The U.S. mainstream press and television networks are committing media malpractice and contributing to the rising risk of an American war with Iran.
* The minimal coverage continues to leave out Israel, even though anyone who has followed the region knows that Benjamin Netanyahu has instigated the U.S. to attack Iran for the past decade, and he even addressed the U.S. Congress in 2015 to try and sabotage the now-dead Iran nuclear deal.
So far, no one in the U.S. media has reminded Americans about the tragedy on July 3, 1988, when the USS Vincennes, a warship in the Persian Gulf, by mistake shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, (which was in Iranian airspace) killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.
I'd really like to see all US political stories off in another corner. I've lost interest in this freakshow which required background reading to understand in the beginning and now is even more challenging.
The ongoing Kabuki theatre has become too exhausting to read
Carlson is a scoundrel, and a racist, but he's not insane. Unlike the "leaders" of the Democratic Party, he does not believe in prosecuting an illegal war against Iran. An obnoxious Fox News host is more rational, more honest, more trustworthy than the "leaders" of the Democratic Party; what a pretty pass we have come to.
If you're getting your ideas from the Jimmy Dore show, do keep in mind he's a comedian cherry-picking, misrepresenting, and outright lying for yuks from some sad souls possessed of a particularly fuckwitted mindset. His show is in no way any kind of factual representation of reality, it is a deliberately twisted distortion and obscuration of reality.
Meanwhile. in the real world, Democrat leaders are working on how to put the dayglo swampzilla on a leash with respect to Iran. Including possibly blocking the National Defense Authorization Act until there's a bill passed that blocks Tyrannosaurus Arse from taking action against Iran without prior approval from Congress. This spending bill is broadly popular across the political spectrum, so even publicly talking about blocking it takes political courage.
If you're getting your ideas from the Jimmy Dore show,
Is Jimmy Dore alone in noting that Tucker Carlson is smarter than, more well read than, more responsible than Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer and the rest of that thoroughly undistinguished gang?
do keep in mind he's a comedian cherry-picking, misrepresenting, and outright lying for yuks from some sad souls possessed of a particularly fuckwitted mindset. His show is in no way any kind of factual representation of reality, it is a deliberately twisted distortion and obscuration of reality.
??? That adjective-rich but analysis-poor rant of yours offers nothing coherent or intelligent about Jimmy Dore, but it reveals a great deal about yourself.
Meanwhile. in the real world, Democrat leaders are working on how to put the dayglo swampzilla …. Tyrannosaurus Arse ….
Abuse, especially such limp and unimaginative abuse as that, achieves….. what, exactly? I advise you to read out your posts to some underling before you send them out to the ether; if the underling says something like "Do you really think dayglo godzilla is funny? Really, Andre?" then I advise you to hold back on the old posting front. There's a good fellow.
Jimmy Dore is the fuckwit who spent years opining fuckwittery about Syria while remaining incredibly ignorant of basic facts about Syria, such as the situation with Kurds in Northern Syria.
As for his opinion of Tucker Carlson being smarter than Pelosi or Schumer, that's the kind of horseshit designed to appeal to sad sack fuckwits whose only joy in life is whining about Democrats on any and every topic, warranted or not.
In this case, the only reason Carlson has any relevance whatsoever is because the barbecued bozo in the White House prefers to listen to ass-kissing talking heads on his number-one suck-up TV channel rather than take on board the serious considered advice of actual experts, many of whom he himself appointed. That Carlson had one of his occasional (very rare) moments of actual rationality in no way excuses the extremely dangerous ludicrousness of the situation.
In this case, there is no point whatsoever in Schumer and Pelosi trying to influence the decisions made by the tangerine toddler. If he paid any attention whatsoever, it would only be to try to figure out what course of action would be most against their counsel. So the only reasonable course of action open to Pelosi and Schumer is through legislation. Which, surprise, they are doing, but Dore and his fuckwit followers have no interest in.
"fuckwit…. opining fuckwittery…. incredibly ignorant of basic facts … horseshit designed to appeal to sad sack fuckwits …. the barbecued bozo in the White House… the tangerine toddler …. Dore and his fuckwit followers…"
Those were the highlights.
MEMO ANDRE:
Wait till the small hours, then ring up NewstalkZB. That's the proper forum for your standard of analysis.
Jimmy dore is anti war …..and he has some interesting guests and clips.
Perhaps fuckwits follow you Andre …. 😉
Being an expert on Kurds …. why do you think the british pretended it was Iran doing gas attacks …. when Saddam was using Sarin nerve gas against the Kurds in Iraq…..
This was after After he had used it against Iran …. which he did with Nato / Usa directions and help
the chemical onslaught killed nearly 5000 Iranians and sickened more than 100,000.
Only you and possibly Andre ….. could watch Carla Ortiz and smear her with the crime of the usa .
Genocide and ethnic cleansing was the result of Hillary war criminal Clinton and Nato ,,,,,
In 2011 the Obama administration bombed Libya into oblivion while using racist and terrorist rebel groups to do their dirty deeds on the ground. These terrorists often targeted Black Africans for rape, torture, and public lynchings, simply because they were seen as allies to Muammar Gaddafi — who had provided a safe
Black Libyans were commonly branded as “foreign mercenaries” by the rebel opposition for their perceived general loyalty to Gaddafi as a community and subjected to torture, executions, and their towns “liberated” by ethnic cleansing. This is demonstrated in the most well-documented example of Tawergha, an entire town of 30,000 black and “dark-skinned” Libyans which vanished by August 2011 after its takeover by NATO-backed NTC Misratan brigades. haven for those same Black Africans.
Libya was the blue print for the destruction of syria …. especially with regards to lies, smears and pro war propaganda .
Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media.
The danger of thinking that they are, is that you wind up in some very dark spaces.
Because you hate American Imperialism, or British Imperialism, doesn't mean that German fascism is a good thing.
Millions of Germans including millions of Leftists, socialists and communists voted for the National Socialist Workers party because of the Nazis exposures of the crimes of the British Empire.
Reason, you speak of Libya, only because you know absolutely nothing of Syria.
Deliberately trying to conflate the two countries, shows that you are willing to cover up the genocide being carried out against the Syrian people by fascist type Assad regime.
The Usa … and the white, english speaking 5 eyes Lynch mob club ,,, are racist and corrupt.
So its ironic … not amazing ,,,,that Carlson, a more extreme version of this 'exceptional nation' and their 'master complex' racist delusions ….. Should be against a war that would kill a lot of non-white people in Iran.
A whole lot of clucked up claptrap from some posters ….about Jimmy dore or Carlson …. does not make the argument for illegal wars and their accompanying mass murder valid .
Hillary war criminal Clinton ….When campaigning in one of her failed attempts at president ……. threatened to Nuke Iran and wipe it off the world map ….
… But only if Iran attacked Israel with Nuclear weapons that it does not have … Amazingly this total contrivance and threat to use nukes, was supported by over 50% of the usa public.
Jenny you have as much credibility on Syria as a nasty loon who tried to link the christchucrch mosque shootings with Syria / Assad…. and I'm not misrepresenting you am I ???? …. you did say that .
Aside from that particulary bit of creepy grave dancing on a NZ tragedy … Your propaganda is the same as used against Libya / Iraq by Hillary war criminal Clinton and other genocide enablers …
Respected independent journalists including Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn and many others debunk a lot of what Jenny says…..
I believe Carla Ortiz cares a lot more for the Syrian people than Jenny…
I believe someone like Patrick Cockburn is both more credible and honest than Jenny…
Unpacking Syria war propaganda with Patrick Cockburn, from Afrin to Eastern Ghouta (Ep. 15)
Such is the basic double standard that is the essence of propaganda. I am referring, of course, to the current siege of the city of Mosul by the government forces of Iraq, who are backed by the United States and Britain and to the siege of Aleppo by the government forces of Syria, backed by Russia. One is good; the other is bad.
What is seldom reported is that both cities would not be occupied by fanatics and ravaged by war if Britain and the United States had not invaded Iraq in 2003. That criminal enterprise was launched on lies strikingly similar to the propaganda that now distorts our understanding of the civil war in Syria
. As diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed, since at least 2006, the US has consistently sought to undermine it “by any available means”, utilising a variety of techniques including an effort—in co-ordination with Saudi Arabia—to encourage Islamic fundamentalism
"Amnesty’s investigation of the Raqqa attacks says that the real civilian death toll was not only shocking but totally unnecessary." ….. Human rights group Amnesty International estimates around 80 percent of Raqqa was devastated by fighting, including vital infrastructure like schools and hospitals…. https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1429616/retaken-not-rebuilt-syrias-raqqa-year-after-isis-ouster … who jenny
Jenny you have as much credibility on Syria as a nasty loon who tried to link the christchucrch mosque shootings with Syria / Assad…. and I'm not misrepresenting you am I ???? …. you did say that …..
You are deliberately misrepresenting me.
Reason if you choose to make such disgusting slurs, you need to back it up with some evidence.
Either that, or embarrass yourself before us all, as a genocide denying pro fascist propagandist.
But of course, facts don’t matter to your pro human slaughter narrative.
Jenny ” Jo Cox was assassinated by a fascist gunman because she supported the Syrian people against the regime.” ….. nothing like that was raised at the trial of her murderer
Jenny: “The attack in Christchurch was conducted on the anniversary of the beginning of the popular revolt against Assad, by a gunman who self describes as a fascist.” …
I bet jennys conspiracy theory does not get raised in our New Zealand courts either ….
[Sick and tired of you habitually posting mostly irrelevant comment upon comment on the bottom of threads that mention Syria in any way. I’m banning you for the weekend so I don’t have to keep an eye out, and I’ll ban you for a very long time if you ever pull this bullshit again.] – Bill
I just can’t win can I, Bill
If I put up a post in defence of the Syrian revolution too early in a piece, I get accused of “diverting the thread”.
Now I get accused of putting my comments at the end of threads, and still get banned.
Accompanied with a threat that if I don’t agree to self censorship I will be banned totally.
Sorry Bill, ain’t gonna happen. There is no way that I will agree to be my own censor to suit you.
The eponymous hero of Orwell’s 1984, near the end of the novel, is allowed his freedom. But it is a constrained and limited freedom, and as he fully takes part in the charade, he knows he is just waiting for the axe to fall,
For a long time now I have been appalled and distressed by the unbalanced position taken up by you and others at The Standard covering up the genocidal nature of the Syrian regime.
In my opinion it can be reasonably argued that the failure of the Liberal Centre Left to show solidarity with the Syrian people, and instead side with the regime that is oppressing and murdering them, has helped prolong this war on the Syrian people by the Assad regime and its foreign allies, and helped fuel islamaphobia here…….
Though it has never been given the same billing as all the pro-fascist posts, that have appeared on this site, anyone who reads this blog can see, my position on Syria is long standing and consistent.
In 2010 just months before the uprising, I was in Syria and witnessed up close the fascist style nature of this regime. Since leaving, contacts I met and trusted, have shown me video of the slaughter visited on their communities, by the regime, places where I visited.
I wrote in 2017 long before the Christchurch massacre, that the Centre Left's support for Syrian fascism 'has helped fuel Islamphobia here'.
Reason, writing either from a place of total ignorance, or consciously lying, has tried to twist my words and the warning I gave in the most disgusting fashion.
Wayne mapp john key and Rebecca Kitteridge with their jihadi bride rubbish and general racism …. have been behind the general hum of bigotry and war drums since 9/11 …
Amnesty International New Zealand chief executive Patrick Holmes said Key was talking "nonsense" and was just "scaremongering".
Syria is another matter … but part of a long history
The mujaheddin were the forebears of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. They included Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who received tens of millions of dollars in cash from the CIA. Hekmatyar's specialty was trafficking in opium and throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. Invited to London, he was lauded by Prime Minister Thatcher as a "freedom fighter".
There is now “good” al-Qa’ida on our side and “bad” al-Qa’ida fighting on theirs. In Syria, the former operates under the name of the al-Nusra Front, labelled by the US as the Syrian branch al-Qa’ida, and is the main fighting force of the rebel National Coalition. This is recognised by the US, Britain and many others as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
Meanwhile, in Mali an advance last week by the forces of the local al-Qa’ida franchise, of whom we don’t approve, led to immediate action by the French army and air force against them. The hypocrisy of it all is baffling.
there is no ambivalence about who is backing Isis, which at the time of writing was butchering and raping Yazidi villagers and slaughtering captured Iraqi and Syrian soldiers.
, the memo argues that the U.S. should topple the Assad regime so as to weaken Iran and allay the fears of Israel, which has long regarded the Islamic republic as its primary enemy. As the memo puts it:
“Bringing down Assad would not only be a massive boon to Israel’s security, it would also ease Israel’s understandable fear of losing its nuclear monopoly. Then, Israel and the United States might be able to develop a common view of when the Iranian program is so dangerous that military action could be warranted.”
The rise of fascism in Europe and the usa … white mans bombs directly leading to brown refugees ….. and boat people
Islamophobia in NZ was pushed along by the john keys, wayne mapps type fearmongers and our media in general…. Wayne mapp was dissing the people of Afghanistan …. right up to the day 'Hit and Run' came out .. a man involved in the killing of little Afghan children …. telling us how uncivilized they were.
He likes your war though jenny …….
“In Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries at the periphery or edges of Europe, U.S. President Barack Obama has been pursuing a policy of destabilization, and even of bombings and other military assistance, that drives millions of refugees out of those peripheral areas and into Europe, thereby adding fuel to the far-rightwing fires of anti-immigrant rejectionism, and of resultant political destabilization, throughout Europe, not only on its peripheries, but even as far away as in northern Europe.”
