Statement by the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee
November 21, 2012
The New Lynn Electorate Committee of the Labour Party, at a special meeting called today, voted unanimously to express its full confidence in its Member of Parliament David Cunliffe. While acknowledging that this decision was within the prerogative of the party leader, the LEC noted David’s demotion with regret.
The LEC also resolved to raise with the New Zealand Council of the Labour Party concerns about recent public statements made by Labour’s Senior Whip, and the leaking of confidential caucus information by unnamed MPs following Tuesday’s emergency caucus meeting.
As these processes are now internal party matters we do not intend making further comment.
ENDS
I can only point out to ALL again! Look at the website of ‘NZ Herald’, TVNZ, TV3 and the whole whore-mongering media in this country, it is ALL about crime, rape, pillage, deceit, natural catastrophes, who did what to whom, naturally sports, celebrity idiots, who is “in”, “out” and the dumbest, but yet “most appealing” “hulk”, “Slut” or whatever.
That is “media 2012′, and I do not care a damn about Mr Brown (now with “media3” for opportune employment reasons) AND others say to justify the CRAP we get fed day in and night out.
It is an INSULT to intelligence and it must be pointed at for such.
“Media” used to be called the “4th estate”. It is NO LONGER.
I and a few others informed also ’60 minutes’ and award winning “media celebrity” Melanie Reid about goings on at WINZ and MSD, but they choose to keep it damned QUIET! I wonder why?!
‘Israel commits war crimes’, says only Kiwi in Gaza
New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed only one New Zealander is registered as being in Gaza, and has issued an “extreme risk” advisory warning all New Zealanders to leave the country.
Webb-Pullman said she wouldn’t be going anywhere, despite two recent attacks on media buildings in the last two days.
Israel has in fact breached many international laws by violating the negotiated ceasefire, bombing refugee camps and killing innocent civilians. So far 130 Palestinians have been killed with another 920 injured. Many of these include woman and children. Israel has conducted over 1,450 rocket and airstrikes on Palestinian targets within the last week. Approximately five Israelis have died in retaliatory rocket strikes during the conflict so far.
I’d like to express something with a venn diagram.
I’m on vista home premium with office 2007.
Does anyone know of a facility in this software I could use?
Ta
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system.
The safest way to reformat your hard drive is to take your computer and anything that has ever been plugged into it and any furniture it has ever touched and make a pile outside, and pour petrol all over it and ignite. For best results leave it plugged in while you do this.
Some free downloadable software like paint.NET might be of help, although its just a generic drawing programme and not designed specifically to do venn diags. so will be a bit fiddly, it’ll do the job.
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system…
Thanks Felix. I appreciate your time and expertise. I was naive enough to think there would be something in one of my sub-menus that I could be directed to. I’m not up to the above level of computer competence.
Step 1: Upgrade to Windows 7.
Step 2: Download Irfanview.
Step 3: Design your Venn diagram.
Step 4: Type the text into Word.
Step 5: Take a screen shot of the Word text and open in Irfanview.
Step 6: Use the ellipse tool to draw the Venn diagram.
Might be better ways of doing it but it worked for me last time I needed one.
Ta all,
Unfortunately, One big circle almost entirely overlapped another which made it impossible to effectively label. (Also I couldn’t figure out how to put a smaller circle within….)
However useful knowlege for future venns.
And so the bizzare world of the rich and powerful grinds on, blind to the pitchforks being sharpened in their gatekeepers sheds…
1. Ecan boss receives a $70,000 pay rise when the organisation is widely condemned and causes anxiety and grief in its so-called customers.
2. The ex-directors of Pike River Coal, who have never once fronted personally to the victims families (that’s right, never once), issue a statement through their lawyers, one of the most expensive in the land Minter Ellison Trough, refusing to accept the objective findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry. John Dow, Stuart Nattrass and Ray Meyer are pigs of men.
3. Banks lending to the Christchurch City Council demand ever more from the ratepayers of Christchurch. The stench of greed makes one wretch.
The sooner these types of people are (borrowing Mr Smith’s suggestion in the Eruption thread) buried, the better.
Demote. Mr Smith
who cares what the neighbours think
flock to the pews
pull the curtains tighter
Deny there is something greater
Bill to the Zimmerwald Left
programming errors
other through the bottom of a Steiny
all flesh is grass
the age of aquarius
Rhinoceros are dying out
Orphans on the Planet
Uturn away
drag on to the Left
bite the hand that feeds you
Fa’afafine far far away
“get your rocks off get your rocks off”
Nah honey
plagiarise
I TALKED TO GOD
IN A PHONEBOX
ON MY WAY HOME
I TOLD YOU MY
ANSWER AND
LEFT YOU MY
DREAMS
ON YOUR ANSWER MACHINE
urban hymns
beltway memes
manipulation
a prentice ship
hello hello
is there anybody out there
just knod if you can hear
there wil be no more
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
spontaneous; it is a curse; joy loves company
cup of tea and maybe some more
soon it will be Christmas Time
freakin philistinic-Amelakites
“give it away give it away give it away now”
junkies keep a whorin’, trolls keep a snorin’
diversion can be boring
“get ya rocks off…get ya rocks off…yeah Honey”
Hon John Banks is ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF EDUCATION (also Minister for Regulatory Reform, Minister for Small Business, and Associate Minister of Commerce) and he WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE ” He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to, – such as Novapay for eg) or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee. Over all those interconnected portfolios no mention of Talent2 or Novapay came across his desk. I smell bullshit.
first question that pops into mind: Banks is the one with the Charter School Plan, and those teachers will get paid via State agencies sometimes, surely the Novapay system had to be integrated into his planning?
The Hon John Banks Family Trust has not held shares in Talent2 International Limited since 28 May 2012 when Talent2 moved to privatise the company and de-list from the Australian stock exchange. Mr Banks advised the Cabinet Office of the sale of his Family Trust’s shares on 29 May 2012.
Mr Banks became a shareholder in Talent2 as a result of Talent2’s acquisition of Sugar International Limited which the Hon John Banks’ Family Trust held shares in.
Mr Banks declared his Family Trust’s shareholding in Talent2 to the Cabinet Office when he first became a Minister. He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to), or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee.
The issue of the pay system is outside Mr Banks’ responsibilities as Associate Minister of Education, and the Novopay contract was signed off in September 2008 by the previous Labour Government.
Note: Andrew Banks, Chairman of Talent2, is not related to Hon John Banks.
_____________________________________________________
Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries hold high public office and are entrusted with considerable privilege and power.
The people of Australia are entitled to expect that, in the discharge of their duties, they will act in a manner that is consistent with the highest standards of integrity and propriety.
In 2007, the Labor Government introduced new Standards of Ministerial Ethics, requiring our Ministers to conduct themselves to a higher standard of conduct than had been the case in the past.
The Standards are underpinned by the principle that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries must act with due regard for integrity, fairness, accountability, responsibility and the public interest.
As Prime Minister, I will do all I can to ensure that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries continue to live up to these high standards of conduct, and in doing so, continue to live up to the expectations of the Australian public.
Julia Gillard
___________________________________________________
Shareholdings
2.9. In recognition of the collective responsibility that Ministers bear in relation to Cabinet decisions, these Standards require that Ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements where:
• the investments are broadly diversified and the Minister has no influence over investment decisions of the fund or trust; and
• the fund or trust does not invest to any significant extent in a business sector that could give rise to a conflict of interest with the Minister’s public duty.
2.10. If a Minister becomes aware that a fund or trust has invested in a company that might give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest, the Minister should inform the Prime Minister
immediately and liquidate the investment in the fund or trust if required to do so.
