Well said, – maybe you will also be interested in also learning this other selloff now of public assets happening in another region of Hawkes Bay which is not in time with Labour’s new “wellbeing budget’ policies is it because this selling of our public assets is not sustainable for us to save our own incomes from our assets because they are shrinking as we speak?
Now today 15th December 2018 the HB Regional Council have made the same stupid proposal of sale of their Napier Port, and others have submitted against the sale of their own public owned Port.
The burning Question is; what is the new Labour lead Government doing to stop this rash of new right wing National party efforts to steal more assets from the public while under the Labour lead Government?????
So the questions now is;
“Why are Labour/NZ First coalition seeming to be comfortable under their watch over NZ politics,still allowing more robbing of NZ taxpayers assets by right wing overseas financial interests assets of public assets to be sold under their watch”?????
John Key’s ‘NZ Inc” rorting manipulation is obviously still very alive under a labour lead Government it seems,
Is there no end to stealing of our remaining assets?
“Yet, while the rich are getting richer, those in the bottom 40 percent have not seen an increase in net worth in three years, from June 2015 to June 2018.”
If the Napier port doesn’t go to a referendum, or an LTP process, or both, then it will culminate in the local government elections next year. All to play for if your local activists want to have a crack CG.
HBRC did not cover themselves in glory over the Ruitaniwha dam, and they have also failed to form a clear business plan for the Napier port which has well over capacity. If they had one they would not be in this undercapitalized dilemma.
If I were Rick Barker I would be calling Shane Jones for some money before Shane Jones comes down and ritually humiliates them first.
Hell if a tiny little poverty-stricken outfit like Ohope can come up with a plan and a funding application and get government to listen with tens of millions, why can’t Napier?
@Cleangreen, the government needs to reverse the profit/investment side of councils and public bodies and keep them focused on their main functions which have been lost and minimised.
We would have less leaky building and better water quality and public transport and public services if councils were not always focused on personal building projects aka stadiums, Westfield malls and marina’s.
Get rid of the COO’s and all that overhead and make the council asset COO’s work together not against each other like they used too.
Remove the ‘shareholder profits’ being the most important from the COO’s and have them all under the council again. It is more important that all COO’s work together to make a better city and environment, not just short term profit. Long term stability should be equally important.
Reform the salaries so that the executives get the same as the councillors and no more.
Try and pay fair salaries for people who are very good at their job rather than have a lot of people who don’t know what they are doing or are bullies in a political fiefdom covering their asses all the time.
Remove the bloodsucking private lawyers from the councils and get the council to employ a few top lawyers on salary whose job it is to actually make a fair city and increase social aims, not to bill as many private billing hours as possible and drag out litigation to make more profit, for bad outcomes. (Council had their own unitary plan removed because it was considered non compliant, they can’t even understand their own planning rules, nobody happy with leaky building outcomes).
So let me float a boat out for you on a couple of ideas.
I agree there’s too many entities. But.
There’s an accountability v expertise balance to be had somewhere.
You’re proposing something akin to one big single government department run by Cabinet, rather than Ministries with Ministers.
That might be fine for a while, until you try and hold people accountable for something. Stuff always goes wrong, and you need to roast, wrinse, and repeat.
On long term stability, I would argue that something like Christchurch Holdings or Dunedin City Holdings allows for more stability in the sustained dividends each year for Council policies and programmes than one agglomerated entity with multiple departments. Bureaucrats get to fudge the books more easily when they are covered from democratic scrutiny.
Agree with your point about supporting in-house lawyers.
@ Ad that’s exactly what is happening at present, aka council and their COO are NOT accountable, stuff always going wrong and it’s not getting any better under the current system.
The council has to much bloat mostly because they have expanded well outside their capabilities aka private building, Westfield malls, cruise ships… They need to reign it all back to essential core services, have different departments, (on salaries like the Mayor and councillors not fat cats) like ports, transport or what have you but under the council umbrella and under democratic control.
Personally think the Ports of Auckland needs to move out of central Auckland anyway, too much congestion and bottle neck to have it there with the prime land.
What do you define as “essential core services” for any Council?
Everyone has a different list.
To me, both local and central government need to be able to take more risks, not less, because the public need is so great.
Typical examples: Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch Councils are all busily owning and rebuilding their town centres – as only the public sector can do. That means taking on a lot of property market risk.
There was a time when councils took on so much risk in real estate that they were able to manage much of the rental housing market including rental price – because they built and owned so many Council flats and houses.
There’s always limits to intervention – but this is the era to rebuild them not lessen them.
the government needs to reverse the profit/investment side of councils and public bodies and keep them focused on their main functions which have been lost and minimised.
You’re channelling ACT there which means the result will be worse than you expect but exactly what ACT wants – the continued selling of state assets.
The ports need to be pulled into central government ownership and then run as a government service/department so as to get the best efficiency going. Having them competing with each other actually prevents efficiency as it encourages landing goods at the cheapest place rather than at the best place.
I doubt that more well off households have had much increase in the three years of June 2015 to June 2018. Virtually all the big increases in property values (the main store of value in NZ) had occurred by mid 2015. There has been no increases in Auckland since 2016, in fact probably some softening.
So I imagine that pretty much everyones wealth has been pretty static in the last three years.
“Appalling news from the UK today, with a report from the TUC showing that the average worker is earning a third less in real terms than they did in 2008:”
When you have a big influx of workers, labour rates fall.
NZ is facing increasing poverty because like the UK our government has welcomed in as many new workers as possible which benefited some people at the expense and long term stability of social and financial cohesion here and created a fragile economy that increasingly relies on Ponzi’s to function while at the same time rocketing up the cost of living from housing, transport, food, power, fuel, insurance, water, rates, services… Also hiding the figures by for example calling someone working 1 hour a week, ’employed’.
Thanks savenz for that info. I thought that UK couldn’t do anything about influx of immigrants. Has Key been talking about his success in NZ in forcing down ages with substitute workers?
And a great interchange with Ad and you discussing. Should be put up on a post of its own, hopefully? All of 1 and perhaps have the cheeky heading of Economics for Dummies etc. Everyone would read it then, to prove to themselves that they weren’t actually dummies. Hah.
We can’t even grow food without polluting the place, and now we’re going to prove our incompetence by using robots to carry on with our shitty systems.
Soon the robots will be growing peas. After around a dozen sprays of pesticide, fungicide and herbicide, the peas will be converted to stringy protein, then, magic – the peas are meat.
It wont be country of origin you’ll need on the label, it will be organism of origin.
Now eat your meat.
“We are already industry leaders but my mandate is clear. It’s not about maintaining our position, it’s about defining and ensuring it in the future”
The writing is on the wall that we require sustainable solutions and a return to biodiversity. AsureQuality has no intention of aligning with the needs of the planet or society. They’re living in lalaland. Robots to grow the food, people to…. fuck right off, actually, workers are so demanding.
When we do have all these robots doing cafes, restaurants, horticulture, farming, service work, wonder how we will afford all the unemployed people and retraining of people (if even possible) who have been bought into NZ and given permanent residency on the basis of low level skills that are about to be made redundant?
There’ll be an easy fix via robots for unwanted population. This is the age of post-Holocaust, and we as a broad culture still have not learned from that trauma to our concept of ourselves. The concept of euthanasia by personal choice can’t be countenanced because that is people thinking and acting for their own and society’s benefit., and recalls the Holocaust. But the drive behind the Holocaust continues just in different ways. Killing people in wars, in skirmishes, by cunning devices – bombs, grenades, manufactured in their millions; if people are in the way of the small group who respond or initiate the vast powers’ requirements, that killing continues unabated by pleas, the UN, or simple respect for others’ lives, souls and rights.
In the interim, neo lib has flowed into the cracks of our bewilderment with its cunning concepts of humans as simple push-button pigeons whose emotions override any semblance of rationality we delve for. We do everything for profit they say, either physical or to our mental state, our concepts of wellbeing, and are never really altruistic, we get a mental feelgood, a payoff.
Under this concept we have no souls, so suggest everyone who wants a better future for people clutch their souls and keep ithem shiny and good, because the neolib-economic human robots versed in the black arts will try and steal them. And the way to keep our souls is to care and sacrifice something of ourselves for the sake of other people’s wellbeing and also that of animals lives and welfare, people and animals first, and in parallel with environmental nurture.
There will always be workers, there will always be fewer and fewer low paid and shit jobs. Robotics is just the same as mechanization, which has been with us for a wee while and the sky has not fallen in.
Headline unemployment at 3.6% and falling is going to force more investment in agricultural robotics. Great to see productivity being forced through labour shortages.
Actually, it’s how fewer people can control more land requiring fewer people. In this manner pesky health regulations regarding workers and cide applications can just be shelved, and spray operators can go away too. No witnesses, no lawsuits. No workers, more profit.
It’s a brave new world in which robots roam a poisoned landscape. Some zap weeds with poison, others kill the bugs…
People are moved into smart boxes in cities. They are completely dependent on everything being plugged in. They order the smart food on smart devices which gets delivered smartly by other smart devices. The media says they caught a criminal gang pinching water. The robots got them though.
And now, sports.
Unemployment should be higher. Start with social media influencers, advertising executives, electronic billboard manufacturers, portfolio advisers, corporate science mouthpieces, everything that is Hosking, industrial agriculture, the oil industry, and the Producer of City of 100 Lovers.
WTB
You are so sharp, don’t cut yourself though, we need every drop of energy you have to keep churning out your vision of reality to mix with ours.
And for others who want to arrive at their visions from outside the blog try reading John Wyndham and his stories that think about how people will cope and act in different situations rather than the more traditional War of the Worlds SF. John called his stuff ‘logical fantasy’ and had a few reject slips before his publishers decided to give his approach some page room.
The Day of the Triffids is a good start. Read the book and let your mind create the scene, not just watch someone else’s version.
At present on Trademe there is a good selection for $7 each plus post, a short story The Eternal Eve about being probably the last fertile woman in the human race and how an independent woman reacts to that – that’s in an anthology Time Untamed, good reading all of them $3, Pick 4 SF for $12 and three are John Wyndham’s. And that’s just from the used group, lots of new issues. Give yourself some reading, either new or a reprise, for Christmas. Now that’s an idea.
Another idea – in Hastings? Hang out at :: The Little Red Bookshop -.
Their huge collection of affordable books is a local treasure. As their website puts it, they are “proprietors of the best little second hand bookshop in Hastings, New Zealand. We may, on occasion, seem a touch irreverent, but hopefully in the nicest possible way”.
Superbugs resistant to antibiotics may be present in pork imported from Spain and Australia. However, because New Zealand does not test any products, no-one knows.
To date, MPI had not tested imported products for antimicrobial resistance.
MPI would not ban the import of the products because it was confident in New Zealand’s food safety systems. Note, a food safety system that doesn’t test for antimicrobial resistance.
Additionally, no figures exist for how many New Zealanders die from superbugs.
AS YOU WATCH THIS👇🏽video of a Border Patrol agent pouring out water that was left for migrants, know that the body of a 7 year-old girl is lying on a table right now. SHE NEEDED WHAT HE POURED OUT. Her death is a direct result of the hateful policies of Donald Trump & the @GOP. pic.twitter.com/IJ5LC0MJAO— Chet Powell (@ChetPowell) December 14, 2018
A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died last week while in Border Patrol’s (CBP) custody. But a statement the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) released Thursday night about her death raises more questions than it answers.
The Washington Post reported that CBP told them the girl “died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert.”
