Hooten….what a slippery snake he is. I have heard him almost screaming hate on the Kathryn Ryan programme, while this time he paints grudging admiration of Ardern it is however laced with deprecating comments on her intellect and 'lack of policy'
Social policy doesn't count in his world. No doubt about his misogyny though, in his Granny Herald offering. HE almost says 'typical woman, only good at putting her arms round people' Sorry folks I can't bring up the link, not really computer literate.
The right blinked for barely a fortnight before going back to it's tactic of using misogyny as it's primary weapon to attack the government.
The loathing of aging white men in the media on the right wing for Jacinda Ardern is visceral, but hopefully their inbuilt arrogance means they won't see that she is practically untouchable on that front until well after the net two elections.
However the new IRD computer system is nearly online. From memory it is due for full completion about mid-2021. But is close to functionally complete now.
I don't think that anyone outside of the government and the computing communities are quite aware of just how much the computing capacity of the tax system has been constrained by having a essentially obsolete system for more than 20 years has been.
That is going to make it way harder for cheats and border-line avoiders to not pay tax. The full enforcement of the bright-line test would be high on my list of tasks for doing routine scans and investigations on. Along with the ownership shares in companies.
Indeed, lprent. Technological advancement will help the state to clampdown. Though, I'm sure creative accounting innovation will continue to give them a run for their money.
It has been interesting watching the advance of professionalism in the accounting and director communities over the last three decades. Essentially the IRD and SFO don’t like creative accounting and they tend to be quite assiduous in trying to make sure that it doesn’t pay – regardless how long they have to take people to court if they think that an example needs to be made.
In a lot of ways you’ll find that accountants aren’t that willing to be creative when they think that the IRD may argue the point. That is as much because getting into disfavour with the IRD seems to provoke some very detailed look at the other clients of external accountants and auditors who are suspect.
The only real exception to that appear to be overseas companies doing transfer costs. However I’m expecting that will change internationally within the decade. There is a pretty strong inter-government movement against them these days and it has been growing for the last decade.
Yes, there is a growing inter-government movement to clampdown on the tax minimisation methods of companies trading internationally. And anything fruitful produced will be helpful for Labour at this current time.
Headhunting top IRD staff to help companies circumvent tax obligations is not unheard of. Who best to get help around the rules than those that helped create them.
Not really. What they do look at the multiplicity of objectives that they always have and prioritize what they will expend effort on.
The problem with a capital gains tax is that with the exclusion of "family home" from it, then a capital gains tax in NZ had several problems politically.
It wasn't ever going to be that effective in evening out the wealth issues – there was still going to be an over abundance of capital concentrated in housing because it was effectively tax-free. A CGT immediately dropped from being the most effective means of reducing the capital investment distortion to being a minor means.
Conversely as showed up in the commission report, a CGT was going to impact on the saving done by Kiwisaver on austrailasian shared – which currently is the other major method of personal saving – especially for those without their own home. That would have caused capital to move to overseas shares more and inhibited kiwisaver. Neither being a useful outcome.
So other measures are more likely to get the desired effect. It doesn't mean that the outcomes desired are any less important.
Even without the family home included, revenue projections were vast. Thus, the new tax revenue produced would have provided funding to have made an effective difference.
As for the distortion in investment, I agree it would have had minimal effect. Even the working group highlighted this. Fairness was the main aim.
It's negative impact on Kiwisaver could have been worked through.
Yes, they may still produce a viable alternative, but till then, there is still voter uncertainty and another void where policy should be.
And until they actually produce some new tax policy, we don't know how effective and viable that will be.
Im no fan of hootons but its hard to argue with the fact Ardern has put winning ahead of change.
My thoughts are that if the options are to abandon CGT and win, or implement CGT and lose, and then have CGT repealed (which is a very real possibility – opinion polling suggests Labour lost a lot of votes at the 2017 election very late in the piece from tax scaremongering), then abandoning CGT is a better option because you can't do anything in Opposition.
Fact or opinion. beaghorn? The fact is that she has forgone CGT while she is leader. The opinion is about why she did it, or its possible effects, or indeed whether it is the ony way to either win or achieve change.
Craig H has a good point below. Whilst she is winning she has the power to make change. National knew that. That's why they're still spitting the dummy over the last MMP election result. They are not in power. They cannot make changes, nor can they oppose it successfully.
I'd say wait for a budget or two to find about tax changes. CGT has been ruled out by Ardern but that's one avenue only.
As a question of philosophy, is a tightening of the 'bright line test' with either reducung the time period or increasing enforcement introducing a CGT?
I'd say wait for a budget or two to find about tax changes. CGT has been ruled out by Ardern but that's one avenue only.
Labour should have been better prepared and been ready with an alternative when they dumped the CGT. Leaving voids for National to fill and creating further uncertainty seem to be their thing. And it doesn't do them any favours.
Have yet to see a poll that has taken into account the latest debacle.
However, abandoning the CGT and the accompanying tax cuts (largely favoured by voters) has disappointed many and stirred a lot of outrage online. So the result of the next round of polls will be interesting to see.
If voters start to turn on Jacinda, Labour will be in big trouble. She's what got them over the line and they still lack depth when it comes to replacing her. Delivery (or failure of improvement) is her Achilles heel.
And as for previous polls, ponder this: who can certainly say that past voids and uncertainty Labour has created hasn't cost them more support in those polls?
There will be alternatives. CGT has been sidelined. The tax working group has reported. There was an anti-CGT campaign. Coalition partners had their say. The Budget comes out on 30 May.Those are all facts. There is no void, just the usual waiting period till the annual budget. Taking a loaf off the dinner table does not mean there will be no meal. The family can wait to find out what is on the menu, but there will be carbohydrates in a balanced and healthy meal. For all.
Yeah, the underlying problems of economic distortion by concentrating wealth in speculation and rentiers will start to being dealt with one way or another. It is simply unsustainable to go on like this.
Yes, and it got given far more legs because Labour created a void by not sufficiently challenging it.
The Budget is over a month away, thus there is another void and further uncertainty in the making. And National are already making good use of it. Attacking Labour on tax before they can even get their next tax policy sorted let alone announced.
That is what oppositions do. They can pretty much make their own spin pre-budget.
Government, especially when it comes to budgets, have to be more responsible. That stops or diminishes speculative game playing by people looking at taking short positions.
That is of course what opposition parties do, but by creating policy voids and uncertainty, Labour make it far too easy for them.
And we see this time and time again. They just copped flack for doing this awaiting the CGT announcement and now they've just gone and done it again, leaving a void until the Budget.
I’ve pull them up on this years ago and they are still at it, go figure. Coms aren't really there strong point and in politics coms is vital.
Additionally, I agree being in Government puts them in a more responsible position, but an astute Government would have foreseen the outrage and a opposition looking to fill the void and stir up further uncertainty. Hence, would have formulated and simultaneously announced a viable alternative to mitigate the fallout.
Providing the opportunity to take control of the narrative, giving voters certainty while coming off looking like a Government in control with a plan and sense of direction.
Instead, they dropped the CGT and left voters waiting while they formulate an alternative.
Jacinda did a lot of damage taking it completely off the table under her watch.
Therefore, it’s unbelievable they would drop a policy bomb like this and not have a B plan (to immediately help soak up the damage) in waiting.
You make it sound like she had some master plan. You say the COL partners had their say. BS. She had the power to call Winston’s bluff and the general public was resigned to some form of CGT and any political damage would most likely have been short lived. She had no stomach for a confrontation with the business sector or public opinion. And it wasn’t a bright move because she has pissed off a lot of her own people so don’t down play the CGT debacle and paint it up as some sort of clever political move because it’s not.
[lprent: Please be careful of the attribute controls. Don’t just yell by bolding up your comments.
It tends to get unwelcome moderator attention. I have removed it for you – this time. ]
It would have gone down to a vote between the coalition partners. If Labour was voted down by NZF they could have told the media and then genuinely blamed Winston. There was no sign of that. The result, it makes Labour Winston’s puppet and has shown they have no spine of their own.
Well, I guess you're another one who needs to learn the difference between "partner" and "toady".
If they'd gone the way you suggest, folks currently saying Winston is calling all the shots would instead be saying that there were clear and fractious divisions within an unstable coalition.
Grownups know the value of letting shit go from time to time in a relationship, professional or personal.
No, not a master plan as in a "cunning plan" but a clear set of goals and priorities that can be achieved in more ways than one. Coalition means you don't get what you want always. MMP has in this way produced a more honest system of dealing than FPTP when the Labour Party was hijacked by a coterie of neo-liberals who would not have been in the Labour Party under a full mature MMP environment. National is still an uneasy coalition within itself and little chunks of it want to keep hiving off -from parts of NZF, to the Conservatives, ACT, the Blue Greens, Christian parties, Then there's the urban liberal, country consrvative divide which is festering away underneath as well as Bridges knows. It's too glib and facile to see coalition politics under MMP in such terms as bluff and blame.
I could easily see a rural party appearing in the near future. That's where a true conservative party will come from.
MMP doesn't really work that well in NZ because we're still basically got a two-party system.
What we really need is 4 parties with around 25% of the vote each, that way we end up with a good cross section of the population getting represented.
At the moment it's one large party with a couple of pissy little parties that end up forming the government and we end up handing far too much power to small parties which is causing so much dissatisfaction.
A read for Mike Lee and all the rest of the light rail naysayers in Auckland.
Construction chaos drove everyone crazy, was almost 5 years late and cost way more than originally forecast. So despite being a case study in how NOT to build public transport infrastructure Edinburgh’s light rail line from the airport (yep the airport!) to the city centre is working out so well they’re planning to extend it through to Leith and Newhaven.
The light rail in Surfers Gold Coast is very successful, and talk of extending it to Burliegh Heads from Broad Beach. In the Sunshine Coast they have extended the Metro to Redcliffe from Petrie. This is a huge success as well.
I'm just hoping our city planners, lobbyists and their enterages (who I'm prepared to accept are "passionate about what they do, and who are all very 'visionary'" (going forward), are prepared to consider the medium to long term, rather than trying to resolve the immediate problem that's part of Auckland's gridlock and stupidity (which goes back as far as Mayor 'Robbie'.
I'm also hoping that any and all involved in Wellington's public transport system are kept far, far away from anything in Auckers.
I'm picking not however. But let's just agree that light rail is a start in what is needed.
I'm hoping that whatever is implemented is not incompatible with existing infrastructure, and maybe a future need for some sort of integration. (Such as simple things like ensuring track gauge fits with what's already laid down – the possibility of what elsewhere is called 'tram trains'
The Edinburgh example is obviously causing a few to slope off with their tails between their legs
Short termism is a bad Kiwi affliction – it's possible it has something to do with out relatively short history as a Nayshun – alongside that eggslint post Incognito put up the other day on Kulchril Kringe
I think we have to bite the bullet and go for 4-year terms as a bit of twiddling the political sharpness with time to implement promises before getting into the next election. Also let us have controls on electioneering in whatever way seems intelligent. And limits of three terms before stepping down for at least three terms – that gives the possibility of green pollies becoming statesmen and women and co-betweens, in later life.
Well yes to 4 year terms BUT not before we fix a few other things – such as the state of what our PS has become, the obfuscations and corruptions related to OIA requests, ensuring the primacy of tToW and BOR, a recognition of what an electorate comprised of citizens (and possible PRs is) means that isn't constructed primarily on the notion of their being economic units, rather than social beings……………and then possibly alongside an upper house with veto powers based on regions and in respect of demographic and social differences.
No no not the comfy chair up in an Upper House. With four year terms we would have a government in long enough which might concentrate on those other things you boringly persisted in stating just as I was trying to forget about them. How could you do it? There is no hope for us. Weeps and throws teddy bear at the wall.
There have been a couple of referendums on bringing in a 4 year term. Those, in 1967 and 1990 were both about 70% in favour of retaining the current 3 year term.Do you think the general opinion would really be any different today? I wouldn't really have thought there would be any change.
I'm hoping that whatever is implemented is not incompatible with existing infrastructure, and maybe a future need for some sort of integration. (Such as simple things like ensuring track gauge fits with what's already laid down – the possibility of what elsewhere is called 'tram trains'
Labour's abysmal discipline around messaging and bumbling approach to comms version #564328:
Louisa Wall goes off on social media about the need for media restrictions then goes to ground and refuses to front Morning Report and Labour supplies no one else in her place, thus giving a free hit to Stephen Franks to indulge in his usual creepy misogyny dog whistles and pompous opining without contradiction.
Hi Patricia Bremner
Yes
It is the Year of the national Jackals.
The Trolls a dancing before their own sick mirrors now. One behind the other – like so many kiddies wanting their suck at slamming Jacinda.
Their Chant is : Jacinda is Dumb. Jacinda is policy Free.
You have to remember that a large number of the Trolls (who use the Standard as a kiddies playground ) are not mentally sound. Hooten being one of them. Screaming at the top of his empty head on air.
It is a bit of a nuisance that the Standard – a fine traditional, long standing, successful Civil and Political Institution – has to give blog support to the mentally challenged that wander the streets of Auckland looking for shit to throw at our Prime Minister.
Patricia – Troll grubs verbally assault Jacinda – because She is extraordinarily intelligent. Her Policy of releasing the decent people of New Zeland from poverty thrown at them by the likes of Brash, Key, English, Collins, Bennett, Smith, Joyce, Bridges (The Gang of the Wealthy) is a Very Sound Policy.
You know it Patiricia. I know it. The public of New Zealand knows it too.
The Major Corporations – such as sick Fonterra – Fletchers – and other tiresome low weights – are on the ropes.
Just as Key and English abused the Youth of New Zealand loudly – National and their Trolls are now abusing a young gifted Politician who has given Her all to a Nation which has been Abused by a bunch of sodden Rat Bags. The Wealthy Fools.
The Youth of Jacinda are sick of you Greedy tossers – National – Fonterra – Universities that no youth can afford. Greed dribbles from every hole in your minds and bodies. You wealthy Filth.
HIgher petrol prices look likely as the United States tells every country in the world including China and India that they can't buy Iranian oil anymore. Iran supplies around 10 percent of the world's oil. We might also have a military confrontation to look forward too as one third of the world's oil that travels by sea goes through the narrow straight next to Iran, which it says it is going to block (I suspect it won't though).
Drones, what a great idea for marginal or difficult to reach terrain. No need for roads in if the aim is native regeneration or tree cover for carbon sequestering. I think a job like that would be useful skillful and using technology to assist in reaching a target quickly.
The holes still have to be made and the roots put in right. But a drone hovering alongside with the small trees in starter tubes ready to be placed then covered and firmed. It would make the job so much easier. It could hover between two men working a few metres apart. After they finished an area, another drone would drop groundcover seed and leaf mould to lie round the trees and help them get started.
Funnily enough, paintball guns were invented to mark trees. Dunno about getting fungus under bark or seeds far enough into the ground, though – we're beginning to talk decent energy loads. Fungus is pretty hardy, but the seeds might be a bit fragile.
What's your opinion about wilding pines WtB. Some must have them all out. I think Robert is easy peasy – let sleeping pines lie. They could be allowed to grow after self seeding and then be cut for posts etc, early on before they spread seed far. When do they start seeding anyway?
Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration:
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature
For each of the 57 remaining trials, 1 or more FDA inspections of a trial site had uncovered evidence of significant departures from good clinical practice, such as under reporting of adverse events, violations of protocol, violations of recruitment guidelines, and various forms of scientific misconduct.
* falsification or submission of false information,
* 22 trials (39%); problems with adverse events reporting,
* 14 trials (25%); protocol violations,
* 42 trials (74%); inadequate or inaccurate record keeping,
* 35 trials (61%); failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent,
* 30 trials (53%); and violations not otherwise categorized,
* 20 trials (35%). Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection.
No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.
lol yes, it's an issue, just not of the gravity your selective quoting suggests.
They found 600 clinical trials with bad FDA inspections over fifteen years. There are 120,000 clinical trials cureently operating in the USA. While the reporting needs to be worked on, the real issue at the moment is to ensure that all trials publish results, rather than the current positive bias.
Which still manages to save millions of people every year, by the way. As opposed to life 200 years ago.
So how big is the issue then…you that's right…you don't know…but keep attempting to minimize it in your own mind, as it makes no difference what you or I think…
There is however a bounty of actual scientific evidence built up over many decades and growing…
Manufacturers do not publish or share data…as you say… that is a problem…because it is the basis of the entire fabrication surrounding vaccine science, and would open manufacturers up to even greater scrutiny…actually it would be the end of the pharma industry…that ship is sinking quickly enough already on its own…it has already sunk…without sharing the data…
Staying out of court is all that matters to the vaccine manufacturers…which is why Merck have stalled for the last 8 years seeking to keep details of the mumps component of MMR statistical fraud from seeing a courtroom…oh you didn't know about the two merck researchers and mumps stats lies…
…manages to save millions of lives every year...good luck proving that…or even providing evidence that is not fabricated on the back of statistical lies and fluid AEFI classifications…
…opposed to life 200 years ago… my oh my…that really is all you have!
Edit: Not withstanding HHS has failed for 32 years…that’s 16 times it has broken federal law by not submitting biannual reports to congress detailing improvement to vaccine safety…
You want to shit on current medical practise, you compare it with the situation before we had it. That's what irks me about your little rants. In the last thirty years SUDI/SIDS/"cot death" has decreased by something like 75% in NZ. That's thousands of deaths prevented in the last 20 years from one cause in NZ alone, saved by population research, animal experiments, clinicians and public health workers.
And your bleating about vaccination stands in the face of our current causes of death, so rather than asking about congressional reports nobody cares about and were probably politically horse-traded by the inbred member for the 3rd district, maybe you should invent a better disease prevention tool to take the place of vaccination.
Other commenters have valid concerns about individual agency and the way some things are done, but they usually also have a pretty good idea of how to fix it. You're just someone who feels good by pretending everyone and everything else is shit sorry "working at a lower level".
Firstly, and so you are under no illusion. I have not forgotten that insult you threw at me a while back…you know the one I am talking about…or have you blanked it?
That you feel empowered enough to be responding to my comments after that is a strong indication of who you are as an individual. Shall I remind you what that insult was ?
I am responding to you, is an indication of who I am. See if you can wrap your head around that before you think about reverting to type.