2.11. If a Minister is required by these Standards to dispose of an interest of any kind, the transfer of the interest to a family member or to a nominee or private trust is not an acceptable form of divestment.
_______________________________________________________________
followed by Thursdays in The Park
With Maurie
phishing fiscing fiskit
slippery biscuit flys
through the air
Frankly, I’m smacked
in the head by a sugary golfball
standing in a warm puddle
of auburn amber gum
existentially
came back as a cat
and all may be rosie
Son is shining
“otherwise fine”
makes one hoarse
Those Murphy boys
taking off vertically
from the fat of the land
Rimmer round a red dwarf
Hi ho hi ho
life’s more than
Who You know
we see your credentials
and raise you
one scaffolder
peasants
Trotsky oh Trotsky
“where art thou?”
Vygotsky
engineer up some
technicians and and
thy will be done
dark art-noveaupay
Israel widens the net
no happy Noel
ring tone heightens
the driving experience
as we follow the GPS
map will tell us where we are
all ways reference pedantically
scribe on the arms
of sailors
spend six months
on a leaky boat
slaving in the shopping mall
BUT I’M A MILLION
DIFFERENT PEOPLE
FROM ONE DAY
TO THE NEXT
YES THERES
LOVE
IF YOU WANT IT
DON’T SOUND
LIKE NO SONNET
“it’s oh so quiet”
footnote format
manicure the herbs
al wyns a winner
Baby that’s for sure
even the pope observes
the commentary
TBI
sure is a kick in the head.
The Boy who cried Wolf
to the lioness with a thorn
in her side where her rib should be
The Jackal circles Hide
Nevermind
The Laws is on our side
Dishonour Dishonour Your Honour
shoulda taken the red pill
anyway freakin Jeeezus bloody Wept
sadly violence is necessary
bookmark that Chrome dome
Ellis Ellis, anyone remember Ellis?
Who? the Duck is Ellis
Big mouth little boy
Go to the back of the class
clean up after woodwork
ecocide is Ghandian
well we are in Right company
sold to the company store
just saying something nicely
spinning Jenny.jelly beans
for diabetics.eat the red ones last
Lanth that boile excuse the cusp
androgenous enhancement
“can I have some more please”
Your’e not Popula. enough
Asterix please.* Thankyou
So many davids only one Clark
credentials line up Davids
Granted. Not true.
freedom comes freedom goes
Where zet goes no body noes
flame on war fair?
Seriously – unless people were asking about the massive bruise on his face, why the fuck is this taking up space? Fucking msm. Grumble grumble grumble…
Lol, he was so delighted the way that shearer is handling everything, he fell over backwards
to support him.
Ok. Having followed the link and read the story, I can’t see where it says that, or anything to support that contention.
Wow, I dream of a world where the Standard leaves off criticising Shearer, and praising our homosexual brethren for long enough to criticise National .. that would be so wonderful! 😀
“Get up Tonto
we might need to call
on that Sky-god of
yours.” Mana
Not how much you have
How much you give away
hi ho Silver away too day
here’s lookin at you kidding
what we are working on now
cuppa joe. Excellently yours
signed The Pink Postman
Round up the lambs boys
she’s dockin’ time
who takes John Banks
seriously anyway, nobody
takes me seriously anyway
I see rocks Fred.
Just Killing Time.
When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child. Everything was full of life, and all life was one.
Now there are as many small states as there are individuals …and every state is mobile. Everyone carries his own state and demands a toll when another wants to enter. But one can only enter each state with a password.
Lover lover let’s pretend
We’re born as innocents
Cast into the world
With apple eyes
The soul of today can only be conquered by one who arrives with the password. Everyone migrates, and waves his one-man-state flag in all earthly directions. Their children already shake their rattles and drag their filth around them in circles.
She really loves to break
Her Dad says it’s OK
She really loves to break
And give it all away
Inescapably gen x on thursdays
Entertain me Entertaining you
I’ll be the first to toast, to my rotten soul
we’re the rolling people
Following Wim and urban hymn
Don’t ask why, we just go.
man asks about denominations
God in Wisdom
provides an answer
checking foundations
Eriksonian Institute (or thoughts from the Louvre) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%27s_stages_of_faith_development
or
infant-trusting, mythical literal
adolescence-searching, chaotic
adult-affiliation, conformity, doctrine
adult individuation-separating, critical
adult integration-generative, figurative
churches may correspond to either / or latter three with difference within and between individuals
politically speaking 🙂
007 reporting from duty to Russia with Love; spied a few Goldfingers and U.N.C.L.E Joe.Stiglitz
M.mmmm.such a wench.Field.ing Tom Jones. Fielding Tom Jones.picaresque Prism revealing
A prominent government lobbyist is standing by his leaked comments which slam leading scientists for speaking out about New Zealand’s poor environmental record.
Mark Unsworth, of government relations consultancy Saunders Unsworth, e-mailed Massey University environmental scientist Dr Mike Joy on Wednesday in reaction to Joy’s comments to the New york Times on New Zealand’s ‘fantastical’ 100% pure image.
These idiot go round destroying things and then get upset that people take offence at the destruction and think that if people just weren’t told about it that destruction would go away.
amusing; foot in mouth spin unsworthy
one ring to rue them all
kiwibuilds deflation
prophecy To Be Indicated
Still The Herald Rules over my Dominion
The Sisters of Mercy
“gotta give the people something good to read on a Sunday”
Level41? Take me on Take on me
better give me a poulan ed.Finest cheddar. Tastes better.
He’s an odd fellow but it’s OK.Takes care of his needs
and he’s not gay. 🙂
Clearly environmental degradation is not going to risk jobs and tourism, but talking about it does.
In the emails, Mr Unsworth said although he was an academic, Dr Joy had “let his ego run riot worldwide” while risking jobs and incomes from decreased tourism
I see. No point in telling him to lobby to create jobs by cleaning the sh*t up?
It’s hard to believe that a senior partner at a govt lobbying consultancy would send such an email without realising it would become public. So what gives?
what gives? Stupid escalation of the information war
Dispatches from the trenches
Wonder why.Sorry but your son
won’t be coming home far away
so Closer
Nation of Shopkeepers Grosser
Do you like Pina coladas’
ethanol Kills the brain
Brenner is my bier
No hang-ups and over we go
to the Bibliography
English plays to the gallery
without blinking
Like! a cool cat
descending from Cort
is glowing
MY LORD MY LOVE
THE WORLD DONT STOP
THERE AINT NO TIME
FOR CRACKING UP
BELIEVE ME FRIEND
caps off to the green and red
and now, the end is near
regrets I’ve had a few
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
Roll Swindle.Roll Swindle
fairlysavage s y d
a Requiem for a friend
not in a sly way
Although Taubmans helped me
I tumbler’d My Way
through “the water of life”
Slainte! Bill and lefty
awaken the Tane wha
why don’t you pete
denied three times
well Gahhhly Golly gosh
gotta get up early
buy the Tangerine jimmie
although Mandarin is helpful
to beat the bonobo to the bars
Kevin Spacey and David Fincher are making a US version of House of Cards for Netflix. I hope it screens in NZ. I’ve watched the Ian Richardson series multiple times.
Jesus and The mary chain
gotta have the right tool
for Job.The Johnnys
Poor ol’ injun joe
Took on the wrath of God
It’s up to you not to feel
The Clampdown
they say the immigrants
steal the hubcaps
of Property gentlemen
they say it would be wine
and roses at Ads house
for scones again
Remember me
your telephone number?
