Clearly Heather du Plessis Allen is a vile racist.
She has no role in journalism in New Zealand in 2018.
Boycott Newstalk ZB.
During a Wellington broadcast of Newstalk ZB, the host discussed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision to visit Nauru.
Du Plessis Allan referred to the island as a “hell hole”, and said it was not worth attending the Forum anyway because the Pacific Islands “don’t matter.”
“They are nothing but leeches on us. The Pacific Islands wants money from us,” she told listeners.
Oscar Kightley wrote.
“Does Newstalk ZB in Wellington not think it has any Pacific Island listeners? Or do they think their listeners are all bigots who want to hear this stuff or they’ll change
Tens of thousands of New Zealand citizens spend massive amounts of their wages in “remittances”; simply sending cash back to relatives in Pacific Islands. In many Pacific states, “remittances” form a majority of the entire income of the state, and in others it’s close.
Further tens of thousands of New Zealand citizens go to secure enclaves of Pacific islands for luxury holidays.
The two worlds rarely meet, either in New Zealand or in the Pacific Islands.
I suspect reporters are familiar with the latter, not with the former.
Nauru’s government, apart from being corrupt to its eyeballs and having a fully politicized judiciary and Police force, has made a pact with the Devil in the form of Australia’s prison and immigration system. Instead of being the phosphate hole of the Pacific, it is now the jail hole. And that pact with the devil will extend as far into the future as there are immigrants coming by boat. So yes, I can see her point calling it a “hell hole”.
Nauru blew their money is the real problem.
The steady cash flow ( even if it was under paid) has been a curse for the lifestyle of imported western food and junk and mismanagement of their sovereign wealth fund means they are virtually bankrupt.
Barry Soper’s hideous other half (significantly, she’s a white South African) has been an embarrassment ever since she first opened her mouth. Never, until this moronic apartheid-era outburst against Pacific Islanders, was she worse than when she fronted the ill-fated Story on TV3….
“As someone who has lived and worked in the region for nearly 30 years I have nothing but contempt for the sheer ignorance I have been reading from those whose idea of the Pacific is lying poolside at Denarau with a pina colada.”
Our Provost-Depute here in Kihipini is a South African. Next in line after Mayor Meng Foon. Last I heard Gisborne is the poorest district in NZ. Difficult to imagine voting for her. And the fact they’re all still right-wingers perhaps establishes the heart of the matter re both capitalism and South Africans.
And the Pacific Islands are central to our hearts.
Good on the government for attacking fast food’s involvement in sponsorship of children’s food.
And thumbs down to Katherine Rich, head of the euphemistically named ‘Food and Grocery Council’ which is just a pressure group for big food companies like Coca Cola.
She know her real role would be derided , so, if you look at the photograph in the article, she has posed in front of fruit and vegetables.
Poor journalism by Stuff to allow her to pull that stunt.
Overall a very weak patsy article.
Journalists know where their advertising revenue comes from too.
Industrial dairy farming is destroying the environment.
“New Zealand diary has become an enthusiastic user of synthetic nitrogen. We used around 6000t of nitrogen fertilisers every year in the 1960s; that increased to around 50,000t by 1990; Today, we use 500,000t, an increase of 1000 per cent within three decades. It has been matched by similar increases in dairy exports and dairy cow numbers.
While synthetic nitrogen has allowed farming to expand into new areas, and increased the productivity of our primary export industry, it has come at a cost.
Right now, there is 187,000t of nitrogen flowing through New Zealand’s waterways, heading towards the sea.
Freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy calls this cycle our “deadly nitrogen addiction”, and says the massive growth in the use of nitrogen fertiliser has unleashed many environmental problems, particularly with our freshwater.
Let me help, James. Standing up for one’s female partner, is not misogynistic, it’s the opposite. I wonder too, do you understand what the word “wife” means and the process required to become one?
Misoyginy is not the issue and James was wrong to make it so. Basically it is whether spouses of politicians start making political points. The PM has a whole office with media experts to deal with these issues. Basically I have never seen a spouse get so involved in the political debate as Clarke Gayford. He is not the one who is elected. Being supportive and being present at all sorts of events does not mean he also has to get politically involved.
You’ve never seen it, Wayne? But you’ve also never seen a PM like Jacinda, with a newborn baby and a high-profile partner; it’s a whole new world, Wayne; be prepared for things to be done differently!
Indeed it is a new generation, in fact on both sides of the House. Basically that is good for NZ. People like PM’s charm and good nature.
Whether Clarke being directly engaged in political debate is also good is rather more debatable. And in fact his role in that regards is being debated. How does that help the PM?
Oh dear – what is happening? Seriously, I actually agree with both you and Wayne on this one. Much as I have a lot of time for Clarke, he really does need to step back from any hint of political comment, even if his intent is to support Jacinda, as his love and partner.
That comment by Wayne starts with a moronic spelling error and gets worse from there. His (unintentionally hilarious) obsession with Clarke Gayford is clearly a reflection of the anger and bewilderment felt by the rest of his cronies in the National Party.
Robert, please be aware that James supported a prime minister who would not even stand up for his own bodyguard from Iraq after he was targeted by the Australian police. To his mind, the idea of actually standing up for anyone, especially a woman, is just not something to be admired.
James thinks that if a woman is following him through a doorway he should let the door shut in her face, because holding it open for her would be sexist.
Yes, discussing industrial dairy farming, brilliant political animations, fast food corporations advertising to children and racism in our media is trolling.
While contributing only contributing barbed insults is the height of intelligence.
She has planned a big speech. This afternoon at 1 pm. Funny elements of the media and the right keep attacking her for failing to go public when the opposite is true.
Doing an interview having to answer questions is a lot different from a stage managed speech (I’m assuming labour manage it – but given this lot who knows)
Still dosnt address the conflicting stories on her diary.
I’m really looking forward to Jacinda’s speech and the caterwauling from the likes of James afterwards. Do you think James might be a misogynist?
“Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.”
James certainly appears to be a racist.
He criticised me for suggesting a boycott of ZB after one of their presenters spouts vile racism against Pacific Islanders.
He condoned the racism.
You slur too easily. He didn’t condone the racism –
he took the piss out of your idiotic attempt at relevancy when you suggested a boycott. It was funny, the cats bit.
Play the ball not the person ed and please don’t suggest i go to a war zone and die – that’s not nice is it.
Soltka , apart from barbed comments, what have you added to the discussion this morning?
I have introduced 4 varied and interesting topics.
The impact of industrial dairying and nitrogen levels on our water.
Racism from a media presenter with a suggestion of how we deal with this.
A reference to the brilliant artist Steve Cutts.
The government’s attempts to tackle obesity amongst children and the media’s handling of the story.
James posted a right wing attack line on Jacinda. This was clear trolling.
And you and marty mars have just made unpleasant and unnecessary negative comments.
If you have nothing to add about the 4 issues I highlighted- all of which could engender an interesting sharing of views – please scroll past.
Apart from unpleasant comments directed at others, what have you contributed today?
I have introduced 4 varied and interesting topics.
The impact of industrial dairying and nitrogen levels on our water.
Racism from a media presenter with a suggestion of how we deal with this.
A reference to the brilliant artist Steve Cutts.
The government’s attempts to tackle obesity amongst children and the media’s handling of the story.
I havent asked another human to go and die in a war whilst proclaiming a vegan sainthood and laughingly comparing myself to jeremy corbyn like you ed – stalk someone else war mongrel-ed
All you have done today is make negative comments.
You have nothing to add to anyone’s talking points on Open Mike.
Please stop stalking me.
It is creepy.
I skipped most of your initial comments. But the responses to you going apeshit again are pretty funny, I like those. Keep up providing the material for smarter people to riff on.
While I definitely don’t align with some of your more radical views Ed, I have to agree with what you are saying at 9:26am (4.2.2.1.2.2).
If you have nothing to add about the 4 issues I highlighted- all of which could engender an interesting sharing of views – please scroll past.
Because you do make positive contributions and generally hold back on the personal attacks I do read what you say … I take the view that there is something to be learned pretty much everywhere you look. Cheers.
They are flailing around looking to work out attack lines on Jacinda. They operate on the basis that if you say something often enough it becomes reality.
It is what happens when you are really deficient at the issues.
Bierce described what they are looking for rather well:
(under OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek.) Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as “unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous.” And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Being functionally illiterate as well as completely unprincipled of course the Gnats are obliged to try to find it empirically. They’ve tested ‘evasive’, and ‘weak’, and ‘not a leader’ and are trying ‘too nice’.
They forget that others may be prompted by this to find a fitting political epitaph for much more readily caricatured Bridges.
“The big fertiliser companies are accused of quashing a more environmentally friendly way of applying nitrogen”
Quote from TOM LEE/STUFF.
A new fertiliser system
Bert Quin talks about the new fertiliser spreading system he has created.
The two big fertiliser companies are accused of quashing a more environmentally friendly method of applying nitrogen, in order to protect profits. Tony Wall investigates for ‘Growing Pain’ a Stuff series examining New Zealand’s dangerous addiction to fertiliser.
Taupo helicopter operator Mark Williams thought he’d hit on the holy grail – a system of applying nitrogen that meant up to three times the grass growth and less leaching.
It was a simple method that had been around for years – instead of applying fertiliser such as urea in a solid, granular form, the product is ground up, water is added to create a slurry, and it’s sprayed on pasture from the air or ground.
Known as fine particle application, proponents of the system say it’s a far more efficient way of applying fertiliser because more nutrients are taken up by the plant and less is lost to the atmosphere and through leaching.
Advocates of fine particle application say the mixture can be sprayed right up to the edge of streams and rivers, without leaching into the water.
But scientists working for the big-two farmer-owned co-operatives, Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Ravensdown, rubbish the claims and say there’s no science to back it up.
Williams has given up, and sold his machine to another helicopter operator.
“I’m sick of banging my head against the wall. If they want to keep pouring [granular] urea on their ground, so be it – let them do what they want, not what they should be doing.”
“Because New Zealand doesn’t have direct competition it has allowed the industry to price products to allow them to maximise tonnage rather than perhaps benefit [the environment].”
Harold claims that during his time, sales reps were trained to dissuade farmers from trying alternatives.
A contract milker from Taupo, who asked that his name not be published for fear of repercussions, says he saw first hand the “outstanding” results of a fine particle application trial on his farm.
But fertiliser company reps convinced the owner the system wouldn’t work.
“It’s an uphill battle for a lot of us managers. Farm owners are fairly traditionalist – they do everything by the book and do as these fert companies tell them to do.
“The fert companies are in it for the money obviously – they have a lot of influence over the farmers.”
End.
We are now seeing the hollowing out of our environmental regulations in NZ by large overseas corporations and now even Ravens down fertilizer Co, which is a farmers co-operative!!!!!!!! all now are getting around Government controls.
So what will happen under TPPA??????
Our government has truly been nobbled at making water quality and climate change able to be effectively acted upon sadly.
This is not a new idea, Brett Emeny as been offering this method of application with his helicopter company for years.
Personally I think it’s the helicopter guys that are being disingenuous not the fertiliser companies.
They are just trying to sell Helicopter time to benefit their own businesses.