So, in actuality it's the 100% liability free vaccine science industry/pharmaceutical profit model which shits all over the human species as is hindering improvements to current medical practice while people such as yourself seek to make excuses for it…the bleating rests firmly with you…
You've not read the congressional report, and if you had you read it along with a number of the other links I have posted recently, you would understand there is a serious set of problems which are now coming out in no uncertain terms…and they will continue to sink the entire industry…real science will see to that…
But instead you want to generalise and dismiss 32 years of federal law breaking by the HHS…and your seemingly comfortable enough with the law breaking of federal agencies who are running interference for the pharmaceutical industry…because you're apparently comfortable with modern medical practice…
As for the last paragraph…yeah I get that you angry little guys like to support each other no matter what level of horridness is in the comments which are pushed out…and when I respond using actual hard evidence linking to serious data…you angry little guys capitulate…
As I said to marty mars elsewhere…we're not all on the same level…that is a complete impossibility…so instead of mouthing off with ignorant abuse and insults against mothers of vaccine damaged and killed children..and those who share information about what is actually going on …
Show some god damn humility and respect to what is a highly sensitive, complex and polarising subject…and read a tonne more material…put in the hours, make some effort and take some responsibility for your shortcomings…
Or stay out of the subject…either way…show the subject some respect.
As for the sort of person you are, I note that you're the sort of person who likes to say things like "I am responding to you, is an indication of who I am." as if incoherence is a substitute for intelligence.
Go look up some old photos of polio wards and iron lungs, then get back to me about “vaccine damage”.
I await your predicted collapse of vaccination with baited breath 🙄
Of course you do, despite another long term commentator, contributer and former moderator of this site pulling you up on it…
No humility, not a shred of it to be found…of course you stand by it…
The sort of person I am… is that I continue to engage with you…but you can't comprehend that level of positivity when presented with it…so you have to use smears laced with your own highly toxic (not so masculine) views…
Go look up some old photos of polio wards and iron lungs, then get back to me about “vaccine damage”.
Only someone who is terribly misinformed and unhealthy could attempt to wave away millions of vaccine damaged children…untold thousands of deaths all measured by a passive voluntary system which captures +/- 1% of damage caused by vaccines globally…that’s only the nations who have such systems….vaccine science…
Dismissing the misery and suffering of families past, present and future all to prove what…that some maimed and dead people are more worthy than other maimed and dead people…seriously, that is what it appears you’re doing…
That you seek to make such a vile comparison illustrates purely who you are…
You're a guy who calls another blogger a rape enabling shit heel…and stands behind it…despite being called out, and told in no uncertain terms you had crossed a line…
You explained only what enables you to stand by that insult..
Which you made from pure assumptions made up around a belief of my not having been 'trusted'…that's all about you…all of it…
You're like the pharmaceutical vaccine manufacturers…you have created an environmemt from which there is no way to peacefully or respectfully back out of…so you press on relentlessly…
As for your request..it's all out there…do it yourself…I already have…search my comments…do the leg work…I've given plenty of material for you or anyone else to work from…
One Two you clueless Munter, go on post your evidence of millions of vaccine affected children, but I know you won’t, you are a flake & on line clown
[lprent: Less abuse, more content please. Otherwise I may have to release my inner abuser to demonstrate why that behaviour isn’t a good idea (and I’ve had a good 40 years on the net to hone the art properly). ]
Nothing to do with trust, everything to do with your snide innuendo.
And for someone who rants about the scientific method, saying "do it yourself" when asked for evidence of your assertions is hypocritical in the extreme.
No evidence or links supplied by One Two, what a surprise – he shows his true colours. Spreads his hilarious rubbish trying to appear knowledgable, but is a person of no real substance.
The funny thing is that if VAERS was as far off as you think that project suggested (and they were only looking at possible adverse events based on subsequent contact with healthcare within 30 days, without actually providing a baseline for that figure), why is it that every other adverse event reporting system shows similarly high levels of safety, and lower levels of safety for similar specific vaccines? Often using the same reporting system as for drugs and medications etc.
Your argument is that every nation and international organisation around the world is failing to detect some sort of epidemic of vaccine-related illnesses that kill thousands and "damage" millions. And that either nobody has noticed or the people that know are deliberately covering it up.
But that's not the only link I've posted to regarding VAERS…its failings and limitations…
+/- 1% at best…
30 days is almost the longest vaccine pre licensure testing cycle of any CDC scheduled vaccine…if you knew that would wouldn't believe it was a failing of the study…
Most pre licensure testing cycles were single figure days with no follow up at all…
None of which were tested against an inert placebo control group..all were FDA approved…after which time they can't ever be tested against an inert placebo control group..
Completely unscientific…
…failing to detect some sort of epidemic…
* Trained to detect what?
* Adverse reactions. Which type…defined by who ?
* Logging identified adverse reactions into what/when/how well…
Shed loads of highly qualified professional medical people and other professional industry people have noticed…and more are making the realization every day that kids get sicker…more illness and disease…disorders and symptoms are considered normal..it's not…
The NVICP has paid out $4bn in compensation…Aus/Nz have no such scheme…
FDA/CDC/Pharma have a long legacy of cover ups…FDA had an off record database holding 1.1m adverse reactions from medical devices hidden from medical professionals researchers and the public…look it up…
All the big players have form…that is undeniable as it is abundantly documented.
enjoying the lengthy rants from one two? He is a bona fide crazy, would be happier living in the Middle Ages with a witches poultice as treatment for disease.
I suspect he is into Tarot card reading, Feng Shui & other weird stuff, probably got a homeopathy stand at the local market
lol nah, 1-2 just reads the matrix and cures everything with the power of their own ego.
Trouble is, if you leave them in a little echo chamber too long, less stupid people might end up believing that shit. Because people would rather believe some numpty on the interwebz than get their shots, and then we're all endangered
Given One Two’s irrational fear of wi-fi radiation, he must be fully dressed in a tin foil suit doing such lengthy posts. This could be quite uncomfortable which may explain why he gets so rat-eye doing his posts.
Reduced largely due to clean water supply, city scale sanitation, pest control, warmer homes and safer food supplies. The massive increases in life expectancy the last century were much more to do with relatively mundane engineering than medical magic.
I'm not unappreciative of what modern medicine does for us; for acute illness and severe accidents it can and does perform miracles. Yet for the great chronic killers, cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes and dementia progress is much less stellar.
City water supply – oh, some of that would be down to the physician John Snow who demonstrated that cholera was waterborne, not distributed by bad air. Broke off a pump handle.
The solutions might have been mundane engineering (although the London sewers have some really nice tweaks in the original designs – there's some detail in there), but for the solutions to work out of anything more than coincidence, you need to know the mechanisms of ill health.
City sanitation is definitely a contributor to public health, but that would mostly be gastro and rabies sorts of thing. The major improvements to health were antibiotics and vaccines, with some military-oriented things like dietary analysis and blood transfusion.
There have been some pretty massive advances against chronic conditions over the last 20 years (e.g. cancer survival rates are improving), but unless you get hit by a truck you have to die of something non-injury related.
Vaccines are not health improving…you're confused and incorrect…
You're either poorly educated, poorly trained …certainly poorly informed…there is no excuse for it in this day and age whatever your constraints are…
<em>know the mechanisms of ill health…</em>
Sure…but that changes nothing about the truth behind Reds comment…sanitation and plumbing and nutrition did more than vaccines ever have…
Look up the graphs…disease deaths rapidly declined before vaccines were available…almost across the board…
How are you even challenging my comments with that level of thought…
In your opinion…an honest one if you can muster it…
Does a single comment you've made refute or alter any of the links I've been posting…
I'll be posting many more on this subject…suggest you go through my comments and read some of the linked detail…understand it…grasp it…comprehend the information…
I've not even got moving yet…
[lprent: Don’t try to play the internet victim card. Or I’ll see about making you understand the difference between playing a victim and actually being one. And I will do it critically looking at what you say and what it says about you.
I’d probably start by criticising the value of your selected links for your topic. In my opinion, a brief scan of them shows that about third are unrelated to the topic, another third are from sources and that I’d class as dubious, and most of the remainder don’t really support your argument because you don’t seem to understand what the papers were looking at. Unconvincing.
But I do like to educate people about the limits of the net, usually by echoing their own style back at them – just done more precisely ]
Your movement is there for all to see. Sitting there, in the middle of the room.
You're going to cut&paste paragraphs and sections that criticise some aspects of modern healthcare but ignore the wider context of the articles that you take those criticisms from, usually without any links so people can easily see what the articles actually say as a complete work.
You will also avoid any impulse to acknowledge the demonstrable benefits of the modern healthcare that has enabled many people reading this blog to be alive today. And you will continue to shit on one of the most effective and least harmful health interventions ever developed by humans.
And you'll do this knowing that every lazy cut&paste you throw out will take work to find the source, read it, actually understand it (and effort you happily avoid), figure out that you're treating serious adverse effects as possible adverse effects and vice versa, and then compose that as a response… which you will fail to understand and then ignore with some trite dismissal.
So your intense stupidity and your undeserved ego act in a mutually-defensive symbiosis, each protecting the other from getting through to you what a complete dropkick you really are.
Do the numbers by searching the VAERS DB…what there is to search anyway…
Alongside that check into the changing of AEFI classifications and other methods employed to deflect injury and deaths away from the vaccines…lot's of word play…not mine…the vaccine science industry's…
Even if I did understand as little as what you wish I do…it would still be easy enough to identify the fraudulant illegal activities…
Being able read would be enough…which is why I know you're not serious…
You are asking him to prove a negative. That is impossible. The mere fact he hasn’t had TB in about 40 years will never be a proof despite the minor prevalence of Tb in NZ (or its prevalence wherever he travelled). You can’t prove that it didn’t confer immunity either.
in short you are acting like an ignorant dimwit trying to define an impossible test.
I really don’t like game playing dickheads, would you like me to prove that, or are you going to tone down.
Such a pity about the 1/4 of a million the modern medical profession manages to kill.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. How about giving some thanks for the good instead of berating the good for not being perfect?
I'd be dead twice over already without the modern medical profession, and if one of those medical professionals fucks up the next time and kills me, I'll still have lived decades longer than I would have otherwise. The people who'd prefer nature got to take its course with me back in the 80s can go fuck themselves.
As you are all aware, the Wealthy Goons we call National, thump their chests like Gorillas and shit like Monkeys. Why? because they are Monkeys. They do no work. They steal from the Poor.
It is even said that they don't pay a lot of Taxes. Their Accountants make sure they don’t't have to. They do give heaps of Gaming Machines to their chosen Monkey friends.
The Gorillars also make sure that the general New Zealand Public pay Tax on every purchase they make.
Any how, I am beginning to think that the Gorillas – Collins and Company for instance, should take their foot off the necks of the Impoverished New Zeland Population.
The Poor in NZ pay 15% of whatever they Purchase to the Government. It used to be less than that. But one of the Gorillas (you know him well) shoved the Fee up to 15% – so he could hurt the Poor even more. Billy English laughed all the way home. He loves hurt.
I am proposing that from the First day of Spring 2019, the impoverished Sector of New Zealand have no Purchase Tax ( GST) imposed upon them. None. Zilch. Nothing.
I mean when a family is facing paying $17 dollars for a block of low level Cheese (Fonterra muck) it is about time low level people like most of us, get a break.
To be fair to the Gorrillas who are not like ordinary men ,and who proudly declare they are wealthy because they work their fat bellies off on cruises and dodgy property sales, we will offer a GST.
Now, as Wealthy people are frequently reluctant to pay anything that resembles a tax, we will Give the wealthy Gorillas a GST of 75%, based on their earnings over the past nine years.
Like as the wealthy Gorrilas set out to impoverish the poor, we will set out to help the Fat Cats and fat Gorillas to trim down a bit of their offensive guts.
the GST will apply to every Purchase made. That is why it is called a GST.
I am sure it will please the the Goons- no end. It will be a nice farewell to devious Mr Roger Nomics.
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I think the phrase should have been "Microsoft becomes third listed US firm to have been valued at $1tn".
At close of business Apple had a Market Cap of $967 billion, Amazon $936 billion and Microsoft $991 billion. You really have to feel story for Mr Bezos et al, don't you?
Rarely have I identified with anything so strongly as when I listened to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Nobel peace prize nominee, talking to Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Like her, I have been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, and it is rare that women like me appear in the media.
Yet Thunberg’s rise to prominence has been accompanied by a kind of thoughtlessness and intolerance that you might have expected society to have moved beyond.
Spiked’s editor, Brendan O’Neill, seized upon autistic traits Thunberg exhibits, such as her “monotone voice” and forthright manner, to liken her to a “cult member”, in an attempt to delegitimise her message.
In an even more spiteful example, a glib tweet by the Australian writer and lawyer Helen Dale called for Andrew Neil to interview Thunberg with such ferocity that it causes her to “have a meltdown on national telly”. This strongly implies that there are those who want not only to humiliate her but to cause her great emotional distress.
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Are you suprised? Vested interests will gleefully throw children into a threshing machine if they genuinely believe it will protect their ill-gotten gains and/or maintain the comfortable status quo. There is no low they will not stoop to because they don't care about anyone other than themselves and those like them.
In regard to climate change, their philosophy seems to be, "By the time the shit really hits the fan, I'll be dead. And my pampered offspring will be safely ensconced inside the Armageddon bunker I've spent torrents of cash constructing. Fuck the rest of the humanity."
When the Hunkdead family bunker was finally entered after a decade of no communication, the bodies of the family were found dehydrated in blood-splattered rooms, the result of an apparent rampage of the patriarch of the family who killed himself with one of the two guns he was holding.
Ever since Trump, those who enjoy "Pecking the chicken which is different" feel justified in so doing. Many examples are appearing. The situation you described and Destiny Church blasting the Mosque with loudspeakers "Claiming Christchurch."
These people have always been there, but IMO Trump and other antisocial events have made it normal, sadly.
Just a Midday Greeting , best wishes and Aroha to the parents of the 440 children in Napier/Hastings who slept in motels last night, cramped into unsuitable rooms, with their humble possessions. And who are probably dreading tonights sleeping arrangements.
I can’t even imagine (and certainly no one in power wants to measure) how many children are bedding down at grandparents, Aunts and Uncles houses, out of sheer desperation.
And yet the Hawkes Bay has an amazing economy, the housing market is booming..the question is..do we have a Government willing to take the bull by the horns and restructure the economy so everyone 'benefits'. (Though at what point a roof over ones head became such an elusive 'benefit' I do not know)
Haven’t seen many on this forum willing to say that. I agree. I’m from the right but would be willing to support Labour if they had the fortitude to make the changes that National were criticised for not making. So far they are good at trying to stay in Government but not so good at making real change.
We don't use bulls these days, the process is too dodgy, physical, fraught with microbes, error possibilities and it's low technology. So no bulls, no horns; we get scientific results from artificial insemination. Really all sexuality is so uncertain in the old ways. In our Brave New World we are improving on Nature. This is sarc/ by the way you stupid believers.
Using motels unfilled capacity to provide housing for NZs homeless. It sounds like an economists smart plan for maximum utilisation of all living spaces in NZ. The sort of thing that communist governments might think of within some five year plan for efficient use of assets.
Since Clark, Labour has had Goff, Shearer, Cunliffe, Little and now Ardern – 5 in 9 years is quite a few, but more than 5 policies have come and gone in that time.
We're not bad people. This is not us. Calls from those who haven't ever reflected on the health of society's mind. Doesn't do to not think on one's own moral integrity as well.
One from the past. A town closed round and attempted to grow over its sore. The young woman's murderers were known from practically the next day, but there was an unwillingness to show integrity and respect from the whites to the Indian family involved. Only determination to bring justice for the death in 1971 brought the case to trial in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Betty_Osborne
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme received $22 million in 2017 to investigate UFO's, and now the US Navy is drafting new guidelines for reporting them.
We've followed and filmed them: "The aircraft was capable of “advanced acceleration, aerodynamic and propulsion capability”
"Recently, unidentified aircraft entered military-designated airspace multiple times per month.
"We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.""
These craft are said to 'operate outside the laws of physics' e.g. tremendous velocity but no exhaust port, turn on a dime at high speed. As physics is the model humans use to make clever stuff – the designers of these craft are not us.
The US navy is gunning to gun one down: 'aircraft entering designated air space […] We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again'.
Somebody needs to tell the aliens the rules on US airspace (all the airspace are us) before these trigger-happy rednecks start an interplanetary incident.
It's obvious that If Trump were to meet Alf he'd kill him for doing Trumps hair better than Trump. We are not alone in the universe. Can we make it to a meet and greet – before a war?
What gets me WTB is that while it would seem that US military pilots are desperate for their bosses at the Pantygon to take their reports of encounters with UFOs seriously, 'the media'…and almost all of them…seem determined to present the issue as a joke. Complete with cartoon flying saucers.
Luckily it appears there will be a worldwide clamp down on what stories appear in front of the common people…we will be saved from having to decide for ourselves if we think claims such as the pilots are making are plausible.
Media's always been controlled – the internet gave some respite from that. Back in the day the trick was to only have bibles, and them in Latin. Let the peasants work that out!
For sure they'll want to police the internet better.
Note how the '78 Kaikoura phenomena "appeared on Wellington Air Traffic Control radar, on the aircraft radar". "A report by authorities later dismissed the giant orbs as possibly reflected lights from squid boats."
I suspect the report failed to explain how lights from squid boats appeared on both radar screens. I suspect nobody in the media ran a story featuring a scientist explaining how light can appear as an object on a radar screen. I suspect no scientists were even asked. Could be due to the general view that radar waves bounce off solid objects, eh?
Why would an official report insult everyone's intelligence in this manner? Muldoon probably told them to. "Kiwis are as thick as pig-shit. They'll swallow anything."
RNZ newsreader earlier mentioned that there's been a big upswing in sightings since 2014. Think it referred to official sightings, what's more. This seems to support that:
"Since 2014, these intrusions have been happening on a regular basis," Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday."
"Recently, unidentified aircraft entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month." Security chiefs must be seriously spooked!
Military pilots who have reported seeing these aircraft say they have "no air intake" "and no exhaust". Not burning fossil fuels equals Green tech, eh? Little Green Men! Trying to be helpful: "Hey, copy this!"
Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and a staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the strange aircraft "seem to exceed our aircraft in speed". All the ace-dude jet pilots are probably in a collective funk after being out-buzzed by the LGMs.
They brought children to their pro-plague party. FFS
A packed, heated (figuratively and literally) noisy crowd stands outside @DrPanMD’s Senate Committee on Health. #SB276 is up for debate. The bill cracks down on authorizing vaccine medical exemptions. pic.twitter.com/qDR7JQwgWc
Joe, are you going to keep running with abusive and deeply mysogonistic comments?
You have proven not to understand the fundamentals of the vaccine discussion yet you continue to insult and abuse every parent globally who has and can testitfy to their child having been maimed, damaged or killed by vaccines…
Why are you continuing on in such a manner ?
Instead of throwing abusive insults and running away…perhaps you could uplift your understanding on the issues ….
The FDA has built and expanded a vast and hidden repository of reports on device-related injuries and malfunctions
Since 2016, at least 1.1 million incidents have flowed into the internal “alternative summary reporting” repository, instead of being described individually in the widely scrutinized public database known as MAUDE, which medical experts trust to identify problems that could put patients in jeopardy.
