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A budding plant nursery in the Bay of Plenty will get $5.8 million of the Government’s regional funding promises.
Chairman Bronco Carson said the nursery would hire another 81 employees to take its total staff count to 90.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/102282475/shane-jones-gives-ngti-whare-6m-to-grow-millions-of-native-trees
The question is, will the Government funding come with a condition employees receive a living wage?
Considering the Government acknowledges many workers haven’t been receiving their fair share of national growth and the Government wants to correct that, one would expect so.
Recently, Willie Jackson questioned whether or not Simon Bridges will adopt a pro-Māori position, stating the real test will be whether he advocates on his peoples’ behalf or continues to embrace strategies that will see Maori impoverished and destitute.
Well, seeing as many of these new employees in the Bay of Plenty nursery are expected to be Māori, will Labour live up to Willie Jackson’s test? Or will they turn a blind eye and allow insufficient wages that lead to many workers (and their kids) being impoverished and destitute.
NOT the smug propagandising neoMcCarthyist mainstream media ( especially RNZ Morning Report)
…this is the same scurrilous mainstream media that propagandised for the war on Iraq on false pretenses:
‘Publicity murder?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF3Fue4UViM
“It appears” and “highly likely” were the words used by UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who blamed Russia for the poison attack on a former Russian intelligence officer turned British spy. Claims are made and threats flaunted. Of course all without evidence.
CrossTalking with Alexander Mercouris, Charles Shoebridge, and Annie Machon.”
…and
‘Corbyn warns against ‘McCarthyite intolerance of dissent’ over Russia accusations’
https://www.rt.com/uk/421442-jeremy-corbyn-russia-skripal/
…”The Labour leader once again drew a parallel between the Sergei case and the UK’s decision to intervene in Iraq alongside the US in 2003, which was based on flawed intelligence that Saddam Hussein held weapons of mass destruction (WMD)…
…and
‘Galloway: Russia could not benefit from Skripal poisoning’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7snm1Yvwuu4
…and
‘Rasmussen: “UK’s got a complete disregard for intl rule of law in Skripal case” ‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaPRgdtUm_Q
…and
‘Britain’s presumption of guilt towards Russia invites conflict and chaos’
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421291-skripal-uk-russia-may-poisoning/
…and
‘Defense secretary’s reaction shows UK is worrying, has something to hide – Moscow’
https://www.rt.com/news/421388-uk-worrying-defense-secretary/
…and
‘UK to build £48mn chemical weapon center to protect from ‘hostile’ activity’
https://www.rt.com/uk/421367-chemical-weapon-defence-centre/
( as one commentator said: “It’s all starting to unravell now – clearly UK Gov requires a false flag event to justify cost of a new chemical weapon centre!.”)
‘Novichok – toxic questions about chemical at center of Skripal saga’
https://www.rt.com/news/421200-uk-novichok-agent-allegations/
…and
‘Secretive UK army base analyzing nerve agent used on ex-Russian spy mired in controversy’
https://www.rt.com/uk/420800-spy-russia-gas-facility/
“A secretive UK army base analyzing the nerve agent thought to be used on ex-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal has long been at the center of controversy. It has even been accused of testing chemicals on humans…
The center hoping to gather those facts has itself been shrouded in mystery for decades. Porton Down, officially named the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, is one of Britain’s most controversial military facility. The army center for research into chemical and biological weapons, located near Salisbury, was founded in 1916 to counter German gas attacks in World War I. In the 1950s, scientists there developed non-lethal CS gas, better known as tear gas, as well as the deadly nerve agent VX.
The center tells the outside world its focus is to improve defense, aiming to improve equipment and tests in order to protect troops and the population. But the secretive state facility has been at the center of accusations of experiments on animals and humans…
In 1999, police probed allegations of testing that may have endangered the lives of soldiers without their knowledge, according to AFP. The people in the case claimed to have been forced into Cold War-era chemical testing.
Nine years later, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) awarded 360 former members of the armed forces compensation of £3 million ($4.2 million). However, no criminal prosecutions were brought…
In a June 2016 press release titled ‘The truth about Porton Down’ the MoD admitted successful testing “could not, currently, be achieved without the use of animals.” It added it is “committed to reducing the number of animal experiments.”
Porton Down employs 3,000 scientists and has an annual budget of £500 million ($695 million). Around 20,000 people have taken part in studies over the decades. It says without human volunteers’ involvement “we could not have developed the highly effective clothing and medical countermeasures that our armed forces rely on.”
“[Porton Down] has always been operated to the highest ethical standards of the day,” the MoD added.”
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