Justice?

Sunday evening speech after 3 wines

We would think the guiding principles of justice in our society would be speed, sympathy, accuracy and concern. 

But it’s not, why?

The legal system is there to service the interests of its high earning elite who control its monopoly with vengeance.

Politicians’ incorrectly get sold the idea that separation of power demands  they cannot get involved in matters of judicial failure despite the fact all three branches are meant to maintain "checks and balances" over each other to maintain honesty of government.

And so armed with the wrong definition our politicians ignore the endless damage being committed by the judicial structure which leaves society the ongoing victim.

No wonder people are pissed at this fictional structure we call democracy.

My only hope is the fact that there has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it didn't work.

In the meantime NZ continues to slip downwards both socially and economically while at the same time the politician’s waste time fighting like poorly behaved children.

While outside in the real world of struggling students, parents, business people and the retired, the people see opportunity just slipping by as we all gasp for those last breaths of hope that common sense may arrive before it is too late.

More wine.  

The City is Ours Inc. looks back at what it achieved and lost in 2011

1.  Successfully lobbied for free school milk nation wide promoting children's health and well being.

2.  Helped stop Steve Crow and the "boobs on bikes" entering the RWC parade in Auckland.

3.  Engaged the Salvation Army and Capital Coast DHB with standing in opposing liquor licensing in Newtown.

4.  Organised remembrance ceremony for Hiroshima Day in the Peace Flame Garden sponsored by WCC and Four Seasons Florist in Newtown.

5.  Opposed liquor license for Wellington Regional Stadium during the RWC and travelled all the way to Auckland to sit at the table of negotiation.

6.  Handed the Golden Mile Beca Safety Audit to Dompost for front page coverage, followed by live interview with Radio NZ for a face off with Andy Foster.

7.  Delivered a petition to Council demanding the WCC Walking and Cycling Policy both are applied at planning of all WCC projects.

8.  Presented to remind WCC about 30th anniversary of Wellington as a Nuclear Free City on the 14th of April 2012.

9.  The City is Ours President Maria van der Meel was acquitted by Judge Wainright for willful damage to council infrastructure (Cabbage Tree).

10. Facilitated the first Occupy Wellington meeting at St. John's Convention Centre at the People's Forum dedicated to human rights warrior Jim Delahunty.

11. Handed out leaflets: New Zealand Food Bill 160-2, MMP, Search and Surveillance Bill, International Day of Peace; Ban the Bomb, Wellington Nuclear Free Day.

12. Advocated the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child at submissions to councils/health boards, in popular media and Facebook Groups.

13. Celebrated International Day of Peace on 21st of September in the CBD with eye catching 3D Peace Symbol created by member Richard Tingey of Levin. 

14. Presented a case for Wellington's street performers during oral submissions to the Draft Arts and Culture Strategy plan at Council.

15. Protested outside the Lower Hutt City Council against fluoridation of our drinking water and joined Wellington Residents Coalition present anti water meter petitions.

16. Lost an active member and Architect Ian Drysdale who presented our case in the Environment Court and struck a deal for City bus lanes to be 3.25 meters wide. RIP Ian.

The City is Ours Inc. would like to thank all its members old, new and past for believing in the cause, we deeply regret the accident in June where jogger Venessa Green was fatally hit by a GoWellington bus on a sub-standard section of the so called Golden Mile improvements in Willis Street. RIP Venessa.

Our AGM will be held at the Newtown Library in Constable Street on the 2nd of April 2012 at 2.00pm.

The City is Ours Inc.

2/20 Trent Street

Island Bay

Wellington 6023  ph. 04) 3834993 - 0273226311

The video you NEED to watch about SOPA!- Urgent- you must all watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-LEb_D2SD3k

SOPA is powered by the capital of 'old media'.

These are folk who want to maintain an old, outmoded and redundant status quo to the detriment of all of us.

Napoleonic justice (guilty till proven innocent) was flawed in its day, and there can be no reason to bring it back today for the pipedream of the 'old media' tycoons that the genie can be put back in the bottle.

This TED talk about SOPA is creative commons, unaltered non-profit media.

You are free to copy and mirror it as much as you want, as long as its non profit and unaltered.

Christchurch heading for a Volcanic eruption?

Volcano on the way? 