When you have to pay for Helicopters, to spray a product that is mostly water on pasture the costs are much greater than applying solid urea granules by truck.
And having tried both methods I’m using Trucks and solid fertiliser, just as effective and much cheaper.
Sure, I just don’t believe it works.
Grinding up solid fertiliser adding water, spraying it on pasture and then claiming you only need a third of what you would normally use, yeah right.
There is no Magic.
A 2/3 Less is still 2/3 less.
Try it with your dinner tonight take 1/3 of what’s on your plate process to a slurry drink it down and tell yourself you have had the same nutrients as if you had eaten the full meal.
I was talking about Helicopters because it was invented by a helicopter pilot, for use from helicopters, but yes can be sprayed be tractors etc.
Instead of overseeing a modern economy and a vibrant, outward looking state, Erdogan seems to be determined to re-make the Ottoman Empire, cast himself as Caliph, and fit right in with the authoritarian Middle East.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed himself chairman of Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund and got rid of the entire management staff that had presided over two years of inaction.
Zafer Sonmez, head of Turkey and Africa for Malaysia’s government investment vehicle Khazanah Nasional Bhd, was named general manager. Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, Erdogan’s son-in-law, will also sit on the board, according to a decree published in the Official Gazette.
The overhaul comes two years after the government formed the fund to capitalize on $200 billion of state assets and put a lid on market turmoil in the wake of a failed coup attempt. But the organization’s goals and strategy were never clearly defined and internal strife led to the firing of its first chief executive officer after Erdogan publicly expressed his disappointment.
Don’t agree with everything this commentator says, because I think he falls into the trap of thinking neoliberalism is about race whereas I think neoliberalism doesn’t care what colour, culture or ethnicity the successor is, (I’m more an Animal farm believer aka power corrupts no matter what species and that is what society needs to protect itself from) but he has some interesting points…
Three Hard Truths About American Collapse
America Probably Isn’t Going to Make It. Will You?
“I’m going to keep this short and bittersweet.
America’s probably not going to recover in our lifetimes, if ever (even if the good guys win the next election.) Let me start with some alarming and necessary factoids. America’s a country whose three main indicators are all blinking nine-alarm red — they’re what “collapse” really means. Life expectancy’s falling. Real incomes are shrinking. And 80% of people live paycheck to paycheck. ”
“That’s because these megatrends of collapse are the culmination of decades of self-destructive choices, trickle-down economics, neoliberalism, market fundamentalism, a total lack of investment in people, a culture of cruelty, a modern day caste society, Walmart capitalism, all of which added up to Weimar republic style ruin — letting middle classes implode, leaving the poor to die in the streets, because a predatory elite was allowed to capture more than 100% of society’s gains, and worse still, Americans were told to believe, by wise men, that all that was noble, righteous, and true: only the strong should survive.”
“Singers have long queried the cryptic call to “guard Pacific’s triple star”. But New Zealand folk music expert John Archer argues it was a reference to the three stars on Te Kooti’s flag of Māori independence. “Bracken was a committed Irish nationalist,” Archer says. “He was squarely on the side of the Māori from when he first arrived in New Zealand in 1869, during the middle of Te Kooti’s battles with colonial troops, in his campaign for independence for Tūhoe Māori.” That is reinforced by the cover of the 1878 music score, featuring a drawing of the Royal Standard alongside the flag of the independent tribes.”
“I went down to Salisbury
To listen to the choir,
A pair of Russian tourists
They were staring up the spire,
Staring up the spire, they were,
Silent and aghast,
Against the sky, hurtling by,
A piggy flying past.”
MI6 took six months
To stitch up two chumps
The Great Game still raging
Pick a side and start waging
Who cares who right
Pick a side, and fight
Critical thinking down the drain
We run out of using our brain
Tough love? They made lotsa mistakes & Barrett forgot how to convert tries. They need another goal-kicker as plan B. Well, at least two others in the team but they decided against trying them!
Inept captaincy and coaching more like it . Keep barrett if they must but find another kicker to play at 15 or 12 ffs. And change plans if you are losing
Did enjoy the match though much better than a runaway win to watch .
I love Hugh Hamilton such a thoughtful journalist. Glad he the one asking Chris Hedges the questions in this shameless self promotion (tongue firmly in cheek there – just in case you want to be a spiteful literalist.) Video is 26 minutes long, and at 13:50 min in Hugh throws a great question at Chris which was well researched and wonderfully put.
Be warned from RT america, so all the wallflowers who can’t handle anything outside the official narrative might want to avoid.
Doesnt make sense .
“Swiss publication Tages Anzeiger and Dutch paper NRC have reported that the two men, who have yet to be identified, were arrested back in March and detained in The Hague before being extradited back to Russia.”
You dont get extradited back to your own country, its called deported. Why would this be a ‘secret’ and only revealed now ?
Arrested back in March ? Where was that if they were ‘detained in the Hague’
And if they were facing charges in the Netherlands, an extradition request for something trumped up to be more serious might be a way for Russia to get them back. Not to mention other deals that might have happened.
You would do well to take your own advice you lying piece of shit.
I’ve read a bit of Chomsky in my time – even his largely discredited linguistic work.
But I haven’t run across evidence that England funds ISIS as you claim.
It is for you to produce such evidence, having made the fatuous claim.
Pretending to scholastic values you do not meet does not absolve you of this responsibility.
Pony up real evidence Morrissey, or retract your lie.
And all the crazy edifice you’ve built upon it.
[I realize that as a fundamentally dishonest person you rely on misrepresenting others – but the flake news to which I refer on this occasion is this buffoon Jimmy Dore – who seems to offer more in the way of emoting than reporting, suitable for a gossip show perhaps, but not meeting the basic requirements of his much repeated “journalism 101”]
When does it get to the stage where the above and below ‘prove’ that one of youse fellas has a considerably, considerably, CONSIDERABLY larger cock than the other, whilst that other is able to posit that they are considerably, considerably, CONSIDERABLY more well-read than yea?
I’m not sure which of youse fellas is witch
Is it provable anyway?
Please, EXPOSE yourselves. We’ll all be impressed in a Kardashian kind of way
Whoar eh?
I ‘spose it’s all a bit entertaining in a sadistic sort of way. I’m certainly amused but at the same time ready to opt-the-fuck-out of it all as soon as my nanna nap is next due
Massive South African racist and child bride, Heather Duplicity Allan, doubles down on her appalling comments.
This woman is now pretending she wasn’t talking about Pacific Islanders themselves, rather their representatives. This sort of desperate and false backtrack reminds me of Jordan Peterson’s work. Peterson will say something school-boyish and outrageous and be called on it, only for his white, pimply defenders to claim he’s been misinterpreted.
Duplicity-Allan is on a tightrope right now and I for one hope she falls off it.
It’s common knowledge.
It adds to the portrait of her and Soper as a RW political hit squad.
There’s something weird about the relationship so it follows there something weird about her thinking.
Is your wife a lot younger than you, or something? If so I don’t mean any offence to you personally, just Duplicity.
Dude, it is irrelevant to the specifics of my personal life. It just smacks of the panty-sniffing puritans who think that what goes on in other people’s bedrooms is their business.
You know what’s weird about HDPA’s thinking? The way she called the Pacific Islands “leeches” that “don’t matter”. Isn’t that enough?
Personal is personal until it impinges on the public.
A fundy conservative politician privately contradicting the policies they support in public? Fair game. Because the hypocrisy is of public interest.
And yeah, dolt-45 with women by itself is of no public interest. But breaking campaign laws to pay off said women? It’s the breaking of campaign laws that was interesting. Dolt-45 with hookers pissing on a bed Obama slept in? One could stretch that it goes to the motives behind some of the Orange One’s policies, but it’s titillation only – until it becomes possible material that’s being used to blackmail him. Then it’s a US security issue.
None of that applies to HDPA.
It’s not “ammo”. It’s just you cheapening a good point with irrelevant panty-sniffing. If that’s the biggest way a NZ reporter/columnist is “weird”, we’re bloody lucky.
Edit: unfortunately, it’s not, because HDPA’s comments were bloody weird.
She uses her unorthodox marriage to Soper as a promotional tool and there are several articles on it. There’s a case the marriage itself is part of her campaign given the wedding was in parliament. How weird is that?
Given her naked ambition to be a RW shock jock I’d say her unorthodox marriage is fair game.
Two colleagues met, hooked up, and got married where they work, because where they work is an interesting place. Hell, they might even have sold stories to the weekly rags. None of this is actually a negative or a vulnerability to target, and all of it is irrelevant to the objectionable shit she actually said.
I’m getting the distinct impression that somehow you think “weird” and “unorthodox” are bad things that makes racist comments even worse.
In addition, I believe Duplicity Allan is carefully constructing her image as a Mark Richardson type. A peddler of controversy for the sake of it. For clicks, ears, attention, and dollars.
We don’t need any more of this type of divisive tabloid behaviour in this country, there’s enough of it already.
So I’ll fight her and her type whenever I see it with whatever ammo I can lay my hands on.
If I was rating Tova O’Brien as a political reporter she wouldn’t even get on the board. Very bad disrespectful questioning of Jacinda A. Interrupting answers and all but calling her a liar. Simon is looking and sounding even more desperate. Even if there is a bit of dissension in the Coalition it’s not going to stop them getting the job done.
“Italy is right. If Sarkozy, along with Cameron, Obama and Hillary, didn’t bomb and destroy Libya, handing it to jihadists who now sell human beings in open slave markets, there wouldn’t be a refugee crisis destabilizing Europe today.”
All for the outside bombing of Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. No argument against. The off-loading of a rider is everyone’s cause. What happens after is at least progression.
Mark Curtis, British historian, exposes the lies of the corporate media.
“Guardian agit-prop to stop Corbyn and reimpose militarist neoliberalism is now relentless. I count around 40 anti-Corbyn ‘anti-semitism’ stories on Guardian website in past 4 weeks alone. The paper’s top story. Its agenda could hardly be clearer.”
Kia ora Te am show Well its good to hear a unbiased option on The Labour lead Coalition Governments show of Mana yesterday . YEA RIGHT .When The am show was touring around Aotearoa you changed your views like you changed your undies one minute red next blue with no idea of your real opinion the cash from the capitalist flowing into your pockets dictates your opinion
You’s don’t give a toss about your mokopuna’s or OUR mokopunas future thinking about that phenomenon is way out of there intellectual capability’s.
.simon what have you got 2 people cutting holes in your canoe no WOW factor national has run all our state sector’s to near bankruptcy if they were not state organizations they will have all ended up broke .
I can not see one person in national being able to stand up and deliver a society that has a wealthy healthy happy and equal sustainable future. Your crew only look after the wealthy everyone else are sheep we have seen this with our own eyes 2 of your biggest fan cashed in there capital gains got a new whare with $7.5 million left to take all there luggage on holiday .
Thats cool under our new Government Leader’s Alcohol consumption has dropped crime is dropping and % 90 of people are happy Te Tangata Whenua are getting the Mana and respect we deserve for OUR Te reo and culture.
With te sport on the weekend Eco Maori knows how the western system works enough said .
Duncan is that all you can dredge up diarydack dune he is a pro national flag waver
who’s toilet sunk yesterday. Discount his old fossil views for he is directly responsible for the mess that our new government has to clean up.
