One of the possible consequences of global warming is a need to develop a different kind of agriculture; one more locally based and focused. Obliged to make such changes by changing political fortunes, Cuba provides some examples that might be of value.
Thanks for that. The rapidity with which governments can recognize and adapt to changing conditions, or not do so, is as much a factor of evolving crisies of this kind as the changing conditions themselves. Jared Diamond’s Collapse leaves one quietly skeptical of the presumption that timely changes of policy will materialize to address changing circumstances.
I make the point that we should all remember to go on Sunday to How to get there post. Don’t treat it as of occasional interest. It is a solid attempt to gather ourselves together environmentally and in a mentally healthy way. Every day we will need to be wiser and stronger, going in the future. This is your chance to arise from the chattering class and go to the panel of practical thinkers. Just a reminder; it is there every week. Use it, be part of the change as the saying goes.
Good, constant, committed minds are needed in NZ, as well as the rest of the world of course, but we live here and need to think about our patch and those around us, and make change ourselves all the time.
Good and practical change that is.
Good advice, grey. I meant that I am only “occasionally quiet” rather than only occasionally interested. I enjoy reading the Sunday HTGT, even if I don’t contribute.
On the south coast of the South Island where the winds blow from the Antarctic, trees that shelter gardens serve to warm them, by countering the wind chill factor. Dark soils built slowly over time through the use of sheet-mulching practices, warm up when shone upon. Moisture in such humus-rich soils improve the heat-retaining properties of soil, where pale-coloured, dry soils do little to store the warmth of the sun. Stone too, heats up as the day progresses then radiates the heat back out into the surroundings once the sun’s gone down. I have chunks of slate that served as hearths for fireplaces in some old homes before they were demolished and have laid them out at the base of figs to provide a little extra encouragement for them to set fruit.
Apparently Victorian stately homes used to put earth over large piles of manure just before winter and put wee greenhouses on top. The warmth from the composting manure and the greenhouses enabled them to grow strawberries in the middle of winter, or other out of season delicacies.
That’s right, McFlock and I think they were known as “hotbeds”.
Perhaps the term, “hotbed of intrigue” refers to those steaming piles of manure. I made a hotbed once, photographed it and wrote a story for the NZ Gardener magazine. That was many years ago. I think I planted pumpkin seeds in the topsoil.
For clarity sake and I know this site loves correctors it’s not the distance from the sun that causes winter and summer in the southern and northern hemisphere but the angle of the earth on its axis, Meaning the further away from the equator the less sunnlight you get per sqm as the earth rotates around the sun, the distance has little effect as is minuscule in the scheme of things
Physics is good, but metaphysics is even better. We get it from Aristotle, apparently. So, applying analogy, it’s not your distance from someone that’s important, it’s your attitude to them. 😎
obliquity changes the amount of available solar radiation falling on a surface.
In december for example the antarctic receives more sunlight then the equator ( scott base gets 28.8 Mj/m2 compared to whangarei at around 20.4)
The external forcing in the sun/earthsystem ie aphelion/perihelion is substantive
The LASP instrument on SORCE shows the TSI (all spectrum irradiance) around aphelion 9/7/2018 was 13166.4 at the TOA AND 1047.3 on the 3/1/2019
The difference of 90.87 wm^2 then we divide by 4 to get the surface measurement of 22.71 wm^2 then divide by 2 to get 11.35 wm^2 that is not trivial.
Buy a carrot, just the one, every month or so, see how long it lasts before going off. Cuba they don’t have capitalism so aren’t selling inedible food. When the supermarkets start selling fresh carrots, parsnips, Swedes, I continue avoiding them. I can’t fathom how they make money, maybe in subliments to provide thevitamins lost when they precook the fresh veggies.
As to how the supermarkets make money, one of the ways is to screw down their Vege suppliers.
My family grew yams, near the end of their time supplying supermarkets, the contract had a start date, finish date and a fixed price.
They were unable to sell at the farmers market nor were they able to put recipe suggestions and photos on the bag tags. The reason is the company would not tolerate another company advertising under the supermarket roof.
Supermarkets, ha, chlorine wash causes kidney problems, forcing consumer to give up alcohol. Brilliant how their short term profit grabbing destroys their own shareholder value. not that their wine is any good.
No reason to stop fighting for our collective “global village” future together is there? Don’t let a single shooter win here. We owe our allegiance to save our children’s future.
The oil companies must feel that God is on their side now – as the Christchurch killings has sucked all the oxygen out of the ‘climate emissions debate’ it seems by looking at the “corporate media now.
Keep up the fight to save our planet please people.
‘Climate chaos’: Melting ice sheets will trigger extreme weather across the world, warn scientists
‘This unpredictability is going to prove extremely disruptive for all of us’
• Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss
• Wednesday 6 February 2019 19:27
The Independent
Collapsing ice sheets at the poles are powerful symbols of a warming world, but new research suggests they may also be ramping up the global impact of climate change.
As the icy cliffs of Greenland and Antarctica thaw, scientists think the influx of water will trigger extreme weather and disrupt ocean currents across the globe.
These people are the real ogres by standing passively by and ‘allowing’ the free flow of inappropriate communications – incitement under the guise of free speech.
I also heard, quite appallingly, someone say that right wing extremists are made by the left. Not sure who or where I heard it, but what a unfortunate excuse for their actions. It seems that in the roiling turmoil following this tragedy a lot of bottom feeders have emerged from the mud and are hanging their vile excuses on the thinnest of pretexts.
Yep – but will calling them out deepen their false sense of victimhood and make them more dangerous?
Who knows – I feel mentally tired and disgusted with humanity.
I think that it would be best to say unequivocally that they are wrong and their bad opinions will cause heartache for others, and they should stop fomenting trouble. When they reply to that with demanding questions and examples, say that they say they want the truth but can’t handle the truth. And that they must examine their own malicious behaviour and change themselves, as they refuse to listen or learn from anyone else.
They must know that others strongly disagree. But want to play at discussing the matter which merely gives them more fuel. All of these haters are IEDs inside their mind, and as we know from examples here, all attempts to respond with reason just fuel the fevered minds and flame up.
Yeah, I get you. I can’t be on tenterhooks with scumbags, some can change and will when truth is applied, some are just psycho’s who’ll adopt any crap ideology/cause to justify their own extreme bullshit. And the fact they take others with them (literally or figuratively) is why I have no tolerance.
We can’t stop racism without standing against it. Tolerance of low level racism emboldens the deranged of view. So called free speech vs hate speech in the hands of double speak.
Where racist mongrels tell you that saying mongrel is offensive, while their views are merely controversial.
As I’ve stated previously, the internet’s social media algorithms point extreme views towards others with extreme views till, you may be the worst fruitcake on the planet, but find yourself surrounded by ‘friends’. This is the headquarters of the insane. The sociopaths, as Tarrant has demonstrated, hide in plain sight, camouflaged by a background of institutionalised racism and turning a blind eye.
They use the word ‘controversial’ instead of repugnant to push low level nastiness – like some American media today described Fraser Anning’s statements as controversial.
There is a strong argument of removing ethnospecific cultural and religious references within ‘Christchurch’ in favour of Ōtautahi – its indigenous name – for all levels of government, as well as legal and official documentation.
It would be consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi and involve minimal change.
‘Christchurch’ currently references locations in England, Wales, and the USA, educational institutions in Virginia and Chennai, and cathedrals in Tanzania, Britain, Aotearoa, Ireland, Falkland Islands, Canada, Australia, Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachsetts, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin as well as a diverse range of other places .. not to mention an album by the Dubliners.
It would let people heal and release youthful energies from medieval constraints.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or fetid. Leave the official, internationally known name, use Otautahi more locally, and provide things for under-employed men to do with ethnicities mixing. An All-Colours football team, basketball, netball, etc.
These sad white guys need to come out of their huddle, they look pale and insipid – the ones that have stayed in my mind (like the one with Jordan Peterson, the creep). They should be given a way to excel and stop looking and feeling like that.
I know Victoria University has decided it would like to change its name. That is different – they umbrella a lot of research, want to be recognised amongst world universities, and want to be recognised as NZ when people are seeking a university of renown in the world. The university is one entity that is an education enterprise and now a business as NZ limits educational funding.
The city Christchurch is an entity in its own right, a place, a people, an airport, and is not limited by its name, people are interested first in the country, and I don’t want to see New Zealand changed to Aotearoa either. Again I think we should use that locally, and affectionately. It is our name for the place we love, the other is an identifier (and not a bad one either – a bit more New Zeal would grow us exponentially from a place to exist in for some to a place of happy satisfied people. Let it be so!)
Cunts like Winston Peters encouraged the alt right with a wink and a nod,
From an article linked in the nz herald today;
Firstly, a group calling itself the Auckland University European Students Association appeared on campus at Orientation Week. Although it quickly disbanded amid accusations of racism and threats to its (unidentified) founders, the group gained national media coverage, including reaction from Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy.
Secondly, a week later, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters visited Victoria University in Wellington. During his speech to students he questioned the media’s role in causing the “European” group to shut down. He accused journalists of suppressing dissenting voices, and on his way out, unashamedly signed a cartoon of a frog named Pepe – the most popular symbol of the alt-right.
Peters’ actions set the New Zealand 4Chan boards alight.
