Oz consternation: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/examining-the-drastic-downturn-in-nickel-and-lithium-prices/103388902 Both Mr Micheal and Ms King said all proposals — from royalty relief to sweeping royalty reforms — were on the table to support ...
Stuff reporter provides a useful primer for allocating blame, using the technique `spray & walk away': https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-01-2024/who-should-i-blame-for-wellingtons-water-shortage-a-users-guide This will suit punters of all shapes & sizes...
Half a century on, I've just got around to reading The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. The author seems onto it, very deep insight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Chilton_Pearce I usually put a marginal sign alongside significant usable points in any book, ...
Ah, a mason: Jellicoe was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 3 April 1919. He became Governor-General of New Zealand in September 1920 and while there also served as Grand Master of New Zealand's Masonic Grand Lodge. Following his return to England, he ...
Jellicoe the first or second? If the latter, I see he did well in his maiden parliamentary speech (despite spending 19 years there being too diffident to speak): Like all your Lordships, I felt, and feel, a deep sense of shock, indeed revulsion, at the ...
I read his no-show as a vote of no-confidence in himself combined with pragmatic acceptance that he didn't want his lack of maori solidarity to get more obvious. However, Robert, you are right to point to the scarcity dimension of his tactical move: ...
Yeah, you ain't wrong. Passion is catalytic. Good luck to younger generations doing a global resonance play...
Wait, there's more! That makes the addition of Aotearoa to the title a nice move. It also undermines those who have been using, or misusing, King in their fight against official adoption of the Māori language. This issue goes back to the third chapter in ...
Historians write mythistory by default. They believe they write history, yet their subjective take on the topic makes it interpretive. Readers experience that via relativism since myth is a likely story & accounts by historians trend toward mythologising ...
The ICJ is merely a simulation of global justice. It has issued judgments, but who judges the judges? An ephemeral bunch of global onlookers. The court’s decisions are binding and cannot be appealed, but it has no way of enforcing them. https://edition.cnn...
No time to proof-read that so it's team spirit I was mentioning at the end of the second paragraph. The other triad relevant is voter/party/state. The gist of where I'm coming from on politics in a state of malaise is that the conceptual reframe enables ...
Seems a worthwhile view. I'm in favour of a framing based on triadic structure. Whereas the ancient microcosm/macrocosm binary ruled identity via belief/paradigm, connecting persons into large like-minded group, it makes more sense nowadays to insert ...
Makes no sense Only if you discount the civil rights of asians. However it's up to them to lobby for parity or complain about de facto discrimination. I don't disagree with the rest of your comment but advise caution around the one-nation syndrome ACT are ...
Shane smells a rat, yet doesn't seem to realise that the public service play was aimed at making Seymour look a fool (not all that hard). "I like my documents from the bureaucracy to be pithy and not written as manifestos. https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/...
Might be time to get those cannon back into their slots in Auckland's North Head fortifications? They went in originally due to general paranoia about the Tsar's imminent invasion, so Putin's just recycling imperial foreign policy.
Has seemed that way since I realised it 30 years ago but the response to Sir Geoffrey's reconstitutionalising campaign suggests that few kiwis are capable of intellectual progress. First off, everyone must factor in the equality demographics that put our ...
Radical conservative dudester sends signal: Brown said he would be implementing the Local Water Done Well policy this year which was about working with councils and giving them "greater tools and opportunities to have ring-fenced, sufficient, water-service...
I'm mostly on the third side. “I don’t mean to hang out our dirty washing,” Tāheitia proffered. There was a ripple of anticipation about where he was going to go. A woman down the back of one of the multiple rows of seats snapped out of her lethargy as ...
Time for more good news: 14. The greatest year ever for clean energy Thanks to the staggering uptake of wind and solar, energy researchers had to tear up all their old forecasts, including the International Energy Agency (IEA), which announced in October ...
Public policy makes history even when unreported by the msm: Since the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. police officers, sheriffs, border patrol agents, ICE officers and FBI agents have trained with Israeli military and police forces. The ADL’s National ...
Southern-style public/private partership: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mississippi-hinds-county-coroner-death-notification-policy-rcna132812 "Hey pardner, you take out any trash lately? Yeah, see the photo. We're up to number 679!" "Hoo, yippie, hi...
John Campbell went with ten thousand Maori: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/21/john-campbell-i-saw-peace-joy-and-10000-people-saying-no/ “Why are you here?”, I asked Tame Iti. “Vibrations”, he replied. Nice old man grin under the hat. Somehow, the word I ...
Understandable (feeling response). I've been feeling similarly since I noticed their policy seemed to have a cavalier view of collateral damage - a dispassionate stance, perhaps, but similarly critical. I get the Israeli excuse that Hamas are forever ...
being Israeli makes people into genocidal maniacs Over-generalised. Works like that for the fundamentalists, perhaps with tacit guilt by association for the conservatives who vote for them - & reps like the yahoo PM who bridge to the center-right moderates...
Bleak appraisal but a damn good overview, hope you're wrong about Starmer but don't expect you to be! The left seems like it doesn't stand on solid ground nowadays. Think of someone standing staunch a century back, then the ground starts to shift, with a ...
Triads happening all over: Saturday marks the first of three major events for te ao Māori, all within three weeks. Iwi and hapū across the motu will meet on three separate occasions to kōrero and wānanga about the Government’s proposed policies on the ...
I'm thrilled that our public service is proposing to make me a chief of the land I own. In the second of its proposed principles as it appears in the video from the Maori Party co-leader, I mean: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507090/government-...
Merely a shadow-boxing play. They're taking it to first reading, to give ACT their opportunity at due parliamentary process. Nats have signalling this with the tacit flag that they aren't intending to support it further. I agree Seymour's framing is naive....
Dunno who he is but that citation only seems credible when Labour is in eclipse (like now). If Labour were to return to source to regain credibility his proposition would be tested! Nothing like a bit of pie in the sky thinking to ruffle normalcy, eh?
I've been consciously aware of living in a sick society since I was a teenager in the 1960s, so this option seems like part of my cultural tradition (alt-Aotearoa): https://www.scribd.com/document/223339093/Robert-Arthur-Menard-The-World-Freeman-Society-...
Persuasion usually doesn't work, so I leave it to those motivated to give it a go. In respect of Maori figuring there's got to be a better way (than a century of failed democracy), the wisdom of that crowd ought to prevail. Complaining about the Crown's ...
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