The Northern Busway has been one of Auckland’s most successful transport investments. In the 11 years since it opened it has become the best and most used public transport corridor in probably all of the country. AT peak times in the peak direction there are now buses, mostly double deckers, every minute or two and off-peak and counter-peak there are buses every 5-10 minutes. While post new network we’re still working through a change in how the numbers are reported, the indications are the busway is also carrying more passengers than any of the rail lines in both Auckland and Wellington.
It’s become so busy that at peak times we’re probably at the limit for how man buses can effectively operate on it until the extension to Albany is completed in a few years and fixes the Constellation Station bottleneck, as we found out when the New Network launched.
Perhaps even more importantly, it has hugely extended the life of the harbour bridge by massively increasing its people-carrying capacity. This has removed the need for another road crossing of the harbour saving us $5 billion or more. Although given its success, the busway will need to be upgraded to light rail in the coming decades and it will need a dedicated harbour crossing – but providing that is much cheaper than providing a road crossing.
The biggest single problem with the northern busway was simply that the short-sighted fools of the right vehemently opposed it and in their process of being irrelevant dimwits prevented in getting the kind of park and ride that would have made it even more useful. But I guess you can’t stop these kinds of fools being conservatives.
Actually no-one opposed the Northern Busway. All the MP’s in the North Shore area and all the North Shore Council supported it.
As for the size of the Smales Farm station, the only people who may have opposed would have been the owners of the Smales Farm owners, since it was their land that had to be used for the station. But I suspect not. They wanted the Station but for it not to be a park and ride, which also suited the designers of the station.
I know that right from the get go, there was concern the Albany station was too small.
Bullshit. There were a lot of conservatives who opposed the Northern Busway.
Two come to mind – NZ Herald editorials (especially those written in the distinctive style of John Roughan), columns like this, innumerable posts and comments on Kiwiblog and the sitting members of C&R across several councils.
I have no idea what the National MPs thought of it because they were damn near invisible on the subject. For instance have a look at google on your views on the search terms of ‘”wayne mapp” busway’ from 2000 to 2009.
Of course there may have been private support – but who in the hell would know?
What I remember about the period from 2000-2008 was a litany of complaints and whining about why Labour and councils had put money into the extremely sensible and economically rational busway rather than building more motorways further out (that happened anyway) or putting in a totally unnecessary second harbor crossing.
I remember, living in Auckland at the time, the derision, and lack of support, from the National party front organizations in the council, for any form of public transport.
Wayne is either forgetful, or being, “economical with the truth”.
you must be living in an alternate universe cause there literally is no one in the No mates Party that championed public transport, advocated for it, provided funds for it .
The most limiting “bottleneck” of all in the Busway, is the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
The Busway needs to be carried over the bridge. Taking two lanes of traffic away from cars will be a further incentive to take the bus instead of the car, and again exponentially increase the commuter carrying capacity of the Harbour Bridge.
The two outside eastern lanes, now dedicated to cars be given over to buses, the south bus lane exiting on to Fanshaw Street, and the northbus lane entering at Pt. Erin on the existing flyover.
Glad for you WTB, there is nothing like gentle steady rain to speed up growth in the garden and on the land. However it means more lawn mowing by the “Keep it neat” crowd.
This is a quite funny take on the self help guru Jordan Peterson who seems to have entranced lots of people (mainly young men I believe) with his mumbo Jumbo spun like some sort of half smart philosophy.. and who is visiting NZ this week.
A disclaimer here that this pod cast is also a bit annoying at times, but worth enduring as they actually do a pretty good job unpacking the core of Peterson’s popularity nicely IMO.
That is true, but then Peterson would never debate someone who could easily expose and dismantle his mostly regressive fruitloopery.
So Peterson initially agreed then declined to debate Douglas Lain, publisher of Zero Books because he apparently wasn’t popular enough, declined to debate Richard Wolff for less than $50,000.
Now the only debate that might happen is one between Peterson and Slavoj Zizek, which will be a complete waste of time.
No peterson’s handlers (and Peterson himself) are far too smart, and making way to much money to let him go on stage with anyone who will expose his tomfoolery for what it is, mystical bullshit with some commonsense self help, and bit of anger thrown at people who make you feel uncomfortable (in this case woman and transgender and cool Socialists) and a little more self help.
Just something for disenfranchised young (and not so young) men to believe in and hold on to in a world that feels very unstable and moving to fast, so not unreasonable from their point of view, but lots of good energy wasted IMO.
Ha, no friutloopery is what we term the spiritualist section in out secondhand bookshop, you know…crystals, magic, religion, palmistry etc, just all the stuff people turn to when they lack direction, meaning in their own lives, feel disenfranchised, disconnected and just want something bigger than themselves to believe in and work for, which is fair enough, I guess, just mostly a fruitless quest for nonexistent answers IMO.
I can’t remember the exact quote, but Freud (and I am not advocating Freudianism btw,) said something like…and don’t quote me here.. you are already fucked if you have already begun searching for the answers (to life).
You haven’t explained what about Peterson’s ideas are so wacky and way out. Most of what he puts forward is what used to be known as common sense. In that regard I could understand if you described his ideas as banal and lacking in originality. I don’t see how it can be classified as BS.
Bullshit. He’s supposedly a teacher. He knows that if a large chunk of his students consistently get the wrong idea from what he says,over many years, that’s on him. We’re not talking a couple of fools from one talk he gave while tired. He’s had more than enough time to identify the consistent misinterpretations and walk them back, but he doesn’t.
Totally, McFlock. I’d imagined teachers were supposed to elucidate rather than complicate. But he has ceased being a teacher and is now a showman.
Peterson has long been defended by the spotty white youth as being misunderstood, but he’s happy with that because the controversy adds to his coffers.
He’s a troll and knows his time as a troll is limited so he’s going do what he can when he can to maximise revenue.
By complete contrast we have people in the same thread arguing how Marx wasn’t responsible for people misinterpreting his works…
Well, I’m not sure teaching people was Marx’s profession. Nor am I sure that some of the more objectionable interpretations of his philosophy were evident prior to his death. And if they were, I’m not sure whether such misinterpretations were prevalent and well publicised in a manner that should have made him totally aware that this was a common problem.
Other than that, the supposed misinterpretations of the two authors are completely comparable.
OK so here’s something. First thing Tuesday morning Jordan Peterson will be doing interviews at NZME. First Hosking at @NewstalkZB then me for @nzherald then Leighton Smith for his podcast. Yes, thank you, I am totally relaxed.
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Can you ask him why, when his message is pretty banal and kind of self-helpy (stop whining, man-up and develop some classical virtue), why his followers are such fuck-muppets? And why doesn’t he condemn them for such fuck-muppetry? You’re welcome.
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Peterson’s negative stuff – critiques of postmodernism and callout culture are pretty sound. His constructive work is nothing special however.
Yep … that’s pretty much my view.
He’s also on a firm footing where he cites a broad or universally held consenus among Psychologists / Evolutionary Biologists and so on (which often undercut the passionately-held (indeed aggressively-held) views of the Intersectionals). (Although I’d add that he certainly gets some aspects of Gender/Sex wrong … usually via too simplistic an understanding of the relevant literature).
“Most of what he puts forward is what used to be known as common sense.”
Why don’t you put forward some of his “common sense” ideas, so that you can engage with some kind of detail?
I have watched some of his videos, read several articles and skim read a book or two – skim, being the only requirement because the ideas expressed are not profound.
I didn’t find anything of merit, and the only reason why I did so, was to understand the appeal to a young man living with us at the time.
If you are so certain of his worth, then bring forward a concept of his that can be discussed, instead of your amorphous abstract comments.
So I went away and checked what Peterson was talking about on the ‘clean your room’ concept.
Of course the phrase itself is a symbol for an idea more complex that this; in essence he is saying that you need to get your own life sorted before you start trying to reorganise the world. And in practical terms the best way to start the process is to deal with what you can control immediately in front of you … your room.
Once you have established the basic discipline to do this routinely, you can expand on this order and habit. Figure out what you can fix next and take one small step at a time, growing your competency and assuming more responsibility, each step building on the one before.
He then points out that if you don’t have your life, your family, your income, your community life sorted … you have no damn business pretending you know how to govern a city or a nation. I have to say I’ve seen more than a few people here falling into that category, and seems a reasonable piece of advice for younger people especially starting out in their adult life.
But if you’re determined to erase it of all nuance the I can see how ‘clean your room’ gets simplified down to a convenient caricature.
“He then points out that if you don’t have your life, your family, your income, your community life sorted … you have no damn business pretending you know how to govern a city or a nation. I have to say I’ve seen more than a few people here falling into that category, and seems a reasonable piece of advice for younger people especially starting out in their adult life.
But if you’re determined to erase it of all nuance the I can see how ‘clean your room’ gets simplified down to a convenient caricature.”
Thanks RedLogix for expanding the idea, which Gosman, typically failed to do. I’m not going to waste more of my time going back to look for ideas, so I expect his supporters – such as Gosman and Shadrach – to bring his concepts to the discussion table.
What I took away from the ‘cleaning your room’ idea, was another restriction on allowing people to be heard. Eg. unless you have your life in order, you are not permitted to speak up on issues.
This is a level of arrogance that as a proponent of true social democracy that I disagree with.
People can/and should be able to have input into the systems that govern their lives, even while not meeting Peterson’s “clean room” standards.
Peterson is also a strong advocate for free speech which suggests that he means you have to be silent unless you have your life sorted is not consistent.
I’d argue though that if you want to turn talk into action you’d better know what you’re doing.
“Peterson is also a strong advocate for free speech which suggests that he means you have to be silent unless you have your life sorted is not consistent.”
The “is not consistent” is something I agree with. And his inconsistencies seemed to me to be easy to find.
A way of hedging your bets – to say on one hand that people cannot have input into systems that influence their lives – and then respond to criticisms of this stance by saying that you are on record as an advocate of free speech is not only inconsistent, it is deliberately so.
It’s entirely consistent to support freedom of speech, while at the same time expecting competency of action. One does not exclude the other.
After all this place encourages people to explore ideas and opinions quite freely, but at the same time we expect our political leaders to have their act together.
What I took away from the ‘cleaning your room’ idea, was another restriction on allowing people to be heard. Eg. unless you have your life in order, you are not permitted to speak up on issues.
The proposed restriction is in your mind, not in Peterson’s statements.
It is something to chase and pen from all the rampant ideas in the paddock. It is really important to isolate something verging on the trivial and likely to be populist to study in depth. The whole is too confusing, and what thinking people wish to discuss are too demanding of the thinking process, and perhaps might be essential for a livable future. RW can’t bear that sort of serious discussion – it threatens their status quo, gives them a shaky, sad feeling in their stomach and their lives seem fragile and ultimately off-beam.
“RL: It’s entirely consistent to support freedom of speech, while at the same time expecting competency of action. One does not exclude the other.”
The ‘cleaning your room’ before you have a right to speak up, is a infringement on free speech.
It doesn’t say anything about informing yourself on the issue at hand before you speak out, it says that you must be organised in regards to Peterson’s expected virtues, before you can.
There are many policies that involve chaotic, complicated or unorganised situations, where those who live those lives have valuable input on to how they are resolved.
There are other instances where input should be gathered regarding policy from those who are not experts, but who are going to be exposed to policy changes and amendments.
PM: “The proposed restriction is in your mind, not in Peterson’s statements.”
No. He is quite clear that you have to focus on the individual before the global. When it is possible to do both at the same time. He misses that point.
The clarity that you see comes because he selectively excludes any other perspectives – that in the real world – need to be considered.
It’s simple enough: you’ve declared that Peterson’s view that people should get their own lives in order before trying to govern others constitutes a “restriction” on free speech and a declaration that some are “not permitted” to speak up on issues. For that to be the case, there’d have to be some proposed mechanism by which the restriction were to be applied. No such mechanism is even implied in his statements, let alone explicitly stated, which means the restriction is in your mind, not his statements.
“Honestly I think PM got it in one. “It’s simple enough: you’ve declared that Peterson’s view that people should get their own lives in order before trying to govern others constitutes a “restriction” on free speech and a declaration that some are “not permitted” to speak up on issues. “
You both provide an example of what I find problematic with Peterson. No nuance, no context.
He specifically advises getting your own house in order before having input into wider issues.
I’ve given examples of where input, regardless of the level of chaos in individual lives would result in better policy making. You’ve both chosen not to consider that, and resorted again to Peterson-splaining to give his contradictory ramblings some coherence.
Advising anyone that they provide no value when speaking out until they have all their ducks in a row, is not aligned with a strong advocate of free speech.
For example: Young people should be involved with policy decisions that impact on their lives; addiction problems and solutions are best served by including those suffering from addiction in programme design. Mental health also. The lived experience and advice on solutions is valuable in an extensive list of issues facing us today. People can be fully engaged and informative in certain aspects of their lives, while negligent in others.
“Cleaning your room” is a very simplistic notion, that requires the exclusion of any other factors other than individual responses to individual circumstances. In that particular context, it stands for a level of personal responsibility and empowerment.
The addendum that a clean room is a requirement before speaking out on wider issues is a problem, regardless. It has nothing to do with the idea of the empowered individual. It has been tacked on to that idea and not critiqued.
A while back the Conversation published a piece called No, you’re not entitled to your opinion. The take-home message was “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
I’m a strong advocate for freedom of speech and also shared that author’s view of people who don’t offer an argument in support of their opinions. Those two things are not incompatible, because people will cheerfully continue to present their unsupported opinions regardless of how I personally feel about it. The same applies to Peterson’s view that people who generate only chaos in their own lives are unlikely to generate good governance in other people’s lives if given authority.
He’s egregiously wrong about enough things already that we don’t need to go making things up.
“Those two things are not incompatible, because people will cheerfully continue to present their unsupported opinions regardless of how I personally feel about it. The same applies to Peterson’s view that people who generate only chaos in their own lives are unlikely to generate good governance in other people’s lives if given authority.“
Peterson doesn’t specify giving people – who he considers ‘unclean room occupiers’ – authority. That is another conversation. He says until they have their lives in order, they don’t have any valuable input into decisions made by authority.
There is a difference.
I have pointed out the value of input by people whose lives may be in disarray when deciding on policy or solutions. I have also pointed out that many people can be very well informed on particular issues while the remainder of their lives are in chaos.
I can also think of many examples of those in authority whose lives are well-papered rooms of deceit and misdirection. (We have examples of this on TS almost every day in terms of those in authority.)
Once again – and this applies to you as well as Peterson – : “Advising anyone that they provide no value when speaking out until they have all their ducks in a row, is not aligned with a strong advocate of free speech.”
There are two concepts in play here, that he has combined:
1. Individual responsibility and empowerment
2. The right to have input into wider discussions
He has merged them both into one idea and conclusion – and that is where his logic fails. To do that he has to strip away the idea that people can be more than one simple category. He also has to imply that unless a particular set of standards is met, their input is not to be regarded with value. Or even considered. Probably not even offered.
People are more than expert or novice, uninformed or informative. It often depends on topic or situation. To advise that people with chaotic lives have no value or input is to deny them a voice – and that is suppression of people’s right to engage.
It is also incorrect in terms of value, and some of the examples provided above would be worthy of discussion.
Saying you are an advocate of free speech is not the same as being an advocate of free speech. I agree he says he is, but his actions and provisos pay lie to that statement.
I believe you’re representing his views as being much more simplistic than they are, however even if we leave that aside, you’re arguing a non-sequitur.
