
The 4.30 news from New Zealand today had a mix of Kiwi, Socttish, Brit, yanky (USA), Chinoise news in its news blend. It was very good news blend for a change of diversity – largely due to a positive story of China included I think, perhaps recognizing more where NZ is heading as a country in terms of our planning while thinking US-China more in our integrated blend of trade deals ongoing.
The raping of New Zealand citizens (and some residents psyches) on issues of privacy continues with “security slips and glitches.” Stories like “lies, spies, scandalize” add sting like bee venom from the nation’s capital almost every day. There is that systemic issue of bullying underlying a lot of power play in all news in the past 18 months in NZ. MP’s are under pressure, when spitting tacks at such a constant rate.
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October 16, 2012 | Categories: Barack Obama, China, David Cameron, David Shearer, Education, John Key, John Kirwan, Mitt Romney, New Zealand, News, News Formats, Paula Bennett, Politics, Rolling Stone, Scotland, Security Industries, Teachers, USA, World News | Leave A Comment »

Rugby’s Richard Kahui of The Chiefs and Aussie girl, Amy Rhodes are the most searched for South Pacific names on the website today.
Rachel Glucina wrote in The Diary: “Waikato Chiefs heart-throb Richard Kahui, 27, has proposed to his longtime Australian girlfriend, Amy Rhodes, breaking collective female hearts around the country. The All Blacks centre, who is out this season with a shoulder injury, popped the question to Rhodes, a teacher, last week.
Kahui’s agent, Kent Hale, confirmed the marriage news, but said Kahui would not comment and is fiercely private about his personal life. Rhodes, who moved from Sydney’s Coogee to Hamilton to live with Kahui, has changed her relationship status on Facebook to, “engaged [to] Richard Kahui”. Blimey! Memo to Kent: Amy may need security asap. :)

[Photo - New York Giants & The Beach Life - RKBS]
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New Zealand Foreign Affairs News: “Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully is on Kiwis radar in his bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
McCully’s apperance at the 67th UN General Assembly will be the ”opportunity to project our voice on international issues that directly affect us and our Pacific neighbours”.
“It is also an opportunity to seek support in our campaign for a seat on the UN Security Council and promote our credentials as an independent, fair-minded country committed to international peace and security,” Mr McCully said.
Spain and Turkey are also seeking election for the two seats open to the grouping known as ‘Western Europe and others’. The vote is in 2014.
While in New York, Mr McCully will also hold meetings with a number of bilateral ministerial counterparts and regional organisations such as the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the African Union.”
He’s a busy lad, trying to represent the best interests of New Zealand’s shakey Isles and our South Pacific resources rich Island cousin nations too.
Words Paul Harper.
[Photographic images: David Wall, National Geographic Magazine images of Tonga and Samoa online, Otago Daily Times & Graydon Carter of Hollywood for Vanity Fair. United Nations Multimedia Press].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.9.12~
September 27, 2012 | Categories: Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Policies, Foreign Press, Herbs, Murray McCully, New Zealand, New Zealand Citizens, Politics, Security Council, Security Industries, South Pacific, United Nations | Leave A Comment »

In NZ Politics, Hollywood cross-over news (totally unrelated) News:
One of the big news stories today is that like Julia Gillard of Australia (who was spotted avoiding punches, while) seeking a seat on The Security Council, New Zealand’s Murray McCully is too.
Rewind for context: My view is that when food security and drinking water security is such a may-jah issue in the world ahead (NZ agreed to sell off up to 20% of our no.1 dairy products supply chain in principle, the last year, potentially to foreign investors in ‘the future’) and oil and gas around Islands are the next pit stop in planning the world ahead, it is a given that Australia and New Zealand should get a seat.
We also allowed a German buyer to purchase New Zealand’s no.1 fruit and veges supply chain distribution company, we delivered to German owners too over the last year. The reason given was that the company could supply to Eurozone nations better. So Security Council picks aside, the world outside of New Zealand is packing around our food supply chain companies anyway, lining themselves up for our (New Zealand’s) resources. The private sector does such company acquistions in foreign sales, at the same time new foreign policies collude together for wealthy citizens of the world, all seeking to position their own interests in attempts to control New Zealand as well.
Oil and gas are kinda up there too in a list of stuff to gun for, if you think of planning and world consumption trends, fifteen years down the track.
Back to The Security Council appointments: If The Security Council don’t give Julia and Murray a seat, then you get into the awful situation where you have remote control governance of the South Pacific froms The Security Council, and that breaches all of the laws in NZ and Australia and Islands of the South Pacific’s people, so it’s a high certainty that both Gillard and McCully will.
Back to Sercurity rhetoric and how they’re used to mask inequality’s prevalence: At the time of writing too, NZ is engaged in a battle of invasive law that gave powers from Washington (Joe Biden‘s name was thrown into the hat at the time) via the NZ government to invade New Zealand residents’ privacy illegally, breaching a true sense of security in NZ, that can be described as an incident that left a ‘bone-chilling effect’ on New Zealanders cultural-life, happiness, security and sense of Kiwi freedom. Taser guns were also being touted everywhere by our state agents in news headlines that went with such rhetoric from ‘security industries’ (it is Security Councils entertainment, basically!) gloat in news.
While these power games were being inflicted on citizens (or residents), meanwhile greed and inequality levels concerning many of NZ’s youth have escalated to all time highs, where other nations have released studies on an abusive culture, that marginalized certain people over others, the entire time this ‘securities’ rhetoric was being spun. It is fair to say, that 275,000 NZ youth currently living in economic poverty, were not given a sense of security.
The New Zealand worker was not given a true sense of ‘security’ either with unemployment levels currently at a 20 year high. Many children who are real NZ citizens, future prospects were being stripped, robbed, stolen in New Zealand at this time. Many foreign companies have been given preference over such citizens of NZ. This is kinda not cool, too.
The foreign companies have stolen NZ kids sense of security from them via economic preferencing from the government who let in these companies to do their job, of creating sustainable employment for NZ citizens, it’s just that Kiwis are often underpaid and the profits largely go offshore.
So what is security and a security council’s role then? is a question that must be asked by the citizens who actually have more say, than foreign councils. That’s the legal position of NZ’s citizenship status that must be observed at all times, regarding foreign policies intentions to take a slice of our beautiful country. Tracking citizen’s happiness results (economically especially) is where Security Councils should be more focused on perhaps if true security, really is the reason they say they exist for signed members.

