WATER CURRENCY SHIFTS, DROUGHT, RISING HEAT’S GLOBAL TRENDS ON AGRICULTURE YIELDS
shifting water + water cyphoning – the world’s water-based economy’s flows tracking:
If there’s one thing I noticed about the world in the last seven years has been that when it comes down to it, water currencies make the world go round. Especially, when it comes to peace on earth.
I lived in Los Angeles. It is a city consisting of 20m people (in LA and surrounding cities) where you had to purchase every drop of water to survive.
In NZ, our no.1 business story is probably farming + agriculture’s flows and how water from New Zealand is gathered together from all over the green NZ paddock to create milk powder.
The profits of the waters’ fruit in dairy, is highly sought after in Asian nations now. What do Asian nation’s want? A piece of NZ’s water supply, effectively, now turned to a protein format. So NZ’s water is still the currency being shifted (or cyphoned) from NZ’s landscape for people living afar off. (more…)
TTG, NDA GROUP, AG-SCI & WHAT GREG MUIR’S TEAM COULD DEVELOP NEXT FOR NZ FARMERS BEST INDUSTRY INTERESTS & ENDEAVORS
Tru-Test Group, that fuses electronics for the agi-sci industry purchased Dairy Technology Services from NDA Group.
The agri-tech group finished 16th on the TIN100 survey of companies set up to improve technology and research. TTG splashed $73m for the acquisition.
What’s needed now is for a company like TTG, to develop the same thing with a banking software system invention, that can then track ‘white gold’ (aka dried dairy product with the water then extracted) around the world to see if NZ farmers are achieving the best brand leverage from dairy leaving the farm gate to distribution world wide. (more…)
MOBILE AVIATION WHITE GOLD APP BANKS, BRAND LEVERAGE INCENTIVES & MARKET DISTRIBUTION SHARE
China is not only highly mobile telephony capable (and i.t literate too), its engineers are pretty clever also.
“A genuine strategic air power must possess a strong power projection capability. To have air capability on that level is highly reliant on large aircraft, namely a strategic air freighter and a strategic bomber,” said Wang Yanan, deputy editor in chief at Aerospace Knowledge magazine and a military analyst, in a China Daily report.
China successfully made and flew the Kunpen (the Y-20) jumbo air freighter. Other large air freighters already flying include the Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76, the U.S.-made Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and, largest of them all, the Ukrainian Antonov An-225. The four-engine Yun-20, or Transport-20, is a huge, multi-function airfreighter that can perform various long distance air transport tasks targeting cargo and passengers, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said.”
–so clever.
I.T literate China with super fast internet capability also announced: China’s mobile phone users reach 1.11 billion.
BALANCE SHEET VIOLENCE BUDGETS STRUCTURING & COMMUNITY WELL BEING – A STUDY 2013
how does economic violence (balance sheet violence of govt budgets allocations) play out in community well being? economic structure is a societal script played out in society. how does that look, casting wise in nz?
what nz needs is to examine why economic abuse has been allowed to happen in racist economic cluster games, new zealand plays. often the ecnomic games cause inquality, they go largely unquestioned in nz. when you do question them, you experience the wrath of the wealthy in very militant invasive ways. media is used to taser people back into line. it is not a good use of media, as the behavior only causes anger to arise in society. the backlash will be severe unless nz decision makers get real.
the effects of some of the worst economic data (high unemployment, sexist discrimination, racist unequal disrcimination too in wealth distribution figures) has meant that certain commuities of nz citizens has been rotton. It is also believed that the environment created on an uneven playing field, caused domestic violence to increase in some communities. Leading psychologists in the USA are also writing articles on debt and how that affects Americans to act recklessly too. NZ is not alone in forcing the wealthy to create economies that are just.
people commissioned in nz to offer their opinion on the effects of the economic structure, post (or mid… whatever!) the gfc structured years are: dame catherine tizard, carol hirschfeld, sir owen glenn. 21 other people including academics, educators, international human rights advocates are set to be in the mix. (more…)
NZ NEWS. LIES. COVER UPS. GREED. TRUST ABUSE. ECONOMIC BULLYING, LAND BUY UPS. RACIST INEQUALITY PERSECUTION, TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS DISCRIMINATION & HEALTHY CONFESSIONS AHEAD – 18th JANUARY 2012
News: It was very much a politics driven show. Click on pic to see.
