A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots.
The extreme heat has spurred on health warnings, air quality alerts and fire bans across the nation. High temperatures are forecast to be in the 105- to 120-degree range into the weekend in many locations. Nighttime won’t offer much relief, either, as temperatures will remain well above normal.
Though heat isn’t unusual in Australia this time of year, the level and duration of the heat wave are extreme. High temperature records have already been set in four states, news.com.au, an Australian news site said.
A blistering high temperature of 120 degrees reported Thursday in Marble Bar, Western Australia, was only 3 degrees below the continent’s all-time record high temperature of 123 degrees, set in 1960 in Oodnadatta.
The Northern Territory has already had a brutally hot month: “Forget frying an egg on the footpath, in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, you could roast a whole chook in the main square, as the town heads toward its 28th day above 104 degrees this December,” the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
(A chook, for those of us who don’t live Down Under, is Australian slang for a chicken.)
Forecaster Bradley Wood of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said Tennant Creek’s month in the cauldron “completely smashes their previous record.”….
Where’s the justice?
Taking advantage of the open border with White Majority Australia, I think, that over the next coming weeks, we can expect a movement of Australians to NZ to escape the heat.
Will all our resident xenophobes and racists be complaining about this?
Of course not, they are not brown skinned Pacific Islanders.
Per capita, Australians are the one of the peoples most responsible for climate change.
Per capita, (and overall being barely measurable), Polynesians are one of the peoples least responsible for climate change. Butone of the world’s peoples most negatively impacted by it.
(A fact that also gets little media attention here).
If post colonial racist immigration policies were not an issue.
In balance, Australians would have their free entry removed. (Well at least) until they pressured their leaders to do something about Australia’s world record breaking emissions). And Pacific Islanders, who are in less able to act against climate change, and most affected by it, would enjoy free entry.
Global warming is on track to cause a major wipeout of insects, compounding already severe losses, according to a new analysis.
Insects are vital to most ecosystems and a widespread collapse would cause extremely far-reaching disruption to life on Earth, the scientists warn. Their research shows that, even with all the carbon cuts already pledged by nations so far, climate change would make almost half of insect habitat unsuitable by the end of the century, with pollinators like bees particularly affected.
However, if climate change could be limited to a temperature rise of 1.5C – the very ambitious goal included in the global Paris agreement – the losses of insects are far lower……
It’s not that they’re missing it. It’s that they’re misunderstanding it. They truly don’t understand that Australians are directly responsible for their actions.
As a white economic immigrant yourself, where do you stand on priority access to this country?
Wealthy white Englishmen like yourself? Chinese, rich from poor human rights standards? Middle-class Indian students brought here on a scam? Aussie cobbers who just got too hot? Pacific peoples whose homes are wrecked every other year?
Who gets priority according to Coatsville resident and grandfather, James?
muttonbird – still running with the meme that Im not from NZ I see.
I also love how you and a couple of others keep bringing up details I have sharded on here previously (relating to the topics in hand) like where I live, where my kids went to school, their approximate ages, the fact that they own their own businesses etc.
Its like a disney version of doxxing.
Not sure how this works with the policy however – I guess that is up to the mods – but generally it would be seen as very poor form to start trying to identify people or keep on republishing their information.
I know that this wont make you stop (after all you are like a dog with a bone) – but Hey – Ive called you out for it.
You make a good point, james. Nature and nurture take us through childhood, and as adults, we are shaped by our experiences. It really doesn’t matter where we come from, its where we are here and now that matters on a topical blog. I agree that repeated references to your alleged country of origin borders on doxxing. It also means that some people are pointlessly limiting their responses based on what they think they know about your background. That’s just daft, in my opinion.
So, a general warning that reference to any commenters background, known or not, should be clearly relevant to the discussion at hand.
Fair enough, but I think it’s wise to not use details of your personal station in life to troll a forum. James does this a lot – the barbecues, the private schools, etc. The reason I bring it up is that I believe not much of it is the truth, and that particular commenter is making stuff up in order to annoy others on this forum.
If the moderators think this is ok then that is the course they follow.
Also, I’m not sure about references to background being limited to the discussion at hand. That suggests all commenters come to a thread with a clean sheet but in reality we know what drives each other because of historical knowledge. Are you saying we should scrub that knowledge?
Given that it’s all conjecture anyway, why bother keep bringing it up?
After a year in government, the worst he can manage is a misinterpretation of a report that exposed a massive failing in NZ’s record keeping, and you take the bait. Make him try harder so it becomes obvious who is trolling whom.
Nature and nurture take us through childhood, and as adults, we are shaped by our experiences. It really doesn’t matter where we come from, its where we are here and now that matters on a topical blog
Now I happen to think it can matter where we come from because you are shaped by your experiences. My accusation was that aging white immigrants from England have limited understanding of New Zealand identity and their largely anti-minority beliefs are a result of that. Their comments on immigration policy need to be taken in that context.
But I have absolutely no understanding of Waitakere, because I’ve never even been there. I have no reference upon which to gauge your “understanding of New Zealand”. Just as you have no reference to gauge mine, at the other end of the country. Maybe an immigrant without our local baggage can in fact have a deeper understanding of “New Zealand” than we do, noticing the little conceits and quirks that are the water we swim in as fish. And maybe how we treat immigrants is part of what it is to be a New Zealander.
But it’s all pointless anyway, because nothing about a commenter is verified. I can say my father is dead, and maybe that gives me some cache to talk about grief and loss. Or maybe my father is alive, or I never knew him, at I simply told a fib to get that credibility. Who knows – not you, that’s for sure.
Now, it can be funny when commenters tell conflicting stories about themselves – claims to live in difference places, or have degrees in everything from economics to rocket science to medicine. But that’s all it is. Everything else are just snowflakes landing on a discussion and then melting, leaving nothing of substance.
But it’s all pointless anyway, because nothing about a commenter is verified. I can say my father is dead, and maybe that gives me some cache to talk about grief and loss.
Well, unlike RWNJs that have to lie because reality doesn’t suit their beliefs, I simply don’t lie.
Online or face to face.
But I have absolutely no understanding of Waitakere, because I’ve never even been there.?
It’s really no different from anywhere else.
Maybe an immigrant without our local baggage can in fact have a deeper understanding of “New Zealand” than we do, noticing the little conceits and quirks that are the water we swim in as fish.
I’m not an immigrant – merely autistic and that means that I live outside of the norm.
Except that there’s nothing in this subthread about you, so it’s a non sequiter to talk about yourself.
But let’s say it is about you. Maybe you never lie. Nobody here knows that. You are frequently mistaken about small facts that tend to invalidate your cunning plans. Maybe that’s just because you have an inflated opinion of yourself so assume your assumptions are equivalent to facts. If it concerns your argument, it should probably be verifiable. If it’s about yourself, it’s not hugely relevant to any discussion. Mildly interesting, maybe, but completely unverifiable for most intents and purposes. So maybe you never lie in fact to face conversations. So what?
Posting in good faith seems to not be an issue these days…
James clearly does not post in good faith…that is abundantly clear…
Watching bans get distributed to others , for less IMO while James plays ‘victim’, is a low point among many for this site…
James openly posts his personal details regarding his family and preferences as an agitator to rub others up the wrong way…yes others let that happen…but why enable the root cause…
Playing his make believe family life, which he openly shares back to Jmaes is not the problem this site faces, TRP…
It’s that James and ilk are enabled…empowered on this site…quite why is up for debate…
Well, you did offer these details on this forum in your arguments against socially conscious thought and policy. I think they are fair game because of that.
It’s not a question of skin colour or of names but if we can support them on the limited resources that we have.
I find it amusing that a RWNJ, who is most likely to say that we must live within our means will then demand that we live outside our means. To live beyond what is physically available.
Will all our resident xenophobes and racists be complaining about this?
Your problems, like fuckwits, is that you believe that we can support all those that decide to come here.
We cannot.
That is simply reality.
Now, if you were the prosper who looks after the environment as you portray youself to be then the first question you would be asking is: Given present technological constraints, how many people can NZ support?
The most important point being that we cannot support unlimited immigration.
That’s a physical impossibility that no amount of whinging from you can ever displace.
It’s not xenophobic to say that we cannot support any more people.
In fact, given your support to protect the environment, if you were taking into account actual physical realities, you’d be saying the same.
Geez I can’t keep up with you Draco, aren’t we living in a swirling neoliberal cesspit? What the hell do you care if other suckers want to come and live under the constant persecution we all suffer from….We’ve got it pretty good hey bro.
“is that you believe that we can support all those that decide to come here” citation needed
“We cannot” citation needed
“The most important point being that we cannot support unlimited immigration.
That’s a physical impossibility that no amount of whinging from you can ever displace.” Strawman argument – no one said UNLIMITED IMMIGRATION – this is dishonest arguing.
“… to say that we cannot support any more people” citation needed
See what you do there?
You make stuff up, create bogus arguments and then win those arguments whilst continuing to not actually deal with ANY reality.
You make bold statement after bold statement – all opinion and all fear based.
Nah, because the number would always change according to technology.
The real question is “how many net migrants can we absorb each year”?
Then we can take a decent number of refugees and essential skills first and fill up the rest with economic migrants.
Currently we’re on around 70k. Reasonable arguments have been made to lower that until neglected housing and other infrastructure has been upgraded. But the biggest problem are tourists, even though businesses love their money.
Nah, because the number would always change according to technology.
True but what does present technology allow?
Because if technology may increase later we need to know what we can support now. This helps us to decide how many we can support later when our knowledge improves.
So, how many people can we presently support?
Then we can take a decent number of refugees and essential skills first and fill up the rest with economic migrants.
That is secondary to how many we can support given present knowledge.
Reasonable arguments have been made to lower that until neglected housing and other infrastructure has been upgraded.
The present number of immigrants should be halted until we know how many people that our nation can support.
So, how many people can our nation support?
It is up to you, and all others who support immigration, to show those of us who don’t.
We’re doing pretty fucking well when we don’t leave essential infrastructure up to market forces. Are you asserting that we’re anything close to over-capacity at the moment?
Except that the world population almost tripled in the thousand years before the industrial revolution. And a little over doubled in the thousand years before that.
We (globally) have been in “factorial” growth for thousands of years, it just has a long tail because that’s what such growth consists of.
@DTB: yeah, that’s how capitalism works. And NZ is doing better than most places, which is what I meant by “we”.
It depends on what and how you measure it Pat – it isn’t a nice easy round number like you seem to be thinking. Perhaps go and read draco’s link to get an idea of the complexities and aspects to the calculation – you may be surprised.
the repetition would appear to be a bug…and one im having trouble working round …however requiring you to access the data and doing the equation yourself allows you thye opportunity to dispute the method
I’m just wondering why the criteria is “post-agrarian revolution but pre-industrial revolution”. I’m assuming the only permissable food production is crop rotation but hopefully with better healthcare?
Prior to the industrial revolution there was about 500 million people sustainably supported.
We now have in excess of 7 billion.
You need to show, because it you argument, that the Earth can support more than 500 million sustainably.
As a subset, you need to show how many people that NZ can support sustainably.
I think five million is the limits for NZ and that one billion is the limits for the Earth as a while. This has, of course, come from many readings but here’s one.
So, how many people can NZ support sustainably?
How many people can the Earth support sustainably?
oh dear thats an unconvincing line to take so Ill hold your hand and walk you through it.
World population pre industrial revolution is estimated to be between 700 million and a billion…probably closer to the low end but we will be generous and work with a billion.
which if allocated at pre industrial stocking rates (which i contest is the sustainable level, with perhaps a small premium for technology) equates to around 4.1 million souls
Current NZ population is around 4.7 million…that is not to say we shouldnt assist our neighbours who will undoubtably need refuge soon but dont kid ourselves that it is sustainable
Will all our resident xenophobes and racists be complaining about this?
Your problems, like fuckwits, is that you believe that we can support all those that decide to come here.
We cannot.
That is simplyreality…..
….It’s not xenophobic to say that we cannot support any more people.
In fact, given your support to protect the environment, if you were taking into account actual physical realities, you’d be saying the same.
“It’s not xenophobic to say that we cannot support any more people”,
Draco T Bastard
Hi Draco, don’t you mean, ‘any more Brown People’? Remember that we allow unlimited entry to White Majority Settler nation Australia?
Your above statement is not factual, And if your statement is not factual – what is it, that motivates some people to believe this?
My opinion is, that your opinion is deeply xenophobic. But unlike my opinion, your opinion, your surety that we cannot support any more people, is not backed up by fact.
Let’s look at the raw data
New Zealand Surface area – 267710 sq.Km
New Zealand Population density, people per sq.Km, – 15
That’s less than half the population density of Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Sahran Africa Population density, people per sq.Km – 34.7
But let’s be fair, Eh Draco? Let’s compare apples with apples. New Zealand, with two other First World countries with roughly the same surface area, and temperate climate, with a similar standard of living.
United Kingdom Surface area – 243610 sq.Km
United Kingdom Population density, people per sq.km – 271
Surface area Japan, 364560 sq.Km
Japan Population density, people per sq.Km – 336
But maybe we should go further afield and look at the stats for some other countries.
Let’s look for instance at the Netherlands with one of the highest population densities in the world.
