs.
Labour will put in place appropriate legislative provisions to protect the environment, and appropriate regulatory controls for this purpose (including stringent environmental impact statements and ongoing monitoring of sites), backed by an adequate and appropriately skilled inspectorate.
Those sorts of comments are very frustrating to Labour members who’ve been prominent in getting big changes to Labour policy on these important matters.
David Cunliffe spoke at a marae in the north recently and this is a summary of what he
said on oil/gas drilling – knowing that northern Maori in particular are very worried about intentions to start oil exploration off their coasts.
On Oil Drilling off the West Coast: David said the current regulations are not strict enough, and the National Government had loosened them even more. When Labour became Government it would tighten up those
regulations, and strengthen the Resource Management Act, to ensure there would be no
danger to NZ’s waters, marine animals or environment should any oil drilling take place. He said Labour’s position did not go as far as the Green Party and their supporters would want, but that Labour would set a high bar for a would-be drilling company to meet.
Actually, that pretty much is the gist of what Shearer was saying. It was just that he highlighted the continued exploration. All the rest is included in what he said.
David Shearer: Well we support oil drilling and we have done in the past, there’s no major change there. What we want to see is a regime very much like in Norway, a Norwegian model where there is good processes of approval, there’s tight regulations, we have a regime for making sure that that money is used well and at the same time we try and make sure our transition to renewables goes on in pace because at the end of the day fossil fuels are out. They can not continue to be our future. But we can use them to transition to renewables.
[…]
So it’s anybody’s guess and for a government and I would say certainly a Labour government putting all our cards on the table and saying our economic development is going to depend or rely on the discovery of oil is nonsense.
[…]
Well we’ve got a policy because we believe that there’s a future for New Zealand and a future for us being able to transition into renewables. And if this allows us to transition into renewables I would have thought that that was something the Greens would want to support.
Maybe Shearer just doesn’t come across firmly enough…… maybe he has too many ums and
ahs and fumbles around too much …… as a politician, he’s obviously not yet learned how to do acceptable soundbites. Frankly, I can’t bear to watch/listen to him ….. too cringe-making.
You say play the argument and not the person yet you call someone a “drongo”. I’m sick to death of reading your shite postings on TS. You’re as hypocritical as cameron slater and probably as obnoxious. I think you’d be more at home on that site.
Why do you ask what the point is if you don’t give a shit? I’ll tell you anyway, which is that almost every comment you make contains personal abuse yet you say to someone to play the argument not the person. Take your own advice and stop being so unnecessarily nasty.
I think that if a regime like Norway has is applied it would work a lot better for NZ – in many, many ways. However, I also understand that drilling in such debts has never been done and Norway’s sites are not as deep as the ones suggested in NZ. What it matters? It is not that easy to close a valve in such debts as people are made to belief.
Also in the near future possession of the actual energy itself is going to be way more vital than possession of the keyboard created currency credits you can trade it for
Wallace Chapman on RADIONZ Sunday morning – something for everyone?
7:08 News and Current Affairs
With Internet party leader Laila Harre, Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, concerns about the state of heath care in Pacific nations, a visit inside the Mason Clinic, and an update on the Fifa World Cup.
8:12 Insight: Can the Commonwealth Games Survive?
8:40 Diane Coyle – Enlightened Economics
Diane Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust and is also a visiting research associate at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She specialises in competition analysis, and the economics of new technologies and globalisation. She is the author of several books, including GDP: A Brief and Affectionate History and The Economics of Enough. She talks to Wallace about GDP and other ways to measure wealth – plus, what’s happening at the BBC.
9:06 Mediawatch
9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint
Looking at Indonesian election.
10:06 Garth McVicar and Kim Workman – the people, books and events that shaped their ideas
Garth McVicar, a Hawke’s Bay farmer who founded the Sensible Sentencing Trust, is known for his “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” approach to crime; whereas Kim Workman, a former policeman who went on to become the head of the prison service and founded the lobby group Rethinking Crime and Punishment, is known for his unflagging commitment to rehabilitation and restorative justice.
(Kim Workman has worked hard for better ways.)
11:05 Charles Dennard – Cirque du Soleil
Charles first joined Cirque du Soleil as the keyboardist and assistant bandleader of the Big Top touring production Alegría. He joins us on Sunday Morning to talk about his upcoming role in Cirque du Soleil’s Totem.
11:25 Paora Joseph – Voices from the River
Paora Joseph (below) is of Atihau-a-Papaarangi and Nga Rauru descent, from Kaiwhaiki Pa and Putiki Marae, Whanganui. In Auckland, he worked as an actor with renowned Maori filmmaker Don Selwyn. Selwyn encouraged him to become a director and he was later mentored by award-winning filmmaker Gaylene Preston in making Tatarakihi: The Children of Parihaka, which screened in the 2012 NZ International Film Festival. Paora Joseph will talk to Sunday Morning about his new film Te Awa Tupua – Voices from the River ahead of its world premiere at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.
11:40 Gerard Johnstone – Housebound
Wallace talks to Gerard Johnstone about his debut feature film Housebound – a mix of gothic horror and domestic comedy. The film had a shaky start but became a hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival and will feature in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
I disagree phillip. Accepted its not a substitute for a serious political discussion programme but it has its place and you often do get real discussions on real issues-it does depend which pollies they have on.
The issue with youth politicians this week was excellent.
I have taken both of my boys to the pub to watch it when up in Wellywood. A pint of Emersons and live politics-what could be better?
@Bearded G
I am on their mailing list – radionz for sat and sun morn, which gives time, names and heading. And then I went on to the site RNZ, under Schedules chose Sunday and picked out some info from Wallace’s list of goodies. Just enough to give some background. It sounded especially interesting and I am a great admirer of Kim Workman.
Yes I read this week bio on Cunliffe with dismay. But what else would you expect from Trevitt.
Every negative story or angle on a story. Nothing about who the charity was that he dyed his hair for. She spun the story as if he was doing it for attention.
When talking about the Hawkes Bay Health board, she didn’t mention that he sacked them because the conflict of interests was in fact corruption. No mention that he speaks Te Reo…………
there are some shocking bits of skewed reporting, but also parts where CT does report more fairly both sides of contentious issues. Mentions white anting of Goff by Cunliffe supporters, but nothing about major whiteanting campaign by ABCs of Cunliffe.
She does report in a more fair and accurate about the non-coup at the Labour Conference. Too much sourcing of views from Tamihere. Give air to that nasty, schoolyard, misogynist nickname play on Cunliffe’s name – totally unnecessary.
CT does accurately report on some of DC’s strengths, but over-emphasises and reinforces the mythologising of DC’s ego and self-promotion – they don’t do anything like that about Key’s self-centred, self-promoting ego.
“There are some shocking bits of skewed reporting…”, is that a bit like the recent Tania Billingsley comments you and others contributed to? That said, the story has gone very quiet.
Having determined that’s your best effort…….I feel brighter already. Shame you have no constructive comment re the Tania story. Actually, I take that back, it’s a shame Karol has no further comment.
Take this line: “Tasers were among the least injury-causing tactical options used by police, the report said.”. When what the report actually says is:
Excluding minor probe injuries, TASER had one of the lowest injury rates
Which is one hell of a big thing to exclude – if you ignore the injuries caused by every TASER use, then yes; they can be portrayed as low injury-causing (just two people ending up in hospital last year immediately after Tasing).
But TASER injuries (eg neurological damage) can take time to manifest. This (2013) article points to a discrepancy between the numbers of injuries reported in the Police reports and those processed by ACC.
The highest number of claims in a year (19) was in 2012-13. Taser injuries include lacerations – most likely cuts or punctures (20 claims), soft-tissue injury (13), foreign body in orifice/eye (5) and burns (4).
Concussions/brain injuries, dental injuries and fracture/dislocation injuries were also recorded
I did. I don’t know about these reactor surveys though. They are looking for gut reaction/emotive reaction. Would it not be better to think about the video statements in the survey rather than merely “react” to them? In any case, I had mostly all of Nationals statement down at zero and most of Labours up around 89. 90, 100, buts that a bias for you………………..Need to look into the concept of a Helix Persona too, before making to swift a judgement about the worm. Just don’t have time now to read about it.
Oh, and you can only participate in the televised worm debate survey if you have a smartphone, so thats me out.
The election slogan displayed by National on their bill boards must surely be the biggest joke of the year “.Working for NZ “.when we have one of the highest unemployment for years .