For my own reference – What is remembered of news and news culture, follows…?
Lance Armstrong confesses to drug useage to Oprah yet he still shows hardness of heart (eg: athlete competiveness combined with cheating has not caught up with his brain in real time). He does have an empire amassed to save, yet the contrition is not apparent yet. Meaning, Lance is still suffering from pumped-up, high profile fame addiction… perhaps.
Performance enhanced ‘med science’ was the reason for his 7 tour de france wins. I don’t respect that easily with “winning” athletes. A faker is a faker, Period. No judgement intended though. Fame addiction and stealing other people’s best endeavors was what Lance’s backers achieved with Lance. NZ’s PM John Key‘s publicst no.2 talks on phone (as an independant journalist, apparently… :) while a pic of plane is shown. Apparently Antarctica is on the cards. An Italian restaurant gets AMAZING press in Otautahi (Christchurch)… how did that happen?! On them. Tauranga grieves lost citizens in Kenya. Where I live, we have the same story… metaphorically speaking. Yet, literally too.
Economist and soccer club owner, Gareth Morgan enlightens how $1b+ in loans were issued in NZ in a week. That means people have been encouraged to buy up houses in bundles. A monopoly now exists of ‘cluster-homes’ owners. NZ’s govt. were the architects of it. It is greed and fear mentality – yet wise investment too. :) (more…)
CH.AIRY AUST.ABRIANS – “CHINA’S” DAIRY NEEDS + SOUTH CANTERBURY “FARM CO-OPS” PROCESSING PLANTS + AUSSIE BANK CLIENTS + SINGAPORES MARKET
a few buzz words for dairy types:
safe milk-sourced foods. Chinese companies [should] live up to the powerful New Zealand brand image. Chinese using the attributes of the New Zealand brand in China. false fronts impersonating “New Zealand” brand attributes. falsifying prophet levels with counterfeit ingredients. South Canterbury’s joint ventures with China. Land buys. Water share. Protein share acquisition. GFC designed solvencies and NZ hit companies. Don Brash. O.I.O. Appoint NZ directors. Taupo China joint land-ventures. Zong Qinghou. Kelly Zong. Australian focused Chinese company supply chain venture. New Zealand is the second largest offshore provider of dairy protein for China’s kids for the Chinese market with an 18% market share. Singapore has 37% market share. Australia has 15% market share.
What we’re talking about is “the price of distribution” of NZ whenua, water, sun, minerals flows via agriculture. The reason given is China’s growing markets. Yet there’s nothing stopping a Chinese company distributing NZ’s water benefits (via protein sales) anywhere they want to in the world, thus undercutting in time, NZ’s supply chain.
So, how high is that cost really? [Photo - South Canterbury South Island].
–Fran Sullivan talks last year’s hot topic, this year’s fleece… when discussing “the face of protein” superimposed on NZ’s water supply chain propensity in the world – and who gets the bulk of those flows… and who doesn’t. Read her article here. Very informative. Thanks Fran.
[recap: Aussie banks. China investors. Singapore's market... and South Canterbury taking a chunk].
General summary: The top 1% in the world… are surrounding NZ’s water, land, farming flows in these deals and discussion. Is 99% of NZ happy? Included? Involved? Getting the best value? (more…)
GOING SHOPPING FOR PROFITABLE POLICY FLOWS FOR BRITS – ENGLAND ON THE E.U
At risk of being chomped by the E.U’s GFC structured economic models, The UK Telegraph runs with a story today for the Brit Parliament.
It is:
“David Cameron must seize back control of employment and social laws from Brussels and stop European nationals from claiming benefits in this country.”
On the cards are the words: social + employment law. opt-out provisions from laws + policy. a rather imaginary “emergency brake” on financial flows. curbing expenditure of EP’s move to Brussels + Strasbourg. (more…)
FINANCIAL LITERACY COURSE LINK & WHY OUR KIDS HAVE LEARNED TO CHEAT & LIE IN 2013
Course outline: Education & Financial literacy
It’s official, the USA isn’t the only nation to have raised Pretty Little Liars audiences of the TV drama series. Apparently, most New Zealanders were honest enough to admit they lie and cheat in a new survey.
Scoop reports: How do lying, cheating, stealing adults impact a nation’s youth and children?
