Ugly and vulgar. But not surprising if you regard National Party people as essentially high-income ferals.
And probably not incitement to self-harm either. Best left to the voters of Invercargill to pass judgement.
Looks like Mitchell is being lined up for the new leader of national. Been in the news a lot the last few days and on the AM show just now they’re talking down bridges and saying how much of a leader Mitchell is in contrast.
On a side note. Had the displeasure of tuning into what is now called magic talk, the old radio live, to discover it is now wall to wall right wing douche bags. Kicking off the morning with Garner and co we move to Peter Williams then bloody Sean plunket back from the dead in the afternoon.
Williams is applaing talk about a goat in sheep’s clothing but I suspected that would be the case. OK I was curious to see if what I thought was right, turned out to be even more right than even I thought would be the case and yes I will tune for a bit in shortly to see just what today’s opening lecture will be about.
I’d never heard him but it only took about 30 mins to realise. Conversation about wages in Australia being higher which he couldn’t reconcile and how teachers shouldn’t be paid more.
Nearly forgot, he opened the show slagging off Ardern for being at Davos and not in nz or some crap.
Have not listened to radio talk hate since ’85.
But seriously Garner, Williams Plunket right wing?
To me they all come across as apolitical as it’s possible to be.
Pete would be always listening to the cricket or the rugby.
Duncan is the fat token part Maori shirt hanging out
wondering how come every one in here is white.
Shaun was a typical meat and potatoes Radio NZ lunch time reporter.
If that’s the right wing these days things are looking up.
A jobs a job whether your a body guard for the PM, writing Simon’s
question time material or designing the greens next photo opp.
Right wing work pays. The left pay sh#t.
So Dunc’s Pete and Shaun go where there’s a cheque.
Can’t blame them.
GERMAN TROOPS RETURN
EXTENT OF HELP TO FRANCO INDICATED The Ellesmere Guardian, Friday 28 July 1939
Adolf Hitler disclosed on June 6 in an address to 18,000 German fighters back from Spain that General Francisco Franco had asked him for help in the first month of the Spanish civil war and “I decided to aid him,” states the Christian Science Monitor.
The number of Germans killed in the Spanish conflict was given for the first time when some 350 members of the Hitler Youth Organisation marched out beside the tribune from which Herr Hitler spoke, bearing a shield with the names of dead wreathed in gold. There were approximately 350 names.
A parade of the veterans before Reichsfuhrer Hitler and his aide, Field Marshal Hermann Goering, was the first concrete indication of the extent of German help to the Spanish Nationalist cause.
The Fuhrer scathingly denounced anti-Franco campaigns in Britain and France, declaring that “for years French and English newspapers disseminated the lie that Germany and Italy intended to conquer Spain and to rob her of her colonies.”
Reviewing the history of the Spanish civil war, he praised General Franco as a “genial marshal who arose to lead his fatherland out of destruction into a greater future.” Herr Hitler began his disclosure of General Franco’s call for help in July, 1936, when the Spanish civil war opened, with the statement that “in the summer of 1936,, Spain seemed to have been lost. . . . The international powers then appeared to be determined to lay Europe in ruins.” Two Classes in Legion The Condor Legion, as the Spanish force is known, was divided into two classes. In one were between 4700 and 5000 men who had just returned to Germany and in the other about 10,000 men who had served and returned previously to the Fatherland. In addition there were about 3000 sailors in the parade. A crowd of about 100,000 filled the tribunes and streets in the vicinity of the reviewing stands as the veterans swung past with flowers in their behfs and wearing overseas caps.
A delegation of 150 Spanish officers accompanied the last force of airmen and technicians to return to Germany. The capital fluttered with flags and the day was a school holiday.
The German public still was learning details of the Legionnaires’ service. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that important moves of the war were based on German strategy. The newspaper said a German World War veteran, MajorGeneral Hugo Sperrle, mapped the campaigns against Bilbao and Santander.
I drag my mind back from JLR and Dowie, Ayn Rand and the Tea Party and now can’t get context for the Germans and Spain. More info please. And while I am asking, did you see that chart about climate change and places not livable on the planet that was on the blog a few days ago? If you did could you give me link?
In hope thanks.
Yep; and this was sent to tRump by Nathan Catura, who heads the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
Many of our members conduct complex investigations including tracking terrorists, identifying foreign actors, and protecting elected officials, including you and your family. As the shutdown continues they are being put in both a fiscally and personally compromising position that is antithetical to the way our nation should be treating those that protect us.
Twenty-first century law enforcement requires research, analysis and technology. These critical investigative support elements are not working during the shutdown, this compares to half of a team taking a field for a game. The targets of our investigations now have an advantage of being better informed and better resourced than our members. This is an extremely dangerous situation that threatens the lives of our members and all Americans.
Hapless father of a Venezuelan traitor froths out vicious nonsense.
He was reinforcing the lies of Mike Pompeo, who was on just before him.
On Al Jazeera, I’ve just heard the father of one of the right wing rebels in Venezuela aver that the government of Bolivia is “not democratic.”
That is the sort of crazed and fantastic “thinking” that fuels these violent insurrectionists.
The interviewer did not react to his nonsense, or contest his stupid lie in any way. Hardly surprising, considering that Al jazeera is an organ of the U.S.-aligned Qatar dictatorship.
Moderate Rebels episode 34 (part 2/2): Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue speaking with scholar Steve Ellner about the economic war on Venezuela and the devastating impact of US sanctions. While the Trump administration pushes for a coup against President Nicolas Maduro, Ellner addresses the falsehoods of “leftist” opposition to Chavismo, the geopolitics of the Pink Tide and the role of China and Russia, and the sabotage of the BRICS system.
No @ Goz. Much better to get a broad spectrum drench across as many media outlets as possible rather than sign up to just those that suit your ideology or religion.
I wonder why you’re still here at times. That dick of yours must be must be needing a bit of the blue pill by now in order for it to remain so hard and big with all the setbacks you’ve suffered and that you know are about to happen.
Surely there’s something more productive you could be doing? Maybe setting up a support network for Sarah, or perhaps another Paula re-imaging project? Or an oil change and degrease for Soimon?
One of her books, a selection of published articles, describes her attitudes which had a chilling effect on civilised and caring society. The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter. The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand’s Objectivist philosophy. Some of its themes include the identification and validation of egoism as a rational code of ethics, the destructiveness of altruism, and the nature of a proper government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness
Ayn Rand 1905-1982 came to USA from Russia in 1926.
She and the Russian people had been through hard times and she despaired no doubt. Brest-Litovsk Treaty: 3 March 1918
Russia ends its participation in the First World War. Bolshevik Russia loses one-third of the old empire’s population, one-third of its railway network, half its industry, three-quarters of its supplies of iron ore, nine-tenths of its coal resources and much of its food supplies….
1921
By the beginning of 1921 the rouble has lost 96% of its pre-war value; industrial production has fallen to 10% of its 1913 level. The population of Petrograd has fallen from 2.5 million in 1917 to 600,000 in 1920. https://www.bl.uk/russian-revolution/articles/timeline-of-the-russian-revolution
In 1921 there was a famine that killed an estimated 5 million people.
1924
The Soviet Constitution came into effect, and in following years the Soviet Socialist Republic was active amassing land under its control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_history
1926
Ayn Rand arrives in the USA.
About – http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/index1.html “No one helped me,” Rand would later write, “nor did I think it was anyone’s duty to help me.” In fact, her family and American friends helped her quite a lot. She moved in with, and borrowed money from, relatives in Chicago, one of whom owned a theater where she watched hundreds of movies for free. Eventually she moved to Hollywood, ran into Cecil B. DeMille in a parking lot, and somehow, despite her broken English, got a job reading scripts.
1926 “Hollywood: American Movie City” pamphlet published in Moscow and Leningrad
Departs Leningrad (January 17)
Sails from Le Havre, France, for America on the De Grasse
(February 10)
Arrives in Manhattan (February 19)
Resides in Chicago with relatives (February–August)
Arrives in Hollywood (September 3)
Hired as movie extra by Cecil B. DeMille (September)
Meets Frank O’Connor on set of The King of Kings (September) http://aynrandlexicon.com/about-ayn-rand/timeline.html
She came up with theory of Objectivism.
Objectivism’s central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, * that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see Direct and indirect realism),
* that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic,
* that the proper moral purpose of one’s life is the pursuit of one’s own happiness (see Rational egoism),
* that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and
* that the role of art in human life is to transform humans’ metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
Academic philosophers have mostly ignored or rejected Rand’s philosophy.[6] Nonetheless, Objectivism has been a significant influence among right-libertarians and American conservatives. The Objectivist movement, which Rand founded, attempts to spread her ideas to the public and in academic settings.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
These are Ayn Rand’s followers in piece from the New York Times. Tea Party
You would be surprised at how many young people come into our bookshop asking for Rand, mainly Atlas Shrugged, that i why I made a ‘Friends don’t let friends red Ayn Rand’ sticker on our counter…still sell it to them if they insist though…guess you just can’t help some people.
Here is one of my all time favorite clips, Rand disciple Alan Greenspan admitting that their twisted ideology was wrong, and that he actually has no idea what humans think, or what makes them do what they do,..therein lays the very core fault of liberalism
In Adam Curtis’s excellent and entertaining three part documentary series “All watched over by machines of loving grace” he covers off some of Rand’s ideas:
Thanks Adrian. I think the core of the problem is setting up ideologies with arrogant presumptions of primacy and no concept or understanding about human drives and personal conflictions. This, coupled with false concepts of what purpose is good to live for; leads to materialism which ultimately limits or kills the human spirit as a plant will die if not receiving its genetically-shaped needs.
Lots of people, majorities even, brought into the idea that successful wealthy people were a better bet to back than also rans. And so backed parties that offered lower taxes for the wealthy, to free them to grow GDP. As many knew even then in the ups, this wasn’t a good idea yet they did not see the decades of cheap high density fuel flowing out of Arabia. It really did not matter if the wealthy help grow GDP, it ws going to anyway. As more drank the neolib cool aid, a new breed of economic parasite emerge, the pseudo libertarians who were highly capable of remonstrating the flaws of govt, and private collectivisation by unionists, but not the threats to liberties from private capital, and corporatism. it was not that they had no upstanding of what drives humans, its that many were just sheep, and others were all too aware the way to get rich was to protect existing wealth. Now as energy, resource and compliance costs rise the neolib position is hopelessly out of touch, requiring a mass delusion the gfc exposed as a ponsi scheme, and growing realities that its fabled market had fail to address, resource depletion, earth size limits to humanity existance, pollution…
if only it were some mean mindedness, or greed. Greed wasn’t the problem, just as you say the human drive, played upon to herd the conservative masses and crush dissenting voices. far too much conservatism, coupled and backed by wealthy patrons.
Thanks for that phillip u.
As I read the link and think, it seems that these people who break their drug habit are heroes. I salute them. And the good news that this link from whoar brings brightens the day for all just knowing that new treatments that work are available and that researchers have worked so carefully and well to bring this about, and the clinics that help ‘the afflicted’ to manage through and hopefully rise above.
The other point to remember in general is to go generic where possible – not just on the expensive drugs, but also the day to day meds one might have. Always cheaper – especially if you shop around different pharmacies.
The relationship between life and the physical parameters of earth’s surface and atmosphere have been known for many decades. Those responsible therefore had the opportunity long ago to question to what extent the excesses of technically created electrical and magnetic fields might have the potential to destroy nature’s housekeeping
“Today, unprecedented exposure levels and intensities of magnetic, electric, and electromagnetic fields from numerous wireless technologies interfere with the natural information system and functioning of humans, animals, and plants. The consequences of this development, which have already been predicted by critics for many decades, cannot be ignored anymore. Bees and other insects vanish; birds avoid certain places and become disorientated at others. Humans suffer from functional impairments and diseases. And insofar as the latter are hereditary, they will be passed on to next generations as pre-existing defects”
About the Author
The main research areas of Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Warnke, an internationally renowned bioscientist at Saarland University, include biomedicine, environmental medicine, and biophysics. For decades his research interest centered especially on the effects of electromagnetic fields
Golly gosh and WTF. Every day we get hit by some new thing to take in about harm we have or are causing. probably I’m adding to the problem just typing this. Is this hell on earth or what? Those of us who have hope for a future that isn’t cold-hearted, brutal but has room for the human spirit and helpful ingenuity had better stick together, and support and put their various minds together to improve or mitigate or diminish problems. Perhaps somebody every day can think of something that needs attention, and something that can be done to help.
For me today. Question. Flowers for bees, let clover lawns flower. What is the best thing for bees getting water on these dry hot days? Does a margarine tub lid holding water with its wideish raised edge so the bees could stand close to the water and drink, weighted with a stone, in the open but shaded somehow sound like a good and practical idea to bees’ requirements?
My take on things as well, Greywarshark. It is easy to be overwhelmed, so I always ask What can I do/ my family do about that? Sometimes it is not much, but I’m a believer in many small things can grow to make a difference. So I say be a lot less greedy. Look harder at needs… are they really disguised wants.? Reuse and/or give stuff to other people who need it. Plant blue flowers bees love them. Bees need something to land on in water, like a piece of untreated pine floating in a bucket of water. or a stone in a saucer of water. Turn off any gadget not being used at the socket. We only use the microwave if someone is sick in the house. We do not own a smart ‘phone, as a wee tablet does everything else, and the ordinary cellphone suffices. Perhaps we could have a thread on ways to simplify our lives to preserve more of the planet. I try one thing each week. My recent one is “No more plastic pegs” Cheers
Help you Gossy LOL LOL
Means evaluate and adjust…… Where did you get ditching? ROFL
Notice they interviewed Robertson when was on the other side of the world and landed on one small point. Keep trying.