According to CBP, the girl was traveling with a group of 163 migrants and was in CBP custody for more than eight hours before she started having seizures. She was transported to a hospital in El Paso, where she died. CBP says she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”
The timeline raises questions about whether CBP provided the girl, identified by the Guatemalan foreign ministry as Jackeline Caal, with food or water during the hours she was in their custody. But instead of addressing that concern, DHS, which oversees CBP, initially released a statement about Caal’s death that appears to try to shift blame onto her and her father for making the trek to the US in the first place.
Gee The Standard; – thanks to all the supporters here for us to keep public ownership of our Napier Port , as we do not want it privatised as we need the HBRC to “protect our residential and wider environment from harm that privateers would do by using the port as a dirty industrial activity as seen in other places around the globe.
we were given a tour of the tauranga Port and were impressed at the operations there as they are using far more rail freight whereas Napier needs to get Government support funding to restore the Rail services to Napier Port to encourage more rail freight again as should have happened years ago after the failed tragic sale of our public rail to privateers in 1993.
Ad we are scheduled to meet the HBRC CEO James Palmer 25th January and will raise that issue thanks very much for that. – Appreciated.
Too many of Labour’s front bench are yet to shine and they are leaning heavily on Ardern, Peters and Robertson. National’s front bench, in contrast, has been a machine, picking up in Opposition where they left off in government. They have consistently scored hits against the Government, have run hard on issues and scandals, and have made question time a ‘must watch’ again after years of irrelevance.
In short, National is fielding the best Opposition front bench we have seen in years and if it wasn’t for the Jami-Lee Ross train wreck, would get a near perfect score. But it’s hard to look past the fact that Ross was a key member of the front bench. The only reason National hasn’t been docked more points is because of the speed with which the caucus has recovered and moved on.
National 7.5/10. Labour 6/10
Housing spokeswoman Judith Collins: The joke goes that Collins could count on one finger the number of votes for her in the last leadership contest. Twelve months on, she is seen as the most likely successor to Bridges if his leadership fails. That’s an extraordinary turnaround for the woman who has had more political revivals than Lazarus. Love her or hate her, people know who she is.
The most reliably robotic part of National is stabbing each other in the back, punching holes in their own waterline, and stammering in front of the camera.
The National Party seems to attract and recruit persons of low IQ. Paula Bennett and Simon Bridges are but two who just don’t seem to cope with ordinary demands of everyday life. Let alone politics.
So they rely on contrived fiction, and childlike cunning – constantly spewing a cloud of unknowing.
There is not a single person in the National Caucus who has standing.
On the recent Final Reading of the Bill to Decriminalise Medicinal Marijuana, not one National speaker mentioned the suffering and Pain of seriously ill persons.
I can only put the callous behaviour of National as a Cluster of Low Intelligence. They have been incompetent for over a decade now.
Their denial of housing crisis; their slovenly care of miners and loggers; their sales of Assets; their outrageous costs of Heating; their sickening slobering over wealthy friends – while hundreds of thousands live in Poverty …their cavalier approach to everything. Sir John Key has sold and is selling; everything that the people of New Zealand own.
Sir John Key is for people destruction unlimited.
That strange Judith Collins who somehow got a job as Minister of Police, and immediately forbade them to attend to home Burglary! For Petes Sake. She is the weird epitome of National.
James, Speaking of intellect – when I posted recently that CanTeen, the AYA cancer service, was about to axe most of their staff and close their regional offices, you accused me of “bullshit and spin”.
Subsequent media coverage has shown my comment was 100% accurate.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, James. On this forum you constantly exhibit a paucity of intellectual capacity. Could I suggest that, in future, you refrain from comment on subjects you are ignorant about?
And, yes, I realise that will render you mute.
Audrey Young will have to have stern words with Tracey. By her assessment Jacinda is not doing very well and:
“Jacinda Ardern was forced to abandon her prime ministerial distance from the case of imprisoned Czech drug-smuggler Karel Sroubek.
She admitted she had received a text from a mutual acquaintance of hers and Sroubek’s commending her on the decision to let him stay in New Zealand (since reversed).
It confirmed a connection between her and the case, albeit a tenuous one, that National had clearly had a whiff of some weeks ago.”
There you go. Naughty Jacinda’s phone received a text. Damned.
“Simon Bridges trucked on in customary fashion, receiving no recognition for doing a reasonable job as Leader of the Opposition.” Good on yer Simon.
“”It was the news that Education Minister Chris Hipkins had agreed to support a member’s bill by former Education Minister Nikki Kaye to advance second language teaching in primary schools…….
….But an Opposition MP winning the support of Labour for a bill with such momentous and positive outcomes….
For that reason, Nikki Kaye is my Backbencher of the Year (runner-up is Maureen Pugh for her meteoric rise from obscurity).” (Not that any credit due the Government of course.
Rubbish from Audrey. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12177022
Audrey is blinded by bitter rage and a loss of status.
Her blue dye has entered her eyes and brain to such a degree it is impossible to be reasonable let alone kind.
She bats for the National Cricket Club. (Thanks Mac1)
Watkins is simply being a realist.
She works for Fairfax, and all their newspapers are going down the gurgler. Tracey, and probably all their “journalists”, will be out of a job by the end of 2019.
There are, on the other hand a lot of current vacancies for press secretaries in ministerial offices at the moment. What better way to get on the approved list of appointees than sucking up to the boss of the area?
Of course she is going to say nice things about the current lot of incompetents.
I mean to say. Twyford, the walking disaster zone, gets 6.5?
Today, the biomass of humans (≈0.06 Gt C; SI Appendix, Table S9) and the biomass of livestock (≈0.1 Gt C, dominated by cattle and pigs; SI Appendix, Table S10) far surpass that of wild mammals, which has a mass of ≈0.007 Gt C (SI Appendix, Table S11).
Reporting in from Cyclone Owen; it’s passed inland to the south of us but we surely had a wet, stormy night. Lots of lightening and rain, plenty of wind but not damaging.
It’s dropped the temperature a into the mid-20’s so it’s not like working as a sauna attendant as it was last week.
The interesting observation; cyclones have been relatively rare in the Gulf of Carpentaria
Another cool cyclone story; about two months ago I was in Panama when Hurricane Michael hit Florida. That storm was so huge that it literally sucked all the rain out of the entire Caribbean afterwards. Where we were it was the middle of the wet season when it normally pisses down every day; but after Michael we had two whole weeks of dry weather.
What is there about you that attracts these storms?
Two of them when you were in the Gulf of Carpentaria and one when you were in the Caribbean, all within the last couple of years seems a bit more than a coincidence.
I had heard about Typhoid Mary, who caused a number of outbreaks of the disease as she moved around the New York area about a hundred years ago but you are surely the first person who appears to cause cyclones.
“Mary immigrated to the United States in 1883 and subsequently made her living as a domestic servant, most often as a cook. It is not clear when she became a carrier of the typhoid bacterium (Salmonella typhi). However, from 1900 to 1907 nearly two dozen people fell ill with typhoid fever in households in New York City and Long Island where Mary worked. The illnesses often occurred shortly after Mary began working in each household, but, by the time the disease was traced to its source in a household where she had recently been employed, Mary had disappeared.”
Can you control your powers? It would surely be incredibly useful if you could cause the rain without the wind. The farmers in the Murray/Darling area would pay you a fortune to break the drought there.
Mate I played rugby as a teen with a guy who is near the top in tauranga
Was a nice guy good parents no reason to be a drug dealer going round with a bunch young thugs for his shadows . But he does
There not lost boys they are people who have chosen the life they live .
They are very different from your kid from a poor house looking to belong .
BREAKING: Pres. Trump has named Mick Mulvaney to be acting White House chief of staff upon John Kelly's departure. Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells you what you need to know about him in this video: pic.twitter.com/Bkvvv3W3UE— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 14, 2018
Her native american background, saying her parents had to elope because of being native american and she also benefited by Harvard hiring her and being Harvards first women of colour
When it turns out that she might be 1/64th and 1/1,024th, from 6 to 10 generations ago, and that that ancestry is actually Mexican, Peruvian, and Colombian
You or I might have more native ancestry than she does
The Boston Globe debunked the lie that Warren was appointed on the back of her claimed heritage.
The Globe closely reviewed the records, verified them where possible, and conducted more than 100 interviews with her colleagues and every person who had a role in hiring decisions about Warren who could be reached. In sum, it is clear that Warren was viewed as a white woman by the hiring committees at every institution that employed her.
Warren’s political enemies have long pushed a narrative that her unsubstantiated claims of Native American heritage turbocharged her legal career. But it is clear that Warren was viewed as a white woman by the hiring committees at every institution that employed her.
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Among the records were some never examined before by a newspaper, including one key form that a University of Pennsylvania professor kept tucked away for three decades.
That previously undisclosed report reveals that the hiring committee at Penn, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1995, viewed her as a white female applicant. Moreover, the committee went to some pains to explain on this form why she was selected over several minorities to fill a faculty position.
Not until she had been teaching at Penn for two years did she authorize the university to change her personnel designation from white to Native American, the records show.
How dare they treat her as a white person when she self-identifies as a native American.
No wonder they hid that form away. They would all have been fired if that information had become known that they had treated her as being white!.
On the other hand I can see why she would change her designation to the false one of being native-American at about the same time as she switched from registering as a Republican to being a Democrat. Both sorts of people are fantasists and derangement on her part was clearly setting in.
Those figures are nonsense. Forcing organic systems to be grown like conventional fields and then saying see! – buy our fertiliser.
Never mind the loss of soil structure and subsequent hardpan, erosion and flooding, never mind the loss of insects, fungi and other soil microbiota, never mind the loss of soil organic matter and carbon. Never mind the rivers, the dead patches in the oceans. Never mind the pollinators, the predators, the birds that eat them. Never mind the water cleansing, or the pathogen and toxin reducing activities of the soil. Never mind the ever increasing lawsuits. Never mind the ever increasing deserts.
Pucky’s link and his reasons for posting it leave me a little saddened. In some ways, he seems a thoughtful guy, in others, plain daft. WTB’s response is nuanced, well reasoned and accurately applied, but Pucky, through his non-response, will collect a dullard or two for his cause. So it goes, but we don”t have to admire such duplicity, such ingenuousness. Food for thought, Pucky?
Nah.
Just dum sh*t.
‘K?
Seems Mick Mulvaney‘s been appointed acting Chief of Staff.
Bugger. I’m gutted Chris Christie apparently turned it down. Never mind, maybe he’ll have a change of heart when they have to go through the process again in a few Scaramuccis.
Looks like a smockscreen to covfefe that nobody wants the job.
WH clarifies Mulvaney and OMB. @PressSec says Mulvaney "will not resign" from OMB, "but will spend all of his time devoted to his role" as Acting WH Chief of Staff. She says OMB Deputy Dir Russ Vought will handle day to day operations and run OMB.— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 15, 2018
We all pay into this Aotearoa health insurance company shonky and joice turned it into a stock market trading toy for his rich m8 on the stock market to suck cash out of Kiwis in return for stuffed up service no service so his m8 had more money to trade.
Here is how a neo capitalist runs OUR Accident Compensation Corporation shonky flips the actual function of services provided by ACC and makes the staff compete to keep people in poverty and hard ship all the fools backing national will feel the sharp end of the captilist stick if they get a long term INJURY. I see the CEO of the Rotorua hospital has resigned my 10 year old grand daughter is still in pain thanks to the sandflys &——-
The $8m doctor: ACC pays for ‘wholly speculative diagnosis that does not accord with the clinical facts’, judge says The agency regularly calls in Christchurch’s Dr Bill Turner to reassess patients who have been granted ACC entitlements for chronic pain; court judgments show ACC consistently uses Turner’s opinions to cancel entitlements or cover.