“Guess who just got my vote!!” one user wrote. “Winston is based”. (Based, loosely, means good).
“Absolutely BASED,” said another. “Winnie has my undying respect.”
“Winston is /ourguy/, right?” another asked. “I want someone to get rid of the Indians and Chinese, those f****** are stealing our country right out from under us.”
That’s so fucking dog whistling it really isn’t, he may as well have got out the megaphone
I think Winston is getting old. He has been practising skateboarding for long zooming down and up and turning tricks in the air, and won prizes for it. But age has blunted his political sensibilities and he can’t hang five or whatever like he used to.
I agree that he has made a bad mistake over the ‘European’ university group. He might have thought that he was just being a bit radical and controversial. But if so, he is losing his touch. He once said he thought he was part Chinese, and had connections with Taiwan. And got some publicity for that.
He now as a Deputy Prime Minister has gone to the USA and garnered publicity for going into a huddle with them, apparently because of growing Chinese influence
in the South Pacific. Trying to hang five again. I think he won’t get any accolades for this from judges, and the publicity of being a maverick won’t win him brownie or whitie points.
It’s not statesman stuff, and I think the wheelchair is his next Seat out of Parliament. He can make a mint being the poster boy for the new form of wheelchair driven by body movements, not relying on the hands pushing the wheels.. So there you are Winnie, your future value lies away from politics.
Speaking as a rugby fan here, the reasons offered by the Canterbury franchise for their name are pretty weak.
The crusading spirit of settlers is at odds with sword waving, hooded, horseback riding men wearing chainmail.
C’mon Canterbury rugby officials, your achievements on the field transcend any hiccups, politics or kickback from your sponsors, fans and wider rugby community.
Just on Friday we were out on the street on the “Climate strike” campaign among over 100 school children beaming chanting “we will save of planet”, at the bottom of Gladstone street (main Street) in Gisborne, holding our placards and full of pride that our young among us are so concerned about the planet dying, that they all like so many folks around the world, were on strike together to show all world governments to hurry up and change the way we live, and use less energy to help reverse the catastrophic melting down of our polar regions causing sea level rise, and increased global temperatures, fires, floods, earthquakes.
We later drove back to the 7 acres hobby farm so alleviated and, then ‘BANG’ -as the TV showed us the ChCh carnage, and from that time our hearts sunk in sadness and horror as the press has had nothing to mention that that day was the global climate change demonstration children of the world had staged, around the world.
Then for three days there has been a complete blackout about everything else going on around the planet except for the ChCh event, – and it was as if the climate strike global event never happened.
So we are so deeply disappointed that the event in ChCh eclipsed another so serious as the demise of the whole global population is not as worthy also to be mentioned that will potentially destroy every living being and thing else around our planet.
No reason to stop fighting for our collective “global village” future together is there? Don’t let a single shooter win here. We owe our allegiance to save our children’s future.
Send him back! Sorry if there was ever a case for not sending him back, he’d be it. Having him closer to his family, his culture of extremists… ..who thought that one up.
And who is buying guns, they haven’t buried them yet, and there is some rush. really.
We owe it to the families of those killed and injured, and the wider Muslim community to take responsibility for the prosecution, and following sentencing for the perpetrator.
Keeping him within our own justice system means we have control over his sentence and conditions. Anything else would be handing over authority and responsibility to another agency, and would be disrespectful.
Those events did not happen in NZ though, and this video is hugely different to the 9/11 footage as it is up close and personal, with the people related to others in our community.
And no, they did not threaten jail time for viewing, but rather for sharing the video (distributing).
I am.in two minds about the censorship. Watching it sure brings home the craziness of his actions.
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Don’t conflate everything. The police are trying to act appropriately on this occasion. Don’t make it worse by getting angry at everybody. Just hold your fire will you.
We may well have been targeted for actions now as we have historically been against oil, nuclear, coal, and other energy sources so perhaps this right wing radical shooter was setup to derail our climate change actions on that day and made our PM Ardern a scapegoat for saying “this is our generations nuclear moment” As the forces of evil rise against our climate change actions, we hope our Prime Minister Ardern and her cabinet has the guts to stand firm as Winston Churchill did during another war on our world.
Sweden has nailed it completely.
Worth a look at this site.
We are looking at ‘anti Climate change’ terrorism as a weapon now against us all.
Quote;
‘Climate change denial strongly linked to right-wing nationalism
With Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as a hub, the world’s first global research network into climate change denial has now been established. Building on a brand-new research publication showing the links between conservatism, xenophobia and climate change denial, the network will study how the growth of right-wing nationalism in Europe has contributed to an increase in climate change denial.
Scientific awareness of the greenhouse effect, and human influence on the climate has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a strong environmental movement and a political consensus on the issue, but in recent years, climate change denial – denying that changes to the climate are due to human influence on the environment – has increased.’
”Two strong groups have joined forces on this issue – the extractive industry, and right-wing nationalists. The combination has taken the current debate to a much more dramatic level than previously, at the same time as our window of opportunity is disappearing.”
I wondered how long it would be before the conspiracy theorists and apologists came out of the woodwork.
No. He did what he did for sick ideological reasons, and because as he says himself in his manifesto, doing this in NZ results in maximum worldwide impact. And probably a lot easier in NZ due to our more relaxed security attitufea.
I think that was about the same time we got to vote on whether Kiwis wanted to have a Multicultural society….which by all accounts was a major part of the manefesto used by the alleged terrorist in Christchurch last Friday.
Ah that’s right, we didn’t vote on either, but as you correctly stated was determined by politicians.
So it appears we agree after all, unless of course you are being elitist !
[TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
“Any way it is spun, such political and military intervention by the US will make the situation many times worse for the people of Venezuela which should be the paramount concern. Why is this happening? It’s pretty simple: oil (the biggest remaining reserves globally are in Venezuela) and ideology (an ideological quest to replace socialism, indigenous peoples’ rights and independence with white supremacy and subjugation in Latin America)”.
My wife and I have just seen the movie, Hotel Mumbai, about the Muslim terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 2008. It was probably not the most appropriate movie to see in the circumstances, and I’m surprised showings have not been cancelled, and perhaps deferred until a later date, given Friday’s events. However I would not be surprised if I heard that Tarrant had timed the atrocities to coincide with the release of that film.
“Australian Govt willing to discuss transfer of Tarrant if convicted of murder
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne says the Australian Government is willing to talk to New Zealand about taking Brenton Tarrant back should he be convicted here, media are reporting.
The Australian has reported that Payne told reporters Australia would work “very constructively” with New Zealand if it decided to deport Tarrant.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is seeking advice on potentially deporting Tarrant, the alleged Christchurch mosques shooter.
She has not said whether that included before any sentence or after serving a prison term here, but she was clear that he would face justice in this country.
Are you trying to provide this place with evidence of brain damage and self induced paralysis? You’ve been leaving fascile and petulant comments underneath mine for the last few days and I want to know why?
Just before I take my afternoon nap, I found this interesting:
Prolonged lack of sleep is turning many of us into zombies and the global phenomenon is tipping people further toward irrational and imbalanced behaviour, a Brisbane sleep researcher is warning.
Behaviour in many societies is increasingly unbalanced due to prolonged sleep deprivation, Dr van Swinderen said REM or dream sleep is essential for our brains to function normally, but researchers don’t yet fully know why.
Shift work, screen exposure and lifestyles are the main culprits and sleeping tablets and anti-depressants make matters worse, Queensland Brain Institute evolutionary biologist Dr Bruno van Swinderen said most people felt they were not getting enough sleep, owing to stress, work hours, light exposure and other lifestyle factors.
Without adequate REM sleep, the body is unable to detox and heal itself appropriately…
Inflammation, illness and disease are certain outcomes…
That is not including the effects that poor nutrition, technology related oxidative stress, poisons and toxins which are inhaled, injected and ingested…
No surprise then, our species is currently experiencing declines in life expectancy along with greater numbers living with poor and declining health profiles…
I don’t know enough to produce an argument one way or the other but I would question whether those charted projections through to 2050 take into account the obesity epidemic or lifestyle changes which see a much larger percentage of the population getting much less exercise and less appropriate nutrition. I see my parents generation reaching the end of their lives now in the mid to late eighties many of them and I see my generation as much heavier, more stressed, less healthy and more likely to peg out sooner. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we die on average younger than our parents.
I’ve read elsewhere, probably new scientist or Nature, that millennials, in the West, may be the first generation in recent history, to have shorter lifespans than their parents.
More stressed lives, longer working hours, obesity and diet were mentioned, along with sleep deprivation.
I’ll try and dig it out, though prob. Paywalled.
New sleep research is interesting. Apparently certain deep sleep stages are when the brain flushes out waste products. Which, they reckon, is why we need it. Sleeping drugs and other interruptions to natural sleep may prevent these stages.
Gives “full of shit”, a whole new meaning.
The other factoid, from the article, is dolphins rest their brain, one hemisphere at a time.
Sure, but it looks like those are projections and postulation and not historical records. It may come to pass, but I’d rather see numbers to back up the original disputed claim.
At work at the moment so no time to read those links. Will look later though. Thanks.