Similarly, many of the refugees come from Afghanistan and Iraq, two countries still being devastated by US wars of aggression.
Dem bloody democrats … and hillary War Criminal clinton …
"So in late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it's the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.
Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself was no longer able to control the movement of people through it."
Clinton shared responsibility for massively de-stabilising the Middle East, which led to the death, suffering and flight of thousands of women, men and children.
the struggle to maintain European ‘civilization’ against the barbaric hordes of uncivilized brown-skinned invaders arriving as a “swarm,” to borrow the unintentionally honest expression used by British Prime Minister David Cameron to describe the refugees. This is of course the neocolonial, supremacist position espoused most vocally by the far right throughout Europe, from Marine Le Pen and the Front National in France, to Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban whose heavy-handed tactics – building fences, mobilizing troops and the unemployed, convicts, and fascists of various stripes – to block the refugee influx, have been both praised and condemned by various elements in Europe.
the media removes the refugees from their politico-historical context, transforming them into so-called “migrants” – an elusive term designed to obscure the reality of who these people are, and why they’re desperately trying to get into Europe – as if they’re simply poor people looking for work, rather than victims of imperialism looking to protect their families and escape wars and destabilizations initiated by the West.
Self made loan shark, slumlord and property speculator. What a parasite. I wonder if he has every actually done anything that did something constructive for the economy?
Yes, you take a National voter to the extreme and the product is this odious man. You take a lefty to the extreme and you get the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Ed.
Might be wrong, but generally i think the govt. is too kind to the political media.
The Govt. is more popular than the main stream political media, & if it's unable to represent properly, why not just let it rage and fume by itself unbridled.
Let it throw away that which it can not buy back, & speeden up the workings of NZ market supply and demand.
Greenland holds a large store of fresh water. If fully melted, it will raise sea levels by roughly 7 metres. It is melting – fast. Last week, temperatures across Greenland about 22 degrees Celsius warmer than the normal for that time of year. It produced an extraordinary visual effect of dogs walking on water through surface melt over sea ice.
It is not only madmen (such as Trump and all Americans) that are in denial about Climate Change and its Effects and Costs, It is Dumb Kiwis.
National Party and hangers on such as Seymour, too many Farmers and other Assorted nitwits are Denialists. Currently, Councils and Regional Authorities must be deemed as Denialists. They are irresponsible and allow all manner of pollutions.
We must inform Denialists that they will not receive any assistance whatever, from now on unless they individually and personally commit to keeping Aotearoa in good care.
Let's get serious. Just like the Children and Youth are. Let us put into Law what Citizens must do. Should they not do it – they will lose their assests as well as their Nationality.
PS – I realise that most New Zealanders will not know what a metre is – let alone 7 metres. it is 23 Feet High. Nearly as high as a Farmers' Ego.
Yes, pretty funny – mine was the generation that learned imperial for part of their school years and metric for the rest, in the late 1960s. Everyone since then learned metric only, ie everyone who's been to school since the late 1960s. My kids find it very confusing when people give measurements in feet or inches.
I must be about the same age as you. I was in S4 in 1968 and still have my little Dollar Scholar certificate to prove I was ready for the new decimalized currency. They started the metrification process the following year and completed the roll out through commerce, education and industry over the next few years.
Cuisenaire rods had already give our cohort a rough idea of what metric measures looked like, and like most of my generation I'm competent in both imperial and metric units but I tend to default to imperial for some things and metric for others. Funny how your brain works. I've done a lot of work on old British cars and machinery which requires use of imperial measures and also a lot of American equipment as well. Then I'll be working on European stuff and have to shift mental gears to think in metric. I still think of myself as a six footer at the same time I know that is about 1.8 M What gets me is the way Metric came to be used in this country. Everyone else would say I was 1800mm high which is not the way the system was designed to be expressed.
Well, personally, I remember spending all my primary/intermediate/early secondary school years doing arithmetic based upon those elegant old imperial systems. eg: Divide 3 tons 5 hundredweight 6 pounds and 14 ounces by 23.
Or multiply 8 pounds (money this time) 17 shillings and 11pence by 11.
I really wonder what it is that people do at primary school now… (By the way, they still managed to make us do ghastly folk dancing, etc.)
They wanted to give us a rounded education and bring boys and girls together with some social graces. Now they don't bother with that and just separate them with a crowbar.
Agree with sentence one – by and large, they meant well. Not so sure about the crowbar thing (that was always there) but as a secondary relief teacher I see a lot of wonderful kids coming out of the primary system, so some people there are doing some good things.
Yay! But.. I am not sure that the schools have all that much to do with it, except for causing the toxic social intermingling. Nice kids from nice parents get mingled with shit kids from shit parents, and the descent begins. Don't be too naive about what schools can achieve. They are basically holding pens, aren't they?
Schools should not be seen as "basically holding pens". That is much of the problem right there, attitudes like that. While i am not surprised to hear that from a school teacher i would very much be from an ECE teacher about where they work.
I haven't got time today to write an essay on how messed up schools are but if you are interested you could start by having a look at Te Whariki, the ECE curriculum, and how it differs from The New Zealand Curriculum.
The crowbar thing is a linefrom some comedian which i slipped in. But the old foksy stuff was quite good does anyone remember The Dashing White Sergeant and the Veleta. It was quite a good way for only children of that gender to actually touch the opposite.
We save archaic language for weighty matters like death and marriage, where we feel we need the buttress of time to support us. thus we solemnly intone lines unchanged from 1549 when we say , "with this ring I thee wed" or burying a beloved we go back to the1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer for "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
So it is with imperial measures. Archaic, but used still for life changing moments. Babies are still announced to the world largely in imperial measurements. People are still buries six feet under.
"irst Union retail finance sector secretary Tali Williams said they have been fighting for this for six years, and its members were pleased with the outcome.
Currently the union has six members across the two stores, but 140 staff could receive the pay increase if they join the union."
I think the important point in this story is that it is only those workers that are members of the union that will receive the pay rise. I wonder if this sets some kind of precedent for ERA. Currently of the 140 staff, 6 are union members.
If I'm a worker at these Mitre 10 stores and union membership will cost me $10 a week and the payrise represents $30 extra a week.I'd be a mug not to be signing up. I can see this move by ERA reversing union membership trends.
You'd be fine bewildered but I suspect not all Mitre 10 staff enjoy your levels of contract renewal negotiation prowess. A good number of them will be jolly grateful to have a regular income and reluctant to risk rocking the boat.
There seems to be many comments lately about the waning virility of a left view.
I don't want to be a communist. I just want to put my shoulder alongside others that think we can do more about improving the quality of life of most of us.
Kevin Hester and Guy McPherson were joined by meteorologist Nick Humphrey for this pre-recorded show. We discussed the links between climate change, weather, and crop failures. You can support Nick via his Patreon page. Very enlightening talk about the exponential climate change now happening.
"Economic lunacy" is National's Todd Muller's response to a report considering 100% renewable electricity. The gist is that the last few percent of the 100% goal are hard to get both financially and logistically. Without a plan or even the hint of an original idea; he provides this 'economic lunacy' recycled sound bite from social media, and talking points that have been available for years – as if he has a clue.
At least he's recycling something. Fonterra needs a lot of hot air to dry milk.
The last few percent of renewables – that fruit way up in the tree that cherry pickers can't even reach, is, as the report states, best addressed after other, heavier polluting aspects of the economy entire are addressed. 100% renewables is and was aspirational.
Aspiration is apparently frowned upon by those who dare not dream their own dreams with corporate taskmasters breathing down their necks. Aspiration has been turned around to be used consistently as yet another insult/sound byte meaning nothing and intending harm. Well being and kindness are also favored insults of intellectually challenged social media commentators.
Unless you are in Oregon, where the right have departed on a fun run: there's sleeves to be rolled up and jobs to be done: A society to fix, a planet to be saved, and yes, an economy to transition.
There are many places that generate excess heat from industry, and with good design, in some instances, Fonterra won't even need coal fired drying plants, merely some cooperation to use waste heat from other industries.
They could also use some of their own resources to be truly useful to the countries need to transition. This would position them far more favorably in global markets, where consumers are increasingly demanding environmental accountability from supply chains.
Biogas is a viable alternative for tanker fleets and might be generated in various localised facilities to produce biofuels, chemicals for industry, compost products for farmers, and excess heat for drying milk powder. These plants can be fueled by industrial and farm wastes, or municipal wastes… with the compost by-product returned to farms or forestry according to how the fuel stock is acquired. This will in turn reduce farm generated water pollution, emissions, and vet bills from issues associated with spraying raw effluent on paddocks.
This is not a (high) profit generating industry, but can pay for itself, and lend profit via a tremendous PR coup. The fact they’re paying to generate power for the process now lends much room for improvements in efficiency, and subsequent savings.
In 1980 the Hikurangi Dairy Factory was run on a wood chip fired boiler, there were problems for sure, but surely in 40 yrs these could have been sorted out and this could have become the norm but sadly it seems oil and coal must have proved better for the bottom line.
Since Noah was popping his pimples the Misery of Health has relied on family carers of disabled people to not use all the meagre funding allocated for respite.
New scheme giving choice and flexibility on how the allocated funding can be used was anticipated to enable families to now use the allocated funding that the Miserly has come to rely on in other unspecified areas.
This government has shelved this new project because it was likely to work better for the people it was set up for.
Well done Coalition of Lovingkindness, well done.
If this link fails, find it in Natrad Morning Report.
I have no faith in the HRC (or ODI for that matter) but here is a survey recently out. ODI did one that closed on the 21st.
In the ODI survey I made sure I pointed out that if they couldn't get their own ministry into a vague compliance with the CRPD (access to Work and Income, housing…just the beginning of a policy would be an improvement) then it's safe to assume they are failing in other areas too. That comment is likely to get shuffled off into beauruacratic oblivion, but at least I made the effort.
The trend to communicate with acronyms could go further into a simplified writing similar to a morse code.
For instance A's comment at 7.1 could be contracted so that only the initiated could understand it without a translator for communication.
eg I h n f i t HRC (o ODI f t m) b h i a s r o. ODI d o t c o t 21s.
Look at the saving of space! Let's all talk in acronyms and letters and have a device that we can scan them on which will reveal the actual meaning. That's the way that things are going. Plain and simple dealing between people can no longer be considered automatic, a machine or device will have to be carried at all times for communication!
/sarc but only partly as cellphones and smartph. show we are already on the way to this.
Is it too much to expect that someone replying to a comment actually addresses the topic of the comment?
So, Greywarshark, what are your thoughts on the fact that a scheme that would enable a disabled person or their family carer to access respite care funding in a manner that would be flexible and efficient has been shelved by this government because it is likely to be so successful that it could use all of the funds allocated for that scheme?
Do you think it is honest for successive governments to put in place disability support services through the Ministry of Health that are predicated on being so unworkable by the disabled person that the allocated funding can automatically be spent elsewhere?
A situation as you describe is pretty shit. Respite care is bloody awesome. But despite not being a sports fan, ODI still to me translates as "one day international".
You see in my circle, if the acronym is not familiar then you can just ask Uncle Google and simply choose the definition that fits the context .
Continuing the cricket motif…the Office for Disability Issues is very similar to the abbreviated version of the Game That Defies Explanation and Takes an Entire Working Week To Play.
What should have been instituted was a Ministry for Disability that would ensure that disabled Kiwis could access across the board coordinated supports.
People wouldn't have to google-guess if public comments used publicly-accessible language.
How would a ministry be different from an office, and how would it work with ministry of health or ministry of education or work&income on all the areas where disability issues cross over into those areas?
Regular on so-called lefty site fails to recognise common ac ronyms associated with disability.
Moderator on said site doubles down and accuses commenters using these common disability associated acronyms of failing to use inclusive language.
Am I the only one feeling the irony here?
No wonder things are pretty shit for the disability community (with little hope of improvement) if the wider political sector has the same level of comfortable ignorance of some here on TS.
HRC….Human Rights Commission
ODI….Office for Disability Issues
CRPD….(UN) Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
"Publicly accessible language" indeed.
Apologies if there was an assumption made that disability is an integral part if the community.
Moderator on said site doubles down and accuses commenters using these common disability associated acronyms of failing to use inclusive language. [my bold]
That comes straight from the comment by McFlock @ 11:22 PM to which you replied and who is not and to my knowledge has never been a Moderator on this site!?
Besides me never having such power, not being on immediate-acronym-recognition terms with every single issue is not a failure of dedication to the left, it's a recognition that maybe there are a truckload of issues to keep track of.
A commission has the advantage of organisational autonomy, which can be played pretty well (if no nat funders hate the commission's existence).
Don't know how effective the model is in regards to service provision rather than advice and advocacy, though.
One thing that is becoming evident to me over the years is that constant ministry restructuring and understaffing creates silos within ministries, where lots of people seem to think that it's just a case of ministries and offices being siloed. Contract duplication and cross-purposes actually go down to units within ministries, because nobody can keep up with what their colleagues are doing let alone what minEd or MoH or MSD are up to.
Yes, it ultimately takes an approach like Whanau Ora to manage across the dozens of silos. A commission really just provides the ongoing oversight that our politicians are not providing. People are tired of waiting.
It seems like every month or so there is news on Wellington City that makes me grateful I live in the suburbs. (Although those parking wardern blitz things they do are really annoying – I phone/txt people I know to move their cars when I see them creeping around the place…take that WCC!)
Another govt website I never heard of before. I think that requiring this (below) is going too far. So much for staying anonymous if you win the lottery. A govt snout isn’t far away.