Photo caption: Veteran actor Tom Berenger was on deck at the Governor’s Ball to party last night with actor Bill Paxton, Emmys 2012. No matter what, the USA always parties.
Sports events used as excuses to up security industries products: We (NZ citizens) also endured the Rugby World Cup’s management mechancisms of the event, in a touting of Russian special security agents bought in to man a sports event. The Russian security firms agents were given high profiling in NZ, a year or so back. Our PM loved cracking Russian jokes at his state dinner parties at the time and flew to oil rich provinces of NZ with private Russian billionaires too as guests on hospitable state duties. If you believe the NZ papers, showing his ‘NZ is Russian friendly’ face – good on him - became his new ‘look’ we had to consider. Leaders might feel they have to show such a face when being hospitable to other nations richest citizens. It’s often a thankless task being diplomatic and polite, at the best of times.
However, the Russian referencing ”over-play” in conjunction with ‘security industries dominated speel’ was very much a moment that chilled culture via our government too, as an election lead in, in the last election where psychologically NZ was put into a ‘lock-down’ mode state (culturally) with a false flex of power by the current government who was hoping to get into office again at the time. Many Kiwis have remained psychologically in that lock down state since. It’s been damaging for the country of real citizens in my opinion.
Security talk speak was done in ‘jest’ bully boy fashion in areas (voting electorates) that were friendly to opposition parties, mainly. I was left with the one question at the time.
As security industries’ work on selling fear rhetoric (eg: more scary stories in the news are up-played more than normal in such games) to move products or increase state powers over private citizens in order to move security products sales for billionaire company owners, we must be wary of security industries rhetoric if a private citizen of NZ.
The one question I was left asking was: If ‘Security Industries’ arouse fear in citizens, in order to supply the product (‘security’) and are a ‘brake’ in peoples psyche’s freedoms as citizens are more conscious of the State’s presence when S.I is used, people tend to clam up more. Therefore should a PM hold the Security portfolio as well as being a cheerleader of growing an economy?
Economic growth is about inciting a national spirit of “be free, go for it, create,” the essence of a creative spirit. Security power-plays are about “freeze. No one is more powerful than the state.” Therefore economic growth and the S.I speel is often working against the good of a country’s growth. Older people also tend to favor ‘security’ rhetoric overplay more so than younger populations of a nation. Thus you can tend to get the wrong cultural blend in a culture for youth with S.I appearances in news.
We saw a record number of youth in NZ exit to Australia during such games (hence raising the point in the way I have) in a culture where most citizens felt powerless to curb the government’s ‘power-talk’ being so prevalent in news at the time, using ‘security’ as the reason. The result? our nest was gutted of our young minds potential. They flew elsewhere where they felt safer.
Also, as a Maori-Kiwi we mustn’t look too closely at how State Agents were used in the Tuhoe Maori tribe’s recent history either as yet another example of security methodologies and invasive spying techniques, that then action violent actions on innocents (NZ citizens, some children) are needing an overhaul in this country I write from.
Most breaches of citizens personal security come through internet tracking. NZ is a small country, so IT companies (this includes phone and mobile telephony spying of communications and information gathering) handing over private citizens communications that go down the wire, to government agencies using a ‘security’ reason. The truth is a lot of such techniques being used to information gather, just equates to spying from the wealthiest citizens of NZ, using politicians and government agencies to do that for their own minority ends and means. It is a topic that should be discussed before even daring to use a word “security”, when asking ‘what makes citizens feel secure and their overall wellbeing a lot happier,’ when being a society is governed right.
In reclaiming Kiwi culture and restoring it back to a less sinister style of culture, that Kiwis are known for in the world, we must look at security as a concept, the methods used in ‘intelligence stings’ on citizens and abuse of power by a few selfish people who effectively cramp a culture off by their stupidity and greed. We also must acknowledge that NZ is wired like a digital colony. Who gets fed the information that has been gathered from the ‘digital colony’ also could be involved in having prior knowledge of business competitors’ ideas.
This then leads to insider trading breaches of information sharing as well in the business world, all under a ‘security’ excuse that could quite possibly be abusing citizens or NZ residents human rights, economic interests and laws of NZ where politicians are elected first and foremost to protect actual New Zealand citizens and not foreign interests whims first. That’s an entire other kettle of fish to discuss.
One more thing: the sales of ‘security industry products’ (eg: billionaire Larry Ellison‘s story being one example of this industry) are huge in the world. Thus New Zealand politicians (and our ones working for the UN in New York too) must ensure that NZ is not a guinea pig colony, behind hidden doors, where citizens are being tracked, studied etc in our IT use, where the information beefs up the wider ‘security industries’ billionaires profits as a rule (or other industries like science or health-sciences too) without citizens knowing, agreeing to it happening or giving their consent. NZ citizens never signed up to do that in games of ‘security’ testing.
Now back to The Security Council hopes of Australia and New Zealand: Australia’s Phillip Coorey boasts that Australia is well situated. Herald Sun kinda likes Julia’s “charm offensive” style. It’s true that Americans at the time of writing are Aussie crazy in terms of their local hood star picks (California research). Americans are also Kiwi crazy too, yet most Americans do not yet know the difference between Kiwis and Australians in their consciousness as a people yet. As Kiwis, it doesn’t phase us too much, still check out our Hobbit movies though and our sports stars and athletes.
Murray McCully‘s latest headlines are: Ross Sea negotiations a challenge, says McCully. And global: Government to send funds to Syrian refugees.
In Hollywood News: At last night’s Emmys, part-time actor and oil mopper upper company owner (apparently), Kevin Costner, was awarded an Emmy for his cameo appearance in Hatfields & McCoys for playing William “Devil Anse” Hatfield, beating Bill Paxton and Woody Harrelson to the gong in the mini-series Western. H&M was History’s first scripted drama. As an actor, still got it aye. Costner also created music with Modern West to add to John Debney‘s soundtrack.

