GLOBAL WEATHER PATTERNS BOOKS, AIR QUALITY, GLOBAL NEWS EVENTS – AROUND THE WORLD NEWS – 6th NOVEMBER 2012
While we were reading news…
Humility is to know your limits with your strengths. The exciting blend of both is visionary wisdom in full technicolor.
Around the World Audience Views News – Horiwoodblog - 6th November 2012.
Norway News: Pivotal Book: 2052 author on climate change, global warming, air quality & rich upper-middle class industrialized nations to lose privileged brat ‘tudes. A must read: This is as good as it gets, says visionary Norwegian author Jorgen Randers.
2052, the book, is a global forecast for the next 40 years.
Bonus: China - Jujube fruit – Hardy sweet, Baby factory export products to South-East Asia & UNICEF, Xi Jinping, China embraces USA’s election democracy show as Chinese pop culture.
USA: Election 2012: The Final stretch, A Swing State Sprint, USA online mood gauge: I Want USA to…, Romney‘s team are in spin overdrive in OH, PA & WI, Gallup: R 50% O 49%, ABCWashPo: O 50% R 47%, Rasmussen: R 49% O 48%, A Challenger at the Crossroads, Hip hop: Jay-Z humor, A few military voters to vote last, Generation Debt: Billionaires taking too much: Each American Under 18 owes Owes $218,676, ‘Per Person Debt Now 35 % Higher than that of Greece’, Giuliani: FEMA management similar on Sandy as Katrina, Bill Clinton on US Military, ‘The Boss’ joins Obama in Wisconsin, Electricity in East Coast, Apple’s perks on overseas takings, Duress: Mayor says up to 40,000 may need relocation, Germany wants Google to pay newspapers for news links, Arizona nonprofit has ties to Koch brothers, US starting to be more conscious of global warming debate, Nicki Minaj sings of Freedom, Gardening: Grow your own pesto with punch, Fashions new boardroom, NFL: Colts, Bears are on the upswing, Downtown LA dining: sushi watch, Real faces USA: After the Violence, the Rest of Their Lives. Journalist-Writer-Economists: Draft: The Political Speechwriter’s Life. US employers question: If I Hire You, What’s Your 100-Day Plan? Visual IT fun: Instagram moves into web profiles. NASA expands global networking list.
New Zealand: Kate Wilkinson‘s Pike River fall out press, Carla Rose: Family reaction to Pike River report, NZ’s PM on mining co’s corporate negligence, Attorney-General calls it on corporate manslaughter, Greed vs Safety, NZ at a turning point - Greymouth’s gift to the world from tragedy, NZ manufacturer moves to China: Rakon news, R&D boost for $37b Maori economy, Duncan Garner remembers lawyer Greg King, Rugby: Sam Whitelock‘s news, Fire Service needs upgrades in training equippers, Lion buys Emerson’s craft brewery, Kiwi humor, Hobbit press marketing, Canterbury construction’s impacts on labour, Biz: Peter Lyons press. Innovative Nation Kiwis: Sir Graeme Douglas, Sir Ray Avery and buds, New Zealand’s Best Journalists & TV Program makers honored – NZ TV Awards 2012. Woot!
UK: Heathrow hub ideas to be explored, Top 10 Bond Villains, Britain and Germany are growing apart (Germany should chill on being a ball breaker), Saudi arms wrangler Cameron on Tory child abuse cover up claims. Soccer: Barry: City can still win Champions League, Robbie Williams is funny, Prince Charles press even funnier.
Australia: Cru’s Kew queue – the breakfast club Melbourne, Sam Worthington lets off steam in Atlanta, Aussie beauties race day fashions strut, Racing sports scandals, Treasurer Mike Baird is a big fan of NSW Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat, How negativity in politics affects economy – the right words needed daily, Flemington crazy has started with stealth Apps & live blog. How pseudoscience is a creative safe playground of innovation, Electronic health devices & people hacking risks in med-science, USA’s top ten election funnies & foreign policy brass USA-Aussie relevancy, Cuisine watch: Sydney’s iconic 20 dishes best of list, Melbourne follows suit with a top 20 list, Parenting done Aussie style at Christmas: The Play School Art Maker iPad App, Leadership change that actually matters, Relationship Tips. Aussie farmers drought buffer rainy day plan is strongwise.
France: Snobby French media world says Valerie Trierweiler is nada muchos tres bien, Rachida Dati was not your typical French judge.