Yet the program, in all its iterations, has been so obscure that it is unknown to many of the doctors and engineers dedicated to improving device safety. Even a former FDA commissioner said he knew nothing of the program.
“The public has a right to know about this,” said Dr. S. Lori Brown, a former FDA official who accessed the data for her research. She said doctors relying just on the public reports — and unaware that many incidents may be omitted — can easily reach the wrong conclusion about the safety record of a particular device.
Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature
For each of the 57 remaining trials, 1 or more FDA inspections of a trial site had uncovered evidence of significant departures from good clinical practice, such as under reporting of adverse events, violations of protocol, violations of recruitment guidelines, and various forms of scientific misconduct.
* falsification or submission of false information, * 22 trials (39%); problems with adverse events reporting, * 14 trials (25%); protocol violations, * 42 trials (74%); inadequate or inaccurate record keeping, * 35 trials (61%); failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent, * 30 trials (53%); and violations not otherwise categorized, * 20 trials (35%). Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection.
No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.
The argument for herd immunity was actually developed out of observations of natural immunity, not vaccination. Statisticians observed that populations were protected when sufficient members contracted the wild form of a disease, and subsequently acquired lifelong immunity. With vaccines, however, evidence shows that unvaccinated children may catch infectious diseases from vaccinated children. What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
Gosh, Science! And, Statistics!
(They still won't be able to break away from the herd One Two. I think you're asking too much.)
Actually, the latter part of quoted statement is false and appears to be a case of deliberate lying.
This is the carrier problem, one of those things that simpletons don't usually understand too well – and therefore a quite common myth amongst anti-vaxxers.
Vaccines or even previous exposure don't kill all instances of a bacterium or virus in a body. What they do is to assist the bodies natural defenses in keeping the volume of a particular population of and organism down below the point of explosive growth.
So yes, if a unvaccinated person is exposed to a vaccinated person, they can get exposed to the organism and it will start breeding.
However exactly the same thing happens in herd animals as well. The statement :-
What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
is a simple lie.
It is pretty obvious even to a simpleton if they care to think about it. Unlike modern humans, most herd animals have two distinguishing characteristics as populations:-
* They don't usually move out of the herd or local family or herds. Which means that they don't meet others carrying organisms that they don't have immunity from.
* They have much shorter lives and faster breeding cycles than humans do. Which means that any immunities that are passed to them from their lactating mother tend to be stronger over their lifetime.
So when looking at herds you're looking at a population awash with the small concentrations of diseases and a high natural immunity because everyone is exposed to the same diseases all of the time. A good example is cowpox which is endemic in most populations of cattle, but only affects new populations or human hand milkers.
As you'd expect when a new disease is introduced from outside of the local herds, then you tend to find rapid decreases in population (think of foot and mouth disease amongst cattle) and the residual population getting a strong immunity and passing it to their progeny.
Whereas humans may have gained immunity the hard way many decades before having a kid and simply don’t pass all of their own weakened immunities to the kids.
Wide vaccination increases the immunity in the small herds at schools and therefore keeps the population density of bugs down regardless of the varying degrees of immunity amongst that population.
What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
I would suggest Rosemary is referring to natural immunity as in catching a strain of the virus which circulates outside of the lab created strains…
Catching such a virus strain leads to full cell immunity which confers lifetime immunity…
Vaccine induced immunity does not, is not and cannot create lifetime immunity…
What vaccine strains of a virus can and do leave, is tell-tale signs of identifiable vaccinated human beings for whom vaccination has failed, or has worn off…
The lie you're searching for is vaccine induced herd immunity as it applies to human beings… I've provided a link elsewhere…
Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination. Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunized persons. – PubMed – NCBI
CONCLUSIONS:
The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons.
Because of the failure rate of the vaccine and the unique transmissibility of the measles virus, the currently available measles vaccine, used in a single-dose strategy, is unlikely to completely eliminate measles.
The long-term success of a two-dose strategy to eliminate measles remains to be determined.
MMR is now considered a 3 dose vaccine, because the 2 dose recommendation is failing.
My conclusion One Two is that you are killing us with statistics as your authority. Statistics relying on statistics and each repetition weakens the brain, yours, because someone died, and ours because …
You get it she doesn’t. She believes everything on the internet she wants to believe. She’ll quote stuff that’s been disproved and come from like minded people who refuse to believe the information put forward by every government in the world. She’s a flat earther that will live on the back of all those around her that are vaccinated. But worst of all like the modern terrorist she spreads her unsubstantiated information like poison for others to take. She is entitled to her opinion but not to preach her miss information which does irreparable harm to others.
Actually, we don't really know how many people MMR or any other vaccine truly protects because we only count how many vaccines are given not if they are effective. You may have had two MMR vaccines but still not have any immunity, unless you are tested you will never know. Officially all vaccines have a failure rate, it varies from vaccine to vaccine but none of them claim 99% efficacy.
Part of the problem is that none of the vaccines currently on the schedule have been through true double blind testing which means there are a lot of unanswered questions.
The mumps component is 88% effective after 2 doses, and even then…
" Mumps outbreaks can still occur in highly vaccinated U.S. communities, particularly in settings where people have close, prolonged contact, such as universities and close-knit communities. During an outbreak, public health authorities may recommend an additional dose of MMR for people who belong to groups at increased risk for mumps. An additional dose can help improve protection against mumps disease and related complications. "
Lots of "mays" and "cans"….this is not an exact science.
However….to address OneTwo's original comment regarding the veracity of the 'adverse events' register at the FDA????
Many vaccines are being tested by being administered to large populations…too many adverse events and the vaccine will be pulled…maybe, eventually, if our children are lucky.
And more importantly if the adverse event was actually reported and investigated…
" Subsequent epidemiologic studies using laboratory- and hospital-identified cases of aseptic meningitis linked to MMR vaccination records established that the true risk of MMR-associated aseptic meningitis was substantially higher than previously thought (∼1 in 10,000–15,000 doses) and was exclusively related to the Urabe mumps strain in the vaccine (4–6). Furthermore, there was an increased risk of hospital admission for febrile convulsion 15–35 days after receipt of a Urabe-containing MMR vaccine (an attributable risk of approximately 1 in 1,500 doses), indicating that the real risk of acute neurologic consequences from the Urabe mumps component of MMR was underestimated when using case ascertainment methods that were reliant on laboratory investigations (5).
Edit….what is euphemistically called ‘vaccine hesitancy’ could have been largely avoided had shit like this not been covered up. Parents noticed neurologic changes in their children after the MMR and were told that there was no causal relationship and the fever and meningitis were coincidental. These (mostly) mothers were treated like simpletons. It is a wonder that the vaccination rates are as high as they are. Most of us, despite ‘knowing’ there was a problem with MMR went on and vaccinated our children for other diseases.
MMR has never been tested against an inert placebo control group…ever…99% is an absolute fabrication…
Having had 100% of liability removed from the manufacturers in 1986 , the motivation to improve vaccine safety was gone when legal liability was 100% transferred to the US taxpayers…
The motivation to introduce more vaccines without the headache of regulatory rigour was greatly increased…so the liability free vaccine manufacturers set about expanding the CDC vaccine schedule…
Taxpayers also fund the DOJ lawyers to defend the vaccine manufacturers under the NVICP against children who have been damaged for killed by vaccines…
Taxpayers also fund the 75 cents per vaccine dose which provides funding of NVICP payouts (currently over $4bn) via the largest purchaser of vaccines in the western world…the taxpayer funded CDC…
The above vein requires letting. Please moderator can tiresome people with their sanctimonious messages be outed for a while and give us a break. I really despise the way that they push people here with a flood of spurious information to irritation and beyond, and then go all superior when it prompts a caution. They should be cautioned together, and that would solve the problem. Cooling off time for the endless wa….rs. I have given up following their endless barrage.
Prove that there were no issues at all with the early MMR vaccine containing the Urabe strain of mumps.
And provide an actual argument to refute my assertion that a lack of honesty and transparency from our health officials over vaccine adverse events have caused the mistrust that leads to the very small number of people who refuse all vaccines.
Demanding that people whose interests and knowledge do not coincide with your own are banned smacks of….?
California already has Rosemary, and there are currently bills passing through numerous states , every single one authored by the pharmaceutical industry seeking to remove the fundamental right of bodily autonomy, and seek to force mandate the remaining few % of children in the USA who are not currently vaccinated…
And these same folks, including those here who shout out about herd immunity (which is a mathematical theory plagiarized from naturally occurring immunity), are now admitting that theory is complete fallacy, while now, the perverse irony is that the so called immuno compromised…would also losing their exempt status by also being force vaccinated…
There public banning of unvaccinated under 18’s in Rockland country was over turned by a supreme court judge… and so will any further judgement…
Meanwhile Merck are 8 years into fighting to prevent the alleged fabrication of efficacy statistics of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine…while a 100% fully vaccinated population on an America Naval vessel is unable to port, because of….mumps…
J90 et al are seemingly completely unaware of they're rallying in favour of…
The official line is to make it more efficient to vaccinate higher percentages of naive immune systems in a single visit…
In commercial reality it will be about cost reductions
Japan (‘strongest health outcomes on earth’, and no mandatory vaccinations) for example has individual (measles, mumps and Rubella) vaccines resulting from the well documented historical issues within their population resulting from the MMR vaccine…
A Review of Factors Affecting Vaccine Preventable Disease in Japan
Note the mumps stats in the table (‘japan’ believes that mumps is less dangerous than the MMR vaccine) and in using ‘vaccine preventable disease VPD’ as a measure of a nations health…completely warps the metrics versus USA table…
Shirley Smith: an examined life
by Sarah Gaitanos (Victoria University Press, $40). 464 pages.
Reviewed by Simon Nathan
This new biography of Shirley Smith (1916-2007) is an example of an unusual life, skilfully narrated by Sarah Gaitanos.
Although she showed an early interest in studying law, this was vetoed by her father, who felt that it was no profession for a woman. Instead she studied classics at Oxford in the late 1930s. Her social conscience was aroused by the gathering political storms in Europe, and she joined the Communist Party. The atmosphere of the times is nicely evoked by the recent movie, “Red Joan”. In later years Shirley confided that she was so thankful that she was at Oxford rather than Cambridge, where she might have been recruited as a potential spy.
When the story is written, the Greedy Nationals will come out as utter Trash.
The sad thing about the Trolls is that they club together to ensure that they will never have to do anything for the welfare of New Zealanders.
They will continue to abuse decent people in Aotearoa – but they will never lift a finger to assist the rebuilding of a stable, proud Population.
Why? Because, Billy English, and Mrs Bennett declared there was no crisis of poverty or housing or income within New Zealand. They got voted out on their asses. Inspiteof offering the Wealthy generous bribes.
The upcoming generation will despise National and count them as imbeciles.
To be fair, in a hundred years I think most if not all our governments over the last 35 years will be regarded in the same light as Forbes&Coates. But some definitely worse than others.
Does there really need to be a comma in that sentence? Might have even been better as, "Clown, off you fuck." Maybe have to get an exclamation mark going though.
OT. Why do you keep on about National when it’s not the current Government. We all know they lost their way in the last two years before the last election. We also know that they had some pretty big expensive problems to deal with in their time as Government, and we know when The Labour coalition took over there was a healthy bank balance for them to use. So why don’t you and your potty mouth try keeping the current Government honest instead of blathering on about National that haven’t been in Government fo two years. The labour coalition has promised a lot, talked a lot and achieved very little to date.
Flooding in Mozambique the poor country's are feeling the effects of climate change.hope not to many people passed in the floods.
I say a roster is a important part of a employees condition and the running a organisation the doctors must get conditions that keep them safe and that will attract new doctors . ???????.
I don't get people who destroy thing for no practical reason the school having a fire.
The people who work in the justices system have had a lot to sweat about in the last couple of years with the reality of the system being CORRUPT and having unfair effects on brown people it's was a cheap solution to a tricky problem I know that there is a lot of positive effects because of this phenomenon .
Our sports stars all OUR stars make our country shine brightly
I say brexit is the big blind stopping every one from seeing the big real problems the Papatuanukue faces YOU SEE Britain still has a major influence on the Papatuanukue seen that's reality Climate change is what is being blinded .
I say Mark is correct we need to have a campaign to tell slow drivers to be polite and pull over to let the drivers that no the road pass . We also NEED more passing lanes so they can be over taken safely.
Fleetwood mack is a good band I listen to back in the day
I based my opinion on climate change on facts and the amount of our truth telling scientists who are tell us the facts with no conflict of interest they just have a love for OUR FUTURE generations and the massive weather events that we are getting NOW.
What followed were four months of desperately tracking down and interviewing the people who live on the frontline of climate change. I spoke to scientists who described the so-loud-it-gives-you-whiplash crack of a glacier calving off the Greenland ice shelf. Another told me of the horror he felt when his calculations revealed that the current logging and burning of tropical forests releases more carbon dioxide than our remaining forests could possibly absorb. I read detailed and disturbing death threats sent to climate activists to make them go quiet.
I listened to people who have lost their homes and heritage to rising sea levels. I watched countless videos of wildfires ripping through suburbia, and cannot forget the little girl’s voice in the background of one shaky mobile phone recording asking her daddy if she was going to catch fire. Still, the most upsetting videos I saw were of politicians and pundits spreading harmful lies, promoting their own interests at the cost of protecting children from climate change Ka kite ano P.S This is OUR reality WHANAU. Links above
Whanau the Australian government has dish up a big mess to our Australian tangata whenua cousin . They have it a lot harder than US tangata whenua O Atoearoa they only got to vote 40 years ago they are treated real badly by some Australians and the Government hence going the for a holiday was allways not on because of the way they treat their tangata whenua. The Australian government should compensate THEM.
Gavin Ritchie talks to Guardian Australia about the disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians as part of the Fair Go? series. Ritchie says he was on Newstart and for the past three years he has been on the disability support pension. 'I will always run out of money before my next pay,' he says. 'When I was on Newstart I would pay my rent and I had $320 to last me a fortnight. That's ridiculous'. He says he has trained himself to subsist 'on next to nothing' and recounts the racist abuse he endured as a child. 'Indigenous people anywhere, their rights, their safety, their happiness, I believe, should be of paramount significance to everybody,' he says. 'Billions of dollars have been made in this country in 200 odd years. My people are still chained firmly to the lowest rung in the socioeconomic LADDER Ka kite ano links below
Condolences to the Whanau who lost there love in the crash by Ohakuri Road the road are worse in Te tairawhiti.
I seen a story on stuff about the Australian Airports having problems with their smart gates big problems and big waiting lines.
, I, its cold in Rotorua at the minute the Tawhirirmate is just going to get stronger because of you know what .
Come on we already know who is responsible for the mess at stats NZ ational they have no scruples and don't care what carnage they cause.
Wow that was fast that fire at that Australian gas station lucky no one was badly injured. I remember back in the day the skipper lit a smoke an boom his car mat set a light we all jumped out pull the mat out put it out and carried on our journey it was a 1980 mini lol the fire was no more than burning a4 peace of paper lucky
Congratulat to Tim for him being houners for his services to Southland.
That's good that the Pike River familys are going to get some closure on their loved ones lost in the mine explosion on Friday.??????????????????????????.
Condolences to the American Jewish community and those who lost there love ones in that atrocitie at their Church.
Mbovies did not have to be as bad as it is. It is sad that the Money going to IHC charity could be reduced because of the mess. Ka kite ano
Free speach is a must in a democract society so that the common people can hold the powerful to account for their actions .
It was cool that The government has got to this stage in the Pike River mine. Yes its all about shonky backing COAL and his bet was WRONG instead of admiting it they decided to cut cost to try and make it work the cost cutting lower the safety standards in the mine operation.
Its not MAORI fault . Of course its poverty that is the main driver of child negligence its in the textbooks around the world . Maori need to look after Maori as love is need not hate to cure this problem .what no one is talking about is the link to PEE that is causing all the bad stats to rise fast.
Eco Maori says that ational deliberately through a curved ball to statistics NZ WHY all the latest stats would have been used to prove that shonky and national gave the wealthy a lolly scramble and the common people got ripped off with I WILL NOT RAISE GST YEA RIGHT. shonky was a control freak there are many things that point to that.
The Papatuanukue largest Ice shelves are melting 10 x faster that what our good scientists pridicted our lives have to change fast to beat climate change. The money people have to look at climate change as a opportunity to make money mitigateing this problem .
Kai pal Sir Tim classic Kiwi bloke get through all the bullshit to get smart solutions to fix simple problems .
I say all councils should have a place to drop off goods that can be given a new life that's the new fad going around Europe at the minute taking pride in having reused goods that is a FAD we need here recycling is COOL to save Papatuanukue .
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by Philip Ferguson This weekend just past marks the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the most famous of the great 1960s music festivals. It was held over the weekend (Friday-Monday) of August 15-18, 1969. Woodstock was a highpoint of the US ‘counter-culture’, and also the beginning of its end. When exploring the ...
It looks like the government has won over the public on its vehicle feebate scheme:A feebate scheme that would transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from buyers of higher-emission cars into the pockets of people buying EVs and other more fuel-efficient vehicles has been winning favour with submitters, the Government ...
When people suggest lowering the voting age, others argue that the young are too uneducated or silly to exercise the duties of citizenship. Australian John Quiggin has just blown that argument out of the water:Looking at the array of ignorant and vindictive old men attacking Greta Thunberg and other young ...
In the previous two posts, I laid out the context and set the theoretical framework to answer a question: whether indigenous economies should take the LEAP. This final part outlines ways to conceive of practicing mana motuhake within the existing legal system by carving out special jurisdictions that enable Indigenous ...
Fully Informed? Labour’s 2017 promises raised expectations that were little short of revolutionary. Unfortunately, they were never adequately shaken through the fiscal sieve. The hard economic work was not done – and it shows. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s critics have long complained that her grasp of the way the New ...
You cannot expect to pound communities into the ground day after day, year after year, decade after decade and just expect them to take it lying down. There’s a point at which the place will explode. And we’re faced with some very big ructions on both sides of the Atlantic ...
Back in May, Destiny Church leaders Brian and Hannah Tamaki launched another political party. Despite consisting entirely of followers of their religion, they grandly called it "Coalition New Zealand", in a vain effort to suggest it was something broader. But when they applied for registration, submitters opposed the name, as ...
The following article is excerpted and translated from two articles in recent issues of Lutte de Classe (Class Struggle), the magazine of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the revolutionary workers group active in France. We don’t necessarily agree with everything in it – for instance, the 1956-62 war for independence involved rather more revolutionary forces than ...
The Pacific is on the front line of climate change, and if we don't cut emissions quickly, some countries are literally going to be underwater. Because of this, small Pacific states had tried to use this week's Pacific Islands Forum meeting to get Pacific countries to agree to ending coal ...
To Limit Another's Rights Is To Limit One's Own: Is it too much to expect senior members of our Government to be capable of explaining that we protect the rights of human-beings precisely because not even the most depraved act can cancel-out the fact that its perpetrator is also a ...
