It's foolish to try to look to history for any kind of guide for the likely outcome of the current impeachment drama:
So, what precedent do these impeachment cases provide? Johnson’s removal from office was possible but probably not justified (and thus ill-advised). Nixon’s was both possible and justified (and thus effective). And Clinton’s was neither possible nor justified (and thus farcical). Removing Trump from office over the Ukraine scandal would be different from all of these cases. Unlike in Clinton’s case, the constitutional argument for it looks increasingly powerful: We have fairly damning evidence from the White House itself of a direct conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president about going after Biden. But unlike in Johnson’s and Nixon’s situations, removal is all but guaranteed never to happen—owing to the Republicans’ strong majority in the Senate and a disciplined tribalism of a ferocity that simply didn’t exist in the Nixon era.
I can't yet tell whether impeachment will on balance be negative for Trump's re-election, or will give him a surge of profile and Republican defence that will help him win.
I totally get why Pelosi was so loathe to pull this trigger at all.
I see the principal benefactor as Biden, marginally, because it takes the spotlight completely off Warren.
It's gone beyond the point where realpolitik considerations matter anymore. The turd tornado has become so blatantly outrageous that impeachment proceedings have to begin if there's to be any chance of the rule of law and constitutional oaths continuing to mean anything.
But she finally acted this week because the latest outrage was one outrage too many and to not begin an impeachment investigation would mean that actually, nothing matters anymore.
Worse, to not act would mean that the impeachment remedy built into the US Constitution – as divisive and bloody as it may be – is as good as dead.
It is not dead. And even if impeachment is political suicide for Democrats, they have done the right thing by holding power to account. And that is worth losing everything for.
Surely it's still very likely that he will be impeached, but not be convicted by the Senate, and still run as the only Republican Presidential candidate.
Well, yeah, I've got higher hopes of winning Powerball than seeing Benedict Donald removed from office via conviction in the senate. And the risk of his re-election remains terrifyingly high.
But Nixon was re-elected before any formal impeachment proceedings began in the House. The resolutions calling for impeachment introduced in his first term never went anywhere, and the Watergate break-in didn't happen until June 1972 in the heat of the 1972 election campaign.
I think you are confused over Nixon. You mean Clinton who won after being impeached but not convicted in the Senate.
Impeachment enquirys didnt start for Nixon till after his re-election. It was the break in ( Watergate Blg) before the election that was the trigger issue
"early hours of 17 June 1972, five men attempted to break-in to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex
The election was Nov 1972 , which Nixon won in one of the biggest landslides in US presidential history. but the full details wernt availble till the next year
Nixon didn't last long after he was re-elected. As more evidence came in of his and his team's malfeasance he/they soon became a cropper. He resigned before they pushed him. I predict that is what will happen when it is Trump's turn.
It will happen because he is a dangerous crook in every sense of the word. The problem is… when?
Edit: I see Andre beat me to it. Will leave it here.
I predict that is what will happen when it is Trump's turn.
But if he resigns he loses the shield of the presidency that’s allowed him to dodge indictment on other matters.
He probably wants to cut and run with the excuse that I’m too good for this shit, they don’t deserve me but he doesn’t want the legal woes that come with it.
The Pumpkin Pinochet won't resign until he gets convinced his future includes a lot of orange jumpsuit unless he gets himself a pardon from President Pence. And that's a conversation that will end with "Don't forget to give us all our pardons before you resign, OK Daddy?".
However, the threat of imprisonment for his shoats has faded with the inaction following the Mueller report, and the current crisis is around gross violations of his constitutional oath and obligations of office that require a political remedy, but don't appear to be directly criminally punishable. So that "when" isn't even on the horizon at the moment.
The Democrats, meanwhile, have been pilloried from start to finish: for not impeaching, for impeaching, for impeaching the wrong way or for the wrong reasons. But the truth is that we are in uncharted seas, and there is no easy way to remove a president. In hindsight, it is hard not to conclude that in biding her time Pelosi was waiting to reel Trump in.
…Trump’s pattern of grandiosity, delusions of superiority, profound entitlement, desperate need for admiration, and bitter spite all but guaranteed the outcome: he wouldn’t be able to resist abusing his power, and didn’t. Trump loves to brag that he’s the most successful president in US history – but if he is actually convicted by the Senate and removed from office that will make him, officially, the least.
In hindsight, it is hard not to conclude that in biding her time Pelosi was waiting to reel Trump in.
That imo is precisely what she was doing.
Even if the Senate choose to stymie the process, it will have served to alert the majority of American citizenry (excluding the Trump camp of course) to the extent of the awful corruption inside the White House and the president in particular. In other words it's a good way for the Dems to start their campaign for next year.
Maybe it is the American way,but the Biden's do not pass the sniff test.
"Biden was one of the most vocal champions of anticorruption efforts in the Obama administration. So when this same Biden takes his son with him to China aboard Air Force Two, and within days Hunter joins the board of an investment advisory firm with stakes in China, it does not matter what father and son discussed. Joe Biden has enabled this brand of practice, made it bipartisan orthodoxy. And the ethical standard in these cases—people’s basic understanding of right and wrong—becomes whatever federal law allows. Which is a lot. "
In a general sense, the fact that access to those holding high office is such a lucrative commodity freely sold is indeed unacceptably corrupt.
However, the first point of difference between Drumpfelthinskin and Collins, and Hunter Biden and a Max Key hypothetical, is the former have their trotters directly on the levers of power while the latter do not. That's kinda the difference between a deep dive into the offal pit, a la Black Sheep, compared to just the whiff of dead rat in the wall cavity.
Second, allegations against the Bidens have already been thoroughly investigated, and determined to be non-criminal, both for China and Ukraine. Again, that activity is indeed corrupt, but it was at the less smelly end of the scale that has long been routine in the corridors of power almost everywhere. Furthermore, it's useful to remind ourselves that Stable Genius Junior in particular is still busy leveraging daddy's position to advance Trump Organisation interests all around the world while daddy benefits directly from that activity. In contrast, it’s arguable that the pressure Joe Biden put on Ukraine was in fact detrimental to Hunter’s interests, not beneficial.
" it’s arguable that the pressure Joe Biden put on Ukraine was in fact detrimental to Hunter’s interests, not beneficial"
.It certainly is arguable Andre.
Your sequence of events is at odds with what the prosecutor of the time recollects.
"In a newly sworn affidavit prepared for a European court, Shokin testified that when he was fired in March 2016, he was told the reason was that Biden was unhappy about the Burisma investigation. “The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, a natural gas firm active in Ukraine and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors,” Shokin testified.
No doubt this will get further investigated, and the accuracy or not of this report should help inform Dem primary voter choices starting February 3 next year.
In the meantime, something to consider is: how reliable a source is John Solomon? From wikipedia:
John F. Solomon is an American journalist who is an investigative reporter, a media executive, and a conservative political commentator. He is an editorialist and executive vice president of digital video for The Hill. He was formerly employed as an executive and as editor-in-chief at The Washington Times. While he has won a number of prestigious awards for his investigative journalism, he has also been accused of magnifying small scandals and creating fake controversy.
An affidavit from someone widely reputed to be awesomely corrupt, with an obvious motive for vengeance on someone who played a role in getting him canned. And the affidavit is disputed by a senior Ukrainian who quit, allegedly in disgust because of the corruption.
keep on cherry picking. Andre knows which Ukrainian prosecutors are the good guys and which are the deeply corrupt.The good guys back up his favourite story.
When in fact Ukraine has been riddled with corruption, since for ever,and US administrations of both stripes have found lucrative pickings
The concern must be that impeachment proceedings against Trump maintain the focus on how loathesome he is as individual. This might persuade the electorate that merely getting rid of him and reverting to BAU is sufficient. If that's the case, an historic opportunity will be lost. That opportunity is not merely to implement clever technocratic regulation of capitalism (Warren), but to achieve a re-configuration and democratisation of economic power (Sanders). There is daylight between Sanders and Warren in this respect.
There is precedent for Dems thinking they have a historic opportunity to achieve re-configuration by electing a radical to put up against a personally loathsome and demonstrably criminal Repug president.
That was George McGovern in 1972. How'd that turn out?
I was a teenager when McGovern lost – and I remember the disappointment. The disappointment was compounded shortly after by the end of the Kirk/Rowling government and the ousting of Whitlam. The disappointment did not extinguish the hope.
Sanders will I think be the worst affected out of this.
Warren is weakened but less than Sanders. She needed the cleaner and undisturbed media focus through all the primary challenges.
But I'm not even sure Biden benefits. Maybe he gets more airtime, maybe this stabilizes him at this support level, as people just go for the guy to take Trump out.
No other candidates matter.
The killer is this:
Trump's awesome survival skills over three years have raised the level of damage needed to be politically fatal to higher and higher and higher – so he may well survive impeachment just fine.
"Sanders says as president he would impose a moratorium on nuclear plants as part of his $16.3 trillion climate-change plan. But critics of Sanders say he is ignoring science, so I reached out to James Hansen, the climate scientist whose testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1988 about greenhouse gases causing global warming put the issue on the map.
“It’s time for Bernie Sanders to retire,” Hansen responded in an email. “He truly doesn’t get it. India and China have no prayer of phasing out coal without the help of nuclear power. We burned much of their share of the global carbon budget, and yet we refused to help them with modern nuclear power. Thousands of people PER DAY are dying in India from the pollution…. Not only is he killing people in India, he is screwing my grandchildren,” Hansen wrote. "
"….We have fairly damning evidence from the White House itself of a direct conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president about going after Biden. "
Anyone who has read the conversation transcript with some impartiality would know that it isn't about "going after Biden", but investigating Russiagate.
This media heading sounds interesting. I haven't read it yet but even the heading is a thought that should get out and continue to exercise people's minds. (Saw it on TDB).