Peterson argues that people who can’t bring order into even a small area of their own lives are unlikely to bring order into larger matters, and I argue that people who can’t support their opinions with arguments contribute little of value to a debate.
You claim that those are anti-free speech because they deny people a voice. That claim is a non-sequitur because your conclusion doesn’t logically follow from your premises: neither Peterson nor I have any means of denying people a voice and (I’m assuming in his case) no inclination to acquire such a means or apply it.
“I believe you’re representing his views as being much more simplistic than they are, however even if we leave that aside, you’re arguing a non-sequitur.”
Interesting – because that is the point I made above. That his encouragement on personal responsibility and empowerment, is – in this case – linked to a perspective on whether those who are not in a place of calm, have valuable insights to offer.
Peterson argues that people who can’t bring order into even a small area of their own lives are unlikely to bring order into larger matters, and I argue that people who can’t support their opinions with arguments contribute little of value to a debate.
These are two different topics, creating as you point out, a non-sequitur. As mentioned before, people can be well informed on particular topics – even while being in a state of chaos, and can provide valuable input despite it that situation. This fact must be ignored, in order for his concept to remain true. That is why I consider him to be simplistic. The scenarios he applies his reasoning to must be restricted and artificial to come to any type of conclusion.
It is a method of discussion that relies on amorphous, abstract concepts that can be reinterpreted by the audience in such a way that it strikes a chord. You, yourself, have reinterpreted his meaning of input to be: informed discussion, given authority, contributing little of value to debate. It shows a lack of clarity, that responds to questions with a constantly moving target. Hardly an indication of a well reasoned, clearly presented argument.
Do you consider that people sometimes have valuable insights or input to offer even if they have chaotic lives? Or that people may have a vast wealth of knowledge on particular topics which should be considered when creating policy and solution programmes? And if so, should they be encouraged or discouraged to do so?
There is a difference between asking for informed discussion on a topic, and requiring that all participants have an ordered life before they engage.
In my trade you start out on small scale projects and prove yourself before you’re entrusted with the big ones. It’s pretty much the same everywhere you go.
This doesnt mean not engaging, it just means it’s most effective to work on the problems in front of you first. Get those under control and the bigger opportunities will naturally arrive.
It’s called competency and it’s striking how some on the left find this a difficult concept.
These are two different topics, creating as you point out, a non-sequitur.
No, they are two different illustrations of the same point: that arguing for a lack of merit in particular approaches to problems is not the same as denial of others’ right to speak.
Do you consider that people sometimes have valuable insights or input to offer even if they have chaotic lives?
They may well do. But then, I haven’t noticed Peterson arguing that they can’t possibly have anything of merit to say on any subject, so it’s an irrelevant question.
There is a difference between asking for informed discussion on a topic, and requiring that all participants have an ordered life before they engage.
You’re arguing the same non-sequitur. Neither Peterson nor I have any means of requiring anything from anybody who wants to participate in something, nor any inclination to seek such a means. That’s as true now as it was at the beginning of this discussion.
“In my trade you start out on small scale projects and prove yourself before you’re entrusted with the big ones. It’s pretty much the same everywhere you go.”
Another example of what Peterson does, uses an analogy not to explain a concept but as evidence of his conclusion.
“It’s called competency and it’s striking how some on the left find this a difficult concept.”
No, I don’t find this a difficult concept.
It is enough to say that people with something valuable to contribute should be able to do so. Leave it at that.
It is of interest to note that your description of what Peterson is trying to say changes from comment to comment.
Googling to check if I could find a direct quote from Peterson’s book, I came instead upon a review of the 12 Rules – which may give others a better view of his perspective than this conversation: Book review: 12 Rules for Life. An Antidote to Chaos”, published on the Psych Central website and fairly even handed with both praise and criticism.
Especially with his comments on addressing domestic violence – apparently changing the police approach isn’t the way to go because the main problem is alcohol. When challenged, he ends up reducing that down to 50% of violent crime, but still doesn’t want to discuss anything other than alcohol.
Slippery when challenged, the closest he gets to acknowledging a point is “perhaps”.
Thanks McFlock. If the quotes are accurate, that is a good indication of what his true views are, given his extensive public relations experience. And they are not justifiable.
Two good articles that came up while looking for the cleaning the room quote, were written by a long time friend and acquaintance and give some insight into his history.
His argument was more nuanced – he would in fact call a student in his course whatever they preferred. But he would not be told by a stranger which pronoun (including non-standard pronouns) he must use. It is a matter of manners.
Did some googling to refresh. Interesting quote on his wikipedia page where he says he will never use some particular pronouns. So no, he wouldn’t call students by some pronouns.
That’s a response to demands from strident people who he has no need to address at all in his professional capacity. He has nothing to do with them, and consequently they do not have the right to impose their pronouns demands on him. It’s a freedom of speech issue.
He has my sympathy for this bit in the article you linked:
… I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words “zhe” and “zher.”
Fuck yes. I might conceivably be prepared to use pronouns like that with someone who was prepared to refer to me as “his imperial majesty the Great Silkie” as a quid pro quo, but even then I’d probably renege on the deal when it came to actually saying them with a straight face.
Partly, sure. Of course, the fact that bullying of academic staff by students is now occurring is also partly down to human rights legislation and student activism, but there’s never an unalloyed good.
I can see how human rights legislation might give students legal recourse in the face of endemic discrimination by faculty, but how on earth does it enable university staff to be bullied by students?
The contribution is trivial, but then its contribution to protecting students from harassment by academics is also trivial. It’s just a small part of a general encouragement for students to imagine themselves an oppressed class who should stand up to the authority of their course controllers, when the reality for a decade or more now is that universities consider students to be paying customers and academic staff mere employees, with all the consequences that that implies for the academic staff. I hear some shocking stuff about how academics are treated by students – the reverse doesn’t come up so often, exactly because of the ubiquity and effectiveness of harassment procedures, which are only aimed at protecting students. For me, the sight of Peterson surrounded and shouted down by braying arseholes on his own campus illustrates the real power relationship involved.
Having seen student advocates actually include human rights legislation in successful attempts to e.g. make university courses more accessible to people with various disabilities, I disagree.
And having also seen the difference in response to students with complaints before and after they got the same advocates invovled, customers are treated a darn sight better than students.
Lots of students are little shits, no argument, but students protests made his career (publicity for patreon), while he can wreck careers before they start with a bad mark.
Why can’t the pronouns be mentioned – in his article on the link provided Peterson mentioned ‘zhe’ and ‘zher’. I agree with him that the intensity of focus on gender issues and demands is OTT.
There is so much achieved in that area, can we come back to refugees and parents and children and let those work their way to the head of the list for some caring attention and action.
We have the image of Oliver holding out his empty bowl and tentatively asking for ‘more please’. That is how it is for parents and children. Can more people work themselves to a white-hot energy to love them, our most vulnerable with the most potential.
It is they who will live in and form the future; to be reasonably good or an abandoned lot.
Nope, he’s the dude who claimed he was risking jail time by refusing to allow the government to mandate his use of pronouns. There seems to be some dispute over how real a risk it was, but the principle was sound enough.
So you’re saying that Canadian and Ontario human rights legislation gives greater protection to transgender people than it does people of different ethnicities?
I believe his issue is being mandated to use language not being restricted from using certain words (although I suspect he doesn’t particular think government should do the later much either).
His claim was that the government prescribing words that you must use goes way beyond proscribing words you’re not allowed to say in public. I read some opinions disputing whether the Canadian law genuinely did prescribe speech, but on the face of it his claim seems reasonable.
Except this point seems to have developed because he took an addition of gender identity to pretty standard human rights legislation as an indication that refusing to use a person’s pronoun of choice would be regarded as “hate speech” for which jail would be a possible punishment.
Sure, and plenty of people disagreed with him on whether the law would actually have that result. If he wasn’t inclined to wait for case law to provide a conclusive answer that could involve a prison sentence, I can sympathise.
But he seems to me to be the legal equivalent of a hollywood anti-vaxxer: a high-profile person encouraging an irrational fear based on zero evidence except their own unqualified reckons.
When it comes to assessing the merits or otherwise of a law restricting freedom of speech, “it hasn’t put this guy in jail yet” isn’t a useful basis to assess them on. If a law could in principle put someone in jail for not using a ridiculous pronoun that someone made up for themselves, but hasn’t yet because people in the justice system aren’t fuckwits, it’s still entirely reasonable to oppose that law.
If people in the legal system aren’t enforcing a law, the legal system has a bigger problem than adding an additional group to the already existing human rights act while giving that group no extra privileges compared to any other protected group.
So the alternatives seem to be:
It is now an imprisonable offence in Canada to refer to someone by using a pronoun that they do not believe reflects their gender, but nobody has done that yet; or
It is now an imprisonable offence in Canada to refer to someone by using a pronoun that they do not believe reflects their gender, but the Canadian legal system is refusing to uphold or enforce that law; or
that interpretation of the addition of transgender people to the existing human rights legislation was just Peterson’s little wet dream.
You missed option four: yet again, a “progressive” government has passed bad law that won’t be properly enforced, on the basis it will “send a message.” My money’s on number four.
If I could butt in briefly; Peterson elsewhere has said that if a transgender student personally asked him to use a non-standard pronoun he would likely comply out of courtesy and basic manners.
On the other hand he’s been clear that if someone confronted him, demanding he use these pronouns, he wouldn’t. And certainly he objects to legal compulsion.
While it leaves open the question of why one situation is different to another, I think in real life most of us would have little difficulty in determining a sincere personal request, from grandstanding an ideology.
Agreed. If Peterson has a student in his class who’s obviously transgender and he decides to use the wrong pronouns for them, that’s assholery of a fairly high order. I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s that kind of asshole.
Gender faddists who want you to use made-up pronouns for them is something else entirely, and I personally doubt any genuine suicide risk in such faddists not having their demands met.
Just out of interest, was his comment about how he would treat a student a walk-back after someone pointed out how previous claims about pronouns would inhibit his ability to teach?
You missed option four: yet again, a “progressive” government has passed bad law that won’t be properly enforced, on the basis it will “send a message.” My money’s on number four.
“Properly” by what estimation? If discretion is left to officers and courts (e.g. s59 repeal), that’s good law. If it’s an explicit instruction to arrest wrong-pronoun users and leaving the authorities no discretion, you’d be correct.
If discretion is left to officers and courts (e.g. s59 repeal), that’s good law.
I’d call that very bad law. S59 repeal was an example of making fairly ordinary behaviour a lot of people engage in illegal and then leaving it up to the cops to decide who they feel like collaring for it, and the bill Peterson was bothered about was an example of vaguely classing a wide swathe of behaviour as illegal and leaving it up to the cops to decide who they feel like collaring for it. Both are shitty, shitty approaches to legislation.
I like reasonableness or significance tests and other such limited fuzziness in law.
Strict prescription/proscription is okay for some things with clear distinctions, but when situations, language and tech evolve, it’s good to give the people in the system discretion.
“…but then Peterson would never debate someone who could easily expose and dismantle his mostly regressive fruitloopery.”
That’s some way wide of the mark.
Peterson has been interviewed numerous times by members of the media, often hostile to his worldview. The best example was his now famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) interview with Cathy Newman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Peterson has also participated in debates involving intelligent, capable opponents. Here are three examples:
Rather than accept what other people say about Peterson (which I find often mischaracterises what he is actually saying), there are a large number of You Tube clips featuring Peterson in interviews and debates where he gives his opinions in his own words. They are worth the watch.
“Rather than accept what other people say about Peterson (which I find often mischaracterises what he is actually saying), there are a large number of You Tube clips featuring Peterson in interviews and debates where he gives his opinions in his own words. They are worth the watch.”
I have watched some of his videos, and read his book. He comes across to me as a prat.
He has no understanding of nuance or context.
He uses analogies not as a method of explanation, but as evidence for the concept he proposes. His thinking is clear-cut to those who are looking for black and white answers in a chaotic world. But thankfully, we live in a technicolour world despite it all.
He – most dangerously – calls to those who feel alienation, and answers them – not with ideas of inclusion or community, but with blaming and external causation. His appeal to those that seem to like him – seems to be his certainty – the same aspect that makes him, and many like him, unappealing to me.
That sounds like a whinge. You obviously don’t like his opinions, and mischaracterise his followers as somehow being misfits. The reality is Peterson speaks common sense and rationality into a world weakened by irrational discourse.
“That sounds like a whinge. You obviously don’t like his opinions, and mischaracterise his followers as somehow being misfits. The reality is Peterson speaks common sense and rationality into a world weakened by irrational discourse.
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Shadrach. You asked for someone to read his books, and watch his videos. I have done both. Hours of my life I won’t get back, but which I thought necessary because someone who was living with us at the time was a fan, and that connection was the impetus to inform myself.
I don’t find his perspectives insightful or helpful, I actually find him to be divisive and without nuance or context. I can see his appeal, without finding him appealing, in the same way I can see the appeal of Trump.
Divisive? That isn’t a criticism, is it? His views are controversial, but only because there are those who hold strident views on issues that defy logic. Peterson is a voice of sanity in amongst that nonsense.
I would consider your comments more if you would stop just defending the man, and discuss his ideas.
I find his ideas divisive, because he talks about personal responsibility as being towards the individual, with no understanding of differences in background, ability or environment. People who adopt that perspective, often fail to accommodate other lived experiences or perspectives and make judgements accordingly. Often derisive judgments, leading to division. He also fails to address issues of community or engagement that are external to those individual responsibility ideas.
“His views are controversial, but only because there are those who hold strident views on issues that defy logic. “
I don’t find him logical (deliberately stated in a moderate tone and without CAPS). I think his lack of clarity and logical progression from one idea to a conclusion is what makes him controversial. His supporters think this is because he is a voice of sanity in a world of chaos. I think it is because he is simplistic – unrealistically so.
I am defending his ideas. My comments have reflected that precisely.
“…differences in background, ability or environment” don’t negate personal responsibility. But rather than reducing his overall contributions to a single point, I’d suggest you consider his 12 Rules for Life, which make a great deal of sense.
“I think it is because he is simplistic – unrealistically so.”
I don’t believe he is unrealistically simplistic. He speaks in common sense terms. His ideas are actually fairly mainstream, however the chatter of extremism makes the value of what he says at times seem radical.
” He speaks in common sense terms. His ideas are actually fairly mainstream, however the chatter of extremism makes the value of what he says at times seem radical.”
Terms like radical, common sense are amorphous and subjective.
The comments that I have made can be discussed within context, and with nuance. Yet you just continue to cheerlead the abstract, and the man.
“I’d suggest you consider his 12 Rules for Life, which make a great deal of sense.”
I have had the unfortunate experience of considering his 12 Rules for Life. “… a great deal of sense…” means little, unless you explain why it is beneficial – not just to the individual but to the wider community.
His appeal seems to be emotional rather than logical.
Despite the number of comments, you have not engaged in any points I have made with the issues I have with the only one of his concepts – rules for life – presented: cleaning the room.
I was hoping for some level of informed discussion on the concepts themselves.
Perhaps you should take a breath, and rather than cheerlead your remarks, actually read what I have written. The reaction to Peterson reveals more about the insecurity of his opponents than it does about his ideas.
Shadrach, you haven’t put forward any of your own thoughts here.
Only reiterated your support for Peterson’s which can be interpreted in many ways.
Your admonishment “take a breath” is a way of shutting down conversation. All I have done with you is disagree, and explained why.