Going Down? Once truth and propaganda become fused in the minds of one’s followers, debate and discussion become redundant. If one’s opponents are all outrageous liars, then engaging with them in any way is pointless. Rather than waste its time, a political party should, instead, target all its messages at ...
This section builds on Part 1 of this series to provide a theoretical basis for the final instalment (part 3 – to come). Self-determination: law or resurgence — or both? International law promotes the principal of equal treatment and self-determination, which includes peoples’ rights to freely pursue their social, cultural and ...
Everyone was outraged yesterday to learn that the Christchurch shooting accused had been able to send mail from prison to his Nazi fans, apparently pushing more hate. "How could this possibly happen", people asked. Simple: because New Zealand is a civilised country, and so we let prisoners send and receive ...
If we are to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change, we need to rapidly decarbonise our transport fleet. The good news: its starting to happen:The number of electric vehicles on New Zealand's roads have nearly tripled in the past two years. There are currently 15,453 registered electric vehicles (EVs), up ...
We need to fundamentally reframe our systems settings to address the drivers causing and underpinning inequality; structural change in systems especially financial. The Equality Network Hui was held in Wellington on 27 June 2019. The hui covered important topics such as child poverty; a living wage; taxation; public health; mental ...
The views-per-page for some of my recent postings:Depressing, isn't it? Provide thoughtful and wise commentary on the mainstream of British politics and no-one notices. Make a passing reference to Tommy DICKHEAD Robinson in a thread title and you get hundreds of views. Write something about anti-Semitism and you get another ...
The government has announced plans to move the Treaty of Waitangi and other taonga to a new site. Great news! So where are they going? Right next to the old one:The new plan will see a new 22,000-square-metre archive built on the former site of Defence House - the former ...
Back in June, StatsNZ went public about a project to track population data on an hourly level by using people's cellphones. It wasn't as bad as it initially looked - they were receiving no individual data, only counts by suburb - but there was still a huge consent problem, so ...
Most economists agree that a currently slowing economy could do with some stimulus – and they would also agree that there is no shortage of infrastructure projects which could be brought to productive fruition with help from that stimulus. In view of the current practice of sub-contracting economic policy decisions ...
I did an interview on the TVNZ Breakfast Show about the situation in Hong Kong. I tried to frame the issue as a collective action problem between two sides with very different end games. The video is here. Because of time constraints we could not discuss the fact that the ...
Image Credit: Wild Rose College A new study reporting the ranges of values for kidney and liver parameters in a healthy population is being actively misrepresented by anti-fluoride campaigners. The Fluoride Action Network’s (FAN) latest ...
Image Credit: Wild Rose College A new study reporting the ranges of values for kidney and liver parameters in a healthy population is being actively misrepresented by anti-fluoride campaigners. The Fluoride Action Network’s (FAN) latest ...
AN OPEN LETTER FOR SIGN ON BY ORGANISATIONS AND MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE WORLD, ALLIED IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INEQUALITY. This letter was released at the UN Political Forum on 9 July, where the Sustainable Development Goal on inequality was reviewed. The purpose of the letter is to call out the ...
We asked a young gay science student and critic of trans ideology and the trans activists’ assault on women’s and gay rights to outline his views on Redline. Thanks to him for his article. by Cian Ó Catháin Gender identity ideology (Gender ID) is ripping through western society at full ...
The Environment Committee is currently hearing submissions on the Zero Carbon Bill, and Stuff is reporting on the submissions. Today, they're covering yesterday they heard from "NZ" Steel:NZ Steel has told MPs it may be forced to close with the loss of thousands of jobs if changes aren't made to ...
Students are striking against climate change on September 27. And this time, they're asking everyone to join them:Students are taking to the streets, beaches and parks on 27 September, and we're inviting everyone to join us. That's right, this is an intergenerational issue, and you're all invited to put pressure ...
Peter McKenzie has a piece on Newsroom this morning about how local body politics is awash with property developer cash. 70% of all the donations in the 2016 Wellington mayoral election came from property developers. And its pretty obvious what they want in exchange:That’s particularly important in local government, according ...
Source: Unknown, twitter user Recently, I wrote a (relatively) short paper titled as above, to explore what self-determination could like in a practical sense. Maybe I’m a bit of an international trade truther or something, but I absolutely believe trade is at the heart of achieving peace and self-determination. Since ...
In the 1960s, after I had graduated with a first-class Oxford postgraduate law degree, I joined the British Foreign Office as the top entrant of my year. There, I worked for a couple of years on European affairs and was eventually posted to the Embassy in Brussels. After this exposure ...
Alone, Alone. All, All Alone: Will it be a good or a bad thing, when humanity’s bright blue spacecraft is stricken by the civilisation-destroying problem of Climate Change, that no Huston Control will be standing-by to rescue the crew?“WE HAVE A PROBLEM, HUSTON.” These were the words used by the ...
I heard a 45 minute interview with Monica Lewinsky talking to TED’s Chris Anderson on BBC Radio 4 over the weekend, and have listened to it another two times out walking. I recommend it. Highly. Man, I am so impressed with how this woman has integrated her life experiences and ...
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind: how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure, London, Penguin, 2019, 352pp; reviewed by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s book The Coddling of the American Mind is a timely book, whose ...
When the Justice Committee reported back on the Administration of Justice (Reform of Contempt of Court) Bill, free speech advocates breathed a sigh of relief. As originally introduced, the Bill reitered the ancient offence of "scandalising the court" - basicly, a special sedition law protecting judges from criticism. The select ...
Eighteen months ago, the government promised to strengthen the Bill of Rights Act, by explicitly affirming the power of the courts to issue declarations of inconsistency and requiring Parliament to formally respond to them. Since then - crickets. Which raises the obvious question: are they actually going to do this, ...
Back in March, the Ministry of Justice conducted a public consultation exercise on whether to hold a review of the Official Information Act. 285 people submitted on it. Now, Stuff has trawled through those submissions, and the case for reform is strong:The Justice Ministry asked Kiwis what they thought was ...
National's prisoner voting ban has gone down as one of the worst laws in New Zealand history. Passed after a farcical debate (including this farcial speech from ACT MP Hilary Calvert), it has subsequently been found to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act by the High Court, Court ...
Divided Loyalties: Can the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, be relied upon? That’s what the boys and girls at Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon needed to be reassured about. Because, from the perspective of Washington, it’s looking more and more like Jacinda Ardern and her Labour Party comrades are getting ready ...
This handy Queer Theory Glossary is from thetranswidow.com In case you’ve had trouble keeping up with the spate of new queer theory terms, here’s a handy glossary for your reference. Queer – A straight person with an interesting haircut. Non-binary/genderqueer – A chubby young female, typically 16-28, who has ...
by Daphna Whitmore US social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt spoke on 1 August in Auckland to a crowd of around one thousand people. He is best known for his bookThe Coddling of the American Mind which examines the new climate of trigger warnings and acute sensitivity of Gen Z. ...
What an extraordinarily depressing experience it is to be compelled to watch, at 12,000 miles distance, the contortions and machinations of the British political class as they set about their determined attempt to overturn the decision taken by the British people that they wish to leave the European Union. The ...
The winter grazing issue is becoming a highly sensitised one that I hope will not become so politicised that it delays solutions and results in the suicides of some very stressed farmers.Winter grazing has hit the headlines after a determined campaign, including the release of a video of some very ...
by Don Franks Way back when British guitar virtuoso Joe Brown was a beginning session guy he got to back a visiting American artist. Young Joe was an able technician but had yet to learn some points of professionalism. Part way through “Five foot high and rising” Joe tired of ...
Since scientists started studying climate change, they have warned that it will reduce food production. And now, its happening:The climate crisis is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, with cascading risks becoming increasingly severe as global temperatures rise, according to a landmark UN report compiled by some ...
The Abortion Legislation Bill just passed its first reading, 94-23. Its a far bigger margin than I expected, even allowing for the Winston factor, and it reflects the overwhelming support there is in this country for reform. but that support isn't a new thing - it has existed for literally ...
The Justice Committee has called for submissions on the Referendums Framework Bill. The Bill does what it says on the label - establishes a framework for referenda. Things you may want to address in your submission: Whether the bill should apply only at the 2020 election, or whether it should ...
The Thompson and Clark / MBIE spying scandal continues to result in fallout, this time in the form of a report on the implementation of MBIE's "Operation Exploration", its internal operation to enforce the infamous Anadarko Amendment which criminalised protests against the oil industry. MBIE's enforcement operation was tainted by ...
So, Winston Peters is defending his last-minute demand for a referendum on abortion by claiming he was "blindsided" by the bill. Really? The bill is a government bill. It has been working through the cabinet approval process since December last year. As part of that process, NZ First was consulted, ...
The Green Part has been accused of lack of transparency in two recent situations. The first was the claimed media lockdown during Green's annual conference and the second was Julie Ann Genter's refusal to release a letter she had sent to Phil Twyford.I do get frustrated when journalist's succumb to ...
The Green Part has been accused of lack of transparency in two recent situations. The first was the claimed media lockdown during Green's annual conference and the second was Julie Ann Genter's refusal to release a letter she had sent to Phil Twyford.I do get frustrated when journalist's succumb to ...
Last week, the ongoing democracy protests in Hong Kong saw a pro-Hong Kong student assaulted at the University of Auckland. The Chinese consulate in Auckland followed this up with a press release "express[ing] its appreciation to the students for their spontaneous patriotism" - effectively condoning the assault and inciting further ...
Only those who close their eyes and minds to the evidence can still be in any doubt that we are facing a climate change crisis. The evidence is conclusive that the world is not only getting inexorably hotter, but also that the rising temperatures are creating a number of other ...
Rural communities are wailing about forestry conversions "taking land out of production" and putting it into locking up carbon. Its driven purely by economics: there's more money and lower costs in carbon than in sheep or beef, and if carbon prices rise, there'll be more net money than dairy even. ...
This week, the government introduced its (underwhelming) Abortion Legislation Bill. And despite having negotiated the text of the bill through the coalition process, Winston Peters is now suggesting that he will demand a referendum on it:NZ First leader Winston Peters has hinted that his party may only support the Government's ...
Blowing-Up The House: Is Winston Peters planning to put himself at the head of all those New Zealanders who refuse to countenance the Coalition Government caving-in to the Ihumatao protesters? The most effective way of doing this would be to issue Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with an ultimatum. If she ...
Last night the police dramatically incresed their numbers at Ihumātao, shoving over protestors and threatening them with arrest. Despite police talk about the need to maintain "public order" and prevent a "breach of the peace", there appeared to be absolutely no justification for this: the protest camp is, was, and ...
A Cult, that many actors, politicians, and those with a low IQ are joining is sweeping across civilisation, with one main intention – ending humans reign on Earth. Starting as a well meaning though deeply flawed theory, that the Earth was warming due to mankind emitting greenhouse gasses, it was ...
Today's abortion reform announcement is just the latest in a long line of disappointing decisions or outright failures from the Labour government. The 90-day law. KiwiBuild. A capital gains tax. Climate change. Every time they make one of those decisions, we hope for better next time. No repeal of the ...
The Greens used their party conference over the weekend to push for a rent-to-own scheme, where people would be able to work towards home ownership by renting from the government. Its a sensible policy, and one which could make a real difference to home ownership rates. But its also basicly ...
by Daphna Whitmore Over the past fortnight, thousands of people have come to the Ihumātao land protest in South Auckland. On 23 July police prepared to evict a few dozen people who had maintained the encampment at Ihumātao for the past three years. As hundreds of supporters arrived the ...
The following article is translated from an article in Lutte de Classe (Class Struggle), the magazine of the French revolutionary workers’ organisation Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle). The United States’ blacklisting of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, which took shape in Google’s ban on Huawei using its systems on its phones, marks a ...
There is a military phrase: “Full spectrum dominance”. It refers to the all-encompassing policy to dominate across all spheres of war. Lately, that has come to include the internet – in other words, cyberwarfare initiatives. That is in addition to land, sea, air and the like. Now, if ...
The IMF issued a Report on the state of the Economy as it is at present. Some of it points out significant issues that certainly warrant attention, but that we know already exist. Some of it is very much tied to the very obvious context of global concerns, that everyone ...
Opportunities to dodge tax are shrinking with the completion of a new tax agreement with Switzerland, Revenue Minister Stuart Nash announced today. Mr Nash and the Swiss Ambassador David Vogelsanger have today signed documents to update the double tax agreement (DTA). The previous DTA was signed in 1980. “Double tax ...
Small Business Minister Stuart Nash says the report of the Small Business Council will help maintain the momentum for innovation and improvements in the sector. Mr Nash has thanked the members of the Small Business Council (SBC) who this week handed over their report, Empowering small businesses to aspire, succeed ...
Extra Police officers are being deployed from Northland to Southland with the graduation of a new wing of recruits from the Royal New Zealand Police College. “The graduation of 78 constables today means that 1524 new constables have been deployed since the government took office,” says Police Minister Stuart Nash. ...
Wellington, 20 August 2019 — Lawyers for Vulnerable New Zealanders (LVNZ) has lent its support to the amendments proposed by MP Chris Penk to better protect vulnerable people from being coerced to end their lives under the End of Life Choice Bill, currently ...
The Government’s decision to establish and independent Parliamentary Budget Office, outside of Treasury, is a taxpayer victory and will improve democracy, says the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union . Taxpayers' Union spokesman Louis Houlbrooke says, “It's ...
The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that the cost-benefit analysis prepared by Ministry of Transport and used to advise Ministers on the Government’s Clean Car Standard and ‘Feebate’ policies has serious flaws which undermine justifications for the ...
The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) welcomes new proposals for prison reform put forward by the Minister of Corrections and non-government organisations recently. ...
The New Zealand Maori Council has called on the nation to address all forms of racism and not to shy away from an honest conversation about where it’s taking hold. The call comes after the Nelson Club decided to keep a member after his comments became ...
Wellington (20 August 2019): The New Zealand Initiative enthusiastically welcomes the Coalition Government’s announcement of an Independent Parliamentary Budget Office. Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Associate Finance Minister James Shaw ...
Drs Say No agree with Chris Penk’s amendment to protect vulnerable patients from coercion, although the organisation still maintains that no safe euthanasia legislation can ever be drafted and continues to urge MPs to defeat the End of Life Choice Bill. ...
The Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says the Northland Regional Corrections Facility is persisting with policies that are preventing it from achieving its full potential. ...
The second national hui in the Māori-led Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki concluded yesterday ahead of schedule after a capacity audience formally ratified the terms of reference that determines the scope and purpose of the independent investigation ...
Forest & Bird says WWF-NZ's plan for protecting Māui dolphins is based on testing unproven methods on a species that is almost extinct, and is urging the Government to reject the proposal. ...
Primary and intermediate school principals have voted to accept a new settlement from the Ministry of Education, which includes entrenched pay parity with secondary principals. ...
Police acknowledge the findings of the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) report into the 2014 search of a property belonging to Nicky Hager. ...
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found that the Police's unlawful search of Nicky Hager's property in October 2014 resulted from an unwitting neglect of duty and did not amount to misconduct by any individual officer. Police policy at the ...
Tuesday, August 20: Greenpeace has labeled an overnight announcement by fishing company Sanford as a danger to Māui and Hector’s dolphins, and is calling on the Government to reject the ‘Sanford Plan’ immediately. ...
World Animal Protection describes an overnight announcement (19 August, embargoed until 6am 20 August), by fishing company Sanford as a cynical move to undermine growing support for full habitat protection for Māui and Hector’s dolphins. They called ...
When the combined tax on fuel hits over 50 percent in some parts of the country, it is hypocritical for the Government to blame corporates, says the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union . ...
A leading expert in suicide prevention has urged MPs not to confuse suicide with assisted dying as they consider the second reading of the End of Life Choice Bill. ...
Over the weekend Māoridom arrived in the Waikato for the annual Koroneihana Celebrations. Yesterday almost 300 attended a Hui in Hamilton to continue the Oranga Tamariki Review led by an independent Māori panel to coincide with the Koroneihana. The Hui confirmed ...
The Council of Licenced Firearm Owners (COLFO) says the newly issued ‘price list’ for compensation of banned firearms reveals that haste in preparing the ban has led to an underestimation of the number of affected firearms and their value. ...
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has admitted parts of the prison system are “extremely racist” and says that’s why the Government is asking Māori to work with it to make changes. ...
Ongoing drug-test sanctions contradicts Government’s rhetoric on drugs Reports that two-thirds of beneficiaries who fail drug tests are still having their benefit sanctioned contradicts the Government’s so-called health approach to drugs. Auckland ...
An Auckland Homelessness Collective is optimistic extra government support for sustaining tenancies signals a commitment to a multi-pronged approach to tackling homelessness. ...
Wanaka-based trust ONE New Zealand will be hosting six days of talks, workshops and hands-on activities with local and national experts to educate, inspire and enable grassroots action towards a sustainable future. ...
In last week’s episode of Politics in Full Sentences, David, Brooke and Ruwan discussed why Jacinda Ardern has been lecturing our friends overseas, why Andrew Little called ACT's three strikes law “fascism”, whether he will give prisoners the right to ...
“Community safety must be the paramount consideration when releasing an offender, and the only way for that to be achieved is for the offender to acknowledge their crimes.” ...
“District Health Boards are failing to foster a culture of distributed clinical leadership, despite its demonstrated benefits to the sector,” says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS). ...
Ratepayers around Auckland were spitting out their morning coffees listening to Phil Goff’s incredible claims on breakfast radio today that this election is about ‘honesty’ and that Aucklanders can trust him on his promises. Auckland Ratepayers’ ...
The Hōkai Rangi plan for reducing Māori reoffending announced today fails to fulfil the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendations, says justice organisation People Against Prisons Aotearoa. Minister Kelvin Davis announced the plan this morning, which aims ...
Waatea News at the invitation of the North Island Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency will exclusively broadcast the next Māori-led Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki starting today at 1pm. ...
Staff at the Ministry of Social Development say they are enthusiastic about the government’s $54 million investment in housing the homeless, with many describing it as a welcome change. ...
Today posters have gone up outside ANZ branches across New Zealand to expose ANZ’s sponsorship of an exclusive oil industry group, ‘The Petroleum Club’. The satirical posters play on ANZ’s recent ad campaigns, replacing the banks’ tagline ‘healthy ...
Imagine a country where children look forward to walking or cycling to school, parents arrive home safely, and the journeys we take for work or pleasure do more than leave us alive or uninjured, they also improve our lives. This is happening now in countries ...
Sunday, 18 August, 2019 - Environmental groups and well known New Zealanders are preparing to deliver a 55,000 strong petition to the steps of Parliament tomorrow, calling on the Government to protect the world’s smallest dolphin. ...
The Government’s proposed rescue plan must be strengthened because it is the last chance to save Māui dolphins from extinction and secure the future for Hector’s dolphins, Forest & Bird says. ...