The News of The World
garnered bribery Uriah.Heaps
while the BBC channels war porn
on the Spreadsheets
“and I tell myself it’s
Just.a Blue Day”
hard to see it any
other way.Free falling
in and out with U
had Chinese for dinner.nom nom
with a cable tie can get
a DH going right back at ya
Have a cigar, you gonna go far
Sanctus Dei.On the left side
of Pascals wager? hmmmm
you ‘um it son I’ll play spit
PoliticallyCorrected off course
What do we learn if other people
fix our fucks.Mandarin
can be bitter experience
segmentation united
within the forbidden city
What three Albums
Tyranno saw us Rex
Telegram Sam
she’s my main man
might bus down to
Barmy Palmy.Fitz right in.
Open 24 hour CaGE
sumo wrestling economy
Boing! Back on Tigger Mountain
with a Harvest Moon
seen from the Treetop
not focused souly on trees
Starlight Star Bright
YES I’M COMING DOWN
YOUR BEAUTY
IS A COLOUR
SURROUND INTO
THE HALF LIGHT
NEON WILDERNESS
red is a logixal choice
Beware the Fokker
taking a Macro-analysis
AmaKiwi too North
Te Reo is a language
language sticks. games.
Hooten nanny
I’m On Fire
wayne wayne
go to Spain
Palm.Oil.
I’m on a Plain
Dr I like your medicine
Saarbo like a catchy virus
“eet doz geet een”
olwynd back the clock
1 2 3 O’clock
6 O’clock Rock
5 7 M8 O’clock
faiths all ya got
words are all I have
to take apart the grey
I’ts only words
from Herod the Great
remember Figures well
let’s see more
of bomber’s damage
not wallow in whaling
wendering along
on Wings of Desire
queen Anne
chocolate orange
cream centres
mmmmmmmm
glazed SPC pears
cracker fatty
two top cats tc
flinstones Fred’s a flintstone
come on baby
Light My Fire
the crystal ship
is being filled
don’t leave muzza
behind
No End of Violence
NZ politics are so SICK, I must say. There is little if any integrity, sincerity and solid purpose. It is such a rotten system here, maintained by one of the most corrupt, self serving and rotten lots of media you could find anywhere.
I hear and read NO criticism apart from here and the odd few other blog sites.
It is time to block and sabotage ALL MSM for good, but I see and hear few have the GUTS needed.
So the corrupt and manipulated system will go on.
I for sure have noticed my emails and other behaviour having been “screened”, and just put one and one together WHY!?
We are “observed” by SIS and others. This is NOT a free country, for sure!!!
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Tide of tidal data rises Having cast our own fate to include rising sea level, there's a degree of urgency in learning the history of mean sea level in any given spot, beyond idle curiosity. Sea level rise (SLR) isn't equal from one place to another and even at a particular ...
Well, some of those chickens sure came home bigly, didn’t they… and proceeded to shit all over the nice carpet in the Capitol. What we were seeing here are societal forces that have long had difficulty trying to reconcile people to the “idea” of America and the reality of ...
In the wake of Donald Trump's incitement of an assault on the US capitol, Twitter finally enforced its terms of service and suspended his account. They've since followed that up with action against prominent QAnon accounts and Trumpers, including in New Zealand. I'm not unhappy with this: Trump regularly violated ...
Peter S. Ross, University of British ColumbiaThe Arctic has long proven to be a barometer of the health of our planet. This remote part of the world faces unprecedented environmental assaults, as climate change and industrial chemicals threaten a way of life for Inuit and other Indigenous and northern ...
Susan St John makes the case for taxing a deemed rate of return on excessive real estate holdings (after a family home exemption), to redirect scarce housing resources to where they are needed most. Read the full article here ...
I’m less than convinced by arguments that platforms like Twitter should be subject to common carrier regulation preventing them from being able to decide who to keep on as clients of their free services, and who they would not like to serve. It’s much easier to create competition for the ...
The hypocritical actions of political leaders throughout the global Covid pandemic have damaged public faith in institutions and governance. Liam Hehir chronicles the way in which contemporary politicians have let down the public, and explains how real leadership means walking the talk. During the Blitz, when German bombs were ...
Over the years, we've published many rebuttals, blog posts and graphics which came about due to direct interactions with the scientists actually carrying out the underlying research or being knowledgable about a topic in general. We'll highlight some of these interactions in this blog post. We'll start with two memorable ...
Yesterday we had the unseemly sight of a landleech threatening to keep his houses empty in response to better tenancy laws. Meanwhile in Catalonia they have a solution for that: nationalisation: Barcelona is deploying a new weapon in its quest to increase the city’s available rental housing: the power ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters, PhD The 2020 global wildfire season brought extreme fire activity to the western U.S., Australia, the Arctic, and Brazil, making it the fifth most expensive year for wildfire losses on record. The year began with an unprecedented fire event ...
NOTE: This is an excerpt from a digital story – read the full story here.Tess TuxfordKo te Kauri Ko Au, Ko te Au ko Kauri I am the kauri, the kauri is me Te Roroa proverb In Waipoua Forest, at the top of the North Island, New ...
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Poster of the Week... SkS Week in Review... Story of the Week... Coming attraction: IPCC's upcoming major climate assessmentLook for more emphasis on 'solutions,' efforts by cities, climate equity ... and outlook for emissions cuts in ...
Ringing A Clear Historical Bell: The extraordinary images captured in and around the US Capitol Building on 6 January 2021 mirror some of the worst images of America's past.THERE IS A SCENE in the 1982 movie Missing which has remained with me for nearly 40 years. Directed by the Greek-French ...
To impact or not to impeach? I understand why some of those who are justifiably aghast at Trump’s behaviour over recent days might still counsel against impeaching him for a second time. To impeach him, they argue, would run the risk of making him a martyr in the eyes of ...
The Capitol Building, Washington DC, Wednesday, 6 January 2021. Oh come, my little one, come.The day is almost done.Be at my side, behold the sightOf evening on the land.The life, my love, is hardAnd heavy is my heart.How should I live if you should leaveAnd we should be apart?Come, let me ...
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 through Sat, Jan 9, 2021Editor's ChoiceAfter the Insurrection: Accountability, Reform, and the Science of Democracy The poisonous lies and enablers of sedition--including Senator Hawley, pictured ...
This article, guest authored by Prof. Angela Gallego-Sala & Dr. Julie Loisel, was originally published on the Carbon Brief website on Dec 21, 2020. It is reposted below in its entirety. Click here to access the original article and comments. Peatlands Peatlands are ecosystems unlike any other. Perpetually saturated, their ...
The assault on the US Capitol and constitutional crisis that it has caused was telegraphed, predictable and yet unexpected and confusing. There are several subplots involved: whether the occupation of the Michigan State House in May was a trial run for the attacks on Congress; whether people involved in the ...
On Christmas Eve, child number 1 spotted a crack in a window. It’s a double-glazed window, and inspection showed that the small, horizontal crack was in the outermost pane. It was perpendicular to the frame, about three-quarters of the way up one side. The origins are a mystery. It MIGHT ...
Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Will the COVID-19 pandemic prompt a shift to healthier cities that focus on wellness rather than functional and economic concerns? This is a hypothesis that seems to be supported by several researchers around the world. In many ways, containment and physical distancing ...
A growing public housing waiting list and continued increase of house prices must be urgently addressed by Government, Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson said today. ...
[Opening comments, welcome and thank you to Auckland University etc] It is a great pleasure to be here this afternoon to celebrate such an historic occasion - the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This is a moment many feared would never come, but ...
The Government is providing $3 million in one-off seed funding to help disabled people around New Zealand stay connected and access support in their communities, Minister for Disability Issues, Carmel Sepuloni announced today. The funding will allow disability service providers to develop digital and community-based solutions over the next two ...
