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Good thinking Fonterra.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2001/S00135/government-welcomes-fonterras-boiler-move.htm
Housing crime.
One law for all.
The rich and privileged are always going on about ‘one law for all’.
(Usually for crimes they are unlikely to commit).
Anatole France put it this way; “The law,in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Let us invert this majestic equality of the law.
let us make it illegal for both rich people and poor people to keep their investment properties empty.
Do the crime pay the fine.
Property speculators investing in houses keep them empty to artificially create a shortage which keeps rents and prices up.
Housing investors benefit from keeping houses empty by the rising capital gains driven up by desperate families having to bid against each other to provide shelter over their heads by an artificial shortage created in housing.
If Auckland Council imposed fines on the rich property investors guilty of keeping houses artificially empty, as the city of Vancouver does, the only way that their privacy would be breached would be if they tried to evade them.
Our local body leaders and central politicians need to hold their nerve against the quibbles powerful property lobby over their privacy.
In my opinion if these property investors try to avoid paying taxes on their empty properties, then they need to be named and shamed.
Do the crime pay the fine
Be like Vancouver
As matters get worse the signage gets bigger? The latest on Wuhan virus says that numbers double weekly – now said to be 75,000. Eventually the heading and the latest number affected may fill the whole page. But how then will we get to read about all the other things crushing us down to a soggy wet tissue?
Just opened a Sunlight soap packet – a basic NZ item since the year dot. Made in Australia. We are a pathetic lot of people living in a cargo cult mentality that money from overseas will make some of us rich who want to live like the rich do overseas, where the rich know how to be, and the poor get the dregs. But the view is telescopic and only on the place where everything is shiny and sparkling. Here used to be boring, home-made and basic and at a cost sufficient to maintain ordinary living standards for ordinary people here, living on ordinary dreams of upward mobility for all who tried (and didn’t become alcoholics).
Dung beetles – a hot topic in the circles where innovation in agriculture and environment goes on.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/two-cents-worth/story/2018730738/beetle-mania
Another hot topic – deductive reasoning. This shows how to establish who’s a witch so to know if to burn them.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9PY_3E3h2c
Could the authorities do something similar to establish who can not understand the road information on the way to Queenstown, to find out who needs extra road signs in the foreign language of the main driving group, and those who usually drive on the right? They get near-immediate driving privileges, while we have to pay big to get trained. Duh.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/408629/call-for-multilingual-road-signs-in-queenstown-after-fatal-crashes
Why would they put albatrosses up front in the news so they could become shooting targets when they say they are trying to save them?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/408566/albatrosses-fitted-with-loggers-patrol-the-skies-to-find-illegal-fishers
‘Disproved’ and ‘disproved’, apart from being right. Have any of you noticed RNZ National’s Monday morning Politics ‘Left’ man Mills celebrating and claiming he to be reality after Corbyn’s defeat? Which is to say , Roger Douglas. I don’t want to get into his tangled brain. Why don’t someone ask him about Roger Douglas? Diretto.
Geezus! 36 years and Labour are still under the thrall of the founder of ACT. Christ.
Any Bernie Sanders will save us from nonsense in favour of the powerful. Coz that’s the choice. Cicero ultimately stepped up for his idea, as did his ideal, Demosthenes. Step up, rather than foot-note. Good chance in this atmos you’ll go far.
Or is it true the last working class member of the Labour Party was Sir Basil Arthur, Baronet?
Sunday thinking piece? From The Standard which has good ideas sometimes, and discuss them (and sometimes throw a discus at them.)
“To further test his idea Professor Wilson created environments that rewarded niceness among a group of “at-risk” kids at the local public school. These were students who would almost certainly drop out. They had flunked three or more of their classes the previous year,” he says. Out of 117 at-risk kids who were in grades nine and 10, 56 were randomly chosen to be in the study.”
“A program was then designed which gave the students short term incentives for cooperation and learning, praised positive performance and empowered them to make decisions about how they would like to learn.”
“The results were fast and dramatic. Students who participated in the study not only showed more prosocial behaviour, but their marks shot up.” Great news! But it does expose a structural defect in the education system.
See at https://thestandard.org.nz/how-to-get-there-02-02-20/#comment-1682178 on TS.
So what is happening with the supposed ‘settlement’ of Ihumatao disputes?
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