Learn to use internet search text more efficiently…and be more discerning with wikiP , certainly on any subject linked to ‘health’…
And you will find that there have been recent drops in life expectancy in western nations…
L.E is a weak example of a reference point to use in this discussion simply because human health profiles are in decline across all age groups…especially noticeable in the youngest age brackets…with a clear picture of overall declining human health…degrade the environment is to degrade ourselves…
All very elementary..
So while many folk look to stats or science to advise them what our ancient and more recent ancestors innately understood…
Those who are building a relationship with their own self, relieving it of the burdons of modern life…no more than was ever required by our spieces to thrive…is necessary…
Clean Air, clean water, clean food, good shelter, social….and of course…sleep
Nothing new on that list…no scientific method or science should be required to accept those ‘home truths’…
That makes a lot of sense to me One Two; it expands on the article nicely.
I often think back to life before the internet and wonder what we have lost. The net is of course an astonishing thing and we will never undo it, but we have to learn a better relationship with it.
Observing even the most basic version of evolutionary human biology, it is under 50 years since our species has had ‘modern world’ technological interference with our biology…
Really, the ‘digital age’ of the last 20 years is the creating environments for home/work which will be causing epidemic of human fatigue and related illness…
So fundamental is the requirement for sleep to our species (in this context) that military extensively researched methods to enable ‘sleepless/deprived’ function … research which spans many decades…
Our bodies developed in harmony with the resonance of planet earth…the rhythms and cycles over 0000 of millennia…
And in the blink of an eye…our spieces is literally unravelling with illness and disease directly attributable to a lack of sleep…the deep healing variety…
The sleep you wake up from feeling like a proverbial ‘million dollars’..
Combined with the toxic and carcinogenic pollutants surrounding each of us every moment of every day …
When I read or hear folks seeking to minimize or deny links between sleep and health while advocating for allopathic medicine and greater deployments of untested technology…
Any ‘better relationship’ by the ‘mass consumers’…is likely to ensure that the tech…will drive humanity back into the star dust from whence we formed…
Two judges of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal of New South Wales have found someone not guilty of “racial discrimination on the grounds that Islam is not a race”, according to a web report: http://www.ozpolitic.com/.
Last time I made that point here a bunch of leftists moaned & bitched in response, so I appreciate the legislative endorsement. Consulting a dictionary seems to be increasingly difficult for many people.
Yep the term ‘race’ is outdated and used for discrimination, on so called lesser races, in the past – ethnicity is used nowdays for most people except you know…
I think it is a huge mistake that we continue with having a “Race (sic) Relations Commissioner”. Every time this person makes a public statement it reinforces for the Nazis their false belief that yes ‘races’ are a real thing. Just fucking stupid it is.
Totally agree – the racist 17th century concept was designed to make the so called white race superior.
“Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, that is, a symbolic identity created to establish some cultural meaning. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race is not an inherent physical or biological quality.[1][2]”
And
“Suffice it to say, no one was white or black until the colonization process needed ways of differentiating various rights, privileges, social, and legal standings between various laborers.”
Little kids have to go to preschool so Mother can go and earn an inadequate amount doing similar work for pay that she would do at home. Hardly getting people out of the cycle of unemployment and poverty that the system is vaunted to be about.
Professor Richie Poulton, director of The Dunedin Study, which has been running health and education assessments for over 40 years, said that the early years of a child’s life were critical.
“The early years matter tremendously for how a person’s whole life turns out. It’s when all the brain connections are being made. Poverty and its consequences are obviously one of the threats to ideal brain development.
“A child is very malleable or very open to experiences, and if they are bad experiences, they become embedded in a child’s physiology, as well as in their emotions and their thoughts… and that hangs around forever.”
The charity said it needs $30 a month to roll the programme out across the regions. People can donate at KidsCan.
Oh, but “childcare adds to GDP”.
An adult carer, staying home with their own pre schoolers, doesn’t.
Which leads to the strange idea that we will subsidize Mother’s of pre schoolers, with childcare, so they are available as cheap labour. But we won’t do the same, so a parent can stay home with them.
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Yesterday I happily quoted the Prime Minister without fact-checking him and sure enough, it turns out his numbers were all to hell. It’s not four kg of Royal Commission report, it’s fourteen.My friend and one-time colleague-in-comms Hazel Phillips gently alerted me to my error almost as soon as I’d hit ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Thursday, July 25, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day were:The Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquirypublished its final report yesterday.PM Christopher Luxon and The Minister responsible for ...
The Official Information Act has always been a battle between requesters seeking information, and governments seeking to control it. Information is power, so Ministers and government agencies want to manage what is released and when, for their own convenience, and legality and democracy be damned. Their most recent tactic for ...
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:Transport and Energy Minister Simeon Brown is accelerating plans to spend at least $10 billion through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to extend State Highway One as a four-lane ‘Expressway’ from Warkworth to Whangarei ...
I live my life (woo-ooh-ooh)With no control in my destinyYea-yeah, yea-yeah (woo-ooh-ooh)I can bleed when I want to bleedSo come on, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)You can bleed when you want to bleedYea-yeah, come on (woo-ooh-ooh)Everybody bleed when they want to bleedCome on and bleedGovernments face tough challenges. Selling unpopular decisions to ...
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Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to support the US-led coalition in the Red ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:40 am on Wednesday, July 24 are:Deep Dive: Chipping away at the housing crisis, including my comments RNZ/Newsroom’s The DetailNews: Government softens on asset sales, ...
As I reported about the city centre, Auckland’s rail network is also going through a difficult and disruptive period which is rapidly approaching a culmination, this will result in a significant upgrade to the whole network. Hallelujah. Also like the city centre this is an upgrade predicated on the City ...
Today, a 4 kilogram report will be delivered to Parliament. We know this is what the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care weighs, because our Prime Minister told us so.Some reporter had blindsided him by asking a question about something done by ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Wednesday, July 24, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Beehive:Transport Minister Simeon Brownannounced plans to use PPPs to fund, build and run a four-lane expressway between Auckland ...
NewstalkZB host Mike Hosking, who can usually be relied on to give Prime Minister Christopher Luxon an easy run, did not do so yesterday when he interviewed him about the HealthNZ deficit. Luxon is trying to use a deficit reported last year by HealthNZ as yet another example of the ...
Back in January a StatsNZ employee gave a speech at Rātana on behalf of tangata whenua in which he insulted and criticised the government. The speech clearly violated the principle of a neutral public service, and StatsNZ started an investigation. Part of that was getting an external consultant to examine ...
Renting for life: Shared ownership initiatives are unlikely to slow the slide in home ownership by much. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:A Deloittereport for Westpac has projected Aotearoa’s home-ownership rate will ...
You're broken down and tiredOf living life on a merry go roundAnd you can't find the fighterBut I see it in you so we gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsWe gonna walk it outAnd move mountainsAnd I'll rise upI'll rise like the dayI'll rise upI'll rise unafraidI'll rise upAnd I'll ...
There’s been a change in Myers Park. Down the steps from St. Kevin’s Arcade, past the grassy slopes, the children’s playground, the benches and that goat statue, there has been a transformation. The underpass for Mayoral Drive has gone from a barren, grey, concrete tunnel, to a place that thrums ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Tuesday, July 23 are:Deep Dive: Penlink: where tolling rhetoric meets reality BusinessDesk-$$$’sOliver LewisScoop:Te Pūkenga plans for regional polytechs leak out ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Tuesday, July 23, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:Health: Shane Reti announcedthe Board of Te Whatu Ora-Health New Zealand was being replaced with Commissioner Lester Levy ...
Health NZ warned the Government at the end of March that it was running over Budget. But the reasons it gave were very different to those offered by the Prime Minister yesterday. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blamed the “botched merger” of the 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) to create Health ...
Long ReadKey Summary: Although National increased the health budget by $1.4 billion in May, they used an old funding model to project health system costs, and never bothered to update their pre-election numbers. They were told during the Health Select Committees earlier in the year their budget amount was deficient, ...
As a momentous, historic weekend in US politics unfolded, analysts and commentators grasped for precedents and comparisons to help explain the significance and power of the choice Joe Biden had made. The 46th president had swept the Democratic party’s primaries but just over 100 days from the election had chosen ...
TL;DR: I’m casting around for new ideas and ways of thinking about Aotearoa’s political economy to find a few solutions to our cascading and self-reinforcing housing, poverty and climate crises.Associate Professor runs an online masters degree in the economics of sustainability at Torrens University in Australia and is organising ...
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill. The bill sets up water for privatisation, and was introduced under urgency, then rammed through select committee with no time even for local councils to make a proper submission. Naturally, national's select committee ...
Some years ago, I bought a book at Dunedin’s Regent Booksale for $1.50. As one does. Vandrad the Viking (1898), by J. Storer Clouston, is an obscure book these days – I cannot find a proper online review – but soon it was sitting on my shelf, gathering dust alongside ...
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded to then lose the White House ...
This is a free articleCoverageThis morning, US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race. And that is genuinely newsworthy. Thanks for your service, President Biden, and all the best to you and yours.However, the media in New Zealand, particularly the 1News nightly bulletin, has been breathlessly covering ...
