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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0tovrhf5Y
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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Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Two-thirds of the country think that “New Zealand’s economy is rigged to advantage the rich and powerful”. They also believe that “New Zealand needs a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful”. These are just two of a handful of stunning new survey results released ...
In today’s digital world, screenshots have become an indispensable tool for communication and documentation. Whether you need to capture an important email, preserve a website page, or share an error message, screenshots allow you to quickly and easily preserve digital information. If you’re an Asus laptop user, there are several ...
A factory reset restores your Gateway laptop to its original factory settings, erasing all data, apps, and personalizations. This can be necessary to resolve software issues, remove viruses, or prepare your laptop for sale or transfer. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to factory reset your Gateway laptop: Method 1: ...
“You talking about me?”The neoliberal denigration of the past was nowhere more unrelenting than in its depiction of the public service. The Post Office and the Railways were held up as being both irremediably inefficient and scandalously over-manned. Playwright Roger Hall’s “Glide Time” caricatures were presented as accurate depictions of ...
Roger Partridge writes – When the Coalition Government took office last October, it inherited a country on a precipice. With persistent inflation, decades of insipid productivity growth and crises in healthcare, education, housing and law and order, it is no exaggeration to suggest New Zealand’s first-world status was ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – In 2022, the Curriculum Centre at the Ministry of Education employed 308 staff, according to an Official Information Request. Earlier this week it was announced 202 of those staff were being cut. When you look up “The New Zealand Curriculum” on the Ministry of ...
Chris Bishop’s bill has stirred up a hornets nest of opposition. Photo: Lynn Grieveson for The KākāTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate from the last day included:A crescendo of opposition to the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill is ...
Monday left me brokenTuesday, I was through with hopingWednesday, my empty arms were openThursday, waiting for love, waiting for loveThe end of another week that left many of us asking WTF? What on earth has NZ gotten itself into and how on earth could people have voluntarily signed up for ...
Hello! Here comes the Saturday edition of More Than A Feilding, catching you up on the past week’s editions.State of humanity, 20242024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?Full story Share ...
Determining the hardest sport in the world is a subjective matter, as the difficulty level can vary depending on individual abilities, physical attributes, and experience. However, based on various factors including physical demands, technical skills, mental fortitude, and overall accomplishment, here is an exploration of some of the most challenging ...
The allure of sport transcends age, culture, and geographical boundaries. It captivates hearts, ignites passions, and provides unparalleled entertainment. Behind the spectacle, however, lies a fascinating world of financial investment and expenditure. Among the vast array of competitive pursuits, one question looms large: which sport carries the hefty title of ...
Introduction Pickleball, a rapidly growing paddle sport, has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions around the world. Its blend of tennis, badminton, and table tennis elements has made it a favorite among players of all ages and skill levels. As the sport’s popularity continues to surge, the question on ...
Abstract: Soccer, the global phenomenon captivating millions worldwide, has a rich history that spans centuries. Its origins trace back to ancient civilizations, but the modern version we know and love emerged through a complex interplay of cultural influences and innovations. This article delves into the fascinating journey of soccer’s evolution, ...
Tinting car windows offers numerous benefits, including enhanced privacy, reduced glare, UV protection, and a more stylish look for your vehicle. However, the cost of window tinting can vary significantly depending on several factors. This article provides a comprehensive guide to help you understand how much you can expect to ...
The pungent smell of gasoline in your car can be an alarming and potentially dangerous problem. Not only is the odor unpleasant, but it can also indicate a serious issue with your vehicle’s fuel system. In this article, we will explore the various reasons why your car may smell like ...
Tree sap can be a sticky, unsightly mess on your car’s exterior. It can be difficult to remove, but with the right techniques and products, you can restore your car to its former glory. Understanding Tree Sap Tree sap is a thick, viscous liquid produced by trees to seal wounds ...
The amount of paint needed to paint a car depends on a number of factors, including the size of the car, the number of coats you plan to apply, and the type of paint you are using. In general, you will need between 1 and 2 gallons of paint for ...
Jump-starting a car is a common task that can be performed even in adverse weather conditions like rain. However, safety precautions and proper techniques are crucial to avoid potential hazards. This comprehensive guide will provide detailed instructions on how to safely jump a car in the rain, ensuring both your ...
