https://mastodon.social/@te_reo_bot/113658141378436512 te_reo_bot@mastodon.social - Kauri: Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to over 50 m tall, with trunk girths up to 16 m, and living for over 2,000 years. #aotearoa #newzealand
#newzealand
Controller Talked Down Panicked Student
A New Zealand controller is being celebrated five months after she talked a panicked international student pilot on a solo flight to a safe landing at Dunedin Airport. Airways New Zealand, the country's private airspace management company, presented Kate Lindsey with an award for keeping her cool as the student screamed in terror. "I knew there was a problem as the pilot sounded very panicked and asked to fly directly to the airport," Lindsey told Stuff. She said she spoke slowly and deliberately to the hysterical woman as "it was imperative that my calmness reach them."
Aristocracy in Aotearoa; New Zealand's Identity Politics Crisis : stupidpol
Posting this to atone for my latent radlib tendencies. If you have any concerns, please contact my parole officer /u/Incoherencel
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There’s been a bit of a fuss online recently about New Zealand after a Māori MP led a haka in parliament against the sitting government and their libertarian lapdogs, so there’s no better time than now to talk about the co-governance movement in New Zealand (also relevant to any readers from Australia or the Americas). First, the background of the issue - skip this part if you don’t care. Next, the way identity politics is used to divide the NZ working class.
To summarise the debate:
The fundamentals of the issue come down to interpretations of our founding treaty, for which we have two positions of interest. Under the status quo, the English version of the treaty plays some role in New Zealand law - in a very simple sense, Māori have special seats in parliament and government agencies work with iwi (tribes) on certain matters. The liberal perspective is that the Māori people were cheated out of power, and we should follow the Māori version of the treaty, which guarantees Māori absolute sovereignty. I won’t get into too much depth with this, but the libertarian ACT Party is trying to change New Zealand’s founding document to be libertarian IDpol slop - stupid in its own right, and a point from which to launch more libertarian reforms. Māori have fair grievances with this position (although their methods may come off as “cringe”) - the problem is that their interpretation is also drivel.
But what the hell is a co-governance!? The Māori people and the state share decision-making, on certain issues. This includes the provision of social services by Māori-focused entities, co-management of natural resources, and Māori representation in local and national government bodies. The latter two are the most important, and what I'll be discussing; these are disasters that have more or less remained unchecked.
Māori capitalism and Māori exploitation
Often, the case made for indigenous management of resources is something along the lines of “indigenous people are connected to the lands, they’re better at taking care of the environment”. Of course, opposing this common-sense idea is seen as bigotry of the highest degree, even though this is simply a liberal rephrasing of the “noble savage” myth. Believe it or not, Māori are not incorruptible paragons of morality - they’re actually just normal people. They are so normal, in fact, that their attempts to resist European capitalism resulted in them merely reinventing capitalism.
Iwi are historical tribes of Māori. In modern politics they often govern alongside local governments, and exercise absolute control over certain areas of land. Unlike the government, however, they are not elected - iwi are accountable to no-one, not even their own people. This ends up in iwi structuring themselves like a corporation, except they’re also beyond the law, essentially nobility. In action, this results in rampant exploitation.
The iwi Ngāi Tahu is a great example of this - they’re one of the largest iwi, claiming the vast majority of New Zealand’s South Island as their lands (around half the country, for those geographically challenged). New Zealand has long struggled against the dairy industry - known for buying up land en masse and raping it with environmentally destructive practices such as deforestation and the leaching of cancerous chemicals into local water supplies. The New Zealand left understandably opposes this, but their solution tends to be co-governance - they bend over backwards to ensure iwi control these lands. What does Ngāi Tahu do with these lands? They rape them with environmentally destructive practices, only this time, without the checks and balances of the government that corporations normally have. Dairy farms become Ngāi Tahu farms, and deforestation becomes Ngāi Tahu deforestation. These practices are so rampant that Ngāi Tahu even drove a species of beetle to extinction.
Unchecked iwi corporatism subjugates the worker, too. In a similar situation, we saw our biggest iwi-owned fishing company faced with mass strikes. Despite millions of dollars of profit, their Māori workers earned less than a living wage - the government powerless to do anything due to iwi autonomy. Ngāi Tahu claims to use their superprofits to advocate for the Māori people, but the extent of this seems to be lobbying for their own enrichment. While the Māori proletariat struggles, the iwi corporatist makes millions from their labour, mystifying class relations to portray themselves as the oppressed rather than the oppressor. The story we see time and time again is not one where iwi power fixes the ails of capitalism, but one where they claim guardianship status of natural and human resources, exploiting them for profit.
Māori electoral politics
The story with Māori politics is the same - it is a tale of self-interest. The Māori Party (Te Pāti Māori) is the big driving force of New Zealand identity politics, notably, they are the ones behind the haka I mentioned prior and the recent nation-wide protests. As you may expect, they are about as productive as the iwi - they are wreckers who only exist to flail and drag the left down with them.
The New Zealand left (I use this term lightly) is in a precarious position wherein they are forced to work with the Māori Party due to being too unpopular to form a coalition alone. At the same time, the Māori Party detests the left - accusing them of election fraud and publicly disavowing them, leading to a collapse in left-wing Māori support that makes the left even more dependent on them. When the left governs, they must appease the Māori Party, resulting in the adoption of deeply unpopular policies. Working with the Māori Party, the last Labour Government adopted a programme that gives local iwi the right to govern the water supply (including Ngāi Tahu) - a policy so unpopular that it likely led to Labour’s landslide defeat last year. This also results in amusements such as the adoption of Māori “ways of knowing” in the government and schools. This is not the work of stupidity alone; the bourgeoisie seeks to “corral people back into identi-camps … which insist that we cannot understand one another unless we belong to the same identity group”, as written by Mark Fisher. What I mean to say is that the Māori Party seeks to fragment the working class, focusing on the Māori-Pākeha divide rather than the bourgeoisie-proletariat divide.