Mr Hosie said there was growing concern that Mr Johnson may find a way of circumventing the so-called “Benn Bill” which requires him to seek an extension to the UK’s departure date if no deal has been agreed.
The aim of a no-confidence vote would be to install an interim prime minister who would secure a short Brexit delay and then call a general election.
“We have to do that because there is now no confidence that the prime minister will obey the law and seek the extension that Parliament voted for only a few weeks ago,” he told the Today programme.
“If we are serious about the extension that is the only game in town.”
(Though the Lib Dems still demur from Corbyn – too divisive FGS.)
Old news on Brexit from 24 September – but has a flow chart that pins down options and gives facts about process.
Brexit: What happens now? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46393399
Boris ( amyor of London at the time) nor his friend are police and the work involved was something around 'promoting London'
As well the GLA who did the recommending is a 25 person Assembly with a labour majority. The real strings are pulled by Londons Executive Mayor Sadiq Khan, also from Labour.
In neolib capitalism, when the poor that its systems and (lack of) principles create, they get hated for their discomfort and its outlets of violence and decadence and depression. So the political system doubles-down on the discomforts which increase to unsatisfactory levels for the ones who have and want to keep, so they move out to better climes. In this example of Indianapolis, USA, the people who have – are whites, and those without – are blacks. Which is common I would think; a colour barrier seems to arise. It's time to put effort into helping blacks and enabling all the good things about them to flourish in a background of security, regular work and wages, and to have a lifestyle that can be enjoyed with home, food, medical help, friends, community. What was held up as being the outcome of the modern world.
It’s perhaps America’s largest city with a “Republican” mayor.
Only 20 years ago, the city was nearly 80 percent white.
Only 10 years ago, the city was 67.5 percent white.
Today, it’s roughly 56 percent white.
The reason is simple: the quality of life in Indianapolis regresses to the mean of the majority racial group living in neighborhood, community, zip code… and Indianapolis is quickly regressing to the black mean, with whites fleeing the crime, depreciating property values, failing schools, and higher taxes (because blacks = poverty, someone has to pay for all the entitlement programs) that the black community contributes to the city.
That is an example of the real ‘mean’ of modern political
systems.
Its a common mistake in US and Europe to think the central city council covers the whole urban area. Its more like Auckland was before the first round of amalgamations in 1988 with lots of smaller councils surrounding the 'city'
Los Angeles 'City' is only a large portion of the LA urban area and so on through out the US
What a shameful day, where ignorant children disrespected their elders, cheered on by fools
What a shameful day in our history, where mainly children and young people “protested” about something they have no understanding of and that is mostly nothing but a hoax of proportions never seen before in human history.
Googling "www.averagekiwi.com" brings up a load of old results that appear leftie from the snippets displayed by google, but none of the actual posts appear cached by google. Just a few index pages are cached. Can't be arsed teaching myself one of the internet archiving services to check further on that.
It appears that a few months ago all the old stuff was wiped and these new climate denier trolling posts started coming. Maybe Hosking hijacked the site?
Had Corbyn had said it, the media knives would’ve been out pdq.
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Police said they have been "looking into" comments made by Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Newport last week.
The Brexit Party leader said "we'll take the knife" to "the overpaid pen pushers in Whitehall".
Gwent Police said "following a thorough assessment" the comments do not constitute a criminal offence.
We have received a number of comments and concerns from members of the public regarding a video that is circulating on social media. We can confirm this video relates to a visit by Nigel Farage to The Neon in Newport as part of a Brexit Party rally on the evening of 21st September. We are aware of the heightened tensions that exist regarding use of language, and take all allegations and concerns from members of the public very seriously. However, following a thorough assessment, it is our view that the comments in the video, do not constitute a criminal offence. As such, Gwent Police will not be taking any further action.
– Assistant Chief Constable Rhiannon Kirk
Brexit Party leader made these comments at a rally last Saturday:
When the president of the port of Calais and the boss of the port of Dover tell you they're 100% ready for Brexit in whatever form it comes I suggest we listen to them and not the overpaid pen pushers in Whitehall who are not doing a neutral job and once Brexit's done we'll take the knife to them. I've had enough of all of it.
I saw a link on MSN to a news hub story item with the headline that claimed “Brides would take on Trump”. Clicked on the title changed to
“Bridges says he would have raised climate change with Trump”.
Unlike Jacinda Ardern, Simon Bridges says he would have raised climate change with Donald Trump – even though he doesn't think it's an emergency.
Bridges would not have had a moment to raise anything with Trump as it would be hard for him to talk while he is licking Trump’s shoes to shine them.
The whole story rings so hollow as he dismisses climate change in one sentence but makes out he would talk tough about it to Trump in another. The only person mentioned in the story that has less of a grip on reality than Bridges is Trump.
He would have said to Trump… I agree with you.This Climate Change thing is all a hoax. We need to stick together on this one because they'll ruin the oil and coal industries and that's where our votes come from.
"When she had the chance to raise it with the most important figure in the world, the leader of the free world, the President of the United States – she didn't."
The leader of the free world? God Almighty. I knew Bridges was dumb but that's beyond the pale. Especially after the revelations of the past couple of weeks! If he represents National's finest then heaven help us if they gain the treasury benches again.
When she had the chance to raise it with the most important figures in the world, the leaders of the free world, the members of the United Nations – she did.
FIFY, Mr Bridges. And while we’re on the topic of raising difficult issues with leaders of superpowers, did you raise issues of climate change or human rights during your recent trip to China? Oh, you didn’t, did you? In fact, you buttered them up. Your words sound hollow, Mr Bridges.
To be fair to China, they're doing a shitload more on tackling climate change than we are. So no matter how you look at it, Slimon really doesn't have an incentive to raise that as a topic with China.
Our renewables capacity is a happy accident of past history and geography. That we're not at more than 98% is utterly shameful given our abundant untapped resources. What are we doing now to reduce our GHG emissions? Dead fukn nothing.
Meanwhile, what's China doing? They are doing almost half of the worldwide installation of new renewable energy. Massive production and supply of photovoltaic panels (country with the largest installed capacity). Huge additions of wind power (country with the largest installed capacity). Electrification of their transport fleet (they're over 50% of the world market for electric vehicles, and some cities have converted their entire bus fleets to electric). R&D on zero-GHG nuclear power.
China's electricity consumption per capita is about 4000 kWhr pa, much of which goes to producing stuff consumed by other nations, including New Zealand. Over a quarter of that was renewably generated, including nukes nearly a third of that was zero-GHG. On an annual per-capita basis call it 1200 kWhr zero-GHG and 2800 kWhr fossil. New Zealand's per capita annual consumption is about 9000kWhr, 80% zero-GHG, of which only a relatively small part is exported (from Tiwai point). So we're at about 1800 kWhr per capita fossil generated.
Considering the where, when, and how the development history of New Zealand and China compare, I reckon we in New Zealand should be fukn ashamed of where we are, and China can at least hold their head up. Even if it's with a bright red blush about their continuing to add new fossil capacity.
Did you tell him that it was Bridges and Brownlee , while they were in charge of house business in 2017 who prevented any reform of the Standing Orders over use of edited tv scenes of MPs in the house ?
If you email him again can you point out that it bears no resemblance to "free speech and democracy" it is the opposite and has every thing to do with deception &/or promoting ridicule. Ridicule & deception in many ways are the basis of the bullying behaviours which NZ is and should be trying to combat & stop, National Party morality & ethics come from the bottom of the food chain not the top.
The free speech angle is kind of a moot point as according to standing orders it is forbidden to use footage from parliament.
I also see the upholding of democracy as a defence laughable, considering the sacking of Ecan occured without a murmur about democracy.
I understand being in opposition is frustrating and hard, but this action reeks of desperation and hypocracy.
Once again, thank-you for responding."
If I get a further response, I can explore your angles.
What I would hope would happen is all of y'all were to email their local Nat.
It isn't me sending an effective email that works, it is all of us sending an email/phoning/writing/visiting these MPs, and letting them know what we think that works.
I am looking to do just that I already took something that is pending re Magic Radio and will re misleading headlines, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Bernie Sanders believes in gun registration for AR-15 rifles, but he will not call for their ban or removal like some other Democratic party candidates for president.
Great mahi Michael I agree we have to stop the central control of our needs more like Central control of our hip pockets. We must catch our own rain water per household grow some of our own vegetables compost our own bio waste there is a system that use organic waste ie the toilet waste water goes in a you get 2 hours a day of low cost gas and fertiliser for your garden you get the bio digester and the toilet for $1050 that is a good buy I'm getting one soon Just Google it and you will find it. Use solar and wind to power our house the best wind turbine for the DIY person is the new vertical turbine as they don't need much wind to run + in urban setting the wind is disturbed ie its can hit the turbine at different angles at the same time that type of wind stalls the traditional turbine but the new vertical turbine will work better in those conditions.
Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse.
The 69-year-old former environmental attorney who, in 1996, transformed his two-storey 19th century Sydney terrace into one of the most global’s first inner-city self-sufficient houses, is promoting his well-known hobby venture and shifting to a faraway coastal location to arrange for what he predicts can be coming near near societal cave in brought on by way of local weather exchange.
This is, he says, a complete breakdown throughout the subsequent 3 to 5 years.
Promoting his four-bedroom, off-grid Chippendale assets that he bought in 1978 for $23,500 and is now valued at $2.2m is proving tougher than he concept. He’s had it in the marketplace since March, however desires to promote it to any person who gained’t convert the again backyard right into a automotive house, who desires to care for the Saturday morning space excursions that experience attracted some 30,000 eco-curious guests, and who will respect the house’s distinctive perks: two resident Australorp chooks named Pesky and Blanche d’Alpuget; not up to $300 a 12 months in water and effort expenses for a circle of relatives of 4 and a leafy side road blooming with safe to eat verge gardens.