Children’s inside recreational learning. It has occurred to me that children’s tv is full of cartoons that all have the same simple look, exagerrated size, highly coloured, big eyes, based on moral tales. And it is said that looking at a story in pictures on a screen limits the imagination, the critical faculties.
Then there is the predilection of princesses for girls. It isn’t just a feminist thing to be a bit anti that, it seems that there is a class thing, so that girls are rushing to be in gauzy skirts with satin shiny tops, or they are fairies for a long time. Okay but not all the time.
Dora the Explorer is also good, she gets round and does stuff. But the tv often is produced to sell a product. Kids need to have more adventurous, fun stories with images that aren’t glamorous like Drora. But she is stylised in the art work, and is a product that royalties boost prices for. Then looking at Disney and its business out of mass-produced toys and images and profit, and Barbie dolls which present the early stages of what can grow into anorexia and the constant dissatisfaction with self appearance stress. Too commercial – what instead. At preent I’m buying old Sesame Street books or Fraggle or Wombles. Also there are some great NZ books.
Any thoughts for different themed toys; Enid Blyton produced the Five and Seven books with adventures for 8 years up I would think. Kids seem coddled in the themes for books etc. Life has to be pretty for princesses!
Namsog ran wild on The Standard yesterday;
Shame on you if you were dumb enough to encourage him.
Yesterday a thread on this site, entitled Venezuela Coup, was hijacked by a hyperactive right wing zealot who contributed more than one third of the 251 comments. That happens sometimes, of course: trolls—witless, unlettered trolls like the one creating such havoc yesterday—are a fact of life on the Internet.
Many people were appalled by the troll and vigorously refuted his nonsense. As one would expect, a few people—notably a former Cabinet minister notorious for his bumbling and his collusion with military coverups—supported the troll’s mad behaviour. But what I, and no doubt many others, found dispiriting was the alacrity with which the troll’s wild rhetoric and straight out lies were endorsed and amplified by a small number of self-described “liberals” and “leftists.” They sided defiantly and bloodymindedly with the troll, and by the end of the day they were abusing anyone who disagreed with them as “moonbats”, quoting (with approval) discredited liars such as the utterly repugnant British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and absurdly insisting that the elected President of Venezuela was a “stalinist.”
This ridiculous spectacle, of “liberals” first indulging and then parroting wholesale a nasty right wing troll, has been seen before…..
Yeah, I posted it here yesterday. Just to summarise: when the 2015 election produced a defeat for Maduro, he got their electoral commission to declare some of the winners invalid, thus reducing the opposition victory to a narrow defeat.
Then he had their supreme court declare the National Assembly invalid, and created a Constituent Assembly to replace it. It’s what stalinists do. The Bolsheviks set up the original model back in 2018 after their coup.
Then he ran the fake election, which the opposition refused to participate in. Why would they? They already knew the electoral commission was corrupt. He’s ahead of Mugabe on the practice of stalinism, but still has a year to go until he gets inflation up over Mugabe’s 11 million per cent bar. Will he last long enough to defeat Mugabe as top stalinist of the new millennium? Got to give the guy credit, he’s a real tryer, but he’ll only make it if he sends the death squads out soon.
Might is right? So if Muldoon had actually been the fascist he pretended to be, and used the army & police to close down our democracy, you would have supported that? Nah, reckon you’re just being provocative. 🙄
ropata, you appear not to have a fucking clue. That flippant comment was simply disgusting in its contempt for the fate of Venezuela, its political system, its independence, and its people. Why are you posting?
Gosman makes this site a lot more interesting, happy to read all points of view. Think it would be boring if everyone agreed, you need robust debate. Otherwise it would be like Whaleoil where all the commenters agree.
Did anyone notice that mangos come from gosman? Who would have thunk it? And that is equivalent in importance to many things he has said, to be fair, not all.
Dunno why you’re so keen to keep supporting the stalinist! I provided all the historical evidence for you yesterday that proves his election invalid. Are you so averse to reality that you didn’t want to read it?? Or did you just not understand it?
Only to someone unfamiliar with the history of stalinism. Are putting your hand up for that? No point commenting on something you haven’t investigated, right?
If you knew anything about Stalin, anything about political terror and propaganda, you would realize which side of this ideological struggle is closer to the way Stalin, and Franco, and Salazar, and Pinochet, and other democracy-hating authoritarians—you spent yesterday supporting their ideological and political heirs— thought and acted.
I take it you will never have the hide to ever criticise anything the Trump regime does in the future?
I wouldn’t be that sceptical if I were you. I’ve criticised his position on climate change here. I’m apprehensive about the potential of a fundamentalist takeover if he is impeached, and said so here. My view of that regime is both open-minded and cautious – I believe its anti-establishment stance is essential. I see the negative potentials, but tend to judge politicians on what they actually do (not the hot air that emanates).
Incidentally, you didn’t answer my questions (14.3). I know you’re able to be fair-minded when you feel like it! You’ve proven that. My use of stalinism has a somewhat different technical dimension than that outlined on its wiki, which is merely devoted to the historical form and ideology. My focus is the political psychology, the mind-set, the methodology of implementation, the techniques, the behavioural patterns that manifest all those.
Yes, the left & right meet at the opposite side of the circle in totalitarianism. In that, the end justifies the means, ethics and morality vanish. State power and personal enrichment are all that matters.
No. Appraising complex political situations without bias is always sensible. If you don’t agree, why not explain why bias is essential from your perspective?
Looks like the coalition isn’t operating as smoothly as they want us to believe:
“NZ First is slowing progress on the Government’s proposed climate change legislation, leading to a missed deadline for an announcement. A source close to the situation told Stuff the party has been more intransigent on the issue than the National Party, which Climate Change Minister James Shaw is working with separately to make sure his Zero Carbon Act gets some level of bipartisan support.” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110159557/nz-first-slows-climate-change-law
“An announcement on the policy was planned for before the end of 2018, but no announcement or draft bill has been forthcoming, despite the Ministry for the Environment planning to have the bill in Select Committee by February, according to its website.”
“However, the parties are confident agreement can be reached and a law introduced in the first half of 2019.” Well, could be just one or two sticking points emerged from the draft. Let’s hope. Public service design probably produced a draft that would be effective in reaching agreed goals, but NZF realised they will be in three-way competition for the neanderthal vote, so had to slam on the handbrake.
“The key holdups have involved the powers of the Climate Change Commission and the ambition of the law itself, in particular its targets. NZ First MPs were not keen to see a non-political Climate Change Commission given Reserve Bank-like powers to independently set carbon budgets.”
“The party’s MPs were also worried that New Zealand agribusiness would be unfairly disadvantaged with a law that was world-leading – rather than simply good enough to meet international obligations.”
I think NZ1 is *really* gone this time. Winston going into coalition with Lab/Grn was the moral thing to do, but he burned his conservative supporters. Then this UN migration pact, TPPA, and no cap on the mass immigration ponzi scheme. A lot of NZ1 voters feel betrayed.
You can see the bitterness in people’s replies to his social media statements
I should have known this but if Winston blocks CC legislation it will remove all doubt that he is just another opportunistic POS
Thing is, Winston is usually very good at reading the mood of the nation, and his supporters. His support is old school conservative, with some social democratic leanings.
Now, it may be that his party organisation decided to make a pretty meaningless concession on immigration in order to stonewall a bit harder on AGW. Maybe they should have gone the other way. Either way would piss people off, the question is whether they can make it up in other ways, or p;lacate the pissed off people with other policies.
If they’d gone with national, they’d be pissing off their electorate in the other direction. So really, the only goal is to go “this is what we wanted, if you want more of that achieved then we need more votes”.
what? you think the coalition was going to be smooth… …The national party from the get go started that line. Nobody expects it to be smooth, even when National ruled alone, they tripped up. The coalition has more toys to trip over,and yet more opportunity to come across as competent. Nothing like the transport minister evading chch airport security…
A source close to the situation told Stuff the party has been more intransigent on the issue than the National Party, which Climate Change Minister James Shaw is working with separately to make sure his Zero Carbon Act gets some level of bipartisan support.”
Would be grossly irresponsible to become a world leading model for new ways of 1st world impoverishment, National & the Greens.
I am guessing NZ1st has solidarity where it counts – the govt’s well being budget approach.
Effective environmentalism is that of Zero Impoverishment, & looking at better methodologies of statistical gauges is how such environmental transitions can be successful holistically.
Not the National Green Zero Carbon Act stuff, which incidentally is a betrayal of not one, but both sets of supporting electorate blocks!!
Eco Maori tau toko’s this young Mana Wahine Greta she traveled 40 hour’s by train to get to Davos and stayed in a tent in freezing conditions to keep her visit’s carbon foot print low as possable that’s commitement. In her speach she points out that everyone there was part of the cause of global warming . There are 2 that Eco Maori will call out send a wero.
‘Our house is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate
Greta Thunberg
Swedish school strike activist demands economists tackle runaway global warming. Read her Davos speech here.
According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%.
And please note that those numbers do not include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris agreement work on a global scale. Nor does it include tipping points or feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas released from the thawing Arctic permafrost.
Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos
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At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed. All political movements in their present form have done so, and the media has failed to create broad public awareness.
But Homo sapiens have not yet failed.
Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands. But unless we recognise the overall failures of our current systems, we most probably don’t stand a chance.
We are facing a disaster of unspoken sufferings for enormous amounts of people. And now is not the time for speaking politely or focusing on what we can or cannot say. Now is the time to speak clearly.
Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that Homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Either we do that or we don’t.
You say nothing in life is black or white. But that is a lie. A very dangerous lie. Either we prevent 1.5C of warming or we don’t. Either we avoid setting off that irreversible chain reaction beyond human control or we don’t.
We must change almost everything in our current societies. The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral duty. The bigger your platform, the bigger your responsibility.
Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. Ka kite ano links below
How does one group of Our Aotearoa society get to decide there Own M8 charges not considering the impact it does to Wahine wanting to become a lawyer O thats correct they want the law society to be a white man domanated organiation. I say that our unjustice system needs BIG changes most uncorrupted society YEA RIGHT they are just better at covering the lieing cheating ass,s
Law Society decision ‘woefully inadequate’
The Law Society has fined and censured an unnamed former partner in a law firm who admitted to sexually harassing two employees.
It’s the first standards committee decision publicly released since the Russell McVeagh revelations of last year, and the findings have disappointed those advocating for more accountability in the legal profession. Sasha Borissenko reports
A former partner has been fined $12,500 and ordered to pay costs of $2,500 for sexually harassing two employees at an unnamed law firm for what has been described as ‘unsatisfactory conduct’ in a Standards Committee decision, released yesterday.
Zoë Lawton, who started a blog for sexual violence victims to document their stories anonymously, said the standards committee had to decide whether the partner’s conduct amounted to the statutory definition of unsatisfactory conduct or misconduct, the latter being more serious.
“To decide this they appear to have asked themselves: would lawyers of good standing simply find the conduct unacceptable or would they find it disgraceful or dishonourable.”
The Committee decided that lawyers of good standing would merely find this unacceptable, not disgraceful or dishonourable, she said.
“I have serious concerns about this decision because on the face of it, what he did could amount to indecent assault under the Crimes Act which carries a maximum term of 7 years in prison.
“What he did is clearly disgraceful or dishonourable and it begs the worrying question, what more dreadful things does a lawyer have to do to meet the Standards Committee’s misconduct
Ollivier told Newsroom the Committee considered and decided against ordering that the identity of the lawyer be published.
“[The Committee] ordered publication of the facts to educate the legal profession and to provide guidance to lawyers in relation to their own conduct and also the conduct of others that they may witness and which they may be required to report.”
Lawton said the decision doesn’t give any justification for the suppression. The Committee had full discretion, and has repeatedly named lawyers for other types of unsatisfactory conduct in the past.
“This is not good enough – when judges suppress the names of offenders in criminal courts they provide reasons so the Standards Committee should do the same.”
Partners at firms who sexually harass staff and subsequently resign or are forced out often then become sole barristers and employ their own staff, she said.
Ka kite ano links below
Our Australian Tangata whenua/ people of the land Cosin need to be treated with the RESPECT they deserve they are a great culture with a great history being suppressed by the goverment. Times Are Changing fast there culture has a lot incommon with maori culture for one we respect mother nature before the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Massive crowds have gathered in cities across the country as ‘invasion day’ rallies kick off.
Swarms of people have people have filled Hyde Park in Sydney this morning, carrying flags and signs to protest Australia Day and what it represents.
Hundreds of people have also filled the streets of Melbourne, chanting, “Always was, always will be Aboriginal land”.
About 600 people started their day at the Melbourne invasion day dawn service, acknowledging and mourning the frontier wars and Aboriginal massacres.
The service at Kings Domain — where the bodies of 38 Victorian first nations people are buried — included speeches, a minute’s silence, a smoking and ochre ceremony and the reading out of known massacre sites across the state.
At Sydney’s protest, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement this week of a multimillion-dollar project to “rediscover” Captain James Cook “went down like a lead balloon”.
Mr Morrison announced $6.7 million in funding for a replica of Captain Cook’s
famous ship the Endeavour to circumnavigate Australia over 14 months, stopping at 39 locations along the coast.
He was crucified on social media over the controversial project, which many slammed as a waste of money.
People have commented how invasion day protests are dwarfing Australia Day celebrations, indicating it is time to change the date.
It’s a divisive issue that comes up every year, with The Project host Waleed Aly this week throwing up new suggestions.
This January 26 marks 231 years since the First Fleet landed in Port Jackson.
But for a growing community of Australians the day has become a symbol of inequity and institutionalised harm.
Invasion day activists contest that Australia Day enforces a false narrative of an Australia that began on this day, and forgets a preceding history.