A Colmar Brunton survey showed: 81% of adults admit cheating. 36% cheat in a relationship. 22% at work. 8 % of young people say they have not cheated. Most youth then are cheating on their parents by lying. 24% of adults told a lie to their significant other. 50% in the last month. 70% are hit by guilt. 84% say cheating was justified. To avoid hurting a friend, was the common lie believed, when people [we] lie. 7% say, lying is never cool. 12% think to lie if cheating on your significant other in an affair is acceptable. 60% of adults steal. 50% say from a shop.
Youth have a blunt view in black and white of what it means to steal. (Our redemption, ahead).
Children learn through observation, so as adults we’re pretty rotton.
91% of adults think [our] personal ethics and character is on the right track. 57% think they [we] are better than most people they know. And so the deception continues in a vicious circle of pride (not good pride, blinding pride).
280 30+ people were serveyed December 2012. Colman Brunton is part of the Millward Brown network covering more than 51 countries around the world, and Kantar, WPP’s insight, information and consultancy group. www.colmarbrunton.co.nz.
If that didn’t float your boat you might also like these PDF documents: Course outline: Education & Financial literacy. Recreational Fishing – Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai. How to think Super planning – The Media Clippings list. China’s demand for NZ Education enrolment. Senate and policy: AustPolicy. Australia’s future Tax System – The Treasury. Research news tools: Daily Research News Online. And: biofuels & carbon.
We need to tell the truth as when we don’t it leads to civil war. Our police (let alone our children) deserve a better reality than to have to meet each other in that way, first.
ENDS
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.1.13~
ECONOMIC VIOLENCE DOMESTIC JOBS ABUSE
Buzz words in New Zealand right now as people look at returning to work in an economy that has been very lazy in creating new jobs the last two years are the words: economic violence domestic jobs abuse. (more…)
SMART PHONE BANKING, M-PESA & SAFARICOM & TELCO-BANKS NEXT FRONTIER OF DEVELOPMENT
telco‘s global footprint increasing via users is a hot topic online today. In the West smart phone companies + telco’s are hoping to get younger consumers on their grid.
That leads us to smart phone banking or banks via phone. Almost two years ago, when I returned from a rollercoaster, five years in the USA to New Zealand, a TV program on TV7 (a science platform at the time) featured telephone banking. The TV presenter was in Soweto, South Africa looking at the M-Pesa system. What was amazing was that everyone was trading via phone with M-Pesa as they shopped. Even the most traditionally dressed farmers of Africa, had a phone to trade with. It was a very advanced trading system in South Africa with the locals, beneath the surface of poverty. I loved the program.
In the West telco’s hope to do the same with phones. It’s the new frontier of technology and banking systems. So, let’s turn to Matt Stoller ‘s comments who observes two companies making inroads to do that. Stoller writes:
“I went to Kenya last summer, and saw how a semi-competent telecom and banking system could work. Kenya has the world’s most innovative mobile payments system, called M-Pesa. M-Pesa is a cell phone based cash remittance system based on text messages. Unlike Chase’s Quickpay system, M-Pesa just works, and works well. (more…)
ISLAND PEOPLES 2100 REALITIES AS CLIMATE CHANGE ADDS TO MELTING ARCTIC GLACIERS
If you melt ice in the world large land masses will be covered. Islands will be covered. The fish and ocean resources in the oceans of Island terrains can still be accessed via ocean ships and vessels. Islands oil supplies can still be accessed by oil rigs, although Island nations lands may be covered or partially covered. Tsunamis will also increase.
EARTHQUAKES CAUSES, FREQUENCIES, ACCURATE TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR CITY PLANNERS & INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS GUIDANCE
Earthquakes can sink an economy, quicker than the titanic.
Citizens of New Zealand want to know more of how earthquakes are caused, where and why. You can never be too prepared. The NZH has a tale on that with that vein of thought. Built up cities lose the most, when earthquakes hit a region as infrastructure investment is intensified in cities. (more…)
NEWS – SATURDAY 5th JANUARY 2012
New Zealand’s news bulletin @6pm Saturday, featured sports news that was tennis and cricket led. The rest of the news was about beaut weather and all about push backs. In one story, the Anglican Church still will not allow woman Bishops. Why? Who knows.