The home additionally has a water, sewerage and electrical energy device totally disconnected from the mains: it’s powered by way of sun panels and a battery garage device; blank ingesting water falls at the roof and is then filtered for garage in an underground tank; and an aerated waste remedy device recycles all gray and blackwater, making sure no uncooked sewage has left the premises in 23 years.
Mobbs is in no large hurry to promote – he’s but to obtain that an important plot of coastal land for his bolthole-to-be. Then again he does have a brand new domicile within the works this is due for of completion in December – a prefabricated, bushfire-proof, absolutely sustainable house built with recycled fabrics that he’s developing in partnership with Melbourne-based modular housing consultantsFairweather Houses and Lismore-based renewables corporate 24 Hour Sun Energy. Mobbs’ new house would be the prototype the trio use to take at the mainstream development marketplace, appearing that sustainable may also be each “gorgeous and sublime” and “less expensive than industry as standard”
“I wish to break out from the key towns as a result of I believe they’ll turn out to be unsafe. You have a look at what occurs in puts that get cyclones or tornadoes; when the meals runs out and it’s laborious to get energy and water, civil unrest occurs in about two or 3 days,” he says.
“Other people die with out meals and water in per week, and if there are a large number of other people demise or liable to demise, their behaviour will turn out to be uncontrollable
All the way through that 12 months Mobbs additionally took a four,352km teach go back and forth from Perth to Sydney, a adventure he describes as “simply 4 days of demise nation-state”. “I travelled thru Western Australia around the Nullarbor, thru South Australia, down thru Damaged Hill – the entire of the rustic is deserted and demise,” he says.
That the mighty, flood-prone Lachlan River of his formative years has now been projected by way of WaterNSW to run dry by way of March 2020 given no vital rain or govt intervention, fills Mobbs with a grave worry
Michael Mobbs along with his house’s inverter, which manages inputs from the sun panels and batteries. : Jessica Hromas/The Father or mother
When NSW premier Bob Carr opened Mobbs’ sustainable space on nine December 1996, he declared Sydney’s first self-sufficient house “a imaginative and prescient of the longer term”.
Certainly, ultimately depend, greater than 20% of Australian houses had been fitted with sun panels; this 12 months’s nationwide Sustainable Area Day noticed 252 houses open their doorways to the general public; and NSW now has a development sustainability index (Basix) that regulates the power and water potency of recent dwellings.
In the ones 20 years Mobbs has had vital wins towards the state, together with Sydney Water, which for years after he’d disconnected his house from the sewage and water mains persisted to ship him expenses (when he didn’t pay up, he says, they threatened to disconnect him). “[Eventually] they got here spherical and did a smoke check. And their faces fell,” he says, grinning.
However Mobbs remains to be locked in an ideological fight with Sydney Water, which he sees as prioritising desalination vegetation over house rainwater tanks and wastewater recycling methods. The dwindling H2O ranges in his personal underground garage device is a day by day reminder of town’s water lack of confidence – lately he’s needed to more and more depend on his neighbour’s lawn hose to most sensible up his tank. The newest worst-case situation projection from WaterNSW is that Warragamba Dam – Sydney’s number one water provide – will forestall flowing by way of January 2022.
“I’ve finished my best possible right here and it hasn’t been sufficient,” Mobbs says of his Sydney ecohome. “I see what I’ve finished as a failure. Now not a sad failure – I imply it’s modified issues corresponding to development laws … This space has introduced extra exchange than political argument has. I’ve given up political strategising. The political procedure is simply too sluggish for the issues we are facing. I’m hoping if we will be able to do a just right process with this [prefabricated sustainable home] venture, we will be able to succeed in exchange
That' fog cannon is a great way to stop idiots harming bottles shop staff.
Ngāti Rangi Iwi using A ap to help the tangata connect with their Iwi is great way to use social media. Our tipuna in couraged tangata to use the Westen now technology.
The story of Tupaia whom was with Cook when he first came to Aotearoa Its very interesting that the story of Cook and Tupaia landing in Aotearoa has two different stories from each side of the Awa. The Tupaia story shows that Pacific tangata had great navigation skills in those days. Its really awesome that natives from around Te Papatuanuku are joining the strike for our future climate. Kai kaha Whanau Climate change will affect us more than the wealth
Australian is not being fair on the issue with imagination they are just creaming it they put up BULLSHIT ban on our apples.
The Climate Change Strikes are going to change our society to a clean and green society Our government plans on mitergateing climate change will flow through the Behive easier because of the strikes people are changing the way they live to lower their carbon foot print. I agree if one already knows the answer there's NO NEED to ask the questions.
Papatuanuku day for our Kau matua '' I'' Whanau we must care and look after and RESPECT our Kau matua.
Sam the ANZ is hogging all the profits from Aotearoa and not providing service in the regions Whanau time to do the switch. I switched banks years ago.
The new tourist charge is needed so Aotearoa can provide excellent services to our guests ka pai
There you go that is why I won't be going to Australia they don't no how to respect other cultures they treat their Great ancient indigenous tangata very badly.
Yes I agree we need to provide tau toko for the deported tangata from Australia's Aussie Mulcom I have a Fishermen associate from back in the day named Aussie. And other Fisher people from Ausse I have some knowledge on the culture there.
Six60 new Tangata Whenua O Aotearoa version of one of there songs is cool.
Top less Women people would only want to see the younger people with out their tops on swimming big know let's have some respect for all women.
We have a rule no toy guns for Te pepi
I agree people go into the hinaki society change so fast now days and they don't know how to cope with the changes they end up sliding back into doing trouble again they need more support when they get out of jail put the Ambulance at the top of the moanga not the bottom it will achieve a better outcome for the people and our society.
I agree with Azias there is a place and time for top less women nood camps not in public domains . I can see this though creating heaps of problems in our society.
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This is a guest post by Connor Sharp of Surface Light Rail Light rail in Auckland: A way forward sooner than you think With the coup de grâce of Auckland Light Rail (ALR) earlier this year, and the shift of the government’s priorities to roads, roads, and more roads, it ...
Note: As a paid-up Webworm member, I’ve recorded this Webworm as a mini-podcast for you as well. Some of you said you liked this option - so I aim to provide it when I get a chance to record! Read more ...
TL;DR: In my ‘six-stack’ of substacks at 6.06pm on Monday, March 18:IKEA is accused of planting big forests in New Zealand to green-wash; REDD-MonitorA City for People takes a well-deserved victory lap over Wellington’s pro-YIMBY District Plan votes; A City for PeopleSteven Anastasiou takes a close look at the sticky ...
Buzz from the Beehive Here’s hoping for a lively post-cabinet press conference when the PM and – perhaps – some of his ministers tell us what was discussed at their meeting today. Until then, Point of Order has precious little Beehive news to report after its latest monitoring of the ...
David Farrar writes – We now have almost all 2023 data in, which has allowed me to update my annual table of how labour went against its promises. This is basically their final report card. The promiseThe result Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 ...
I’m a bit worried that I’ve started a previous newsletter with the words “just when you think they couldn’t get any worse…” Seems lately that I could begin pretty much every issue with that opening. Such is the nature of our coalition government that they seem to be outdoing each ...
Geoffrey Miller writes – Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. ...
Depictions of Islam in Western popular culture have rarely been positive, even before 9/11. Five years on from the mosque shootings, this is one of the cultural headwinds that the Muslim community has to battle against. Whatever messages of tolerance and inclusion are offered in daylight, much of our culture ...
Last week Transport Minster Simeon Brown and Mayor Wayne Brown opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre. The new train control centre will see teams from KiwiRail, Auckland Transport and Auckland One Rail working more closely together to improve train services across the city. The Auckland Rail Operations Centre in ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in an exit interview with Q+A yesterday the Government can and should sustain more debt to invest in infrastructure for future generations. Elsewhere in the news in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 6:36am: Read more ...
Timing is everything. And from China’s perspective, this week’s visit by its foreign minister to New Zealand could be coming at just the right moment. The visit by Wang Yi to Wellington will be his first since 2017. Anniversaries are important to Beijing. It is more than just a happy ...
TL;DR: The key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to March 18 include:China’s Foreign Minister visiting Wellington today;A post-cabinet news conference this afternoon; the resumption of Parliament on Tuesday for two weeks before Easter;retiring former Labour Finance Minister Grant Robertson gives his valedictory speech in Parliament; ...
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters’s state-of-the-nation speech on Sunday was really a state-of-Winston-First speech. He barely mentioned any of the Government’s key policies and could not even wholly endorse its signature income tax cuts. Instead, he rehearsed all of his complaints about the Ardern Government, including an extraordinary claim ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 10, 2024 thru Sat, March 16, 2024. Story of the week This week we'll give you a little glimpse into how we collect links to share and ...
“I’ve been internalising a really complicated situation in my head.”When they kept telling us we should wait until we get to know him, were they taking the piss? Was it a case of, if you think this is bad, wait till you get to know the real Christopher, after the ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
Happy fourth anniversary, Pandemic That Upended Bloody Everything. I have been observing it by enjoying my second bout of COVID. It’s 5.30 on Sunday morning and only now are lights turning back on for me.Allow me to copy and paste what I told reader Sara yesterday:Depleted, fogged and crappy. Resting, ...
.“$10 and a target that bleeds” - Bleeding Targets for Under $10!.Thanks for reading Frankly Speaking ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.This government appears hell-bent on either scrapping life-saving legislation or reintroducing things that - frustrated critics insist - will be dangerous and likely ...
“It hardly strikes me as fair to criticise a government for doing exactly what it said it was going to do. For actually keeping its promises.”THUNDER WAS PLAYING TAG with lightning flashes amongst the distant peaks. Its rolling cadences interrupted by the here-I-come-here-I-go Doppler effect of the occasional passing car. ...