Simon Shepherd: Roads, schools, hospitals, prisons, the building blocks that keep society functioning. And we don't have enough. It's called the infrastructure deficit and will be the focus of a major conference this coming week. The man charged with ...
New Zealand has been issued a stark challenge from Pacific leaders to dramatically upscale its action to address climate breakdown, Oxfam says, after a clear rallying cry from nations at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum. ...
Support for Recreational Dope Going ‘Up in Smoke’ Family First NZ is welcoming yet another poll showing plummeting support for legalising cannabis in New Zealand. The Horizon Research poll shows support for legalising has plummeted from 60% last ...
The prospect of ending wider cannabis prohibition looks increasingly unlikely. Over the last nine months, the percentage of New Zealanders who would vote for legalising the personal use of cannabis has declined at a near linear rate of around 10% per ...
“It’s disappointing that news out of the United States of hospitalisations linked to illegal street drugs is somehow seen as relevant to the New Zealand vaping scene,” says Ben Pryor, Director of Alt New Zealand – the largest Kiwi-owned vaping company. ...
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) welcomes the successful passing of Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill through parliament, by the New Zealand Government. ...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s EMTV news and current affairs manager Neville Choi has been sacked after six years of service in this role, triggering strong protests from staff in the country’s main television news service. EMTV staff called for the reinstatement of Choi and for the ...
The problem of political parties disputing each others costing was highlighted in the 2017 election and now an independent entity to ensure parties aren't fudging their figures is a step closer. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bradley L Garrett, Research Fellow, University of Sydney A small plane looped through the tranquil and cloudless Sydney sky today, spewing engine-heated liquid paraffin from its exhaust, creating puffy tracers. As people all over the city watched from rooftop bars, beach towels ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Howard, Deputy Section Editor: Arts + Culture You might picture a book club around your neighbour’s coffee table, or over beers at the local pub – but what if it took place in Parliament House? This is the question being asked ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carly Osborn, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.What makes us cry? – Claudia, age 7.5, Victoria. Hi Claudia. Thank you for this very sensible ...
In the third episode of Actually Interesting, The Spinoff’s monthly podcast exploring the effect AI has on our lives, Te Aroha Grace talks to host Russell Brown about the Iwi Algorithm.Subscribe to Actually Interesting via iTunes or listen on the player below.To download this episode right click and save.At ...
Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Pultizer Prize for Fiction for The Underground Railroad, a depiction of slavery and resistance in 19th century Georgia. Now he’s back with a similarly grim premise, following two boys through the horrors of a real-life reform school in Florida. Our reviewer is Aaron Smale, whose ...
Two recent scientific discoveries rocked us to our fossily core, but there’s a bigger, more shocking story to be told. Who are the silhouette people? Tara Ward finds out. It’s been a big month for bones. First, New Zealand scientists uncovered evidence that a giant parrot once roamed the country around ...
From tennis champions to dance craze inventors, Scratched celebrates New Zealand sporting heroes who never got their due – but whose legacies deserve to be in lights. This month, aerobics world champion and creator of Jump Jam, Brett Fairweather. Every New Zealander under the age of 30 knows at least one ...
Life in the wee hours could be made safer and better for business if New Zealand adopted the policies of cities such as Amsterdam, writes Natanael Rother.It would be insane to do the same thing over and over again and still expect different results. It’s a lesson those embroiled in ...
Stranger Things owns all the oxygen for period-piece teen TV, but Ireland’s impossibly charming Derry Girls deserves as much acclaim, writes Duncan Greive.There’s a reason why high school is the backdrop to so much fantastic television. That cusp between childhood and the adult world is ripe with dramatic possibility. Relationships ...
The Commerce Commission has released preliminary findings from its market study into the retail fuel market, finding it not as competitive as it could be. ...
We’ve become used to Samoan characters as peripheral bad guys. But from the tatau Sāmoa on his chest to his relationships with his aiga, Hobbs & Shaw showed us someone who is us. And he kicks arse.When I was growing up, there were hardly any Sāmoan or Polynesian faces on ...
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage.New Zealand Parliament Buildings, Wellington, New Zealand.Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards.Māori prison strategy, prisoner voting 1News: Kelvin Davis admits parts of prison system ‘extremely racist’ ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Hopkins, Lecturer in conservation biology and microbial ecology, Edith Cowan University As most of the science community knows, the climate emergency is here now. Weather extremes such as droughts and heatwaves are increasing in frequency and intensity and are measurably exacerbated ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Krystian Seibert, Industry Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology Over the weekend, Prime Minister Scott Morrison launched a new assault on the campaigning group GetUp. At the Liberal Party’s state conference in Adelaide, he said GetUp needed to be ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Archana Koirala, Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist, University of Sydney If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.How does our blood fight viruses like chicken pox, sickness and colds? – Teddy, 5, Oxfordshire, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Hemer, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO The rise in sea levels is not the only way climate change will affect the coasts. Our research, published today in Nature Climate Change, found a warming planet will also alter ocean waves ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Owain Emslie, Associate, Grattan Institute Inheritances can have an enormous impact on finances and lives. Yet in Australia we know surprisingly little about who gets them and how big they are. New Grattan Institute research provides some answers. Inheritances are big and ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Pitt, PhD candidate, UNSW In April 2020, Australia will mark 250 years since James Cook sailed into Kamay (later known as Botany Bay) on the Endeavour, kicking off a series of events that resulted in the British arriving and staying uninvited ...
Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Law changes likely over prison mail system, sharp drops in Northland vaccinations, and PM still has no plans to visit Ihumātao.Law changes are looking likely over what mail prisoners can send and receive. One News has reported on the announcement made by ...
Is a second attempt at merging parts of Stuff and NZ Herald owner NZME planned, with a bid for political intervention to help the media industry? Tim Murphy reports. ...
Who should decide how many more tourists fly into Queenstown and Wanaka? Journalist and former district councillor, Cath Gilmour, argues local residents should, not the airlines. ...
How the NZ Superfund has drummed up $15 trillion to put pressure on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube giants over livestreaming following the Christchurch terror attacks. ...
Kiwi Jamie Greene has established herself as one of the fittest women on the globe in the fast-growing gruelling sport of CrossFit. And she wants to thank her runner sister for helping drive her. ...
Newsroom is delighted to welcome the University of Otago as our third university partner for the IdeasRoom section exploring issues of importance to society and the country’s future. ...
Phil Goff has kept a low profile compared with his headline-grabbing opponent in the early stages of the Auckland mayoral campaign. Hayden Donnell heads along to see if the mayor can win back the spotlight at his campaign launch.The Spinoff local election coverage is made possible thanks to ...
Backed by businessman Eric Watson and launched in a blaze of publicity, online trader Fashbae disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived. Now its founder is traversing the globe in a jeep. Business editor Maria Slade tries to keep up with events.It had it all. A suave multi-millionaire investor and ...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Rioting broke out in Manokwari, West Papua, today as local people – mostly university students – protested against racial abuse of Papuan students in East Java, reports TheJakarta Post. The protesters blocked a number of major streets in the city this morning, cutting down ...
By Ben Bilua in Suva Multimedia skills and innovation are key to adapting to the changing media landscape, said US academic Professor Debora Wenger as newsmakers around the world continue to grapple with challenges arising from the transformation of technology and social media. Speaking to journalists at a regional ...
The new RBNZ seems to crave the limelight and be known for advocacy of new causes, and that has not impressed macroeconomics professor Robert MacCulloch. ...
The prime minister won't meet with Ihumātao protesters before Thursday - the deadline given by the group to stop them marching to her Auckland electorate office. ...
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Hooten….what a slippery snake he is. I have heard him almost screaming hate on the Kathryn Ryan programme, while this time he paints grudging admiration of Ardern it is however laced with deprecating comments on her intellect and 'lack of policy'
Social policy doesn't count in his world. No doubt about his misogyny though, in his Granny Herald offering. HE almost says 'typical woman, only good at putting her arms round people' Sorry folks I can't bring up the link, not really computer literate.
Yes, it's sneaky and we need to be prepared for more of the same long-game tactics from the righties. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12225293
Im no fan of hootons but its hard to argue with the fact Ardern has put winning ahead of change.
It is being painted that way very successfully. Let's see their climate policy first.
The right blinked for barely a fortnight before going back to it's tactic of using misogyny as it's primary weapon to attack the government.
The loathing of aging white men in the media on the right wing for Jacinda Ardern is visceral, but hopefully their inbuilt arrogance means they won't see that she is practically untouchable on that front until well after the net two elections.
CGT is just one issue. There are other tax levers that can lead to more equality.
Extending the "bright line test" from 5 to 8 years for instance.
Jacinda has stated that the "bright line test" will remain at the current five years setting.
However the new IRD computer system is nearly online. From memory it is due for full completion about mid-2021. But is close to functionally complete now.
I don't think that anyone outside of the government and the computing communities are quite aware of just how much the computing capacity of the tax system has been constrained by having a essentially obsolete system for more than 20 years has been.
That is going to make it way harder for cheats and border-line avoiders to not pay tax. The full enforcement of the bright-line test would be high on my list of tasks for doing routine scans and investigations on. Along with the ownership shares in companies.
Indeed, lprent. Technological advancement will help the state to clampdown. Though, I'm sure creative accounting innovation will continue to give them a run for their money.
It has been interesting watching the advance of professionalism in the accounting and director communities over the last three decades. Essentially the IRD and SFO don’t like creative accounting and they tend to be quite assiduous in trying to make sure that it doesn’t pay – regardless how long they have to take people to court if they think that an example needs to be made.
In a lot of ways you’ll find that accountants aren’t that willing to be creative when they think that the IRD may argue the point. That is as much because getting into disfavour with the IRD seems to provoke some very detailed look at the other clients of external accountants and auditors who are suspect.
The only real exception to that appear to be overseas companies doing transfer costs. However I’m expecting that will change internationally within the decade. There is a pretty strong inter-government movement against them these days and it has been growing for the last decade.
Yes, there is a growing inter-government movement to clampdown on the tax minimisation methods of companies trading internationally. And anything fruitful produced will be helpful for Labour at this current time.
Headhunting top IRD staff to help companies circumvent tax obligations is not unheard of. Who best to get help around the rules than those that helped create them.
Time to tax financial transactions, possibly?
https://www.robinhoodtax.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Technical_feasibility
There has been a bit of talk on that, but little sign of any outcome to date. Thus, it seems unlikely anything fruitful will come of it.
Labour has a pragmatic leader and pragmatic leaders don’t tend to fight for what they believe in – they tend to pragmatically give up.
TC:
Not really. What they do look at the multiplicity of objectives that they always have and prioritize what they will expend effort on.
The problem with a capital gains tax is that with the exclusion of "family home" from it, then a capital gains tax in NZ had several problems politically.
It wasn't ever going to be that effective in evening out the wealth issues – there was still going to be an over abundance of capital concentrated in housing because it was effectively tax-free. A CGT immediately dropped from being the most effective means of reducing the capital investment distortion to being a minor means.
Conversely as showed up in the commission report, a CGT was going to impact on the saving done by Kiwisaver on austrailasian shared – which currently is the other major method of personal saving – especially for those without their own home. That would have caused capital to move to overseas shares more and inhibited kiwisaver. Neither being a useful outcome.
So other measures are more likely to get the desired effect. It doesn't mean that the outcomes desired are any less important.
@lprent
Even without the family home included, revenue projections were vast. Thus, the new tax revenue produced would have provided funding to have made an effective difference.
As for the distortion in investment, I agree it would have had minimal effect. Even the working group highlighted this. Fairness was the main aim.
It's negative impact on Kiwisaver could have been worked through.
Yes, they may still produce a viable alternative, but till then, there is still voter uncertainty and another void where policy should be.
And until they actually produce some new tax policy, we don't know how effective and viable that will be.
Hard to make change while losing.
Is that a note to self Craig H?
My comment was in response to
My thoughts are that if the options are to abandon CGT and win, or implement CGT and lose, and then have CGT repealed (which is a very real possibility – opinion polling suggests Labour lost a lot of votes at the 2017 election very late in the piece from tax scaremongering), then abandoning CGT is a better option because you can't do anything in Opposition.
Fact or opinion. beaghorn? The fact is that she has forgone CGT while she is leader. The opinion is about why she did it, or its possible effects, or indeed whether it is the ony way to either win or achieve change.
Craig H has a good point below. Whilst she is winning she has the power to make change. National knew that. That's why they're still spitting the dummy over the last MMP election result. They are not in power. They cannot make changes, nor can they oppose it successfully.
I'd say wait for a budget or two to find about tax changes. CGT has been ruled out by Ardern but that's one avenue only.
As a question of philosophy, is a tightening of the 'bright line test' with either reducung the time period or increasing enforcement introducing a CGT?
Labour should have been better prepared and been ready with an alternative when they dumped the CGT. Leaving voids for National to fill and creating further uncertainty seem to be their thing. And it doesn't do them any favours.
"And it doesn't do them any favours………"
Tell that to the pollsters………..
Have yet to see a poll that has taken into account the latest debacle.
However, abandoning the CGT and the accompanying tax cuts (largely favoured by voters) has disappointed many and stirred a lot of outrage online. So the result of the next round of polls will be interesting to see.
If voters start to turn on Jacinda, Labour will be in big trouble. She's what got them over the line and they still lack depth when it comes to replacing her. Delivery (or failure of improvement) is her Achilles heel.
And as for previous polls, ponder this: who can certainly say that past voids and uncertainty Labour has created hasn't cost them more support in those polls?
There will be alternatives. CGT has been sidelined. The tax working group has reported. There was an anti-CGT campaign. Coalition partners had their say. The Budget comes out on 30 May.Those are all facts. There is no void, just the usual waiting period till the annual budget. Taking a loaf off the dinner table does not mean there will be no meal. The family can wait to find out what is on the menu, but there will be carbohydrates in a balanced and healthy meal. For all.
Yeah, the underlying problems of economic distortion by concentrating wealth in speculation and rentiers will start to being dealt with one way or another. It is simply unsustainable to go on like this.
Yes, and it got given far more legs because Labour created a void by not sufficiently challenging it.
The Budget is over a month away, thus there is another void and further uncertainty in the making. And National are already making good use of it. Attacking Labour on tax before they can even get their next tax policy sorted let alone announced.
That is what oppositions do. They can pretty much make their own spin pre-budget.
Government, especially when it comes to budgets, have to be more responsible. That stops or diminishes speculative game playing by people looking at taking short positions.
That is of course what opposition parties do, but by creating policy voids and uncertainty, Labour make it far too easy for them.
And we see this time and time again. They just copped flack for doing this awaiting the CGT announcement and now they've just gone and done it again, leaving a void until the Budget.
I’ve pull them up on this years ago and they are still at it, go figure. Coms aren't really there strong point and in politics coms is vital.
@lprent
Additionally, I agree being in Government puts them in a more responsible position, but an astute Government would have foreseen the outrage and a opposition looking to fill the void and stir up further uncertainty. Hence, would have formulated and simultaneously announced a viable alternative to mitigate the fallout.
Providing the opportunity to take control of the narrative, giving voters certainty while coming off looking like a Government in control with a plan and sense of direction.
Instead, they dropped the CGT and left voters waiting while they formulate an alternative.
Jacinda did a lot of damage taking it completely off the table under her watch.
Therefore, it’s unbelievable they would drop a policy bomb like this and not have a B plan (to immediately help soak up the damage) in waiting.
Introducing a GGT may well cause a sort of "Gresham's law" effect since, once it is in place, it may well be impossible to change to something better.
This is by far the most compelling argument yet agains CGT!
You make it sound like she had some master plan. You say the COL partners had their say. BS. She had the power to call Winston’s bluff and the general public was resigned to some form of CGT and any political damage would most likely have been short lived. She had no stomach for a confrontation with the business sector or public opinion. And it wasn’t a bright move because she has pissed off a lot of her own people so don’t down play the CGT debacle and paint it up as some sort of clever political move because it’s not.
[lprent: Please be careful of the attribute controls. Don’t just yell by bolding up your comments.
It tends to get unwelcome moderator attention. I have removed it for you – this time. ]
As a Labour Party member, my primary annoyance is that the TWG was meant to find something other than CGT, and failed in that regard.
The thing about calling someone's bluff is that they might not be bluffing. NZ1 has ditched a coalition mid-term before now.
Didn't Shipley fire him?
After he told her where she could put her plans for the airport.
Definitely one of those "mutual decision" moments, unlike when she fired Bolger lol
It would have gone down to a vote between the coalition partners. If Labour was voted down by NZF they could have told the media and then genuinely blamed Winston. There was no sign of that. The result, it makes Labour Winston’s puppet and has shown they have no spine of their own.
Well, I guess you're another one who needs to learn the difference between "partner" and "toady".
If they'd gone the way you suggest, folks currently saying Winston is calling all the shots would instead be saying that there were clear and fractious divisions within an unstable coalition.
Grownups know the value of letting shit go from time to time in a relationship, professional or personal.
No, not a master plan as in a "cunning plan" but a clear set of goals and priorities that can be achieved in more ways than one. Coalition means you don't get what you want always. MMP has in this way produced a more honest system of dealing than FPTP when the Labour Party was hijacked by a coterie of neo-liberals who would not have been in the Labour Party under a full mature MMP environment. National is still an uneasy coalition within itself and little chunks of it want to keep hiving off -from parts of NZF, to the Conservatives, ACT, the Blue Greens, Christian parties, Then there's the urban liberal, country consrvative divide which is festering away underneath as well as Bridges knows. It's too glib and facile to see coalition politics under MMP in such terms as bluff and blame.
I could easily see a rural party appearing in the near future. That's where a true conservative party will come from.
MMP doesn't really work that well in NZ because we're still basically got a two-party system.
What we really need is 4 parties with around 25% of the vote each, that way we end up with a good cross section of the population getting represented.
At the moment it's one large party with a couple of pissy little parties that end up forming the government and we end up handing far too much power to small parties which is causing so much dissatisfaction.
Or we could grow up, and have referenda on policy, like the Swiss.
The real problem is we put way too much power and control in the hands of so few people
BM NZF is the New National Party for the Regions, progressive, intelligent and pro business & exports, there is your answer IMHO
NZF Progressive….Joke.
Thanks Sacha.
Most welcome
A read for Mike Lee and all the rest of the light rail naysayers in Auckland.
Construction chaos drove everyone crazy, was almost 5 years late and cost way more than originally forecast. So despite being a case study in how NOT to build public transport infrastructure Edinburgh’s light rail line from the airport (yep the airport!) to the city centre is working out so well they’re planning to extend it through to Leith and Newhaven.
https://www.citymetric.com/transport/edinburgh-extending-its-widely-loathed-tram-network-4559
The light rail in Surfers Gold Coast is very successful, and talk of extending it to Burliegh Heads from Broad Beach. In the Sunshine Coast they have extended the Metro to Redcliffe from Petrie. This is a huge success as well.
