They are considering restricting building within a certain distance from foreshores and in low lying properties close to rivers. Current owners of expensive seaview properties are a bit of a road block, as the value of their property might decline. And would they expect the state to bale them out if their homes were severely damaged or destroyed in a storm?
LGNZ and insurers clearly know climate change is a thing.
The Insurance Council had been working with Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) for about three years to advise councils about the kinds of changes they could make to consent issuing processes that could help minimise property damage during severe weather events.
That work was likely to increase given recent flooding events through residential areas alongside river banks.
Lawrence Yule, the president of LGNZ and Hastings’ mayor, said research done by the organisation found weather events were becoming more severe and happening more often because of climate change and councils needed to respond accordingly.
“Ultimately, it might actually lead to rethinking about where people are populated and live. We’re working on that but it has to be a long term strategy, it’s not a simple fix.”
In 2011 the Dunedin City Council proposed adding flood information to LIM records. This was not followed through due to current owners fearing property values falling.
It’s too late, savvy buyers already factor this in when looking to buy a new property.
The future of centres like Pauinui on the Coromandel must be called into question. Built on sand, less than 10m above sea level, surrounded by water on 3 sides: the roll of the surf is overwhelmed by the flutter of notes, mixed with the rending of designer t-shirts, as beach house values erode away.
In Florida coastal areas insurance companies are stopping insuring properties for flood damage. This will become the norm here.
The question of whether socialising this individual risk to Council or Central government becomes key. I would be very reluctant to see policies put in place where coastal defence and property restoration becomes the norm. Given our current knowledge about the cost and limited effectiveness of coastal protection, managed retreat is the preferred response.
Managed retreat starts by stopping new builds in hazardous areas and then comes education. These approaches will see prices of seaside and riverside properties reduce and the number of affected houses reduce as the risks get factored in.
A big question will be whether insurance and real estate pricing are more effective in responding to climate change than anything local or central government could do or would want to do.
I think market forces are better placed, faster, more forceful and more direct than the cumbersome and unstable public sector here to respond to coastal housing retreat.
If the Government (local and central)
1. work with people to determine what particular parts of the country are of strategic value
2. Be clear that it could be YOUR HOME that is not going to be protected or compensated for.
3. Identify the cost, method and timetable the coastal defence system
Then,
4. the market can factor in that that million dollar view and seaside access is not going to be defended.
My view is that currently the “market” (otherwise known as how people act) has the expectation that somebody other than themselves is guaranteeing that their house and land will always be there. This is the presumption that needs to be explored.
So it’s not the market acting independently of government but in response to societal consensus and government regulation.
That would be a nice idea. But not a reality. Global insurers are more powerful than local government. The strongest example weve ever known of ventral and local government working together with insurers is Christchurch.
Not working out so well.
The new RMA was a place to revisit the relationship between planning powers and the Public Works Act. We won’t see it revisited for a decade or more.
I bet Edgecumbe for example shrinks to 30% of its former self. No intervention required from public sector. Go to Kelso in Southland and read the memorial inscription.
Ad – I think you are right to suggest that market forces will be faster more forceful and direct than any other mechanism.
The problem with market forces is that they are amoral. Therefore don’t expect the outcomes of market forces to be notable for their justice – or their concern for what happens to those people for whom insurance is unaffordable and who then have their entire wealth wiped out by a single flood.
I think market forces are better placed, faster, more forceful and more direct than the cumbersome and unstable public sector here to respond to coastal housing retreat.
If that were true then it we’d already be seeing people leaving shore-front properties as insurance companies stopped insuring them.
The simple fact of the matter is that the government has to put in place regulations to shape the market.
Current owners of expensive seaview properties are a bit of a road block, as the value of their property might decline. And would they expect the state to bale them out if their homes were severely damaged or destroyed in a storm?
Of course they will. The council let them build there and so it will all be the councils fault. They won’t accept any responsibility at all.
Even if the council had the responsibility to pay out, how many houses do you think a council could afford to protect or rebuild or payout? My guess is that it will be a surprisingly small number. Because at the same time they will be needing to also repair all that pesky infrastructure.
There are many coastal roads that are already marginal and suffer from inundation and erosion from sea activity. These may be only 1 or 10 or 20 good storms from being unusable.
Which electorate seats will Labour take from National in September? Obviously they will heavily lose Hutt South to Chris Bishop so where can they make inroads or is the plan just to raise the Party vote
Maybe you haven’t heard? They brought in proportional representation back in the 90s. It hasn’t mattered who wins what electorate for a couple of decades now.
“If National does not win the election in September, housing will be a contributing factor.”
The dialogue now is all about why the Nats may lose the election…this is a major change from previous elections. Bill English cannot get more than 40% for the Nats and will probably get less. Look forward to PM Little.
“The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem is “conducting routine operations” in the South China Sea, according to a Friday press release from the US Navy. The statement went on to note that the guided-missile destroyer had been refueled at sea by Her Majesty’s New Zealand Ship (HMNZS) Endeavour. The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) is “conducting routine operations” in the South China Sea, according to a Friday press release from the US Navy. The refueling allowed the vessel to remain mission ready ……” – RT
Tony Veitch (not the partner-bashing 3rd rate broadcaster 4.1
This is truly disturbing! Do we piss in the pockets of the military-industrial complex of the USA that we are aiding their dangerous war games in the South China Sea?
Trump is an absolute FW – with an air strike in Syria and a horrendous bomb in Afghanistan, and now brinkmanship against North Korea!
The sooner we cut ALL ties with the failing empire, the better!
Sorry TV but the truth is that we will keep pissing in their pockets because we are dumbarses.
The USA is a vile country and Trump is merely showing the world the truth about its self-appointed exceptualism.
When one accepts the truth about 9/11 the jigsaw comes together.
Tony Veitch (not the partner-bashing 3rd rate broadcaster 4.1.1.1
my good friend carol turned me on to something the other day. non contact rape. as an example she said that when a cis male opens a door “for” a woman its a form of non-contact rape as it makes her feel as helpless and as violated as rape does. of course i expect the cis males here to make jokes about automated doors but non contact rape is real! like my friend carol says – we can choose to discuss it and raise awareness of it or we can choose to keep quiet and silently support rape culture!
As I women, I deplore this kind of rubbish as the violence and rapes that happen every day are being ridiculed with such statements.
Instead of focusing on who has opened a door today, get cracking and help those who are stranded in halfway houses or are in need for support. Belief you me, those women who are being maltreated are not seeing an open door any time soon. The perpetrator makes damn sure of that.
Tui could you please give another example of non contact rape?
Personally I’m always grateful when someone opens a door for me, I consider it thoughtful and good manners, as I do the same for others, like people pushing prams or the elderly.
I’m massively independent as well as a survivor of rape and violence, but never in a million years would I view a man opening a door for me as non contact rape. So I’m really struggling with your friends door opening views, please enlighten me a bit more. Thanks
I agree with you Cinny – having someone open a door for me shows thoughtful good manners as far as I’m concerned and I certainly do not feel belittled or threatened in any way.