It is disturbing that in UK there seems no one to question or able to hold Blair to account. (John Campbell had a go and upset Blair when he interviewed him in NZ a few years back.)
Or in NZ. Look what happened to Jon Stephenson when he questioned the Defence claims.
Nothing like have the rights of the people eroded to allow the unfettered to flourish. But one day when the people realise how much they have lost…..
And from a party with a support base that’s constantly on the lookout for reducing the cost of labour; that accepts lay-offs as a sign of the market working; and that advocates less government in people’s lives (unless you’re a beneficiary). That’s working for NZ, all right.
This story seems to sum up the modern age – but I’m sure she will land on her feet – not like the beautiful animal she shot down. And as for L’Oreal – I don’t rate anyone or anything associated with the ‘beauty’ industry – to me it seems to be preying on insecurities and a massive waste of resources, people and money but if others are into it then that is their business.
“The hunting photo which has cost 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere her high-profile modelling gig.”
Actually, I think this story sums it up more. When the marketing of useless and environment-damaging beauty products and accessories for females gets saturated, they expand their target consumers to males.
I just can’t imagine that saturation ever occurring – the bigwigs of the industry will just come up with another gimmick – a bit like toothpaste marketing. I was blown away to hear of a relative under 25 and been for a botox treatment – I just never imagined the lines being formed that young.
Following a JMG link I found this rather blunt article from a relatively surprising source – one of the first investors in Amazon and one of the 0.01% richest men in the USA:
But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.
Former financial regulator Lord Adair Turner discusses the role of banks, the politics behind austerity, and capitalism.
It seems that mistakes made in Wall Street and the City of London are paid for by people around the world, but can we govern greed within the realm of capitalism or is it all just money down the drain? Is austerity really needed? Can we trust the banks?
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Joining our discussion are: Jon Moulton, a venture capitalist and the founder of the private equity firm Better Capital. He has nurtured a reputation for forthrightness even to the point of challenging his private equity peers for abusing tax regimes. He is also one of the few men in the City of London who warned about the impending crash before it happened; Professor Costas Lapavitsas, who teaches economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and is the author of several notable books on the crash and its consequences including Crisis in the Eurozone and Financialisation in Crisis; and Ann Pettifor, the director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation.
The debate included various perspectives from the need to restrain banks and banksters for capitalism to work, to a socialist perspective.
If we were to be really strategic about this we would be doing much more than stopping offshore property sales. But finding foreign talent who were going to contribute to the long term survivability of the nation in many different ways. Which is both good for them – and good for us.
As a society we don’t need any 0.01%ers here, We have lots to do and a whole lot of people here to do it – we just need to train up the people that are here rather than source foreign ‘talent’. I see the transitioning of current abilities and skills to what we may need as being a growth area 🙂
Basically agree. We do have to recognise that NZ has lost a lot of talented experienced people over the last 2 decades. We want them back, with their motivation and knowledge base. And others too, as this nation does not have expertise and experience in all the areas that it could benefit from. NB I’m not necessarily talking about the very wealthy being the kind of people we need in NZ, rather the ones with the skills, the smarts and the humanity to put it to good use on our behalf 🙂
If they’ve left, they have made their choice. I’d concentrate on those that haven’t left because they are here rather than chase these others or offer ‘incentives’ to come back. In my experience when they are ready to come home they come home and everything happens as it is supposed to. I don’t think the brightest and best have left but that could be conceit 🙂
who heard the juvenile act rep at the backbenchers on TV this week opining that teachers and the education department know nothing about education.
only parents do!
I found this claim preposterous and more people should mount an offensive against this sort of nonsensical assertion.
People and regions in NZ are growing apart economically
Shamubeel Eaqub (NZIER) talks about Growing Apart
I think you know there’s a whole bunch of things here but not every region can succeed on every measure. We have to decide what does prosperity mean and in many ways I think we’ve lost sight of the fact that what we’re trying to do with economic policy is to create opportunities for New Zealanders. And increasingly we talk about GDP or employment growth on a national level and we forget that there is this big divergence. Economic outcomes are being decided by poverty, where kids are not getting enough education, the outcomes are not good enough, that welfare is not lifting them out of poverty. You know it’s good to have a welfare safety net but is it the poverty alleviation that we’re looking for? How do we help people to have better outcomes in their life not just about will they stay trapped in those regions.
@Colonial viper
Seems to me that Eaqub had a hidden meaning in what he said about the poor regions. Maybe I’m over sensitive but I thought he was getting to the point of saying that regions like Northland cannot afford to not accept major industrial measures there that will
bring some money and jobs into the area, ie mining and Kaipara Harbour perhaps, accept tidal electricity making despite it being a fish nursery for many species, (I understand this is so).
There are few economic initiatives possible in those areas if you rely on the “market” and on corporate powers to deliver, and have government which refuses to do anything but.
Also I disagree with Eaqub in that I think population growth has to be driven out of Auckland into the regions. Having 1/3 the country in less than .3% of the space is never going to work.
@Colonial viper
There has already been pressure put upon Maori protesters at environmentally damaging projects which would damage pipi beds, fishing areas, or potentially because of leaks or vessels coming in with dirty bottoms – fanworm is apparently a bad one.
I wouldn’t put it past the next NACT government to change the payment of welfare to increase the pressure that already occurs in a region where there was much unemployment, all welfare would be bulk funded or similar, forcing young people to move out or there would be insufficient for the region. That could be done under the cloak of self management.
To keep the young people at home, there would be pressure on iwi and hapu to agree to economic development such as land or sea mining. And further if government could find ways to get iwi to pay for the projects out of their Waitangi Court money, that would be very satisfactory to them in keeping Maori poor and more compliant, having no leverage to resist overtures and demands.
This is the game that the international capitalists play against entire nations. Squeeze them with austerity and money shortages, and force their populations to accept despoilation of people and resources through the resulting desperation and poverty.
You have to accept deep sea oil drilling. Where else can you get jobs from? You have to accept mining on the conservation estate. Where else can you get jobs from? You have to accept our waterways as sewers. Where else can you get jobs from?
So to keep our place in the financial system alive, we have to kill our world.
@ Colonial Viper
Yes this is what I am afraid of. I’ve already heard on radio the annoyed responses to Maori and pointing out that some project would provide jobs. Of course those jobs are short term. Then what?
Kim had an item on this morning about Nigeria and West Africa and oil. They were supposed to get very rich. I didn’t listen but it might have some points for here http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday.
Rachel Boynton: oil rush in West Africa ( 37′ 57″ )
09:05 Producer and director of the documentary Big Men, about oil deals in Ghana and Nigeria, screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Want to be more informed about what’s going on in the world? The findings of a new study suggest that watching Stephen Colbert might help you more than actual news programs.
US based study but, considering just how bad our MSM are, I’d say it would be true of NZ as well – except we don’t have any good satire shows.
That’s because market forces set the market rate at an unskilled worker’s “marginal product” – the value to the employer of the worker’s labour.
Almost common sense, really. Except that such a conclusion is based on a host of assumptions, many of which rarely hold in the real world. And over the past 20 years, academic economists have done many empirical studies showing that’s not how minimum wages work in practice. They’ve also developed more sophisticated theories that better fit the empirical facts. It’s all explained in the June issue of the ACTU’s Economic Bulletin.
But the real question is what would the results of asking NZ economists this question:
As a result, there’s been a big swing in academic thinking on the question of the minimum wage. Last year, researchers at the University of Chicago asked a panel of economists from top US universities whether they agreed with the statement that “the distortionary costs of raising the federal minimum wage to $US9 per hour and indexing it to inflation are sufficiently small compared with the benefits to low-skilled workers who can find employment that this would be a desirable policy”. Fully 62 per cent agreed and 16 per cent disagreed, leaving 22 per cent uncertain.
Because every single one that I had as lecturers while at Otago uni said that raising minimum wage would increase unemployment.
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Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
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 ...
I was initially resistant to the idea often suggested to me that the Government should deliver an arts strategy. The whole point of the arts and creativity is that people should do whatever the hell they want, unbound by the dictates of politicians in Wellington. Peter Jackson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Eleanor ...
The ministers responsible for green-lighting major projects need to be open about potential conflicts of interest, says Transparency International. ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth in 2022 to provide: ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A YouGov poll for The Courier Mail, conducted April 9–17 from a sample ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the United States could mean for Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the ...