In some cases, Turner considers the pain is in the sufferer’s head. In most cases, there is no question the patients are in severe pain: the only question is whether the pain is caused by injury – or is a vague “syndrome” as Turner sometimes argues. On numerous occasions he has assessed the pain as a syndrome, and nothing to do with the pig hunting accidents, car crashes and other injuries the claimants suffered. A former ACC employee told Stuff that ACC branches across the country compete to “exit” clients off their books before they reach 70, 180 or 365 days of cover. A weekly “traffic light” report indicates how the branch is performing and managers encourage case managers to look for people to get off their books.
“I’m one of the lucky ones,” Gordon said. “Although I’ve got this constant chronic pain to deal with, I can still do my job, and can avoid taking too many drugs. But some people would lose a life line with decisions like this and get totally crushed.”
LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT REVIEW
Review decisions are final, often life-changing for the claimant and worth thousands of dollars in compensation and treatment. Ka kite ano link below
Kia ora from R&R Sugar is a man made substance in its natrual form its ok but the way it refined and bleached it’s not good. drop sugar out of your diet when is the government going to do the logical and sceneable thing and tax sugar out off reach of our mokopuna . The main goal in a good diet is unprocessed food as in prosessing food they put poison it the food to colour it and to stop bacteria growing in the food hence the poison stops food spoiling that’s a fact. Te Hakari was a really important phenomenon for the maori of old we made sure we put the best kai in the whenua in a hakari for the guest this was a thing of pride hence no whenua no good hakari no mana. The one food I have not seen since I was nine was steamed corn bread in tinfoil
that was the best kai Eco Maori liked .
Kina Paua Ika tuna koura. I agree that unless the doctor has stated you need a diet thats when you go on one the rest in the media are just fads to make some one money. Just eat less fatty foods IE cut the fat off and feed it to the pets no sugar grow your own organic vegetables as it the traces of chemicals in our food’s that slowly kill us causing cancer hence the cancer rate is rising fast in our Papatuanuku I love a good hangi the Papatuanuku waste 1 3rd of the food prouduced the logical and cheaps way to feed the Papatuanuku is to solve the waste problem not try and do gods work and grow synthetic meat that could have who nose what in it and big companys have shown they can not be trusted to do the good things
Ka kite ano Happy new year to the R&R Team.
I disagree re fats but mostly love your post. the fats is a whole other argument, but basically, the natural ones got a bad rap so industry could sell you lots of cheap nasty vegetable based ‘healthy’ alternatives.
I am now growing sugar cane in Auckland and so others might do the same. It needs full northern aspect, shelter, and plenty of water and compost. There are many types of crushers online I actually go to a restaurant he crushes it and keeps half. But crushers are available, or you can just make a traditional one out of bamboo – youtube is your friend. The sap can be rendered down to jaggery, or with fruit to make preserves, or just drunk. It’s great with vodka and a twist of lemon!
Prepare and plant a patch in Autumn by laying sections of cane in a trench and burying. youtube it. It’ll pop in spring.
Alternative sweeteners you can ‘grow’ are stevia, and honey. Stevia is a herb used in many drinks etc but has thousands of years of traditional use. It is not everyone’s cup of tea. I like using it in some things e.g. fruit, and not others e.g. hot drinks.
Honey… If you have a section surrounded by plant life… Beekeepers may put a hive on your property and tend it and you get some of the honey. Sweet deal.
Gardens. Because exercise, health, diet, sun, community, medicine, life.
Lets get this straight the #METO movement is not anti Men Its all about treating wahine with the respect they deserve the neo’s of the world are scared about losing contro and power hence they are trying to BRAND the #METO movement as anti Men
There’s nothing like a daughter to make Dad see the world differently
Barbara Ellen
While many men miraculously manage not to be chauvinists all by themselves, for others a daughter could prove a wake-up call that is stronger, more visceral than any number of #MeToo campaigns. At which point, big and small inequalities that may have passed almost unnoticed regarding women they’ve known and even loved (mothers, sisters, friends) are thrown into unprecedented sharp focus. As I say, an education – that “man’s world” could start looking very different when a father’s “mighty girl” has to navigate it.
My eldest child is a wahine my eldset mokopuna is a wahine 70 % of my whano are wahine what really convinced me to back the #METO movement was Eco Maori’s challenges our male dominant society has thrown at me and the BIG MESS this male dominated society is making of OUR World at the minute hence I figured out that man has been deliberately suppressing mana wahine for thousands of years as some new that Wahine would kick there asses in the board room into doing the humane thing and put people’s welbeing before there profit. Ka kite ano links below.
P.S having beautiful daughters and granddaughters did open my EYE’s to one never stops learning .
All our Coral Reef’s around the world are dying because off climate change and 30% of Australia Great Barrier Reef dyed of in a heat wave in 2016 and thats a crying shame . The Reef of the world are the nursery of the Oceans no reef no fish no fish masse human starvation we have to forget about politicians and make changes to our life styles to save our grandchildren future ourselves My carbon foot print has dropped a lot in the last six months .
Dr Pillans hoped despite the gloom and doom about the reef’s future, her story would give children hope that they could do something to help.
Her key message was greenhouse gas emissions had to be cut now.
“I don’t think it’s too late, but we have to start now. We can’t keep saying ‘tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow’,” she said.
“There are ways to save energy (such as turning off lights, walking instead of driving) and help the planet which will then help the reef.”
It has taken her six years to get the story right.
“It’s not as easy as people think. You have to make sure, when you are an author/illustrator, the words and pictures have to be as one,” she said.
“There has to be highs and lows and resolution and problems.
“All that has to be there in a big adventure to keep children’s attention.
“I had many iterations of this book and each publisher would say ‘we really love the idea of it, however you can’t tell children there is no hope’.
“It was really hard for me to provide a publisher with a story of hope and solutions.
Ka kite ano links below.
No fish the sandfly is stuffing with my other computer the little churchy boy who thinks he is perfect is not getting his way is brating out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgVVG5EknuI
I love my Crayfish but like I have stated the Quota management system is a system set up for the neo bankers it does not preserve our fishes razing and lowering the Quoter at the wim of the bankers it looks like shonky and his m8 new that CRA2 has nearly collapsed and chose to ignore the situation to keep the dollars flowing into there economy .Eco Maori backs the calls to ban fishing in CRA2 of at the very least drop the recreational take to 2 fish pre person as CRA 2 has the highest population in Aotearoa hence the over fishing every man and his dog has a boat and crayfish are so easy to catch with a pot. Cleaning up shonkys mess once again is Our coalition Government
Environmentalists want to take crayfish off the menu this summer, with a three-year ban on catching the delicacy in the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.
Stocks of the Kiwi favourite were once prolific in the waters that stretch between Waipu and the East Cape.
But Forest and Bird say the crustaceans – also known as rock lobster – are now “functionally extinct” in the area.
The Government is currently considering whether to slash the daily allowance for recreational fishers from six to three crayfish.
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* Big cuts to crayfish catch limits from Auckland to East Cape
* Hauraki Gulf marine life has fallen by more than half since 1925, report finds
* Crayfish ‘functionally extinct’ in the Hauraki Gulf “Crayfish in this area are in very serious trouble,” Forest and Bird marine advocate Katrina Goddard said. “The population has basically collapsed.
“In 2017, they estimated there is just 20 per cent of the population left.”
When stocks drops below ten per cent, the fishery must close – and Goddard says that threshold may have been reached in some areas.
It follows huge enforced cuts to the commercial catch in April, down from 200 tonnes to 80 tonnes. Ka kite ano links below
Kia ora Newshub I say the government’s plan to make the roads safer with the wire rope safty barriers is cool ka pai July .
Many thanks to all the people at the UN Climate meeting in Poland who hammered out a agreement Ka pai as Jamie Shaw said trying to get 200 od people to come to a agreement is a hard task on its own.
Ka pai to the Wellington company for plans to get a electric Ferry that’s the way of the future and I am sure you will get heaps of passengers because of the ferry being green energy powered .
Going over the Alps for Africans refugees is a hard way to get to a good life in France and dangerous journey its just shows how desperate they are .
The Bhutanese conjoined twins look happy all the best to them Good on the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne .
Ka kite ano
I see Peter Williams from TV1 News is retiring ka pai E hoa you have been a good kiwi role male role model for our youth all the best 40 years A There has to be some major changes in how we live our lives in the next few years ka kite ano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCob76kigA
I have China to thank for Solar panels price dropping faster than anyone predicted .
The cost $100 for a 100 watt panel to set up a small 2000 watt off grid solar system will only cost me $4000 and with gas power hot water and cooking that size system wold be ok for 2 people . It is now cheaper to build a solar powered power station than it is to burn Coal fools who back as in the past when some one has backed the wrong Horse will lose there ASS.
Shenzhen’s silent revolution: world’s first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity
All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 22,000 taxis will be too Y
ou have to keep your eyes peeled for the bus at the station in Shenzhen’s Futian central business district these days. The diesel behemoths that once signalled their arrival with a piercing hiss, a rattle of engine and a plume of fumes are no more, replaced with the world’s first and largest 100% electric bus fleet.
Shenzhen now has 16,000 electric buses in total and is noticeably quieter for it. “We find that the buses are so quiet that people might not hear them coming,” says Joseph Ma, deputy general manager at Shenzhen Bus Group, the largest of the three main bus companies in the city. “In fact, we’ve received requests to add some artificial noise to the buses so that people can hear them. We’re considering it.” The benefits from the switch from diesel buses to electric are not confined to less noise pollution: this fast-growing megacity of 12 million – which was a fishing village until designated China’s first “special economic zone” in the 1980s – is also expected to achieve an estimated reduction in CO2 emissions of 48% and cuts in pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, non-methane hydrocarbons and particulate matter. Shenzhen Bus Group estimates it has been able to conserve 160,000 tonnes of coal per year and reduce annual CO2 emissions by 440,000 tonnes. Its fuel bill has halved.
Ka kite ano links below
Eco Maori trys his best not to waste anything we need to change the way we live to preserve the future
Why 2m kilos of Christmas cheese will end up in the bin … and how to cut back on your household’s waste in UnitedKingdom .
But for many households the Christmas cheeseboard has become an elaborate affair – often resulting in a vast amount of waste. Now, as a new survey estimates that 2.2m kilograms of cheese from the festive dining table will be chucked in the bin this year, specialists are urging shoppers to aim for a “zero waste” cheeseboard. “If you buy cheese that tastes amazing you’re far less likely to waste it,” said Dominic Coyte of Borough Cheese Company. “In my house I tend to end up with lots of small bits left, so I grate and freeze it. Freezing can affect the texture so it loses its rigidity, but it’s still good to use for cheese on toast or in sauces or gratins. The remainders of a boxed soft cheese can also be baked in the oven with garlic, rosemary and white wine – day-old bread with a bit of bite is ideal for dipping in it.”
The new research from Borough Market shows that the average seasonal platter will be heaving with up to five pieces of cheese, yet six in 10 consumers surveyed (57%) admitted they will throw much of it away. According to the findings, two-thirds (63%) are planning to serve at least one cheeseboard over the festive period, while one in five (22%) will push the boat out and offer three or more. links below Ka kite ano.
Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice
Eco Maori is calling on the Vaticain Bank to drop its investments in carbon for the future. If they don’t it will be there money lost as shares slid in value the writing on the wall
Here is were the people can stop the carbon barrons in there tracks everyone demand that there saving not to be invested in carbon companys the will go broke and slid into OUR History books. Ana to kai/ take that.
We can’t count on governments alone to do the work necessary – governments, from Canada and America to Russia and Saudi Arabia to China and India, are still too often beholden to the fossil fuel companies. We need to keep pushing hard on those companies – and we will.The list of institutions that have cut their ties with this most destructive of industries encompasses religious institutions large and small (the World Council of Churches, the Unitarians, the Lutherans, the Islamic Society of North America, Japanese Buddhist temples, the diocese of Assisi); philanthropic foundations (even the Rockefeller family, heir to the first great oil fortune, divested its family charities); and colleges and universities from Edinburgh to Sydney to Honolulu are on board, with more joining each week. Forty big Catholic institutions have already divested; now a campaign is urging the Vatican bank itself to follow suit. Ditto with the Nobel Foundation, the world’s great art museums, and every other iconic institution that works for a better world.Thanks to the efforts of groups such as People & Planet (and to the Guardian, which ran an inspiring campaign), half the UK’s higher education institutions are on the list. And so are harder-nosed players, from the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (at a trillion dollars, the largest pool of investment capital on Earth) to European insurance giants such as Axa and Allianz. It has been endorsed by everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Barack Obama to Ban Ki-moon (and, crucially, by Desmond Tutu, who helped run the first such campaign a generation ago, when the target was apartheid).Now the contagion seems to be spreading to the oil and gas sector, where Shell announced earlier this year that divestment should be considered a “material risk” to its business. That’s how oil companies across the world are treating it – in the US, petroleum producers have set up a website designed to discredit divestment,. and for a while had me under round-the-clock public surveillance. The pressure is not preventing anyone from acting: when Yale arrested 48 brave students who were occupying its investment offices last week, they left chanting: “We’ll be back Eco Maori know what thats like lol Links below ka kite ano P.S Kiwis can demand that our Kiwisave not be invested in carbon to.
This forest is a rear phenomenon and is being negatively affected by climate change like the Great reefs and Ice cap’s at a much faster rate than scientists’ pridicted
“All of us scientists, not just in America but around the world, know that climate change is being exacerbated. Being caused by human activities, by overconsumption, by use of fossil fuels. And for our leadership to take exactly the wrong turn, to remove ourselves from the Paris treaty, to encourage coal mining …
“What I feel I need to do is to bring my science, bring my understanding of what’s going on in the tropical cloud forest and other ecosystems to the people, to policymakers.
“I think that scientists are becoming more political. We have become less afraid to speak out against the political regimes that are making these wrong decisions. In the past, even ten years ago, my fellow scientists would not be making these statements.”
Nadkarni reflects on the change. “You know each species that moves or disappears has repercussions in terms of the ecosystem as a whole. Now the plants are a little bit harder to see. But I know when I climb in the forest, that compared with when I started here 39 years ago, the canopy dwelling plants – the mosses, the filmy ferns – they were much more abundant, much more plush, much more … just wet, than they are now.”
For millenium the WEALTHY have silenced the TRUTH TELLER’s OUR scientist to protect there power now we have the 21 century communication device the internet and social media now the game is changing mostly for the better for human kind
Links below the sandflys are stuffing with my computer once again Eco Maori will never give up the fight for a good future for OUR grandchildren ka kite ano
Kia ora Newshub That is awsome busting those men who were importing Meth into Aotearoa many thanks to all involved in the bust 25 years jail.
Colndolences to the whano of the people who dyed in the plane crash in Raglan .
To much to the 84 year Kiwi lady who survived being losed in Australia outback desert.
There you go the slave labour in Hawkes bay apple picking industry they will have displaced hundreds of kiwi workers. Is this some one elses mess once again.
One has to respect Tangaroa and creatures climate change and over fishing will cause more of these shark attack incident’s all around Papatuanuku.
We got gift cards for Chrismas presents so easy and the mokopunas get to chose there presents
Its good that Pharmac is getting the medicine for Hep C Ka pai many people will have a much better life because of this move.
Rocketlab that is good news for Peter Beck his team Aotearoa and Mahia
Eco Maori seen the story in the stuff website I support the cut the ban some people are more worryed about the putea lost instead of the loss of the fishes.
Its about time the Lawsociety change the law profession system to hold powerful lawers to acount for the way the treat wahine or anyone.
Printed veins and body parts is the way of the future its exciting times in the health profession . Ka kite ano
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Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
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 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Pōneke based peace activists staged a silent protest at the ANZAC day service to highlight New Zealand’s complicity in war and genocide, and urge the government to take concrete steps to stop the genocide in Palestine. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena M.E. Bunbury, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD).Sándor Hegedűs, Hungarian National Museum, CC BY How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been ...
Amanda Thompson doesn’t really do Anzac Day. But what she does do is remember the people she knew who had a lifetime to remember stuff they didn’t really want to, because of a war they didn’t ask for. And she does make Anzac biscuits.First published in 2021.All my ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Willis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO Xavier Boulenger/Shutterstock In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon ...
With our collective remembrance, and steadfast belief in our common humanity, we strengthen our hope and resolve to do what we can to foster dialogue and understanding, and to heal divisions in our pursuit of peace. ...
Principal reasons for the opposition is the loss of the public’s democratic right to have “a fair say” and the vital need for a government free from corruption, said Casey Cravens of Dunedin, president of the New Zealand Federation of Freshwater ...
Never mind the scoreboard – in the 2000 Bledisloe Cup decider, the real trans-Tasman battle was won before kickoff.First published in 2016. The dawn of the new millennium was a dark time for the All Blacks. Their final game pre-Y2K was a 22-18 loss to South Africa in the ...
I’m on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help! Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nzDear Hera,May I start with the least original conversation opener you’re likely to hear around the motu at the moment, particularly in Wellington: ...
“Never again - No AUKUS” was the message of the wreath laid at this morning’s national ANZAC Day commemorative service at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park this morning by the Stop AUKUS group. ...
Until this month, Auckland swimmer Hazel Ouwehand had never met a qualifying time in an Olympic event for a New Zealand team, even as a junior. Now she’s very likely off to the Paris Olympics after swimming well under the qualifying standard in the 100m butterfly twice – both in ...
While Anzac Day has experienced a resurgence in recent years, our other day of remembrance has slowly faded from view.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand. Original illustrations by Hope McConnell.First published in 2022.The high school’s head girl and ...
Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or Returned Services Association.First published in 2018.When I was a boy cub I attended Anzac Day services in the South Auckland suburb of ...
A poem by Wellington writer Tayi Tibble.Hoki Mai She kisses him goodbye with her eyes still wet and alight from their last swim in the Awatere river. At the train station celebration, she leads the Kapa Haka but her voice keeps breaking under and over itself like waves. ...
A poem from Bill Manhire’s 2017 book of verse Some Things to Place in a Coffin.My World War I Poem Inside each trench, the sound of prayer. Inside each prayer, the sound of digging. Image courtesy of Auckland War Memorial Museum. ...
There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te ...
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Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/FlickrVictor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918.Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland Australian War MemorialAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, as well as sensitive historical information ...
RNZ News Melissa Lee has been ousted from New Zealand’s coalition cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle. Climate Change and Revenue Minister Simon Watts will take Lee’s spot in cabinet. Simmonds was a minister outside of cabinet. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University laurello/Shutterstock Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by ...
Analysis - Christopher Luxon framing the demotion of two ministers as the portfolios getting "too complex" is a charitable way of saying they weren't up to the job. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With Jim Chalmers’s third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief – beyond the tax cuts – although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As ...
Analysis: Melissa Lee has lost the media portfolio and her spot in Cabinet after multiple failed attempts to find solutions for a media industry in crisis. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced Lee would be losing her spot in Cabinet along with her media and communications ministerial portfolio. The job ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Wilmot, Senior Lecturer, Film, Deakin University Among the many Australian who served during the second world war, there is a small group of people whose stories remain largely untold. These are the Muslim men and women who, while small in number, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Saunders, PhD Candidate, University of Canberra There has been much analysis and praise of Justice Michael Lee’s recent judgement in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Channel Ten. Many people were openly relieved to read Lee’s “forensic” and “nuanced” application of law ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Gibbs, Program Director for the Bachelor of Education, Griffith University zEdward_Indy/Shutterstock Around one in 20 people has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and often continues into adulthood. ADHD is diagnosed ...
The Fairer Future coalition of anti-poverty groups say Whaikaha must be properly funded going forward, and that to argue that poor financial management of the new Ministry is a red herring by the Prime Minister. ...
The Taxpayers’ Union is today congratulating Hon. Paul Goldsmith on his appointment as Minister for Media and Communications and urges him to rule out state intervention in the private media sector. ...
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance OPM leader has condemned Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and US President Joe Biden, accusing their countries of “six decades of treachery” over Papuan independence. The open letter was released today by OPM chairman Jeffrey P Bomanak on the eve of ANZAC Day ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits and quirks of New Zealanders at large. This week: writer and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024, Lauren Groff.The book I wish I’d writtenIf I wish I’d written a ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Fechner, Research Fellow, Social Marketing, Griffith University mavo/Shutterstock Imagine having dinner at a restaurant. The menu offers plant-based meat alternatives made mostly from vegetables, mushrooms, legumes and wheat that mimic meat in taste, texture and smell. Despite being given that ...
“Three Strikes is a dead-end policy proposed by a dead-end government. The Three Strikes law ignores the causes of crime, instead just brutalising people already crushed by the cost of living.” ...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post. The tribunal’s report has just been tabled in the Kiribati Parliament and is due to be debated by MPs ...
With its clear mandate for police use, political nuances, and nuanced public trust, Denmark's insights provide valuable considerations for Australia and New Zealand. ...
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How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? In November last year, I was working a very busy day in the newsroom of a large online news site, interviewing whānau about their concerns over the imminent closure of one of the few puna reo ...
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Despite heavy criticism and an ongoing select committee process, the Police Minister says the Government will forge ahead with a ban on gang patches. ...
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A new survey says ‘outlook not great’ for those charged with building infrastructure, while RMA changes delight farmers and depress environmentalists, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in this excerpt from The Bulletin, The Spinoff’s morning news round-up. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. First RMA changes announced ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also ...
A leaked document shows the Canterbury/Waitaha arm of health agency Te Whatu Ora is scurrying to save $13.3 million by July. The “financial sustainability target”, which was “allocated” to Waitaha, is consistent with what’s happening in other districts, says Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists. ...
A look at the state of the previous government’s affordable housing scheme, and what could come next.Remind me: What’s KiwiBuild again?First announced in 2012, KiwiBuild was a flagship policy of the Labour Party heading into both its 2014 and 2017 election campaigns. With Jacinda Ardern as prime minister, ...
Labour in opposition will be shocked to learn which party had six years in power but squandered any chance to make real change. Grant Robertson’s valedictory speech was a predictably entertaining trip down memory lane. The acid-tongued incoming Otago University chancellor administered a sick burn to the coalition government. He ...
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After more than two sleepless days, running through savage terrain, Greig Hamilton didn’t know if he was going to finish one of the most gruelling psychological assaults in sport. He was metres away from the finish line, a yellow gate made famous in a Netflix documentary; a race he’d dreamed ...
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The following interview with former Green Party MP Sue Kedgley came about because she features in the new memoir Hine Toa by activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku; the two knew each other at the University of Auckland in the early 70s, when they were both took on leadership roles in the ...
