” Peters says it was a much shorter version of the video he’d been showing at earlier rallies and besides, his rhetoric had changed, he was now much more benign about New Zealand”
That’s not true though is it Barry. You’re not even a journalists asshole.
You leave the country thinking they’re still targets because political vendettas for cash and clickbait is all you have to offer.
Thanks MS. The desktop version on my smartphone is extremely sensitive when scrolling and the cursor defaults to the name box when a reply is activated. Not a biggie but catches you out if unwary
Last night, it rained and rained and rained; a fine and steady fall that kept on and on.
Today, I’m making blackboards from plywood and paint; green in fact, but made for the purpose. We’re keen to keep the presentations at the permaculture hui low-tech, so with only chalk and a board for the presenter, there’ll be no Death-by-Powerpoint!
Ha excellent Robert… like most technologies there is some myth at play… like putting together a power point thing is faster than blackboard and chalk?? I don’t think so. In the same way cash is faster than eftpos… a hard copy diary is quicker than scrolling thru a screen… like pretty much anything ….
much ‘technology’ is a myth. In fact, much of it isn’t even technology, it’s just the same old pasted together in electronics instead. It’s nothing new, just formatted differently.
the other myth around ‘technology’ is that its claimed faster speed makes our lives better …. I don’t think so …. it just makes our lives speedier …
That’s often the case, vto, in my experience. I’m planning to have the menu for each evening meal written on slate! I collected hundreds of slates from the roof of an old building here years ago and now will be their moment in the sun 🙂
The simple act of helping others pulled me out of my head and own worries and back to Earth. I highly recommend reaching out to your community if you are still struggling to emerge from your shock and grief.
I have been expert at avoiding cameras for some time. They filmed my back for one second. Still good at avoiding cameras. There may be a career for me in paparazzi training for celebs.
Interesting to compare the architecture of the mosque and Mitre10 Mega.
Great initiative too and incidentally an effective way to work-around council rules for planting on berms. They ain’t gonna complain 🙂
“How do you respond to a deadly mass shooting if you are a gun rights advocate?
First, “Say nothing.” If media queries persist, go on the “offence, offence, offence”. Smear gun-control groups. “Shame them” with statements such as – “How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political agenda?” ”
I’d call this (above, Al Jazeera, NRA playbook) a MUST READ.
What I’m seeing in the youtube and other comments sections from ill informed pro-trumper types and trolls is a common script. I figured this came from the media. It does. And this media is generated by professional spin doctors in or aligned with the NRA.
A false narrative designed to sell guns. And as we’ve seen alongside it, another darker narrative emerging, the spreading of chaos.
This chaos sells fear, and more guns, and keeps us distracted from the political/corporate skulduggery of Disaster Capitalists. You can learn about Disaster Capitalism from Naomi Klein.
“I think it’s a basic principle of journalism to follow the money” – Naomi Klein.
Trump politics …. Benjamines for the big boys ….. money for war … hate on the foreign
and poor.
“In the last two or three years, encouraged and legitimized by candidate and then President Donald Trump, anti-Semitism has been on the rise alongside virulent racism, extreme misogyny, xenophobia, Islamophobia and homophobia. Trump praised the “fine people” among the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Nazi sympathizers who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia”
“For the second time this year, Donald Trump has retweeted a message from an apparent neo-Nazi, raising troubling questions about his judgment and the ideology of some of his supporters.”
a speech Trump had given a few days earlier — praising the (apocryphal) methods of a U.S. general in dispensing with Muslim opponents in the Philippine-American War — was still playing on conservative radio. “He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pig’s blood,” he’d told the crowd. “And he had his men load their rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ ”
Then a Heroic young Muslim woman Ilhan Omar steps out of line …. repeatably
“Omar shook up the Washington foreign policy establishment by challenging veteran warmonger and genocide denier Elliot Abrams, he of Iran-Contra and El Salvador death squads infamy, …” “about his new role as the Trump administration’s point man on Venezuela.”
And both sides turned on her when she dared discus the real foreign power in US politics …” in response to this tweet “Would love to know who Ilhan thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel,” Omar tweeted again “AIPAC.”
”
“President Trump got his jabs in on Saturday: “We have people in Congress that hate our country,” he said, before implying that these people were immigrants. Given that Omar is one of only 14 immigrant members of Congress, and Trump then called her out by name in a tweet two days later, the allusion was none too subtle. None of the Congress members who have accused Omar of anti-Semitism has voiced a word criticizing the president for such dog-whistle xenophobia”
The Democrats joined in … worried about their Benjamins .
“Congressional Democrats are attempting to discipline Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for speaking critically about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — and more generally in defense of Palestinian rights — after smearing her as “anti-Semitic.” This comes at the same time that Omar, one of the only Muslim representatives in Congress, has been targeted for death threats and Islamophobic propaganda likening her to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks.”
Ilhan Omar is a friend to all who believe in human rights … for all….. she speaks truth to power.
Its a shame a poster here joined in the attempted smearing of her as an anti Semite yesterday ….. and worse.
I can’t vote for her …. but we should all support her cause of tolerance and respect for all humans…..
“NAOMI KLEIN, Ilan Pappé, Ronnie Kasrils, Sarah Jaffe, Rebecca Vilkomerson and many more say: We are Jews who stand with Representative Ilhan Omar.”
A good read about the intersection of issues and personalities from the perspective of a door-knocker.
When political volunteers are knocking on doors, they’re not hawking a bag of issues. They are representing a human being, to voters who want people in power who understand people like them.
That’s quite a different perspective than assuming the nation is full of swing voters just waiting for the low-tax, low-ambition centrist of their dreams. But it’s also far distant from the claim that America is full of passionate Leftist non-voters who have waited years for the revolutionary platform that will pull them to the polls.
I see the Trots has had a bit of a rectal spray over at Bowelly Rd about Davidson and Ghahraman starting up some kind of anti-racism effort. I’ve had a very brief search for more info and come up empty, anyone got any more info? Thanks.
Yes, I returned to NZ in March 99. So yes, I’ve got a moderately interested outsider’s awareness of Anderton and the Alliance ructions.
Right now though, I’m more interested in finding out more about what The Trots is painting as a substantial organised effort from Ghahraman and Davidson that so far I’ve seen and heard nothing about. Or maybe The Trots is trying to puff up something that simply isn’t there.
Those years from late 1980s to late ’90s are Trotter’s ideological and emotional home. The hard left do splinter under shalliw fault lines , so the warning is real if overstated.
Green discipline through the Royal Commission will be tough as it intersects over their Carbon Zero negotiations. Tough to suck it up, but suck it up they must.
“Green discipline through the Royal Commission will be tough as it intersects over their Carbon Zero negotiations. Tough to suck it up, but suck it up they must.”
I must be daft. That sentence makes no sense to me at all.
There are no schoolchildren in parliament.
Nor do schoolchildren vote.
Nor do they report into the mainstream media.
In fact they have very little political effect at all.
A Royal Commission into the intelligence services is going to be cutting deep into the hard core of the most conservative parts of the public service. It will be cutting into Andrew Little as well since he’s defending them. And the hard left within the Greens from Davidson and Gharaman are making their views clear about what they want from such a Royal Commission already.
The Carbon Zero bill and the climate commission’s powers are under hot contest from National at the moment. You would have noticed the commentary from them surely.
What you are pointing to is your ability to be swayed by sweet saccarine emotion about the political impact of children, but no idea about the forces at play coming up in Wellington.
It is perfectly evident why you don’t learn anything at all.
“The Carbon Zero bill and the climate commission’s powers are under hot contest from National at the moment.”
Surely not!
You say Davidson and Gharaman are the HARD left? How hard are we talking?
Would it be foolish to challenge them to an arm wrestle?
Could they arm wrestle the Royal Commission while James does his Climate Change thing?
You said it yourself, I am “swayed by sweet saccarine emotion about the political impact of children, but no idea”
And you wrote – a poem? A nursery rhyme?
‘There are no schoolchildren in parliament.
Nor do schoolchildren vote.
Nor do they report into the mainstream media.
In fact they have very little political effect at all.’
Even the children are getting organised against BAU these days. Some folks will do anything to pretend it aint so.
I’ve even heard it on good authority there was a baby in the UN.
Hand in hand with John Key she used inflammatory “Jihadi bride” labeling … which conjurers the image … and fear of Muslim female terrorists / suicide bomber s.
Very shitty and reckless considering the NZ Muslim community had no ” Jihadi brides” …
Because she did not resign and do the runner like Key .,… She should be sacked for her reckless and shitty attack …. before we even get onto her failure to protect.
“Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said Key and Kitteridge had “misled the nation”.
She called on the pair to apologise to Muslim women.
“This is John Key using spy agencies, yet again, for his own political purposes. He misled New Zealanders into thinking that there were large numbers of Muslim women leaving New Zealand to go to Islamic State.
“That is not true.”
She said the claims were “denigrating” for an already vulnerable community.
Turei said she though Key made the statement, to make it easier for a review into spy agency laws to recommend boosting SIS and GCSB powers. ”
The first thing We should be reviewing is who gets the sack ,,,,followed by disengaging from that white supremacist warmongers club we are in…. stop riding on the coat tails of the ‘ ‘master nation’ … cease keeping an eye on those lesser people, who do not obey …. ‘ the masa ‘.
Being in Masa s little lynch mob of 5 … brings nothing but shame and dishonor upon us .
We are New Zealand …. we kill three year olds and call them Taliban.
Masa don’t mind though …. nits make lice, is his exceptional motto .
I’m looking for what prompted The Trots to spray out
…Davidson and Ghahraman should, therefore, ask themselves what Labour’s reaction will be if its internal polling shows their New-Zealand-Is-A-Profoundly-Racist-Society campaign is causing the Greens to haemorrhage votes in a fatal fashion?
While they’re at it, they should probably also ask themselves what use National and Act are likely to make of their We-Are-All-Guilty campaign. Do they really think the right of New Zealand politics is going to refuse to take advantage of the anger and disgust generated by what many (perhaps most) voters will characterise as a cheap-and-nasty attempt to capitalise politically on a terrible and unprecedented tragedy? Do they not see that what they are doing, and clearly intend to go on doing, is helping the Right to get back in the game?…
Davidson’s comments you’ve just linked to are frankly somewhat generic and anodyne, given the circumstances (sorry). So are Davidson’s and Ghahraman’s speeches on the Greens website (sorry again). They don’t look to me anywhere close to controversial enough to prompt what The Trots wrote.
