We here at TDB like to be first at pointing shit out, but in this never ending 24-7 news clusterfuck of a media environment we all live in, even we can slip up and miss something that should get more focus, so from time to time we’ll run Under the Radar News, things of note that escaped attention.
This week, Māori Capitalism as venal as Pakeha Capitalism & the evidence Israeli Defence Force didn’t want you to see.
Māori Capitalism as venal as Pakeha Capitalism:
Moves to limit pine would force landowners, Māori to forego ETS cash
The once-unpopular pine tree has received fresh support – particularly from Māori landowners – after the Government moved to limit planting.
In a public consultation, the Government proposed that exotic trees in permanent forests would not be eligible to earn and sell carbon units. This followed rural community protests against farm-to-pine conversions and Climate Change Commission recommendations favouring native forestry over exotics in the long term.
If the proposal holds, only native permanent forests and exotic harvested forests will be eligible to earn carbon units under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
A romanticised view of Māori Capitalism is that it operates with cultural values that are more humane and empathetic but ever since the Slave Ships obscenity, that romanticised view has been shattered by the grim truth that Māori Capitalism can be just as exploitative as Pakeha Capitalism. This latest fight over pine forests is proof of that.
84% of Māori live in Urban centre’s yet it is the Iwi Leaders brand of capitalism calling the shots. If He Puapua is a genuine attempt at co-governance for the benefit of all Māori, great! But if it’s a trojan horse for Corporate Iwi to promote Māori Capitalism as venal as Pakeha Capitalism, what are we gaining?
Evidence Israeli Defence Force didn’t want you to see:
Israeli stooges and troll apologists have flooded every comment section to claim the Palestinians actually assassinated Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh, here is the evidence the Israeli Defence Force didn’t want you to see…
Shireen Abu Aqleh killed by ‘seemingly well-aimed’ Israeli bullet, UN says
The UN has said its investigations have found that the shot that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh on 11 May was fired by Israeli forces.
The Palestinian-American journalist, who was wearing a vest and helmet marked “press”, was killed while covering an Israeli army operation in Jenin, in the northern West Bank.
“We find that the shots that killed Abu Aqleh came from Israeli security forces,” the UN human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said in Geneva. “It is deeply disturbing that Israeli authorities have not conducted a criminal investigation.”
…the Israeli’s assassinated a leading journalist live on air and are getting away with it. Their corrupt and brutal occupation of the Palestinian people are turning them to evil deeds to maintain that violence. The Israeli people are now as damaged as the Palestinians they torture. I give my sorrow and love to the Palestinian people, and my pity to the Israelis for turning into the very fascism that so mutilated them.
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Corporate.. Tribal.. Both the same and both more capitalist than socialist in there structure.
While I support the resumption of responsible native forestry, to really ramp up carbon capture will require a significant amount of exotic plantings. On a lot of North Island sites, alternatives like redwood could deliver much higher levels of carbon capture, and for longer, extended periods of time, than radiata does. Redwood is also a much higher value timber, being naturally durable and attractive in value added applications (though less advantageous for framing). It’s shade tolerant, so like beech it’s appropriate for limited spot harvesting and regrowth without compromising carbon capture.
That said, we aren’t going to see any really large scale plantings- whether in natives, radiata, or exotics that may be more appropriate for permanent carbon capture or a mix of carbon capture and sustainable harvesting- for real without the new ‘Forest Service’ (which is a good start, mind) being made a real Forest Service cashed up from the treasury to start getting stuff done.
And no matter what gets planted, we should never compromise our ability to feed ourselves in an autarkic economic system should our nation come under attack.
What a bunch of putdowns. Maori will find it difficult to get even faint praise from you negatives, photos only in black and white, no colour please. Maori have had trouble putting their case that they are deserving humans, same as you, not 100% right in everything and not beyond being tainted by the greed that probably runs in your veins Pope and Trevor.
They have to fit into legal structures here in NZ so they can deal with the business community and government here, and internationally Mark. I think they understand more about the nature of business dealings than you lot and of course we have to be aware that the business world has to be kept under control, something that naive or dopey NZ pollies forgot when smart economic cookies whisper sweet nothings in their ear. If 3 Waters goes out of our control and just a panel of Maori and pakeha others run it we would be sorry. How do we control our water? Nobody can prophesy what even known, reliable people may do in the future if pushed.
Example; that Shelly Bay, Wellington situation is an example of what can go wrong, there was Maori representation on a legal board that has sold or long-leased the area, acting for Maori iwi or hapu which wanted the land kept rather than the money and want to overturn a legal and binding contract.
This also: 2018 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/354674/company-at-centre-of-poroti-water-dispute-sells-to-crown
2017 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/water-issues-drain-northland-hapus-resources/IZDDQHHPBZLOLSBYMXEZQIPSTE/
2018 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/101463328/nz-shouldnt-be-afraid-to-accept-mori-have-legitimate-rights-to-freshwater
How odd, surely with all that blather about how things like a Māori world view will make NZ a better place from the likes of the RBNZ this shouldn’t be?
Maybe we are actually all the same and should look forward with that in mind?
Capitalism and Neoliberalism is not about race and never has been. In practically all circumstances power corrupts.
Democratic and other systems need both democratic voting and fair financial rules to prevent dictatorships, monopoly and cartels forming. Whether it is ethnically based or financially based, for what ever reason, power tends to corrupt those that have too much of it – this is not an identity issue.
Sadly we have seen democracy and the environment itself being destroyed around the world including NZ and much of it using race and identity. Those funding and behind the scenes are often the opposite of what the front people are advocating for, aka we see Western right wing and Russian/Chinese all ganging up together to destable western economies based on identity issues that eventually create much worse conditions for everybody including minorities.
Since men are now ‘better woman’ in the transgender movement that seems to be highjacked the world, we have woman rights dramatically reduced such as right to abortion in the US and transgender taking over woman’s spaces, sports, jobs and financial situations. Business funding for ‘woman’ also allows transgender to partake woman’s grants and job opportunities. Corporates advertise it to virtue signal – likewise leaders who use the LGBTQ movement for misogyny and remove freedom of speech. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/speak-up-for-women-controversy-billboard-removed-mayor-apologises/CGUGDIAATDU3CCE56TUMCMJOQM/.
Transgender should be a gender position in itself. Many cultures celebrate non binary, such as Faʻafafine in Samoan culture. There have always been non gendered toilets in NZ, called disabled toilets. You would think if those toilets was good enough for disabled people it should be good enough for transgender people, of which there are fewer than disabled people.
Being ‘who you want to be’ is a very individualistic idea that the far right and left are demanding. It is not a community position and like the Pride parade and all the division on this issue, it seems to destroy tolerance rather than create it.
Most Maori do not vote for Maori party vote, TMP only gets about 30% of Maori party votes and are not representing the majority of Maori views when they advocate a race based country.
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