I’m also not an “opponent” of Peterson. I am someone who is not persuaded by his rhetoric. I find his perspective simplistic and artificial, and in some cases divisive and damaging. Because I don’t like his ideas, doesn’t mean that I “oppose” him.
Of course I have put forward my own thoughts. I find Peterson’s arguments, for the most part, compelling. He has a way of introducing substance into conversations so often distorted by emotion and misinformation, examples being the gender pay gap and compelled speech.
I don’t agree Peterson’s arguments are ‘artificial’ or ‘simplistic’. His book ‘12 Rules for Life’ is written by someone who is clearly a deep thinker, but who can articulate his ideas in straight forward terms. In an age when thoughts and speech are becoming so controlled and cautious, that is refreshing.
“Of course I have put forward my own thoughts. I find Peterson’s arguments, for the most part, compelling. “
Actually – you haven’t. Continually saying you find someone else’s ideas compelling, is not your thoughts on what he is saying.
You also haven’t really presented any of his ideas with clarity.
Actually what you probably don’t like is his relatively high pitched voice … women tend react negatively to that and your choice of ‘prat’ for the put down is consistent with conveying ‘lightweight, incompetent, foolish, annoying and unattractive’.
“Actually what you probably don’t like is his relatively high pitched voice … women tend react negatively to that and your choice of ‘prat’ for the put down is consistent with conveying ‘lightweight, incompetent, foolish, annoying and unattractive’.”
I’m more of a reader actually, and didn’t particularly note his voice. And it was his inconsistencies in his writing that I found unattractive. But it indicates the style of discourse about his ideas – which have to go through a whole analysis on the man himself. I find that a problem.
I have no problems disagreeing with ideas put forward by people I admire. I consider that to be the normal way of life. Discussion about Peterson seems to be mainly around “fer” or “agin”, on the man. And sides become entrenched, and he gains exposure without his ideas being examined.
Yes, I fell into that trap above. But there is only so much life to be wasted on someone that I identify as having fuzzy logic, and I’ve spent enough time on his work. I expect his supporters and cheerleaders to be able to bring forth his ideas that have value. They often don’t.
Saying I found him a bit of prat, was my personal informed response to reading his book, watching some of his videos as advised by Shadrach. There is such a deluge of videos online, that following Shadrach’s advice would be soul destroying. However, I also think that amount of material and lack of nuance makes it easy for him to hold contradictory ideas, as any incidents of fuzzy logic, can be reinterpreted by subsequent videos or interviews and used as “proof” of support for free speech, or human rights.
I also did explain why I found him so unappealing. But the issues as you say are never discussed, because there are so many interpretations of what he has said, that I have to suspect this lack of clarity is intentional.
I have asked for concepts to be discussed, but that fails as he has issued so many contradictory statements in so many mediums, it is possible for his supporters to Peterson-splain away any identified problems.
One of Jordan Peterson’s problems would be his lack of vision in one eye; the one with a black patch in front of it. However there is much to commend in that he bravely soldiers on and on and on and on – whoops – and on…../sarc
Who hung the Russian flag from Salisbury Cathedral a week before the anniversary of the Skripal poisoning?
Just heard this on the RNZ 11am news. No article up yet on their website, so here is a Guardian article (just to rile some people here) on what happened.
That’s really sad (and misplaced, given that Marx is not responsible for things done in his name).
I’ve done the pilgrimage to Highgate Cemetery. It costs a few quid to enter, but it’s a fascinating way to spend an hour or two. The section that Mr and Mrs Marx are resident in also includes the resting places of many, many other lefties. Plenty of political exiles ended up there, and there are a scattering of left wing British journos in that corner too.
If you do visit, a few metres in from the front gate is Douglas Adams’ plot. If you’re a fan, take a pen or pencil with you. I won’t say why, but you’ll feel special afterwards.
I lived in London for seven years in the 1970s and initially stayed in Finchley with friends before moving to a flat in Gloucester Rd area where I remained for the rest of my stay in London. One of the first things I did was go to Highgate Cemetery because it was reasonably close to my friends’ place and loved it. A fascinating cemetery and used to take other people there from time to time. And yes,, a lot of things are ascribed to Marx which were not of his doing or his beliefs. Sad to see how much damage has been done in these latest acts of vandalism.
I did not know Douglas Adams was buried there and just checked his Wikipedia page and lo and behold – a photo of his grave! Thanks for mentioning he was buried there. But fascinated as to why the pen or pencil …
Highgate Cemetary – Not too far away from the enclave of London I know best … Holloway / Highbury / Finsbury Park / Stoke Newington.
(Arsenal territory … for footy fans)
Doubt that was a waggish act. More like ‘someone’ was reminding other people what happens if you betray [supposedly] your country of origin. In this case, Russia.
I actually saw it from the same perspective, Anne – ie as a reminder rather than a waggish act.
I just tried to look at an article on The Times website today which headlined that Sergei Skripal’s health has deteriorated, but gave up as to read it in full, you have to sign up to a one month free trial.
However, the whole sorry saga seems to have been in the UK news again in the last week or so as indicated by the various related articles on this Guardian page with recent results for Sergei Skipal.
I doubt that Skripal is anywhere near Salisbury these days, and one of the Jan 2019 articles is about the dismantling of his house there; another about the UK and Bulgaria working together on a Bulgarian poisoning of an arms dealer in 2015; one about Bellingcat claiming they have identified a third GRU agent involved in the Skripal poisoning and various other related articles. Even one about Ed’s idol George Galloway being censored by Ofcom, the UK media regulator, for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules when he used his radio show to cast doubt on Russian involvement in the Skripal poisonings.
I will probably now get hit by the anti-Guardian brigade here for the above!
From Europe, correspondent Seamus Kearney where the Munich conference has laid bare Transatlantic tensions, as the relationship between the US and the EU deteriorates. Also, a snap election has been called in Spain amid rising anger in Catalonia, and European students rally for action against climate change.
“… Angela Merkel more hard hitting than ever before on eve of her quitting.”
She is not quitting anytime soon. She stood down in Oct 2018 as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CTU) Party after 18 years as leader with Annegret Kramp-Karrenbeuer elected as Leader in Dec 2018.
However, while she has made it known that she will not stand again for another term as German Chancellor, Merkel will remain Chancellor probably until the next federal election in August/Sept 2021 – some two and a half years away. The only change to that is if a snap election is called between then and now, but this seems unlikely, or if health etc prevents her completing her present fourth term as Chancellor.
Baldwin is himself such an objectionable, sexist, abusive, bullying, bullshitting ‘philanthropist’ its hard to really laugh at his imitation of…an objectionable, sexist, abusive, bullying, bullshitter…American comedy really is at a low and weird ebb…
But Trump is his own best send up of Trump. God, does that make sence?..you know what i mean i hope. I’m just bemoaning the lack of really good American comedians offering actual comedic insights into american politics. The Baldwin Trump thing is simply a ‘product’ of the increasingly pointless media offerings from NBC.
You may find this interesting, I’ve had to link you to the Intercept as the original article referred to is a pay for article. Its about NBC etc taking on Trump for the CIA, the Pentagon, and the FBI in the name of #Resistance..
i also like the paintings from Jim Carrey whom i absolutely loathed as an actor.
sometimes the shoe fits.
the thing is, trump could have stopped the war in Syria two years ago, he did not. he could have pulled out troops from Afghanistan two years ago, he did not, he could have pulled out troops from Iraq two years ago, he did not.
trump is not anti war. he is not gonna make america great again, he is not giving a tax cut to the poor, he is not gonna bring back coal, he is not creating jobs ……and we know this now because he had two years of hte holy trifecta and all he did was a tax cut for the very rich, and lower withholding taxes for the rest – which funnily enough now results in lower refunds for many and ‘you owe the IRS” to the rest.
the US is nothing more then a military state with a mercenary army that is hired out and now Trump is in on the grift.
Anyone believing anything else needs to check their glasses for the rose tint. It is getting too strong and it does impact on the clarity of ones vision.
and you might not like it, but this is american politics and this is a comedian offering insights.
My point is he’s actually not a particularly good comedian and he’s not offering any insights. He’s doing a simple impersonation of a ridiculous man because nbc are using him to prop up their bullshit political agenda.
Your enemies enemy is not in fact your friend.
People seem to be willing to support anyone…literally anyone, who opposes Trump without a thought in their head about what they are being offered as an alternative.
trump could have stopped the war in Syria two years ago…and if you had bothered to read up on nbc…you would appreciate their pro war stance…its really very simple propaganda on the part of nbc. Anti Trump the war monger…whatever…
“Jim Carrey whom i absolutely loathed as an actor”
WTF!.. Carrey has done some shit or sure, but he has done a couple of minor masterpieces in his time, Cable Guy. Truman Show come to mind…
it may sound strange but he gives me anxiety. Like literal anxiety. I have never watched any of his movies dubbed into german so it might be a reaction to that, but i can not stomach him for a full movie. I have watched some in sequences. there are a few actors that do that to me. I did like him in Mask, the dancing scene was excellent.
The guy is nothing but a jumped up homophobic prude who wants to suppress female sexuality and strip women of any and all reproductive Rights
He is even on record as wanting contraceptives banned.
He, and his boyfriend Milo are leading this conservative backlash against women and their rights, which see to reverse the gains that women have made in the past 50 odd years and establish a more puritanical society, where women are hanged for enjoying sex.
No, not going back to the 1950 but rather to go back to the 1750’s.
Where humans not white, heterosexual males (and landowner please) knew their place, behaved appropriately and kept sweet, lest their owners kick them out of the house, stopped feeding them, or beat them into submission.
ahhhh the good old time, when even the biggest looser was allowed at least one women to own and do with as his heart contented. After all…….the bible says so somewhere.
it falls under ‘
abortifacts’ and yes , htere are a few that would want that banned, especially the white crowd that wants white women to bear white children to prevent the white race from dying out.
i mean, whats not too like, if you want women out of the work force, of the streets and out of public live you need to go back to the times where birth control depended on the husband agreeing to it.
And besides, it can’t happen here right?
I am past child bearing age, and had a medical hysterectomy many many moons ago, so i ended up never having children. I can tell you something, not having to worry about pregnancy or having pregnancy scares are awesome. Sex just for fun, without any responsibilities Awesome.
Now if more men could grow up and realise that women are actually doing them a favor by taking the pill every day of the year for twenty – forty years, so that they – men – can have sex without responsibility, it would be great. Alas, we have men promoting this pinheaded fuckwits as intellectual greats.
I am serious, this is the end game for the forced birther crowd. Not abortion, but the pill.
Yes, I’ve seen those videos. I asked millsy for the record showing that Peterson wants contraceptives banned, and those videos aren’t that record. He even explicitly states he doesn’t want the pill banned in one of them.
no he back peddled. As quite a few men actually like to fuck without procreation and even some women do.
And i would even go so far as to say this racist has no issues with preventing procreation in those that he deems not white enough.
Cause you see, he is for procreation of the white race. that is his thing, and it is the white women whose birth rates are going down, and for good reason. And it is for those women that he deems the pill to be not beneficial. Cause you know, we get to work, we get to earn money, even ‘gasp’ more money then men, we get to have education, we don’t have to marry some bloke for a meal ticket anymore, we can buy our own dinners, heck, we have come so far that we don’t even need a man to give us access to his checkbook because we have our own. You know, that thing called feminism that created all these opportunities for women which we can partake in because we are not constantly pregnant or breast feeding, or birthing, or miscarrying.
and you know what, the proof is in his words.
so why don’t you show me a clip in which he states that he has absolutely no issues with women taking the pill, with men and women living together engaging in mutually satisfying sex and not having children because she’s on the pill. 🙂
you know when men like this speak i always hear this one in my head
To “back-pedal” requires that you make a claim and then try to withdraw the claim. There’s no back-pedaling in those videos because the claim is never made in the first place. There is an implied accusation by a participant in one video that Peterson wants to ban contraception and he immediately rejects the accusation. That is not “back-pedaling,’ no matter how much you might wish it were.
And i would even go so far as to say this racist has no issues with preventing procreation in those that he deems not white enough.
Well, sure, everyone is free to form whatever risible opinion they want about the guy. Thing is that your opinion is worth as much as mine, which has a net worth of $0.00.
i asked you real nice to show me a clip of the guy in which he states that he has no issues with women taking the pill, he has no issues with the birth rate of white people, and non of that is of any interest.
nope? can’t be bothered? can’t find a thing? deflecting from the fact that this guy would remove access to the pill for white women so that they start breeding again?
cause you see, you don’t have to ban a thing, you just make it inaccessible.
A bit like in the old years where a women could get the pill, so as long as she was married and her husband agreed to it.
See nothing was banned, a women could just simply not get it without permission from her owner err husband.
You seem confused about burden of proof. I haven’t made any claims about Peterson’s opinions on contraception and am therefore not under any obligation to support such claims. At issue here is millsy’s claim that Peterson is on record as wanting contraceptives banned – as far as I’m aware, he isn’t, so I’d like to see some backing for that claim. Whether or not Peterson has made comments explicitly endorsing particular contraceptives or not is irrelevant.
deflecting from the fact that this guy would remove access to the pill for white women so that they start breeding again?
See, now that’s another claim. Do you have evidence to support that claim?
A bit like in the old years where a women could get the pill, so as long as she was married and her husband agreed to it.
Perhaps if Peterson had been around at the time he would have supported such abuse of human rights. Maybe he wouldn’t. Who knows? Certainly not us, which makes these kinds of accusations pointless.
Just a note to say I appreciate the good sense you’ve displayed in the various threads on Peterson here, PM.
We’re thinking along the same lines (& I happen to know others on the Left who feel the same … able to systematically sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to JP & the IDW … without resorting to crude character assassination & hysteria).
Cool, calm collected Left vs the Smeary Intersectionals (& their chums in the media)
. Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters on Sunday.
While many foreign firms have been cutting their exposure to PDVSA since the sanctions were imposed, the fact that a lender closely aligned with the Russian state is following suit is significant because the Kremlin has been among Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest supporters.
“PDVSA’s accounts are currently frozen. As you’ll understand, operations cannot be carried out,” the source said. Gazprombank did not reply to a Reuters request for a comment.
So rather than gain control and then legislate against corporate finance let’s tilt the playing field in favour of the opposition by foregoing corporate finance.
Simon Bridges appears to be getting a little help from todays TVNZs midday news. Bridges seems to be reading his lines from the monitor, or maybe, someone else wrote the words for him ? Who knows ? It was quite peculiar. Just saying.
I read that the BBC is about to release a documentary showing that MH17 was shot down by Ukranian military aircraft. The documentary is due for release on May 3rd.
got nothing else to do?
ran out of crap to post?
click bait?
entertain the masses who don’t check these sort of things like time stamps?
cause a lie repeated a thousand times will eventually become the truth?
all of the above.
None of those options seem very likely, comrade. It’s more likely they were intent on pointing out that the BBC usually echo their political masters’ propaganda, even if goes against their better judgment.
Shit – I’d better stop now – but for me and many others, a good system is now unusable, and when youse all manage to get your shit together, I wish you the best of British luck in enticing back customers – that is those you could have had by merely backing out the bugger’s muddle you implemented and went along with you continued to go along with and pretend minor tweaking would fix.
It should have been evident after the first month
Christ Almighty! Stone me to death please!!!!
I resisted listening/watching Laidlaw in that clip. Now I just did. There was all the 20/20 hindsight shit. Then 0/0 foresight should have been bleeding BLOODY obvious.
