In this episode of the Summer Solutions 2019 for the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy are joined by Dr. Michael Hudson, author of many books, including “And Forgive Them Their Debts,’ for his ideas on solutions to the ever growing wealth and income gap currently ‘solved’ with ever increasing amounts of debt. They discuss the reason for the huge surge in this wealth and income gap that began in the early seventies as the top once percent ran off with all the productivity gains. What role, if any, does the post-Bretton-Woods-all-fiat-dollar-reserve-system play in this economic injustice? The discussion then moves to Representative Brad Sherman’s recent claim that, "An awful lot of our international power comes from the fact that the U.S. dollar is the standard unit of international finance and transactions. Clearing through the New York Fed is critical for major oil and other transactions.”
Красная Армия Japan will not develop and invest in the creation of fifth-generation mobile networks. This is stated on the official website of the Ministry of High Technologies of the country. Officials expressed the opinion that the creation of a faster Internet than previously is dangerous for the population and may adversely affect people’s health and labor productivity.
Concerned citizens express outrage, heartache and concern regarding the Town's lack of due diligence, lack of solidarity with the citizens and lack of fortitude to STOP the small cell installation in Huntington NY. Facts regarding 5G and a list of the new small cell sites are listed in this video!
We are scientists engaged in the study of biological and health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF). Based upon peer-reviewed, published research, we have serious concerns regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to EMF generated by electric and wireless devices. These include–but are not limited to–radiofrequency radiation (RFR) emitting devices, such as cellular and cordless phones and their base stations, Wi-Fi, broadcast antennas, smart meters, and baby monitors as well as electric devices and infra-structures used in the delivery of electricity that generate extremely-low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF).
sad – they tried and they failed. We need to know why this was such a fail.
Fish and Game is horrified by reports that nearly 1000 native fish have died in a botched transfer project. Wellington branch manager Phil Teal says virtually none of the 921 rare brown mudfish transferred to a new site by the Carterton District Council have survived.
…He said the wetland site at Daleton Road in Carterton was also used to discharge partially treated wastewater from the council's treatment plant.
The transfer project cost Wairarapa ratepayers $161,000 and Mr Teal said the public should be demanding answers from the council.
He said an independent inquiry by the Department of Conservation was also needed.
WDC can't stop raw sewage spewing into raglan harbour yet still allow the Rongatai dev to connect to it.
They also aren't touching the single lane bridge across the harbour whereas the dev has a flash new bridge of its own to ensure they join the growing jams.
Developers do as they please in NZ as they’ve the Legal guns and legislative terrain to blow opposition away.
These fish are extremely sensitive like the Galaxiids – lacking scales. Any number of things could have taken them out but I think the problem was putting them where sewage discharges. Poisoned by bacteria or fungi or xenobiotics or metal.
The sewage plant sounds like a mish-mash of ideas rather than a comprehensive treatment plant but I'd need to see if to see if it's as bad as it sounds. Sounds like an accountants sewage plant with add-ons after public outcry for environmental issues.
If anyone was actually serious about our native fish surviving into the future they would making whitebaiting bi annual (at the lest) and eradicate trout from our water ways.
I once interviewed Rod McDowell and he told me off the record that in his view with out major government intervention NZ native fresh water fish were heading for mass extinction.
I mean seriously, an introduced apex predator like the trout that is not only allowed to be in our waters, but is still actively introduced and has more protections than our own fish is fucking insane…they are nothing more than ferrets of the watersways, the natives haven't got a chance, kill them on sight I say, I know I do.
I am not for one minute suggesting that Americans and Japanese are mentally disabled.
But I am praising them for having used electricity in their households and Skyscrapers for over a hundred enlightened years.
Prior to that they used coal and oil. Which are deadly. And which you seem to want to return to. They are in fact the highest Carcinogens that we have in daily use. Thousands thousands of people die from Diesel daily.
All because people are supporting the Oil Companies.
May I ask when will you be taking electricity out of the houses of America and Japan ? Are you really that stupid ?
Concerned citizens express outrage, heartache and concern regarding the Town's lack of due diligence, lack of solidarity with the citizens and lack of fortitude to STOP the small cell installation in Huntington NY. Facts regarding 5G and a list of the new small cell sites are listed in this video!
The people of the above video have electricity, but they obviously consider cell phone 4g 5g and wifi etc an order of magnitude more dangerous and intrusive. Especially the concentrated intensity of the cell phone towers permeating the very atmosphere we need to live in.
Farrar claims that “Certainly things have gone horribly wrong in Wellington in the last couple of years.”, and among a list he gives, the first is
“The two Councils have destroyed the bus network, and can’t even work together to fix it.”
Now it is my understanding that the Council responsible for transport is the regional council – perhaps Farrar is thinking Wellington should have had all Councils amalgamated as in Auckland – that has gone so well for National . . .
But regarding the bus contracts, they were let before the last election, under rules set by Gerry Brownlee (they were available on a website, but I can’t find it now – I do hope it has been changed!).
The rules Regional Council had to follow for public transport contracts were to seek competitive tenders, to enable contracts for parts of the region to encourage competition, and to base contracts on price. This the regional council did, and it is arguable that Wellington got just what National wanted. After all, who would argue in favour of a more expensive contract, and why would you look for competence? Of course the fragmentation of services meant a re-design of routes by yet another agency, complex contracts, and when some routes needed further change then the lawyers must have fed on contract changes. More opportunities to clip the ticket – neo-liberal heaven! Now we find that the companies cannot pay the wages to recruit enough drivers (and the multiple contracts make moving drivers harder). Given the contract is with the public sector, the neo-lib answer is probably that the Council should pay more – but if the contracts did not allow for adequate wages that is again just what the government wanted . . . – of course the implication has been that the Council has erred in not paying more . . .
So now some services are being cancelled for lack of drivers – again that is as designed – almost certainly they will be those where the number of passengers did not justify the service anyway – Brownlee knew what he was doing!
The comments on Kiwiblog are amusing – various posters see a great future in the principle behind the name, and are calling for an Auckland Party (cit-rats became a joke, com-res hasn’t done well, why not an “Auckland Party”!). If the various city parties combined, they could even call themselves the New Zealand Party, or, dare we say it, the National Party!
The party website is informative as anyone would expect : https://thewellingtonparty.org/ but from the Stuff article, having Hughes, Morrison and Mihaka all running in wellington Central, and four or five other candidates, how could they possibly lose!
Councils everywhere are incapable of addressing that which needs to be addressed, be it basic services, transport, climate change impacts or whatever….they are structurally flawed and growth is simply highlighting the deficiencies. It is delusional to believe that any grouping can or will change that.
Lori Mattix, who had a liaison with him aged 15, explained: ‘I never thought of David Bowie as a paedophile. He would f**k anything. If he liked it he would f**k it.’
Early girlfriend Dana Gillespie concurred, telling me: ‘As far as sex went, if it moved, he was there. Man, woman, old or young. Times have changed and it doesn’t always look so good in black and white now, but in those days we were just having fun; there were no rules.’
…. The sexual free-for-all characterised his open marriage to Angie, whom he wed in 1970. She wrote in her autobiography: ‘David made a virtual religion of slipping the lance of love into almost everyone around him.’
I don't think his personal sins and foibles should stop anyone listening to his music. But Yadana Saw and her hiveminded colleagues at RNZ National obviously do.
This is really strange coming from you guys, I remember only too well and also very recently that all you lot ( Sacha, marty mars and others ) were losing your shit over Assange over what you said was his mistreatment of woman, and now defending Bowie fucking 15 year old girls, holy shit what a bunch of hypocrites.
Guess if you can write a few good tunes you get a free pass, is that how it goes for you?
Assange should have practiced his guitar a bit more eh.
Bowie's crimes are exhaustively documented, and he and his followers boasted about them incessantly. Assange committed no crime, unless journalism is now a criminal enterprise. The lurid Soviet-style sex fantasy concocted by the British and U.S. intelligence services has as much rigour as that case cooked up against Peter Ellis by the Christchurch Police and a few demented psychiatrists.
Problem is many on here don't seem to be able to produce an original thought in their head, and lack what seems to be any critical thought process at all.
It they read it in The Guardian or whatever..it must be true..end of story for this lot.
It they read it in The Guardian or whatever..it must be true..end of story for this lot.
The propaganda that daily emanates from the Guardian and the very similar BBC is dutifully repeated in our media by the likes of John Campbell, Kathryn Ryan, Kim Hill, Bernard Hickey, and Patrick Gower.
Over at NewstalkZzzzzB, meanwhile, they recycle Fox News and the Spectator as reflexively and as irresponsibly.
I remember only too well and also very recently that all you lot ( Sacha, marty mars and others ) were losing your shit over Assange over what you said was his mistreatment of woman, and now defending Bowie fucking 15 year old girls…
Why does the word "consent" seem either completely unheard-of or just plain irrelevant to so many men when it comes to the morality of sex?
Also: despite the enthusiastic participation of the 15-year-olds in question, if the Police had been made aware of the incident they would have wanted to interview Mr Bowie, and if he'd instead resisted extradition, jumped bail and spent years hiding out in a foreign embassy, I'd probably have a fairly low opinion of him too.
Whatever..you hypocrites, you guys are so full of shit it defies logic, but then as I have seen first hand through parts of my life, some humans can justify and defend and/or enable almost any type of bad behaviour if they get cornered and feel they need too…guess you are in that club, well done.
Haven't seen you or your pals show the moral outrage toward Bowie that you all spewed out towards Assange when you were told to do so by the Guardian is all I''m saying.
Or is 'enthusiastic participation' from a 15 yo girl OK in your books..,,because as far as I know wether that 15 yo girl consents or not, is it is still considered illegal,and that girl would be considered a minor, so in other words and according to the law, Bowie was fucking children.
Now I am not actually offering moral judgment on this, i am just stating what the law is, and undisputed stories about who Bowie had sex with, in this case a under age girl…no you are the ones who presented yourselves as the rulers on what is considered moral when it comes to sexual relations in your stances on Assange..wee man.
Why does the word "consent" seem either completely unheard-of or just plain irrelevant to so many men when it comes to the morality of sex?
In the case of 15 year olds, perhaps it's to do with them not being considered mature enough to give their consent.
Also: despite the enthusiastic participation of the 15-year-olds in question, if the Police had been made aware of the incident they would have wanted to interview Mr Bowie, and if he'd instead resisted extradition, jumped bail and spent years hiding out in a foreign embassy, I'd probably have a fairly low opinion of him too.
So as Bowie didn't resisted extradition, jumped bail and spend years hiding out in a foreign embassy are you saying you condone him having sex with underage girls?
In the case of 15 year olds, perhaps it's to do with them not being considered mature enough to give their consent.
What the law says, and what individuals choose to do, are sometimes not the same. The law says a 15-year-old isn't allowed to drink alcohol, and yet I did so (and drove afterwards, often enough). I would also have been more than happy if someone wanted to fuck me, hell anyone let alone a famous celebrity, which sadly no-one at the time did (don't cry, readers, someone took pity on me later on).
…are you saying you condone him having sex with underage girls?
Somehow I can't imagine Bowie was living in fear of what Psycho Milt might think of him for having fucked underage girls. My point, which somehow seems to need making over and over again on these threads, is that if sex with you leaves a woman feeling the need to visit a police station, ur doin it wrong.
Not sure anyone's argued that wikileaks should be boycotted specifically because Assange is an accused rapist.
Caravaggio was a murderer. Good paintings, though.
The outcome of boycott/noboycott is binary, but the decision-making is not.
Work quality and uniqueness is one factor. Severity and frequency of crimes is another (as a judge might look at sentence length). Degree of input the criminal had into the work is another (e.g. boycott Deadwood because Jeffrey Jones is in it? What if Swearengen were played by [alleged criminal]Kevin Spacey?). How long ago were the crimes, and were they a lifetime practise? Will my boycott affect the criminal's ability to profit from this or future work, or help deter future criminals?
From my perspective, all this and probably more mushes into a single boycott/noboycott outcome. Sometimes it's a conscious "argh, shit, I really liked him, he's not on my playlist until he owns it" (louisCK). Sometimes it's just that the abuser is no longer a selling point, the billing they get in the cinema might as well be a blank space or even a shitstain.
So I'm not going to parse what Bowie did. It was wrong. Is he on my playlist? not really. Did I play the embed? Yup. Was that wrong or inconsistent? Maybe. But fuck it, it's a Sunday and I'm at the office.
@ McFlock , I grew up in the AKL art scene in the late 1960's, and have been involved in one way or another with artists in all fields since, so believe me this whole issue is nothing new to me, I learnt long long ago to separate art from art creator, in both the fine arts and in music.
A great song or painting about romantic love would forever be coloured if you discovered that it was created a few weeks after the creator beat their lover to death, or a few weeks after they'd met the person they would be in love with for the next fifty years, or both. The context of the creation adds texture to it, whether we want it or not.
You are adamant, without any basis, that he is innocent of that accusation. That is a stupid position to take, but not uncommon in a society where women are routinely disbelieved. But your bias goes so far as to have you deny the literal truth that he has been accused of rape. What little judgement you have has been clouded by your ego.
Ha! As if this pursuit of Assange is driven by women and not the secret police of two rogue nations. The young women badgered and inveigled to go along, for a short time, with this murderous travesty almost immediately made it clear they wanted no charges brought against him. Your zealous desire to see him destroyed stands in stark contrast to their courage.
the literal truth that he has been accused of rape.
No he has not.
There were never any rape charges against Assange. What happened is this. Two Swedish women took Assange into their beds in their homes and had consensual sex with him. No condom was used. The women or one of them wanted Assange to take a test so she could be reassured that he had no disease that could be sexually transmitted. Assange foolishly refused. The woman went to the police to see if Assange could be coerced to take the test. Out of this came the investigation that was closed without charges. Assange was free to leave Sweden.
He foolishly went to the UK, Washington’s prime puppet state. Once there Washington prevailed on a female Swedish prosecutor to reopen questioning of Assange.
No real reason was ever given for the female Swedish prosecutor to reopen the questioning. One possible reason is Washington’s money. It was clear to Assange’s lawyers that the extradition request was a trick to get him back in Swedish hands so that he could be handed over to Washington. Assange fought the extradition, but a corrupt British court to comply with Washington ruled that Assange could be extradited for questioning even though there were no changes against him. This ruling shocked everyone who thought British judges had integrity.
Two Swedish women took Assange into their beds in their homes and had consensual sex with him. Consent was granted on the explicit basis that he used a condom. No condom was used. Therefore it was non-consensual sex, which is more properly known as "rape". The women or one of them wanted Assange to take a test so she could be reassured that he had no disease that could be sexually transmitted.
What about my apology too? Or have you found some non existent post of mine.
