OIL VESSELS – GRAEME HART’S SHIPPING POLITICS MATHEMATICS OBSERVES
Boats as vessels to export oil. Let’s do the math again with billionaire Graeme Hart‘s shipping politics observations (check out link).
Exporting oil is another way of “printing money” – it’s just super harsh on the environment. A ship full of oil in exchange for some pine trees’ paper, printed with ink, as foreign currency?
Is that a good trade for New Zealand?
Or should NZ just swap NZ’s oil for foreign land lots instead – of the same value? That could be more real.
What do you think in this age of over-printed fake currency circulating in the world?
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.10.12~
THE BLUENOSE II SCHOONER LAUNCHES IN CANADA AFTER EPIC COMMUNITY REBUILD EFFORT
The Bluenose II schooner, sails after an epic rebuild project and launch, during the 2008 Gloucester Schooner Festival, before its complete, multi-year rebuild.
Photos: Lisa Poole -AP. CBC & Paul Darrow.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.9.12~
ROMNEY STORMS WALL STREET
No surprises here: Wall Street junkies and those who live off the wall are going gaga over Mitt Romney‘s presidential campaign chances on Wall Street.
[Already, New Zealand needs more marine surveillance technology to reduce "vexatious" demand on Aotearoa's sustainable fish oil levels and to help "exhonerate" our Ross seas conservation planning efforts ahead. All while easing the wailing. We must put that on our curriculum of stuff to plan for in key marine charter schools engineering planning].
Blimey! On ya.
The power of pizza in The Big Apple!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
FAST TRACKING HIGHWAYS NEW ZEALAND – GERRY BROWNLEE TALKS NORTHLAND’S NEW BLUE HIGHWAY BUILD
Northland is a fun region of North Island, New Zealand known for its beach life, farming, education, agriculture, innovation in machinary design, art - as well as being an entrepreneurial sanctuary haven with picturesque properties. Billionaires have homes in the beaut North.
Northland is also set to be a converging destination of the wealthy and famous, when Orion’s Larry Ellison and the America’s Cup yachting team begin practice-training on Northland’s ocean waters in the near future in their preparation to The America’s Cup.
What Northland may benefit from though is a new streamlined road. A proposed blue highway to the north’s coasts – that opens up the region, so that guests will appreciate with ease, the place that was the first capitol of New Zealand in history. As mentioned a lot on this blog, it is also the place where our founding document was inked too in good faith, as a nation of one people under Fun.
Te Tai Tokerau Northland is what our founding fathers and mothers of NZ, christened: the birthplace of a nation.
The highway’s cost is $2 billion. In Beverly Hills, a figure like $2b can be described as being like a year of wrangling on the stock market. For example watching the markets, from 7am to 10am, Mon-Fri – with the rest of the days free - are all in a billionaire’s mornings of trading. They have it sweet. That was when the markets were in more trustworthy days.
So with billionaire earning caps on then, a 2 billi road is totz achievable. A doddle. Needless to say our elite rising sports stars and their audiences would appreciate this enhanced road to get to the significant sights of cultural importance. in the birthplace of the nation region.
I wonder what oil wells in the South of New Zealand could pay for this important road? Just kidding. :)
[Photo caption: American billionaire Larry Ellison and St. Russell Coutts on BMW Oracle Racing's America's Cup yacht.--Northern Advocate File Photo]
Like all builds, the benefits vs disadvantages of a floated spend when investing in vital infrastructure projects of all kinds in New Zealand – need to be discussed as a normal process in a democratic nation’s dealings and planning efforts. The discussion is taking place at the moment. It should alway start with the minerals map, really! And a region’s agricultural potential and lay out. These two factors always determines the shape of a road if a road is designed smartly. If we get this right, the region’s growth is more robust, and people can enjoy the weekends with a better roading system created too.
TVNZ’s Bernadine Oliver-Kirby and Rene Graham brought an exciting story for Te Tai Tokerau Northland’s future on the topic.