FFS! Is this really the level of muppetry we’ve sunken to?
Quite obviously it is.
Again fellas – best of Brittis in trying to attract back those to your ‘visionary’ greater Wellington public transport system. Meantime, I’m thinking of driving an Uber for an earn
Christ Almighty! Stone me to death please!!!!
I resisted listening/watching Laidlaw in that clip. Now I just did. There was all the 20/20 hindsight shit. Then 0/0 foresight should have been bleeding BLOODY obvious.
FFS! Is this really the level of muppetry we’ve sunken to?
Quite obviously it is.
Again fellas – best of Brittis in trying to attract back those to your ‘visionary’ greater Wellington public transport system. Meantime, I’m thinking of driving an Uber or an Ola or a Zoomie for an earn
The system will probably be OK once they have sorted out their staffing problems. It’s not perfect, but neither was the old system. Of course, everyone will tell you that things were better in ‘the good old days’, but it ain’t necessarily so.
PS Having figured out the ins and outs of it, I find I don’t have any problems.
The tipping point is here and now just the 00.1 % don’t want to beleve it because they have made heaps of money from this system that abuses mother nature and her creatures . Money cause a person to be selfcentered and un-humane they beleve what is best to keep there money . Money has to go and the currency need to have a conscience + = likes – = dislikes this currency will keep the evil people INLINE and Humane if they do to much bad thing they will go broke the good kind people will have money to gift to mother nature and the poor people it could be a hybrid of sorts ECO MAORIS thoughts on having a happy healthy humane Papatunuku and people basically EQUALITY FOR ALL
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can’t humans see the writing on the wall?
People tend to respond to immediate threats and financial consequences – and Florida’s coastal real estate may be on the cusp of delivering that harsh wake-up call
I
stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on kayaks and tour boats, leering over wooden decks. The nearby canals were lined with expensive homes and docks with jetskis. One manatee breached the water for a breath, and I could see the propeller scar on its back.
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2018 was the second deadliest year on record for manatees. Like many of our coastal species, they’re vulnerable to habitat loss and warming seas, which are more hospitable to algal blooms and red tide. Science has given us the foresight we need to make decisions that will reduce the future suffering of other species and ourselves, but we don’t heed it. Why?
Studies show that humans don’t respond well to abstract projections. We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs, burning coal and building waterfront real estate. We choose these extravagances even though they impede beneficial long-term outcomes, such as saving threatened species, or reducing the intensity of climate change.
Humans tend to respond to immediate threats and financial consequences – and coastal real estate, especially in Florida, may be on the cusp of delivering that harsh wake-up call. The peninsula has outsized exposure: nearly 2 million people live in coastal cities. On the list of the 20 urban areas in America that will suffer the most from rising seas, Florida has five: St Petersburg, Tampa, Miami, Miami Beach and Panama City. In 2016, Zillow predicted that one out of eight homes in Florida would be underwater by 2100, a loss of $413bn in property. links below Ka kite ano P.S I know we can save OUR Mokopunas future
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute I have just figured out someone that can have the power of attorney over Eco Maori is evil and going to play into the sandflys HANDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgVVG5EknuI
Here you go Whanau more evedince that the system is corrupt a vital peace of evedince off the Pike river mine is stolen it would have been a inside job they needed a helicopter to fly it out who got the most to hide .??????????
Police have tonight confirmed an inquiry is underway into whether Pike River Mine evidence has gone missing.
1 NEWS last night revealed the door from an electrical control box was blown out of the mine in the 2010 explosion which killed 29 men.
Police say they’re unable to speculate about the relevance of the item and are appealing to the public once again to come forward with any new information.
The man who headed the royal commission of inquiry, Sir Graham Panckhurst, told 1 NEWS this afternoon that to the best of his recollection, that piece of evidence was never presented at the hearing.
WorkSafe today confirmed to 1 NEWS that they don’t have it.
The police still won’t say if they do – a question we’ve been asking for four days.
Ka kite ano link below.
Kia ora Newshub It’s good that MPI find these Fruitflys before they multiple into a huge problem.
A capital gains tax is good for Aotearoa as for Newshubs poll on a capital gains tax well all the wealthy people you polled won’t want capital gains tax most other countries have one.???????. Poll are A tool use to sway people opinion that’s the way I see them so easy to minupulate.
I feel sorry for the newly weds who found a camera in the house that they rent and got married in As I know my privacy is being breach all the time by the sandflys I know Alot of people have seen PHOTOS of me and my Mokopunas I know Alot of people have my pH number and track my travels I know that money can buy anything and the sandflys love making money for nothing there are other breach to my privacy to but I will use those to my advantage the sandflys are going to be paying millions for lose of Eco Maori potential earnings from the INTERNET Ana toa kai
The Hikurangi faults zone is getting plenty of attention at the minute our beach back home is rising out of Tangaroa + All the erosion of the whenua has pushed Tangaroa out as well extra 50 metres there now from the time I lived there .
That’s the way tell Jeremy Corby what’s the difference between Labour and the Tories nothing from what I see just 2 party’s for the Wealthy.
Ka pai The Salvation Army moveing into the truck shop business everyone I see using the other shark rip off trucks get a frown and a lecture I like to buy second hand as its good for OUR Environment Ka kite ano
Kia ora James & Mulls from The Crowd Goes Wild I see all te tangata whenua have nice big smiles even The Maori culture Haka teams te actors te music stars Its Ka pai to be a PROUD MAORI.
He looks like that singer I quite like his music too but I like the one who sing Wairua better
TE Sugar got salted guys.
Eco Maori can not comment on Tyson Fury I would like to
Ka kite ano P.S I see te Tau – – –
Kia ora The AM Show I know you are greedy and small minded duncan you have displayed those qualities all the time and you are a puppet I can see your strings being pulled I new that you would be crying about giving money to the Poor putting down capital gains tax . Sandy I seen in the online media Berne Sanders did not make the front page for a while Then all of a sudden he is getting air on the am show.?????? They don’t want a Wahine like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To win the
Presidentcy because now she is no longer on the front pages of The online media
BULLSHIT you are just a oil lobbiest lobbying Aotearoa people to believe YOUR lies the oil industry can be replaced with green energy that gives less profit to people like you provides more JOBS that is part of the reasons unemployment in America is so low at the minute all the green jobs Created by Obama policy still flowing through their economy It is well documented of the facts I have stated everyone else but the go oil party and oil barrons are turning to green energy Crap there is no need in NZ to carry on using oil and gas. In NZ we have all the great green energy resources in Aotearoa Cameron you come out to broadcast you views about the oil and gas industry is bull what a conflict of interest like shonky tobacco lobbying MP Tod Barklay talking about the positive properties of tobacco.
Mabe if the documentary tells the truth about the SYSTEM SOCIETY being courpted by the wealthy the laws are made for the wealthy at the expense of the common person 1 and 2 this system rewards single parent family it should reward familys with two parent familys a child needs the love of a mother and father to reach the highest rung on their ladders of life that’s reality and men respecting Wahine =equality need to be achieved to provide a humane gidence to our government policy men just want Te Money who cares about the mother earth.
I would not let they Lady’s who went to the middle Eastern Wars and want to come back why because we cannot read there minds on there intentions basically they can’t be trusted. Wow the show is finally talking about global warming. Ka kite ano P.S you know who my next target is after I sort out the sandflys A
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Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
The pungent smell of gasoline in your car can be an alarming and potentially dangerous problem. Not only is the odor unpleasant, but it can also indicate a serious issue with your vehicle’s fuel system. In this article, we will explore the various reasons why your car may smell like ...
Tree sap can be a sticky, unsightly mess on your car’s exterior. It can be difficult to remove, but with the right techniques and products, you can restore your car to its former glory. Understanding Tree Sap Tree sap is a thick, viscous liquid produced by trees to seal wounds ...
The amount of paint needed to paint a car depends on a number of factors, including the size of the car, the number of coats you plan to apply, and the type of paint you are using. In general, you will need between 1 and 2 gallons of paint for ...
Jump-starting a car is a common task that can be performed even in adverse weather conditions like rain. However, safety precautions and proper techniques are crucial to avoid potential hazards. This comprehensive guide will provide detailed instructions on how to safely jump a car in the rain, ensuring both your ...
Graham Adams writes about the $55m media fund — When Patrick Gower was asked by Mike Hosking last week what he would say to the many Newstalk ZB callers who allege the Labour government bribed media with $55 million of taxpayers’ money via the Public Interest Journalism Fund — and ...
Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in. ...
The following was my submission made on the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”. This potential law will give three Ministers unchecked powers, un-paralled since the days of Robert Muldoon’s “Think Big” projects.The submission is written a bit tongue-in-cheek. But it’s irreverent because the FTAB is in itself not worthy of respect. ...
One Could Reduce Child Poverty At No Fiscal CostFollowing the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families have been added, the best known being ‘Working for Families’, introduced in 2005. ...
Buzz from the Beehive A few days ago, Point of Order suggested the media must be musing “on why Melissa is mute”. Our article reported that people working in the beleaguered media industry have cause to yearn for a minister as busy as Melissa Lee’s ministerial colleagues and we drew ...
1. What was The Curse of Jim Bolger?a. Winston Peters b. Soon after shaking his hand, world leaders would mysteriously lose office or shuffle off this mortal coilc. Could never shake off the Mother of All Budgetsd. Dandruff2. True or false? The Chairman of a Kiwi export business has asked the ...
Jack Vowles writes – New Zealand is said to be suffering from ‘serious populist discontent’. An IPSOS MORI survey has reported that we have an increasing preference for strong leaders, think that the economy is rigged toward the rich and powerful, and political elites are ignoring ‘hard-working people’. ...
Chris Trotter writes – MELISSA LEE should be deprived of her ministerial warrant. Her handling – or non-handling – of the crisis engulfing the New Zealand news media has been woeful. The fate of New Zealand’s two linear television networks, a question which the Minister of Broadcasting, Communications ...
TL;DR: The podcast above features co-hosts and , along with regular guests Robert Patman on Gaza and AUKUS II, and on climate change.The six things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the ...
Policymakers rarely wish to make plain or visible their desire to dismantle environmental policy, least of all to the young. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above between Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent ...
I like to keep an eye on what’s happening in places like the UK, the US, and over the ditch with our good mates the Aussies. Let’s call them AUKUS, for want of a better collective term. More on that in a bit.It used to be, not long ago, that ...
TL;DR: The global economy will be one fifth smaller than it would have otherwise been in 2050 as a result of climate damage, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and published in the journal Nature. (See more detail and analysis below, and ...
New Zealand is said to be suffering from ‘serious populist discontent’. An IPSOS MORI survey has reported that we have an increasing preference for strong leaders, think that the economy is rigged toward the rich and powerful, and political elites are ignoring ‘hard-working people’. The data is from February this ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters is understood to be planning a major speech within the next fortnight to clear up the confusion over whether or not New Zealand might join the AUKUS submarine project. So far, there have been conflicting signals from the Government. RNZ reported the Prime Minister yesterday in ...
Life throws curveballs, and sometimes, those curveballs necessitate wiping your iPhone clean and starting anew. Whether you’re facing persistent software glitches, preparing to sell your device, or simply wanting a fresh start, knowing how to factory reset iPhone without a computer is a valuable skill. While using a computer with ...
Gone are the days when communication was limited to landline phones and physical proximity. Today, computers have become powerful tools for connecting with people across the globe through voice and video calls. But with a plethora of applications and methods available, how to call someone on a computer might seem ...
Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost, Creel et al., Nature Communications:Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control ...
The operating system (OS) is the heart and soul of a computer, orchestrating every action and interaction between hardware and software. But have you ever wondered where on a computer is the operating system generally stored? The answer lies in the intricate dance between hardware and software components, particularly within ...
Laptops have become essential tools for work, entertainment, and communication, offering portability and functionality. However, with rising energy costs and growing environmental concerns, understanding a laptop’s power consumption is more important than ever. So, how many watts does a laptop use? The answer, unfortunately, isn’t straightforward. It depends on several ...
Screen recording has become an essential tool for various purposes, such as creating tutorials, capturing gameplay footage, recording online meetings, or sharing information with others. Fortunately, Dell laptops offer several built-in and external options for screen recording, catering to different needs and preferences. This guide will explore various methods on ...
A cracked or damaged laptop screen can be a frustrating experience, impacting productivity and enjoyment. Fortunately, laptop screen repair is a common service offered by various repair shops and technicians. However, the cost of fixing a laptop screen can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article delves into the ...
Gaming laptops represent a significant investment for passionate gamers, offering portability and powerful performance for immersive gaming experiences. However, a common concern among potential buyers is their lifespan. Unlike desktop PCs, which allow for easier component upgrades, gaming laptops have inherent limitations due to their compact and integrated design. This ...
The annual inventory report of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions has been released, showing that gross emissions have dropped for the third year in a row, to 78.4 million tons: All-told gross emissions have decreased by over 6 million tons since the Zero Carbon Act was passed in 2019. ...
Experiencing a locked computer can be frustrating, especially when you need access to your files and applications urgently. The methods to unlock your computer will vary depending on the specific situation and the type of lock you encounter. This guide will explore various scenarios and provide step-by-step instructions on how ...
While the world has largely transitioned to digital communication, faxing still holds relevance in certain industries and situations. Fortunately, gone are the days of bulky fax machines and dedicated phone lines. Today, you can easily send and receive faxes directly from your computer, offering a convenient and efficient way to ...
In our increasingly digital world, home computers have become essential tools for work, communication, entertainment, and more. However, this increased reliance on technology also exposes us to various cyber threats. Understanding these threats and taking proactive steps to protect your home computer is crucial for safeguarding your personal information, finances, ...
In the ever-evolving world of technology, server-based computing has emerged as a cornerstone of modern digital infrastructure. This article delves into the concept of server-based computing, exploring its various forms, benefits, challenges, and its impact on the way we work and interact with technology. Understanding Server-Based Computing: At its core, ...
The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
Chris Trotter writes – The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
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Did the next weeks of Open Mike to test it.
I can commend a Greater Auckland post on a proposed intensification at Smales Farm. It starts with :-
The biggest single problem with the northern busway was simply that the short-sighted fools of the right vehemently opposed it and in their process of being irrelevant dimwits prevented in getting the kind of park and ride that would have made it even more useful. But I guess you can’t stop these kinds of fools being conservatives.
Not the right wing, Iprent. They call themselves, “centrists” , these days.
“Conservative fools” is a much better label – less hypocritical, more accurate, and generally way less costly for us all.
You could say “conservative” is a misnomer also.
After they removed or sold just about everything in our society, that worked!
Hardly conservative.
Which is why I prefer right wing, or Neo-liberal.
And they prefer “Centrists” or “centre right” , ” centre left” to pretend they are, in some way, rational.
Greedy short sighted fools. Works for me.
“Right Wing” is their time honoured and most fitting descriptive nomination. It is also the title they most try to distance themselves from.
Iprent,
You are making stuff up again.
Actually no-one opposed the Northern Busway. All the MP’s in the North Shore area and all the North Shore Council supported it.
As for the size of the Smales Farm station, the only people who may have opposed would have been the owners of the Smales Farm owners, since it was their land that had to be used for the station. But I suspect not. They wanted the Station but for it not to be a park and ride, which also suited the designers of the station.
I know that right from the get go, there was concern the Albany station was too small.