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Kia ora Newshub That iron ora mine tailing dam burst is a shocking desaster that could have been avoided with good policing I wonder if its owners are Foreigners. It’s a good move having 17 years old being seen by the youth courts I say one doesn’t grow up till 25 especially if they don’t have good gidence at home no mother father grandparents after all the youth are OUR future. Condolences to the Spanish whano child who lost his life down that boar hole Let’s hope the world get it sorted out and Venezuela I seen a video spinning about why the poor countrys are poor and the rich are rich it was a load of bull I know that the rich country’s are mostly western control countries and the poor country’s are poor because the Western countries have exploited them hence Venezuela problems.
Its cool that the Black Ferns 7 team have a few good games at home some good matches to watch. The All Blacks 7 are good good to Ka kite ano
I say Ma has good Ideas for his housing developements alot of space for trees and parks for the tamariki to go and play for everyone to enjoy our beautiful enviroment this design is all so good for our bee,s and insects birds good for our enviroment good for US.
Meet Charles Ma, the 28-year-old land developer behind a $1 billion Auckland housing project
Land developer Charles Ma, an Auckland-born Kiwi of Chinese descent, through his company Made Group is developing a 2700 section housing project in the Auckland suburb of Drury, 40 kilometres south of the central city.
The civil engineer and business graduate started working on Auranga five years ago with the goal of creating a community that puts people at its centre and creates “a more fulfilling life” for residents
Ma says he wants Auranga to be unlike any other community in New Zealand. A place where residents are less reliant on cars and have greater access to shared green spaces.
“I think it will become perhaps one of the blueprints that will be used for future communities,” Ma says.
Ma, describes himself as “a classic Aucklander”. He was born and raised in Auckland and was a student at the prestigious school, Auckland Grammar, before attending the University of Auckland. He’s now listed on the university’s 40 under 40 list, outlining its most promising and successful alumni.
The Manukau resident went on to study in Britain and the United States, including Stanford, Harvard, London Business School and soon Oxford
On returning to New Zealand Ma started working in the property development division of private equity firm Lily Investment Group where within a few years he was promoted to a director role.
He attributes this to his “dying curiosity” and being bilingual. Being the son of Chinese migrants Ma also speaks Mandarin, Cantonese.
Ma is no stranger to property development.
But Ma has already moved onto bigger and better things.
“Auranga: You could say 20 or 30 things about it that are quite interesting but to me at its core, I want to connect people into place again, towards a more purposeful way of living.
“This is not my first development but this will be my flagship development.”
But I took my time to research around the world to find out what I can do differently. It’s taken a bit longer but I trust it will produce a better outcome.”
Perhaps Auranga’s most defining feature is its abundance of parks and open green spaces.
“We mandated every development in our community to have a park edge road.”
A “park edge road” means housing is only built on one side of main roads leaving the remaining side accessible to the public.
This is an inefficient way to plan a housing development because its prime land that’s not being used for housing.
But Ma believes that not building homes on the prime real estate sites, like the coast, and leaving it accessible to the public, will create more value in the long run.
Ma says he wanted to move away from traditional subdivision planning, which focused on maximising return on investment by designing layouts in the most cost effective way.
“Most subdivisions, they are grids. I know because I designed them.”
With Auranga he wanted residents and the wider public to engage with the coast. He did not want to privatise it so a select few could enjoy it.
The US-based mentor says when she first met Ma she saw he had “the magic, the drive and the ambition” seen in great world leaders.
“I was instantly struck by his energy,” Verresen says.
“And like many successful entrepreneurs, Charles figured out how to do things his way.”
One of Ma’s first principles is to ask “why not?”, she says.
“This allows him to move fast and create what has not existed before. Which is why at such a young age he leads a successful real estate development group that he created from scratch.”
She says Ma wants to help people find to a sense of belonging in the world.
“Charles fundamentally cares and is passionate about every single person feeling like they belong. Because in his experience when you belong you can thrive.
“So he is starting with homes and townships that are specifically designed to create more belonging.” Ka kite ano links below.
Kia ora R&R I wai needs to be treated like it is our tipuna & given the respect and value that it deserves the giver of life and all the good properties and uses that it has.
Mike yes we need to take back the guidance of how water is used and treated from the business first over the distruction of the wai and the creatures that she holds and put the enviroments first. After all we can not live without wai she can live on with out us also the old saying its pays not to shit in ones back yard.
Thats a good move by the Lakes Councils to find $40 million to get farms around lakes to stop farming but thats just the price of 3 to 5 farms the councils and goverments needs to grow some——– and make farming around all waterways organic as its the Urea and not really the cow urine that is poisining our water.
And all farming practices become Organic ka kite ano P.S Bottling water and selling it has to stop no matter were it ends up plastic waste is my main consern
Eco Maori says drop sugar out of our diets and the goverments should turn it into green fuel as its is not needed in our diets it is a bad substance that should be taxed hard I also advise to have porridge for breakfast with no or the tip of a teaspoon of sugar it is a super food gluten free it good for weight loss reduces blood sugar levels reduced heart disease and its does not cost much to buy.
Three years ago, I stopped eating sugar. My plan was to have a sugar-free month, just to see if it made a difference. I had done similar experiments before – a month without caffeine, or alcohol, or reading news online. Aside from chocolate, I wasn’t a big eater of sugar, I thought, so I didn’t expect to notice any change. But I did.
Giving up sugar set me free. And so, what began as an experiment has become my new life. I have changed in ways that I had not thought possible.
I used to get “hangry” – that grumpy, urgent craving that demands prompt attention. To stave it off, I carried bags of almonds or dried fruit. Back when I ate sugar, I couldn’t go running in the morning – if I tried, I would get dizzy, and anyway, my legs felt as if they were made of stone. I would have slumps in the afternoon – my head would get foggy – so if I was working from home, I would take a nap. I had mood swings, joy alternating with despair. I had assumed that all of these things were simply part of life, of how I was, a frustrating aspect of my makeup. And now all of them are gone.
My decision to stop sugar was taken on a whim. Back then, aside from its role in tooth decay, I knew little about its possible effects on health. But when I discovered how much better I felt without it, I became curious – and began to read.
To a chemist, sugar refers to a class of molecules made of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen; some of these serve particular biological roles. Lactose, for example, is found in milk; deoxyribose gives the “D” to DNA. But in daily life, the main sugars one meets are glucose, fructose and sucrose – which is a marriage of the other two. That is, each molecule of sucrose is one glucose linked to one fructose. Interestingly, the two simple sugars have the same chemical formula – 6 atoms of carbon, 12 of hydrogen, 6 of oxygen – but different chemical structures. The human tongue detects this: fructose tastes sweeter.Glucose is synonymous with blood sugar, since it is transported in the blood and delivered to cells to fuel their energetic needs. But you can also find it, along with fructose, in fruits and vegetables. Sucrose is extracted from sugar cane or beets, and is usually encountered as the white crystals of table sugar. When most people speak of “sugar”, they mean sucrose. High-fructose corn syrup, the most common sweetener of non-diet soft-drinks, is a mixture of glucose and fructose. So is honey– though honey is a complex concoction that contains many other compounds.
The history of sugar is full of darkness. The European appetite for sweetness drove the slave trade; according to one estimate, in the Americas, two-thirds of enslaved Africans worked on sugar cane plantations. Sugar is also implicated in lung cancer. How? Because the tobacco in blended cigarettes has typically been soaked in sugar syrups; this makes the smoke easier to take into the lungs.
The grim harvest does not stop there. A growing number of doctors blame sugar consumption for a long list of medical woes. These include diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, gout, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, many cancers, and perhaps even Alzheimer’s. Some researchers have even linked the eating of sugar in childhood to the development of myopia, arguing that the spikes in insulin secretion caused by sugar consumption interfere with the normal development of the eyes. In short: the recent medical literature about sugar makes alarming reading.
Such connections are, of course, disputed. But as an evolutionary biologist, as well as someone who has felt the immediate benefits of a sugar-free lifestyle, I find the claims persuasive. For most of human history, after all, milk, honey and fruits have been the main sources of sweetness. When cane sugar first made its way to Europe around 1,000 years ago, it was treated as a spice, a medicine and a preservative.
In 1700, the average sugar consumption in the United Kingdom was around two kilograms per person per year. Today, the figure is 10 times that amount. Over the past 300 years, sugars have thus gone from an occasional luxury to a substantial component of the average western diet. The present sugar glut is an anomaly in human experience. We have changed the world to suit our appetites; but our bodies cannot accommodate the change.medical literature about sugar makes alarming reading.
Such connections are, of course, disputed. But as an evolutionary biologist, as well as someone who has felt the immediate benefits of a sugar-free lifestyle, I find the claims persuasive. For most of human history, after all, milk, honey and fruits have been the main sources of sweetness. When cane sugar first made its way to Europe around 1,000 years ago, it was treated as a spice, a medicine and a preservative.
In 1700, the average sugar consumption in the United Kingdom was around two kilograms per person per year. Today, the figure is 10 times that amount. Over the past 300 years, sugars have thus gone from an occasional luxury to a substantial component of the average western diet. The present sugar glut is an anomaly in human experience. We have changed the world to suit our appetites; but our bodies cannot accommodate the change.
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Mana Wahine kia kaha we need to Focus on the grandchildrens future and climate change is the BIGGEST threat to all OUR Future,s
House Democrats Plan to Tackle Climate—with or without the GOP
Rep. Kathy Castor, head of the revamped House climate committee, says the panel will be working on a policy road map for global warming
Climate change is back on the table in Congress—at least in the House of Representatives, where Democrats took control earlier this month. As part of an effort to focus more on combating global warming, Democrats have revived a special House committee on climate that Republicans had previously eliminated.
But the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (pdf) already faces big obstacles. The Trump administration has rolled back numerous environmental initiatives, even declaring it is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. The Republican-controlled Senate has placed little emphasis on tackling warming. Democrats are arguing over the committee’s focus; some even question the need for such a panel. The committee also lacks legislative authority (meaning it cannot move bills) and cannot issue subpoenas that would compel people to testify.
Climate change is back on the table in Congress—at least in the House of Representatives, where Democrats took control earlier this month. As part of an effort to focus more on combating global warming, Democrats have revived a special House committee on climate that Republicans had previously eliminated.
But the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (pdf) already faces big obstacles. The Trump administration has rolled back numerous environmental initiatives, even declaring it is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. The Republican-controlled Senate has placed little emphasis on tackling warming. Democrats are arguing over the committee’s focus; some even question the need for such a panel. The committee also lacks legislative authority (meaning it cannot move bills) and cannot issue subpoenas that would compel people to testify.
The select committee will press all of the [permanent Congressional standing committees] to take action immediately—to address the impacts of climate and to press for bold action on reducing greenhouse gases. So we’re kind of the quarterback for a number of these committees, and will press to accomplish what we currently can. That’s with the understanding that the GOP controls the Senate and Pres. Trump and his administration are moving in the wrong direction—and there isn’t much sign of them reconsidering their position.
So we will do what we can now, and then set the table for bolder action when we have a friendlier U.S. Senate and a new president. But we simply can’t wait. The cost of inaction is growing, and it’s more dire than ever before Ka kite ano links below
Kia ora R&R Time,s are ka pai now that OUR Te Reo is getting the honor and respect that it deserves and tangata whenua O Aoteoroa culture,s are getting honor and respest also Kia kaha.
Eco Maori has a sore face because of this great phenomenon that is sweaping around the motu and Papatuanuku at the minute.
And yes social media has a big role to play in that phenomen and the future of Te Reo and Tangata whenua O Aotearoa Culture,s
Its ka pai that the people of Te Wai Pounamu have seen the value of Te Reo when I was down there 25 years ago it did not look good for the mana of tangata whenua back then another reason to give me a sore face.
Yes confident,s is a big + in anyones wairua Eco Maori trys to install that in all peoples as Aotearoa is made up of a lot of cultures and we all need to respect everyone white asian brown no matter whom they are. Ka kite ano Kia kaha P.S The powers that be suppresed Te reo and our old kau papa they have alot of maori nolage and prophecies hidden in there vaults
Kia kaha to all the Environment protesters young & elderly some care about what we are going to leave our grandchildren We will make logical changes because we have to no if on buts it a priority to spot burning coal /carbon.
Warming world gets older, wiser, richer activists hot under the collar
A growing number of older protesters are standing up and fighting for the environment
When Audrey Cooke first spoke to her family about her retirement plans, they had one condition: “Don’t get arrested.”
The 72-year-old retired Melbourne schoolteacher’s husband died of pancreatic cancer nine years ago. She has two young grandchildren. And she is now a full-time climate activist.
“I’ll do it until I drop,” she says. “I’m in a hurry. We are facing an existential threat and this is more important than anything for me.”
Cooke is one of a growing number of older protesters using their retirement to help the climate movement. Her tiny 1.5 metre (4ft 11in) frame has become familiar at protest marches and demonstrations. In 2017 she did get arrested after spending seven hours locked to a fence at the Adani Carmichael mine site.
“You can call me an accidental activist. I’m very new to it,” she says.
“I have always been an environmentalist. The environment is paramount to me but in my younger days I was busy with my family and my career
There’s no point going on a holiday,” Cooke says. “I know that if we don’t do something then we won’t have a sustainable planet.”
Unprecedented amounts of time, money and motivation
Miriam Robinson, 58, is the spokeswoman for the Grey Power Climate Protectors. She says one of the group’s first aims is to encourage grandparents to attend the next school strike on 15 March.
“Many kids couldn’t attend [last time] because their parents work,” Robinson says. “Grandparents bringing their grandkids to the … strike will be a powerful moral statement that all ages are concerned about the effects of climate change.