PROTECTING NEW ZEALAND
Making it harder for criminals to launder money provides a significant disincentive to carrying out the criminal activity in the first place.
New Zealand has had Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing Terrorism laws operating since 2013. These laws applied to banks, casinos, financial institutions and some trust and company service providers.
We’re now extending these laws to include:
Lawyers, conveyancers, and trust and company service providers (from 1 July 2018)
Accountants and providers of accounting services (from 1 October 2018)
Real estate agents (from 1 January 2019)
Contaminated Generic Drugs Reveal an Urgent Public Health Crisis
Medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rest upon three pillars: safety, efficacy and quality. Up until recently, quality has been a silent partner—but that’s no longer acceptable.
It often takes a crisis to propel important but overlooked issues to the forefront. Witness the recent public health imbroglio over valsartan, a widely prescribed angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), most commonly used to treat high blood pressure. Over the past few months, a dozen companies have recalled their generic versions of valsartan and other ARBs because of contaminated ingredients containing three different potential carcinogens.
In order to get a stamp of approval from the FDA, a generic medication must be "bioequivalent" to its brand-name counterpart.
This means that chemically the two must be pretty much the same, although makers are allowed 20% variation in the active ingredient from that original formula.
"While the FDA does allow for up to 20% wiggle room, in reality the observed variation is much smaller, 4%," says Dr. Choudhry.
when we go we will be what we are remembered as imo
Great initiative – have to say i forgot we had a Ministry for Culture and Heritage – they must be doing a good job if they are not in the news.
Women’s sex lives, New Zealand’s transgender community, Dungeons and Dragons gaming, ZEALANDIA and ice skating are just some of the fascinating topics covered in this year’s New Zealand Oral History Awards, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Chief Historian Neill Atkinson said today.
“The 12 awards made this year are set to reveal a wealth of New Zealand’s stories,” Neill Atkinson said.
WtB You put up something yesterday that looked useful to someone I know – you mentioned King Salmon in connection with the Black soldier fly bio-pods. Are you okay with me passing on your tip to him? I am thinking that you could become a roving consultant to business and make some decent money out of it. They wouldn't get to know about half the things you do or find without someone passing it on to them!
No problem. It's public knowledge I highlighted the article and a bit of background to point out the 'news' was not news. But it raises awareness so all good in the end.
Yep I could walk into many businesses and point out savings, efficiencies, processes, means to get natural phenomenon to work for them.
King Salmon could get their downstream wastes (dirty water) pumped to terrestrial production (a farm) upstream and they'd have a high production farm that required (little to) no fertilising. The excess water returns via groundwater flow back upstream of their fish, cleaned. This would filter out all the pathogens via soil microbiota having them for lunch, and allow less medications and higher stocking rates in the facilities themselves. They could grow protein and turn it into fish food, or part of, on the farm.
To much time on their hands is probably the problem re the amount they spend here, get out and do something useful for yourself or others it will work wonders rather than wallowing in negativity on the web looking for something to rage or moan about, day in day out
Oh bewildered – You are obviously speaking from past experience and so finely put. I suggest you go through the process again, as your past wisdom gained has worn out and you need to replenish yourself with more good honest toil to bring back your own positivity and value to society and this blog.
"To [sic] much time on their hands"
"get out"
"do something useful"
"wallowing in negativity"
"rage or moan… day in day out"
"Union lovefest"
"useless twats"
"grade A a hole unionist"
"held back by the pack"
"your true brilliance just remains undiscovered"
"her grasp of anything is limited"
"in her rant"
"she really needs to engage what little grey matter she has"
"we all know what you grasp and tug on"
"just plant a few kumeras"
"a notorious air head"
"You need to get out more"
"your [sic] going off the deep end again"
Try putting in something positive every day and that will brighten us all up. It is easy to be weighed down by all the things going wrong and continuing wrong when they could be fixed by determined, committed organisers, or at least made better.
What about putting a joke a day, a youtube piece of practical positivity, or some nice music. Then we won't see misery every time we look at your comments. I have noticed it setting in to your feisty comments and things are getting you down I think. Resist, and look for something interesting and positive, and you will feel better, pass it on to us and we will join you and for a short time we can have a change of mood. And that would be helpful to most of us.
It's funny (not ha ha) to me that in our society we don't like 'negativity' – we must mostly always be 'happy' and find the 'positive' – that approach caused problems because it stops people being REAL. That leads to misery for the person and society imo let alone other terrible outcomes for people like isolation and fear. For me I don't try and change what people write, I just react to what they actually write. I'm doing that with what you wrote in this comment.
Yeah, but on the flipside incessant negativity tends to drag me down. sometimes a joke or two breaks the gloom. Sometimes people do just need to turn off the computer and hug a puppy. I like sitting in my garden.
Good on you marty you do great. But I find that people pouring misery into the blog doesn't help at all to go forward finding ways to cope and some resilience. I can sympathise, but not when people are constantly complaining and running others down. There must be pause in negativity, or one doesn't want to go on living.
It is essential to keep kindness nearby yourself. If people are going to carry on being hard shits when I am writing and thinking and trying to save what's good in life so we have it in the future, then I might as well go away and just think of myself.
I thought you were trying for fairness and right and kindness. If you are always going to talk things down, noting what is wrong, you will end up always finding the negative and never being happy with the solution. I think it is a case of being firm about what is right and fair, and getting some reparation of past stuff that has hurt, and responding positively to efforts to be better, and realising that we can only do what is possible now.
It's working to produce positive outcomes, and trying to get the energy that goes into shit-making being put into something positive and useful, and encouraging that all the way. Why the fuck should I react to what people write. A lot of it is just useless malicious, selfish lazy thinking. Now and then I choose to say something that might be uplifting to such people but if they don't change I don't bother and prefer to have nothing to do with them. In these difficult times I like to be with people who front up and be the best humans they can be to others and try and be happy a good part of the time.
That's life being REAL. Shit happens as the saying goes. Yes admit it, name it, acknowledge it, then try and change it, improve it, and add some positives to take away sadness and bitterness, lessening it and not allowing it to take over. Soon I will be dead, and it is so sad to see the future that I hoped for the world and my children and other young ones so threatened. I am doing my best against that and suggest you lighten up so you can achieve change in the most positive way you can.
And identity plates – registration front and back. Otherwise they are likely to end up being unidentifiable unsmiling assassins to pedestrians and even their riders.
Another example of NZ authorities – Creating Chaos for you since 1984.
But Mutton – if you regulate these things, then our billionaire capitalist saviours will not be able rescue us from perdition with their divine techno-fixes.
They are a bike equivalent though, not a car equivalent.
And they don't look to be as safe as bikes for both riders and pedestrians. Perhaps that's to do with the rules as they stand and the safety equipment worn.
And I got collected by a scooter on the Auckland waterfront, on the shared path, six weeks ago, doing about 25k, which was about 15k over his skill level. Both of us escaped with minor bruising.
Infinitely better than being hit by a car.
We should be encouraging non-polluting forms of transport such as bikes and electric scooters, not trying to get rid of them.
Scooters can be speed restricted to say 15k, which I suspect will solve a lot of problems. Tauranga restricts bikes to less than 15k, on shared paths, which makes them safer for recreational bike riders, and pedestrians. The lycra brigade, who think 15k is for pussies, still prefer to duel it out with the cars.
Most scooter riders are still, learners. Things will improve as people learn to ride them.
I remembered this wee ditty I once heard coming from Depression Days I think. It's about managing through difficult times – good thinking.
Use It All;
Wear It Out; Make It Do; or Go Without!
That came from a Canadian discussion blog mainly on economics, readable and thinkable if anyone feels like spending time on working through various discussion points, like did World War 2 help countries out of the Depression. Some say not.
I think you are Bleheim ianmac. I am giving a pair of old Neilson shoes made in Blenheim to go in a collection of local articles from last century. Definitely not worn out or crumbling as crap from overseas does. I saw them with their identity sticker at an op shop and phoned the museum who are interested. Neilson's had to close down of course when the cheap overseas stuff with in-built obsolescence put them out of business.
I see this as being the theme of this century. Good things that tended to be plain, a little low on style, but long-lasting being thrown aside in favour of the glamourous, quickly deteriorating, and disrespectful of true value in goods and people.
I have a pair of 23 year old McKinlays from Dunedin, brilliant, comfortable and my boys have a pair each which should last to retirement in about 40 or so years.. Go and buy yourself some.
Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to "Axios on HBO" identify a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.
Why it matters: The massive trove, and the story behind it, sheds light on the slap-dash way President Trump filled his cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that beset his government.
Some highlights:
Scott Pruitt, who ultimately lost his job as EPA Administrator because of serial ethical abuses and clubbiness with lobbyists, had a section in his vetting form titled "allegations of coziness with big energy companies."
Tom Price, who ultimately resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary after Trump lost confidence in him in part for stories about his use of chartered flights, had sections in his dossier flagging "criticisms of management ability" and "Dysfunction And Division Has Haunted Price's Leadership Of The House Budget Committee."
Mick Mulvaney, who became Trump's Budget Director and is now his acting chief of staff, has a striking assortment of "red flags," including his assessment that Trump "is not a very good person."
The Trump transition team was so worried about Rudy Giuliani, in line for Secretary of State, that they created a separate 25-page document titled "Rudy Giuliani Business Ties Research Dossier" with copious accounting of his "foreign entanglements."
One red flag for Gen. David Petraeus, who was under consideration for Secretary of State and National Security Adviser: "Petraeus Is Opposed to Torture."
Yeah! And that was only 5% of them. The rest are just as bad. But only the best people.
In the meantime I see Kellyanne is being stopped by the WH in testifying to the House oversight Committee wrt her repeated violations of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities in their official capacity, and the civil service watchdog known as the Office of Special Counsel determined earlier this month that Conway violated the act by "disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in an official capacity during television interviews and on social media."
The whole of the 'business community' – which Amy will be joining – is National's finance spokesperson. To a certain extent, they don't even need one inside caucus.
If it's Simon, I'd pick the opposite, i.e. he's not announcing a reshuffle, but re-shuffling an announcement. Probably taking something dull and dishonest and making it incoherent.
I don't see why USA can't impeach Trump using his own method of listing transgressions – they could say that he has made so many un-Presidential decisions that have brought the US into discombobulation "and many other things".
Carroll says she didn’t go to the police after the encounter out of fear and the ensuing harassment she was sure she’d endure. She also says she confided in two close friends about the alleged incident, both of whom gave her conflicting advice. Carroll says that one friend told her “He raped you. Go to the police! I’ll go with you.” while the other advised her to forget the alleged incident occurred because Trump “has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.’”
Bit of a bugger for the next one wanting to leave. Pressure's really on and they'll be wishing they'd done it yesterday. One = mmmmmm, two = ahhhhh, three = rats off sinking ship.
Totally agree Jenny. There are at present 24 25 people with their hat in the ring for democratic candidate for President. There are some very fine people in that group. It's early days yet – the real contest from a democratic selection process doesn't start until early next year. Yulsi Gabbard is currently polling at around the level of David Seymor (ie 1% max) so I don't see that she will be a serious contender when the chips are down next year. She doesn't have a "rotten borough" like Epsom as Seymor does.
Well adam – we all know how well that worked out in the end, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan coinciding with Watergate. Putin knows his history.
But yes detente (or the easing of tensions) is a much needed word right now – particularly between the US and Iran.
Any candidate that supports Bashar Assad committing genocide in Syria disqualifies herself.
Or himself. Which candidate supports Assad, Jenny? We know that many of them support despotic and murderous regimes in Israel, Colombia, and Egypt, but which one "supports Bashar Assad committing genocide"?
The purchase will be funded through an underwritten placement of $50 million of shares at $1.25 each. A total of $92 million will come from a 1-for-5.7 pro-rata renounceable rights offer at an issue price of $1.15 per share. An additional $10 million of new Arvida shares will be issued to the vendors at market price and there will be $32 million of bank debt.
The villages are being acquired in an off-market transaction from interests controlled by Mr Fraser Sanderson, a long-term developer of high-quality retirement villages in New Zealand.
https://www.arvida.co.nz/For-Investors/Overview-of-Arvida
This company was as apparently Hercules Ltd. in 2014. then Arvida Group Ltd, Auckland NZ. 2014
Hercules Ltd was subsidiary of Ashland Global Holdings Ltd. Manchester, UK –
through S&P Global Market Intelligence under S&P Global connected to Bloomberg.com.
https://www.nbr.co.nz/tags/hercules-limited Another aged care provider mulls listing amid private equity investment. The country’s largest unlisted rest home operator is mulling whether to list on the stock exchange, after an ownership shake-up and operations expansion. Calida Stuart-Menteath Fri, 03 Oct 2014 NBR (National Business Review)
She must feel utterly devastated! Poor, POOR Amy!!!!!!!!!!!
Could she not sign up as a rent-a-voice somehwere in the MSM possibly? A little gig on The Nayshun maybe? or even Q+A?. Perhaps daddy Wayne could give her a bit of advoice going forwid. Maybe one or two Lions Club speaking engagements?
And if worse comes to worst it wouldn't take to much for her to become accredited selling a bit of real estate surely. I'm sure Harcourts would snap her up in a jiffy.
The authorities are not concerned at Chinese fungus-impregnated logs are being imported into NZ. How casual. We are constantly finding new nasties coming here. It is hard to believe that the people supposed to be responsible at keeping things out of, and protecting us at the borders of New Zealand could do this. The regulations should be used as much as possible seeing we have so few of them now.