Finally, I can agree with Federated Farmers.
They polled their membership and have submitted against the proposed sale of Alpine Energy by the Timaru District Council.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/109247554/federated-farmers-warns-against-alpine-energy-sale
Hi Ad,
Well said, – maybe you will also be interested in also learning this other selloff now of public assets happening in another region of Hawkes Bay which is not in time with Labour’s new “wellbeing budget’ policies is it because this selling of our public assets is not sustainable for us to save our own incomes from our assets because they are shrinking as we speak?
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/354080/council-considers-selling-stake-in-napier-port
Now today 15th December 2018 the HB Regional Council have made the same stupid proposal of sale of their Napier Port, and others have submitted against the sale of their own public owned Port.
The burning Question is; what is the new Labour lead Government doing to stop this rash of new right wing National party efforts to steal more assets from the public while under the Labour lead Government?????
So the questions now is;
“Why are Labour/NZ First coalition seeming to be comfortable under their watch over NZ politics,still allowing more robbing of NZ taxpayers assets by right wing overseas financial interests assets of public assets to be sold under their watch”?????
John Key’s ‘NZ Inc” rorting manipulation is obviously still very alive under a labour lead Government it seems,
Is there no end to stealing of our remaining assets?
“Yet, while the rich are getting richer, those in the bottom 40 percent have not seen an increase in net worth in three years, from June 2015 to June 2018.”
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/378268/the-richest-households-are-now-worth-1-point-75-million-survey
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/378307/how-can-nz-close-the-gap-between-rich-and-poor
If the Napier port doesn’t go to a referendum, or an LTP process, or both, then it will culminate in the local government elections next year. All to play for if your local activists want to have a crack CG.
HBRC did not cover themselves in glory over the Ruitaniwha dam, and they have also failed to form a clear business plan for the Napier port which has well over capacity. If they had one they would not be in this undercapitalized dilemma.
If I were Rick Barker I would be calling Shane Jones for some money before Shane Jones comes down and ritually humiliates them first.
Hell if a tiny little poverty-stricken outfit like Ohope can come up with a plan and a funding application and get government to listen with tens of millions, why can’t Napier?
@Cleangreen, the government needs to reverse the profit/investment side of councils and public bodies and keep them focused on their main functions which have been lost and minimised.
We would have less leaky building and better water quality and public transport and public services if councils were not always focused on personal building projects aka stadiums, Westfield malls and marina’s.
Get rid of the COO’s and all that overhead and make the council asset COO’s work together not against each other like they used too.
What structure would you have in mind, and how would that be better?
Remove the ‘shareholder profits’ being the most important from the COO’s and have them all under the council again. It is more important that all COO’s work together to make a better city and environment, not just short term profit. Long term stability should be equally important.
Reform the salaries so that the executives get the same as the councillors and no more.
Try and pay fair salaries for people who are very good at their job rather than have a lot of people who don’t know what they are doing or are bullies in a political fiefdom covering their asses all the time.
Remove the bloodsucking private lawyers from the councils and get the council to employ a few top lawyers on salary whose job it is to actually make a fair city and increase social aims, not to bill as many private billing hours as possible and drag out litigation to make more profit, for bad outcomes. (Council had their own unitary plan removed because it was considered non compliant, they can’t even understand their own planning rules, nobody happy with leaky building outcomes).
So let me float a boat out for you on a couple of ideas.
I agree there’s too many entities. But.
There’s an accountability v expertise balance to be had somewhere.
You’re proposing something akin to one big single government department run by Cabinet, rather than Ministries with Ministers.
That might be fine for a while, until you try and hold people accountable for something. Stuff always goes wrong, and you need to roast, wrinse, and repeat.
On long term stability, I would argue that something like Christchurch Holdings or Dunedin City Holdings allows for more stability in the sustained dividends each year for Council policies and programmes than one agglomerated entity with multiple departments. Bureaucrats get to fudge the books more easily when they are covered from democratic scrutiny.
Agree with your point about supporting in-house lawyers.
@ Ad that’s exactly what is happening at present, aka council and their COO are NOT accountable, stuff always going wrong and it’s not getting any better under the current system.
The council has to much bloat mostly because they have expanded well outside their capabilities aka private building, Westfield malls, cruise ships… They need to reign it all back to essential core services, have different departments, (on salaries like the Mayor and councillors not fat cats) like ports, transport or what have you but under the council umbrella and under democratic control.
Personally think the Ports of Auckland needs to move out of central Auckland anyway, too much congestion and bottle neck to have it there with the prime land.
What do you define as “essential core services” for any Council?
Everyone has a different list.
To me, both local and central government need to be able to take more risks, not less, because the public need is so great.
Typical examples: Invercargill, Dunedin, and Christchurch Councils are all busily owning and rebuilding their town centres – as only the public sector can do. That means taking on a lot of property market risk.
There was a time when councils took on so much risk in real estate that they were able to manage much of the rental housing market including rental price – because they built and owned so many Council flats and houses.
There’s always limits to intervention – but this is the era to rebuild them not lessen them.
You’re channelling ACT there which means the result will be worse than you expect but exactly what ACT wants – the continued selling of state assets.
The ports need to be pulled into central government ownership and then run as a government service/department so as to get the best efficiency going. Having them competing with each other actually prevents efficiency as it encourages landing goods at the cheapest place rather than at the best place.
Cleangreen
I doubt that more well off households have had much increase in the three years of June 2015 to June 2018. Virtually all the big increases in property values (the main store of value in NZ) had occurred by mid 2015. There has been no increases in Auckland since 2016, in fact probably some softening.
So I imagine that pretty much everyones wealth has been pretty static in the last three years.
Yes Good move. Finally they see selling Assets is a dumb move.
Federal Reserve is now insolvent according to its own accounts released yesterday.
No news coverage which in itself is newsworthy.
Most of the financial sector is actually insolvent..
..we live in the time of The Great Con
and the splatter will be immense when it finally caves in on itself
“Appalling news from the UK today, with a report from the TUC showing that the average worker is earning a third less in real terms than they did in 2008:”
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2018/12/torches-and-pitchforks-time.html
Another reason Brexit happened and why the UK were negligent in deciding in 2004 not to impose any labour restrictions on the expanded EU like other countries in Europe did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union
When you have a big influx of workers, labour rates fall.
NZ is facing increasing poverty because like the UK our government has welcomed in as many new workers as possible which benefited some people at the expense and long term stability of social and financial cohesion here and created a fragile economy that increasingly relies on Ponzi’s to function while at the same time rocketing up the cost of living from housing, transport, food, power, fuel, insurance, water, rates, services… Also hiding the figures by for example calling someone working 1 hour a week, ’employed’.
Thanks savenz for that info. I thought that UK couldn’t do anything about influx of immigrants. Has Key been talking about his success in NZ in forcing down ages with substitute workers?
And a great interchange with Ad and you discussing. Should be put up on a post of its own, hopefully? All of 1 and perhaps have the cheeky heading of Economics for Dummies etc. Everyone would read it then, to prove to themselves that they weren’t actually dummies. Hah.
Jobs, who needs jobs when you have the promise of robots.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/asurequality/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504636&objectid=12175723
We can’t even grow food without polluting the place, and now we’re going to prove our incompetence by using robots to carry on with our shitty systems.
Soon the robots will be growing peas. After around a dozen sprays of pesticide, fungicide and herbicide, the peas will be converted to stringy protein, then, magic – the peas are meat.
It wont be country of origin you’ll need on the label, it will be organism of origin.
Now eat your meat.
“We are already industry leaders but my mandate is clear. It’s not about maintaining our position, it’s about defining and ensuring it in the future”
The writing is on the wall that we require sustainable solutions and a return to biodiversity. AsureQuality has no intention of aligning with the needs of the planet or society. They’re living in lalaland. Robots to grow the food, people to…. fuck right off, actually, workers are so demanding.
Profits, dear boy, we must consider the prophets.
When we do have all these robots doing cafes, restaurants, horticulture, farming, service work, wonder how we will afford all the unemployed people and retraining of people (if even possible) who have been bought into NZ and given permanent residency on the basis of low level skills that are about to be made redundant?
There’ll be an easy fix via robots for unwanted population. This is the age of post-Holocaust, and we as a broad culture still have not learned from that trauma to our concept of ourselves. The concept of euthanasia by personal choice can’t be countenanced because that is people thinking and acting for their own and society’s benefit., and recalls the Holocaust. But the drive behind the Holocaust continues just in different ways. Killing people in wars, in skirmishes, by cunning devices – bombs, grenades, manufactured in their millions; if people are in the way of the small group who respond or initiate the vast powers’ requirements, that killing continues unabated by pleas, the UN, or simple respect for others’ lives, souls and rights.
In the interim, neo lib has flowed into the cracks of our bewilderment with its cunning concepts of humans as simple push-button pigeons whose emotions override any semblance of rationality we delve for. We do everything for profit they say, either physical or to our mental state, our concepts of wellbeing, and are never really altruistic, we get a mental feelgood, a payoff.
Under this concept we have no souls, so suggest everyone who wants a better future for people clutch their souls and keep ithem shiny and good, because the neolib-economic human robots versed in the black arts will try and steal them. And the way to keep our souls is to care and sacrifice something of ourselves for the sake of other people’s wellbeing and also that of animals lives and welfare, people and animals first, and in parallel with environmental nurture.
There’s the acrid smell of Luddite in the air – and it’s very encouraging!
There will always be workers, there will always be fewer and fewer low paid and shit jobs. Robotics is just the same as mechanization, which has been with us for a wee while and the sky has not fallen in.
Headline unemployment at 3.6% and falling is going to force more investment in agricultural robotics. Great to see productivity being forced through labour shortages.
That’s a good thing.
I hear you little birdie Ad, chirpy-cheap-cheap.
Actually, it’s how fewer people can control more land requiring fewer people. In this manner pesky health regulations regarding workers and cide applications can just be shelved, and spray operators can go away too. No witnesses, no lawsuits. No workers, more profit.
It’s a brave new world in which robots roam a poisoned landscape. Some zap weeds with poison, others kill the bugs…
People are moved into smart boxes in cities. They are completely dependent on everything being plugged in. They order the smart food on smart devices which gets delivered smartly by other smart devices. The media says they caught a criminal gang pinching water. The robots got them though.
And now, sports.
Unemployment should be higher. Start with social media influencers, advertising executives, electronic billboard manufacturers, portfolio advisers, corporate science mouthpieces, everything that is Hosking, industrial agriculture, the oil industry, and the Producer of City of 100 Lovers.
WTB
You are so sharp, don’t cut yourself though, we need every drop of energy you have to keep churning out your vision of reality to mix with ours.
And for others who want to arrive at their visions from outside the blog try reading John Wyndham and his stories that think about how people will cope and act in different situations rather than the more traditional War of the Worlds SF. John called his stuff ‘logical fantasy’ and had a few reject slips before his publishers decided to give his approach some page room.
The Day of the Triffids is a good start. Read the book and let your mind create the scene, not just watch someone else’s version.
At present on Trademe there is a good selection for $7 each plus post, a short story The Eternal Eve about being probably the last fertile woman in the human race and how an independent woman reacts to that – that’s in an anthology Time Untamed, good reading all of them $3, Pick 4 SF for $12 and three are John Wyndham’s. And that’s just from the used group, lots of new issues. Give yourself some reading, either new or a reprise, for Christmas. Now that’s an idea.
Another idea – in Hastings? Hang out at ::
The Little Red Bookshop -.