“Heatwaves can be deadly for the elderly and infants. Older people will change their vote for their own sake but also [for] their kids and grandkids.”
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A former Greens leader, Bob Brown, says older Australians look at the world “with mixed feelings of amazed horror”.
“They come equipped with unprecedented amounts of time, money and motivation. This is a cauldron of untapped civil action from vote-changing to direct protest, and climate change is the major target.
“The money-driven absurdity of Adani is on a collision course with thousands of environment-alarmed older Australians who are prepared to give up time, money and comfort to help save the planet.”
Brown plans to lead a convoy of vehicles – appealing to grey nomads – from Tasmania to Bowen in Queensland later this year.
ka kite ano links below P.S Thanks to the elderly for there backing the climate change fight
Kia ora Newshub I it doesn’t take long for the heat to dry the farm whenua out and 30 degrees is hot be careful with ahi fire people. That is a shocking shameful amount of people missing in that dam collapse in Brazil let’s hope that won’t happen again the wealthy people ripping the country off I say and bending the rules.
Stone he has a shity history.
I did some research into how our Australian cousins were treated and its shame full they only got right the be treated as equals in 1967.Some of te tipuna went to Australia and were appalled by the way the whites treated the native that gave Maori a reason not to trust the settlers here.
Totara was used for fence post and carvings were ECO Maori comes from a highly valued timber Ka pai Shane I’m sure you will find a valuable use of it you don’t need to treat the timber and its easy to carve compared to other timbers.
Judge Aitken is a good person who knows what she’s talking about from her own experience Ka pai
That’s true commitment from Brian Karl with his reasurch and monatering penguin at adelie Antarctica 30 years ECO MAORI thanks you for the hard work you have done for the penguin. Ka kite ano P.S?????????????
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Parliament’s speaker had no option but to refer Green MP Julie Anne Genter to the Privileges Committee for her behaviour in the House last Wednesday evening. The incident, in which she crossed the floor to wave a book and yell at National Minister Matt Doocey, reflects poorly on Genter and ...
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When in government, Labour pushed to extend the Parliamentary term to four years, to reduce accountability and our ability to vote out a bad government. And now, they're trying to do it through the member's ballot, with a Four-Year Parliamentary Term Legislation Bill. The bill at least requires a referendum ...
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The future of Te Huia, the train between Hamilton and Auckland, has been getting a lot of attention recently as current funding for it is only in place till the end of June. The government initially agreed to a five year trial, through to April 2026, but that was subject ...
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A homicide in Ponsonby, a manhunt with a killer on the run. The nation’s leader stands before a press conference reassuring a frightened nation that he’ll sort it out, he’ll keep them safe, he’ll build some new prison spaces.Sorry what? There’s a scary dude on the run with a gun ...
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Peter Dunne writes – It is one of the oldest truisms that there is never a good time for MPs to get a pay rise. This week’s announcement of pay raises of around 2.8% backdated to last October could hardly have come at a worse time, with the ...
David Farrar writes – Newshub reports: Newshub can reveal a fresh allegation of intimidation against Green MP Julie-Anne Genter. Genter is subject to a disciplinary process for aggressively waving a book in the face of National Minister Matt Doocey in the House – but it’s not the first time ...
The Treasury has published a paper today on the global productivity slowdown and how it is playing out in New Zealand: The productivity slowdown: implications for the Treasury’s forecasts and projections. The Treasury Paper examines recent trends in productivity and the potential drivers of the slowdown. Productivity for the whole economy ...
Winston Peters’ comments about former Australian foreign minister look set to be an ongoing headache for both him and Luxon. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The podcast above of the weekly ‘hoon’ webinar for subscribers features co-hosts and , along with regular guests on Gaza and ...
These puppet strings don't pull themselvesYou're thinking thoughts from someone elseHow much time do you think you have?Are you prepared for what comes next?The debating chamber can be a trying place for an opposition MP. What with the person in charge, the speaker, typically being an MP from the governing ...
The land around Lyme Regis, where Meryl Streep once stood, in a hood, on the Cobb, is falling into the sea.MerylThe land around Lyme Regis, around the Cobb that made it rich, has always been falling slowly but surely into the sea. Read more ...
Photo by Jari Hytönen on UnsplashIt’s that new day of the week (Thursday rather than Friday) when and I co-host our ‘hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm. Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news ...
Buzz from the Beehive Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was bound to win headlines when he set out his thinking about AUKUS in his speech to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. The headlines became bigger when – during an interview on RNZ’s Morning Report today – he criticised ...
The Post reports on how the government is refusing to release its advice on its corrupt Muldoonist fast-track law, instead using the "soon to be publicly available" refusal ground to hide it until after select committee submissions on the bill have closed. Fast-track Minister Chris Bishop's excuse? “It's not ...
As pressure on it grows, the livestock industry’s approach to the transition to Net Zero is increasingly being compared to that of fossil fuel interests. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesTL;DR: Here’s the top five news items of note in climate news for Aotearoa-NZ this week, and a discussion above ...
The New Zealand Herald reports – Stats NZ has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme to all of its workers as a way to give staff some control over their “future” amidst widespread job losses in the public sector. In an update to staff this morning, seen by the Herald, Statistics New Zealand ...
On Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events:The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: TVNZ says it is dealing with about 50 formal complaints over its coverage of the latest 1News-Verian political poll, with some viewers – as well as the Prime Minister and a former senior Labour MP – critical of the tone of the 6pm report. ...
Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
The Green Party is welcoming the announcement by the Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop to approve most of the Wellington City Council’s District Plan recommendations. ...
David Seymour has failed to get the sweeping cuts he wanted to the free and healthy school lunch programme, Labour education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
Hon Willie Jackson has been invited by the Oxford Union to debate the motion “This House Believes British Museums are not Very British’ on May 23rd. ...
Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon says her Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill is an opportunity to right some past wrongs around the alienation of Māori land. ...
A senior, highly respected King’s Counsel with decades of experience in our law courts, Gary Judd KC, has filed a complaint about compulsory tikanga Māori studies for law students - highlighting the utter depths of absurdity this woke cultural madness has taken our society. The tikanga regulations will compel law ...
The Government needs to be clear with the people of the Nelson Marlborough region about the changes it is considering for the Nelson Hospital rebuild, Labour health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said. ...
Ministers must front up about which projects it will push through under its Fast Track Approvals legislation, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
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. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
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. ...
Your Excellency Ambassador Meredith, Members of the Diplomatic Corps and Ambassadors from European Union Member States, Ministerial colleagues, Members of Parliament, and other distinguished guests, Thank you everyone for joining us. Ladies and gentlemen - In diplomacy, we often speak of ‘close’ and ‘long-standing’ relations. ...
The Therapeutic Products Act (TPA) will be repealed this year so that a better regime can be put in place to provide New Zealanders safe and timely access to medicines, medical devices and health products, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello announced today. “The medicines and products we are talking about ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop, today released his decision on twenty recommendations referred to him by the Wellington City Council relating to its Intensification Planning Instrument, after the Council rejected those recommendations of the Independent Hearings Panel and made alternative recommendations. “Wellington notified its District Plan on ...
Rape Awareness Week (6-10 May) is an important opportunity to acknowledge the continued effort required by government and communities to ensure that all New Zealanders can live free from violence, say Ministers Karen Chhour and Louise Upston. “With 1 in 3 women and 1 in 8 men experiencing sexual violence ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government will be delivering a more efficient Healthy School Lunches Programme, saving taxpayers approximately $107 million a year compared to how Labour funded it, by embracing innovation and commercial expertise. “We are delivering on our commitment to treat taxpayers’ money ...
New research on the impacts of extreme weather on coastal marine habitats in Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay will help fishery managers plan for and respond to any future events, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. A report released today on research by Niwa on behalf of Fisheries New Zealand ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters will lead a broad political delegation on a five-stop Pacific tour next week to strengthen New Zealand’s engagement with the region. The delegation will visit Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Tuvalu. “New Zealand has deep and ...
There has been a material decline in gas production according to figures released today by the Gas Industry Co. Figures released by the Gas Industry Company show that there was a 12.5 per cent reduction in gas production during 2023, and a 27.8 per cent reduction in gas production in the ...
Defence Minister Judith Collins tonight announced the recipients of the Minister of Defence Awards of Excellence for Industry, saying they all contribute to New Zealanders’ security and wellbeing. “Congratulations to this year’s recipients, whose innovative products and services play a critical role in the delivery of New Zealand’s defence capabilities, ...
Welcome to you all - it is a pleasure to be here this evening.I would like to start by thanking Greg Lowe, Chair of the New Zealand Defence Industry Advisory Council, for co-hosting this reception with me. This evening is about recognising businesses from across New Zealand and overseas who in ...
It is a pleasure to be speaking to you as the Minister for Digitising Government. I would like to thank Akolade for the invitation to address this Summit, and to acknowledge the great effort you are making to grow New Zealand’s digital future. Today, we stand at the cusp of ...
New Zealand is urging both Israel and Hamas to agree to an immediate ceasefire to avoid the further humanitarian catastrophe that military action in Rafah would unleash, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The immense suffering in Gaza cannot be allowed to worsen further. Both sides have a responsibility to ...
A new online data dashboard released today as part of the Government’s school attendance action plan makes more timely daily attendance data available to the public and parents, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. The interactive dashboard will be updated once a week to show a national average of how ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced Rosemary Banks will be New Zealand’s next Ambassador to the United States of America. “Our relationship with the United States is crucial for New Zealand in strategic, security and economic terms,” Mr Peters says. “New Zealand and the United States have a ...
The Government is considering creating a new tier of minerals permitting that will make it easier for hobby miners to prospect for gold. “New Zealand was built on gold, it’s in our DNA. Our gold deposits, particularly in regions such as Otago and the West Coast have always attracted fortune-hunters. ...
Minister for Trade Todd McClay today announced that New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will commence negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA). Minister McClay met with his counterpart UAE Trade Minister Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi in Dubai, where they announced the launch of negotiations on a ...
New Zealand Sign Language Week is an excellent opportunity for all Kiwis to give the language a go, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. This week (May 6 to 12) is New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week. The theme is “an Aotearoa where anyone can sign anywhere” and aims to ...
Six tertiary students have been selected to work on NASA projects in the US through a New Zealand Space Scholarship, Space Minister Judith Collins announced today. “This is a fantastic opportunity for these talented students. They will undertake internships at NASA’s Ames Research Center or its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where ...
New Zealanders will be safer because of a $1.9 billion investment in more frontline Corrections officers, more support for offenders to turn away from crime, and more prison capacity, Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell says. “Our Government said we would crack down on crime. We promised to restore law and order, ...
The OECD’s latest report on New Zealand reinforces the importance of bringing Government spending under control, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The OECD conducts country surveys every two years to review its members’ economic policies. The 2024 New Zealand survey was presented in Wellington today by OECD Chief Economist Clare Lombardelli. ...
The Government has delivered on its election promise to provide a financially sustainable model for Auckland under its Local Water Done Well plan. The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body, will see Aucklanders avoid the previously projected 25.8 per cent water rates increases while retaining ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and enhanced cooperation in the Pacific with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during her first official visit to New Zealand today. "New Zealand and Germany enjoy shared interests and values, including the rule of law, democracy, respect for the international system ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop today released his decision on four recommendations referred to him by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, opening the door to housing growth in the area. The Council’s Plan Change 92 allows more homes to be built in existing and new ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel “through to 2050 and beyond”. In a gas strategy to be released on Thursday, the government envisages the fuel’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week the government will again next try to get its legislation through to deal with non-citizens who won’t cooperate with efforts to deport them. The bill, which the opposition and crossbench refused to rush ...
A long-term project that will set out an alternative vision for Aotearoa that looks beyond the narrow confines of the policy straight jacket adopted by successive governments. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bree Hurst, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, QUT, Queensland University of Technology TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock A much-awaited report into Coles and Woolworths has found what many customers have long believed – Australia’s big supermarkets engage in price gouging. What started ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney The Albanese government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its migration amendment bill. The report, handed down yesterday by a senate committee that ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Lobbying is at the heart of government. Who has access to and influence over key government officials shapes the decisions governments make – and how they make them. The ability to influence ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Myfany Turpin, Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Ethnobiology, University of Sydney The act representing Australia at this year’s Eurovision contest has sadly not qualified for the grand final. Yet for Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross, the duo that makes up Electric Fields, ...
In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. To clear up any confusion, The Spinoff has compiled a guide to the wokeness levels of some common food items. Apple = NOT WOKE Avocado = WOKE Avocado, smashed = EVEN ...
The Minister Responsible for GCSB and the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security have been notified of this review, and have been provided a finalised Terms of Reference. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Minglu Chen, Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Robert Way/Shutterstock As the past few years have illustrated so clearly, the Australia-China relationship is complicated. As such, it is crucial for Australians to develop a more nuanced understanding of ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mariana Campbell, Research Lecturer, Conservation, Charles Darwin University Marilyn Connell Australian freshwater turtles are facing an alarming trend. Almost half of these species are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) is one of Australia’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Passey, Digital Health Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Algorithms have become integral to our lives. From social media apps to Netflix, algorithms learn your preferences and prioritise the content you are shown. Google Maps and artificial intelligence are nothing without ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josephine Barbaro, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Psychologist, La Trobe University Unsplash We’ve come a long way in terms of understanding that everyone thinks, interacts and experiences the world differently. In the past, autistic people, people with attention deficit hyperactive disorder ...
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s deputy opposition leader James Nomane has accused the government of “reckless economic management” that has forced devaluation to manage loan repayments in foreign currency and placate the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prime Minister James Marape “must stop lying to the people of Papua New Guinea”, ...
Welcome to The Spinoff Bookseller Confessional, in which we get to know Aotearoa’s booksellers. This week: Jane Arthur, author of Brown Bird, and former bookseller at Good Books.The book I wish I’d writtenI have been working on not comparing myself to others. On accepting that what I can ...