Kevin Costner and Nancy Dubuc pose for a photo, Governor’s Ball, Emmys 2012. Photos: The Age, ODT, Getty Images.
Update: Always dramatic in her life of politics: Ill Julia Gillard pulls out of NY speech
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 25.9.12~
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Preamble: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. (more…)
September 9, 2012 | Categories: Art, artist, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Censorship, Culture, Eleanor Roosevelt, Freedom, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Resources Management, Human Rights, Icons, Judges, Lawyers, Liberty, New Zealand, New Zealand Citizens, Politics, Security Industries, South Pacific, Trade, Trade & Commerce, Trade Agreements, United Nations, World News | 6 Comments »

Who gets the best party tickets at the Olympics? Nations with the best water supplies, food and oil and gas. For good measure, nations with the best gossip too. Here’s one of those tales.
So, over my hardy, stodgy porridge breakfast, I learn that New Zealand is juggling an espionage scandal as well as trying to solve our unemployment sector. I don’t know how we do it, but we take it all in our stride?

Anyway the espionage scandal involves Canadian naval officer Jeffrey Paul Delisle, who allegedly while on government pay roll, decided to be like Facebook, Twitter, Apps (and other social media companies). Shock horro! He traded secrets to another government. Namely Russia. Well say this isn’t so?!. (more…)
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Kennedy Graham spoke today to Corin Dann of New Zealand’s commitment to the UN being in question. The debate in question is NZ following USA and Australia’s lead to cease funding commitments to Unido. The agency specialises in boosting sustainable industrial development in poor countries. It has a membership of 174 countries, although that no longer includes Australia or the US.
Watch. (more…)
July 24, 2012 | Categories: Barry Coates, Christopher Chandler, Corin Dann, Cruickshank Montrose, David Shearer, Family Chats, Japan, Murray McCully, New Zealand, News, Politics, Security Industries, Senegal, United Nations, Wellington | Leave A Comment »

Ben Fenton, Helen Warrell & Gill Plimmer of The Financial Times have good commentary on the G4S humiliating shambles story.
Nick Buckles, the chief executive of G4S, has defended the company’s right to claim a £57m management fee for providing security to the London Olympics, even as he admitted that the failure to supply enough staff was a “humiliating shambles”. (more…)
July 18, 2012 | Categories: Security Industries, UK | Leave A Comment »

In “Fair Deal” privacy protection news: ”District Court Judge David Harvey has heard parts of the case against the Megaupload founder, who was arrested with three colleagues in January after a request from the United States. The FBI has accused Dotcom and others working at Megaupload website of the world’s biggest case of criminal copyright violation.”