The UK has taken to running stories in 2013 of how illegal America’s wealthy have been over the years. ‘Moral integrity’ seems to be lacking in the news tale of corruption. A swiss bank is closing down as a result of laundering (hiding) US millionaire’s wealth. US law has fined the bank, causing it to close. In local news, the South Island of New Zealand pushes back against the North’s population’s dominance.
Insurance is not just and right for some Christchurch City property owners we learn. While Aucklanders in the North want to socialize people to build up and live in apartments, the South want NZ to keep believing in and funding the South’s $30b plus rebuild of Christchurch City’s construction plans. (more…)
WATER BANK – A CORPORATE ENTITY TRADING WATER PRIVATELY
corporate website of the day: water bank.*
what they do: wb “is the formost marketplace for trading, buying and selling of water assets including water rights, springs, water, bottled water, water utilities.
product: buying and selling water rights. property and water rights for sale. (more…)
US BRAKES – STOCK MARKETS SURGE – TRADING 2013 BEGINS
World News, USA: Stock markets in Asia chillaxed as the US neared a deal to stop hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax increases and spending cuts from kicking in. The world is observing the biggest economy’s stability planning assortment of policy options at this time.
Australia and Hong Kong markets boomeranged on the first trading day of the year after the Democratic-led US Senate passed an emergency measure to avert much of the impact of the tax-and-spending changes. In Aussie-Hong Kong new benchmarks were set.
Middle-class tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts were averted for now, by a weary US Congress. The bill’s passage on a 257-167 vote in the House of Representatives sealed a hard-won political triumph for the President, a few weeks into his second term as the 44th President of the United States.
Mr Obama said: “Thanks to the votes of Republicans and Democrats in Congress I will sign a law that raises taxes on the wealthiest 2 per cent of Americans while preventing tax hikes that could have sent the economy back into recession.” (Obama is referring to the fact that 37% of the USA’s wealth in 2012 went to the top 1% of the American people, thus a balance needs to be sought for 2013). 
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IN HARSH TIMES, THE PEEPS PEACE OUT TO THE FLICKS – BOX OFFICE IS UP
Box Office Mojo reports US movie cinemas takings were$10.7 billion in theaters. Outside of Canada + USA, international box office trebled takings, from US$8.1 billion in 2001 to US$22.4 billion in 2011. Last years US figures are a record for North America too. (more…)
THE YEAR TITAN TIGHTENED NUMBER CRUNCHING CIRCLES – 2012 WAS WHEN A SUPERCOMPUTER WAS CREATED TOO
In 2012, computer designers claimed to have created the world’s next wizard. The announcement came in the form of the “world’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan.” (more…)
MOVING FORWARD FROM “COMPLETE TEASE” ECONOMIES… ADDRESSING FAKE TASER NEWS STORYLINES IN GATEKEEPING MONOPOLIES’ BAD HABITS
While some folks are worried about taser guns, what we need to be concerned about is total ”teaser economies.”
For example, if only the wealthy are increasing wealth and majorities are shut out from wealth, we’ve effectively been running a “teaser economy.” No one likes a tease. They’re so boring. Teaser economies make people so angry, eventually. They’re not healthy to run.
Best to run a real economy. Let wealth flow to more people. It’s a lot safer in the long run. More honest too.
When people run teaser economies (eg: “where nothing much has happened in the last two years”), they’re often involved at running “taser news story lines,” too. Where ideoligically gatekeeping practices occur, using fear tactics in the news with fake storylines that keep policing certain economic interests over others gaining equal access to economic chances, that kind of behavior needs to be shot. Just saying. It can also be racist, in the manner that it bullies via the corporate world through politics into news, if we’re honest. (more…)
WATER EQUITY CAPITAL TRADER SIR HENRY VAN DER HEYDEN’S REMARKABLE YEAR 2012
He is a top businessman who is a water equaity capital trader. In other words, he successfully turns water (a water-based product) into banking capital for investment. He moves water’s benefits well.
He melded 10,500 NZ dairy farmers to think one way. Out of NZ. The exporting of NZ’s capital earned from water, turned white, to then become cash or gold. The gold can be invested or transferred in other parts of the world. His name is Sir Henry van der Heyden. He introduced a Dutchman, Theo Spierings as the new CEO of NZ dairy giant Fonterra. Theo writes and thinks clearly.
“Hey, it’s politics,” Sir Henry says of what he achieves in business acting as a face of change in NZ.