On Wednesday 17 April, shortly after Julian Assange had, at the behest of the Trump regime, been dragged out of political asylum, put in front of a biased and abusive "judge", and imprisoned, Te Reo Putake instigated a gloating, outrageous thread entitled "Assange Must Be Extradited." He summarily banned half a dozen people who dared to defend journalism and the rule of law, and he excised their posts. Later in the thread he admitted (to Brigid, who had protested about his conduct) that he had devised the "admittedly click baity title" in order to "get people to read the post, Brigid. Obviously, some of my fans here love being outraged, so it was a good way to get their blood pressure up." Such antics constituted, he joked, "churnalism at its finest."
At 10.33 p.m. you chose to add the following comment to that Red China-style festival of abuse, contempt, denunciation, and malice:
yep – it’s pretty basic consent issue – if no consent then rape – simple.
So you supported the bullies and the slanderers, by amplifying their callous lies. It's a post of yours all right, and it's anything but "non-existent."
the context of that comment was in relation to the law around consent in NZ. It was a comment on the difference between Sweden and NZ and NOT about what you implied it was about.
Paraphrasing a dictionary defnition of "rape" only amplifies people opposed to rape.
Last I looked, journalism didn't involve rape.
I think that somehow you might have inadvertantly conflated two distinct issues. I'm sure you haven't realised it and that this is the first person to explain that the subject of a person's "journalism" is distinct from the subject of whether that journalist is also a rapist.
I look forward to you acknowledging the disinction betwen the two subjects in a calm and dignified manner in the near future.*
I hope you don't mind me saying that THAT song is a LITTLE bit of a controversial CHOICE, a-a-a-a-and I'm really interested why you were brave enough to be choosing a David Bowie clip at this time. Marty, w-w-what will happen is that, I'm pretty sure this thread is going to get very BUSY with this choice.
What would you SAY to-o-o-o Standard readers, who may say "We CAN'T listen to this music any more"?
Not at all, Mr Shark. If I was the "link whore" that Kiwibloggers constantly accuse me of being, I would have provided a link to my site. But I didn't.
My intention was not to garner extra “hits” on my own site, but to provoke and tease people about the glaring hypocrisy and faux morality that engenders purse-lipped denunciation of the imagined and unproven crimes of Michael Jackson, while ignoring the real crimes of someone like David Bowie.
But, in case anyone wants to see the providence of that little anti-Bowie tirade in 8.2, feel free to click HERE….
Yes, but better than Mike Hosking! Morrissey just has to knock him off his perch in mid squawk then he'd be in to the big bucks. Mike is I am afraid a bit like the Norwegian parrot that can be sold again and again because of notable features that excite and appeal to a phalanx of gullible people.
As the day wears wearily on and you need a touch of the light here is a 1989 version of the parrot sketch with extras at the end. You may not have seen this older version, it's amusing with a different end.
I don't care what Neil Young or David Bowie have done. All that I care about is their music. My position is very different to that of Yadana Saw, who for reasons even she would not be able to explain convincingly, is nervous about playing records by Michael Jackson.
You'd think the fact his records were shite would be enough reason. I'm always happy for people to not play Michael Jackson for me, whatever the reason.
So you're having a go at them for not playing MJ songs?
No, I'm having a go at them for their selective and hypocritical display of "moralising". Like any well bred and discerning person, I choose not to play Michael Jackson songs—but on grounds of personal preference, not because I'm afraid of offending some sniffy busybodies "who may say 'We CAN'T listen to this music any more'."
How about Gary Glitter? Do you want them on the playlist, too?
Gary Glitter's still on my playlist. Objectively I know it's a load of old cobblers, but to 12-year-old me it was the dog's bollocks and that tends to stick with you.
I've never said I wanted him banned. Of course, he should never have had a job as a sports reporter in the first place, not because he is a violent and despicable person, which he clearly is, but because he knows fuck-all about sports.
Earlier you attempted to Bowie shame Sacha because of a report of underage sex and hyper sexuality. Isn't it a tad hypocritical and a bit rich how you'll then link to a convicted paedophile and refuse to condemn a man who broke a woman's back?
Earlier you attempted to Bowie shame Sacha because of a report of underage sex and hyper sexuality.
Errrr, no, I wasn't trying to "Bowie shame Sacha", I was applying to Bowie the same moronic logic that censorious people—the kinds of people that make Yadana Saw so fearful—apply to Michael Jackson.
Isn't it a tad hypocritical and a bit rich how you'll then link to a convicted paedophile and refuse to condemn a man who broke a woman's back?
I have repeatedly condemned Veitchfor his ignorance about sports [1], his sexism [2] and his racism [3] and then, after the revelations of his crimes, for his violence. [4]
Well it's all out in the open now, on the record, so we'll just leave it there for posterity. People can work it out for themselves how it all looks, but from my vantage point, it doesn't come over too well for you at all.
Let's just shut out discussion of sexual mores from Open Mike and have a special one where the matter can be discussed from top to bottom. ~~SEX~~ Now I have Your Full Attention is such a cheap jibe – and so reliable.
Jeez master Breen, you make it hard to Garner sympathy for your arguement. I get yr point about hypocrisy in regards to Assange bashers and the other issue about Jackson/black/bad-Bowie/white/look the other way.
After VV filled us all in on Yadana Saw's background and history, surely you could find another example to hang this bug bear on.
She was certainly nervous as some poor soul trying to negotiate ideological quicksand in a Radio Moskva studio during the 1930s. As for being "sensitive", I think you mean "fearful of being sneered at or reprimanded by some black-garbed pecksniff."
Yenta Hodge's daughter is Deputy Editor for BBC News at Six and News at Ten: the British State Propaganda organ is blatantly biased to the extreme right.
Thought I would put up a link to some who feature in the BBC Who's Who.
1.) Amol Rajan is the voluble BBC Media Editor, always appearing and giving his take on events. He was one time editor of Levedev's Independent and was at the FCO early on for a year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38054561
2.) James Harding was the Head of News. He arrived at the BBC along with James Purnell, one time chair of LFoI and ex Labour MP, and Ceri Thomas.
3) Tony Hall was a successor to Mark Thompson, the Director General who presided over the Savile evil. Thompson is married to Jane Blumberg, daughter of a US physicist. Thompson visited Sharon in Israel in 2005 to reassure him that BBC reports on Israel were fair! It was originally said he was accompanied by his wife but the BBC would not confirm that.
4.) Under Thompson's watch, the DEC appeal for Gaza after the Cast Lead slaughter was not aired by the BBC. Caroline Thomson, no longer at the BBC, was his sidekick who also took a decision not to broadcast Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children, a radio play. Thompson is now CEO at the New York Times. At the BBC in 2010 he was being paid just under £1million.
5.) Ms Thomson is now the chair of OXFAM. (YCNMIU)
6.) Harding left the BBC and set up his own media outfit called Turquoise.
7.) James Purnell is still at the BBC as Head of Radio, Head of Strategy and Digital. Before, he had worked privately for Blair, was a SPAD at No 10 and was given two jobs (DCMS and Pensions) by Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell
8.) Lastly, Lizzi Watson, Margaret Hodge's daughter from her first marriage, is currently the Deputy Editor for BBC News at Six and News at Ten, i.e. the country's main news provider. As you know, Hodge (MP Lab Barking) has been instigating the anti-Semitism smears against Jeremy Corbyn. https://twitter.com/islingtonlizzi?lang=en
Does the anti-Corbyn bias that we see and hear get passed down the line?
9.) All in all, 'Bought by and Sold to Israel' and Paid For by the licence fee payers. Just some of the stuff that is in the public domain. There is probably much more that we will never know about.
Joseph McCarthy tried the same trick you're trying. Just read out the names and make them sound as Jewish as possible. Generally the media can just let such vile fools hang themselves; the bias is with those who are hunting people down.
Here's how the real pro's did what you are trying:
You can do similar slurs with those 30 Jewy-sounding names who are testifying on the issue within Labour UK to the Equality and Human Right Commission.
Failing that, you could stop the slurs and listen to the evidence they have to say about anti-semitism within the Labour Party instead of attacking the messengers.
Corbyn has been as weak and pushed around by activists on the anti-semitic issues within his party as has has been on Brexit. This is not surprising from a person who has actually never before stood successfully for any legislation in Parliament, proved totally unwhippable, or led anything in his life.
To catch you up, the EHRC launched a formal investigation into whether Labour “unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people” from the Jewish community in May, saying it had received a number of complaints about Labour’s handling of allegations. It's not the BBC doing this.
Not even sunlight can disinfect Labour UK from the damage that Corbyn has now done.
People like you never take any kind of criticism because their righteousness drives and blinds them.
You seek bias in every person in the media, and you'll find it because that perfect place your righteousness drives you towards does not even exist in your mind, so it’s invented as a future no-place. U-topia.
Societies grow into systems. The systems require management and are therefore increasingly wielded, like a tool or a weapon, by those who have power. The rest of the population is still needed to do specific things. But the citizens are not needed to contribute to the form or direction of the society. The more "advanced" the civilization, the more irrelevant the citizen becomes.
There are better descriptions of human agency around.
JR Saul's version stands as pretty pre-internet and pre-social media.
If you can get hold of it, he does a really good one comparing the development of Canada and the United States as societies and as geographies: Confessions of a Siamese Twin.
It's a pretty good analogue for the New Zaland – Australia relationship.
we have seen the effects of networked systems and the outcome of catastrophic collapse eg Haldane and May.
In the run-up to the recent financial crisis, an increasingly elaborate set of financial instruments emerged, intended to optimize returns to individual institutions with seemingly minimal risk. Essentially no attention was given to their possible effects on the stability of the system as a whole. Drawing analogies with the dynamics of ecological food webs and with networks within which infectious diseases spread, we explore the interplay between complexity and stability in deliberately simplified models of financial networks. We suggest some policy lessons that can be drawn from such models, with the explicit aim of minimizing systemic risk.
a lack of diversity in risk models as networking increased or to put it another way a sterility of thinking. as HM suggest.
The analytic model outlined earlier demonstrates that the topology ofthe financial sector’s balance sheet has fundamental implications for thestate and dynamics of systemic risk. From a public policy perspective,two topological features are key15.First, diversity across the financial system. In the run-up to the crisis,and in the pursuit of diversification, banks’ balance sheets and risk management systems became increasingly homogenous. For example,banks became increasingly reliant on wholesale funding on the liabilities side of the balance sheet; in structured credit on the assets side of thei rbalance s eet; and managed the resulting risks using the same value -at- risk models. This desire for diversification was individually rational from a risk perspective. But it came at the expense of lower diversity across the system as whole, thereby increasing systemic risk. Homogeneity bred fragility
Similarly if a profession's textbooks (widely cited by social engineers) were wrong in their assumptions on statistical testing,would you not feel a little uncomfortable or indeed cynical.
It is foolish to not pay attention to what Ad says. He is likely to get to solid ground in a sentence, compared to yourself Morrissey in numbers of paragraphs.
It is foolish to not pay attention to what Ad says.
So far today he's peddled Blairite black propaganda, i.e. lies, about Jeremy Corbyn, and he's called me a McCarthyite.
He is likely to get to solid ground in a sentence,
If by "solid ground" you mean abusive, demeaning and not terribly creative name-calling, then, yes, he quickly gets to "solid ground."
compared to yourself Morrissey in numbers of paragraphs.
???? I work hard at writing lean, well organized pieces, whether they're short replies like this or longer essays or, on the odd occasion, play scripts. I'd put up anything from my oeuvre against his complacent and self-satisfied little rants.
Failing that, you could stop the slurs and listen to the evidence they have to say about anti-semitism within the Labour Party instead of attacking the messengers.
Will there be some evidence at some point? So far it all seems to be a very successful anti-Corbyn propaganda campaign with nothing to back it up.
The joy of this is that there are now two legal avenues in which the evidence against the Labour Party handling of anti-semitism will play out as evidence.
BBC's programme has alerted everyone to what is to come.
Labour has gone on the attack rather than front it, so now it will all play out in the courts, and get further amplified in the media.
That's where the likes of Morrisey will find the evidence, rather than attacking the BBC.
This is a propaganda campaign against Corbyn that's been going on for a year already, and we might finally see some evidence to back it up at some point in the future? I'll believe it when I see it. My money is on both the EHRC investigation and any libel case being entirely about how Labour handled allegations of anti-semitism, with pretty much no evidence of anti-semitism actually presented.
@Morissey and @Psycho Milt, there are a couple of links about the astonishing Panorama episode aired in the UK, made by a former Sun journalist, about the alleged "crisis of anti-semitism" in the UK Labour Party:
For anyone interested in the ongoing crisis re- the baiting of Iran by the Trump regime and the effects on Britain and ultimately the rest of us… the following link is a must read:
Trump’s America is an ugly, dangerous creation from which old certainties recoil. The US alliance can no longer be relied upon. The Darroch affair is a timely warning to step back and take stock. And it’s no good saying Trump will soon be gone. The way the divided Democrats are behaving, he could still be calling the shots in 2025.
This "death star" presidency is no ally for NZ either, and our government should accordingly base their decisions relating to this regime on reality and not the past!
Trump didn't start the baiting of Iran. It started in 1953, when the U.S. and its U.K. vassal conspired to smash Iranian democracy.
Trump's instability and unpredictability, and especially the presence of John Bolton, only make things more dangerous, but the policies, and these utterly unjust "sanctions", were not dreamed up by him or his crazy inner cabal.
Agree. Trump didn't start it. Successive US governments have been using the baiting technique and yes… other nations have followed suit. However Trump and Co. are taking it to a whole new level which has the potential to destroy our very existence and he can only be stopped if western governments stop cow-towing to the maniacal regime and conspire to be rid of this regime.
The 'death star' presidency – a great appellation. The warnings are there for any sane politicians to see also the jerks pulling the strings on we puppets, passing their jerks on to us.
The National Addiction Centre say the Government's lack of action over alcohol regulation, following recommendations made in a recent mental health inquiry, suggests outside influences are involved.
Health Minister Dr David Clark said he wouldn't dignify such suggestions with a response.
"You gotta follow the money and ask who is benefiting from the status quo," Simon Adamson, the National Addiction Centre director, said.
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"There is a lot of money being made by the alcohol industry and the supermarket industry so we could speculate that there's been some strong lobbying going on," said Adamson.
I expect he's right and there is a lot of lobbying going on, just like there is from every other industry or interest group. That's water off Clark's back.
To get the real situation, ignore the money and ask who's benefiting from the status quo. The answer is "Me and hundreds of thousands of others like me who buy alcohol at the supermarket every week, and most of us vote in general elections." Now, that the Minister does care about…
I'm arguing that attempting to eradicate drug addiction from a society is a doomed enterprise regardless of the proposed mechanism, but the mechanism of taking a punitive approach to recreational drug users has been proven beyond dispute to be among the more stupid ones. Clamp down on one drug, people start using others – there is no drug-free society just waiting for us to get the right policy mix in place. Repairing the damage done by over-indulgence in recreational drugs is a cost society just has to bear, much like it does for the damage done by over-eating, playing sports, fucking etc.
