Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows.
A report by Brazil’s space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-59341770
Killing the planet continues, while on junkets like COP26 – (more pledges in the nether nether, 26 COP years later, international junkets and things seem to be getting worse with climate change, biodiversity loss and carbon emissions!
This book by a NZ historian – it would be good to have a dispassionate review of it.
Trevor Bentley’s new book, [in 2019] Pākehā Slaves, Māori Masters, details the slave trade in 1800s New Zealand which, as he puts it, was “not something that only white people did to black people”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/the-pakeha-slave-captured-by-maori-as-a-child/O5U6Q6EGI6KB6X5FPSKV5DKYP4/
Tamaki proves me wrong
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/10/30/the-daily-blog-open-mic-saturday-30th-october-2021/#comment-584478
he’s come out again
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/11/coronavirus-brain-tamaki-speaks-at-anti-lockdown-protest-in-the-auckland-domain.html
Austrias’ mandatory vaccines
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300458845/austria-announces-new-national-lockdown-mandatory-covid19-vaccinations
” those who didn’t comply would likely be fined but gave no other details
Toxic waters devastated Pacific Coast fisheries. But who’s to blame?
Union leaders say fossil fuel companies must pay for rising ocean temperatures. Not all boat captains are persuaded
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/20/american-fishers-west-coast-sue-big-oil
Other countries investing in research for solar powered fishing boats, NZ nowhere to be seen.
India
https://navaltboats.com/solar-fishing-boats/
The Netherlands
https://soelyachts.com/about/
The owners said the NOK350 million (US$39.4 million) newbuild is the world’s first LNG-battery hybrid fishing vessel, its particular propulsion configuration having been specifically selected to fulfill the requirement for a vessel that is capable of sustainable fishing operations.
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/fishing-boat-world/trawling/vessel-review-libas-hybrid-seiner-trawler-delivered-to-norways-liegruppen/
NZ seems to have managed to miss any sustainable opportunity to pivot to new technology so far, no doubt will be on the wrong side of history, after all, why bother to plan for the future, when you just lobby the government to pay for your industry to change, and actually not change at all?
Industry leaders and MBIE will be lobbying to go back in time for this, instead,
https://corsairsandcaptivesblog.com/galley-slave/
NZ is once again the dingy dinghy trailing along behind.
What happened to 100% pure NZ, Green NZ, and our nuclear free moment? Sad that NZ have become more marketing and spin (easily looking stupid and polluting in world statistics now) than real integrity in the environmental space.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/456225/surf-lifesavers-expected-to-wear-masks-during-rescues
Lifesavers expected to wear masks during rescues!!
That could lead to the public expectations of government dealing with both the public’s urgent needs while dishing up platitudes and systems for making Covid go away. We can’t be doing everything can we Labour, you show us that. Chewing gum while walking – who can do that these days. Government says, ‘We employ robot bureaucrats or contractors to do any active work.
Comments are closed.