A homeless person’s camp beside a blocked-off slipped damage walkway in Freeman’s Bay: we are chasing our tail on our worsening and inter-related housing, poverty and climate crises. Photo: Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
What has happened to it all?Crazy, some'd sayWhere is the life that I recognise?(Gone away)But I won't cry for yesterdayThere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldYesterday morning began as many others - what to write about today? I began ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Monday, July 22 are:Today’s Must Read: Father and son live in a tent, and have done for four years, in a million ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.Multinational professional services firm ...
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025. Until now traveling ...
This weekend, a friend pointed out someone who said they’d like to read my posts, but didn’t want to pay. And my first reaction was sympathy.I’ve already told folks that if they can’t comfortably subscribe, and would like to read, I’d be happy to offer free subscriptions. I don’t want ...
National: The Party of ‘Law and Order’ IntroductionThis weekend, the Government formally kicked off one of their flagship policy programs: a military style boot camp that New Zealand has experimented with over the past 50 years. Cartoon credit: Guy BodyIt’s very popular with the National Party’s Law and Orderimage, ...
Day one of the solo leg of my long journey home begins with my favourite sound: footfalls in an empty street. 5.00 am and it’s already light and already too warm, almost.If I can make the train that leaves Budapest later this hour I could be in Belgrade by nightfall; ...
Do you remember Y2K, the threat that hung over humanity in the closing days of the twentieth century? Horror scenarios of planes falling from the sky, electronic payments failing and ATMs refusing to dispense cash. As for your VCR following instructions and recording your favourite show - forget about it.All ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts being questioned by The Kākā’s Bernard Hickey.TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the week to July 20 were:1. A strategy that fails Zero Carbon Act & Paris targetsThe National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government finally unveiled ...
Summary:As New Zealand loses at least 12 leaders in the public service space of health, climate, and pharmaceuticals, this month alone, directly in response to the Government’s policies and budget choices, what lies ahead may be darker than it appears. Tui examines some of those departures and draws a long ...
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.Leaving aside the Minister’s metaphor of ‘flooding the market’ I do not see how the ...
As previously noted, my historical fantasy piece, set in the fifth-century Mediterranean, was accepted for a Pirate Horror anthology, only for the anthology to later fall through. But in a good bit of news, it turned out that the story could indeed be re-marketed as sword and sorcery. As of ...
An employee of tobacco company Philip Morris International demonstrates a heated tobacco device. Photo: Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Friday, July 19 are:At a time when the Coalition Government is cutting spending on health, infrastructure, education, housing ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 8:30 am on Friday, July 19 are:Scoop: NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco products. The minister has ...
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments! Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds. ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. A discussion recorded yesterday is in the video above and the audio of that sent onto the podcast feed.The Government released its draft Emissions Reduction ...
Save some money, get rich and old, bring it back to Tobacco Road.Bring that dynamite and a crane, blow it up, start all over again.Roll up. Roll up. Or tailor made, if you prefer...Whether you’re selling ciggies, digging for gold, catching dolphins in your nets, or encouraging folks to flutter ...
Waiting In The Wings:For truly, if Trump is America’s un-assassinated Caesar, then J.D. Vance is America’s Octavian, the Republic’s youthful undertaker – and its first Emperor.DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of James D. Vance as his running-mate bodes ill for the American republic. A fervent supporter of Viktor Orban, the “illiberal” prime ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 19, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:The PSAannounced the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) had ruled in the PSA’s favour in its case against the Ministry ...
Te Rangi e tu nei (The sky above us) Te Papa e takoto nei (The land beneath us) Tatou katoa te hunga ora (To us all the living) Tena koutou katoa (Greetings) ...
A late change to charter school legislation will cheat educators out of fair pay and negotiating power proving charter schools are just a vehicle to make profit out of our education system. ...
In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating itself. Today the government has announced ...
It has been five and a half years since the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was established to investigate the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults within state and faith-based institutions. Yesterday, the final report - Whanaketia through pain and trauma, from darkness to light ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take action off the back of the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. ...
On Friday the International Court of Justice reaffirmed what Palestinian’s have been telling us for decades: that the occupation and colonisation of Palestinian lands by Israel is illegal and must end immediately. They also called for reparations for Palestinian’s who have lived under Israeli occupation since it began in 1967. ...
Labour calls on the Government to act after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories is illegal. ...
The 53.7 percent rise in benefit sanctions over the last year is more proof of this Government’s disdain for our communities most in need of support. ...
Aotearoa could be a country where every child grows up feeling safe, loved and with a sense of belonging in their whānau and community. But for some of our children, this is far from reality. Instead, they are trapped in a maze of intergenerational harm that they can’t escape on ...
Te Pāti Māori are calling for David Seymour to resign as Associate Health Minister in response to his call for Pharmac to ignore the Treaty of Waitangi. “This announcement is just another example of the government’s anti-Tiriti, anti-Māori agenda.” Said Co-leader and spokesperson for health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “Seymour thinks it ...
The soaring price of renting is driving the rise of inflation in this country - with latest figures from Stats NZ showing rents are up 4.8 per cent on average while annual inflation is at 3.3 per cent. ...
National’s Emissions Reduction Plan will take New Zealand further from the economy we need to ensure the next generation has a stable climate and secure livelihoods. ...
Following consultation with named parties and thorough consideration of privacy interests, the Green Party is in a position to release the Executive Summary of the final report from the independent investigation into Darleen Tana. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be asking serious questions of his Minister for Resources Shane Jones now it’s been revealed he misled the public about a dinner with mining companies that he didn’t declare and said wasn’t pre-arranged. ...
Te Pāti Māori have submitted to the Justice Select Committee against the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill. The bill will further entrench racism in our justice system and fails to focus on rehabilitation. “Reinstating Three Strikes will empower a systematically racist system and exacerbate the overrepresentation of Māori in ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee is set to make a determination on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill in the coming weeks. “This legislation will give landlords the power to kick our whānau out onto the street for no reason” said Housing spokesperson, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “Their solution to the housing ...
“National’s campaign was about tackling crime and the best they can do is a two-year long Ministerial Advisory Group,” Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said. ...
“There are more examples of charter schools failing their students than there are success stories. The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids,” Jan Tinetti said. ...
“This government is choosing to deliberately mislead and withhold information, keeping our people in the dark about this government’s agenda and the future of our mokopuna,” said co-leader and spokesperson for Health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. The call comes after the demand from the Chief Ombudsman that Associate Minister of Health, Casey ...
“Today’s climate announcement by Simon Watts makes clear the National Government is simply paying lip service to meeting its climate change targets,” Megan Woods said. ...
National is choosing to make life harder for workers by taking away the rights our communities have fought hard for. Here's how they’re taking workers backwards. ...
Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on the need for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and the risk of expanded conflict between Hizballah and Israel. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. We remain unequivocal in our condemnation of ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. “The Abuse in Care Inquiry’s report has found cases where records of the most vulnerable people in State and faith‑based institutions were ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government’s online safety website for children and young people has reached one million page views. “It is great to see so many young people and their families accessing the site Keep It Real Online to learn how to stay safe online, and manage ...
Tēnā tātou katoa, Ngā mihi te rangi, ngā mihi te whenua, ngā mihi ki a koutou, kia ora mai koutou. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and the invitation to speak at this 50th anniversary conference. I acknowledge all those who have gone before us and paved the ...
New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. “The Government's tax policy changes are legally effective from Wednesday. Delivering this tax ...
An experimental vineyard which will help futureproof the wine sector has been opened in Blenheim by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson. The covered vineyard, based at the New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, enables controlled environmental conditions. “The research that will be produced at the Experimental ...
The Coalition Government has confirmed the indicative regional breakdown of North Island Weather Event (NIWE) funding for state highway recovery projects funded through Budget 2024, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Regions in the North Island suffered extensive and devastating damage from Cyclone Gabrielle and the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Floods, and ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “Indonesia is important to New Zealand’s security and economic interests and is our closest South East Asian neighbour,” says Mr Peters, who is currently in Laos to engage with South East Asian partners. ...
He aha te kai a te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the aspirations of Ngāti Maniapoto, Minister for Māori Development Tama Potaka says. “My thanks to Te Nehenehenui Trust – Ngāti Maniapoto for bringing their important kōrero to a ministerial ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has thanked outgoing Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Janice Fredric, for her service to the board.“I have received Ms Fredric’s resignation from the role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority,” Mr Brown says.“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for ...
The Government is proposing legislation to overturn a Court of Appeal decision and amend the Marine and Coastal Area Act in order to restore Parliament’s test for Customary Marine Title, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Section 58 required an applicant group to prove they have exclusively used and occupied ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour says that opposition parties have united in bad faith, opposing what they claim are ‘dangerous changes’ to the Early Childhood Education sector, despite no changes even being proposed yet. “Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led ...
After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. “The level of interest has been very high, and from the conversations I’ve been ...
The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington and Horizons Regional Councils to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, Transport Minister Simeon ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced his intention to appoint a Crown Manager to both Hawke’s Bay Regional and Wairoa District Councils to speed up the delivery of flood protection work in Wairoa."Recent severe weather events in Wairoa this year, combined with damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023 have ...
Mr Speaker, this is a day that many New Zealanders who were abused in State care never thought would come. It’s the day that this Parliament accepts, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. At the heart of this report are the ...
For the first time, the Government is formally acknowledging some children and young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital experienced torture. The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care “Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light,” was tabled in Parliament ...