Who do you believe is attempting to eradicate booze?
Anti-alcohol lobbyists, for a start. Like the alcohol industry, they also are lobbyists with an agenda and should be seen in that light. And the fact that you call people who drink alcohol "pissheads" but use no pejoratives to describe tobacco smokers suggests you're in the same camp.
Moreover, most that drink aren't addicted.
Which makes the anti-alcohol lobby's constant attempt to fuck with us all the more annoying.
the damaged caused is the price we have to pay to keep the price of booze low for the piss heads.
Good to know, with this stance on alcohol and it's users, you've also now dropped your objection to high taxation of tobacco products for the cancer makers.
Unlike booze, most tobacco users are highly addicted to the product.
Moreover, the price of tobacco is far from low. And it tends to damage the user and not the wider society. Increasing the cost is what is driving the wider damage with the vast increase in shop holdups.
You called the alcoholics 'piss heads', not me, so as addicts, it's apple for apple.
Yeah, the reason tobacco is not cheap is because of the taxes, the same sort of taxes you want to put on booze to minimise the uptake and usage. An orange for an orange.
Will you also be a hypocrite, if the high taxes come in, and slam the government if and when scum rip off bottle shops?
No. I didn't say anything about alcoholics. You are clearly clutching.
Thus, my position holds. The majority of those that drink aren't addicted as smokers are, so lifting the price will have a better effect as most don't need to have that drink. Unlike smoking.
Additionally, taxes on tobacco have largely exceeded their effectiveness. We are largely down to the hardcore addicts that won't quit regardless the tax.
Moreover, it's not just about lifting prices. However, I'm sure your already knew that, but it didn't fit with you narrative.
Taxes raised on drinks, for exactly the same reason as those raised on tobacco, make it exactly the same thing you've been whining on about here since for ever.
It's not just my thoughts. The reality is, most drinkers aren't addicts, thus they don't need that drink as a smoker needs that smoke. Which clearly is the point you missed.
There's a point there? I guess there's an implied one that you personally believe addicts shouldn't have their fix taxed but recreational users should. Good luck turning that into a coherent and enforceable policy.
Taxing the fix of an addict doesn't stop them from being addicted.
That bold assertion is somewhat undermined by the numbers of smokers who've given up due to cost increases via taxation. (NB: like you, I'm unhappy with the level of taxes charged on cigarettes, but that's based on a general principle that it's beyond the state's remit to punish people for their recreational drug choices, not because I bullshit myself about addiction. Also NB: I'm not and never have been a tobacco smoker.)
Whereas, taxing recreational users will have a far better impact on their recreational use.
People's recreational drug use is none of the government's business. It's entitled to tax the drug to recover health costs, but anything beyond that is just arbitrary exercise of authority.
Drinking is over rated anyway. There are far better recreational drugs…
Your opinions on what recreational drugs people should or shouldn't use are of value only to you.
That bold assertion is somewhat undermined by the numbers of smokers who've given up due to cost increases via taxation.
Only slightly, you are talking around 5% opposed to the 13.8 that continue to smoke, hence strengthening my assertion. Along with the 45 per cent of Maori women between 18 and 24 that smoke now, and which the number isn't reducing.
Addiction to smoking is not bullshit, it's the main factor people aren't giving up.
Along with the fact that users are addicted, my opposition is based on the fact it's gone too far and is hurting the poor who are already hurting, while destroying our once safe and peaceful society. We are getting down to the hardcore smokers that aren't going to give up easily. Hell, some of them actually enjoy it. It's their vice and they are never going to stop.
People's recreational drug use is none of the government's business. It's entitled to tax the drug to recover health costs, but anything beyond that is just arbitrary exercise of authority.
Cover health costs? What about the costs of the wider damaged it creates?
Could you quantify the tobacco price-fuelled "vast increase in shop holdups"?
I know the idea is common ‘knowledge’, but I'm having trouble finding the supporting evidence using Google searches.
‘Smoke and Mirrors’, or ‘Smoke in (Y)Our Eyes’?
"The authors note it is difficult to assess adverse impacts, because of the lack of high quality trend and current data. For example, they describe increasing media reports of retail robberies involving cigarettes, and growing retailer concerns. However, they also note that lack of reliable longitudinal data on tobacco-related crimes makes it impossible to assess whether such robberies are actually increasing, and, if so, whether any observed increases are due to higher tobacco excise taxes, points we have made previously. Similarly, there are few data on trends in imported or crime-related illicit tobacco supply, making it difficult for the Report authors to verify or disprove claims that these are increasing."
A total of 1237 aggravated robberies were recorded at dairies and petrol stations from June 2016 to May 2017, up 87 per cent on the previous 12 months.
Thanks Chair; what proportion of that shocking annual increase in robberies was due to the increase in tobacco excise tax?
Regardless of the reasons, that's an appalling increase in aggravated robberies under a National-led government. Aren't they supposed to be tough on Law'n'Order? No doubt you were critical of National's poor performance at the time, in your own "lefty" "more left than most" way
"Police Minister Stuart Nash says the extra subsidy is a short-term measure, and in the long-term the Government was working to tackle organised crime and get more police officers in the community."
What proportion of that shocking annual increase in robberies was due to the increase in tobacco excise tax?
Zero. It was all just a big coincidence – not.
I was critical of the tax, and have been for sometime now.
Hard on crime you say. So how is putting a bad ass motherfucker in jail with a bunch of other bad ass motherfuckers meant to result in them being rehabilitated once they come out? The whole system seems flawed from the get go.
Data is yet to be kept on that. Although, cigarettes were often targeted in these robberies. And it's logical to assume the main related cause for such an sharp and sudden increase was the tax.
Do you see any other new or outstanding reasons for it? Apart from the tax, little if anything had changed in that year.
I did like the bit where he diverged from the link and showed his had:
I suspect there is more than just lobbying go on, there will most likely also be party donations given from those sectors.
Party donations are public record. If the industry donated anything of note, the notes would be online, and they'd be thrown around with soggy abandon.
To achieve the smokefree goal, the team of researchers led by Nick Wilson says the Government needs "to massively increase investment" in established interventions, including cessation support and mass media campaigns, while also continuing with substantial tobacco tax increases, "or else add substantive new strategies into the intervention mix."
"Indigenous peoples experience disproportionately high rates of commercial tobacco use, and consequently disproportionately high rates of tobacco-related death and disease. Philip Morris International (PMI) appears to be interested in building a veneer of social responsibility, so that it can bolster corporate credibility and leverage this to influence political debates about tobacco control policy. If PMI was serious about its aims for a smoke-free world, it would cease its opposition to evidenced-based measures to reduce smoking rates, such as advertising bans, tax increases and plain packaging. Further, the tobacco industry would cease commercial tobacco manufacturing, marketing, lobbying and litigation. The tobacco industry has a long history of deliberately colluding in covering up, denying, confusing and questioning the science on smoking-related morbidity and mortality. As a business, PMI’s goal is to safeguard and extend shareholder profits, thus it is rapidly expanding into the lucrative AND markets. PMI has never demonstrated genuine concern for the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples, and has a history of ignoring and undermining scientific evidence. The tobacco industry’s interest in Indigenous peoples has been to appropriate our names and imagery along with the tobacco plant itself, with the sole intent of furthering tobacco sales and profits."
Indeed, alcohol and tobacco are two important contributing factors to NZ health inequalities and not only in NZ. Junk food and sugary drinks would be another one.
The process of removing Tamariki has stirred anger among Māori not seen in 15 years.
"So it's the first kotahitanga or unity meeting since foreshore and seabed," said Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency chief executive John Tamihere.
Helen Clark's Foreshore and Seabed comments triggered a political movement. Delegates say the Newsroom video of the attempted removal of a baby from its mother had a similar impact.
I was thinking last night I've yet to see a TV news report on this subject that gave any hint the removal of babies from parents is done for a reason, rather than being a dastardly plot by central government to kidnap children. Have any journos bothered to mention it?
That reason (at times) may merely be a suspicion of harm leading to the Family Court making an interim Order and removing the child without talking to the child’s parent, guardian or caregiver first.
the Minister has defended from this very position, even crasher collins has said 'just stop hitting the kids' – although to be fair, i've only heard it on the radio cos we don't have telly.
With its renowned Church of the Good Shepherd, pristine blue waters and crystal clear night skies, Lake Tekapo in the Mackenzie Basin is one of the must-do stops in any tour of the South Island.
Getting specialist training to turn our kids into World champions has been in the news lately. Should schools be grabbing kids to train them to be All Blacks?
One infant was learning to putt before he could walk and constant support from his Dad turned him into a golfing prodigy and a World champion. Guess who that is?
Another lad was very skilled but from an early age he was encouraged to try any sport that he fancied. By the time he was in his 20s he specialised in tennis and became a World Champion. Guess who that is?
The professed necessity of hyperspecialisation forms the core of a vast, successful and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sport and beyond.
Happy Bastille Day everyone! If you were unwise enough to be watching breakfast television exactly nine years ago, you would have been repulsed by the following little exchange….
A great game that abs played a big part in with some great tries of their own Who was nz halfback Loveridge or Donaldson, some shocking passing, accepting quality of ball in those days, also ruck area a mess compared to protection halfbacks get today I also note TV coverage has improved out of sight
First there will be evidence before the Equality and Human Rights Commission on anti-semitism within UK Labour. 30 activists will testify so far.
And now we will get to see what it looks like to people thinking about voting Labour when they see how their party is run, when it's exposed in open court as well.
"Two of the whistleblowers who featured in last week’s explosive BBC Panorama programme entitled Is Labour Anti-Semitic? – Sam Matthews and Louise Withers Green – contacted the Observer last night to say they had instructed the prominent media lawyer Mark Lewis to act on their behalf because they believed the party had defamed them in its response to their claims. Others who spoke to Panorama are also understood to be considering contacting Lewis to represent them in libel actions.
On the evening the programme was aired, a Labour spokesman said: “It appears these disaffected former officials include those who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, worked to actively to undermine it and have both personal and political axes to grind. This throws into doubt their credibility as sources.”
Anyone want to work for Labour after that?
With that kind of attitude from UK Labour's leadership, it's going to be something else when their next sexual harassment or bullying case comes around.
Fascinating and terrifying Drowsy M Kram. So many cases seem to end in "settlement out of court" which takes us in a different direction. Giving in because the cost is too high and not because of justice?
And the efforts that the Crosby Textor goes to to use anti-democratic processes and close down people like Nicky Hager is appalling. If Key had been a good man he would have refused to be part of the process.
So thank goodness we have Steven Price and Nicky to help us all.
I have just been through an eleven month defamation case. Fortunately, we mostly won. About 20 to 1 if it was a score. If I was ever going to be sued like this, I am pleased that the suer was a man of Lynton Crosby’s standing and that his case against me was so weak….
Unfortunately, defamation is a tool that can be used by any well resourced company or individual against people who have annoyed them or who they do not like. This has serious implications for journalism and public accountability — potentially chilling freedom of speech about the people who most deserve scrutiny and criticism — since the sad fact is that it is much safer for a news organisation to criticise poor people than rich and powerful ones.
Your citation was a copy-and-paste from LifeboatNews; a raw and uncritiqued tribute to the Momentum-maddened extremists boiling into a fully benzadrine-popped, arm-waving, foam-flecked, beat-the-messenger, do-what-the-Leaders-office-pays-you-to medically-assisted pink frothy head explosion worthy of Alec Jones on a five-day Sandy Hook jag.
The results will be the same for them both, in court.
That does seem to be the aim of the propaganda, yes. The Israeli lobby get what they want, the anti-Corbyn faction in Labour get what they want, left-of-centre voters get shafted.
Clearly, parties are learning from it – the bogus claim from the NZ Jewish Council the other day that Golriz Ghahraman had insulted Jews saw an immediate, humiliating apology from James Shaw rather than the laughter that their bogus claim warranted. That reaction may be a lot more politically astute than UK Labour's, but it's also poisonous to political discourse.
1) During 1984-90, much of the social welfare and services net was still more or less kept in place, those laid off during those years were able to "hang in there", as the cuts to welfare and steep increases in state housing rents didnt kick in until 1991-95.
2) The corporatisation wasnt a *bad* thing, but selling everything off to the private sector was.
3) Much of the larger changes werent brought in until 1987-90.
4) The Muldoon goverment was already starting to bring in measures to deregulate the economy. The Think Big projects had heavy private sector involvement (part of the Clyde Dam project was designed and built via the contracting process we take for granted today).
5) The SMP's that everyone were complaining about were only brought in about 1975-76.
I think people need to let the idea of everything being wonderful before 1984 and then turning to shit thereafter go, and realise that the truth is much more complicated. Personally I think the real damage was done after 1990, with deregulation and privatisation of electricity, slashing of health and education, the changes to housing policy, and of course, the benefit cuts and ECA.
You might want to have a look at McAloon's economic history "Judgements of All Kinds", which has a good bibliography on that section of our political history, as well as earlier policy frameworks.
He's pretty kind, but you can see the counterfactual New Zealand that might have emerged without the policy violence of that Lange-Douglas first term.
millsy The opportunities to make changes and fight our way out of our strong paper bag got limited, then decimated, and we were subsumed under neo lib models that were The Only Thing.
Washington (CNN)The US Department of Agriculture has suspended data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report, citing cost cuts — a move that robs researchers and the honeybee industry of a critical tool for understanding honeybee population declines, and comes as the USDA is curtailing other research programs.
It’s also another step toward undoing President Barack Obama’s government-wide focus on protecting pollinators, including bees and butterflies, whose populations have plummeted in recent years.
Doesn’t sound good but is nzh only US source the Washington Post, it’s hardly an impartial source
Oh yes it's accurate alright. Did you know that since June 2017 the WH has not had any Scientific advice whatsoever.* All scientific staff at the WH who were there to advise the President on Scientific matters have left and have not been replaced. Meanwhile this is not the first attack on bees (an insect absolutely essential to humans survivability) by this administration.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) annual honeybee count has fallen victim to budget cuts, CNN reported Saturday.
The suspension of the Honey Bee Colonies report is at least the third bee-related data set to be halted or reduced under the Trump administration, and comes three weeks after Trump's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the emergency use of bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor on 13.9 million acres. It also comes as the population of bees, which help pollinate a third of edible crops, has been declining since 2006.
"This is yet another example of the Trump administration systematically undermining federal research on food safety, farm productivity and the public interest writ large," Union of Concerned Scientistseconomist Rebecca Boehm told CNN.
The survey began in 2015 and tracks the number of honeybees in each state by quarter. The most recent report, scheduled to be released in August, will only include data taken from January 2018 to April 2019, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service said in a statement released July 1.