Netherlands Population density, people per sq.Km – 488
The thing about the Netherlands that disproves your xenophobic trope, Draco, is that despite it’s high population density the Netherlands has one of the highest living standards in the world.
Continuing:-
USA Population density, people per sq.Km – 33.21
China Population density, people per sq.Km – 145
And you have the gall to tell me, “….we cannot
May I politely suggest that you seriously need to question your surety, that immigration controls are not xenophobic.
Maybe, like Solkta, you believe we have the right to impose our borders on the region because the Polynesians were/are savage cannibals.
Hi Draco, don’t you mean, ‘any more Brown People’?
No I don’t and, as far as I know, we also allow unlimited entry to brown Australians.
Your above statement is not factual
Yes it is. There are limits and we don’t know what they are so the best option is to prevent excess now.
But let’s be fair, Eh Draco? Let’s compare apples with apples. New Zealand, with two other First World countries with roughly the same surface area, and temperate climate, with a similar standard of living.
You’re making the assumption that those countries aren’t over-populated and can sustainably maintain that population level indefinitely. Consider that the US is over-populated at a population density less than both of those.
May I politely suggest that you seriously need to question your surety, that immigration controls are not xenophobic.
May I politely tell you to get yourself before spouting off your ignorance?
The world is over-populated. This is fact. As a subset every country has it’s own carrying capacity that many, all the ones you listed as a matter of fact, have already exceeded.
So, we can all live like Ugandans or we can reduce the population of the Earth. What we can’t do is maintain a living standard for everyone equivalent to the First World while maintaining or expanding that population.
That’s physical reality no matter how much you dislike it.
If the obscure organisation contained in the link you supplied, thinks that the US is overpopulated at 33.21 people per sq.Km, I wonder what they think of the Netherlands at 448 people per sq.Km.
It may interest them, and you, to know that the Netherlands, are a major food exporter. (Sort’a makes a nonsense of your claim that “the US is overpopulated”, or beyond its “carrying capacity” Don’t you think?)
…Germany is the most important export market for Dutch farm products, accounting for sales of €23.4bn in 2017, or roughly 25% of total exports. At the same time, the Netherlands is Germany’s most important agricultural export market, the CBS said. After Germany, the biggest markers are Belgium (€10.4bn), Britain (€8.6bn) and France (€8bn). While Dutch exports to Belgium and France increased, they actually fell to Britain probably because of a weaker pound sterling related to Brexit, the CBS said.
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Draco, in my opinion, you are just mindlessly regurgitating misanthropic rubbish to suit your anti-immigrant prejudices. (the dog whistle being, not that there are too many people in the world, but that there are too many brown people in the world).
You often hear people citing overpopulation as the single biggest threat to the Earth. But can we really single out population growth in this way? Are there really too many people on our planet?
It is clear to all of us that the planet is not expanding. There is only so much space on Earth, not to mention only so many resources – food, water and energy – that can support a human population. So a growing human population must pose some kind of a threat to the wellbeing of planet Earth, mustn’t it?
Not necessarily……
…….”It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption,” says David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. He quotes Gandhi: “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”…..
As it stands now, though, the world’s population is over 7.3 billion.According to United Nations predictionsit could reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, and over 11 billion by 2100.
Population growth has been so rapid that there is no real precedent we can turn to for clues about the possible consequences. In other words, while the planet might hold over 11 billion people by the end of the century, our current level of knowledge does not allow us to predict whether such a large population is sustainable, simply because it has never happened before.
We can get clues, though, by considering where population growth is expected to be strongest in the years ahead. Satterthwaite says that most of the growth over the next two decades is predicted to be in urban centres in what are currently low and middle-income countries.
On the face of it, the global impact of adding several billion people to these urban centres might be surprisingly small. This is because urbanites in low- and middle-income countries have historically consumed little.
The emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases give us a good indication of how high consumption is in a city.
“We know of cities in low-income nations that emit less than one tonne CO2-equivalent per person per year,” says Satterthwaite. “Cities in high-income nations [can] have six to 30 tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year.”
Citizens of more affluent nations leave a much greater footprint on our planet than people living in poorer countries – although there are exceptions. Copenhagen is the capital of a high-income nation – Denmark – while Porto Alegre is in upper-middle-income Brazil. Living standards are high in both cities, yet per capita emissions are relatively low…..
…..So a world with a human population of 11 billion might put comparatively little extra strain on our planet’s resources. But the world is changing. Low-income urban centres may not continue on low-carbon development trajectories.
The real concern would be if the people living in these areas decided to demand the lifestyles and consumption rates currently considered normal in high-income nations; something many would argue is only fair. If they do, the impact of urban population growth could be much larger.
This fits with a general pattern that has played out over the past century or so, explainsWill Steffen, an emeritus professor with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. It is not the rise in population by itself that is the problem, but rather the even more rapid rise in global consumption (which of course is unevenly distributed).
This leads to an uncomfortable implication: people living in high-income nations must play their part if the world is to sustain a large human population. Only when wealthier groups are prepared to adopt low-carbon lifestyles, and to permit their governments to support such a seemingly unpopular move, will we reduce the pressure on global climate, resource and waste issues……
“The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry”
Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.
From the fields and orchards of California to the population centres of the east coast, farmers and others on the food distribution chain say high-value and nutritious food is being sacrificed to retailers’ demand for unattainable perfection.
“It’s all about blemish-free produce,” says Jay Johnson, who ships fresh fruit and vegetables from North Carolina and central Florida. “What happens in our business today is that it is either perfect, or it gets rejected. It is perfect to them, or they turn it down. And then you are stuck.”….
:World overpopulation wouldn’t be such a big problem (space-wise, at least) if everyone lived as densely as they do in South Korea or New Jersey.”
Sydney Brownstone –
The UN has predicted that the world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050–nearly 2.5 billion more people on Earth than we have at the moment. In 2013,the annual dayin which humanity consumes more natural resources than the planet is capable of recovering from in a year came early, once again. Overpopulation also just happens to be one of those words that immediately triggers images of the apocalypse, despite the fact that nothing in human existence seems more routine than birthing a child.
But before anyone takes Rush Limbaugh’s advice that environmentalists ought to save the planet by committing suicide, let’s take a step back and unpack what “overpopulation” really means. The good people atWait But Whyhave come out with another set of dazzling infographics (we first saw them when they madethis shocking piece about the death tolls of major disasters) that deal with rethinking population density and space. For example, if we lived at the density that people live in Manhattan, the entire global population could fit in New Zealand:
Or, look at the possibilities if we lived as they do in Bangladesh and New Jersey:
“Space is certainly not the problem,” one of the creators of Wait But Why (who prefers to remain anonymous) tells me. “I’m walking right now through Manhattan. It’s crowded, but it’s not that crowded,” he adds. “The point is when we talk about all the issues we have with growing population, the thing that’s scary about that is not space, it’s of course resources, and the distribution of resources.”
In some ways, the infographics are mildly comforting: When we talk about overpopulation, the implication should be that we’re talking about systems of consuming and producing waste that desperately need to be overhauled and made efficient. It’s a big task, but not completely dire…..
……In Germany last week there was a rare piece of good news. Germany’s birthrate was found to be higher than it has been for 13 years, thanks to the 33,000, or 4.8%, more babies born last year than in 2013. Nevertheless, the scale of the demographic crisis Europe’s largest economy faces has finally hit home. For decades there have been far more deaths (last year 153,000 more) than births in Germany. Those women who do give birth are bearing relatively few (on average 1.4) children. Experts say to keep the population at its current rate, that would need to rise to just over two…….
…..In order to offset this shortage, Germany needs to welcome an average of 533,000 immigrants every year, which perhaps gives context to the estimate that 800,000 refugees are due to come to Germany this year.
Only Scandinavia appears to be weathering the demographic storm with any success, partly thanks to generous parental leave systems, stable economies, and, in the cases of Sweden and Norway, high net immigration…….
……For Swedes, improving the demographic profile is advanced as one of the most powerful arguments in favour of immigration. At a meeting in Brussels in June, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven enjoined other European countries follow his country’s example.
“I am not going to sweep under the carpet the fact that it’s a major challenge at the moment,” he said of Sweden’s high levels of asylum applications. “But it is also an asset. We must recognise that if we do not do this now, we are going to have a gigantic problem in a few years.”
Immigration also props up the fertility rate and Britain and France have received a similar fillip to its population growth as a result…..
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To sum up; We have a societal problem, not an overpopulation problem, global inequality, resource theft, post colonial and neo-colonial enslavement of the Third World by the First World. division and redivision, competition, greed, war. Part of this is the artificial division of the world into cantons. Our global civilisation is organised in such a way, as to benefit the few, at the expense of the majority.
We (generally the West) go around the world creating inequality. When people try to escape this inequality, we act to punish them very severely.
As the above link shows, as societies become richer – as poor people, especially women, become more empowered, population growth slows and even reverses.
Global inequality not overpopulation is the problem. If overpopulation was a problem, it is as a symptom rather than as a cause.
And let’s not forget Draco that you brought up this overpopulation argument to justify your anti-immigrant stance. If there was a problem with overpopulation, don’t you think that the humane thing to do would be to allow people to move to areas with less overcrowding.
IMHO Draco, your whole overpopulation justification for your anti-immigrant stance, is inhumane, xenophobic, and misanthropic, targeting as if does the Third World immigrant fleeing persecution, poverty and war. And more recently, climate change, it is also racist.
It may interest them, and you, to know that the Netherlands, are a major food exporter.
Being able to produce food is not the same as living sustainably which is the mistake you and many others are making.
Climate change is the result of us not living sustainably.
”It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption,” says David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London.
Another idiot not understanding how cycles work.
The number of people a country can sustain is limited by the time it takes for the natural environment to turn human waste into fertiliser.
That is the hard limit of a nation’s carrying capacity. We’ve temporarily gone above that by using fossil fuels to produce artificial fertilisers but it is only temporary.
He quotes Gandhi: “The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Ghandi and him are wrong. It’s people trying to justify the status quo and nothing more.
World overpopulation wouldn’t be such a big problem (space-wise, at least) if everyone lived as densely as they do in South Korea or New Jersey
And this is mistaking the actual cause of over-population. It’s not space that’s the problem but maintaining the natural services of the environment.
Global inequality not overpopulation is the problem.
They are both problems.
“Across Europe birth rates are tumbling. The net effect is a ‘perfect demographic storm’ that will imperil economic growth across the continent”
Yeah, it’s called the Baby Boom. Been known about for around 50 years. It’s why both National and Labour have been importing so many people in to NZ despite the fact that it’s not going to help. It’s more ignorance trying to keep the status quo, which requires infinite growth of the human population, going.
IMHO Draco, your whole overpopulation justification for your anti-immigrant stance, is inhumane, xenophobic, and misanthropic, targeting as if does the Third World immigrant fleeing persecution, poverty and war.
Your opinion is wrong and it seems that you only have it because I’ve successfully pointed out that you’re talking out your arse. Spouting ignorance and BS to try and justify your delusional position.
That is a read and a half Pat. A kick in the guts reading about the way that our semi-government goes about not helping small business being grown by NZ. And how it views the responsibility to inform the public about its moves, in this democracy.
I followed up info for Geoff Gwyn, a leader at MPI. It is below.
Director: Joint Border Management System
Ministry for Primary Industries
March 2013 – May 2014 1 year 3 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
Manager Central and South, Border Operations, MPI
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
December 2011 – March 2013 1 year 4 months
Wellington, New Zealand
NZ Police
Inspector
NZ Police
April 1985 – May 2010 25 years 2 months
Education
Tawa College
1978 – 1982
Massey University
Massey University
Master of Arts – MA
That is a pretty good upward-moving trajectory. He gets a Master of Arts at Massey, not a science degree. He goes into the police for 25 years and gets to Inspector. Then he starts another career, with MPI as Manager Border Security for central region for just over one year, then is made Director for another year,
then becomes Chairman for government nationwide dealing with borders, and so on. Seems easy peasy. He wouldn’t want to spoil his shiny record.
Yes GWS it is yet another example of the cosy relationship between big business and those that supposedly protect the interest of the wider public…and the value placed on the interests of joe public….and they wonder why populism, go figure
National is once again whining about the proposed changes to edcuation taking away power from parents. Even though the last government brought charter schools, where parents had absolutely no input into the running of those places, and school PPP’s, which outsourced all the school property to a private company.
Rural races would be problematic because without licensing which the race courses are apparently having trouble gaining there is no oversight on what people drink and how much they eat. That’s what licensing does – protect people. Also in rural areas I expect there to be difficulty getting home after drinking and we know crash rates on rural roads are terrible. The police and emergency services are rightly concerned.
Not you though. 👎
And yes, Peters has spoken about this before. Bishop knows this and is simply using the issue to manufacture division in the government, not for the good people of rural New Zealand.
“And yes, Peters has spoken about this before. Bishop knows this and is simply using the issue to manufacture division in the government, not for the good people of rural New Zealand.”
Really – and how do you know this ?
Do you think NZ First are willing to do such harm to the rural community?
Clearly you know nothing about liquor licensing. To get a licence to serve alcohol you must be able to provide food and have trained managers and staff. Some of these rural tracks are obviously struggling to meet the liquor licensing requirements and if they can’t manage the safety of their punters with respect to alcohol consumption on a hot day then BYO is no go. This seems obvious.