This terrorist attack and mass murder of New Zealand Muslims has revealed some of the most beautiful displays of tragic love , saddness and lack of hostility that one could ever hope to encounter in the whole of humanity.
From your link ….
“People just came.
And every single person was made to feel welcome and loved by the mosque, no matter what they were wearing.
Our Muslim hosts were at pains to ensure people could find shade, that people could sit who needed to sit, that we were given water and food. They wanted us all to feel included because they sensed that for some, it was awkward and we just didn’t know what to do.
Every single person that had come had done so in good faith and with love in their hearts for the tragedy that took our country’s breath away. ”
I’ve linked a lot to the 50 lives thread in twitter which displays the same elevation of human spirit and goodness …. and lack of hate in the face of such ugly violence which stole and maimed their beautiful loved ones.
So sad and so beautiful ,,,,,,,, I’ve been humbled to tears.
Such is the contrast between our Muslim brother and sisters conduct …. and the deranged hate spewing conduct of usa online Lynch mobs
That sterotypes are shattered and reversed …. the good guys ( usa ) are sick ugly killers of the master race type
I’m paranoid fake Muslim accounts, created and run by neo con or zionist trolls … may make false ” die kaffir ” type posts … because our Muslims are not making them.
Money from weapons and war will be lost ….. if we recognize them as humans … who are just like us .
For those who think I am over egging it ,….. check out the usa sickness directed at a young Muslim woman /
Andre that’s really offensive about Chris Trotter, I presume, and about political matters from you. If it reflects the state of your mind it is factual, and puts in doubt your ability to offer reasoned opinions.
Would you care to salvage The Trots’ honour by pointing to what Ghahraman and Davidson have said and/or done to justify what he said about them? He didn’t provide any examples, and I had a look and didn’t find anything.
If there isn’t good substantiation for his attacks on Davidson and Ghahraman, then what he’s said is really fucking offensive and damaging. Even if there is substantiation, it was lazy and rude of him not to provide links to it in his piece.
Andre, I understand where you are coming from. My understanding is that the Auckland vigil last weekend became somewhat political with some people walking out etc as they felt it was too soon for some of the things said. In terms of links here is a link to one Herald article on this aspect which does not provide much detail and it was also updated a day later:
Thanks veutoviper. I can’t see how any of the things in those reports could possibly be stretched to make grounds for what The Trots wrote.
For what it’s worth, I value the facts and perspective you bring. But I know it can also be hard work. Please, look after yourself, and if looking after yourself includes trips back here, I for one will be reading what you have to say.
veutoviper, Your contributions are always welcome. You have been missed. I am walking with a walking stick. On my way to independence. Please keep fit.x
I fear patricia bremner that someone has upset veutoviper. I could be wrong, but we have a few people here whose style is confronting, arrogant and sometimes downright rude. I reference the one who calls himself “Sam” as an example.
I suspect TS has lost quite a few top line commenters (like vv) due to having been on the receiving end of unnecessarily offensive remarks about their contributions.
This is just Trotter hearing opinions he disagrees with and blowharding it into a “campaign” by the people who’ve dared to express their opinion – in this case, a proposed “New-Zealand-Is-A-Profoundly-Racist-Society campaign” and “We-Are-All-Guilty campaign.”
Go searching for these “campaigns” the Green MPs are running and all you find is a couple of quotes.
Marama Davidson said:
“New Zealand was founded on the theft of land, language and identity of indigenous people. This land we are standing on is land we were violently removed from to uphold the same agenda that killed the people in the mosques yesterday.”
And Golriz Ghahraman said:
“The truth is that this happened here, and it began with hate speech, allowed to spread here online. History has taught us that hate speech is a slippery slope to atrocity,” she said.
“The truth is that we as politicians, and I mean on all sides of this House, are also responsible.”
“There sit among us those who have for years fanned the flames of division in here and out there. Blamed migrants for our housing crisis.
“There sits among us here [those] who deliberately spread hysteria about the UN Migration Compact,” Ghahraman said.
“We’ve pandered to the gratuitous racism by shock jocks on breakfast shows to raise our own profile,” she said.
Ghahraman said the Christchurch mosque gunman’s plans for Friday’s shootings went unchecked by authorities.
“White supremacy was not seen as a pressing threat, even as some in the Muslim community were.
“Although this man happened to have not been born in New Zealand, we do need to acknowledge the truth that his ideology does exist in pockets here. Our ethnic communities, refugees, and tangata whenua have been telling us this for years. They’ve been reporting this for years.
“I know it as my daily truth as a politician. I receive all the barrage of hate online. I receive the threats – the death threats, the rape threats, and the threats of gun violence, online.
“Every minority in New Zealand knows this as a little bit of our truth. So now we have to pause and listen.”
That’s it, folks. Two opinions by two MPs is Trotter’s imagined “campaign” that’s going to tear the Green Party apart. To quote the great Johnny Rotten, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Ah. Thank you. If that’s all The Trots is basing his piece on, then I stand by the first sentence of my comment at 7, and merely regret I didn’t word it more strongly.
This is surely a good thing for Europe, giving as it does improved access to the huge and increasingly wealthy Chinese market. Fears about being swamped by cheap Chinese goods that will further destroy European manufacturers is overstated.
Increasingly, in the years ahead, China will no longer be the cheap source of everything. That is already fast being eclipsed by India and various African nations. And of course the China Empire (for an empire it certainly is) will face its own nightmare in Xinjiang and Xizang, with Xinjiang quite likely facing a future like Chechnya .
Yeah mate, I’m in the same boat as well as I’m waiting for some news out Ronnie’s office IRT DCP and DCP funding under this government which was meant to have out late last yr, but was push back to March of this year.
Next big ticket items are the C130 and B757 replacement, especially the C130’s as they officially run out of hrs in the next 3-4 yrs and Lockheed won’t support the C130’s after that as well as they would be in uncharted territory. The Boeing’s have another 5- 10 yrs on them before they either need a MLU/LEP or replacement which would be cheaper over the medium to long term than a MLU/ LEP.
The Southern Ocean Patrol Vessel and the possible FOB/ New Permanent Naval base in either in the Dunedin area or in Bluff.
There was something else as well, but I can’t remember what it was atm.
Example #5281 of why Mitch McConnell is actually a bigger problem than the gibbering baboon flinging its faeces at the Oval Office walls. He has the power to just block almost anything he doesn’t like from even being looked at by the Senate.
I have said it before, and will say it again – the USA is headed for another civil war, after which a Gilead-style theocracy with a pure free market economy will be imposed.
Walked by the local mosque on the way home just now. Said hello to the cop with the gun which turned into both of us commiserating about the fact that he had to be there at all holding said gun- “this isn’t NZ” he said. Another member of the public suddenly appeared with a coffee for him in appreciation for the job he’s having to do. A member of the mosque going in greeted us both then started chatting with the cop, they were on first name terms with each other.
I took away from that the fact that even though we are currently having to see openly armed uniformed police that they are- for now- still approachable, and let us approach them. Far from what I experienced in Europe and London, especially in the wake of one attack there where one wouldn’t dare even say hello. I only hope that ability to approach doesn’t go.
These white supremacist groups have a proven track history of violence. Yet compare the reaction of the authorities to Tame Iti and Tuhoe – complete overreaction when it came to the latter and a blind eye for the former.
Also, the murder and beheading of a Korean backpacker ten years ago.
The difference is that Simon Bridges is opportunistically using this tragedy to give the security forces increased powers of repressive mass surveillance.
New Zealand’s only surviving Japanese WWII veteran
At the age of 95 makes a powerful statement against racism and fascism.
…..after hearing the news about the mass shooting in Christchurch, he couldn’t sleep.
“I stayed awake quite a lot at the night. I didn’t sleep too well ever since. I thought it was so sad. You can feel the suffering of other people,” Mr Sato said.
….Mr Sato heard about the vigils and memorial events around the country following the tragic shootings in Christchurch, so he wanted to check out a mosque in Pakuranga which was not far away from his house. It was the start of a long journey for him.
He left home in Howick at around 10am, took a bus to Pakuranga, where he saw many flowers and messages. Then he decided to go into the city centre.
Alt-right propagandists like Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, write real heroes like John Sato out of their fascist narrative, he disturbs their notions of white exceptionalism and white virtue.
[The terrorist], just like Andre Brevik before him, who killed 14 year old New Zealand born girl Sharidyn Svebakk and 76 other young people, think of themselves as heroes.
Against the real example of heroes like John Sato, [the terrorist] and Andre Brevik, and their fascist enablers, Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, are revealed as the horribly obscene and twisted individuals they are.
Kia ora Newshub let’s hope there is not to much damage to the whenua in the west coast from big weather event they have just had.
The Gorlyvale organizational is tax free they have multiple millions dollars farms and businesses there people have about 6 children on average and they get 1200 a week from winz plus they get business grants but the money goes into a central pool so the people who are running the outfit can use the money to minupulate our government policy’s to suit them there business empire is expanding very fast. They minupulate there people will the media one ex person died in a motor bike accident it plastered all over the media. The story about the man who killed his family in a truck crash is being blocked they payed Google to make the surch come up at page 1000.
Brian’s not perfect but he is improving a lot of tangata lives he doesn’t play games with his tangata lives like the latter.
More Maori need to take advantage of the charitable taxes system as Maori can use it for relief of poverty culture or religion. I want to set up a charitable trust but I could not get the help to set it up.
Hone good on you for raising funds for Nothland rugby league. Well they did pillage and plander North America.
Mark did you clean your glasses the poverty for Maori is not just up north. I drive through a lower class place I see 5 cars per house 5 small cabins on each street a tab bottle store fishnchip shop loan sharks shop. Drive through a wealth place I see one car per huge house 2 people per house no shops like above for miles.
What happening in the Ruby world is a struggle for control of the organisation I say no more. Ka kite ano
We must look after all tane mahuta beautiful creatures tangata future welbeings are closely linked to a all living things .We are the Guardians of all Papatuanuku and her creatures we should have a culture that strives to improve the servivel of all creatures for our decendints mokopunas its not ROCKET SCIENCE its common sence
Wild bees and hoverflies lost from a quarter of the places they were found in 1980, study shows
I love it this stupid man hunt by the unjustified system is showing all the Whanau that New Zealand is a police state the spy’s the police the whole unjustice system is being used by the 00.1 % to use abuse and control the 99.9% of people they are the biggest cheating COURPT CROOKS IN NZ.