"The decision to suspend data collection was not made lightly but was necessary given available fiscal and program resources," the statement said.
A USDA spokesperson told CNN the suspension was "temporary" but did not say how long it might last.
The loss of the data set comes at a crucial time for honeybees. A University of Maryland-led study released in June found that U.S. beekeepers lost 38 percent of their colonies last winter, the greatest winter loss since the university's research began in 2006,
The US will soon have an Acting Labor Sec, an Acting DHS Sec and no Dep Sec, an Acting Defense Sec and no Dep Sec, an Acting White House Chief of Staff, an Acting CBP Commiss., an Acting ICE Dir, an Acting USCIS Dir, an Acting UN Ambassador, an Acting FDA Commiss., An Acting OMB Director, an Acting Secretary of the Army, an Acting Secretary of the Air Force, an Acting DHS Under Secretary for Management, no DHS Under Secretary for Science & Tech, no DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, and an Acting FEMA Director. (PS: it’s hurricane season!)
Trump prefers acting heads because he can control them more easily. The sheer volume of acting heads shows
-A) Trump has an unstable government
-B) Trump isn’t interested in congressional oversight inherent in the confirmation process – more chiseling away at the constitution.
I thought we all knew it at the time but it has now been confirmed.
Edit: I think the British Public Servants might have it wrong. This particular release is not so much an undermining of them, but an important message to the British people about what is going on with the current US Administration. They have a right to know just as we would have a right to know in similar circumstances.
Those creeping sharia conspiracy theories have as much evidence behind them as that desperate DNC fantasy about Russian masterminds stealing the election.
Of course tRump's pick to replace Acosta is a vile human who argued sweatshops should be allowed to use indentured labour.
On July 12, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta will be replaced on an acting basis by Deputy Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella. As Mother Jones reported after reviewing hundreds of pages of billing records and emails, Pizzella worked in the late 1990s with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to promote a sweatshop economy in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory.
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The agreement between the islands and the United States granted two exemptions. First, the CNMI could set its own minimum wage. Second, the commonwealth would be allowed to make its own immigration laws. CNMI officials initially requested control of immigration to ensure that the indigenous population would not be overwhelmed by newcomers. But adecade later, garment manufacturers and the CNMI’s government decided to use the exemption to import unlimited guest workers to make clothes for companies like Brooks Brothers and Banana Republic. The clothes they produced were stamped “Made in the USA” and exported to the United States tariff-free. Between 1985 and 1998, CNMI garment exports grew from almost nothing to more than $1 billion annually—over a third of total CNMI business revenue.
“Things were just completely out of control,” says Allen Stayman, the top Interior Department official assigned to the CNMI from 1993 to 1999. Recruiters illegally required many foreign workers to pay fees in order to land jobs in the CNMI, causing them to go into debt that they’d have to work to pay off. Others signed “shadow contracts” in which they promised their employers not to unionize, date, or practice a religion while working in the CNMI. Some were made to sleep a dozen to a room, with barbed wire surrounding their barracks. If workers complained, the CNMI government, which had close ties to the garment industry, could deport them immediately. In 1992, Willie Tan, a top garment industry baron, paid a $9 million settlement in a Labor Department suit alleging he’d failed to pay workers overtime and theCNMI’s minimum wage of $2.15 an hour—compared with $4.25 elsewhere in the United States. The settlement was the largest in Labor Department history at the time.
New Zealand has the highest house price to rent ratio in the world, and the highest house price compared to income (a ratio of 156.8), while Canada has the highest real house prices and the biggest percentage of credit to households, with New Zealand just behind, according to Shah [Bloomberg economist Niraj Shah]…
New Zealand household credit is the equivalent of 94 per cent of gross domestic product. That compared with 100.7 per cent of GDP in Canada, 76.3 per cent in the US, and Australia's 120.3 per cent…
The Government's foreign buyer ban, an attempt to curb house prices, has seen a significant drop in home ownership by overseas residents. House sales to overseas buyers dropped 81 per cent in the March quarter compared to the same time last year, Statistics New Zealand data shows.
The 5 Eyes don't see what's in front of them. Australia is stuffed and too much milk will pollute the country in a big way. At lease coal and mining can be left in the ground, left piled up and the pollution will not stink like sour milk. Please keep buying our milk peeps out in the world, till we can wean ourselves off this panacea, and on to paracetamols, or anything.
It’s not like Mnuchin or any other administration appointees have ties to Wall Street.
Is Donald Trump’s erratic behavior fueling a business model? Some Wall Street options traders are beginning to suspect so. They’ve taken note, with increasing alarm, of people making strange bets tied to Trump’s actions and then cashing in bigly when the odd bets pay off. “If you had the ability to make hundreds of millions of dollars, or billions, and you knew how to hide it and it was impossible to find, wouldn’t you do it?” a longtime Wall Street options trader asks me sarcastically.
There is an old saw on Wall Street about how if you could somehow get tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal today, you could make a fortune. Advance knowledge of presidential actions might provide a similar advantage, and some unusual trading patterns are fueling gossip and suspicion on the Street.
Condolences to Matua Prime Whanau for there great loss of a leader.
Mike Smith it's cool that you have consersens about our mokopuna future environment But Papatuanuku wasn't built in a day all in good time our government is changing our policy on climate change I know it's looks slow but time are changing and the oil barons money pulls alot of strings in there effort to convince people climate is not happening Yeah Right
Eco Maori Tau toko the tangata whenua who are protesting there whenua been sold by camping on te whenua ka Pai
Ka Pai to our rangatihi for going to Parlament that's what we need more Maori standing up and becoming Leaders. That gives Eco Maori a sore face. I was listening to some of Ngati Porou up and coming Leaders a few weeks ago on Radio Ngati Porou.
There you go the wealth make there own rules. Eco Maori knows what it like not trusting the people on street Zoie as they will be sandfly's that are swarming at the minute.
It's awesome that NIWA is helping dairyfarmer with the measurements of there methane gas from bovine it's not a big change but the it's a start. A lot better than the last lot.
Garth and Tom all the best in your goals it's a good cause The John charity Kerwin foundation for mental health. P.S. I'm having problems with my viewing devices
I think it's good our government is changing roads rules and spending more money on safety features
Ask Dick if the common poor people can afford his safety driving course or does he plan that only wealth tangata can drive in the future.
I think it's awesome that furniture is going to be legerslated so the furniture is fire restint.
Noverpay is nationals stuff up that Labour is cleaning up national should have used local tangata to develop the software not foreign people who stuff it up.
kellyann conner/ conway is a redneck like her boss.
The Himalayan trust does good mahi for the poor people that part of Papatuanuku.
Ingrid I hope tawhitimate doesn't tangi as much as he did on Sunday when I was on the Napier Taupo road .
Condolences to the 100 year old kuia sorry I missed her name Whanau.
The taxpayers union is irrelevant .He jordan is just a altright national attack MUT.
Ka Pai to the Grand Rod tribes for there celebratetion of there Waka traveling gathering it cool that tangata whenua O Aotearoa is invited to there celebratetion.
Eco Maori backs the Hawaiians who are protesting that huge telescope being planted on there sacred Monga / Mountain the ruling class of Hawaii don't even consider te tangata whenua O Hawaii cultural reason for protesting that telescope being forced on them.
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The annual inventory report of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions has been released, showing that gross emissions have dropped for the third year in a row, to 78.4 million tons: All-told gross emissions have decreased by over 6 million tons since the Zero Carbon Act was passed in 2019. ...
Experiencing a locked computer can be frustrating, especially when you need access to your files and applications urgently. The methods to unlock your computer will vary depending on the specific situation and the type of lock you encounter. This guide will explore various scenarios and provide step-by-step instructions on how ...
While the world has largely transitioned to digital communication, faxing still holds relevance in certain industries and situations. Fortunately, gone are the days of bulky fax machines and dedicated phone lines. Today, you can easily send and receive faxes directly from your computer, offering a convenient and efficient way to ...
In our increasingly digital world, home computers have become essential tools for work, communication, entertainment, and more. However, this increased reliance on technology also exposes us to various cyber threats. Understanding these threats and taking proactive steps to protect your home computer is crucial for safeguarding your personal information, finances, ...
In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three. ...
Climate change is expected to generate more and more extreme events, delivering a sort of structural shock to inflation that central banks will have to react to as if they were short-term cyclical issues. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s ...
It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blogIn 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something ...
The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
Citizen Science writes – Last week saw two significant developments in the debate over the treatment of trans-identifying children and young people – the release in Britain of the final report of Dr Hilary Cass’s review into gender healthcare, and here in New Zealand, the news that the ...
One night while sleeping in my bed I had a beautiful dreamThat all the people of the world got together on the same wavelengthAnd began helping one anotherNow in this dream, universal love was the theme of the dayPeace and understanding and it happened this wayAfter such an eventful day ...
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
You're in the mall when you hear it: some kind of popping sound in the distance, kids with fireworks, maybe. But then a moment of eerie stillness is followed by more of the fireworks sound and there’s also screaming and shrieking and now here come people running for their lives.Does ...
Karl du Fresne writes – There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
David Farrar writes – The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
PRC and its proxies in Solomons have been preparing for these elections for a long time.A lot of money, effort and intelligence have gone into ensuring an outcome that won’t compromise Beijing’s plans. Cleo Paskall writes – On April 17th the Solomon Islands, a country of ...
Is speeding up the trip to and from Wellington airport by 12 minutes worth spending up more than $10 billion? Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me in the last day to 8:26 am today are:The Lead: Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced ...
You're a fraud, and you know itBut it's too good to throw it all awayAnyone would do the sameYou've got 'em goingAnd you're careful not to show itSometimes you even fool yourself a bitIt's like magicBut it's always been a smoke and mirrors gameAnyone would do the sameForty six billion ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the ...
2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated. While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
Costello did not pass on analysis of the benefits of the smokefree reforms to Cabinet, emphasising instead the extra tax revenues of repealing them. Photo: Hagen Hopkins, Getty Images TL;DR: The six news items that stood out to me at 7:26 am today are:The Lead: Casey Costello never passed on ...
True loveYou're the one I'm dreaming ofYour heart fits me like a gloveAnd I'm gonna be true blueBaby, I love youI’ve written about the job cuts in our news media last week. The impact on individuals, and the loss to Aotearoa of voices covering our news from different angles.That by ...
While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
With submissions closing today, Macassey-Pickard says groups around the country have been supporting a huge range of people to make their submissions. ...
Our response to the new legislation is informed by targeted conversations with practitioners working in the system and through an implementation lens. ...
The new ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’ would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. They would avoid the usual checks and balances that are in place to protect rivers, land, the ocean, and communities. ...
COMMENTARY:By Eugene Doyle Helen Clark, how I miss you. The former New Zealand Prime Minister — the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory — gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when she spoke at an AUKUS symposium held ...
The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Sia Duff / South Australian Museum In February, the South Australian Museum “re-imagined” itself. In the face of rising costs and inadequate government funds, CEO David Gaimster, who took the reins last June, declared ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Decay, terror, revulsion. These are three of the central themes of Thomas Bernhard’s rarely performed play The President. The Austrian is one of the greatest ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ye In (Jane) Hwang, Postdoctoral Research Associate at School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock You’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of daily life that doesn’t require some form of digital literacy. We need only to look back ten ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University Pexels/RDNE stock project You’re not in your 20s or 30s anymore and you know regular health checks are important. So you go to your GP. During the appointment they measure your waist. ...
A new poem by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Mitochondrial Problem I. It was long drive to Kansas for the man and his dog but you have to understand he said She doesn’t fly. Which calls to mind not carsick shitting barking or whining but a dog who chooses not to as ...
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)Hot off the press, this debut ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
The Ministry of Health has delayed the release of its evidence brief on the safety, reversibility and mental health and wellbeing outcomes for puberty blockers. While we wait, Julia de Bres speaks to those with firsthand experience. Best practice gender-affirming healthcare is based on trans people’s self-determination and agency. The ...
Barcelona’s city streets have gone from traffic-clogged to pedestrian-friendly. How? Superblocks. Ellen Rykers explains. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week I read a great interview with renowned urbanist Janette Sadik-Khan by The Spinoff’s Wellington editor Joel MacManus: “You can reimagine streets, ...
Student groups ‘Climate Action VUW’, Schools Strike 4 Climate and VUWSA will be on the street in Wellington today, the last day for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Bill, with a message that the fight against the Government’s ‘War on ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sofia Ammassari, Research Fellow, Griffith University Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity has grown exponentially – and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Education (Adjunct) & Senior Manager (BCE), Charles Sturt University During COVID almost all Australian students and their families experienced online learning. But while schools have long since gone back to in-person teaching, online learning has not gone ...
Yes, they’re better for the environment. No, that’s not a good enough reason for me to use them. Once every 26 days or so, my period arrives, and if struck by an act of God, I am caught red-crotched without products. How, after 17 years of this, do I still ...
“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XtIPoBHx8
https://web.archive.org/web/20190620143250/https://topnewsrussia.ru/09/06/2019/japan-abandoned-the-development-of-5g-networks-for-the-health-of-citizens.html
Красная Армия Japan will not develop and invest in the creation of fifth-generation mobile networks. This is stated on the official website of the Ministry of High Technologies of the country. Officials expressed the opinion that the creation of a faster Internet than previously is dangerous for the population and may adversely affect people’s health and labor productivity.
Источник: https://web.archive.org/web/20190620143250/https://topnewsrussia.ru/09/06/2019/japan-abandoned-the-development-of-5g-networks-for-the-health-of-citizens.html
Small Cells are NOT welcome here
Concerned citizens express outrage, heartache and concern regarding the Town's lack of due diligence, lack of solidarity with the citizens and lack of fortitude to STOP the small cell installation in Huntington NY. Facts regarding 5G and a list of the new small cell sites are listed in this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKPcoc6CiLo&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0ZbJUAHghvZnj6WuX82FaT4r9C4qV1JdjEiN4XuEhaLvpSqVkzrTEsp2E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington,_New_York
We are scientists engaged in the study of biological and health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF). Based upon peer-reviewed, published research, we have serious concerns regarding the ubiquitous and increasing exposure to EMF generated by electric and wireless devices. These include–but are not limited to–radiofrequency radiation (RFR) emitting devices, such as cellular and cordless phones and their base stations, Wi-Fi, broadcast antennas, smart meters, and baby monitors as well as electric devices and infra-structures used in the delivery of electricity that generate extremely-low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF).
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/5g-danger-hundreds-of-respected-scientists-sound-the-alarm-about-health-effects-as-5g-networks-go-up-nationwide
Erickson buried the studies done in the last millennium which showed a disturbing shall we say 'correlation' .
Bad for business even on the 1g/2g.
This is part one of a good audio podcast giving the history of tRump …
You'll learn a lot, gain insights and get a few laughs ….