Engineers have suggested the pattern of earthquakes is consistent with a deep volcanic vent driving it's way to the surface under Christchurch. You have 3 dormant ones of equal size on the Banks Peninsula and the ground disruption footprint over the last year is also of that size.

Seismologists and volcanologists are watching and listening for land deformations and plate movement that could signify the geological dynamic duo of earthquakes and volcanoes are combining to cause tectonic mischief.

The geological chain reaction linking earthquakes and volcanoes takes place deep in the ground where it can’t be seen. In order for earthquakes to set off a volcano, the magma reservoir beneath the fiery mountains must be already primed to blow. First, magma chambers encased in hard rock deep in the Earth release gases, fracturing the reservoir walls and opening up small cracks. As that pressure builds, tectonic tremors can agitate chambers.

“If you have a magnitude 6.0 earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, somewhere relatively nearby, then those waves cause small strains, a little bit of deformation (in the rock surrounding the magma chambers) – a small amount – but it might be just enough to trigger an eruption,” said Cindy Ebinger, a geophysicist from the University of Rochester. “For it to trigger, whatever those seismic waves are perturbing has to be nearly ready to go as it is.”

Smelling Thermal ?

Reports of new sulphur/smell in East Christchurch (RadioNZ & NewsTalkZB) Christchurch Star says it's in old sand- too many "sand volcanoes" to ignore? in Halswell  StAlbans Avonside Bexley

Reports of farmland flat fields "boiled up" into hummocks Darfield area Morning Report RadioNZ 9Sept10 +

New Zealand Earthquake Report - Sep 9 2010 at 3:13 am (NZST) Magnitude 3.7 Thursday, Focal Depth 6 km, Within 5 km of Lyttelton, 10 km south-east of Christchurch - Ferrymead Historic Reserve

4.0 quake 5km deep under Halswell School which is wrecked by liquefaction and closed for "geothermal testing" (RadioNZ 10Sep10) near a second site of major excavation into volcanic bedrock (basalt quarry) fracturing?

3.4 quake 8km deep "20 km south-east of Hanmer Springs" thermal zone + 'war story' from Addington showground welfare centre council staff in Christchurch - a bore once sunk beside the road produced hot water so was unusable. 


See- gas rising- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr488BtsgRY

"Information so far suggests that the fault is pre-existing, and a patch has been reactivated during the Darfield earthquake. Large (up to 700 km long) normal faults with the same strike (direction) are numerous on the Chatham Rise, out to sea east of Banks Peninsula.. A preliminary estimate of the McQueen's Valley (MQZG) GPS receiver signals show displacement caused by the earthquake to be 135 mm at about 300 degrees azimuth. This permanent receiver is located on Banks Peninsula. This result is consistent with a magnitude 7.1 earthquake on a vertical strike-slip fault at the location where the geologists have found surface rupture, but it is only one point and it would be consistent with many other scenarios as well" 

Before a volcano erupts, there is normally an increase in earthquakes and tremors ... is thrown about by these explosions, with the gases rising high into the air.

Seismic activity (earthquakes and tremors) always occurs as volcanoes awaken and prepare to erupt and are a very important link to eruptions. Some volcanoes normally have continuing low-level seismic activity, but an increase may signal a greater likelihood of an eruption. The types of earthquakes that occur and where they start and end are also key signs. Volcanic seismicity has three major forms: short-period earthquake, long-period earthquake, and harmonic tremor.

Short-period earthquakes are like normal fault-generated earthquakes. They are caused by the fracturing of brittle rock as magma forces its way upward. These short-period earthquakes signify the growth of a magma body near the surface and are known as 'A' waves. These type of seismic events are often also referred to as Volcano-Tectonic (or VT) events or earthquakes.

Long-period earthquakes are believed to indicate increased gas pressure in a volcano's plumbing system. They are similar to the clanging sometimes heard in a house's plumbing system, which is known as "water hammer". These oscillations are the equivalent of acoustic vibrations in a chamber, in the context of magma chambers within the volcanic dome and are known as 'B' waves. These are also known as resonance waves and long period resonance events.

Harmonic tremors are often the result of magma pushing against the overlying rock below the surface. They can sometimes be strong enough to be felt as humming or buzzing by people and animals, hence the name.

Patterns of seismicity are complex and often difficult to interpret; however, increasing seismic activity is a good indicator of increasing eruption risk, especially if long-period events become dominant and episodes of harmonic tremor appear.