I love education the Whanau about the realities of this system. Ka kite ano P.S THAT’S ECO MAORI MAHI
DECEIT I have said the wealthy laught and say the poor common people are hounest We will never admite to OUR Wrongs hence jenny shiply and her rich m8 are going back to court to rip the poor people off with the unjustice SYSTEM even if it causes the tradies to go Broke. Kia kaha whanau
Since December, Māori nationalists have been named as threats in prison, and iwi have been spied on by a government agency.
“It’s also important that the government seek to address the racial profiling that has been going on for many years,” Mr Tukaki said. KA KITE ANO links below
I keep checking the sandflys in this game they are playing with MINE AND MY WHANAU life they get the shitts and get there m8 to try and underarm bowl me but they keep playing into my HAND ka kite ano
Kia ora Te ao Maori News.
I see that little has been give the spy’s what they want. I was waiting for the call for cops to ware guns I say NO why because there will be more brown people shot and killed by THEM.
I Hope Ngapuhi get what they want and get putia to build a bright future for their Mokopuna.
It is sad about that pepei has died at little Waihi that is a symptom of oppression colonialism that’s a fact Maori treasure OUR MOKOPUNA.
I Tau toko our nurses for rallying for the hospitals to provide a safe work place.
It would be nice if Maori could have axcess to better tools to make TV content that will draw in the viewers.
It gives Eco Maori a sore face when I hear that waka arma is receiving a big growth in tamariki partake in the awesome sport Ka kite ano P.S I see alot of tangata whenua onscreen need to get a new set of clothes as the ones they are wearing are getting to big as they lose weight Kia kaha
Kia ora The AM Show.
duncan you are listening to your ational doom and gloom m8s about the NZ economy they think that they are the only ones who can run a good economy when the facts show they make a big mess it’s all there to find our economy is one of the best in the WORLD .
Lloyd may stepping down if brexit go ahead YEA IGHT just another shifty tories move.
The price of houses does not have to go down for the Mokopunas to have more affordable housing it just has to flat line. We need Kiwi build there might be houses for sale but there a very little available to RENT. The government needs to build more state housing ASAP.
That’s good Facebook has made the good choice to ban White Supremacist hopefully all hate groups from its platforms
Yes its would be more secesful when some of the world conservatory groups work together to try and slow down the amount of species approaching extinction the old saying many hands make light work that works with knowledge to.
The reason we have such high numbers of cyps children is the fabulous policy’s ational has run over the last 9 years give to the wealthy take from the poor. Family support for wealth paye tax cuts and consumson tax GST up and now our Humane government that’s in charge now has a BIG MESS to clean up. I say we should not let the spy’s get easier axcess to our Data like they will be using the Christchurch desaster to get more power and a Big NO to the cops wearing guns in the street I agree with the TECH guy on Breakfast Show TV 1.
Ka kite ano P.S I know you 2 don’t know anything about being HUMBLE weres the ational flags they don’t have a clue about being humble
Whanau it makes me laugh all these puppets the sandflys use to try and intimidat ECO MAORI There are Heaps of them . The brown ones are a bit slow they haven’t worked out they are being played and used to suppress their OWN CULTURE I am on a mission to boost Maori Mana and cultures .
THE white ones well I have all ready given my opinion on them it’s not good.
But I can SEE that my TRUE character is getting out to Tangata and tangata whenua that makes me happy because it backs up my argument that the sandflys have a PERSONAL VANDETA against me it’s not about serviceing the law its just people with to much power that are using it for their his Gisborne mans own EGO. KA KITE ANO
Kia ora Newshub I got the first comments on the Solomon I oil spill desaster wrong multi tasking with the Mokopuna said it was a Australia island issue Big businesses will/are running riot in small governed nation like the Solomon Islands. Big countrys need to help them out., ”I”Mike it’s te tangata te tangata te tangata that count when enough pressure is applied by the majority te 00.1 % have to listen Facebook baning white supremacist KA PAI.
There is a big mess on the west coast of the south island to clean up.
Tangata do need to put more thought into there retirement savings and planning I encourage everyone I meet to join Kiwi Saver.
Looks like the Wellington bus service a joke. Ka kite ano
Kia ora Te ao Maori News manakua honey and the honey business has a hard time with the counterfit products been so easily to make like he said blending clover honey with manakua honey and selling it as 100% manakua honey not only that rice liquid sugar is hard to be distgush from the real thing.
Because lung cancer is a big problem for Tangata Whenua the health system is not trying it’s best to help us WORSE We pay heaps of taxes and get nothing in return WTF. The Pacific Sister looks cool. I did forget that men are nurses to they all need to feel safe at work the reason they are not taking keeping them safe is quite simpley the class system rasing it head. Ka kite ano
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This morning’s six standouts for me at 6.30am include:Rachel Helyer Donaldson’s scoop via RNZ last night of cuts to maternity jobs in the health system;Maddy Croad’s scoop via The Press-$ this morning on funding cuts for Christchurch’s biggest food rescue charity;Benedict Collins’ scoop last night via 1News on a last-minute ...
A listing of 25 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, December 15, 2024 thru Sat, December 21, 2024. Based on feedback we received, this week's roundup is the first one published soleley by category. We are still interested in ...
Well, I've been there, sitting in that same chairWhispering that same prayer half a million timesIt's a lie, though buried in disciplesOne page of the Bible isn't worth a lifeThere's nothing wrong with youIt's true, it's trueThere's something wrong with the villageWith the villageSomething wrong with the villageSongwriters: Andrew Jackson ...
ACT would like to dictate what universities can and can’t say. We knew it was coming. It was outlined in the coalition agreement and has become part of Seymour’s strategy of “emphasising public funding” to prevent people from opposing him and his views—something he also uses to try and de-platform ...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park from the Gigafact team in collaboration with members from our team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Are we heading ...
So the Solstice has arrived – Summer in this part of the world, Winter for the Northern Hemisphere. And with it, the publication my new Norse dark-fantasy piece, As Our Power Lessens at Eternal Haunted Summer: https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2024/as-our-power-lessens/ As previously noted, this one is very ‘wyrd’, and Northern Theory of Courage. ...
The Natural Choice: As a starter for ten percent of the Party Vote, “saving the planet” is a very respectable objective. Young voters, in particular, raised on the dire (if unheeded) warnings of climate scientists, and the irrefutable evidence of devastating weather events linked to global warming, vote Green. After ...
The Government cancelled 60% of Kāinga Ora’s new builds next year, even though the land for them was already bought, the consents were consented and there are builders unemployed all over the place. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political ...
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on UnsplashEvery morning I get up at 3am to go around the traps of news sites in Aotearoa and globally. I pick out the top ones from my point of view and have been putting them into my Dawn Chorus email, which goes out with a podcast. ...
Over on Kikorangi Newsroom's Marc Daalder has published his annual OIA stats. So I thought I'd do mine: 82 OIA requests sent in 2024 7 posts based on those requests 20 average working days to receive a response Ministry of Justice was my most-requested entity, ...
Welcome to the December 2024 Economic Bulletin. We have two monthly features in this edition. In the first, we discuss what the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update from Treasury and the Budget Policy Statement from the Minister of Finance tell us about the fiscal position and what to ...
The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi have submitted against the controversial Treaty Principles Bill, slamming the Bill as a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and an attack on tino rangatiratanga and the collective rights of Tangata Whenua. “This Bill seeks to legislate for Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles that are ...
I don't knowHow to say what's got to be saidI don't know if it's black or whiteThere's others see it redI don't get the answers rightI'll leave that to youIs this love out of fashionOr is it the time of yearAre these words distraction?To the words you want to hearSongwriters: ...
Our economy has experienced its worst recession since 1991. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, December 20 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast above and the daily Pick ‘n’ Mix below ...
Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the week we’ve been collecting stories for our final roundup of the year. As we start to wind down for the year we hope you all have a safe and happy Christmas and new year. If you’re travelling please be safe on ...
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts & talking about the year’s news with: on climate. Her book of the year was Tim Winton’s cli-fi novel Juice and she also mentioned Mike Joy’s memoir The Fight for Fresh Water. ...
The Government can head off to the holidays, entitled to assure itself that it has done more or less what it said it would do. The campaign last year promised to “get New Zealand back on track.” When you look at the basic promises—to trim back Government expenditure, toughen up ...
Open access notables An intensification of surface Earth’s energy imbalance since the late 20th century, Li et al., Communications Earth & Environment:Tracking the energy balance of the Earth system is a key method for studying the contribution of human activities to climate change. However, accurately estimating the surface energy balance ...
Photo by Mauricio Fanfa on UnsplashKia oraCome and join us for our weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar with paying subscribers to The Kākā for an hour at 5 pm today.Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream for our chat about the week’s news with myself , plus regular guests and , ...
“Like you said, I’m an unreconstructed socialist. Everybody deserves to get something for Christmas.”“ONE OF THOSE had better be for me!” Hannah grinned, fascinated, as Laurie made his way, gingerly, to the bar, his arms full of gift-wrapped packages.“Of course!”, beamed Laurie. Depositing his armful on the bar-top and selecting ...
Data released by Statistics New Zealand today showed a significant slowdown in the economy over the past six months, with GDP falling by 1% in September, and 1.1% in June said CTU Economist Craig Renney. “The data shows that the size of the economy in GDP terms is now smaller ...
One last thing before I quitI never wanted any moreThan I could fit into my headI still remember every single word you saidAnd all the shit that somehow came along with itStill, there's one thing that comforts meSince I was always caged and now I'm freeSongwriters: David Grohl / Georg ...
Sparse offerings outside a Te Kauwhata church. Meanwhile, the Government is cutting spending in ways that make thousands of hungry children even hungrier, while also cutting funding for the charities that help them. It’s also doing that while winding back new building of affordable housing that would allow parents to ...
It is difficult to make sense of the Luxon Coalition Government’s economic management.This end-of-year review about the state of economic management – the state of the economy was last week – is not going to cover the National Party contribution. Frankly, like every other careful observer, I cannot make up ...
This morning I awoke to the lovely news that we are firmly back on track, that is if the scale was reversed.NZ ranks low in global economic comparisonsNew Zealand's economy has been ranked 33rd out of 37 in an international comparison of which have done best in 2024.Economies were ranked ...
Remember those silent movies where the heroine is tied to the railway tracks or going over the waterfall in a barrel? Finance Minister Nicola Willis seems intent on portraying herself as that damsel in distress. According to Willis, this country’s current economic problems have all been caused by the spending ...
Similar to the cuts and the austerity drive imposed by Ruth Richardson in the 1990’s, an era which to all intents and purposes we’ve largely fiddled around the edges with fixing in the time since – over, to be fair, several administrations – whilst trying our best it seems to ...