Border workers in quarantine facilities will be offered voluntary daily COVID-19 saliva tests in addition to their regular weekly testing, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said today. This additional option will be rolled out at the Jet Park Quarantine facility in Auckland starting on Monday 25 January, and then to ...
The next steps in the Government’s ambitious firearms reform programme to include a three-month buy-back have been announced by Police Minister Poto Williams today. “The last buy-back and amnesty was unprecedented for New Zealand and was successful in collecting 60,297 firearms, modifying a further 5,630 firearms, and collecting 299,837 prohibited ...
The Government has released its Public Housing Plan 2021-2024 which outlines the intention of where 8,000 additional public and transitional housing places announced in Budget 2020, will go. “The Government is committed to continuing its public house build programme at pace and scale. The extra 8,000 homes – 6000 public ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has congratulated President Joe Biden on his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States of America. “I look forward to building a close relationship with President Biden and working with him on issues that matter to both our countries,” Jacinda Ardern said. “New Zealand ...
A major investment to tackle wilding pines in Mt Richmond will create jobs and help protect the area’s unique ecosystems, Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor says. The Mt Richmond Forest Park has unique ecosystems developed on mineral-rich geology, including taonga plant species found nowhere else in the country. “These special plant ...
To further protect New Zealand from COVID-19, the Government is extending pre-departure testing to all passengers to New Zealand except from Australia, Antarctica and most Pacific Islands, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said today. “The change will come into force for all flights arriving in New Zealand after 11:59pm (NZT) on Monday ...
Bay Conservation Cadets launched with first intake Supported with $3.5 million grant Part of $1.245b Jobs for Nature programme to accelerate recover from Covid Cadets will learn skills to protect and enhance environment Environment Minister David Parker today welcomed the first intake of cadets at the launch of the Bay ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Mark Brown have announced passengers from the Cook Islands can resume quarantine-free travel into New Zealand from 21 January, enabling access to essential services such as health. “Following confirmation of the Cook Islands’ COVID ...
Jobs for Nature funding is being made available to conservation groups and landowners to employ staff and contractors in a move aimed at boosting local biodiversity-focused projects, Conservation Minister Kiritapu Allan has announced. It is estimated some 400-plus jobs will be created with employment opportunities in ecology, restoration, trapping, ...
The Government has approved an exception class for 1000 international tertiary students, degree level and above, who began their study in New Zealand but were caught offshore when border restrictions began. The exception will allow students to return to New Zealand in stages from April 2021. “Our top priority continues ...
Today’s deal between Meridian and Rio Tinto for the Tiwai smelter to remain open another four years provides time for a managed transition for Southland. “The deal provides welcome certainty to the Southland community by protecting jobs and incomes as the region plans for the future. The Government is committed ...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appointed Anna Curzon to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). The leader of each APEC economy appoints three private sector representatives to ABAC. ABAC provides advice to leaders annually on business priorities. “ABAC helps ensure that APEC’s work programme is informed by business community perspectives ...
The Government’s prudent fiscal management and strong policy programme in the face of the COVID-19 global pandemic have been acknowledged by the credit rating agency Fitch. Fitch has today affirmed New Zealand’s local currency rating at AA+ with a stable outlook and foreign currency rating at AA with a positive ...
The Government is putting in place a suite of additional actions to protect New Zealand from COVID-19, including new emerging variants, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said today. “Given the high rates of infection in many countries and evidence of the global spread of more transmissible variants, it’s clear that ...
$36 million of Government funding alongside councils and others for 19 projects Investment will clean up and protect waterways and create local jobs Boots on the ground expected in Q2 of 2021 Funding part of the Jobs for Nature policy package A package of 19 projects will help clean up ...
The commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the Battle of Ruapekapeka represents an opportunity for all New Zealanders to reflect on the role these conflicts have had in creating our modern nation, says Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Kiri Allan. “The Battle at Te Ruapekapeka Pā, which took ...
Babies born with tongue-tie will be assessed and treated consistently under new guidelines released by the Ministry of Health, Associate Minister of Health Dr Ayesha Verrall announced today. Around 5% to 10% of babies are born with a tongue-tie, or ankyloglossia, in New Zealand each year. At least half can ...
Dunedin writer Victor Billot resumes his weekly odes to New Zealanders in the news. This week: the blogging firm of Michael Bassett, Don Brash and Rodney HideThree Men in a BoatIt sounds like a conveyancing firm in Levin.It sounds like TV funny guys who’ll ...
Under a thick layer of concrete at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramentin Christchurch is a metal box likely containing hundreds of holy relics – a historical treasure trove set to be uncovered after 50 years of near total obscurity.As the earth shook and buildings crumbled, a statue of ...
Bananas are unequivocally the best fruit in the world, and there’s nothing you can say to change my mind, writes Alice Webb-Liddall.I was about 15 when I realised that halftime banana cake wasn’t a tradition outside of my family. On the day of an All Blacks game a banana cake ...
Summer reissue: Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden as On the Rag looks at how the world around us has been built by men, for men. First published December 7, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is funded by its members ...
At an antagonistic hearing yesterday, the internet giant laid out the ‘worst case scenario’. And Facebook is also considering an ‘amputation’. Hal Crawford was watching.Google is poised to hit self-destruct in Australia according to a fractious Senate hearing into an unprecedented law that will force digital giants to pay money ...
It’s great to hear Phil Twyford celebrating a success. Not a personal ministerial success, it’s fair to say, but a success nevertheless related to arms control. The arms on which Twyford is focused, it should be noted, will make quite a mess if they are triggered. They tend to be ...
Duncan Greive and Leonie Hayden were young hip hop heads and music journalists during the era captured in a new documentary about the rise and fall of South Auckland hip hop label Dawn Raid. Here they discuss the film and their memories (what’s left of them) of that time. Warning: contains ...
Houses might be the most popular and inflated purchases in New Zealand, but there are plenty of other products that are seeing soaring demand and prices over the past few months. Here’s a list of what New Zealanders are spending their money on with international travel out of the picture.Used ...
"The young boy leaps, the muscles in his thighs tensing and twisting as he lifts from the handrail": the noble art of bombing, by Pātea writer Airana Ngarewa A beautifully muscled boy is posted on the side of a pool, his feet fixed to the top of a pair of ...
How Waiwera Hot Pools went from New Zealand’s most visited water park to dereliction and decay. Many who grew up in Auckland likely have fond memories of Waiwera Hot Pools. Like me, they remember summer days spent racing down the slides and playing in the naturally hot pools. But how did ...
A government contract for a P rehab programme was canned after half a million dollars of taxpayer money was given out. Aaron Smale investigates. The Ministry of Health spent over half a million dollars on a P Rehab contract before pulling the pin because there were no results or progress reports. ...
Kia Koropp and her husband John Daubeny have been cruising the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean over the past decade with their two children onboard their 50ft yacht, Atea. Starting in 2011 from Auckland, New Zealand, they have sailed more than 64,000 kilometres and just completed their longest ...
We are drowning out the natural world with synthetic sounds, and it’s getting worse, writes Michelle Langstone.It used to be quiet once. Remember that? Remember the hush that settled over the cities like the silence that comes down in a snowstorm? It’s less than a year since Aotearoa first locked ...
Summer reissue: Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden in the latest episode of On the Rag as they examine the topic of boobs from every possible angle. First published November 16, 2020.Independent journalism depends on you. Help us stay curious in 2021. The Spinoff’s journalism is funded by its ...