Subversive & Disruptive Technologies: Just as happened with that other great regulator of the masses, the Medieval Church, the advent of a new and hard-to-control technology – the Internet – is weakening the ties that bind. Then, and now, those who enjoy a monopoly on the dissemination of lies, cannot and will ...
Been Here Before: To find the precedents for what this Coalition Government is proposing, it is necessary to return to the “glory days” of Muldoonism.THE COALITION GOVERNMENT has celebrated its first 100 days in office by checking-off the last of its listed commitments. It remains, however, an angry government. It ...
Bob Edlin writes – And what is the world watching today…? The email newsletter from Associated Press which landed in our mailbox early this morning advised: In the news today: The father of a school shooter has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter; prosecutors in Trump’s hush-money case ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has secretly suspended an MP over integrity issues. Mystery is surrounding the party’s decision to ...
For the last few years, the Green Party has been the party that has managed to avoid the plague of multiple scandals that have beleaguered other political parties. It appears that their luck has run out with a second scandal which, unfortunately for them, coincided with Golraz Ghahraman, the focus ...
TL;DR: The six newsey things that stood out to me as of 6:46am on Saturday, March 16.Andy Foster has accidentally allowed a Labour/Green amendment to cut road user chargers for plug-in hybrid vehicles, which the Government might accept; NZ HeraldThomas CoughlanSimeon Brown has rejected a plea from Westport ...
What seemed a booming success a couple of years ago has collapsed into fraud convictions.I looked at the crash of FTX (short for ‘Futures Exchange’) in November 2022 to see whether it would impact on the financial system as a whole. Fortunately there was barely a ripple, probably because it ...
Anybody following the situation in Ukraine and Russia would probably have been amused by a recent Tweet on X NATO seems to be putting in an awful lot of effort to influence what is, at least according to them, a sham election in an autocracy.When do the Ukrainians go to ...
TL;DR:Shaun Baker on Wynyard Quarter's transformation. Magdalene Taylor on the problem with smart phones. How private equity are now all over reinsurance. Dylan Cleaver on rugby and CTE. Emily Atkin on ‘Big Meat’ looking like ‘Big Oil’.Bernard’s six-stack of substacks at 6pm on March 15Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen ...
Buzz from the Beehive Finance Minister Nicola Willis had plenty to say when addressing the Auckland Business Chamber on the economic growth that (she tells us) is flagging more than we thought. But the government intends to put new life into it: We want our country to be a ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee has reported back on the Road User Charges (Light Electric RUC Vehicles) Amendment Bill, basicly rubberstamping it. While there was widespread support among submitters for the principle that EV and PHEV drivers should pay their fair share for the roads, they also overwhelmingly disagreed with ...
Peter Dunne writes – This week’s government bailout – the fifth in the last eighteen months – of the financially troubled Ruapehu Alpine Lifts company would have pleased many in the central North Island ski industry. The government’s stated rationale for the $7 million funding was that it ...
See if you can spot the difference. An Iranian born female MP from a progressive party is accused of serial shoplifting. Her name is leaked to the media, which goes into a pack frenzy even before the Police launch an … Continue reading → ...
Ele Ludemann writes – The government is omitting general Treaty references from legislation : The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last Government in a bid to get greater coherence in the public service on Treaty ...
What was that judge thinking?Peter Williams writes – That Golriz Ghahraman and District Court Judge Maria Pecotic were once lawyer colleagues is incontrovertible. There is published evidence that they took at least one case to the Court of Appeal together. There was a report on ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail. Introducing planetary solvency. A paper via the University of Exeter’s Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.Local scoop:Kāinga Ora starts pulling out of its Auckland projects and selling land RNZ ...
Wellington’s massively upzoned District Plan adds the opportunity for tens of thousands of new homes not just in the central city (such as these Webb St new builds) but also close to the CBD and public transport links. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Wellington gave itself the chance of ...
It’s Friday and we’re halfway through March Madness. Here’s some of the things that caught our attention this week. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday Matt asked how we can get better event trains and an option for grade separating Morningside Dr. On Tuesday Matt looked into ...
Something you might not know about me is that I’m quite a stubborn person. No, really. I don’t much care for criticism I think’s unfair or that I disagree with. Few of us do I suppose.Back when I was a drinker I’d sometimes respond defensively, even angrily. There are things ...
Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The five things that mattered in Aotearoa’s political economy that we wrote and spoke about via The Kākā and elsewhere for paying subscribers in the last week included:PM Christopher Luxon said the reversal of interest deductibility for landlords was done to help renters, who ...
It was not so much the Labour Party but really the Chris Hipkins party yesterday at Labour’s caucus retreat in Martinborough. The former Prime Minister was more or less consistent on wealth tax, which he was at best equivocal about, and social insurance, which he was not willing to revisit. ...
Buzz from the BeehiveThe text reproduced above appears on a page which records all the media statements and speeches posted on the government’s official website by Melissa Lee as Minister of Media and Communications and/or by Jenny Marcroft, her Parliamentary Under-secretary. It can be quickly analysed ...
For forty years, Robert Muldoon has been a dirty word in our politics. His style of government was so repulsive and authoritarian that the backlash to it helped set and entrench our constitutional norms. His pig-headedness over forcing through Think Big eventually gave us the RMA, with its participation and ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Is the new government reducing tax on rental properties to benefit landlords or to cut the cost of rents? That’s the big question this week, after Associate Finance Minister David Seymour announced on Sunday that the Government would be reversing the Labour Government’s removal ...
Saudi Arabia is rarely far from the international spotlight. The war in Gaza has brought new scrutiny to Saudi plans to normalise relations with Israel, while the fifth anniversary of the controversial killing of Jamal Khashoggi was marked shortly before the war began on October 7. And as the home ...
Questions need to be asked on both sides of the worldPeter Williams writes – The NRL Judiciary hands down an eight week suspension to Sydney Roosters forward Spencer Leniu , an Auckland-born Samoan, after he calls Ezra Mam, Sydney-orn but of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Ele Ludemann writes – Contrary to what many headlines and news stories are saying, residential landlords are not getting a tax break. The government is simply restoring to them the tax deductibility of interest they had until the previous government removed it. There is no logical reason ...
I can't remember when it was goodMoments of happiness in bloomMaybe I just misunderstoodAll of the love we left behindWatching our flashbacks intertwineMemories I will never findIn spite of whatever you becomeForget that reckless thing turned onI think our lives have just begunI think our lives have just begunDoes anyone ...
Michael Bassett writes – At first reading, a front-page story in the New Zealand Herald on 13 March was bizarre. A group of severely intellectually limited teenagers, with little understanding of the law, have been pleading to the Justice Select Committee not to pass a bill dealing with ram ...
How much political capital is Christopher Luxon willing to burn through in order to deliver his $2.9 billion gift to landlords? Evidently, Luxon is: (a) unable to cost the policy accurately. As Anna Burns-Francis pointed out to him on Breakfast TV, the original ”rock solid” $2.1 billion cost he was ...
TL;DR: My top 10 news and analysis links this morning include:Today’s must-read:Jonathon Porritt calling bullshit in his own blog post on mainstream climate science as ‘The New Denialism’.Local scoop:The Wellington City Council’s list of proposed changes to the IHP recommendations to be debated later today was leaked this ...
TL;DR:Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said yesterday tenants should be grateful for the reinstatement of interest deductibility because landlords would pass on their lower tax costs in the form of lower rents. That would be true if landlords were regulated monopolies such as Transpower or Auckland Airport1, but they’re not, ...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Tom Toro Tom Toro is a cartoonist and author. He has published over 200 cartoons in The New Yorker since 2010. His cartoons appear in Playboy, the Paris Review, the New York Times, American Bystander, and elsewhere. Related: What 10 EV lovers ...
The business section of the NZ Herald is full of opinion. Among the more opinionated of all is the ex-Minister of Transport, ex-Minister of Railways, ex MP for Auckland Central (1975-93, Labour), Wellington Central (1996-99, ACT, then list-2005), ex-leader of the ACT Party, uncle to actor Antonia, the veritable granddaddy ...
Hi,Just quickly — I’m blown away by the stories you’ve shared with me over the last week since I put out the ‘Gary’ podcast, where I told you about the time my friend’s flatmate killed the neighbour.And you keep telling me stories — in the comments section, and in my ...
The first season of Rings of Power was not awful. It was thoroughly underwhelming, yes, and left a lingering sense of disappointment, but it was more expensive mediocrity than catastrophe. I wrote at length about the series as it came out (see the Review section of the blog, and go ...
Buzz from the Beehive Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden told Auckland Business Chamber members they were the first audience to hear her priorities as a minister in a government committed to cutting red tape and regulations. She brandished her liberalising credentials, saying Flexible labour markets are the ...
Chris Trotter writes – TO UNDERSTAND WHY NEWSHUB FAILED, it is necessary to understand how TVNZ changed. Up until 1989, the state broadcaster had been funded by a broadcasting licence fee, collected from every citizen in possession of a television set, supplemented by a relatively modest (compared ...
Bob Edlin writes – The Māori Party has been busy issuing a mix of warnings and threats as its expresses its opposition to interest deductibility for landlords and the plans of seabed miners. It remains to be seen whether they follow the example of indigenous litigants in Australia, ...
The Government has accepted Labour’s change to the Road User Charge (RUC) discount for hybrid vehicles, meaning there will still be some incentive for people to buy greener vehicles. ...
Kicking the most vulnerable people out of state housing and pushing them towards homelessness will result in a proliferation of poverty and trauma across our most vulnerable communities. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi has penned a letter asking MPs to support his members bill to remove GST from all food. The bill is expected to go through its first reading in parliament this Wednesday. “I’m calling on all political parties to support my ...