I should have stopped at, “Clearly you know nothing”.
Yep. A red meat diet is a big indicator for bowel cancer. We could all eat a lot less of it. My consumption is no more than 2-3 times a month and that’s without even thinking about it.
One evening that March, Hossein and five friends met at his parents’ home to discuss politics. They talked about a Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Syria in the eighties, and the regime’s vicious response, which left thousands dead. “We knew very well that if we wanted to stand against the regime the bill would be high,” he told me. But the recent protests in Daraa had been about basic democratic reforms, not overthrowing the government, and Hossein felt confident that Assad would feel constrained by the gaze of the international community and by social media, which could broadcast abuses.
And it could have worked out that way; except, right from the earliest days, the Western Liberal Left, instead of standing with the Syrian people, threw their lot in with the regime instead.
The suffering of the people and genocide carried out against them by the regime was ignored, and minimised, social media was swamped with a sea of regime propaganda and slander, repeated and amplified by their embedded Western puppets. All this was eagerly swallowed and reposted by both the fascist Right and the gullible Left.
In the end, the only ones to give any material aid to the Syrian people were the demented fundamentalist billionaire princes of Saudi Arabia.
If Saraqib did represent the soul of the revolution, as Hossein believed, then it also suggested what Syria might be like today had the democratic revolutionaries received more international solidarity, had they been more united, and had they been more effective at collecting taxes. Perhaps they could have outmaneuvered the fundamentalists in the battle for hearts and minds. Or perhaps no democratic revolution could survive interventions on the scale of those staged by Russia and the Gulf states.
The writing is on the wall for Saraqib and Idlib province. The Saudis, the Americans, the Turks, and the Regime and their Russian allies, have all come to terms. The US will abandon their former Kurdish allies to the regime, which will keep Turkey happy. In exchange Turkey will let the regime and Russia conduct their genocide in Idlib.
A victorious Russia and the regime will agree to isolate and crowd out the Iranians and corral Hezbollah, which will also keep the Us and their Zionist allies happy.
Already international relations are being normalised with the Assad regime. It has begun with a few pro-Western autocratic regimes, but it will not be long before the capitals of the West follow suit.
Trump’s sudden decision to get US forces out of Syria is a green-light to both Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad and Turkish ruler Erdogan to move into the northeastern part of Syria currently controlled by the (until now) US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and of course also a nod towards the big ally of both Assad and Erdogan, Trump’s friends in Russia, who of course praised Trump’s decision. Of course, a US betrayal of its Kurdish allies was always a matter of time……
The Kurds were not at war with the Assad regime prior to the Arab Spring.
The have already invited the Syrian army into some of the territory it holds to protect them from there actual enemy, the Turks. They even stated the Syrian regime is the legitimate ruler of the Sryian Kurd territory.
The international community will not accept a Turkish invasion of The Kurdish areas of Syria. If the Syrian Kurds are stupid and attack Turkish territory then reprisals would be expected to happen.
The putrid poisoned pimple is just a low grade liar.
Trump told the servicemen and women he had secured a 10 per cent pay rise on their behalf — and claimed it was their first raise in more than a decade.
“You protect us. We are always going to protect you. And you just saw that, ’cause you just got one of the biggest pay raises you’ve ever received,” Trump said.
“You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years. More than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one.
“They had plenty of people that came up, they said, ‘You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3 per cent, we could make it 2 per cent, we could make it 4 per cent.
“I said, ‘No. Make it 10 per cent. Make it more than 10 per cent.’ Cause it’s been a long time, it’s been more than 10 years. Been more than 10 years, that’s a long time.”
You’re claiming he was talking about a 10% increase on the annual increase. This is 0.2% of say USD30K. About a dollar a week – gee no wonder they were happy. 😉
You’re career as a union advocate would be brief, but memorable, DJ!
“Comrades, lets bring this meeting to order. I’m here to report that I’ve negotiated a 10% pay rise. Yes, brothers and sisters, they offered us fuck all and I’ve managed to talk them up to fuck all, plus 10%.
That’s a whopping ten percent more fuck all, comrades!
Yes it is a bit of a joke overall just getting a tiny extra 0.2% except overall it’s a big total. I was just making the point how MSM took his comment and presented it differently. They would have known just as the solders exactly what he meant by his 10% comment. So the lesson for Trump is to qualify everything he says or MSM will spin it to make him look bad, nowingly misrepresenting his comment as they have done on countless other occasions.
If I was in a union and my rep said they only wanted to give you 2.4% (inflation) but he/she managed to talk them into 2.6% I would be happy with my rep. It’s a, in real terms a pay rise.
“They would have known just as the solders exactly what he meant by his 10% comment.”
This is where your argument falls down. In my example union rep Ward spelt out the maths of the rise, admitting it was only 10% more on the base. Trump did no such thing. He repeatedly said 10% over and over again. So how would the troops in front of him know it was a qualified 10% that was really worth 0.26%?
The simple truth is they had no way to know. Neither did anyone else in the room, apparently.
There is also the possibility that Trump is so stupid, he didn’t realise it was just ten percent more on the base offer and genuinely believed it was a straight 10% rise. Bear in mind he’s a serial bankrupt, so accountancy isn’t his strong suit.
Correction. Trump’s 10% is actually 0.2364 extra. That’s 2.364 plus 0.2364, making a total of 2.6%. Alternatively, it went from 2.4% to $2.60% a change of 8%, not ten. Or, to put in real life terms, just over a dollar a week more. The buck stops here!
There’s ample evidence that Jabba the Drumpf just says whatever is going to make him feel good in the moment, without the slightest care about whether it bears any relationship to reality. But if we really wanted to make the unwarranted assumption he wanted his comment to be somehow related to facts, we could grant him that he did increase the total defense budget by around 10%. Which is a very different thing to pay increases of 10%, but he wouldn’t understand that.
I have yet to find any organisation or anything, really, reporting the raise in the way you’re claiming. Articles in publications that appear aimed at active servicepeople are calling out the 10% claim as false. Here’s a sample:
Well amongst thousands of people you will find people who know nothing about what Trump says he did. That’s how this version of Propaganda works. If all you hear is Trumps says he is giving us a 10 % pay rise, but the reality is he is lying to you, then you will believe the Propaganda. If you already knew the context of the comment, the propaganda of the MSM doesn’t work.
You might still thing Trump was silly and wrong in describing things as he has, but you wouldn’t say he was lying.
This years figure is 2.6%. What was this years original figure.
Until we know that we don’t know what Trump did.
The site you gave is nothing to do with the people involved in deciding the pay rise.
Seems pretty clear you didn’t bother to look at it, but joe90’s politifact link it spells it out:
“Military pay increases are determined by a statutory formula mandated by federal law – the raises must be equal to increases in the Employment Cost Index, or ECI.
According to an April 2017 report by the Congressional Research Service, “the president can specify an alternative pay adjustment that supersedes the automatic adjustment,” and “Congress can pass legislation to specify the annual pay raise, which would supersede the automatic adjustment and/or any presidential adjustment if it were enacted.”
In fact, while the 2.4 percent increase for 2018 was the largest in eight years, Trump actually requested 2.1 percent, “an amount below the automatic adjustment (of 2.4 percent) for 2018.” Congress ultimately overrode the administration’s proposal.
For 2019, the CRS reported that Trump requested 2.6 percent, which is a raise equal to the ECI, and one that the president’s 2019 budget called “modest.” ”
So last year Don the Con tried to stiff servicepeople with a raise lower than what was mandated, but congress overrode him to pay what is mandated. For this coming year the Dork from New York might have learned something and just went along with the mandated increase. And is now trying to con servicepeople into thinking he did something special for them. Seems to have worked on you, but I suspect most servicepeople will see through it.
56% support in the military? Really? Where did you get that from? Just made it up on the spot, like your hero the rotting jack’o’lantern does?
Coz the first result that turned up when I went looking for actual facts was 44% approve, 43% disapprove, and a strong trend of dropping approval and rising disapproval. The next results I looked were similar. That trend is likely to continue with his ongoing shitty behaviour towards actual active duty real people, as opposed to the vague idea of a strong military he’s so infatuated by.
“Overall, 56 percent of veterans — both current and former service members — said they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 43 percent disapproved”
I dug into this sufficiently to guess that the 10% figure derives from the increase from 2.4% a year ago to 2.6%. Actually, do the math & you’ll get 8.3%, right?
So looks like Trump is trying to take credit for this increase and rounding it up, on the assumption that nobody does precision any more, so near enough is good enough. There’s an entire industry based on this kind of thinking (advertising).
But I agree with the critique from the msm and Marty’s disgust. Bombast from the Trump won’t impress the non-clueless (opinion-leaders) so not good politics. Better for him to be a straight-shooter. More votes down that path.
We don’t know the actual starting 2019 figure. But based on the fact I’ve seen no comments from those involved in the negotiations for the pay rise one can assume the 10% figure is correct. Think about it. He talks about the discussion as to it being a certain %. Hence it did happen, on his initiative and it is 10%.
“Pay raises beginning in 2007 are equal to the increase in the ECI. Pay raises may exceed these automatic levels if authorized and funded by Congress.”
So you’re saying the Democrats agreed to this 10% increase? If so, how come the msm haven’t quoted any confirmation of that from them? All the reporters couldn’t be bothered doing their job?
The Democrates don’t control anything yet. Assuming it’s in the part of the budget already voted in, then yes they have voted. It’s irrelevant if the Dems agree with it or not, but if it’s part of the budget the Dems are blocking in Congress with the 60% rule it’s likely not a good move by them.
The 2.6% figure is not something that’s majicaly arrived post Trumps comment. They had it available to them all along.
Are you saying MSM are so stupid as to not understand what Trump was referring to. They new what the 10% was about and chose to misrepresent it anyway. Or the TDS is so bad they didn’t bother to do a tiny bit of homework, but jumped into full Fake News Propaganda mode.
No, just seeking clarification. Reality-aversion all round, currently. Competing spin is pointless in this context. Nobody knows the facts.
I’m inclined to agree re msm laziness & fake news production, but we’ll have to wait for a news media CEO to tell his troops “Hey, enough of this kindergarten stuff, you turkeys. I expect a return to professional standards or you’re all fired! A bunch of drainlayers could do better, after some basic training. You wanna call my bluff??”
“On August 31, 2017, President Trump sent a letter to congressional leaders invoking his authority under 37 U.S.C. 1009(e) to set the pay raise at 2.1%. However, Section 601 of the enacted version of the FY2018 NDAA (P.L. 115-91) specified the statutory formula increase (2.4%) would go into effect, superseding the President’s alternative adjustment.”
During a holiday visit to troops stationed in Iraq, President Donald Trump bragged that he had secured them not only their first pay raise in over a decade, but “one of the biggest” ever.
This is inaccurate and not the first time Trump has made false claims about annual military raises.
His full remarks:
“..you just got one of the biggest pay raises you’ve ever received … You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years — more than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one.
“They had plenty of people that came up. They said, ‘You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3 percent. We could make it 2 percent. We could make it 4 percent.’ I said, ‘No. Make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.’ Because it’s been a long time. It’s been more than 10 years. It’s been more than 10 years.”
We fact-checked a similar claim from Trump in May, when he told military mothers and spouses at a White House event that he signed a bill to give service members a raise for the “first time in 10 years.” We rated it Pants on Fire.
In reality, service members have received pay raises every year for more than three decades. The 2019 military pay increase of 2.6 percent is the largest in nine years, but it is not the “more than 10 percent” that Trump mentioned.
He is talking about above the formula rises. The military pay rise is benchmarked. This will be the first rise above that benchmark in a long time.
If you understood Trump you would see why non military staff are not getting pay rises. He would prefer to cut there numbers. He however is very pro military, law enforcement. The non military staff is the swamp.
He is not fucking over there lives. The House voted yes. The Senate (Schumer) is blocking the budget in the Senate. Trump is blocking nothing. Trump has not stopped the government, the Senate has. Some hypocrites that wanted a wall, now don’t want one because Trump wants it.
You didn’t check out joe90’s politifact link, did you?
If you had and followed politifact’s sources you might have spotted this little gem:
“On August 31, 2017, President Trump sent a letter to congressional leaders invoking his authority under 37 U.S.C. 1009(e) to set the pay raise at 2.1%. However, Section 601 of the enacted version of the FY2018 NDAA (P.L. 115-91) specified the statutory formula increase (2.4%) would go into effect, superseding the President’s alternative adjustment.”
page 12 of https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33446.pdf
So the satsuma shitgibbon tried to diddle the military on their mandated raise and had to be over-ridden by Congress, then he just bare-faced lied straight to servicepeople’s faces to falsely claim he got a better deal for them.
I’m curious though, where’s your bullshit supply coming from? Direct from Huckabooboo, or Kellyanne? Hannity? Pootee?
“Put simply, if we are determined to maintain the economic status quo, we cannot possibly mitigate climate change, so we must turn to adapting to it. And if we opt for adaptation, they write, “we have to come to terms with the impossibility of material, social, and political progress as a universal promise: life is going to be worse for most people in the 21st century in all these dimensions. The political consequences of this are hard to predict.”