Seventy-five years after the US detonated the first nuclear tests in the Pacific, New Zealand pledges its support to Joe Biden's first tentative step towards disarmament. Today, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons comes into effect, making it illegal for New Zealand and the 50 other ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Terry, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland The challenge of bringing the world’s best tennis players and support staff, about 1,200 people in all, from COVID-ravaged parts of the world to our almost pandemic-free shores was always going to be ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Browne, Research Fellow in International Urban Development, University of Melbourne The Victorian government has committed to removing 75 road/rail level crossings across Melbourne by 2025. That’s the fastest rate of removal in the city’s history. The scale of the investment — ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In an age of hyperpartisan politics, the Biden presidency offers a welcome centrism that might help bridge the divides. But it is also Biden’s economic centrism that offers a chance to cut through what has become ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Stevens, Lecturer in History, University of Waikato In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers and ...
The sudden departure of Graine Moss from her Chief Executive role at Oranga Tamariki is a vital first step in a sequence of changes that must take place at the Ministry according to a group of wahine Māori leaders. Dame Naida Glavish, Dame Tariana Turia, ...
A new poem from Dunedin poet Jenny Powell.Her uncle’s eyeShe introduced us to her uncle’s eye floating in a jar.Lost in an accident, he hadn’t wanted to lose it again. He left it to her in his will.We must have looked shocked. ‘Don’t worry,’ she said. ‘I turn him to ...
The chief executive of Oranga Tamariki is quitting, leaving behind an agency she’s admitted suffers from structural racism. Justin Giovannetti looks at the future of Oranga Tamariki.Grainne Moss’s tenure as head of Oranga Tamariki has been untenable since November when the government’s senior Māori minister wouldn’t express any confidence in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Sainsbury, Senior Lecturer Composition, Australian National University Despite having different cultural backgrounds and experiences — Indigenous composers with an Indigenous mentor, and a pianist descended from Anglo-colonial history — it is nevertheless possible to create a project that can serve as ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury With new, more infectious variants of COVID-19 detected around the world, and at New Zealand’s border, the risk of further level 3 or 4 lockdowns is increased if those viruses get into the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Hogg, Lecturer in Psychology, Charles Sturt University Horse racing is an ethical hotbed in Australia. The Melbourne Cup alone has seen seven horses die after racing since 2013, and animal cruelty protesters have become a common feature at carnivals. The latest ...
Right now, our most fiery national debate is over whether New Zealanders were nice to the singer Amanda Palmer in a café. Desperate to restore peace in our nation, Hayden Donnell went in search of the truth.Joe Biden had barely finished calling for unity when Amanda Palmer posted a tweet ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut (Pushkin Press, $37)Maths, cyanide, suicide, gardening; ye ...
Wellington artist Estère isn’t just breaking boundaries, she’s dissecting them. Maddi Rowe spoke to her about her new album, Archetypes.“That’s the story of pelicans, they’ll stab themselves in the heart to feed their young.”Despite the somewhat dark subject matter, Estère Dalton’s eyes sparkle with fascination. We’ve met to discuss Archetypes, ...
Cycling advocates are welcoming new advice from the Transport Agency on safe cycling. "Cyclists hate it when drivers pass too close. That's scary and dangerous," said Patrick Morgan from Cycling Action Network. "So it's encouraging to see ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tilman Ruff, Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Today, many around the world will celebrate the first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty to enter into force in 50 years. The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...
The Public Service Association welcomes the creation of a Chief Executive role to lead the public service’s pay equity work, and the appointment of Grainne Moss to this position. "Unions and public service employers are currently working ...
The Council of Trade Unions is warning that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures out today illustrate that the cost of living is increasing disproportionately for those on lower incomes; resulting in the poor getting poorer. CTU Economist Craig ...
Why are there so many offensive comments on the New Zealand Police Facebook page and are they breaking the law? Janaye Henry investigates. New Zealand Police Facebook pages – there are a number of them, for different regional police districts around the country – are an interesting place to spend ...
Our guide to stopping procrastinating and actually (finally) getting on top of investing. Because there’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, you don’t know a single thing about it.In part one, we covered some of the basic things you need to know about investing – why do it? ...
Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft acknowledges the huge effort and commitment of departing Oranga Tamariki Chief Executive Grainne Moss and says her decision to resign today was principled. “The issues facing Oranga Tamariki are beyond individual ...
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Two Large Waves versus One Tsunami. Chart by Keith Rankin. Two Large Waves versus One Tsunami. Chart by Keith Rankin. With Covid19, Italy shows the classic European pattern, with its early outbreak, substantial recovery thanks to lockdowns and other public health measures, and resurgence thanks to complacency ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW This year has already seen significant progress in the government’s commitment to establish a body – a “Voice” – that would allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have a say when the government ...
Northland farmer Derek Robinson was sentenced earlier today by the District Court in Whangarei for two offences of ill-treating animals at rodeo events. Mr Robinson was found guilty in November last year, following a defended hearing. The charges ...
Under fire Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss has announced she will resign, effective February 28, Marc Daalder reports After four and a half years at the helm of child protection agency Oranga Tamariki, chief executive Grainne Moss has announced she will be leaving the position at the end of ...
The Department of Internal Affairs and New Zealand Police acknowledge the sentencing of 36-year-old Aaron Joseph Hutton on charges relating to the possession of child sexual exploitation material, and entering into a dealing involving the sexual exploitation ...
Ngā Tāngata Microfinance (NTM) is calling for tougher penalties for those caught promoting pyramid schemes. Such business models are illegal under the Fair Trading Act 1986. This call comes after the Commerce Commission issued a ‘stop now’ notice ...
British High Commissioner to New Zealand Laura Clarke is calling on young women aged 17 to 25 to apply for the annual ‘Be British High Commissioner for the Day’ competition. The winner will have the opportunity to become an ‘honorary High Commissioner’, ...
The Māori Party is welcoming the resignation of Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss after sustained pressure from leading figures within the Māori Party. This resignation is the result of the continued strong pressure of the Māori Party ...
In a historic corner of Dunedin, startup culture is thriving. Catherine McGregor visited the city’s Warehouse Precinct to meet the people driving the movement. When Jason and Kate Lindsey bought the four storey building now known as Petridish, it was an absolute wreck. Once home to a thriving hat and textiles ...
Summer reissue: The Fold’s very first guest is back to tell Duncan Greive how she pulled off the media deal of the year.The chaotic couple of weeks which finally saw the end of the Stuff-NZME saga were riveting and strange, replete with stock exchange announcements, legal challenges and finally the ...
Chris Liddell has dropped his candidacy to become director-general of the Paris-based OECD. Without support from the Ardern government and vilified in the media as somehow being involved in the encouragement by Donald Trump of the Washington riots, he plainly saw he had little chance of crowning his stellar career ...
Tara Ward hands out her first impression roses as she dives deep into the sea of single men vying to win The Bachelorette NZ’s heart. While the world burns in a searing fireball of unpredictability, we can take comfort in the fact that some things never change. The heart still yearns, ...
People from all around New Zealand will be converging on the super-secret Waihopai satellite interception spybase, in Marlborough, on Saturday January 30th. ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University All eyes are on COVID-19 vaccines, with Australia’s first expected to be approved for use shortly. But their development in record time, without compromising ...
Yesterday’s government announcement on new state housing is a pathetic response to the biggest housing crisis in New Zealand since the 1940s. At a time when the country needs an industrial-scale state house building programme, the government ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynette Vernon, School of Education – VC Research Fellow, Edith Cowan University When the holidays end, barring a fresh outbreak of COVID-19, teenagers across Australia will head back to school. Some will bounce out of bed well before the alarm goes off, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In an age of hyperpartisan politics, the Biden presidency offers a welcome centrism that might help bridge the divides. But it is also Biden’s economic centrism that offers a chance to cut through what has become ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney Bluey is easily the most successful Australian television show of the last decade. A record-breaking success for its local broadcaster the ABC, as well as production partners BBC Studios and Screen Australia, ...