Like dairy. He now wants to meld the agricultural sector of the meat industry to be like a Fonterra. Same same is what NZX types think should happen with beef, another way of turning water into gold that is transferrable offshore for investment. “It is a job for a young man,” says Henry of the agricultural wrangle, to progress change. (more…)
FAT CATS NZ END OF YEAR NEWS – THE RICH GET RICHER BY 25% – NZX INVESTORS REPORT
The useful report given in a “pleased as punch” tone, is also penned at a time in NZ history that shows child poverty and youth unemployment levels are at an all time high in NZ history. In addition, the average NZ wage is $US36k p.a.
However, on “the wall,” if digital numbers going up in your bank account is the only thing you live for… it shows that more people should invest in NZ at this time. It also shows that foreign investors are.
A quote from Brian’s writing: “The numbers demonstrate that the New Zealand and Australian sharemarkets have delivered superior returns to Northern Hemisphere markets – in New Zealand dollar terms – since the end of 2000.”
NZ and Australian markets are seen as less risky to invest with, than certain uncertain overseas markets – is what Brian’s report reveals. (more…)
MAORI WATER RIGHTS 18.12.12
Te Karere News repots: The Māori Council has been given leave to appeal to the Supreme Court over water rights. The council wanted a judicial review of the government’s decision to sell off state assets before establishing the extent of Māori water rights. The Supreme Court has approved the council’s right to appeal whether the high court was correct in dismissing the review. (more…)
LIFTING MORALE AT YEAR’S END 2012 – ENGLAND’S PUBLICITY MACHINE IS IN OVERDRIVE – TAKE A READ…
Getting its “chipper on,” England is in overdrive trying to lift morale at year’s end 2012. The Spectator is doing it the best – in an article upplaying the good things of the world. It was the year where media billionaires and the UK government colluded to spy on whoever they wanted to and british bankers turned out to be some of the biggest pirates of the world. So, why is spin so important two weeks from years end? It lift’s morale. A concept that adds to safety, when most have a right to recognize their anger. That usually happens when people take holidays. They have time to work it out, what really went on all year. This year… that’s going to be really challenging for a lot of governments to try and manage. So… let’s take a look at how England (masters of spin) are doing it.
The purpose of the article is: England may be midway through a lost decade economically, but our cultural and social capital has seldom been higher.
Highlights of the article follow: It may not feel like it, but 2012 has been the greatest year in the history of the world… Never has there been less hunger, less disease or more prosperity… [Outside of The West, people are being] lifted out of poverty at the fastest rate ever recorded… We are living in a golden age.
In a way, [it] is the politicians’ job: to highlight problems [in the world] and to try their best to offer solutions… But the great advances of mankind come about not from statesmen, but from ordinary people.
Governments across the world appear stuck in what Michael Lind, on page 30, of his report, describes as an era of ‘freeze’ — all motion, no progress. But outside government, progress is easier. (more…)
DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE NOT JUST YOUR OWN POCKETS – WENDYL NISSEN TURNS ON A SHOW, NZ TV – DECEMBER PRESS 2012
“It’s become obvious to me that most (New Zealand) politicians have just been in it to make the handshakes and cut the deals, rather than actually do any work for the people.”
–respected journalist with a family bent, Wendyl Nissen commented on Good Morning TV today.
As a viewer, I listened to a Kiwi mother and thought… “yeah, we hear ya sista!”
She wasn’t controversial, she was just showing what democratic TV looks like. (more…)
ECONOMIC THEATRE – EFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE CREATIVE PLAY IN THE HOUSE THAT BOND BUILT
Creative people play every day in productive ways. It’s how they [we] explore, invent the new and dream up the new, so that entrepreneurs can then get things done.
As we have a purpose to be productive, creative play [and an economy is a creative play on a global stage of sorts] becomes increasingly productive with how citizens choose to use leisure time. Creative people use leisure time productively. It is their intellectual down-to-earth DNA.
A focus to build, can lead to a nation of innovative, useful, fun, playful inventors building the efficient infrastructure we need that makes a people sustainably wealthy over time, due to good building designs of all kinds that are both fun and smart.
An economist writes a creative story. They write: When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Right now, New Zealanders are the mice and the financial market is the cat… NZ’s net foreign liabilities are still about 70 per cent of gross domestic product [too high for comfort]. (more…)
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