Allowing politicians and people running nations a free reign is not just stupid, but dangerous.

Hitler said...’how fortunate for leaders that men don’t think’

http://lawisanass-wingate.blogspot.com/2011/03/matakana-island-trust-fraud.html

List of extinct animals of New Zealand

Bats, and a recently discovered extinct mouse-sized creature, are the only land mammals known to have inhabited New Zealand until the arrival of humans. Fossil marine mammals have been found. New Zealand now has two surviving species of endemic bat.

Greater Short-tailed Bat, Mystacina robusta (1965) (Still billed as Critically Endangered by IUCN)

Waipatia maerewhenua (Dolphin, Oligocene age, about 23–34 million years ago)

SB mammal, thought to be neither therian nor australosphenidan

Birds

Extinctions since mid-19th century European settlement

Auckland Islands Merganser, Mergus australis

Chatham Islands Rail, Cabalus modestus

Dieffenbach's Rail, Gallirallus dieffenbachii

South Island Snipe, Coenocorypha iredalei

North Island Snipe, Coenocorypha barrierensis

New Zealand Quail, Coturnix novaezelandidae

North Island Takahe, Porphyrio mantelli

South Island Kokako, Callaeas cinerea cinerea (Believed extinct from the 1960s, but recent reports suggest a small population may still survive.)

Huia, Heteralocha acutirostris

South Island Piopio, Turnagra capensis

North Island Piopio, Turnagra tanagra

Chatham Islands Bellbird, Anthornis melanocephala

New Zealand Little Bittern, Ixobrychus novaezelandiae

Stephens Island Wren, Traversia lyalii

Bush Wren, Xenicus longipes

South Island Bush Wren, Xenicus longipes longipes

North Island Bush Wren, Xenicus longipes stokesi

Stewart Island Bush Wren, Xenicus longipes variabilis

Chatham Islands Fernbird, Bowdleria rufescens

Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux albifacies

Chatham Islands Penguin, Eudyptes sp.

Extinctions since 14th century Māori settlement

North Island Adzebill, Aptornis otidiformis

South Island Adzebill, Aptornis defossor

Eyles' Harrier, Circus eylesi

Haast's Eagle, Harpagornis moorei

Giant Chatham Island Rail or Hawkins' Rail, Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi

Hodgen's Waterhen or Hodgen's Rail, Gallinula hodgenorum

Snipe-rail, Capellirallus karamu

Chatham Islands Coot, Fulica chathamensis

New Zealand Coot, Fulica prisca

Giant Chatham Island Snipe, Coenocorypha chathamica

New Zealand Owlet-nightjar, Aegotheles novaezealandiae

Grant-Mackie's Wren, Pachyplichas jagmi

Yaldwyn's Wren or Stout-legged Wren, Pachyplichas yaldwyni

Long-billed Wren, Dendroscansor decurvirostris

Chatham Islands Raven, Corvus moriorum

New Zealand Raven, Corvus antipodum

North Island Raven, Corvus antipodum antipodum

South Island Raven, Corvus antipodum pycrafti

New Zealand Musk Duck or De Lautour's Duck, Biziura delautouri

Chatham Islands Duck, Pachyanas chathamica

New Zealand Pink-eared Duck or Scarlett's Duck, Malacorhynchus scarletti

Finsch's Duck, Chenonetta finschi

North Island Goose, Cnemiornis gracilis

South Island Goose, Cnemiornis calcitrans

New Zealand Swan, Cygnus atratus sumnerensis

Scarlett's Shearwater, Puffinus spelaeus (600 BP)

