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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Step up to the mike …
In the energy policy arena, choices seem like a gamble currently. Burning a pile of coal is likely to disgust many:
Since Labour and National have been avoiding the long-term large-scale renewable scenario since the 1970s, I don't share his faith that they will eventually figure it out.
His view that the Nat strategy is hostage to market forces is a point worth making, so I guess the suppliers will burn the coal if necessity forces them to serve demanders…
Looks like some patriarchs are more worth protecting than others, huh?
The prospect of public servants being forced to unredact patriarchs will send shivers down their spine. "But we are loyal Deep State Agents," they will whimper. "We always do what we're told." Folks un-motivated by moral righteousness will empathise.
If you like your music rhythmic, angular and apolitical (no lyrics) try Angine de Poutine. A Canadian two piece.
They have been on high rotation since I was made aware of them.
https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=0tGuAntSqNpKWDHZ
I gather there's meant to be coherent political argument attached, but maybe mods won't notice the lack thereof…
You are on high rotation Dennis Frank. Myself I have much to say and thoughts stirring but I try and rein in somewhat. Perhaps you could try the same. And remember – everything is political except when a politician or dissembler states otherwise.
POLITICS | English meaning – Cambridge Dictionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › politics
Politics means the activities of the government or people who try to influence the way a country is governed.
@ Dennis above.
Being apolitical is a political statement.
I am over being told what to think. Critical thinking is getting to be in short supply in this world of likes, thumbs up and followers.
I feel the same; it makes me somewhat blase about mods shifting goalposts continually as a subtle form of discrimination despite that I recognise their subjective take is their prerogative of free speech and respect their exercise of that right! [insert eye-roll].
“Being apolitical is a political statement.” In '69 I was apolitical with a social conscience like most of the '60s rebels. Early '70, Easy Rider (movie) made me anti-fascist due to intuiting the implied political muscle of red-necks who enjoyed killing hippies.
[we don’t operate on free speech principles here. NZ’s law is based in freedom of opinion and expression (not US concepts of free speech). But regardless, it’s not the guiding factor here. Making TS commentariat functional and fit for purpose is. You are being discriminated against on the basis of your behaviour, not your politics. I already said I thought you had things to bring to the able in terms of perspective, but even now you misrepresent. Take a week off for the continual misrepresentation of how moderation works here and because I’m sick of having to read the blather – weka]
mod note.
of note, is that I can't recall you ever being moderated. Might have happened, but it's not from a problematic pattern of behaviour. You bring outside the bell curve ideas and views, engage with other commenters, back up your comments when asked to, and it works. It's not a lot to ask.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/586475/better-to-burn-huntly-s-giant-mountain-of-coal-than-import-renewable-energy-advocate-says
You know how stupid nationals ideas on lpg are when burning coal is a better idea, !!!
No, it’s not stupid at all when you realise how deep in bed the coalition parties are with vested interests and their lobbyists – it would make you squirm as much as when reading the Epstein files.
Time and time again, the CoC exhibits the same biased and morally corrupt behaviour, be it the tobacco industry, the liquor industry, the dairy industry, the fishing industry, the roading & transport industry, or the fossil fuel industry, etc. It is bad enough to give everybody who works in or for those industries a bad name, which is divisive and hugely disappointing because there are some good people there too – not all of them are evil-doers.
For example, in their sheer brilliance, the CoC unleashed the handbrake on a growing industry sector and is choking it to death: https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/10/ev-boom-hits-the-brakes/.
and it should come as any great surprise that under the COC NZ is perceved as becoming a more corrupt country
Winston Peters responds to the bullshit article on him on TV1 last night, and oh man did he keep the receipts.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360936813/after-story-broke-last-night-winston-peters-delivered-photo-essay
Naturally TV1 got all of this content from his office before the article ran, and chose to run the article as-is anyway.
And oh the hypocrisy of TV1 to say an MP should dare not use social media – obviously it weakens their mainstream media power.
Imagine if all MPs had the comms staff with the nous to respond in detail to hijack stories from the mainstream media. We would actually get the truth of what MPs actually do on our behalf and put those biased reporters to shame.
before even getting to MSM and Peters, I can't get over how badly constructed that article is.
Peters comment about being questioned if the trip was to see Parker box, "why would you say a stupid thing like that?" Hmmmm, maybe because it might be true or perception it might be true, that's why you are being asked Winston
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/586531/government-launches-independent-review-into-reserve-bank-s-covid-19-response
Wouldn't it be nice if we had a govt that looked to the future, any part of the future instead of trying to always go back, Their policies are backwards, their failures are always because of something someone else already did. Absolute shit show of a govt, hopefully people actually see what this lot have done and will continue to do and vote them out.
see 5.1.1 about how under the COC nz is seen as becoming more and more corrupt.
Returning to old river management systems.
The negative was flooded fields and impact on agricultural livelihoods.
Oz is working on a similar idea but people are doing it. It is amazing how hard it can be to make changes from what old farmers following sedimented ideas want to follow.
https://mullooninstitute.org/2020/08/07/leaky-weirs-success-through-drought/
Peter Andrews leaky weirs – Natural Sequence Farming https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkfNW6_wbUoX-27TvCGtHZvzDPUyTvYm
Drought area landowners would want the expanse of the waterways and thus the local water retention.
But where did they get the building supplies?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dMpRY6NC_No
Great post incog above.
But for sheer stupidity importing LNG takes the cake.
I have previously posted studies that show that imported LNG has a worse carbon footprint than coal. So we could simply up the coal usage and rejig the Methanex contract until solar plus battery inevitably takes over.
Is Luxon incapable of looking across the Tasman to see a country that has huge fossil fuel reserves has instead gone along the solar plus battery route because it is now the cheapest?
And this would allow more available gas for local industry use.