The growing substrate arriving is pasteurised straw &/or grain &/or woodchip with innoculate of the fungi. This is sealed in a plastic bag.
The local guys have always been terribly overpriced for persons just wishing to grow mushrooms at home. Something like $40 retail and lucky to get a kilo of oyster mushrooms. A fad or a fling, not really a feasible purchase otherwise. $40, a plastic bag of straw/grain in a cardboard box…
I'm glad there is competition.
You can take the original purchase and propagate if you're good. Then you might see some ROI.
I have fungi related skills and tips. Perhaps for HTGT sometime.
I don't know if you would want to be bothered but if you start you might get pestered – I've one on my lawn and it's light creamy fawn and quite long in the stalk etc etc.
I will qualify that's not what it is and ignore those trying it on. Got several unidentified species in my own garden. Or I could do this.
Let's play let's identify fungi:
Cap 1-2 cm diameter, white/translucent with striations leading to undulate margin. Stem hollow, white. Gill attachment decurrent. Spore print white. Spore smooth non-septate elliptical ~ 20-30 um creamy yellow.
What is it?
Once you answer this question, enter the above parameters for your unidentified fungi and sod off to a fungi database.
World’s largest crop art message to Trump unveiled in 33-acre field on the Tanderup farm in Neligh, Nebraska was created by volunteers with artist John Quigley.
World’s largest crop art message to Trump unveiled in 33-acre field on the Tanderup farm in Neligh, Nebraska was created by volunteers with artist John Quigley. (Photo: Dakota Aerials)
“Pres. Trump stands on stage saying he loves farmers while approving a foreign export pipeline using eminent domain on Americans,” said Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska founder. “The land is everything to farmers and Tribal Nations, and Trump continues to show his lack of respect and understanding. We the people have stopped this risky pipeline for 10 years and will not let a reckless President destroy our land and water.”
“’We The People’ – Farmers, Ranchers, and Tribal Nations have come together to protect the land, water, and people from the Keystone XL pipeline. The Crop Art is a reminder that the strength of America comes from its people,” said Nebraska farmer and “tractor artist” Art Tanderup, on whose family’s land the Crop Art was created.
“Our people depended on the buffalo and used all of it for food, clothing and tools. It sustained our people for generations. They are our relatives, part of our clan. They were driven to near extinction until people took measures to stop and protect them. Today this is a symbol and reminder that the same is happening to Mother Earth. The people here want to stop the continued, systematic exploitation practices that harm our environment and resources,” said Chairman Larry Wright, Jr., Ponca Tribe of Nebraska.
lol and gets Goldsmith promoted over her head. The dude whose only political achievement is to consistently lose an election to a hologram.
If I were Bridges I'd be promoting Collins. Tie her as closely to his leadership as possible. Gives him a chance of dragging her down to political oblivion when his time cometh.
It was noticeable that Q2 today at Question Time in the House was on housing but asked by Bridges, and not by Collins. It is seen as a large issue by the Opposition, and worthy of the Leader leading the charge (well, charge is too grand a word- stumble more like). But it is also a snub for Ms Collins.
This is part of what PM Ardern said to Simon "Stuff All" Bridges.
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: As I said, 10,000 homes are currently under contract to go under construction; 480 are currently under construction; 141 have been completed; 2,700 State houses are currently under construction; 1,200 State homes, since we took office, have been completed; 2,000 more homes have families living in them, public housing, because of us; and, of course, we have the additional investment in Housing First. The reason I mention that, for the benefit of members, is because, as I've said, every single area of housing we have had a crisis that we have been addressing, and we will continue to address."
Elizabethan/Jacobean I reckon, not medieval. She'd be a perfect Goneril or Regan in King Lear – fake coquettishness overlaying a vast lake of evil, as in:
"…the laws are mine, not thine. Who can arraign me for't?"
Don't go there – the only thing left of you would be a pair of socks with the feet still in them. That David Wong Tung must have hitherto-undisclosed superpowers.
I agree foster parents should be able to put their fostered children in Kiwisaver. Tamariki having a Kiwisaver account will set them up for a better life.
Bernie I no what you're saying
Lloyd it's good for Pakistan to have a win in the Cricket World Cup they look very happy about it .
New evidence found from the Pike River mine disaster Duncan the black box was lost and found now it cannot be analized more cover ups My intenet just failed to I wonder why I Am watching the Show on a ph I won't CROW to much.
What the NZ housing market stabilization is going to do is make people INVEST in other productive parts of our economy Mark billions sittings in the housing market doesn't do much to produce exports income its export income that is what pays Aotearoa bills in reality. I say it's good news that the housing market has stabilized.
Sugar should be voluntary lowered in all our food the damages sugar does to our mokopuna health is to high to humanely justify our food being loaded with sugar.
Eco Maori has been trying to higher legal help for near on 3 years no one will ring back yesterday I thought i had found a lawyer but no my meeting was canceled at the last minute I new it was to good to be TRUE but i look for something good in every situation. I have decide to file my own court actions against the bent police force and the JUSTICE department. Ka kite ano.
Ka pai Angie people like you who can see reality about Global warming and climate changes people like you are so special. Its is awesome that the tide is changing on this issue now most people know it is Reality
After 40 years of climate activism, I feel a surge of hope
I was arrested at an Extinction Rebellion protest and found guilty of an offence. But I don’t regret it for a second
Iam now 68 years of age but when I was 21, in my final year at university, I became aware of major problems then facing the world – war, poverty, acid rain, ozone depletion, desertification, deforestation, species loss, civil and military uses and abuses of nuclear power, pollution, population growth, consumerism and the climate crisis. I was determined to devote my life to helping solve these problems. After spending three years in Cameroon, learning about deforestation for timber and cash crops such as palm oil, and the exploitation of the rich resources of Africa to the detriment of locals and enrichment of corporations and western societies, I returned home to the nuclear weapons crisis of the cold war
I joined the Greenham Common protests, founded the Snowball civil disobedience campaign and then later the anti-nuclear weapons group Trident Ploughshares. I also became involved in work on the climate crisis. I learned that everything is connected and that it all has an impact on the climate, on biodiversity and on the sustainability of life on Earth. I discovered more about how our reliance on fossil fuels was causing the greenhouse effect and soon joined with climate scientists and local environmentalists to start a group in Norwich that tried to educate the public
Here you go Whanau reality for a brown person or any minority cultural in New Zealand is unfair unjustified and BULLSHIT
That's A Bit Racist, TVNZ 1, Sunday (July 7)
Documentary filmed before Christchurch attack finds inequality in New Zealand
"Most of us wander round thinking that New Zealand is a fair and decent country where everyone's treated equally, that we're a right on, cool bunch of people who are a bit different to every other place in the world but the reality is a bit different. That's the bottom line. New Zealand is a different place depending on the colour of your skin and the accent you have.
Racism can be as simple as mocking people, mimicking accents or telling cheap jokes at the expense of others.
Then there is institutional racism.
"It's not that nasty name-calling, low-level, joking, silly stuff. It's how your opportunities are affected based on unconscious decisions people make in positions of power," Andrews says
New Zealand is a great big melting pot but, unfortunately, although we are filled with all the world and all it's got, we are not equal. We are not treated equally, we don't have equal opportunity and our kids still don't and that is what motivated me most to keep working with this documentary "If we don't have it, nothing is going to change and I don't know if that's that flash ka kite ano link below.
I stand proud to be a Maori it is awesome that our people are showing a big surge in Interest in our te reo and culture. I agree the government needs to invest more money in training te reo Teachers
With that shooting in Vags I wonder why they stated that the person who died was from Eco Maori IWI Ngati Porou I have never seen this before????????????????????????.
Since the UNJUSTIFIED system is not providing Eco Maori with a satisfactory service I.E can no get a lawyer to represent Eco Maori .
I Am going to make a Waitangi Tribunal claim and use the treaty of Waitangi to defend my Whanau from the attacks to my reputation my mana my tamariki my mokopuna by the NZ GOVERNMENT department of police .
One might say why tell them well them they are monitoring every fart I do.
I agree that some use of 1080 is needed but I still say that a bounty needs to be payed on the RAT extermination I no of a place where there are heaps of RATS.
mark I see you and duncan have had your egos blown up because the mens mens Netball team beat the Wahine team there is nothing to CROW about there boys. Men are physically taller stronger than Wahine the win is quite predictable you 2 crowing about the win shows you're chauvinistic neanderthal true characters to the Papatuanuku good on you Ingrid for pointing out that they have no need to be insecure about Wahine getting more mana.
The new reservation on whenua showing a big increase in the bird's and other wildlife in and around the reservations the same phenomenon will happen with our new marine reservation all marine reservation and reservation on land are needed to protect our wildlife. The unusual warm weather creates a huge population growth of rats that is caused by Global Warming Human Caused Climate Change.
The Democrats debate issues with their broad casting their debate live shows how low trump's rednecks crew will go you see people the rightneck are dirty there just like they are here .
judy national sold a lot of state houses in high value places to wealthy people who just creamed it you shut down hundreds of states houses with the bullshit PEE testing scheme that retired police were running and creaming that to you and you m8 created this housing SHORT.
Kris congratulations.
Capitalism at its best pokie machines one arm bandits there are 5 times more of these things in poor communities that can least afford to play them than wealthy places. The idiot's use the excuse that they give a lot to charity's in the lower class place what about the tamariki at home with out the basics healthy living conditions while the parent are feeding their habit addiction.
I say that the dry July is a great thing alcohol free for one month. What it will do ultimately is lower ones consumption of alcohol. No wonder Amanda took the morning off dealing with the big dumb egos stand firm Ingrid.
Ka pai to all the people Championing action against climate change.
Extinction Rebellion highlight climate emergency at Glastonbury
Campaigners joined by indigenous people who have led fight against Global warming.
Nearly 2,000 festival-goers have joined climate change campaigners Extinction Rebellion to stage a procession across the Glastonbury site, paying tribute to indigenous people who have led the fight against global heating.
Waving flags bearing the extinction symbol, which was seen across central London earlier this year when Extinction Rebellion protests brought the city to a standstill, the crowd marched for about an hour in the scorching afternoon sun on Thursday from the festival’s park stage to its stone circle.
Speaking to the crowd on the second day of the 49th Glastonbury festival, Dr Gail Bradbrook from Extinction Rebellion, said: “[Extinction Rebellion] is not a protest. It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren’t protecting us and it’s down to us now.”
Bradbrook said people were waking up to the climate emergency. “This is not a slow movement of change. It’s a shift in the consciousness of each of us.
“It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.
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TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
Pacific Media Watch Earthwise hosts Lois and Martin Griffiths. Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths on Plains FM 96.9 community radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and media educator with a passion for the Asia-Pacific region. David talks about the struggle to raise awareness ...
Pacific Media Watch Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who was held for 12 hours at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, says Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian journalists at the facility and made them kneel on the ground for hours, while naked and blindfolded. “The occupation forces handcuffed and blindfolded us ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute chinasong, Shutterstock Electricity customers in four Australian states can breathe a sigh of relief. After two years in a row of 20% price increases, power prices have finally stabilised. In many places they’re ...
Chumbawamba have reportedly issued the deputy PM a cease-and-desist notice after he used their song 'Tubthumping' before his state of the nation speech. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney kitzcorner/Shutterstock The assertion from Queensland’s chief health officer John Gerrard that ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Why are musicians so keen to get played on the radio? It can’t be because of the money. In Australia they are paid at rates so low they ...
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https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/mainstream-contributing-rising/
So far, no one in the U.S. media has reminded Americans about the tragedy on July 3, 1988, when the USS Vincennes, a warship in the Persian Gulf, by mistake shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, (which was in Iranian airspace) killing all 290 people on board, including 66 children.
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/03/the-forgotten-us-shootdown-of-iranian-airliner-flight-655%C2%AD/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unltD5gzd9I
I'd really like to see all US political stories off in another corner. I've lost interest in this freakshow which required background reading to understand in the beginning and now is even more challenging.
The ongoing Kabuki theatre has become too exhausting to read
I'd say it's more a Bukkake Theatre piece.
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I watched this yesterday.
Amazed at how Tucker Carlson seems to be doing the job of the American left these days.
Amazing how the left clucks approvingly when a white supremacist says something they agree with.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-iraqis-are-semiliterate-primitive-monkeys
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2018/10/29/tucker-carlsons-descent-white-supremacy-timeline/221741
Carlson is a scoundrel, and a racist, but he's not insane. Unlike the "leaders" of the Democratic Party, he does not believe in prosecuting an illegal war against Iran. An obnoxious Fox News host is more rational, more honest, more trustworthy than the "leaders" of the Democratic Party; what a pretty pass we have come to.
If you're getting your ideas from the Jimmy Dore show, do keep in mind he's a comedian cherry-picking, misrepresenting, and outright lying for yuks from some sad souls possessed of a particularly fuckwitted mindset. His show is in no way any kind of factual representation of reality, it is a deliberately twisted distortion and obscuration of reality.
Meanwhile. in the real world, Democrat leaders are working on how to put the dayglo swampzilla on a leash with respect to Iran. Including possibly blocking the National Defense Authorization Act until there's a bill passed that blocks Tyrannosaurus Arse from taking action against Iran without prior approval from Congress. This spending bill is broadly popular across the political spectrum, so even publicly talking about blocking it takes political courage.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/24/politics/filibuster-defense-bill-iran/index.html
If you're getting your ideas from the Jimmy Dore show,
Is Jimmy Dore alone in noting that Tucker Carlson is smarter than, more well read than, more responsible than Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer and the rest of that thoroughly undistinguished gang?
do keep in mind he's a comedian cherry-picking, misrepresenting, and outright lying for yuks from some sad souls possessed of a particularly fuckwitted mindset. His show is in no way any kind of factual representation of reality, it is a deliberately twisted distortion and obscuration of reality.