I think Tui is trying a bit of trolling. Just stop it will you please Tui, and also don’t use the name of a lovely bird, that lives as straightforward life as those close to nature do and are not laden with the low cunning of humans.
Patriarchy particles! That’s brilliant!
Rod Donald had a possum skin cover for the seat he occupied in the House when he was an MP. Could we harvest Patriarchy particles and form them into seat covers for the Front Bench of this National Government? Perhaps serve them as a side dish, like salted peanuts, at the pub our Honourables drink at. Patriarchy particles have enormous possibilities and potential applications never before entertained, by me any way, who till now hadn’t even heard of them. Come on, TS readers, you’ll have ideas bursting to be expressed here; let’s hear them!
Robert
Patriarchy particles, they possibly could be an organic insecticide, good for getting rid of body fleas on humans, dogs, cats and hens. And that’s what I can do just off the top of my head. When I sprinkle patriarchy particles on that will get rid of the layer of dandruff and who knows what other gems will arise.
Hold your breath Tui, I will be letting you know if more come to mind. Pass out if you feel so inclined.
Fender
Offensive as usual. In case you haven’t noticed from your dark cave, the weather is changing so get out in the sun which will sanitise you – you know good old sunlight does wonders.
how about fender and greywarbler get a clothes brush and just wipe the dandruff off each other.
still… I suppose it is the holidays and time to shut down and chill – just think about the bullshit
I’ll remember to ask my daughter next time I walk down the street if she minds if I walk on the gutter side
Weka
How about I have the right to say something once and then drop it. I have nothing to do with fender’s continuing gerfuffle. I however would like to see controls on the sort of nutty talk that Tui started. How about that huh.
Ok, what if a white male looks at you, or even worse speaks to you – is this a form of non contact rape?
I mean you didn’t give him consent to look at you or talk to you did you?
What about when whitey reaches out and shake your hand – that is so gross.
Patriarchial pre-sexual assault right there and it is so common!
The worst honkeys are the ones who try to disguise themselves – they spend all day in the sun deliberately trying to alter their skin colour to brown or red and they think we don’t notice?
A message for you Palangi – a slight shade of crimson does not take away the fact that your prerape whiteness is still under the surface ready to spring forth in all its molesting malevolence.
One of the worst aspects of this kind of rubbish is that confuses all the people, men in particular, who are doing their best to get it right as decent, thoughtful members of society.
It also threatens to trivialise the awful experiences of many of us who have had to deal with the real thing
An actual legitimate sexual assault charge in South Korea.
In South Korea, definition of sexual assault extends to “an act by a male perpetrator which causes female victim to feel sexual discomfort or shame”. Under this definition, it is illegal for Korean men to look at a female in public, if she decides that act to be offensive.
Under this definition, numerous Korean men are actually arrested each year for looking at a female in public. In many cases when the accuser alleges that the man took photographs (In Korea, it is also illegal for men to photograph females in public, but not vice versa), it is customary for the man to have his cell phone confiscated and have the entire device searched for evidence. Oftentimes, the accused is dismissed from his employer as well.
In South Korea, it is possible for a man to be charged for sexual assault for stare rape.
if only we in aotearoa were so enlightened!!!
[given that rape culture is such an important issue, and conversations here are usually fraught, I’m going to ask that if you want to make claims about something you link to real evidence, not a random’s person’s reckons on the internet. In this case if you want to claim that in South Korea there are laws regarding stare rape, please link to something credible that back that up. Thanks. – weka]
Tui, unfortunately this is a fail. If you really want to talk about rape culture you have to really get to grips with a quite different issue than opening doors! My god, whose agenda are we being dished out here?
@Tui. I think you should get your good friend Carol to talk to a few people who have actually been raped, Get her to ask if they mind a door being opened for them and if they feel threatened by it. Then get her to ask herself whether life is all about her
Yes, that’s something that really is disconcerting. I find it scary rather than uncomfortable. I thought in my ‘mature years’ it wouldn’t happen any more – wrong! 🙁
I get nervous and suspicious when someone comments about what their friend said not what they thought about what their friend said, or how that affected them.
Your friend Carol is probably delusional, and you should probably think about finding different friends. You know, ones who aren’t delusional.
I’ll open a door for a woman sometimes. I do it, not as a way of reasserting the dominance of the patriarchy, or implying that she’s both weak and stupid and thus incapable of operating a door without the assistance of a man, but because I’m polite and like to be helpful. Terrible, I know. I also open doors for small children, the elderly and… brace yourself, other men. Right, I’m off to self-flagellate now. Wish me luck.
Just taking a punt here mind, but I’m picking I’m not alone in feeling just a little bit bilious in reaction to the peddling of this muck that Tui has thrown into today’s Open Mike.
I’ve no idea whether they’re making a ham-fisted attempt to allude to post traumatic symptoms of rape sometimes displaying as fraught “fight or flight” responses to innocuous every day acts.
Or whether they’re consciously trying to diminish and dismiss rape.
To be honest, on a first reading of their comments, I’m leaning towards the latter and then regretting I wasn’t around earlier in the day to kick the wee shite into touch.
Based on previous comments by Tui I’m taking it as genuine but seriously misguided concern about rape culture.
I also put it in the particular category of modern solidarity politics where issues get taken to such extremes that they are out of touch with human norms or what is politically viable. Underneath it all there is something useful about what women experience living in the patriarchy but the framing is so bad that it just damages (I can see why some thought it was trolling).
I open the door for males and females alike. Especially if they are carrying something or dealing with a child. Oftentimes, someone is following you closely and to not keep the door open is (to me) a mark of disrespect or deliberate dismissing of another person.
Carol may have a different reaction, but that response may lie in her own life experience, and would not be true for many, and definitely not for all.
This kind of stamping down on the courtesies and social mores of our society, probably does more harm than good. An assumption is made that only males enact this courtesy, and that it has nothing to do with the small connections and kindnesses of the everyday that go in to help create community.
“my good friend carol turned me on to something the other day. non contact rape. as an example she said that when a cis male opens a door “for” a woman its a form of non-contact rape as it makes her feel as helpless and as violated as rape does. of course i expect the cis males here to make jokes about automated doors but non contact rape is real! like my friend carol says – we can choose to discuss it and raise awareness of it or we can choose to keep quiet and silently support rape culture!”
I also don’t believe this fits the definition of rape, and trying to call it rape minimises rape and harms the movement against rape culture (some of the reasons already given in comments).
The use of ‘cis’ here also makes me uncomfortable. Are you suggesting that only cis men rape? How would you know the gender identity of someone opening a door for you?
weka
cis male – what does that stand for?
And could we cut tui’s hooey off in mid flow before it further pollutes our nice clean mud-slinging. Must keep our standards up eh! By the way I did praise Psycho Milt earlier, didn’t expect that.
So can we get back to normal, we have plenty of surprises just from the keen and committed without introducing some nasty little stirrer. Perhaps till after the election!
Please.
Here is urban dictionary with something about cis so you can see what the
socialmediafog people are on about.
