racism means: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.1.13~
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…)
In 2012 NZ leadership was attacked and semi-dismantled.
We see key politicians (Maori’s most senior political spokespeople) announcing intended resignations.
A clear Maori political voice on an equal level of economic prosperity for all Maori has not been allowed to be voiced in the land. It is not right, just, balanced or fair. It is also not in line with New Zealand’s founding spirit.
We see leading Maori politicians, thrown to angry middle class white folk to attack all too often ’for entertainment.’ They are used as distractions for people to vent frustration on, the Maori politicians time and attention diverted from doing a good job for Maori people, and thus all NZ’s best interests of the present and future.
We see unjust and meagre Treaty settlement offers presented to Maori. The apologies associated are worth a lot to Maori, yet the disrespect towards Iwi is continuing in business flows throughout a lot of NZ and the way resources are being allocated, used for profit. (more…)
There is an emphasise on framing youth as prisoners on the news. The real issue in New Zealand is creating jobs for youth and career trajectories. Not creating jobs to jail youth. If youth can get into thinking entrepreneurially younger… NZ will win all round.
We need a perspective shift in NZ. You don’t lift an 18 year old’s vote from them as an adult and then do nothing for them after you take the vote. Insane stuff. (more…)
For many New Zealand families, a grinch’s Christmas is on the table this year. That’s being blunt frank honest. Change needs to happen real quick as people get set to jet to Aussie with the family for a holiday vacation. Yeah…
So what what are we doing to stop the grinch-engineered bleed (a record exodus in NZ of citizens moving to Australia)?
We are doing David Shearer politics as the end of year “sweetener” to a mean year for many NZ families and a series of failed policies that didn’t hold up during GFC sting, ‘white heist’ years. The news is being well recieved outside of his own party ranks.
Anyway, see where it’s at with Shearer for yourself by watching news clip (when it arrives). The Maori reporters sound excited in the news rheel. So that’s good. Leave a comment to say what you think of David Shearer and the Labour party, on this website if you want to. (more…)
New Zealand’s last census was cancelled. A flaw in a gross oversight of democracy and unaccountability.
How are youth and young adults doing then?
Statistics New Zealand says:
“85,000 people aged 15 to 24 who are not in any education, training or employment- up 25 per cent under since NZ’s current government took power.”
–NZ Herald has a word on NZ’s denial of economic teen bullying and a need to get more real. We need to stop lying. Especially to our youth, who will lead us tomorrow. We cannot teach them to lie. (more…)
I’m finding it difficult to shake the feeling today that: the escalating levels of unemployment rates and/or economic inequality rates concerning Maori citizens of New Zealand are criminal.
The data human rights watchers need to know is:
1. What is the average wage a Maori is getting paid in relation to all other people in New Zealand?
2. What is the level of Maori unemployment in New Zealand?
3. How many Maori died and of what causes in NZ over the last five years? (more…)
Northland-based Labour list MP Shane Jones has again hit out at the Green Party for opposing development of the regions’s resources, including oil and gas, which he says could help reduce the disgusting levels of unemployment in New Zealand. (more…)
Equality Tests Due Diligence of all MPs: Can New Zealand release the latest reports of Maori earnings in relation to the rest of New Zealand’s citizens.
What are Maori earning each year? What is the level of employment opportunity for Maori? How is the level being maintained? How is it being monitored?
What is the economic access to capital level of Maori in relation to all other citizens of NZ? What proportion of all economic flows generated in and from New Zealand are going Maori’s way?
What check list does the NZ government have in place to review all businesses and business practice concerning Maori inclusion into business and wealth flow in New Zealand?
Who is running these tests on NZ business and enterprise as a checks and balances mechanism of ensuring a just Treaty spirit towards Maori in NZ?
The racism needs to be broken up. What strategies has the government got in place to do that soon?
Our future depends on it as a strong nation. This information is needed to be discussed more openly. Thanks.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 2.11.12~
A man gets home from seven years away abroad.