Listen to part 2 if you want to skip to the more current stuff
It actually starts at 8mins 25 secs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOkysoJgcc
sad – they tried and they failed. We need to know why this was such a fail.
Haha haha good one expecting something from that.
WDC can't stop raw sewage spewing into raglan harbour yet still allow the Rongatai dev to connect to it.
They also aren't touching the single lane bridge across the harbour whereas the dev has a flash new bridge of its own to ensure they join the growing jams.
Developers do as they please in NZ as they’ve the Legal guns and legislative terrain to blow opposition away.
These fish are extremely sensitive like the Galaxiids – lacking scales. Any number of things could have taken them out but I think the problem was putting them where sewage discharges. Poisoned by bacteria or fungi or xenobiotics or metal.
The sewage plant sounds like a mish-mash of ideas rather than a comprehensive treatment plant but I'd need to see if to see if it's as bad as it sounds. Sounds like an accountants sewage plant with add-ons after public outcry for environmental issues.
A big white (man) elephant.
https://cdc.govt.nz/services/wastewater/
As for the price to move some fish, there's cronyism in there someplace. It's ridiculous.
Possibly the same cronyism delivering piss poor wastewater management.
If anyone was actually serious about our native fish surviving into the future they would making whitebaiting bi annual (at the lest) and eradicate trout from our water ways.
I once interviewed Rod McDowell and he told me off the record that in his view with out major government intervention NZ native fresh water fish were heading for mass extinction.
I mean seriously, an introduced apex predator like the trout that is not only allowed to be in our waters, but is still actively introduced and has more protections than our own fish is fucking insane…they are nothing more than ferrets of the watersways, the natives haven't got a chance, kill them on sight I say, I know I do.
Hi There JohnM
I am not for one minute suggesting that Americans and Japanese are mentally disabled.
But I am praising them for having used electricity in their households and Skyscrapers for over a hundred enlightened years.
Prior to that they used coal and oil. Which are deadly. And which you seem to want to return to. They are in fact the highest Carcinogens that we have in daily use. Thousands thousands of people die from Diesel daily.
All because people are supporting the Oil Companies.
May I ask when will you be taking electricity out of the houses of America and Japan ? Are you really that stupid ?
Concerned citizens express outrage, heartache and concern regarding the Town's lack of due diligence, lack of solidarity with the citizens and lack of fortitude to STOP the small cell installation in Huntington NY. Facts regarding 5G and a list of the new small cell sites are listed in this video!
The people of the above video have electricity, but they obviously consider cell phone 4g 5g and wifi etc an order of magnitude more dangerous and intrusive. Especially the concentrated intensity of the cell phone towers permeating the very atmosphere we need to live in.
Lera Lynn: The Only Thing Worth Fighting For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklA8sSXYBM
Yes! Rarely is despair so damn comforting…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJdEdk9g2E
A couple of days ago Kiwiblog got excited about a new development in Wellington:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/07/the_wellington_party_-_vote_for_competence.html
which Stuff duly reported:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/114209468/rightwing-wellington-party-to-contest-council-elections
Farrar claims that “Certainly things have gone horribly wrong in Wellington in the last couple of years.”, and among a list he gives, the first is
“The two Councils have destroyed the bus network, and can’t even work together to fix it.”
Now it is my understanding that the Council responsible for transport is the regional council – perhaps Farrar is thinking Wellington should have had all Councils amalgamated as in Auckland – that has gone so well for National . . .
But regarding the bus contracts, they were let before the last election, under rules set by Gerry Brownlee (they were available on a website, but I can’t find it now – I do hope it has been changed!).
The rules Regional Council had to follow for public transport contracts were to seek competitive tenders, to enable contracts for parts of the region to encourage competition, and to base contracts on price. This the regional council did, and it is arguable that Wellington got just what National wanted. After all, who would argue in favour of a more expensive contract, and why would you look for competence? Of course the fragmentation of services meant a re-design of routes by yet another agency, complex contracts, and when some routes needed further change then the lawyers must have fed on contract changes. More opportunities to clip the ticket – neo-liberal heaven! Now we find that the companies cannot pay the wages to recruit enough drivers (and the multiple contracts make moving drivers harder). Given the contract is with the public sector, the neo-lib answer is probably that the Council should pay more – but if the contracts did not allow for adequate wages that is again just what the government wanted . . . – of course the implication has been that the Council has erred in not paying more . . .
So now some services are being cancelled for lack of drivers – again that is as designed – almost certainly they will be those where the number of passengers did not justify the service anyway – Brownlee knew what he was doing!
The comments on Kiwiblog are amusing – various posters see a great future in the principle behind the name, and are calling for an Auckland Party (cit-rats became a joke, com-res hasn’t done well, why not an “Auckland Party”!). If the various city parties combined, they could even call themselves the New Zealand Party, or, dare we say it, the National Party!
The party website is informative as anyone would expect : https://thewellingtonparty.org/ but from the Stuff article, having Hughes, Morrison and Mihaka all running in wellington Central, and four or five other candidates, how could they possibly lose!
Councils everywhere are incapable of addressing that which needs to be addressed, be it basic services, transport, climate change impacts or whatever….they are structurally flawed and growth is simply highlighting the deficiencies. It is delusional to believe that any grouping can or will change that.
Deck chairs on the Titanic
50 years ago this was released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXSGocWifAg
… planet earth is blue and there's nothing we can do…
Stands up amazingly well. #respec
#respec
???
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-talking-about-bowies-sexual-misconduct-matters_b_9009230
https://jezebel.com/what-should-we-say-about-david-bowie-and-lori-maddox-1754533894
Are you feeling jealous? He's dead, Morrissey – there's no chance of him fucking you now.
I don't think his personal sins and foibles should stop anyone listening to his music. But Yadana Saw and her hiveminded colleagues at RNZ National obviously do.
This is really strange coming from you guys, I remember only too well and also very recently that all you lot ( Sacha, marty mars and others ) were losing your shit over Assange over what you said was his mistreatment of woman, and now defending Bowie fucking 15 year old girls, holy shit what a bunch of hypocrites.
Guess if you can write a few good tunes you get a free pass, is that how it goes for you?
Assange should have practiced his guitar a bit more eh.
Bowie's crimes are exhaustively documented, and he and his followers boasted about them incessantly. Assange committed no crime, unless journalism is now a criminal enterprise. The lurid Soviet-style sex fantasy concocted by the British and U.S. intelligence services has as much rigour as that case cooked up against Peter Ellis by the Christchurch Police and a few demented psychiatrists.
Problem is many on here don't seem to be able to produce an original thought in their head, and lack what seems to be any critical thought process at all.
It they read it in The Guardian or whatever..it must be true..end of story for this lot.
It they read it in The Guardian or whatever..it must be true..end of story for this lot.
The propaganda that daily emanates from the Guardian and the very similar BBC is dutifully repeated in our media by the likes of John Campbell, Kathryn Ryan, Kim Hill, Bernard Hickey, and Patrick Gower.
Over at NewstalkZzzzzB, meanwhile, they recycle Fox News and the Spectator as reflexively and as irresponsibly.
I remember only too well and also very recently that all you lot ( Sacha, marty mars and others ) were losing your shit over Assange over what you said was his mistreatment of woman, and now defending Bowie fucking 15 year old girls…
Why does the word "consent" seem either completely unheard-of or just plain irrelevant to so many men when it comes to the morality of sex?
Also: despite the enthusiastic participation of the 15-year-olds in question, if the Police had been made aware of the incident they would have wanted to interview Mr Bowie, and if he'd instead resisted extradition, jumped bail and spent years hiding out in a foreign embassy, I'd probably have a fairly low opinion of him too.
Whatever..you hypocrites, you guys are so full of shit it defies logic, but then as I have seen first hand through parts of my life, some humans can justify and defend and/or enable almost any type of bad behaviour if they get cornered and feel they need too…guess you are in that club, well done.
So, you ask for an explanation, and when I give one you say "Whatever" and go back to your accusations. Quelle surprise.
yep pretty basic stuff but too much for the wee adrian
Haven't seen you or your pals show the moral outrage toward Bowie that you all spewed out towards Assange when you were told to do so by the Guardian is all I''m saying.
Or is 'enthusiastic participation' from a 15 yo girl OK in your books..,,because as far as I know wether that 15 yo girl consents or not, is it is still considered illegal,and that girl would be considered a minor, so in other words and according to the law, Bowie was fucking children.
Now I am not actually offering moral judgment on this, i am just stating what the law is, and undisputed stories about who Bowie had sex with, in this case a under age girl…no you are the ones who presented yourselves as the rulers on what is considered moral when it comes to sexual relations in your stances on Assange..wee man.
put up ONE post that I have done in support or against assange – you can't cos you're a fucken liar – fuck off bullshit artist.
You forgot to say “please” 😉
Settle down motherfucker.
You also forgot to say “please” 😉
Or is 'enthusiastic participation' from a 15 yo girl OK in your books…
For me? No. For other people? Not really my business. Might be of interest to the Police if there's a complaint, though. Don't you think?
In the case of 15 year olds, perhaps it's to do with them not being considered mature enough to give their consent.
So as Bowie didn't resisted extradition, jumped bail and spend years hiding out in a foreign embassy are you saying you condone him having sex with underage girls?
In the case of 15 year olds, perhaps it's to do with them not being considered mature enough to give their consent.
What the law says, and what individuals choose to do, are sometimes not the same. The law says a 15-year-old isn't allowed to drink alcohol, and yet I did so (and drove afterwards, often enough). I would also have been more than happy if someone wanted to fuck me, hell anyone let alone a famous celebrity, which sadly no-one at the time did (don't cry, readers, someone took pity on me later on).
…are you saying you condone him having sex with underage girls?
Somehow I can't imagine Bowie was living in fear of what Psycho Milt might think of him for having fucked underage girls. My point, which somehow seems to need making over and over again on these threads, is that if sex with you leaves a woman feeling the need to visit a police station, ur doin it wrong.
Not sure anyone's argued that wikileaks should be boycotted specifically because Assange is an accused rapist.
Caravaggio was a murderer. Good paintings, though.
The outcome of boycott/noboycott is binary, but the decision-making is not.
Work quality and uniqueness is one factor. Severity and frequency of crimes is another (as a judge might look at sentence length). Degree of input the criminal had into the work is another (e.g. boycott Deadwood because Jeffrey Jones is in it? What if Swearengen were played by [alleged criminal]Kevin Spacey?). How long ago were the crimes, and were they a lifetime practise? Will my boycott affect the criminal's ability to profit from this or future work, or help deter future criminals?
From my perspective, all this and probably more mushes into a single boycott/noboycott outcome. Sometimes it's a conscious "argh, shit, I really liked him, he's not on my playlist until he owns it" (louisCK). Sometimes it's just that the abuser is no longer a selling point, the billing they get in the cinema might as well be a blank space or even a shitstain.
So I'm not going to parse what Bowie did. It was wrong. Is he on my playlist? not really. Did I play the embed? Yup. Was that wrong or inconsistent? Maybe. But fuck it, it's a Sunday and I'm at the office.
@ McFlock , I grew up in the AKL art scene in the late 1960's, and have been involved in one way or another with artists in all fields since, so believe me this whole issue is nothing new to me, I learnt long long ago to separate art from art creator, in both the fine arts and in music.
Yeah, that line has always been bullshit.
A great song or painting about romantic love would forever be coloured if you discovered that it was created a few weeks after the creator beat their lover to death, or a few weeks after they'd met the person they would be in love with for the next fifty years, or both. The context of the creation adds texture to it, whether we want it or not.
…. because Assange is an accused rapist.
He's not. There were, and are, no charges for rape against him. You're simply smearing him, for the umpteenth time in your case.
He has been accused of rape.
You are adamant, without any basis, that he is innocent of that accusation. That is a stupid position to take, but not uncommon in a society where women are routinely disbelieved. But your bias goes so far as to have you deny the literal truth that he has been accused of rape. What little judgement you have has been clouded by your ego.
…where women are routinely disbelieved.
Ha! As if this pursuit of Assange is driven by women and not the secret police of two rogue nations. The young women badgered and inveigled to go along, for a short time, with this murderous travesty almost immediately made it clear they wanted no charges brought against him. Your zealous desire to see him destroyed stands in stark contrast to their courage.
the literal truth that he has been accused of rape.
No he has not.
Fixed it for you.
Also: details of the rape allegations here.
Have never commented about Assange. You must be thinking of somebody else.
Sorry about that, my apologies.
What about my apology too? Or have you found some non existent post of mine.
What about my apology too? Or have you found some non existent post of mine.
On Wednesday 17 April, shortly after Julian Assange had, at the behest of the Trump regime, been dragged out of political asylum, put in front of a biased and abusive "judge", and imprisoned, Te Reo Putake instigated a gloating, outrageous thread entitled "Assange Must Be Extradited." He summarily banned half a dozen people who dared to defend journalism and the rule of law, and he excised their posts. Later in the thread he admitted (to Brigid, who had protested about his conduct) that he had devised the "admittedly click baity title" in order to "get people to read the post, Brigid. Obviously, some of my fans here love being outraged, so it was a good way to get their blood pressure up." Such antics constituted, he joked, "churnalism at its finest."
At 10.33 p.m. you chose to add the following comment to that Red China-style festival of abuse, contempt, denunciation, and malice:
So you supported the bullies and the slanderers, by amplifying their callous lies. It's a post of yours all right, and it's anything but "non-existent."
You're a liar too moonbreem
the context of that comment was in relation to the law around consent in NZ. It was a comment on the difference between Sweden and NZ and NOT about what you implied it was about.
Paraphrasing a dictionary defnition of "rape" only amplifies people opposed to rape.
Last I looked, journalism didn't involve rape.
I think that somehow you might have inadvertantly conflated two distinct issues. I'm sure you haven't realised it and that this is the first person to explain that the subject of a person's "journalism" is distinct from the subject of whether that journalist is also a rapist.
I look forward to you acknowledging the disinction betwen the two subjects in a calm and dignified manner in the near future.*
*actual results may vary
I hope you don't mind me saying that THAT song is a LITTLE bit of a controversial CHOICE, a-a-a-a-and I'm really interested why you were brave enough to be choosing a David Bowie clip at this time. Marty, w-w-what will happen is that, I'm pretty sure this thread is going to get very BUSY with this choice.
What would you SAY to-o-o-o Standard readers, who may say "We CAN'T listen to this music any more"?
Morrissey
Are you trying to use The Standard to excite comments to your own blog?
Not at all, Mr Shark. If I was the "link whore" that Kiwibloggers constantly accuse me of being, I would have provided a link to my site. But I didn't.
My intention was not to garner extra “hits” on my own site, but to provoke and tease people about the glaring hypocrisy and faux morality that engenders purse-lipped denunciation of the imagined and unproven crimes of Michael Jackson, while ignoring the real crimes of someone like David Bowie.