Cis
Short for cis-gendered, meaning someone who identifies with the sex they were born as. Typically used by whiny tumblr users who complain about not being accepted for who they are and yet bash these “cis” people for being born and being okay with the sex they were born with.
I am a female to male transgender and I hate white straight cis men.
Also google –
cis1
sɪs/
adjectiveChemistry
adjective: cis
denoting or relating to a molecular structure in which two particular atoms or groups lie on the same side of a given plane in the molecule, in particular denoting an isomer in which substituents at opposite ends of a carbon–carbon double bond are on the same side of the bond.
“the cis isomer of stilbene”
Could you not just accept that some males were taught certain forms of etiquette.
Not only do I open a door for a female, if I am walking down the street I walk nearest the gutter, and if with another male, the female walks between us. It doesn’t mean either of us (males) wants to get into her pants.
Jesus! as if there weren’t more important things to worry about.
@ Tui (6) … I always thought holding open a door for another person to go through was a sign of good manners and respect.
So how does your “friend” Carol feel about a man (or woman for that matter) giving up a seat on public transport for another person? Does that identify with rape culture also, for the same reasons you have stated?
I am a woman in my early 70s and will hold open a door for someone else, particularly if they are infirm or have young children. For the same reasons, I have given up my seat on public transport and will continue to do so, if I feel someone else needs it more than I do.
after re-reading my own comments and those of other women here i wish to sincerely apologise to any women for whom my comments may have triggered painful memories and or emotions. it was only my intention to raise a fuller awareness of rape culture and not to cause hurt or offence.
@ Tui (6.13) … Obviously in response to my post, you state the following …
“after re-reading my own comments and those of other women here i wish to sincerely apologise to any women for whom my comments may have triggered painful memories and or emotions. it was only my intention to raise a fuller awareness of rape culture and not to cause hurt or offence.
~tui”
WTF!
What are you talking about? Why on earth would demonstrating good manners and respect towards others, trigger painful memories or emotions, hurt or offence?
While I realise I might not be the brightest star in the sky, you have definitely lost me there!
The only feelings you’ve raised for me Tui are those of disbelief. Mary summed it up perfectly with WTF!
Tui, are Carol and yourself familiar with the author of the topic you brought up?
It’s on his website, but his presence on the internet is some what limited to that amazon and his company https://www.chemaxx.com/ … I wonder what he has a P.h.D in?
“It should be noted that Dr. Fox is not a psychologist or psychiatrist and that his interest in emotional rape is personal as opposed to professional.”
Book was published in 1992, it his opinion on what a friend of his went through, his personal not professional opinion. He’s a chemicals engineer and not an expert or even a scholar of psychology or rape and abuse research etc.
One persons opinion does not dictate the ways or experiences of many, as is reflected in the comments generated on this topic. Rather it risks creating a greater divide.
When someone makes OTT claims, I like to find out about them, as for the author his interests and activities include: Chemical Accident Reconstruction, Aerosols, Hazardous Chemicals, Chemical Injuries & Accidents, Nuclear Reactors…. as well for a fee he is happy to help law firms with chemical advice.
Maybe if he was writing about science he would be credible, but he as no credibility in writing about rape etc.
What is Emotional Rape?
According to Michael Fox, Ph.D., emotional rape is similar in many ways to physical rape, particularly date rape. Date rape involves the sexual use of someone’s body without consent which amounts to theft of the person’s physical sensorium. In a like manner, emotional rape is the theft of someone’s higher emotions, such as love, without consent. However, in the case of emotional rape the lack of consent is contained in the fact that the individual is being lied to by the perpetrator.
c&p
Adriana McGee, Domestic Violence Survivor
Written May 30, 2016
Emotional Rape does exist. Many victims are afraid to use the term because they don’t want to offend sexual rape victims. I would say that acknowledging that emotional rape does exist does not diminish the horror of sexual rape, but simply give a voice and a description for survivors to understand this kind of emotional violence; which is different from other kinds of violence.
Emotional rape is distinct from verbal and other forms of emotional and psychological abuse because the rapist does not simply prey on your insecurities or childhood wounds; but your higher values such as love and your sense of self-worth.
While many forms of emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse are dependent on the dysfunctionality of the victim; emotional rapists hone in on a victim’s healthiest and most natural responses. Their natural desires, highest-values, and urges; while still targeting their vulnerabilities: (which in most cases of emotional rape is simply innocence or naivete).
Acknowledging emotional rape does not minimize sexual rape, or diminish sexual rape victims; but validates the deep emotions and painful feelings of loss, isolation, denial, confusion, horror, and fear of Emotional Rape victims who are experiencing post-traumatic rape syndrome, and yet are unaware that there’s a name for what they are experiencing.
Anyone who is victim of emotional rape knows that it goes far beyond simple deception or betrayal. Victims often have a feeling that they are no longer “whole” and never will be again. This feeling can last for months, years, or even decades.
denying the reality of emotional rape is rape culture
[please make sure that your comments clearly differentiate between your own words and your quotes. See my moderator note above too. – weka]
Handy hint: “According to Michael Fox, Ph.D.” is worth about as much as “According to Psycho Milt,” in the absence of evidence demonstrating Dr Fox’s subject expertise in the matter at hand. And “According to my good friend Carol” is worth even less than “According to Psycho Milt” in Psycho Milt’s personal opinion. Worth keeping in mind when commenting.
This world human populace along with the flora and fauna is being ’emotionally/physically raped’ 24/7..
Tui, if you are a genuinely concerned human being, you might realise that the comments you make on the subject are a nonsense and insult to the ‘real cause’ and suffering faced by men, women and children..
Ugh. Extreme rendition brutalises the officials permitted nay encouraged to use it, then pass the parcel down to the children!
As they say in the good ole USA “In God we trust, all else pay cash”. And if you haven’t the pay-off money you get what they think you deserve and they can get away with by setting up false urgency laws that are OTT and should never have even been contemplated.
Dunno who or what “Next News Network” is, but given the other vid link is from CBS and it plays the same war hyped lines, I guess RT’s assertion that western media are being bloody irresponsible stacks up, aye?
Which story are you referring to? The supposed evacuation of Pyongyang? The supposed 6th nuclear test? Something else altogether? Maybe you could provide a quick link …?
Yeah I missed your edit. So I had a quick for this “Russian news report” on pravdareport (as per the NNN link) and decided not to bother beyond a cursory moment or two that turned up nothing, on the basis that it’s a site on the par with the UK Sun or NZs Truth…or Next News Network. 🙄
Other than a fema camp wingnut’s bullshit report via Pravda, sourced from fuck knows where, there’s nothing reputable saying this evacuation is actually occurring.
But you swallowed David Daleiden’s shitty wee hit piece videos on PP, too.
//
@SophiePetkar@Daily_Express The "big event" was the unveiling of a new housing development. Congrats, u just spread fake news— Kevin and Kim Show (@kevinkimshow) April 13, 2017
As I pointed out to Bill, considering the predicament, it’s plausible North Korea would move top officials to safety. Thus the report is far from left-field.