A brief round-up of submissions on the controversial proposed law. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, submissions on the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill closed just hours after the government released a list of stakeholder organisations who were sent letters advising how they could ...
A poem from Robin Peace’s new collection Detritus of Empire: feather / grass / rock. Cereal giving I see a woman’s hands, see her curious hands break a stalk as she walks through the tall prairie, the savannah, the steppe, wherever it was. See her idly bite the grass that ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)A handsomely produced (debossed cover, lovely ...
The Commissioner's decision validates the longstanding efforts of the local community and ensures that Awataha Marae will be managed to serve the needs of the local community, particularly for hosting tangihanga. ...
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Analysis - Two ministers were stripped of portfolios in a warning to Cabinet, drama broke out at the Waitangi Tribunal, and the gang patch ban bill ran into opposition. ...
Tara Ward makes an impassioned plea for some vital pop culture merch. In April 1999, I became obsessed with a new reality television show called Popstars. Every Tuesday night, five strangers transformed into music royalty before my very eyes as Joe, Keri, Carly, Erika and Megan were chosen to form ...
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War ...
The PSA is shocked that Oranga Tamariki has used the cost cutting drive to downgrade its commitment to Te Ao Māori and remove many specialist Māori roles. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland There can be no more powerful symbol of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea than the prime ministers of these neighbouring countries walking together on the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Robinson, Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Andrew Netherwood Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. ...
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Wondering where to host your next BYO? Whether its a small gathering or a massive party, we’ve got some recommendations. I was first introduced to the concept of BYOs at Dunedin’s India Gardens, a legendary but sadly defunct establishment, which purveyed enormous quantities of mango chicken to Aotearoa’s drunkest future ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julien Cooper, Honorary Lecturer, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University Julien Cooper The hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new ...
The sector says it’s hopeful her replacement Paul Goldsmith will be able to throw it a lifeline, after six months with a minister deemed missing in action, writes Catherine McGregor in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign ...
The government can't just rely on axing public sector jobs and has to do more to cut spending, says the chief economist at a free market think tank. ...
Rock The Vote NZ, known for its advocacy for minor party unity and its role within the Freedoms NZ Coalition during the 2023 General Election, celebrates this merger as a strategic enhancement of its operational strength and outreach. ...
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i see the cruelty-free milk story has hit the nz mainstream media..
..it will look/taste the same..will have a much longer shelf-life..
..will be much cheaper..
..and it will be on the market in 2016..18 months away..
..that’s not far away..eh..?
..and those thinking of investing heavily in that sunset-industry..
..(esp. those using treaty settlements to do so..(!)..)
..they really need to think on/again..eh..?
..and the cruelty-free meat won’t be far behind it..
..and that’s the nz economy fucked..
..unless we change..and soon…
“..Milk made in laboratories to hit shelves..”
“..A new milk could threaten New Zealand’s $17 billion dairy export industry.
Made in the lab from yeast – and due to be on shelves in 2016 – it will be a product virtually indistinguishable from cows’ milk.
Because it will have the same proteins – fats – sugars – vitamins – and minerals –
But the milk will be able to be made without the typical cholesterol – allergen lactose – and bacteria in cows’ milk –
Soon after its introduction – it would become far cheaper than its cow-made rival – Gandhi said..”
(cont..)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/10258565/Milk-made-in-laboratories-to-hit-shelves
whoar..!..eh..?
..time is getting short..
philip ( I said it first yesterday on open mike …so there!…I scooped…nardy nardy nah )
Repeat broadcast:
Another reason why New Zealand needs more Research and Development to diversify away from the dairy industry….see ‘Milk without the Moo’…. in ‘New Scientist’ 28 June, 2014
…. in this article in ‘New Scientist’, biotech company Muufi is aiming to produce a cow free milk…”we are crafting animal-free milk from the bottom up…”..using six key milk proteins”…(far easier to make than cultured meat)…via biochemical engineering…” ‘New Harvest’, an international non-profit organisation, which aims to end factory farming through advances in science and technology” …is also involved in this venture. ..(leaving out lactose and cholesterol and bacteria…product will need not pasteurisation or refrigeration)
…Looks like competition is looming fast for the dairy industry!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229750.400-dont-have-a-cow-making-milk-without-the-moo.html
Watch this govt putting trade barriers on in panic…oh hang on, they’re already on when we can’t import cheaper milk from overseas.
You left this bit out Phil….
” inserting the DNA instructions for these foods into the yeast’s genetic code.”
GE Milk… with a side of GE corn for breakfast anyone?
cricklewood..
..if it’s animal-slavery vs. a ge tweak…
..sorry..!..no contest..!
..and i doubt those concerns will stop the destruction of our dairy industry..eh..?
It’s not a contest for you personally =/= not a contest for other people. And don’t you already not drink milk anyway?
i often wonder at the depth of Phillips thinking, i see Phillip the heroic Greeny striding the aisles of His local Pak’n’Slave feversihly muttering to Himself about showing those polluting animal torturing dairy farmers a thing or two,
Scooping cartons of Soy Milk into His trolley He declares the blow struck on behalf of all mankind, never stopping to ponder for a moment just Where that Soy was grown via which companies GE seeds,
At home rewarding Himself for a job well done, take that dairy industry, Phillip pops the cap on the tetra pack litre of sugar laden soy milk with not a thought that such packaging whether manufactured at Kinlieth or Kawerau has as a by-product of its manufacture 1000’s of liters daily of Black Water poured directly into either the Waikato or Tarawera rivers,
Justice in its small way rewards Phillip for His efforts, situated miles below the Kinlieth Mills Mangakino outfall is the Auckland City Councils intake where, admittedly highly diluted, Phillip gets to shave, wash, and, drink of such wonders of industrial pollution on His way to what will probably be a terminal cancer bought about by the slow ingestion of minute amounts of the industrial pollution His tetra pak of soy milk directly helped create,
Welcome to the magic circle of modern industrialization Phillip, you may think you have in some way escaped it, you are of course deluded…
what i was saying stephanie..
..is that will not be a barrier to the wholesale market acceptance…
..of this much cheaper/no need to refrigerate/tastes the same as milk..
..and the ensuing destruction of our economic-base..
..and i guess for those that don’t care about animal-slavery..
..they cd get all precious..
..and go:..i’ll have the cruel stuff please..’..
..that’s got ge..!
..but the average punter won’t care..
..they”ll just see better/much-cheaper…
..and no..i don’t drink milk..
..but i welcome this product because of the disruptor affect it will have on the animal-slavery/concentration-camps/suffering..
.
..and soon..too..!!
..woo-hoo..!!
..(our rivers will get a chance to get clean again..)
Actually, this type of product/production is probably the saviour of our economic base. Won’t do much for our financials but that’s only money anyway and can written off as needed.
and fonterra are in total denial..
..rnz reports that they ‘aren’t worried’ about this mega-disruptor..
..more fools them..eh..?
and of course the downstream-animal-industries will also be fucked..
..as this cheaper product will be used to make cheese etc…
..and don’t forget..
..the cruelty-free meat will also be here relatively soon…
..that will be the final nail in the animal-industry coffin/nz export-industry…
..they just won’t be able to compete on price..apart from anything else..
..and james cameron will be seen to be the smart/clever/prescient-one..
..seeing as he is currently converting dairy-holdings into farms growing real food…
I have seen literally nothing about this aside from articles in NZ based on the lab’s press releases. They’re described as a start-up and they have a PayPal donate button on their website. I think it’s far too early to scream about the end of the dairy sector.
ok steph…
..a product release date of 2016 is just all bullshit..eh..?
..nothing to see there..eh..?
..and this company is not the only one searching for this holy grail..
..and for those who think such drastic diet-changes won’t happen..
..i wd recommend they seek out a british tv show..(name escapes me..someone will know..)
..where they had two british luvvies..living for a week on the diets of various british eras..
..look at that..and then tell me massive changes in diet don’t happen..
..and no..the dairy industry won’t die overnite..
..but are you saying the arrival of this product will have had no effect..?
..five to ten yrs down the road..?
..we will still be living these glory-days of uber-high prices for our animal-industry products..?
..good luck with that..eh..?
..the smart-people will be getting out now/soon..
..selling up before the price of dairy-farms etc collapses..
..it’s gonna get very ugly..during the transition..