The Government has acknowledged the nearly 2,400 courageous survivors who shared their experiences during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and Faith-Based Care. The final report from the largest and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, the Royal Commission Inquiry “Whanaketia – through ...
With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “Tax relief is long overdue. From next Wednesday, personal income ...
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. The Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No3), passed its first reading this morning. “It includes a change ...
Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. The Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill and Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill make key changes to legislation administered by the Ministry ...
New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. “Competitive markets boost productivity, create employment opportunities and lift living standards. To support competition, we need good quality regulation but, unfortunately, a recent OECD report ranked New ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says lotteries for charitable purposes, such as those run by the Heart Foundation, Coastguard NZ, and local hospices, will soon be allowed to operate online permanently. “Under current laws, these fundraising lotteries are only allowed to operate online until October 2024, after which ...
The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections ...
Sir Don McKinnon will travel to Viet Nam this week as a Special Envoy of the Government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says newly appointed Commissioner, Grant Illingworth KC, will help deliver the report for the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons, due on 28 November 2024. “I am pleased to announce that Mr Illingworth will commence his appointment as ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters travels to Laos this week to participate in a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-led Ministerial meetings in Vientiane. “ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. “This will be our third visit to ...
Construction of a new mental health facility at Te Nikau Grey Hospital in Greymouth is today one step closer, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says. “This $27 million facility shows this Government is delivering on its promise to boost mental health care and improve front line services,” Mr Doocey says. ...
New Zealand is committing nearly $50 million to a package supporting sustainable Pacific fisheries development over the next four years, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This support consisting of a range of initiatives demonstrates New Zealand’s commitment to assisting our Pacific partners ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill will ensure charter schools have more flexibility to negotiate employment agreements and are equipped with the right teaching resources. “Cabinet has agreed to progress an amendment which means unions will not be able to initiate ...
In response to serious concerns around oversight, overspend and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, the Board of Health New Zealand will be replaced with a Commissioner, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced today. “The previous government’s botched health reforms have created significant financial challenges at Health NZ that, without ...
Minister for Space and Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins will travel to Adelaide tomorrow for space and science engagements, including speaking at the Australian Space Forum. While there she will also have meetings and visits with a focus on space, biotechnology and innovation. “New Zealand has a thriving space ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will travel to China on Saturday to attend the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting held in Wuhan. “Attending the Ministerial on Climate Action is an opportunity to advocate for New Zealand climate priorities and engage with our key partners on climate action,” Mr Watts says. ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is travelling to the Solomon Islands tomorrow for meetings with his counterparts from around the Pacific supporting collective management of the region’s fisheries. The 23rd Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee and the 5th Regional Fisheries Ministers’ Meeting in Honiara from 23 to 26 July ...
The Government today launched the Military Style Academy Pilot at Te Au rere a te Tonga Youth Justice residence in Palmerston North, an important part of the Government’s plan to crackdown on youth crime and getting youth offenders back on track, Minister for Children, Karen Chhour said today. “On the ...
The Government has welcomed news the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has begun work to replace nine priority bridges across the country to ensure our state highway network remains resilient, reliable, and efficient for road users, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“Increasing productivity and economic growth is a key priority for the ...
Acting Prime Minister David Seymour has been in contact throughout the evening with senior officials who have coordinated a whole of government response to the global IT outage and can provide an update. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has designated the National Emergency Management Agency as the ...
New Zealand and Japan will continue to step up their shared engagement with the Pacific, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand and Japan have a strong, shared interest in a free, open and stable Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “We are pleased to be finding more ways ...
New developments in the heart of North Island forestry country will reinvigorate their communities and boost economic development, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones visited Kaingaroa and Kawerau in Bay of Plenty today to open a landmark community centre in the former and a new connecting road in ...
President Adeang, fellow Ministers, honourable Diet Member Horii, Ambassadors, distinguished guests. Minasama, konnichiwa, and good afternoon, everyone. Distinguished guests, it’s a pleasure to be here with you today to talk about New Zealand’s foreign policy reset, the reasons for it, the values that underpin it, and how it ...
Last summer when Matairangi burned, Ginny and Tom stood at the window of their lounge, watching kākā shoot skyward from the burning trees. From the distance, they looked to Ginny like pages torn from books and thrown into a bonfire. It was Tom, voice tight, who told her it was ...
Opinion: The Canadian short story writer Alice Munro – winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 – died in May at the age of 92. Her work was about “the damage people inflict on one another in the name of love”, Deborah Treisman wrote in the New Yorker. ...
This month marks two years since the most powerful telescope ever built sent its first pictures back to earth. From its lofty vantage point, beyond the moon in orbit around the sun, the James Webb Space Telescope was tuned to observe the first stars and galaxies being born soon after ...
Comment: After Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ preview several weeks ago, I had some optimism about the Government’s emissions reduction plan. Now I’ve read the discussion document, that hope has been dashed. How can the Government propose a plan that wants to take New Zealand taxpayers’ hard-earned money, and spend ...
Christopher Luxon: hurdles The little man from National jumps hurdles in his sleep. He’s quite good at it in his dreams and even though the reality doesn’t quite match up you have to give him credit for getting up every morning and crashing into the very first hurdle of the ...
Comment: It was a good two hours into the conversation when Tyrone Marks raised the most basic of questions when I first spoke to him in 2017. “They didn’t explain the things they did to me. They never told me why. And they still haven’t. There’s no explanation for it. ...
Madeleine Chapman rounds out Death Week on The Spinoff with a final recommendation. You can read all of our Death Week coverage here. Nothing forces you to reflect on your life and relationships quite like proximity to death. For those whose nearest and dearest have died, there are reasonably obvious ...
Whitney Greene takes us through her life in television, including the TV character she’d like to plan a funeral for and her cow lung catastrophe on The Traitors NZ. “If the phone rings, I have to answer it,” Whitney Greene from The Traitors NZ warns as we begin our My ...
Maddie Ballard reviews the debut essay collection of Pōneke writer Flora Feltham.In ‘The Raw Material’, the longest essay in Flora Feltham’s dazzling debut collection, the author heads out for a run after hours of weaving and sees the world turn to textile. “Pounding along the Parade, I saw the ...
Andy Christiansen, one half of the experimental rock-pop duo TRiPS, shares the tunes inspiring the band’s perfect weekend and new release. “Good speakers, good food, good music, no distractions”: that’s all you need to enjoy the psychedelic stylings of TRiPS, a new band formed by Fly My Pretties’ Barnaby Weir ...
Celebrating our quadrennial opportunity to become experts in a bunch of sports we never normally watch.The games of the XXXIII Olympiad are upon us. Paris will host this year’s showcase of sporting and athletic prowess, which means some late-night and early-morning viewing for us in Aotearoa.But what sports ...
The photograph is striking and beautiful, but also disturbing – a reminder that my love for John was often entangled in shame.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand.In the spring of 1980, in Dunedin, shortly before his death, someone took a photograph ...
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One of the possible consequences of global warming is a need to develop a different kind of agriculture; one more locally based and focused. Obliged to make such changes by changing political fortunes, Cuba provides some examples that might be of value.
A longer watch – but one with more Cubans in it: How Cuba survived Peak Oil.
Really interesting to see the education of a large number of Cubans over a short period of time regarding organic gardening and food production.
Thanks for that. The rapidity with which governments can recognize and adapt to changing conditions, or not do so, is as much a factor of evolving crisies of this kind as the changing conditions themselves. Jared Diamond’s Collapse leaves one quietly skeptical of the presumption that timely changes of policy will materialize to address changing circumstances.
I guess I currently regard myself now as an “Occasionally Quiet Skeptic”.
As you can imagine, makes me very popular at family gatherings and social occasions…
😀
lol
I make the point that we should all remember to go on Sunday to How to get there post. Don’t treat it as of occasional interest. It is a solid attempt to gather ourselves together environmentally and in a mentally healthy way. Every day we will need to be wiser and stronger, going in the future. This is your chance to arise from the chattering class and go to the panel of practical thinkers. Just a reminder; it is there every week. Use it, be part of the change as the saying goes.
Good, constant, committed minds are needed in NZ, as well as the rest of the world of course, but we live here and need to think about our patch and those around us, and make change ourselves all the time.
Good and practical change that is.
Good advice, grey. I meant that I am only “occasionally quiet” rather than only occasionally interested. I enjoy reading the Sunday HTGT, even if I don’t contribute.
we do however here in NZ have a challenge – cold weather and winter.
other then that, there are a lot of people that already grow their backyard farms, quietly and confidently without anyone knowing.
“we do however here in NZ have a challenge – cold weather and winter.”
For the moment.
You know how we can move earth closer to the sun in austral winter?
Yep.
how?
By”yep”, I meant “nope”.
I can however, make my garden warmer, and have.
please elaborate.
On the south coast of the South Island where the winds blow from the Antarctic, trees that shelter gardens serve to warm them, by countering the wind chill factor. Dark soils built slowly over time through the use of sheet-mulching practices, warm up when shone upon. Moisture in such humus-rich soils improve the heat-retaining properties of soil, where pale-coloured, dry soils do little to store the warmth of the sun. Stone too, heats up as the day progresses then radiates the heat back out into the surroundings once the sun’s gone down. I have chunks of slate that served as hearths for fireplaces in some old homes before they were demolished and have laid them out at the base of figs to provide a little extra encouragement for them to set fruit.