As for David Daleiden, his videos were so compelling they spurred the president of Planned Parenthood to personally apologize for the staff member’s tone and statements and resulted in several investigations. As a result, three Planned Parenthood clinics were found to be performing second-trimester abortions without the proper licenses, and one clinic was failing to keep proper logs relating to fetal remains.
The question I have is whether we have the heart to rid ourselves of these clowns (western political leaders) and their stenographic monkeys (msm) or are content to sit back and embrace the spoon fed idea that we are powerless?
Just to be clear, before some idiot who’d probably struggle to spell “IQ”, jumps up and accuses me of being a supporter of this, that or the other dictatorship, there are no nation states worthy of continued existence as far as I’m concerned.
A number of Trump supporters thought they were doing that (ridding ourselves of these war mongers). Spoon fed the idea that voting (in a largely corporate dominated representative democracy) could bring about significant change.
Too many still either believe the scripts they’re constantly fed, or too busy trying to live life while hoping the script won’t include their own existence
Listening to friends and family regurgitating the scripts while simultaneously, using positive reinforcement, openly supporting the ‘good position’ NZ is in as a nation
These are good honest people who have had better opportunity than most, and whom have no excuse for the ignorance they communicate
I’m quite sure they understand some of the realities, but it seems they believe by waxing positive, that the problems either don’t, or will somehow disappear
It’s a terrible bind, because these such people are largely responsible for the perpetuation of evil deeds
Western media is corporate media, and the corporations make their best profits off war.
Here is an example of that drive for money. A priest talking about Syria. Oh and it’s from right wing web site – so some here might not want to read it , so they came keep ideological purity.
The Heiltsuk people of Canada report in their oral history that an island on the west coast of their territory has been home to the Heiltsuk for thousands of years—one of the only places to stay uncovered during the ice age.
When archaeologists digging on Triquet Island last year found charcoal flakes that could be dated at up to 14,000 years old, the Heiltsuk found their oral history reaffirmed by the data. And archaeologists had more evidence to an emerging hypothesis: that, after crossing the Bering Sea, the original inhabitants of North America traveled along the coast to avoid the inhospitable ice cover.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
after getting accused of “trolling” i’m going to stick to “safe” topics from now on. i’ve decided to become a trump supporter. now here me out! i know he’s a cis male and said those horrid things but he listens to his daughter! when those poor women and children were chemically attacked this upset his daughter and his daughter told trump and trump got upset and did what had to be done to prevent attacks like that happening again. call me a troll or traitor if you want but i’ve given you my reasons and if i was trolling i wouldn’t be trying to explain myself now would i?
my question is what would you have done if you were trump and your daughter was so upset about what had happened?
~tui
[you put up two or three very controversial comments, some of which is pretty offensive. I was impressed by the way the other commenters responded to that, there was no shit fight, just a series of considered comments disagreeing with you and pointing out why. You’ve ignored all of those and now come back in some hours later and posted in an inflammatory way. Take the weekend off (back on Tues and I suggest a read of the Policy before you comment again) – weka]
Want a demonstration of blind, deaf privilege and the arrogance that not only discounts but simply cannot hear other narratives? This man imagines that he’s not racist and that he’s the real victim.
The Home Office have refused a Greek and German couple’s post-referendum application to have their British-born children recognised as permanent residents of the UK.
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Photo # 1 I am a huge fan of Singapore’s approach to housing, as described here two years ago by copying and pasting from The ConversationWhat Singapore has that Australia does not is a public housing developer, the Housing Development Board, which puts new dwellings on public and reclaimed land, ...
Buzz from the Beehive Reactions to news of the government’s readiness to make urgent changes to “the resource management system” through a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) suggest a balanced approach is being taken. The Taxpayers’ Union says the proposed changes don’t go far enough. Greenpeace says ...
I’m starting to wonder if Anna Burns-Francis might be the best political interviewer we’ve got. That might sound unlikely to you, it came as a bit of a surprise to me.Jack Tame can be excellent, but has some pretty average days. I like Rebecca Wright on Newshub, she asks good ...
Chris Trotter writes – Willie Jackson is said to be planning a “media summit” to discuss “the state of the media and how to protect Fourth Estate Journalism”. Not only does the Editor of The Daily Blog, Martyn Bradbury, think this is a good idea, but he has also ...
Graeme Edgeler writes – This morning [April 21], the Wellington High Court is hearing a judicial review brought by Hon. Karen Chhour, the Minister for Children, against a decision of the Waitangi Tribunal. This is unusual, judicial reviews are much more likely to brought against ministers, rather than ...
Both of Parliament’s watchdogs have now ripped into the Government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMy pick of the six newsey things to know from Aotearoa’s political economy and beyond on the morning of Tuesday, April 23 are:The Lead: The Auditor General,John Ryan, has joined the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah SpengemanPeople wait to board an electric bus in Pune, India. (Image credit: courtesy of ITDP) Public transportation riders in Pune, India, love the city’s new electric buses so much they will actually skip an older diesel bus that ...
The infrastructure industry yesterday issued a “hurry up” message to the Government, telling it to get cracking on developing a pipeline of infrastructure projects.The hiatus around the change of Government has seen some major projects cancelled and others delayed, and there is uncertainty about what will happen with the new ...
Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
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 ...
Asia Pacific Report Chief Mandla Mandela, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa and Nelson Mandela’s grandson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla in istanbul as the ships prepare to sail for Gaza, reports Kia Ora Gaza. Mandela is also the ambassador for the Global Campaign to Return to ...
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in ...
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. ...
ACT's Rural Communities and Veterans spokesman Mark Cameron responds to cancellations and protests of ANZAC Day commemorations in Wellington. He says, "These pitiful attempts to detract from ANZAC Day are not at all indicative of the feelings of mainstream ...
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 ...
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Interesting report by Britanny Keogh in today’s NZ Herald, about out Local Government NZ is consiering planning changes to limit damage to homes as severe weather events are becoming more common.
They are considering restricting building within a certain distance from foreshores and in low lying properties close to rivers. Current owners of expensive seaview properties are a bit of a road block, as the value of their property might decline. And would they expect the state to bale them out if their homes were severely damaged or destroyed in a storm?
LGNZ and insurers clearly know climate change is a thing.
Plus
Toby Morris cartoon RNZ.
In 2011 the Dunedin City Council proposed adding flood information to LIM records. This was not followed through due to current owners fearing property values falling.
It’s too late, savvy buyers already factor this in when looking to buy a new property.
The future of centres like Pauinui on the Coromandel must be called into question. Built on sand, less than 10m above sea level, surrounded by water on 3 sides: the roll of the surf is overwhelmed by the flutter of notes, mixed with the rending of designer t-shirts, as beach house values erode away.
In Florida coastal areas insurance companies are stopping insuring properties for flood damage. This will become the norm here.
The question of whether socialising this individual risk to Council or Central government becomes key. I would be very reluctant to see policies put in place where coastal defence and property restoration becomes the norm. Given our current knowledge about the cost and limited effectiveness of coastal protection, managed retreat is the preferred response.
