In a well coordinated operation, a team of thieves has removed a large crop of blueberries from 700 bushes in a Hawkes Bay orchard. The owner of the orchard thinks it would have required vehicles, equipment, lights and crates. Now that's organised crime ...
The miners spruiking this scheme sound very optimistic. The regional council is no doubt all for it and will probably keep environmental restrictions to a minimum if the promoters promise to employ a few locals as navvies. But where will they put the mine ...
"[The American family] picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream ... they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings." JK Galbraith We seem to be headed the same way, given our leaders' desire to ...
ODT, 10 Jan 2024: "High levels of toxic algae found in Waihopai river". I wonder if Tourism NZ will feature that news on its website.
Owning an acre means you made it? Sorry, but that just won't cut it. To be at the top in Wanaka, you need your own helicopter, complete with pad in the back yard and and pilot available 24/7.
The volcano has erupted in Iceland; thankfully no lives lost so far (BBC website has photographs). A reminder that we humans are just another species on the planet, wholly subject to the whim of Nature.
Christmas wishes to all TS contributors. The world and its inhabitants are facing huge problems, but as individuals we can all do something. How about: 1. Plant a native tree 2. Help a friend or neighbour in some way 3. Donate what you can reasonably ...
Why is the Beehive website "under maintenance"? The public cannot get to see official pronouncements on the new government's policies.
We really are totally reliant on electrical energy in our so-called modern lifestyles. I was reading about the internet failure in Australia, which affected some 10 million Aussies and disrupted industry, hospitals and other organisations. It seems to have...
Nice to hear you are enjoying life in Wanaka. No doubt some corporate jerk will try to destroy that. A friend once told me that developers are like dogs; they come in, sniff around, pee in all the corners and then depart, leaving a mess behind.
@newsense. I think you will be pushing stuff uphill here on that one. Still, it seems you have support from two left-leaning authors, historian Toby Green and economist Thomas Fazi, have written a new book on the global response to the Covid pandemic, The ...
I'll draw your attention to a post made in 2019 by Chris Trotter where he noted a Working Class protest on the Coast, The Message From Messenger Park, but less for his comments than one by long-timer "Sanctuary": Wah wah wah, cry me a river. I am heartily ...
Correct. Some things, such as counting votes in a general election, must always be done properly. There is no other way unless you want to live in a corrupt nation.
Whatever government we end up with, let it be of the people, by the people and for the people.
Democracy at work. Vote for Loyal if you wish.
Aeons ago, when Winston was a National minister, the media would often ask him if he wanted to be the PM. His eyes would glaze over and he would go into a kind of trance as he briefly imagined himself holding the highest office in the land. Then he would ...
Recently I watched a Youtube doco about homelessness in Vancouver, BC. Pretty depressing stuff, as many of the people in the downtown tent city were wasted on drugs. It seems fentanyl is the main narcotic used. Violent crime had also increased markedly. I ...
There is no guarantee that imposing tax will lead to quality public services. If the government is incompetent or corrupt, the money is wasted on vanity projects or goes to a secret Swiss bank account. However, I am forever grateful for living in a country...
They'd be a good bet for sure, along with SA (their scrum was dominant) and England. It may come down to the bounce of the ball, or the ref doing a Wayne Barnes and not seeing a forward pass. I don't rate the ABs given their performance vs France.
That's democracy for you. Or as one newspaper man said: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken · Good Democracy ...
I've noticed the same trend; most of our English friends have flown back to the UK to see relatives (perfectly understandable, in view of their parents being elderly) but it doesn't do much for the climate. Then there are the two others who are on a jaunt ...
We are told that Jacinda Ardern is to write a book about leadership. Just one problem: Dan Carter has got his book out ahead of hers (see "The Art of Winning: Lessons in Leadership, Purpose and Potential", released in July). And Carter knew how to win, of ...
Just bring in the pest known as Lion fish. Native to the Great Barrier Reef, it breeds like crazy. With our oceans warming it might take off here, like it has in Florida. You can eat it if you remove the toxic spines and it is said to be tasty. Mind you, ...
But ya gotta have growth Roy. That's all that matters if you are a politician. I went to Wanaka years ago when all it had was a 4 Square store. You couldn't pay me to go there now. Tom Scott put it correctly when he said the country can stand only so much ...
Lest I too am accused of being a troll, here are a few sources to back up my earlier remark on the pollution problem. There is a wealth of material: Plateau Farms Ltd v Waikato Regional Council [2007] NZHC 920 (17 September 2007) http://www.nzlii.org/cgi-...
OK, that explains why no merino sheep farming is taking place in Waikato. But even if only coarse wool can be produced, I would like NZ farmers to succeed at that. Natural fibre beats synthetic any day for me. Hopefully international markets will come ...
It has always astounded me that the former Fonterra CEO got an $8 million pa salary for indifferent performance. No-one is worth that amount. He also headed an organisation whose shareholders did major damage to our waterways, and continue to do so.
Foster's cunning plan is to make all the ABs' opponents at the RWC become over-confident. Everything on track so far, with help from the UK rugby media.
The farmers must certainly be worried; their free lunch (paid for by the community) is coming to an end. It's not just the Manuherekia river that is being trashed. Prof Mike Joy discusses the national situation in his 2014 paper "Squandered: The ...
At the end of his TV series Life on Earth, David Attenborough acknowledges that humans are just another species on the planet, having been brought about by evolution. There is no guarantee we will be here permanently. And even within the span of human ...
In both economic and environmental terms, governments all over the world have borrowed heavily, hoping for the best. The lenders are future generations.
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