Their huge collection of affordable books is a local treasure. As their website puts it, they are “proprietors of the best little second hand bookshop in Hastings, New Zealand. We may, on occasion, seem a touch irreverent, but hopefully in the nicest possible way”.
I knew it….
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-snorted-adderall-apprentice-tom-arnold-noel-casler-1257787%3famp=1
@3:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9afSmPEQDo&feature=youtu.be
Hold the Christmas ham.
Superbugs resistant to antibiotics may be present in pork imported from Spain and Australia. However, because New Zealand does not test any products, no-one knows.
To date, MPI had not tested imported products for antimicrobial resistance.
MPI would not ban the import of the products because it was confident in New Zealand’s food safety systems. Note, a food safety system that doesn’t test for antimicrobial resistance.
Additionally, no figures exist for how many New Zealanders die from superbugs.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/109360391/animal-welfare-group-warns-of-potential-superbugs-in-imported-pork
Thanks for the Heads-up The Chairman. And salient points.
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A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died last week while in Border Patrol’s (CBP) custody. But a statement the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) released Thursday night about her death raises more questions than it answers.
The Washington Post reported that CBP told them the girl “died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert.”
According to CBP, the girl was traveling with a group of 163 migrants and was in CBP custody for more than eight hours before she started having seizures. She was transported to a hospital in El Paso, where she died. CBP says she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”
The timeline raises questions about whether CBP provided the girl, identified by the Guatemalan foreign ministry as Jackeline Caal, with food or water during the hours she was in their custody. But instead of addressing that concern, DHS, which oversees CBP, initially released a statement about Caal’s death that appears to try to shift blame onto her and her father for making the trek to the US in the first place.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/14/18140697/guatemalan-girl-dehydration-death-border-patrol-custody-dhs
Gee The Standard; – thanks to all the supporters here for us to keep public ownership of our Napier Port , as we do not want it privatised as we need the HBRC to “protect our residential and wider environment from harm that privateers would do by using the port as a dirty industrial activity as seen in other places around the globe.
we were given a tour of the tauranga Port and were impressed at the operations there as they are using far more rail freight whereas Napier needs to get Government support funding to restore the Rail services to Napier Port to encourage more rail freight again as should have happened years ago after the failed tragic sale of our public rail to privateers in 1993.
Ad we are scheduled to meet the HBRC CEO James Palmer 25th January and will raise that issue thanks very much for that. – Appreciated.
Jacinda Ardern named politician of the year by Tracy Watkins. Watkins said it was no contest and gave her 9:5 out of 10
Wishing Ms ardern a very merry Xmas and a restful holiday. Well earned, thank you jacinda
Just sayin’ 🙂
Best overall front bench
Too many of Labour’s front bench are yet to shine and they are leaning heavily on Ardern, Peters and Robertson. National’s front bench, in contrast, has been a machine, picking up in Opposition where they left off in government. They have consistently scored hits against the Government, have run hard on issues and scandals, and have made question time a ‘must watch’ again after years of irrelevance.
In short, National is fielding the best Opposition front bench we have seen in years and if it wasn’t for the Jami-Lee Ross train wreck, would get a near perfect score. But it’s hard to look past the fact that Ross was a key member of the front bench. The only reason National hasn’t been docked more points is because of the speed with which the caucus has recovered and moved on.
National 7.5/10. Labour 6/10
Housing spokeswoman Judith Collins: The joke goes that Collins could count on one finger the number of votes for her in the last leadership contest. Twelve months on, she is seen as the most likely successor to Bridges if his leadership fails. That’s an extraordinary turnaround for the woman who has had more political revivals than Lazarus. Love her or hate her, people know who she is.
8/10
Cometh the hour cometh the woman…
The most reliably robotic part of National is stabbing each other in the back, punching holes in their own waterline, and stammering in front of the camera.
9/10 for self-harm.
It’s not comical
The National Party seems to attract and recruit persons of low IQ. Paula Bennett and Simon Bridges are but two who just don’t seem to cope with ordinary demands of everyday life. Let alone politics.
So they rely on contrived fiction, and childlike cunning – constantly spewing a cloud of unknowing.
There is not a single person in the National Caucus who has standing.
On the recent Final Reading of the Bill to Decriminalise Medicinal Marijuana, not one National speaker mentioned the suffering and Pain of seriously ill persons.
I can only put the callous behaviour of National as a Cluster of Low Intelligence. They have been incompetent for over a decade now.
Their denial of housing crisis; their slovenly care of miners and loggers; their sales of Assets; their outrageous costs of Heating; their sickening slobering over wealthy friends – while hundreds of thousands live in Poverty …their cavalier approach to everything. Sir John Key has sold and is selling; everything that the people of New Zealand own.
Sir John Key is for people destruction unlimited.
That strange Judith Collins who somehow got a job as Minister of Police, and immediately forbade them to attend to home Burglary! For Petes Sake. She is the weird epitome of National.
Observer Tokoroa
You are saying what everyone is thinking, good one.
No they don’t.
As for IQ I would bet observers is in the lower quadrant if compared with national caucus.
Quartile
Hi James,
“As for IQ I would bet observers is in the lower quadrant if compared with national caucus.”
I am of the opinion that emotional intelligence and compassion are higher in the Labour front bench than the opposition’s.
Both attributes are more important than intelligence in leaders.
Opinions are like ….. etc
You’re talking out of your ….. etc jimbo.
James, Speaking of intellect – when I posted recently that CanTeen, the AYA cancer service, was about to axe most of their staff and close their regional offices, you accused me of “bullshit and spin”.
Subsequent media coverage has shown my comment was 100% accurate.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, James. On this forum you constantly exhibit a paucity of intellectual capacity. Could I suggest that, in future, you refrain from comment on subjects you are ignorant about?
And, yes, I realise that will render you mute.
You spin spin spin
Can you read, James? Please try.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109307641/youth-cancer-charity-calls-on-australian-counsellors-after-17-local-jobs-cut
National are so good at opposition I’m hoping they stay there for along time
If you have access to a teenager (no sniggering), they might be able to show you a sarcasm emoticon that your contribution is missing.
You sound uncannily like Tracy Watkins…
National good front bench, same about theleaks
Audrey Young will have to have stern words with Tracey. By her assessment Jacinda is not doing very well and:
“Jacinda Ardern was forced to abandon her prime ministerial distance from the case of imprisoned Czech drug-smuggler Karel Sroubek.
She admitted she had received a text from a mutual acquaintance of hers and Sroubek’s commending her on the decision to let him stay in New Zealand (since reversed).
It confirmed a connection between her and the case, albeit a tenuous one, that National had clearly had a whiff of some weeks ago.”
There you go. Naughty Jacinda’s phone received a text. Damned.
“Simon Bridges trucked on in customary fashion, receiving no recognition for doing a reasonable job as Leader of the Opposition.” Good on yer Simon.
“”It was the news that Education Minister Chris Hipkins had agreed to support a member’s bill by former Education Minister Nikki Kaye to advance second language teaching in primary schools…….
….But an Opposition MP winning the support of Labour for a bill with such momentous and positive outcomes….
For that reason, Nikki Kaye is my Backbencher of the Year (runner-up is Maureen Pugh for her meteoric rise from obscurity).” (Not that any credit due the Government of course.
Rubbish from Audrey.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12177022
Audrey is blinded by bitter rage and a loss of status.
Her blue dye has entered her eyes and brain to such a degree it is impossible to be reasonable let alone kind.
She bats for the National Cricket Club. (Thanks Mac1)
🙂 In cricketing parlance for batting she would be known as a ‘ferret’. They’re the ones who go in after the ‘rabbits’ .
Yes what a load of crap from A Y.
Anyone who thinks Simon is doing a reasonable job is deluded
Watkins is simply being a realist.
She works for Fairfax, and all their newspapers are going down the gurgler. Tracey, and probably all their “journalists”, will be out of a job by the end of 2019.
There are, on the other hand a lot of current vacancies for press secretaries in ministerial offices at the moment. What better way to get on the approved list of appointees than sucking up to the boss of the area?
Of course she is going to say nice things about the current lot of incompetents.
I mean to say. Twyford, the walking disaster zone, gets 6.5?
Not hard to get a good score when you hardly turn up
Who is hardly turning up Chris T?
Are we there yet? The kid in the backseat being annoying. Collins boring triads against the govt, have you built them yet. Are they built yet…
National were told to watch him, they so did not, worse a new govt was woefully misinformed. No remorse, they just keep blaming others.
Have you noticed how absolutely silent Bennett is.
Next time our beaches are closed from sewage
Think of the leadership and build build build too bad about inadequate infrastructure
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11992287
Ask yourself ,why all this development within the CBD when they haven’t solved the stormwater/Sewage issue – The Central Inceptor hasn’t commenced yet.
https://www.watercare.co.nz/About-us/News-media/Central-Interceptor-one-step-closer-to-start-date
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12008976
In 45 years, we have killed 60% of Earth’s wildlife
https://www.cntraveller.in/story/45-years-killed-60-earths-wildlife/?fbclid=IwAR0_fG50cNZfW-vpt4DZJ5JrCqnWCbi_qcko-6ObkDi_g8x0RQQAifeoY6Y
And by century’s end, we’ll have killed the lot.
https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/25/6506/F1.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1
Today, the biomass of humans (≈0.06 Gt C; SI Appendix, Table S9) and the biomass of livestock (≈0.1 Gt C, dominated by cattle and pigs; SI Appendix, Table S10) far surpass that of wild mammals, which has a mass of ≈0.007 Gt C (SI Appendix, Table S11).
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/25/6506
OMG Auckland after the thunderstorms last night it’s more like Brisbane it’s so humid.
Reporting in from Cyclone Owen; it’s passed inland to the south of us but we surely had a wet, stormy night. Lots of lightening and rain, plenty of wind but not damaging.
It’s dropped the temperature a into the mid-20’s so it’s not like working as a sauna attendant as it was last week.
The interesting observation; cyclones have been relatively rare in the Gulf of Carpentaria
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/gulf.shtml
Now we’ve had two good ones, two years running.
Another cool cyclone story; about two months ago I was in Panama when Hurricane Michael hit Florida. That storm was so huge that it literally sucked all the rain out of the entire Caribbean afterwards. Where we were it was the middle of the wet season when it normally pisses down every day; but after Michael we had two whole weeks of dry weather.
What is there about you that attracts these storms?
Two of them when you were in the Gulf of Carpentaria and one when you were in the Caribbean, all within the last couple of years seems a bit more than a coincidence.
I had heard about Typhoid Mary, who caused a number of outbreaks of the disease as she moved around the New York area about a hundred years ago but you are surely the first person who appears to cause cyclones.
“Mary immigrated to the United States in 1883 and subsequently made her living as a domestic servant, most often as a cook. It is not clear when she became a carrier of the typhoid bacterium (Salmonella typhi). However, from 1900 to 1907 nearly two dozen people fell ill with typhoid fever in households in New York City and Long Island where Mary worked. The illnesses often occurred shortly after Mary began working in each household, but, by the time the disease was traced to its source in a household where she had recently been employed, Mary had disappeared.”
Can you control your powers? It would surely be incredibly useful if you could cause the rain without the wind. The farmers in the Murray/Darling area would pay you a fortune to break the drought there.
Did that warned thunderstorm earlier this afternoon near Rodney cause any problems?
It looked quite big on the Metservice warning graphic a couple of hours ago.
Nothing reported, but in the Kaipara they breed em tough
Brexit the movie.
https://youtu.be/xH-oScnJXB0
+10
I thought it was a straight faced satire but perhaps not Poission. Capturing the missing votes? Before the other side do.