Apparently Victorian stately homes used to put earth over large piles of manure just before winter and put wee greenhouses on top. The warmth from the composting manure and the greenhouses enabled them to grow strawberries in the middle of winter, or other out of season delicacies.
That’s right, McFlock and I think they were known as “hotbeds”.
Perhaps the term, “hotbed of intrigue” refers to those steaming piles of manure. I made a hotbed once, photographed it and wrote a story for the NZ Gardener magazine. That was many years ago. I think I planted pumpkin seeds in the topsoil.
lol interesting – so a “hotbed of intrigue” might most sensibly be regarded as a “steaming pile of sh!*”
The documentary about the restoration of Heligan Garden in Cornwall covered ‘hotbeds’. They grew pineapples in winter apparently..
For clarity sake and I know this site loves correctors it’s not the distance from the sun that causes winter and summer in the southern and northern hemisphere but the angle of the earth on its axis, Meaning the further away from the equator the less sunnlight you get per sqm as the earth rotates around the sun, the distance has little effect as is minuscule in the scheme of things
There always has to be some iconoclastic rat who spoils an interesting thread…
Physics is good, but metaphysics is even better. We get it from Aristotle, apparently. So, applying analogy, it’s not your distance from someone that’s important, it’s your attitude to them. 😎
Those at the distal end of the tilt must be further from the sun, surely?
obliquity changes the amount of available solar radiation falling on a surface.
In december for example the antarctic receives more sunlight then the equator ( scott base gets 28.8 Mj/m2 compared to whangarei at around 20.4)
The external forcing in the sun/earthsystem ie aphelion/perihelion is substantive
The LASP instrument on SORCE shows the TSI (all spectrum irradiance) around aphelion 9/7/2018 was 13166.4 at the TOA AND 1047.3 on the 3/1/2019
The difference of 90.87 wm^2 then we divide by 4 to get the surface measurement of 22.71 wm^2 then divide by 2 to get 11.35 wm^2 that is not trivial.
Buy a carrot, just the one, every month or so, see how long it lasts before going off. Cuba they don’t have capitalism so aren’t selling inedible food. When the supermarkets start selling fresh carrots, parsnips, Swedes, I continue avoiding them. I can’t fathom how they make money, maybe in subliments to provide thevitamins lost when they precook the fresh veggies.
Organic food and one of the best Health Care Systems in the World and that is a FACT
As to how the supermarkets make money, one of the ways is to screw down their Vege suppliers.
My family grew yams, near the end of their time supplying supermarkets, the contract had a start date, finish date and a fixed price.
They were unable to sell at the farmers market nor were they able to put recipe suggestions and photos on the bag tags. The reason is the company would not tolerate another company advertising under the supermarket roof.
Supermarkets, ha, chlorine wash causes kidney problems, forcing consumer to give up alcohol. Brilliant how their short term profit grabbing destroys their own shareholder value. not that their wine is any good.
Thanks for keeping the spotlight on the “climate change issues as we should.
Here I wrote on TDB about this.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/03/18/waatea-news-why-im-taking-my-daughter-out-of-school-today/#comment-455642
No reason to stop fighting for our collective “global village” future together is there? Don’t let a single shooter win here. We owe our allegiance to save our children’s future.
The oil companies must feel that God is on their side now – as the Christchurch killings has sucked all the oxygen out of the ‘climate emissions debate’ it seems by looking at the “corporate media now.
Keep up the fight to save our planet please people.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-melting-ice-antarctica-greenland-arctic-global-warming-gulf-stream-amoc-a8766521.html
‘Climate chaos’: Melting ice sheets will trigger extreme weather across the world, warn scientists
‘This unpredictability is going to prove extremely disruptive for all of us’
• Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss
• Wednesday 6 February 2019 19:27
The Independent
Collapsing ice sheets at the poles are powerful symbols of a warming world, but new research suggests they may also be ramping up the global impact of climate change.
As the icy cliffs of Greenland and Antarctica thaw, scientists think the influx of water will trigger extreme weather and disrupt ocean currents across the globe.
With reference to the recent tragedy in Christchurch, I highly recommend the following article by Paul Brislen.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/03/17/492557/how-to-make-big-tech-do-the-right-thing
These people are the real ogres by standing passively by and ‘allowing’ the free flow of inappropriate communications – incitement under the guise of free speech.
I also heard, quite appallingly, someone say that right wing extremists are made by the left. Not sure who or where I heard it, but what a unfortunate excuse for their actions. It seems that in the roiling turmoil following this tragedy a lot of bottom feeders have emerged from the mud and are hanging their vile excuses on the thinnest of pretexts.
White supremacy is front and center of current American politics, and media.
We should stop taking cues from them, immediately.
Samantha Bee on Tucker Carlson:
On those emergent bottom feeders: kick ass and take names, introduce them to the appropriate authorities.
Yep – but will calling them out deepen their false sense of victimhood and make them more dangerous?
Who knows – I feel mentally tired and disgusted with humanity.
I think that it would be best to say unequivocally that they are wrong and their bad opinions will cause heartache for others, and they should stop fomenting trouble. When they reply to that with demanding questions and examples, say that they say they want the truth but can’t handle the truth. And that they must examine their own malicious behaviour and change themselves, as they refuse to listen or learn from anyone else.
They must know that others strongly disagree. But want to play at discussing the matter which merely gives them more fuel. All of these haters are IEDs inside their mind, and as we know from examples here, all attempts to respond with reason just fuel the fevered minds and flame up.
Yeah, I get you. I can’t be on tenterhooks with scumbags, some can change and will when truth is applied, some are just psycho’s who’ll adopt any crap ideology/cause to justify their own extreme bullshit. And the fact they take others with them (literally or figuratively) is why I have no tolerance.
We can’t stop racism without standing against it. Tolerance of low level racism emboldens the deranged of view. So called free speech vs hate speech in the hands of double speak.
Where racist mongrels tell you that saying mongrel is offensive, while their views are merely controversial.
As I’ve stated previously, the internet’s social media algorithms point extreme views towards others with extreme views till, you may be the worst fruitcake on the planet, but find yourself surrounded by ‘friends’. This is the headquarters of the insane. The sociopaths, as Tarrant has demonstrated, hide in plain sight, camouflaged by a background of institutionalised racism and turning a blind eye.
They use the word ‘controversial’ instead of repugnant to push low level nastiness – like some American media today described Fraser Anning’s statements as controversial.
Let’s not follow their failed and gutless model.
A racist is a racist.
It doesn’t seem as if Shatpant was even hiding. Frigger Analling would be a lefty in yankistan.
There is a strong argument of removing ethnospecific cultural and religious references within ‘Christchurch’ in favour of Ōtautahi – its indigenous name – for all levels of government, as well as legal and official documentation.
It would be consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi and involve minimal change.
‘Christchurch’ currently references locations in England, Wales, and the USA, educational institutions in Virginia and Chennai, and cathedrals in Tanzania, Britain, Aotearoa, Ireland, Falkland Islands, Canada, Australia, Alabama, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachsetts, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin as well as a diverse range of other places .. not to mention an album by the Dubliners.
It would let people heal and release youthful energies from medieval constraints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_(disambiguation)#Educational_institutions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church_Cathedral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church#Churches_elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dubliner%27s_Dublin
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or fetid. Leave the official, internationally known name, use Otautahi more locally, and provide things for under-employed men to do with ethnicities mixing. An All-Colours football team, basketball, netball, etc.
These sad white guys need to come out of their huddle, they look pale and insipid – the ones that have stayed in my mind (like the one with Jordan Peterson, the creep). They should be given a way to excel and stop looking and feeling like that.
I know Victoria University has decided it would like to change its name. That is different – they umbrella a lot of research, want to be recognised amongst world universities, and want to be recognised as NZ when people are seeking a university of renown in the world. The university is one entity that is an education enterprise and now a business as NZ limits educational funding.
The city Christchurch is an entity in its own right, a place, a people, an airport, and is not limited by its name, people are interested first in the country, and I don’t want to see New Zealand changed to Aotearoa either. Again I think we should use that locally, and affectionately. It is our name for the place we love, the other is an identifier (and not a bad one either – a bit more New Zeal would grow us exponentially from a place to exist in for some to a place of happy satisfied people. Let it be so!)
I doubt if you’ll even get your way over crusaders tommy, let alone that degree of cultural extirpation.
Cunts like Winston Peters encouraged the alt right with a wink and a nod,
From an article linked in the nz herald today;
Firstly, a group calling itself the Auckland University European Students Association appeared on campus at Orientation Week. Although it quickly disbanded amid accusations of racism and threats to its (unidentified) founders, the group gained national media coverage, including reaction from Race Relations Commissioner Susan Devoy.
Secondly, a week later, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters visited Victoria University in Wellington. During his speech to students he questioned the media’s role in causing the “European” group to shut down. He accused journalists of suppressing dissenting voices, and on his way out, unashamedly signed a cartoon of a frog named Pepe – the most popular symbol of the alt-right.
Peters’ actions set the New Zealand 4Chan boards alight.
“Guess who just got my vote!!” one user wrote. “Winston is based”. (Based, loosely, means good).