But, in case anyone wants to see the providence of that little anti-Bowie tirade in 8.2, feel free to click HERE….
http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/yadana-saw-nervously-transgresses-fatwa.html
Are you trying to use The Standard
He's just trying to have the same 'conversation' on a false premise today as we had to endure yesterday.
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-13-07-2019/#comment-1636649
Some folk never learn. Need better hobbies.
What was the false premise you're alluding to, Sacha?
Yes, but better than Mike Hosking! Morrissey just has to knock him off his perch in mid squawk then he'd be in to the big bucks. Mike is I am afraid a bit like the Norwegian parrot that can be sold again and again because of notable features that excite and appeal to a phalanx of gullible people.
As the day wears wearily on and you need a touch of the light here is a 1989 version of the parrot sketch with extras at the end. You may not have seen this older version, it's amusing with a different end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-wvteFJ0f8
Hosking?
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/02/toni-streets-exquisite-live-on-air.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/no-mihi-forbes-no-john-campbellbut.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/fair-and-balanced-mike-hosking.html
hang on i've had a letter from a mr b reen
"don't play stuff cos im not racist
b reen"
Ha mr reen you have shown, what, sorry hold on a sec, where was I , oh yes… and now for another tune…
Good one, marty.
https://i.imgflip.com/1cx5fe.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj-dojvvkYc
reveal your dossier on this hero
I don't care what Neil Young or David Bowie have done. All that I care about is their music. My position is very different to that of Yadana Saw, who for reasons even she would not be able to explain convincingly, is nervous about playing records by Michael Jackson.
You'd think the fact his records were shite would be enough reason. I'm always happy for people to not play Michael Jackson for me, whatever the reason.
Fair comment. That's not what motivates those nervous people at RNZ, however.
So you're having a go at them for not playing MJ songs?
How about Gary Glitter? Do you want them on the playlist, too?
So you're having a go at them for not playing MJ songs?
No, I'm having a go at them for their selective and hypocritical display of "moralising". Like any well bred and discerning person, I choose not to play Michael Jackson songs—but on grounds of personal preference, not because I'm afraid of offending some sniffy busybodies "who may say 'We CAN'T listen to this music any more'."
How about Gary Glitter? Do you want them on the playlist, too?
Why not? Come on Alien, shake dat t'ing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Msnt4lLm-g
So you'd have no problem with Veitch being back on TV?
Gary Glitter's still on my playlist. Objectively I know it's a load of old cobblers, but to 12-year-old me it was the dog's bollocks and that tends to stick with you.
I've never said I wanted him banned. Of course, he should never have had a job as a sports reporter in the first place, not because he is a violent and despicable person, which he clearly is, but because he knows fuck-all about sports.
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/tony-veitch-do-you-get-hit-on-much-mar.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/01/tony-veitch-urges-us-player-to-smash.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/tony-veitch-reckons-he-could-hear-fear.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/veitch-watch-no-3-forced-to-apologise.html
Earlier you attempted to Bowie shame Sacha because of a report of underage sex and hyper sexuality. Isn't it a tad hypocritical and a bit rich how you'll then link to a convicted paedophile and refuse to condemn a man who broke a woman's back?
Earlier you attempted to Bowie shame Sacha because of a report of underage sex and hyper sexuality.
Errrr, no, I wasn't trying to "Bowie shame Sacha", I was applying to Bowie the same moronic logic that censorious people—the kinds of people that make Yadana Saw so fearful—apply to Michael Jackson.
Isn't it a tad hypocritical and a bit rich how you'll then link to a convicted paedophile and refuse to condemn a man who broke a woman's back?
I have repeatedly condemned Veitchfor his ignorance about sports [1], his sexism [2] and his racism [3] and then, after the revelations of his crimes, for his violence. [4]
[1] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/daisycutter-sports-world-cup-special.html
[2] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/tony-veitch-newstalkzb-in-action-dec-28.html
[3] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/tony-veitch-calls-james-blake-worlds.html
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/profiles-in-lack-of-courage-brian-ashby.html
[4] https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/kerre-woodham-reacts-to-elderly-caller.html
Well it's all out in the open now, on the record, so we'll just leave it there for posterity. People can work it out for themselves how it all looks, but from my vantage point, it doesn't come over too well for you at all.
… from my vantage point, it doesn't come over too well for you at all.
Really? You will of course explain that rather ominous statement.
It means that even ET thinks you look like a dick.
Tee hee
You going all matt mcarseole on us morpissey?
No, Gaybb, I was imitating that frightened practitioner of hivemind, Yadana Saw. Only the names were changed, from Michael to David.
Let's just shut out discussion of sexual mores from Open Mike and have a special one where the matter can be discussed from top to bottom. ~~SEX~~ Now I have Your Full Attention is such a cheap jibe – and so reliable.
Jeez master Breen, you make it hard to Garner sympathy for your arguement. I get yr point about hypocrisy in regards to Assange bashers and the other issue about Jackson/black/bad-Bowie/white/look the other way.
After VV filled us all in on Yadana Saw's background and history, surely you could find another example to hang this bug bear on.
Her background has nothing to do with it. Why was she so frightened about even mentioning the name of Michael Jackson?
Perhaps because she works for the state broadcaster and is a sensitive to others attitudes.
She was certainly nervous as some poor soul trying to negotiate ideological quicksand in a Radio Moskva studio during the 1930s. As for being "sensitive", I think you mean "fearful of being sneered at or reprimanded by some black-garbed pecksniff."
Yenta Hodge's daughter is Deputy Editor for BBC News at Six and News at Ten: the British State Propaganda organ is blatantly biased to the extreme right.
Thought I would put up a link to some who feature in the BBC Who's Who.
1.) Amol Rajan is the voluble BBC Media Editor, always appearing and giving his take on events. He was one time editor of Levedev's Independent and was at the FCO early on for a year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38054561
2.) James Harding was the Head of News. He arrived at the BBC along with James Purnell, one time chair of LFoI and ex Labour MP, and Ceri Thomas.
Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
23 April 2013 https://electronicintifada.net/content/apologists-israel-take-top-posts-bbc/12395
3) Tony Hall was a successor to Mark Thompson, the Director General who presided over the Savile evil. Thompson is married to Jane Blumberg, daughter of a US physicist. Thompson visited Sharon in Israel in 2005 to reassure him that BBC reports on Israel were fair! It was originally said he was accompanied by his wife but the BBC would not confirm that.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)#Accusations_of_pro-Israeli_editorial_stance
4.) Under Thompson's watch, the DEC appeal for Gaza after the Cast Lead slaughter was not aired by the BBC. Caroline Thomson, no longer at the BBC, was his sidekick who also took a decision not to broadcast Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children, a radio play. Thompson is now CEO at the New York Times. At the BBC in 2010 he was being paid just under £1million.
5.) Ms Thomson is now the chair of OXFAM. (YCNMIU)
6.) Harding left the BBC and set up his own media outfit called Turquoise.
7.) James Purnell is still at the BBC as Head of Radio, Head of Strategy and Digital. Before, he had worked privately for Blair, was a SPAD at No 10 and was given two jobs (DCMS and Pensions) by Brown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Purnell
8.) Lastly, Lizzi Watson, Margaret Hodge's daughter from her first marriage, is currently the Deputy Editor for BBC News at Six and News at Ten, i.e. the country's main news provider. As you know, Hodge (MP Lab Barking) has been instigating the anti-Semitism smears against Jeremy Corbyn.
https://twitter.com/islingtonlizzi?lang=en
Does the anti-Corbyn bias that we see and hear get passed down the line?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hodge
9.) All in all, 'Bought by and Sold to Israel' and Paid For by the licence fee payers. Just some of the stuff that is in the public domain. There is probably much more that we will never know about.
Orig. posted by Mary at The Lifeboat News…. http://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/msg/1563039156.html
This is good backgrounding Morrissey thanks for links.
Joseph McCarthy tried the same trick you're trying. Just read out the names and make them sound as Jewish as possible. Generally the media can just let such vile fools hang themselves; the bias is with those who are hunting people down.
Here's how the real pro's did what you are trying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnKTgmOJr78
You can do similar slurs with those 30 Jewy-sounding names who are testifying on the issue within Labour UK to the Equality and Human Right Commission.
Failing that, you could stop the slurs and listen to the evidence they have to say about anti-semitism within the Labour Party instead of attacking the messengers.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jul/11/labour-antisemitism-30-whistleblowers-to-give-evidence-to-ehrc
Corbyn has been as weak and pushed around by activists on the anti-semitic issues within his party as has has been on Brexit. This is not surprising from a person who has actually never before stood successfully for any legislation in Parliament, proved totally unwhippable, or led anything in his life.
To catch you up, the EHRC launched a formal investigation into whether Labour “unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people” from the Jewish community in May, saying it had received a number of complaints about Labour’s handling of allegations. It's not the BBC doing this.
Not even sunlight can disinfect Labour UK from the damage that Corbyn has now done.
Your ignorance is astounding, as are your cynicism and dishonesty. I pay no attention to what you say.
That is because you are a bigot who is afraid to hear the truth of submissions in a public hearing on the matter.
Your McCarthyism won't work.
Nope, you ain't got it. Sorry.
I just knew you couldn't help yourself.
People like you never take any kind of criticism because their righteousness drives and blinds them.
You seek bias in every person in the media, and you'll find it because that perfect place your righteousness drives you towards does not even exist in your mind, so it’s invented as a future no-place. U-topia.
Try another comment. You know you want to.
Human nature stands in the way of social engineers (see Pinker the bland slate)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-64tfoU8AM4MV7.jpg:large
Societies grow into systems. The systems require management and are therefore increasingly wielded, like a tool or a weapon, by those who have power. The rest of the population is still needed to do specific things. But the citizens are not needed to contribute to the form or direction of the society. The more "advanced" the civilization, the more irrelevant the citizen becomes.
Voltaire's Bastards (1992)
There are better descriptions of human agency around.
JR Saul's version stands as pretty pre-internet and pre-social media.
If you can get hold of it, he does a really good one comparing the development of Canada and the United States as societies and as geographies: Confessions of a Siamese Twin.
It's a pretty good analogue for the New Zaland – Australia relationship.
we have seen the effects of networked systems and the outcome of catastrophic collapse eg Haldane and May.
In the run-up to the recent financial crisis, an increasingly elaborate set of financial instruments emerged, intended to optimize returns to individual institutions with seemingly minimal risk. Essentially no attention was given to their possible effects on the stability of the system as a whole. Drawing analogies with the dynamics of ecological food webs and with networks within which infectious diseases spread, we explore the interplay between complexity and stability in deliberately simplified models of financial networks. We suggest some policy lessons that can be drawn from such models, with the explicit aim of minimizing systemic risk.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09659
Sauls outcomes for a corporate coup d'etat held up well.
Sorry the link doesn't work for me.
Could you explain the reference to Haldane and May.
a lack of diversity in risk models as networking increased or to put it another way a sterility of thinking. as HM suggest.
The analytic model outlined earlier demonstrates that the topology ofthe financial sector’s balance sheet has fundamental implications for thestate and dynamics of systemic risk. From a public policy perspective,two topological features are key15.First, diversity across the financial system. In the run-up to the crisis,and in the pursuit of diversification, banks’ balance sheets and risk management systems became increasingly homogenous. For example,banks became increasingly reliant on wholesale funding on the liabilities side of the balance sheet; in structured credit on the assets side of thei rbalance s eet; and managed the resulting risks using the same value -at- risk models. This desire for diversification was individually rational from a risk perspective. But it came at the expense of lower diversity across the system as whole, thereby increasing systemic risk. Homogeneity bred fragility
Similarly if a profession's textbooks (widely cited by social engineers) were wrong in their assumptions on statistical testing,would you not feel a little uncomfortable or indeed cynical.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/textbook-analysis-uncovers-erroneous-explanations-of-statistical-significance.html
Criticism? All you offer is rancid abuse. If it were witty, or clever, that might be a mitigating factor.
Now you can look back on all your comments in 9, and feel what you've tried to do to others.
Funny the way weak and cowardly analysts such as yourself turn on themselves.
As you are about to see with UK Labour, eventually such slurs end up in court.
It is foolish to not pay attention to what Ad says. He is likely to get to solid ground in a sentence, compared to yourself Morrissey in numbers of paragraphs.
It is foolish to not pay attention to what Ad says.
So far today he's peddled Blairite black propaganda, i.e. lies, about Jeremy Corbyn, and he's called me a McCarthyite.
He is likely to get to solid ground in a sentence,
If by "solid ground" you mean abusive, demeaning and not terribly creative name-calling, then, yes, he quickly gets to "solid ground."
compared to yourself Morrissey in numbers of paragraphs.
???? I work hard at writing lean, well organized pieces, whether they're short replies like this or longer essays or, on the odd occasion, play scripts. I'd put up anything from my oeuvre against his complacent and self-satisfied little rants.
Failing that, you could stop the slurs and listen to the evidence they have to say about anti-semitism within the Labour Party instead of attacking the messengers.
Will there be some evidence at some point? So far it all seems to be a very successful anti-Corbyn propaganda campaign with nothing to back it up.
The joy of this is that there are now two legal avenues in which the evidence against the Labour Party handling of anti-semitism will play out as evidence.
BBC's programme has alerted everyone to what is to come.
Labour has gone on the attack rather than front it, so now it will all play out in the courts, and get further amplified in the media.
That's where the likes of Morrisey will find the evidence, rather than attacking the BBC.
This is a propaganda campaign against Corbyn that's been going on for a year already, and we might finally see some evidence to back it up at some point in the future? I'll believe it when I see it. My money is on both the EHRC investigation and any libel case being entirely about how Labour handled allegations of anti-semitism, with pretty much no evidence of anti-semitism actually presented.
Fair enough.
I'm happy to see what turns up in both venues.
@Morissey and @Psycho Milt, there are a couple of links about the astonishing Panorama episode aired in the UK, made by a former Sun journalist, about the alleged "crisis of anti-semitism" in the UK Labour Party:
Jeremy Corbyn's take:
https://www.thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/07/13/corbyn-many-inaccuracies-in-panorama-probe-into-anti-semitism-in-labour/
A former BBC staffer's point of view:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/07/13/ex-bbc-presenter-exposes-the-dark-side-of-panoramas-incredibly-suspect-episode-on-corbyn/
A debunking:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1149426426665455622.html
And hilariously, the British public are not buying it:
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/13/bbc-hatchet-job-on-jeremy-corbyn-immediately-backfires-as-labour-takes-remarkable-poll-lead/
Thanks for that, Wolfie. Very interesting indeed.
Oh, I nearly forgot—Power to the People!