This year is about getting real with Kiwis and discussing the tough issues, as the National Government exacerbates inequality and divides New Zealand, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said ...
The Government adding Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) to its already roaring environmental policy bonfire is an assault on the future of wildlife that makes Aotearoa unique. ...
After 12 years of fighting to protect our moana we are finding ourselves back at square one and back at court. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is sitting in Hawera to reconsider an application from Trans-Tasman Resources to dig up 50 million tonnes of the seabed in South Taranaki. This ...
Minister Shane Jones’ decision to step away from a seabed mining project is evidence of the murky waters surrounding the Government’s fast-track legislation. ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The growth of Treaty of Waitangi clauses in legislation caused so much worry that a special oversight group was set up by the last government in a bid to get greater coherence in the publicservice on Treaty matters. When ministers first considered the need for tighter oversight in 2021, there ...
The Coalition Government’s miscalculation saga continues as it has forgotten an eyewatering $90 million gap in its interest deductibility cost figures, say Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and Revenue Spokesperson Deborah Russell. ...
He Pou a Rangi Climate Change Commission has today released advice that says if the Government doesn’t act now New Zealand is at risk of not meeting its climate goals. ...
The Coalition Government has today confirmed it is abandoning first home buyers who are struggling to get ahead, says Labour Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds. ...
The New Zealand public voted for a change in direction at the 2023 general election and that is exactly what this coalition government has been delivering in its first 100 days. There was an immediate focus on the economy, easing the cost of living, cracking down on law and order ...
The Government has left the health system as an afterthought, announcing half-baked targets at the last minute of their 100-day plan, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
Kiwis are still waiting for their promised cost of living support after 100 days of a National Government that is taking us backwards, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
100 days of National taking NZ backwardsThe National Government has spent its first 100 days stopping, cutting and reversing. They have scrapped stuff for stuff for the sake of it, without putting up any solutions of their own – and it’s hardworking New Zealanders who will pay for it. ...
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. ...
If the Government was serious about moving families into public housing, they would build more houses so there is actually somewhere for people to go. ...
The free and healthy school lunches programme feeds our kids, helps them to learn, and saves families money – but it is at risk under this Government, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti said. ...
The Government’s proposed changes to Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPO) add almost nothing new and are merely an attempt to distract from its plans to loosen gun laws, police spokesperson Ginny Andersen and justice spokesperson Dr Duncan Webb said. ...
The great Victorian era English politician Lord Macauley stood in the British House of Parliament and said, "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm".He understood and outlined even way back then, the significant role and influence media have in a democracy. ...
The government’s attack on Māori health this week is committing tangata-whenua to a premature death, says Te Pāti Māori. “The government have begun their onslaught on Māori health with the abolishment of the Māori Health Authority and smokefree laws in the same day” said health spokesperson and co-leader, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. ...
"The Government is moving quickly to realise an additional $46 million in tariff savings in the EU market this season for Kiwi exporters,” Minister for Trade and Agriculture, Todd McClay says. Parliament is set, this week, to complete the final legislative processes required to bring the New Zealand – European ...
New Zealand’s social workers are qualified, experienced, and more representative of the communities they serve, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “I want to acknowledge and applaud New Zealand’s social workers for the hard work they do, providing invaluable support for our most vulnerable. “To coincide with World ...
Cabinet has agreed to a reduced road user charge (RUC) rate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. Owners of PHEVs will be eligible for a reduced rate of $38 per 1,000km once all light electric vehicles (EVs) move into the RUC system from 1 April. ...
Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Todd McClay, says that today’s opening of Riverland Foods manufacturing plant in Christchurch is a great example of how trade access to overseas markets creates jobs in New Zealand. Speaking at the official opening of this state-of-the-art pet food factory the Minister noted that exports ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Wellington today. “It was a pleasure to host Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his first official visit to New Zealand since 2017. Our discussions were wide-ranging and enabled engagement on many facets of New Zealand’s relationship with China, including trade, ...
Kāinga Ora – Homes & Communities has been instructed to end the Sustaining Tenancies Framework and take stronger measures against persistent antisocial behaviour by tenants, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Earlier today Finance Minister Nicola Willis and I sent an interim Letter of Expectations to the Board of Kāinga Ora. ...
Tēna koutou katoa. Greetings everyone. Thank you to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Honourable Simon Bridges for hosting this address today. I acknowledge the business leaders in this room, the leaders and governors, the employers, the entrepreneurs, the investors, and the wealth creators. The coalition Government shares your ...
Minister Winston Peters completed the final leg of his visit to South and South East Asia in Singapore today, where he focused on enhancing one of New Zealand’s indispensable strategic partnerships. “Singapore is our most important defence partner in South East Asia, our fourth-largest trading partner and a ...
Minister of Internal Affairs and Workplace Relations and Safety, Hon. Brooke van Velden, will travel to the Republic of Korea to represent New Zealand at the Third Summit for Democracy on 18 March. The summit, hosted by the Republic of Korea, was first convened by the United States in 2021, ...
ICNZ Speech 7 March 2024, Auckland Acknowledgements and opening Mōrena, ngā mihi nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Good morning, it’s a privilege to be here to open the ICNZ annual conference, thank you to Mark for the Mihi Whakatau My thanks to Tim Grafton for inviting me ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Lead Coordination Minister Judith Collins have expressed their deepest sympathy on the five-year anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks. “March 15, 2019, was a day when families, communities and the country came together both in sorrow and solidarity,” Mr Luxon says. “Today we pay our respects to the 51 shuhada ...
Speech for Financial Advice NZ Conference 5 March 2024 Acknowledgements and opening Morena, Nga Mihi Nui. Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Nor Whanganui aho. Thanks Nate for your Mihi Whakatau Good morning. It’s a pleasure to formally open your conference this morning. What a lovely day in Wellington, What a great ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters held discussions in Jakarta today about the future of relations between New Zealand and South East Asia’s most populous country. “We are in Jakarta so early in our new government’s term to reflect the huge importance we place on our relationship with Indonesia and South ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters has announced that the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi, will visit New Zealand next week. “We look forward to re-engaging with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussing the full breadth of the bilateral relationship, which is one of New Zealand’s ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has today opened the new Auckland Rail Operations Centre, which will bring together KiwiRail, Auckland Transport, and Auckland One Rail to improve service reliability for Aucklanders. “The recent train disruptions in Auckland have highlighted how important it is KiwiRail and Auckland’s rail agencies work together to ...
The Government is proud to support the 10th edition of Crankworx Rotorua as the Crankworx World Tour returns to Rotorua from 16-24 March 2024, says Minister for Economic Development Melissa Lee. “Over the past 10 years as Crankworx Rotorua has grown, so too have the economic and social benefits that ...
Legislation implementing coalition Government tax commitments and addressing long-standing tax anomalies will be progressed in Parliament next week, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The legislation is contained in an Amendment Paper to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill issued today. “The Amendment Paper represents ...
Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard has today announced that the Government has agreed to suspend the requirement for councils to comply with the Significant Natural Areas (SNA) provisions of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity for three years, while it replaces the Resource Management Act (RMA).“As it stands, SNAs ...
Agriculture Minister Todd McClay has classified the drought conditions in the Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts as a medium-scale adverse event, acknowledging the challenging conditions facing farmers and growers in the district. “Parts of Marlborough, Tasman, and Nelson districts are in the grip of an intense dry spell. I know ...
The Government is helping farmers eradicate the significant impact of facial eczema (FE) in pastoral animals, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “A $20 million partnership jointly funded by Beef + Lamb NZ, the Government, and the primary sector will save farmers an estimated NZD$332 million per year, and aims to ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has completed a successful visit to India, saying it was an important step in taking the relationship between the two countries to the next level. “We have laid a strong foundation for the Coalition Government’s priority of enhancing New Zealand-India relations to generate significant future benefit for both countries,” says Mr Peters, ...
Cabinet has agreed to provide $7 million to ensure the 2024 ski season can go ahead on the Whakapapa ski field in the central North Island but has told the operator Ruapehu Alpine Lifts it is the last financial support it will receive from taxpayers. Cabinet also agreed to provide ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti says the launch of a new mobile breast screening unit in Counties Manukau reinforces the coalition Government’s commitment to drive better cancer services for all New Zealanders. Speaking at the launch of the new mobile clinic, Dr Reti says it’s a great example of taking ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Unlocking economic growth and land for housing are critical elements of the Government’s plan for our transport network, and planned upgrades to State Highway 29 (SH29) near Tauriko will deliver strongly on those priorities, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “The SH29 upgrades near Tauriko will improve safety at the intersections ...
Lower fruit and vegetable prices are welcome news for New Zealanders who have been doing it tough at the supermarket, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. Stats NZ reported today the price of fruit and vegetables has dropped 9.3 percent in the 12 months to February 2024. “Lower fruit and vege ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. Chair, I am honoured to address the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. I acknowledge the many crises impacting the rights of women and girls. Heightened global tensions, war, climate related and humanitarian disasters, and price inflation all ...
The coalition Government is supporting farmers to enhance land management practices by investing $3.3 million in locally led catchment groups, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced. “Farmers and growers deliver significant prosperity for New Zealand and it’s vital their ongoing efforts to improve land management practices and water quality are supported,” ...
Good evening everyone and thank you for that lovely introduction. Thank you also to the Honourable Simon Bridges for the invitation to address your members. Since being sworn in, this coalition Government has hit the ground running with our 100-day plan, delivering the changes that New Zealanders expect of us. ...
Recommendations from the Climate Change Commission for New Zealand on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction and unit limit settings for the next five years have been tabled in Parliament, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. “The Commission provides advice on the ETS annually. This is the third time the ...
The coalition Government is beginning its fight to lower building costs and reduce red tape by exempting minor building work from paying the building levy, says Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk. “Currently, any building project worth $20,444 including GST or more is subject to the building levy which is ...