String-Pulling in the Dark: For the democratic process to be meaningful it must also be public. WITH TRUST AND CONFIDENCE in New Zealand’s politicians and journalists steadily declining, restoring those virtues poses a daunting challenge. Just how daunting is made clear by comparing the way politicians and journalists treated New Zealanders ...
Dear Nicola Willis, thank you for letting us know in so many words that the swingeing austerity hasn't worked.By in so many words I mean the bit where you said, Here is a sea of red ink in which we are drowning after twelve months of savage cost cutting and ...
The Open Government Partnership is a multilateral organisation committed to advancing open government. Countries which join are supposed to co-create regular action plans with civil society, committing to making verifiable improvements in transparency, accountability, participation, or technology and innovation for the above. And they're held to account through an Independent ...
Today I tuned into something strange: a press conference that didn’t make my stomach churn or the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Which was strange, because it was about the torture of children. It was the announcement by Erica Stanford — on her own, unusually ...
This is a must watch, and puts on brilliant and practical display the implications and mechanics of fast-track law corruption and weakness.CLICK HERE: LINK TO WATCH VIDEOOur news media as it is set up is simply not equipped to deal with the brazen disinformation and corruption under this right wing ...
NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Acting Secretary Erin Polaczuk is welcoming the announcement from Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden that she is opening consultation on engineered stone and is calling on her to listen to the evidence and implement a total ban of the product. “We need ...
The Government has announced a 1.5% increase in the minimum wage from 1 April 2025, well below forecast inflation of 2.5%. Unions have reacted strongly and denounced it as a real terms cut. PSA and the CTU are opposing a new round of staff cuts at WorkSafe, which they say ...
The decision to unilaterally repudiate the contract for new Cook Strait ferries is beginning to look like one of the stupidest decisions a New Zealand government ever made. While cancelling the ferries and their associated port infrastructure may have made this year's books look good, it means higher costs later, ...
Hi there! I’ve been overseas recently, looking after a situation with a family member. So apologies if there any less than focused posts! Vanuatu has just had a significant 7.3 earthquake. Two MFAT staff are unaccounted for with local fatalities.It’s always sad to hear of such things happening.I think of ...
Today is a special member's morning, scheduled to make up for the government's theft of member's days throughout the year. First up was the first reading of Greg Fleming's Crimes (Increased Penalties for Slavery Offences) Amendment Bill, which was passed unanimously. Currently the House is debating the third reading of ...
We're going backwardsIgnoring the realitiesGoing backwardsAre you counting all the casualties?We are not there yetWhere we need to beWe are still in debtTo our insanitiesSongwriter: Martin Gore Read more ...
Willis blamed Treasury for changing its productivity assumptions and Labour’s spending increases since Covid for the worsening Budget outlook. Photo: Getty ImagesMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Wednesday, December 18 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast above ...
Today the Auckland Transport board meet for the last time this year. For those interested (and with time to spare), you can follow along via this MS Teams link from 10am. I’ve taken a quick look through the agenda items to see what I think the most interesting aspects are. ...
Hi,If you’re a New Zealander — you know who Mike King is. He is the face of New Zealand’s battle against mental health problems. He can be loud and brash. He raises, and is entrusted with, a lot of cash. Last year his “I Am Hope” charity reported a revenue ...
Probably about the only consolation available from yesterday’s unveiling of the Half-Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) is that it could have been worse. Though Finance Minister Nicola Willis has tightened the screws on future government spending, she has resisted the calls from hard-line academics, fiscal purists and fiscal hawks ...
The right have a stupid saying that is only occasionally true:When is democracy not democracy? When it hasn’t been voted on.While not true in regards to branches of government such as the judiciary, it’s a philosophy that probably should apply to recently-elected local government councillors. Nevertheless, this concept seemed to ...
Long story short: the Government’s austerity policy has driven the economy into a deeper and longer recession that means it will have to borrow $20 billion more over the next four years than it expected just six months ago. Treasury’s latest forecasts show the National-ACT-NZ First Government’s fiscal strategy of ...
Come and join myself and CTU Chief Economist for a pop-up ‘Hoon’ webinar on the Government’s Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) with paying subscribers to The Kākā for 30 minutes at 5 pm today.Jump on this link on YouTube Livestream to watch our chat. Don’t worry if ...
In 1998, in the wake of the Paremoremo Prison riot, the Department of Corrections established the "Behaviour Management Regime". Prisoners were locked in their cells for 22 or 23 hours a day, with no fresh air, no exercise, no social contact, no entertainment, and in some cases no clothes and ...
New data released by the Treasury shows that the economic policies of this Government have made things worse in the year since they took office, said NZCTU Economist Craig Renney. “Our fiscal indicators are all heading in the wrong direction – with higher levels of debt, a higher deficit, and ...
At the 2023 election, National basically ran on a platform of being better economic managers. So how'd that turn out for us? In just one year, they've fucked us for two full political terms: The government's books are set to remain deeply in the red for the near term ...
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The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi are saying that the Government should do the right thing and deliver minimum wage increases that don’t see workers fall further behind, in response to today’s announcement that the minimum wage will only be increased by 1.5%, well short of forecast inflation. “With inflation forecast ...
Oh, I weptFor daysFilled my eyesWith silly tearsOh, yeaBut I don'tCare no moreI don't care ifMy eyes get soreSongwriters: Paul Rodgers / Paul Kossoff. Read more ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob HensonIn this aerial view, fingers of meltwater flow from the melting Isunnguata Sermia glacier descending from the Greenland Ice Sheet on July 11, 2024, near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. According to the Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE), the ...
In August, I wrote an article about David Seymour1 with a video of his testimony, to warn that there were grave dangers to his Ministry of Regulation:David Seymour's Ministry of Slush Hides Far Greater RisksWhy Seymour's exorbitant waste of taxpayers' money could be the least of concernThe money for Seymour ...
Willis is expected to have to reveal the bitter fiscal fruits of her austerity strategy in the HYEFU later today. Photo: Lynn Grieveson/TheKakaMōrena. Long stories short, the six things that matter in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, December 17 in The Kākā’s Dawn Chorus podcast ...
On Friday the government announced it would double the number of toll roads in New Zealand as well as make a few other changes to how toll roads are used in the country. The real issue though is not that tolling is being used but the suggestion it will make ...
The Prime Minister yesterday engaged in what looked like a pre-emptive strike designed to counter what is likely to be a series of depressing economic statistics expected before the end of the week. He opened his weekly post-Cabinet press conference with a recitation of the Government’s achievements. “It certainly has ...
This whooping cough story from south Auckland is a good example of the coalition government’s approach to social need – spend money on urging people to get vaccinated but only after you’ve cut the funding to where they could get vaccinated. This has been the case all year with public ...
And if there is a GodI know he likes to rockHe likes his loud guitarsHis spiders from MarsAnd if there is a GodI know he's watching meHe likes what he seesBut there's trouble on the breezeSongwriter: William Patrick Corgan Read more ...
Here’s a quick round up of today’s political news:1. MORE FOOD BANKS, CHARITIES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS AND YOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES SET TO CLOSE OR SCALE BACK AROUND THE COUNTRY AS GOVT CUTS FUNDINGSome of Auckland's largest foodbanks are warning they may need to close or significantly reduce food parcels after ...
Iain Rennie, CNZMSecretary and Chief Executive to the TreasuryDear Secretary, Undue restrictions on restricted briefings This week, the Treasury barred representatives from four organisations, including the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi, from attending the restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update. We had been ...
This is a guest post by Tim Adriaansen, a community, climate, and accessibility advocate.I won’t shut up about climate breakdown, and whenever possible I try to shift the focus of a climate conversation towards solutions. But you’ll almost never hear me give more than a passing nod to ...
National has only been in power for a year, but everywhere you look, its choices are taking New Zealand a long way backwards. In no particular order, here are the National Government's Top 50 Greatest Misses of its first year in power. ...
The Government is quietly undertaking consultation on the dangerous Regulatory Standards Bill over the Christmas period to avoid too much attention. ...
The Government’s planned changes to the freedom of speech obligations of universities is little more than a front for stoking the political fires of disinformation and fear, placing teachers and students in the crosshairs. ...
The Ministry of Regulation’s report into Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Aotearoa raises serious concerns about the possibility of lowering qualification requirements, undermining quality and risking worse outcomes for tamariki, whānau, and kaiako. ...
A Bill to modernise the role of Justices of the Peace (JP), ensuring they remain active in their communities and connected with other JPs, has been put into the ballot. ...
Labour will continue to fight unsustainable and destructive projects that are able to leap-frog environment protection under National’s Fast-track Approvals Bill. ...
The Green Party has warned that a Green Government will revoke the consents of companies who override environmental protections as part of Fast-Track legislation being passed today. ...
The Green Party says the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update shows how the Government is failing to address the massive social and infrastructure deficits our country faces. ...
The Government’s latest move to reduce the earnings of migrant workers will not only hurt migrants but it will drive down the wages of Kiwi workers. ...
Te Pāti Māori has this morning issued a stern warning to Fast-Track applicants with interests in mining, pledging to hold them accountable through retrospective liability and to immediately revoke Fast-Track consents under a future Te Pāti Māori government. This warning comes ahead of today’s third reading of the Fast-Track Approvals ...
The Government’s announcement today of a 1.5 per cent increase to minimum wage is another blow for workers, with inflation projected to exceed the increase, meaning it’s a real terms pay reduction for many. ...
All the Government has achieved from its announcement today is to continue to push responsibility back on councils for its own lack of action to help bring down skyrocketing rates. ...
The Government has used its final post-Cabinet press conference of the year to punch down on local government without offering any credible solutions to the issues our councils are facing. ...
The Government has failed to keep its promise to ‘super charge’ the EV network, delivering just 292 chargers - less than half of the 670 chargers needed to meet its target. ...
The Green Party is calling for the Government to stop subsidising the largest user of the country’s gas supplies, Methanex, following a report highlighting the multi-national’s disproportionate influence on energy prices in Aotearoa. ...
The Green Party is appalled with the Government’s new child poverty targets that are based on a new ‘persistent poverty’ measure that could be met even with an increase in child poverty. ...
New independent analysis has revealed that the Government’s Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) will reduce emissions by a measly 1 per cent by 2030, failing to set us up for the future and meeting upcoming targets. ...
The loss of 27 kaimahi at Whakaata Māori and the end of its daily news bulletin is a sad day for Māori media and another step backwards for Te Tiriti o Waitangi justice. ...
Yesterday the Government passed cruel legislation through first reading to establish a new beneficiary sanction regime that will ultimately mean more households cannot afford the basic essentials. ...