Moa

Bush Moa, Anomalopteryx didiformis

Upland Moa, Megalapteryx didinus/benhami

Heavy-footed Moa, Pachyornis elephantopus

Crested Moa, Pachyornis australis

Mappin's Moa, Pachyornis geranoides

Stout-legged Moa, Euryapteryx gravis

Coastal Moa, Euryapteryx curtus

Eastern Moa, Emeus crassus

North Island Giant Moa, Dinornis novaezealandiae

Giant Moa, Dinornis robustus

Waitaha penguin, Megadyptes waitaha

Extinctions before human settlement

New Zealand Albatross, Manu antiquus

Narrow-flippered Penguin, Palaeeudyptes antarcticus

Marples' Penguin, Palaeeudyptes marplesi

New Zealand Giant Penguin, Pachydyptes ponderosus

Wide-flippered Penguin, Platydyptes novaezealandiae

Amies' Penguin, Platydyptes amiesi

Lowe's Penguin, Archaeospheniscus lowei

Lopdell's Penguin, Archaeospheniscus lopdelli

Duntroon Penguin, Duntroonornis parvus

Oliver's Penguin, Korora oliveri

Harris' Penguin, Marplesornis novaezealandiae

Moisley's Penguin, Tereingaornis moisleyi

Ridgen's Penguin, Aptenodytes ridgeni

Tyree's Penguin, Pygoscelis tyreei

Miocene False-toothed Pelican, Pelagornis miocaenus

Stirton's False-toothed Pelican, Pseudodontornis stirtoni

Miocene diving petrel, Pelecanoides miokuaka

Lake Manuherikia diving duck, Manuherikia lacustrina

Douglas' duck, Manuherikia douglasi

St Bathans shelduck, Miotadorna sactibathansi

Johnstone's duck, Dunstanetta johnstoneorum

Enright's duck, Matanas enrightii

Reptiles

Ankylosaur, unidentified (Cretaceous)

Compsognathus-like creature (Late Jurassic)

Hypsilophodont, unidentified (Cretaceous)

Joan Wiffen's Theropod, possibly Australovenator (Cretaceous)

Kawekaweau, Hoplodactylus delcourti (1870)

Narrow-bodied Skink, Oligosoma gracilicorpus

Northland Skink, Cyclodina northlandi (Late Holocene)

Theropod, unidentified (Cretaceous)

Titanosaur, possibly Diamantinasaurus (Cretaceous)

Plesiosaurs and other fossil marine reptiles, such as mosasaurs, have been known from New Zealand.

Mauisaurus, Mauisaurus haasti (Late Cretaceous, 65 million years ago)

Moanasaurus, Moanasaurus mangahouangae (Late Cretaceous)

Nothosaur, unidentified, (Triassic)

New Zealand Plesiosaur, Kaiwhekea katiki (Late Cretaceous, 69–70 million years ago)

Waipara mosasaur, Prognathodon waiparaensis (Late Cretaceous, 70 million years ago)

Amphibians

Aurora frog, Leiopelma auroraensis

Markham's frog, Leiopelma markhami

Waitomo frog, Leiopelma waitomoensis

Stereospondyl 

Fish

New Zealand grayling, Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (1930s)

New Zealand white shark, Carcharodon angustidens (Late Oligocene, 26 M years)

Giant oprah, Megalampris keyesi (Late Oligocene, 26 M years)

Insects

Mecodema punctellum

Question to Helen Clark on fiduciary law

What is the UNDPs position on the United Nation’s recommendation for the implementation of country by country legislation directly incorporating fiduciary principles as a method to protect against corruption and control errant government officials beyond their already established constitutional mechanisms and anti-corruption agencies?

I noted GFI economist Dev Kar’s report, - Illicit Financial Flows from the Least Developed Countries: estimates illicit thefts by government officials in 48 of the poorest countries at US$197b. That money could be claimed back.

However, without clear fiduciary legislative frameworks to set the rules of control over democratically empowered politicians and officials to manage state power, corruption will remain unchecked and the people will continue to suffer as a result

If the UN drafted and advertised a proposed template for fiduciary legislation it would create a good discussion point aimed directly at the problem.

I hope I can have your support on this proposal. 

NZ Food Safety Bill- By Marti Oakley

New Zealand law mirrors US and Canada, fake food safety bills

December 29, 2011 by ppjg

Marti Oakley © copyright  2011 All Rights Reserved

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It comes as no surprise that the fake food safety bill passed here in the US in what was clearly a staged event that required the complicity of the other 99 Senators who voluntarily vacated the US Senate chamber to allow  “Dirty Harry” to cast the only vote as “unanimous” is being mirrored, replicated and implemented in many other countries. Canada passed its C-36 bill shortly after “Dirty Harry” completed his task here in the US, and now it appears New Zealand food rights are on the chopping block too.

What are the chances that New Zealand Retailers Association would come up with what appears to be a line of propaganda nearly identical to the crap foisted on the American public as their rights to produce and consume foods of their choice were attacked relentlessly by Big AG and the bio-pirates along with other corporate interests who stand to profit immensely at the expense of the public? These are the same interested party’s and stakeholders who rammed C-36 through Canada’s parliament.