Proposed changes to tax legislation to prevent the over-taxation of low-earning trusts are welcome, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The changes have been recommended by Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee following consideration of submissions on the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2023–24, Multinational Tax, and Remedial Matters) Bill. “One of the ...
Assalaamu alaikum. السَّلَام عليكم In light of the holy month of Ramadan, I want to extend my warmest wishes to our Muslim community in New Zealand. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, renewed devotion, perseverance, generosity, and forgiveness. It’s a time to strengthen our bonds and appreciate the diversity ...
Former Transport Minister and CEO of the Auckland Business Chamber Hon Simon Bridges has been appointed as the new Board Chair of the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for a three-year term, Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced today. “Simon brings extensive experience and knowledge in transport policy and governance to the role. He will ...
Good morning all, it is a pleasure to be here as Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology. It is fantastic to see how connected and collaborative the life science and biotechnology industry is here in New Zealand. I would like to thank BioTechNZ and NZTech for the invitation to address ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says he is looking forward to the day when three key water projects in Northland are up and running, unlocking the full potential of land in the region. Mr Jones attended a community event at the site of the Otawere reservoir near Kerikeri on Friday. ...
Associate Finance Minister David Seymour has today announced that the Government has agreed to restore deductibility for mortgage interest on residential investment properties. “Help is on the way for landlords and renters alike. The Government’s restoration of interest deductibility will ease pressure on rents and simplify the tax code,” says ...
Sport and Recreation Minister Chris Bishop will travel to Switzerland today to attend an Executive Committee meeting and Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Mr Bishop will then travel on to London where he will attend a series of meetings in his capacity as Infrastructure Minister. “New Zealanders believe ...
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It's foolish to try to look to history for any kind of guide for the likely outcome of the current impeachment drama:
I can't yet tell whether impeachment will on balance be negative for Trump's re-election, or will give him a surge of profile and Republican defence that will help him win.
I totally get why Pelosi was so loathe to pull this trigger at all.
I see the principal benefactor as Biden, marginally, because it takes the spotlight completely off Warren.
It's gone beyond the point where realpolitik considerations matter anymore. The turd tornado has become so blatantly outrageous that impeachment proceedings have to begin if there's to be any chance of the rule of law and constitutional oaths continuing to mean anything.
From Danielle McLaughlin via stuff:
Surely it's still very likely that he will be impeached, but not be convicted by the Senate, and still run as the only Republican Presidential candidate.
Nixon we re-elected.
Well, yeah, I've got higher hopes of winning Powerball than seeing Benedict Donald removed from office via conviction in the senate. And the risk of his re-election remains terrifyingly high.
But Nixon was re-elected before any formal impeachment proceedings began in the House. The resolutions calling for impeachment introduced in his first term never went anywhere, and the Watergate break-in didn't happen until June 1972 in the heat of the 1972 election campaign.
The point is Nixon won, with that kind of story breaking as you say in the heat of the campaign.
And then a Republican took over from him.
I think you are confused over Nixon. You mean Clinton who won after being impeached but not convicted in the Senate.
Impeachment enquirys didnt start for Nixon till after his re-election. It was the break in ( Watergate Blg) before the election that was the trigger issue
"early hours of 17 June 1972, five men attempted to break-in to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex
The election was Nov 1972 , which Nixon won in one of the biggest landslides in US presidential history. but the full details wernt availble till the next year
I am aware of the sequencing, and was so before Andre's correction.
Every historic parallel has limited value.
But, like Trump, Nixon was a deeply maimed candidate who secured the White House for the Republicans.
Nixon didn't last long after he was re-elected. As more evidence came in of his and his team's malfeasance he/they soon became a cropper. He resigned before they pushed him. I predict that is what will happen when it is Trump's turn.
It will happen because he is a dangerous crook in every sense of the word. The problem is… when?
Edit: I see Andre beat me to it. Will leave it here.
But if he resigns he loses the shield of the presidency that’s allowed him to dodge indictment on other matters.
He probably wants to cut and run with the excuse that I’m too good for this shit, they don’t deserve me but he doesn’t want the legal woes that come with it.
The Pumpkin Pinochet won't resign until he gets convinced his future includes a lot of orange jumpsuit unless he gets himself a pardon from President Pence. And that's a conversation that will end with "Don't forget to give us all our pardons before you resign, OK Daddy?".
However, the threat of imprisonment for his shoats has faded with the inaction following the Mueller report, and the current crisis is around gross violations of his constitutional oath and obligations of office that require a political remedy, but don't appear to be directly criminally punishable. So that "when" isn't even on the horizon at the moment.
yep – the straw is a back breaker
That imo is precisely what she was doing.
Even if the Senate choose to stymie the process, it will have served to alert the majority of American citizenry (excluding the Trump camp of course) to the extent of the awful corruption inside the White House and the president in particular. In other words it's a good way for the Dems to start their campaign for next year.
Maybe it is the American way,but the Biden's do not pass the sniff test.
"Biden was one of the most vocal champions of anticorruption efforts in the Obama administration. So when this same Biden takes his son with him to China aboard Air Force Two, and within days Hunter joins the board of an investment advisory firm with stakes in China, it does not matter what father and son discussed. Joe Biden has enabled this brand of practice, made it bipartisan orthodoxy. And the ethical standard in these cases—people’s basic understanding of right and wrong—becomes whatever federal law allows. Which is a lot. "
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/hunter-bidens-legal-socially-acceptable-corruption/598804/
Would this be acceptable in NZ?
What would we be saying if it was Max Key?
What was said about Collins when she visited China on an official capacity,then undertook some unofficial meetings.
In a general sense, the fact that access to those holding high office is such a lucrative commodity freely sold is indeed unacceptably corrupt.
However, the first point of difference between Drumpfelthinskin and Collins, and Hunter Biden and a Max Key hypothetical, is the former have their trotters directly on the levers of power while the latter do not. That's kinda the difference between a deep dive into the offal pit, a la Black Sheep, compared to just the whiff of dead rat in the wall cavity.
Second, allegations against the Bidens have already been thoroughly investigated, and determined to be non-criminal, both for China and Ukraine. Again, that activity is indeed corrupt, but it was at the less smelly end of the scale that has long been routine in the corridors of power almost everywhere. Furthermore, it's useful to remind ourselves that Stable Genius Junior in particular is still busy leveraging daddy's position to advance Trump Organisation interests all around the world while daddy benefits directly from that activity. In contrast, it’s arguable that the pressure Joe Biden put on Ukraine was in fact detrimental to Hunter’s interests, not beneficial.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/09/the-hunter-biden-timeline/
" it’s arguable that the pressure Joe Biden put on Ukraine was in fact detrimental to Hunter’s interests, not beneficial"
.It certainly is arguable Andre.
Your sequence of events is at odds with what the prosecutor of the time recollects.
"In a newly sworn affidavit prepared for a European court, Shokin testified that when he was fired in March 2016, he was told the reason was that Biden was unhappy about the Burisma investigation. “The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, a natural gas firm active in Ukraine and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors,” Shokin testified.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story
No doubt this will get further investigated, and the accuracy or not of this report should help inform Dem primary voter choices starting February 3 next year.
In the meantime, something to consider is: how reliable a source is John Solomon? From wikipedia:
Forget about Solomon
Here we have the prosecutors affidavit
Nice try at deflection
An affidavit from someone widely reputed to be awesomely corrupt, with an obvious motive for vengeance on someone who played a role in getting him canned. And the affidavit is disputed by a senior Ukrainian who quit, allegedly in disgust because of the corruption.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/timeline-in-ukraine-probe-casts-doubt-on-giuliani-s-biden-claim
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/07/viral-image/fact-checking-joe-biden-hunter-biden-and-ukraine/
keep on cherry picking. Andre knows which Ukrainian prosecutors are the good guys and which are the deeply corrupt.The good guys back up his favourite story.
When in fact Ukraine has been riddled with corruption, since for ever,and US administrations of both stripes have found lucrative pickings
Francesca and Andre You keeping track of this USA chain of corruption and insider advancement is invaluable.
More about John Solomon:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-colleagues-unload-on-john-solomon-the-reporter-who-kicked-off-trumps-ukraine-conspiracy?ref=home
The concern must be that impeachment proceedings against Trump maintain the focus on how loathesome he is as individual. This might persuade the electorate that merely getting rid of him and reverting to BAU is sufficient. If that's the case, an historic opportunity will be lost. That opportunity is not merely to implement clever technocratic regulation of capitalism (Warren), but to achieve a re-configuration and democratisation of economic power (Sanders). There is daylight between Sanders and Warren in this respect.
There is precedent for Dems thinking they have a historic opportunity to achieve re-configuration by electing a radical to put up against a personally loathsome and demonstrably criminal Repug president.
That was George McGovern in 1972. How'd that turn out?
I was a teenager when McGovern lost – and I remember the disappointment. The disappointment was compounded shortly after by the end of the Kirk/Rowling government and the ousting of Whitlam. The disappointment did not extinguish the hope.
Sanders will I think be the worst affected out of this.
Warren is weakened but less than Sanders. She needed the cleaner and undisturbed media focus through all the primary challenges.
But I'm not even sure Biden benefits. Maybe he gets more airtime, maybe this stabilizes him at this support level, as people just go for the guy to take Trump out.
No other candidates matter.
The killer is this:
Trump's awesome survival skills over three years have raised the level of damage needed to be politically fatal to higher and higher and higher – so he may well survive impeachment just fine.
James Hansen says its time for Sanders to retire.
"Sanders says as president he would impose a moratorium on nuclear plants as part of his $16.3 trillion climate-change plan. But critics of Sanders say he is ignoring science, so I reached out to James Hansen, the climate scientist whose testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1988 about greenhouse gases causing global warming put the issue on the map.