Today's passing of the Government's Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill–which allows landlords to end tenancies with no reason–ignores the voice of the people and leaves renters in limbo ahead of the festive season. ...
After wasting a year, Nicola Willis has delivered a worse deal for the Cook Strait ferries that will end up being more expensive and take longer to arrive. ...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has today launched a Member’s Bill to sanction Israel for its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as the All Out For Gaza rally reaches Parliament. ...
After years of advocacy, the Green Party is very happy to hear the Government has listened to our collective voices and announced the closure of the greyhound racing industry, by 1 August 2026. ...
In response to a new report from ERO, the Government has acknowledged the urgent need for consistency across the curriculum for Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) in schools. ...
The Green Party is appalled at the Government introducing legislation that will make it easier to penalise workers fighting for better pay and conditions. ...
Thank you for the invitation to speak with you tonight on behalf of the political party I belong to - which is New Zealand First. As we have heard before this evening the Kinleith Mill is proposing to reduce operations by focusing on pulp and discontinuing “lossmaking paper production”. They say that they are currently consulting on the plan to permanently shut ...
Auckland Central MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, has written to Mayor Wayne Brown requesting he stop the unnecessary delays on St James Theatre’s restoration. ...
Kiwis planning a swim or heading out on a boat this summer should remember to stop and think about water safety, Sport & Recreation Minister Chris Bishop and ACC and Associate Transport Minister Matt Doocey say. “New Zealand’s beaches, lakes and rivers are some of the most beautiful in the ...
The Government is urging Kiwis to drive safely this summer and reminding motorists that Police will be out in force to enforce the road rules, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“This time of year can be stressful and result in poor decision-making on our roads. Whether you are travelling to see ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says Health New Zealand will move swiftly to support dozens of internationally-trained doctors already in New Zealand on their journey to employment here, after a tripling of sought-after examination places. “The Medical Council has delivered great news for hardworking overseas doctors who want to contribute ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has appointed Sarah Ottrey to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). “At my first APEC Summit in Lima, I experienced firsthand the role that ABAC plays in guaranteeing political leaders hear the voice of business,” Mr Luxon says. “New Zealand’s ABAC representatives are very well respected and ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced four appointments to New Zealand’s intelligence oversight functions. The Honourable Robert Dobson KC has been appointed Chief Commissioner of Intelligence Warrants, and the Honourable Brendan Brown KC has been appointed as a Commissioner of Intelligence Warrants. The appointments of Hon Robert Dobson and Hon ...
Improvements in the average time it takes to process survey and title applications means housing developments can progress more quickly, Minister for Land Information Chris Penk says. “The government is resolutely focused on improving the building and construction pipeline,” Mr Penk says. “Applications to issue titles and subdivide land are ...
The Government’s measures to reduce airport wait times, and better transparency around flight disruptions is delivering encouraging early results for passengers ahead of the busy summer period, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Improving the efficiency of air travel is a priority for the Government to give passengers a smoother, more reliable ...
The Government today announced the intended closure of the Apollo Hotel as Contracted Emergency Housing (CEH) in Rotorua, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says. This follows a 30 per cent reduction in the number of households in CEH in Rotorua since National came into Government. “Our focus is on ending CEH in the Whakarewarewa area starting ...
The Government will reshape vocational education and training to return decision making to regions and enable greater industry input into work-based learning Tertiary Education and Skills Minister, Penny Simmonds says. “The redesigned system will better meet the needs of learners, industry, and the economy. It includes re-establishing regional polytechnics that ...
The Government is taking action to better manage synthetic refrigerants and reduce emissions caused by greenhouse gases found in heating and cooling products, Environment Minister Penny Simmonds says. “Regulations will be drafted to support a product stewardship scheme for synthetic refrigerants, Ms. Simmonds says. “Synthetic refrigerants are found in a ...
People travelling on State Highway 1 north of Hamilton will be relieved that remedial works and safety improvements on the Ngāruawāhia section of the Waikato Expressway were finished today, with all lanes now open to traffic, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“I would like to acknowledge the patience of road users ...
Tertiary Education and Skills Minister, Penny Simmonds, has announced a new appointment to the board of Education New Zealand (ENZ). Dr Erik Lithander has been appointed as a new member of the ENZ board for a three-year term until 30 January 2028. “I would like to welcome Dr Erik Lithander to the ...
The Government will have senior representatives at Waitangi Day events around the country, including at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, but next year Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has chosen to take part in celebrations elsewhere. “It has always been my intention to celebrate Waitangi Day around the country with different ...
Two more criminal gangs will be subject to the raft of laws passed by the Coalition Government that give Police more powers to disrupt gang activity, and the intimidation they impose in our communities, Police Minister Mark Mitchell says. Following an Order passed by Cabinet, from 3 February 2025 the ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Justice Christian Whata as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Whata’s appointment as a Judge of the Court of Appeal will take effect on 1 August 2025 and fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Hon Justice David Goddard on ...
The latest economic figures highlight the importance of the steps the Government has taken to restore respect for taxpayers’ money and drive economic growth, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Data released today by Stats NZ shows Gross Domestic Product fell 1 per cent in the September quarter. “Treasury and most ...
Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds and Associate Minister of Education David Seymour today announced legislation changes to strengthen freedom of speech obligations on universities. “Freedom of speech is fundamental to the concept of academic freedom and there is concern that universities seem to be taking a more risk-averse ...
Police Minister, Mark Mitchell, and Internal Affairs Minister, Brooke van Velden, today launched a further Public Safety Network cellular service that alongside last year’s Cellular Roaming roll-out, puts globally-leading cellular communications capability into the hands of our emergency responders. The Public Safety Network’s new Cellular Priority service means Police, Wellington ...
State Highway 1 through the Mangamuka Gorge has officially reopened today, providing a critical link for Northlanders and offering much-needed relief ahead of the busy summer period, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“The Mangamuka Gorge is a vital route for Northland, carrying around 1,300 vehicles per day and connecting the Far ...
The Government has welcomed decisions by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) and Ashburton District Council confirming funding to boost resilience in the Canterbury region, with construction on a second Ashburton Bridge expected to begin in 2026, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Delivering a second Ashburton Bridge to improve resilience and ...
The Government is backing the response into high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Otago, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says. “Cabinet has approved new funding of $20 million to enable MPI to meet unbudgeted ongoing expenses associated with the H7N6 response including rigorous scientific testing of samples at the enhanced PC3 ...
Legislation that will repeal all advertising restrictions for broadcasters on Sundays and public holidays has passed through first reading in Parliament today, Media Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “As a growing share of audiences get their news and entertainment from streaming services, these restrictions have become increasingly redundant. New Zealand on ...
Today the House agreed to Brendan Horsley being appointed Inspector-General of Defence, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Mr Horsley’s experience will be invaluable in overseeing the establishment of the new office and its support networks. “He is currently Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, having held that role since June 2020. ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government has agreed to the final regulations for the levy on insurance contracts that will fund Fire and Emergency New Zealand from July 2026. “Earlier this year the Government agreed to a 2.2 percent increase to the rate of levy. Fire ...
The Government is delivering regulatory relief for New Zealand businesses through changes to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act. “The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill, which was introduced today, is the second Bill – the other being the Statutes Amendment Bill - that ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed further progress on the Hawke’s Bay Expressway Road of National Significance (RoNS), with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) Board approving funding for the detailed design of Stage 1, paving the way for main works construction to begin in late 2025.“The Government is moving at ...
The Government today released a request for information (RFI) to seeking interest in partnerships to plant trees on Crown-owned land with low farming and conservation value (excluding National Parks) Forestry Minister Todd McClay announced. “Planting trees on Crown-owned land will drive economic growth by creating more forestry jobs in our regions, providing more wood ...
Court timeliness, access to justice, and improving the quality of existing regulation are the focus of a series of law changes introduced to Parliament today by Associate Minister of Justice Nicole McKee. The three Bills in the Regulatory Systems (Justice) Amendment Bill package each improve a different part of the ...
A total of 41 appointments and reappointments have been made to the 12 community trusts around New Zealand that serve their regions, Associate Finance Minister Shane Jones says. “These trusts, and the communities they serve from the Far North to the deep south, will benefit from the rich experience, knowledge, ...
The Government has confirmed how it will provide redress to survivors who were tortured at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit (the Lake Alice Unit). “The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care found that many of the 362 children who went through the Lake Alice Unit between 1972 and ...
It has been a busy, productive year in the House as the coalition Government works hard to get New Zealand back on track, Leader of the House Chris Bishop says. “This Government promised to rebuild the economy, restore law and order and reduce the cost of living. Our record this ...
“Accelerated silicosis is an emerging occupational disease caused by unsafe work such as engineered stone benchtops. I am running a standalone consultation on engineered stone to understand what the industry is currently doing to manage the risks, and whether further regulatory intervention is needed,” says Workplace Relations and Safety Minister ...
Mehemea he pai mō te tangata, mahia – if it’s good for the people, get on with it. Enhanced reporting on the public sector’s delivery of Treaty settlement commitments will help improve outcomes for Māori and all New Zealanders, Māori Crown Relations Minister Tama Potaka says. Compiled together for the ...
Mr Roger Holmes Miller and Ms Tarita Hutchinson have been appointed to the Charities Registration Board, Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Louise Upston says. “I would like to welcome the new members joining the Charities Registration Board. “The appointment of Ms Hutchinson and Mr Miller will strengthen the Board’s capacity ...
More building consent and code compliance applications are being processed within the statutory timeframe since the Government required councils to submit quarterly data, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “In the midst of a housing shortage we need to look at every step of the build process for efficiencies ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey is proud to announce the first three recipients of the Government’s $10 million Mental Health and Addiction Community Sector Innovation Fund which will enable more Kiwis faster access to mental health and addiction support. “This fund is part of the Government’s commitment to investing in ...
New Zealand is providing Vanuatu assistance following yesterday's devastating earthquake, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. "Vanuatu is a member of our Pacific family and we are supporting it in this time of acute need," Mr Peters says. "Our thoughts are with the people of Vanuatu, and we will be ...
The Government welcomes the Commerce Commission’s plan to reduce card fees for Kiwis by an estimated $260 million a year, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says.“The Government is relentlessly focused on reducing the cost of living, so Kiwis can keep more of their hard-earned income and live a ...
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Barry Soper is a piece of shit liar.
” Peters says it was a much shorter version of the video he’d been showing at earlier rallies and besides, his rhetoric had changed, he was now much more benign about New Zealand”
That’s not true though is it Barry. You’re not even a journalists asshole.
