Yes. Have a new moderator. Last guy decided Australia offered a brighter future. Wonder if it was because of the content of my blog. Lets face it. I read earlier that NZer,s are heading west and further in numbers not seen for a long time. Spurred on maybe by the record borrowing the coalition Govt is undertaking to keep the internal economy rocking. Yes rocking because sooner or later it will head south big time. Will get worse once the govt of the day raids our retirement funds, fueled by stagflation. High inflation, stagnant/falling growth, and high unemployment. That is exactly what we WILL see if the govts of the day do not reverse the insane policies surrounding climate change. The environment. One only has to look to amount of farm land going into pine trees. It is insane. And made NZ the laughing stock of the world. Obviously politicians are oblivious to the news items on MSN. More and more challenging the narrative. Man made climate change. Been a bit of media coverage of the very recent storm flood damage in and around banks Peninsula. Yes under reporting of the reason. Pine trees. 1000,s of hec on steep country, holding water up there until it cannot any further. Then down it comes along with, well you no what.. Been there recently. If it was still in grass the water would have started running off straight way. Fact!!!!. Instead the worst flooding in 50 years, and the 3rd since 2010. Go look for your self. Note the area in Pine and the planting time frame. Sorry for the guys in Little River. Only going to get worse. Climate change. Again on MSN. 500 year old ship wreck blown to the surface in the middle of a desert. Nambia. The ship , the Bom Jesus, disappeared in 1533 on route to India. My point. Sea levels have fluctuated for 1000,s of years. Cycles. Every thing in the natural physical moves in cycles. those of you who are long term readers of my blog will recall my assertion that the world needs a horrendous recession to boot all this woke social, climate change agenda into touch. I have taken more interest in my Jarden Carbon report latterly. The last 2 of April, paint a gloomy picture, indeed for the last 12 months or so i assert the market has been weak, with some body injecting alot of stimulus. You will remember the low not long ago of $30/t. Maori immediately hopped in the waka and sailed off to the UN? complaining bitterly, and hey presto. back up to $60 in no time. Well one thing i have Learn,t over the yrs . The market always prevails. Here we are May 2025. Jarden says the market “Fragile” $47/t Stability is critical. Confidence low. Well you no what i am hopping for. Do not want to be horrible about it. But The world needs to get back to common scence policies, and all this woke nonscience right across the economic and physical, need to get the boot. A huge and horrendous world wide recession. One that the narrative of, will be passed down through the generations to come so the liberal woke social policies so destructive to the health, wealth, social and cultural needs of the populous will not be repeated. If you look at it like this, it is obvious what has been going on in the hall s power. It was only 50 years ago that Mum did not go to work. Family’s only needed one income earner. What happened. The free market? (1980,s) What was the real intent of the free market? Was the market out come sought hijacked and abused for political means. Sure as hell annoyed Maori that i new at that time. And i will say propelled them into the Treaty Settlement process.
I note that the coalition govt is trying to amend/replace the RMA. With property rights center and foremost. Property owners should be able to do what they want inside the boundary’s of their property, so long as it does not effect the values of those out side of. Well whoop de do. Going to be a litigant’s dream. Did i hear Fish and Game have come into the Govt,s reform sites. What about the Gore District Councils RMA madness. The entire District classified as sec 6 of the RMA. Sites of significance to Maori.
Came across this joke the other day. A Taxi driver is hailed by a Arab. Stops and picks him up. Taxi driver has radio on. Arab says. Excuse me sir. But we Arabs do not listen to western radio. Taxi driver pulls over, stops, gets out and opens passenger door. What are you doing sir asks the Arab. Get on your camel says the taxi driver. Can one imagine this in another context?
Mike