The final decision on the Wellington District Plan makes it official: High-density housing is legal across most of Wellington. Housing minister Chris Bishop has announced his decision on the Wellington District Plan, approving a series of amendments to radically upzone most of Wellington, allowing tens of thousands of new townhouses ...
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz)Political scientist, Dr Bryce Edwards. “Follow the money” is the classic directive to journalists trying to understand where power and influence lie in society. In terms of uncovering who influences various New Zealand political parties and governments, it therefore pays to ...
RNZ News As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a “catastrophic humanitarian situation”. Rafah was “significant” because it was the only part in Gaza that had not been terribly damaged by the conflict, United Nations ...
With funding set to be scrapped for the Hamilton-Auckland commuter train, Te Huia enthusiast Georgie Dansey argues for it to be thrown a lifeline. It’s 5.45am and the chain of my crappy old bike falls off slugging up the one hill in Hamilton. I contemplate yeeting the bike into the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Cooke, Honorary Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland We feel ecological grief when we lose places, species or ecosystems we value and love. These losses are a growing threat to mental health and wellbeing globally. We all see ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shauna Brail, Associate Professor, Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto A shift to hybrid and remote work continues to affect worker presence in Toronto’s downtown.(Shutterstock) Downtown Toronto, the core of Canada’s largest city, continues to reel from the lingering ...
Responding to an Auditor-General's report slamming failures in the administration of the 2023 General Election, Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said: ...
Productivity apps now make up a big chunk of the software market. But do they work? And why do they all have AI integrations?Despite being firmly on the record as a physical planner fan, I sometimes dream of something better than my pretty diary and its scrawled, ugly, interior ...
The Taxpayers’ Union says the Beehive need to lead by example, following reports of more than $50,000 spent upgrading video conferencing equipment and furniture in the Prime Minister’s office. Taxpayers’ Union Campaign Manager, Connor Molloy, ...
An objective list of the 50 most powerful people in New Zealand, as judged by the Spinoff Editorial Board. It’s power list season, baby, and we want in on the action. Sure, there’s the rich list and the powerful “c-suite” list and the young people with power (hmmm) but here, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney ShutterstockThis article contains information on deaths in custody and the names of deceased people, and describes ongoing colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. First Nations people in Australia ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Macquarie University Netflix Baby Reindeer’s phenomenal success has much to do with its writer and lead, Richard Gadd, who plays Donny in a tender semi-autobiographical account of sexual abuse, harassment and stalking. Gadd’s story has ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle KarolinaGrabowska/Pexels If you didn’t have food allergies as a child, is it possible to develop them as an adult? The short answer is yes. But the reasons why are much ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Moon, Professor of History, Auckland University of Technology Ans Westra, self-portrait, c. 1963. National Library ref AWM-0705-F They try but invariably fail – those writers who believe they are capable of encapsulating in prose or verse the essence of ...
Stewart Sowman-Lund looks at the growing concern around the world in this extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. What’s all this? When Covid-19 arrived on our shores in early 2020, some argued we were too slow, or crucially, ill-prepared for a pandemic. So ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Franco Montalto, Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Director, Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Laboratory, Drexel University Water runs into a storm drain in a Los Angeles alley on Aug. 19, 2023, during Tropical Storm Hilary.Citizen of the Planet/Universal Images ...
The inquest into the death of Gore toddler Lachlan Jones has turned up a new witness who says he saw two teenagers and a small child in a high vis vest in the area where the boy’s body was found the day he died. Lachie’s body was discovered face up ...
Stories from the tenancy trenches, featuring spider infestations, cupboard rats and same-sex discrimination. Lucy’s brother was living in a damp 1930s building in Mt Eden where “he had to tie the cupboard doors closed so the rats didn’t get in”. Although he shared custody of his six-year-old son, his property ...
Simeon Brown, Chris Luxon, and Wayne Brown climbed into a hole and announced a plan to solve Auckland’s water woes. This is how it’ll work. New Zealand’s pipes are munted. They’re cracked and leaking, and struggling to handle all the extra poos excreted by our rising population. It’s a big, ...
After replacing a fifth of their caucus in just four months, the Greens’ opportunity to reset, reshuffle and refocus on the Government is quickly slipping away The post Persistent Green Party scandals delay caucus reset appeared first on Newsroom. ...
I knew Taika Waititi quite well when he was a kid. His mother lived in a tall narrow house in Aro St, and my youngest sister had a similar house two doors along. They were both single mums, they each had a son aged seven. Taika and my nephew Stepan ...
Opinion: “As time passes, knowledge of the circumstances of the August 2016 outbreak will fade and its immediate impact will be lost.” This statement is from the 2017 report of the Official Inquiry into the Havelock North campylobacteriosis outbreak. The then National-led government established the inquiry after the outbreak left ...
Opinion: Nicholas Khoo looks at two key points in the high-stakes foreign policy pact debate – and asks if NZ can engage with as little drama as possible. The post Where to next for the Aukus ruckus? appeared first on Newsroom. ...
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Opinion: ‘Reference-class forecasting’ is at the heart of improving pricing a project and identifying the expected timeframe but it doesn’t appear to be in use here The post ‘Think fast and act slowly’ is failing big projects appeared first on Newsroom. ...
What do a sombrero in Argentina and cognitive driving tests have in common? Don’t worry, we’re not setting up a bad joke. Hinengaro Clinic dementia clinician Gregory Winkelman has the answer on today’s episode of The Detail. “We ask a patient’s spouse or son or daughter: If you went to ...
Wellington long jumper Phoebe Edwards is back and she’s having fun again. Until this year, Edwards, a top athlete in her teens, had never competed as a senior athlete in New Zealand. In March, the 26-year-old won a national long jump title in a lifetime best of 6.28m after ...
ANALYSIS:By Olli Hellmann, University of Waikato When New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day today on April 25, it’s not only to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I and subsequent conflicts, but also to mark a defining event for national identity. The battle of Gallipoli against ...
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The widely known secret is out https://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=12195642&ref=twitter
Ugly and vulgar. But not surprising if you regard National Party people as essentially high-income ferals.
And probably not incitement to self-harm either. Best left to the voters of Invercargill to pass judgement.
Out in the open now, the JLR saga continues:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110154722/sarah-dowie-named-as-national-mp-investigated-over-text-to-jamilee-ross
See dedicated post about that: https://thestandard.org.nz/herald-names-dowie-as-the-sender-of-that-text-to-jami-lee-ross/
Looks like Mitchell is being lined up for the new leader of national. Been in the news a lot the last few days and on the AM show just now they’re talking down bridges and saying how much of a leader Mitchell is in contrast.
On a side note. Had the displeasure of tuning into what is now called magic talk, the old radio live, to discover it is now wall to wall right wing douche bags. Kicking off the morning with Garner and co we move to Peter Williams then bloody Sean plunket back from the dead in the afternoon.
Williams is applaing talk about a goat in sheep’s clothing but I suspected that would be the case. OK I was curious to see if what I thought was right, turned out to be even more right than even I thought would be the case and yes I will tune for a bit in shortly to see just what today’s opening lecture will be about.
Is Peter Williams a rightie as well? Never heard him opining in previous roles, so hard to tell.
I’d never heard him but it only took about 30 mins to realise. Conversation about wages in Australia being higher which he couldn’t reconcile and how teachers shouldn’t be paid more.
Nearly forgot, he opened the show slagging off Ardern for being at Davos and not in nz or some crap.
Interesting. thanks.
Have not listened to radio talk hate since ’85.
But seriously Garner, Williams Plunket right wing?
To me they all come across as apolitical as it’s possible to be.
Pete would be always listening to the cricket or the rugby.
Duncan is the fat token part Maori shirt hanging out
wondering how come every one in here is white.
Shaun was a typical meat and potatoes Radio NZ lunch time reporter.
If that’s the right wing these days things are looking up.
A jobs a job whether your a body guard for the PM, writing Simon’s
question time material or designing the greens next photo opp.
Right wing work pays. The left pay sh#t.
So Dunc’s Pete and Shaun go where there’s a cheque.
Can’t blame them.
You are kidding? Pay more attention in future….at times they are popularists but they are ALWAYS right-wing
Looks like no rain for north island at least until February 3rd week.
Buckle in everyone.
metvuw takes you out 10 days but you can see further in the South Pacific images.
Have you not had enough rain to be getting on with addy? Need a bigger tank?
GERMAN TROOPS RETURN
EXTENT OF HELP TO FRANCO INDICATED
The Ellesmere Guardian, Friday 28 July 1939
Adolf Hitler disclosed on June 6 in an address to 18,000 German fighters back from Spain that General Francisco Franco had asked him for help in the first month of the Spanish civil war and “I decided to aid him,” states the Christian Science Monitor.
The number of Germans killed in the Spanish conflict was given for the first time when some 350 members of the Hitler Youth Organisation marched out beside the tribune from which Herr Hitler spoke, bearing a shield with the names of dead wreathed in gold. There were approximately 350 names.
A parade of the veterans before Reichsfuhrer Hitler and his aide, Field Marshal Hermann Goering, was the first concrete indication of the extent of German help to the Spanish Nationalist cause.
The Fuhrer scathingly denounced anti-Franco campaigns in Britain and France, declaring that “for years French and English newspapers disseminated the lie that Germany and Italy intended to conquer Spain and to rob her of her colonies.”
Reviewing the history of the Spanish civil war, he praised General Franco as a “genial marshal who arose to lead his fatherland out of destruction into a greater future.” Herr Hitler began his disclosure of General Franco’s call for help in July, 1936, when the Spanish civil war opened, with the statement that “in the summer of 1936,, Spain seemed to have been lost. . . . The international powers then appeared to be determined to lay Europe in ruins.” Two Classes in Legion The Condor Legion, as the Spanish force is known, was divided into two classes. In one were between 4700 and 5000 men who had just returned to Germany and in the other about 10,000 men who had served and returned previously to the Fatherland. In addition there were about 3000 sailors in the parade. A crowd of about 100,000 filled the tribunes and streets in the vicinity of the reviewing stands as the veterans swung past with flowers in their behfs and wearing overseas caps.
A delegation of 150 Spanish officers accompanied the last force of airmen and technicians to return to Germany. The capital fluttered with flags and the day was a school holiday.
The German public still was learning details of the Legionnaires’ service. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that important moves of the war were based on German strategy. The newspaper said a German World War veteran, MajorGeneral Hugo Sperrle, mapped the campaigns against Bilbao and Santander.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ellesmere-guardian/1939/7/28/2
I drag my mind back from JLR and Dowie, Ayn Rand and the Tea Party and now can’t get context for the Germans and Spain. More info please. And while I am asking, did you see that chart about climate change and places not livable on the planet that was on the blog a few days ago? If you did could you give me link?
In hope thanks.
Why people with extreme wealth should never be allowed near the reins of power.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/24/wilbur-ross-government-shutdown-federal-workers-food-banks
If its that easy, he can lend the money at zero percent interest.
This clowns thinks federal workers live in Mayberry.
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1088563091166674944
edit:
and these fuckers live in lala land
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1088513436529688582
yeah, I’m sure if any of dolt45’s tenants are govt employees, he’ll give them a pass on rent until the shutdown ends, too.
Yep; and this was sent to tRump by Nathan Catura, who heads the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association
Wilbur Ross explains it.
Hapless father of a Venezuelan traitor froths out vicious nonsense.
He was reinforcing the lies of Mike Pompeo, who was on just before him.
On Al Jazeera, I’ve just heard the father of one of the right wing rebels in Venezuela aver that the government of Bolivia is “not democratic.”
That is the sort of crazed and fantastic “thinking” that fuels these violent insurrectionists.
The interviewer did not react to his nonsense, or contest his stupid lie in any way. Hardly surprising, considering that Al jazeera is an organ of the U.S.-aligned Qatar dictatorship.
Here is a pretty good interview between Max Blumenthal and Steve Ellner on Venezuela…part 2 of 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PLjGODW8tA
Moderate Rebels episode 34 (part 2/2): Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue speaking with scholar Steve Ellner about the economic war on Venezuela and the devastating impact of US sanctions. While the Trump administration pushes for a coup against President Nicolas Maduro, Ellner addresses the falsehoods of “leftist” opposition to Chavismo, the geopolitics of the Pink Tide and the role of China and Russia, and the sabotage of the BRICS system.
Much better to rely on RT eh Morrissey as that is beholden to no country 😉
LOL!
No @ Goz. Much better to get a broad spectrum drench across as many media outlets as possible rather than sign up to just those that suit your ideology or religion.
I wonder why you’re still here at times. That dick of yours must be must be needing a bit of the blue pill by now in order for it to remain so hard and big with all the setbacks you’ve suffered and that you know are about to happen.
Surely there’s something more productive you could be doing? Maybe setting up a support network for Sarah, or perhaps another Paula re-imaging project? Or an oil change and degrease for Soimon?
Edit: I forgot the LOL!
Ayn Rand – RW trendsetter extraordinaire.
One of her books, a selection of published articles, describes her attitudes which had a chilling effect on civilised and caring society.
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism is a 1964 collection of essays by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Most of the essays originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter. The book covers ethical issues from the perspective of Rand’s Objectivist philosophy. Some of its themes include the identification and validation of egoism as a rational code of ethics, the destructiveness of altruism, and the nature of a proper government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Selfishness
Ayn Rand 1905-1982 came to USA from Russia in 1926.
She and the Russian people had been through hard times and she despaired no doubt.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty: 3 March 1918
Russia ends its participation in the First World War. Bolshevik Russia loses one-third of the old empire’s population, one-third of its railway network, half its industry, three-quarters of its supplies of iron ore, nine-tenths of its coal resources and much of its food supplies….