“Absolutely BASED,” said another. “Winnie has my undying respect.”
“Winston is /ourguy/, right?” another asked. “I want someone to get rid of the Indians and Chinese, those f****** are stealing our country right out from under us.”
That’s so fucking dog whistling it really isn’t, he may as well have got out the megaphone
I think Winston is getting old. He has been practising skateboarding for long zooming down and up and turning tricks in the air, and won prizes for it. But age has blunted his political sensibilities and he can’t hang five or whatever like he used to.
I agree that he has made a bad mistake over the ‘European’ university group. He might have thought that he was just being a bit radical and controversial. But if so, he is losing his touch. He once said he thought he was part Chinese, and had connections with Taiwan. And got some publicity for that.
He now as a Deputy Prime Minister has gone to the USA and garnered publicity for going into a huddle with them, apparently because of growing Chinese influence
in the South Pacific. Trying to hang five again. I think he won’t get any accolades for this from judges, and the publicity of being a maverick won’t win him brownie or whitie points.
It’s not statesman stuff, and I think the wheelchair is his next Seat out of Parliament. He can make a mint being the poster boy for the new form of wheelchair driven by body movements, not relying on the hands pushing the wheels.. So there you are Winnie, your future value lies away from politics.
Speaking as a rugby fan here, the reasons offered by the Canterbury franchise for their name are pretty weak.
The crusading spirit of settlers is at odds with sword waving, hooded, horseback riding men wearing chainmail.
C’mon Canterbury rugby officials, your achievements on the field transcend any hiccups, politics or kickback from your sponsors, fans and wider rugby community.
The crusading spirit of settlers
That sounds even more offensive given our history.
+1.
Huge test for Canterbury this issue. Any use of that word associated with that place seems entirely inappropriate now.
Just on Friday we were out on the street on the “Climate strike” campaign among over 100 school children beaming chanting “we will save of planet”, at the bottom of Gladstone street (main Street) in Gisborne, holding our placards and full of pride that our young among us are so concerned about the planet dying, that they all like so many folks around the world, were on strike together to show all world governments to hurry up and change the way we live, and use less energy to help reverse the catastrophic melting down of our polar regions causing sea level rise, and increased global temperatures, fires, floods, earthquakes.
We later drove back to the 7 acres hobby farm so alleviated and, then ‘BANG’ -as the TV showed us the ChCh carnage, and from that time our hearts sunk in sadness and horror as the press has had nothing to mention that that day was the global climate change demonstration children of the world had staged, around the world.
Then for three days there has been a complete blackout about everything else going on around the planet except for the ChCh event, – and it was as if the climate strike global event never happened.
So we are so deeply disappointed that the event in ChCh eclipsed another so serious as the demise of the whole global population is not as worthy also to be mentioned that will potentially destroy every living being and thing else around our planet.
No reason to stop fighting for our collective “global village” future together is there? Don’t let a single shooter win here. We owe our allegiance to save our children’s future.
I agree. All the more reason to keep agitating for the environment and a better attitude for the future cleangreen.
Send him back! Sorry if there was ever a case for not sending him back, he’d be it. Having him closer to his family, his culture of extremists… ..who thought that one up.
And who is buying guns, they haven’t buried them yet, and there is some rush. really.
We owe it to the families of those killed and injured, and the wider Muslim community to take responsibility for the prosecution, and following sentencing for the perpetrator.
Keeping him within our own justice system means we have control over his sentence and conditions. Anything else would be handing over authority and responsibility to another agency, and would be disrespectful.
Agree, completely.
The Police can’t help but once again use a tragedy to indulge their natural hard-on for authoritarianism.
Now threatening people with jail time for even viewing the video. Will the same apply for 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination footage?
We now have an undebated internet censorship regime too.
Those events did not happen in NZ though, and this video is hugely different to the 9/11 footage as it is up close and personal, with the people related to others in our community.
And no, they did not threaten jail time for viewing, but rather for sharing the video (distributing).
I am.in two minds about the censorship. Watching it sure brings home the craziness of his actions.
BI
Don’t conflate everything. The police are trying to act appropriately on this occasion. Don’t make it worse by getting angry at everybody. Just hold your fire will you.
then they will have to put a lot of people in prison, especially white people overseas.
?? You think only white people watch this? Ridiculous and racist comment Sabine.
where did i say ‘only white people’.
oh yeah, i did not.
take your concern and bin it.
bye now
‘Especially white people’.
Ridiculous comment.
We may well have been targeted for actions now as we have historically been against oil, nuclear, coal, and other energy sources so perhaps this right wing radical shooter was setup to derail our climate change actions on that day and made our PM Ardern a scapegoat for saying “this is our generations nuclear moment” As the forces of evil rise against our climate change actions, we hope our Prime Minister Ardern and her cabinet has the guts to stand firm as Winston Churchill did during another war on our world.
Sweden has nailed it completely.
Worth a look at this site.
We are looking at ‘anti Climate change’ terrorism as a weapon now against us all.
https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/tme/news/Pages/Climate-change-denial-strongly-linked-to-right-wing-nationalism.aspx
Quote;
‘Climate change denial strongly linked to right-wing nationalism
With Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as a hub, the world’s first global research network into climate change denial has now been established. Building on a brand-new research publication showing the links between conservatism, xenophobia and climate change denial, the network will study how the growth of right-wing nationalism in Europe has contributed to an increase in climate change denial.
Scientific awareness of the greenhouse effect, and human influence on the climate has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a strong environmental movement and a political consensus on the issue, but in recent years, climate change denial – denying that changes to the climate are due to human influence on the environment – has increased.’
”Two strong groups have joined forces on this issue – the extractive industry, and right-wing nationalists. The combination has taken the current debate to a much more dramatic level than previously, at the same time as our window of opportunity is disappearing.”
I wondered how long it would be before the conspiracy theorists and apologists came out of the woodwork.
No. He did what he did for sick ideological reasons, and because as he says himself in his manifesto, doing this in NZ results in maximum worldwide impact. And probably a lot easier in NZ due to our more relaxed security attitufea.
I think that was about the same time we got to vote on whether Kiwis wanted to have a Multicultural society….which by all accounts was a major part of the manefesto used by the alleged terrorist in Christchurch last Friday.
Ah that’s right, we didn’t vote on either, but as you correctly stated was determined by politicians.
So it appears we agree after all, unless of course you are being elitist !
[TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in future.]
We have had a multicultural society since the first settlers. Bit late to vote on that.
Meanwhile the USA’s destruction and soon to be attempted mass murder, in Venezuala continues.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1902/S00124/venezuela-oil-neoliberalism-and-white-supremacy.htm
“Any way it is spun, such political and military intervention by the US will make the situation many times worse for the people of Venezuela which should be the paramount concern. Why is this happening? It’s pretty simple: oil (the biggest remaining reserves globally are in Venezuela) and ideology (an ideological quest to replace socialism, indigenous peoples’ rights and independence with white supremacy and subjugation in Latin America)”.
And though they know they’re barely fooling anyone anymore they carry on regardless with a patsy media spitting out their nonsense.
Instability is their aim, not their concern.
Well,… I guess its time for a little David Bowie in the interim, then,…
David Bowie – Sound and Vision – YouTube
Police have made the first arrest of someone for sharing the video.
My wife and I have just seen the movie, Hotel Mumbai, about the Muslim terrorist attack on the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 2008. It was probably not the most appropriate movie to see in the circumstances, and I’m surprised showings have not been cancelled, and perhaps deferred until a later date, given Friday’s events. However I would not be surprised if I heard that Tarrant had timed the atrocities to coincide with the release of that film.
You think Shatpant wanted to even things out mikey?
Before or after prison Term?
“Australian Govt willing to discuss transfer of Tarrant if convicted of murder
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne says the Australian Government is willing to talk to New Zealand about taking Brenton Tarrant back should he be convicted here, media are reporting.
The Australian has reported that Payne told reporters Australia would work “very constructively” with New Zealand if it decided to deport Tarrant.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is seeking advice on potentially deporting Tarrant, the alleged Christchurch mosques shooter.
She has not said whether that included before any sentence or after serving a prison term here, but she was clear that he would face justice in this country.
The reaction to Payne’s comments from Australian Twitter users was swift.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12213551
The ockies are welcome to whatever’s left of Shatpant after he’s made reparations.
Are you trying to provide this place with evidence of brain damage and self induced paralysis? You’ve been leaving fascile and petulant comments underneath mine for the last few days and I want to know why?
That’s your job sambam and you’re bloody good at it. You won’t even have to remember your kiwibugger aliases for a bit.
The greater the projection of aliases, the greater> the mental health risk.
You would say that wouldn’t you sambam and co.
You’re not getting any answers until you debate me on that slanderous claim you made.
I’m not gonna debate you, sambam.
I’m not gonna sit here and debate. I will say this though: what Shep told us didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Sounds about right. Thanks for conceding that you’ve been trolling this whole time and not engaging in robust debate.
Stop amusing yourself here you aggrandising ass. Go and play somewhere.
Nah, debate me.
Why would anyone do that? You are clearly a moron who can’t debate.
Robust debate > trolling
I just don’t think you are capable. Look at your comment at 16.1.1 for instance.