Ka pai Phil Goff the home less need to be housed some people think its OK just part of there ideal capitalist system wealthy first and foremost.
The way the system is set up now poor people can not get a hire education like we could before student loans ie free education was scrapped why because the poor educated tangata were holding the powers that be to account speaking out taking them to court ect the wealthy could not have that so they scrapped a free education
Ka kite ano P.S remember Eco Maori can sink any toilet
It is social media that is leveling out the political field in Aotearoa its has been used to peddle lies in other country’s we were lucky we are down under I’E it took 5 years for Cambridge analytica to get here now we can counter there pro alt right neo liberal capitalist 00.1 % proper-gander money distorting our fair just Democratic society of Aotearoa . Ka kite ano
Eco Maori is sure our scientist predicted this snow in Te Wai Pounmu & sunbathing in Te Ika a Maui ka kite ano P.S we will have a mean skiing season tourism will be pumping.
Eco Maori can not get a job because every-time I go for employment the sandflys play a atua’s role and interfere with my potential employers reality on Eco Maori its hard enough being middle-aged and Maori as well as having the muppets for 17 years interfear in ones life. Kia Kaha to all Kiwis of Aotearoa. ka kite an .
P.S I have a job keeping all the capitalist neo liberal Human caused Climate Change deniers/ spinners in check
Many thanks to Stuff for this which proves what I have been saying about a corrupt
JUSTICE SYSTEM’S IN Aotearoa link is below thanks national now you know why I will sink shonkys toilet ana to kai ka kite ano
The way Eco Maori see this is Japan does not need the whale meat or the industry to have cause to be justifiable to carry on Killing Tangaroa’s beautiful Creatures .
What’s there motive ITS A SHOW OF POWER JAPAN CAN DO WHAT IT WAN’TS.
But know the rest of Papatuanuku is going to stop them these creatures are endangered Ana to kai ka kite ano link is below.
Here’s a good yarn on how x national PM treat’s there voters lose play poker with hundred of kiwi money and lives LINK IS BELOW I first seen the story on the national party proper-gander machine the herald FROM NOW ON ECO MAORI IS boycotting there website no more links to that and 2 of there writers have pushed there bullshit to far so Eco Maori will sink there toilets with no shame. Ka kite ano P.S sheep we are in there eyes
willie shaw is a lieing puppet for the national party I would take what he has to sell about weed control as bull teko he will be trying to push products such as Round up or Glyphosate based weed killing products . he is the type of person who will let te mokopunas applie these killer chemicals and not blink a eye I.E that he knows that the effects will be bad for them link below ka kite ano
Here you go the wealthy getting more than there fair share of Aotearoa they should pay more in tax’s to fix up the mess there national m8 made in there efforts to hand them our money link below ka kite ano
My opinion on the subject of Wahine Equality in all aspects of employment and management is a inbuilt prejudice of the systems as well as old men blocking the pathway up for wahine I have a good link below Ka kite ano
Kia ora Newshub its snowing hard in Queens Town it would really beneficial for people to install solar power with a backup battrie $9 k and no more power cuts no more big power bills SouthIsland people .
It’s cool that we are seeing a big group of volunteers counting the homeless these poor people are a effect of our society many thanks to you all kia kaha .
Cat’s are companion but if they are not well cared for the soon turn into predators and they are deadly hunters mic chips a bell and spading is a good thing a lot of our unique native birds are endangered its cool that we are working with Papatuanuku.
There you go you can not trust many studies of anything you have to trace the links the researcher has to the product’s manufacture to see if there is cheating going on in the name of proffets
Those power polls in Otago don’t look very safe company’s milking the consumer is a culture that needs to be changed in Aotearoa.
The Lion’s jellie fish looks beautiful but it has hundred’s of sting’s I remember the days when I was first stung by a electric ray I was 12 first time I had seen one and of course I was told to grab it next minute I was jumping up and down while they laughing at me lol its just a shock like a electric fence . Ka kite ano P.S Ingrid your te reo was ka pai last week
The Crowd Goes Wild James and Mulls I did not realize that David was going to give one of our favorite sports a serve.
That’s a good win for the young fella in the cars that’s a huge cup he could have a swim in that one.
I would not enter your studio at the minute why because I would get wet from all the tears.
James my baby son is the same weight as you loves the jim to but I cannot get into sweating unless I make money for my efforts may be soon tho.
There is some thing unusual for OUR other watersports stars maybe the hoste are not treating them with respect we know that some countrys wealthy take that soprts very seriously .
Ka kite ano P.S 5 days to get a new test team up to form is a hard task and ask Mulls hows the Rock best rock song run comp going kia kaha guy;s
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Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Does breathing contribute to CO2 ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: KiwiRail’s seemingly endless requests for more money is damning. At one point, KiwiRail assured Robertson when he was the Finance Minister that the worst-case scenario would be an extra $300 million before requesting $1.2 billion a few months later. Not what most people ...
No one knows what it's likeTo be the bad manTo be the sad manBehind blue eyesNo one knows what it's likeTo be hatedTo be fatedTo telling only liesHave you ever wondered what life must be like for Mike Hosking? Seeing things in black and white through blue tinted specs? In ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past two week’s editions.Share More Than A FeildingBike bling, London Read more ...
Hi,I think we all made it through another week — congratulations. I’ve been digesting the new Arab Strap record, which is astonishing. In other news, I’m going to be doing a Webworm popup in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday July 13. I’ll bring a bunch of merch, and some other ...
The Fast-Track Approvals Bill enables cabinet ministers to circumvent key environmental planning and protection processes for infrastructure projects. Its difficulties have been well canvassed. This column suggests a different way of thinking about the proposal. I am going to explore the Bill from the perspective of its proponents with their ...
New Zealand First Cabinet Minister Shane Jones has become the best advertisement against the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill. In selling the radical new resource consenting processes, in which ministers can green light any mine, dam, or other major development, Jones seems to be shooting the proposal in the foot. ...
Buzz from the Beehive Associate Education Minister David Seymour is urging the PostPrimary Teachers Association to put learning ahead of ideology. He wants the union leaders to call off their teachers meetings around the country where they hope to muster the strength to undo the government’s plans to establish several ...
What are police for? "Fighting crime" is the obvious answer. If there's a burglary, they should show up and investigate. Ditto if there's a murder or sexual assault. Speeding or drunk or dangerous driving is a crime, so obviously they should respond to that. And obviously, they should respond to ...
Michael Reddell writes – I got curious yesterday about how the Australia/New Zealand real exchange rate had changed over the last decade, and so dug out the data on the changes in the two countries’ CPIs. Over the 10 years from March 2014 to March 2024, New Zealand’s ...
Graham Adams writes that 20 years after the land march, judges are quietly awarding a swathe of coastal rights to iwi. Early this month, an hour-long documentary was released by TVNZ to mark the 20th anniversary of the land-rights march to oppose Helen Clark’s Foreshore and Seabed Act. The account ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: Suspended Green MP Darleen Tana has passed an unpleasant milestone: she has now been absent for as many parliamentary sitting days as she has been present for this year. Tana is on full pay while she is suspended, and will benefit from a ...
Peter Dunne writes – It is no coincidence that two Labour should-have-been MPs are making the most noise about public sector cuts. As assistant general secretary of the Public Service Association, Fleur Fitzsimons has been at the forefront of revealing where the next round of state sector job ...
Bryce Edwards writes – It’s becoming a classic case study for why lobbying deals with politicians need greater scrutiny. Former National Minister Steven Joyce runs a lobbying company with a major client – the University of Waikato. The University desperately wants $300m+ of taxpayer funding to establish a ...
This is one of the (extra) weekly columns on music or movies. Plenty of solid analyses of Possession exist online and most of them – inevitably – contain spoilers. This column is more in the way of a first-timer’s aid to getting your initial bearings. You don’t need to have ...
I am painting in oil, a portrait of a manWho has taken all the heart aches,And all the pain he can stand.I am using all the colors of blue,I have here on my stand.I am painting in oil, a portrait of a man.This has been an interesting week for me. ...
Helen Clark joins the Hoon as a special guest talking whether Aotearoa should join Aukus II, and her views on the fast track legislation and how Luxon and the new Government are performing. File Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts ...
With an election due in less than nine months, Britain’s embattled PM, Rishi Sunak, gave a useful speech earlier this week. He made a substantial case for his government, perhaps as compelling as is possible in the current environment. Quite an achievement. His overall theme was security, first pulling ...
Open access notablesPublicly expressed climate scepticism is greatest in regions with high CO2 emissions, Pearson et al., Climatic Change:We analysed a recently released corpus of climate-related tweets to examine the macro-level factors associated with public declarations of climate change scepticism. Analyses of over 2 million geo-located tweets in the U.S. showed that climate ...
You can be all negative about these charter schools if you want, but I’m here to accentuate the positive. You can get all worked up, if you want to, by the contradiction of Luxon saying We’re going to make sure that every school in the country is teaching exactly the same ...
Losing The Room: One can only speculate about what has persuaded the Coalition Government that it will pay no electoral price for unreasonably pushing ahead with policies that are so clearly against the national interest. They seem quite oblivious to the risk that by doing so they will convince an increasing ...
Name suppression decisions can be tough sometimes. No matter your views on free speech, you have to be hard-hearted not to be torn by the tug of the competing arguments. I think you can feel the Supreme Court wrestling with that in M v The King. The case for ...
The Merchants of Menace: The Coalition Government has convinced itself that the “Brahmins’” emollient functions have become much too irksome and expensive. Those who see themselves as the best hope of rebuilding New Zealand’s ailing capitalist system, appear to have convinced themselves that a little bit of blunt trauma is what their mollycoddled ...
When National first proposed its Muldoonist "fast-track" law, they were warned that it would inevitably lead to corruption. And that is exactly what has happened, with Resources Minister Shane Jones taking secret meetings with potential applicants:On Tuesday, in a Newsroom story, questions were raised about a dinner Jones ...
Buzz from the Beehive One day – hopefully – we will push that Russian rascal, Vladimir Putin, beyond breaking point. Perhaps it will happen today, when he learns that Foreign Minister Winston Peters is again tightening the thumbscrews. Peters announced further sanctions, this time on 28 individuals and 14 entities ...
How Labour’s and National’s failure to move beyond neoliberalism has brought New Zealand to the brink of economic and cultural chaos.TO START LOSING, so soon after you won, requires a special kind of political incompetence. At the heart of this Coalition Government’s failure to retain, and build upon, the public ...
“Members of Parliament don’t work for us, they represent us, an entirely different thing. As with so much that has turned out badly, the re-organising of MPs’ responsibilities began with the Fourth Labour Government. That’s when they began to be treated like employees – public servants – whose diaries had ...
It’s becoming a classic case study for why lobbying deals with politicians need greater scrutiny. Former National Minister Steven Joyce runs a lobbying company with a major client – the University of Waikato. The University desperately wants $300m+ of taxpayer funding to establish a third medical school in New Zealand, ...
Time To Choose: Like it or not, the Kiwis are either going into AUKUS’s “Pillar 2” – or they are going to China.HAD ZHENG HE’S FLEET sailed east, not west, in the early Fifteenth Century, how different our world would be. There is little reason to suppose that the sea-going junks ...