*This article first appeared on RNZ and is republished with permissionIt will take $3 million to clean up 1 million litres of abandoned toxic waste from a property in Ruakaka - three times more than the last big chemical clean-up undertaken by government agencies A two-year mission to clean up 1 million ...
*This article first appeared on RNZ and is republished with permission. The action Biden took on just his first afternoon in office demonstrates a radical shift in priority for the US when it comes to its efforts to combat the climate crisis. It could put more pressure on New Zealand to step up. ...
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New Zealand triple-code star, Anna Harrison, can't stop returning to the courts - whether it's netball or beach volleyball. She tells Ashley Stanley what keeps drawing her back. The day before Anna Harrison leaps back into netball, she will have one more hit-out at another of her favourite old sports ...
The lights are burning into the night at the New York Yacht Club's America's Cup base as they race to fix their damaged boat. And Suzanne McFadden discovers something surprising may emerge. Out of American Magic’s calamity may come opportunity - for even more speed. While the lights burn bright ...
New to sailing? With the Prada Cup resuming this weekend, here’s how to bluff your way into sounding like a pro. When I was 10, my mum made my brother and I join the local sailing club. It was a favourite pastime of families in Kerikeri, and my brother was actually ...
A formal complaint to the UN, signed by a NZ Muslim group, says France’s Islamophobic laws and policies are entrenching discrimination and breaching human rights laws. The Khadija Leadership Network has joined a global coalition of Muslim organisations to formally complain about the French government’s systemic entrenchment of Islamophobia and discrimination against ...
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Kia Ora te Whanau and Mike Smith.
Statement by the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee
November 21, 2012
The New Lynn Electorate Committee of the Labour Party, at a special meeting called today, voted unanimously to express its full confidence in its Member of Parliament David Cunliffe. While acknowledging that this decision was within the prerogative of the party leader, the LEC noted David’s demotion with regret.
The LEC also resolved to raise with the New Zealand Council of the Labour Party concerns about recent public statements made by Labour’s Senior Whip, and the leaking of confidential caucus information by unnamed MPs following Tuesday’s emergency caucus meeting.
As these processes are now internal party matters we do not intend making further comment.
ENDS
Hope that goes well, micky. Good point about the unnamed MPs leaking caucus info to the media.
May I extend my full support to the New Lynn Labour Electorate Committee, and wish you every success in your endeavour to seek justice and fair play.
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Yes, this!
I can only point out to ALL again! Look at the website of ‘NZ Herald’, TVNZ, TV3 and the whole whore-mongering media in this country, it is ALL about crime, rape, pillage, deceit, natural catastrophes, who did what to whom, naturally sports, celebrity idiots, who is “in”, “out” and the dumbest, but yet “most appealing” “hulk”, “Slut” or whatever.
That is “media 2012′, and I do not care a damn about Mr Brown (now with “media3” for opportune employment reasons) AND others say to justify the CRAP we get fed day in and night out.
It is an INSULT to intelligence and it must be pointed at for such.
“Media” used to be called the “4th estate”. It is NO LONGER.
I and a few others informed also ’60 minutes’ and award winning “media celebrity” Melanie Reid about goings on at WINZ and MSD, but they choose to keep it damned QUIET! I wonder why?!
No integrity in MSM media, thanks.
Auckland mobilisation: end Israel’s siege on Gaza
Wellington: rally in solidarity with Gaza
‘Israel commits war crimes’, says only Kiwi in Gaza
Oops forgot to include link:
http://kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/israel-commits-war-crimes-says-only-kiwi-in-gaza/
That’s definitely one worth going to… Thanks for the info Jenny.
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Israel has in fact breached many international laws by violating the negotiated ceasefire, bombing refugee camps and killing innocent civilians. So far 130 Palestinians have been killed with another 920 injured. Many of these include woman and children. Israel has conducted over 1,450 rocket and airstrikes on Palestinian targets within the last week. Approximately five Israelis have died in retaliatory rocket strikes during the conflict so far.
I’d like to express something with a venn diagram.
I’m on vista home premium with office 2007.
Does anyone know of a facility in this software I could use?
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Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system.
The safest way to reformat your hard drive is to take your computer and anything that has ever been plugged into it and any furniture it has ever touched and make a pile outside, and pour petrol all over it and ignite. For best results leave it plugged in while you do this.
Next, get another computer and install any other operating system supported by Office 2007, and follow these instructions: http://office.microsoft.com/en-nz/word-help/create-a-venn-diagram-HA010335959.aspx
Thanks for your call and have a good day.
Gawd you’re cruel.
Some free downloadable software like paint.NET might be of help, although its just a generic drawing programme and not designed specifically to do venn diags. so will be a bit fiddly, it’ll do the job.
Yep, but first you have some software issues to deal with. You’re going to meed to reformat your hard drive and install a new operating system…
Thanks Felix. I appreciate your time and expertise. I was naive enough to think there would be something in one of my sub-menus that I could be directed to. I’m not up to the above level of computer competence.
Subtext duly noted.
The link above has the submenu info you seek…
lol. I didn’t read past that first sentence.
Ta others advising too.
Do you have powerpoint in the office 2007 suit? Go to powerpoint > insert > smart art > basic venn.
Step 1: Upgrade to Windows 7.
Step 2: Download Irfanview.
Step 3: Design your Venn diagram.
Step 4: Type the text into Word.
Step 5: Take a screen shot of the Word text and open in Irfanview.
Step 6: Use the ellipse tool to draw the Venn diagram.
Might be better ways of doing it but it worked for me last time I needed one.
Ta all,
Unfortunately, One big circle almost entirely overlapped another which made it impossible to effectively label. (Also I couldn’t figure out how to put a smaller circle within….)
However useful knowlege for future venns.
And so the bizzare world of the rich and powerful grinds on, blind to the pitchforks being sharpened in their gatekeepers sheds…
1. Ecan boss receives a $70,000 pay rise when the organisation is widely condemned and causes anxiety and grief in its so-called customers.
2. The ex-directors of Pike River Coal, who have never once fronted personally to the victims families (that’s right, never once), issue a statement through their lawyers, one of the most expensive in the land Minter Ellison Trough, refusing to accept the objective findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry. John Dow, Stuart Nattrass and Ray Meyer are pigs of men.
3. Banks lending to the Christchurch City Council demand ever more from the ratepayers of Christchurch. The stench of greed makes one wretch.
The sooner these types of people are (borrowing Mr Smith’s suggestion in the Eruption thread) buried, the better.
The downward sloping slide continues…
vto. Your words about greed are very quotable: “The stench of greed makes one wretch”. Greed in today’s world might be considered its worst feature.
Stephen Hawking said, “We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity”.
And Mahatma Ghandi remarked, “There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed”.
Nevertheless, take heart! Some of us persist in believing that goodness of character will, in the end, prevail.