Interesting. Also check out Corin Dann‘s interview with Pamela Jones Harbour of how Google and the USA are totally getting all up in everyone’s business IP mix.
Also what goes up in “the cloud computing arena” will be shared with Google’s mates, so the culture of Insider Trading is totally being facilitated by the USA who are masters at creative IP fusion. “Skins are us,” is the mobile telephony and IT tablet culture of US ideas going into the machine quicker and being churned out as US ideas, quicker so than what most other nations (bar China) can churn out new ideas in new forms. Or more to the point, the fused IP ideas are made by Americans in China, then returned back to the US as China products, even denying American citizens jobs.
It’s not entirely the USA’s fault. Americans consome more than any other nation. They have to keep up with the demand of consumption is the theory of “incorporating” ideas quicker. The pace of consumption you only understand if you actually do a two-year or more period of time within the USA. That, and not being very good at being no.2, drive this compulsion in the USA’s culture. Not every American is like that though, of course. :)
The same can be said of Steven Joyce‘s new super ministry in New Zealand too. A business hub has the same ability to collect the best business templates. A future area of IP law could grow as if NZ author’s biz templates were to be hacked into (it does happen), there could be court cases ahead of inventors and patent protection of biz owners ideas etc. New ideas are more addictive than pharmaceutical drugs to American people. They respond openly to innovation as innovation is one of the redeeming qualities of America as a nation. When dong good, they create pictures of liberty on display for the world. The attention span of Americans is always all about ‘the next new thing.’ In addition telecommunications companies need to guarantee emailed documents are not going down the wire, or through the airwaves to a hub of data collection too, that could abuse creative peoples incentives to create useful products more.
So in such a culture, it’s about remembering manners where you can and giving credit to where the ideas came from – and co-partnering on IP whakapapa rather than just taking it from the authors without credit. So I guess this isn’t a privacy issue alone, it is a meanness of spirit issue and potentially an industry of blackmail too with facts gathering.
So much of foreign affairs trade deals, trades gossip as capital to acquire stuff. That’s why more negotiators at the table is healthy, as if dirt is found on a nation’s key negotiator through IT they will trade off more than they should, for personal reasons. That is not what they were elected to do, so such deals are illegal without the consent of the citizen’s who own the assets being traded (including all IP and data of citizen’s of one particular nation’s habits, thoughts, work too). Such invisible illegal trade set ups need to cease until democracy on issues of trade have occurred with the citizens who own them.
So, because leaders are a target, a team of honest people helps reduce that culture and leverage of greed in trade deals. At best a team seeks to serve the children in a nation’s potential now and down the track. IT gives the US an advantage to plan this path for American citizen children, and also the nations the USA trades this information to for certain things the USA wants. China has been planning like this down the track for years. Therefore, the authors of the ideas, who are not the property or cattle of any State, often get robbed in this process of fair reward. More needs to be said of this style of culture at corporate and political level.
The USA is very good at a style of negotiating that trades heavily on gossip leverage, as shown with the Wikileaks diversion that demolished foreign affairs trust among nations, while being the perfect diversion for the Global Financial Crises shake, rattle n’ roll corporate banking crimes too. This should not be surprising though, as the internet was first designed for military purposes and the military were using the technology, long before anyone else knew of IT’s existence or capabilities.
The nature of IT is military information acquisition. After that lifestyle. Then sharing information. Entertainment distraction and education also feature as drawcards of audiences to IT. Oh, and of course E-Commerce as well. The more time online, the more information is collected of you. If this is the case, there’s nothing to fear, just live life in the open. Or live a life offline. Be more honest is the gift of IT to us all.
One should never fear an IT company’s knowledge of the individual. Or the government trading this information. It’s like ‘get a life.’ Trading secrets about people can tend to cramp life, not add to it, so as individuals we have to choose to live free from any fear in an IT world. Just do it. Needless to say, laws need to change to protect IT data mined information about individuals and their civil and human rights. If we don’t do this, we are not being humane. Too corporate greedy.
One of the strange ironies in the world is that the Security Industries that tax payers pay for, actually is used against citizens too and can be relabelled The Insecurity Industries in such instances. The latter name being more honest about that exhorbitant tax spend. IT also stitches elections through data mining and manipulating IT too. Elections are ’won’ on the biggest budgets for IT and media spend these days. That’s why youth are reacting so weirdly, as they feel like democracy isn’t in the air any more. In many cases on key issues, they’re quite right. I mean, there’s only so many video games you can play to express your anger or distract yourself until you acquire grey hair to then be seen with an opinion, as a young person. So democracy needs to be restored to give youth a feeling of a true sense of home in nations that offer democratic process as an expression of freedom, liberty and hope to have a decent chance of achieving an attainable dream in country’s somehow by a miracle, fortunate enough to still have this reality achievable for its own citizens. That is the essence of human rights in operation. How do we get back to that center?
On the topic of spying for capital gain (a US artform generating billionaires in the game), watch the rather stunning PJH above.
Judge Harvey is not due to hear the internet mogul’s extradition case until next year but made his views on copyright known during the launch of the “Fair Deal” campaign last week.
The campaign is opposing any changes to New Zealand’s copyright laws that may form part of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
The TPP trade deal is currently being negotiated and the 13th round of talks are finishing up.
The negotiations are secret but it is known that the United States entertainment industry is pushing for stronger copyright provisions among the 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region negotiating the deal. America is a melting pot of many cultures ideas. There are Maori and Polynesian characters all over Nickelodean’s children’s channel in the US for example – yet the same rule of thumb does not go back to New Zealand or Polynesia peoples of the South Pacific, for such cultural appropriation the US forgets they borrow heavily from all the time and disguise with costumes, diverse casting calls and of course, the American accent and a poker face too. The US is a shell, needing inspiration to reinvent new consumable products for its people. An American told me that and it is true. So the ball needs to go back to the center of the copyright issue. If the US is honest about that. Drop the poker face. Trade deals that are win-win are based on trust. This is only evident when honesty without pretense is present in trade deals processes and trading citizens peoples concerns are actually being listened to and upheld. How do we ensure such an environment of trading occurs. Otherwise all deals should be off. As a Kiwi, I know, the NZ people can wait until such an environment is present at the table. So, it’s America’s call to find a medium of negotiating culture that is in the center of what America thinks it knows and what others know to.

Judge Harvey also quoted media analyst, journalist and political debater Russell Brown‘s tweet on the topic from earlier on: “we have met the enemy and he is [the] U.S.” Judge Harvey’s remark is a play on the line “we have met the enemy and he is us” by American cartoonist Walt Kelly. Brown and Judge Harvey are referring to DVD codes copying that robs filmmakers of their next farm purchase, or shares acquistion as a virtual farmer in Fonterra in New Zealand, something shocking!
I don’t know how such Oscar winning filmmakers can sleep easily at night, as well as being such high profile activists for indigenous peoples rights too. They’re incredible!
Crown Law, which is representing the FBI in the extradition case, would not comment on the issue.
Journalistic facts verbage: Hamish Fletcher.
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~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 16.7.12~
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Kiwi journalist Garth Bray explains how Britain is ensuring a safe Olympic Games 2012. Mo’ military is the plan. In addition air space above London’s CBD has been closed. “Lethal force” will ensue any plane that fudge these rules.
Bray also interviewed Lord Sebastian Coe whose “ecstatic” the Games are occurring in London. Coe’s picks for best sports watches this Olympics are track and field, equestrian and boxing.
As a kid my Maori mom would wake us up to watch Seb Coe run in the Olympics. His four Olympic medals, that included the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984 were the moments that made sports exciting for young people in New Zealand. He also set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle distance track events. This included a world record relay race. Steve Ovett and Steve Cram his middle distance racing rivals ensured audiences returned to the TV every time Coe raced.
Mr Peter Williams has the Olympics story.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.7.12~
July 14, 2012 | Categories: Academics, Air Space, Athletes, Aviation, Boxing, Britain, Entertainment Celebrity News, Entertainment Distribution, Entertainment News, Equestrian, Garth Bray, Grey Power, London, Military, Military Recruiting, News, Peter Williams, Politics, Security Industries, Smile Club, Sports, Star System - The Art of British Celebrity, Track & Field, UK, World News | Leave A Comment »