How rude Wayne – there are many alternatives to calling someone a liar, or as you put it “making stuff up again”. You should be ashamed imo
Bullshit. There were a lot of conservatives who opposed the Northern Busway.
Two come to mind – NZ Herald editorials (especially those written in the distinctive style of John Roughan), columns like this, innumerable posts and comments on Kiwiblog and the sitting members of C&R across several councils.
I have no idea what the National MPs thought of it because they were damn near invisible on the subject. For instance have a look at google on your views on the search terms of ‘”wayne mapp” busway’ from 2000 to 2009.
google search
Of course there may have been private support – but who in the hell would know?
What I remember about the period from 2000-2008 was a litany of complaints and whining about why Labour and councils had put money into the extremely sensible and economically rational busway rather than building more motorways further out (that happened anyway) or putting in a totally unnecessary second harbor crossing.
I remember, living in Auckland at the time, the derision, and lack of support, from the National party front organizations in the council, for any form of public transport.
Wayne is either forgetful, or being, “economical with the truth”.
you must be living in an alternate universe cause there literally is no one in the No mates Party that championed public transport, advocated for it, provided funds for it .
The most limiting “bottleneck” of all in the Busway, is the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
The Busway needs to be carried over the bridge. Taking two lanes of traffic away from cars will be a further incentive to take the bus instead of the car, and again exponentially increase the commuter carrying capacity of the Harbour Bridge.
The two outside eastern lanes, now dedicated to cars be given over to buses, the south bus lane exiting on to Fanshaw Street, and the northbus lane entering at Pt. Erin on the existing flyover.
It couldn’t be simpler.
Sweet sweet rain falling on my roof right now. Not a lot but everything is actually wetted down as opposed to sprinkle followed by total evaporation.
Wishing rain on all your parades. Have a nice Monday. 😉
Glad for you WTB, there is nothing like gentle steady rain to speed up growth in the garden and on the land. However it means more lawn mowing by the “Keep it neat” crowd.
This is a quite funny take on the self help guru Jordan Peterson who seems to have entranced lots of people (mainly young men I believe) with his mumbo Jumbo spun like some sort of half smart philosophy.. and who is visiting NZ this week.
A disclaimer here that this pod cast is also a bit annoying at times, but worth enduring as they actually do a pretty good job unpacking the core of Peterson’s popularity nicely IMO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5iFwHM-WKs&t=2011s
With opponents like this lady, I don’t think Peterson has too many worries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbF912CG0N8
That is true, but then Peterson would never debate someone who could easily expose and dismantle his mostly regressive fruitloopery.
So Peterson initially agreed then declined to debate Douglas Lain, publisher of Zero Books because he apparently wasn’t popular enough, declined to debate Richard Wolff for less than $50,000.
Now the only debate that might happen is one between Peterson and Slavoj Zizek, which will be a complete waste of time.
No peterson’s handlers (and Peterson himself) are far too smart, and making way to much money to let him go on stage with anyone who will expose his tomfoolery for what it is, mystical bullshit with some commonsense self help, and bit of anger thrown at people who make you feel uncomfortable (in this case woman and transgender and cool Socialists) and a little more self help.
Just something for disenfranchised young (and not so young) men to believe in and hold on to in a world that feels very unstable and moving to fast, so not unreasonable from their point of view, but lots of good energy wasted IMO.
What Tom Foolery does Peterson promote exactly?
Lobsters.
“fruitloopery.”
So you are saying fruit is evil and taking over the world?
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Ha, no friutloopery is what we term the spiritualist section in out secondhand bookshop, you know…crystals, magic, religion, palmistry etc, just all the stuff people turn to when they lack direction, meaning in their own lives, feel disenfranchised, disconnected and just want something bigger than themselves to believe in and work for, which is fair enough, I guess, just mostly a fruitless quest for nonexistent answers IMO.
I can’t remember the exact quote, but Freud (and I am not advocating Freudianism btw,) said something like…and don’t quote me here.. you are already fucked if you have already begun searching for the answers (to life).
You haven’t explained what about Peterson’s ideas are so wacky and way out. Most of what he puts forward is what used to be known as common sense. In that regard I could understand if you described his ideas as banal and lacking in originality. I don’t see how it can be classified as BS.
Another fishing expedition, Gossie? Don’t you have anything better to do?
Peterson’s negative stuff – critiques of postmodernism and callout culture are pretty sound. His constructive work is nothing special however.
Quite possibly accurate but then the question becomes – “Why get upset with someone whose constructive work is nothing special?”
Because a whole bunch of his readership somehow end up with the impression that women owe them sex.
He is not responsible for people misinterpreting his ideas. He has pointed out on numerous occasions that is not how he expects people to behave.
Bullshit. He’s supposedly a teacher. He knows that if a large chunk of his students consistently get the wrong idea from what he says,over many years, that’s on him. We’re not talking a couple of fools from one talk he gave while tired. He’s had more than enough time to identify the consistent misinterpretations and walk them back, but he doesn’t.
By complete contrast we have people in the same thread arguing how Marx wasn’t responsible for people misinterpreting his works…
Totally, McFlock. I’d imagined teachers were supposed to elucidate rather than complicate. But he has ceased being a teacher and is now a showman.
Peterson has long been defended by the spotty white youth as being misunderstood, but he’s happy with that because the controversy adds to his coffers.
He’s a troll and knows his time as a troll is limited so he’s going do what he can when he can to maximise revenue.
Well, I’m not sure teaching people was Marx’s profession. Nor am I sure that some of the more objectionable interpretations of his philosophy were evident prior to his death. And if they were, I’m not sure whether such misinterpretations were prevalent and well publicised in a manner that should have made him totally aware that this was a common problem.
Other than that, the supposed misinterpretations of the two authors are completely comparable.
lol there’s always this:
I’m betting Leightonbut nooneathome Smiff will manage to irritate him.
Stuart Munro
Yep … that’s pretty much my view.
He’s also on a firm footing where he cites a broad or universally held consenus among Psychologists / Evolutionary Biologists and so on (which often undercut the passionately-held (indeed aggressively-held) views of the Intersectionals). (Although I’d add that he certainly gets some aspects of Gender/Sex wrong … usually via too simplistic an understanding of the relevant literature).
He’s weak / wrongheaded / ideologically biased elsewhere however.
So far, though, most critiques of his work have comprised little more than relatively crude hatchet-jobs.
Need someone of the stature of Noam Chomsky to demolish his range of weaker claims and beliefs.
“Most of what he puts forward is what used to be known as common sense.”
Why don’t you put forward some of his “common sense” ideas, so that you can engage with some kind of detail?
I have watched some of his videos, read several articles and skim read a book or two – skim, being the only requirement because the ideas expressed are not profound.
I didn’t find anything of merit, and the only reason why I did so, was to understand the appeal to a young man living with us at the time.
If you are so certain of his worth, then bring forward a concept of his that can be discussed, instead of your amorphous abstract comments.
You didn’t think cleaning your room was of merit?
you need to spend money on a book or on some geezer speechifying to know that you should clean your room?
ok then.
No – I don’t. Others may feel the need to do so. That is THEIR right.
Oh, Gosman….
Out of all the concepts that Peterson espouses, you chose “cleaning your room” as worthy of nuanced discussion?
Care to choose another one?
So I went away and checked what Peterson was talking about on the ‘clean your room’ concept.
Of course the phrase itself is a symbol for an idea more complex that this; in essence he is saying that you need to get your own life sorted before you start trying to reorganise the world. And in practical terms the best way to start the process is to deal with what you can control immediately in front of you … your room.
Once you have established the basic discipline to do this routinely, you can expand on this order and habit. Figure out what you can fix next and take one small step at a time, growing your competency and assuming more responsibility, each step building on the one before.
He then points out that if you don’t have your life, your family, your income, your community life sorted … you have no damn business pretending you know how to govern a city or a nation. I have to say I’ve seen more than a few people here falling into that category, and seems a reasonable piece of advice for younger people especially starting out in their adult life.
But if you’re determined to erase it of all nuance the I can see how ‘clean your room’ gets simplified down to a convenient caricature.
No, but it could be worth a show on Netflix; decluttering is all the rage!
“He then points out that if you don’t have your life, your family, your income, your community life sorted … you have no damn business pretending you know how to govern a city or a nation. I have to say I’ve seen more than a few people here falling into that category, and seems a reasonable piece of advice for younger people especially starting out in their adult life.
But if you’re determined to erase it of all nuance the I can see how ‘clean your room’ gets simplified down to a convenient caricature.”
Thanks RedLogix for expanding the idea, which Gosman, typically failed to do. I’m not going to waste more of my time going back to look for ideas, so I expect his supporters – such as Gosman and Shadrach – to bring his concepts to the discussion table.
What I took away from the ‘cleaning your room’ idea, was another restriction on allowing people to be heard. Eg. unless you have your life in order, you are not permitted to speak up on issues.
This is a level of arrogance that as a proponent of true social democracy that I disagree with.
People can/and should be able to have input into the systems that govern their lives, even while not meeting Peterson’s “clean room” standards.
Peterson is also a strong advocate for free speech which suggests that he means you have to be silent unless you have your life sorted is not consistent.
I’d argue though that if you want to turn talk into action you’d better know what you’re doing.
Grammar garbled there…
“Peterson is also a strong advocate for free speech which suggests that he means you have to be silent unless you have your life sorted is not consistent.”
The “is not consistent” is something I agree with. And his inconsistencies seemed to me to be easy to find.
A way of hedging your bets – to say on one hand that people cannot have input into systems that influence their lives – and then respond to criticisms of this stance by saying that you are on record as an advocate of free speech is not only inconsistent, it is deliberately so.
A good example of his approach.
It’s entirely consistent to support freedom of speech, while at the same time expecting competency of action. One does not exclude the other.
After all this place encourages people to explore ideas and opinions quite freely, but at the same time we expect our political leaders to have their act together.
What I took away from the ‘cleaning your room’ idea, was another restriction on allowing people to be heard. Eg. unless you have your life in order, you are not permitted to speak up on issues.
The proposed restriction is in your mind, not in Peterson’s statements.
It is something to chase and pen from all the rampant ideas in the paddock. It is really important to isolate something verging on the trivial and likely to be populist to study in depth. The whole is too confusing, and what thinking people wish to discuss are too demanding of the thinking process, and perhaps might be essential for a livable future. RW can’t bear that sort of serious discussion – it threatens their status quo, gives them a shaky, sad feeling in their stomach and their lives seem fragile and ultimately off-beam.
Reply for both RL and PM:
“RL: It’s entirely consistent to support freedom of speech, while at the same time expecting competency of action. One does not exclude the other.”
The ‘cleaning your room’ before you have a right to speak up, is a infringement on free speech.
It doesn’t say anything about informing yourself on the issue at hand before you speak out, it says that you must be organised in regards to Peterson’s expected virtues, before you can.
There are many policies that involve chaotic, complicated or unorganised situations, where those who live those lives have valuable input on to how they are resolved.
There are other instances where input should be gathered regarding policy from those who are not experts, but who are going to be exposed to policy changes and amendments.
PM: “The proposed restriction is in your mind, not in Peterson’s statements.”
No. He is quite clear that you have to focus on the individual before the global. When it is possible to do both at the same time. He misses that point.
The clarity that you see comes because he selectively excludes any other perspectives – that in the real world – need to be considered.
Honestly I think PM got it in one.
It’s simple enough: you’ve declared that Peterson’s view that people should get their own lives in order before trying to govern others constitutes a “restriction” on free speech and a declaration that some are “not permitted” to speak up on issues. For that to be the case, there’d have to be some proposed mechanism by which the restriction were to be applied. No such mechanism is even implied in his statements, let alone explicitly stated, which means the restriction is in your mind, not his statements.
“Honestly I think PM got it in one.
“It’s simple enough: you’ve declared that Peterson’s view that people should get their own lives in order before trying to govern others constitutes a “restriction” on free speech and a declaration that some are “not permitted” to speak up on issues. “
You both provide an example of what I find problematic with Peterson. No nuance, no context.
He specifically advises getting your own house in order before having input into wider issues.
I’ve given examples of where input, regardless of the level of chaos in individual lives would result in better policy making. You’ve both chosen not to consider that, and resorted again to Peterson-splaining to give his contradictory ramblings some coherence.
Advising anyone that they provide no value when speaking out until they have all their ducks in a row, is not aligned with a strong advocate of free speech.
For example: Young people should be involved with policy decisions that impact on their lives; addiction problems and solutions are best served by including those suffering from addiction in programme design. Mental health also. The lived experience and advice on solutions is valuable in an extensive list of issues facing us today. People can be fully engaged and informative in certain aspects of their lives, while negligent in others.
“Cleaning your room” is a very simplistic notion, that requires the exclusion of any other factors other than individual responses to individual circumstances. In that particular context, it stands for a level of personal responsibility and empowerment.
The addendum that a clean room is a requirement before speaking out on wider issues is a problem, regardless. It has nothing to do with the idea of the empowered individual. It has been tacked on to that idea and not critiqued.
A while back the Conversation published a piece called No, you’re not entitled to your opinion. The take-home message was “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”
I’m a strong advocate for freedom of speech and also shared that author’s view of people who don’t offer an argument in support of their opinions. Those two things are not incompatible, because people will cheerfully continue to present their unsupported opinions regardless of how I personally feel about it. The same applies to Peterson’s view that people who generate only chaos in their own lives are unlikely to generate good governance in other people’s lives if given authority.
He’s egregiously wrong about enough things already that we don’t need to go making things up.
“Those two things are not incompatible, because people will cheerfully continue to present their unsupported opinions regardless of how I personally feel about it. The same applies to Peterson’s view that people who generate only chaos in their own lives are unlikely to generate good governance in other people’s lives if given authority.“
Peterson doesn’t specify giving people – who he considers ‘unclean room occupiers’ – authority. That is another conversation. He says until they have their lives in order, they don’t have any valuable input into decisions made by authority.
There is a difference.
I have pointed out the value of input by people whose lives may be in disarray when deciding on policy or solutions. I have also pointed out that many people can be very well informed on particular issues while the remainder of their lives are in chaos.
I can also think of many examples of those in authority whose lives are well-papered rooms of deceit and misdirection. (We have examples of this on TS almost every day in terms of those in authority.)
Once again – and this applies to you as well as Peterson – : “Advising anyone that they provide no value when speaking out until they have all their ducks in a row, is not aligned with a strong advocate of free speech.”
There are two concepts in play here, that he has combined:
1. Individual responsibility and empowerment
2. The right to have input into wider discussions
He has merged them both into one idea and conclusion – and that is where his logic fails. To do that he has to strip away the idea that people can be more than one simple category. He also has to imply that unless a particular set of standards is met, their input is not to be regarded with value. Or even considered. Probably not even offered.
People are more than expert or novice, uninformed or informative. It often depends on topic or situation. To advise that people with chaotic lives have no value or input is to deny them a voice – and that is suppression of people’s right to engage.
It is also incorrect in terms of value, and some of the examples provided above would be worthy of discussion.
Saying you are an advocate of free speech is not the same as being an advocate of free speech. I agree he says he is, but his actions and provisos pay lie to that statement.
I believe you’re representing his views as being much more simplistic than they are, however even if we leave that aside, you’re arguing a non-sequitur.
Peterson argues that people who can’t bring order into even a small area of their own lives are unlikely to bring order into larger matters, and I argue that people who can’t support their opinions with arguments contribute little of value to a debate.