1921
By the beginning of 1921 the rouble has lost 96% of its pre-war value; industrial production has fallen to 10% of its 1913 level. The population of Petrograd has fallen from 2.5 million in 1917 to 600,000 in 1920.
https://www.bl.uk/russian-revolution/articles/timeline-of-the-russian-revolution
In 1921 there was a famine that killed an estimated 5 million people.
1924
The Soviet Constitution came into effect, and in following years the Soviet Socialist Republic was active amassing land under its control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_history
1926
Ayn Rand arrives in the USA.
About – http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/60120/index1.html
“No one helped me,” Rand would later write, “nor did I think it was anyone’s duty to help me.” In fact, her family and American friends helped her quite a lot. She moved in with, and borrowed money from, relatives in Chicago, one of whom owned a theater where she watched hundreds of movies for free. Eventually she moved to Hollywood, ran into Cecil B. DeMille in a parking lot, and somehow, despite her broken English, got a job reading scripts.
1926 “Hollywood: American Movie City” pamphlet published in Moscow and Leningrad
Departs Leningrad (January 17)
Sails from Le Havre, France, for America on the De Grasse
(February 10)
Arrives in Manhattan (February 19)
Resides in Chicago with relatives (February–August)
Arrives in Hollywood (September 3)
Hired as movie extra by Cecil B. DeMille (September)
Meets Frank O’Connor on set of The King of Kings (September)
http://aynrandlexicon.com/about-ayn-rand/timeline.html
She came up with theory of Objectivism.
Objectivism’s central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, * that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception (see Direct and indirect realism),
* that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic,
* that the proper moral purpose of one’s life is the pursuit of one’s own happiness (see Rational egoism),
* that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and
* that the role of art in human life is to transform humans’ metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work of art—that one can comprehend and to which one can respond emotionally.
Academic philosophers have mostly ignored or rejected Rand’s philosophy.[6] Nonetheless, Objectivism has been a significant influence among right-libertarians and American conservatives. The Objectivist movement, which Rand founded, attempts to spread her ideas to the public and in academic settings.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_(Ayn_Rand)
These are Ayn Rand’s followers in piece from the New York Times.
Tea Party
You would be surprised at how many young people come into our bookshop asking for Rand, mainly Atlas Shrugged, that i why I made a ‘Friends don’t let friends red Ayn Rand’ sticker on our counter…still sell it to them if they insist though…guess you just can’t help some people.
Here is one of my all time favorite clips, Rand disciple Alan Greenspan admitting that their twisted ideology was wrong, and that he actually has no idea what humans think, or what makes them do what they do,..therein lays the very core fault of liberalism
For someone that few are aware of her influence. Rand does how a powerful legacy, and I would suggest if you are unaware of her, to make an effort to become conversant with her and who her followers are. ( Many from silicon valley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooKsv_SX4Y
https://archive.org/details/AynRandASenseOfLife
In Adam Curtis’s excellent and entertaining three part documentary series “All watched over by machines of loving grace” he covers off some of Rand’s ideas:
videos/80799353
Thanks Adrian. I think the core of the problem is setting up ideologies with arrogant presumptions of primacy and no concept or understanding about human drives and personal conflictions. This, coupled with false concepts of what purpose is good to live for; leads to materialism which ultimately limits or kills the human spirit as a plant will die if not receiving its genetically-shaped needs.
Lots of people, majorities even, brought into the idea that successful wealthy people were a better bet to back than also rans. And so backed parties that offered lower taxes for the wealthy, to free them to grow GDP. As many knew even then in the ups, this wasn’t a good idea yet they did not see the decades of cheap high density fuel flowing out of Arabia. It really did not matter if the wealthy help grow GDP, it ws going to anyway. As more drank the neolib cool aid, a new breed of economic parasite emerge, the pseudo libertarians who were highly capable of remonstrating the flaws of govt, and private collectivisation by unionists, but not the threats to liberties from private capital, and corporatism. it was not that they had no upstanding of what drives humans, its that many were just sheep, and others were all too aware the way to get rich was to protect existing wealth. Now as energy, resource and compliance costs rise the neolib position is hopelessly out of touch, requiring a mass delusion the gfc exposed as a ponsi scheme, and growing realities that its fabled market had fail to address, resource depletion, earth size limits to humanity existance, pollution…
if only it were some mean mindedness, or greed. Greed wasn’t the problem, just as you say the human drive, played upon to herd the conservative masses and crush dissenting voices. far too much conservatism, coupled and backed by wealthy patrons.
i don’t do this very often – but this is almost a public service announcement:
http://www.whoar.co.nz/2019/hep-c-drug-to-help-thousands-op-ed-my-hepatitis-story/
Thanks for that phillip u.
As I read the link and think, it seems that these people who break their drug habit are heroes. I salute them. And the good news that this link from whoar brings brightens the day for all just knowing that new treatments that work are available and that researchers have worked so carefully and well to bring this about, and the clinics that help ‘the afflicted’ to manage through and hopefully rise above.
chts…
Good advice Phil, thanks for that.
chrs…
Good for you. Really good news.
The other point to remember in general is to go generic where possible – not just on the expensive drugs, but also the day to day meds one might have. Always cheaper – especially if you shop around different pharmacies.
chrs..yeah..that makes sense – re the generics..
Well done indeed Phillip. An informative post. Go well in good health.
Bees, Birds and Mankind –
Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog
The relationship between life and the physical parameters of earth’s surface and atmosphere have been known for many decades. Those responsible therefore had the opportunity long ago to question to what extent the excesses of technically created electrical and magnetic fields might have the potential to destroy nature’s housekeeping
“Today, unprecedented exposure levels and intensities of magnetic, electric, and electromagnetic fields from numerous wireless technologies interfere with the natural information system and functioning of humans, animals, and plants. The consequences of this development, which have already been predicted by critics for many decades, cannot be ignored anymore. Bees and other insects vanish; birds avoid certain places and become disorientated at others. Humans suffer from functional impairments and diseases. And insofar as the latter are hereditary, they will be passed on to next generations as pre-existing defects”
About the Author
The main research areas of Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Warnke, an internationally renowned bioscientist at Saarland University, include biomedicine, environmental medicine, and biophysics. For decades his research interest centered especially on the effects of electromagnetic fields
Golly gosh and WTF. Every day we get hit by some new thing to take in about harm we have or are causing. probably I’m adding to the problem just typing this. Is this hell on earth or what? Those of us who have hope for a future that isn’t cold-hearted, brutal but has room for the human spirit and helpful ingenuity had better stick together, and support and put their various minds together to improve or mitigate or diminish problems. Perhaps somebody every day can think of something that needs attention, and something that can be done to help.
For me today. Question. Flowers for bees, let clover lawns flower. What is the best thing for bees getting water on these dry hot days? Does a margarine tub lid holding water with its wideish raised edge so the bees could stand close to the water and drink, weighted with a stone, in the open but shaded somehow sound like a good and practical idea to bees’ requirements?
My take on things as well, Greywarshark. It is easy to be overwhelmed, so I always ask What can I do/ my family do about that? Sometimes it is not much, but I’m a believer in many small things can grow to make a difference. So I say be a lot less greedy. Look harder at needs… are they really disguised wants.? Reuse and/or give stuff to other people who need it. Plant blue flowers bees love them. Bees need something to land on in water, like a piece of untreated pine floating in a bucket of water. or a stone in a saucer of water. Turn off any gadget not being used at the socket. We only use the microwave if someone is sick in the house. We do not own a smart ‘phone, as a wee tablet does everything else, and the ordinary cellphone suffices. Perhaps we could have a thread on ways to simplify our lives to preserve more of the planet. I try one thing each week. My recent one is “No more plastic pegs” Cheers
Thread for simplify. Have we had that yet Robert?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/01/phil-twyford-grant-robertson-out-of-sync-on-kiwibuild-10-year-target.html
Is “recalibrating ” the new word for “ditching”?
LOL!
The demand parameters have been adjusted,so clearly pricing expectations of KB do also.
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/international-migration-uses-new-official-measure
They’ve decided to import flatpacks and requisition land gozzer. Hoping the developers don’t have strokes.
That would at least be them doing something. I don’t think that is what they will be doing though is it?
No. ‘Re-calibrating’ is the new word for what is happening to Twyford in the Labour Party Caucus.
I have got to state that it was a massive serve that he got from Robertson over Kiwibuild.
And that’s in public! Imagine the ‘conversation’ they’ll be having in Caucus.
Help you Gossy LOL LOL
Means evaluate and adjust…… Where did you get ditching? ROFL
Notice they interviewed Robertson when was on the other side of the world and landed on one small point. Keep trying.
Children’s inside recreational learning. It has occurred to me that children’s tv is full of cartoons that all have the same simple look, exagerrated size, highly coloured, big eyes, based on moral tales. And it is said that looking at a story in pictures on a screen limits the imagination, the critical faculties.
Then there is the predilection of princesses for girls. It isn’t just a feminist thing to be a bit anti that, it seems that there is a class thing, so that girls are rushing to be in gauzy skirts with satin shiny tops, or they are fairies for a long time. Okay but not all the time.
Dora the Explorer is also good, she gets round and does stuff. But the tv often is produced to sell a product. Kids need to have more adventurous, fun stories with images that aren’t glamorous like Drora. But she is stylised in the art work, and is a product that royalties boost prices for. Then looking at Disney and its business out of mass-produced toys and images and profit, and Barbie dolls which present the early stages of what can grow into anorexia and the constant dissatisfaction with self appearance stress. Too commercial – what instead. At preent I’m buying old Sesame Street books or Fraggle or Wombles. Also there are some great NZ books.
Any thoughts for different themed toys; Enid Blyton produced the Five and Seven books with adventures for 8 years up I would think. Kids seem coddled in the themes for books etc. Life has to be pretty for princesses!
Netflix is the answer a better quality no ads I can see at a glance what has been watched
“Corin Dann Possible Replacement For Guyon Espiner!”
Hope not. He is not sharp enough.
Can he snigger? Is his reo pai?
Namsog ran wild on The Standard yesterday;
Shame on you if you were dumb enough to encourage him.
Yesterday a thread on this site, entitled Venezuela Coup, was hijacked by a hyperactive right wing zealot who contributed more than one third of the 251 comments. That happens sometimes, of course: trolls—witless, unlettered trolls like the one creating such havoc yesterday—are a fact of life on the Internet.
Many people were appalled by the troll and vigorously refuted his nonsense. As one would expect, a few people—notably a former Cabinet minister notorious for his bumbling and his collusion with military coverups—supported the troll’s mad behaviour. But what I, and no doubt many others, found dispiriting was the alacrity with which the troll’s wild rhetoric and straight out lies were endorsed and amplified by a small number of self-described “liberals” and “leftists.” They sided defiantly and bloodymindedly with the troll, and by the end of the day they were abusing anyone who disagreed with them as “moonbats”, quoting (with approval) discredited liars such as the utterly repugnant British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and absurdly insisting that the elected President of Venezuela was a “stalinist.”
This ridiculous spectacle, of “liberals” first indulging and then parroting wholesale a nasty right wing troll, has been seen before…..
https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/12/mr-browns-boys-part-2-of-3-dec-31-2013.html
LOL !
You think Maduro’s election was legitimate.
That is hilarious.
What about the National Assembly election in 2015? Was that legitimate?
You’re clueless. Go away.
No, I’m all good thanks. I’ll continue to point out all the flaws behind the Socialist regime in the failed state that is Venezuela.
Got proof that it wasn’t?
All I’ve seen is a lot of people saying that it wasn’t democratic but none of them offer any proof.
Yeah, I posted it here yesterday. Just to summarise: when the 2015 election produced a defeat for Maduro, he got their electoral commission to declare some of the winners invalid, thus reducing the opposition victory to a narrow defeat.
Then he had their supreme court declare the National Assembly invalid, and created a Constituent Assembly to replace it. It’s what stalinists do. The Bolsheviks set up the original model back in 2018 after their coup.
Then he ran the fake election, which the opposition refused to participate in. Why would they? They already knew the electoral commission was corrupt. He’s ahead of Mugabe on the practice of stalinism, but still has a year to go until he gets inflation up over Mugabe’s 11 million per cent bar. Will he last long enough to defeat Mugabe as top stalinist of the new millennium? Got to give the guy credit, he’s a real tryer, but he’ll only make it if he sends the death squads out soon.
Legimate for Venezuela is who has the military backing them.
Might is right? So if Muldoon had actually been the fascist he pretended to be, and used the army & police to close down our democracy, you would have supported that? Nah, reckon you’re just being provocative. 🙄
Muldoon headed militrary coup? really, do go on.
When you’ve answered my questions. Too hard?
Sadly true, I hope they select a better class of benevolent dictator next time
ropata, you appear not to have a fucking clue. That flippant comment was simply disgusting in its contempt for the fate of Venezuela, its political system, its independence, and its people. Why are you posting?
S.American countries militray have nothing better to do historically than play politics, only an ignoranmus could consider the same happening here.
lol. The loyal revolutionary legislator wouldn’t back el presidenta so he retired them. And we’re supposed to choose a side, lol.
Gosman makes this site a lot more interesting, happy to read all points of view. Think it would be boring if everyone agreed, you need robust debate. Otherwise it would be like Whaleoil where all the commenters agree.
At least gos can follow and form an argument. I’d still check it if he said grass was green or the sky was blue.
Did anyone notice that mangos come from gosman? Who would have thunk it? And that is equivalent in importance to many things he has said, to be fair, not all.
I don’t get the reference…
There isn’t any really except that mangos can go off, and one can go off Gosman. And possibly two or more could agree on that.
