” 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.”
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“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 article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
Holding On To The Present:The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of History’s clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...
Stuck In The Middle With You:As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Act’s and NZ First’s extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country he’s described as “fragile”, is there not some merit in reaching out ...
The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of Māori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...
It Takes A Train To Cry:Surely, there is nothing lonelier in all this world than the long wail of a distant steam locomotive on a cold Winter’s night.AS A CHILD, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a ...
Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of Māori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary – including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal – that its ...
Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...
Chris Trotter writes – New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Key’s flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMP’s five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...
Luxon will no doubt put a brave face on it, but there is no escaping the pressure this latest poll will put on him and the government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...
Hi,From time to time, I want to bring Webworm into the real world. We did it last year with the Jurassic Park event in New Zealand — which was a lot of fun!And so on Saturday May 11th, in Los Angeles, I am hosting a lil’ Webworm pop-up! I’ve been ...
Education Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New ...
Exactly where are we seriously going with this government and its policies? That is, apart from following what may as well be a Truss-Lite approach on the purported economic “plan“, and Victorian-era regression when it comes to social policy.Oh it’ll work this time of course, we’re basically assured, “the ...
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute ...
Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is higher than for any other mayor ...
Buzz from the Beehive Pharmac has been given a financial transfusion and a new chair to oversee its spending in the pharmaceutical business. Associate Health Minister David Seymour described the funding for Pharmac as “its largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff”. ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its ...
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:10am on Monday, April 29:Scoop: The children's ward at Rotorua Hospital will be missing a third of its beds as winter hits because Te Whatu Ora halted an upgrade partway through to ...
span class=”dropcap”>As hideous as David Seymour can be, it is worth keeping in mind occasionally that there are even worse political figures (and regimes) out there. Iran for instance, is about to execute the country’s leading hip hop musician Toomaj Salehi, for writing and performing raps that “corrupt” the nation’s ...
Yesterday marked 10 years since the first electric train carried passengers in Auckland so it’s a good time to look back at it and the impact it has had. A brief history The first proposals for rail electrification in Auckland came in the 1920’s alongside the plans for earlier ...
Right now, in Aotearoa-NZ, our ‘animal spirits’ are darkening towards a winter of discontent, thanks at least partly to a chorus of negative comments and actions from the Government Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on ...
You make people evil to punish the paststuck inside a sequel with a rotating castThe following photos haven’t been generated with AI, or modified in any way. They are flesh and blood, human beings. On the left is Galatea Young, a young mum, and her daughter Fiadh who has Angelman ...
April has been a quiet month at A Phuulish Fellow. I have had an exceptionally good reading month, and a decently productive writing month – for original fiction, anyway – but not much has caught my eye that suggested a blog article. It has been vaguely frustrating, to be honest. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 21, 2024 thru Sat, April 27, 2024. Story of the week Anthropogenic climate change may be the ultimate shaggy dog story— but with a twist, because here ...
Hi,I spent about a year on Webworm reporting on an abusive megachurch called Arise, and it made me want to stab my eyes out with a fork.I don’t regret that reporting in 2022 and 2023 — I am proud of it — but it made me angry.Over three main stories ...
The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided to have a forum at the university about free speech and academic freedom as it is obviously a topical issue, and the Government is looking at legislating some carrots or sticks for universities to uphold their obligations under the Education and Training Act. They ...
Do you remember when Melania Trump got caught out using a speech that sounded awfully like one Michelle Obama had given? Uncannily so.Well it turns out that Abraham Lincoln is to Winston Peters as Michelle was to Melania. With the ANZAC speech Uncle Winston gave at Gallipoli having much in ...
She was born 25 years ago today in North Shore hospital. Her eyes were closed tightly shut, her mouth was silently moving. The whole theatre was all quiet intensity as they marked her a 2 on the APGAR test. A one-minute eternity later, she was an 8. The universe was ...
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 in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Is Antarctica gaining land ice? ...
Images of US students (and others) protesting and setting up tent cities on US university campuses have been broadcast world wide and clearly demonstrate the growing rifts in US society caused by US policy toward Israel and Israel’s prosecution of … Continue reading → ...
Barrie Saunders writes – Dear Paul As the new Minister of Media and Communications, you will be inundated with heaps of free advice and special pleading, all in the national interest of course. For what it’s worth here is my assessment: Traditional broadcasting free to air content through ...
Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its arguments for such a bold reform. ...
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became ...
Ele Ludemann writes – New Zealanders had the OECD’s second highest tax increase last year: New Zealanders faced the second-biggest tax raises in the developed world last year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. The intergovernmental agency said the average change in personal income tax ...
We all know something’s not right with our elections. The spread of misinformation, people being targeted with soundbites and emotional triggers that ignore the facts, even the truth, and influence their votes.The use of technology to produce deep fakes. How can you tell if something is real or not? Can ...
This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Simon Clark. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). This year you will be lied to! Simon Clark helps prebunk some misleading statements you'll hear about climate. The video includes ...
It is all very well cutting the backrooms of public agencies but it may compromise the frontlines. One of the frustrations of the Productivity Commission’s 2017 review of universities is that while it observed that their non-academic staff were increasing faster than their academic staff, it did not bother to ...
Buzz from the Beehive Two speeches delivered by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters at Anzac Day ceremonies in Turkey are the only new posts on the government’s official website since the PM announced his Cabinet shake-up. In one of the speeches, Peters stated the obvious: we live in a troubled ...
1. Which of these would you not expect to read in The Waikato Invader?a. Luxon is here to do business, don’t you worry about thatb. Mr KPI expects results, and you better believe itc. This decisive man of action is getting me all hot and excitedd. Melissa Lee is how ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
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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 …
[Search domain http://www.thelocal.it/20190324/call-for-eu-veto-as-germany-eyes-italys-china-deal-warily%5D https://www.thelocal.it/20190324/call-for-eu-veto-as-germany-eyes-italys-china-deal-war
Italy signs massive deal with China despite cautions from …
[Search domain http://www.rt.com/news/454577-italy-china-silk-road/%5D https://www.rt.com/news/454577-italy-china-silk-road/
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