You leave the country thinking they’re still targets because political vendettas for cash and clickbait is all you have to offer.
I got to get back into some morning meditation. I have every right to be annoyed at Soper and other journos as:
These are the people with a voice; they should also bear a responsibility to truth.
But I’m still sounding kneejerk, too quick off the mark.
Rain in South and heading North.
Take care out there and have a wonderful Tuesday.
We the bleeple. Loved your second comment and agreed with your first.
Soper can not help putting the boot into Winston again, dementia has really set in with this old white coote ?
Racist, homophobic, transphobic.
Real peice of work aren’t you? Especially with your super duper cool guy handle.
Winston is older and dodderier than soper
Edit : not sure why I’m in moderation?
[Looks like you changed your name slightly. I have deleted the “i” at the end. Now released – MS]
Thanks MS. The desktop version on my smartphone is extremely sensitive when scrolling and the cursor defaults to the name box when a reply is activated. Not a biggie but catches you out if unwary
Soper needs to change the colour of his pills me thinks ?
Last night, it rained and rained and rained; a fine and steady fall that kept on and on.
Today, I’m making blackboards from plywood and paint; green in fact, but made for the purpose. We’re keen to keep the presentations at the permaculture hui low-tech, so with only chalk and a board for the presenter, there’ll be no Death-by-Powerpoint!
Ha excellent Robert… like most technologies there is some myth at play… like putting together a power point thing is faster than blackboard and chalk?? I don’t think so. In the same way cash is faster than eftpos… a hard copy diary is quicker than scrolling thru a screen… like pretty much anything ….
much ‘technology’ is a myth. In fact, much of it isn’t even technology, it’s just the same old pasted together in electronics instead. It’s nothing new, just formatted differently.
the other myth around ‘technology’ is that its claimed faster speed makes our lives better …. I don’t think so …. it just makes our lives speedier …
a 2c rant
That’s often the case, vto, in my experience. I’m planning to have the menu for each evening meal written on slate! I collected hundreds of slates from the roof of an old building here years ago and now will be their moment in the sun 🙂
Nice. Can’t beat the touch and feel of something earthen. …
The simple act of helping others pulled me out of my head and own worries and back to Earth. I highly recommend reaching out to your community if you are still struggling to emerge from your shock and grief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cUo4KcCVsU&feature=youtu.be
I have been expert at avoiding cameras for some time. They filmed my back for one second. Still good at avoiding cameras. There may be a career for me in paparazzi training for celebs.
Interesting to compare the architecture of the mosque and Mitre10 Mega.
Great initiative too and incidentally an effective way to work-around council rules for planting on berms. They ain’t gonna complain 🙂
Haha. What a choice observation.
We had armed Police looking on so I reckon we’ll be ok – or not a leg to stand on!
I’m really liking the permie folks I’m meeting up here, some I’ve known previously in the rock and roll industry. Who’d a thought, permie rockers!
I’m a lot less hangry sounding in real life 😉
Who’s the bloke with the tats on his arms; was he an organiser? I seem to recognise him.
Damian? Terrible at names but I did get it. He’s wanting to come onto the PDC next year. From Waihi. Nice guy.
I’ve joined this mens dance club …. as music …. and bit of dance is good for the body and soul.
The blokes in it all have a good sence of humor ….. but if you step on toes three times …. they time out you for 10 mins on the back wall 🙂
I’m the one with the beard 😉
Great timing by Al Jazeera: ‘How to sell a massacre: NRA’s playbook, revealed’.
Here’s the link to Al Jazeera’s piece.
“How do you respond to a deadly mass shooting if you are a gun rights advocate?
First, “Say nothing.” If media queries persist, go on the “offence, offence, offence”. Smear gun-control groups. “Shame them” with statements such as – “How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political agenda?” ”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/sell-massacre-nra-playbook-revealed-190325111828105.html
Evidently gun shooting and deaths have gone down in recent years someone was telling me ?
Y’know, you could actually develop some research skills of your own.
But now that you’ve sprayed some random reckons, actual facts are needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#/media/File:1999-2016_Gun-related_deaths_USA.png
I’d call this (above, Al Jazeera, NRA playbook) a MUST READ.
What I’m seeing in the youtube and other comments sections from ill informed pro-trumper types and trolls is a common script. I figured this came from the media. It does. And this media is generated by professional spin doctors in or aligned with the NRA.
A false narrative designed to sell guns. And as we’ve seen alongside it, another darker narrative emerging, the spreading of chaos.
This chaos sells fear, and more guns, and keeps us distracted from the political/corporate skulduggery of Disaster Capitalists. You can learn about Disaster Capitalism from Naomi Klein.
“I think it’s a basic principle of journalism to follow the money” – Naomi Klein.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul
Does displaying the shocking event of last week, to promote your re-election, count as ghoulish behaviour?
+ 100%
Haven’t seen it yet, will watch it tonight.
Trump politics …. Benjamines for the big boys ….. money for war … hate on the foreign
and poor.
“In the last two or three years, encouraged and legitimized by candidate and then President Donald Trump, anti-Semitism has been on the rise alongside virulent racism, extreme misogyny, xenophobia, Islamophobia and homophobia. Trump praised the “fine people” among the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Nazi sympathizers who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia”
“For the second time this year, Donald Trump has retweeted a message from an apparent neo-Nazi, raising troubling questions about his judgment and the ideology of some of his supporters.”
a speech Trump had given a few days earlier — praising the (apocryphal) methods of a U.S. general in dispensing with Muslim opponents in the Philippine-American War — was still playing on conservative radio. “He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pig’s blood,” he’d told the crowd. “And he had his men load their rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ ”
Then a Heroic young Muslim woman Ilhan Omar steps out of line …. repeatably
“Omar shook up the Washington foreign policy establishment by challenging veteran warmonger and genocide denier Elliot Abrams, he of Iran-Contra and El Salvador death squads infamy, …” “about his new role as the Trump administration’s point man on Venezuela.”
And both sides turned on her when she dared discus the real foreign power in US politics …” in response to this tweet “Would love to know who Ilhan thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel,” Omar tweeted again “AIPAC.”
”
“President Trump got his jabs in on Saturday: “We have people in Congress that hate our country,” he said, before implying that these people were immigrants. Given that Omar is one of only 14 immigrant members of Congress, and Trump then called her out by name in a tweet two days later, the allusion was none too subtle. None of the Congress members who have accused Omar of anti-Semitism has voiced a word criticizing the president for such dog-whistle xenophobia”
The Democrats joined in … worried about their Benjamins .
“Congressional Democrats are attempting to discipline Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for speaking critically about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — and more generally in defense of Palestinian rights — after smearing her as “anti-Semitic.” This comes at the same time that Omar, one of the only Muslim representatives in Congress, has been targeted for death threats and Islamophobic propaganda likening her to those who carried out the 9/11 attacks.”
Ilhan Omar is a friend to all who believe in human rights … for all….. she speaks truth to power.
Its a shame a poster here joined in the attempted smearing of her as an anti Semite yesterday ….. and worse.
I can’t vote for her …. but we should all support her cause of tolerance and respect for all humans…..
“NAOMI KLEIN, Ilan Pappé, Ronnie Kasrils, Sarah Jaffe, Rebecca Vilkomerson and many more say: We are Jews who stand with Representative Ilhan Omar.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/28/exclusive-ilhan-omar-speaks-out-on-her-twitter-scandal-anti-semitism-and-a-progressive-foreign-policy/
https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1108844717909909504
A good read about the intersection of issues and personalities from the perspective of a door-knocker.
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/3/25/18275868/2020-presidential-election-midterms-democrats-candidate-progressive-base
I see the Trots has had a bit of a rectal spray over at Bowelly Rd about Davidson and Ghahraman starting up some kind of anti-racism effort. I’ve had a very brief search for more info and come up empty, anyone got any more info? Thanks.
http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2019/03/those-who-do-not-learn-lessons-of.html
Were you in NZ during the early Clark PM years?
Yes, I returned to NZ in March 99. So yes, I’ve got a moderately interested outsider’s awareness of Anderton and the Alliance ructions.
Right now though, I’m more interested in finding out more about what The Trots is painting as a substantial organised effort from Ghahraman and Davidson that so far I’ve seen and heard nothing about. Or maybe The Trots is trying to puff up something that simply isn’t there.
Those years from late 1980s to late ’90s are Trotter’s ideological and emotional home. The hard left do splinter under shalliw fault lines , so the warning is real if overstated.
Green discipline through the Royal Commission will be tough as it intersects over their Carbon Zero negotiations. Tough to suck it up, but suck it up they must.
“Green discipline through the Royal Commission will be tough as it intersects over their Carbon Zero negotiations. Tough to suck it up, but suck it up they must.”
I must be daft. That sentence makes no sense to me at all.
Royal Commission politics will be hard-right.
Carbon Zero bill politics is hard left.
Greens want green policy gains, but may be tempted by anti-Security policy gains.
They can’t get both. Esp after the post -attack climate.
I don’t feel I’ve learned anything at all.
A royal commission is hard right politics?
Preventing/mitigating climate change is hard left politics?
I think you are completely out of touch.
You could ask some schoolchildren what’s up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_strike_for_climate
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/102276176/us-students-stage-school-walkouts-to-protest-gun-violence
There are no schoolchildren in parliament.
Nor do schoolchildren vote.
Nor do they report into the mainstream media.
In fact they have very little political effect at all.
A Royal Commission into the intelligence services is going to be cutting deep into the hard core of the most conservative parts of the public service. It will be cutting into Andrew Little as well since he’s defending them. And the hard left within the Greens from Davidson and Gharaman are making their views clear about what they want from such a Royal Commission already.
The Carbon Zero bill and the climate commission’s powers are under hot contest from National at the moment. You would have noticed the commentary from them surely.
What you are pointing to is your ability to be swayed by sweet saccarine emotion about the political impact of children, but no idea about the forces at play coming up in Wellington.
It is perfectly evident why you don’t learn anything at all.
“The Carbon Zero bill and the climate commission’s powers are under hot contest from National at the moment.”
Surely not!
You say Davidson and Gharaman are the HARD left? How hard are we talking?
Would it be foolish to challenge them to an arm wrestle?
Could they arm wrestle the Royal Commission while James does his Climate Change thing?
You said it yourself, I am “swayed by sweet saccarine emotion about the political impact of children, but no idea”
And you wrote – a poem? A nursery rhyme?
‘There are no schoolchildren in parliament.
Nor do schoolchildren vote.
Nor do they report into the mainstream media.