I'm just hoping our city planners, lobbyists and their enterages (who I'm prepared to accept are "passionate about what they do, and who are all very 'visionary'" (going forward), are prepared to consider the medium to long term, rather than trying to resolve the immediate problem that's part of Auckland's gridlock and stupidity (which goes back as far as Mayor 'Robbie'.
I'm also hoping that any and all involved in Wellington's public transport system are kept far, far away from anything in Auckers.
I'm picking not however. But let's just agree that light rail is a start in what is needed.
I'm hoping that whatever is implemented is not incompatible with existing infrastructure, and maybe a future need for some sort of integration. (Such as simple things like ensuring track gauge fits with what's already laid down – the possibility of what elsewhere is called 'tram trains'
The Edinburgh example is obviously causing a few to slope off with their tails between their legs
Short termism is a bad Kiwi affliction – it's possible it has something to do with out relatively short history as a Nayshun – alongside that eggslint post Incognito put up the other day on Kulchril Kringe
OwT
I think we have to bite the bullet and go for 4-year terms as a bit of twiddling the political sharpness with time to implement promises before getting into the next election. Also let us have controls on electioneering in whatever way seems intelligent. And limits of three terms before stepping down for at least three terms – that gives the possibility of green pollies becoming statesmen and women and co-betweens, in later life.
Well yes to 4 year terms BUT not before we fix a few other things – such as the state of what our PS has become, the obfuscations and corruptions related to OIA requests, ensuring the primacy of tToW and BOR, a recognition of what an electorate comprised of citizens (and possible PRs is) means that isn't constructed primarily on the notion of their being economic units, rather than social beings……………and then possibly alongside an upper house with veto powers based on regions and in respect of demographic and social differences.
No no not the comfy chair up in an Upper House. With four year terms we would have a government in long enough which might concentrate on those other things you boringly persisted in stating just as I was trying to forget about them. How could you do it? There is no hope for us. Weeps and throws teddy bear at the wall.
i'd do without the upper house for sure if we could get a few of the other things fixed.
Anyway – back to Mo Fat…..there goes one of the obstacles.
There have been a couple of referendums on bringing in a 4 year term. Those, in 1967 and 1990 were both about 70% in favour of retaining the current 3 year term.Do you think the general opinion would really be any different today? I wouldn't really have thought there would be any change.
You might find this post useful: https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2019/03/14/our-next-rail-network-should-be-different-from-our-current-one/
Yep @ Sacha.
Kind of proves my point (at least as far as gauge goes)
It explicitly argues the opposite.
Labour's abysmal discipline around messaging and bumbling approach to comms version #564328:
Louisa Wall goes off on social media about the need for media restrictions then goes to ground and refuses to front Morning Report and Labour supplies no one else in her place, thus giving a free hit to Stephen Franks to indulge in his usual creepy misogyny dog whistles and pompous opining without contradiction.
Wall doesn't seem to get the fact that she's a Labour MP, not an independent. Her "fucking TERFs" blurt was in the same category.
She is of a too fine a character to fully embrace the mud wrestling theme that is so essential for long-term success in our parliament.
That's a pretty good summation of Stephen Franks.
Yes Stephen Franks is even nastier than Hooton; that takes some doing.
Hi Patricia Bremner
Yes
It is the Year of the national Jackals.
The Trolls a dancing before their own sick mirrors now. One behind the other – like so many kiddies wanting their suck at slamming Jacinda.
Their Chant is : Jacinda is Dumb. Jacinda is policy Free.
You have to remember that a large number of the Trolls (who use the Standard as a kiddies playground ) are not mentally sound. Hooten being one of them. Screaming at the top of his empty head on air.
It is a bit of a nuisance that the Standard – a fine traditional, long standing, successful Civil and Political Institution – has to give blog support to the mentally challenged that wander the streets of Auckland looking for shit to throw at our Prime Minister.
Patricia – Troll grubs verbally assault Jacinda – because She is extraordinarily intelligent. Her Policy of releasing the decent people of New Zeland from poverty thrown at them by the likes of Brash, Key, English, Collins, Bennett, Smith, Joyce, Bridges (The Gang of the Wealthy) is a Very Sound Policy.
You know it Patiricia. I know it. The public of New Zealand knows it too.
The Major Corporations – such as sick Fonterra – Fletchers – and other tiresome low weights – are on the ropes.
Just as Key and English abused the Youth of New Zealand loudly – National and their Trolls are now abusing a young gifted Politician who has given Her all to a Nation which has been Abused by a bunch of sodden Rat Bags. The Wealthy Fools.
The Youth of Jacinda are sick of you Greedy tossers – National – Fonterra – Universities that no youth can afford. Greed dribbles from every hole in your minds and bodies. You wealthy Filth.
Here here Observer Tokoroa
HIgher petrol prices look likely as the United States tells every country in the world including China and India that they can't buy Iranian oil anymore. Iran supplies around 10 percent of the world's oil. We might also have a military confrontation to look forward too as one third of the world's oil that travels by sea goes through the narrow straight next to Iran, which it says it is going to block (I suspect it won't though).
Take it away Shane…
https://www.good.is/articles/drones-planting-trees
Drones, what a great idea for marginal or difficult to reach terrain. No need for roads in if the aim is native regeneration or tree cover for carbon sequestering. I think a job like that would be useful skillful and using technology to assist in reaching a target quickly.
The holes still have to be made and the roots put in right. But a drone hovering alongside with the small trees in starter tubes ready to be placed then covered and firmed. It would make the job so much easier. It could hover between two men working a few metres apart. After they finished an area, another drone would drop groundcover seed and leaf mould to lie round the trees and help them get started.
Use clay 'bullets' with fertiliser and seed in them.
Also, to kill wilding pines: Use bullets designed to get under the bark and spread out with Armillaria fungus in them.
Fly over with a chopper (or drones) and let rip.
Funnily enough, paintball guns were invented to mark trees. Dunno about getting fungus under bark or seeds far enough into the ground, though – we're beginning to talk decent energy loads. Fungus is pretty hardy, but the seeds might be a bit fragile.
What's your opinion about wilding pines WtB. Some must have them all out. I think Robert is easy peasy – let sleeping pines lie. They could be allowed to grow after self seeding and then be cut for posts etc, early on before they spread seed far. When do they start seeding anyway?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2109855?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2109848
Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration:
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature
For each of the 57 remaining trials, 1 or more FDA inspections of a trial site had uncovered evidence of significant departures from good clinical practice, such as under reporting of adverse events, violations of protocol, violations of recruitment guidelines, and various forms of scientific misconduct.
* falsification or submission of false information,
* 22 trials (39%); problems with adverse events reporting,
* 14 trials (25%); protocol violations,
* 42 trials (74%); inadequate or inaccurate record keeping,
* 35 trials (61%); failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent,
* 30 trials (53%); and violations not otherwise categorized,
* 20 trials (35%). Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection.
No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.
lol yes, it's an issue, just not of the gravity your selective quoting suggests.
They found 600 clinical trials with bad FDA inspections over fifteen years. There are 120,000 clinical trials cureently operating in the USA. While the reporting needs to be worked on, the real issue at the moment is to ensure that all trials publish results, rather than the current positive bias.
Which still manages to save millions of people every year, by the way. As opposed to life 200 years ago.
So how big is the issue then…you that's right…you don't know…but keep attempting to minimize it in your own mind, as it makes no difference what you or I think…
There is however a bounty of actual scientific evidence built up over many decades and growing…
Manufacturers do not publish or share data…as you say… that is a problem…because it is the basis of the entire fabrication surrounding vaccine science, and would open manufacturers up to even greater scrutiny…actually it would be the end of the pharma industry…that ship is sinking quickly enough already on its own…it has already sunk…without sharing the data…
Staying out of court is all that matters to the vaccine manufacturers…which is why Merck have stalled for the last 8 years seeking to keep details of the mumps component of MMR statistical fraud from seeing a courtroom…oh you didn't know about the two merck researchers and mumps stats lies…
…manages to save millions of lives every year...good luck proving that…or even providing evidence that is not fabricated on the back of statistical lies and fluid AEFI classifications…
…opposed to life 200 years ago… my oh my…that really is all you have!
Edit: Not withstanding HHS has failed for 32 years…that’s 16 times it has broken federal law by not submitting biannual reports to congress detailing improvement to vaccine safety…
You want to shit on current medical practise, you compare it with the situation before we had it. That's what irks me about your little rants. In the last thirty years SUDI/SIDS/"cot death" has decreased by something like 75% in NZ. That's thousands of deaths prevented in the last 20 years from one cause in NZ alone, saved by population research, animal experiments, clinicians and public health workers.
And your bleating about vaccination stands in the face of our current causes of death, so rather than asking about congressional reports nobody cares about and were probably politically horse-traded by the inbred member for the 3rd district, maybe you should invent a better disease prevention tool to take the place of vaccination.
Other commenters have valid concerns about individual agency and the way some things are done, but they usually also have a pretty good idea of how to fix it. You're just someone who feels good by pretending everyone and everything else is
shitsorry "working at a lower level".Firstly, and so you are under no illusion. I have not forgotten that insult you threw at me a while back…you know the one I am talking about…or have you blanked it?
That you feel empowered enough to be responding to my comments after that is a strong indication of who you are as an individual. Shall I remind you what that insult was ?
I am responding to you, is an indication of who I am. See if you can wrap your head around that before you think about reverting to type.
So, in actuality it's the 100% liability free vaccine science industry/pharmaceutical profit model which shits all over the human species as is hindering improvements to current medical practice while people such as yourself seek to make excuses for it…the bleating rests firmly with you…
You've not read the congressional report, and if you had you read it along with a number of the other links I have posted recently, you would understand there is a serious set of problems which are now coming out in no uncertain terms…and they will continue to sink the entire industry…real science will see to that…
But instead you want to generalise and dismiss 32 years of federal law breaking by the HHS…and your seemingly comfortable enough with the law breaking of federal agencies who are running interference for the pharmaceutical industry…because you're apparently comfortable with modern medical practice…
As for the last paragraph…yeah I get that you angry little guys like to support each other no matter what level of horridness is in the comments which are pushed out…and when I respond using actual hard evidence linking to serious data…you angry little guys capitulate…
As I said to marty mars elsewhere…we're not all on the same level…that is a complete impossibility…so instead of mouthing off with ignorant abuse and insults against mothers of vaccine damaged and killed children..and those who share information about what is actually going on …
Show some god damn humility and respect to what is a highly sensitive, complex and polarising subject…and read a tonne more material…put in the hours, make some effort and take some responsibility for your shortcomings…
Or stay out of the subject…either way…show the subject some respect.
I remember it, and stand by it.
As for the sort of person you are, I note that you're the sort of person who likes to say things like "I am responding to you, is an indication of who I am." as if incoherence is a substitute for intelligence.
Go look up some old photos of polio wards and iron lungs, then get back to me about “vaccine damage”.
I await your predicted collapse of vaccination with baited breath 🙄
I remember it, and stand by it.
Of course you do, despite another long term commentator, contributer and former moderator of this site pulling you up on it…
No humility, not a shred of it to be found…of course you stand by it…
The sort of person I am… is that I continue to engage with you…but you can't comprehend that level of positivity when presented with it…so you have to use smears laced with your own highly toxic (not so masculine) views…
Go look up some old photos of polio wards and iron lungs, then get back to me about “vaccine damage”.
Only someone who is terribly misinformed and unhealthy could attempt to wave away millions of vaccine damaged children…untold thousands of deaths all measured by a passive voluntary system which captures +/- 1% of damage caused by vaccines globally…that’s only the nations who have such systems….vaccine science…
Dismissing the misery and suffering of families past, present and future all to prove what…that some maimed and dead people are more worthy than other maimed and dead people…seriously, that is what it appears you’re doing…
That you seek to make such a vile comparison illustrates purely who you are…
You're a guy who calls another blogger a rape enabling shit heel…and stands behind it…despite being called out, and told in no uncertain terms you had crossed a line…
That is the type of guy you are!
When I saw RL's comment, I went back, had a think, and yes that's exactly what you were being in that Assange thread. And I explained why.
Please show some basis for your millions and untold thousands line. At least something to indicate you're not just making shit up.
You explained only what enables you to stand by that insult..
Which you made from pure assumptions made up around a belief of my not having been 'trusted'…that's all about you…all of it…
You're like the pharmaceutical vaccine manufacturers…you have created an environmemt from which there is no way to peacefully or respectfully back out of…so you press on relentlessly…
As for your request..it's all out there…do it yourself…I already have…search my comments…do the leg work…I've given plenty of material for you or anyone else to work from…
One Two you clueless Munter, go on post your evidence of millions of vaccine affected children, but I know you won’t, you are a flake & on line clown
[lprent: Less abuse, more content please. Otherwise I may have to release my inner abuser to demonstrate why that behaviour isn’t a good idea (and I’ve had a good 40 years on the net to hone the art properly). ]
Nothing to do with trust, everything to do with your snide innuendo.
And for someone who rants about the scientific method, saying "do it yourself" when asked for evidence of your assertions is hypocritical in the extreme.
…snide innuendo…
As I’ve already said to you multiple times…stop applying your crude emotional interpretations to my comments as validation for your abuse…
…hypocritical in the extreme…
I’ve done the leg work and pointed you to where you can find ample evidence of VAERS failings…there’s another clue for you…
Don’t project your ill disciplined lack of search and comprehension and capability in my direction…
Take responsibility for your own learning…that’s if you’re actually interested …
Which all indications are…that you're not…your comments tell me you're not…
Your tremendous lack of knowledge and misguided comments on this subject are proof that you're not genuinely interested…
Or you’d already have done something about it…years ago…
No evidence or links supplied by One Two, what a surprise – he shows his true colours. Spreads his hilarious rubbish trying to appear knowledgable, but is a person of no real substance.
The funny thing is that if VAERS was as far off as you think that project suggested (and they were only looking at possible adverse events based on subsequent contact with healthcare within 30 days, without actually providing a baseline for that figure), why is it that every other adverse event reporting system shows similarly high levels of safety, and lower levels of safety for similar specific vaccines? Often using the same reporting system as for drugs and medications etc.
Your argument is that every nation and international organisation around the world is failing to detect some sort of epidemic of vaccine-related illnesses that kill thousands and "damage" millions. And that either nobody has noticed or the people that know are deliberately covering it up.
But that's not the only link I've posted to regarding VAERS…its failings and limitations…
+/- 1% at best…
30 days is almost the longest vaccine pre licensure testing cycle of any CDC scheduled vaccine…if you knew that would wouldn't believe it was a failing of the study…
Most pre licensure testing cycles were single figure days with no follow up at all…
None of which were tested against an inert placebo control group..all were FDA approved…after which time they can't ever be tested against an inert placebo control group..
Completely unscientific…
…failing to detect some sort of epidemic…
* Trained to detect what?
* Adverse reactions. Which type…defined by who ?
* Logging identified adverse reactions into what/when/how well…
Shed loads of highly qualified professional medical people and other professional industry people have noticed…and more are making the realization every day that kids get sicker…more illness and disease…disorders and symptoms are considered normal..it's not…
The NVICP has paid out $4bn in compensation…Aus/Nz have no such scheme…
FDA/CDC/Pharma have a long legacy of cover ups…FDA had an off record database holding 1.1m adverse reactions from medical devices hidden from medical professionals researchers and the public…look it up…
All the big players have form…that is undeniable as it is abundantly documented.
For those who put in the time.
You're just making unsubstantiated assertions now.
I can do that, too.
Everything you wrote is wrong.
McFlock
enjoying the lengthy rants from one two? He is a bona fide crazy, would be happier living in the Middle Ages with a witches poultice as treatment for disease.
I suspect he is into Tarot card reading, Feng Shui & other weird stuff, probably got a homeopathy stand at the local market
lol nah, 1-2 just reads the matrix and cures everything with the power of their own ego.
Trouble is, if you leave them in a little echo chamber too long, less stupid people might end up believing that shit. Because people would rather believe some numpty on the interwebz than get their shots, and then we're all endangered
Given One Two’s irrational fear of wi-fi radiation, he must be fully dressed in a tin foil suit doing such lengthy posts. This could be quite uncomfortable which may explain why he gets so rat-eye doing his posts.
Trouble is, if you leave them in a little echo chamber too long, less stupid people might end up believing that shit.
Fuck yes. Thank you for taking the trouble.
less stupid people might end up believing…
Many folks are much smarter than you…or I…and they sure don't need you're patronizing and mysogenistic concerns…
…and then we're all endangered…
Are you serious with that comment…be honest now…do you stand by that comment?
Despite proven:
Provide evidence to show how we're all endangered by unvaccinated human beings…
No bold type so it can't be true
Can't get it work 😉
Like your arguments
Which sail over your head.. 🙂
But only because my head isn't up your arse, where you pull your logic from.
[lprent: Constrain yourself to robust argument – you know what happens when you don’t. ]
Absolutely
"Which still manages to save millions of people every year,…"
Such a pity about the 1/4 of a million the modern medical profession manages to kill.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html
Yes, it is a pity.
You know why it's the third largest? Because polio, poxes, tuberculosis, cholera, and a variety of other causes have been vastly reduced.
Reduced largely due to clean water supply, city scale sanitation, pest control, warmer homes and safer food supplies. The massive increases in life expectancy the last century were much more to do with relatively mundane engineering than medical magic.
I'm not unappreciative of what modern medicine does for us; for acute illness and severe accidents it can and does perform miracles. Yet for the great chronic killers, cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes and dementia progress is much less stellar.
I mean, what have the Romans ever done for us?
City water supply – oh, some of that would be down to the physician John Snow who demonstrated that cholera was waterborne, not distributed by bad air. Broke off a pump handle.
The solutions might have been mundane engineering (although the London sewers have some really nice tweaks in the original designs – there's some detail in there), but for the solutions to work out of anything more than coincidence, you need to know the mechanisms of ill health.
City sanitation is definitely a contributor to public health, but that would mostly be gastro and rabies sorts of thing. The major improvements to health were antibiotics and vaccines, with some military-oriented things like dietary analysis and blood transfusion.
There have been some pretty massive advances against chronic conditions over the last 20 years (e.g. cancer survival rates are improving), but unless you get hit by a truck you have to die of something non-injury related.
Vaccines are not health improving…you're confused and incorrect…
You're either poorly educated, poorly trained …certainly poorly informed…there is no excuse for it in this day and age whatever your constraints are…
<em>know the mechanisms of ill health…</em>
Sure…but that changes nothing about the truth behind Reds comment…sanitation and plumbing and nutrition did more than vaccines ever have…
Look up the graphs…disease deaths rapidly declined before vaccines were available…almost across the board…
How's your smallpox been lately?