??? That adjective-rich but analysis-poor rant of yours offers nothing coherent or intelligent about Jimmy Dore, but it reveals a great deal about yourself.
Meanwhile. in the real world, Democrat leaders are working on how to put the dayglo swampzilla …. Tyrannosaurus Arse ….
Abuse, especially such limp and unimaginative abuse as that, achieves….. what, exactly? I advise you to read out your posts to some underling before you send them out to the ether; if the underling says something like "Do you really think dayglo godzilla is funny? Really, Andre?" then I advise you to hold back on the old posting front. There's a good fellow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPsvJo4LXnY
Jimmy Dore is the fuckwit who spent years opining fuckwittery about Syria while remaining incredibly ignorant of basic facts about Syria, such as the situation with Kurds in Northern Syria.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jimmy_Dore
As for his opinion of Tucker Carlson being smarter than Pelosi or Schumer, that's the kind of horseshit designed to appeal to sad sack fuckwits whose only joy in life is whining about Democrats on any and every topic, warranted or not.
In this case, the only reason Carlson has any relevance whatsoever is because the barbecued bozo in the White House prefers to listen to ass-kissing talking heads on his number-one suck-up TV channel rather than take on board the serious considered advice of actual experts, many of whom he himself appointed. That Carlson had one of his occasional (very rare) moments of actual rationality in no way excuses the extremely dangerous ludicrousness of the situation.
In this case, there is no point whatsoever in Schumer and Pelosi trying to influence the decisions made by the tangerine toddler. If he paid any attention whatsoever, it would only be to try to figure out what course of action would be most against their counsel. So the only reasonable course of action open to Pelosi and Schumer is through legislation. Which, surprise, they are doing, but Dore and his fuckwit followers have no interest in.
Our friend Andre regales us thusly….
Those were the highlights.
MEMO ANDRE:
Wait till the small hours, then ring up NewstalkZB. That's the proper forum for your standard of analysis.
Jimmy dore is anti war …..and he has some interesting guests and clips.
Perhaps fuckwits follow you Andre …. 😉
Being an expert on Kurds …. why do you think the british pretended it was Iran doing gas attacks …. when Saddam was using Sarin nerve gas against the Kurds in Iraq…..
This was after After he had used it against Iran …. which he did with Nato / Usa directions and help
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/seeking-answers-iran-s-chemical-weapons-victims-time-runs-out
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/26/exclusive-cia-files-prove-america-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran/
And finally heres a nice humanitarian woman …. however she's anti war …. which could get Andre hissing …. 'fuckwit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCu8mNC1JyE
Don’t you mean pro-genocide
Only you and possibly Andre ….. could watch Carla Ortiz and smear her with the crime of the usa .
Genocide and ethnic cleansing was the result of Hillary war criminal Clinton and Nato ,,,,,
Libya was the blue print for the destruction of syria …. especially with regards to lies, smears and pro war propaganda .
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal-true-motive-for-libya-intervention/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04MDYW1oEe0
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
The danger of thinking that they are, is that you wind up in some very dark spaces.
Because you hate American Imperialism, or British Imperialism, doesn't mean that German fascism is a good thing.
Millions of Germans including millions of Leftists, socialists and communists voted for the National Socialist Workers party because of the Nazis exposures of the crimes of the British Empire.
Reason, you speak of Libya, only because you know absolutely nothing of Syria.
Deliberately trying to conflate the two countries, shows that you are willing to cover up the genocide being carried out against the Syrian people by fascist type Assad regime.
Darn right Professor Longhair ….
The Usa … and the white, english speaking 5 eyes Lynch mob club ,,, are racist and corrupt.
So its ironic … not amazing ,,,,that Carlson, a more extreme version of this 'exceptional nation' and their 'master complex' racist delusions ….. Should be against a war that would kill a lot of non-white people in Iran.
A whole lot of clucked up claptrap from some posters ….about Jimmy dore or Carlson …. does not make the argument for illegal wars and their accompanying mass murder valid .
Hillary war criminal Clinton ….When campaigning in one of her failed attempts at president ……. threatened to Nuke Iran and wipe it off the world map ….
… But only if Iran attacked Israel with Nuclear weapons that it does not have … Amazingly this total contrivance and threat to use nukes, was supported by over 50% of the usa public.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/23/hillaryclinton.iranhttps://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-if-im-president-we-will-attack-iran/5460484
Wikileaks shows the casual, murderous and barbaric racist crusaders ethos … that is usa / Nato in the middle east
26 mins
38 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmfOaZ34Pk
Jenny you have as much credibility on Syria as a nasty loon who tried to link the christchucrch mosque shootings with Syria / Assad…. and I'm not misrepresenting you am I ???? …. you did say that .
Aside from that particulary bit of creepy grave dancing on a NZ tragedy … Your propaganda is the same as used against Libya / Iraq by Hillary war criminal Clinton and other genocide enablers …
Respected independent journalists including Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn and many others debunk a lot of what Jenny says…..
I believe Carla Ortiz cares a lot more for the Syrian people than Jenny…
I believe someone like Patrick Cockburn is both more credible and honest than Jenny…
Hi Reason,
Like all the apologists for genocide committed by the Assad regime against the Syrian people, here. I have repeatedly asked a simple question.
Not one of you has ever had the decency to answer it.
Who did this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3gR4BUPmQ
The usa set the middle east on fire The greatest purveyor of violence in the world did it.
http://johnpilger.com/articles/inside-the-invisible-government-war-propaganda-clinton-trump
. As diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed, since at least 2006, the US has consistently sought to undermine it “by any available means”, utilising a variety of techniques including an effort—in co-ordination with Saudi Arabia—to encourage Islamic fundamentalism
"Amnesty’s investigation of the Raqqa attacks says that the real civilian death toll was not only shocking but totally unnecessary." ….. Human rights group Amnesty International estimates around 80 percent of Raqqa was devastated by fighting, including vital infrastructure like schools and hospitals…. https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1429616/retaken-not-rebuilt-syrias-raqqa-year-after-isis-ouster … who jenny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDiKDfX5PWs
You are deliberately misrepresenting me.
Reason if you choose to make such disgusting slurs, you need to back it up with some evidence.
Either that, or embarrass yourself before us all, as a genocide denying pro fascist propagandist.
But of course, facts don’t matter to your pro human slaughter narrative.
I bet jennys conspiracy theory does not get raised in our New Zealand courts either ….
From two years ago.
Though it has never been given the same billing as all the pro-fascist posts, that have appeared on this site, anyone who reads this blog can see, my position on Syria is long standing and consistent.
In 2010 just months before the uprising, I was in Syria and witnessed up close the fascist style nature of this regime. Since leaving, contacts I met and trusted, have shown me video of the slaughter visited on their communities, by the regime, places where I visited.
I wrote in 2017 long before the Christchurch massacre, that the Centre Left's support for Syrian fascism 'has helped fuel Islamphobia here'.
Reason, writing either from a place of total ignorance, or consciously lying, has tried to twist my words and the warning I gave in the most disgusting fashion.
Wayne mapp john key and Rebecca Kitteridge with their jihadi bride rubbish and general racism …. have been behind the general hum of bigotry and war drums since 9/11 …
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373631/i-m-not-a-jihadi-bride
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5269065/No-evidence-asylum-seekers-heading-to-NZ
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/13/the-memo-that-helped-kill-a-half-million-people-in-syria/
The rise of fascism in Europe and the usa … white mans bombs directly leading to brown refugees ….. and boat people
Islamophobia in NZ was pushed along by the john keys, wayne mapps type fearmongers and our media in general…. Wayne mapp was dissing the people of Afghanistan …. right up to the day 'Hit and Run' came out .. a man involved in the killing of little Afghan children …. telling us how uncivilized they were.
He likes your war though jenny …….
Dem bloody democrats … and hillary War Criminal clinton …
http://johnpilger.com/articles/clinton-assange-and-the-war-on-truth
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/06/25/how-the-u-s-under-obama-created-europes-refugee-crisis/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/25/the-refugee-crisis-separating-the-conspiracies-from-the-conspiracy/
the media removes the refugees from their politico-historical context, transforming them into so-called “migrants” – an elusive term designed to obscure the reality of who these people are, and why they’re desperately trying to get into Europe – as if they’re simply poor people looking for work, rather than victims of imperialism looking to protect their families and escape wars and destabilizations initiated by the West.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/25/how-many-millions-have-been-killed-in-americas-post-9-11-wars-part-3-libya-syria-somalia-and-yemen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dj71ywmuOY
More on the guy who placed the Luxon for PM advert: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/113728932/luxon-for-national-advertisement-entrepreneurs-remarkable-past
Self made loan shark, slumlord and property speculator. What a parasite. I wonder if he has every actually done anything that did something constructive for the economy?
Rickshaws, I guess?
Yes, you take a National voter to the extreme and the product is this odious man. You take a lefty to the extreme and you get the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Ed.
So a one in three chance of just tripping balls all day long?
Might be wrong, but generally i think the govt. is too kind to the political media.
The Govt. is more popular than the main stream political media, & if it's unable to represent properly, why not just let it rage and fume by itself unbridled.
Let it throw away that which it can not buy back, & speeden up the workings of NZ market supply and demand.
Dear Denialist – yuck
LPrent wrote on 19 June 2019:
Greenland holds a large store of fresh water. If fully melted, it will raise sea levels by roughly 7 metres. It is melting – fast. Last week, temperatures across Greenland about 22 degrees Celsius warmer than the normal for that time of year. It produced an extraordinary visual effect of dogs walking on water through surface melt over sea ice.
It is not only madmen (such as Trump and all Americans) that are in denial about Climate Change and its Effects and Costs, It is Dumb Kiwis.
National Party and hangers on such as Seymour, too many Farmers and other Assorted nitwits are Denialists. Currently, Councils and Regional Authorities must be deemed as Denialists. They are irresponsible and allow all manner of pollutions.
We must inform Denialists that they will not receive any assistance whatever, from now on unless they individually and personally commit to keeping Aotearoa in good care.
Let's get serious. Just like the Children and Youth are. Let us put into Law what Citizens must do. Should they not do it – they will lose their assests as well as their Nationality.
PS – I realise that most New Zealanders will not know what a metre is – let alone 7 metres. it is 23 Feet High. Nearly as high as a Farmers' Ego.
its telling that you think most New Zealanders won’t know what a meter is – where I wouldn’t know a single person who would not know what a meter was.
You need to widen your group of contacts – preferably with people smart enough to know what a basic unit of measurement is.
lol or how to spell it 😉
I think it's a generational thing.
Buggered if I can visualise 23 feet or 7 metres though. That's a couple of storeys, isn't it?
Yes, pretty funny – mine was the generation that learned imperial for part of their school years and metric for the rest, in the late 1960s. Everyone since then learned metric only, ie everyone who's been to school since the late 1960s. My kids find it very confusing when people give measurements in feet or inches.
I must be about the same age as you. I was in S4 in 1968 and still have my little Dollar Scholar certificate to prove I was ready for the new decimalized currency. They started the metrification process the following year and completed the roll out through commerce, education and industry over the next few years.
Cuisenaire rods had already give our cohort a rough idea of what metric measures looked like, and like most of my generation I'm competent in both imperial and metric units but I tend to default to imperial for some things and metric for others. Funny how your brain works. I've done a lot of work on old British cars and machinery which requires use of imperial measures and also a lot of American equipment as well. Then I'll be working on European stuff and have to shift mental gears to think in metric. I still think of myself as a six footer at the same time I know that is about 1.8 M What gets me is the way Metric came to be used in this country. Everyone else would say I was 1800mm high which is not the way the system was designed to be expressed.
Well, personally, I remember spending all my primary/intermediate/early secondary school years doing arithmetic based upon those elegant old imperial systems. eg: Divide 3 tons 5 hundredweight 6 pounds and 14 ounces by 23.
Or multiply 8 pounds (money this time) 17 shillings and 11pence by 11.
I really wonder what it is that people do at primary school now… (By the way, they still managed to make us do ghastly folk dancing, etc.)
I enjoy teasing my children by watching their eyes cross as I explain the intricacies of how the old currency worked and why it was called Lsd..
They wanted to give us a rounded education and bring boys and girls together with some social graces. Now they don't bother with that and just separate them with a crowbar.
Agree with sentence one – by and large, they meant well. Not so sure about the crowbar thing (that was always there) but as a secondary relief teacher I see a lot of wonderful kids coming out of the primary system, so some people there are doing some good things.
They come out of ECE whole, then primary stunts them, intermediate munts them, and secondary crushes them into tiny pieces.
Yay! But.. I am not sure that the schools have all that much to do with it, except for causing the toxic social intermingling. Nice kids from nice parents get mingled with shit kids from shit parents, and the descent begins. Don't be too naive about what schools can achieve. They are basically holding pens, aren't they?
Schools should not be seen as "basically holding pens". That is much of the problem right there, attitudes like that. While i am not surprised to hear that from a school teacher i would very much be from an ECE teacher about where they work.
I haven't got time today to write an essay on how messed up schools are but if you are interested you could start by having a look at Te Whariki, the ECE curriculum, and how it differs from The New Zealand Curriculum.
The crowbar thing is a linefrom some comedian which i slipped in. But the old foksy stuff was quite good does anyone remember The Dashing White Sergeant and the Veleta. It was quite a good way for only children of that gender to actually touch the opposite.