For anyone interested in the ongoing crisis re- the baiting of Iran by the Trump regime and the effects on Britain and ultimately the rest of us… the following link is a must read:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/13/this-death-star-presidency-is-no-ally-for-modern-britain
The final sentence sums up the situation well:
This "death star" presidency is no ally for NZ either, and our government should accordingly base their decisions relating to this regime on reality and not the past!
Trump didn't start the baiting of Iran. It started in 1953, when the U.S. and its U.K. vassal conspired to smash Iranian democracy.
Trump's instability and unpredictability, and especially the presence of John Bolton, only make things more dangerous, but the policies, and these utterly unjust "sanctions", were not dreamed up by him or his crazy inner cabal.
Agree. Trump didn't start it. Successive US governments have been using the baiting technique and yes… other nations have followed suit. However Trump and Co. are taking it to a whole new level which has the potential to destroy our very existence and he can only be stopped if western governments stop cow-towing to the maniacal regime and conspire to be rid of this regime.
And how is he and his maniacal regime going to be got rid of? The Democratic Party’s fantasy-obsessed “leaders” clearly lack the will to do anything.
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-did-russiagate-begin/
The 'death star' presidency – a great appellation. The warnings are there for any sane politicians to see also the jerks pulling the strings on we puppets, passing their jerks on to us.
Darth Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_Jdts5rL0
The National Addiction Centre say the Government's lack of action over alcohol regulation, following recommendations made in a recent mental health inquiry, suggests outside influences are involved.
Health Minister Dr David Clark said he wouldn't dignify such suggestions with a response.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/07/government-accused-of-pandering-to-alcohol-industry.html
"You gotta follow the money and ask who is benefiting from the status quo," Simon Adamson, the National Addiction Centre director, said.
…
"There is a lot of money being made by the alcohol industry and the supermarket industry so we could speculate that there's been some strong lobbying going on," said Adamson.
I expect he's right and there is a lot of lobbying going on, just like there is from every other industry or interest group. That's water off Clark's back.
To get the real situation, ignore the money and ask who's benefiting from the status quo. The answer is "Me and hundreds of thousands of others like me who buy alcohol at the supermarket every week, and most of us vote in general elections." Now, that the Minister does care about…
I suspect there is more than just lobbying go on, there will most likely also be party donations given from those sectors.
But is sounds like you are arguing that the damaged caused is the price we have to pay to keep the price of booze low for the piss heads.
I'm arguing that attempting to eradicate drug addiction from a society is a doomed enterprise regardless of the proposed mechanism, but the mechanism of taking a punitive approach to recreational drug users has been proven beyond dispute to be among the more stupid ones. Clamp down on one drug, people start using others – there is no drug-free society just waiting for us to get the right policy mix in place. Repairing the damage done by over-indulgence in recreational drugs is a cost society just has to bear, much like it does for the damage done by over-eating, playing sports, fucking etc.
Who do you believe is attempting to eradicate booze?
Moreover, most that drink aren't addicted.
Who do you believe is attempting to eradicate booze?
Anti-alcohol lobbyists, for a start. Like the alcohol industry, they also are lobbyists with an agenda and should be seen in that light. And the fact that you call people who drink alcohol "pissheads" but use no pejoratives to describe tobacco smokers suggests you're in the same camp.
Moreover, most that drink aren't addicted.
Which makes the anti-alcohol lobby's constant attempt to fuck with us all the more annoying.
Good to know, with this stance on alcohol and it's users, you've also now dropped your objection to high taxation of tobacco products for the cancer makers.
Apples and oranges
Unlike booze, most tobacco users are highly addicted to the product.
Moreover, the price of tobacco is far from low. And it tends to damage the user and not the wider society. Increasing the cost is what is driving the wider damage with the vast increase in shop holdups.
You called the alcoholics 'piss heads', not me, so as addicts, it's apple for apple.
Yeah, the reason tobacco is not cheap is because of the taxes, the same sort of taxes you want to put on booze to minimise the uptake and usage. An orange for an orange.
Will you also be a hypocrite, if the high taxes come in, and slam the government if and when scum rip off bottle shops?
No. I didn't say anything about alcoholics. You are clearly clutching.
Thus, my position holds. The majority of those that drink aren't addicted as smokers are, so lifting the price will have a better effect as most don't need to have that drink. Unlike smoking.
Additionally, taxes on tobacco have largely exceeded their effectiveness. We are largely down to the hardcore addicts that won't quit regardless the tax.
Moreover, it's not just about lifting prices. However, I'm sure your already knew that, but it didn't fit with you narrative.
Some one is clutching, and it aint me.
Taxes raised on drinks, for exactly the same reason as those raised on tobacco, make it exactly the same thing you've been whining on about here since for ever.
You just can't have it both ways.
Those that drink are not largely addicts opposed to those that smoke. And that is the difference you are continually failing to see.
Don't you like to say, along the lines of 'who will it affect most'?
So you're full of compassion for smokers but not drunks.
Again, will you condemn the government if and when slimeballs start to rob off licences because of the tax policy you want introduced?
…so lifting the price will have a better effect as most don't need to have that drink.
You don't need to have that computer you're using, either. Our thoughts on what someone else needs or doesn't need has a net value of $0.00.
It's not just my thoughts. The reality is, most drinkers aren't addicts, thus they don't need that drink as a smoker needs that smoke. Which clearly is the point you missed.
There's a point there? I guess there's an implied one that you personally believe addicts shouldn't have their fix taxed but recreational users should. Good luck turning that into a coherent and enforceable policy.
Taxing the fix of an addict doesn't stop them from being addicted.
Whereas, taxing recreational users will have a far better impact on their recreational use.
Drinking is over rated anyway. There are far better recreational drugs out there for when it comes to partying and creativeness.
Taxing the fix of an addict doesn't stop them from being addicted.
That bold assertion is somewhat undermined by the numbers of smokers who've given up due to cost increases via taxation. (NB: like you, I'm unhappy with the level of taxes charged on cigarettes, but that's based on a general principle that it's beyond the state's remit to punish people for their recreational drug choices, not because I bullshit myself about addiction. Also NB: I'm not and never have been a tobacco smoker.)
Whereas, taxing recreational users will have a far better impact on their recreational use.
People's recreational drug use is none of the government's business. It's entitled to tax the drug to recover health costs, but anything beyond that is just arbitrary exercise of authority.
Drinking is over rated anyway. There are far better recreational drugs…
Your opinions on what recreational drugs people should or shouldn't use are of value only to you.
Only slightly, you are talking around 5% opposed to the 13.8 that continue to smoke, hence strengthening my assertion. Along with the 45 per cent of Maori women between 18 and 24 that smoke now, and which the number isn't reducing.
Addiction to smoking is not bullshit, it's the main factor people aren't giving up.
Along with the fact that users are addicted, my opposition is based on the fact it's gone too far and is hurting the poor who are already hurting, while destroying our once safe and peaceful society. We are getting down to the hardcore smokers that aren't going to give up easily. Hell, some of them actually enjoy it. It's their vice and they are never going to stop.
Cover health costs? What about the costs of the wider damaged it creates?
Could you quantify the tobacco price-fuelled "vast increase in shop holdups"?
I know the idea is common ‘knowledge’, but I'm having trouble finding the supporting evidence using Google searches.
‘Smoke and Mirrors’, or ‘Smoke in (Y)Our Eyes’?
A total of 1237 aggravated robberies were recorded at dairies and petrol stations from June 2016 to May 2017, up 87 per cent on the previous 12 months.
Thanks Chair; what proportion of that shocking annual increase in robberies was due to the increase in tobacco excise tax?
Regardless of the reasons, that's an appalling increase in aggravated robberies under a National-led government. Aren't they supposed to be tough on Law'n'Order? No doubt you were critical of National's poor performance at the time, in your own "lefty" "more left than most" way
It's a bit brutal to let the market of law-and-order determine who can still retail tobacco.
Any government (Labour or National-led) should be able to regulate dispensaries for combusted cancerous products, just like alcohol shops are.
"Police Minister Stuart Nash says the extra subsidy is a short-term measure, and in the long-term the Government was working to tackle organised crime and get more police officers in the community."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/101080017/dairy-owners-will-be-able-to-up-their-security-thanks-to-government-subsidy
Far too many liquor and tobacco outlets in NZ, IMHO, but addictive products are always going to be good little earners.
Zero. It was all just a big coincidence – not.
I was critical of the tax, and have been for sometime now.
Hard on crime you say. So how is putting a bad ass motherfucker in jail with a bunch of other bad ass motherfuckers meant to result in them being rehabilitated once they come out? The whole system seems flawed from the get go.
We can agree it wasn't zero, but I didn’t ask what it wasn't.
Asking if you had any idea what it was? It’s OK if you’ve no idea at all.
Data is yet to be kept on that. Although, cigarettes were often targeted in these robberies. And it's logical to assume the main related cause for such an sharp and sudden increase was the tax.
Do you see any other new or outstanding reasons for it? Apart from the tax, little if anything had changed in that year.
Wonder if at least some of the increase might be related to another rather soggy National parrty attack line that The Chairman was peddling here a few days ago? https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-09-07-2019/#comment-1635449
So much sogginess – how do you avoid becoming bogged down?
Today has been another particularly soggy day. When I read Chair’s comments, my screen fogs up.
National party attack line?
As you can clearly see (in that linked comment) I merely stated a few genuine facts and made a little summary at the end.
Next minute, you Labour Party cheerleaders get all offended and see these true facts as an attack.
You lot need to face reality and deal with it.
Shooting the messenger doesn't change the facts.
“Wonder if at least some of the increase might be related… ”
Unlikely to explain the sudden spike. Albeit the hardship and whatnot would most likely be behind the normal rate of robberies.
He's as wet as the weather.
I did like the bit where he diverged from the link and showed his had:
Party donations are public record. If the industry donated anything of note, the notes would be online, and they'd be thrown around with soggy abandon.
I consider myself a ‘lefty‘, indeed a friend of left and “more left than most“.
The Chairman is adept with speculation masquerading as fact – and to what end?
Aren’t these tax increases a rare and much-needed example of bipartisan political agreement? Why undermine that?
https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/news-media-and-events/well-done-on-tobacco-tax-prime-minister-why-not-for-alcohol/
[28 April 2010]
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/kerre-mcivor-mornings/audio/dr-marewa-glover-tobacco-tax-is-not-helping/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11647467
Dr Nick Wilson: https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/publichealth/staff/otago024455.html
"Indigenous peoples experience disproportionately high rates of commercial tobacco use, and consequently disproportionately high rates of tobacco-related death and disease. Philip Morris International (PMI) appears to be interested in building a veneer of social responsibility, so that it can bolster corporate credibility and leverage this to influence political debates about tobacco control policy. If PMI was serious about its aims for a smoke-free world, it would cease its opposition to evidenced-based measures to reduce smoking rates, such as advertising bans, tax increases and plain packaging. Further, the tobacco industry would cease commercial tobacco manufacturing, marketing, lobbying and litigation. The tobacco industry has a long history of deliberately colluding in covering up, denying, confusing and questioning the science on smoking-related morbidity and mortality. As a business, PMI’s goal is to safeguard and extend shareholder profits, thus it is rapidly expanding into the lucrative AND markets. PMI has never demonstrated genuine concern for the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples, and has a history of ignoring and undermining scientific evidence. The tobacco industry’s interest in Indigenous peoples has been to appropriate our names and imagery along with the tobacco plant itself, with the sole intent of furthering tobacco sales and profits."
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/10/tobaccocontrol-2018-054792.full
Indeed, alcohol and tobacco are two important contributing factors to NZ health inequalities and not only in NZ. Junk food and sugary drinks would be another one.
The process of removing Tamariki has stirred anger among Māori not seen in 15 years.
"So it's the first kotahitanga or unity meeting since foreshore and seabed," said Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency chief executive John Tamihere.
Helen Clark's Foreshore and Seabed comments triggered a political movement. Delegates say the Newsroom video of the attempted removal of a baby from its mother had a similar impact.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/07/oranga-tamariki-m-ori-leaders-issue-strong-call-to-action-over-uplifts.html
I was thinking last night I've yet to see a TV news report on this subject that gave any hint the removal of babies from parents is done for a reason, rather than being a dastardly plot by central government to kidnap children. Have any journos bothered to mention it?
That reason (at times) may merely be a suspicion of harm leading to the Family Court making an interim Order and removing the child without talking to the child’s parent, guardian or caregiver first.
If so, it would be nice if reporters would actually report that, instead of running a parade of unexplained outrage.
that would require addressing the cause rather than the symptom….too hard basket
the Minister has defended from this very position, even crasher collins has said 'just stop hitting the kids' – although to be fair, i've only heard it on the radio cos we don't have telly.
Can we match this in NZ for attractiveness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apcLT_F5VYc Flash mobs singing like this – perhaps popping up everywhere in song month = to be organised and put in our events calendars?
and a lovely holiday park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgcWnHuO9M
And what flash mobs are up on youtube under New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzPgBXHAJQ NZ Symphony – only NZ one that stands out.
and a lovely holiday park:
Yeuccckkk. Butlins for Italians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDQGJj6fU0o
How does one say "Hi di hi!" in Rome?
Please, shoot me now.
Why choose to rain on this parade Rosemary?
The correct names will set you free
and if you want a real treat – go and have a look at this amazing site
http://www.kahurumanu.co.nz/atlas
Getting specialist training to turn our kids into World champions has been in the news lately. Should schools be grabbing kids to train them to be All Blacks?
One infant was learning to putt before he could walk and constant support from his Dad turned him into a golfing prodigy and a World champion. Guess who that is?
Another lad was very skilled but from an early age he was encouraged to try any sport that he fancied. By the time he was in his 20s he specialised in tennis and became a World Champion. Guess who that is?
And what about doctors and engineers and lawyers?https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/12/generalise-dont-specialise-why-focusing-too-narrowly-is-bad-for-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This Day in History: July 14, 2010
Happy Bastille Day everyone! If you were unwise enough to be watching breakfast television exactly nine years ago, you would have been repulsed by the following little exchange….
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/paul-henry-calls-susan-boyle-retarded.html
If you'd been up a bit earlier, however, you would have heard something far more uplifting….
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/07/lloyd-scott-upset-at-having-to-read.html
Football fans exactly forty years ago were treated to an awesome spectacle of Gallic speed, power and flair….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqltQ_f_QGY
A great game that abs played a big part in with some great tries of their own Who was nz halfback Loveridge or Donaldson, some shocking passing, accepting quality of ball in those days, also ruck area a mess compared to protection halfbacks get today I also note TV coverage has improved out of sight
The All Black halfback was Mark Donaldson.
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First there will be evidence before the Equality and Human Rights Commission on anti-semitism within UK Labour. 30 activists will testify so far.
And now we will get to see what it looks like to people thinking about voting Labour when they see how their party is run, when it's exposed in open court as well.