Managed retreat starts by stopping new builds in hazardous areas and then comes education. These approaches will see prices of seaside and riverside properties reduce and the number of affected houses reduce as the risks get factored in.
A big question will be whether insurance and real estate pricing are more effective in responding to climate change than anything local or central government could do or would want to do.
I think market forces are better placed, faster, more forceful and more direct than the cumbersome and unstable public sector here to respond to coastal housing retreat.
If the Government (local and central)
1. work with people to determine what particular parts of the country are of strategic value
2. Be clear that it could be YOUR HOME that is not going to be protected or compensated for.
3. Identify the cost, method and timetable the coastal defence system
Then,
4. the market can factor in that that million dollar view and seaside access is not going to be defended.
My view is that currently the “market” (otherwise known as how people act) has the expectation that somebody other than themselves is guaranteeing that their house and land will always be there. This is the presumption that needs to be explored.
So it’s not the market acting independently of government but in response to societal consensus and government regulation.
That would be a nice idea. But not a reality. Global insurers are more powerful than local government. The strongest example weve ever known of ventral and local government working together with insurers is Christchurch.
Not working out so well.
The new RMA was a place to revisit the relationship between planning powers and the Public Works Act. We won’t see it revisited for a decade or more.
I bet Edgecumbe for example shrinks to 30% of its former self. No intervention required from public sector. Go to Kelso in Southland and read the memorial inscription.
I wonder if the global insurers will start weighting premiums according to the countries response to CC? ( if that don’t already)
That would be perverse.
No I mean if a country ignores CC ( eg USA) then those preminiums will be higher.
I know what you meant.
California would get the same risk profile as Nevada?
Scotland would get the same premium as Isle of Man?
That would be perverse.
Nope could be finer tuned than that.
AND the idea would be an add onto current risk profiles.
Ad – I think you are right to suggest that market forces will be faster more forceful and direct than any other mechanism.
The problem with market forces is that they are amoral. Therefore don’t expect the outcomes of market forces to be notable for their justice – or their concern for what happens to those people for whom insurance is unaffordable and who then have their entire wealth wiped out by a single flood.
If that were true then it we’d already be seeing people leaving shore-front properties as insurance companies stopped insuring them.
The simple fact of the matter is that the government has to put in place regulations to shape the market.
We could stop building houses that act like colanders in a flood, but that seems to be too hard for some people.
Of course they will. The council let them build there and so it will all be the councils fault. They won’t accept any responsibility at all.
Even if the council had the responsibility to pay out, how many houses do you think a council could afford to protect or rebuild or payout? My guess is that it will be a surprisingly small number. Because at the same time they will be needing to also repair all that pesky infrastructure.
There are many coastal roads that are already marginal and suffer from inundation and erosion from sea activity. These may be only 1 or 10 or 20 good storms from being unusable.
Councils starting to do some thinking, now that is very strange behaviour?
Which electorate seats will Labour take from National in September? Obviously they will heavily lose Hutt South to Chris Bishop so where can they make inroads or is the plan just to raise the Party vote
dnftt.
Maybe you haven’t heard? They brought in proportional representation back in the 90s. It hasn’t mattered who wins what electorate for a couple of decades now.
@fisiani
Audrey Young in the Herald today:
“If National does not win the election in September, housing will be a contributing factor.”
The dialogue now is all about why the Nats may lose the election…this is a major change from previous elections. Bill English cannot get more than 40% for the Nats and will probably get less. Look forward to PM Little.
WTF???
“The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem is “conducting routine operations” in the South China Sea, according to a Friday press release from the US Navy. The statement went on to note that the guided-missile destroyer had been refueled at sea by Her Majesty’s New Zealand Ship (HMNZS) Endeavour. The Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) is “conducting routine operations” in the South China Sea, according to a Friday press release from the US Navy. The refueling allowed the vessel to remain mission ready ……” – RT
This is truly disturbing! Do we piss in the pockets of the military-industrial complex of the USA that we are aiding their dangerous war games in the South China Sea?
Trump is an absolute FW – with an air strike in Syria and a horrendous bomb in Afghanistan, and now brinkmanship against North Korea!
The sooner we cut ALL ties with the failing empire, the better!
Sorry TV but the truth is that we will keep pissing in their pockets because we are dumbarses.
The USA is a vile country and Trump is merely showing the world the truth about its self-appointed exceptualism.
When one accepts the truth about 9/11 the jigsaw comes together.
Sadly, garibaldi, I think you are right! (about us being dumbarses, that is!)
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/report-inmates-built-their-own-computers-to-watch-porn-hack-prison-network_042017
They also used the computers to access records of other prisoners and monitor the system that was monitoring them.
my good friend carol turned me on to something the other day. non contact rape. as an example she said that when a cis male opens a door “for” a woman its a form of non-contact rape as it makes her feel as helpless and as violated as rape does. of course i expect the cis males here to make jokes about automated doors but non contact rape is real! like my friend carol says – we can choose to discuss it and raise awareness of it or we can choose to keep quiet and silently support rape culture!
As I women, I deplore this kind of rubbish as the violence and rapes that happen every day are being ridiculed with such statements.
Instead of focusing on who has opened a door today, get cracking and help those who are stranded in halfway houses or are in need for support. Belief you me, those women who are being maltreated are not seeing an open door any time soon. The perpetrator makes damn sure of that.
Tui could you please give another example of non contact rape?
Personally I’m always grateful when someone opens a door for me, I consider it thoughtful and good manners, as I do the same for others, like people pushing prams or the elderly.
I’m massively independent as well as a survivor of rape and violence, but never in a million years would I view a man opening a door for me as non contact rape. So I’m really struggling with your friends door opening views, please enlighten me a bit more. Thanks
I agree with you Cinny – having someone open a door for me shows thoughtful good manners as far as I’m concerned and I certainly do not feel belittled or threatened in any way.
I think Tui is trying a bit of trolling. Just stop it will you please Tui, and also don’t use the name of a lovely bird, that lives as straightforward life as those close to nature do and are not laden with the low cunning of humans.
This comment didn’t make me feel at all like making jokes – just kind of depressed and with my faith in humanity lowered.
Good grief 🙄
https://voat.co/v/Checkyourprivilege/comments/373345
We are breathing the same air that is around cis white males, which means their patriarchy particles flake off and enter our systems This is rape
!!!
Here’s the answer Tui. Males should just breath different air. Ummmmh…….
Here’s the answer Tui. Males should just breath different air. And while you’re fixing that you might as well have a look at putting out their eyes.
Patriarchy particles! That’s brilliant!
Rod Donald had a possum skin cover for the seat he occupied in the House when he was an MP. Could we harvest Patriarchy particles and form them into seat covers for the Front Bench of this National Government? Perhaps serve them as a side dish, like salted peanuts, at the pub our Honourables drink at. Patriarchy particles have enormous possibilities and potential applications never before entertained, by me any way, who till now hadn’t even heard of them. Come on, TS readers, you’ll have ideas bursting to be expressed here; let’s hear them!