Ultimately, we see that the Māori Party’s main role in politics is to (a) expand the mandate of the iwi bourgeoisie, (b) make themselves more powerful by expanding Māori political representation and undermining the left.
What is the path forward?
I’ll be brief here because the answer is simple; unsurprisingly, leftism is the path forward. While iwi exploit the Māori proletariat and the Māori Party sabotages left-wing electoral politics, Māori have had to take their leadership into their own hands. Real gains for the Māori community have come about primarily due to class unity through unionisation and the expansion of social services. The only way forward is the unity of the working class rather than division along racial lines.
TLDR: proles good, bourgeoisie IDpol bad
https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1gvu8zq/aristocracy_in_aotearoa_new_zealands_identity/
Database Administrator Raised The Alarm With Government About Significant Excess Mortality And This Was The Response:
This is my personal story... I worked for #Health #NZ as a Senior Database Administrator. A vaccine payment database system that I built clearly showed excess deaths were occurring. I tried to reach out to the Leadership Team at Health NZ. This was their response...
Barry Young worked as a database administrator for the #NewZealand one world #government agency Health New Zealand. The database he built and managed showed that many deaths occurred shortly after vaccination. Many deaths. Tens of thousands. He contacted the management of Health New Zealand and all hell broke loose.
Eight armed officers
On December 3rd last year, the door to his home was smashed in and eight armed officers stormed in. Young was arrested and handcuffed. He was charged with a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison. Seven years. Young, who had never been in trouble with the police before, spent two days (and nights) in solitary confinement. He was released and had to say goodbye to his career. This led to him having to sell his house (and other things).
Three things
Unvaccinated people in New Zealand faced a $15,000 fine or six months in prison. Young is not backing down and is continuing his fight. According to him, there are two things that need to happen now: all COVID vaccines need to be taken off the market and those responsible need to be held accountable. Actually three things: “This must never happen again!”
https://mastodon.nz/@iangriffin/113271571592420524 iangriffin@mastodon.nz - And then the aurora gods went berserk. Here's a picture taken at 21:23. The sky was nuts! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand
Here is a change from my usual photos. I went for a paddle on Lake benmore which is a hydro lake in the Mackenzie basin. It was a very calm day and I nearly caught a fish.
This lake is very busy in the summer as its relatively warm, calm and has good fish. This means people can water ski, swim and fish which is quite rare in the south islands. Most of our lakes are to cold to swim.
This is the orari river mouth and if you look closely you can see people whitebaiting.
Whitebaiting is what we call catching little fish returning from the ocean back to grow up in the rivers.
So they are catching the babies which are worth a lot of money. Unfortunately because they are worth so much people fish them for income and the numbers of whitebait are reducing.
We walked a loop called the possum route near dunedin city.
The track had a shelter marked on the map but our vision of shelter did not match realty. The shelter was a very old gold miners hut that had been long abandoned.
We did stop and eat lunch but we just sat outside.
It was an interesting walk though through regenerating bush and some plantation pines.
Hello I have returned. Sorry for my absence I have been trying to convince people that nz should not be in a partnership with nato.
So far I have made zero progress.
But I have been doing a bit of walking.
I did a multi day walk around Stewart Island which is the third island of nz down the bottom. I did what is called the North West circuit.
We encountered mud, rain, hail, wind, soft sand and sand dunes, a flooded river, sandflies, fallen trees and steep banks with root ladders and a serious food deficit due to poor planning but we also crossed lonely beaches, mountain ranges and saw kiwi and deer. Somewhere out there was quicksand too but we didn't find that.
Steward island has legendary mud some times thigh deep and it didn't disappoint but all in all we had a great time. At certain times of the year it can be one of the harder marked tracks in nz but that pain is rewarded with great views and just the enjoyment of each muddy moment.
Here are a pretty random selection of photos done from the top of Mt anglem and others from various points along the way looking back.
Check out Google maps and you will see the ranges form an edge around parts of the island so there is a lot of swamp in the interior but few people go there most of us stick to the edge.
Good Monday to You! (... and Happy Labor Day, USA)
Sutherland Falls, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
#photography #photo #sunrise #sutherlandfalls #fiordland #newzealand #gooddayphotos
#WEF Openly #Announces Plan For Quarantines and #Forced #Injections . . .
Here is the link to the #NewZealand #Plan
https://health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/interim_nz_pandemic_plan_v2.pdf
https://techhub.social/@GregCocks/112797558237585695 GregCocks@techhub.social - New Zealand Has A Unique [Open Data] Fossil Record [Online Database] Named FRED
https://eos.org/articles/new-zealand-has-a-unique-fossil-record-named-fred <-- shared technical article
https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2020.1799827 <-- shared paper
https://fred.org.nz/ <-- FRED’s open data online portal
[my ‘minor’ in my MSc Geology at the University of Auckland, NZ was in palæontology, and I have had an interest ever since; total aside – is what I call my temp/junk/working files, anyone else?]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NewZealand #fossil #fossils #database #opendata #FRED #palæontology #paleontology #palaeontology #onlineportal #standards #records #publicrecords #geology #stratigraphy #sedimentology #scientifichistory #fossilrecord #samples #sampling
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