The choice is radicalism today or disaster tomorrow, and from all signs, humanity is choosing the latter.”
Kia ora Clint from R&R We have to respect our grandchildrens future that places respect and provide all the children of papatuanuku rights to a good life now and in the future and respect all life on papatuanuku more than the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Profits has to stop be made by sacrificing our grandchildrens full stop .
The way the world is at the minute has to be totally changed that means abandoning most of the capitalist systems that runs the world.
Ka kite ano
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Thanks for the hard work Iprent has put in maintaining and up grading thestandard Happy New year to all on this site and all the people around the world all the best the. Lefty,s keep up the good work we must never stop fighting for the good of ALL. The invention of the internet has the same effect,s as when fire was invented it has many positive effects but if you don’t respect it you one get burned
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Here you go the carbon coalithion goverment of Australia is going to let black-throated finch go extint all for coal and money muppets
Adani ‘conservation area’ for endangered finch sits on proposed Clive Palmer mine
Exclusive: environmental group calls plan to protect black-throated finch an ‘elaborate hoax’ The bird is endangered and researchers have previously said the Adani Carmichael mine’s offset strategy would be “grossly inadequate” to protect it.
Waratah Coal requires permission from pastoral land holders, including Adani, before being granted a mining lease. If there is a dispute, the matter goes before the Queensland land court.
Carmel Flint from Lock the Gate, which has a history of advocating for pastoral land owners in conflict with miners, said the land court “would do little to stop Waratah Coal from mining the area”.
“Mining licences trump pastoral leases completely under the law in Queensland,” Flint said. “As a result, this so-called ‘conservation area’ that Adani has allocated to the black-throated finch is utterly meaningless. It’s an elaborate hoax they’ve devised to enable them to start the Carmichael links below ka kite ano
Kia ora Clint from R&R Climate change is the biggest risk to human kind and yes we can make a diffence te Papatuanuku is like any living orgnasim . If one pumps just sugar in to a pepe /baby it will grow obeast and die same with Papatuanuku we are pumping to much bad gasses into her and she is warming fast . Life is finely balanced it does not take much to put life’s ballance out and that means collapes if we make changes in Aotearoa our neighbours will follow suit . trump wont be in power for ever and then changes for the better for our enviroment and our mokopunas future .Happy new years to you all ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori use to shear the aroha but I got ahi all the time . I strongly agree we need to restore the respect being cast out over the whole whano and IWI instead some just rip you off that’s not the old tangata whenua way.The old maori way was to respect everything
Kia ora Te kaea Tewhare has a good way to help people who have slipped down there ladder of life whano shearing and gardening raising stock is good for the wairua and respecting all .
Ka pai Ngahuia for getting funding to study the health benerfits of sailing a dubble hulled waka in Te taiwhiti.
Its cool that there heaps of interest in books and all maori culture now .
Nania has had a good year she is a good maori wahine leader and role modle for our young wahine. I Te puni korkiri need to work harder at providing a good service for maori. Ka kite ano
Kia ora Milisa from Newshub thats sad the church in Mount Eden Auckland has burnt down .
People have to be careful and check the weather yes and if caught in a rip ride it will bring you out of the rip or back to shore.
Ilegal weed just made the people grow weed up the east coast instead of becoming more industrious and growing food for export our tipuna were one of the most industrious in there time.
People need to show respect and stop damaging things burning things is dumb.
The Sudan people looks like they are not happy lets hope it all ends well for all of the people.
June was quite funny she has given me a few sore faces condolences to her whano
Shellys bay Tauranga is a gem of a place nice people and great views into the harbour Mike ka kite ano
Kai ora Newshub looks like the fireworks show in Auckland will be a good show tonight with the Sky tower and Auckland harbour bridge synchronised.
To everyone don’t drink to much tonight as one could end up in the——-.
The Gisborne festival packs the city up with heaps of people and long lines in the shops.
People love to come to the Aotearoa te whenua of Cream & Honey be save and happy on your travels to Queens Town.
It has been a good year for wahine sport stars in Aotearoa in 2018 Ross Ka kite anoP.S hope the weather is going to be ka pai Ingrid happy new year
Happy healthy Positive New Year to Te Papatuanuku . The people of the world must make sure we dont lose Tanemahuta and Tangaroa’s beautiful creations all the tamariki of the world needed to be taught about how close a link humans have with mothernature and how finely ballanced life actualy is. Our World has been placed in just the correct place with marama moon the tilt of the axis how close we are to Ra Sun the planets all play a role that keeps like thriving on Earth. Change just one of those phenomen change the ballance and the world could be a frozen ball or a fire ball thats a fact . We must learn to respect all thing thy neighbours thee creatures thee earth all things
The loss of biodiversity is a silent killer,” she told the Guardian. “It’s different from climate change, where people feel the impact in everyday life. With biodiversity, it is not so clear but by the time you feel what is happening, it may be too late.”
The loss of biodiversity is a silent killer.
Cristiana Pașca Palmer
Pașca Palmer is executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – the world body responsible for maintaining the natural life support systems on which humanity depends.
Its members – 195 states and the EU – will meet in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, this month to start discussions on a new framework for managing the world’s ecosystems and wildlife. This will kick off two years of frenetic negotiations, which Pașca Palmer hopes will culminate in an ambitious new global deal at the next conference in Beijing in 2020. Links below Ka kite ano
Kia ora when we protect our fisheries for the mokopuna’s we will be protect there welbeing as well. In the future with population incresses and other countrys fisheries collapsing the presures on our fisheries will be huge as the demand out strips supply of our seafood the price paid will shoot throught the roof then all the wrong people will target our fishes . Hence when we protect te fishes now in 20 years crayfish paua kina osters will be worth more than gold a sustainable managment system needs to guarantee our fisheries future. People will pay big money to come here and catch our fishes as well in the future .
Fisheries New Zealand wants people to have their say on proposed rule changes for recreational fishers to assist with rebuilding the CRA2 fishery, which covers the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.Fisheries New Zealand wants people to have their say on proposed rule changes for recreational fishers to assist with rebuilding the CRA2 fishery, which covers the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.
Manager of inshore fisheries Steve Halley says under the proposals the number of spiny rock lobsters recreational fishers can take per day would be reduced from six to three.
“As part of the consultation, we also want feedback on introducing telson (tail fan) clipping as a tool to assist with minimising the illegal black market sales of rock lobster,” Mr Halley says.
“The proposals follow the decision by the Minister of Fisheries to make a large reduction to the Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch and the overall allowance for recreational fishers for the fishery on 1 April 2018.
“These proposed changes are designed to double the number of rock lobster in the area over the next 4-8 years. links below Ka kite ano P.S one of Eco maori favorite kaimoana gathers on this video
This is were human’s future is exploring space ka pai Happy new year to Elon Musk and all this teams at Spacex and Tesla big changes coming in 2019 for the good of all.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype proceeds at breakneck pace towards hop tests Well illustrated by recent drone photos of SpaceX’s up-and-coming Boca Chica, Texas facilities, dozens of SpaceXers and local contractors have congregated at the company’s Starship prototype work site over the last few weeks, progressing it from an empty tent and a collection of parts to a handful of large assemblies for what appears to be the first full-scale Starship hopper.
Much like Falcon 9’s Grasshopper and F9R (Reusable) hop test articles, this ungainly Starship hopper – standing an impressive 9m (29.5 ft) wide and ~40m (131 ft) tall – appears all but guaranteed to become the first integrated BFR hardware to take flight, hopefully supporting a productive series of low-altitude hop tests from a roughly-prepared South Texas pad.links below ka kite ano
Kia ora Tekaea Ka pai to Maori Kings Tuheitia Potatau goal of uniting te iwis at the 85 Poukai at Horahora marae newyear .
Its good to see Meka Whaitiri tau toko the young wahine aspirations to become Mps Its good to see all the new maori soft ball stars starting to shine bright .
Ka kite ano Happy new year to the Maori TV team P.S Our tipuna use waiata to record our histoy its is good to see our young music stars shining bright
Kia ora Tom from Newshub I read that there was not to much havoc in Aotearoa last night. Nine years of decision made on the base of making money and saving money well the effects of these choices are still rolling in . New Years eve celebration is for the youth. Good on Malasia for stopping taking our plastic waste we need to minermize the poision make laws to combat this problem that is growing bigger everyday. That campfire in California was a big deaster and there are hundreds of people living in tents condloences to them some one need to come up with inovative ways to solve there housing hardship I wonder they want to spend billions on a WALL when people need there housing go figure. Tawhirirmatea was good to us in Vags last night Ingrid
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Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
Alwyn Poole writes – “An SEP,’ he said, ‘is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a ...
Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
Holding On To The Present:The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of History’s clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...
Stuck In The Middle With You:As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Act’s and NZ First’s extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country he’s described as “fragile”, is there not some merit in reaching out ...
The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of Māori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...
It Takes A Train To Cry:Surely, there is nothing lonelier in all this world than the long wail of a distant steam locomotive on a cold Winter’s night.AS A CHILD, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a ...
Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of Māori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary – including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal – that its ...
Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...
Chris Trotter writes – New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Key’s flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMP’s five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...
Luxon will no doubt put a brave face on it, but there is no escaping the pressure this latest poll will put on him and the government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...
Hi,From time to time, I want to bring Webworm into the real world. We did it last year with the Jurassic Park event in New Zealand — which was a lot of fun!And so on Saturday May 11th, in Los Angeles, I am hosting a lil’ Webworm pop-up! I’ve been ...
Education Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New ...
Exactly where are we seriously going with this government and its policies? That is, apart from following what may as well be a Truss-Lite approach on the purported economic “plan“, and Victorian-era regression when it comes to social policy.Oh it’ll work this time of course, we’re basically assured, “the ...
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute ...
Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is higher than for any other mayor ...
Buzz from the Beehive Pharmac has been given a financial transfusion and a new chair to oversee its spending in the pharmaceutical business. Associate Health Minister David Seymour described the funding for Pharmac as “its largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff”. ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its ...
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:10am on Monday, April 29:Scoop: The children's ward at Rotorua Hospital will be missing a third of its beds as winter hits because Te Whatu Ora halted an upgrade partway through to ...
span class=”dropcap”>As hideous as David Seymour can be, it is worth keeping in mind occasionally that there are even worse political figures (and regimes) out there. Iran for instance, is about to execute the country’s leading hip hop musician Toomaj Salehi, for writing and performing raps that “corrupt” the nation’s ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
The Government has delivered on its election promise to provide a financially sustainable model for Auckland under its Local Water Done Well plan. The plan, which has been unanimously endorsed by Auckland Council’s Governing Body, will see Aucklanders avoid the previously projected 25.8 per cent water rates increases while retaining ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters discussed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and enhanced cooperation in the Pacific with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during her first official visit to New Zealand today. "New Zealand and Germany enjoy shared interests and values, including the rule of law, democracy, respect for the international system ...
The Minister Responsible for RMA Reform, Chris Bishop today released his decision on four recommendations referred to him by the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, opening the door to housing growth in the area. The Council’s Plan Change 92 allows more homes to be built in existing and new ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of Israel’s War on Gaza, now in its seventh month with almost 35,000 people killed, mostly women and children. Marking the annual May 3 World Press ...
The Government Communications Security Bureau denies hosting a foreign spying capability flagged by the watchdog, differentiating it from the system recently criticised. ...
RNZ News A group of academic staff at New Zealand’s largest university have expressed concern at the administration’s move to block a protest encampment that was planned to take place on campus calling for support for the rights of Palestinians. This week, the University of Auckland warned that while it ...
Genterwocky After a hard days marching, Sir Doocey calls in at the Village Tavern For a pint of ale and a pork pie. The grim villagers stare at him. “Do not be travelling on the forest road,” warns a crusty old beak. “And why is that, antique peasant?” Grins Sir ...
Political conferences after a party returns to power are usually a chance for some healthy, even unhealthy backslapping. Yet National Party president Sylvia Wood’s address to its mainland representatives on Saturday hardly contained the unalloyed delight that one might have expected following National’s escape from the wilderness of opposition. Yes, ...
Comment: Almost half the world is voting in national elections this year and artificial intelligence is the elephant in the room. There are genuine fears AI-generated or AI-edited deepfakes will potentially manipulate election outcomes not just in the US and UK, but critically in countries such as India. For that ...
Ahead of the reality franchise’s return to New Zealand, allow us to introduce the eight brides and grooms. Chuck on a veil and tie back your man bun, because it’s time to say “I do” to a new season of Married at First Sight NZ. The reality TV “social experiment” ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University Every year on June 1, student debt in Australia is indexed to inflation. In 2023, high inflation pushed the indexation rate to 7.1%, the highest since 1990. This ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Changes in the May 14 budget will cut the student debt of more than three million people, wiping more than $3 billion from what people owe. The government will cap the HELP indexation rate ...
Asia Pacific Report The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff, saying such threats could constitute an offence against the “administration of justice” by the world’s permanent war crimes court. The Hague-based office of ICC Prosecutor ...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A women’s union in New Caledonia has staged a sit-in protest this week to support senior Kanak indigenous journalist Thérèse Waia, who works for public broadcaster Nouvelle-Calédonie la Première, after a smear attack by critics. The peaceful demonstration was held on ...