Touch the opposite? Luxury! Used to dream of touching the opposite..
We save archaic language for weighty matters like death and marriage, where we feel we need the buttress of time to support us. thus we solemnly intone lines unchanged from 1549 when we say , "with this ring I thee wed" or burying a beloved we go back to the1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer for "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
So it is with imperial measures. Archaic, but used still for life changing moments. Babies are still announced to the world largely in imperial measurements. People are still buries six feet under.
This is how it should be.
Well done First Union!! Winning a fight for the living wage at a miserable retailer owned by millionaires:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/392838/mitre-10-living-wage-ruling-sets-precedent-for-retail-staff-union
This absolutely wouldn’t have happened without the union.
"irst Union retail finance sector secretary Tali Williams said they have been fighting for this for six years, and its members were pleased with the outcome.
Currently the union has six members across the two stores, but 140 staff could receive the pay increase if they join the union."
I think the important point in this story is that it is only those workers that are members of the union that will receive the pay rise. I wonder if this sets some kind of precedent for ERA. Currently of the 140 staff, 6 are union members.
If I'm a worker at these Mitre 10 stores and union membership will cost me $10 a week and the payrise represents $30 extra a week.I'd be a mug not to be signing up. I can see this move by ERA reversing union membership trends.
Or they simply get it anyway in individual contracts and save union fee, rightly or wrongly re what anyone thinks is fair or unfair
You'd be fine bewildered but I suspect not all Mitre 10 staff enjoy your levels of contract renewal negotiation prowess. A good number of them will be jolly grateful to have a regular income and reluctant to risk rocking the boat.
I've been on the receiving end of individual 'negotiation' with a lousy employer – basically "sign this or no job"
Without the union – they wouldn't have got it at all.
Freedom from joining the union, is freedom to be dictated to by rich people and screwed.
" If I'm a worker at these Mitre 10 stores and union membership will cost me $10 a week and the payrise represents $30 extra a week. "
Actual First Union fees can be quite a bit lower, depending on your hours, fees range from $2.70/week to $8.20/week.
For someone working 40 hours per week:
Union Fee = $8.20
Wage difference Union negotiation ($21/h) vs Mitre 10 offer ($18.70/h) = $92.00
Crazy not to join!!
https://www.firstunion.org.nz/join-us/join-us-information
Yes uncooked, thanks for the numbers.
There seems to be many comments lately about the waning virility of a left view.
I don't want to be a communist. I just want to put my shoulder alongside others that think we can do more about improving the quality of life of most of us.
Being left comes naturally to most decent folk.
Kevin Hester and Guy McPherson were joined by meteorologist Nick Humphrey for this pre-recorded show. We discussed the links between climate change, weather, and crop failures. You can support Nick via his Patreon page. Very enlightening talk about the exponential climate change now happening.
http://prn.fm/nature-bats-last-06-12-19/
Cheers Paul Ed
Cheers bewilderEd
Thank you Wilderbeest. Good to see you taking an interest in the climate.
"Economic lunacy" is National's Todd Muller's response to a report considering 100% renewable electricity. The gist is that the last few percent of the 100% goal are hard to get both financially and logistically. Without a plan or even the hint of an original idea; he provides this 'economic lunacy' recycled sound bite from social media, and talking points that have been available for years – as if he has a clue.
At least he's recycling something. Fonterra needs a lot of hot air to dry milk.
The last few percent of renewables – that fruit way up in the tree that cherry pickers can't even reach, is, as the report states, best addressed after other, heavier polluting aspects of the economy entire are addressed. 100% renewables is and was aspirational.
Aspiration is apparently frowned upon by those who dare not dream their own dreams with corporate taskmasters breathing down their necks. Aspiration has been turned around to be used consistently as yet another insult/sound byte meaning nothing and intending harm. Well being and kindness are also favored insults of intellectually challenged social media commentators.
Unless you are in Oregon, where the right have departed on a fun run: there's sleeves to be rolled up and jobs to be done: A society to fix, a planet to be saved, and yes, an economy to transition.
There are many places that generate excess heat from industry, and with good design, in some instances, Fonterra won't even need coal fired drying plants, merely some cooperation to use waste heat from other industries.
They could also use some of their own resources to be truly useful to the countries need to transition. This would position them far more favorably in global markets, where consumers are increasingly demanding environmental accountability from supply chains.
Biogas is a viable alternative for tanker fleets and might be generated in various localised facilities to produce biofuels, chemicals for industry, compost products for farmers, and excess heat for drying milk powder. These plants can be fueled by industrial and farm wastes, or municipal wastes… with the compost by-product returned to farms or forestry according to how the fuel stock is acquired. This will in turn reduce farm generated water pollution, emissions, and vet bills from issues associated with spraying raw effluent on paddocks.
This is not a (high) profit generating industry, but can pay for itself, and lend profit via a tremendous PR coup. The fact they’re paying to generate power for the process now lends much room for improvements in efficiency, and subsequent savings.
Aspirational, or economic lunacy?
You decide.
In 1980 the Hikurangi Dairy Factory was run on a wood chip fired boiler, there were problems for sure, but surely in 40 yrs these could have been sorted out and this could have become the norm but sadly it seems oil and coal must have proved better for the bottom line.
Waitoa Dairy factory has/had a coal mine virtually beneath it.
Convenient? Not for the rest of us. It does explain how they came to be using it there.
It was, pre-climate change, smart business.
yes comrade burning trees is the key to saving the environment
Actually, if I burn as much as I grow, it's carbon neutral.
Since Noah was popping his pimples the Misery of Health has relied on family carers of disabled people to not use all the meagre funding allocated for respite.
New scheme giving choice and flexibility on how the allocated funding can be used was anticipated to enable families to now use the allocated funding that the Miserly has come to rely on in other unspecified areas.
This government has shelved this new project because it was likely to work better for the people it was set up for.
Well done Coalition of Lovingkindness, well done.
If this link fails, find it in Natrad Morning Report.
I have no faith in the HRC (or ODI for that matter) but here is a survey recently out. ODI did one that closed on the 21st.
In the ODI survey I made sure I pointed out that if they couldn't get their own ministry into a vague compliance with the CRPD (access to Work and Income, housing…just the beginning of a policy would be an improvement) then it's safe to assume they are failing in other areas too. That comment is likely to get shuffled off into beauruacratic oblivion, but at least I made the effort.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HRCEngagement
The trend to communicate with acronyms could go further into a simplified writing similar to a morse code.
For instance A's comment at 7.1 could be contracted so that only the initiated could understand it without a translator for communication.
eg I h n f i t HRC (o ODI f t m) b h i a s r o. ODI d o t c o t 21s.
Look at the saving of space! Let's all talk in acronyms and letters and have a device that we can scan them on which will reveal the actual meaning. That's the way that things are going. Plain and simple dealing between people can no longer be considered automatic, a machine or device will have to be carried at all times for communication!
/sarc but only partly as cellphones and smartph. show we are already on the way to this.
Is it too much to expect that someone replying to a comment actually addresses the topic of the comment?
So, Greywarshark, what are your thoughts on the fact that a scheme that would enable a disabled person or their family carer to access respite care funding in a manner that would be flexible and efficient has been shelved by this government because it is likely to be so successful that it could use all of the funds allocated for that scheme?
Do you think it is honest for successive governments to put in place disability support services through the Ministry of Health that are predicated on being so unworkable by the disabled person that the allocated funding can automatically be spent elsewhere?
Personally…I think it is pretty shit.
What do you think?
The topic of the comment was incredibly unclear.
A situation as you describe is pretty shit. Respite care is bloody awesome. But despite not being a sports fan, ODI still to me translates as "one day international".
You see in my circle, if the acronym is not familiar then you can just ask Uncle Google and simply choose the definition that fits the context .
Continuing the cricket motif…the Office for Disability Issues is very similar to the abbreviated version of the Game That Defies Explanation and Takes an Entire Working Week To Play.
What should have been instituted was a Ministry for Disability that would ensure that disabled Kiwis could access across the board coordinated supports.
But that was too hard
Hence the ODI
People wouldn't have to google-guess if public comments used publicly-accessible language.
How would a ministry be different from an office, and how would it work with ministry of health or ministry of education or work&income on all the areas where disability issues cross over into those areas?
Oh,dear.
Regular on so-called lefty site fails to recognise common ac ronyms associated with disability.
Moderator on said site doubles down and accuses commenters using these common disability associated acronyms of failing to use inclusive language.
Am I the only one feeling the irony here?
No wonder things are pretty shit for the disability community (with little hope of improvement) if the wider political sector has the same level of comfortable ignorance of some here on TS.
HRC….Human Rights Commission
ODI….Office for Disability Issues
CRPD….(UN) Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
"Publicly accessible language" indeed.
Apologies if there was an assumption made that disability is an integral part if the community.
Obviously not.
Huh?
"People would'nt have to google-guess if public comments used publicly accessible language."
Am I misinterpreting this?
I can’t tell on my phone if someone is commenting as a moderator.
That comes straight from the comment by McFlock @ 11:22 PM to which you replied and who is not and to my knowledge has never been a Moderator on this site!?
My mistake.
When I get access to my laptop I will try and figure out why I thought otherwise.
Besides me never having such power, not being on immediate-acronym-recognition terms with every single issue is not a failure of dedication to the left, it's a recognition that maybe there are a truckload of issues to keep track of.
A ministry would have more power in negotiating the overlaps and perhaps even in managing the thorniest internally.
The current 'office' is a tiny part of MSD which inspires all the respect you'd expect in the Thorndon environment.
Campaigners have been quite pragmatic and settled for seeking a ‘Commission’.
Oh shit, MSD. Good luck with that.
A commission has the advantage of organisational autonomy, which can be played pretty well (if no nat funders hate the commission's existence).
Don't know how effective the model is in regards to service provision rather than advice and advocacy, though.
One thing that is becoming evident to me over the years is that constant ministry restructuring and understaffing creates silos within ministries, where lots of people seem to think that it's just a case of ministries and offices being siloed. Contract duplication and cross-purposes actually go down to units within ministries, because nobody can keep up with what their colleagues are doing let alone what minEd or MoH or MSD are up to.
Yes, it ultimately takes an approach like Whanau Ora to manage across the dozens of silos. A commission really just provides the ongoing oversight that our politicians are not providing. People are tired of waiting.
Link: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018701186/respite-care-for-families-of-disabled-people-put-on-hold
Govt pissing around over $10m/yr after no increase in hourly rates for 22 years.
Thanks for supplying that link.
It's not as if it's extra money….it's just that they're unlikely to have the spare ten million bucks to play with by having an inflexible system.
Either this Government is as shit as the last with respect to non ACC disabled or they have not yet purged the Miserly of all the die hard bastards.
SSDD
Do city councils know when they go too far?
It seems like every month or so there is news on Wellington City that makes me grateful I live in the suburbs. (Although those parking wardern blitz things they do are really annoying – I phone/txt people I know to move their cars when I see them creeping around the place…take that WCC!)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/113726228/residents-parking-up-50pc-despite-lack-of-public-support-and-legal-concerns
Just stumbled across this website via an ad: https://www.keepourmoneyclean.govt.nz/
John Key government: try to turn NZ into a money laundering hub.
Current government: do the opposite.
Another govt website I never heard of before. I think that requiring this (below) is going too far. So much for staying anonymous if you win the lottery. A govt snout isn’t far away.
PROTECTING NEW ZEALAND
Making it harder for criminals to launder money provides a significant disincentive to carrying out the criminal activity in the first place.
New Zealand has had Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing Terrorism laws operating since 2013. These laws applied to banks, casinos, financial institutions and some trust and company service providers.
We’re now extending these laws to include:
Lawyers, conveyancers, and trust and company service providers (from 1 July 2018)
Accountants and providers of accounting services (from 1 October 2018)
Real estate agents (from 1 January 2019)
The Anti-Money Laundering laws were put in by the last govt to meet our international obligations.
https://observer.com/2019/04/generic-drug-quality-public-health-urgency
Contaminated Generic Drugs Reveal an Urgent Public Health Crisis
https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/03/updated-fda-list-of-recalled-blood-pressure-drugs.html
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-and-press-announcements-angiotensin-ii-receptor-blocker-arb-recalls-valsartan-losartan
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/do-generic-drugs-compromise-on-quality
when we go we will be what we are remembered as imo
Great initiative – have to say i forgot we had a Ministry for Culture and Heritage – they must be doing a good job if they are not in the news.
Misery, Misery, Misery
Complaints, Complaints, Complaints.
No wonder National Party ignores you …
You Misery People seem to think you are the only ones with problems. Tiresome
It's becoming obvious you fancy yourself as some kind of truth speaker who knows more than everyone else.
Yet all I hear is broad sweeping insults interspersed with nasty personal attacks.
Misery and complaints – that is you. Anyone has an opinion on it, another target for your hateful spite.
A mirror often makes us angry, rather than self-reflective.
WtB You put up something yesterday that looked useful to someone I know – you mentioned King Salmon in connection with the Black soldier fly bio-pods. Are you okay with me passing on your tip to him? I am thinking that you could become a roving consultant to business and make some decent money out of it. They wouldn't get to know about half the things you do or find without someone passing it on to them!
No problem. It's public knowledge I highlighted the article and a bit of background to point out the 'news' was not news. But it raises awareness so all good in the end.
Yep I could walk into many businesses and point out savings, efficiencies, processes, means to get natural phenomenon to work for them.