And here we see the same limp arguments coming out of New Zealand, promoted by yet another retailers association intent on convincing New Zealanders that their food supply and production, needs “modernization”. Modernization with regards to food can be easily defined as centralization of food production and supply to provide market monopolies to multi-national corporations.  The greatest threat to food supply chains around the world is industrialized food which provides neither safe food, nor nutritious food.   Progress on the food bill:

The Food Bill provides a much needed modernisation of New Zealand’s food safety legislation. It provides the framework for an efficient, effective and risk-based regulatory regime for managing the safety and suitability of food produced, processed, manufactured, traded, transported and imported to New Zealand.

Under the Food Bill, food businesses will be expected to be proactive, establishing safe procedures and systems ready for verification rather than the current system, which is based on ‘one size fits all’ requirements and inspections.

New Zealand is about to witness what we have here in the US; small retailers, family farms and ranches raided by agency swat teams, business and lives destroyed, property illegally destroyed or seized while Big Ag operations responsible for horrendous contamination of various sectors of food production receive only a warning letter and never miss a day in their crappy operations.

New Zealand’s bill, Food bill 160-2,  just as the bills in the US and Canada, are more centered on creating an oppressive regulatory system designed to drive independent and family producers, out of business and by extension, out of the markets.  Again mirroring the US Fake Food Safety Bill, andCanada’s C-36 Fake Food Safety Bill, arbitrary rules, regulations and stifling enforcement initiatives will be directed not at industrialized multi-national producers, but rather, towards the family independent or individual producers; meaning home gardeners, community gardeners and producers.  Also seriously affected will be farmers markets, road-side vendors, church bake sales, and heritage seed banks. 

New Zealand’s bill fails to exempt seeds used for crops from “food regulation” leaving their definition under this new police state law open to broad interpretation.  The fact that New Zealand, just as the US and Canada has attempted to include seeds in their food control program should be a clear indicator that the bill has little to do with food safety and more to do with controlling food and market access. 

It appears that New Zealanders may also be forced under this legislation to use genetically modified aluminum resistant seeds produced by the infamous Monsanto. 

Food bill petition here.

“Why did Monsanto produce an aluminium resistant seed? Because our skies and soils are ultimately being polluted with aluminium, barium (just to name two) toxins/heavy metals. If the use of chemtrails/geoengineering is allowed to continue, Kiwis will have no choice as to what type of seed they can grow. Monsanto’s aluminium resistant seed will fit the bill nicely for the unaware farmer and ultimately the unaware consumer.”

The comparisons between the US Fake Food Safety Bill, Canada’s C-36 and now New Zealand’s fake food safety bill highlight the fact that each country is using the same format, criteria and oppressive regulatory system to make any thing other than industrialized farming and ranching as performed by multi-national corporations, unacceptable.  While ranting hysterically about food safety, the same people who will vote to make this abomination a law in New Zealand will simultaneously open the door to industrialized food production devastating the environment, water supplies and reducing the quality and safety of food across the board. 

What was/is at stake in all three countries is the access to clean, affordable, nutritious food.  What has been/will be forfeited under yet another fake food safety bill are these same things.  New Zealand is about to find itself in the same condition as the US and Canadian populations; their food contaminated and unfit for consumption, infected with gmo’s, herbicides and pesticides, produced in countries with whom some bogus free trade agreement has been struck that reduces production standards to the lowest possible level in order to increase profits. 

The truly sad part of this is that New Zealand will find out, just as the US and Canadian people did, that no matter how massive their protests, no matter how hard they fight this assault on their right to produce their own food, their government will pass this bill. 

This is about corporate takeover of food production and supplies and the ensuing markets.  This is not about food safety and never was. 

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http://www.retail.org.nz/progressonthefoodbill.html

The Food Bill 160-2 will seriously impede initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit & vegetable stalls.
http://bit.ly/ol7zgJ

New ZealandFake Food Safety Bill

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0160/latest/whole.html?search=ts_bill_food+bill_resel&p=1#dlm3435700

Food bill petition here. http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/petition/oppose-the-new-zealand-government-food-bill-160-2/1301 Please consider signing and passing on to your fellow kiwis – people that have lived in New Zealand all their lives will loose the right to grow and share garden produce and seed just to highlight one area of this Bill.