The wealthy have seized resources future direction.
Drunk on greed. They have re-engineered flow.
The clock is wound back thirty years.
My people sit in a scar of a poverty divide.
It is a ghetto created by fear and greed.
Dead of soul. The rich have gone cold.
They buy the sincerity of the lovely people
to sell the new product - The Poverty Industry.
Their remedy for their new prison?
Social workers with statistics and data
to mask the wealthy's guilt and crimes.
The social workers conduct a funeral after the heist.
- - -
Because spirit must live to have a healthy culture,
I will change this trickery of a gross deception.
To close the divide of dark apartheid,
to assuage future wars and turn away a tsunami of cultural high anxiety,
it must be, my common sense act of abridged love.
Snapshot of New Zealand – An inequality observation 14.10.12~
An audit of State Intrustion on citizens lives please:
What New Zealanders are allowed is a list of every single citizen and/ or resident who were illegally spied on by government agencies. A list of foreign agencies involved and given permission to intrude into citizens lives should also be produced.
The list provided should especially have a focus, starting months before the last election. That would be really helpful for New Zealand to start to be more like a home again. Almost 7 years ago, NZ has changed a lot, not always in good ways. It doesn’t feel like home yet, 18 months living in it.
The audit of people being intruded on illegally, will also help sort out comments too I get on this website, like “nz is an unsafe place at the mo.”
Thanks.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.9.12~
In looking at New Zealand’s most read newspaper’s website, it is fair to say that Maori do not feature enough in news agenda setting and political agenda setting mindsets. If The Herald is anything to go by, NZ is only flashing a white nipple today and has forgotten about its Maori nipple. It’s also mainly a 55+ white nipple being flashed as NZ’s look.
Where the missing nipple is, in ‘NZ’s topless photos’ look, we’ve painted on a look of diversity, as body painted replacement nipple pastiche, to hide our racism concerning Maori exclusion. I say that in jest, though that’s how news is looking from the Herald and The Beehive today.
The look is every ‘race’ has been encouraged by NZ’s PM to feast off the back of Maori, like a gang bash of vampiric white cannibalist-led bullrush. At bullrush, people have turns being ’it’, (the target) yet not under Mr Key. He has regressed Maori reality under his rule and needs to rectify this track record quite substantially in the next part of his leadership. Then bullrush as national sport taught to children, can be enjoyed more in a less racist light. Economically, this is not what Maori signed up for when welcoming trading partners into NZ. So, we need to stop this smug behavior, or at least curb it.
What I mean is (metaphors aside): How do we change this when Maori wage inequality, economic access equality opportunity in the wider NZ economy and Maori unemployment is at an all time high in NZ history since the 1930′s? A sideswipe of cattiness towards Maori, is ultimately a sideswipe to all New Zealand citizens, just a few years down the track. Pakeha (or new immigrants) don’t realize this, yet history has told us, that is the case – hence doing this post today.
In the 1930′s though, Maori owned a lot more land than Maori do now. Today, never before in history have Maori been more at risk than in today’s current New Zealand and global climate. Pieces of the NZ Herald’s website run throughout this article. I love the fun and silly news tone of the paper (way better than a year ago – less crime, less grief, less dark torrid tone – a good thing it’s picked up, as it was like living in a cemetary when you read the news in NZ, before the more up beat tone that now features, thank Chrissendom!), yet it’s just that Maori have gone missing in a good light (or at all) from the visual representation of the news. Millions of dollars are spent on creating news generating headlines and stories each year – millions of tax payers dollars are – so we need to realign this spend with the law and include Maori as equal treaty partners of The Crown, in such newsy spending sprees. Who makes those decisions of ‘the spend?’ and more Maori need to be on ‘that board’ who is.
How do we change the current look of total Maori exclusion in mainstream flow of culture both economically and in reality of daily life, to reflect more a people, observing the spirit of the treaty of NZ’s founding document concerning Maori people?