New Zealand Food Safety is monitoring overseas recalls of Indian packaged spice products manufactured by MDH and Everest due to concerns over a cancer-causing pesticide. ...
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with free or mostly free media after its government last year repealed a draconian law that threatened journalists with prison for doing their jobs. Fiji’s improvement ...
We might be in Invercargill but all anyone can talk about is Gore. Specifically, Salford Street. That’s where three-year-old Lachlan Jones lived, south of the centre of town, between the A&P Showgrounds and the Mataura River. Roughly 1.2 km away from the single level home he lived in with his ...
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Looking less like a slaughter in Manbij
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/1ecf9b83-c785-43ad-a38a-5840a37291a7
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/12/turkey-delegation-russia-syria-talks-intervention.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/28/syrian-kurdish-militia-manbij-turkey
‘Quid pro quo’
The geopolitical maneuvering between the US and Turkey, has paved the way for the re-commencement of a genocidal slaughter in Idlib.
I fully expect, you, like other Assad apologists here, will politely look away. Just as you always have.
From USA Today. (little reporting of this from our media)
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees (F)
Doyle Rice – USA TODAY, December 27, 2018
Where’s the justice?
Taking advantage of the open border with White Majority Australia, I think, that over the next coming weeks, we can expect a movement of Australians to NZ to escape the heat.
Will all our resident xenophobes and racists be complaining about this?
Of course not, they are not brown skinned Pacific Islanders.
Per capita, Australians are the one of the peoples most responsible for climate change.
Per capita, (and overall being barely measurable), Polynesians are one of the peoples least responsible for climate change. Butone of the world’s peoples most negatively impacted by it.
(A fact that also gets little media attention here).
On the frontline of climate change in the South Pacific
Admin – Friends of the Earth Scotland, August 27, 2018
‘There [are] no climate change sceptics in these island communities’
If there were any justice,
If post colonial racist immigration policies were not an issue.
In balance, Australians would have their free entry removed. (Well at least) until they pressured their leaders to do something about Australia’s world record breaking emissions). And Pacific Islanders, who are in less able to act against climate change, and most affected by it, would enjoy free entry.
The elephant in the front room*.
Local media are still missing this story.
Australian heatwave spans five states with high of 49C forecast
Naaman Zhou – The Guardian, December 27, 2018
If the New Zealand media ever finally get around to reporting on this. The words “climate change” will likely be missing from their reports.
cue cricket sounds:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/
http://ifasgallery.ifas.ufl.edu/entnem/walker/buzz/585ss.wav
Well at least in the meantime, until they become extinct,
Climate change on track to cause major insect wipeout, scientists warn
Damion Carrington – The Guardian, May 17, 2018
It’s not that they’re missing it. It’s that they’re misunderstanding it. They truly don’t understand that Australians are directly responsible for their actions.
Reality doesn’t give a shit about ‘justice’.
It really only takes into account those who are still alive.
Chances are, if we continue our present direction, that won’t include humans.
Now do you understand?
EDIT:
This will actually be justice – we just won’t like it.
“Will all our resident xenophobes and racists be complaining about this?
Of course not, they are not brown skinned Pacific Islanders.”
Nor will they have Chinese sounding surnames – which is probably more important to this government.
As a white economic immigrant yourself, where do you stand on priority access to this country?
Wealthy white Englishmen like yourself? Chinese, rich from poor human rights standards? Middle-class Indian students brought here on a scam? Aussie cobbers who just got too hot? Pacific peoples whose homes are wrecked every other year?
Who gets priority according to Coatsville resident and grandfather, James?
muttonbird – still running with the meme that Im not from NZ I see.
I also love how you and a couple of others keep bringing up details I have sharded on here previously (relating to the topics in hand) like where I live, where my kids went to school, their approximate ages, the fact that they own their own businesses etc.
Its like a disney version of doxxing.
Not sure how this works with the policy however – I guess that is up to the mods – but generally it would be seen as very poor form to start trying to identify people or keep on republishing their information.
I know that this wont make you stop (after all you are like a dog with a bone) – but Hey – Ive called you out for it.
You make a good point, james. Nature and nurture take us through childhood, and as adults, we are shaped by our experiences. It really doesn’t matter where we come from, its where we are here and now that matters on a topical blog. I agree that repeated references to your alleged country of origin borders on doxxing. It also means that some people are pointlessly limiting their responses based on what they think they know about your background. That’s just daft, in my opinion.
So, a general warning that reference to any commenters background, known or not, should be clearly relevant to the discussion at hand.
Fair enough, but I think it’s wise to not use details of your personal station in life to troll a forum. James does this a lot – the barbecues, the private schools, etc. The reason I bring it up is that I believe not much of it is the truth, and that particular commenter is making stuff up in order to annoy others on this forum.
If the moderators think this is ok then that is the course they follow.
Also, I’m not sure about references to background being limited to the discussion at hand. That suggests all commenters come to a thread with a clean sheet but in reality we know what drives each other because of historical knowledge. Are you saying we should scrub that knowledge?
Given that it’s all conjecture anyway, why bother keep bringing it up?
After a year in government, the worst he can manage is a misinterpretation of a report that exposed a massive failing in NZ’s record keeping, and you take the bait. Make him try harder so it becomes obvious who is trolling whom.
I’m comfortable with my actions.
By the way, I was born at Waitakere Hospital – as Westie as you get!
um – okaaay
I’ll walk you through it. TRP states:
Now I happen to think it can matter where we come from because you are shaped by your experiences. My accusation was that aging white immigrants from England have limited understanding of New Zealand identity and their largely anti-minority beliefs are a result of that. Their comments on immigration policy need to be taken in that context.
But I have absolutely no understanding of Waitakere, because I’ve never even been there. I have no reference upon which to gauge your “understanding of New Zealand”. Just as you have no reference to gauge mine, at the other end of the country. Maybe an immigrant without our local baggage can in fact have a deeper understanding of “New Zealand” than we do, noticing the little conceits and quirks that are the water we swim in as fish. And maybe how we treat immigrants is part of what it is to be a New Zealander.
But it’s all pointless anyway, because nothing about a commenter is verified. I can say my father is dead, and maybe that gives me some cache to talk about grief and loss. Or maybe my father is alive, or I never knew him, at I simply told a fib to get that credibility. Who knows – not you, that’s for sure.
Now, it can be funny when commenters tell conflicting stories about themselves – claims to live in difference places, or have degrees in everything from economics to rocket science to medicine. But that’s all it is. Everything else are just snowflakes landing on a discussion and then melting, leaving nothing of substance.
Well, unlike RWNJs that have to lie because reality doesn’t suit their beliefs, I simply don’t lie.
Online or face to face.
It’s really no different from anywhere else.
I’m not an immigrant – merely autistic and that means that I live outside of the norm.
Looking in.
And I’m horribly logical about it.
Except that there’s nothing in this subthread about you, so it’s a non sequiter to talk about yourself.
But let’s say it is about you. Maybe you never lie. Nobody here knows that. You are frequently mistaken about small facts that tend to invalidate your cunning plans. Maybe that’s just because you have an inflated opinion of yourself so assume your assumptions are equivalent to facts. If it concerns your argument, it should probably be verifiable. If it’s about yourself, it’s not hugely relevant to any discussion. Mildly interesting, maybe, but completely unverifiable for most intents and purposes. So maybe you never lie in fact to face conversations. So what?
So was I.
In fact, a close friend of mine throughout childhood was someone who was born two days earlier in the same hospital.
There is absolutely no chance that they would vote for anyone but National.
High five, fellow westie.
“Make him try harder so it becomes obvious who is trolling whom.”
A great general principle, thanks.
Far too easy for the righties to get a rise here.
Good question. Why would someone, who’s obviously follows the belief that the Left are envious of the rich, always bring up how rich they are?
There is absolutely no chance that they would vote for anyone but National.
Hardly “always”. To me, James just seems to like watching people with neither a sense of humour nor proportionality jump up and down.
Posting in good faith seems to not be an issue these days…
James clearly does not post in good faith…that is abundantly clear…
Watching bans get distributed to others , for less IMO while James plays ‘victim’, is a low point among many for this site…
James openly posts his personal details regarding his family and preferences as an agitator to rub others up the wrong way…yes others let that happen…but why enable the root cause…
Playing his make believe family life, which he openly shares back to Jmaes is not the problem this site faces, TRP…
It’s that James and ilk are enabled…empowered on this site…quite why is up for debate…
Good post which gets to the heart of the matter.
One Two
+1
Well, you did offer these details on this forum in your arguments against socially conscious thought and policy. I think they are fair game because of that.
“James” is unlikely to be a real individual. More likely a troll-construct.
Well, despite apparently owning one he spells bach, “batch” which isn’t the Kiwi way. 😆
I thought it was interesting why baches are called baches.
In the past young men attempting to establish themselves settled for the most humble of abodes and directed their energies into making a living.
Upon meeting the woman they chose to create a family with they heard the words ‘There is no way I’m living in that shanty!’
Bach is a shortened version of bachelor.
Perhaps he owns many baches that are very similar, like scones?
Sorry Enough, I did reply but it has been censored. ☹️
Yes, he uses them as excuses for injustice.
Sharded’s not a verb jimby, did you mean shatted?
It’s not a question of skin colour or of names but if we can support them on the limited resources that we have.
I find it amusing that a RWNJ, who is most likely to say that we must live within our means will then demand that we live outside our means. To live beyond what is physically available.
To maintain capitalism.
Your problems, like fuckwits, is that you believe that we can support all those that decide to come here.
We cannot.
That is simply reality.
Now, if you were the prosper who looks after the environment as you portray youself to be then the first question you would be asking is: Given present technological constraints, how many people can NZ support?
The most important point being that we cannot support unlimited immigration.
That’s a physical impossibility that no amount of whinging from you can ever displace.
It’s not xenophobic to say that we cannot support any more people.
In fact, given your support to protect the environment, if you were taking into account actual physical realities, you’d be saying the same.
Geez I can’t keep up with you Draco, aren’t we living in a swirling neoliberal cesspit? What the hell do you care if other suckers want to come and live under the constant persecution we all suffer from….We’ve got it pretty good hey bro.
“is that you believe that we can support all those that decide to come here” citation needed
“We cannot” citation needed
“The most important point being that we cannot support unlimited immigration.
That’s a physical impossibility that no amount of whinging from you can ever displace.” Strawman argument – no one said UNLIMITED IMMIGRATION – this is dishonest arguing.
“… to say that we cannot support any more people” citation needed
See what you do there?
You make stuff up, create bogus arguments and then win those arguments whilst continuing to not actually deal with ANY reality.
You make bold statement after bold statement – all opinion and all fear based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity
And you, like Jenny, is ideologically biased against reality.
Yes I am aware of this and that is not a citation – so basically you are making shit up.
No, just applying logic – something that you fail to do.
If the world has a carrying capacity then so does every nation.
It’s a relatively inescapable logic.
So, as you’re the one who thinks we should open up our borders without thought about these things, what is the carrying capacity of NZ?
It really is up to you to prove that we can carry all the people that you think we should import.
Yeah sure lol – always back to the non answer eh. Just bombast and bluster – sad.
how many people can NZ support MM?
how long is the coastline of Aotearoa Pat?
that wasnt the question….have the courage of your convictions and put a number on it
Nah, because the number would always change according to technology.
The real question is “how many net migrants can we absorb each year”?
Then we can take a decent number of refugees and essential skills first and fill up the rest with economic migrants.
Currently we’re on around 70k. Reasonable arguments have been made to lower that until neglected housing and other infrastructure has been upgraded. But the biggest problem are tourists, even though businesses love their money.
technology will only impact at the margin…it certainly wont be factorial
It’s already been “factorial”, ever since the first plough
not since the first plough if you look at the numbers…since the industrial revolution
really?
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#long-run-historical-perspective
yes, really. It didn’t turn factorial at the steepest bit. It started slow and gained momentum. Due to technological and social progresion.
True but what does present technology allow?
Because if technology may increase later we need to know what we can support now. This helps us to decide how many we can support later when our knowledge improves.
So, how many people can we presently support?
That is secondary to how many we can support given present knowledge.
The present number of immigrants should be halted until we know how many people that our nation can support.
So, how many people can our nation support?
It is up to you, and all others who support immigration, to show those of us who don’t.
the reason why its not post agrian and is post industrial is explained here
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
We’re doing pretty fucking well when we don’t leave essential infrastructure up to market forces. Are you asserting that we’re anything close to over-capacity at the moment?
Are we?
Extinction levels at 1000+ times the normal rate.
Climate change.
Oceans food stocks collapsing.
Are we really doing well or are we burning up stored wealth?
I think it’s the latter.
Except that the world population almost tripled in the thousand years before the industrial revolution. And a little over doubled in the thousand years before that.
We (globally) have been in “factorial” growth for thousands of years, it just has a long tail because that’s what such growth consists of.
@DTB: yeah, that’s how capitalism works. And NZ is doing better than most places, which is what I meant by “we”.