In fact they have very little political effect at all.’
Even the children are getting organised against BAU these days. Some folks will do anything to pretend it aint so.
I’ve even heard it on good authority there was a baby in the UN.
i’ve even heard it on good authority there was a baby in the UN.
Good authority suggests that you do not expose babies to high levels of radiation 40-70 times the ground readings
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/06/15/what-is-e-rad/
Well the member for Mt Albert has one of the lowest youth enrollments in the country.
https://www.elections.org.nz/research-statistics/enrolment-statistics-electorate?name=Mt+Albert
They’re just holding of to build suspense.
You mean the 54% Mt Albert 18 – 24 group vs their national average of 63%.
Don’t look at central Auckland and Nikki Kaye’s 21% of this group enrolled though. Or your wildly off topic point sounds a bit naff.
Kittridge should be sacked …. seeing she does not have the decency to resign.
” A young New Zealand Muslim who believes she was profiled as a “jihadi bride” says comments by the SIS and the Prime Minister about women travelling to Iraq and Syria are scaremongering. ” https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373631/i-m-not-a-jihadi-bride
Hand in hand with John Key she used inflammatory “Jihadi bride” labeling … which conjurers the image … and fear of Muslim female terrorists / suicide bomber s.
Very shitty and reckless considering the NZ Muslim community had no ” Jihadi brides” …
Because she did not resign and do the runner like Key .,… She should be sacked for her reckless and shitty attack …. before we even get onto her failure to protect.
“Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said Key and Kitteridge had “misled the nation”.
She called on the pair to apologise to Muslim women.
“This is John Key using spy agencies, yet again, for his own political purposes. He misled New Zealanders into thinking that there were large numbers of Muslim women leaving New Zealand to go to Islamic State.
“That is not true.”
She said the claims were “denigrating” for an already vulnerable community.
Turei said she though Key made the statement, to make it easier for a review into spy agency laws to recommend boosting SIS and GCSB powers. ”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/77967537/reports-new-zealand-jihadi-brides-all-left-from-australia
The first thing We should be reviewing is who gets the sack ,,,,followed by disengaging from that white supremacist warmongers club we are in…. stop riding on the coat tails of the ‘ ‘master nation’ … cease keeping an eye on those lesser people, who do not obey …. ‘ the masa ‘.
Being in Masa s little lynch mob of 5 … brings nothing but shame and dishonor upon us .
We are New Zealand …. we kill three year olds and call them Taliban.
Masa don’t mind though …. nits make lice, is his exceptional motto .
This?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-03-2019/as-aroha-ripples-across-nz-let-us-pledge-never-to-go-back-to-the-way-we-were/
I’m looking for what prompted The Trots to spray out
Davidson’s comments you’ve just linked to are frankly somewhat generic and anodyne, given the circumstances (sorry). So are Davidson’s and Ghahraman’s speeches on the Greens website (sorry again). They don’t look to me anywhere close to controversial enough to prompt what The Trots wrote.
+ 100 Marty
This terrorist attack and mass murder of New Zealand Muslims has revealed some of the most beautiful displays of tragic love , saddness and lack of hostility that one could ever hope to encounter in the whole of humanity.
From your link ….
“People just came.
And every single person was made to feel welcome and loved by the mosque, no matter what they were wearing.
Our Muslim hosts were at pains to ensure people could find shade, that people could sit who needed to sit, that we were given water and food. They wanted us all to feel included because they sensed that for some, it was awkward and we just didn’t know what to do.
Every single person that had come had done so in good faith and with love in their hearts for the tragedy that took our country’s breath away. ”
I’ve linked a lot to the 50 lives thread in twitter which displays the same elevation of human spirit and goodness …. and lack of hate in the face of such ugly violence which stole and maimed their beautiful loved ones.
So sad and so beautiful ,,,,,,,, I’ve been humbled to tears.
Such is the contrast between our Muslim brother and sisters conduct …. and the deranged hate spewing conduct of usa online Lynch mobs
That sterotypes are shattered and reversed …. the good guys ( usa ) are sick ugly killers of the master race type
I’m paranoid fake Muslim accounts, created and run by neo con or zionist trolls … may make false ” die kaffir ” type posts … because our Muslims are not making them.
Money from weapons and war will be lost ….. if we recognize them as humans … who are just like us .
For those who think I am over egging it ,….. check out the usa sickness directed at a young Muslim woman /
Trigger warning … Trigger Warming … Trigger warning
clicking on the ” people talking about this ” … will take you to a very ugly angry place
https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1108844717909909504
Andre that’s really offensive about Chris Trotter, I presume, and about political matters from you. If it reflects the state of your mind it is factual, and puts in doubt your ability to offer reasoned opinions.
Would you care to salvage The Trots’ honour by pointing to what Ghahraman and Davidson have said and/or done to justify what he said about them? He didn’t provide any examples, and I had a look and didn’t find anything.
If there isn’t good substantiation for his attacks on Davidson and Ghahraman, then what he’s said is really fucking offensive and damaging. Even if there is substantiation, it was lazy and rude of him not to provide links to it in his piece.
Andre, I understand where you are coming from. My understanding is that the Auckland vigil last weekend became somewhat political with some people walking out etc as they felt it was too soon for some of the things said. In terms of links here is a link to one Herald article on this aspect which does not provide much detail and it was also updated a day later:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12215680
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12215860
A few more possibles here in this search
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1LDJZ_enNZ499&biw=1024&bih=724&tbs=qdr%3Aw&ei=MI-ZXOGeJJj_rQGVtYjwDQ&q=auckland+vigil+walkout&oq=auckland+vigil+walkout&gs_l=psy-ab.12…0.0..12121…0.0..0.0.0…….0……gws-wiz.Dc29IlWJGNE
I will leave my comments at that as I basically left here at the end of Feb.
Thanks veutoviper. I can’t see how any of the things in those reports could possibly be stretched to make grounds for what The Trots wrote.
For what it’s worth, I value the facts and perspective you bring. But I know it can also be hard work. Please, look after yourself, and if looking after yourself includes trips back here, I for one will be reading what you have to say.
veutoviper, Your contributions are always welcome. You have been missed. I am walking with a walking stick. On my way to independence. Please keep fit.x
I fear patricia bremner that someone has upset veutoviper. I could be wrong, but we have a few people here whose style is confronting, arrogant and sometimes downright rude. I reference the one who calls himself “Sam” as an example.
I suspect TS has lost quite a few top line commenters (like vv) due to having been on the receiving end of unnecessarily offensive remarks about their contributions.
Seems reasonable to me. Trotter no like those mayorees and other ‘identity people’.
This is just Trotter hearing opinions he disagrees with and blowharding it into a “campaign” by the people who’ve dared to express their opinion – in this case, a proposed “New-Zealand-Is-A-Profoundly-Racist-Society campaign” and “We-Are-All-Guilty campaign.”
Go searching for these “campaigns” the Green MPs are running and all you find is a couple of quotes.
Marama Davidson said:
“New Zealand was founded on the theft of land, language and identity of indigenous people. This land we are standing on is land we were violently removed from to uphold the same agenda that killed the people in the mosques yesterday.”
And Golriz Ghahraman said:
“The truth is that this happened here, and it began with hate speech, allowed to spread here online. History has taught us that hate speech is a slippery slope to atrocity,” she said.
“The truth is that we as politicians, and I mean on all sides of this House, are also responsible.”
“There sit among us those who have for years fanned the flames of division in here and out there. Blamed migrants for our housing crisis.
“There sits among us here [those] who deliberately spread hysteria about the UN Migration Compact,” Ghahraman said.
“We’ve pandered to the gratuitous racism by shock jocks on breakfast shows to raise our own profile,” she said.
Ghahraman said the Christchurch mosque gunman’s plans for Friday’s shootings went unchecked by authorities.
“White supremacy was not seen as a pressing threat, even as some in the Muslim community were.
“Although this man happened to have not been born in New Zealand, we do need to acknowledge the truth that his ideology does exist in pockets here. Our ethnic communities, refugees, and tangata whenua have been telling us this for years. They’ve been reporting this for years.
“I know it as my daily truth as a politician. I receive all the barrage of hate online. I receive the threats – the death threats, the rape threats, and the threats of gun violence, online.
“Every minority in New Zealand knows this as a little bit of our truth. So now we have to pause and listen.”
That’s it, folks. Two opinions by two MPs is Trotter’s imagined “campaign” that’s going to tear the Green Party apart. To quote the great Johnny Rotten, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Ah. Thank you. If that’s all The Trots is basing his piece on, then I stand by the first sentence of my comment at 7, and merely regret I didn’t word it more strongly.
Silk Road to Golan Heights, Chinese Sovereign Rights!
Italy takes a shine to China’s New Silk Road
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47640196
Call for EU veto as Germany eyes Italy’s China deal warily …
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Italy signs massive deal with China despite cautions from …
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This is surely a good thing for Europe, giving as it does improved access to the huge and increasingly wealthy Chinese market. Fears about being swamped by cheap Chinese goods that will further destroy European manufacturers is overstated.
Increasingly, in the years ahead, China will no longer be the cheap source of everything. That is already fast being eclipsed by India and various African nations. And of course the China Empire (for an empire it certainly is) will face its own nightmare in Xinjiang and Xizang, with Xinjiang quite likely facing a future like Chechnya .
Now that the Royal Commission and commemorative events are in train, could this government start doing the pre-budget announcements proper please?
Yes, time to go down the pub and write them on the back of a beer coaster, same as they did with policy pre-election!
Yeah mate, I’m in the same boat as well as I’m waiting for some news out Ronnie’s office IRT DCP and DCP funding under this government which was meant to have out late last yr, but was push back to March of this year.
Next big ticket items are the C130 and B757 replacement, especially the C130’s as they officially run out of hrs in the next 3-4 yrs and Lockheed won’t support the C130’s after that as well as they would be in uncharted territory. The Boeing’s have another 5- 10 yrs on them before they either need a MLU/LEP or replacement which would be cheaper over the medium to long term than a MLU/ LEP.
The Southern Ocean Patrol Vessel and the possible FOB/ New Permanent Naval base in either in the Dunedin area or in Bluff.
There was something else as well, but I can’t remember what it was atm.
Some more good news on KiwiRail, with more workers being hired at the Hutt and Hillside workshops.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/385578/kiwirail-hunts-for-skilled-staff-after-influx-of-work
Must find my latest copy of the Rail Observer for more tit bits of news on KiwiRail to post.
Run over a cyclist and kill them and you walk away.