Now that everyone’s “scared”, the British government throws its troops in for security duties at the London Olympics 2012 to assuage any doubts.
The price of security is increasing in a violent video games imbalanced world. Sports events and military funding allocating from sports spend seem to go hand-in-hand these days.
Britain has already spent some 9 billion pounds on the Games and much of the early focus will fall on how the city can cope with such a massive influx of visitors, four years after a Beijing Games noted for its gleaming new airport and infrastructure.
Meanwhile, across the world: Over 200 killed in Syrian village. In environment watch news: Human impacts threaten ‘pristine’ Antarctic.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.7.12~
July 13, 2012 | Categories: Antarctica, Environment, Hats, Icebergs Watch, London, Military, Olympic Games, Olympics, Security Industries, World News | Leave A Comment »

In Totally Illegal Families – Kim Dotcom News via The Age, Oz: “Perceptions of the Megaupload founder are changing rapidly as he fights extradition from New Zealand to the US.
AUCKLAND: Last month, a New Zealand software developer, Ben Gracewood, replied to a Twitter post from the internet tycoon Kim Dotcom, founder of the Megaupload file-sharing site that had been shut down by the FBI.
Gracewood asked Dotcom whether “you guys just drive around in modified electric vehicles and pose for photos”, referring to an image Dotcom, 38, had just posted showing three of his associates with golf buggies and a Segway. “I could live like that,” Gracewood wrote.
Twenty minutes later he got a surprising response from the mogul: “Come over now!” So Gracewood and a friend went to the most expensive house in the country — a mansion worth $NZ24 million ($19 million), rented by Dotcom, a German citizen — for a swim and some cupcakes. Twitter users across New Zealand watched with fascination as the group posted updates and photos of the visit.
Wait, there’s more: (more…)
July 5, 2012 | Categories: Australia, Canada, Entertainment Distribution, Germany, Industry Town News, Information Sharing, Joe Biden, Judge David Harvey, Judges, Kim Dotcom, New Zealand, Paul Davison, Privacy, Privacy & Safety, Security Industries, Totally Illegal Families, USA | Leave A Comment »

Our politicians in New Zealand were joking the other day about X-Raying the unemployed’s veins in the form of Non-Pharmaceutical issued drug testing. That was the morning that the GlaxoKleinSmith British company was fined $3billion in a ground-breaking court case.
Instead though, what’s vital to New Zealand’s economy is a kind of X-Ray that protects NZ’s agricultural industries: The Ministry of Primary Industries admits it needs to X-Ray imported agricultural products that could impair NZ’s superfoods growing capability reputation as a super nation of the world in coming years. Chinese imports were blamed for the last setbacks of biological attacks on NZ’s commercial gardeners. Read that at the dig.
In farming news: Although New Zealand recently sold its knowledge bank representing all farmers’ (past) accummulative IP in being some of the best livestock kaitiaki in the world and agreed in principle to sell 20% of our largest dairy co-op’ profits-generating capacity to foreigners, today farming compliance has taken the form of introducing a livestock tracking system containing radio frequency technology. The story goes:
“More than 6000 farmers have registered this week for a compulsory electronic tagging system for livestock, which went live over the weekend.
The National Animal Identification and Tracing scheme (Nait) became mandatory for cattle last Sunday and will go live for deer from March next year.
Farmers and people working with livestock are now required by law to tag animals with a radio frequency identification device (RFID) ear tag, which provides up-to-date information on individual animal locations and movements. (more…)
July 5, 2012 | Categories: 3D Cows, Agriculture, BioSecurity, Farming, horticulture, Innovation, IT, New Zealand, Security Industries | Leave A Comment »