.http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/corporations-contaminating-agriculture/

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/new-zealand-law-mirrors-us-and-canada-fake-food-safety-bills/

Save the Pony or Mankind?

On Facebook someone posted this- many joked- I did- I said good looking horse. The facebook friend was unimpressed with a variety us us joking.- This was my response.

From a Facebook friend- Please look at the face of this rapist, eventually this picture will go to the end of the earth and he would be brought up to justice and I hope he gets a decease for preforming such heinous act! Obviously this poor excuse of a man can't get a girl! Not even a Prostitute

Abuse- what abuse in society shall we start with- parent failure, council failure, police failure, judicial failure,political failure-media failure-  they all equal fiduciary failure which actually ruins entire societies and countries - they are the failures I take seriously yet everyone just jokes about them. Some guy doing a one on one creepy thing has a small circle of victims (animals included). The collective group I outlined makes millions of victims and destroys mankind.

The Rena- back in October 11- Why the Slow Response?

Ship stranded near NZ issues mayday call as crew is evacuated

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A photo taken by Maritime New Zealand shows the Monrovia-flagged "Rena" container ship aground near New Zealand's Tauranga harbour yesterday. Source: Supplied

A CONTAINER ship leaking oil and stranded on a reef off New Zealand issued a mayday call today and was being evacuated in heavy seas, Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) said.

"The reason for calling the mayday was as a precautionary measure to ensure that vessels come to assist to take people off quickly,'' MNZ director Catherine Taylor told Radio New Zealand, adding six navy ships were helping remove a salvage crew from the crippled Rena, which hit a reef last Wednesday.

The 236m Liberian-flagged container ship Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef, 12 nautical miles from Tauranga, and heavy oil from the ship began washing ashore yesterday morning.

MNZ says the Rena was listing about 11 degrees on the reef but that has improved overnight to a more upright position.

It's believed the rock pinnacle the ship was resting on has been crushed, but the ship remains stable.

The barge Awanuia that was taking on the grounded ship's oil has itself been damaged, and has returned to port for repairs before it can continue pumping.

Meanwhile, MNZ says it could take years to salvage the Rena.

Director Catherine Taylor spoke to more than 100 people at Waikari marae in Mt Maunganui last night, and said it would take several months to remove the 2000 containers from the vessel, which may remain on the reef for years, Fairfax Media reported.

The ship's been revealed to have had a number of deficiencies before it arrived in New Zealand - and it was temporarily detained in Australia.

The Maritime Union has demanded the release of official reports about the ship, saying it understands MNZ found deficiencies with the ship - including its charts, maintenance and engines - when it was inspected in Bluff in September.

Transport Minister Steven Joyce told Fairfax Media the ship had been inspected in China in July, and later by officials in Fremantle, Australia.

"In this case, the inspection in China said there were some deficiencies. A dozen of them had to be rectified before the ship left and the other six had to be rectified within two weeks," Mr Joyce said.

"So that was passed on to the next port of call, which was Fremantle, and that raised some additional deficiencies."

Fist-sized "patties" of oil from the ship began washing up on beaches in the area on Monday.

A clean-up of beaches will begin around 1.30pm on Tuesday at low tide.

MNZ says no more oiled wildlife has been brought in, and the seven penguins and two cormorants currently in care were "swimming happily".

Residents have been warned by MNZ to stay away from affected areas, from Mount Maunganui to Girven Road and on the southern end of Matakana Island, and not to touch or try to clean up the toxic oil.

Rena Breaking up

Rena Breaks in Half

New Zealand Votes for its Own Destruction

Saturday, 31 December 2011, 1:19 pm Article: Charles Drace

New Zealand Votes for its Own Destruction

by Charles Drace

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Thomas Jefferson

In the year 2011, Saturday, November 26, 2011 to be exact, the citizens of New Zealand voted to destroy New Zealand.

Partly it was because the second largest party ran an anaemic campaign with a leader no one wanted. Partly it was because the major media, being foreign owned, wanted a party that would sell more New Zealand assets to overseas owners. Partly because government departments, including the Ombudsman, decided to withhold government papers vital to informed voters. Partly it was because the right-wing Prime Minister looked good on television.