Dunno why you’re so keen to keep supporting the stalinist! I provided all the historical evidence for you yesterday that proves his election invalid. Are you so averse to reality that you didn’t want to read it?? Or did you just not understand it?
There’s an in-depth discussion on Al Jazeera that may help elucidate the situation: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2019/01/political-crisis-venezuela-solved-190124185450918.html
They don’t just discuss the politics, they explore the origin and possible solution pathway as well. Try to engage with an open mind, huh?
There you go with the “stalinist” gibe again. Doubling down on it makes it not one whit more accurate.
Only to someone unfamiliar with the history of stalinism. Are putting your hand up for that? No point commenting on something you haven’t investigated, right?
If you knew anything about Stalin, anything about political terror and propaganda, you would realize which side of this ideological struggle is closer to the way Stalin, and Franco, and Salazar, and Pinochet, and other democracy-hating authoritarians—you spent yesterday supporting their ideological and political heirs— thought and acted.
I take it you will never have the hide to ever criticise anything the Trump regime does in the future?
I wouldn’t be that sceptical if I were you. I’ve criticised his position on climate change here. I’m apprehensive about the potential of a fundamentalist takeover if he is impeached, and said so here. My view of that regime is both open-minded and cautious – I believe its anti-establishment stance is essential. I see the negative potentials, but tend to judge politicians on what they actually do (not the hot air that emanates).
Incidentally, you didn’t answer my questions (14.3). I know you’re able to be fair-minded when you feel like it! You’ve proven that. My use of stalinism has a somewhat different technical dimension than that outlined on its wiki, which is merely devoted to the historical form and ideology. My focus is the political psychology, the mind-set, the methodology of implementation, the techniques, the behavioural patterns that manifest all those.
Yes, the left & right meet at the opposite side of the circle in totalitarianism. In that, the end justifies the means, ethics and morality vanish. State power and personal enrichment are all that matters.
Very good Dennis! Sorry I have to leave for Napier. See you on Sunday!
Cool, have a safe trip! 😊
Dennis, you refer to a discussion on Al Jazeera, then advise engaging with an open mind.
Do you understand that this is a contradiction?
No. Appraising complex political situations without bias is always sensible. If you don’t agree, why not explain why bias is essential from your perspective?
“This ridiculous spectacle, of “liberals” first indulging and then parroting wholesale a nasty right wing troll, has been seen before…..”
Living in an imagined past again, Breen. What a sad little man.
Did you pause in embarrassment before posting?
Or suffer an uncomfortable snigger?
You’ll find out when the stenographer third rate posts a link to your message in 2026 and says “gotcha”
😆
An unemployed sockpuppet from doozycunter sports will be right along to editorialise thus.
NO ! I meant Clark’s fish was this big !
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LOLOL – Clarke throws one that size back!
Looks like the coalition isn’t operating as smoothly as they want us to believe:
“NZ First is slowing progress on the Government’s proposed climate change legislation, leading to a missed deadline for an announcement. A source close to the situation told Stuff the party has been more intransigent on the issue than the National Party, which Climate Change Minister James Shaw is working with separately to make sure his Zero Carbon Act gets some level of bipartisan support.” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110159557/nz-first-slows-climate-change-law
“An announcement on the policy was planned for before the end of 2018, but no announcement or draft bill has been forthcoming, despite the Ministry for the Environment planning to have the bill in Select Committee by February, according to its website.”
“However, the parties are confident agreement can be reached and a law introduced in the first half of 2019.” Well, could be just one or two sticking points emerged from the draft. Let’s hope. Public service design probably produced a draft that would be effective in reaching agreed goals, but NZF realised they will be in three-way competition for the neanderthal vote, so had to slam on the handbrake.
“The key holdups have involved the powers of the Climate Change Commission and the ambition of the law itself, in particular its targets. NZ First MPs were not keen to see a non-political Climate Change Commission given Reserve Bank-like powers to independently set carbon budgets.”
“The party’s MPs were also worried that New Zealand agribusiness would be unfairly disadvantaged with a law that was world-leading – rather than simply good enough to meet international obligations.”
These disagreements happen in a coalition. Basically, if you want to make the climate change commission stronger, don’t vote NZ1 next election.
I think NZ1 is *really* gone this time. Winston going into coalition with Lab/Grn was the moral thing to do, but he burned his conservative supporters. Then this UN migration pact, TPPA, and no cap on the mass immigration ponzi scheme. A lot of NZ1 voters feel betrayed.
You can see the bitterness in people’s replies to his social media statements
I should have known this but if Winston blocks CC legislation it will remove all doubt that he is just another opportunistic POS
Thing is, Winston is usually very good at reading the mood of the nation, and his supporters. His support is old school conservative, with some social democratic leanings.
Now, it may be that his party organisation decided to make a pretty meaningless concession on immigration in order to stonewall a bit harder on AGW. Maybe they should have gone the other way. Either way would piss people off, the question is whether they can make it up in other ways, or p;lacate the pissed off people with other policies.
If they’d gone with national, they’d be pissing off their electorate in the other direction. So really, the only goal is to go “this is what we wanted, if you want more of that achieved then we need more votes”.
what? you think the coalition was going to be smooth… …The national party from the get go started that line. Nobody expects it to be smooth, even when National ruled alone, they tripped up. The coalition has more toys to trip over,and yet more opportunity to come across as competent. Nothing like the transport minister evading chch airport security…
oh jolly, pretty legal that use of mm theme song. it’s because they were unified the problems were so hilariously dipsie.
A source close to the situation told Stuff the party has been more intransigent on the issue than the National Party, which Climate Change Minister James Shaw is working with separately to make sure his Zero Carbon Act gets some level of bipartisan support.”
Would be grossly irresponsible to become a world leading model for new ways of 1st world impoverishment, National & the Greens.
I am guessing NZ1st has solidarity where it counts – the govt’s well being budget approach.
Effective environmentalism is that of Zero Impoverishment, & looking at better methodologies of statistical gauges is how such environmental transitions can be successful holistically.
Not the National Green Zero Carbon Act stuff, which incidentally is a betrayal of not one, but both sets of supporting electorate blocks!!
edit: was supposed to be a reply so deleted.
Um – nice-ish day, innit?
Eco Maori tau toko’s this young Mana Wahine Greta she traveled 40 hour’s by train to get to Davos and stayed in a tent in freezing conditions to keep her visit’s carbon foot print low as possable that’s commitement. In her speach she points out that everyone there was part of the cause of global warming . There are 2 that Eco Maori will call out send a wero.
‘Our house is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate
Greta Thunberg
Swedish school strike activist demands economists tackle runaway global warming. Read her Davos speech here.
According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%.
And please note that those numbers do not include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris agreement work on a global scale. Nor does it include tipping points or feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas released from the thawing Arctic permafrost.
Teenage activist takes School Strikes 4 Climate Action to Davos
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At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed. All political movements in their present form have done so, and the media has failed to create broad public awareness.
But Homo sapiens have not yet failed.
Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands. But unless we recognise the overall failures of our current systems, we most probably don’t stand a chance.
We are facing a disaster of unspoken sufferings for enormous amounts of people. And now is not the time for speaking politely or focusing on what we can or cannot say. Now is the time to speak clearly.
Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that Homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Either we do that or we don’t.
You say nothing in life is black or white. But that is a lie. A very dangerous lie. Either we prevent 1.5C of warming or we don’t. Either we avoid setting off that irreversible chain reaction beyond human control or we don’t.
We must change almost everything in our current societies. The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral duty. The bigger your platform, the bigger your responsibility.
Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate
How does one group of Our Aotearoa society get to decide there Own M8 charges not considering the impact it does to Wahine wanting to become a lawyer O thats correct they want the law society to be a white man domanated organiation. I say that our unjustice system needs BIG changes most uncorrupted society YEA RIGHT they are just better at covering the lieing cheating ass,s
Law Society decision ‘woefully inadequate’
The Law Society has fined and censured an unnamed former partner in a law firm who admitted to sexually harassing two employees.
It’s the first standards committee decision publicly released since the Russell McVeagh revelations of last year, and the findings have disappointed those advocating for more accountability in the legal profession. Sasha Borissenko reports
A former partner has been fined $12,500 and ordered to pay costs of $2,500 for sexually harassing two employees at an unnamed law firm for what has been described as ‘unsatisfactory conduct’ in a Standards Committee decision, released yesterday.
Zoë Lawton, who started a blog for sexual violence victims to document their stories anonymously, said the standards committee had to decide whether the partner’s conduct amounted to the statutory definition of unsatisfactory conduct or misconduct, the latter being more serious.
“To decide this they appear to have asked themselves: would lawyers of good standing simply find the conduct unacceptable or would they find it disgraceful or dishonourable.”
The Committee decided that lawyers of good standing would merely find this unacceptable, not disgraceful or dishonourable, she said.
“I have serious concerns about this decision because on the face of it, what he did could amount to indecent assault under the Crimes Act which carries a maximum term of 7 years in prison.
“What he did is clearly disgraceful or dishonourable and it begs the worrying question, what more dreadful things does a lawyer have to do to meet the Standards Committee’s misconduct
Ollivier told Newsroom the Committee considered and decided against ordering that the identity of the lawyer be published.
“[The Committee] ordered publication of the facts to educate the legal profession and to provide guidance to lawyers in relation to their own conduct and also the conduct of others that they may witness and which they may be required to report.”
Lawton said the decision doesn’t give any justification for the suppression. The Committee had full discretion, and has repeatedly named lawyers for other types of unsatisfactory conduct in the past.
“This is not good enough – when judges suppress the names of offenders in criminal courts they provide reasons so the Standards Committee should do the same.”
Partners at firms who sexually harass staff and subsequently resign or are forced out often then become sole barristers and employ their own staff, she said.
Ka kite ano links below
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/01/22/410252/law-society-decision-woefully-inadequate
Our Australian Tangata whenua/ people of the land Cosin need to be treated with the RESPECT they deserve they are a great culture with a great history being suppressed by the goverment. Times Are Changing fast there culture has a lot incommon with maori culture for one we respect mother nature before the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Massive crowds have gathered in cities across the country as ‘invasion day’ rallies kick off.
Swarms of people have people have filled Hyde Park in Sydney this morning, carrying flags and signs to protest Australia Day and what it represents.
Hundreds of people have also filled the streets of Melbourne, chanting, “Always was, always will be Aboriginal land”.
About 600 people started their day at the Melbourne invasion day dawn service, acknowledging and mourning the frontier wars and Aboriginal massacres.
The service at Kings Domain — where the bodies of 38 Victorian first nations people are buried — included speeches, a minute’s silence, a smoking and ochre ceremony and the reading out of known massacre sites across the state.
At Sydney’s protest, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement this week of a multimillion-dollar project to “rediscover” Captain James Cook “went down like a lead balloon”.
Mr Morrison announced $6.7 million in funding for a replica of Captain Cook’s
famous ship the Endeavour to circumnavigate Australia over 14 months, stopping at 39 locations along the coast.
He was crucified on social media over the controversial project, which many slammed as a waste of money.
People have commented how invasion day protests are dwarfing Australia Day celebrations, indicating it is time to change the date.
It’s a divisive issue that comes up every year, with The Project host Waleed Aly this week throwing up new suggestions.
This January 26 marks 231 years since the First Fleet landed in Port Jackson.
But for a growing community of Australians the day has become a symbol of inequity and institutionalised harm.
Invasion day activists contest that Australia Day enforces a false narrative of an Australia that began on this day, and forgets a preceding history.
Ka kite ano links below .
https://www.news.com.au/national/massive-crowds-protest-at-invasion-day-rallies-across-australia/news-story/aa73dc94f88b4ccb84f0694728ec68ef
Kia ora Newshub That iron ora mine tailing dam burst is a shocking desaster that could have been avoided with good policing I wonder if its owners are Foreigners. It’s a good move having 17 years old being seen by the youth courts I say one doesn’t grow up till 25 especially if they don’t have good gidence at home no mother father grandparents after all the youth are OUR future. Condolences to the Spanish whano child who lost his life down that boar hole Let’s hope the world get it sorted out and Venezuela I seen a video spinning about why the poor countrys are poor and the rich are rich it was a load of bull I know that the rich country’s are mostly western control countries and the poor country’s are poor because the Western countries have exploited them hence Venezuela problems.
Its cool that the Black Ferns 7 team have a few good games at home some good matches to watch. The All Blacks 7 are good good to Ka kite ano
I say Ma has good Ideas for his housing developements alot of space for trees and parks for the tamariki to go and play for everyone to enjoy our beautiful enviroment this design is all so good for our bee,s and insects birds good for our enviroment good for US.
Meet Charles Ma, the 28-year-old land developer behind a $1 billion Auckland housing project
Land developer Charles Ma, an Auckland-born Kiwi of Chinese descent, through his company Made Group is developing a 2700 section housing project in the Auckland suburb of Drury, 40 kilometres south of the central city.
The civil engineer and business graduate started working on Auranga five years ago with the goal of creating a community that puts people at its centre and creates “a more fulfilling life” for residents
Ma says he wants Auranga to be unlike any other community in New Zealand. A place where residents are less reliant on cars and have greater access to shared green spaces.
“I think it will become perhaps one of the blueprints that will be used for future communities,” Ma says.
Ma, describes himself as “a classic Aucklander”. He was born and raised in Auckland and was a student at the prestigious school, Auckland Grammar, before attending the University of Auckland. He’s now listed on the university’s 40 under 40 list, outlining its most promising and successful alumni.
The Manukau resident went on to study in Britain and the United States, including Stanford, Harvard, London Business School and soon Oxford
On returning to New Zealand Ma started working in the property development division of private equity firm Lily Investment Group where within a few years he was promoted to a director role.