..but for anyone thinking ‘green’…
..this is very very good news..
..this new mega-disruptor..
..and for those who want to grow real/good-food…
..there will be lots of cheap farms/land up for grabs…
..as these dairy-dreamtimes-investments..all turns to dust…
..and i have real concerns for those iwi pouring their treaty settlements into this sunset-industry..
..the impact on those iwi will be huge..and not in a good way..
.
Because start-up firms are always completely accurate when they’re forecasting a launch date for a product which is entirely theoretical and untested at this stage. 🙄
right ho..steph..
..it’s just not gonna happen..eh..?
..you just keep on stuffing yr fists in yr ears and going ‘nyah..!..nyah..!..nyah..!’..eh..?
..and maybe all those companies racing to develop this and lab-meat..
..maybe they will just be ‘start-ups’..to be sneered at..eh..?
..you are sounding like a bridle-maker..saying that those new-fangled car things will never amount to much..
..can you not grasp how rich will be those that first get there..?
..can you not see/comprehend the size of this economic-imperative..?
and this just sounds like some dreamer..eh..?
“..They hope to have the first glass to taste in September.
Cheese, yoghurt, and cream will all be able to be made from the milk –
(muufri’..get it..?..)
Laughable, the farmers have been milking cows on an industrial scale a hundred years befor you first began your elongated Wah Wah Wah, and, when thankfully it gives out one last waaaa–aaah they will go on for another hundred years milking those cows on an industrial scale…
Hmmmm it’s going to be difficult for them to keep milking cows on an industrial scale once phosphorus fertilisers become impossible to come by in ~ 50 years (by which time diesel will be history too)
Phosphates wont run out in 50 years they will become much more expensive to extract and possibly the subject of global tension as the US has 25 yrs left and the biggest reserves (200 years) are in disputed territory in the western Sahara.Currently we waste massive quantities of the stuff right through the chain this is been addressed. There are some extremely high tech fertilizers available and some fairly significant developments in the use of beneficial fungus out of the organic side which also improve the utilization phosphates to great effect.
Either way we wont run out in 50 years
Milks around $1.80 a litre… all the will in the world the yeast stuff wont be a lot cheaper certainly even if it were free i’d rather spend the $1.80… small change to avoid eating GE. I’ll bet the only place this stuff ends up in the foreseeable future is cheese in can and some other half rate products… that and nestled in with the soy milk niche area. Probably with a big sign saying Genetically engineered on it…
so you have a ge-free diet do you sunshine..?
..yeah..right..eh..?..
..you are like those ‘vegetarians’ who blissfully ignore the calves’-guts used as a binding-agent in most cheeses..
..that they eat far too much of..
..and those carnivores who claim to only eat animal-flesh from animals raised on ‘happy-farms’…
..yeah..right…!
..i’m calling ‘bullshit!’ on all of you…
As evidenced by this particular page Phillip, you are full of an endless supply of it to ”call on all of us”,
Bullshit that is…
Given the choice I dont eat GE certainly not knowingly. But I enjoy a good bacon sandwich as well. In fact im not shy about eating some of the less popular cuts waste not want not and all that…
What I dont do is get up on the pulpit on a daily basis to preach to the animal harming omnivores. And on this particular occasion cherry picking the story to leave out what is to many a very strong negative…
Mmmm bacon sandwiches, i must admit that i weakened from my veg and fish diet last week and bought four slices of honey cured bacon with the weekly shopping,
Along with my slice of one of the three little piggies arse end i got a fresh baked loaf of wholemeal bread,
Yummy, halved the loaf made two magic sandwiches with the bacon roasted in the oven and the addition of eggs,tomato,mushroom,onion,guacamole, lashings of chillie sauce and pepper i indulged in an orgy drenched in sweat,chillie sauce and yes, dripping with bacon fat,
Lolz, far from drop dead via eating part of one of the three little piglets i was to coin a phrase in hog heaven, and, still managed to lose my kilo of body weight for the week…
no ‘preaching’ from you cricklewood..?
..givr yrslf multiple pats on the back..eh..?
..as you eat yr ‘less popular cuts’..
..secure in yr knowledge they are ‘ge-free’..
..that animal flesh/fat also gives ya cancer..?
..no worries..!..eh..?
..yr ‘cancer’ will be ge-free..
..and that’s all that really matters..eh..?
.animals suffering..?
..fuck them..!..eh..?
“..What I dont do is get up on the pulpit on a daily basis to preach to the animal harming omnivores..”
well you wouldn’t..would you..?
..you are one…
..how does that sentence make any sense at all..?
“..How Pot Helped this Autistic Epileptic Child – Go From Blank Stares to Loving Hugs..
..Her frequent seizures were once so severe they caused broken bones —
(cont..)
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/how-pot-helped-autistic-epileptic-child-go-blank-stares-loving-hugs
(how unthinkingly cruel is it that nz children suffering this way are denied the healing properties/salve of cannabis..?..
..ask yself that..eh..?..)
pull your socks up, pull your underpants up, use more soap and go to church then you will be ok.
OK?
first part is ok…keep your pants up and use more soap….don’t know about the church part…it may undo the first part ….especially if it is the Catholic Church…you have to watch those priests
Target: Gaza
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/171904-israel-assault-gaza-strip/
Discussions like this never feature on New Zealand television. Never. This is essential viewing for anyone who is interested in learning something about the situation in the Gaza Strip.
Norman Finkelstein, as always, is brilliantly clear; note especially his point at the 4:00 mark about “the Israeli fear of a Palestinian peace offensive.”
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/171904-israel-assault-gaza-strip/
Not to trivialize what you’re saying, and aware it’s not the same topic exactly, but I got this in an email yesterday:
Subject: It’s quite simple, really …
Are you confused by what is going on in the Middle East?
Let me explain.
We support the Iraqi government in the fight against ISIS.
We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like.
We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him.
We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the Iraqi government in its fight against ISIS.
So some of our friends support our enemies, some enemies are now our friends,
and some of our enemies are fighting against our other enemies, who we want to lose,
but we don’t want our enemies who are fighting our enemies to win.
If the people we want to defeat are defeated, they could be replaced by people we like even less.
And all this was started by us invading a country to drive out terrorists
who were not actually there until we went in to drive them out.
It’s quite simple, really.
Thanks for that Jan. It’s not trivializing at all.
Jane Young on Pundit about the Israeli attack on Gaza:
“That force has already been likened to Mike Tyson beating up on a toddler who spat at him.”
Not a bad analogy, but it does not quite get everything in context. The fact is: the toddler spat at Mike Tyson because Tyson was killing it, having already killed its parents and the rest of its family, all the while claiming that HE was the victim.
And of course Tyson is perfectly entitled to defend himself, as reported faithfully by the BBC, and Radio New Zealand, and the NZ Herald.
Morrissey
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said. You need to go for short walks to clear and relax your head between bouts on the keyboard. The reality of happenings that are filling your head are too awful to think about all the time. You will go round the bend if you don’t give yourself a holiday from worrying and suffering now and then.
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said.
I did not attack her. I respect her, and I was disappointed to hear her being so indolent on this occasion. She took my point with good grace, and agreed with me.
Here is the email she read out just after the 9 o’clock news:
Gaza is about international law—not money
Dear Kim,
You affected a world-weary sigh and made a rather flippant remark about Gaza: “Whether there’s enough money in the world to solve that one, I don’t know.”
Surely the problem has nothing to do with money and everything to do with law and justice. It’s quite clear which party in the Gaza conflict is in gross contravention of international law.
It has nothing to do with money, any more than the similar violations of human rights did in apartheid South Africa and the Jim Crow South.
Yours sincerely,
Morrissey Breen
Northcote Point
Morrissey
I heard your name on Radionz. Attacking Kim about something you think she meant from something that she said. You need to go for short walks to clear and relax your head between bouts on the keyboard. The reality of happenings that are filling your head are too awful to think about all the time. You will go round the bend if you don’t give yourself a holiday from worrying and suffering now and then.
greywarbler ..(.a computer is playing funny tricks and doubling up your comments)…i heard the comment by Morrissey on radio and it wasnt an “attack” …rather a comment…to Kim Hills remark in a different context which showed she thought with a sigh that the Israeli problem is beyond any money to fix…
…i agree with Morrissey, and so apparently did Kim Hill… it is about Israeli “gross contravention of international law’ and “violations of human rights”
…points which Norman Finkelstein, the courageous Jewish campaigner for Palestinian justice, also makes
@Chooky Thanks.