How are you even challenging my comments with that level of thought…
In your opinion…an honest one if you can muster it…
Does a single comment you've made refute or alter any of the links I've been posting…
I'll be posting many more on this subject…suggest you go through my comments and read some of the linked detail…understand it…grasp it…comprehend the information…
I've not even got moving yet…
[lprent: Don’t try to play the internet victim card. Or I’ll see about making you understand the difference between playing a victim and actually being one. And I will do it critically looking at what you say and what it says about you.
I’d probably start by criticising the value of your selected links for your topic. In my opinion, a brief scan of them shows that about third are unrelated to the topic, another third are from sources and that I’d class as dubious, and most of the remainder don’t really support your argument because you don’t seem to understand what the papers were looking at. Unconvincing.
But I do like to educate people about the limits of the net, usually by echoing their own style back at them – just done more precisely ]
Your movement is there for all to see. Sitting there, in the middle of the room.
You're going to cut&paste paragraphs and sections that criticise some aspects of modern healthcare but ignore the wider context of the articles that you take those criticisms from, usually without any links so people can easily see what the articles actually say as a complete work.
You will also avoid any impulse to acknowledge the demonstrable benefits of the modern healthcare that has enabled many people reading this blog to be alive today. And you will continue to shit on one of the most effective and least harmful health interventions ever developed by humans.
And you'll do this knowing that every lazy cut&paste you throw out will take work to find the source, read it, actually understand it (and effort you happily avoid), figure out that you're treating serious adverse effects as possible adverse effects and vice versa, and then compose that as a response… which you will fail to understand and then ignore with some trite dismissal.
So your intense stupidity and your undeserved ego act in a mutually-defensive symbiosis, each protecting the other from getting through to you what a complete dropkick you really are.
+/- 1% Mcflock…
Do the numbers by searching the VAERS DB…what there is to search anyway…
Alongside that check into the changing of AEFI classifications and other methods employed to deflect injury and deaths away from the vaccines…lot's of word play…not mine…the vaccine science industry's…
Even if I did understand as little as what you wish I do…it would still be easy enough to identify the fraudulant illegal activities…
Being able read would be enough…which is why I know you're not serious…
Because you can obviously read…
ill see about making you understand the difference between playing the victim and being one..
Come of it…that is simply not necessary at all…I've been posting in good faith on this subject…I always seek to comment in good faith…
personally I'd start by criticising the value of your selected links
Lprent…go right ahead..it would make a change from the present level of responses…
Although given your misread of Rosemarys comment which I replied to you on, you'll want to do more than be skim reading…
What argument am I making…and how are the links not supporting it?
Remember your BCG immunisation? I do, and I've not had TB once. Result.
Be sure to post the method used to prove the vaccine prevented you getting TB…
Or that it will prevent you ever catching TB…
Or that it's not responsible for some other future illness you may contract…
Oh…you can’t…neither can vaccine manufacturers…becsuse it was never tested that way…
You are asking him to prove a negative. That is impossible. The mere fact he hasn’t had TB in about 40 years will never be a proof despite the minor prevalence of Tb in NZ (or its prevalence wherever he travelled). You can’t prove that it didn’t confer immunity either.
in short you are acting like an ignorant dimwit trying to define an impossible test.
I really don’t like game playing dickheads, would you like me to prove that, or are you going to tone down.
Both mcflock and alien were talking about proving negatives…
You understand thats what their comments were doing regarding smallpox and TB…right?
I don't really like game playing dickheads…would you like me to prove that…
Firstly, this is not a subject I play games with and if you'd done more than skim read you would see I've actually stated as much…
Secondly, can you ease off with the abuse and threats of bullying…there is more than enough going around without you piling in as well…
Ready to discuss in a respectful manner with you, anytime…but that needs to go both ways…
Be sure to post all the evidence you have that getting a BCG jab at 12 will be responsible for a future illness I haven't yet contracted at 52. lol
Such a pity about the 1/4 of a million the modern medical profession manages to kill.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. How about giving some thanks for the good instead of berating the good for not being perfect?
I'd be dead twice over already without the modern medical profession, and if one of those medical professionals fucks up the next time and kills me, I'll still have lived decades longer than I would have otherwise. The people who'd prefer nature got to take its course with me back in the 80s can go fuck themselves.
Nationals Aparthied Game
them and us
As you are all aware, the Wealthy Goons we call National, thump their chests like Gorillas and shit like Monkeys. Why? because they are Monkeys. They do no work. They steal from the Poor.
It is even said that they don't pay a lot of Taxes. Their Accountants make sure they don’t't have to. They do give heaps of Gaming Machines to their chosen Monkey friends.
The Gorillars also make sure that the general New Zealand Public pay Tax on every purchase they make.
Any how, I am beginning to think that the Gorillas – Collins and Company for instance, should take their foot off the necks of the Impoverished New Zeland Population.
The Poor in NZ pay 15% of whatever they Purchase to the Government. It used to be less than that. But one of the Gorillas (you know him well) shoved the Fee up to 15% – so he could hurt the Poor even more. Billy English laughed all the way home. He loves hurt.
I am proposing that from the First day of Spring 2019, the impoverished Sector of New Zealand have no Purchase Tax ( GST) imposed upon them. None. Zilch. Nothing.
I mean when a family is facing paying $17 dollars for a block of low level Cheese (Fonterra muck) it is about time low level people like most of us, get a break.
To be fair to the Gorrillas who are not like ordinary men ,and who proudly declare they are wealthy because they work their fat bellies off on cruises and dodgy property sales, we will offer a GST.
Now, as Wealthy people are frequently reluctant to pay anything that resembles a tax, we will Give the wealthy Gorillas a GST of 75%, based on their earnings over the past nine years.
Like as the wealthy Gorrilas set out to impoverish the poor, we will set out to help the Fat Cats and fat Gorillas to trim down a bit of their offensive guts.
the GST will apply to every Purchase made. That is why it is called a GST.
I am sure it will please the the Goons- no end. It will be a nice farewell to devious Mr Roger Nomics.
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[lprent: I see that I need to trailing whitespace cleanup with the the new editor. ]
A programmer's life is terrible hard, and his work is never done.
Microsoft becomes third listed US firm to be valued at $1tn
Company beat sales and profit expectations to join Apple and Amazon in prestigious club
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/25/microsoft-becomes-third-listed-us-firm-to-be-valued-at-1tn
Most of these companies are propped up by mum and dad super funds looking for a perch. That is what is pushing values askew.
I think the phrase should have been "Microsoft becomes third listed US firm to have been valued at $1tn".
At close of business Apple had a Market Cap of $967 billion, Amazon $936 billion and Microsoft $991 billion. You really have to feel story for Mr Bezos et al, don't you?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/25/greta-thunberg-autism-spectrum-critics
Like Greta Thunberg, I am on the autism spectrum. She gives me hope
Charlie Hancock
Rarely have I identified with anything so strongly as when I listened to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Nobel peace prize nominee, talking to Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Like her, I have been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, and it is rare that women like me appear in the media.
Yet Thunberg’s rise to prominence has been accompanied by a kind of thoughtlessness and intolerance that you might have expected society to have moved beyond.
Spiked’s editor, Brendan O’Neill, seized upon autistic traits Thunberg exhibits, such as her “monotone voice” and forthright manner, to liken her to a “cult member”, in an attempt to delegitimise her message.
In an even more spiteful example, a glib tweet by the Australian writer and lawyer Helen Dale called for Andrew Neil to interview Thunberg with such ferocity that it causes her to “have a meltdown on national telly”. This strongly implies that there are those who want not only to humiliate her but to cause her great emotional distress.
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Are you suprised? Vested interests will gleefully throw children into a threshing machine if they genuinely believe it will protect their ill-gotten gains and/or maintain the comfortable status quo. There is no low they will not stoop to because they don't care about anyone other than themselves and those like them.
In regard to climate change, their philosophy seems to be, "By the time the shit really hits the fan, I'll be dead. And my pampered offspring will be safely ensconced inside the Armageddon bunker I've spent torrents of cash constructing. Fuck the rest of the humanity."
And later news:
When the Hunkdead family bunker was finally entered after a decade of no communication, the bodies of the family were found dehydrated in blood-splattered rooms, the result of an apparent rampage of the patriarch of the family who killed himself with one of the two guns he was holding.
Ever since Trump, those who enjoy "Pecking the chicken which is different" feel justified in so doing. Many examples are appearing. The situation you described and Destiny Church blasting the Mosque with loudspeakers "Claiming Christchurch."
These people have always been there, but IMO Trump and other antisocial events have made it normal, sadly.
Just a Midday Greeting , best wishes and Aroha to the parents of the 440 children in Napier/Hastings who slept in motels last night, cramped into unsuitable rooms, with their humble possessions. And who are probably dreading tonights sleeping arrangements.
I can’t even imagine (and certainly no one in power wants to measure) how many children are bedding down at grandparents, Aunts and Uncles houses, out of sheer desperation.
And yet the Hawkes Bay has an amazing economy, the housing market is booming..the question is..do we have a Government willing to take the bull by the horns and restructure the economy so everyone 'benefits'. (Though at what point a roof over ones head became such an elusive 'benefit' I do not know)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12222609
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1903/S00144/economic-snapshot-hawkes-bay-growth-continues.htm
"…do we have a Government willing to take the bull by the horns and restructure the economy so everyone 'benefits'. "
Sadly, no.
Hi Rosemary McDonald
Why don’t't you ask the wealthy for the Money. Put a call into Simon.
The Nationals have untold wealth. But no Heart.
Haven’t seen many on this forum willing to say that. I agree. I’m from the right but would be willing to support Labour if they had the fortitude to make the changes that National were criticised for not making. So far they are good at trying to stay in Government but not so good at making real change.
We don't use bulls these days, the process is too dodgy, physical, fraught with microbes, error possibilities and it's low technology. So no bulls, no horns; we get scientific results from artificial insemination. Really all sexuality is so uncertain in the old ways. In our Brave New World we are improving on Nature. This is sarc/ by the way you stupid believers.
Using motels unfilled capacity to provide housing for NZs homeless. It sounds like an economists smart plan for maximum utilisation of all living spaces in NZ. The sort of thing that communist governments might think of within some five year plan for efficient use of assets.
There is talk Labour are considering relaxing their Budget Responsibility Rules to help compensate for their abandonment of a comprehensive CGT.
However, failing to address the fairness in our tax system leaves those (not making vast tax free gains) paying off the burden of borrowing more.
Hi Siobanh
Do you think a National Mongrel Government will do anything for the impoverished children of New Zealand.
They havent done anything – have they? And yet they sell themselves as the Messiah. They have not changed their ugly spots in decades.
"Ther is talk". As the Lyrics of the song "Show Me" in My Fair Lady put it
"Words!Words! Words!
I'm so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you!
Is that all you blighters can do?"
When will the "talk" finish and the action start?
The more time they spend talking, the less time they have to put that talk into action.
It seems, Labour thinks talking buys them time to act. Which would explain all their working groups (talkfests).
And after all that talking, time and time again Labour has shown they largely fail to walk the talk.
9 years in opposition, nearly 2 years in government and they are still talking and working through policy.
Labour had stacks of policy and lost two elections, so had to rethink a lot of it because it obviously wasn't selling.
From memory, they have made more changes in party leaders than they have in policy.
Since Clark, Labour has had Goff, Shearer, Cunliffe, Little and now Ardern – 5 in 9 years is quite a few, but more than 5 policies have come and gone in that time.
Dropping removing GST off food.
The turnaround on the TPP.
Dropping Kiwi insure.
Dropping a CGT.
Dropping compulsory Kiwisaver.
Above are 5 that come to mind. Care to list some more?
"nearly 2 years in government" – you spinner! Exactly one-and-a-half years, actually.
"Labour are considering relaxing their Budget Responsibility Rules to help compensate for their abandonment of a comprehensive CGT."
Do you get paid to repeat the same talking points day after day? Had this discussion already.
Trusting, naive young female v young jocks. Expose by hacker Anonymous.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2019/apr/18/anonymous-comes-to-town-how-hackers-took-on-high-school-sexual-assault-in-ohio
We're not bad people. This is not us. Calls from those who haven't ever reflected on the health of society's mind. Doesn't do to not think on one's own moral integrity as well.
One from the past. A town closed round and attempted to grow over its sore. The young woman's murderers were known from practically the next day, but there was an unwillingness to show integrity and respect from the whites to the Indian family involved. Only determination to bring justice for the death in 1971 brought the case to trial in 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Betty_Osborne
View at Medium.com
Book – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25800893-betty
Tv film – (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGSiu9G0Vc
https://ssjournals.com/index.php/ijbr/article/download/3040/2228/
VAERS Reporting System Globally:
In these countries AEFI data is mainly collected through spontaneous (voluntary) reporting from doctors .
Bad quality data is reported into voluntary global reporting systems which only capture a fraction of adverse events from around the world.
What point are you trying to make Phil ?
They Are Not Us.
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Programme received $22 million in 2017 to investigate UFO's, and now the US Navy is drafting new guidelines for reporting them.
We've followed and filmed them: "The aircraft was capable of “advanced acceleration, aerodynamic and propulsion capability”
https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/9k8kaz/the-pentagon-released-new-documents-about-the-tic-tac-ufo
There are various accounts of 'tic-tac' like craft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident
"Recently, unidentified aircraft entered military-designated airspace multiple times per month.
"We want to get to the bottom of this. We need to determine who's doing it, where it's coming from and what their intent is. We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again.""
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/112255287/ufo-sightings-from-pilots-on-the-rise-pushing-us-navy-to-investigate
These craft are said to 'operate outside the laws of physics' e.g. tremendous velocity but no exhaust port, turn on a dime at high speed. As physics is the model humans use to make clever stuff – the designers of these craft are not us.
The US navy is gunning to gun one down: 'aircraft entering designated air space […] We need to try to find ways to prevent it from happening again'.
Somebody needs to tell the aliens the rules on US airspace (all the airspace are us) before these trigger-happy rednecks start an interplanetary incident.
It's obvious that If Trump were to meet Alf he'd kill him for doing Trumps hair better than Trump. We are not alone in the universe. Can we make it to a meet and greet – before a war?
I can't read all that serious stuff. But I saw that bit about Alf and Trump's hair. Lol.
What gets me WTB is that while it would seem that US military pilots are desperate for their bosses at the Pantygon to take their reports of encounters with UFOs seriously, 'the media'…and almost all of them…seem determined to present the issue as a joke. Complete with cartoon flying saucers.
Luckily it appears there will be a worldwide clamp down on what stories appear in front of the common people…we will be saved from having to decide for ourselves if we think claims such as the pilots are making are plausible.
Media's always been controlled – the internet gave some respite from that. Back in the day the trick was to only have bibles, and them in Latin. Let the peasants work that out!
For sure they'll want to police the internet better.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379284/ufo-group-in-partnership-with-chilean-government-sightings-on-rise
Note how the '78 Kaikoura phenomena "appeared on Wellington Air Traffic Control radar, on the aircraft radar". "A report by authorities later dismissed the giant orbs as possibly reflected lights from squid boats."
I suspect the report failed to explain how lights from squid boats appeared on both radar screens. I suspect nobody in the media ran a story featuring a scientist explaining how light can appear as an object on a radar screen. I suspect no scientists were even asked. Could be due to the general view that radar waves bounce off solid objects, eh?
Why would an official report insult everyone's intelligence in this manner? Muldoon probably told them to. "Kiwis are as thick as pig-shit. They'll swallow anything."
RNZ newsreader earlier mentioned that there's been a big upswing in sightings since 2014. Think it referred to official sightings, what's more. This seems to support that:
"Since 2014, these intrusions have been happening on a regular basis," Joseph Gradisher, spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told The Washington Post on Wednesday."
"Recently, unidentified aircraft entered military-designated airspace as often as multiple times per month." Security chiefs must be seriously spooked!
Military pilots who have reported seeing these aircraft say they have "no air intake" "and no exhaust". Not burning fossil fuels equals Green tech, eh? Little Green Men! Trying to be helpful: "Hey, copy this!"
Chris Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and a staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the strange aircraft "seem to exceed our aircraft in speed". All the ace-dude jet pilots are probably in a collective funk after being out-buzzed by the LGMs.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12225228
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/unauthorized-aircraft-sightings-lead-navy-develop-ufo-reporting/story?id=62625928
Synchronicity, archetype, Jung, UFO sightings and alien abductions. Alternatively, lack of oxygen to the brain: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a14939840/a-10-hypoxia/
BTW, how’s the laptop, Dennis?
They brought children to their pro-plague party. FFS
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/440567-hundreds-of-anti-vax-families-pile-into-california-capitol-in-protest-of
Joe, are you going to keep running with abusive and deeply mysogonistic comments?
You have proven not to understand the fundamentals of the vaccine discussion yet you continue to insult and abuse every parent globally who has and can testitfy to their child having been maimed, damaged or killed by vaccines…
Why are you continuing on in such a manner ?
Instead of throwing abusive insults and running away…perhaps you could uplift your understanding on the issues ….
Would you like to continue ?
Do fuck off.
And you would say the same to every parent globally who has had a child maimed, damaged or killed by vaccines, would you?
Keep going…or run…again?
I lived through a polio epidemic that claimed the lives of neighbours and afflicted close family with life long disabilities disabilities.
So would you mind fucking yourself, you supercilious shit. Ta.
[lprent: I’d not suggest continuing in this vein. ]
That's no excuse for the abusive, insulting and mysogonistic comments you continue to post on the subject….
What is it that you are so fearful of which compels you to remain willfully ignorant?
As I've previously explained how confirmation bias works Joe…your twisted feeds are the consequence of your twisted bias…
As your feed includes such low grade sites such as TH…have another link from the same site…did your feed send you this article…nah…course not.
https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/295562-if-only-half-of-america-is-properly-vaccinated-where-are-the
If only half of America is properly vaccinated, where are the epidemics?
Below are comments I have recently posted.
https://khn.org/news/hidden-fda-database-medical-device-injuries-malfunctions
FDA Hiding Adverse Reaction Data
The FDA has built and expanded a vast and hidden repository of reports on device-related injuries and malfunctions
Since 2016, at least 1.1 million incidents have flowed into the internal “alternative summary reporting” repository, instead of being described individually in the widely scrutinized public database known as MAUDE, which medical experts trust to identify problems that could put patients in jeopardy.
Yet the program, in all its iterations, has been so obscure that it is unknown to many of the doctors and engineers dedicated to improving device safety. Even a former FDA commissioner said he knew nothing of the program.
“The public has a right to know about this,” said Dr. S. Lori Brown, a former FDA official who accessed the data for her research. She said doctors relying just on the public reports — and unaware that many incidents may be omitted — can easily reach the wrong conclusion about the safety record of a particular device.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2109855?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2109848
Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration:
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature
For each of the 57 remaining trials, 1 or more FDA inspections of a trial site had uncovered evidence of significant departures from good clinical practice, such as under reporting of adverse events, violations of protocol, violations of recruitment guidelines, and various forms of scientific misconduct.