It’s also a New Zealand story, as instead of going to Aussie all the time, on vacations; Kiwis should just spend a week in Northland bonding with family at the beaches instead during summer. Our domestic tourism would love the thoughtfulness of Kiwis as we seek to rebuild our economy.
Northland is a playground for too much ocean fun, as epitomized in the smiles of our bronzed blonde Maori hockey babes, the Harrisons, for example, at London’s Olympics this year. It is these athletes home hood and playground. Ye-ah!
MP Gerry Brownlee of Ilam, Otautahi, South Island (aka Christchurch), gives the highway a nod in the news. So: Kia ora. Life be to you and our hardy hearty people in the South’s mainland too.
Click on the holiday destination road signs to watch the news rheel excitement.
Hollywood Northlanders travel story time: (It is Sunday): Once upon a time, a young lad grew up playing the guitar in church in a town called Memphis.
He sung gospel tunes. His hero was his momma.
Observing the talent of his African-American neighbors, he went on to borrow their sound, put his own spin on the music, present it in a sexy way as a white small town boy, American music artist. As we know, his name was Elvis. His legend: from gospel roots Tennessee to the King of Rock N’ Roll.
Today in Hollywood, his image is used in niche supermarket stores like Trader Joes, to make even rice and water blended drinks, more appealing. The power of good art and marketing as something Elvis helped add to as an artist of pop art’s legacy. It is still on show today.
Summary of Elvis highways in NZ: It would be really cool to listen to some classic Elvis anthems, sunnies on in a convertable - heading to the beach on the new blue highway of Northland. Groovy summer fun, without the snooze fest of compulsory patience testing with roadway congestion on Northland roads at peak times.
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Updated: Good News for Christchurch peoples too: Q+A: Gerry Brownlee (11:59) - Rebuild should get underway before year’s end.
[Photo snap while shopping, Hollywood California - Blogger's own].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.7.12~
SUPERYACHT SUPERIOR CRAFTSPERSONSHIP – THE ART OF LUXURY WOODWORK
Perfection with Superyachts success is quite oustanding in New Zealand. Now that’s good woodwork.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.7.12~
NORTHLAND YACHTING NEWS: RUSSELL COUTTS, LARRY ELLISON & ORACLE CREW LOOK FORWARD TO SAILING AT MARSDEN
[American billionaire Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts on BMW Oracle Racing's America's Cup yacht--Northern Advocate].
New Zealand is rolling out the red carpet for the rock stars of yacht racing.
After scouring the world, America’s Cup holder Oracle Racing Team has opted to base itself in Northland to prepare for its next defence of the coveted trophy, known as the Auld Mug.
(The trophy, although definitely golden, is apparently, not related to Myanmar’s Nobel Peace prize winner - attending Westminister events this week, or, themes of classic Scottish celtic anthems either).
American billionaire Larry Ellison is bringing his team – including yachting superstars Russell Coutts and James Spithill – to Marsden Cove marina for a spot of sailing.
The four times divorced, Ellison is known for developing IT software for the CIA and creating data banks. A relational model of data for large shared data banks is what Larry schooled himself in to make the big bucks.
As you do, he also collects fighter jets, racing cars, islands, super yachts as a hobby and generally still advancing business, regardless of what bankers are engineering in the world. He’s his own economy and a peer of Warren Buffet of Omaha and Bill Gates of Microsoft to boot.
Oracle ground crew will start arriving in October, with racers coming in early January and expected to stay near the waters of the refinery, till the end of May 2013.
San Francisco-based Oracle approached Hopper Development, who has a minor stake in managing the mariner, to book 50 accommodation facilities for the team.
“These guys are the rock stars of ocean racing,” a local exclaimed.
Whangarei mayor Morris Cutforth welcomed the prospect of the VIP visitors’ arrival, which is expected to boost the local economy by millions.
“I expect come summertime, half of Northland will be out looking for the best vantage points to watch the Oracle team on the water,” Cutforth said. “We expect this will inject a lot of new life into the area. It is very exciting.”