Cheeky John Banks $250k donations from German chubby teddy bears with hot Asian baby momma wives, for Mayoralty races or politics for example, aren’t as important an all consuming issue to garner news coverage over Maori water equality recongition, with water rights useage and flows.
Our nation’s religion and sports cults hobbies [sic] like rugby and cricket are fun, yet if the Maori language is not being spoken enough by all New Zealanders or new immigrants are not being strongly encouraged that it is a key part of holding a New Zealand citizenship to further the Maori language, then what good is the Maori haka’s real message outside of a football field televised setting? Also, what are immigration officers ensuring as quality control for New Zealand when ensuring new citizens ‘observe a Treaty of Waitangi in spirit’ focus, as a rite of passage to acclimating right into NZ? These compliance tests need to be done from NZ government’s payrolled peeps into this area concerning Maori and immigration in NZ perhaps about now. They also need to be carried out on NZ enterprise right across the private sector too. That job, will create a lot of employment and grow the economy too. Maori are creative. Giving Maori a stronger chance of showing that by clearing away the greedy racism needs to be a top priority of NZ at this time, before an indication to foreign investors that NZ is a safe investment is sounded from NZ.
We need to try harder to include Maori content more across all levels of NZ society and our media and our govermental policies and political agenda and economic setting games. At the same time, Maori have to lift the game and be more assertive while showing a globally relevant and conscious face that is media representation worthy on a daily basis. It would be equally unfair for Maori to expect press, or increased profile, if not living as leaders worthy of it. So we all need to work across the board more to create a more inclusive Maori-friendly and inclusive playing field.
We need to work hard in ensuring this on all sides concerning Maori’s strong future in NZ, the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific’s next wave of wealth creation for a win-win for all Kiwis and foreign investors being taught to include and not exclude Maori too.
Chinese (or Asian investments) take overs of New Zealand companies are of concern to New Zealanders too yet in the same manner New Zealanders fear a ‘foreign’ take over, is similar to Maori fears of the same experiences past and present.
Bringing Maori to the fore also helps to evaluate any concerns on such issues. To reduce Maori’s voices means leaders want to sell NZ off and direct the economic flows only theirs and their friends way. Good? Not good? To be expected? Or does more need to be done to shove back at such games largely going unquestioned in a rhetoric of distractions being employed to do it? To hoodwink Maori out of fair economic recompense and earning capacity through racist stealth, is not a matter to be proud of. It is a matter of shame that must stop.
At the time of writing, protecting Prince Williams wife’s nipples privacy is viewed as important. Yet in New Zealand the issue is not as important as the raping of Maori resources, (or not addressing a habit of doing so, in the past adequately enough) or denying Maori rights to access economic opportunity more fairly. There is a running list of priorities to focus on and address, that NZ should not be distracted from.
Protection of Maori’s future place in NZ, needs to happen not only in New Zealand but also with what Maori are capable of achieving economically as entrepreneurs for people of the South Pacific. A true leader elect of New Zealand will protect Maori interests more so than Prince William for example, protecting Kate’s nipples’ privacy. That’s the look, NZ wants to see happen for Maori, is the Windsor tone on Kate’s nipples. All media need to be informed of that. Or should be.
William’s family’s lead on protecting Kate’s nipples privacy needs to be the same tone taken when protecting Maori’s future interests economically in and from New Zealand. How can our government be more like that, when protecting the Middle nipples of NZ, ie: Maori people and Iwi aspirations who are legally The Crown’s true treaty partners. Yet when you look at statistics, the equality is not present, suggesting that The Crown has not been protecting its ‘middle nipples’ at all in the manner a Windsor would protect their wife’s nipples per se. So, that attitude needs to change from NZ leaders from the top down. The racism is a cancer to the health of NZ cultural life and also a real guilt free economy.
To obfusicate (a game of politicians only working for an elite minority not the majority they were elected to work for in these times), is to suck out attention away from stablility of Maori inclusion economically at this time. Okay, granted we are not as skilled at that game in NZ as say, Elena Kagan of the USA is, yet we do a darn good job at the art of obfusication fobbery and avoidance to detract from more important issues, especially those concerning Maori inclusion.