King Salmon could get their downstream wastes (dirty water) pumped to terrestrial production (a farm) upstream and they'd have a high production farm that required (little to) no fertilising. The excess water returns via groundwater flow back upstream of their fish, cleaned. This would filter out all the pathogens via soil microbiota having them for lunch, and allow less medications and higher stocking rates in the facilities themselves. They could grow protein and turn it into fish food, or part of, on the farm.
To much time on their hands is probably the problem re the amount they spend here, get out and do something useful for yourself or others it will work wonders rather than wallowing in negativity on the web looking for something to rage or moan about, day in day out
Oh bewildered – You are obviously speaking from past experience and so finely put. I suggest you go through the process again, as your past wisdom gained has worn out and you need to replenish yourself with more good honest toil to bring back your own positivity and value to society and this blog.
Truth hurt Sharky when your while identity and purpose resolves around daily contribution to a website, but hey if it rocks your boat go for it
What "rocks your boat", BewilderEd?
Cheer up Observer Tokoroa
Try putting in something positive every day and that will brighten us all up. It is easy to be weighed down by all the things going wrong and continuing wrong when they could be fixed by determined, committed organisers, or at least made better.
What about putting a joke a day, a youtube piece of practical positivity, or some nice music. Then we won't see misery every time we look at your comments. I have noticed it setting in to your feisty comments and things are getting you down I think. Resist, and look for something interesting and positive, and you will feel better, pass it on to us and we will join you and for a short time we can have a change of mood. And that would be helpful to most of us.
It's funny (not ha ha) to me that in our society we don't like 'negativity' – we must mostly always be 'happy' and find the 'positive' – that approach caused problems because it stops people being REAL. That leads to misery for the person and society imo let alone other terrible outcomes for people like isolation and fear. For me I don't try and change what people write, I just react to what they actually write. I'm doing that with what you wrote in this comment.
Yeah, but on the flipside incessant negativity tends to drag me down. sometimes a joke or two breaks the gloom. Sometimes people do just need to turn off the computer and hug a puppy. I like sitting in my garden.
true – a joke always gets me by
Good on you marty you do great. But I find that people pouring misery into the blog doesn't help at all to go forward finding ways to cope and some resilience. I can sympathise, but not when people are constantly complaining and running others down. There must be pause in negativity, or one doesn't want to go on living.
It is essential to keep kindness nearby yourself. If people are going to carry on being hard shits when I am writing and thinking and trying to save what's good in life so we have it in the future, then I might as well go away and just think of myself.
I thought you were trying for fairness and right and kindness. If you are always going to talk things down, noting what is wrong, you will end up always finding the negative and never being happy with the solution. I think it is a case of being firm about what is right and fair, and getting some reparation of past stuff that has hurt, and responding positively to efforts to be better, and realising that we can only do what is possible now.
It's working to produce positive outcomes, and trying to get the energy that goes into shit-making being put into something positive and useful, and encouraging that all the way. Why the fuck should I react to what people write. A lot of it is just useless malicious, selfish lazy thinking. Now and then I choose to say something that might be uplifting to such people but if they don't change I don't bother and prefer to have nothing to do with them. In these difficult times I like to be with people who front up and be the best humans they can be to others and try and be happy a good part of the time.
That's life being REAL. Shit happens as the saying goes. Yes admit it, name it, acknowledge it, then try and change it, improve it, and add some positives to take away sadness and bitterness, lessening it and not allowing it to take over. Soon I will be dead, and it is so sad to see the future that I hoped for the world and my children and other young ones so threatened. I am doing my best against that and suggest you lighten up so you can achieve change in the most positive way you can.
yeah sure whatever each to their own
Murder scooters take their first victim:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/06/lime-scooter-death-auckland-councillor-christine-fletcher-lashes-out-calls-for-scooter-removal.html
Helmets should be mandatory on these things and checkpoint testing for alcohol. See how popular they are then!
And identity plates – registration front and back. Otherwise they are likely to end up being unidentifiable unsmiling assassins to pedestrians and even their riders.
Another example of NZ authorities – Creating Chaos for you since 1984.
But Mutton – if you regulate these things, then our billionaire capitalist saviours will not be able rescue us from perdition with their divine techno-fixes.
Lucky it's not the second fatality given the Wgtn motorway incident.
The death was nothing to do with the scooter.
Only a matter of time. Have you not seen Terminator?
Still much safer and infinitely less polluting than cars.
People are still learning how to ride them. In a year we will be wondering what all the fuss was about.
They are a bike equivalent though, not a car equivalent.
And they don't look to be as safe as bikes for both riders and pedestrians. Perhaps that's to do with the rules as they stand and the safety equipment worn.
I'm a bike rider.
And I got collected by a scooter on the Auckland waterfront, on the shared path, six weeks ago, doing about 25k, which was about 15k over his skill level. Both of us escaped with minor bruising.
Infinitely better than being hit by a car.
We should be encouraging non-polluting forms of transport such as bikes and electric scooters, not trying to get rid of them.
Scooters can be speed restricted to say 15k, which I suspect will solve a lot of problems. Tauranga restricts bikes to less than 15k, on shared paths, which makes them safer for recreational bike riders, and pedestrians. The lycra brigade, who think 15k is for pussies, still prefer to duel it out with the cars.
Most scooter riders are still, learners. Things will improve as people learn to ride them.
I remembered this wee ditty I once heard coming from Depression Days I think. It's about managing through difficult times – good thinking.
That came from a Canadian discussion blog mainly on economics, readable and thinkable if anyone feels like spending time on working through various discussion points, like did World War 2 help countries out of the Depression. Some say not.
https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/10/did-war-based-fiscal-stimulus-end-the-great-depression.html
Great things in small packages. (My shoes fit into the "wear it out" category but although the water gets in easily they also drain easily.)
I think you are Bleheim ianmac. I am giving a pair of old Neilson shoes made in Blenheim to go in a collection of local articles from last century. Definitely not worn out or crumbling as crap from overseas does. I saw them with their identity sticker at an op shop and phoned the museum who are interested. Neilson's had to close down of course when the cheap overseas stuff with in-built obsolescence put them out of business.
I see this as being the theme of this century. Good things that tended to be plain, a little low on style, but long-lasting being thrown aside in favour of the glamourous, quickly deteriorating, and disrespectful of true value in goods and people.
I have a pair of 23 year old McKinlays from Dunedin, brilliant, comfortable and my boys have a pair each which should last to retirement in about 40 or so years.. Go and buy yourself some.
Thanks for the tip Adrian.
That explains the Nat Party having so many thumb twiddlers.
Built in obsolescence.
Only the best people.
Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to "Axios on HBO" identify a host of "red flags" about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government.
Why it matters: The massive trove, and the story behind it, sheds light on the slap-dash way President Trump filled his cabinet and administration, and foreshadowed future scandals that beset his government.
Some highlights:
https://amp.axios.com/leaked-donald-trump-vetting-docs-hbo-6ce3cd26-1eb9-4da8-b15e-47b56020aef7.html?
Yeah! And that was only 5% of them. The rest are just as bad. But only the best people.
In the meantime I see Kellyanne is being stopped by the WH in testifying to the House oversight Committee wrt her repeated violations of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities in their official capacity, and the civil service watchdog known as the Office of Special Counsel determined earlier this month that Conway violated the act by "disparaging Democratic presidential candidates while speaking in an official capacity during television interviews and on social media."
Luxon says no to Amy Adams:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/392872/senior-national-mp-amy-adams-to-retire-from-politics
Who will be their finance spokesperson once amy goes?
could be a good one for paula bennett 🙂
She could be another Ruth Richardson wishing poverty and pestilence on all the undeserving of whom there are legion!!
Isn't she doing that already?
Yes, so it makes sense to allow her to expand her aptitude and be the best monster she can be.
This is Nats new song – out with Eminem and in with the Muppets and the monster mashing. Get down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Bq69HfR0Y
she is their brightest brain next to simon so she should be given the chance
The unbearable brightness of Paula and Simon.
they put the rainy in brainy
ROFL!!!! Marty 🙂
The whole of the 'business community' – which Amy will be joining – is National's finance spokesperson. To a certain extent, they don't even need one inside caucus.
Nice safe seat for a god-fearing Canterbury lad.
someones luck could be in
Straight swap – electorate and portfolio?
Bet they didn't want Adams to announce this so soon. She is clearly very annoyed.
Simon says he's announcing a reshuffle at 3pm today.
If it's Simon, I'd pick the opposite, i.e. he's not announcing a reshuffle, but re-shuffling an announcement. Probably taking something dull and dishonest and making it incoherent.
AB Lol
😂
A kerfuffle then?
National MP for Wairarapa Alistair Scott to stand down.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/06/national-mp-alastair-scott-to-stand-down-in-2020.html
Ron Mark to snatch the seat?
wow
https://twitter.com/MatMcLachlan/status/1143274911768514560
F**K!
That's one of them fake photos. It's a straw hat on a garden lawn!
Forsaken burger in a scarfie flat.
I don't see why USA can't impeach Trump using his own method of listing transgressions – they could say that he has made so many un-Presidential decisions that have brought the US into discombobulation "and many other things".
He's got mates.
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1143279181071093760
If its legit Trump can still be charged…
Nope. Statute of limitations was five years when it happened.
Since then the statute of limitations for rape has been eliminated in New York, but that change doesn't apply retrospectively.
Money talks. And it allows the prick to commit acts of sexual violence with impunity.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1143134308175110144
Carroll says she didn’t go to the police after the encounter out of fear and the ensuing harassment she was sure she’d endure. She also says she confided in two close friends about the alleged incident, both of whom gave her conflicting advice. Carroll says that one friend told her “He raped you. Go to the police! I’ll go with you.” while the other advised her to forget the alleged incident occurred because Trump “has 200 lawyers. He’ll bury you.’”
https://www.spin.com/2019/06/trump-e-jean-carroll-rape-bergdorf-goodman-dressing-room/
Adams and Scott?
Bit of a bugger for the next one wanting to leave. Pressure's really on and they'll be wishing they'd done it yesterday. One = mmmmmm, two = ahhhhh, three = rats off sinking ship.
Tulsi Gabbard better than most
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i65Ki7iiL1k&ab_channel=TulsiGabbard
Gabbard was among the those vetted for a tRump cabinet position.
Yet she wants to convince you she’s running against tRump.
/
I don't think she will get much support in the final rounds, when it all counts. There are some excellent candidates polling way higher than her ATM.
… some excellent candidates…
??? You will of course provide us with one example of an "excellent candidate."
lol
Of course none would meet your demands Morrie – but then, if they did, they would be unelectable.
What? Could you move beyond the gibes and actually defend your claim that the Democrats have "some excellent candidates"?
Why don't you do some research for yourself instead of simply being a narc.
I suggest:
https://www.vox.com/2019/6/21/18683892/2020-election-democratic-presidential-candidates-who-will-win
https://www.vox.com/2019/5/22/18302875/2020-election-democrats-child-care-kids-president
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/22/18691902/elizabeth-warren-2020-climate-change-policy-proposal-corruption
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/18/18678000/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-2020-similarities-differences
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/18/18683811/poor-peoples-campaign-2020-democrats-biden-sanders-warren
for starters
Any candidate that supports Bashar Assad committing genocide in Syria disqualifies herself.
Totally agree Jenny. There are at present
2425 people with their hat in the ring for democratic candidate for President. There are some very fine people in that group. It's early days yet – the real contest from a democratic selection process doesn't start until early next year. Yulsi Gabbard is currently polling at around the level of David Seymor (ie 1% max) so I don't see that she will be a serious contender when the chips are down next year. She doesn't have a "rotten borough" like Epsom as Seymor does.Détente
That evil word that no one on the left wants to hear anymore.
Well adam – we all know how well that worked out in the end, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan coinciding with Watergate. Putin knows his history.
But yes detente (or the easing of tensions) is a much needed word right now – particularly between the US and Iran.
Any candidate that supports Bashar Assad committing genocide in Syria disqualifies herself.
Or himself. Which candidate supports Assad, Jenny? We know that many of them support despotic and murderous regimes in Israel, Colombia, and Egypt, but which one "supports Bashar Assad committing genocide"?
And yet if you actually take corporate money and support wars you are a decent sort like h.r.c.
Not buying the logic joe90.
Unlike 2016's #2 senatorial recipient of defence aerospace cash, HRC is out.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=D01%20%20&cycle=2016&recipdetail=S&Mem=Y&sortorder=U
Is this wise – enabling businesses specialising in providing retirement homes to hold vast numbers of elderly-home estates?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/businessnews/audio/2018701222/arvida-snaps-up-3-retirement-villages-from-family-business
The retirement village operator Arvida is buying three villages from the family-owned business Sanderson Group for 180-million-dollars.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12243597 Arvida Group to buy villages for $180m with new equity and debt 25/6/2019
The purchase will be funded through an underwritten placement of $50 million of shares at $1.25 each. A total of $92 million will come from a 1-for-5.7 pro-rata renounceable rights offer at an issue price of $1.15 per share. An additional $10 million of new Arvida shares will be issued to the vendors at market price and there will be $32 million of bank debt.
The villages are being acquired in an off-market transaction from interests controlled by Mr Fraser Sanderson, a long-term developer of high-quality retirement villages in New Zealand.
https://www.arvida.co.nz/For-Investors/Overview-of-Arvida
This company was as apparently Hercules Ltd. in 2014. then Arvida Group Ltd, Auckland NZ. 2014
Hercules Ltd was subsidiary of Ashland Global Holdings Ltd. Manchester, UK –
through S&P Global Market Intelligence under S&P Global connected to Bloomberg.com.