* falsification or submission of false information,
* 22 trials (39%); problems with adverse events reporting,
* 14 trials (25%); protocol violations,
* 42 trials (74%); inadequate or inaccurate record keeping,
* 35 trials (61%); failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent,
* 30 trials (53%); and violations not otherwise categorized,
* 20 trials (35%). Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection.
No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.
https://ssjournals.com/index.php/ijbr/article/download/3040/2228/
VAERS Reporting System Globally:
In these countries AEFI data is mainly collected through spontaneous (voluntary) reporting from doctors .
Bad quality data is reported into voluntary global reporting systems which only capture a fraction of adverse events from around the world.
The argument for herd immunity was actually developed out of observations of natural immunity, not vaccination. Statisticians observed that populations were protected when sufficient members contracted the wild form of a disease, and subsequently acquired lifelong immunity. With vaccines, however, evidence shows that unvaccinated children may catch infectious diseases from vaccinated children. What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
Gosh, Science! And, Statistics!
(They still won't be able to break away from the herd One Two. I think you're asking too much.)
Actually, the latter part of quoted statement is false and appears to be a case of deliberate lying.
This is the carrier problem, one of those things that simpletons don't usually understand too well – and therefore a quite common myth amongst anti-vaxxers.
Vaccines or even previous exposure don't kill all instances of a bacterium or virus in a body. What they do is to assist the bodies natural defenses in keeping the volume of a particular population of and organism down below the point of explosive growth.
So yes, if a unvaccinated person is exposed to a vaccinated person, they can get exposed to the organism and it will start breeding.
However exactly the same thing happens in herd animals as well. The statement :-
What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
is a simple lie.
It is pretty obvious even to a simpleton if they care to think about it. Unlike modern humans, most herd animals have two distinguishing characteristics as populations:-
* They don't usually move out of the herd or local family or herds. Which means that they don't meet others carrying organisms that they don't have immunity from.
* They have much shorter lives and faster breeding cycles than humans do. Which means that any immunities that are passed to them from their lactating mother tend to be stronger over their lifetime.
So when looking at herds you're looking at a population awash with the small concentrations of diseases and a high natural immunity because everyone is exposed to the same diseases all of the time. A good example is cowpox which is endemic in most populations of cattle, but only affects new populations or human hand milkers.
As you'd expect when a new disease is introduced from outside of the local herds, then you tend to find rapid decreases in population (think of foot and mouth disease amongst cattle) and the residual population getting a strong immunity and passing it to their progeny.
Whereas humans may have gained immunity the hard way many decades before having a kid and simply don’t pass all of their own weakened immunities to the kids.
Wide vaccination increases the immunity in the small herds at schools and therefore keeps the population density of bugs down regardless of the varying degrees of immunity amongst that population.
What is true of natural immunity is not true of vaccination.
I would suggest Rosemary is referring to natural immunity as in catching a strain of the virus which circulates outside of the lab created strains…
Catching such a virus strain leads to full cell immunity which confers lifetime immunity…
Vaccine induced immunity does not, is not and cannot create lifetime immunity…
What vaccine strains of a virus can and do leave, is tell-tale signs of identifiable vaccinated human beings for whom vaccination has failed, or has worn off…
The lie you're searching for is vaccine induced herd immunity as it applies to human beings… I've provided a link elsewhere…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8053748
Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination. Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunized persons. – PubMed – NCBI
CONCLUSIONS:
The apparent paradox is that as measles immunization rates rise to high levels in a population, measles becomes a disease of immunized persons.
Because of the failure rate of the vaccine and the unique transmissibility of the measles virus, the currently available measles vaccine, used in a single-dose strategy, is unlikely to completely eliminate measles.
The long-term success of a two-dose strategy to eliminate measles remains to be determined.
MMR is now considered a 3 dose vaccine, because the 2 dose recommendation is failing.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/188c/7776c60f21b4b9a6dfbbe65ed5f29e3821a1.pdf
Herd Immunity and Immunization Policy: The Importance of Accuracy
My conclusion One Two is that you are killing us with statistics as your authority. Statistics relying on statistics and each repetition weakens the brain, yours, because someone died, and ours because …
Speak only for yourself, gw..
And don't be projecting your lack of understanding towards my commentary…
You don't get it…that's fine…
You get it she doesn’t. She believes everything on the internet she wants to believe. She’ll quote stuff that’s been disproved and come from like minded people who refuse to believe the information put forward by every government in the world. She’s a flat earther that will live on the back of all those around her that are vaccinated. But worst of all like the modern terrorist she spreads her unsubstantiated information like poison for others to take. She is entitled to her opinion but not to preach her miss information which does irreparable harm to others.
MMR in two doses as per recommendation protects around 99% of persons who are vaccinated.
Once again what point are you trying to make posting that paper from 1994 ?
Actually, we don't really know how many people MMR or any other vaccine truly protects because we only count how many vaccines are given not if they are effective. You may have had two MMR vaccines but still not have any immunity, unless you are tested you will never know. Officially all vaccines have a failure rate, it varies from vaccine to vaccine but none of them claim 99% efficacy.
Part of the problem is that none of the vaccines currently on the schedule have been through true double blind testing which means there are a lot of unanswered questions.
The mumps component is 88% effective after 2 doses, and even then…
" Mumps outbreaks can still occur in highly vaccinated U.S. communities, particularly in settings where people have close, prolonged contact, such as universities and close-knit communities. During an outbreak, public health authorities may recommend an additional dose of MMR for people who belong to groups at increased risk for mumps. An additional dose can help improve protection against mumps disease and related complications. "
(dated March 2019)
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
Lots of "mays" and "cans"….this is not an exact science.
However….to address OneTwo's original comment regarding the veracity of the 'adverse events' register at the FDA????
Many vaccines are being tested by being administered to large populations…too many adverse events and the vaccine will be pulled…maybe, eventually, if our children are lucky.
And more importantly if the adverse event was actually reported and investigated…
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/165/6/704/63700
" Subsequent epidemiologic studies using laboratory- and hospital-identified cases of aseptic meningitis linked to MMR vaccination records established that the true risk of MMR-associated aseptic meningitis was substantially higher than previously thought (∼1 in 10,000–15,000 doses) and was exclusively related to the Urabe mumps strain in the vaccine (4–6). Furthermore, there was an increased risk of hospital admission for febrile convulsion 15–35 days after receipt of a Urabe-containing MMR vaccine (an attributable risk of approximately 1 in 1,500 doses), indicating that the real risk of acute neurologic consequences from the Urabe mumps component of MMR was underestimated when using case ascertainment methods that were reliant on laboratory investigations (5).
Edit….what is euphemistically called ‘vaccine hesitancy’ could have been largely avoided had shit like this not been covered up. Parents noticed neurologic changes in their children after the MMR and were told that there was no causal relationship and the fever and meningitis were coincidental. These (mostly) mothers were treated like simpletons. It is a wonder that the vaccination rates are as high as they are. Most of us, despite ‘knowing’ there was a problem with MMR went on and vaccinated our children for other diseases.
Have you any idea how old the MMR vaccine is?
MMR has never been tested against an inert placebo control group…ever…99% is an absolute fabrication…
Having had 100% of liability removed from the manufacturers in 1986 , the motivation to improve vaccine safety was gone when legal liability was 100% transferred to the US taxpayers…
The motivation to introduce more vaccines without the headache of regulatory rigour was greatly increased…so the liability free vaccine manufacturers set about expanding the CDC vaccine schedule…
Taxpayers also fund the DOJ lawyers to defend the vaccine manufacturers under the NVICP against children who have been damaged for killed by vaccines…
Taxpayers also fund the 75 cents per vaccine dose which provides funding of NVICP payouts (currently over $4bn) via the largest purchaser of vaccines in the western world…the taxpayer funded CDC…
Vaccine science…the antithesis of science.
The above vein requires letting. Please moderator can tiresome people with their sanctimonious messages be outed for a while and give us a break. I really despise the way that they push people here with a flood of spurious information to irritation and beyond, and then go all superior when it prompts a caution. They should be cautioned together, and that would solve the problem. Cooling off time for the endless wa….rs. I have given up following their endless barrage.
Spurious?
Prove it.
Prove that there were no issues at all with the early MMR vaccine containing the Urabe strain of mumps.
And provide an actual argument to refute my assertion that a lack of honesty and transparency from our health officials over vaccine adverse events have caused the mistrust that leads to the very small number of people who refuse all vaccines.
Demanding that people whose interests and knowledge do not coincide with your own are banned smacks of….?
Rosemary, I believe that comment from gw was aimed at me…
It has been an unfortunate regression to observe gw's commentary decline in recent times…
When at his best he is one of the very best around this blog site…
I asked him a week or two ago if he was ok…didn't get a response…
That comment indicates he may not be very well…hopefully that is not the case…
They're legislating for forced medical treatment, FFS.
What you're looking at there is people exercising their democratic right to participate actively in politics.
If this were about say, climate change, would you have problems with them bringing the kids along?
SB277
California already has Rosemary, and there are currently bills passing through numerous states , every single one authored by the pharmaceutical industry seeking to remove the fundamental right of bodily autonomy, and seek to force mandate the remaining few % of children in the USA who are not currently vaccinated…
And these same folks, including those here who shout out about herd immunity (which is a mathematical theory plagiarized from naturally occurring immunity), are now admitting that theory is complete fallacy, while now, the perverse irony is that the so called immuno compromised…would also losing their exempt status by also being force vaccinated…
There public banning of unvaccinated under 18’s in Rockland country was over turned by a supreme court judge… and so will any further judgement…
Meanwhile Merck are 8 years into fighting to prevent the alleged fabrication of efficacy statistics of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine…while a 100% fully vaccinated population on an America Naval vessel is unable to port, because of….mumps…
J90 et al are seemingly completely unaware of they're rallying in favour of…
Question.
Why is it that one cannot get an English Measles only vaccine?
You used to, until the early-mid eighties, then that option was off the table.
Despite the issues with MMR… that we now know to be likely caused by the Urabe strain of mumps?
The official line is to make it more efficient to vaccinate higher percentages of naive immune systems in a single visit…
In commercial reality it will be about cost reductions
Japan (‘strongest health outcomes on earth’, and no mandatory vaccinations) for example has individual (measles, mumps and Rubella) vaccines resulting from the well documented historical issues within their population resulting from the MMR vaccine…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300546/
A Review of Factors Affecting Vaccine Preventable Disease in Japan
Note the mumps stats in the table (‘japan’ believes that mumps is less dangerous than the MMR vaccine) and in using ‘vaccine preventable disease VPD’ as a measure of a nations health…completely warps the metrics versus USA table…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8053748
Failure to reach the goal of measles elimination. Apparent paradox of measles infections in immunized persons. – PubMed – NCBI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483914/
Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking: The Case of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination
How come the BBC has nobody as capable as this young man?
Shirley Smith legal counsel to many low-payers, partner to Bill Sutch, whose life seems opaque to me.
This review of her biography is good and the book sounds enormously interesting.http://books.scoop.co.nz/2019/04/24/woman-in-law/
Shirley Smith: an examined life
by Sarah Gaitanos (Victoria University Press, $40). 464 pages.
Reviewed by Simon Nathan
This new biography of Shirley Smith (1916-2007) is an example of an unusual life, skilfully narrated by Sarah Gaitanos.
Although she showed an early interest in studying law, this was vetoed by her father, who felt that it was no profession for a woman. Instead she studied classics at Oxford in the late 1930s. Her social conscience was aroused by the gathering political storms in Europe, and she joined the Communist Party. The atmosphere of the times is nicely evoked by the recent movie, “Red Joan”. In later years Shirley confided that she was so thankful that she was at Oxford rather than Cambridge, where she might have been recruited as a potential spy.
When the story is written, the Greedy Nationals will come out as utter Trash.
The sad thing about the Trolls is that they club together to ensure that they will never have to do anything for the welfare of New Zealanders.
They will continue to abuse decent people in Aotearoa – but they will never lift a finger to assist the rebuilding of a stable, proud Population.
Why? Because, Billy English, and Mrs Bennett declared there was no crisis of poverty or housing or income within New Zealand. They got voted out on their asses. Inspiteof offering the Wealthy generous bribes.
The upcoming generation will despise National and count them as imbeciles.
Go get help.
OT seemed firm but fair in that comment.
Fuck off, you clown.
To be fair, in a hundred years I think most if not all our governments over the last 35 years will be regarded in the same light as Forbes&Coates. But some definitely worse than others.
Does there really need to be a comma in that sentence? Might have even been better as, "Clown, off you fuck." Maybe have to get an exclamation mark going though.
When the Story is Written………
fify
Unless you prefer
WHEN THE STORY IS WRITTEN………
Forward looking people despise them already.
OT. Why do you keep on about National when it’s not the current Government. We all know they lost their way in the last two years before the last election. We also know that they had some pretty big expensive problems to deal with in their time as Government, and we know when The Labour coalition took over there was a healthy bank balance for them to use. So why don’t you and your potty mouth try keeping the current Government honest instead of blathering on about National that haven’t been in Government fo two years. The labour coalition has promised a lot, talked a lot and achieved very little to date.
Kia ora The AM Show.
Flooding in Mozambique the poor country's are feeling the effects of climate change.hope not to many people passed in the floods.
I say a roster is a important part of a employees condition and the running a organisation the doctors must get conditions that keep them safe and that will attract new doctors . ???????.
I don't get people who destroy thing for no practical reason the school having a fire.
The people who work in the justices system have had a lot to sweat about in the last couple of years with the reality of the system being CORRUPT and having unfair effects on brown people it's was a cheap solution to a tricky problem I know that there is a lot of positive effects because of this phenomenon .
Our sports stars all OUR stars make our country shine brightly
I say brexit is the big blind stopping every one from seeing the big real problems the Papatuanukue faces YOU SEE Britain still has a major influence on the Papatuanukue seen that's reality Climate change is what is being blinded .
I say Mark is correct we need to have a campaign to tell slow drivers to be polite and pull over to let the drivers that no the road pass . We also NEED more passing lanes so they can be over taken safely.
Fleetwood mack is a good band I listen to back in the day
Ka kite ano welcome back
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Kia kaha to all the Extinction Rebellion peaceful protesters
I based my opinion on climate change on facts and the amount of our truth telling scientists who are tell us the facts with no conflict of interest they just have a love for OUR FUTURE generations and the massive weather events that we are getting NOW.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/28/david-attenborough-documentary-climate-anxiety-bbc
What followed were four months of desperately tracking down and interviewing the people who live on the frontline of climate change. I spoke to scientists who described the so-loud-it-gives-you-whiplash crack of a glacier calving off the Greenland ice shelf. Another told me of the horror he felt when his calculations revealed that the current logging and burning of tropical forests releases more carbon dioxide than our remaining forests could possibly absorb. I read detailed and disturbing death threats sent to climate activists to make them go quiet.
I listened to people who have lost their homes and heritage to rising sea levels. I watched countless videos of wildfires ripping through suburbia, and cannot forget the little girl’s voice in the background of one shaky mobile phone recording asking her daddy if she was going to catch fire. Still, the most upsetting videos I saw were of politicians and pundits spreading harmful lies, promoting their own interests at the cost of protecting children from climate change Ka kite ano P.S This is OUR reality WHANAU. Links above
Whanau the Australian government has dish up a big mess to our Australian tangata whenua cousin . They have it a lot harder than US tangata whenua O Atoearoa they only got to vote 40 years ago they are treated real badly by some Australians and the Government hence going the for a holiday was allways not on because of the way they treat their tangata whenua. The Australian government should compensate THEM.
Gavin Ritchie talks to Guardian Australia about the disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians as part of the Fair Go? series. Ritchie says he was on Newstart and for the past three years he has been on the disability support pension. 'I will always run out of money before my next pay,' he says. 'When I was on Newstart I would pay my rent and I had $320 to last me a fortnight. That's ridiculous'. He says he has trained himself to subsist 'on next to nothing' and recounts the racist abuse he endured as a child. 'Indigenous people anywhere, their rights, their safety, their happiness, I believe, should be of paramount significance to everybody,' he says. 'Billions of dollars have been made in this country in 200 odd years. My people are still chained firmly to the lowest rung in the socioeconomic LADDER Ka kite ano links below
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2019/apr/27/fair-go-gavin-ritchie-on-living-on-next-to-nothing-video
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute .
Whanau it's expensive serviving in Australia
Kia ora Newshub.
Condolences to the Whanau who lost there love in the crash by Ohakuri Road the road are worse in Te tairawhiti.
I seen a story on stuff about the Australian Airports having problems with their smart gates big problems and big waiting lines.
, I, its cold in Rotorua at the minute the Tawhirirmate is just going to get stronger because of you know what .
Come on we already know who is responsible for the mess at stats NZ ational they have no scruples and don't care what carnage they cause.
Wow that was fast that fire at that Australian gas station lucky no one was badly injured. I remember back in the day the skipper lit a smoke an boom his car mat set a light we all jumped out pull the mat out put it out and carried on our journey it was a 1980 mini lol the fire was no more than burning a4 peace of paper lucky
Congratulat to Tim for him being houners for his services to Southland.
That's good that the Pike River familys are going to get some closure on their loved ones lost in the mine explosion on Friday.??????????????????????????.
Condolences to the American Jewish community and those who lost there love ones in that atrocitie at their Church.
Mbovies did not have to be as bad as it is. It is sad that the Money going to IHC charity could be reduced because of the mess. Ka kite ano
Kia ora Newshub..
Free speach is a must in a democract society so that the common people can hold the powerful to account for their actions .
It was cool that The government has got to this stage in the Pike River mine. Yes its all about shonky backing COAL and his bet was WRONG instead of admiting it they decided to cut cost to try and make it work the cost cutting lower the safety standards in the mine operation.
Its not MAORI fault . Of course its poverty that is the main driver of child negligence its in the textbooks around the world . Maori need to look after Maori as love is need not hate to cure this problem .what no one is talking about is the link to PEE that is causing all the bad stats to rise fast.
Eco Maori says that ational deliberately through a curved ball to statistics NZ WHY all the latest stats would have been used to prove that shonky and national gave the wealthy a lolly scramble and the common people got ripped off with I WILL NOT RAISE GST YEA RIGHT. shonky was a control freak there are many things that point to that.
The Papatuanukue largest Ice shelves are melting 10 x faster that what our good scientists pridicted our lives have to change fast to beat climate change. The money people have to look at climate change as a opportunity to make money mitigateing this problem .
Kai pal Sir Tim classic Kiwi bloke get through all the bullshit to get smart solutions to fix simple problems .
I say all councils should have a place to drop off goods that can be given a new life that's the new fad going around Europe at the minute taking pride in having reused goods that is a FAD we need here recycling is COOL to save Papatuanukue .
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