The unmobilized mass mobilized,
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-07-04/the-2-8-million-non-voters-who-delivered-brexit
I guess there’s a sequel in the works, too.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/12/benedict-cumberbatch-on-playing-my-husband-dominic-cummings/
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/109281229/council-foils-grand-plans-for-head-hunters-headquarters-in-tokoroa
Awesome bit of work by the council.
This gang needs to be squashed like the toxic bug it is .
Wonder what they did with the Black Power pad that was just round the corner from the police station.
Palmy’s Mothers pad has been swallowed up by the distribution hub build out Railway road.
Not sure but these hh s are a growing force recruiting flat out . Nz will regret not going to war on them .
Going to war on them won’t help.
Getting them re-engaged with society will.
Mate I played rugby as a teen with a guy who is near the top in tauranga
Was a nice guy good parents no reason to be a drug dealer going round with a bunch young thugs for his shadows . But he does
There not lost boys they are people who have chosen the life they live .
They are very different from your kid from a poor house looking to belong .
Still better to re-engage than an outright war.
Meet the new guy.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1073707029129117696
Things like this make me glad I’m in NZ, you’ve got this guy or proven liar Elizabeth Warren
What a choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50iwBkPbliw
I thought Elizabeth Warren was a pretty good sort – what has she lied about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLI3SU33tIc
Her native american background, saying her parents had to elope because of being native american and she also benefited by Harvard hiring her and being Harvards first women of colour
When it turns out that she might be 1/64th and 1/1,024th, from 6 to 10 generations ago, and that that ancestry is actually Mexican, Peruvian, and Colombian
You or I might have more native ancestry than she does
OOoh she has to have a blood test to prove what she feels she is and how The Whites (Pinks) treat her. You are a petty poop PR.
The Boston Globe debunked the lie that Warren was appointed on the back of her claimed heritage.
The Globe closely reviewed the records, verified them where possible, and conducted more than 100 interviews with her colleagues and every person who had a role in hiring decisions about Warren who could be reached. In sum, it is clear that Warren was viewed as a white woman by the hiring committees at every institution that employed her.
Warren’s political enemies have long pushed a narrative that her unsubstantiated claims of Native American heritage turbocharged her legal career. But it is clear that Warren was viewed as a white woman by the hiring committees at every institution that employed her.
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Among the records were some never examined before by a newspaper, including one key form that a University of Pennsylvania professor kept tucked away for three decades.
That previously undisclosed report reveals that the hiring committee at Penn, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1995, viewed her as a white female applicant. Moreover, the committee went to some pains to explain on this form why she was selected over several minorities to fill a faculty position.
Not until she had been teaching at Penn for two years did she authorize the university to change her personnel designation from white to Native American, the records show.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-american-heritage-actually-help-elizabeth-warren-get-ahead-but-complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html
btw, Warren was a Republican at the time she was hired and changed her affiliation when she ran for Senate in the mid 90’s
How dare they treat her as a white person when she self-identifies as a native American.
No wonder they hid that form away. They would all have been fired if that information had become known that they had treated her as being white!.
On the other hand I can see why she would change her designation to the false one of being native-American at about the same time as she switched from registering as a Republican to being a Democrat. Both sorts of people are fantasists and derangement on her part was clearly setting in.
Only the Peruvian wouldn’t be native American.
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/organic-food-is-worse-for-the-climate-than-nonorganic-food/?fbclid=IwAR2NCjDTI866MK6-mohoVVP_4P9PthksJUDaeOJGG6Us0istpJzDxy3qP4o
Pardon the expression but its food for thought 🙂
Those figures are nonsense. Forcing organic systems to be grown like conventional fields and then saying see! – buy our fertiliser.
Never mind the loss of soil structure and subsequent hardpan, erosion and flooding, never mind the loss of insects, fungi and other soil microbiota, never mind the loss of soil organic matter and carbon. Never mind the rivers, the dead patches in the oceans. Never mind the pollinators, the predators, the birds that eat them. Never mind the water cleansing, or the pathogen and toxin reducing activities of the soil. Never mind the ever increasing lawsuits. Never mind the ever increasing deserts.
Because science.
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Pucky’s link and his reasons for posting it leave me a little saddened. In some ways, he seems a thoughtful guy, in others, plain daft. WTB’s response is nuanced, well reasoned and accurately applied, but Pucky, through his non-response, will collect a dullard or two for his cause. So it goes, but we don”t have to admire such duplicity, such ingenuousness. Food for thought, Pucky?
Nah.
Just dum sh*t.
‘K?
Blind adherence to anything is not good, unquestioning obedience is not good, all things should be questioned
But mostly I just follow IFL on facebook because it generally has interesting topics
You seem to be good with the compost PR.
IFLS is as sub-par as sciblogs NZ…
I personally will not click links to either site…
I f-ken love science…
The ‘quality’ is foreshadowed through the sites name…
heh
https://twitter.com/CarlMullan/status/1073354704460099584
Seems Mick Mulvaney‘s been appointed acting Chief of Staff.
Bugger. I’m gutted Chris Christie apparently turned it down. Never mind, maybe he’ll have a change of heart when they have to go through the process again in a few Scaramuccis.
Looks like a smockscreen to covfefe that nobody wants the job.
We all pay into this Aotearoa health insurance company shonky and joice turned it into a stock market trading toy for his rich m8 on the stock market to suck cash out of Kiwis in return for stuffed up service no service so his m8 had more money to trade.
Here is how a neo capitalist runs OUR Accident Compensation Corporation shonky flips the actual function of services provided by ACC and makes the staff compete to keep people in poverty and hard ship all the fools backing national will feel the sharp end of the captilist stick if they get a long term INJURY. I see the CEO of the Rotorua hospital has resigned my 10 year old grand daughter is still in pain thanks to the sandflys &——-
The $8m doctor: ACC pays for ‘wholly speculative diagnosis that does not accord with the clinical facts’, judge says The agency regularly calls in Christchurch’s Dr Bill Turner to reassess patients who have been granted ACC entitlements for chronic pain; court judgments show ACC consistently uses Turner’s opinions to cancel entitlements or cover.
In some cases, Turner considers the pain is in the sufferer’s head. In most cases, there is no question the patients are in severe pain: the only question is whether the pain is caused by injury – or is a vague “syndrome” as Turner sometimes argues. On numerous occasions he has assessed the pain as a syndrome, and nothing to do with the pig hunting accidents, car crashes and other injuries the claimants suffered. A former ACC employee told Stuff that ACC branches across the country compete to “exit” clients off their books before they reach 70, 180 or 365 days of cover. A weekly “traffic light” report indicates how the branch is performing and managers encourage case managers to look for people to get off their books.
“I’m one of the lucky ones,” Gordon said. “Although I’ve got this constant chronic pain to deal with, I can still do my job, and can avoid taking too many drugs. But some people would lose a life line with decisions like this and get totally crushed.”
LIFE SENTENCE WITHOUT REVIEW
Review decisions are final, often life-changing for the claimant and worth thousands of dollars in compensation and treatment. Ka kite ano link below
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/107963931/the-8m-doctor-acc-pays-for-wholly-speculative-diagnosis-that-does-not-accord-with-the-clinical-facts-judge-says
Kia ora from R&R Sugar is a man made substance in its natrual form its ok but the way it refined and bleached it’s not good. drop sugar out of your diet when is the government going to do the logical and sceneable thing and tax sugar out off reach of our mokopuna . The main goal in a good diet is unprocessed food as in prosessing food they put poison it the food to colour it and to stop bacteria growing in the food hence the poison stops food spoiling that’s a fact. Te Hakari was a really important phenomenon for the maori of old we made sure we put the best kai in the whenua in a hakari for the guest this was a thing of pride hence no whenua no good hakari no mana. The one food I have not seen since I was nine was steamed corn bread in tinfoil
that was the best kai Eco Maori liked .
Kina Paua Ika tuna koura. I agree that unless the doctor has stated you need a diet thats when you go on one the rest in the media are just fads to make some one money. Just eat less fatty foods IE cut the fat off and feed it to the pets no sugar grow your own organic vegetables as it the traces of chemicals in our food’s that slowly kill us causing cancer hence the cancer rate is rising fast in our Papatuanuku I love a good hangi the Papatuanuku waste 1 3rd of the food prouduced the logical and cheaps way to feed the Papatuanuku is to solve the waste problem not try and do gods work and grow synthetic meat that could have who nose what in it and big companys have shown they can not be trusted to do the good things
Ka kite ano Happy new year to the R&R Team.
I disagree re fats but mostly love your post. the fats is a whole other argument, but basically, the natural ones got a bad rap so industry could sell you lots of cheap nasty vegetable based ‘healthy’ alternatives.
I am now growing sugar cane in Auckland and so others might do the same. It needs full northern aspect, shelter, and plenty of water and compost. There are many types of crushers online I actually go to a restaurant he crushes it and keeps half. But crushers are available, or you can just make a traditional one out of bamboo – youtube is your friend. The sap can be rendered down to jaggery, or with fruit to make preserves, or just drunk. It’s great with vodka and a twist of lemon!
Prepare and plant a patch in Autumn by laying sections of cane in a trench and burying. youtube it. It’ll pop in spring.
Alternative sweeteners you can ‘grow’ are stevia, and honey. Stevia is a herb used in many drinks etc but has thousands of years of traditional use. It is not everyone’s cup of tea. I like using it in some things e.g. fruit, and not others e.g. hot drinks.
Honey… If you have a section surrounded by plant life… Beekeepers may put a hive on your property and tend it and you get some of the honey. Sweet deal.
Gardens. Because exercise, health, diet, sun, community, medicine, life.
Lets get this straight the #METO movement is not anti Men Its all about treating wahine with the respect they deserve the neo’s of the world are scared about losing contro and power hence they are trying to BRAND the #METO movement as anti Men
There’s nothing like a daughter to make Dad see the world differently
Barbara Ellen
While many men miraculously manage not to be chauvinists all by themselves, for others a daughter could prove a wake-up call that is stronger, more visceral than any number of #MeToo campaigns. At which point, big and small inequalities that may have passed almost unnoticed regarding women they’ve known and even loved (mothers, sisters, friends) are thrown into unprecedented sharp focus. As I say, an education – that “man’s world” could start looking very different when a father’s “mighty girl” has to navigate it.
My eldest child is a wahine my eldset mokopuna is a wahine 70 % of my whano are wahine what really convinced me to back the #METO movement was Eco Maori’s challenges our male dominant society has thrown at me and the BIG MESS this male dominated society is making of OUR World at the minute hence I figured out that man has been deliberately suppressing mana wahine for thousands of years as some new that Wahine would kick there asses in the board room into doing the humane thing and put people’s welbeing before there profit. Ka kite ano links below.
P.S having beautiful daughters and granddaughters did open my EYE’s to one never stops learning .
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/15/nothing-like-a-daughter-to-made-dad-see-the-world-differently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWh1Z2Q4n8
All our Coral Reef’s around the world are dying because off climate change and 30% of Australia Great Barrier Reef dyed of in a heat wave in 2016 and thats a crying shame . The Reef of the world are the nursery of the Oceans no reef no fish no fish masse human starvation we have to forget about politicians and make changes to our life styles to save our grandchildren future ourselves My carbon foot print has dropped a lot in the last six months .
Dr Pillans hoped despite the gloom and doom about the reef’s future, her story would give children hope that they could do something to help.
Her key message was greenhouse gas emissions had to be cut now.