It depends on what and how you measure it Pat – it isn’t a nice easy round number like you seem to be thinking. Perhaps go and read draco’s link to get an idea of the complexities and aspects to the calculation – you may be surprised.
i already have a calculation and a number…the only thing that will surprise me is if you can provide one
Wow I’d love to see your workings – must make the Drake equation seem a doddle. Probably just as tough guestimating some of those factors though eh.
so no number nor courage? I’ll give you a clue…weve already exceeded it
prove it
what was the world population prior to the industrial revolution?…im assuming you can google
what was the world population prior to the industrial revolution?…im assuming you can google
You said it – prove it. Please don’t ask me to prove YOUR assertion.
the repetition would appear to be a bug…and one im having trouble working round …however requiring you to access the data and doing the equation yourself allows you thye opportunity to dispute the method
Okay, so you have got nothing. I thought as much.
Plus that bug is a shit alright.
I’m just wondering why the criteria is “post-agrarian revolution but pre-industrial revolution”. I’m assuming the only permissable food production is crop rotation but hopefully with better healthcare?
oh dear MM…so unsure of yourself you wont even do some basic arithmetic…dissappointing
Pat you had your big chance to homerun it but you faltered at the hurdle – what were you saying about courage again lol.
No, he has a valid point and a valid number.
Prior to the industrial revolution there was about 500 million people sustainably supported.
We now have in excess of 7 billion.
You need to show, because it you argument, that the Earth can support more than 500 million sustainably.
As a subset, you need to show how many people that NZ can support sustainably.
I think five million is the limits for NZ and that one billion is the limits for the Earth as a while. This has, of course, come from many readings but here’s one.
So, how many people can NZ support sustainably?
How many people can the Earth support sustainably?
He hasn’t given ANY numbers, ANY calculations, ANY evidence – yeah I can see why you love it cos that’s what YOU do.
No it doesn’t.
We have so much land. So much of that needs to be wild, So much needs to be farm.
What’s the absolute physical amounts?
Given those amounts, how many people can we support?
You’re one of the ones that we can simply import more and more people so it’s up to you to show that we can support them.
“So much of that needs to be wild, So much needs to be farm.”
citation needed
You’re talking but saying nothing – just moving those gums – put your evidence up not your opinion.
what are you scared of MM?….worst case you may have additional information…best case you can shoot me down.
Pat you said it and I asked you to prove it. I know you can’t and you know you can’t because it is not provable. Yeah I’m really scared wooo wooo lol
https://peakoilbarrel.com/carrying-capacity-overshoot-and-species-extinction/
https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/our-expert-advice/all-expert-advice-papers/the-sustainable-carrying-capacity-of-new-zealand/
My position is simple precautionary: NZ is finite and so we must determine what the carrying capacity is before we expand it further.
There are limits. You have to prove that we’re not already exceeding them and that we can take more people.
oh dear thats an unconvincing line to take so Ill hold your hand and walk you through it.
World population pre industrial revolution is estimated to be between 700 million and a billion…probably closer to the low end but we will be generous and work with a billion.
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
The habitable land area of the earth is around 6.4 billion hectares, or 6.4 hectares per person
https://www.quora.com/If-every-person-on-earth-was-to-be-given-an-equal-portion-of-inhabitable-land-how-much-land-would-each-person-get
the land area of NZ is around 26,000,000 hectares (not necessarily habitable…mountains, lakes etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_New_Zealand
which if allocated at pre industrial stocking rates (which i contest is the sustainable level, with perhaps a small premium for technology) equates to around 4.1 million souls
Current NZ population is around 4.7 million…that is not to say we shouldnt assist our neighbours who will undoubtably need refuge soon but dont kid ourselves that it is sustainable
Yes ask Pat cos he has proof we are already exceeding the limits for this country based on his idea of sustainability of course.
Simply precautionary? Yes I said that earlier – your opinion is based on fear. I’d rather see the evidence ta.
“It’s not xenophobic to say that we cannot support any more people”,
Draco T Bastard
Hi Draco, don’t you mean, ‘any more Brown People’? Remember that we allow unlimited entry to White Majority Settler nation Australia?
Your above statement is not factual, And if your statement is not factual – what is it, that motivates some people to believe this?
My opinion is, that your opinion is deeply xenophobic. But unlike my opinion, your opinion, your surety that we cannot support any more people, is not backed up by fact.
Let’s look at the raw data
New Zealand Surface area – 267710 sq.Km
New Zealand Population density, people per sq.Km, – 15
That’s less than half the population density of Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Sahran Africa Population density, people per sq.Km – 34.7
But let’s be fair, Eh Draco? Let’s compare apples with apples. New Zealand, with two other First World countries with roughly the same surface area, and temperate climate, with a similar standard of living.
United Kingdom Surface area – 243610 sq.Km
United Kingdom Population density, people per sq.km – 271
Surface area Japan, 364560 sq.Km
Japan Population density, people per sq.Km – 336
But maybe we should go further afield and look at the stats for some other countries.
Let’s look for instance at the Netherlands with one of the highest population densities in the world.
Netherlands Population density, people per sq.Km – 488
The thing about the Netherlands that disproves your xenophobic trope, Draco, is that despite it’s high population density the Netherlands has one of the highest living standards in the world.
Continuing:-
USA Population density, people per sq.Km – 33.21
China Population density, people per sq.Km – 145
And you have the gall to tell me, “….we cannot
May I politely suggest that you seriously need to question your surety, that immigration controls are not xenophobic.
Maybe, like Solkta, you believe we have the right to impose our borders on the region because the Polynesians were/are savage cannibals.
https://thestandard.org.nz/nutjobs-and-the-un-global-migration-pact/#comment-1559880
Or Dave B who like Donald Trump believes that immigrants are criminals.
And now for the real outlier, that other White Majority settler nation, arguably even more racist and xenophobic than New Zealand.
Australia Population density, people per sq.Km – 3.1
Saying that, of course a lot of Australia, is inhospitable desert, but even then…..
To end on a personal note.
On the last day of the year let’s make a resolution to begin the new year by trying not to refer to people with views different to ours as “fuckwits”
Imagine
No I don’t and, as far as I know, we also allow unlimited entry to brown Australians.
Yes it is. There are limits and we don’t know what they are so the best option is to prevent excess now.
You’re making the assumption that those countries aren’t over-populated and can sustainably maintain that population level indefinitely. Consider that the US is over-populated at a population density less than both of those.
May I politely tell you to get yourself before spouting off your ignorance?
The world is over-populated. This is fact. As a subset every country has it’s own carrying capacity that many, all the ones you listed as a matter of fact, have already exceeded.
Too bad, Draco, that you can’t bring any facts to back up your “fact” that the world is overpopulated.
You are just regurgitating ignorant Right Wing rubbish. (the dog whistle always being, there are too many brown people in the world).
There are many erudite fact based studies that the world is not over-populated.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160311-how-many-people-can-our-planet-really-support.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3016331/think-the-world-is-crowded-you-could-fit-the-entire-human-race-in-new-zealand
Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster
“Across Europe birth rates are tumbling. The net effect is a ‘perfect demographic storm’ that will imperil economic growth across the continent”
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712
So, we can all live like Ugandans or we can reduce the population of the Earth. What we can’t do is maintain a living standard for everyone equivalent to the First World while maintaining or expanding that population.
That’s physical reality no matter how much you dislike it.
Surely you are joking.
If the obscure organisation contained in the link you supplied, thinks that the US is overpopulated at 33.21 people per sq.Km, I wonder what they think of the Netherlands at 448 people per sq.Km.
It may interest them, and you, to know that the Netherlands, are a major food exporter. (Sort’a makes a nonsense of your claim that “the US is overpopulated”, or beyond its “carrying capacity” Don’t you think?)
The Netherlands is the second-largest agricultural exporter after US
Dutch News, Business, January 19, 2018
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Draco, in my opinion, you are just mindlessly regurgitating misanthropic rubbish to suit your anti-immigrant prejudices. (the dog whistle being, not that there are too many people in the world, but that there are too many brown people in the world).
How many people can our planet really support
“We do not know if today’s population of seven billion is remotely sustainable, or what the limit is”
Vivien Cumming – BBC, March 14, 2016.
Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests
“The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry”
Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.
From the fields and orchards of California to the population centres of the east coast, farmers and others on the food distribution chain say high-value and nutritious food is being sacrificed to retailers’ demand for unattainable perfection.
“It’s all about blemish-free produce,” says Jay Johnson, who ships fresh fruit and vegetables from North Carolina and central Florida. “What happens in our business today is that it is either perfect, or it gets rejected. It is perfect to them, or they turn it down. And then you are stuck.”….
Think The World Is Crowded? You Could Fit The Entire Human Race In New Zealand
:World overpopulation wouldn’t be such a big problem (space-wise, at least) if everyone lived as densely as they do in South Korea or New Jersey.”
Sydney Brownstone –
Europe needs many more babies to avert a population disaster
“Across Europe birth rates are tumbling. The net effect is a ‘perfect demographic storm’ that will imperil economic growth across the continent”
Ashifa Kassam – Madrid,
Rosie Scammell – Rome,
Kate Connolly – Berlin,
Richard Orange – Malmö,
Kim Willsher – Paris,
Rebecca Ratcliffe – London
The Guardian, August 15, 2018
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To sum up; We have a societal problem, not an overpopulation problem, global inequality, resource theft, post colonial and neo-colonial enslavement of the Third World by the First World. division and redivision, competition, greed, war. Part of this is the artificial division of the world into cantons. Our global civilisation is organised in such a way, as to benefit the few, at the expense of the majority.
We (generally the West) go around the world creating inequality. When people try to escape this inequality, we act to punish them very severely.
As the above link shows, as societies become richer – as poor people, especially women, become more empowered, population growth slows and even reverses.
Global inequality not overpopulation is the problem. If overpopulation was a problem, it is as a symptom rather than as a cause.
And let’s not forget Draco that you brought up this overpopulation argument to justify your anti-immigrant stance. If there was a problem with overpopulation, don’t you think that the humane thing to do would be to allow people to move to areas with less overcrowding.
IMHO Draco, your whole overpopulation justification for your anti-immigrant stance, is inhumane, xenophobic, and misanthropic, targeting as if does the Third World immigrant fleeing persecution, poverty and war. And more recently, climate change, it is also racist.
No, I’m not.
Being able to produce food is not the same as living sustainably which is the mistake you and many others are making.
Climate change is the result of us not living sustainably.
Another idiot not understanding how cycles work.
The number of people a country can sustain is limited by the time it takes for the natural environment to turn human waste into fertiliser.
That is the hard limit of a nation’s carrying capacity. We’ve temporarily gone above that by using fossil fuels to produce artificial fertilisers but it is only temporary.
Ghandi and him are wrong. It’s people trying to justify the status quo and nothing more.
And this is mistaking the actual cause of over-population. It’s not space that’s the problem but maintaining the natural services of the environment.
They are both problems.
Yeah, it’s called the Baby Boom. Been known about for around 50 years. It’s why both National and Labour have been importing so many people in to NZ despite the fact that it’s not going to help. It’s more ignorance trying to keep the status quo, which requires infinite growth of the human population, going.
Your opinion is wrong and it seems that you only have it because I’ve successfully pointed out that you’re talking out your arse. Spouting ignorance and BS to try and justify your delusional position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCm2QQZVYk
The most important video you will ever watch.
A tale that demonstrates the power of the status quo and how difficult it will be to move.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/12/27/106218/culture-of-silence-or-a-cover-up
That is a read and a half Pat. A kick in the guts reading about the way that our semi-government goes about not helping small business being grown by NZ. And how it views the responsibility to inform the public about its moves, in this democracy.
I followed up info for Geoff Gwyn, a leader at MPI. It is below.
Director: Joint Border Management System
Ministry for Primary Industries
March 2013 – May 2014 1 year 3 months
Wellington, New Zealand
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
Manager Central and South, Border Operations, MPI
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
December 2011 – March 2013 1 year 4 months
Wellington, New Zealand
NZ Police
Inspector
NZ Police
April 1985 – May 2010 25 years 2 months
Education
Tawa College
1978 – 1982
Massey University
Massey University
Master of Arts – MA
NZ Defence Force Staff College
2007 – Present
https://nz.linkedin.com/in/geoff-gwyn-428aab7b
That is a pretty good upward-moving trajectory. He gets a Master of Arts at Massey, not a science degree. He goes into the police for 25 years and gets to Inspector. Then he starts another career, with MPI as Manager Border Security for central region for just over one year, then is made Director for another year,
then becomes Chairman for government nationwide dealing with borders, and so on. Seems easy peasy. He wouldn’t want to spoil his shiny record.
Yes GWS it is yet another example of the cosy relationship between big business and those that supposedly protect the interest of the wider public…and the value placed on the interests of joe public….and they wonder why populism, go figure
Fuckwits is too kind.
National is once again whining about the proposed changes to edcuation taking away power from parents. Even though the last government brought charter schools, where parents had absolutely no input into the running of those places, and school PPP’s, which outsourced all the school property to a private company.
Nice take-down of Mr Snapcnat’s ‘get drunk at the races’ bill.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/109655183/a-picnic-at-the-races-is-a-kiwi-tradition-but-is-it-part-of-our-problem-with-alcohol
Lots of people can have a drink or two and not get drunk.
Wouldnt be suprised if Winny supports this.
You don’t say.