Thanks Morrissey…crosstalk link was very interesting!
…as usual Norman Finkelstein is a succinct Jewish hero for fair play and justice for the Palestinians…Hamas is a threat to the Israeli government because it is the New Unity Govt of the Palestinians and it is recognised by the Europeans and UN…. and the Israelis do not want peace
….and Mouin Rabbani says it all …what the Israelis are doing bombing the Palestinians is “morally obscene”
Thank you for posting that interview Morrissey. It was helpful in gaining an insight into Israel’s latest attacks on Palestine. If anything we tend to get the Dan Arbell view, ( watered down but of that colour) reported in NZ, despite the facts of the reality for the Palestinians, occupation, loss of access to necessities and a high number of deaths during times of conflict compared to Israel. (Last I heard, it was 0 – 89 in favour to Israel in some sort of macabre tally).
No Iron Dome for Palestinian civilians.
@Rosie 4.5
What do you think about Edward de Bono? Here are some thoughts the creative and out of the square thinker has had on finding a way forward on the aggression.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/de-bonos-marmite-plan-for-peace-in-middle-yeast-740189.html
The marmite (zinc) solution might be viable.
This one is based on known stimulant, money, and based on the carrot and stick principle really.
Deduct $50 million from the aid given to the Palestinians for each rocket fired into Israel. The same concept would be applied to Israel. Now you are no longer a hero to your people by firing a rocket, which in any case is symbolic, since you’ve just cost them a hospital or a school. You have to give them something to lose,” Prof. de Bono says.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090222/interview/thinking-out-of-the-mess.245931
Or try to shift out the bloody hawks on both sides. Through voting in each other’s elections.
http://mike.brisgeek.com/2006/04/21/edward-de-bono-on-israel-v-palestine/
You know, I have an Edward De Bono book “Po: beyond yes and no” (1972)which I never got around to reading. (The concept of Po, is mentioned in your second link).
Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.
The marmite/zinc deficiency theory, a bit of a dubious link to conflict no?! I took that as a joke! (A bad taste one) And say for arguments sake there was a mass zinc deficiency in the Middle east due to unleavened bread wouldn’t that lead to fertility problems? Maybe you would need to look at correlations between sources of zinc in the diet and health problems such as fertility issues before De Bono handed out rations of marmite to the Israeli Defence Force and Hamas.
Financial incentives based on withdrawal of aid, when the Palestinians have lost so much? They haven’t really got hospitals to lose as their access to medicines and equpiment has been cut off by blockades……..
@Rosie
I note your comment. “Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.”
That is a perfect example of retreat from thinking because of some authoritative person’s opinion. This is what has happened in Israel itself. The location that should now be a country has been claimed by the army and their thinking is led by generals who have used their standing to be elected to political office where they have managed to remain with the same hawkish approach until they die at an old age, many generations on from 1948.
The marmite idea was an exercise in thinking outside the square, ie what your psychology tutor and her ilk may have embedded.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the decision to invite Dr de Bono came out of internal discussions on modernising the department.
“The idea came from thinking about how to make the Foreign Office more creative and introducing the idea that creativity can be taught. Edward de Bono is the guru of creative thinking,” she said.
It is not Dr de Bono’s first encounter with the British civil service. Last year Sir Michael Bichard, the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education, accused top Whitehall mandarins of stifling creativity and refusing to reform the civil service. He drafted in Dr de Bono to show civil servants how to make radical decisions.
The money idea is worth more than a derisory comment.
Trying to find new ways to break the impasse is wise, to do or think otherwise just leads to a continuation of the insanity.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” supposed to have been said by Einstein.
Warbs, I simply don’t have the answers or suggestions for a resolution for Israel and Palestine but I’m not sure Edward Be Bono does either, despite his renowned research and promotion of creative problem solving. His idea’s seem kind of ……..flippant in regard to this conflict.
I should add that I don’t blindly follow the advice of any authoritative figure, such as my former psych tutor. I’ve had a lifetime’s worth of healthy disrespect for what people in authority tell me to do or think. This particular tutor however was one cool cucumber, someone who did encourage us to think in a critical manner and gave us different views on a certain theory to consider. I had a huge amount of respect for him.
Really, I’m no one to comment with any expertise on the conflict between Palestine and Israel. I’ve just read about the history over the years and have only a little understanding of it. I also had a lot of interaction with Jewish people here in NZ( working for them for 6 years) as well as having the good fortune to experience the very kind hospitality of Palestinians here too. It’s those people’s views and experiences that sparked an interest in that region of the world, and the way I see it it’s those people that know the best way out of it.
You know, I have an Edward De Bono book “Po: beyond yes and no” (1972)which I never got around to reading. (The concept of Po, is mentioned in your second link).
Our psyche tutor also mentioned that De Bono had some useful theory but was too pop psychology for students to bother with, maybe that put me off. I don’t know.
The marmite/zinc deficiency theory, a bit of a dubious link to conflict no?! I took that as a joke! (A bad taste one) And say for arguments sake there was a mass zinc deficiency in the Middle east due to unleavened bread wouldn’t that lead to fertility problems? Maybe you would need to look at correlations between sources of zinc in the diet and health problems such as fertility issues before De Bono handed out rations of marmite to the Israeli Defence Force and Hamas.
Financial incentives based on withdrawal of aid, when the Palestinians have lost so much? They haven’t really got hospitals to lose as their access to medicines and equipment has been cut off by blockades……..
De Bono is a fool. Like another supposedly clever English intellectual, Richard Dawkins, he has commented on a situation he obviously knows little or nothing about.
@Morrissey
Mmmmmmmmmmmm
De Bono’s facile idea is premised on the notion that this is some sort of Faults-on-Both-Sides conflict. Nothing could be further from the truth.
+1
Creative thinking beginning from false premises just gives GIGO without turning the computer on. I also find the idea of somehow fining the Palestinians $50 million for each rocket to be totally bloody obscene. Did this piece of brilliance come in an email from Tel Aviv? What a fuckwit.
They’re going to want the Palestinians to sacrifice a new born baby terrorist for each WWII era rocket fired, next.
They’re going to want the Palestinians to sacrifice a new born baby terrorist for each WWII era rocket fired, next.
+100 Morrissey … “De Bono is a fool”…in other words a fuckwit .
I see the Israel Lobby’s Dan Arbell employed Geoffrey Palmer’s deeply flawed quasi-UN Report for propaganda purposes in the RT interview. Hope Geoff’s happy.
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Sorry everyone, but I’ve noticed that often my posts appear in TRIPLICATE. Be assured I only push the “Submit Comment” button once.
Postscript:
I see the extra posts have been removed a couple of minutes later. Thanks Lin.
Which muttering, off-the-planet fool write this ?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/john-armstrong/news/article.cfm?a_id=3&objectid=11292161
Under the headline “Politics will turn off youth until they find their voice” John Armstrong predicts that Election 2014 will show a record low voter turn out. His authority – a Massey University poll of 288 18-24 year olds in which –
79 % – (228) intend to vote and 21% (60) intend not to vote. While this ‘intends to vote’ percentage, is actually significantly greater than nationwide voter turnout in 2008 and 2011 it is apparently confirmatory of Armstrong’s prediction. What ?
Without mentioning the actual figures or percentages – one has to go to the Massey website to find them – Armstrong then spiels that of the 21% who intend not to vote 40% (24) say they would be “more likely to vote” were it possible to do so online. The responses of 24 out of 288 (8%) are apparently relevant to establishing, well……’something’.
Not sure what exactly but I do get the feeling that Armstrong’s subliminal wish is to tell young people, by deploying the straw man of online voting – “voting has nothing for you – you might as well not bother”.
Now why would he do that, this scion of the Herald “Democracy Under Attack” Fourth Estate ?
the headline for the same article in the odt was “how to net all those non-votes? might not be worth trying”. & the summation was basically that old catch cry ‘its all labours fault’.
21% of 18-24 year olds do not intend to vote at this election
Yeah, well that’s extraordinary from Armstrong. Surveys have estimated that 42% of 18-24 year olds failed to vote in 2011, with a similar proportion (40%) staying home on election day 2008.
If the Massey University survey is accurate then the conclusion to be drawn would have to be the absolute polar opposite to Armstrong’s.