Invasion nation down phonelines, internet cables, into our PC.
In New Zealand Got’s Talent News for Consumers, star panellist judge Alison Mau, is looking quite sparkly in lacquered black vinyl and layers of gold chains, live on the telly as I write. Her tone is very Orson Welles War of The World, except she’s better looking than Orson ever was and her show is real.
Ali originally arrived from Australia and is now a New Zealand citizen. As a star Kiwi judge, Mau’s brand of sexy is “social justice” via “consumer justice awareness.”
Ali has brought a live show of Fair Go to air where she’s blowing the whistle on website companies that don’t deliver once customers pay.
The biggest culprits for IT scamming are coupon saving web companies. Worse, Indian IT companies calling into New Zealand are hitting Canterbury hard as well. The companies can take over your PC being remoted in if you buy their software products that don’t protect your PC once downloaded but take over it. Eg: they can use your PC remotely. Take whatever files off it they choose. Scary! (more…)
July 4, 2012 | Categories: Alison Mau, Australia, Consumer Justice, E-Commerce, Economic Bullying, Economic Teen Bullying, Economy, Fair Go, Homeland Security, India, Invasion, Investigative Journalism, IT, Journalists, Justice, New Zealand, Reality TV Stars, Scammers, Security Industries, Simon Dallow, Telecommunications | Leave A Comment »
[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.
Northport’s deep water conditions are well suited for yacht racing. Core Builders Composites of Warkworth has a contract with the crew.
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~
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In Mining, Sustainable Prosperity, Stimulating Business Growth & Wanting Farmland Capital News:
This morning on New Zealand TV, we had some very good interviews:
Blondes in green: Hollywood action star and local girl, Lucy Lawless has turned green-thinking eco-warrior. She was speaking from Rio’s Earth summit. Amy Adams, a new MP, versed in a bunch of boys cliches also appeared to give a view on balancing a green looking country with sploshes of liquid cash from mining monies. She also got shalted a tax-payer funded trip to Rio, to give the interview some credibility. Both girls can be seen as two sides of a coin on fossil fuels economies effects. Both gave good comments. Both wore green.
What did they share? Both concentrated on New Zealand’s potential to export energy. Amy is arguing more for New Zealand to realise there will be a risk to the environment, yet to free up fossil fuels mining exports to the world, helps us “make a bunch of bob.” Lawless spoke more about green energy techonologies in New Zealand, being exported more around the world (for example geothermal, solar, Lanzatech typed companies knowledge etc). To export the knowledge, would save the planet’s longevity longterm, so Lawless’ views are timelessly good, with her argument to grandstand on. Lucy also raised the issue, that there’s a feeling in Rio that politicians are in BigOil’s pockets on fossil fuels mining, hence their coms perhaps need to be tracked and transparent – for their own health’s sake and that of their families. As fossil fuel addicted nations depend on wrangling oil supplies, to turn a light or computer on, oil is a tempting, highly seductive and dangerous world. Lawless is fearless on the issue. She seemed honest. Perhaps, why people speaking on energy should always be balanced out with people like Lawless. I appreciated both views! :)
Stephen Joyce: Super Ministry – A lot is riding on Stephen Joyce’s political eyes (vision) and talent to build an economy. His new ministry merges departments that are listed as future drivers of the economy (towards job creation in valuable areas). His number 1 forte is that his ministry is structured like a hub of business knowledge. Cross-pollination is what many claim Joyce brings (more…)
June 23, 2012 | Categories: Agricultural Distribution - Product Networks, Agriculture, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Bankers, Banking System Flows, BigOil, Brazil, Chile, China, Cross-Cultural Narratives, Dairy Products, Deconstructing Colonialism, Economists, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Environmental Impact Assessments, Farming, Fonterra, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Freight, Gas Drilling, Geothermal Energy, Germany, Greed, Green Energy, High protein foods, Hollywood Entertainment News, In Good Faith, India, Indigenous Thinking, Indonesia, Inequality, Information Sharing, Innovation, Insider Trading, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, Invasion, Investors, Jim Anderton, Liquidity Risk Disclosure, Merchandising, Merchants, Metals, Mexico, Minerals, Minerals Mining, Mining, New Zealand, New Zealand Citizens, New Zealand Energy Assets Sales, New Zealand land sales, New Zealand Metals Assets Sales, Oceania, oil, Pakehas, Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical Tablets, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Politics, Real Estate, Rural Development, Science, Science & Innovation, Security Industries, Seismic Surveying, Social Justice, Soil Analysis, South Pacific, Sustainable Development of the Ocean, Sustainable Living, Sustainable Prosperity, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Theo Spierings, Think Green, Trade, Trade & Commerce, Trade Agreements, Wall Street Culture, Wastage, Water New Zealand, Waterways New Zealand | 1 Comment »

If you want to, you can Call on the Pacific Governments to support an effective Arms Trade Treaty!. Or, Is it time for a bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty!
[Israeli Jewelry design as seen on Melrose, Hollywood: from the Bullets for Peace jewellery line].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.6.12~
June 19, 2012 | Categories: Amnesty International, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Billionaire HQ on Horiwood.Com, Billionaire Philanthropy, Billionaire Women, Billionaires, Britain, Bullying, Child Protection Rights, Democracy, Disabilities, Disabled Children, Discernment, drugs, EEZ, Environmental Crimes, Fisheries, Health & Safety, Health Care, Heavy Metal, Hollywood Entertainment News, Hollywood Today, Holocaust, Homeland Security, Human Resources Management, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Humanitarian Angels on Horiwood.Com, Jewellry, Jewelry, Leadership, Life, Maritime Disasters, Maritime Surveillance, Metals, Military, Military Families, News, Ocean Governance, Politics, PPP, Rape, Saudi Arabia, Security Industries, Seeing Through Uniforms, Self Defense Skills, Self-Control, Slavery, Slavery Narratives, South Pacific, Trade, Trade & Commerce, Trade Agreements, USA, War, War Crimes, Weapons Buying, Wisdom, Wisdoms Buffet, Women, World History, World News, World Peace | Leave A Comment »
When I read headlines in the news like: Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want govt spying on you…
I laugh out loud. Like… it’s not like many people are sharing stuff that government’s would even care to know anyways! Geez! :)
However, the news story is perhaps more of a commentary about “words” and what words we choose to create, propagate and live within. According to ‘The Department of Homeland Security’s 2011 ‘Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ (phewsh what a mouthful!) that apparently tracks media and journalists writings looking for key words words to avoid using are: ’pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico.’
I’ve always liked the word “Peace” myself.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.5.12~
May 28, 2012 | Categories: Homeland Security, humility, Humor, Information Sharing, Infrastructure Technology, Innovation, Insider Trading, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, Invasion, IT, Privacy, Privacy & Safety, Security Industries, Spying, Words, Words With Friends, World Peace | Leave A Comment »