"Two of the whistleblowers who featured in last week’s explosive BBC Panorama programme entitled Is Labour Anti-Semitic? – Sam Matthews and Louise Withers Green – contacted the Observer last night to say they had instructed the prominent media lawyer Mark Lewis to act on their behalf because they believed the party had defamed them in its response to their claims. Others who spoke to Panorama are also understood to be considering contacting Lewis to represent them in libel actions.
On the evening the programme was aired, a Labour spokesman said: “It appears these disaffected former officials include those who have always opposed Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, worked to actively to undermine it and have both personal and political axes to grind. This throws into doubt their credibility as sources.”
Anyone want to work for Labour after that?
With that kind of attitude from UK Labour's leadership, it's going to be something else when their next sexual harassment or bullying case comes around.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/13/whistleblowers-to-sue-labour-as-antisemitism-row-deepens
Dirty Politics? (‘How attack politics is poisoning…’, etc.)
http://www.nickyhager.info/crosby-v-hager-defamation-proceedings-as-political-weapon/
Fascinating and terrifying Drowsy M Kram. So many cases seem to end in "settlement out of court" which takes us in a different direction. Giving in because the cost is too high and not because of justice?
And the efforts that the Crosby Textor goes to to use anti-democratic processes and close down people like Nicky Hager is appalling. If Key had been a good man he would have refused to be part of the process.
So thank goodness we have Steven Price and Nicky to help us all.
Again thanks to Drowsy:
http://www.nickyhager.info/crosby-v-hager-defamation-proceedings-as-political-weapon/
The Grauniad? Yes, you would be dumb enough to cite that discredited propaganda weapon.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/894-dump-the-guardian.html
That's the spirit. Keep attacking messengers centre, left, and right, and rely only on the flakiest and most histrionic of sources.
After their attacks on those who came forward, UK Labour are going to pay for it all.
???
The only person around here who supports the attacking of messengers is you. I'm not the only one to read your attacks on Julian Assange.
And what would you know about whether a source is “flaky” or not? You don’t read enough to make such a statement.
Your citation was a copy-and-paste from LifeboatNews; a raw and uncritiqued tribute to the Momentum-maddened extremists boiling into a fully benzadrine-popped, arm-waving, foam-flecked, beat-the-messenger, do-what-the-Leaders-office-pays-you-to medically-assisted pink frothy head explosion worthy of Alec Jones on a five-day Sandy Hook jag.
The results will be the same for them both, in court.
Anyone want to work for Labour after that?
Depends on whether the description was accurate or not, doesn't it?
Which will now play out in court.
This is going to go really badly, and turn more towards the Liberal Democrats when they are rising.
That does seem to be the aim of the propaganda, yes. The Israeli lobby get what they want, the anti-Corbyn faction in Labour get what they want, left-of-centre voters get shafted.
Clearly, parties are learning from it – the bogus claim from the NZ Jewish Council the other day that Golriz Ghahraman had insulted Jews saw an immediate, humiliating apology from James Shaw rather than the laughter that their bogus claim warranted. That reaction may be a lot more politically astute than UK Labour's, but it's also poisonous to political discourse.
Hear hear!
Happy 35th birthday Rogernomics.
Though you could argue that:
1) During 1984-90, much of the social welfare and services net was still more or less kept in place, those laid off during those years were able to "hang in there", as the cuts to welfare and steep increases in state housing rents didnt kick in until 1991-95.
2) The corporatisation wasnt a *bad* thing, but selling everything off to the private sector was.
3) Much of the larger changes werent brought in until 1987-90.
4) The Muldoon goverment was already starting to bring in measures to deregulate the economy. The Think Big projects had heavy private sector involvement (part of the Clyde Dam project was designed and built via the contracting process we take for granted today).
5) The SMP's that everyone were complaining about were only brought in about 1975-76.
I think people need to let the idea of everything being wonderful before 1984 and then turning to shit thereafter go, and realise that the truth is much more complicated. Personally I think the real damage was done after 1990, with deregulation and privatisation of electricity, slashing of health and education, the changes to housing policy, and of course, the benefit cuts and ECA.
You might want to have a look at McAloon's economic history "Judgements of All Kinds", which has a good bibliography on that section of our political history, as well as earlier policy frameworks.
He's pretty kind, but you can see the counterfactual New Zealand that might have emerged without the policy violence of that Lange-Douglas first term.
millsy The opportunities to make changes and fight our way out of our strong paper bag got limited, then decimated, and we were subsumed under neo lib models that were The Only Thing.
USA Pence visits migrants ' tough stuff' but it is the Democrats (Demon-rats) fault.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/pence-visits-caged-unwashed-overcrowded-migrants-tough-stuff
Obedient scribe gets in early with a convenient puff piece on long-time tory Glenda Hughes before she throws her hat in the Welli council race: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114181635/glenda-hughes-the-unlikely-conservative
Who killed Cock Robin?
We now know who to look for when trying to identify the sneaker-leaker or the most unreliable one in the clan.. Anyone with a Mike Hosking haircut.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/394339/police-identify-suspect-for-ambassador-s-leaked-memos
Only Boris Johnson benefits from taking out a key institutional supporter of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
Smells like a stitch up.
https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1150138138750259200
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-party-richard-tice-darroch-18206347
Because who needs bees?
https://twitter.com/KnickmeyerEllen/status/1149747869961687040
Washington (CNN)The US Department of Agriculture has suspended data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report, citing cost cuts — a move that robs researchers and the honeybee industry of a critical tool for understanding honeybee population declines, and comes as the USDA is curtailing other research programs.
It’s also another step toward undoing President Barack Obama’s government-wide focus on protecting pollinators, including bees and butterflies, whose populations have plummeted in recent years.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/06/politics/honeybees-study-usda-donald-trump-budget-cuts/index.html
Doesn’t sound good but is nzh only US source the Washington Post, it’s hardly an impartial source
Oh yes it's accurate alright. Did you know that since June 2017 the WH has not had any Scientific advice whatsoever.* All scientific staff at the WH who were there to advise the President on Scientific matters have left and have not been replaced. Meanwhile this is not the first attack on bees (an insect absolutely essential to humans survivability) by this administration.
https://www.ecowatch.com/usda-suspends-honeybee-survey-2639125764.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/452528-critics-worry-trump-turning-blind-eye-to-honeybee-decline
Meanwhile:
The US will soon have an Acting Labor Sec, an Acting DHS Sec and no Dep Sec, an Acting Defense Sec and no Dep Sec, an Acting White House Chief of Staff, an Acting CBP Commiss., an Acting ICE Dir, an Acting USCIS Dir, an Acting UN Ambassador, an Acting FDA Commiss., An Acting OMB Director, an Acting Secretary of the Army, an Acting Secretary of the Air Force, an Acting DHS Under Secretary for Management, no DHS Under Secretary for Science & Tech, no DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, and an Acting FEMA Director. (PS: it’s hurricane season!)
Trump prefers acting heads because he can control them more easily. The sheer volume of acting heads shows
-A) Trump has an unstable government
-B) Trump isn’t interested in congressional oversight inherent in the confirmation process – more chiseling away at the constitution.
*https://www.cbsnews.com/news/science-division-of-white-house-office-now-empty-as-last-staffers-depart/?fbclid=IwAR13igwXNuQWOraSXRGQLyZpSsJAHyPiDtyiPzMtb86TDoUk4anRlJyqgEE
Meanwhile:
Leak number two has been revealed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48978484
I thought we all knew it at the time but it has now been confirmed.
Edit: I think the British Public Servants might have it wrong. This particular release is not so much an undermining of them, but an important message to the British people about what is going on with the current US Administration. They have a right to know just as we would have a right to know in similar circumstances.
The plot indeed thickens.
This bloke, too.
https://twitter.com/mattduss/status/1149708178688552960
https://spectator.us/fred-fleitz-confrontational/
Those creeping sharia conspiracy theories have as much evidence behind them as that desperate DNC fantasy about Russian masterminds stealing the election.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-worst-most-embarrassing-u-s-media-failures-on-the-trumprussia-story/
Of course tRump's pick to replace Acosta is a vile human who argued sweatshops should be allowed to use indentured labour.
On July 12, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta will be replaced on an acting basis by Deputy Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella. As Mother Jones reported after reviewing hundreds of pages of billing records and emails, Pizzella worked in the late 1990s with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to promote a sweatshop economy in the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory.
[…]
The agreement between the islands and the United States granted two exemptions. First, the CNMI could set its own minimum wage. Second, the commonwealth would be allowed to make its own immigration laws. CNMI officials initially requested control of immigration to ensure that the indigenous population would not be overwhelmed by newcomers. But a decade later, garment manufacturers and the CNMI’s government decided to use the exemption to import unlimited guest workers to make clothes for companies like Brooks Brothers and Banana Republic. The clothes they produced were stamped “Made in the USA” and exported to the United States tariff-free. Between 1985 and 1998, CNMI garment exports grew from almost nothing to more than $1 billion annually—over a third of total CNMI business revenue.
“Things were just completely out of control,” says Allen Stayman, the top Interior Department official assigned to the CNMI from 1993 to 1999. Recruiters illegally required many foreign workers to pay fees in order to land jobs in the CNMI, causing them to go into debt that they’d have to work to pay off. Others signed “shadow contracts” in which they promised their employers not to unionize, date, or practice a religion while working in the CNMI. Some were made to sleep a dozen to a room, with barbed wire surrounding their barracks. If workers complained, the CNMI government, which had close ties to the garment industry, could deport them immediately. In 1992, Willie Tan, a top garment industry baron, paid a $9 million settlement in a Labor Department suit alleging he’d failed to pay workers overtime and the CNMI’s minimum wage of $2.15 an hour—compared with $4.25 elsewhere in the United States. The settlement was the largest in Labor Department history at the time.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump-pick-to-run-labor-department-promoted-sweatshops-on-remote-us-islands/
Tiny statues of Trump with signs inviting dogs to 'pee on me' appear across Brooklyn
Lower level than toxic USA and their playful politicians who will in time, kill everything worthwhile in the world.
I was leaving ANZ anyways but this just seals the deal. Sounds like they have multiple issues at every level.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114105242/daughter-complains-over-anz-bank-managers-deathbed-visit-to-her-mother
I'm beginning to warm to Elizabeth Warren.
Yup, the smartest one in the room.
https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/1146071027891544070
Hooray we win on the world stage!!
New Zealand has the highest house price to rent ratio in the world, and the highest house price compared to income (a ratio of 156.8), while Canada has the highest real house prices and the biggest percentage of credit to households, with New Zealand just behind, according to Shah [Bloomberg economist Niraj Shah]…
New Zealand household credit is the equivalent of 94 per cent of gross domestic product. That compared with 100.7 per cent of GDP in Canada, 76.3 per cent in the US, and Australia's 120.3 per cent…
The Government's foreign buyer ban, an attempt to curb house prices, has seen a significant drop in home ownership by overseas residents. House sales to overseas buyers dropped 81 per cent in the March quarter compared to the same time last year, Statistics New Zealand data shows.
The 5 Eyes don't see what's in front of them. Australia is stuffed and too much milk will pollute the country in a big way. At lease coal and mining can be left in the ground, left piled up and the pollution will not stink like sour milk. Please keep buying our milk peeps out in the world, till we can wean ourselves off this panacea, and on to paracetamols, or anything.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/114227809/new-zealand-at-risk-of-a-house-price-crash-bloomberg
You really couldn't make this shit up.
https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel/status/1149744094899593217
https://twitter.com/amybrewster2016/status/1149868993303498753
Gotta be a coincidence.
It’s not like Mnuchin or any other administration appointees have ties to Wall Street.
Is Donald Trump’s erratic behavior fueling a business model? Some Wall Street options traders are beginning to suspect so. They’ve taken note, with increasing alarm, of people making strange bets tied to Trump’s actions and then cashing in bigly when the odd bets pay off. “If you had the ability to make hundreds of millions of dollars, or billions, and you knew how to hide it and it was impossible to find, wouldn’t you do it?” a longtime Wall Street options trader asks me sarcastically.
There is an old saw on Wall Street about how if you could somehow get tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal today, you could make a fortune. Advance knowledge of presidential actions might provide a similar advantage, and some unusual trading patterns are fueling gossip and suspicion on the Street.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/the-mystery-of-the-wall-street-trump-trades
Thirty four years ago, Freddie Mercury conquered the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkFHYODzRTs&feature=youtu.be
Kia Ora Te So Maori News.
Condolences to Matua Prime Whanau for there great loss of a leader.
Mike Smith it's cool that you have consersens about our mokopuna future environment But Papatuanuku wasn't built in a day all in good time our government is changing our policy on climate change I know it's looks slow but time are changing and the oil barons money pulls alot of strings in there effort to convince people climate is not happening Yeah Right
Eco Maori Tau toko the tangata whenua who are protesting there whenua been sold by camping on te whenua ka Pai
Ka Pai to our rangatihi for going to Parlament that's what we need more Maori standing up and becoming Leaders. That gives Eco Maori a sore face. I was listening to some of Ngati Porou up and coming Leaders a few weeks ago on Radio Ngati Porou.
Ka kite ano
Kia Ora The Am Show.
There you go the wealth make there own rules. Eco Maori knows what it like not trusting the people on street Zoie as they will be sandfly's that are swarming at the minute.
It's awesome that NIWA is helping dairyfarmer with the measurements of there methane gas from bovine it's not a big change but the it's a start. A lot better than the last lot.
Garth and Tom all the best in your goals it's a good cause The John charity Kerwin foundation for mental health. P.S. I'm having problems with my viewing devices
Ka kite ano
Kia Ora Newshub.
I think it's good our government is changing roads rules and spending more money on safety features
Ask Dick if the common poor people can afford his safety driving course or does he plan that only wealth tangata can drive in the future.
I think it's awesome that furniture is going to be legerslated so the furniture is fire restint.
Noverpay is nationals stuff up that Labour is cleaning up national should have used local tangata to develop the software not foreign people who stuff it up.
kellyann conner/ conway is a redneck like her boss.
The Himalayan trust does good mahi for the poor people that part of Papatuanuku.
Ingrid I hope tawhitimate doesn't tangi as much as he did on Sunday when I was on the Napier Taupo road .
Ka kite ano
Kia Ate Ao Maori News.
Condolences to Kens Eruea Whanau .
Condolences to the 100 year old kuia sorry I missed her name Whanau.
The taxpayers union is irrelevant .He jordan is just a altright national attack MUT.
Ka Pai to the Grand Rod tribes for there celebratetion of there Waka traveling gathering it cool that tangata whenua O Aotearoa is invited to there celebratetion.
Eco Maori backs the Hawaiians who are protesting that huge telescope being planted on there sacred Monga / Mountain the ruling class of Hawaii don't even consider te tangata whenua O Hawaii cultural reason for protesting that telescope being forced on them.
Ka kite ano