Yay, look at the great friends we are now economically dependent upon that the corporate farmers of NZ forced upon us…
Inside China’s brutal ‘death camps’
They are described as schools where people suspected of being extremists are taught Chinese culture and values in a bid to re-educate them and keep society safe.
But survivors of the country’s vast network of prison camps reveal classes, which run from dawn until midnight, are mandatory and a failure to complete them satisfactorily leads to horrific torture.
Detention in re-education camps occurs after long stints in prison, with forced labour and repeated medical tests that human rights advocates say is part of China’s forced organ trade.
…wow, a million and half people forced into ‘re-education camps’ for the purpose of harvesting body organs.
How charming.
Why are we allowing NZ Farmers to dictate our economy? Not only do they pollute the water, steal the water and cause climate crisis gases, they are forcing us to be held economically hostage by a Communist Authoritarian regime who are body organ harvesting from dissidents, who have a mass surveillance state on meth and who have no issues with enforced cultural assimilation.
Want milk powder with that repression?
Instead of blaming farmers as I have been wont to do also, think about the systems in place which makes this overintensive stupidity necessary.
1)banking sector foreign owned and pushing up land prices so farmer has to be intensive to survive, and then sell offshore to get maximum profit.
2)Free trade deal with China which works for them far more than us – they can even own land and assets here we can’t there(Helen Clark labour government)
3)Fonterra monopoly distorting market dictating price ( labour government).
4)ECAN stacked to prevent environmental protection leading to overallocation of water and more pollution(National Government)
All these issues have a basis in bad government, and are reversible with good government.
We just don’t have one.
+100 KEEPCALMCARRYON
…in addition China is the greatest emitter of Greenhouse gasses ( NZ emissions are paltry in comparison)and China is still building coal powered plants in developing countries !
https://skepticalscience.com/China-GHG-emissions.html
….we should get rid of the free trade agreement ( which has been an environmental and housing disaster for New Zealanders in so many ways)and get our New Zealand sovereignty back for New Zealanders
…we should be boycotting China for many reasons including an appalling human rights record …especially the Greens who make fighting Global warming their mantra
( but no doubt the politically correct anti racist stupid wokkie Greens would argue that this is ”Crude racial profiling” as did Metiria Turei over the housing crisis in Auckland
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/08/no-love-lost-between-winston-peters-and-metiria-turei.html
Per capita China’s GHG emissions are a fraction if that NZ which is 1.7 times that of China. The GHG emissions per capita of the USA are over twice that of China.
Historic accumulated GHG emission per present day capita of the USA are over 26 times that of China.
Meanwhile NZ, Ozzie, US and many other “Western” countries import goods from China to fill there chain stores and homes.
There is s0 much US generated propaganda about China and Russia that MSM stuff has to be brought into perspective.
The highest incarceration rates in the world are in USA, and NZ is not far behind
On the other hand China’s incarceration rates are 0.18 of the US rate and NZ’s rates being over 2.66 times that of China..
The selling of dairy to China is because China will take it and Business NZ is a willing seller. Money speaks .
Not that the NZ infant formula is good for any human child but that is another matter. We are assisting in a break down of their child rearing culture as wet nurses (the preferable substitute for hungry babies ) are disappearing.
+100% KEEPCALMCARRYON
Oh dear. The hate China meme again!!
Dear oh dear.
It’s ok Win, we’ve still got the good and great USA to bootlick.
But China and the US make it so easy for us to mock them.
If you think you have intensive farming here, you have not been to Europe or East Asia yet.
From the horse’s (propaganda) mouth:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/09/c_137028083.htm
Europe:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
Commercial enterprises force the way, and that in China also with state support, the negatives do get ignored or ridiculed, we are in for further transformations of NZ agriculture, one way or another.
Mammon is calling, the environment is only there to be exploited by using modern gene altering and intensive farming growing techniques.
Who will dare stop it, and how?
It is called Realpolitik and NZ Inc’s governments do the same with Saudi Arabia, Iran or any other country, the dollar bills are more important than upsetting other countries’ governments with critical comments or sanctimonious lecturing.
Forget the stuff that stands on paper (human rights), the commodity trade rules.
I also notice Chinese get lighter justice in NZ. I hope Oranga Tamariki are aware aged Chinese men touching little boys penises, is now ok in NZ for cultural reasons!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114300644/cultural-mistake-led-to-touching-of-boy-at-changing-rooms-in-christchurch
“Judge Alistair Garland said he accepted the submission from defence counsel Lee Lee Heah that it was a “cultural mistake” and a conviction would cause Ren a deep sense of failure.
He decided the consequences would be out of proportion to the gravity of the offence and discharged Ren without conviction under section 106 of the Sentencing Act.
The incident happened at 9.45am on August 18, when he was in the changing rooms. The young victim – who Ren did not know – was getting changed with his father when Ren pointed at him and began laughing.
Ren then reached over and touched his penis in a flicking motion. He continued laughing, and touched the penis again, gently pinching it, when the father told him to stop.
Ren told police he liked the victim because he reminded him of his grandson in China. He said he did not know that such behaviour was an offence in New Zealand, and he had been showing the victim genuine affection.
A cultural report, prepared by Ren’s daughter, said tweaking a child’s penis was a common form of endearment in China.”
It seems Chinese traditions are more readily accepted as a defence in NZ than Maori cultural defence! These Maori guys got jailed for catching fish and cultural reasons were clearly not enough to discharge them without a conviction like the Chinese penis toucher!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2016/05/convicted-trout-poacher-nz-justice-system-racist.html
Interestingly millions of dollars of money laundering is also ok with a 5 month stint in a NZ luxury penthouse if you are Chinese. You of course get to keep your NZ citizenship!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11837117
It’s simple economics. New Zealand is an export economy that is heavily dependent on the Chinese market to buy our stuff. Globalisation has stripped our economy of manufacturing and all we have left is intensive farming. Politicians are terrified China will crush our economy if we stand up to them.
Want NZ to stand up to foriegn regimes? Then put pressure on the government to diversify our trade partners.
Want to save the environment? Then put pressure on the government to introduce legislation that promotes a reverse of globalisation and introduces other industries to our local market. Only then could we move away from intensive agriculture as a primary source of income.
Want to stop mass foriegn ownership of our farms? Then put pressure on the government to introduce legislation that stops foriegn markets from using NZ as a land bank (a capital gains tax would have been a start….).
Which is what Winnie wanted to do with the Russian free trade deal.
Arm twisting by our special friend in 2014 made that impossible.
Lets face it, if we only trade with morally perfect partners we dont trade at all. And its not like we are as pure as the driven snow either.
Willing to stand up and denounce Trump whenever every one else does but too gutless to stand up for Julian Assange
I’m sorry, but Mark has a point about the relentless media attacks on China.There’s a lot of geopolitical posturing going on and we’d be wise to take a step back
We should be insulating ourselves by being as self sufficient as possible.
Francesca: “Lets face it, if we only trade with morally perfect partners we dont trade at all. And its not like we are as pure as the driven snow either.”
Exactly. Moreover, in China’s case, we’re clearly being fed propaganda; as we were over Tiananmen Square, all those years ago. As for the protests in Hong Kong, it’s obvious that all is not what it seems.
The older I’ve got, the more I realise, too, that the behaviour we deplore in other polities – even if it’s a reality, and not just propaganda – is largely down to the elites.
Ordinary people, especially in countries which aren’t democracies, don’t get a say in what their governments do. But those ordinary people still need to eat; continuing NZ trade allows that to happen. Those protesting our trade with China, along with other countries demonised by the west, need to keep that in mind.
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