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turns six years of age, Sunday (North American time). This explains why at the time of writing, the third-generation Hollywood star is the no.1 celebrity name rating on this blog.
It only seems like yesterday that little Shiloh arrived at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Her birth was similar to the days when Prince William and Prince Harry Windsor were born, in regards to the amount of fascination that people gave Shiloh’s arrival in the world. She instantly became one of the world’s most favorite magazine cover girls from the time young Shiloh arrived.
Observations, while living in Hollywood are that Shiloh’s birth caused the city to melt like fluffy marshmallows in cups of sweet hot chocolate. An aura of kindness and joy swept across Los Angeles. The dynasty of Hollywood’s star system shined over the city. (Hollywood actually really does care about stuff like that).
The peace Shiloh’s birth news brought to The City of Angels really did happen. In a quirky way, the child was like a satellite of peace from Namibia. Guys at the office in the Universal Building in North Hollywood, bragged about donating to Angelina’s favorite charities in Africa (guilt money) and all the thin-stick Hollywood girls in the neighborhood rushed out to get puppies that they’d names like “me-me” [sic] and Chloe. I stayed in the home of Papa Elie, a California proud patriarch, who was married to the gracious daughter of a Kentucky Senator. Margaret and Elie were founding members of the infamous Sierra Hiking Club. In his late 80′s, Papa Elie (whose mother Ramza had lived to a young 110), was nearing 90. This was a remarkable feat because due to a fire on a train, as a girl she’d missed her passage aboard the Titanic, days before it sunk. As Papa was of Hasbaya Lebanese and Canadian origin, home-made hummus, promegranites and copious amounts of fresh luscious fruit of California, defined our home’s daily diet while we watched Quiz Shows on TV. Dude still went to the gym three days a week too. Lol!
Papa Elie of California taught me that happiness happens when you choose it to, each day. He lived to make check-out girls working at superettes where he got his fruit from each day, smile. His own constant smile, a living witness of his faith in God. During these days staying with Papa Elie in Walt Disney’s hood, I worked at the entertainment red carpet events office with Jodi Hannah – a producer of Extreme Days -an extreme sports action-packed documentary. Hannah has a producing partner in Christchurch City, New Zealand. Jodi doubled too as a humanitarian mother who prayed each day (in the office) for lesser fortunate children to have a better life of opportunity in the USA before she began her work day. A remarkable person that works with Fortune 500 company sponsors, she creates events from the heart that do this. So with an Eli and a Hannah ever constant, the year Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was born, was a surreal moment, I’ll never forget.
The name Shiloh itself is also of significance in Jewish history as it was the name of the place where Samuel, Israel’s ancient prophet child was raised by Eli, the high preist of Israel at the temple. At a young age, the child Samuel would hear from God at Shiloh. Samuel went on to pray prayers that held back disasters and enemy onslaughts against Israel all of his days. He also was a judge and kingmaker. It was a time in history where people could not get could spiritual guidance easily in uncertain times (eg: they did not hear ‘the word of God’ in that time). So at a pivotal time in history the story goes: ”And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.” Clarity returned to Israel’s people in murky times again.
Wayne Blank of Keyway.Ca websites defines Shiloh Jolie-Pitt’s name or origin as being: “After the Israelites crossed The Jordan River into the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua, The Tabernacle, with The Ark Of The Covenant inside, was established at Shiloh. The name means peaceful, or tranquil, and no doubt it was with The Lord’s Presence. No place on earth could have been more secure. It was “God’s country,” and they were “God’s people.”" Or, in other words, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is named after the place where peace totally jammed.
Her birth is perhaps a reminder that peace comes when you pray it into being each day and choose happiness by living life more peacefully with a smile.
[Happy Birthday SJP].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.5.12~
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A word on trust deficit ambassadorial relations: The very action of leaking information is based on trust-deficit discourse positioning.
A blogpost about The Global Intelligence Files, Wikileaks & USA views on New Zealand nuclear policies:
Like American cars gas tanks that are empty unless another nation fills them with oil, or banks that are empty unless gold is gathered and acquiesced from other nations too in order to act as security against a tendancy to overprint paper money to ‘maintain’ an unsustainable lifestyle level and rate of spend - America’s security comes from ‘strongly convincing’ other nations to wealth-share valuable assets or resources afar off from the USA, with America.
Wealth-sharing happens best as far as America is concerned, if the USA physically accesses and occupies your territory. It’s the preferred American method of ‘comfortableness’ when relating to others, because ‘trust defficiencies’ exist (or so, Chinese diplomats say, when writing in their newspapers about the frustrations with their own USA diplomatic relations).
If we take this definition ‘seriously’…
When dealing with a nation with a ‘trust deficit’ it is only love and patience that can restore seared trust. In fact, saying ‘no’ is a key part in re-establishing trust, with people who assume trust is broken if you ‘don’t say yes, to their every whim.’
This is New Zealand’s position with America, having lived in the US for five years. Trust is based on ‘we share what is useful to both parties, on terms that we agree on are equally beneficial to future generations of our people and on terms we are both comfortable with.’ Without this concept in place, there is no trust between the US and another nation.
In New Zealand, assets that America will desperately need in the next 15-20 years for its children, could be shared with China and/ or India too, so understandably the US has its own methods of going for a piece of the pie. Intimidation is a key part of this through belittling its own allies. Isn’t Wikileaks all about that, in part, as well as to clear the air of ‘tensions built up from an industry based on secrecy, being the keepers of secret squirrel information that isn’t even as relevant as spy organizations claim, half the time.’ Information dates fast.
Leaks help the US intimidate other nations, to position them more into the USA’s desired line of strategic flow. Unless the US does something drastic – like a barrage of leaks shaming a country whose resources it desires twenty years down the track, America runs the risk of remaining an empty shell, always over-consuming itself and needing to be refilled. In all truth, this is what scares America most of all.
Similarly, news production is an ‘empty shell’ every day, needing to be created in the same manner.
All those newspapers and media outlets, all those advertising dollars? What do you fill the content up with? Wikileaks cables press releases of course. It keeps the news media churning for weeks – as well as aiming to shame leaders in any given field to be manipulated into new ways. America did really well out of the Wikileaks cables scandal, first round – as the leaks were independantly released by an Australian living in Europe – yet they got American viewpoints ‘out there’ in a non-threatening way.
So in an age where the modern confessional booth of US diplomatic relations appears to be “Wikileaks press releasing” (eg: feign a Texan poker face and say it wasn’t US!) some things came to my attention today reading a New Zealand newspaper.
Backstory: ”The Global Intelligence Files” consisting of more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered “global intelligence” company Stratfor, is the next source of Wikileaks Publishing who again is clearing the diplomatic air of email threads dated July 2004 and late December 2011. Stratfar is unusual as it uses unethical means to target strategic leaders, in order to information bleed (see additional notes at blog post’s end). (more…)
March 4, 2012 | Categories: America, Information Sharing, Insider Trading, Intellectual Property, New Zealand, Security Industries, Wikileaks | Leave A Comment »
Within one hour, of posting China developing its own search engine interest in this idea has surged in popularity on a Maori-Hollywood themed blog.
Go China IT growth! The idea is definitely a mover and a shaker.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearaoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.2.12~
February 23, 2012 | Categories: China, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, IT, Search Engine Development, Security Industries | Leave A Comment »