When Ellison visits town, he will be one of two billionaires in Northland, with Russia’s Alexander Abramov building in Helena Bay at this time. Billionaires are quite rare, almost endangered species in their own people way. In safe waters, away from conflict, it’s nice to see we can turn on a boat show for the world in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland. NZ has Emmys winning yachting film crew citizens, (we don’t just sail) so the footage will be worldclass and swell.
Alright, complimentary pineapple lumps all round for our yankee, ocean boating guests then when Kiwi lad Russell Coutts brings them into port.
[Source: RB. Photo Ron Bergen].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.6.12~
IRON SANDS EMPIRACLE STUDIES – GINA REINHART’S WORLD REVEALED
Australia’s favorite media game to play is What Gina did next. As iron sands, boat building, twisted steel and adequate maritime surveillance all kinda go together, we should be thinking more along those lines maybe.
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While Australia’s PM is out of the country in Mexico, the Sydney Morning Herald, zoom Australia in, to the world of Gina Reinhart, Australia’s richest women.
I always find Reinhart difficult to take seriously. Simply because, it is 100% wrong, that one person can have as much access to mineral resources of Australia as Reinhart has been allowed, than all other Australians, especially Australia’s Aboriginal peoples.
Reinhart was born into the wealth. So, I look at her as a 100% construct of wealth, created by both her father and the Australian government, for such a time as this. When I get around that, I more look for the wisdom in the person, whose wealth is a magnate to attract information in the world.
Gina Rinehart sits at the helm of a corporate empire that, if publicly listed, would rival Woolworths, Wesfarmers and Woodside Petroleum among the top 10 companies by market value in Australia, writes The Australian.
Here’s a bit from SMH: “Today, having stayed in the shadows for almost a decade after signing a peace deal with her stepmother, Rose Porteous, and sorting out the family empire and the business, she is now on the brink of a new phase in her evolution. Gina’s financial success has brought with it political clout and a willingness to use it.
However, her desire for public influence is undercut by her refusal to properly engage with the media. Journalist Tim Treadgold argues that at some point Gina will either have to come out in the open, or retreat behind her wall of money. Given her new status as Australia’s richest person, and potentially the richest person in the world, Treadgold believes she has an obligation to deal with the media: (more…)
OUR OUTRIGGER CANOES OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INNOVATION FOR POLYNESIAN & PASIFIKA YOUTH POPULATIONS OF THE WORLD – NEW ZEALAND SPIRIT RISING & INVESTING IN PI YOUTH
Because science, innovation, education are New Zealand peoples spirit - of our strong outrigger canoe culture of navigatable adventurous and creative discoveries into new horizons of destiny and change too:
In investing R&D capital into our future innovative inventors of sustainability and peace news:
In my mind I see, children all throughout the South Pacific, even up to the Marshall Islands into even the island of Guam, maybe Vietnam too. They each have a laptop and tablet each. On the internet they are taught curriculum subjects from New Zealand.
Their learning is accelerated and a generation of Polynesian (and Asian?) children arise, supported by their New Zealand friends nearby and afar, to allow the potential of Polynesia’s youth to be all they will be, for the gifts in their lives the world will need to be stronger, smarter, more creative – in the years to come. If we all do this for them that’s so going to happen.
This is the burden that sits very strongly on me today. I really want to see our groovy and unique white, Pakeha New Zealanders do it, just to teach the world what cool New Zealand citizens look like as architects of the world – and to push back the powers of greed, on our Island dwelling Polynesian friends.
Although we admire the braun of Polynesian peoples natural dna (Jonah Lomu storms to mind) - it is their Peaceful spirit (most days), their respect for their elderly, their creativity so rich yet largely untapped, their spiritual gifts, the notable and noble warmth of heart, a trusting innocence in the good of the wider world and their unique thoughts that dwell within their minds; that we will need to see more of in the world, twenty years out from this point. We need to invest more in it.
Photo: Namua Island, Aleipata Upolu, Samoa–Real Adventures. (more…)
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