Henry Ergas writes – When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts that the description is grossly unfair. After all, the man is still far from the stage of moral development at which the charge ...
David Farrar writes – Radio NZ reports: The Education Review Office says too many new teachers feel poorly prepared for their jobs. In a report published on Monday, the review office said 60 percent of the principals it interviewed said their new teachers were not ready. ...
New Zealand’s economic performance and the PM’s vision Michael Reddell writes – When I wrote yesterday morning’s post, highlighting how poorly both New Zealand and its Anglo peer countries have been doing in respect of productivity in recent times (ie, in the case of New ...
Hi all,Firstly - thank you! You guys are awesome. The response I’ve received to last night’s mail has been quite overwhelming. It’s a ghastly day outside, but there are no clouds in here.In case you didn’t read my email and are wondering what on earth I’m talking about you can ...
If there was still any doubt as to who is actually running this government – and it isn’t the buffoon from Botany – then this week’s announcement of a huge spend up on charter schools has settled the matter. While jobs and public services continue to be cut in the ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Gaye Taylor As widespread drought raises expectations for a repeat of last year’s ferocious wildfire season, response teams across Canada are grappling with the rapidly changing face of fire in a warming climate. No longer quenched by winter, nor quelled by the ...
Half of Christchurch City Holdings Ltd’s directors and its chair resigned en masse last night in protest at Christchurch City Council’s demand to front-load dividends File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The chair of Christchurch City Council’s investment company and four of its independent directors resigned in protest last ...
The University of Waikato has reworded an advertisement that begins the tender process for its new $300 million-plus medical school even though the Government still needs to approve it. However, even the reworded ad contains an architect’s visualisations of what the school might look like. ACT leader David Seymour told ...
As a follow-up to the Rings of Power trailer discussion, I thought I needed to add something. There has been some online mockery about the use of the same actor for both the Halbrand and Annatar incarnations of Sauron. The reasoning is that Halbrand with a shave and a new ...
This isn’t quite as dramatic as the title might suggest. I’m not going anywhere, but there is something I wanted to talk to you about.Let’s start with a typical day.Most days I send out a newsletter in the morning. If I’ve written a lot the previous evening it might be ...
Buzz from the Beehive The promise of tax relief loomed large in his considerations when the PM delivered a pre-Budget speech to the Auckland Business Chamber. The job back in Wellington is getting government spending back under control, he said, bandying figures which show that in per capita terms, the ...
Yesterday de facto Prime Minister David Seymour announced that his glove puppet government would be re-introducing charter schools, throwing $150 million at his pet quacks, donors and cronies and introducing an entire new government agency to oversee them (the existing Education Review Office, which actually knows how to review schools, ...
Seeing that, in order to discredit the figures and achieve moral superiority while attempting to deflect attention away from the military assault on Rafa, Israel supporters in NZ have seized on reports that casualty numbers in Gaza may be inflated … Continue reading → ...
David Farrar writes – Newstalk ZB report: The man responsible for a horror hit and run in central Wellington last year was on a suspended licence and was so drunk he later asked police, “Did I kill someone?” Jason Tuitama injured two women when he ran a red ...
Muriel Newman writes – Former US President Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” The fight for ...
Why Courts should have said Waitangi Tribunal could not summons Karen Chhour Gary Judd writes – In the High Court, Justice Isacs declined to uphold the witness summons issued by the Waitangi Tribunal to compel Minister for Children, Karen Chhour, to appear before it to be ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The number of voices raising concerns about the Government’s Fast-Track Approvals Bill is rapidly growing. This is especially apparent now that Parliament’s select committee is listening to submissions from the public to evaluate the proposed legislation. Twenty-seven thousand submissions have been made to Parliament ...
An average of 166 New Zealand citizens left the country every day during the March quarter, up 54% from a year ago.Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The economy and housing market is sinking into a longer recession through the winter after a slump in business and consumer confidence in ...
The government has made it abundantly clear they’re addicted to the smell of new asphalt. On Tuesday they introduced a new term to the country’s roading lexicon, the Roads of Regional Significance (RoRS), a little brother for the Roads of National (Party) Significance (RoNS). Driving ahead with Roads of Regional ...
School is outAnd I walk the empty hallwaysI walk aloneAlone as alwaysThere's so many lucky penniesLying on the floorBut where the hell are all the lucky peopleI can't see them any moreYesterday morning, I’d just sent out my newsletter on Tama Potaka, and I was struggling to make the coffee. ...
Hi,I wanted to check in and ask how you’re doing.This is perhaps a selfish act, of attempting to find others feeling a similar way to me — that is to say, a little hopeless at the moment.Misery loves company, that sort of deal.Some context.I wish I could say I got ...
I have hitherto been fairly quiet on the new season of Rings of Power, on the basis that the underwhelming first season did not exactly build excitement – and the rumours were fairly daft. The only real thing of substance to come out has been that they have re-cast Adar ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
“The thing is,” Chris Luxon says, leaning forward to make his point, “this has always been my thing.”“This goes all the way back to the first multinational I worked for. I was saying exactly the same thing back then. The name of our business needs to be more clear; people ...
Buzz from the Beehive It’s been a momentous few days for Children’s Minister Karen Chhour. The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which blocked a summons order from the Waitangi Tribunal for her. And today she has announced the Government is putting children first by introducing to ...
In 2014 former Australian army lawyer David McBride leaked classified military documents about Australian war crimes to the ABC. Dubbed "The Afghan Files", the documents led to an explosive report on Australian war crimes, the disbanding of an entire SAS unit, and multiple ongoing prosecutions. The journalist who wrote the ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – According to the respected Pew Research Centre, “In seven of eight [European] countries surveyed, the most trusted news outlet asked about is the public news organization in each country”. For example, “in Sweden, an overwhelming majority (90%) say they trust the public broadcaster SVT”. ...
David Farrar writes – Kata MacNamara reports: Details of Tony Blakely’s involvement in the New Zealand Government’s response to the pandemic raise serious questions about the work of the Covid-19 Royal Commission of Inquiry over which he presides. It has long been clear that Blakely, a ...
Chris Trotter writes – Are you a Brahmin or a Merchant? Or, are you merely one of those whose lives are profoundly influenced by the decisions of Brahmins and Merchants? Those are the questions that are currently shaping the politics of New Zealand and the entire West. ...
RNZ reports – It’s supposed to be a haven of healing and spiritual awakening but residents of the Kawai Purapura community say they’ve been hurt and deceived. It’s the successor to the former Centrepoint commune, and has been on the bush block opposite Albany shopping centre since 2008. It ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. Usually we have a video chat to go with this wrap, but were unable to do one this week. We’ll be back next week.Several reports ...
The Transport Minister has set a hard 'fiscal envelope' of $6.54 billion for transport capital spending. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The economy is settling into a state of suspended animation as the Government’s funding freezes and job cuts chill confidence and combine with stubbornly high interest rates to ...
To be precise, the term “anti- Zionism” refers to (a) criticism of the political movement that created a modern Jewish state on the historical land of Israel, and to (b)the subjugation of Palestinians by the Israeli state. By contrast, the term “anti-Semitism” means bigotry and racism directed at Jewish people, ...
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler Because hurricanes are one of the big-ticket weather disasters that humanity has to face, climate misinformers spend a lot of effort muddying the waters on whether climate change is making hurricanes more damaging. With the official start to the hurricane ...
Yesterday the Mayor released what he calls his “plan to save public transport” which is part of his final proposal for the Council’s Long Term Plan (LTP). This comes following consultation on the draft version that occurred in March which showed, once again, that people want more done on transport, especially ...
And it's a pleasure that I have knownAnd it's a treasure that I have gainedAotearoa’s coalition government is fragile. It’s held together by the obsequious sycophancy of Christopher Luxon, who willingly contorts his party into the fringe positions of his junior coalition partners and is unwilling to contradict them. The ...
The Select Committee hearing submissions on the fast-track consenting legislation is starting to become a beat-up of regional councils. The inflexibility and slow workings of the Councils were prominent in two submissions yesterday. One, from the Coromandel Marine Farmers Association, simply said that the Waikato Regional Council’s planning decisions were ...
Back in April, the High Court surprised everyone by ruling that Ministers are above the law, at least as far as the Waitangi Tribunal is concerned. The reason for this ruling was "comity" - the idea that the different branches of government shouldn't interfere with each other's functions. Which makes ...
Buzz from the BeehiveTolling was mentioned when Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced the government was re-introducing the Roads of National Significance (RoNS) programme, with 15 “crucial” projects to support economic growth and regional development across New Zealand. All RoNS would be four-laned, grade-separated highways, and all funding, financing, and ...
or the past 14 years, ever since the Spanish government cheated on an autonomy deal, Catalonia has reliably given pro-independence parties a majority of seats in their regional parliament. But now that seems to be over. Catalans went to the polls yesterday, and stripped the Catalan parties of their majority. ...
David Farrar writes – Radio NZ report: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins said the Electoral Commission should make sure the system ran smoothly and “taking away the right of thousands of people to vote” was not the answer. “Thousands of people enroled and voted on the day. If ...
The Government’s introduction of legislation that would enable landlords to end tenancies with no reason marks a dark day for the 1.4 million people who rent their home in Aotearoa. ...
The Minister for Mental Health has found the Suicide Prevention Office and mental health support for 111 calls slipping through his fingers, says Labour spokesperson for Mental Health Ingrid Leary. ...
Today’s justification from the Minister for Children for scrapping protections for our tamariki was either a case of ignorance or deliberate deception. ...
The Green Party says the Government’s misguided policy on gangs will fail, following the announcement of the establishment of a national gang unit and district gang disruption units to target gang activities. ...
“With Police pay negotiations still unresolved after six months in Government, Mark Mitchell has today rolled the Commissioner out for a rebrand of their approach to gang crime,” Labour police spokesperson Ginny Andersen said. ...
The Government bringing back 50 charter schools will not increase achievement and is a distraction from the core mission of the education system, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
Te Pāti Māori is showing extreme concern over the Environment Select Committees adoption of a lucky dip draw to determine hearings for the Fast Track Approvals bill. Of the 27,000 submissions, 2,900 requested to present. All organisations will be heard; however, the remaining 2,350 submitters will be subject to a ...
Today New Zealand First will introduce a Member’s Bill that will protect women’s spaces. The ‘Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill’ will require, primarily in the interest and safety of women and girls, that all new non-domestic publicly accessible buildings provide separate, clearly demarcated, unisex and single sex bathrooms. This Bill ...
The Green Party is welcoming Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ continuation of Hon. James Shaw’s cross-party work on climate adaptation, now in the form of a Finance and Expenditure Committee Inquiry. ...
The National Government plans to cut 390 jobs at ACC, including roles in the areas of prevention of sexual violence, road safety and workplace safety. ...
The Government has been caught in opposition to evidence once again as it looks to usher in tried, tested and failed work seminar obligations for job-seeking beneficiaries. ...
The Green Party is welcoming the announcement by the Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop to approve most of the Wellington City Council’s District Plan recommendations. ...