Rural races would be problematic because without licensing which the race courses are apparently having trouble gaining there is no oversight on what people drink and how much they eat. That’s what licensing does – protect people. Also in rural areas I expect there to be difficulty getting home after drinking and we know crash rates on rural roads are terrible. The police and emergency services are rightly concerned.
Not you though. 👎
And yes, Peters has spoken about this before. Bishop knows this and is simply using the issue to manufacture division in the government, not for the good people of rural New Zealand.
“And yes, Peters has spoken about this before. Bishop knows this and is simply using the issue to manufacture division in the government, not for the good people of rural New Zealand.”
Really – and how do you know this ?
Do you think NZ First are willing to do such harm to the rural community?
Because he’s a RWNJ.
“ there is no oversight on what people drink and how much they eat. That’s what licensing does – protect people”
So now you want to licence how much people can eat?
Are organic and non organic foods licences at different rates?
Are lentils licenced as well? Do vegans get extra licence points to make up for not eating meat dishes?
It’s called Argumentum ad absurdum and fits you like a glove.
Farrar uses this a lot.
Imagine if everyone used it !!!
🙂
No one would know anything…
Oh, wait – that describes all National voters.
Clearly you know nothing about liquor licensing. To get a licence to serve alcohol you must be able to provide food and have trained managers and staff. Some of these rural tracks are obviously struggling to meet the liquor licensing requirements and if they can’t manage the safety of their punters with respect to alcohol consumption on a hot day then BYO is no go. This seems obvious.
I should have stopped at, “Clearly you know nothing”.
How do you spot a vegan at a party?
Just wait, they’ll tell you.
How many meat eaters does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they would rather stay in the dark about things.
Yep, I can find and gnaw on a lamb roast in the dark. I’d worry about illumination afterwards.
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can’t be bothered wasting energy and my witticisms
Yeah, I conserve wit too. I’m saving it up for when the oceans start licking at CEO’s homes.
“Norman Gimbel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning lyricist, has died at the age of 91, his family has announced.
Gimbel’s work included Killing Me Softly with his Song – recorded by Roberta Flack.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw380nL67nE
enjoy.
Yep. A red meat diet is a big indicator for bowel cancer. We could all eat a lot less of it. My consumption is no more than 2-3 times a month and that’s without even thinking about it.
I know some people are afraid of vegans but they don’t bother me at all.
Not me, I’m mortified by vegans. I’m worried they’ll take my leather belt and when my pants fall down point and laugh at my little penis.
Could we do a whip-around for a pair of undies for David?
With frontal padding sewn in?
Standard issue, carnivore grundies.
Some of those vegan sausages are huge!
(I’ve seen them at parties).
Not sure why you would be afraid of vegans. But I do find them amusing
Would you laugh if they called you “meat-head”?
He wouldn’t get it.
Most likley.
Seems obvious huh?
So winny wouldn’t support it huh? After all it’s obvious and there wouldn’t be any other factors he would support it at all.
There’s been a limit in place for decades. Paraphrased:
No pub (or facsimile thereof) may serve a drunk customer.
No, just how much they can drink – as has been standard practice for decades.
Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom
Anand Gopal – New Yorker, December 10, 2018
And it could have worked out that way; except, right from the earliest days, the Western Liberal Left, instead of standing with the Syrian people, threw their lot in with the regime instead.
The suffering of the people and genocide carried out against them by the regime was ignored, and minimised, social media was swamped with a sea of regime propaganda and slander, repeated and amplified by their embedded Western puppets. All this was eagerly swallowed and reposted by both the fascist Right and the gullible Left.
In the end, the only ones to give any material aid to the Syrian people were the demented fundamentalist billionaire princes of Saudi Arabia.
The writing is on the wall for Saraqib and Idlib province. The Saudis, the Americans, the Turks, and the Regime and their Russian allies, have all come to terms. The US will abandon their former Kurdish allies to the regime, which will keep Turkey happy. In exchange Turkey will let the regime and Russia conduct their genocide in Idlib.
A victorious Russia and the regime will agree to isolate and crowd out the Iranians and corral Hezbollah, which will also keep the Us and their Zionist allies happy.
Already international relations are being normalised with the Assad regime. It has begun with a few pro-Western autocratic regimes, but it will not be long before the capitals of the West follow suit.
It will be like it all never happened.
Trump leaves Syria: On ‘regime change’ and other tall stories
Michael Karadjis – December 21, 2018
It is unlikely to be what it appears at face value, Jenny…it certainly won’t be because they give a toss about human life…
Perhaps they’re just shifting the illegally posted war machine to another location and leaving the mercs / isis to manage themselves…
Breaking international law won’t have featured in any ddecions, you can be sure of that…
Perhaps Trump will instruct Israel to hand back The Golan Heights….
The Kurds were not at war with the Assad regime prior to the Arab Spring.
The have already invited the Syrian army into some of the territory it holds to protect them from there actual enemy, the Turks. They even stated the Syrian regime is the legitimate ruler of the Sryian Kurd territory.
The international community will not accept a Turkish invasion of The Kurdish areas of Syria. If the Syrian Kurds are stupid and attack Turkish territory then reprisals would be expected to happen.
The putrid poisoned pimple is just a low grade liar.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12183644
ffs – how long is this shit going on for???
For as long as people accept outright lies rather than locking up the liars.
I know you operate on genius level and never tell lies, but is locking up liars a good idea Draco?
Yes.
World class cannon fodder.
If my boss told me a lie that he was giving me a 10 per cent pay rise, I would be doing my darndest to hold him to it.
The US soldiers stationed in Iraq rapturously cheering, and posing for selfies with the President aren’t calling him out on this lie?
They must be dumber than a sack full of hammers.
https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Basic-Pay/AnnualPayRaise/
The next rise is 2.6% and has just been signed off. Is the biggest rise in 9 years.
Technically it’s 10% bigger than the pay rise they would have got.
So no Trump didn’t lie. The MSM media is the Fake News bullshiters and misrepresenters.
If you think the troops didn’t know exactly what he meant your deluded.
Diagnoses: TDS.
Treatment: 1hour of RT, exposing the MSM, and Democrates lies.
Is that how the extreme right are spinning this? 🤣
State how he didn’t make the pay rise 10% bigger.
I can see how the left spun it.
It’s a fact Morrissey. The pay rise is 10% bigger. No spin.
You’re claiming he was talking about a 10% increase on the annual increase. This is 0.2% of say USD30K. About a dollar a week – gee no wonder they were happy. 😉
“The pay rise is 10% bigger. No spin.”
You’re career as a union advocate would be brief, but memorable, DJ!
“Comrades, lets bring this meeting to order. I’m here to report that I’ve negotiated a 10% pay rise. Yes, brothers and sisters, they offered us fuck all and I’ve managed to talk them up to fuck all, plus 10%.
That’s a whopping ten percent more fuck all, comrades!
All those in favour?”
Yes it is a bit of a joke overall just getting a tiny extra 0.2% except overall it’s a big total. I was just making the point how MSM took his comment and presented it differently. They would have known just as the solders exactly what he meant by his 10% comment. So the lesson for Trump is to qualify everything he says or MSM will spin it to make him look bad, nowingly misrepresenting his comment as they have done on countless other occasions.
If I was in a union and my rep said they only wanted to give you 2.4% (inflation) but he/she managed to talk them into 2.6% I would be happy with my rep. It’s a, in real terms a pay rise.
“They would have known just as the solders exactly what he meant by his 10% comment.”
This is where your argument falls down. In my example union rep Ward spelt out the maths of the rise, admitting it was only 10% more on the base. Trump did no such thing. He repeatedly said 10% over and over again. So how would the troops in front of him know it was a qualified 10% that was really worth 0.26%?
The simple truth is they had no way to know. Neither did anyone else in the room, apparently.
There is also the possibility that Trump is so stupid, he didn’t realise it was just ten percent more on the base offer and genuinely believed it was a straight 10% rise. Bear in mind he’s a serial bankrupt, so accountancy isn’t his strong suit.
Correction. Trump’s 10% is actually 0.2364 extra. That’s 2.364 plus 0.2364, making a total of 2.6%. Alternatively, it went from 2.4% to $2.60% a change of 8%, not ten. Or, to put in real life terms, just over a dollar a week more. The buck stops here!
There’s ample evidence that Jabba the Drumpf just says whatever is going to make him feel good in the moment, without the slightest care about whether it bears any relationship to reality. But if we really wanted to make the unwarranted assumption he wanted his comment to be somehow related to facts, we could grant him that he did increase the total defense budget by around 10%. Which is a very different thing to pay increases of 10%, but he wouldn’t understand that.
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-defense-20180212-story.html
I have yet to find any organisation or anything, really, reporting the raise in the way you’re claiming. Articles in publications that appear aimed at active servicepeople are calling out the 10% claim as false. Here’s a sample:
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/27/in-iraq-visit-trump-makes-false-claim-about-military-pay-again/
Well amongst thousands of people you will find people who know nothing about what Trump says he did. That’s how this version of Propaganda works. If all you hear is Trumps says he is giving us a 10 % pay rise, but the reality is he is lying to you, then you will believe the Propaganda. If you already knew the context of the comment, the propaganda of the MSM doesn’t work.
You might still thing Trump was silly and wrong in describing things as he has, but you wouldn’t say he was lying.
This years figure is 2.6%. What was this years original figure.
Until we know that we don’t know what Trump did.
The site you gave is nothing to do with the people involved in deciding the pay rise.
Seems pretty clear you didn’t bother to look at it, but joe90’s politifact link it spells it out:
“Military pay increases are determined by a statutory formula mandated by federal law – the raises must be equal to increases in the Employment Cost Index, or ECI.
According to an April 2017 report by the Congressional Research Service, “the president can specify an alternative pay adjustment that supersedes the automatic adjustment,” and “Congress can pass legislation to specify the annual pay raise, which would supersede the automatic adjustment and/or any presidential adjustment if it were enacted.”
In fact, while the 2.4 percent increase for 2018 was the largest in eight years, Trump actually requested 2.1 percent, “an amount below the automatic adjustment (of 2.4 percent) for 2018.” Congress ultimately overrode the administration’s proposal.
For 2019, the CRS reported that Trump requested 2.6 percent, which is a raise equal to the ECI, and one that the president’s 2019 budget called “modest.” ”
So last year Don the Con tried to stiff servicepeople with a raise lower than what was mandated, but congress overrode him to pay what is mandated. For this coming year the Dork from New York might have learned something and just went along with the mandated increase. And is now trying to con servicepeople into thinking he did something special for them. Seems to have worked on you, but I suspect most servicepeople will see through it.
He has 56% support in the military. So only 44% of them potentially have TDS.
56% support in the military? Really? Where did you get that from? Just made it up on the spot, like your hero the rotting jack’o’lantern does?
Coz the first result that turned up when I went looking for actual facts was 44% approve, 43% disapprove, and a strong trend of dropping approval and rising disapproval. The next results I looked were similar. That trend is likely to continue with his ongoing shitty behaviour towards actual active duty real people, as opposed to the vague idea of a strong military he’s so infatuated by.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/10/15/support-for-trump-is-fading-among-active-duty-troops-new-poll-shows/
It was from a comment I heard last night. I’m guessing it’s from this poll.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2018/12/30/poll-shows-high-job-approval-for-trump-from-veterans/
“Overall, 56 percent of veterans — both current and former service members — said they approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 43 percent disapproved”
I dug into this sufficiently to guess that the 10% figure derives from the increase from 2.4% a year ago to 2.6%. Actually, do the math & you’ll get 8.3%, right?
So looks like Trump is trying to take credit for this increase and rounding it up, on the assumption that nobody does precision any more, so near enough is good enough. There’s an entire industry based on this kind of thinking (advertising).
But I agree with the critique from the msm and Marty’s disgust. Bombast from the Trump won’t impress the non-clueless (opinion-leaders) so not good politics. Better for him to be a straight-shooter. More votes down that path.
We don’t know the actual starting 2019 figure. But based on the fact I’ve seen no comments from those involved in the negotiations for the pay rise one can assume the 10% figure is correct. Think about it. He talks about the discussion as to it being a certain %. Hence it did happen, on his initiative and it is 10%.
“Pay raises beginning in 2007 are equal to the increase in the ECI. Pay raises may exceed these automatic levels if authorized and funded by Congress.”
So you’re saying the Democrats agreed to this 10% increase? If so, how come the msm haven’t quoted any confirmation of that from them? All the reporters couldn’t be bothered doing their job?
The Democrates don’t control anything yet. Assuming it’s in the part of the budget already voted in, then yes they have voted. It’s irrelevant if the Dems agree with it or not, but if it’s part of the budget the Dems are blocking in Congress with the 60% rule it’s likely not a good move by them.
The 2.6% figure is not something that’s majicaly arrived post Trumps comment. They had it available to them all along.
Are you saying MSM are so stupid as to not understand what Trump was referring to. They new what the 10% was about and chose to misrepresent it anyway. Or the TDS is so bad they didn’t bother to do a tiny bit of homework, but jumped into full Fake News Propaganda mode.
No, just seeking clarification. Reality-aversion all round, currently. Competing spin is pointless in this context. Nobody knows the facts.