I miss that Rod Donald
Robert
Patriarchy particles, they possibly could be an organic insecticide, good for getting rid of body fleas on humans, dogs, cats and hens. And that’s what I can do just off the top of my head. When I sprinkle patriarchy particles on that will get rid of the layer of dandruff and who knows what other gems will arise.
Hold your breath Tui, I will be letting you know if more come to mind. Pass out if you feel so inclined.
LOL, is that you CV??
Fender
Offensive as usual. In case you haven’t noticed from your dark cave, the weather is changing so get out in the sun which will sanitise you – you know good old sunlight does wonders.
Offensive how?
You telling me to risk breathing in those patriarchy particles, suppose you’ll open the door for me too!!
Offensive ? How ? I dunno………raising CV maybe ?
Yeah it’s extremely offensive to raise the name of an old friend when a comment from Tui is reminiscent of him when he was at his most facetious 🙄
Come on greywaffler ( One who waffles or rambles; a vague, unfocused speaker or writer) explain your cock-eyed BS.
[how about both fender and greywarbler focus on the politics and drop the having a go at each other? – weka]
how about fender and greywarbler get a clothes brush and just wipe the dandruff off each other.
still… I suppose it is the holidays and time to shut down and chill – just think about the bullshit
I’ll remember to ask my daughter next time I walk down the street if she minds if I walk on the gutter side
Weka
How about I have the right to say something once and then drop it. I have nothing to do with fender’s continuing gerfuffle. I however would like to see controls on the sort of nutty talk that Tui started. How about that huh.
It can’t be CV he’s been restricted to 140 characters. lol
Bugger, it would nice to have some diversity back though.
Ok, what if a white male looks at you, or even worse speaks to you – is this a form of non contact rape?
I mean you didn’t give him consent to look at you or talk to you did you?
What about when whitey reaches out and shake your hand – that is so gross.
Patriarchial pre-sexual assault right there and it is so common!
The worst honkeys are the ones who try to disguise themselves – they spend all day in the sun deliberately trying to alter their skin colour to brown or red and they think we don’t notice?
A message for you Palangi – a slight shade of crimson does not take away the fact that your prerape whiteness is still under the surface ready to spring forth in all its molesting malevolence.
One of the worst aspects of this kind of rubbish is that confuses all the people, men in particular, who are doing their best to get it right as decent, thoughtful members of society.
It also threatens to trivialise the awful experiences of many of us who have had to deal with the real thing
Yes, yes infinity times yes.
stare rape
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Stare%20Rape
c&p
An actual legitimate sexual assault charge in South Korea.
In South Korea, definition of sexual assault extends to “an act by a male perpetrator which causes female victim to feel sexual discomfort or shame”. Under this definition, it is illegal for Korean men to look at a female in public, if she decides that act to be offensive.
Under this definition, numerous Korean men are actually arrested each year for looking at a female in public. In many cases when the accuser alleges that the man took photographs (In Korea, it is also illegal for men to photograph females in public, but not vice versa), it is customary for the man to have his cell phone confiscated and have the entire device searched for evidence. Oftentimes, the accused is dismissed from his employer as well.
In South Korea, it is possible for a man to be charged for sexual assault for stare rape.
if only we in aotearoa were so enlightened!!!
[given that rape culture is such an important issue, and conversations here are usually fraught, I’m going to ask that if you want to make claims about something you link to real evidence, not a random’s person’s reckons on the internet. In this case if you want to claim that in South Korea there are laws regarding stare rape, please link to something credible that back that up. Thanks. – weka]
National must be really screwing up in the polls if this is the stuff they are trying to derail the conversation with.
this is about rape culture. no one is interested in the opinions of ignorant cis males!!!
Tui, unfortunately this is a fail. If you really want to talk about rape culture you have to really get to grips with a quite different issue than opening doors! My god, whose agenda are we being dished out here?
@Tui. I think you should get your good friend Carol to talk to a few people who have actually been raped, Get her to ask if they mind a door being opened for them and if they feel threatened by it. Then get her to ask herself whether life is all about her
Yes, that’s something that really is disconcerting. I find it scary rather than uncomfortable. I thought in my ‘mature years’ it wouldn’t happen any more – wrong! 🙁
Dangerous topic to be trolling about Tui
+ 1 yep have to agree
I get nervous and suspicious when someone comments about what their friend said not what they thought about what their friend said, or how that affected them.
Idly wondering if Carol and Tui are one and the same person, Tui Carol perhaps or Carol Tui?
A.
Your friend Carol is probably delusional, and you should probably think about finding different friends. You know, ones who aren’t delusional.
I’ll open a door for a woman sometimes. I do it, not as a way of reasserting the dominance of the patriarchy, or implying that she’s both weak and stupid and thus incapable of operating a door without the assistance of a man, but because I’m polite and like to be helpful. Terrible, I know. I also open doors for small children, the elderly and… brace yourself, other men. Right, I’m off to self-flagellate now. Wish me luck.
Just taking a punt here mind, but I’m picking I’m not alone in feeling just a little bit bilious in reaction to the peddling of this muck that Tui has thrown into today’s Open Mike.
I’ve no idea whether they’re making a ham-fisted attempt to allude to post traumatic symptoms of rape sometimes displaying as fraught “fight or flight” responses to innocuous every day acts.
Or whether they’re consciously trying to diminish and dismiss rape.
To be honest, on a first reading of their comments, I’m leaning towards the latter and then regretting I wasn’t around earlier in the day to kick the wee shite into touch.
Based on previous comments by Tui I’m taking it as genuine but seriously misguided concern about rape culture.
I also put it in the particular category of modern solidarity politics where issues get taken to such extremes that they are out of touch with human norms or what is politically viable. Underneath it all there is something useful about what women experience living in the patriarchy but the framing is so bad that it just damages (I can see why some thought it was trolling).
Tui is trolling – I cannot imagine how you can think otherwise.
I guess it depends on what you mean by trolling.
I open the door for males and females alike. Especially if they are carrying something or dealing with a child. Oftentimes, someone is following you closely and to not keep the door open is (to me) a mark of disrespect or deliberate dismissing of another person.
Carol may have a different reaction, but that response may lie in her own life experience, and would not be true for many, and definitely not for all.
This kind of stamping down on the courtesies and social mores of our society, probably does more harm than good. An assumption is made that only males enact this courtesy, and that it has nothing to do with the small connections and kindnesses of the everyday that go in to help create community.
“my good friend carol turned me on to something the other day. non contact rape. as an example she said that when a cis male opens a door “for” a woman its a form of non-contact rape as it makes her feel as helpless and as violated as rape does. of course i expect the cis males here to make jokes about automated doors but non contact rape is real! like my friend carol says – we can choose to discuss it and raise awareness of it or we can choose to keep quiet and silently support rape culture!”
I also don’t believe this fits the definition of rape, and trying to call it rape minimises rape and harms the movement against rape culture (some of the reasons already given in comments).
The use of ‘cis’ here also makes me uncomfortable. Are you suggesting that only cis men rape? How would you know the gender identity of someone opening a door for you?
weka
cis male – what does that stand for?