Arvida subsidiaries
https://www.nbr.co.nz/tags/hercules-limited Another aged care provider mulls listing amid private equity investment.
The country’s largest unlisted rest home operator is mulling whether to list on the stock exchange, after an ownership shake-up and operations expansion.
Calida Stuart-Menteath Fri, 03 Oct 2014 NBR (National Business Review)
In comparison Ryman Healthcare says that there are challenging market conditions and flat sales. Yet Arvida steams ahead. Is NZ where dodgy overseas finance gets cleaned up? Is dairy farming out and elder farming in?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/390542/ryman-healthcare-posts-326m-profit-for-year
HA!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/113761989/criminal-penalties-possible-if-anz-directors-found-to-have-misled
Oh dear! My heart is bleeding and I just can't cope:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/113755074/amy-adams-retiring-at-the-2020-election
She must feel utterly devastated! Poor, POOR Amy!!!!!!!!!!!
Could she not sign up as a rent-a-voice somehwere in the MSM possibly? A little gig on The Nayshun maybe? or even Q+A?. Perhaps daddy Wayne could give her a bit of advoice going forwid. Maybe one or two Lions Club speaking engagements?
And if worse comes to worst it wouldn't take to much for her to become accredited selling a bit of real estate surely. I'm sure Harcourts would snap her up in a jiffy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/392887/chinese-shiitake-mushrooms-labelled-as-new-zealand-grown-hoodwinked-customers
The authorities are not concerned at Chinese fungus-impregnated logs are being imported into NZ. How casual. We are constantly finding new nasties coming here. It is hard to believe that the people supposed to be responsible at keeping things out of, and protecting us at the borders of New Zealand could do this. The regulations should be used as much as possible seeing we have so few of them now.
The growing substrate arriving is pasteurised straw &/or grain &/or woodchip with innoculate of the fungi. This is sealed in a plastic bag.
The local guys have always been terribly overpriced for persons just wishing to grow mushrooms at home. Something like $40 retail and lucky to get a kilo of oyster mushrooms. A fad or a fling, not really a feasible purchase otherwise. $40, a plastic bag of straw/grain in a cardboard box…
I'm glad there is competition.
You can take the original purchase and propagate if you're good. Then you might see some ROI.
I have fungi related skills and tips. Perhaps for HTGT sometime.
I don't know if you would want to be bothered but if you start you might get pestered – I've one on my lawn and it's light creamy fawn and quite long in the stalk etc etc.
I will qualify that's not what it is and ignore those trying it on. Got several unidentified species in my own garden. Or I could do this.
Let's play let's identify fungi:
Cap 1-2 cm diameter, white/translucent with striations leading to undulate margin. Stem hollow, white. Gill attachment decurrent. Spore print white. Spore smooth non-septate elliptical ~ 20-30 um creamy yellow.
What is it?
Once you answer this question, enter the above parameters for your unidentified fungi and sod off to a fungi database.
Talking of growing ….
I saw this and immediately thought of you
World’s largest crop art message to Trump unveiled in 33-acre field on the Tanderup farm in Neligh, Nebraska was created by volunteers with artist John Quigley.
http://boldnebraska.org/cropart2019/
Good on them. It might not stop the Govt trying it on but will remind the public they're still trying it on. Been a long fight that one.
One of the wonders of the world. What an extraordinary thing – a lot of work and heartfelt message. Trump has a hide thicker than a bison though.
Losers:
• Judith Collins (#4 to #4) – Loses infrastructure, keeps housing and urban development and RMA reform
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12243809
There will be consequences for this undeserved slight and they will be…severe
lol and gets Goldsmith promoted over her head. The dude whose only political achievement is to consistently lose an election to a hologram.
If I were Bridges I'd be promoting Collins. Tie her as closely to his leadership as possible. Gives him a chance of dragging her down to political oblivion when his time cometh.
He's got the right name for an image of goooold.
It was noticeable that Q2 today at Question Time in the House was on housing but asked by Bridges, and not by Collins. It is seen as a large issue by the Opposition, and worthy of the Leader leading the charge (well, charge is too grand a word- stumble more like). But it is also a snub for Ms Collins.
This is part of what PM Ardern said to Simon "Stuff All" Bridges.
Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: As I said, 10,000 homes are currently under contract to go under construction; 480 are currently under construction; 141 have been completed; 2,700 State houses are currently under construction; 1,200 State homes, since we took office, have been completed; 2,000 more homes have families living in them, public housing, because of us; and, of course, we have the additional investment in Housing First. The reason I mention that, for the benefit of members, is because, as I've said, every single area of housing we have had a crisis that we have been addressing, and we will continue to address."
The longer Jude is kept from her preordained destiny to lead NZ the more I weep the longer we wait for the her glorious vision to be made real
Judes going to go medieval on everyone that's ever slighted her!
You mean medievil?
Depends which side of the Iron Maiden you're on I guess…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agaHP0eQHmU
Elizabethan/Jacobean I reckon, not medieval. She'd be a perfect Goneril or Regan in King Lear – fake coquettishness overlaying a vast lake of evil, as in:
"…the laws are mine, not thine. Who can arraign me for't?"
I think she'd make a fantastic Mrs Puckish Rogue but I might be slightly biased…
Don't go there – the only thing left of you would be a pair of socks with the feet still in them. That David Wong Tung must have hitherto-undisclosed superpowers.
That’s good!
https://media.giphy.com/media/8cdZit2ZcjTri/giphy.gif
Kia ora The Am Show.
I agree foster parents should be able to put their fostered children in Kiwisaver. Tamariki having a Kiwisaver account will set them up for a better life.
Bernie I no what you're saying
Lloyd it's good for Pakistan to have a win in the Cricket World Cup they look very happy about it .
New evidence found from the Pike River mine disaster Duncan the black box was lost and found now it cannot be analized more cover ups My intenet just failed to I wonder why I Am watching the Show on a ph I won't CROW to much.
What the NZ housing market stabilization is going to do is make people INVEST in other productive parts of our economy Mark billions sittings in the housing market doesn't do much to produce exports income its export income that is what pays Aotearoa bills in reality. I say it's good news that the housing market has stabilized.
Sugar should be voluntary lowered in all our food the damages sugar does to our mokopuna health is to high to humanely justify our food being loaded with sugar.
Ka kite ano
https://youtu.be/qQfetkoGrpU
Eco Maori has been trying to higher legal help for near on 3 years no one will ring back yesterday I thought i had found a lawyer but no my meeting was canceled at the last minute I new it was to good to be TRUE but i look for something good in every situation. I have decide to file my own court actions against the bent police force and the JUSTICE department. Ka kite ano.
https://youtu.be/5Yj4j_lZMBo
Ka pai Angie people like you who can see reality about Global warming and climate changes people like you are so special. Its is awesome that the tide is changing on this issue now most people know it is Reality
After 40 years of climate activism, I feel a surge of hope
Angie Zelter
I was arrested at an Extinction Rebellion protest and found guilty of an offence. But I don’t regret it for a second
Iam now 68 years of age but when I was 21, in my final year at university, I became aware of major problems then facing the world – war, poverty, acid rain, ozone depletion, desertification, deforestation, species loss, civil and military uses and abuses of nuclear power, pollution, population growth, consumerism and the climate crisis. I was determined to devote my life to helping solve these problems. After spending three years in Cameroon, learning about deforestation for timber and cash crops such as palm oil, and the exploitation of the rich resources of Africa to the detriment of locals and enrichment of corporations and western societies, I returned home to the nuclear weapons crisis of the cold war
I joined the Greenham Common protests, founded the Snowball civil disobedience campaign and then later the anti-nuclear weapons group Trident Ploughshares. I also became involved in work on the climate crisis. I learned that everything is connected and that it all has an impact on the climate, on biodiversity and on the sustainability of life on Earth. I discovered more about how our reliance on fossil fuels was causing the greenhouse effect and soon joined with climate scientists and local environmentalists to start a group in Norwich that tried to educate the public
Ka kite ano.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/26/climate-activism-extinction-rebellion-protest-guilty
Some Eco Maori music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/Yd2T3o-Ybow
Whanau the JUSTICE department will be un wise to underestimate Eco Maori
Here you go Whanau reality for a brown person or any minority cultural in New Zealand is unfair unjustified and BULLSHIT
That's A Bit Racist, TVNZ 1, Sunday (July 7)
Documentary filmed before Christchurch attack finds inequality in New Zealand
"Most of us wander round thinking that New Zealand is a fair and decent country where everyone's treated equally, that we're a right on, cool bunch of people who are a bit different to every other place in the world but the reality is a bit different. That's the bottom line. New Zealand is a different place depending on the colour of your skin and the accent you have.
Racism can be as simple as mocking people, mimicking accents or telling cheap jokes at the expense of others.
Then there is institutional racism.
"It's not that nasty name-calling, low-level, joking, silly stuff. It's how your opportunities are affected based on unconscious decisions people make in positions of power," Andrews says
New Zealand is a great big melting pot but, unfortunately, although we are filled with all the world and all it's got, we are not equal. We are not treated equally, we don't have equal opportunity and our kids still don't and that is what motivated me most to keep working with this documentary "If we don't have it, nothing is going to change and I don't know if that's that flash ka kite ano link below.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/tv-guide/113758540/documentary-filmed-before-christchurch-attack-finds-inequality-in-new-zealand
Kia ora Newshub.
Good on Chris for his post in cabinet in the Coalition Government.
Wow White Island is heating up thats Rua Moko getting upset I wonder what's upsetting.
Kevin good on you and victim support for administrativing that money for the Christchurch disaster victims.
Well we had a big frost to Im from te taiwhiti so I prefer the Warm Sun.
The commissioner Hughes should tell that to the NZ police. I have written a letter to the minister of justice using the FYI site ma te wa.
Ka kite ano
Kia ora te ao Maori news.
Cool that Te Waitangi treaty growns have been made a nation heritage site.
Kris got a cabinet job ka pai i got his name correct this time.
Jacinda don't listen to the cop's spinning lies about my whanau they will try anything to try a shit on Eco Maori Mana Wairua.
Ka kite ano.
https://youtu.be/QAB6aXOfUmU
I stand proud to be a Maori it is awesome that our people are showing a big surge in Interest in our te reo and culture. I agree the government needs to invest more money in training te reo Teachers
With that shooting in Vags I wonder why they stated that the person who died was from Eco Maori IWI Ngati Porou I have never seen this before????????????????????????.
Since the UNJUSTIFIED system is not providing Eco Maori with a satisfactory service I.E can no get a lawyer to represent Eco Maori .
I Am going to make a Waitangi Tribunal claim and use the treaty of Waitangi to defend my Whanau from the attacks to my reputation my mana my tamariki my mokopuna by the NZ GOVERNMENT department of police .
One might say why tell them well them they are monitoring every fart I do.
Kia ora Newshub.?
I agree that some use of 1080 is needed but I still say that a bounty needs to be payed on the RAT extermination I no of a place where there are heaps of RATS.
mark I see you and duncan have had your egos blown up because the mens mens Netball team beat the Wahine team there is nothing to CROW about there boys. Men are physically taller stronger than Wahine the win is quite predictable you 2 crowing about the win shows you're chauvinistic neanderthal true characters to the Papatuanuku good on you Ingrid for pointing out that they have no need to be insecure about Wahine getting more mana.
The new reservation on whenua showing a big increase in the bird's and other wildlife in and around the reservations the same phenomenon will happen with our new marine reservation all marine reservation and reservation on land are needed to protect our wildlife. The unusual warm weather creates a huge population growth of rats that is caused by Global Warming Human Caused Climate Change.
The Democrats debate issues with their broad casting their debate live shows how low trump's rednecks crew will go you see people the rightneck are dirty there just like they are here .
judy national sold a lot of state houses in high value places to wealthy people who just creamed it you shut down hundreds of states houses with the bullshit PEE testing scheme that retired police were running and creaming that to you and you m8 created this housing SHORT.
Kris congratulations.
Capitalism at its best pokie machines one arm bandits there are 5 times more of these things in poor communities that can least afford to play them than wealthy places. The idiot's use the excuse that they give a lot to charity's in the lower class place what about the tamariki at home with out the basics healthy living conditions while the parent are feeding their habit addiction.
I say that the dry July is a great thing alcohol free for one month. What it will do ultimately is lower ones consumption of alcohol. No wonder Amanda took the morning off dealing with the big dumb egos stand firm Ingrid.
Ka kite ano
Some Eco Maori music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/ycOPGarZ9nM
Ka pai to all the people Championing action against climate change.
Extinction Rebellion highlight climate emergency at Glastonbury
Campaigners joined by indigenous people who have led fight against Global warming.
Nearly 2,000 festival-goers have joined climate change campaigners Extinction Rebellion to stage a procession across the Glastonbury site, paying tribute to indigenous people who have led the fight against global heating.
Waving flags bearing the extinction symbol, which was seen across central London earlier this year when Extinction Rebellion protests brought the city to a standstill, the crowd marched for about an hour in the scorching afternoon sun on Thursday from the festival’s park stage to its stone circle.
Speaking to the crowd on the second day of the 49th Glastonbury festival, Dr Gail Bradbrook from Extinction Rebellion, said: “[Extinction Rebellion] is not a protest. It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren’t protecting us and it’s down to us now.”
Bradbrook said people were waking up to the climate emergency. “This is not a slow movement of change. It’s a shift in the consciousness of each of us.
“It is a collective shift. It involves facing grief and trauma and undoing our numbness and our narcissism and our indulgence that we have in this privileged western society.
Ka kite ano.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/27/extinction-rebellion-highlight-climate-emergency-at-glastonbury