Demote. Mr Smith
who cares what the neighbours think
flock to the pews
pull the curtains tighter
Deny there is something greater
Bill to the Zimmerwald Left
programming errors
other through the bottom of a Steiny
all flesh is grass
the age of aquarius
Rhinoceros are dying out
Orphans on the Planet
Uturn away
drag on to the Left
bite the hand that feeds you
Fa’afafine far far away
“get your rocks off get your rocks off”
Nah honey
plagiarise
I TALKED TO GOD
IN A PHONEBOX
ON MY WAY HOME
I TOLD YOU MY
ANSWER AND
LEFT YOU MY
DREAMS
ON YOUR ANSWER MACHINE
urban hymns
beltway memes
manipulation
a prentice ship
hello hello
is there anybody out there
just knod if you can hear
there wil be no more
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
now better do some work
50 Shades of Grey
is that your work?
spontaneous; it is a curse; joy loves company
cup of tea and maybe some more
soon it will be Christmas Time
freakin philistinic-Amelakites
“give it away give it away give it away now”
junkies keep a whorin’, trolls keep a snorin’
diversion can be boring
“get ya rocks off…get ya rocks off…yeah Honey”
It was quite good
😯
Watch murder shill Gregg Roman get torn a new one
Suppress your urge to vomit whenever Gregg Roman opens his mouth and enjoy the spectacle of his being bollocked…
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1353510449.html
Outstanding economic – production – energy model by Steve Keen. This is a real world breakthrough in concepting economics.
Just saying,
http://www.act.org.nz/posts/statement-from-hon-john-banks-re-talent2
Hon John Banks is ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF EDUCATION (also Minister for Regulatory Reform, Minister for Small Business, and Associate Minister of Commerce) and he WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE ” He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to, – such as Novapay for eg) or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee. Over all those interconnected portfolios no mention of Talent2 or Novapay came across his desk. I smell bullshit.
first question that pops into mind: Banks is the one with the Charter School Plan, and those teachers will get paid via State agencies sometimes, surely the Novapay system had to be integrated into his planning?
Certainly a large rodent.
JOHN BANKS – IN MORE TROUBLE?HOW COME NZ MINISTERS CAN OWN SHARES IN PUBLIC OR PRIVATE COMPANIES OR BUSINESSES?AUSTRALIAN MINISTERS CAN’T.
21 NOV 2012
4:28PM
Statement from Hon John Banks re: Talent2
JOHN BANKS / BLOG
The Hon John Banks Family Trust has not held shares in Talent2 International Limited since 28 May 2012 when Talent2 moved to privatise the company and de-list from the Australian stock exchange. Mr Banks advised the Cabinet Office of the sale of his Family Trust’s shares on 29 May 2012.
Mr Banks became a shareholder in Talent2 as a result of Talent2’s acquisition of Sugar International Limited which the Hon John Banks’ Family Trust held shares in.
Mr Banks declared his Family Trust’s shareholding in Talent2 to the Cabinet Office when he first became a Minister. He has never received any government information or briefings regarding Talent2 (or any company they are connected to), or participated in any discussions at either Cabinet or Cabinet Committee.
The issue of the pay system is outside Mr Banks’ responsibilities as Associate Minister of Education, and the Novopay contract was signed off in September 2008 by the previous Labour Government.
Note: Andrew Banks, Chairman of Talent2, is not related to Hon John Banks.
_____________________________________________________
AUSSIE RULES:
http://www.dpmc.gov.au/guidelines/docs/ministerial_ethics.pdf
FOREWORD
Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries hold high public office and are entrusted with considerable privilege and power.
The people of Australia are entitled to expect that, in the discharge of their duties, they will act in a manner that is consistent with the highest standards of integrity and propriety.
In 2007, the Labor Government introduced new Standards of Ministerial Ethics, requiring our Ministers to conduct themselves to a higher standard of conduct than had been the case in the past.
The Standards are underpinned by the principle that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries must act with due regard for integrity, fairness, accountability, responsibility and the public interest.
As Prime Minister, I will do all I can to ensure that Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries continue to live up to these high standards of conduct, and in doing so, continue to live up to the expectations of the Australian public.
Julia Gillard
___________________________________________________
Shareholdings
2.9. In recognition of the collective responsibility that Ministers bear in relation to Cabinet decisions, these Standards require that Ministers divest themselves of investments and other interests in any public or private company or business, other than public superannuation funds or publicly listed managed funds or trust arrangements where:
• the investments are broadly diversified and the Minister has no influence over investment decisions of the fund or trust; and
• the fund or trust does not invest to any significant extent in a business sector that could give rise to a conflict of interest with the Minister’s public duty.
2.10. If a Minister becomes aware that a fund or trust has invested in a company that might give rise to a perception of a conflict of interest, the Minister should inform the Prime Minister
immediately and liquidate the investment in the fund or trust if required to do so.
2.11. If a Minister is required by these Standards to dispose of an interest of any kind, the transfer of the interest to a family member or to a nominee or private trust is not an acceptable form of divestment.
_______________________________________________________________
Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’
http://www.dodgyjohnhasgone.com
Maybe he thinks that`a grubby envelope filled with equally grubby 20’s and 10’s will do the job better. And on reflection it probably would.
hot son beating down
followed by Thursdays in The Park
With Maurie
phishing fiscing fiskit
slippery biscuit flys
through the air
Frankly, I’m smacked
in the head by a sugary golfball
standing in a warm puddle
of auburn amber gum
existentially
came back as a cat
and all may be rosie
Son is shining
“otherwise fine”
makes one hoarse
Those Murphy boys
taking off vertically
from the fat of the land
Rimmer round a red dwarf
Hi ho hi ho
life’s more than
Who You know
we see your credentials
and raise you
one scaffolder
peasants
Trotsky oh Trotsky
“where art thou?”
Vygotsky
engineer up some
technicians and and
thy will be done
dark art-noveaupay
Israel widens the net
no happy Noel
ring tone heightens
the driving experience
as we follow the GPS
map will tell us where we are
all ways reference pedantically
scribe on the arms
of sailors
spend six months
on a leaky boat
slaving in the shopping mall
BUT I’M A MILLION
DIFFERENT PEOPLE
FROM ONE DAY
TO THE NEXT
YES THERES
LOVE
IF YOU WANT IT
DON’T SOUND
LIKE NO SONNET
“it’s oh so quiet”
footnote format
manicure the herbs
al wyns a winner
Baby that’s for sure
even the pope observes
the commentary
The European Environment Agency report on past and projected climate change and the impacts on Europe.
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/
TBI
sure is a kick in the head.
The Boy who cried Wolf
to the lioness with a thorn
in her side where her rib should be
The Jackal circles Hide
Nevermind
The Laws is on our side
Dishonour Dishonour Your Honour
shoulda taken the red pill
anyway freakin Jeeezus bloody Wept
sadly violence is necessary
bookmark that Chrome dome
Ellis Ellis, anyone remember Ellis?
Who? the Duck is Ellis
Big mouth little boy
Go to the back of the class
clean up after woodwork
ecocide is Ghandian
well we are in Right company
sold to the company store
just saying something nicely
spinning Jenny.jelly beans
for diabetics.eat the red ones last
Lanth that boile excuse the cusp
androgenous enhancement
“can I have some more please”
Your’e not Popula. enough
Asterix please.* Thankyou
So many davids only one Clark
credentials line up Davids
Granted. Not true.
freedom comes freedom goes
Where zet goes no body noes
flame on war fair?
Sigh.
Key’s expanding his “I don’t remember” alibi for the next couple of years.
Seriously – unless people were asking about the massive bruise on his face, why the fuck is this taking up space? Fucking msm. Grumble grumble grumble…
headdesk
Often, King Kong’s comments and fantasies would be most appropriate for that prime monkey.
Lol, he was so delighted the way that shearer is handling everything, he fell over backwards
to support him.
Ok. Having followed the link and read the story, I can’t see where it says that, or anything to support that contention.
Wow, I dream of a world where the Standard leaves off criticising Shearer, and praising our homosexual brethren for long enough to criticise National .. that would be so wonderful! 😀
As, I suspect, is being inferred… he and Tim spent too long in the 19th hole.