I wondered how the rod removal thingy was going at Fukushima so I googled
and what popped up was – tsunami, earthquake, typhoon…
https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&gl=nz&authuser=0&tbm=nws&q=fukushima&spell=1&sa=X&ei=zVPAU-DCDMb4kgWCzoCgDA&ved=0CBoQvwUoAA
if a tree falls in the forest and noone hears it does it make a sound?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest
If a tree falls in the forest and no-one hears the sound, it’s existence will still be part of the whole that impacts on climate change.
OOh marty my head – thinking. I answer your comment with my favourite quotes for dealing with conundrums.
Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.
and
Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don’t like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion.”
Jonathan Cainer Astrologist
I came across Maya Angelou the other day – she had died. But everybody liked her and her words live on. Good eh! Way to go.
Life Quote
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou
here ya go warbler..
..my maya angelou archive..
..enjoy..!
http://whoar.co.nz/?s=maya+angelou
delicious Saturday treat, thanks for compiling it Phillip.
yr welcome..
Sorry, something wrong with the edit function – 75% of the 60 who intend not to vote (45 respondents) – 16% of the total polled would be “more likely to vote” could they vote online. Did idiot Armstrong get paid for this rubbish ?
Comment by spokesperson for the investors in the Rossponzi scheme on Radionz this morning was that NZ had no or weak laws to enable getting money paid back from fraudulent dealings. Dishonestly obtained money can be taken from gangs and their fences but some recipients would be ignorant of where it came from. Do they get stripped of receipts too?
Broadening the laws to allow for recovery of unfair gains could be something that Labour could promise. What has Labour said about regulating companies and surveilling them while they are operating? And then after they have stopped, repairing wrongs and recovering money?
How can we prevent these twisted amoral dishonest etc greedy shits from taking everybody down and worse stripping NZ investors of their saved discretionary money which should be available for investing in productive assets, not exiled overseas or spent on consumer goods by the king dick or dickess of the moment.?
We can bring in laws that the USA want but what about ones meant to help us? And there would be some votes in this from destroyed investors, they are regularly mentioned as having to keep working because their retirement money has been hornswoggled (lovely USA word that means cheated). There must be NACT investors who are very angry at the present system that no doubt appears adequate. But is probably like my Chinese-made shoes, look good, fit well, but covered with thin veneer of vinyl and soles as thin as ice cream wafers. .
The financial investment law and particularly the checking and surveillance part needs tightening and banks should probably have to bear more risk dare I say. But financial probity and fair dealing legislation if practical and well drawn up would be a vote winner I should think.
bennett on the nation..
..lying her head off..
..fuck..!..i’m just about smashing into the desk here..
..just lie after fucken lie…!
Aargh more gross stupidity from Paula Bennett. She just said this on the Nation and I kid you not. To a question on child poverty and if it is acceptable for kids living in benefit houses to be doing without she said:
“On average a sole parent living in one child in Auckland gets about $560 a week.
That’s the average, a lot get a lot more than that, not many get below that to be quite frank, so that’s the minimum you sort of see for a sole parent.”
So which is it?
Words fail me …
So glad you’re there tp witness that. Also glad I was busy attending to chores. Will read the transcript later. Can’t bear to watch.
It could mean anything. She is incredibly thick, even by NAct standards. We must also remember that we can never assume any of them are telling the truth.
lisa owen called her ‘paula benefit’ in the sign-off..
..and owen did a good job-of-work…
..hanging ‘paula benefit’ up for all to see..naked…
Agree Phillip..I thought Lisa Owen did a good job.
Thought Bennett looked and sounded on the back foot. I thought she either had a cold or sounded like she could burst into tears. But it won’t be tears for those children in poverty. Tears over being challenged.
and now i would like labours’ spokesperson on these matters..(who is it..?..does anyone know..?..putting the ‘low’ in ‘low-profile’..?..)
..i wd like to see them asked the same questions that were asked of bennett…
it’s moroney..apparantly…who knew..?
..she has hardly been a loud voice on this topic…eh..?
and still no mention..from anyone..
..of the adult/childless-poor…
..those on unemployment/sickness-benefits..
and still no mention..from anyone..
..of the adult/childless-poor…
..those on unemployment/sickness-benefits..
now shearer is showing all the reasons he is no longer leader of labour..
..and the beads of oil-sweat glistening on his forehead..
Phillip @ 13 agree with you about Shearer too. I feel nervous for him!
“..I feel nervous for him!..”
i know what you mean..
..a total disaster of an appearance..
..and showing that on fucking-the-environment matters..
..national/labour are tweedle-dum/tweedle-dee..
I was thinking Labour dodged a bullet there.
It’s “and” not, it’s not “or”…. it’s.. we can have both
Ah. Jeannette Fitzsimons on the panel
and now what i wd like to see..
..is the green party being asked the same questions that were asked of shearer…
..to see if they have any ‘bottom-lines’ on this..
..and to see if those same beads of oil-sweat gather on their forehead also..
..difficult to see how that wouldn’t happen..
..actually..
Bottom lines is a red herring. A party needs strength in numbers of MPs to push their priorities as far as they can in post election negotiations.
The Green Party states their priorities – those are the things they will aim to promote as strongly as possible in the next term of government. It’s a positive approach about what they will work for, rather than a more reactive focus on bottom lines.
If bottom lines is the drum you want to keep beating, go for it. I’m more focused on priorities, and maximising the left vote.
A bullet fired by members of Labour’s own goddam caucus.
+1 Karol.
I just watched Shearer – what a disaster he was. Bumbling, stuttering, incoherent – I couldn’t get to the end he was so bad. Labour would have had no chance with him as leader.
What he said about the Labour Party policy on mining suggests he’s been listening to his old mate John Pagani who does PR for Oil & Gas. My only hope is the Green Party will be in a position to improve Labour’s environment policy.
“..My only hope is the Green Party will be in a position to improve Labour’s environment policy..”
good luck with that one..eh..?
..norman has already said he is ok with drilling/mining etc..
..in that ‘no bottom-lines’ interview he did..
..their focus seemingly is on cabinet-positions..
Oh so negative phillip
how is that ‘negative’ on my part..?
..this is what norman said…
..these are facts..
..should they just not be mentioned..?
..should we draw a discreet veil over them..?
phillip-look at the alternative. Another 3 years of these bozos.
where have i ever argued against throwing these tory bastards out.?.
..but my memories of the 90’s still burn large…
..and those who just forget..are often doomed to make the same mistakes..
..that is why i want labours’ vote to collapse to internet/mana and the greens..
..’cos the stronger those two in any grouping..
..the more we will get done..
..it’s as simple as that..
..we can have our revolution at the ballot-box..
..internet/mana and the greens both have policies that wd have been labour policies in days of yore..
..and that nowadays labour don’t have…..
Shearer should be reading up on Labour’s Policy Platform instead of listening to his old mates …. who were not (as far as I’m aware) part of putting it together.
Labour hasn’t finalised all its environment policies yet, but the Policy Platform shows where Labour intends to go and Leader Cunliffe has already stated some of these matters publicly, and in a factual manner. Goodness knows why Shearer can’t do the same !
Here’s an extract :
Labour will prioritise the development of renewable and low-carbon energy technologies for a smooth transition away from our dependence on fossil fuels. With a strong base of existing renewable energy including hydro, geothermal, and wind, we believe all New Zealanders should benefit from our use of sustainable natural resources. ……………………………..
Moving away from our dependency on fossil fuels is a vital and responsible goal. While we move away from this dependency, the extractive industries will continue to be a significant part of the New Zealand economy. Labour is committed to ensuring the lowest possible environmental risk from these extractive industries.
We will have clear environmental expectations, including harm prevention, of those engaging in exploration and extraction. Future projects must meet higher standards in emergency response preparedness, liability, and ability to pay if an accident occurs.
Labour will put in place appropriate legislative provisions to protect the environment, and appropriate regulatory controls for this purpose (including stringent environmental impact statements and ongoing monitoring of sites), backed by an adequate and appropriately skilled inspectorate.
that sure as hell wasn’t what shearer was saying..
..he was just channeling that oil-pimp pagani…
..and fitzsimon noted that there was no difference between national and labour in these matters..
that sure as hell wasn’t what shearer was saying..
..he was just channeling that oil-pimp pagani…
..and fitzsimon noted that there was no difference between national and labour in these matters..
Those sorts of comments are very frustrating to Labour members who’ve been prominent in getting big changes to Labour policy on these important matters.