Can we sorta include Maori more?
Don’t get me wrong, I know obfusication is a legal art of politics and economics that we appreciate, yet it shouldn’t be carried out at the expense of Maori. We can evolve the art in other ways now, perhaps.
To obfusicate at Maori expense, is a political tactic that only will make New Zealand more Chinese, Russian, Wall Street and Lloyds of London, German and World Bank owned. NZ will not be stronger, as those culture’s haven’t reigned in their fossil fuels consumption rates, so where is their next fuel meal coming from in the years ahead? Think about that if those games are entered into, at the expense of Maori.
Therefore, the game being played will make NZ vulnerable (more so than Lady Gaga’s fan club name) of being chomped by the foreign investors whims, once in that net and trap. They all will benefit off NZ, yet NZ citizens won’t win long term. The countryside won’t be as we know it in our great grandchildren’s times. The foreigners (consumers far away) won’t care either.
Maori are the only test New Zealand has of ensuring a New Zealand that is actually owned by New Zealanders. Maori are the longest gatekeepers at ensuring NZ is as we know it. We need to show more respect to that, not shunt Maori out of the way in secret trade deals when as equal trading partners they should always have been present at all major deals concerning NZ. We need to make that a new trend in NZ and live within a treaty spirit that reflects this new trend. A restoration of historic wrongs, finally being addressed and changed.
When Maori go ‘missing’ in our media, it’s a sure sign that exploitation of New Zealand is occurring on all sides. Honesty from government would issue: Pirate patches that should be worn by all New Zealanders as a reminder as to what’s actually going on and that citizens of NZ are conscious of that fact, more visually with Mr Key’s policies that tend to not create, (he’s lazy and big on talk and dividing NZ) yet his policies just want to bust up stuff and then sell it off once people are too devastated to fight the sales.
Okay, that was harsh, yet there’s truth in that style of brutal sale strategy that has been employed in NZ too. Any Kiwi living outside of NZ has witnessed that happen, outside looking in, to a nation Kiwi citizens love. It’s been a bit butchered of late.
When Maori aren’t present at the main negotiating table (or this is reflected in news agencies as well), it’s a sure sign that the wrong nipples are on display for the wrong reasons of politics and global engineering. They are greedy, lying, cheating nippes on show. Maori need to stand side-be-side in all main trade and political decisions. That should be the new look of NZ. So where does this leave Maori or New Zealand as we know it?
Why are the most talented Maori shackled, silenced or being economically persescuted, marginalized, downplayed by the current government on many key areas? Why do smart Maori return to NZ (smart Kiwis too), only to be put through a grill under this current government? Clearly, they were not included for a reason. Their lack of inclusion, a huge slur on NZ’s economic strength planning in future years. A few greedy people, will need to answer to the thwarting tactics of this game too, in years to come.
You see, what you did to someone else, comes back on you ten fold. So, how do we change the karma as a result that will surely hit NZ, and make that more safe too?
Such thoughts whizz through my brain as I witness the selling off of New Zealand, by someone who is a first? generation Kiwi and his team.
It makes me think, with such results occurring, if NZ was to get a school report card by an external reviewer, a fair comment on it would be: “why didn’t New Zealand just lease a PM from China for five years instead? Wouldn’t you have got a similar result?” would be a fair criticism worth Key’s team discussing, to go back it in and do the rest of the match better. It makes me want to ask Christchurch City too, what they think of this panda-like track record they gifted NZ from the Southern City. Really!
When I see such games being played, I do laugh too though as these are difficult times for leaders. They often get zero thanks for the good they do.
Another thought is: Does the Beehive need a Panda in the front yard of the Capital green lawn to go with New Zealand’s next three years headlines? Wouldn’t a real Panda be cheaper too in detracting the heat? The amount of bamboo the Panda chomps could be a good metaphor at our rising debt pile unless we all (not just Mr Key and his team of peers) get more creative in building a stronger export economy.