David Seymour has failed to get the sweeping cuts he wanted to the free and healthy school lunch programme, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
Hon Willie Jackson has been invited by the Oxford Union to debate the motion “This House Believes British Museums are not Very British’ on May 23rd. ...
Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon says her Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill is an opportunity to right some past wrongs around the alienation of Māori land. ...
A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students - highlighting the utter depths of absurdity this woke cultural madness has taken our society. The tikanga regulations will compel law ...
The Government needs to be clear with the people of the Nelson Marlborough region about the changes it is considering for the Nelson Hospital rebuild, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced that the Government will make it easier for lines firms to take action to remove vegetation from obstructing local powerlines. The change will ensure greater security of electricity supply in local communities, particularly during severe weather events. “Trees or parts of trees falling on ...
Wairarapa Moana ki Pouakani were the top winners at this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy awards recognising the best in Māori dairy farming. Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka announced the winners and congratulated runners-up, Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board, at an awards celebration also attended by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister ...
"On the 27th of March, I sought assurances from the Chief Executive, Department of Internal Affairs, that the Department’s correct processes and policies had been followed in regards to a passport application which received media attention,” says Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden. “I raised my concerns after being ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins has announced the appointment of three new District Court Judges, to replace Judges who have recently retired. Peter James Davey of Auckland has been appointed a District Court Judge with a jury jurisdiction to be based at Whangarei. Mr Davey initially started work as a law clerk/solicitor with ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour is calling on the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) to put ideology to the side and focus on students’ learning, in reaction to the union holding paid teacher meetings across New Zealand about charter schools. “The PPTA is disrupting schools up and down the ...
Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly today announced the appointment of Craig Stobo as the new chair of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). Mr Stobo takes over from Mark Todd, whose term expired at the end of April. Mr Stobo’s appointment is for a five-year term. “The FMA plays ...
Surf Life Saving New Zealand and Coastguard New Zealand will continue to be able to keep people safe in, on, and around the water following a funding boost of $63.644 million over four years, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Associate Transport Minister Matt Doocey say. “Heading to the beach for ...
New Zealand and Tuvalu have reaffirmed their close relationship, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand is committed to working with Tuvalu on a shared vision of resilience, prosperity and security, in close concert with Australia,” says Mr Peters, who last visited Tuvalu in 2019. “It is my pleasure ...
New Zealand is gravely concerned about the situation in New Caledonia, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The escalating situation and violent protests in Nouméa are of serious concern across the Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “The immediate priority must be for all sides to take steps to de-escalate the ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met today with Samoa’s O le Ao o le Malo, Afioga Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, who is making a State Visit to New Zealand. “His Highness and I reflected on our two countries’ extensive community links, with Samoan–New Zealanders contributing to all areas of our national ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has announced that he has approved Waiheke Island ferry operator Island Direct to be eligible for SuperGold Card funding, paving the way for a commercial agreement to bring the operator into the scheme. “Island Direct started operating in November 2023, offering an additional option for people ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters today announced further sanctions on 28 individuals and 14 entities providing military and strategic support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Russia is directly supported by its military-industrial complex in its illegal aggression against Ukraine, attacking its sovereignty and territorial integrity. New Zealand condemns all entities and ...
A year on from the tragedy at Loafers Lodge, the Government is working hard to improve building fire safety, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “I want to share my sincere condolences with the families and friends of the victims on the anniversary of the tragic fire at Loafers ...
Ka nui te mihi kia koutou. Kia ora and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for having me here in the lead up to my Government’s first Budget. Before I get started can I acknowledge: Simon Bridges – Auckland Business Chamber CEO. Steve Jurkovich – Kiwibank CEO. Kids born ...
New Zealand and Vanuatu will enhance collaboration on issues of mutual interest, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “It is important to return to Port Vila this week with a broad, high-level political delegation which demonstrates our deep commitment to New Zealand’s relationship with Vanuatu,” Mr Peters says. “This ...
Minister for Land Information, Chris Penk will travel to Peru this week to represent New Zealand at a meeting of trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region on behalf of Trade Minister Todd McClay. The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting will be held on 17-18 May ...
Minister of Education Erica Stanford will head to the United Kingdom this week to participate in the 22nd Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) and the 2024 Education World Forum (EWF). “I am looking forward to sharing this Government’s education priorities, such as introducing a knowledge-rich curriculum, implementing an evidence-based ...
Minister of Education Erica Stanford has today thanked outgoing New Zealand Qualifications Authority Chair, Hon Tracey Martin. “Tracey Martin tendered her resignation late last month in order to take up a new role,” Ms Stanford says. Ms Martin will relinquish the role of Chair on 10 May and current Deputy ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and President Emmanuel Macron of France today announced a new non-governmental organisation, the Christchurch Call Foundation, to coordinate the Christchurch Call’s work to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. This change gives effect to the outcomes of the November 2023 Call Leaders’ Summit, ...
Distinguished public servant and former diplomat Sir Maarten Wevers will lead the independent review into the disability support services administered by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. The review was announced by Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston a fortnight ago to examine what could be done to strengthen the ...
Today’s announcement by Police Commissioner Andrew Coster of a National Gang Unit and district Gang Disruption Units will help deliver on the coalition Government’s pledge to restore law and order and crack down on criminal gangs, Police Minister Mark Mitchell says. “The National Gang Unit and Gang Disruption Units will ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today expressed regret at North Korea’s aggressive rhetoric towards New Zealand and its international partners. “New Zealand proudly stands with the international community in upholding the rules-based order through its monitoring and surveillance deployments, which it has been regularly doing alongside partners since 2018,” Mr ...
Air Vice-Marshal Tony Davies MNZM is the new Chief of Defence Force, Defence Minister Judith Collins announced today. The Chief of Defence Force commands the Navy, Army and Air Force and is the principal military advisor to the Defence Minister and other Ministers with relevant portfolio responsibilities in the defence ...
Legislation to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act has been introduced to Parliament. The Bill’s introduction reaffirms the Coalition Government’s commitment to the safety of children in care, says Minister for Children, Karen Chhour. “While section 7AA was introduced with good intentions, it creates a conflict for Oranga ...
Defence Minister Judith Collins will this week travel to the UK and Italy to meet with her defence counterparts, and to attend Battles of Cassino commemorations. “I am humbled to be able to represent the New Zealand Government in Italy at the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of what was ...
The upcoming Budget will include funding for up to 50 charter schools to help lift declining educational performance, Associate Education Minister David Seymour announced today. $153 million in new funding will be provided over four years to establish and operate up to 15 new charter schools and convert 35 state ...
“The results of the public consultation on the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into COVID-19 Lessons has now been received, with results indicating over 13,000 submissions were made from members of the public,” Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says. “We heard feedback about the extended lockdowns in ...
Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, other Members of Parliament Acting Chief of Defence Force, Secretary of Defence Distinguished Guests Defence and Diplomatic Colleagues Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon, tēna koutou, apinun tru It’s a pleasure to be back in Port Moresby today, and to speak here at the Kumul Leadership ...
Health, infrastructure, renewable energy, and stability are among the themes of the current visit to Papua New Guinea by a New Zealand political delegation, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Papua New Guinea carries serious weight in the Pacific, and New Zealand deeply values our relationship with it,” Mr Peters ...
The coalition Government is launching Roads of Regional Significance to sit alongside Roads of National Significance as part of its plan to deliver priority roading projects across the country, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The Roads of National Significance (RoNS) built by the previous National Government are some of New Zealand’s ...
A high-level New Zealand political delegation in Honiara today congratulated the new Government of Solomon Islands, led by Jeremiah Manele, on taking office. “We are privileged to meet the new Prime Minister and members of his Cabinet during his government’s first ten days in office,” Deputy Prime Minister and ...
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Clearly Heather du Plessis Allen is a vile racist.
She has no role in journalism in New Zealand in 2018.
Boycott Newstalk ZB.
During a Wellington broadcast of Newstalk ZB, the host discussed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision to visit Nauru.
Du Plessis Allan referred to the island as a “hell hole”, and said it was not worth attending the Forum anyway because the Pacific Islands “don’t matter.”
“They are nothing but leeches on us. The Pacific Islands wants money from us,” she told listeners.
Oscar Kightley wrote.
“Does Newstalk ZB in Wellington not think it has any Pacific Island listeners? Or do they think their listeners are all bigots who want to hear this stuff or they’ll change
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/107110016/heather-du-plessisallan-says-pacific-people-are-leeches-on-new-zealand
Yay another Ed boycott.
He’s down to listening to his cat and three twitter feeds.
Ed’s cat is better than listening to you james.
And smarter too.
Tens of thousands of New Zealand citizens spend massive amounts of their wages in “remittances”; simply sending cash back to relatives in Pacific Islands. In many Pacific states, “remittances” form a majority of the entire income of the state, and in others it’s close.
Further tens of thousands of New Zealand citizens go to secure enclaves of Pacific islands for luxury holidays.
The two worlds rarely meet, either in New Zealand or in the Pacific Islands.
I suspect reporters are familiar with the latter, not with the former.
Nauru’s government, apart from being corrupt to its eyeballs and having a fully politicized judiciary and Police force, has made a pact with the Devil in the form of Australia’s prison and immigration system. Instead of being the phosphate hole of the Pacific, it is now the jail hole. And that pact with the devil will extend as far into the future as there are immigrants coming by boat. So yes, I can see her point calling it a “hell hole”.
Nauru is the world’s totally carceral state.
And let me correct myself.
Nauru is different to Niue.
A hell hole caused by us in large part and our addiction to phosphates.
Us and Australia.
But the carceral devil-pact was chosen and is continued by the Nauru government.
Nauru blew their money is the real problem.
The steady cash flow ( even if it was under paid) has been a curse for the lifestyle of imported western food and junk and mismanagement of their sovereign wealth fund means they are virtually bankrupt.
Barry Soper’s hideous other half (significantly, she’s a white South African) has been an embarrassment ever since she first opened her mouth. Never, until this moronic apartheid-era outburst against Pacific Islanders, was she worse than when she fronted the ill-fated Story on TV3….
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-24082015/#comment-1062391
Barbara Dreaver’s thoughts.
“As someone who has lived and worked in the region for nearly 30 years I have nothing but contempt for the sheer ignorance I have been reading from those whose idea of the Pacific is lying poolside at Denarau with a pina colada.”
Did you hear that Heather?
Our Provost-Depute here in Kihipini is a South African. Next in line after Mayor Meng Foon. Last I heard Gisborne is the poorest district in NZ. Difficult to imagine voting for her. And the fact they’re all still right-wingers perhaps establishes the heart of the matter re both capitalism and South Africans.
And the Pacific Islands are central to our hearts.
Good on the government for attacking fast food’s involvement in sponsorship of children’s food.
And thumbs down to Katherine Rich, head of the euphemistically named ‘Food and Grocery Council’ which is just a pressure group for big food companies like Coca Cola.
She know her real role would be derided , so, if you look at the photograph in the article, she has posed in front of fruit and vegetables.
Poor journalism by Stuff to allow her to pull that stunt.
Overall a very weak patsy article.
Journalists know where their advertising revenue comes from too.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/107056112/government-puts-boot-into-fast-food
Food & Grocery Council only interested in selling sugar and gut rot ?
K*****INE R*CH? I think I knew her once….