And could we cut tui’s hooey off in mid flow before it further pollutes our nice clean mud-slinging. Must keep our standards up eh! By the way I did praise Psycho Milt earlier, didn’t expect that.
So can we get back to normal, we have plenty of surprises just from the keen and committed without introducing some nasty little stirrer. Perhaps till after the election!
Please.
I don’t think Tui is stirring, and it’s OM, so people have a pretty wide latitude. Am keeping an eye on it though.
I’m on my phone, have a google of cis.
Here is urban dictionary with something about cis so you can see what the
socialmediafog people are on about.
Cis
Short for cis-gendered, meaning someone who identifies with the sex they were born as. Typically used by whiny tumblr users who complain about not being accepted for who they are and yet bash these “cis” people for being born and being okay with the sex they were born with.
I am a female to male transgender and I hate white straight cis men.
Also google –
cis1
sɪs/
adjectiveChemistry
adjective: cis
denoting or relating to a molecular structure in which two particular atoms or groups lie on the same side of a given plane in the molecule, in particular denoting an isomer in which substituents at opposite ends of a carbon–carbon double bond are on the same side of the bond.
“the cis isomer of stilbene”
Also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
and
Time.com says: “Dec 23, 2014 – This adjective had its biggest year yet in 2014.”
That’s all the facts that I know about – enough I think.
[please link when cut and pasting. – weka]
“Cis man” means “man.” The “cis” part is superfluous, like talking about “edible food.”
“That’s all the facts that I know about – enough I think.”
Pretty sure you have missed the general online usage of the word ‘cis’ and the context meaning in this thread.
Could you not just accept that some males were taught certain forms of etiquette.
Not only do I open a door for a female, if I am walking down the street I walk nearest the gutter, and if with another male, the female walks between us. It doesn’t mean either of us (males) wants to get into her pants.
Jesus! as if there weren’t more important things to worry about.
@ Tui (6) … I always thought holding open a door for another person to go through was a sign of good manners and respect.
So how does your “friend” Carol feel about a man (or woman for that matter) giving up a seat on public transport for another person? Does that identify with rape culture also, for the same reasons you have stated?
I am a woman in my early 70s and will hold open a door for someone else, particularly if they are infirm or have young children. For the same reasons, I have given up my seat on public transport and will continue to do so, if I feel someone else needs it more than I do.
after re-reading my own comments and those of other women here i wish to sincerely apologise to any women for whom my comments may have triggered painful memories and or emotions. it was only my intention to raise a fuller awareness of rape culture and not to cause hurt or offence.
~tui
@ Tui (6.13) … Obviously in response to my post, you state the following …
“after re-reading my own comments and those of other women here i wish to sincerely apologise to any women for whom my comments may have triggered painful memories and or emotions. it was only my intention to raise a fuller awareness of rape culture and not to cause hurt or offence.
~tui”
WTF!
What are you talking about? Why on earth would demonstrating good manners and respect towards others, trigger painful memories or emotions, hurt or offence?
While I realise I might not be the brightest star in the sky, you have definitely lost me there!
The only feelings you’ve raised for me Tui are those of disbelief. Mary summed it up perfectly with WTF!
Tui, are Carol and yourself familiar with the author of the topic you brought up?
It’s on his website, but his presence on the internet is some what limited to that amazon and his company https://www.chemaxx.com/ … I wonder what he has a P.h.D in?
“Michael Fox obtained his doctorate degree in physical chemistry in the 1970s”
“It should be noted that Dr. Fox is not a psychologist or psychiatrist and that his interest in emotional rape is personal as opposed to professional.”
Book was published in 1992, it his opinion on what a friend of his went through, his personal not professional opinion. He’s a chemicals engineer and not an expert or even a scholar of psychology or rape and abuse research etc.
One persons opinion does not dictate the ways or experiences of many, as is reflected in the comments generated on this topic. Rather it risks creating a greater divide.
When someone makes OTT claims, I like to find out about them, as for the author his interests and activities include: Chemical Accident Reconstruction, Aerosols, Hazardous Chemicals, Chemical Injuries & Accidents, Nuclear Reactors…. as well for a fee he is happy to help law firms with chemical advice.
Maybe if he was writing about science he would be credible, but he as no credibility in writing about rape etc.
sent by email from my friend carol:
https://www.quora.com/Do-you-feel-you-have-been-emotionally-raped-by-someone
emotional rape
c&p
What is Emotional Rape?
According to Michael Fox, Ph.D., emotional rape is similar in many ways to physical rape, particularly date rape. Date rape involves the sexual use of someone’s body without consent which amounts to theft of the person’s physical sensorium. In a like manner, emotional rape is the theft of someone’s higher emotions, such as love, without consent. However, in the case of emotional rape the lack of consent is contained in the fact that the individual is being lied to by the perpetrator.
c&p
Adriana McGee, Domestic Violence Survivor
Written May 30, 2016
Emotional Rape does exist. Many victims are afraid to use the term because they don’t want to offend sexual rape victims. I would say that acknowledging that emotional rape does exist does not diminish the horror of sexual rape, but simply give a voice and a description for survivors to understand this kind of emotional violence; which is different from other kinds of violence.
Emotional rape is distinct from verbal and other forms of emotional and psychological abuse because the rapist does not simply prey on your insecurities or childhood wounds; but your higher values such as love and your sense of self-worth.
While many forms of emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse are dependent on the dysfunctionality of the victim; emotional rapists hone in on a victim’s healthiest and most natural responses. Their natural desires, highest-values, and urges; while still targeting their vulnerabilities: (which in most cases of emotional rape is simply innocence or naivete).
Acknowledging emotional rape does not minimize sexual rape, or diminish sexual rape victims; but validates the deep emotions and painful feelings of loss, isolation, denial, confusion, horror, and fear of Emotional Rape victims who are experiencing post-traumatic rape syndrome, and yet are unaware that there’s a name for what they are experiencing.
Anyone who is victim of emotional rape knows that it goes far beyond simple deception or betrayal. Victims often have a feeling that they are no longer “whole” and never will be again. This feeling can last for months, years, or even decades.
denying the reality of emotional rape is rape culture
[please make sure that your comments clearly differentiate between your own words and your quotes. See my moderator note above too. – weka]
Handy hint: “According to Michael Fox, Ph.D.” is worth about as much as “According to Psycho Milt,” in the absence of evidence demonstrating Dr Fox’s subject expertise in the matter at hand. And “According to my good friend Carol” is worth even less than “According to Psycho Milt” in Psycho Milt’s personal opinion. Worth keeping in mind when commenting.
This world human populace along with the flora and fauna is being ’emotionally/physically raped’ 24/7..
Tui, if you are a genuinely concerned human being, you might realise that the comments you make on the subject are a nonsense and insult to the ‘real cause’ and suffering faced by men, women and children..
Broaden the thinking patterns
Only in America.
https://wonkette.com/615520/south-dakota-forcibly-jamming-catheters-up-childrens-pee-pees-to-protect-the-children
Ugh. Extreme rendition brutalises the officials permitted nay encouraged to use it, then pass the parcel down to the children!