Search Engine New Media International Communications Company, a merger between China Mobile Communications and Xinhua News Agency is building a search engine for China.
The two companies say the venture is part of a wider move by China to build a stronger presence online to “safeguard its information security and push forward the robust, healthy and orderly development of China’s new media industry.”
The advantages are that China’s internet market is the world’s largest, with over 420 million users, and a massive mobile market of more than 800 million subscribers, of which China Mobile has 550 million. At the moment Chinese internet user’s are mainly drawn to Baidu holding 70% of the market, with 25% choosing to use google.
With China’s large population base, internet hours spent online may as well go back to China. Makes sense to develop search engine capability for the Chinese language online.
Perhaps every nation should have their own search engine and then fuse select information on one site, people feel comfortable to share. In New Zealand we support google strongly. Bing too. Sometimes ask.com as well.
Google recently shifted its operations from mainland China to Hong Kong amid controversy over internet censoring by the Chinese government.
[Photo and News Source courtesy of Craig Hill's website]. Other topics on ChinaWatch that Hill shares are:
Collapse of joint China-US venture highlights need for advisory partners
China strengthens monopoly in rare-earth minerals
Chinese Vice Premier campaigns for mutual agreements with other developing countries
China and Switzerland going strong after 60 years
China exempts service outsourcing companies from business tax
Inner City Rents Too High – On-line survey reports more than half all apartments empty in major cities
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 23.2.12~
February 23, 2012 | Categories: America, China, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Rights, Inventors, IT, News, Search Engine Development, Security Industries, SEO, Switzerland, World News | 1 Comment »

[Sergey Lavrov and John Key meet in Auckland City - Photo Dean Purcell]
Whakatauki o Te Ra towards just trading agreements: Ko te tika me te whakawa te turanga o tou torona: e haere ana te mahi tohu me te pono i mua i tou aroaro.
Праведность и справедливость являются основой Вашего трона; Милость и истина идут пред лицем Твоим.
عدالت و عدالت پایه و اساس یک جامعه قوی و رحمت و حقیقت قبل از آن بروید.
In Kiwi News today – New Zealand and Russia forge ahead exploring the possibilities of future business trade relationships.
After an invitation was extended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev via Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (visiting New Zealand yesterday) New Zealand’s Prime Minister, John Key is keen to jet to Russia at least twice by year’s end. The Apec summit at Vladivostok in November also provides another opportunity for trade discussions.
Key and Medvedev have met at four summit meets prior. Followers in New Zealand who are fans of a future Russia relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand have done exceptionally well on the Russian stock exchange (heavy metals markets) trading in silver. In what has been dubbed one of the worst GFC crises since the 1930′s by the World Bank and the IMF, Kiwis who have been actively involved in silver on the Russian stock market have simply asked, “Huh, what recession?”
Mr Medvedev is expected to cease the Presidency after March, but Lavrov sees Mr Key in Russia’s future when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, by hook or by crook (if you follow Russian news) is expected to return to the presidency for a third term. New Zealand politician John Banks who returned to Parliament this year after a long absence out, has children he adopted from Russia, so already there’s a strong pro-Russia contigency working in New Zealand’s halls of parliament. Mr Banks and Mr Key’s kids go to college together at Kings College, South of Auckland.
This trade relationsips news comes at a time where both China and Russia can’t get enough of New Zealand and South Pacific Island nations’ great potential ahead. (Oil, fossil fuels, mineral, pharmaceutical developments, quality food supply and fresh water supply resources, land and island acquisition sales, IT banking software and services, ‘security industries’ retail and er… bulk equipment sales and trading, mainly).
Herald staff reporter Audrey Young writes: “The free trade agreement being negotiated between Russia and New Zealand is scheduled to be signed at Apec when New Zealand would have achieved two historic firsts: the first developed country to get an FTA with China and then Russia (plus its customs union partners Belarus and Kazakhstan). Russia has needed to obtain accession to the World Trade Organisation, achieved in December to realize its intentions to trade more with New Zealand. Mr Lavrov said signing an FTA with New Zealand would be a “symbolic event”.”
Lavrov is hoping to leverage the trade agreement signed with New Zealand, so that all other nations in the South Pacific will follow suit. (more…)
January 31, 2012 | Categories: Abkhazia, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Banking System Flows, Belarus, China, Dmitry Medvedev, Economic Bullying, Economy, Entrepreneurs, Ethan The Ezrahite, Fiji, Foreign Affairs, Georgia, Grigol Vashadze, Heavy Metal, Investors, Iran, Iwi Biz Partners, John Banks, Kazakhstan, Nauru, New Ideas, New Zealand, News, Nikoloz Gilauri, Politics, Russia, Security Industries, Sergey Lavrov, South Ossetia, South Pacific, Symbols, Syria, Te Reo Rangatira, Trade Agreements, Travel Destinations, Tuvalu, Vladivostok, World Bank, World News | Leave A Comment »