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/national-party-emergency-caucus-meeting.html
Rich is exactly the sort of entitled creature who has risen out of the slime of neoliberal New Zealand.
Complete scum.
Industrial dairy farming is destroying the environment.
“New Zealand diary has become an enthusiastic user of synthetic nitrogen. We used around 6000t of nitrogen fertilisers every year in the 1960s; that increased to around 50,000t by 1990; Today, we use 500,000t, an increase of 1000 per cent within three decades. It has been matched by similar increases in dairy exports and dairy cow numbers.
While synthetic nitrogen has allowed farming to expand into new areas, and increased the productivity of our primary export industry, it has come at a cost.
Right now, there is 187,000t of nitrogen flowing through New Zealand’s waterways, heading towards the sea.
Freshwater ecologist Dr Mike Joy calls this cycle our “deadly nitrogen addiction”, and says the massive growth in the use of nitrogen fertiliser has unleashed many environmental problems, particularly with our freshwater.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/105864564/what-grows-the-grass-thick-can-turn-our-streams-toxic-and-green
Torva O’Brien says Prime Ministers office told them that this weekends cancelled media appointments were in Jacindas diary.
First fisherman goes on Twitter reply to state that they were never in her diary.
So now we have the PM’s hubby defending the PM to media contradicting her office.
What a shambles. And I wonder who’s telling the porkies – the PMs office or hubby?
Also isn’t it funny having Jacinda hubby speaking to the press about the PMs diary – never seen wife’s of male PMs do this. Such sexist behaviour.
James is a right wing troll on a left wing site.
Do not feed the troll.
Ed would prefer to ignore discussions that don’t fit under his tinfoil hat.
Also seems happy with the misogynistic behaviour of hubby having to stand up for his wife – looks like the stress is starting to show.
“the misogynistic behaviour of hubby having to stand up for his wife”
Ha ha ha ha ha!
There’s the level of James commentary, right there.
But that’s exactly what’s he’s done.
Let me help, James. Standing up for one’s female partner, is not misogynistic, it’s the opposite. I wonder too, do you understand what the word “wife” means and the process required to become one?
Yes Robert, James showing what a dino he is – bit Freudian slipping perhaps too.
Misoyginy is not the issue and James was wrong to make it so. Basically it is whether spouses of politicians start making political points. The PM has a whole office with media experts to deal with these issues. Basically I have never seen a spouse get so involved in the political debate as Clarke Gayford. He is not the one who is elected. Being supportive and being present at all sorts of events does not mean he also has to get politically involved.
Dino wayne – you really think it’s not a team effort? Wow the lonely. It is political and you know it. The days of yore are gone thank the gods.
You’ve never seen it, Wayne? But you’ve also never seen a PM like Jacinda, with a newborn baby and a high-profile partner; it’s a whole new world, Wayne; be prepared for things to be done differently!
Indeed it is a new generation, in fact on both sides of the House. Basically that is good for NZ. People like PM’s charm and good nature.
Whether Clarke being directly engaged in political debate is also good is rather more debatable. And in fact his role in that regards is being debated. How does that help the PM?
Agree.
Bad precedent.
Oh dear – what is happening? Seriously, I actually agree with both you and Wayne on this one. Much as I have a lot of time for Clarke, he really does need to step back from any hint of political comment, even if his intent is to support Jacinda, as his love and partner.
Sparkle Pony.
It’s all due to the spell that Sparkle Pony has put on us all today.
That comment by Wayne starts with a moronic spelling error and gets worse from there. His (unintentionally hilarious) obsession with Clarke Gayford is clearly a reflection of the anger and bewilderment felt by the rest of his cronies in the National Party.
To be fair, he kept out of the political eye until some folks started targeting him.
He didn’t start playing that role, but seeing as it was thrust upon him, he’s playing it pretty well.
Robert, please be aware that James supported a prime minister who would not even stand up for his own bodyguard from Iraq after he was targeted by the Australian police. To his mind, the idea of actually standing up for anyone, especially a woman, is just not something to be admired.
James thinks that if a woman is following him through a doorway he should let the door shut in her face, because holding it open for her would be sexist.
But he is not as crap a troll as James.
Ed is a left wing troll on a left wing site. Do not feed the troll.
Snap – you beat me today!
Yes, discussing industrial dairy farming, brilliant political animations, fast food corporations advertising to children and racism in our media is trolling.
While contributing only contributing barbed insults is the height of intelligence.
She has planned a big speech. This afternoon at 1 pm. Funny elements of the media and the right keep attacking her for failing to go public when the opposite is true.
Doing an interview having to answer questions is a lot different from a stage managed speech (I’m assuming labour manage it – but given this lot who knows)
Still dosnt address the conflicting stories on her diary.
Conflicting stories! Oh no! Who the …. cares. Probably find it was fake news from devious sources.
I’m really looking forward to Jacinda’s speech and the caterwauling from the likes of James afterwards. Do you think James might be a misogynist?
“Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.”
James certainly appears to be a racist.
He criticised me for suggesting a boycott of ZB after one of their presenters spouts vile racism against Pacific Islanders.
He condoned the racism.
You slur too easily. He didn’t condone the racism –
he took the piss out of your idiotic attempt at relevancy when you suggested a boycott. It was funny, the cats bit.
Play the ball not the person ed and please don’t suggest i go to a war zone and die – that’s not nice is it.
Nor is it nice to advocate war against other countries and their citizens.
What Marty said.
Get it through your head, Ed, that none of us (ie the people you keep suggesting are advocating war) are advocating war.
Your claims are nonsequiturs of our actual comments – thus showing your ignorance and attempts to divert from what we have actually said.
“Play the ball not the person ed ”
Laugh, damn near wet myself – that is just a little bit rich coming from you marty mars.
Yes I’m sure you wet yourself all the time – get some help creep.
And there it is.
Right on cue, playing the person.
Be nice if you followed your own advice.
Too soon?
It amuses me, just when James is looking like a total try hard you jump in and try and better his effort. Trolls will be trolls i guess.
Ed is not a troll, Ed is serious and honest. What a shame you haven’t picked that up yet.
Do you really think that Ed was being honest when he said “He condoned the racism”? Are your comprehension skills really that poor?
Soltka , apart from barbed comments, what have you added to the discussion this morning?
I have introduced 4 varied and interesting topics.
The impact of industrial dairying and nitrogen levels on our water.
Racism from a media presenter with a suggestion of how we deal with this.
A reference to the brilliant artist Steve Cutts.
The government’s attempts to tackle obesity amongst children and the media’s handling of the story.
James posted a right wing attack line on Jacinda. This was clear trolling.
And you and marty mars have just made unpleasant and unnecessary negative comments.
If you have nothing to add about the 4 issues I highlighted- all of which could engender an interesting sharing of views – please scroll past.
Thank you Ed for bringing some rationality back to the debate, and for dealing with these trolls who obviously prefer a closed mike.
Thank you for calling me a troll mauī – from you, a person who believes there actually are child crisis actors, i’ll take that as a bafge of honour.
Apart from unpleasant comments directed at others, what have you contributed today?
I have introduced 4 varied and interesting topics.
The impact of industrial dairying and nitrogen levels on our water.
Racism from a media presenter with a suggestion of how we deal with this.
A reference to the brilliant artist Steve Cutts.
The government’s attempts to tackle obesity amongst children and the media’s handling of the story.
I havent asked another human to go and die in a war whilst proclaiming a vegan sainthood and laughingly comparing myself to jeremy corbyn like you ed – stalk someone else war mongrel-ed
Edit – check the date and time ed
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-15-09-2018/#comment-1525133
All you have done today is make negative comments.
You have nothing to add to anyone’s talking points on Open Mike.
Please stop stalking me.
It is creepy.
Lol people can read and you have no argument except the dim response of repeating lines back to people lol
You remind me of someone – hey wait a minute, are you? nah you ain’t Jeremy corbyn lol.
I skipped most of your initial comments. But the responses to you going apeshit again are pretty funny, I like those. Keep up providing the material for smarter people to riff on.
While I definitely don’t align with some of your more radical views Ed, I have to agree with what you are saying at 9:26am (4.2.2.1.2.2).
If you have nothing to add about the 4 issues I highlighted- all of which could engender an interesting sharing of views – please scroll past.
Because you do make positive contributions and generally hold back on the personal attacks I do read what you say … I take the view that there is something to be learned pretty much everywhere you look. Cheers.
They are flailing around looking to work out attack lines on Jacinda. They operate on the basis that if you say something often enough it becomes reality.
It is what happens when you are really deficient at the issues.
It’s just that this government gives us so much material.
No it doesn’t.
Bierce described what they are looking for rather well:
(under OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek.) Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as “unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous.” And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
Being functionally illiterate as well as completely unprincipled of course the Gnats are obliged to try to find it empirically. They’ve tested ‘evasive’, and ‘weak’, and ‘not a leader’ and are trying ‘too nice’.
They forget that others may be prompted by this to find a fitting political epitaph for much more readily caricatured Bridges.
Thats true.
You would never do a sit down media with open format before a big speech as you would be batting away leading questions about whats in the speech.
troll
Steve Cutts is a genius.
He is famous for this brilliant animation.
And his more recent production ‘Are you lost in the world like me?’ is also a searing critique of modern day society.
Chris Hedges on Jimmy Dore, live as of 9.30 this morning for any early birds
What are Forest & Bird doing about this?????.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/105093180/The-big-fertiliser-companies-are-accused-of-quashing-a-more-environmentally-friendly-way-of-applying-nitrogen
“The big fertiliser companies are accused of quashing a more environmentally friendly way of applying nitrogen”
Quote from TOM LEE/STUFF.
A new fertiliser system
Bert Quin talks about the new fertiliser spreading system he has created.
The two big fertiliser companies are accused of quashing a more environmentally friendly method of applying nitrogen, in order to protect profits. Tony Wall investigates for ‘Growing Pain’ a Stuff series examining New Zealand’s dangerous addiction to fertiliser.
Taupo helicopter operator Mark Williams thought he’d hit on the holy grail – a system of applying nitrogen that meant up to three times the grass growth and less leaching.
It was a simple method that had been around for years – instead of applying fertiliser such as urea in a solid, granular form, the product is ground up, water is added to create a slurry, and it’s sprayed on pasture from the air or ground.
Known as fine particle application, proponents of the system say it’s a far more efficient way of applying fertiliser because more nutrients are taken up by the plant and less is lost to the atmosphere and through leaching.
Advocates of fine particle application say the mixture can be sprayed right up to the edge of streams and rivers, without leaching into the water.
But scientists working for the big-two farmer-owned co-operatives, Ballance Agri-Nutrients and Ravensdown, rubbish the claims and say there’s no science to back it up.
Williams has given up, and sold his machine to another helicopter operator.
“I’m sick of banging my head against the wall. If they want to keep pouring [granular] urea on their ground, so be it – let them do what they want, not what they should be doing.”
“Because New Zealand doesn’t have direct competition it has allowed the industry to price products to allow them to maximise tonnage rather than perhaps benefit [the environment].”
Harold claims that during his time, sales reps were trained to dissuade farmers from trying alternatives.
A contract milker from Taupo, who asked that his name not be published for fear of repercussions, says he saw first hand the “outstanding” results of a fine particle application trial on his farm.