“It’s time for Bernie Sanders to retire,” Hansen responded in an email. “He truly doesn’t get it. India and China have no prayer of phasing out coal without the help of nuclear power. We burned much of their share of the global carbon budget, and yet we refused to help them with modern nuclear power. Thousands of people PER DAY are dying in India from the pollution…. Not only is he killing people in India, he is screwing my grandchildren,” Hansen wrote. "
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-climate-scientist-to-bernie-sanders-youre-killing-people-in-india
"….We have fairly damning evidence from the White House itself of a direct conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president about going after Biden. "
Anyone who has read the conversation transcript with some impartiality would know that it isn't about "going after Biden", but investigating Russiagate.
The words you use appear to come from the English language, but you appear to ascribe completely different meanings to them.
This media heading sounds interesting. I haven't read it yet but even the heading is a thought that should get out and continue to exercise people's minds. (Saw it on TDB).
https://asiapacificreport.nz/2019/09/22/ethics-needed-in-computing-and-tech-to-stop-robber-barons-says-lecturer/
Beautifully photographed article on the post-quake Chch red zone returning to nature: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/09/christchurch-red-zone-to-green/
Edit
Meanwhile Brexit…
Lately: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49863544 Boris Johnson no-confidence vote could be next week, says SNP MP Stewart Hosie
Mr Hosie said there was growing concern that Mr Johnson may find a way of circumventing the so-called “Benn Bill” which requires him to seek an extension to the UK’s departure date if no deal has been agreed.
The aim of a no-confidence vote would be to install an interim prime minister who would secure a short Brexit delay and then call a general election.
“We have to do that because there is now no confidence that the prime minister will obey the law and seek the extension that Parliament voted for only a few weeks ago,” he told the Today programme.
“If we are serious about the extension that is the only game in town.”
(Though the Lib Dems still demur from Corbyn – too divisive FGS.)
Manipulation! A sort on mansplaining politics to the vulnerable?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/28/boris-johnson-invoke-civil-emergency-powers-brexit-deal
Johnson ‘whipping up riot fears to avoid Brexit extension’
Labour claims that PM is aiming to invoke emergency powers using the Civil Contingencies Act
Old news on Brexit from 24 September – but has a flow chart that pins down options and gives facts about process.
Brexit: What happens now? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46393399
Boris, tRump and Netanyahu are all under the gun.
Not a good week for wannabe right wing strongmen.
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1177754061308866560
https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/1176691807796621312
London Police watchdog ?
Boris ( amyor of London at the time) nor his friend are police and the work involved was something around 'promoting London'
As well the GLA who did the recommending is a 25 person Assembly with a labour majority. The real strings are pulled by Londons Executive Mayor Sadiq Khan, also from Labour.
A bit of a non event dont you think?
In neolib capitalism, when the poor that its systems and (lack of) principles create, they get hated for their discomfort and its outlets of violence and decadence and depression. So the political system doubles-down on the discomforts which increase to unsatisfactory levels for the ones who have and want to keep, so they move out to better climes. In this example of Indianapolis, USA, the people who have – are whites, and those without – are blacks. Which is common I would think; a colour barrier seems to arise. It's time to put effort into helping blacks and enabling all the good things about them to flourish in a background of security, regular work and wages, and to have a lifestyle that can be enjoyed with home, food, medical help, friends, community. What was held up as being the outcome of the modern world.
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/rearranging-deck-chairs-on-titanic/
It’s perhaps America’s largest city with a “Republican” mayor.
Only 20 years ago, the city was nearly 80 percent white.
Only 10 years ago, the city was 67.5 percent white.
Today, it’s roughly 56 percent white.
The reason is simple: the quality of life in Indianapolis regresses to the mean of the majority racial group living in neighborhood, community, zip code… and Indianapolis is quickly regressing to the black mean, with whites fleeing the crime, depreciating property values, failing schools, and higher taxes (because blacks = poverty, someone has to pay for all the entitlement programs) that the black community contributes to the city.
That is an example of the real ‘mean’ of modern political
systems.
Very disturbing link and comments, grey. Along with the article, the whole site seems a bit sketchy.
What was the point you were trying to make? I got sidetracked after reading the article, which I don't think was your intention.
Racist AF Unz article written by a rabid white supremacist who hasn't got the balls to uses his real name.
Really?
How do you even find yourself on such a site? Very icky.
US "cities' arent what you think they area
The Metropolitan area is 1.5 mill people, while within the central core municipality is 860,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_metropolitan_area
Its a common mistake in US and Europe to think the central city council covers the whole urban area. Its more like Auckland was before the first round of amalgamations in 1988 with lots of smaller councils surrounding the 'city'
Los Angeles 'City' is only a large portion of the LA urban area and so on through out the US
Why is this trash in the sidebar?
Googling "www.averagekiwi.com" brings up a load of old results that appear leftie from the snippets displayed by google, but none of the actual posts appear cached by google. Just a few index pages are cached. Can't be arsed teaching myself one of the internet archiving services to check further on that.
It appears that a few months ago all the old stuff was wiped and these new climate denier trolling posts started coming. Maybe Hosking hijacked the site?
Whois inquiry tells me the author is a cowardly fuck hiding behind a proxy.
Mr Blair knew.
https://twitter.com/Jackasaurus3/status/1178028600848576512
Oh, it's just Nige being Nige.
Had Corbyn had said it, the media knives would’ve been out pdq.
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Police said they have been "looking into" comments made by Nigel Farage at a Brexit Party rally in Newport last week.
The Brexit Party leader said "we'll take the knife" to "the overpaid pen pushers in Whitehall".
Gwent Police said "following a thorough assessment" the comments do not constitute a criminal offence.
– Assistant Chief Constable Rhiannon Kirk
Brexit Party leader made these comments at a rally last Saturday:
– Nigel Farage
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2019-09-28/police-looking-into-nigel-farage-s-take-the-knife-to-them-comments-at-newport-brexit-party-rally/
I saw a link on MSN to a news hub story item with the headline that claimed “Brides would take on Trump”. Clicked on the title changed to
“Bridges says he would have raised climate change with Trump”.
Bridges would not have had a moment to raise anything with Trump as it would be hard for him to talk while he is licking Trump’s shoes to shine them.
The whole story rings so hollow as he dismisses climate change in one sentence but makes out he would talk tough about it to Trump in another. The only person mentioned in the story that has less of a grip on reality than Bridges is Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/bridges-says-he-would-have-raised-climate-change-with-trump/ar-AAHZzs1?li=BBqdg4K
He doesn't say what he would have said. Probably just "climate change" and offer the guy a high five.
He would have said to Trump… I agree with you.This Climate Change thing is all a hoax. We need to stick together on this one because they'll ruin the oil and coal industries and that's where our votes come from.
From the link:
The leader of the free world? God Almighty. I knew Bridges was dumb but that's beyond the pale. Especially after the revelations of the past couple of weeks! If he represents National's finest then heaven help us if they gain the treasury benches again.
FIFY, Mr Bridges. And while we’re on the topic of raising difficult issues with leaders of superpowers, did you raise issues of climate change or human rights during your recent trip to China? Oh, you didn’t, did you? In fact, you buttered them up. Your words sound hollow, Mr Bridges.
To be fair to China, they're doing a shitload more on tackling climate change than we are. So no matter how you look at it, Slimon really doesn't have an incentive to raise that as a topic with China.
Okidoki.
"To be fair to China, they're doing a shitload more on tackling climate change than we are."
Really ? We have our electricity system at 80% renewables , while China is building how many new coal power stations per month
I think you will find that you are seriously misinformed
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-china-coal/china-plans-226-gw-of-new-coal-power-projects-environmental-groups-idUSKBN1W40HS
Our renewables capacity is a happy accident of past history and geography. That we're not at more than 98% is utterly shameful given our abundant untapped resources. What are we doing now to reduce our GHG emissions? Dead fukn nothing.
Meanwhile, what's China doing? They are doing almost half of the worldwide installation of new renewable energy. Massive production and supply of photovoltaic panels (country with the largest installed capacity). Huge additions of wind power (country with the largest installed capacity). Electrification of their transport fleet (they're over 50% of the world market for electric vehicles, and some cities have converted their entire bus fleets to electric). R&D on zero-GHG nuclear power.
China's electricity consumption per capita is about 4000 kWhr pa, much of which goes to producing stuff consumed by other nations, including New Zealand. Over a quarter of that was renewably generated, including nukes nearly a third of that was zero-GHG. On an annual per-capita basis call it 1200 kWhr zero-GHG and 2800 kWhr fossil. New Zealand's per capita annual consumption is about 9000kWhr, 80% zero-GHG, of which only a relatively small part is exported (from Tiwai point). So we're at about 1800 kWhr per capita fossil generated.
Considering the where, when, and how the development history of New Zealand and China compare, I reckon we in New Zealand should be fukn ashamed of where we are, and China can at least hold their head up. Even if it's with a bright red blush about their continuing to add new fossil capacity.
I decided to email Ian McKelvie, the local Mat MP. I asked about the reasoning behind the defiance of the speakers ruling.
He responded that it was about free speech and democracy.
I have replied that the actions reek of desperation and hypocrisy.
Did you tell him that it was Bridges and Brownlee , while they were in charge of house business in 2017 who prevented any reform of the Standing Orders over use of edited tv scenes of MPs in the house ?
I haven't yet. I am fairly confident he already knows.
If you email him again can you point out that it bears no resemblance to "free speech and democracy" it is the opposite and has every thing to do with deception &/or promoting ridicule. Ridicule & deception in many ways are the basis of the bullying behaviours which NZ is and should be trying to combat & stop, National Party morality & ethics come from the bottom of the food chain not the top.
Hi Rapunzel, here is what i did write:
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Thank you for your response.