David Cunliffe spoke at a marae in the north recently and this is a summary of what he
said on oil/gas drilling – knowing that northern Maori in particular are very worried about intentions to start oil exploration off their coasts.
On Oil Drilling off the West Coast:
David said the current regulations are not strict enough, and the National Government had loosened them even more. When Labour became Government it would tighten up those
regulations, and strengthen the Resource Management Act, to ensure there would be no
danger to NZ’s waters, marine animals or environment should any oil drilling take place.
He said Labour’s position did not go as far as the Green Party and their supporters would want, but that Labour would set a high bar for a would-be drilling company to meet.
so why didn’t shearer say that..?
..why did he sound like he could have been speaking for national..?
..just totally defending the status quo..
..and a ‘high bar’…eh..?
..well..that’s good news..
..but the devil is always in the detail..eh..?
Actually, that pretty much is the gist of what Shearer was saying. It was just that he highlighted the continued exploration. All the rest is included in what he said.
Maybe Shearer just doesn’t come across firmly enough…… maybe he has too many ums and
ahs and fumbles around too much …… as a politician, he’s obviously not yet learned how to do acceptable soundbites. Frankly, I can’t bear to watch/listen to him ….. too cringe-making.
@JK
switch channels you drongo and stop whining.
play the argument and not the man.
what are ya?
You say play the argument and not the person yet you call someone a “drongo”. I’m sick to death of reading your shite postings on TS. You’re as hypocritical as cameron slater and probably as obnoxious. I think you’d be more at home on that site.
@ chris
I dont give a sh*t what you think.
whats your point?
Why do you ask what the point is if you don’t give a shit? I’ll tell you anyway, which is that almost every comment you make contains personal abuse yet you say to someone to play the argument not the person. Take your own advice and stop being so unnecessarily nasty.
I think that if a regime like Norway has is applied it would work a lot better for NZ – in many, many ways. However, I also understand that drilling in such debts has never been done and Norway’s sites are not as deep as the ones suggested in NZ. What it matters? It is not that easy to close a valve in such debts as people are made to belief.
Nice Freudian mate
Also in the near future possession of the actual energy itself is going to be way more vital than possession of the keyboard created currency credits you can trade it for
Wallace Chapman on RADIONZ Sunday morning – something for everyone?
7:08 News and Current Affairs
With Internet party leader Laila Harre, Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, concerns about the state of heath care in Pacific nations, a visit inside the Mason Clinic, and an update on the Fifa World Cup.
8:12 Insight: Can the Commonwealth Games Survive?
8:40 Diane Coyle – Enlightened Economics
Diane Coyle runs the consultancy Enlightenment Economics. She is Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust and is also a visiting research associate at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. She specialises in competition analysis, and the economics of new technologies and globalisation. She is the author of several books, including GDP: A Brief and Affectionate History and The Economics of Enough. She talks to Wallace about GDP and other ways to measure wealth – plus, what’s happening at the BBC.
9:06 Mediawatch
9:40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint
Looking at Indonesian election.
10:06 Garth McVicar and Kim Workman – the people, books and events that shaped their ideas
Garth McVicar, a Hawke’s Bay farmer who founded the Sensible Sentencing Trust, is known for his “lock ‘em up and throw away the key” approach to crime; whereas Kim Workman, a former policeman who went on to become the head of the prison service and founded the lobby group Rethinking Crime and Punishment, is known for his unflagging commitment to rehabilitation and restorative justice.
(Kim Workman has worked hard for better ways.)
11:05 Charles Dennard – Cirque du Soleil
Charles first joined Cirque du Soleil as the keyboardist and assistant bandleader of the Big Top touring production Alegría. He joins us on Sunday Morning to talk about his upcoming role in Cirque du Soleil’s Totem.
11:25 Paora Joseph – Voices from the River
Paora Joseph (below) is of Atihau-a-Papaarangi and Nga Rauru descent, from Kaiwhaiki Pa and Putiki Marae, Whanganui. In Auckland, he worked as an actor with renowned Maori filmmaker Don Selwyn. Selwyn encouraged him to become a director and he was later mentored by award-winning filmmaker Gaylene Preston in making Tatarakihi: The Children of Parihaka, which screened in the 2012 NZ International Film Festival. Paora Joseph will talk to Sunday Morning about his new film Te Awa Tupua – Voices from the River ahead of its world premiere at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.
11:40 Gerard Johnstone – Housebound
Wallace talks to Gerard Johnstone about his debut feature film Housebound – a mix of gothic horror and domestic comedy. The film had a shaky start but became a hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival and will feature in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Thanks for that grey. Wallace is superb. Where do you get this info?
“..Wallace is superb..”
..really..?..b.g..?
..that piece of irredeemable-fluff that is backbenchers..?
..i can’t watch it..
..it is such a waste of the medium/air/everyones’-time..
..and what pisses me off..is that it could be really good..
..political/ideological-debate in a pub-setting..
..letting the politicians fall upon each other..and argue their cases/policies/ideas..
..let them get down to it..
..with the compere just there to facilitate/referee…
..it’s a ripper/winning formula..
..instead it has been reduced to a facile/unquestioning piece of crap..
..just a vehicle for chapman to prance about on..
..like i said..unwatchable…
I disagree phillip. Accepted its not a substitute for a serious political discussion programme but it has its place and you often do get real discussions on real issues-it does depend which pollies they have on.
The issue with youth politicians this week was excellent.
I have taken both of my boys to the pub to watch it when up in Wellywood. A pint of Emersons and live politics-what could be better?
a big fat joint..and some real political argy-bargy..
@Bearded G
I am on their mailing list – radionz for sat and sun morn, which gives time, names and heading. And then I went on to the site RNZ, under Schedules chose Sunday and picked out some info from Wallace’s list of goodies. Just enough to give some background. It sounded especially interesting and I am a great admirer of Kim Workman.
Thanks grey will do all that myself now
I want to know how many shares mcvicar has in the private prison company?
lprent Hello twice.
lprent Hello twice.
NZ Herald: Part 2 of Cunliffe’s bio by Claire Trevett – the starts off with lots on Cunliffe’s ego and “naked ambition”.
Why wasn’t that highlighted as much in John Key’s bio back in 2005 – he’s the boy who wanted to be rich and PM from an early age.
Using Tamihere as a main source is bound to get a lot of negative quotes about Cunliffe. This typical JT:
That guy has such an unfounded high opinion of himself…
Which guy? Tamihere?
😈 if it were Cunliffe, it would be surely “founded” heh
You really have to wonder why he has that opinion. Shane Jones was the same. Both as useless as tits on a bull.
The whole thing is just a hatchet job on Cunliffe. Trevett should stick to writing barely disguised declarations of love for Key.
Yes I read this week bio on Cunliffe with dismay. But what else would you expect from Trevitt.
Every negative story or angle on a story. Nothing about who the charity was that he dyed his hair for. She spun the story as if he was doing it for attention.
When talking about the Hawkes Bay Health board, she didn’t mention that he sacked them because the conflict of interests was in fact corruption. No mention that he speaks Te Reo…………
there are some shocking bits of skewed reporting, but also parts where CT does report more fairly both sides of contentious issues. Mentions white anting of Goff by Cunliffe supporters, but nothing about major whiteanting campaign by ABCs of Cunliffe.
She does report in a more fair and accurate about the non-coup at the Labour Conference. Too much sourcing of views from Tamihere. Give air to that nasty, schoolyard, misogynist nickname play on Cunliffe’s name – totally unnecessary.
CT does accurately report on some of DC’s strengths, but over-emphasises and reinforces the mythologising of DC’s ego and self-promotion – they don’t do anything like that about Key’s self-centred, self-promoting ego.
“There are some shocking bits of skewed reporting…”, is that a bit like the recent Tania Billingsley comments you and others contributed to? That said, the story has gone very quiet.
@Dum
Keep writing in here, it will probably lift your IQ although slightly dimming ours.
Having determined that’s your best effort…….I feel brighter already. Shame you have no constructive comment re the Tania story. Actually, I take that back, it’s a shame Karol has no further comment.
It’s a shame you have no comment to make on the article I commented on above. I’ve made my views onBillingsley clear elsewhere.
It’s not a clever tactic, Dumrse, to continue to try to bait me, especially via your comments of little substance.