But fertiliser company reps convinced the owner the system wouldn’t work.
“It’s an uphill battle for a lot of us managers. Farm owners are fairly traditionalist – they do everything by the book and do as these fert companies tell them to do.
“The fert companies are in it for the money obviously – they have a lot of influence over the farmers.”
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We are now seeing the hollowing out of our environmental regulations in NZ by large overseas corporations and now even Ravens down fertilizer Co, which is a farmers co-operative!!!!!!!! all now are getting around Government controls.
So what will happen under TPPA??????
Our government has truly been nobbled at making water quality and climate change able to be effectively acted upon sadly.
We must now ask;;
How much is enough?
This is not a new idea, Brett Emeny as been offering this method of application with his helicopter company for years.
Personally I think it’s the helicopter guys that are being disingenuous not the fertiliser companies.
They are just trying to sell Helicopter time to benefit their own businesses.
When you have to pay for Helicopters, to spray a product that is mostly water on pasture the costs are much greater than applying solid urea granules by truck.
And having tried both methods I’m using Trucks and solid fertiliser, just as effective and much cheaper.
If you can get a truck there surely it could be sprayed on by a tractor or truck sprayer .
Sure, I just don’t believe it works.
Grinding up solid fertiliser adding water, spraying it on pasture and then claiming you only need a third of what you would normally use, yeah right.
There is no Magic.
A 2/3 Less is still 2/3 less.
Try it with your dinner tonight take 1/3 of what’s on your plate process to a slurry drink it down and tell yourself you have had the same nutrients as if you had eaten the full meal.
I was talking about Helicopters because it was invented by a helicopter pilot, for use from helicopters, but yes can be sprayed be tractors etc.
Instead of overseeing a modern economy and a vibrant, outward looking state, Erdogan seems to be determined to re-make the Ottoman Empire, cast himself as Caliph, and fit right in with the authoritarian Middle East.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed himself chairman of Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund and got rid of the entire management staff that had presided over two years of inaction.
Zafer Sonmez, head of Turkey and Africa for Malaysia’s government investment vehicle Khazanah Nasional Bhd, was named general manager. Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, Erdogan’s son-in-law, will also sit on the board, according to a decree published in the Official Gazette.
The overhaul comes two years after the government formed the fund to capitalize on $200 billion of state assets and put a lid on market turmoil in the wake of a failed coup attempt. But the organization’s goals and strategy were never clearly defined and internal strife led to the firing of its first chief executive officer after Erdogan publicly expressed his disappointment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-12/erdogan-names-himself-chairman-of-turkey-wealth-fund-in-overhaul
Don’t agree with everything this commentator says, because I think he falls into the trap of thinking neoliberalism is about race whereas I think neoliberalism doesn’t care what colour, culture or ethnicity the successor is, (I’m more an Animal farm believer aka power corrupts no matter what species and that is what society needs to protect itself from) but he has some interesting points…
Three Hard Truths About American Collapse
America Probably Isn’t Going to Make It. Will You?
“I’m going to keep this short and bittersweet.
America’s probably not going to recover in our lifetimes, if ever (even if the good guys win the next election.) Let me start with some alarming and necessary factoids. America’s a country whose three main indicators are all blinking nine-alarm red — they’re what “collapse” really means. Life expectancy’s falling. Real incomes are shrinking. And 80% of people live paycheck to paycheck. ”
“That’s because these megatrends of collapse are the culmination of decades of self-destructive choices, trickle-down economics, neoliberalism, market fundamentalism, a total lack of investment in people, a culture of cruelty, a modern day caste society, Walmart capitalism, all of which added up to Weimar republic style ruin — letting middle classes implode, leaving the poor to die in the streets, because a predatory elite was allowed to capture more than 100% of society’s gains, and worse still, Americans were told to believe, by wise men, that all that was noble, righteous, and true: only the strong should survive.”
https://eand.co/three-hard-truths-about-american-collapse-cbf45295c198
Very interesting. Thank you.
Chris Hedges makes some interesting points on the US’s collapse.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-collapse/
I’ve become puzzled in recent times every time I hear the national anthem sung prior to an All Blacks test, they ask god to “guard Pacific’s triple star”. Never heard of any such thing anywhere else & weird that I’ve been listening to it more than 60 years without noticing, but here’s an explanation: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107108169/our-anthem-god-defend-new-zealand-is-a-radically-subversive-challenge-to-tradition
“Singers have long queried the cryptic call to “guard Pacific’s triple star”. But New Zealand folk music expert John Archer argues it was a reference to the three stars on Te Kooti’s flag of Māori independence. “Bracken was a committed Irish nationalist,” Archer says. “He was squarely on the side of the Māori from when he first arrived in New Zealand in 1869, during the middle of Te Kooti’s battles with colonial troops, in his campaign for independence for Tūhoe Māori.” That is reinforced by the cover of the 1878 music score, featuring a drawing of the Royal Standard alongside the flag of the independent tribes.”
Poet Pam Ayres delivers on bumbling agents: https://twitter.com/PamAyres/status/1041007196300107776
“I went down to Salisbury
To listen to the choir,
A pair of Russian tourists
They were staring up the spire,
Staring up the spire, they were,
Silent and aghast,
Against the sky, hurtling by,
A piggy flying past.”
MI6 took six months
To stitch up two chumps
The Great Game still raging
Pick a side and start waging
Who cares who right
Pick a side, and fight
Critical thinking down the drain
We run out of using our brain
She’s certainly a lot more convincing than the hapless British prime minister and her cronies.
A couple of these flatpack urban farms in all new housing estates would be the way to go.
https://insteading.com/blog/flatpack-urban-farm-grows-6-6-tons-of-food-in-538-square-feet/
Gutsy work by the All Blacks last night to lose in style by going for the try rather than the droppie.
I’ve been wanting them to lose for a while, and this was a grand way to do it.
Tough love? They made lotsa mistakes & Barrett forgot how to convert tries. They need another goal-kicker as plan B. Well, at least two others in the team but they decided against trying them!
Oops didn’t read yours before I commented .
Inept captaincy and coaching more like it . Keep barrett if they must but find another kicker to play at 15 or 12 ffs. And change plans if you are losing
Did enjoy the match though much better than a runaway win to watch .
The All Blacks don’t “lose in style.” Are you suggesting they deliberately chose to entertain rather than go for the win?
Clearly they walk and chew gum at the same time.
That is what they are paid for.
Chewing gum? Not advisable when playing football.
Neither is walking. I think Ad knew that…
I love Hugh Hamilton such a thoughtful journalist. Glad he the one asking Chris Hedges the questions in this shameless self promotion (tongue firmly in cheek there – just in case you want to be a spiteful literalist.) Video is 26 minutes long, and at 13:50 min in Hugh throws a great question at Chris which was well researched and wonderfully put.
Be warned from RT america, so all the wallflowers who can’t handle anything outside the official narrative might want to avoid.
Two further spies identified – and this time arrested – in relation to the Skirpal poisoning case.
Full minute-and-day breakdown of the events of the poisoning to date in this article:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12126103
They were probably on holiday. Again.
Doesnt make sense .
“Swiss publication Tages Anzeiger and Dutch paper NRC have reported that the two men, who have yet to be identified, were arrested back in March and detained in The Hague before being extradited back to Russia.”
You dont get extradited back to your own country, its called deported. Why would this be a ‘secret’ and only revealed now ?
Arrested back in March ? Where was that if they were ‘detained in the Hague’
Extradition involves a custody transfer.
And if they were facing charges in the Netherlands, an extradition request for something trumped up to be more serious might be a way for Russia to get them back. Not to mention other deals that might have happened.
Jimmy Dore: “Sixth graders know better than this.”
Glenn Greenwald schools a CNN dolt.
Funny. A guy who runs lies about England funding ISIS, that he cannot even begin to substantiate, larding the Standard with flake news.
?????
Idiot.
Liar, Morrissey.
Barefaced and unrepentant liar.
Unless you actually have some evidence?
And you want to post stuff about journalism 101? When your source material is made up? Hypocrite.
The other day you ignorantly and crassly dismissed Noam Chomsky and Mark Curtis as “weird.” Now you’re calling Glenn Greenwald “flake news.”
It’s better to remain silent, etc.
You would do well to take your own advice you lying piece of shit.
I’ve read a bit of Chomsky in my time – even his largely discredited linguistic work.
But I haven’t run across evidence that England funds ISIS as you claim.
It is for you to produce such evidence, having made the fatuous claim.
Pretending to scholastic values you do not meet does not absolve you of this responsibility.
Pony up real evidence Morrissey, or retract your lie.
And all the crazy edifice you’ve built upon it.
[I realize that as a fundamentally dishonest person you rely on misrepresenting others – but the flake news to which I refer on this occasion is this buffoon Jimmy Dore – who seems to offer more in the way of emoting than reporting, suitable for a gossip show perhaps, but not meeting the basic requirements of his much repeated “journalism 101”]
This tick Munro makes a couple of enormous claims he probably can’t back up.
I’ve read a bit of Chomsky in my time –
One doubts that. Anyone who calls Chomsky “weird” has not read him.
even his largely discredited linguistic work.
Discredited? By whom? The late not so great Tom Wolfe?
https://tenor.com/view/youreanidiot-gif-9582575
Remember Mr Munro advocates for war in Syria and the Ukraine.
Despite no knowledge of the topic matter.
He would fit well on Slater’s site.
Actually Ed, I advocate peace in those countries.
But that gets in the way of Putin’s global ambitions.
Which you support uncritically.
Funny kind of Leftist you are – though your instincts nearer home are not so bad.
When does it get to the stage where the above and below ‘prove’ that one of youse fellas has a considerably, considerably, CONSIDERABLY larger cock than the other, whilst that other is able to posit that they are considerably, considerably, CONSIDERABLY more well-read than yea?
I’m not sure which of youse fellas is witch
Is it provable anyway?
Please, EXPOSE yourselves. We’ll all be impressed in a Kardashian kind of way
Whoar eh?
I ‘spose it’s all a bit entertaining in a sadistic sort of way. I’m certainly amused but at the same time ready to opt-the-fuck-out of it all as soon as my nanna nap is next due
Way to minimize a serious geopolitical issue.
Massive South African racist and child bride, Heather Duplicity Allan, doubles down on her appalling comments.
This woman is now pretending she wasn’t talking about Pacific Islanders themselves, rather their representatives. This sort of desperate and false backtrack reminds me of Jordan Peterson’s work. Peterson will say something school-boyish and outrageous and be called on it, only for his white, pimply defenders to claim he’s been misinterpreted.
Duplicity-Allan is on a tightrope right now and I for one hope she falls off it.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018662440/broadcaster-stands-by-pacific-islands-leeches-claim
“Child bride”? What drugs are you on?
I mean, I actually agree with the rest of your post pretty much, but the opening line cheapens it.
Meh. It’s descriptive of the 33 year age gap. She 25 and he 58 when they married. A bit odd.
She’s his third wife, btw.
Why do you even know that?
Why do you think it matters at all?
How is it relevant to her pretty awful comments about the Pacific Islands?
It’s common knowledge.
It adds to the portrait of her and Soper as a RW political hit squad.