You claim that those are anti-free speech because they deny people a voice. That claim is a non-sequitur because your conclusion doesn’t logically follow from your premises: neither Peterson nor I have any means of denying people a voice and (I’m assuming in his case) no inclination to acquire such a means or apply it.
“I believe you’re representing his views as being much more simplistic than they are, however even if we leave that aside, you’re arguing a non-sequitur.”
Interesting – because that is the point I made above. That his encouragement on personal responsibility and empowerment, is – in this case – linked to a perspective on whether those who are not in a place of calm, have valuable insights to offer.
Peterson argues that people who can’t bring order into even a small area of their own lives are unlikely to bring order into larger matters, and I argue that people who can’t support their opinions with arguments contribute little of value to a debate.
These are two different topics, creating as you point out, a non-sequitur. As mentioned before, people can be well informed on particular topics – even while being in a state of chaos, and can provide valuable input despite it that situation. This fact must be ignored, in order for his concept to remain true. That is why I consider him to be simplistic. The scenarios he applies his reasoning to must be restricted and artificial to come to any type of conclusion.
It is a method of discussion that relies on amorphous, abstract concepts that can be reinterpreted by the audience in such a way that it strikes a chord. You, yourself, have reinterpreted his meaning of input to be: informed discussion, given authority, contributing little of value to debate. It shows a lack of clarity, that responds to questions with a constantly moving target. Hardly an indication of a well reasoned, clearly presented argument.
Do you consider that people sometimes have valuable insights or input to offer even if they have chaotic lives? Or that people may have a vast wealth of knowledge on particular topics which should be considered when creating policy and solution programmes? And if so, should they be encouraged or discouraged to do so?
There is a difference between asking for informed discussion on a topic, and requiring that all participants have an ordered life before they engage.
In my trade you start out on small scale projects and prove yourself before you’re entrusted with the big ones. It’s pretty much the same everywhere you go.
This doesnt mean not engaging, it just means it’s most effective to work on the problems in front of you first. Get those under control and the bigger opportunities will naturally arrive.
It’s called competency and it’s striking how some on the left find this a difficult concept.
These are two different topics, creating as you point out, a non-sequitur.
No, they are two different illustrations of the same point: that arguing for a lack of merit in particular approaches to problems is not the same as denial of others’ right to speak.
Do you consider that people sometimes have valuable insights or input to offer even if they have chaotic lives?
They may well do. But then, I haven’t noticed Peterson arguing that they can’t possibly have anything of merit to say on any subject, so it’s an irrelevant question.
There is a difference between asking for informed discussion on a topic, and requiring that all participants have an ordered life before they engage.
You’re arguing the same non-sequitur. Neither Peterson nor I have any means of requiring anything from anybody who wants to participate in something, nor any inclination to seek such a means. That’s as true now as it was at the beginning of this discussion.
It’s called competency and it’s striking how some on the left find this a difficult concept.
True dat.
“In my trade you start out on small scale projects and prove yourself before you’re entrusted with the big ones. It’s pretty much the same everywhere you go.”
Another example of what Peterson does, uses an analogy not to explain a concept but as evidence of his conclusion.
“It’s called competency and it’s striking how some on the left find this a difficult concept.”
No, I don’t find this a difficult concept.
It is enough to say that people with something valuable to contribute should be able to do so. Leave it at that.
It is of interest to note that your description of what Peterson is trying to say changes from comment to comment.
Googling to check if I could find a direct quote from Peterson’s book, I came instead upon a review of the 12 Rules – which may give others a better view of his perspective than this conversation:
Book review: 12 Rules for Life. An Antidote to Chaos”, published on the Psych Central website and fairly even handed with both praise and criticism.
Molly, no need for his book – try this interview with Simon Wilson a day or two ago.
Especially with his comments on addressing domestic violence – apparently changing the police approach isn’t the way to go because the main problem is alcohol. When challenged, he ends up reducing that down to 50% of violent crime, but still doesn’t want to discuss anything other than alcohol.
Slippery when challenged, the closest he gets to acknowledging a point is “perhaps”.
Thanks McFlock. If the quotes are accurate, that is a good indication of what his true views are, given his extensive public relations experience. And they are not justifiable.
Two good articles that came up while looking for the cleaning the room quote, were written by a long time friend and acquaintance and give some insight into his history.
I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter, now I think he is dangerous.
Jordan Peterson toys with the truth
Both by the same author, and highlighting aspects of his behaviour and approach that are questionable and contradictory.
I also was reminded on his reliance on Christian theology, which I had conveniently put out of my mind.
Wasn’t he the dude who claimed he was risking jail time by not doing his students the courtesy of using their chosen pronouns?
His argument was more nuanced – he would in fact call a student in his course whatever they preferred. But he would not be told by a stranger which pronoun (including non-standard pronouns) he must use. It is a matter of manners.
Did some googling to refresh. Interesting quote on his wikipedia page where he says he will never use some particular pronouns. So no, he wouldn’t call students by some pronouns.
That’s a response to demands from strident people who he has no need to address at all in his professional capacity. He has nothing to do with them, and consequently they do not have the right to impose their pronouns demands on him. It’s a freedom of speech issue.
not according to the source article authored by Jordan Peterson.
He has my sympathy for this bit in the article you linked:
… I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words “zhe” and “zher.”
Fuck yes. I might conceivably be prepared to use pronouns like that with someone who was prepared to refer to me as “his imperial majesty the Great Silkie” as a quid pro quo, but even then I’d probably renege on the deal when it came to actually saying them with a straight face.
All language is artificial. Ours lacks a gender-neutral pronouns.
If part of lowering the suicide rate amongst people coming to terms with their identity involves using odd words, smirk away.
If someone’s at risk of suicide because I won’t call them a silly word, their life expectancy’s probably measured in days anyway.
That depends entirely on the relationship and power dynamic you have with that person.
Are you joe blow at checkout? Maybe you’re right, or maybe they’re just having a bad day and you tip ’em.
Are you a famous educator who consistently demeans them throughout the semester? Maybe your words would have more of an effect than you think.
Fortunately, universities are already well-equipped (overly well-equipped, if anything) for students to report harrassment by academic staff.
Partially because of human rights legislation.
That, and student activism.
Partly, sure. Of course, the fact that bullying of academic staff by students is now occurring is also partly down to human rights legislation and student activism, but there’s never an unalloyed good.
OK, now you have my attention.
I can see how human rights legislation might give students legal recourse in the face of endemic discrimination by faculty, but how on earth does it enable university staff to be bullied by students?
The contribution is trivial, but then its contribution to protecting students from harassment by academics is also trivial. It’s just a small part of a general encouragement for students to imagine themselves an oppressed class who should stand up to the authority of their course controllers, when the reality for a decade or more now is that universities consider students to be paying customers and academic staff mere employees, with all the consequences that that implies for the academic staff. I hear some shocking stuff about how academics are treated by students – the reverse doesn’t come up so often, exactly because of the ubiquity and effectiveness of harassment procedures, which are only aimed at protecting students. For me, the sight of Peterson surrounded and shouted down by braying arseholes on his own campus illustrates the real power relationship involved.
Oh.
“trivial”, huh.
Having seen student advocates actually include human rights legislation in successful attempts to e.g. make university courses more accessible to people with various disabilities, I disagree.
And having also seen the difference in response to students with complaints before and after they got the same advocates invovled, customers are treated a darn sight better than students.
Lots of students are little shits, no argument, but students protests made his career (publicity for patreon), while he can wreck careers before they start with a bad mark.
Why can’t the pronouns be mentioned – in his article on the link provided Peterson mentioned ‘zhe’ and ‘zher’. I agree with him that the intensity of focus on gender issues and demands is OTT.
There is so much achieved in that area, can we come back to refugees and parents and children and let those work their way to the head of the list for some caring attention and action.
We have the image of Oliver holding out his empty bowl and tentatively asking for ‘more please’. That is how it is for parents and children. Can more people work themselves to a white-hot energy to love them, our most vulnerable with the most potential.
It is they who will live in and form the future; to be reasonably good or an abandoned lot.
Nope, he’s the dude who claimed he was risking jail time by refusing to allow the government to mandate his use of pronouns. There seems to be some dispute over how real a risk it was, but the principle was sound enough.
Does he let the government mandate what he calls ethnic minorities? Or does he habitually drop the N-bomb out of general principle?
The govt isn’t telling him what he has to call ethnic minorities
So you’re saying that Canadian and Ontario human rights legislation gives greater protection to transgender people than it does people of different ethnicities?
I believe his issue is being mandated to use language not being restricted from using certain words (although I suspect he doesn’t particular think government should do the later much either).
Being “mandated” to use term A instead of term B is a restriction from using term B.
No, it is specifically mandating term A. It restricts using term B but also terms C through Z as well as any other terms you may want to utilise.
Maybe terms C through Z are just as naughty as term B.
His claim was that the government prescribing words that you must use goes way beyond proscribing words you’re not allowed to say in public. I read some opinions disputing whether the Canadian law genuinely did prescribe speech, but on the face of it his claim seems reasonable.
Except this point seems to have developed because he took an addition of gender identity to pretty standard human rights legislation as an indication that refusing to use a person’s pronoun of choice would be regarded as “hate speech” for which jail would be a possible punishment.
Sure, and plenty of people disagreed with him on whether the law would actually have that result. If he wasn’t inclined to wait for case law to provide a conclusive answer that could involve a prison sentence, I can sympathise.
But he seems to me to be the legal equivalent of a hollywood anti-vaxxer: a high-profile person encouraging an irrational fear based on zero evidence except their own unqualified reckons.
YMMV, I guess.
That doesn’t really cut it in these issues, though.
The fact is the law got changed and he hasn’t gone to jail.
When it comes to assessing the merits or otherwise of a law restricting freedom of speech, “it hasn’t put this guy in jail yet” isn’t a useful basis to assess them on. If a law could in principle put someone in jail for not using a ridiculous pronoun that someone made up for themselves, but hasn’t yet because people in the justice system aren’t fuckwits, it’s still entirely reasonable to oppose that law.
If people in the legal system aren’t enforcing a law, the legal system has a bigger problem than adding an additional group to the already existing human rights act while giving that group no extra privileges compared to any other protected group.
It sure does, but that’s a whole other argument.
So the alternatives seem to be:
It is now an imprisonable offence in Canada to refer to someone by using a pronoun that they do not believe reflects their gender, but nobody has done that yet; or
It is now an imprisonable offence in Canada to refer to someone by using a pronoun that they do not believe reflects their gender, but the Canadian legal system is refusing to uphold or enforce that law; or
that interpretation of the addition of transgender people to the existing human rights legislation was just Peterson’s little wet dream.
I’ll take door number three, Monty.
You missed option four: yet again, a “progressive” government has passed bad law that won’t be properly enforced, on the basis it will “send a message.” My money’s on number four.
If I could butt in briefly; Peterson elsewhere has said that if a transgender student personally asked him to use a non-standard pronoun he would likely comply out of courtesy and basic manners.
On the other hand he’s been clear that if someone confronted him, demanding he use these pronouns, he wouldn’t. And certainly he objects to legal compulsion.
While it leaves open the question of why one situation is different to another, I think in real life most of us would have little difficulty in determining a sincere personal request, from grandstanding an ideology.
Agreed. If Peterson has a student in his class who’s obviously transgender and he decides to use the wrong pronouns for them, that’s assholery of a fairly high order. I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s that kind of asshole.
Gender faddists who want you to use made-up pronouns for them is something else entirely, and I personally doubt any genuine suicide risk in such faddists not having their demands met.
Just out of interest, was his comment about how he would treat a student a walk-back after someone pointed out how previous claims about pronouns would inhibit his ability to teach?
“Properly” by what estimation? If discretion is left to officers and courts (e.g. s59 repeal), that’s good law. If it’s an explicit instruction to arrest wrong-pronoun users and leaving the authorities no discretion, you’d be correct.
If discretion is left to officers and courts (e.g. s59 repeal), that’s good law.
I’d call that very bad law. S59 repeal was an example of making fairly ordinary behaviour a lot of people engage in illegal and then leaving it up to the cops to decide who they feel like collaring for it, and the bill Peterson was bothered about was an example of vaguely classing a wide swathe of behaviour as illegal and leaving it up to the cops to decide who they feel like collaring for it. Both are shitty, shitty approaches to legislation.
I like reasonableness or significance tests and other such limited fuzziness in law.
Strict prescription/proscription is okay for some things with clear distinctions, but when situations, language and tech evolve, it’s good to give the people in the system discretion.
I think he’s the dude who thinks Frozen is reprehensible propaganda.
But Sleeping Beauty and Moana are just fine because men are portrayed as manly men, m’kay.
edit:
btw, who said it – Jordan Peterson or Islamic cleric.
Oh dear, a professor whose lectures are “common sense”. That sounds trivial to me and not worth any time, money, or a degree …
Maybe Prof Peterson should start a joint venture with Tony Robbins and Kim Kardashian.
+ 1 yep, you have sussed him correctly imo
Cool socialists, does that mean when the heating runs out ?
Yeh that to, a heavy woolen coat with a nice cut and a scarf makes anyone look pretty cool.
“…but then Peterson would never debate someone who could easily expose and dismantle his mostly regressive fruitloopery.”
That’s some way wide of the mark.
Peterson has been interviewed numerous times by members of the media, often hostile to his worldview. The best example was his now famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) interview with Cathy Newman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Peterson has also participated in debates involving intelligent, capable opponents. Here are three examples:
Sam Harris (https://medium.com/words-ideas-thoughts/sam-harris-vs-jordan-peterson-the-vancouver-debate-decoded-a3e0f293d595).
Michael Dyson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxYimeaoea0) (Note – this was in a group debate, where JP is joined by Stephen Fry).
Susan Blackmore (https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jordan+peterson+debates&view=detail&mid=3EFE8B2C8091A72A1B183EFE8B2C8091A72A1B18&FORM=VIRE)
Rather than accept what other people say about Peterson (which I find often mischaracterises what he is actually saying), there are a large number of You Tube clips featuring Peterson in interviews and debates where he gives his opinions in his own words. They are worth the watch.
“Rather than accept what other people say about Peterson (which I find often mischaracterises what he is actually saying), there are a large number of You Tube clips featuring Peterson in interviews and debates where he gives his opinions in his own words. They are worth the watch.”
I have watched some of his videos, and read his book. He comes across to me as a prat.
He has no understanding of nuance or context.
He uses analogies not as a method of explanation, but as evidence for the concept he proposes. His thinking is clear-cut to those who are looking for black and white answers in a chaotic world. But thankfully, we live in a technicolour world despite it all.
He – most dangerously – calls to those who feel alienation, and answers them – not with ideas of inclusion or community, but with blaming and external causation. His appeal to those that seem to like him – seems to be his certainty – the same aspect that makes him, and many like him, unappealing to me.
That sounds like a whinge. You obviously don’t like his opinions, and mischaracterise his followers as somehow being misfits. The reality is Peterson speaks common sense and rationality into a world weakened by irrational discourse.
“That sounds like a whinge. You obviously don’t like his opinions, and mischaracterise his followers as somehow being misfits. The reality is Peterson speaks common sense and rationality into a world weakened by irrational discourse.
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Shadrach. You asked for someone to read his books, and watch his videos. I have done both. Hours of my life I won’t get back, but which I thought necessary because someone who was living with us at the time was a fan, and that connection was the impetus to inform myself.
I don’t find his perspectives insightful or helpful, I actually find him to be divisive and without nuance or context. I can see his appeal, without finding him appealing, in the same way I can see the appeal of Trump.