But mainly it was because of apathy, widespread throughout the country.
The same apathy that allowed the government to pass Draconian laws which took away civil liberties, much like the Patriot Act did in the United States. Even allowing a law to give government officials the right to enter any home or business and place video cameras inside without informing the owner. Without getting a warrant from a judge. Without, in fact, even having to have a reason. And the law was made retrospective to protect police who had already broken the current law.

The same apathy which has allowed the environmental degradation of one of the most pristine countries on the face of this earth - at least, as it used to be. The same apathy that has allowed the current [and new] government to borrow massively to fund subsidies for climate polluting industries and costly failed [as they must] genetic engineering experiments.
The same uniformed apathy that allows the government to use taxpayer money to promote deadly vaccines to young girls claiming to prevent a very rare disease [HPV] that usually only affects women after menopause when the vaccine only lasts for five years. The government also pays to promote dangerous vaccines like the MMR2 vaccine for babies that contains human fetal tissue, deadly amounts of toxic aluminium, and a proven record of causing gut interference that leads to severe lifetime brain trauma.

This in spite of the fact that the vaccine is known not to work: over 60% of the children who got measles in the school epidemics in the U.S. and New Zealand were vaccinated. They think it appropriate to use tax payer money to do vaccine maker's advertising for them.

The same apathy which allowed the government to sign a trade agreement [Trans-Pacific Partnership] which was known to give U.S. corporates control over our pharmaceuticals, food safety regulations, and imports [including GE food]. The terms of this secret agreement cannot be released to either the New Zealand public nor even members of Parliament for four years - at the insistence of the U.S. government.

This apathy lead to the re-election of the National Party under the leadership of ex-currency speculator John Key [one of the 1%].

John Key and the National Party campaigned on several issues, many of which were designed to help destroy New Zealand.

They told New Zealanders that they were going to sell New Zealand's prime assets to overseas investors. These assets currently earn nearly $30 billion a year which goes into government coffers. Successive New Zealand governments have always hugely discounted our national assets when sold to overseas buyers. Most previous asset sales have been hugely detrimental to the New Zealand economy as well as it's citizens. Included in the sales will be the illegal sale of the Accident Compensation Commission which runs at a profit and is envied around the world.

The first on the block will likely be the electricity companies. Many of these companies hold legal rights to New Zealand rivers. Thus a sale of these companies will pass control of many of our rivers to overseas corporations. Electricity companies are absolutely vital to our national interest, as are all infrastructure organisations. It is the height of irresponsibility to deliver infrastructure into overseas hands yet the National Party said they would do so and the public still voted for them.

They told New Zealanders that they would allow overseas corporations to prospect for ultra-deepsea off shore oil. This in spite of the fact that the nearest emergency equipment to cope with spills or other accidents are 10,000 kilometres away so any accident would cause huge environmental and economic damage. Even though the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico BP deep sea oil disaster proved that there is no way of coping with deep sea oil disasters. Even though they couldn't cope with the recent oil spill from a freighter [the Rena] without destroying and poisoning pristine coast land.

They told New Zealanders they would expand fracking in the Canterbury plains. The Canterbury plains have had over 9000 earthquakes in just over a year and fracking is known to cause earthquakes. That's why it's banned in New South Wales and parts of England and is causing a series of problems in Oklahoma. Fracking uses over 400 toxic chemicals and releases them directly into underground water - water which is used for drinking and irrigation in Canterbury. Canterbury has arguably the best drinking water in New Zealand, if not the world, although it's becoming polluted by pesticides, herbicides, fertilisers, and run off from the government supported dairy industry.

As an example of voter legacy, while campaigning against fracking I was told by several people that it didn't matter if it caused earthquakes and destroyed our water as long as it helped keep petrol prices down.

National told New Zealanders that they would be the best party to reduce government debt. Yet this is the party that increased government debt by 1000% in less than three years. To put this in perspective, that's 10 times the increase of debt that Greece experienced over 10 years. This is gross mismanagement which puts New Zealand and future tax payers at extreme risk yet the public and media ignored it. Current government plans are for the debt to increase 2000% by 2015.

National presents itself as the best party for economic management and the largest opposition party, the Labour Party, as a tax and spend party. Yet New Zealand Reserve Bank statistics show that the economy has always grown more under Labour than under National and that debt levels have always risen under National and have usually gone down under Labour. Yet, again, the public and the media ignored facts and chose instead to concentrate on personality and misrepresentation.