Fleece people of their money and they lock you up quick smart and keep you in as long as possible.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/111546503/nzs-largest-ever-ponzi-fraudster-deemed-too-risky-to-be-released-from-prison
Example #5281 of why Mitch McConnell is actually a bigger problem than the gibbering baboon flinging its faeces at the Oval Office walls. He has the power to just block almost anything he doesn’t like from even being looked at by the Senate.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-block-democrats-mueller-report-public_n_5c9947cde4b0f7bfa1b56bc5
Trump will get a 4 point spike, rule it over the MSM, and keep his base electrified.
Dems have to do the work.
The prick is going to try to settle some scores over Mueller’s probe.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-25/trump-says-people-behind-mueller-probe-will-be-looked-at
https://deadline.com/2019/03/trump-blacklists-swalwell-brennan-blumenthal-nadler-tv-news-producers-1202582393/
I have said it before, and will say it again – the USA is headed for another civil war, after which a Gilead-style theocracy with a pure free market economy will be imposed.
The logic of the politics of hate
Trump’s original campaign for the US Presidency was marked by him leading chants of “Lock ’em Up”. Referring to his political enemies.
I don’t think his next election campaign will be any different.
The difference this time; following his re-election President Trump will act on his threats.
Walked by the local mosque on the way home just now. Said hello to the cop with the gun which turned into both of us commiserating about the fact that he had to be there at all holding said gun- “this isn’t NZ” he said. Another member of the public suddenly appeared with a coffee for him in appreciation for the job he’s having to do. A member of the mosque going in greeted us both then started chatting with the cop, they were on first name terms with each other.
I took away from that the fact that even though we are currently having to see openly armed uniformed police that they are- for now- still approachable, and let us approach them. Far from what I experienced in Europe and London, especially in the wake of one attack there where one wouldn’t dare even say hello. I only hope that ability to approach doesn’t go.
Lets hope so Kay, though people like you stopping to say hello would certainly help, thanks from me.
+ 1 and thanks from me too
Though their political minded senior officers might be oportunisticly tempted to make this a permanent thing.
Many front line police resent having to be armed with guns.
These white supremacist groups have a proven track history of violence. Yet compare the reaction of the authorities to Tame Iti and Tuhoe – complete overreaction when it came to the latter and a blind eye for the former.
Also, the murder and beheading of a Korean backpacker ten years ago.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/674037/Murdered-Korean-backpackers-body-found
There was limited publicity over this murder at the time, far less than had the culprits been Muslim or non-white extremists.
Simon Bridges has it right for a change, when he calls out the failure of the intelligence agencies to focus on white supremacist organisations, and this time it is Andrew Little who has it completely wrong:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12215908
The difference is that Simon Bridges is opportunistically using this tragedy to give the security forces increased powers of repressive mass surveillance.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/time-to-revisit-cyber-mass-surveillance-simon-bridges.html?ref=ves-nextauto
Immigrant Nation
Kiwi Hero, John Sato, 95.
New Zealand’s only surviving Japanese WWII veteran
At the age of 95 makes a powerful statement against racism and fascism.
Alt-right propagandists like Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, write real heroes like John Sato out of their fascist narrative, he disturbs their notions of white exceptionalism and white virtue.
[The terrorist], just like Andre Brevik before him, who killed 14 year old New Zealand born girl Sharidyn Svebakk and 76 other young people, think of themselves as heroes.
Against the real example of heroes like John Sato, [the terrorist] and Andre Brevik, and their fascist enablers, Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux, are revealed as the horribly obscene and twisted individuals they are.
Long live John Sato, real Kiwi hero
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9217315/Anders-Behring-Breiviks-Norway-shooting-spree-relived-in-chilling-detail.html
[Edited to remove the terrorist’s name. Comments that use the name will be held in mod or just trashed. TRP]
Kia ora Newshub let’s hope there is not to much damage to the whenua in the west coast from big weather event they have just had.
The Gorlyvale organizational is tax free they have multiple millions dollars farms and businesses there people have about 6 children on average and they get 1200 a week from winz plus they get business grants but the money goes into a central pool so the people who are running the outfit can use the money to minupulate our government policy’s to suit them there business empire is expanding very fast. They minupulate there people will the media one ex person died in a motor bike accident it plastered all over the media. The story about the man who killed his family in a truck crash is being blocked they payed Google to make the surch come up at page 1000.
Brian’s not perfect but he is improving a lot of tangata lives he doesn’t play games with his tangata lives like the latter.
More Maori need to take advantage of the charitable taxes system as Maori can use it for relief of poverty culture or religion. I want to set up a charitable trust but I could not get the help to set it up.
Hone good on you for raising funds for Nothland rugby league. Well they did pillage and plander North America.
Mark did you clean your glasses the poverty for Maori is not just up north. I drive through a lower class place I see 5 cars per house 5 small cabins on each street a tab bottle store fishnchip shop loan sharks shop. Drive through a wealth place I see one car per huge house 2 people per house no shops like above for miles.
What happening in the Ruby world is a struggle for control of the organisation I say no more. Ka kite ano
We must look after all tane mahuta beautiful creatures tangata future welbeings are closely linked to a all living things .We are the Guardians of all Papatuanuku and her creatures we should have a culture that strives to improve the servivel of all creatures for our decendints mokopunas its not ROCKET SCIENCE its common sence
Wild bees and hoverflies lost from a quarter of the places they were found in 1980, study shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/26/widespread-losses-of-pollinating-insects-revealed-across-britain
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/k6fvex8kr58
I love it this stupid man hunt by the unjustified system is showing all the Whanau that New Zealand is a police state the spy’s the police the whole unjustice system is being used by the 00.1 % to use abuse and control the 99.9% of people they are the biggest cheating COURPT CROOKS IN NZ.
I love education the Whanau about the realities of this system. Ka kite ano P.S THAT’S ECO MAORI MAHI
https://youtu.be/1SN7Pko_jCM
DECEIT I have said the wealthy laught and say the poor common people are hounest We will never admite to OUR Wrongs hence jenny shiply and her rich m8 are going back to court to rip the poor people off with the unjustice SYSTEM even if it causes the tradies to go Broke. Kia kaha whanau
Since December, Māori nationalists have been named as threats in prison, and iwi have been spied on by a government agency.
“It’s also important that the government seek to address the racial profiling that has been going on for many years,” Mr Tukaki said. KA KITE ANO links below
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/385543/maori-council-backs-royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-terror-attacks
I keep checking the sandflys in this game they are playing with MINE AND MY WHANAU life they get the shitts and get there m8 to try and underarm bowl me but they keep playing into my HAND ka kite ano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvTqknDobU
Many thanks to my tipuna
Kia ora Te ao Maori News.
I see that little has been give the spy’s what they want. I was waiting for the call for cops to ware guns I say NO why because there will be more brown people shot and killed by THEM.
I Hope Ngapuhi get what they want and get putia to build a bright future for their Mokopuna.
It is sad about that pepei has died at little Waihi that is a symptom of oppression colonialism that’s a fact Maori treasure OUR MOKOPUNA.
I Tau toko our nurses for rallying for the hospitals to provide a safe work place.
It would be nice if Maori could have axcess to better tools to make TV content that will draw in the viewers.
It gives Eco Maori a sore face when I hear that waka arma is receiving a big growth in tamariki partake in the awesome sport Ka kite ano P.S I see alot of tangata whenua onscreen need to get a new set of clothes as the ones they are wearing are getting to big as they lose weight Kia kaha
Kia ora The AM Show.
duncan you are listening to your ational doom and gloom m8s about the NZ economy they think that they are the only ones who can run a good economy when the facts show they make a big mess it’s all there to find our economy is one of the best in the WORLD .
Lloyd may stepping down if brexit go ahead YEA IGHT just another shifty tories move.
The price of houses does not have to go down for the Mokopunas to have more affordable housing it just has to flat line. We need Kiwi build there might be houses for sale but there a very little available to RENT. The government needs to build more state housing ASAP.
That’s good Facebook has made the good choice to ban White Supremacist hopefully all hate groups from its platforms
Yes its would be more secesful when some of the world conservatory groups work together to try and slow down the amount of species approaching extinction the old saying many hands make light work that works with knowledge to.
The reason we have such high numbers of cyps children is the fabulous policy’s ational has run over the last 9 years give to the wealthy take from the poor. Family support for wealth paye tax cuts and consumson tax GST up and now our Humane government that’s in charge now has a BIG MESS to clean up. I say we should not let the spy’s get easier axcess to our Data like they will be using the Christchurch desaster to get more power and a Big NO to the cops wearing guns in the street I agree with the TECH guy on Breakfast Show TV 1.
Ka kite ano P.S I know you 2 don’t know anything about being HUMBLE weres the ational flags they don’t have a clue about being humble
Whanau it makes me laugh all these puppets the sandflys use to try and intimidat ECO MAORI There are Heaps of them . The brown ones are a bit slow they haven’t worked out they are being played and used to suppress their OWN CULTURE I am on a mission to boost Maori Mana and cultures .
THE white ones well I have all ready given my opinion on them it’s not good.
But I can SEE that my TRUE character is getting out to Tangata and tangata whenua that makes me happy because it backs up my argument that the sandflys have a PERSONAL VANDETA against me it’s not about serviceing the law its just people with to much power that are using it for their his Gisborne mans own EGO. KA KITE ANO
https://youtu.be/cNld-AHw-Wg
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
https://youtu.be/PWoDSGfSu6o
Kia ora Newshub I got the first comments on the Solomon I oil spill desaster wrong multi tasking with the Mokopuna said it was a Australia island issue Big businesses will/are running riot in small governed nation like the Solomon Islands. Big countrys need to help them out., ”I”Mike it’s te tangata te tangata te tangata that count when enough pressure is applied by the majority te 00.1 % have to listen Facebook baning white supremacist KA PAI.
There is a big mess on the west coast of the south island to clean up.
Tangata do need to put more thought into there retirement savings and planning I encourage everyone I meet to join Kiwi Saver.
Looks like the Wellington bus service a joke. Ka kite ano
Kia ora Te ao Maori News manakua honey and the honey business has a hard time with the counterfit products been so easily to make like he said blending clover honey with manakua honey and selling it as 100% manakua honey not only that rice liquid sugar is hard to be distgush from the real thing.
Because lung cancer is a big problem for Tangata Whenua the health system is not trying it’s best to help us WORSE We pay heaps of taxes and get nothing in return WTF. The Pacific Sister looks cool. I did forget that men are nurses to they all need to feel safe at work the reason they are not taking keeping them safe is quite simpley the class system rasing it head. Ka kite ano