If you want to be regarded as a debater, don’t leave comments like that.
Head canon is not proof
You’ll have to be a lot more clear with your words (and a lot less drunk) if you want to be taken seriously.
The greater the thought, the <less it has to do with the literary cannon.
Go to bed.
Delusional and trolling
That’s true! I remember you posted about you only being here to make snowflakes cry.
Definition and confessional of delusional and trolling 😉
You claimed I was making fallacious reasoning, so let’s debate. I’ll be glad to shut you down at anytime.
You misspelt Fellatio reasoning 😆
Never trust a normie that can suck and blow in one sentence.
Gotcha 😉
Open your mind, normie. Read this Jordan Peterosn 10 tips for stronger writing then get back to me.
https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/jordan-petersons-ten-step-process-for-stronger-writing
Remember a few years ago when Heather Heather du Plessis-Allan bought a gun online with a dodgy license? Maybe for once in her life she had a point.
Just before I take my afternoon nap, I found this interesting:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-18/long-term-lack-of-sleep-making-us-zombies-researcher-warns/10904654
Long existing problem, RL..
Thanks for highlighting it…
Without adequate REM sleep, the body is unable to detox and heal itself appropriately…
Inflammation, illness and disease are certain outcomes…
That is not including the effects that poor nutrition, technology related oxidative stress, poisons and toxins which are inhaled, injected and ingested…
No surprise then, our species is currently experiencing declines in life expectancy along with greater numbers living with poor and declining health profiles…
“No surprise then, our species is currently experiencing declines in life expectancy”
I think that’s incorrect. Do you have any links to back that up?
Wikipedia shows life expectancy to still be on an upward curve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:LifeExpectancy.png
I don’t know enough to produce an argument one way or the other but I would question whether those charted projections through to 2050 take into account the obesity epidemic or lifestyle changes which see a much larger percentage of the population getting much less exercise and less appropriate nutrition. I see my parents generation reaching the end of their lives now in the mid to late eighties many of them and I see my generation as much heavier, more stressed, less healthy and more likely to peg out sooner. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we die on average younger than our parents.
Yeah, projections could be off, but current data should be available to show where we’re at. I’d like to see some.
I’ve read elsewhere, probably new scientist or Nature, that millennials, in the West, may be the first generation in recent history, to have shorter lifespans than their parents.
More stressed lives, longer working hours, obesity and diet were mentioned, along with sleep deprivation.
I’ll try and dig it out, though prob. Paywalled.
New sleep research is interesting. Apparently certain deep sleep stages are when the brain flushes out waste products. Which, they reckon, is why we need it. Sleeping drugs and other interruptions to natural sleep may prevent these stages.
Gives “full of shit”, a whole new meaning.
The other factoid, from the article, is dolphins rest their brain, one hemisphere at a time.
I guess those links supporting the assertion we are now living less longer than before will tell us all.
Doesn’t take long to find references.
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=is+the+next+generationgoing+to+have+shorter+lives&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
https://medium.com/@davidludwigmd/declining-life-expectancy-according-to-new-cdc-data-d137ae07d1bb
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/secrets-longevity/201105/boomers-and-millennials-misunderstand-how-long-they-will-live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/young-europeans-may-die-at-earlier-age-than-their-grandparents-says-who
Though it would be nice if more of the publicly funded research was not hidden in pay walled journals.
Sure, but it looks like those are projections and postulation and not historical records. It may come to pass, but I’d rather see numbers to back up the original disputed claim.
At work at the moment so no time to read those links. Will look later though. Thanks.
Have to be projections.
Unless you have a time tunnel to bring back the actual life spans, in 60 years time!
TA…
Learn to use internet search text more efficiently…and be more discerning with wikiP , certainly on any subject linked to ‘health’…
And you will find that there have been recent drops in life expectancy in western nations…
L.E is a weak example of a reference point to use in this discussion simply because human health profiles are in decline across all age groups…especially noticeable in the youngest age brackets…with a clear picture of overall declining human health…degrade the environment is to degrade ourselves…
All very elementary..
So while many folk look to stats or science to advise them what our ancient and more recent ancestors innately understood…
Those who are building a relationship with their own self, relieving it of the burdons of modern life…no more than was ever required by our spieces to thrive…is necessary…
Clean Air, clean water, clean food, good shelter, social….and of course…sleep
Nothing new on that list…no scientific method or science should be required to accept those ‘home truths’…
Built into our biology…ignore at our own peril…
Okay, so you have some links?
All the ones I saw on google support the upward trend continuing.
Happy to see and read what factual data you’ve got.
Yes I do…but I didn’t need them as I’d read it years ago…
I quick checked them using a ‘dumb’ google search….And you can do the same…
As you like…nothing changes either way for me.. gaining some more knowledge and learning how to search the web, seems like a decent outcome for you…
I’ll wait for you post with those links
‘your post’
I’ll add 1950 – 2015: United Nations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_life_expectancy
NZ 2005-2010 = 80.32
NZ 2010-2015=81.33
That makes a lot of sense to me One Two; it expands on the article nicely.
I often think back to life before the internet and wonder what we have lost. The net is of course an astonishing thing and we will never undo it, but we have to learn a better relationship with it.
No worries, RL
Observing even the most basic version of evolutionary human biology, it is under 50 years since our species has had ‘modern world’ technological interference with our biology…
Really, the ‘digital age’ of the last 20 years is the creating environments for home/work which will be causing epidemic of human fatigue and related illness…
So fundamental is the requirement for sleep to our species (in this context) that military extensively researched methods to enable ‘sleepless/deprived’ function … research which spans many decades…
Our bodies developed in harmony with the resonance of planet earth…the rhythms and cycles over 0000 of millennia…
And in the blink of an eye…our spieces is literally unravelling with illness and disease directly attributable to a lack of sleep…the deep healing variety…
The sleep you wake up from feeling like a proverbial ‘million dollars’..
Combined with the toxic and carcinogenic pollutants surrounding each of us every moment of every day …
When I read or hear folks seeking to minimize or deny links between sleep and health while advocating for allopathic medicine and greater deployments of untested technology…
Any ‘better relationship’ by the ‘mass consumers’…is likely to ensure that the tech…will drive humanity back into the star dust from whence we formed…
Yes. We should knock off now and have an early night. Cheers
Touchè , RL…
Two judges of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal of New South Wales have found someone not guilty of “racial discrimination on the grounds that Islam is not a race”, according to a web report: http://www.ozpolitic.com/.
Last time I made that point here a bunch of leftists moaned & bitched in response, so I appreciate the legislative endorsement. Consulting a dictionary seems to be increasingly difficult for many people.
‘Races’ are not ‘races’ either so i would have thought this is an in the eye of the beholder thing.
It’s a nasty white men thing. Get the judges to back up their horseshit. Trump loves this playbook.
Yep the term ‘race’ is outdated and used for discrimination, on so called lesser races, in the past – ethnicity is used nowdays for most people except you know…
I think it is a huge mistake that we continue with having a “Race (sic) Relations Commissioner”. Every time this person makes a public statement it reinforces for the Nazis their false belief that yes ‘races’ are a real thing. Just fucking stupid it is.
Totally agree – the racist 17th century concept was designed to make the so called white race superior.
“Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, that is, a symbolic identity created to establish some cultural meaning. While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race is not an inherent physical or biological quality.[1][2]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
And
“Suffice it to say, no one was white or black until the colonization process needed ways of differentiating various rights, privileges, social, and legal standings between various laborers.”
https://timeline.com/europeans-invented-the-concept-of-race-as-we-know-it-58f896fae625
If anyone wants a trip up the arsehole of humanity here is a twitter thread giving backgrounds on some of the thugs who mobbed eggboi and others who attended this Aussie senator’s event.
Not nice people at all.
Australia at default level is a racist country. Racism defines their post-colonial history, something which they still haven’t addressed.
So for there to exist a subset of people even more redneck and intolerant on top of an already redneck and intolerant base is alarming.
It’s a bit like the ACT party and their supporters in New Zealand.
Very interesting bit of research by that guy. I’m guessing the company Analling keeps won’t be coming up for discussion in their parlyment.
Little kids have to go to preschool so Mother can go and earn an inadequate amount doing similar work for pay that she would do at home. Hardly getting people out of the cycle of unemployment and poverty that the system is vaunted to be about.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/john-campbell-investigates-christchurch-high-court-clears-way-class-action-lawsuit-against-post-earthquake-advocacy-service
Professor Richie Poulton, director of The Dunedin Study, which has been running health and education assessments for over 40 years, said that the early years of a child’s life were critical.
“The early years matter tremendously for how a person’s whole life turns out. It’s when all the brain connections are being made. Poverty and its consequences are obviously one of the threats to ideal brain development.
“A child is very malleable or very open to experiences, and if they are bad experiences, they become embedded in a child’s physiology, as well as in their emotions and their thoughts… and that hangs around forever.”
The charity said it needs $30 a month to roll the programme out across the regions. People can donate at KidsCan.
Oh, but “childcare adds to GDP”.
An adult carer, staying home with their own pre schoolers, doesn’t.
Which leads to the strange idea that we will subsidize Mother’s of pre schoolers, with childcare, so they are available as cheap labour. But we won’t do the same, so a parent can stay home with them.
and fathers.
Yes.