“I don’t think it’s too late, but we have to start now. We can’t keep saying ‘tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow’,” she said.
“There are ways to save energy (such as turning off lights, walking instead of driving) and help the planet which will then help the reef.”
It has taken her six years to get the story right.
“It’s not as easy as people think. You have to make sure, when you are an author/illustrator, the words and pictures have to be as one,” she said.
“There has to be highs and lows and resolution and problems.
“All that has to be there in a big adventure to keep children’s attention.
“I had many iterations of this book and each publisher would say ‘we really love the idea of it, however you can’t tell children there is no hope’.
“It was really hard for me to provide a publisher with a story of hope and solutions.
Ka kite ano links below.
https://www.centralnorthburnetttimes.com.au/news/marine-biologist-pens-book-to-inspire-children-to-/3599059/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-DQNTKOO1M
No fish the sandfly is stuffing with my other computer the little churchy boy who thinks he is perfect is not getting his way is brating out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgVVG5EknuI
I love my Crayfish but like I have stated the Quota management system is a system set up for the neo bankers it does not preserve our fishes razing and lowering the Quoter at the wim of the bankers it looks like shonky and his m8 new that CRA2 has nearly collapsed and chose to ignore the situation to keep the dollars flowing into there economy .Eco Maori backs the calls to ban fishing in CRA2 of at the very least drop the recreational take to 2 fish pre person as CRA 2 has the highest population in Aotearoa hence the over fishing every man and his dog has a boat and crayfish are so easy to catch with a pot. Cleaning up shonkys mess once again is Our coalition Government
Environmentalists want to take crayfish off the menu this summer, with a three-year ban on catching the delicacy in the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.
Stocks of the Kiwi favourite were once prolific in the waters that stretch between Waipu and the East Cape.
But Forest and Bird say the crustaceans – also known as rock lobster – are now “functionally extinct” in the area.
The Government is currently considering whether to slash the daily allowance for recreational fishers from six to three crayfish.
READ MORE:
* Big cuts to crayfish catch limits from Auckland to East Cape
* Hauraki Gulf marine life has fallen by more than half since 1925, report finds
* Crayfish ‘functionally extinct’ in the Hauraki Gulf “Crayfish in this area are in very serious trouble,” Forest and Bird marine advocate Katrina Goddard said. “The population has basically collapsed.
“In 2017, they estimated there is just 20 per cent of the population left.”
When stocks drops below ten per cent, the fishery must close – and Goddard says that threshold may have been reached in some areas.
It follows huge enforced cuts to the commercial catch in April, down from 200 tonnes to 80 tonnes. Ka kite ano links below
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/109355321/dwindling-crayfish-numbers-sparks-call-for-fishing-ban P.S We all want OUR mokopunas to be-able to see and taste crayfish or that matter any fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOzDRr206g
Kia ora Newshub I say the government’s plan to make the roads safer with the wire rope safty barriers is cool ka pai July .
Many thanks to all the people at the UN Climate meeting in Poland who hammered out a agreement Ka pai as Jamie Shaw said trying to get 200 od people to come to a agreement is a hard task on its own.
Ka pai to the Wellington company for plans to get a electric Ferry that’s the way of the future and I am sure you will get heaps of passengers because of the ferry being green energy powered .
Going over the Alps for Africans refugees is a hard way to get to a good life in France and dangerous journey its just shows how desperate they are .
The Bhutanese conjoined twins look happy all the best to them Good on the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne .
Ka kite ano
I see Peter Williams from TV1 News is retiring ka pai E hoa you have been a good kiwi role male role model for our youth all the best 40 years A There has to be some major changes in how we live our lives in the next few years ka kite ano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCob76kigA
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7MFYoylVs
I have China to thank for Solar panels price dropping faster than anyone predicted .
The cost $100 for a 100 watt panel to set up a small 2000 watt off grid solar system will only cost me $4000 and with gas power hot water and cooking that size system wold be ok for 2 people . It is now cheaper to build a solar powered power station than it is to burn Coal fools who back as in the past when some one has backed the wrong Horse will lose there ASS.
Shenzhen’s silent revolution: world’s first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity
All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 22,000 taxis will be too Y
ou have to keep your eyes peeled for the bus at the station in Shenzhen’s Futian central business district these days. The diesel behemoths that once signalled their arrival with a piercing hiss, a rattle of engine and a plume of fumes are no more, replaced with the world’s first and largest 100% electric bus fleet.
Shenzhen now has 16,000 electric buses in total and is noticeably quieter for it. “We find that the buses are so quiet that people might not hear them coming,” says Joseph Ma, deputy general manager at Shenzhen Bus Group, the largest of the three main bus companies in the city. “In fact, we’ve received requests to add some artificial noise to the buses so that people can hear them. We’re considering it.” The benefits from the switch from diesel buses to electric are not confined to less noise pollution: this fast-growing megacity of 12 million – which was a fishing village until designated China’s first “special economic zone” in the 1980s – is also expected to achieve an estimated reduction in CO2 emissions of 48% and cuts in pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, non-methane hydrocarbons and particulate matter. Shenzhen Bus Group estimates it has been able to conserve 160,000 tonnes of coal per year and reduce annual CO2 emissions by 440,000 tonnes. Its fuel bill has halved.
Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/12/silence-shenzhen-world-first-electric-bus-fleet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3DGtdL7zA
A Eco Maori video for the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fHScmyWTA
Eco Maori trys his best not to waste anything we need to change the way we live to preserve the future
Why 2m kilos of Christmas cheese will end up in the bin … and how to cut back on your household’s waste in UnitedKingdom .
But for many households the Christmas cheeseboard has become an elaborate affair – often resulting in a vast amount of waste. Now, as a new survey estimates that 2.2m kilograms of cheese from the festive dining table will be chucked in the bin this year, specialists are urging shoppers to aim for a “zero waste” cheeseboard. “If you buy cheese that tastes amazing you’re far less likely to waste it,” said Dominic Coyte of Borough Cheese Company. “In my house I tend to end up with lots of small bits left, so I grate and freeze it. Freezing can affect the texture so it loses its rigidity, but it’s still good to use for cheese on toast or in sauces or gratins. The remainders of a boxed soft cheese can also be baked in the oven with garlic, rosemary and white wine – day-old bread with a bit of bite is ideal for dipping in it.”
The new research from Borough Market shows that the average seasonal platter will be heaving with up to five pieces of cheese, yet six in 10 consumers surveyed (57%) admitted they will throw much of it away. According to the findings, two-thirds (63%) are planning to serve at least one cheeseboard over the festive period, while one in five (22%) will push the boat out and offer three or more. links below Ka kite ano.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/16/cheese-uk-waste-mountain-christmas-borough-market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3o6y2j2xk
Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take notice
Eco Maori is calling on the Vaticain Bank to drop its investments in carbon for the future. If they don’t it will be there money lost as shares slid in value the writing on the wall
Here is were the people can stop the carbon barrons in there tracks everyone demand that there saving not to be invested in carbon companys the will go broke and slid into OUR History books. Ana to kai/ take that.
We can’t count on governments alone to do the work necessary – governments, from Canada and America to Russia and Saudi Arabia to China and India, are still too often beholden to the fossil fuel companies. We need to keep pushing hard on those companies – and we will.The list of institutions that have cut their ties with this most destructive of industries encompasses religious institutions large and small (the World Council of Churches, the Unitarians, the Lutherans, the Islamic Society of North America, Japanese Buddhist temples, the diocese of Assisi); philanthropic foundations (even the Rockefeller family, heir to the first great oil fortune, divested its family charities); and colleges and universities from Edinburgh to Sydney to Honolulu are on board, with more joining each week. Forty big Catholic institutions have already divested; now a campaign is urging the Vatican bank itself to follow suit. Ditto with the Nobel Foundation, the world’s great art museums, and every other iconic institution that works for a better world.Thanks to the efforts of groups such as People & Planet (and to the Guardian, which ran an inspiring campaign), half the UK’s higher education institutions are on the list. And so are harder-nosed players, from the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund (at a trillion dollars, the largest pool of investment capital on Earth) to European insurance giants such as Axa and Allianz. It has been endorsed by everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Barack Obama to Ban Ki-moon (and, crucially, by Desmond Tutu, who helped run the first such campaign a generation ago, when the target was apartheid).Now the contagion seems to be spreading to the oil and gas sector, where Shell announced earlier this year that divestment should be considered a “material risk” to its business. That’s how oil companies across the world are treating it – in the US, petroleum producers have set up a website designed to discredit divestment,. and for a while had me under round-the-clock public surveillance. The pressure is not preventing anyone from acting: when Yale arrested 48 brave students who were occupying its investment offices last week, they left chanting: “We’ll be back Eco Maori know what thats like lol Links below ka kite ano P.S Kiwis can demand that our Kiwisave not be invested in carbon to.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/16/divestment-fossil-fuel-industry-trillions-dollars-investments-carbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0DWsd0EkyU
This forest is a rear phenomenon and is being negatively affected by climate change like the Great reefs and Ice cap’s at a much faster rate than scientists’ pridicted
“All of us scientists, not just in America but around the world, know that climate change is being exacerbated. Being caused by human activities, by overconsumption, by use of fossil fuels. And for our leadership to take exactly the wrong turn, to remove ourselves from the Paris treaty, to encourage coal mining …
“What I feel I need to do is to bring my science, bring my understanding of what’s going on in the tropical cloud forest and other ecosystems to the people, to policymakers.
“I think that scientists are becoming more political. We have become less afraid to speak out against the political regimes that are making these wrong decisions. In the past, even ten years ago, my fellow scientists would not be making these statements.”
Nadkarni reflects on the change. “You know each species that moves or disappears has repercussions in terms of the ecosystem as a whole. Now the plants are a little bit harder to see. But I know when I climb in the forest, that compared with when I started here 39 years ago, the canopy dwelling plants – the mosses, the filmy ferns – they were much more abundant, much more plush, much more … just wet, than they are now.”
For millenium the WEALTHY have silenced the TRUTH TELLER’s OUR scientist to protect there power now we have the 21 century communication device the internet and social media now the game is changing mostly for the better for human kind
Links below the sandflys are stuffing with my computer once again Eco Maori will never give up the fight for a good future for OUR grandchildren ka kite ano
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/16/head-in-the-clouds-climate-change-nalini-nadkarni-costa-rica-monteverde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDUJCfnvC0M
Cheeseboards – the modern equivalent of the fondue.
Kia ora Newshub That is awsome busting those men who were importing Meth into Aotearoa many thanks to all involved in the bust 25 years jail.
Colndolences to the whano of the people who dyed in the plane crash in Raglan .
To much to the 84 year Kiwi lady who survived being losed in Australia outback desert.
There you go the slave labour in Hawkes bay apple picking industry they will have displaced hundreds of kiwi workers. Is this some one elses mess once again.
One has to respect Tangaroa and creatures climate change and over fishing will cause more of these shark attack incident’s all around Papatuanuku.
We got gift cards for Chrismas presents so easy and the mokopunas get to chose there presents
Its good that Pharmac is getting the medicine for Hep C Ka pai many people will have a much better life because of this move.
Rocketlab that is good news for Peter Beck his team Aotearoa and Mahia
Eco Maori seen the story in the stuff website I support the cut the ban some people are more worryed about the putea lost instead of the loss of the fishes.
Its about time the Lawsociety change the law profession system to hold powerful lawers to acount for the way the treat wahine or anyone.
Printed veins and body parts is the way of the future its exciting times in the health profession . Ka kite ano