See response to RedLogix below for why I think your comment is part of a pattern.
Divisive? That isn’t a criticism, is it? His views are controversial, but only because there are those who hold strident views on issues that defy logic. Peterson is a voice of sanity in amongst that nonsense.
I would consider your comments more if you would stop just defending the man, and discuss his ideas.
I find his ideas divisive, because he talks about personal responsibility as being towards the individual, with no understanding of differences in background, ability or environment. People who adopt that perspective, often fail to accommodate other lived experiences or perspectives and make judgements accordingly. Often derisive judgments, leading to division. He also fails to address issues of community or engagement that are external to those individual responsibility ideas.
“His views are controversial, but only because there are those who hold strident views on issues that defy logic. “
I don’t find him logical (deliberately stated in a moderate tone and without CAPS). I think his lack of clarity and logical progression from one idea to a conclusion is what makes him controversial. His supporters think this is because he is a voice of sanity in a world of chaos. I think it is because he is simplistic – unrealistically so.
I am defending his ideas. My comments have reflected that precisely.
“…differences in background, ability or environment” don’t negate personal responsibility. But rather than reducing his overall contributions to a single point, I’d suggest you consider his 12 Rules for Life, which make a great deal of sense.
“I think it is because he is simplistic – unrealistically so.”
I don’t believe he is unrealistically simplistic. He speaks in common sense terms. His ideas are actually fairly mainstream, however the chatter of extremism makes the value of what he says at times seem radical.
” He speaks in common sense terms. His ideas are actually fairly mainstream, however the chatter of extremism makes the value of what he says at times seem radical.”
Terms like radical, common sense are amorphous and subjective.
The comments that I have made can be discussed within context, and with nuance. Yet you just continue to cheerlead the abstract, and the man.
“I’d suggest you consider his 12 Rules for Life, which make a great deal of sense.”
I have had the unfortunate experience of considering his 12 Rules for Life. “… a great deal of sense…” means little, unless you explain why it is beneficial – not just to the individual but to the wider community.
His appeal seems to be emotional rather than logical.
Despite the number of comments, you have not engaged in any points I have made with the issues I have with the only one of his concepts – rules for life – presented: cleaning the room.
I was hoping for some level of informed discussion on the concepts themselves.
Perhaps you should take a breath, and rather than cheerlead your remarks, actually read what I have written. The reaction to Peterson reveals more about the insecurity of his opponents than it does about his ideas.
Shadrach, you haven’t put forward any of your own thoughts here.
Only reiterated your support for Peterson’s which can be interpreted in many ways.
Your admonishment “take a breath” is a way of shutting down conversation. All I have done with you is disagree, and explained why.
I’m also not an “opponent” of Peterson. I am someone who is not persuaded by his rhetoric. I find his perspective simplistic and artificial, and in some cases divisive and damaging. Because I don’t like his ideas, doesn’t mean that I “oppose” him.
Of course I have put forward my own thoughts. I find Peterson’s arguments, for the most part, compelling. He has a way of introducing substance into conversations so often distorted by emotion and misinformation, examples being the gender pay gap and compelled speech.
I don’t agree Peterson’s arguments are ‘artificial’ or ‘simplistic’. His book ‘12 Rules for Life’ is written by someone who is clearly a deep thinker, but who can articulate his ideas in straight forward terms. In an age when thoughts and speech are becoming so controlled and cautious, that is refreshing.
“Of course I have put forward my own thoughts. I find Peterson’s arguments, for the most part, compelling. “
Actually – you haven’t. Continually saying you find someone else’s ideas compelling, is not your thoughts on what he is saying.
You also haven’t really presented any of his ideas with clarity.
“and mischaracterise his followers as somehow being misfits.”
BTW. I never did.
He comes across to me as a prat.
Actually what you probably don’t like is his relatively high pitched voice … women tend react negatively to that and your choice of ‘prat’ for the put down is consistent with conveying ‘lightweight, incompetent, foolish, annoying and unattractive’.
https://www.livescience.com/16160-women-remember-deep-male-voices.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-women-like-deep-voices-and-men-prefer-high-ones-41492244/
There is quite a lot of literature on this.
“Actually what you probably don’t like is his relatively high pitched voice … women tend react negatively to that and your choice of ‘prat’ for the put down is consistent with conveying ‘lightweight, incompetent, foolish, annoying and unattractive’.”
I’m more of a reader actually, and didn’t particularly note his voice. And it was his inconsistencies in his writing that I found unattractive. But it indicates the style of discourse about his ideas – which have to go through a whole analysis on the man himself. I find that a problem.
I have no problems disagreeing with ideas put forward by people I admire. I consider that to be the normal way of life. Discussion about Peterson seems to be mainly around “fer” or “agin”, on the man. And sides become entrenched, and he gains exposure without his ideas being examined.
Which is why I find it odd that his opponents attack the man, or his style,rather than scrutinise any of his ideas in detail.
Yes, I fell into that trap above. But there is only so much life to be wasted on someone that I identify as having fuzzy logic, and I’ve spent enough time on his work. I expect his supporters and cheerleaders to be able to bring forth his ideas that have value. They often don’t.
Saying I found him a bit of prat, was my personal informed response to reading his book, watching some of his videos as advised by Shadrach. There is such a deluge of videos online, that following Shadrach’s advice would be soul destroying. However, I also think that amount of material and lack of nuance makes it easy for him to hold contradictory ideas, as any incidents of fuzzy logic, can be reinterpreted by subsequent videos or interviews and used as “proof” of support for free speech, or human rights.
I also did explain why I found him so unappealing. But the issues as you say are never discussed, because there are so many interpretations of what he has said, that I have to suspect this lack of clarity is intentional.
I have asked for concepts to be discussed, but that fails as he has issued so many contradictory statements in so many mediums, it is possible for his supporters to Peterson-splain away any identified problems.
One of Jordan Peterson’s problems would be his lack of vision in one eye; the one with a black patch in front of it. However there is much to commend in that he bravely soldiers on and on and on and on – whoops – and on…../sarc
Ok, ‘fess up.
Who hung the Russian flag from Salisbury Cathedral a week before the anniversary of the Skripal poisoning?
Just heard this on the RNZ 11am news. No article up yet on their website, so here is a Guardian article (just to rile some people here) on what happened.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/17/russian-flag-appears-on-salisbury-cathedral-year-on-from-novichok-attack
Sometimes placing something inappropriate on an ancient monument can be amusing.
I’m not so sure in this case.
BTW it wasn’t me.
Great pictures, lol – but as you say different situations.
I also see that the Marx monument in Highgate, London has also been under attack twice in the last two weeks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-47265467
That’s really sad (and misplaced, given that Marx is not responsible for things done in his name).
I’ve done the pilgrimage to Highgate Cemetery. It costs a few quid to enter, but it’s a fascinating way to spend an hour or two. The section that Mr and Mrs Marx are resident in also includes the resting places of many, many other lefties. Plenty of political exiles ended up there, and there are a scattering of left wing British journos in that corner too.
If you do visit, a few metres in from the front gate is Douglas Adams’ plot. If you’re a fan, take a pen or pencil with you. I won’t say why, but you’ll feel special afterwards.
I lived in London for seven years in the 1970s and initially stayed in Finchley with friends before moving to a flat in Gloucester Rd area where I remained for the rest of my stay in London. One of the first things I did was go to Highgate Cemetery because it was reasonably close to my friends’ place and loved it. A fascinating cemetery and used to take other people there from time to time. And yes,, a lot of things are ascribed to Marx which were not of his doing or his beliefs. Sad to see how much damage has been done in these latest acts of vandalism.
I did not know Douglas Adams was buried there and just checked his Wikipedia page and lo and behold – a photo of his grave! Thanks for mentioning he was buried there. But fascinated as to why the pen or pencil …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
Highgate Cemetary – Not too far away from the enclave of London I know best … Holloway / Highbury / Finsbury Park / Stoke Newington.
(Arsenal territory … for footy fans)
Yes I’ve seen a wet morning there too. A remarkable spot.
Doubt that was a waggish act. More like ‘someone’ was reminding other people what happens if you betray [supposedly] your country of origin. In this case, Russia.
Yes, most likely.
I actually saw it from the same perspective, Anne – ie as a reminder rather than a waggish act.
I just tried to look at an article on The Times website today which headlined that Sergei Skripal’s health has deteriorated, but gave up as to read it in full, you have to sign up to a one month free trial.
However, the whole sorry saga seems to have been in the UK news again in the last week or so as indicated by the various related articles on this Guardian page with recent results for Sergei Skipal.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/sergei-skripal
I doubt that Skripal is anywhere near Salisbury these days, and one of the Jan 2019 articles is about the dismantling of his house there; another about the UK and Bulgaria working together on a Bulgarian poisoning of an arms dealer in 2015; one about Bellingcat claiming they have identified a third GRU agent involved in the Skripal poisoning and various other related articles. Even one about Ed’s idol George Galloway being censored by Ofcom, the UK media regulator, for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules when he used his radio show to cast doubt on Russian involvement in the Skripal poisonings.
I will probably now get hit by the anti-Guardian brigade here for the above!
I always forget which big money outfit that the guardian is supposed to work for and can’t be trusted.
I heard at the annual meeting of big money and deep state they spun the bottle. Russia got Facebook and corporate America got traditional media.
ROFL.
Seamus Kearney? on Radionz very informative – said Angela Merkel more hard hitting than ever before on eve of her quitting.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018682957/us-eu-discord-and-snap-election-called-in-spain
US-EU discord & snap election called in Spain
From Nine To Noon, 9:48 am today
From Europe, correspondent Seamus Kearney where the Munich conference has laid bare Transatlantic tensions, as the relationship between the US and the EU deteriorates. Also, a snap election has been called in Spain amid rising anger in Catalonia, and European students rally for action against climate change.
“… Angela Merkel more hard hitting than ever before on eve of her quitting.”
She is not quitting anytime soon. She stood down in Oct 2018 as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CTU) Party after 18 years as leader with Annegret Kramp-Karrenbeuer elected as Leader in Dec 2018.
However, while she has made it known that she will not stand again for another term as German Chancellor, Merkel will remain Chancellor probably until the next federal election in August/Sept 2021 – some two and a half years away. The only change to that is if a snap election is called between then and now, but this seems unlikely, or if health etc prevents her completing her present fourth term as Chancellor.
Monty Python before their time on Kiwibuild !!!
Minister Twyford please listen about building houses and achieving 3 !!!
https://vimeo.com/5704713
Interesting development
The UK clears Huawei to do their 5G network
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12204757
Entirely unsurprising…
It was always a red herring… …removing this narrative clearing a path for discussions of greater significance is a positive…
oh good grief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=350&v=_D-rseZ9OnE
Wish we had political satire in NZ.
Simon and Jacinda would be fun
Baldwin is himself such an objectionable, sexist, abusive, bullying, bullshitting ‘philanthropist’ its hard to really laugh at his imitation of…an objectionable, sexist, abusive, bullying, bullshitter…American comedy really is at a low and weird ebb…
the shoe fits.
one sexist abusive bullying bullshitting philanthropist depicting another sexist, abusive, bullying bullshitting philanthropist.
i did not see comedy here, just raw and honest depiction of the orange shitgibbon.
But Trump is his own best send up of Trump. God, does that make sence?..you know what i mean i hope. I’m just bemoaning the lack of really good American comedians offering actual comedic insights into american politics. The Baldwin Trump thing is simply a ‘product’ of the increasingly pointless media offerings from NBC.
You may find this interesting, I’ve had to link you to the Intercept as the original article referred to is a pay for article. Its about NBC etc taking on Trump for the CIA, the Pentagon, and the FBI in the name of #Resistance..
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/03/veteran-nbcmsnbc-journalist-blasts-the-network-for-being-captive-to-the-national-security-state-and-reflexively-pro-war-to-stop-trump/
personally i think he does a good job.
i also like the paintings from Jim Carrey whom i absolutely loathed as an actor.
sometimes the shoe fits.
the thing is, trump could have stopped the war in Syria two years ago, he did not. he could have pulled out troops from Afghanistan two years ago, he did not, he could have pulled out troops from Iraq two years ago, he did not.
trump is not anti war. he is not gonna make america great again, he is not giving a tax cut to the poor, he is not gonna bring back coal, he is not creating jobs ……and we know this now because he had two years of hte holy trifecta and all he did was a tax cut for the very rich, and lower withholding taxes for the rest – which funnily enough now results in lower refunds for many and ‘you owe the IRS” to the rest.
the US is nothing more then a military state with a mercenary army that is hired out and now Trump is in on the grift.
Anyone believing anything else needs to check their glasses for the rose tint. It is getting too strong and it does impact on the clarity of ones vision.
and you might not like it, but this is american politics and this is a comedian offering insights.
My point is he’s actually not a particularly good comedian and he’s not offering any insights. He’s doing a simple impersonation of a ridiculous man because nbc are using him to prop up their bullshit political agenda.
Your enemies enemy is not in fact your friend.
People seem to be willing to support anyone…literally anyone, who opposes Trump without a thought in their head about what they are being offered as an alternative.
trump could have stopped the war in Syria two years ago…and if you had bothered to read up on nbc…you would appreciate their pro war stance…its really very simple propaganda on the part of nbc. Anti Trump the war monger…whatever…
for starters..
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/04/17/how-nbc-knowingly-let-syria-rebels-false-war-propaganda-stand-years
“Jim Carrey whom i absolutely loathed as an actor”
WTF!.. Carrey has done some shit or sure, but he has done a couple of minor masterpieces in his time, Cable Guy. Truman Show come to mind…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0lbdPKl8hg
it may sound strange but he gives me anxiety. Like literal anxiety. I have never watched any of his movies dubbed into german so it might be a reaction to that, but i can not stomach him for a full movie. I have watched some in sequences. there are a few actors that do that to me. I did like him in Mask, the dancing scene was excellent.
Ellen made my Sister anxious. That’s when I realised the awkward schtick is not for everyone.
Difficult to lampoon Trump.
He does such a good job of it, himself.
Hit a nerve.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097116612279316480
as i said above,
when the shoe fits. and it does fit so well.
Re: the discussion about Jordan Peterson.
The guy is nothing but a jumped up homophobic prude who wants to suppress female sexuality and strip women of any and all reproductive Rights
He is even on record as wanting contraceptives banned.
He, and his boyfriend Milo are leading this conservative backlash against women and their rights, which see to reverse the gains that women have made in the past 50 odd years and establish a more puritanical society, where women are hanged for enjoying sex.
Is that not what all that Maga shit is about?
No, not going back to the 1950 but rather to go back to the 1750’s.
Where humans not white, heterosexual males (and landowner please) knew their place, behaved appropriately and kept sweet, lest their owners kick them out of the house, stopped feeding them, or beat them into submission.
ahhhh the good old time, when even the biggest looser was allowed at least one women to own and do with as his heart contented. After all…….the bible says so somewhere.
He is even on record as wanting contraceptives banned.
In that case, no doubt you’ll be able to point us to that record.
it falls under ‘
abortifacts’ and yes , htere are a few that would want that banned, especially the white crowd that wants white women to bear white children to prevent the white race from dying out.
but you asked
in his own words
he also does not like masturbation
https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/987706974598041605
but then he ‘does not really it mean it that why cause maybe women don’t want to be reduce to the status of a milk cow, err a human incubator, err a ‘mother by force if need be ‘
https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/987567234716495873
and here with the spawn of the orange turd
https://twitter.com/zei_nabq/status/1078382175949590528
Thanks for putting up those video of this hideous person. We must know the truth of his lies then he has no where to hide.
you have at least one Supreme Court Justice who would want to do the same.