There’s something weird about the relationship so it follows there something weird about her thinking.
Is your wife a lot younger than you, or something? If so I don’t mean any offence to you personally, just Duplicity.
Dude, it is irrelevant to the specifics of my personal life. It just smacks of the panty-sniffing puritans who think that what goes on in other people’s bedrooms is their business.
You know what’s weird about HDPA’s thinking? The way she called the Pacific Islands “leeches” that “don’t matter”. Isn’t that enough?
I think it’s relevant to know about the people ruling us and also the people delivering us opinion.
Perhaps you’d like Trump’s immoral attitude to women, and use of hookers to be off limits and sacrosanct?
Personal is personal until it impinges on the public.
A fundy conservative politician privately contradicting the policies they support in public? Fair game. Because the hypocrisy is of public interest.
And yeah, dolt-45 with women by itself is of no public interest. But breaking campaign laws to pay off said women? It’s the breaking of campaign laws that was interesting. Dolt-45 with hookers pissing on a bed Obama slept in? One could stretch that it goes to the motives behind some of the Orange One’s policies, but it’s titillation only – until it becomes possible material that’s being used to blackmail him. Then it’s a US security issue.
None of that applies to HDPA.
It’s not “ammo”. It’s just you cheapening a good point with irrelevant panty-sniffing. If that’s the biggest way a NZ reporter/columnist is “weird”, we’re bloody lucky.
Edit: unfortunately, it’s not, because HDPA’s comments were bloody weird.
She uses her unorthodox marriage to Soper as a promotional tool and there are several articles on it. There’s a case the marriage itself is part of her campaign given the wedding was in parliament. How weird is that?
Given her naked ambition to be a RW shock jock I’d say her unorthodox marriage is fair game.
What campaign?
Two colleagues met, hooked up, and got married where they work, because where they work is an interesting place. Hell, they might even have sold stories to the weekly rags. None of this is actually a negative or a vulnerability to target, and all of it is irrelevant to the objectionable shit she actually said.
I’m getting the distinct impression that somehow you think “weird” and “unorthodox” are bad things that makes racist comments even worse.
In addition, I believe Duplicity Allan is carefully constructing her image as a Mark Richardson type. A peddler of controversy for the sake of it. For clicks, ears, attention, and dollars.
We don’t need any more of this type of divisive tabloid behaviour in this country, there’s enough of it already.
So I’ll fight her and her type whenever I see it with whatever ammo I can lay my hands on.
Thank you.
Wow, so you have an issue with people who choose partners with age gaps and to boot may have more than one partner in their lifetime.
Maybe a little too personal in the insults department Muttonbird??
There’s age gaps and there’s age chasms.
And multiple marriages suggests poor judgement and poor commitment.
and of course there is that whole ‘daddy figure’ thing.
Probably the good thing is that one day she’ll probably wake up, and it’ll all become a NZonAIr funded, Julie Christie-produced TV show
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!! Naughty, naughty OWT.
If I was rating Tova O’Brien as a political reporter she wouldn’t even get on the board. Very bad disrespectful questioning of Jacinda A. Interrupting answers and all but calling her a liar. Simon is looking and sounding even more desperate. Even if there is a bit of dissension in the Coalition it’s not going to stop them getting the job done.
Sarah Abdallah nails it on Twitter.
“Italy is right. If Sarkozy, along with Cameron, Obama and Hillary, didn’t bomb and destroy Libya, handing it to jihadists who now sell human beings in open slave markets, there wouldn’t be a refugee crisis destabilizing Europe today.”
Hezbollah’s still looking for their sympathiser, who may or may not be who they say they are.
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All for the outside bombing of Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. No argument against. The off-loading of a rider is everyone’s cause. What happens after is at least progression.
Mark Curtis, British historian, exposes the lies of the corporate media.
“Guardian agit-prop to stop Corbyn and reimpose militarist neoliberalism is now relentless. I count around 40 anti-Corbyn ‘anti-semitism’ stories on Guardian website in past 4 weeks alone. The paper’s top story. Its agenda could hardly be clearer.”
The Guardian?! Which we all expand to ‘of liberty’. Disgusting.
Putting a minor detail (and no, he’s not an anti-Semite) before a great matter (the rule of the people). Disgusting.
Kia ora Te am show Well its good to hear a unbiased option on The Labour lead Coalition Governments show of Mana yesterday . YEA RIGHT .When The am show was touring around Aotearoa you changed your views like you changed your undies one minute red next blue with no idea of your real opinion the cash from the capitalist flowing into your pockets dictates your opinion
You’s don’t give a toss about your mokopuna’s or OUR mokopunas future thinking about that phenomenon is way out of there intellectual capability’s.
.simon what have you got 2 people cutting holes in your canoe no WOW factor national has run all our state sector’s to near bankruptcy if they were not state organizations they will have all ended up broke .
I can not see one person in national being able to stand up and deliver a society that has a wealthy healthy happy and equal sustainable future. Your crew only look after the wealthy everyone else are sheep we have seen this with our own eyes 2 of your biggest fan cashed in there capital gains got a new whare with $7.5 million left to take all there luggage on holiday .
Thats cool under our new Government Leader’s Alcohol consumption has dropped crime is dropping and % 90 of people are happy Te Tangata Whenua are getting the Mana and respect we deserve for OUR Te reo and culture.
With te sport on the weekend Eco Maori knows how the western system works enough said .
Duncan is that all you can dredge up diarydack dune he is a pro national flag waver
who’s toilet sunk yesterday. Discount his old fossil views for he is directly responsible for the mess that our new government has to clean up.
Ka pai Phil Goff the home less need to be housed some people think its OK just part of there ideal capitalist system wealthy first and foremost.
The way the system is set up now poor people can not get a hire education like we could before student loans ie free education was scrapped why because the poor educated tangata were holding the powers that be to account speaking out taking them to court ect the wealthy could not have that so they scrapped a free education
Ka kite ano P.S remember Eco Maori can sink any toilet
Here the reality of what shonky & CO have done our free speech and media
link below
And stuffed OUR country it will take 10 years to clean up shonkys mess
Ana to kai ka kite ano
PU KANA Ana to kai ka kite ano
It is social media that is leveling out the political field in Aotearoa its has been used to peddle lies in other country’s we were lucky we are down under I’E it took 5 years for Cambridge analytica to get here now we can counter there pro alt right neo liberal capitalist 00.1 % proper-gander money distorting our fair just Democratic society of Aotearoa . Ka kite ano
Eco Maori is sure our scientist predicted this snow in Te Wai Pounmu & sunbathing in Te Ika a Maui ka kite ano P.S we will have a mean skiing season tourism will be pumping.
Eco Maori can not get a job because every-time I go for employment the sandflys play a atua’s role and interfere with my potential employers reality on Eco Maori its hard enough being middle-aged and Maori as well as having the muppets for 17 years interfear in ones life. Kia Kaha to all Kiwis of Aotearoa. ka kite an .
P.S I have a job keeping all the capitalist neo liberal Human caused Climate Change deniers/ spinners in check
Many thanks to Stuff for this which proves what I have been saying about a corrupt
JUSTICE SYSTEM’S IN Aotearoa link is below thanks national now you know why I will sink shonkys toilet ana to kai ka kite ano
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/09/unseen/
Another link below for the above story.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107025400/call-for-inquiry-into-problematic-police-use-of-private-investigators
The way Eco Maori see this is Japan does not need the whale meat or the industry to have cause to be justifiable to carry on Killing Tangaroa’s beautiful Creatures .
What’s there motive ITS A SHOW OF POWER JAPAN CAN DO WHAT IT WAN’TS.
But know the rest of Papatuanuku is going to stop them these creatures are endangered Ana to kai ka kite ano link is below.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/14/whaling-vote-australia-tells-japan-it-has-lost-argument-for-killings
Eco Maori did say that NIKE was not stupid link below ka kite ano.
http://www.euronews.com/2018/09/11/what-boycott-nike-sales-are-31-percent-kaepernick-campaign-n908251
Here is a good read words from the political party leader’s on the great election results.
Link is below Ka kite ano
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/09/16/237145/stardust-and-substance-the-2017-election-through-politicians-eyes-1
Here’s a good yarn on how x national PM treat’s there voters lose play poker with hundred of kiwi money and lives LINK IS BELOW I first seen the story on the national party proper-gander machine the herald FROM NOW ON ECO MAORI IS boycotting there website no more links to that and 2 of there writers have pushed there bullshit to far so Eco Maori will sink there toilets with no shame. Ka kite ano P.S sheep we are in there eyes
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/107130930/former-mainzeal-director-dame-jenny-shipley-defending-reckless-trading-allegations
willie shaw is a lieing puppet for the national party I would take what he has to sell about weed control as bull teko he will be trying to push products such as Round up or Glyphosate based weed killing products . he is the type of person who will let te mokopunas applie these killer chemicals and not blink a eye I.E that he knows that the effects will be bad for them link below ka kite ano
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@environment/2018/09/09/226801/a-billion-trees-and-a-trillion-weeds
Here you go the wealthy getting more than there fair share of Aotearoa they should pay more in tax’s to fix up the mess there national m8 made in there efforts to hand them our money link below ka kite ano
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/107139617/richlisters-wealth-grows-sixfold-in-two-decades-much-faster-than-rest-of-economy
My opinion on the subject of Wahine Equality in all aspects of employment and management is a inbuilt prejudice of the systems as well as old men blocking the pathway up for wahine I have a good link below Ka kite ano
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/29/women-better-off-far-from-equal-men
Kia ora Newshub its snowing hard in Queens Town it would really beneficial for people to install solar power with a backup battrie $9 k and no more power cuts no more big power bills SouthIsland people .
It’s cool that we are seeing a big group of volunteers counting the homeless these poor people are a effect of our society many thanks to you all kia kaha .
Cat’s are companion but if they are not well cared for the soon turn into predators and they are deadly hunters mic chips a bell and spading is a good thing a lot of our unique native birds are endangered its cool that we are working with Papatuanuku.
There you go you can not trust many studies of anything you have to trace the links the researcher has to the product’s manufacture to see if there is cheating going on in the name of proffets
Those power polls in Otago don’t look very safe company’s milking the consumer is a culture that needs to be changed in Aotearoa.
The Lion’s jellie fish looks beautiful but it has hundred’s of sting’s I remember the days when I was first stung by a electric ray I was 12 first time I had seen one and of course I was told to grab it next minute I was jumping up and down while they laughing at me lol its just a shock like a electric fence . Ka kite ano P.S Ingrid your te reo was ka pai last week
The Crowd Goes Wild James and Mulls I did not realize that David was going to give one of our favorite sports a serve.
That’s a good win for the young fella in the cars that’s a huge cup he could have a swim in that one.
I would not enter your studio at the minute why because I would get wet from all the tears.
James my baby son is the same weight as you loves the jim to but I cannot get into sweating unless I make money for my efforts may be soon tho.
There is some thing unusual for OUR other watersports stars maybe the hoste are not treating them with respect we know that some countrys wealthy take that soprts very seriously .
Ka kite ano P.S 5 days to get a new test team up to form is a hard task and ask Mulls hows the Rock best rock song run comp going kia kaha guy;s