As they say in the good ole USA “In God we trust, all else pay cash”. And if you haven’t the pay-off money you get what they think you deserve and they can get away with by setting up false urgency laws that are OTT and should never have even been contemplated.
A few words from Harry.
https://soundcloud.com/harry-leslie-smith/harrys-last-stand-episode-1
https://soundcloud.com/harry-leslie-smith/harrys-last-stand-episode-2
Will Trump attack North Korea?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfC82ihdKQ
NORTH KOREA threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4A5UzIb3E
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KIM JUST ORDERED THE EVACUATION OF THE CAPITAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1TFjolsB8
[that video is 3 days old. Please don’t use CAPS when commenting – weka]
I hope sincerely it is a fake announcement? So many pin headed shits around it is more than likely. Think Beetlejuice. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj_inlzsDhQ
That will be quite a surprise to the hordes gathering in the city for official marches right now: https://twitter.com/annafifield/status/853057058366672897
and there seem to be rather a few of em: https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/853074336638541825
They reported six hundred thousand had been evacuated. Not the entire city. Top officials and their families perhaps?
Dunno who or what “Next News Network” is, but given the other vid link is from CBS and it plays the same war hyped lines, I guess RT’s assertion that western media are being bloody irresponsible stacks up, aye?
Ironically, the story (from the Next News Network) initially came from a Russian news report.
Which story are you referring to? The supposed evacuation of Pyongyang? The supposed 6th nuclear test? Something else altogether? Maybe you could provide a quick link …?
Evidently, you missed my edit.
Yeah I missed your edit. So I had a quick for this “Russian news report” on pravdareport (as per the NNN link) and decided not to bother beyond a cursory moment or two that turned up nothing, on the basis that it’s a site on the par with the UK Sun or NZs Truth…or Next News Network. 🙄
Considering the predicament, it’s plausible North Korea would move top officials to safety.
Trumps posturing will entice North Korea to intensify their nuclear capability, hence can’t envision them canceling nuclear tests now.
Therefore, how will this play out?
Is Trump backing himself into a corner, thus will have no choice but to act or look weak?
Pyongyang live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwbpBIabRmo
Again, they reported six hundred thousand had been evacuated. Not the entire city.
Other than a fema camp wingnut’s bullshit report via Pravda, sourced from fuck knows where, there’s nothing reputable saying this evacuation is actually occurring.
But you swallowed David Daleiden’s shitty wee hit piece videos on PP, too.
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edit: FFS.
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As I pointed out to Bill, considering the predicament, it’s plausible North Korea would move top officials to safety. Thus the report is far from left-field.
As for David Daleiden, his videos were so compelling they spurred the president of Planned Parenthood to personally apologize for the staff member’s tone and statements and resulted in several investigations. As a result, three Planned Parenthood clinics were found to be performing second-trimester abortions without the proper licenses, and one clinic was failing to keep proper logs relating to fetal remains.
And apparently, there are more videos to come.
The question I have is whether we have the heart to rid ourselves of these clowns (western political leaders) and their stenographic monkeys (msm) or are content to sit back and embrace the spoon fed idea that we are powerless?
Just to be clear, before some idiot who’d probably struggle to spell “IQ”, jumps up and accuses me of being a supporter of this, that or the other dictatorship, there are no nation states worthy of continued existence as far as I’m concerned.
A number of Trump supporters thought they were doing that (ridding ourselves of these war mongers). Spoon fed the idea that voting (in a largely corporate dominated representative democracy) could bring about significant change.
NO HEART!
Too many still either believe the scripts they’re constantly fed, or too busy trying to live life while hoping the script won’t include their own existence
Listening to friends and family regurgitating the scripts while simultaneously, using positive reinforcement, openly supporting the ‘good position’ NZ is in as a nation
These are good honest people who have had better opportunity than most, and whom have no excuse for the ignorance they communicate
I’m quite sure they understand some of the realities, but it seems they believe by waxing positive, that the problems either don’t, or will somehow disappear
It’s a terrible bind, because these such people are largely responsible for the perpetuation of evil deeds
The ‘middle and the masses’
Western media is corporate media, and the corporations make their best profits off war.
Here is an example of that drive for money. A priest talking about Syria. Oh and it’s from right wing web site – so some here might not want to read it , so they came keep ideological purity.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/february/04/the-media-coverage-on-syria-is-the-biggest-media-lie-of-our-time-interview-with-flemish-priest-in-syria/#.WOpu9D_Y-bU.twitter
There are some interesting associations in this short clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonB0Oe02O4
nsa hacking tools the new easter egg.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/hackers-release-nsas-secret-hacking-tools-for-windows-2017-4
Middle east banks compromised may need more then band aid for coverup.
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/major-leak-suggests-nsa-deep-middle-east-banking-system/
Oral history confirmed.
The Heiltsuk people of Canada report in their oral history that an island on the west coast of their territory has been home to the Heiltsuk for thousands of years—one of the only places to stay uncovered during the ice age.
When archaeologists digging on Triquet Island last year found charcoal flakes that could be dated at up to 14,000 years old, the Heiltsuk found their oral history reaffirmed by the data. And archaeologists had more evidence to an emerging hypothesis: that, after crossing the Bering Sea, the original inhabitants of North America traveled along the coast to avoid the inhospitable ice cover.
https://sciencefriday.com/segments/a-14000-year-old-discovery-emerges-from-oral-history/
https://soundcloud.com/scifri/14000-years-ago-this-canadian-island-was-a-refuge-from-the-ice-1
First protest in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=damWIvQn1Eo
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
– Edgar D. Mitchell.
Great post joe90
after getting accused of “trolling” i’m going to stick to “safe” topics from now on. i’ve decided to become a trump supporter. now here me out! i know he’s a cis male and said those horrid things but he listens to his daughter! when those poor women and children were chemically attacked this upset his daughter and his daughter told trump and trump got upset and did what had to be done to prevent attacks like that happening again. call me a troll or traitor if you want but i’ve given you my reasons and if i was trolling i wouldn’t be trying to explain myself now would i?
my question is what would you have done if you were trump and your daughter was so upset about what had happened?
~tui
[you put up two or three very controversial comments, some of which is pretty offensive. I was impressed by the way the other commenters responded to that, there was no shit fight, just a series of considered comments disagreeing with you and pointing out why. You’ve ignored all of those and now come back in some hours later and posted in an inflammatory way. Take the weekend off (back on Tues and I suggest a read of the Policy before you comment again) – weka]
Well done weka.
Wow.
Want a demonstration of blind, deaf privilege and the arrogance that not only discounts but simply cannot hear other narratives? This man imagines that he’s not racist and that he’s the real victim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_DoWdQkGo
http://buzz-zinga.blogspot.co.nz/2017/04/news-man-don-lemon-from-cnn-loses-it.html
The Home Office have refused a Greek and German couple’s post-referendum application to have their British-born children recognised as permanent residents of the UK.
http://newsthump.com/2017/04/14/uk-denies-residency-to-british-born-children-of-greek-german-couple/
😉