Graham Adams writes about the $55m media fund — When Patrick Gower was asked by Mike Hosking last week what he would say to the many Newstalk ZB callers who allege the Labour government bribed media with $55 million of taxpayers’ money via the Public Interest Journalism Fund — and ...
Note: this blog post has been put together over the course of the week I followed the happenings at the conference virtually. Should recordings of the Great Debates and possibly Union Symposia mentioned below, be released sometime after the conference ends, I'll include links to the ones I participated in. ...
The following was my submission made on the “Fast Track Approvals Bill”. This potential law will give three Ministers unchecked powers, un-paralled since the days of Robert Muldoon’s “Think Big” projects.The submission is written a bit tongue-in-cheek. But it’s irreverent because the FTAB is in itself not worthy of respect. ...
One Could Reduce Child Poverty At No Fiscal CostFollowing the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families have been added, the best known being ‘Working for Families’, introduced in 2005. ...
Buzz from the Beehive A few days ago, Point of Order suggested the media must be musing “on why Melissa is mute”. Our article reported that people working in the beleaguered media industry have cause to yearn for a minister as busy as Melissa Lee’s ministerial colleagues and we drew ...
1. What was The Curse of Jim Bolger?a. Winston Peters b. Soon after shaking his hand, world leaders would mysteriously lose office or shuffle off this mortal coilc. Could never shake off the Mother of All Budgetsd. Dandruff2. True or false? The Chairman of a Kiwi export business has asked the ...
Jack Vowles writes – New Zealand is said to be suffering from ‘serious populist discontent’. An IPSOS MORI survey has reported that we have an increasing preference for strong leaders, think that the economy is rigged toward the rich and powerful, and political elites are ignoring ‘hard-working people’. ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
After more than two sleepless days, running through savage terrain, Greig Hamilton didn’t know if he was going to finish one of the most gruelling psychological assaults in sport. He was metres away from the finish line, a yellow gate made famous in a Netflix documentary; a race he’d dreamed ...
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The following interview with former Green Party MP Sue Kedgley came about because she features in the new memoir Hine Toa by activist Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku; the two knew each other at the University of Auckland in the early 70s, when they were both took on leadership roles in the ...
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is seen some as its ‘silicon shield’ against invasion – but how will overseas expansion affect that protection? The post The state of Taiwan’s silicon shield appeared first on Newsroom. ...
There’s relief for building owners bending under the weight of earthquake strengthening rules – and costs – that came into force seven years ago. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk has announced a scheduled 2027 review of the earthquake-prone building regulations will now start this year. Owners will also get ...
Opinion: It has been announced that nine percent of roles at Oranga Tamariki will be disestablished, presumably to help fund the tax cuts promised by the coalition Government. I am reminded of the graphics used to illustrate pandemic events, where five thousand people are standing in a field and then ...
COMMENTARY:By Murray Horton New Zealand needs to get tough with Israel. It’s not as if we haven’t done so before. When NZ authorities busted a Mossad operation in Auckland 20 years ago, the government didn’t say: “Oh well, Israel has the right to defend itself.” No, it arrested, prosecuted, ...
NEWSMAKERS:By Vijay Narayan, news director of FijiVillage Blessed to be part of the University of Fiji (UniFiji) faculty to continue to teach and mentor those who want to join our noble profession, and to stand for truth and justice for the people of the country. I was privileged to ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Hugh Chittock/Antarctica New Zealand, CC BY-SA As the climate warms and Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets melt, the resulting rise in sea level has the potential to displace hundreds of millions of ...
The government's plan to reintroduce a three strikes regime is being strongly opposed by lawyers, who argue there is no evidence it reduces crime or helps people rehabilitate. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giovanni E Ferreira, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney Last week in a post on X, owner of the platform Elon Musk recommended people look into disc replacement if they’re experiencing severe neck or back pain. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University anek.soowannaphoom/Shutterstock NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey caught the headlines yesterday, courtesy of a blistering speech condemning the latest GST carve-up. New South Wales, he claimed, would be A$11.9 billion worse off over the ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
While police are "broadly in favour", the government's proposed anti-gang laws are facing pushback from lawyers, rights groups and former gang members. ...
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Demis Roussos – Rain and Tears – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUq44Ikz33k
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0tovrhf5Y
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq4UUfi35qI
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRc2_-BCljQ
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.