This TASER-use report has been interesting reading:
http://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/taser-report-annual-2013.pdf
Especially when compared to the MSM reporting of its findings (eg Stuff):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10258052/Tasers-more-favoured-by-police
Take this line: “Tasers were among the least injury-causing tactical options used by police, the report said.”. When what the report actually says is:
Which is one hell of a big thing to exclude – if you ignore the injuries caused by every TASER use, then yes; they can be portrayed as low injury-causing (just two people ending up in hospital last year immediately after Tasing).
But TASER injuries (eg neurological damage) can take time to manifest. This (2013) article points to a discrepancy between the numbers of injuries reported in the Police reports and those processed by ACC.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/270162/55-claims-acc-taser-injuries
Has anyone had a go on “The Worm” Roy Morgan survey advertised in the banner of TS?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1407/S00202/the-return-of-the-worm-introducing-the-nz-election-reactor.htm
I did. I don’t know about these reactor surveys though. They are looking for gut reaction/emotive reaction. Would it not be better to think about the video statements in the survey rather than merely “react” to them? In any case, I had mostly all of Nationals statement down at zero and most of Labours up around 89. 90, 100, buts that a bias for you………………..Need to look into the concept of a Helix Persona too, before making to swift a judgement about the worm. Just don’t have time now to read about it.
Oh, and you can only participate in the televised worm debate survey if you have a smartphone, so thats me out.
Groan. And, of course, it enables those with the money to buy smart phones to have a stronger voice than others.
Exactly karol, it eliminates an entire section of potential participants based on access to resources. Hardly a “representative sample”.
The election slogan displayed by National on their bill boards must surely be the biggest joke of the year “.Working for NZ “.when we have one of the highest unemployment for years .
Orwellian-speak.
It is disturbing that in UK there seems no one to question or able to hold Blair to account. (John Campbell had a go and upset Blair when he interviewed him in NZ a few years back.)
Or in NZ. Look what happened to Jon Stephenson when he questioned the Defence claims.
Nothing like have the rights of the people eroded to allow the unfettered to flourish. But one day when the people realise how much they have lost…..
And from a party with a support base that’s constantly on the lookout for reducing the cost of labour; that accepts lay-offs as a sign of the market working; and that advocates less government in people’s lives (unless you’re a beneficiary). That’s working for NZ, all right.
@chris
that opinion does not make any sense whatsoever.
I think you need to stop talking to wail boil.
does he give lessons on how to write nonsense?
Slater would disagree with everything I said. What is it that you don’t understand?
This story seems to sum up the modern age – but I’m sure she will land on her feet – not like the beautiful animal she shot down. And as for L’Oreal – I don’t rate anyone or anything associated with the ‘beauty’ industry – to me it seems to be preying on insecurities and a massive waste of resources, people and money but if others are into it then that is their business.
“The hunting photo which has cost 17-year-old Axelle Despiegelaere her high-profile modelling gig.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/beauty-news/10260307/World-Cup-beauty-loses-modelling-contract
Actually, I think this story sums it up more. When the marketing of useless and environment-damaging beauty products and accessories for females gets saturated, they expand their target consumers to males.
I just can’t imagine that saturation ever occurring – the bigwigs of the industry will just come up with another gimmick – a bit like toothpaste marketing. I was blown away to hear of a relative under 25 and been for a botox treatment – I just never imagined the lines being formed that young.
Following a JMG link I found this rather blunt article from a relatively surprising source – one of the first investors in Amazon and one of the 0.01% richest men in the USA:
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz37E3uwv00
That reminds me I caught a bit of the Head to Head forum on Al Jazeera this morning:
Has capitalism failed the world?
The debate included various perspectives from the need to restrain banks and banksters for capitalism to work, to a socialist perspective.
Note that he names NZ as the bolt hole state of choice. Time to stop the off shore sales perhaps?
If we were to be really strategic about this we would be doing much more than stopping offshore property sales. But finding foreign talent who were going to contribute to the long term survivability of the nation in many different ways. Which is both good for them – and good for us.
As a society we don’t need any 0.01%ers here, We have lots to do and a whole lot of people here to do it – we just need to train up the people that are here rather than source foreign ‘talent’. I see the transitioning of current abilities and skills to what we may need as being a growth area 🙂
The 1%ers get rich off of everyone else doing the work. We, as a society, need to ask why that is.
Basically agree. We do have to recognise that NZ has lost a lot of talented experienced people over the last 2 decades. We want them back, with their motivation and knowledge base. And others too, as this nation does not have expertise and experience in all the areas that it could benefit from. NB I’m not necessarily talking about the very wealthy being the kind of people we need in NZ, rather the ones with the skills, the smarts and the humanity to put it to good use on our behalf 🙂
If they’ve left, they have made their choice. I’d concentrate on those that haven’t left because they are here rather than chase these others or offer ‘incentives’ to come back. In my experience when they are ready to come home they come home and everything happens as it is supposed to. I don’t think the brightest and best have left but that could be conceit 🙂
who heard the juvenile act rep at the backbenchers on TV this week opining that teachers and the education department know nothing about education.
only parents do!
I found this claim preposterous and more people should mount an offensive against this sort of nonsensical assertion.
People and regions in NZ are growing apart economically
Shamubeel Eaqub (NZIER) talks about Growing Apart
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/raw-data-nzier-economist-shamubeel-eaqub-talks-about-growing-apart-md-159124
That was the guy on The Nation this morning, talking on the same topic.
@Colonial viper
Seems to me that Eaqub had a hidden meaning in what he said about the poor regions. Maybe I’m over sensitive but I thought he was getting to the point of saying that regions like Northland cannot afford to not accept major industrial measures there that will
bring some money and jobs into the area, ie mining and Kaipara Harbour perhaps, accept tidal electricity making despite it being a fish nursery for many species, (I understand this is so).
There are few economic initiatives possible in those areas if you rely on the “market” and on corporate powers to deliver, and have government which refuses to do anything but.
Also I disagree with Eaqub in that I think population growth has to be driven out of Auckland into the regions. Having 1/3 the country in less than .3% of the space is never going to work.
@Colonial viper
There has already been pressure put upon Maori protesters at environmentally damaging projects which would damage pipi beds, fishing areas, or potentially because of leaks or vessels coming in with dirty bottoms – fanworm is apparently a bad one.
I wouldn’t put it past the next NACT government to change the payment of welfare to increase the pressure that already occurs in a region where there was much unemployment, all welfare would be bulk funded or similar, forcing young people to move out or there would be insufficient for the region. That could be done under the cloak of self management.
To keep the young people at home, there would be pressure on iwi and hapu to agree to economic development such as land or sea mining. And further if government could find ways to get iwi to pay for the projects out of their Waitangi Court money, that would be very satisfactory to them in keeping Maori poor and more compliant, having no leverage to resist overtures and demands.
This is the game that the international capitalists play against entire nations. Squeeze them with austerity and money shortages, and force their populations to accept despoilation of people and resources through the resulting desperation and poverty.
You have to accept deep sea oil drilling. Where else can you get jobs from? You have to accept mining on the conservation estate. Where else can you get jobs from? You have to accept our waterways as sewers. Where else can you get jobs from?
So to keep our place in the financial system alive, we have to kill our world.
@ Colonial Viper
Yes this is what I am afraid of. I’ve already heard on radio the annoyed responses to Maori and pointing out that some project would provide jobs. Of course those jobs are short term. Then what?
Kim had an item on this morning about Nigeria and West Africa and oil. They were supposed to get very rich. I didn’t listen but it might have some points for here
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday.
Rachel Boynton: oil rush in West Africa ( 37′ 57″ )
09:05 Producer and director of the documentary Big Men, about oil deals in Ghana and Nigeria, screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
We’re Learning More From Stephen Colbert Than The Actual News, Study Says
US based study but, considering just how bad our MSM are, I’d say it would be true of NZ as well – except we don’t have any good satire shows.
Tommy Ramone is dead.
I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
Oh, I believe in miracles.
I believe in a better world for me and you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1VczvVrD_I
shit..!..some of the ramones’ work is genius..
rock rock Rockaway Beach.
gonna hitch a ride to Rockaway beach!!!!
Minimum wage doesn’t raies unemployment
But the real question is what would the results of asking NZ economists this question:
Because every single one that I had as lecturers while at Otago uni said that raising minimum wage would increase unemployment.
Yeah they’re largely a bunch of neolib morans in that institution.