Of course I’m semi-joking. It is an honor to have a Jewish PM. Even though his ability to look after the original ‘Jews’ of NZ, (eg: Maori) needs to show way more signs of improvement perhaps.
[The paper is fun today. I want to 80% totally affirm it, not grump about it. It's very cool. Just where are our Maori bros and sistas aye?! Let's see the disturbing trend of 'everyone else except Maori being featured in news' headlines. It's an unconstitutional representation of NZ until we become more active in creating Maori heroes as a norm and being prepared to include and showcase their inclusion more. Let's maintain the fun (awesome! :) while being more mindful of representing Maori in a good light and more often, please. Thanks for reading and hearing].
The Herald’s 5 Top healdines by popularity today are listed as being young royal bikini scandals and rugby hits as news generators:
Press Release: Tribal Affairs & Ngai Tuhoe: “Tuhoe has reached an agreement with the Crown for a $170 million settlement of historic grievances.
That puts it up there among the largest settlements to date, with Tainui’s and Ngai Tahu’s settlements both worth $170 million, but in the mid-1990s.
The agreement will see the Urewera National Park given its own legal identity and managed by a governance board with equal numbers of Tuhoe and the Crown.
Decision will be by consensus, meaning that both parties will have a veto right. Public access would be guaranteed on the same access as now.
Both parties have registered their interest in getting the park recognised by UNESCO as having unique values.
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson made the announcement at Parliament this afternoon with iwi leaders Tamati Kruger and Kirsty Luke.
Mr Finlayson said it was ”a huge significant settlement” and some of the breaches against Tuhoe were the most severe.
“Huge areas of the iwi’s land were wrongly confiscated and more purchased unjustly.
“Military campaigns against Tuhoe prisoners and civilians were described even at the time as ‘extermination’ and the Crown employed a scorched earth policy in Tuhoe settlements in the Te Urewera.”
Mr Finlayson said one aspect of the settlement described as ”mana motuhake redress” would address improved relationships between the Crown and Tuhoe and the delivery of social services.
The parties will spend the next 12 weeks drafting a deed of settlement with the aim of it being signed in December and passed in legislation next year.
Previous negotiations caused a political furore in 2010 when Prime Minister John Key took the return of the national park off the negotiating table, promoting Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia to question Mr Key’s honour.
Mr Kruger said it was a good offer and something he thought would be acceptable to Tuhoe.
“One of the things it attempts to do is solve the disconnection over the last 100 or so years between Tuhoe and Te Urewera and this is a lot more real than symbolism.”
“These settlements don’t necessarily represent an answer but rather a means by which each every iwi moves on and creates their own wealth and their own sense of security.”
He said the offer was considered to be ”a great leap forward which will allow Tuhoe to find mana motuhake and to find and secure that connection between themselves and Te Urewera.”
Mr Kruger said the plan was a 40-year programme with five-yearly reviews.
Ngai Tuhoe numbered about 35,000 and was the six largest iwi he believed. About 20 per cent of Tuhoe lived in the tribe’s rohe.
The chief negotiators for the Crown was former diplomat John Wood and he was assisted by former Prime Minister Jim Bolger, Mr Finlayson said.
ENDS
Words Audrey Young. A hat doffingly significant day of Iwi testament in Tuhoe and The Crown’s ongoing relationship ahead.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.9.12~
Both NZ’s PM and the leader of the Labour party of NZ, David Shearer are in agreeance on two things. 1. reading and writing for children should be maintained, improved, sustained. 2. the poverty divide that has caused three New Zealands to develop and is one of the most racist apocalypses in a war that was waged against (mainly) brown children in NZ, needs a lot more done to change it. (more…)
Rating in the top twenty blog posts today are the words of an amazing survivor. Check out Harry Glazer‘s name online and his human rights work as a survivor of a once unexplainable persecution against human dignity that Harry survived to tell the story.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.9.12~
Semi-True Hollywood script ideas penned by New Zealand politicians combatting racist censoring and design:
If New Zealand politicians in The Beehive were to form a film production company and write comedy films, we would send the few Maori-Kiwi MP’s into bat first, to really loosen the economic gridlock up. The production house could be called “Behave Films.”