The free speech angle is kind of a moot point as according to standing orders it is forbidden to use footage from parliament.
I also see the upholding of democracy as a defence laughable, considering the sacking of Ecan occured without a murmur about democracy.
I understand being in opposition is frustrating and hard, but this action reeks of desperation and hypocracy.
Once again, thank-you for responding."
If I get a further response, I can explore your angles.
What I would hope would happen is all of y'all were to email their local Nat.
It isn't me sending an effective email that works, it is all of us sending an email/phoning/writing/visiting these MPs, and letting them know what we think that works.
If your local Nat MP has influence over their party's communication decisions, yes. I suspect that might be a handful.
Problem No 1 Bridges is the local "Nat" MP – I moved to the Maori roll to make my vote more productive.
I am looking to do just that I already took something that is pending re Magic Radio and will re misleading headlines, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Bernie's still looking after his NRA mates.
Bernie Sanders believes in gun registration for AR-15 rifles, but he will not call for their ban or removal like some other Democratic party candidates for president.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bernie-sanders-against-banning-removing-191200466.html?
Hes got to think about the rural voters in Vermont who elect him.
Some states have assault weapons bans after Federal one expired in 2004.
Unlike what most think the Supreme court has only ruled on removing restrictions for hand guns stored in the home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapons_legislation_in_the_United_States
Scalia , as he did many times, forgets about his 'original intent of the founders' doctrine and switches to a modern evolving constitution
Great mahi Michael I agree we have to stop the central control of our needs more like Central control of our hip pockets. We must catch our own rain water per household grow some of our own vegetables compost our own bio waste there is a system that use organic waste ie the toilet waste water goes in a you get 2 hours a day of low cost gas and fertiliser for your garden you get the bio digester and the toilet for $1050 that is a good buy I'm getting one soon Just Google it and you will find it. Use solar and wind to power our house the best wind turbine for the DIY person is the new vertical turbine as they don't need much wind to run + in urban setting the wind is disturbed ie its can hit the turbine at different angles at the same time that type of wind stalls the traditional turbine but the new vertical turbine will work better in those conditions.
Sustainability expert Michael Mobbs: I’m leaving the city to prep for the apocalypse.
The 69-year-old former environmental attorney who, in 1996, transformed his two-storey 19th century Sydney terrace into one of the most global’s first inner-city self-sufficient houses, is promoting his well-known hobby venture and shifting to a faraway coastal location to arrange for what he predicts can be coming near near societal cave in brought on by way of local weather exchange.
This is, he says, a complete breakdown throughout the subsequent 3 to 5 years.
Promoting his four-bedroom, off-grid Chippendale assets that he bought in 1978 for $23,500 and is now valued at $2.2m is proving tougher than he concept. He’s had it in the marketplace since March, however desires to promote it to any person who gained’t convert the again backyard right into a automotive house, who desires to care for the Saturday morning space excursions that experience attracted some 30,000 eco-curious guests, and who will respect the house’s distinctive perks: two resident Australorp chooks named Pesky and Blanche d’Alpuget; not up to $300 a 12 months in water and effort expenses for a circle of relatives of 4 and a leafy side road blooming with safe to eat verge gardens.
The home additionally has a water, sewerage and electrical energy device totally disconnected from the mains: it’s powered by way of sun panels and a battery garage device; blank ingesting water falls at the roof and is then filtered for garage in an underground tank; and an aerated waste remedy device recycles all gray and blackwater, making sure no uncooked sewage has left the premises in 23 years.
Mobbs is in no large hurry to promote – he’s but to obtain that an important plot of coastal land for his bolthole-to-be. Then again he does have a brand new domicile within the works this is due for of completion in December – a prefabricated, bushfire-proof, absolutely sustainable house built with recycled fabrics that he’s developing in partnership with Melbourne-based modular housing consultantsFairweather Houses and Lismore-based renewables corporate 24 Hour Sun Energy. Mobbs’ new house would be the prototype the trio use to take at the mainstream development marketplace, appearing that sustainable may also be each “gorgeous and sublime” and “less expensive than industry as standard”
“I wish to break out from the key towns as a result of I believe they’ll turn out to be unsafe. You have a look at what occurs in puts that get cyclones or tornadoes; when the meals runs out and it’s laborious to get energy and water, civil unrest occurs in about two or 3 days,” he says.
“Other people die with out meals and water in per week, and if there are a large number of other people demise or liable to demise, their behaviour will turn out to be uncontrollable
All the way through that 12 months Mobbs additionally took a four,352km teach go back and forth from Perth to Sydney, a adventure he describes as “simply 4 days of demise nation-state”. “I travelled thru Western Australia around the Nullarbor, thru South Australia, down thru Damaged Hill – the entire of the rustic is deserted and demise,” he says.
That the mighty, flood-prone Lachlan River of his formative years has now been projected by way of WaterNSW to run dry by way of March 2020 given no vital rain or govt intervention, fills Mobbs with a grave worry
Michael Mobbs along with his house’s inverter, which manages inputs from the sun panels and batteries. : Jessica Hromas/The Father or mother
When NSW premier Bob Carr opened Mobbs’ sustainable space on nine December 1996, he declared Sydney’s first self-sufficient house “a imaginative and prescient of the longer term”.
Certainly, ultimately depend, greater than 20% of Australian houses had been fitted with sun panels; this 12 months’s nationwide Sustainable Area Day noticed 252 houses open their doorways to the general public; and NSW now has a development sustainability index (Basix) that regulates the power and water potency of recent dwellings.
In the ones 20 years Mobbs has had vital wins towards the state, together with Sydney Water, which for years after he’d disconnected his house from the sewage and water mains persisted to ship him expenses (when he didn’t pay up, he says, they threatened to disconnect him). “[Eventually] they got here spherical and did a smoke check. And their faces fell,” he says, grinning.
However Mobbs remains to be locked in an ideological fight with Sydney Water, which he sees as prioritising desalination vegetation over house rainwater tanks and wastewater recycling methods. The dwindling H2O ranges in his personal underground garage device is a day by day reminder of town’s water lack of confidence – lately he’s needed to more and more depend on his neighbour’s lawn hose to most sensible up his tank. The newest worst-case situation projection from WaterNSW is that Warragamba Dam – Sydney’s number one water provide – will forestall flowing by way of January 2022.
“I’ve finished my best possible right here and it hasn’t been sufficient,” Mobbs says of his Sydney ecohome. “I see what I’ve finished as a failure. Now not a sad failure – I imply it’s modified issues corresponding to development laws … This space has introduced extra exchange than political argument has. I’ve given up political strategising. The political procedure is simply too sluggish for the issues we are facing. I’m hoping if we will be able to do a just right process with this [prefabricated sustainable home] venture, we will be able to succeed in exchange
Ka kite Ano link below.
https://theworldbreakingnews.com/sustainability-expert-michael-mobbs-im-leaving-the-city-to-prep-for-the-apocalypse/
Some Eco Maori Music For The Minute.
https://youtu.be/5Yj4j_lZMBo
Kia Ora Newshub.
If the big banks are making billions then they should provide their services in our rural communities.
Spacex is doing amazing things kia pai I see Tesla is filing new patent for their new battery tech to Kia Kaha.
I wonder why all the state employees strives.
Ka kite Ano
Kia Ora Te Ao Maori News.
That' fog cannon is a great way to stop idiots harming bottles shop staff.
Ngāti Rangi Iwi using A ap to help the tangata connect with their Iwi is great way to use social media. Our tipuna in couraged tangata to use the Westen now technology.
The story of Tupaia whom was with Cook when he first came to Aotearoa Its very interesting that the story of Cook and Tupaia landing in Aotearoa has two different stories from each side of the Awa. The Tupaia story shows that Pacific tangata had great navigation skills in those days. Its really awesome that natives from around Te Papatuanuku are joining the strike for our future climate. Kai kaha Whanau Climate change will affect us more than the wealth
Ka kite Ano.
Kia Ora The Am Show.
Australian is not being fair on the issue with imagination they are just creaming it they put up BULLSHIT ban on our apples.
The Climate Change Strikes are going to change our society to a clean and green society Our government plans on mitergateing climate change will flow through the Behive easier because of the strikes people are changing the way they live to lower their carbon foot print. I agree if one already knows the answer there's NO NEED to ask the questions.
Papatuanuku day for our Kau matua '' I'' Whanau we must care and look after and RESPECT our Kau matua.
Sam the ANZ is hogging all the profits from Aotearoa and not providing service in the regions Whanau time to do the switch. I switched banks years ago.
The new tourist charge is needed so Aotearoa can provide excellent services to our guests ka pai
There you go that is why I won't be going to Australia they don't no how to respect other cultures they treat their Great ancient indigenous tangata very badly.
Yes I agree we need to provide tau toko for the deported tangata from Australia's Aussie Mulcom I have a Fishermen associate from back in the day named Aussie. And other Fisher people from Ausse I have some knowledge on the culture there.
Six60 new Tangata Whenua O Aotearoa version of one of there songs is cool.
Top less Women people would only want to see the younger people with out their tops on swimming big know let's have some respect for all women.
We have a rule no toy guns for Te pepi
I agree people go into the hinaki society change so fast now days and they don't know how to cope with the changes they end up sliding back into doing trouble again they need more support when they get out of jail put the Ambulance at the top of the moanga not the bottom it will achieve a better outcome for the people and our society.
I agree with Azias there is a place and time for top less women nood camps not in public domains . I can see this though creating heaps of problems in our society.
Ka kite Ano
Some Eco Maori Music For The Minute.
https://youtu.be/SKprXO-f2pM
A New Zealand director has a crack at Thomas Piketty's work in "Capital in the 21st Century":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reyy9ASpMSc
Not telling us anything new, but certainly telling it afresh.