I’m inclined to agree re msm laziness & fake news production, but we’ll have to wait for a news media CEO to tell his troops “Hey, enough of this kindergarten stuff, you turkeys. I expect a return to professional standards or you’re all fired! A bunch of drainlayers could do better, after some basic training. You wanna call my bluff??”
There’s an explanation of the process here:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33446.pdf
On page 12 there’s this wee nugget:
“On August 31, 2017, President Trump sent a letter to congressional leaders invoking his authority under 37 U.S.C. 1009(e) to set the pay raise at 2.1%. However, Section 601 of the enacted version of the FY2018 NDAA (P.L. 115-91) specified the statutory formula increase (2.4%) would go into effect, superseding the President’s alternative adjustment.”
Pants on fire.
During a holiday visit to troops stationed in Iraq, President Donald Trump bragged that he had secured them not only their first pay raise in over a decade, but “one of the biggest” ever.
This is inaccurate and not the first time Trump has made false claims about annual military raises.
His full remarks:
We fact-checked a similar claim from Trump in May, when he told military mothers and spouses at a White House event that he signed a bill to give service members a raise for the “first time in 10 years.” We rated it Pants on Fire.
In reality, service members have received pay raises every year for more than three decades. The 2019 military pay increase of 2.6 percent is the largest in nine years, but it is not the “more than 10 percent” that Trump mentioned.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/dec/27/donald-trump/trump-military-pay-increases-wrong-size-timing/
btw, not content with fucking over the lives of more than 300K federal workers and their families, the POS has canned their pay rises, too.
https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-freezes-federal-worker-pay-raise-20368531-713a-46f3-8d57-2f3f70197220.html?
He is talking about above the formula rises. The military pay rise is benchmarked. This will be the first rise above that benchmark in a long time.
If you understood Trump you would see why non military staff are not getting pay rises. He would prefer to cut there numbers. He however is very pro military, law enforcement. The non military staff is the swamp.
He is not fucking over there lives. The House voted yes. The Senate (Schumer) is blocking the budget in the Senate. Trump is blocking nothing. Trump has not stopped the government, the Senate has. Some hypocrites that wanted a wall, now don’t want one because Trump wants it.
You didn’t check out joe90’s politifact link, did you?
If you had and followed politifact’s sources you might have spotted this little gem:
“On August 31, 2017, President Trump sent a letter to congressional leaders invoking his authority under 37 U.S.C. 1009(e) to set the pay raise at 2.1%. However, Section 601 of the enacted version of the FY2018 NDAA (P.L. 115-91) specified the statutory formula increase (2.4%) would go into effect, superseding the President’s alternative adjustment.”
page 12 of https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33446.pdf
So the satsuma shitgibbon tried to diddle the military on their mandated raise and had to be over-ridden by Congress, then he just bare-faced lied straight to servicepeople’s faces to falsely claim he got a better deal for them.
I’m curious though, where’s your bullshit supply coming from? Direct from Huckabooboo, or Kellyanne? Hannity? Pootee?
This comment relates to this years pay rise, they get 2.6% so what are you reading?
“Put simply, if we are determined to maintain the economic status quo, we cannot possibly mitigate climate change, so we must turn to adapting to it. And if we opt for adaptation, they write, “we have to come to terms with the impossibility of material, social, and political progress as a universal promise: life is going to be worse for most people in the 21st century in all these dimensions. The political consequences of this are hard to predict.”
The choice is radicalism today or disaster tomorrow, and from all signs, humanity is choosing the latter.”
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/12/28/18156094/conditional-optimism-climate-change
Physics v economics?….its no contest
Kia ora Clint from R&R We have to respect our grandchildrens future that places respect and provide all the children of papatuanuku rights to a good life now and in the future and respect all life on papatuanuku more than the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Profits has to stop be made by sacrificing our grandchildrens full stop .
The way the world is at the minute has to be totally changed that means abandoning most of the capitalist systems that runs the world.
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I’m think R&R is a recording this week We have to ban sales of land to over sea people ka kite ano P.S what happened to the editing buttons
I see the sight has had a up grade it mite help with some of the stats to ??????????.
Thanks for the hard work Iprent has put in maintaining and up grading thestandard Happy New year to all on this site and all the people around the world all the best the. Lefty,s keep up the good work we must never stop fighting for the good of ALL. The invention of the internet has the same effect,s as when fire was invented it has many positive effects but if you don’t respect it you one get burned
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Here you go the carbon coalithion goverment of Australia is going to let black-throated finch go extint all for coal and money muppets
Adani ‘conservation area’ for endangered finch sits on proposed Clive Palmer mine
Exclusive: environmental group calls plan to protect black-throated finch an ‘elaborate hoax’ The bird is endangered and researchers have previously said the Adani Carmichael mine’s offset strategy would be “grossly inadequate” to protect it.
Waratah Coal requires permission from pastoral land holders, including Adani, before being granted a mining lease. If there is a dispute, the matter goes before the Queensland land court.
Carmel Flint from Lock the Gate, which has a history of advocating for pastoral land owners in conflict with miners, said the land court “would do little to stop Waratah Coal from mining the area”.
“Mining licences trump pastoral leases completely under the law in Queensland,” Flint said. “As a result, this so-called ‘conservation area’ that Adani has allocated to the black-throated finch is utterly meaningless. It’s an elaborate hoax they’ve devised to enable them to start the Carmichael links below ka kite ano
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/30/adani-conservation-area-for-endangered-finch-sits-on-proposed-clive-palmer-mine
Kia ora Clint from R&R Climate change is the biggest risk to human kind and yes we can make a diffence te Papatuanuku is like any living orgnasim . If one pumps just sugar in to a pepe /baby it will grow obeast and die same with Papatuanuku we are pumping to much bad gasses into her and she is warming fast . Life is finely balanced it does not take much to put life’s ballance out and that means collapes if we make changes in Aotearoa our neighbours will follow suit . trump wont be in power for ever and then changes for the better for our enviroment and our mokopunas future .Happy new years to you all ka kite ano P.S Eco Maori use to shear the aroha but I got ahi all the time . I strongly agree we need to restore the respect being cast out over the whole whano and IWI instead some just rip you off that’s not the old tangata whenua way.The old maori way was to respect everything
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
Kia ora Te kaea Tewhare has a good way to help people who have slipped down there ladder of life whano shearing and gardening raising stock is good for the wairua and respecting all .
Ka pai Ngahuia for getting funding to study the health benerfits of sailing a dubble hulled waka in Te taiwhiti.
Its cool that there heaps of interest in books and all maori culture now .
Nania has had a good year she is a good maori wahine leader and role modle for our young wahine. I Te puni korkiri need to work harder at providing a good service for maori. Ka kite ano
Kia ora Milisa from Newshub thats sad the church in Mount Eden Auckland has burnt down .
People have to be careful and check the weather yes and if caught in a rip ride it will bring you out of the rip or back to shore.
Ilegal weed just made the people grow weed up the east coast instead of becoming more industrious and growing food for export our tipuna were one of the most industrious in there time.
People need to show respect and stop damaging things burning things is dumb.
The Sudan people looks like they are not happy lets hope it all ends well for all of the people.
June was quite funny she has given me a few sore faces condolences to her whano
Shellys bay Tauranga is a gem of a place nice people and great views into the harbour Mike ka kite ano
Eco Maori wishes the whole Papatuanuku a happy healthy positive New year .
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/89858196/bill-english-says-employers-are-regularly-telling-him-that-kiwis-cant-pass-drug-tests
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95988656/peter-dunne-resigns-from-politics-only-weeks-out-from-the-election
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96249118/winston-peters-super-mistake-culprit-unknown
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/10/nz-s-new-government-nz-first-chooses-labour.html
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/02/former-pm-bill-english-resigns-as-national-party-leader.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/metoo-reaches-85-countries-with-1-7-million-tweets/
https://unfccc.int/katowice
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Kai ora Newshub looks like the fireworks show in Auckland will be a good show tonight with the Sky tower and Auckland harbour bridge synchronised.
To everyone don’t drink to much tonight as one could end up in the——-.
The Gisborne festival packs the city up with heaps of people and long lines in the shops.
People love to come to the Aotearoa te whenua of Cream & Honey be save and happy on your travels to Queens Town.
It has been a good year for wahine sport stars in Aotearoa in 2018 Ross Ka kite anoP.S hope the weather is going to be ka pai Ingrid happy new year
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
Some Eco Maori Miusic for the minute
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute
Happy healthy Positive New Year to Te Papatuanuku . The people of the world must make sure we dont lose Tanemahuta and Tangaroa’s beautiful creations all the tamariki of the world needed to be taught about how close a link humans have with mothernature and how finely ballanced life actualy is. Our World has been placed in just the correct place with marama moon the tilt of the axis how close we are to Ra Sun the planets all play a role that keeps like thriving on Earth. Change just one of those phenomen change the ballance and the world could be a frozen ball or a fire ball thats a fact . We must learn to respect all thing thy neighbours thee creatures thee earth all things
The loss of biodiversity is a silent killer,” she told the Guardian. “It’s different from climate change, where people feel the impact in everyday life. With biodiversity, it is not so clear but by the time you feel what is happening, it may be too late.”
The loss of biodiversity is a silent killer.
Cristiana Pașca Palmer
Pașca Palmer is executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity – the world body responsible for maintaining the natural life support systems on which humanity depends.
Its members – 195 states and the EU – will meet in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, this month to start discussions on a new framework for managing the world’s ecosystems and wildlife. This will kick off two years of frenetic negotiations, which Pașca Palmer hopes will culminate in an ambitious new global deal at the next conference in Beijing in 2020. Links below Ka kite ano
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/03/stop-biodiversity-loss-or-we-could-face-our-own-extinction-warns-un
Kia ora when we protect our fisheries for the mokopuna’s we will be protect there welbeing as well. In the future with population incresses and other countrys fisheries collapsing the presures on our fisheries will be huge as the demand out strips supply of our seafood the price paid will shoot throught the roof then all the wrong people will target our fishes . Hence when we protect te fishes now in 20 years crayfish paua kina osters will be worth more than gold a sustainable managment system needs to guarantee our fisheries future. People will pay big money to come here and catch our fishes as well in the future .
Fisheries New Zealand wants people to have their say on proposed rule changes for recreational fishers to assist with rebuilding the CRA2 fishery, which covers the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.Fisheries New Zealand wants people to have their say on proposed rule changes for recreational fishers to assist with rebuilding the CRA2 fishery, which covers the Hauraki Gulf and Bay of Plenty.
Manager of inshore fisheries Steve Halley says under the proposals the number of spiny rock lobsters recreational fishers can take per day would be reduced from six to three.
“As part of the consultation, we also want feedback on introducing telson (tail fan) clipping as a tool to assist with minimising the illegal black market sales of rock lobster,” Mr Halley says.
“The proposals follow the decision by the Minister of Fisheries to make a large reduction to the Total Allowable Catch, Total Allowable Commercial Catch and the overall allowance for recreational fishers for the fishery on 1 April 2018.
“These proposed changes are designed to double the number of rock lobster in the area over the next 4-8 years. links below Ka kite ano P.S one of Eco maori favorite kaimoana gathers on this video
http://business.scoop.co.nz/2018/11/07/have-your-say-on-rebuilding-the-cra2-fishery/#more-182186
This is were human’s future is exploring space ka pai Happy new year to Elon Musk and all this teams at Spacex and Tesla big changes coming in 2019 for the good of all.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype proceeds at breakneck pace towards hop tests Well illustrated by recent drone photos of SpaceX’s up-and-coming Boca Chica, Texas facilities, dozens of SpaceXers and local contractors have congregated at the company’s Starship prototype work site over the last few weeks, progressing it from an empty tent and a collection of parts to a handful of large assemblies for what appears to be the first full-scale Starship hopper.
Much like Falcon 9’s Grasshopper and F9R (Reusable) hop test articles, this ungainly Starship hopper – standing an impressive 9m (29.5 ft) wide and ~40m (131 ft) tall – appears all but guaranteed to become the first integrated BFR hardware to take flight, hopefully supporting a productive series of low-altitude hop tests from a roughly-prepared South Texas pad.links below ka kite ano
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-hopper-prototype-rapid-work-pace-hop-tests/
Kia ora Tekaea Ka pai to Maori Kings Tuheitia Potatau goal of uniting te iwis at the 85 Poukai at Horahora marae newyear .
Its good to see Meka Whaitiri tau toko the young wahine aspirations to become Mps Its good to see all the new maori soft ball stars starting to shine bright .
Ka kite ano Happy new year to the Maori TV team P.S Our tipuna use waiata to record our histoy its is good to see our young music stars shining bright
Kia ora Tom from Newshub I read that there was not to much havoc in Aotearoa last night. Nine years of decision made on the base of making money and saving money well the effects of these choices are still rolling in . New Years eve celebration is for the youth. Good on Malasia for stopping taking our plastic waste we need to minermize the poision make laws to combat this problem that is growing bigger everyday. That campfire in California was a big deaster and there are hundreds of people living in tents condloences to them some one need to come up with inovative ways to solve there housing hardship I wonder they want to spend billions on a WALL when people need there housing go figure. Tawhirirmatea was good to us in Vags last night Ingrid
Some Eco Maori Music for the minute.