He attributes this to his “dying curiosity” and being bilingual. Being the son of Chinese migrants Ma also speaks Mandarin, Cantonese.
Ma is no stranger to property development.
But Ma has already moved onto bigger and better things.
“Auranga: You could say 20 or 30 things about it that are quite interesting but to me at its core, I want to connect people into place again, towards a more purposeful way of living.
“This is not my first development but this will be my flagship development.”
But I took my time to research around the world to find out what I can do differently. It’s taken a bit longer but I trust it will produce a better outcome.”
Perhaps Auranga’s most defining feature is its abundance of parks and open green spaces.
“We mandated every development in our community to have a park edge road.”
A “park edge road” means housing is only built on one side of main roads leaving the remaining side accessible to the public.
This is an inefficient way to plan a housing development because its prime land that’s not being used for housing.
But Ma believes that not building homes on the prime real estate sites, like the coast, and leaving it accessible to the public, will create more value in the long run.
Ma says he wanted to move away from traditional subdivision planning, which focused on maximising return on investment by designing layouts in the most cost effective way.
“Most subdivisions, they are grids. I know because I designed them.”
With Auranga he wanted residents and the wider public to engage with the coast. He did not want to privatise it so a select few could enjoy it.
The US-based mentor says when she first met Ma she saw he had “the magic, the drive and the ambition” seen in great world leaders.
“I was instantly struck by his energy,” Verresen says.
“And like many successful entrepreneurs, Charles figured out how to do things his way.”
One of Ma’s first principles is to ask “why not?”, she says.
“This allows him to move fast and create what has not existed before. Which is why at such a young age he leads a successful real estate development group that he created from scratch.”
She says Ma wants to help people find to a sense of belonging in the world.
“Charles fundamentally cares and is passionate about every single person feeling like they belong. Because in his experience when you belong you can thrive.
“So he is starting with homes and townships that are specifically designed to create more belonging.” Ka kite ano links below.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110155428/meet-charles-ma-the-28yearold-land-developer-behind-a-1-billion-auckland-housing-project
Kia ora R&R I wai needs to be treated like it is our tipuna & given the respect and value that it deserves the giver of life and all the good properties and uses that it has.
Mike yes we need to take back the guidance of how water is used and treated from the business first over the distruction of the wai and the creatures that she holds and put the enviroments first. After all we can not live without wai she can live on with out us also the old saying its pays not to shit in ones back yard.
Thats a good move by the Lakes Councils to find $40 million to get farms around lakes to stop farming but thats just the price of 3 to 5 farms the councils and goverments needs to grow some——– and make farming around all waterways organic as its the Urea and not really the cow urine that is poisining our water.
And all farming practices become Organic ka kite ano P.S Bottling water and selling it has to stop no matter were it ends up plastic waste is my main consern
Eco Maori says drop sugar out of our diets and the goverments should turn it into green fuel as its is not needed in our diets it is a bad substance that should be taxed hard I also advise to have porridge for breakfast with no or the tip of a teaspoon of sugar it is a super food gluten free it good for weight loss reduces blood sugar levels reduced heart disease and its does not cost much to buy.
Three years ago, I stopped eating sugar. My plan was to have a sugar-free month, just to see if it made a difference. I had done similar experiments before – a month without caffeine, or alcohol, or reading news online. Aside from chocolate, I wasn’t a big eater of sugar, I thought, so I didn’t expect to notice any change. But I did.
Giving up sugar set me free. And so, what began as an experiment has become my new life. I have changed in ways that I had not thought possible.
I used to get “hangry” – that grumpy, urgent craving that demands prompt attention. To stave it off, I carried bags of almonds or dried fruit. Back when I ate sugar, I couldn’t go running in the morning – if I tried, I would get dizzy, and anyway, my legs felt as if they were made of stone. I would have slumps in the afternoon – my head would get foggy – so if I was working from home, I would take a nap. I had mood swings, joy alternating with despair. I had assumed that all of these things were simply part of life, of how I was, a frustrating aspect of my makeup. And now all of them are gone.
My decision to stop sugar was taken on a whim. Back then, aside from its role in tooth decay, I knew little about its possible effects on health. But when I discovered how much better I felt without it, I became curious – and began to read.
To a chemist, sugar refers to a class of molecules made of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen; some of these serve particular biological roles. Lactose, for example, is found in milk; deoxyribose gives the “D” to DNA. But in daily life, the main sugars one meets are glucose, fructose and sucrose – which is a marriage of the other two. That is, each molecule of sucrose is one glucose linked to one fructose. Interestingly, the two simple sugars have the same chemical formula – 6 atoms of carbon, 12 of hydrogen, 6 of oxygen – but different chemical structures. The human tongue detects this: fructose tastes sweeter.Glucose is synonymous with blood sugar, since it is transported in the blood and delivered to cells to fuel their energetic needs. But you can also find it, along with fructose, in fruits and vegetables. Sucrose is extracted from sugar cane or beets, and is usually encountered as the white crystals of table sugar. When most people speak of “sugar”, they mean sucrose. High-fructose corn syrup, the most common sweetener of non-diet soft-drinks, is a mixture of glucose and fructose. So is honey– though honey is a complex concoction that contains many other compounds.
The history of sugar is full of darkness. The European appetite for sweetness drove the slave trade; according to one estimate, in the Americas, two-thirds of enslaved Africans worked on sugar cane plantations. Sugar is also implicated in lung cancer. How? Because the tobacco in blended cigarettes has typically been soaked in sugar syrups; this makes the smoke easier to take into the lungs.
The grim harvest does not stop there. A growing number of doctors blame sugar consumption for a long list of medical woes. These include diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, gout, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, many cancers, and perhaps even Alzheimer’s. Some researchers have even linked the eating of sugar in childhood to the development of myopia, arguing that the spikes in insulin secretion caused by sugar consumption interfere with the normal development of the eyes. In short: the recent medical literature about sugar makes alarming reading.
Such connections are, of course, disputed. But as an evolutionary biologist, as well as someone who has felt the immediate benefits of a sugar-free lifestyle, I find the claims persuasive. For most of human history, after all, milk, honey and fruits have been the main sources of sweetness. When cane sugar first made its way to Europe around 1,000 years ago, it was treated as a spice, a medicine and a preservative.
In 1700, the average sugar consumption in the United Kingdom was around two kilograms per person per year. Today, the figure is 10 times that amount. Over the past 300 years, sugars have thus gone from an occasional luxury to a substantial component of the average western diet. The present sugar glut is an anomaly in human experience. We have changed the world to suit our appetites; but our bodies cannot accommodate the change.medical literature about sugar makes alarming reading.
Such connections are, of course, disputed. But as an evolutionary biologist, as well as someone who has felt the immediate benefits of a sugar-free lifestyle, I find the claims persuasive. For most of human history, after all, milk, honey and fruits have been the main sources of sweetness. When cane sugar first made its way to Europe around 1,000 years ago, it was treated as a spice, a medicine and a preservative.
In 1700, the average sugar consumption in the United Kingdom was around two kilograms per person per year. Today, the figure is 10 times that amount. Over the past 300 years, sugars have thus gone from an occasional luxury to a substantial component of the average western diet. The present sugar glut is an anomaly in human experience. We have changed the world to suit our appetites; but our bodies cannot accommodate the change.
Ka kite ano links below.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/26/my-life-without-sugar
Mana Wahine kia kaha we need to Focus on the grandchildrens future and climate change is the BIGGEST threat to all OUR Future,s
House Democrats Plan to Tackle Climate—with or without the GOP
Rep. Kathy Castor, head of the revamped House climate committee, says the panel will be working on a policy road map for global warming
Climate change is back on the table in Congress—at least in the House of Representatives, where Democrats took control earlier this month. As part of an effort to focus more on combating global warming, Democrats have revived a special House committee on climate that Republicans had previously eliminated.
But the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (pdf) already faces big obstacles. The Trump administration has rolled back numerous environmental initiatives, even declaring it is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. The Republican-controlled Senate has placed little emphasis on tackling warming. Democrats are arguing over the committee’s focus; some even question the need for such a panel. The committee also lacks legislative authority (meaning it cannot move bills) and cannot issue subpoenas that would compel people to testify.
Climate change is back on the table in Congress—at least in the House of Representatives, where Democrats took control earlier this month. As part of an effort to focus more on combating global warming, Democrats have revived a special House committee on climate that Republicans had previously eliminated.
But the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (pdf) already faces big obstacles. The Trump administration has rolled back numerous environmental initiatives, even declaring it is pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. The Republican-controlled Senate has placed little emphasis on tackling warming. Democrats are arguing over the committee’s focus; some even question the need for such a panel. The committee also lacks legislative authority (meaning it cannot move bills) and cannot issue subpoenas that would compel people to testify.
The select committee will press all of the [permanent Congressional standing committees] to take action immediately—to address the impacts of climate and to press for bold action on reducing greenhouse gases. So we’re kind of the quarterback for a number of these committees, and will press to accomplish what we currently can. That’s with the understanding that the GOP controls the Senate and Pres. Trump and his administration are moving in the wrong direction—and there isn’t much sign of them reconsidering their position.
So we will do what we can now, and then set the table for bolder action when we have a friendlier U.S. Senate and a new president. But we simply can’t wait. The cost of inaction is growing, and it’s more dire than ever before Ka kite ano links below
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-democrats-plan-to-tackle-climate-mdash-with-or-without-the-gop/
Kia ora R&R Time,s are ka pai now that OUR Te Reo is getting the honor and respect that it deserves and tangata whenua O Aoteoroa culture,s are getting honor and respest also Kia kaha.
Eco Maori has a sore face because of this great phenomenon that is sweaping around the motu and Papatuanuku at the minute.
And yes social media has a big role to play in that phenomen and the future of Te Reo and Tangata whenua O Aotearoa Culture,s
Its ka pai that the people of Te Wai Pounamu have seen the value of Te Reo when I was down there 25 years ago it did not look good for the mana of tangata whenua back then another reason to give me a sore face.
Yes confident,s is a big + in anyones wairua Eco Maori trys to install that in all peoples as Aotearoa is made up of a lot of cultures and we all need to respect everyone white asian brown no matter whom they are. Ka kite ano Kia kaha P.S The powers that be suppresed Te reo and our old kau papa they have alot of maori nolage and prophecies hidden in there vaults
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute the sandflys are sending actors to play games on my wife at work the dirty low down cheats.
A video from Eco Maori
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Kia kaha to all the Environment protesters young & elderly some care about what we are going to leave our grandchildren We will make logical changes because we have to no if on buts it a priority to spot burning coal /carbon.
Warming world gets older, wiser, richer activists hot under the collar
A growing number of older protesters are standing up and fighting for the environment
When Audrey Cooke first spoke to her family about her retirement plans, they had one condition: “Don’t get arrested.”
The 72-year-old retired Melbourne schoolteacher’s husband died of pancreatic cancer nine years ago. She has two young grandchildren. And she is now a full-time climate activist.
“I’ll do it until I drop,” she says. “I’m in a hurry. We are facing an existential threat and this is more important than anything for me.”
Cooke is one of a growing number of older protesters using their retirement to help the climate movement. Her tiny 1.5 metre (4ft 11in) frame has become familiar at protest marches and demonstrations. In 2017 she did get arrested after spending seven hours locked to a fence at the Adani Carmichael mine site.
“You can call me an accidental activist. I’m very new to it,” she says.
“I have always been an environmentalist. The environment is paramount to me but in my younger days I was busy with my family and my career
There’s no point going on a holiday,” Cooke says. “I know that if we don’t do something then we won’t have a sustainable planet.”
Unprecedented amounts of time, money and motivation
Miriam Robinson, 58, is the spokeswoman for the Grey Power Climate Protectors. She says one of the group’s first aims is to encourage grandparents to attend the next school strike on 15 March.
“Many kids couldn’t attend [last time] because their parents work,” Robinson says. “Grandparents bringing their grandkids to the … strike will be a powerful moral statement that all ages are concerned about the effects of climate change.
“Heatwaves can be deadly for the elderly and infants. Older people will change their vote for their own sake but also [for] their kids and grandkids.”
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A former Greens leader, Bob Brown, says older Australians look at the world “with mixed feelings of amazed horror”.
“They come equipped with unprecedented amounts of time, money and motivation. This is a cauldron of untapped civil action from vote-changing to direct protest, and climate change is the major target.
“The money-driven absurdity of Adani is on a collision course with thousands of environment-alarmed older Australians who are prepared to give up time, money and comfort to help save the planet.”
Brown plans to lead a convoy of vehicles – appealing to grey nomads – from Tasmania to Bowen in Queensland later this year.
ka kite ano links below P.S Thanks to the elderly for there backing the climate change fight
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/27/warming-world-gets-older-wiser-richer-activists-hot-under-the-collar
Kia ora Newshub I it doesn’t take long for the heat to dry the farm whenua out and 30 degrees is hot be careful with ahi fire people. That is a shocking shameful amount of people missing in that dam collapse in Brazil let’s hope that won’t happen again the wealthy people ripping the country off I say and bending the rules.
Stone he has a shity history.
I did some research into how our Australian cousins were treated and its shame full they only got right the be treated as equals in 1967.Some of te tipuna went to Australia and were appalled by the way the whites treated the native that gave Maori a reason not to trust the settlers here.
Totara was used for fence post and carvings were ECO Maori comes from a highly valued timber Ka pai Shane I’m sure you will find a valuable use of it you don’t need to treat the timber and its easy to carve compared to other timbers.
Judge Aitken is a good person who knows what she’s talking about from her own experience Ka pai
That’s true commitment from Brian Karl with his reasurch and monatering penguin at adelie Antarctica 30 years ECO MAORI thanks you for the hard work you have done for the penguin. Ka kite ano P.S?????????????