Dunnokeyo got drunnokeyo?
steep
“Get up Tonto
we might need to call
on that Sky-god of
yours.” Mana
Not how much you have
How much you give away
hi ho Silver away too day
here’s lookin at you kidding
what we are working on now
cuppa joe. Excellently yours
signed The Pink Postman
Round up the lambs boys
she’s dockin’ time
who takes John Banks
seriously anyway, nobody
takes me seriously anyway
I see rocks Fred.
Just Killing Time.
.
time
sublime
always cort in a bind
of corset.
other than this ‘ere mower Gower all gardening is done with hand tools
off to theology :707 now
the laity synod need educating it seems
(a higherstandard can be expected)
includes queer theology
that will go down like a
round rock 🙂
When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child. Everything was full of life, and all life was one.
Now there are as many small states as there are individuals …and every state is mobile. Everyone carries his own state and demands a toll when another wants to enter. But one can only enter each state with a password.
Lover lover let’s pretend
We’re born as innocents
Cast into the world
With apple eyes
The soul of today can only be conquered by one who arrives with the password. Everyone migrates, and waves his one-man-state flag in all earthly directions. Their children already shake their rattles and drag their filth around them in circles.
She really loves to break
Her Dad says it’s OK
She really loves to break
And give it all away
Inescapably gen x on thursdays
Entertain me Entertaining you
I’ll be the first to toast, to my rotten soul
we’re the rolling people
Following Wim and urban hymn
Don’t ask why, we just go.
man asks about denominations
God in Wisdom
provides an answer
checking foundations
Eriksonian Institute (or thoughts from the Louvre)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler%27s_stages_of_faith_development
or
infant-trusting, mythical literal
adolescence-searching, chaotic
adult-affiliation, conformity, doctrine
adult individuation-separating, critical
adult integration-generative, figurative
churches may correspond to either / or latter three with difference within and between individuals
politically speaking 🙂
007 reporting from duty to Russia with Love; spied a few Goldfingers and U.N.C.L.E Joe.Stiglitz
M.mmmm.such a wench.Field.ing Tom Jones. Fielding Tom Jones.picaresque Prism revealing
This Naomi Klein interview with Bill Moyers is really worth watching if you haven’t seen it.
Climate change, shock doctrine, Hurricane Sandy, Central Planning, Decentralization, deregulation… it’s all in there and it’s all interconnected.
Sorry …. I’ll go back in my cave now …. I’m a bloody troll …. *zzzzzz*-*thud* D-:
not in the dark anymore at all. Boing! 🙂
Enlightened even , self aware , and disgusted all at the same time …. more right wing ? D-:
I think I blew my fufu valve 😈
Poor little lobbyist, getting upset about the truth coming out.
These idiot go round destroying things and then get upset that people take offence at the destruction and think that if people just weren’t told about it that destruction would go away.
Marked Unworthy of Saunders Unworthy
amusing; foot in mouth spin unsworthy
one ring to rue them all
kiwibuilds deflation
prophecy To Be Indicated
Still The Herald Rules over my Dominion
The Sisters of Mercy
“gotta give the people something good to read on a Sunday”
Level41? Take me on Take on me
better give me a poulan ed.Finest cheddar. Tastes better.
He’s an odd fellow but it’s OK.Takes care of his needs
and he’s not gay. 🙂
But it’s okay to piss in the pool if nobody finds out about it…
Clearly environmental degradation is not going to risk jobs and tourism, but talking about it does.
I see. No point in telling him to lobby to create jobs by cleaning the sh*t up?
It’s hard to believe that a senior partner at a govt lobbying consultancy would send such an email without realising it would become public. So what gives?
what gives? Stupid escalation of the information war
Dispatches from the trenches
Wonder why.Sorry but your son
won’t be coming home far away
so Closer
Nation of Shopkeepers Grosser
Do you like Pina coladas’
ethanol Kills the brain
Brenner is my bier
No hang-ups and over we go
to the Bibliography
English plays to the gallery
without blinking
Like! a cool cat
descending from Cort
is glowing
MY LORD MY LOVE
THE WORLD DONT STOP
THERE AINT NO TIME
FOR CRACKING UP
BELIEVE ME FRIEND
caps off to the green and red
and now, the end is near
regrets I’ve had a few
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
Roll Swindle.Roll Swindle
fairlysavage s y d
a Requiem for a friend
not in a sly way
Although Taubmans helped me
I tumbler’d My Way
through “the water of life”
Slainte! Bill and lefty
awaken the Tane wha
why don’t you pete
denied three times
well Gahhhly Golly gosh
gotta get up early
buy the Tangerine jimmie
although Mandarin is helpful
to beat the bonobo to the bars
Kevin Spacey and David Fincher are making a US version of House of Cards for Netflix. I hope it screens in NZ. I’ve watched the Ian Richardson series multiple times.
Ian Richardson. “smile while I murder” Long Live King Richard
🙂
Jesus and The mary chain
gotta have the right tool
for Job.The Johnnys
Poor ol’ injun joe
Took on the wrath of God
It’s up to you not to feel
The Clampdown
they say the immigrants
steal the hubcaps
of Property gentlemen
they say it would be wine
and roses at Ads house
for scones again
Remember me
your telephone number?
The News of The World
garnered bribery Uriah.Heaps
while the BBC channels war porn
on the Spreadsheets
“and I tell myself it’s
Just.a Blue Day”
hard to see it any
other way.Free falling
in and out with U
had Chinese for dinner.nom nom
with a cable tie can get
a DH going right back at ya
Have a cigar, you gonna go far
Sanctus Dei.On the left side
of Pascals wager? hmmmm
you ‘um it son I’ll play spit
PoliticallyCorrected off course
What do we learn if other people
fix our fucks.Mandarin
can be bitter experience
segmentation united
within the forbidden city
What three Albums
Tyranno saw us Rex
Telegram Sam
she’s my main man
might bus down to
Barmy Palmy.Fitz right in.
Open 24 hour CaGE
sumo wrestling economy
Boing! Back on Tigger Mountain
with a Harvest Moon
seen from the Treetop
not focused souly on trees
Starlight Star Bright
YES I’M COMING DOWN
YOUR BEAUTY
IS A COLOUR
SURROUND INTO
THE HALF LIGHT
NEON WILDERNESS
red is a logixal choice
Beware the Fokker
taking a Macro-analysis
AmaKiwi too North
Te Reo is a language
language sticks. games.
Hooten nanny
I’m On Fire
wayne wayne
go to Spain
Palm.Oil.
I’m on a Plain
Dr I like your medicine
Saarbo like a catchy virus
“eet doz geet een”
olwynd back the clock
1 2 3 O’clock
6 O’clock Rock
5 7 M8 O’clock
faiths all ya got
words are all I have
to take apart the grey
I’ts only words
from Herod the Great
remember Figures well
let’s see more
of bomber’s damage
not wallow in whaling
wendering along
on Wings of Desire
queen Anne
chocolate orange
cream centres
mmmmmmmm
glazed SPC pears
cracker fatty
two top cats tc
flinstones Fred’s a flintstone
come on baby
Light My Fire
the crystal ship
is being filled
don’t leave muzza
behind
No End of Violence
NZ politics are so SICK, I must say. There is little if any integrity, sincerity and solid purpose. It is such a rotten system here, maintained by one of the most corrupt, self serving and rotten lots of media you could find anywhere.
I hear and read NO criticism apart from here and the odd few other blog sites.
It is time to block and sabotage ALL MSM for good, but I see and hear few have the GUTS needed.
So the corrupt and manipulated system will go on.
I for sure have noticed my emails and other behaviour having been “screened”, and just put one and one together WHY!?
We are “observed” by SIS and others. This is NOT a free country, for sure!!!