They told voters that they were going to invite overseas companies in to exploit minerals in our protected and environmentally important parks and reserves and seabeds, where all but a small fraction of the profits would go offshore, and the public just yawned and voted for them.

In other words, they told the voters that they were going to sell much that was important to our security, our environment, and our well being, as well as the success of New Zealand businesses and our economy, and the media lapped it up and the voters voted for it.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1112/S00170/new-zealand-votes-for-its-own-destruction.htm

NZ- Need to 'Occupy the Media' ?

Perhaps the problem identified is actually more serious than we realise. New Zealand citizens have their opinions formed by media and so if media are negligent the country will follow. 

So where is NZ sitting ? 

Currently we have slipped to the lowest on almost every list in the OECD including the 3rd most indebted. 

Despite demands for protection ( not covered by media) no regulatory protection was put in place and 232,000 kiwi mums and dads and family people lost $8.5billion in deposits with shonky poorly regulated investment banks. 

It appears the duty of care required by media is being ignored at this nation’s peril. 

Perhaps we need to organise a protest "Occupy the Media" The media need to be woken up if we want any real chance of saving New Zealand.

The reason why politicians are failing

What ever happened to the meaning of fiduciary duties- it seems every other fiduciary is accountable except- local councilors,  Wellington politicians and Judges because they use crown and judicial immunity to hide negligence and failure.

Wake up people- time to remove the immunity laws so they can be held to account-  that would lift their duty of care immediately.

Think about if we all had immunity- would we try or just enjoy the opulence and cash rewards of public office ?

That is the core reason our public leaders fail- self interest.

Ten year maps of NZ Earthquakes

Julian Assange in conversation with John Pilger

This is must viewing 

http://johnpilger.com/videos/julian-assange-in-conversation-with-john-pilger

Also Ethan McCord- http://onlyinamerican.com/2011/08/us-soldier-ethan-mccord-relives-civilian-carnage-in-iraq/

The Christchurch Quakes- by Lindsay Breach

 

Author- Lindsay Breach

This is a very brief account from a Christchurch resident and their thoughts and feelings to the ongoing event cluster and the feeling associated with living it.

 

The quakes are the hardest of all to explain. They hit in an instance and last only moments but the thoughts and feelings always seem to last longer. It is a combination of adrenaline and shock. This is apparent by the faces of others as you stumble outside. You are scared to be indoors.  

The aftermath is the collapse of the basic infrastructure. In the red zones, odorous raw sewage floods onto the street, which you have no choice but to wade through to get to one point to the next.  

Toileting becomes a matter of creativity. The power and water is, of course, off. During February, this lasted for weeks. Now the infrastructure is in place to have it restored in a day. It’s pleasant to have creature comforts.

 

Many of the Neighbors are gone now. Empty and unkempt buildings are slowly being reclaimed by nature. Each new tremor tears more of it down. The cracks get deeper and they become more or less ruins of a once beautiful neighborhood. 

A beauty once taken for granted, now wistfully relived in photos. There are so many people whose lives have been drastically changed for the worse. 

Despite, the comparatively good fortune (a habitable place being a luxury in these zones) you wonder what the future holds as an individual. One cannot simply leave due to moral obligations and a sense of duty that is easier to live than explain to others.  Some people will try to hang until it seems impossible.  Simply waiting and hoping for the best until the time is right. 

Red zone moves are of course inevitable; even if some will fight it. There is little appeal in staying though. It is no longer recognisable and living amongst the ruins is constantly depressing. 

 

You begin to look at other areas with envious eyes and long for what is lost. But people everywhere are apprehensive. 

The question is not if but when will the next big one hit. More importantly: where? The quakes are in the ocean now. This has created a new fear to worry about. 


 The odds are unlikely they say. It is of little real comfort to hear that. Just have to wait and pray for the best. 
Though there is no desire to stay in the immediate area; the forward-thinking question is: what of Christchurch? 

There is hope that if it is steered in the right direction there will be renewal.

 

It is a mixture of optimism and apprehension living in Christchurch. 

The instinct to flee is definitely present alongside the urge to battle onwards. Either way, it is a matter of continuing as best as one can and hoping. 

Other links 

http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

 2011- (9589 quakes)

 http://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/quakes/recent_quakes.html