His name? Kavanough.
http://time.com/5389449/brett-kavanaugh-contraception-abortion-inducing-drugs/
i mean, whats not too like, if you want women out of the work force, of the streets and out of public live you need to go back to the times where birth control depended on the husband agreeing to it.
And besides, it can’t happen here right?
I am past child bearing age, and had a medical hysterectomy many many moons ago, so i ended up never having children. I can tell you something, not having to worry about pregnancy or having pregnancy scares are awesome. Sex just for fun, without any responsibilities Awesome.
Now if more men could grow up and realise that women are actually doing them a favor by taking the pill every day of the year for twenty – forty years, so that they – men – can have sex without responsibility, it would be great. Alas, we have men promoting this pinheaded fuckwits as intellectual greats.
I am serious, this is the end game for the forced birther crowd. Not abortion, but the pill.
Yes, I’ve seen those videos. I asked millsy for the record showing that Peterson wants contraceptives banned, and those videos aren’t that record. He even explicitly states he doesn’t want the pill banned in one of them.
no he back peddled. As quite a few men actually like to fuck without procreation and even some women do.
And i would even go so far as to say this racist has no issues with preventing procreation in those that he deems not white enough.
Cause you see, he is for procreation of the white race. that is his thing, and it is the white women whose birth rates are going down, and for good reason. And it is for those women that he deems the pill to be not beneficial. Cause you know, we get to work, we get to earn money, even ‘gasp’ more money then men, we get to have education, we don’t have to marry some bloke for a meal ticket anymore, we can buy our own dinners, heck, we have come so far that we don’t even need a man to give us access to his checkbook because we have our own. You know, that thing called feminism that created all these opportunities for women which we can partake in because we are not constantly pregnant or breast feeding, or birthing, or miscarrying.
and you know what, the proof is in his words.
so why don’t you show me a clip in which he states that he has absolutely no issues with women taking the pill, with men and women living together engaging in mutually satisfying sex and not having children because she’s on the pill. 🙂
you know when men like this speak i always hear this one in my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dip54axBnIs
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no he back peddled.
To “back-pedal” requires that you make a claim and then try to withdraw the claim. There’s no back-pedaling in those videos because the claim is never made in the first place. There is an implied accusation by a participant in one video that Peterson wants to ban contraception and he immediately rejects the accusation. That is not “back-pedaling,’ no matter how much you might wish it were.
And i would even go so far as to say this racist has no issues with preventing procreation in those that he deems not white enough.
Well, sure, everyone is free to form whatever risible opinion they want about the guy. Thing is that your opinion is worth as much as mine, which has a net worth of $0.00.
i asked you real nice to show me a clip of the guy in which he states that he has no issues with women taking the pill, he has no issues with the birth rate of white people, and non of that is of any interest.
nope? can’t be bothered? can’t find a thing? deflecting from the fact that this guy would remove access to the pill for white women so that they start breeding again?
cause you see, you don’t have to ban a thing, you just make it inaccessible.
A bit like in the old years where a women could get the pill, so as long as she was married and her husband agreed to it.
See nothing was banned, a women could just simply not get it without permission from her owner err husband.
You seem confused about burden of proof. I haven’t made any claims about Peterson’s opinions on contraception and am therefore not under any obligation to support such claims. At issue here is millsy’s claim that Peterson is on record as wanting contraceptives banned – as far as I’m aware, he isn’t, so I’d like to see some backing for that claim. Whether or not Peterson has made comments explicitly endorsing particular contraceptives or not is irrelevant.
deflecting from the fact that this guy would remove access to the pill for white women so that they start breeding again?
See, now that’s another claim. Do you have evidence to support that claim?
A bit like in the old years where a women could get the pill, so as long as she was married and her husband agreed to it.
Perhaps if Peterson had been around at the time he would have supported such abuse of human rights. Maybe he wouldn’t. Who knows? Certainly not us, which makes these kinds of accusations pointless.
as i said, he speaks for himself. No accusations here, just his own words. 🙂 bye now.
But he doesn’t seem to mind an intellectual wank.
Just a note to say I appreciate the good sense you’ve displayed in the various threads on Peterson here, PM.
We’re thinking along the same lines (& I happen to know others on the Left who feel the same … able to systematically sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to JP & the IDW … without resorting to crude character assassination & hysteria).
Cool, calm collected Left vs the Smeary Intersectionals (& their chums in the media)
Putin giving Maduro the arse?
.
Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S. sanctions, a Gazprombank source told Reuters on Sunday.
While many foreign firms have been cutting their exposure to PDVSA since the sanctions were imposed, the fact that a lender closely aligned with the Russian state is following suit is significant because the Kremlin has been among Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest supporters.
“PDVSA’s accounts are currently frozen. As you’ll understand, operations cannot be carried out,” the source said. Gazprombank did not reply to a Reuters request for a comment.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-gazprombank/russias-gazprombank-decided-to-freeze-pdvsa-accounts-source-idUSKCN1Q60BK
No difference in parties.
https://twitter.com/RalphNader/status/1097280280140959744
The hijacking of democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dlIRy7HbkQ
So rather than gain control and then legislate against corporate finance let’s tilt the playing field in favour of the opposition by foregoing corporate finance.
Yup, that’ll work.
/
You dont bring a knife to a gunfight.
oh my
pass the smelling salts for the little dainty purists.
Simon Bridges appears to be getting a little help from todays TVNZs midday news. Bridges seems to be reading his lines from the monitor, or maybe, someone else wrote the words for him ? Who knows ? It was quite peculiar. Just saying.
I read that the BBC is about to release a documentary showing that MH17 was shot down by Ukranian military aircraft. The documentary is due for release on May 3rd.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/malaysian-airlines-mh17-brought-down-ukrainian-military-aircraft-the-bbc-refutes-its-own-lies/5521968
This will no doubt put the cat among the pigeons.
???
back to the future?
OK. Egg on face time. I wonder why GR reposted the article.
got nothing else to do?
ran out of crap to post?
click bait?
entertain the masses who don’t check these sort of things like time stamps?
cause a lie repeated a thousand times will eventually become the truth?
all of the above.
pick you box comrade.
None of those options seem very likely, comrade. It’s more likely they were intent on pointing out that the BBC usually echo their political masters’ propaganda, even if goes against their better judgment.
well you thought it was news. so something worked 🙂
Repeat a lie often enough, someone will believe it.
Is that true? I seem to hear it stated often enoubgh.
lol
The Bellingcat group mentioned something about investigating something in Malaysia to do with that country’s reaction to MH17 reports.
Bellingcat tend to use open source material, if they’ve found something it will probably be fairly easy to verify.
For Wellingtonians:
Don’t the pictures accompanying this article just say it all:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/110674524/some-wellington-bus-services-could-be-suspended-indefinitely-because-of-driver-shortage
And no doubt the cuts will happen to the likes of a Number 20.
And unfortunately Darran, you’re not entirely blameless although you still have the opportunity to redeem yourself (platitudes aren’t going to cut it though)
Shit – I’d better stop now – but for me and many others, a good system is now unusable, and when youse all manage to get your shit together, I wish you the best of British luck in enticing back customers – that is those you could have had by merely backing out the bugger’s muddle you implemented and went along with you continued to go along with and pretend minor tweaking would fix.
It should have been evident after the first month
Christ Almighty! Stone me to death please!!!!
I resisted listening/watching Laidlaw in that clip. Now I just did. There was all the 20/20 hindsight shit. Then 0/0 foresight should have been bleeding BLOODY obvious.
FFS! Is this really the level of muppetry we’ve sunken to?
Quite obviously it is.
Again fellas – best of Brittis in trying to attract back those to your ‘visionary’ greater Wellington public transport system. Meantime, I’m thinking of driving an Uber for an earn
Christ Almighty! Stone me to death please!!!!
I resisted listening/watching Laidlaw in that clip. Now I just did. There was all the 20/20 hindsight shit. Then 0/0 foresight should have been bleeding BLOODY obvious.
FFS! Is this really the level of muppetry we’ve sunken to?
Quite obviously it is.
Again fellas – best of Brittis in trying to attract back those to your ‘visionary’ greater Wellington public transport system. Meantime, I’m thinking of driving an Uber or an Ola or a Zoomie for an earn
The system will probably be OK once they have sorted out their staffing problems. It’s not perfect, but neither was the old system. Of course, everyone will tell you that things were better in ‘the good old days’, but it ain’t necessarily so.
PS Having figured out the ins and outs of it, I find I don’t have any problems.
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5tWYmIOWGk
The tipping point is here and now just the 00.1 % don’t want to beleve it because they have made heaps of money from this system that abuses mother nature and her creatures . Money cause a person to be selfcentered and un-humane they beleve what is best to keep there money . Money has to go and the currency need to have a conscience + = likes – = dislikes this currency will keep the evil people INLINE and Humane if they do to much bad thing they will go broke the good kind people will have money to gift to mother nature and the poor people it could be a hybrid of sorts ECO MAORIS thoughts on having a happy healthy humane Papatunuku and people basically EQUALITY FOR ALL
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can’t humans see the writing on the wall?
People tend to respond to immediate threats and financial consequences – and Florida’s coastal real estate may be on the cusp of delivering that harsh wake-up call
I
stood behind a worn shopping center outside of Crystal Springs, Florida, looking for the refuge where a hundred manatees were gathered for winter. I found them clustered in the emerald-colored spring, trying to enjoy a wedge of sunlight and avoid the hordes of people like me, boxing them in on kayaks and tour boats, leering over wooden decks. The nearby canals were lined with expensive homes and docks with jetskis. One manatee breached the water for a breath, and I could see the propeller scar on its back.
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2018 was the second deadliest year on record for manatees. Like many of our coastal species, they’re vulnerable to habitat loss and warming seas, which are more hospitable to algal blooms and red tide. Science has given us the foresight we need to make decisions that will reduce the future suffering of other species and ourselves, but we don’t heed it. Why?
Studies show that humans don’t respond well to abstract projections. We overvalue short-term benefits, such as driving SUVs, burning coal and building waterfront real estate. We choose these extravagances even though they impede beneficial long-term outcomes, such as saving threatened species, or reducing the intensity of climate change.
Humans tend to respond to immediate threats and financial consequences – and coastal real estate, especially in Florida, may be on the cusp of delivering that harsh wake-up call. The peninsula has outsized exposure: nearly 2 million people live in coastal cities. On the list of the 20 urban areas in America that will suffer the most from rising seas, Florida has five: St Petersburg, Tampa, Miami, Miami Beach and Panama City. In 2016, Zillow predicted that one out of eight homes in Florida would be underwater by 2100, a loss of $413bn in property. links below Ka kite ano P.S I know we can save OUR Mokopunas future
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/florida-climate-change-coastal-real-estate-rising-seas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huiC7mmifKE
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute I have just figured out someone that can have the power of attorney over Eco Maori is evil and going to play into the sandflys HANDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgVVG5EknuI
Here you go Whanau more evedince that the system is corrupt a vital peace of evedince off the Pike river mine is stolen it would have been a inside job they needed a helicopter to fly it out who got the most to hide .??????????
Police have tonight confirmed an inquiry is underway into whether Pike River Mine evidence has gone missing.
1 NEWS last night revealed the door from an electrical control box was blown out of the mine in the 2010 explosion which killed 29 men.
Police say they’re unable to speculate about the relevance of the item and are appealing to the public once again to come forward with any new information.
The man who headed the royal commission of inquiry, Sir Graham Panckhurst, told 1 NEWS this afternoon that to the best of his recollection, that piece of evidence was never presented at the hearing.
WorkSafe today confirmed to 1 NEWS that they don’t have it.
The police still won’t say if they do – a question we’ve been asking for four days.
Ka kite ano link below.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/content/tvnz/onenews/story/2019/02/18/pike-police.html?variant=tb_v_1
Kia ora Newshub It’s good that MPI find these Fruitflys before they multiple into a huge problem.
A capital gains tax is good for Aotearoa as for Newshubs poll on a capital gains tax well all the wealthy people you polled won’t want capital gains tax most other countries have one.???????. Poll are A tool use to sway people opinion that’s the way I see them so easy to minupulate.
I feel sorry for the newly weds who found a camera in the house that they rent and got married in As I know my privacy is being breach all the time by the sandflys I know Alot of people have seen PHOTOS of me and my Mokopunas I know Alot of people have my pH number and track my travels I know that money can buy anything and the sandflys love making money for nothing there are other breach to my privacy to but I will use those to my advantage the sandflys are going to be paying millions for lose of Eco Maori potential earnings from the INTERNET Ana toa kai
The Hikurangi faults zone is getting plenty of attention at the minute our beach back home is rising out of Tangaroa + All the erosion of the whenua has pushed Tangaroa out as well extra 50 metres there now from the time I lived there .
That’s the way tell Jeremy Corby what’s the difference between Labour and the Tories nothing from what I see just 2 party’s for the Wealthy.
Ka pai The Salvation Army moveing into the truck shop business everyone I see using the other shark rip off trucks get a frown and a lecture I like to buy second hand as its good for OUR Environment Ka kite ano
Kia ora James & Mulls from The Crowd Goes Wild I see all te tangata whenua have nice big smiles even The Maori culture Haka teams te actors te music stars Its Ka pai to be a PROUD MAORI.
He looks like that singer I quite like his music too but I like the one who sing Wairua better
TE Sugar got salted guys.
Eco Maori can not comment on Tyson Fury I would like to
Ka kite ano P.S I see te Tau – – –
Kia ora The AM Show I know you are greedy and small minded duncan you have displayed those qualities all the time and you are a puppet I can see your strings being pulled I new that you would be crying about giving money to the Poor putting down capital gains tax . Sandy I seen in the online media Berne Sanders did not make the front page for a while Then all of a sudden he is getting air on the am show.?????? They don’t want a Wahine like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To win the
Presidentcy because now she is no longer on the front pages of The online media
BULLSHIT you are just a oil lobbiest lobbying Aotearoa people to believe YOUR lies the oil industry can be replaced with green energy that gives less profit to people like you provides more JOBS that is part of the reasons unemployment in America is so low at the minute all the green jobs Created by Obama policy still flowing through their economy It is well documented of the facts I have stated everyone else but the go oil party and oil barrons are turning to green energy Crap there is no need in NZ to carry on using oil and gas. In NZ we have all the great green energy resources in Aotearoa Cameron you come out to broadcast you views about the oil and gas industry is bull what a conflict of interest like shonky tobacco lobbying MP Tod Barklay talking about the positive properties of tobacco.
Mabe if the documentary tells the truth about the SYSTEM SOCIETY being courpted by the wealthy the laws are made for the wealthy at the expense of the common person 1 and 2 this system rewards single parent family it should reward familys with two parent familys a child needs the love of a mother and father to reach the highest rung on their ladders of life that’s reality and men respecting Wahine =equality need to be achieved to provide a humane gidence to our government policy men just want Te Money who cares about the mother earth.
I would not let they Lady’s who went to the middle Eastern Wars and want to come back why because we cannot read there minds on there intentions basically they can’t be trusted. Wow the show is finally talking about global warming. Ka kite ano P.S you know who my next target is after I sort out the sandflys A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAB6aXOfUmU