We’d probably choose Hone Harawira to write the first script, because he’s always controversial, has no fear, doesn’t lie and doesn’t care what people think of what he says. Always a good basis for social justice as well as comedic appeal too. Laughing at ourselves is good.
Hone’s film would probably tackle the unacceptable poverty divide that exists. The divide is incredibly racist. Banking flows, via political wingmen have been the cause of this gross scouge of NZ society in it’s current form. So, we probably do need Hone Harawira’s magic to bring attention to this greedy disease that has crippled NZ society’s economic growth being more common place as well as wealth being more evenly distributed in the form of adequate job creation too.
What would Hone’s film be though? Well, the newspaper suggests the idea could involve Facebook marketing. Hone’s movie idea could be titled: Little House Nigg*rs on the Remaining Prairie.
Good Lord, and it’s only Thursday in NZ, not even the weekend. The political scene in Wellywood is like, totally on fire today. Too funny.
Other H2 news can be read: Here & Hia. Never dull. Always entertaining.
[If you look at farming flows or where banking system flows of the economy have gone to in the last 7-10 years, metaphorically Hone is absolutely right in raising concerns about censoring Maori in the political system in the way current politics has been designed and rigged at this moment of writing. He makes me laugh in pointing out the illegaity of what is going on! Too honest! What Hone indicates is illegal and unconstitutional political practice that needs a good flushing out to be frank. It's certainly a refreshing change to dishing out the tin in rehashed movie roles like All Quiet on The Western Front. Geez! It's 2012!].
On a birthday in the USA, my neighbors pooled together to get me a Robin Thicke concert ticket. They said, “he’s second generation Hollywood. He’s sexy. Robin really represents the best of L.A and the U.S. He doesn’t see color. You’d swear he is a black man.”
Always feeling like acclimation into the US was never done, I gratefully said, “Okay,” took the ticket and decided to check Robin in concert. I also got a strong recommend to go to Korean BBQ (LA does good ones) before the concert, however I flagged that idea.
At the concert, there were many white celebrity actor stars. This was in the days before Robin was a big star like he is now. He was medium and rising then. At the time Robin was the warm up act to Dream Girls Oscar winning artist, Jennifer Hudson, Robin wasn’t seen as billable to carrry a concert on his own. Jennifer’s family hadn’t had the brutal family murder saga at that point. When she sung, the roof was raised. You felt goose bump tingles at the back of your spine. He was cupid-curio combined, yet real and a local boy of the hood.
Surreal. Robin was an anomoly. You’d swear he was black when he performed. He made everyone feel like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles because if you were blind, you wouldn’t have known what ‘color’ Robin was. So he was Wonder Charles all in one too maybe. He was humble, super sexy, musically gifted, soulful, definitely a sexy symbol, yet his gospel music section let you know where his passion for music first came from. Although the Latino, white and black single thirty-something girls danced in the front of the stage as if the American Messiah of cool had dethroned Tom Jones of Wales standard as a sexy singer doing the art of sex symbol music-cool.
When Robin performed, celebrities canoodled in their seats all around me, fully capturing the romance that Robin brought as an artist who reinforced their Hollywood ideals. They were lost in love. (more…)
New Zealand has beautiful scenary. At the moment we’re trying to get back to a balance where youth are the centre of a nation’s dream potential.
We got a bit old in our views of entitlement, a bit top heavy greedy. A bit selfish too. We became more racist and mean towards non-white kids. We starved these kids hard, their families and their parents too, we punished. Overall, in New Zealand, we starved youth. We took their jobs from them. Thus their earning potential too. (more…)