Canada: Construction & Montreal mayor steps down amid corruption allegations, 5 Canadian issues for the USA, Frank McKenna wants Obama to win, In BigPharma driven Canada legal hemp industry growing, Auto technology company moves to Windsor. Foreign affairs visits: Harper Flies in an armoured Cadillac to India.
Brazil: Auto Industry Boosts Brazil Recovery, UPDATE 2-Copersucar, Eco-Energy to form world’s top ethanol trader, NYSE, partner ATG to create new trading platform in Brazil, Elections End with PT Win in São Paulo, Petrobras Reports Weak Q3 Profits, Brazil’s Sao Paulo inflation quickens in October.
India: On election – eve , opinion polls show Obama sneaking ahead.
Germany: e-commerce tax effort (UK-Germany), Social spending planned as a pre-election sweetener, The Luther Fest marks 500th year of The Reformation (the printing press’ role in furthering democracy & the amazing man whose friends kidnapped him to keep him alive, and whose writings sparked a revolution). Catholics aren’t entirely happy at Merkel‘s politicization of it.
In Hollywood Kristen Stewart arrives at Jay Leno’s studio. Photo: X17 Online.
Italy: Milan – Police seize assets in Italy fashion group, Italy said to refute bad bank boosting ties to Sovereign. Visit and explore Italia.
Mexico: Mexico & G20 nations economic plans. USA’s effect on G-20 nations, G-20 officials meet to discuss debt in Europe, US.
Photo caption: Dutch Queen Beatrix, center, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, center left, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Lodewijk Asscher, center right, pose with other ministers of the new Dutch government on the steps of Royal palace Huis Ten Bosch after their inauguration ceremony in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday Nov. 5, 2012. (AP Photo – Boston - Peter Dejong).
Netherlands: New cabinet poses with queen, but had to be sworn in twice. Healthcare: Biggest health insurer freezes basic premium, top-ups rise 8%, New cabinet shifts views on Middle East policy, 62% of Dutch people working abroad plan to come home, Dozens of Dutch embassies to close. Totally sketch: Tax havens popular with Dutch banks -The Netherlands’ biggest banks ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank have dozens of subsidiaries based on tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Mauritius, the Financieele Dagblad states on Friday.
Indonesia: Poso has a police brutality issue. Summit calls for tighter Asia–Europe ties to face challenges, Why foreign investors may ‘relocate’, Indonesia is looking for a fusion that spins the world. Tourism: Bali lacks Mandarin, Russian-speaking tour guides. Democracy – Bali will host the annual Bali Democracy Forum (BDF), Asean News: ASEAN to launch a new regional FTA with its partners (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, South Korea & China).
Bonus:
Mid-East: Syrian FM criticises Qatar opposition talks.
Russia: Show Tunes and Sinatra, With a Russian Accent. Vladimir Putin fired Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, replacing him with Sergei Shoigu, a former emergencies minister – briefly a governor of the Moscow region. His role is to modernize Russia’s military.–Reuters.
Culture: A view of Maori culture of New Zealand. Maintaining The Standard of the source of the Maori haka. Source: Te Karere News.
Snapshot 1: Horiwoodblog website’s hard data rankings of daily audience views. Photo 1: Sir Peter Buck, global Maori-Kiwi, early 1900′s. Image: Te Papa Museum, Wellington New Zealand. Photo 2: Norwegian author (2052): Jorgen Randers - a Luis Ascui photograph.
About The Book 2052: Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic “overshoot and collapse”-or through well-managed “peak and decline.”
So, where are we now? And what does our future look like? In the book 2052, Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of Limits to Growth, issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.
The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well-being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways-by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming, too, is likely.
So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact, and wisdom, Randers guides us along a realistic path into the future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the next forty years.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.11.12~
A WORD TO JEANNIE LEAVITT, AN AMERICAN PILOT ON MILITARY RECRUITING USA SERVANTHOOD OF THE SKIES
Today I watched a news clip of one American pilot Jeanie Leavitt who made the comment when on military recruiting duties (and thus jets and weapons of warfare manufacturing sales for billionaires of the world):
Leavitt said: “It doesn’t matter what gender or religion you are, your success [as a military pilot] is based on performance. How many targets you hit.”
As the clip was promo-ed by NZ’s Pippa Wetzell working on the NZ tax payer’s dime, I am going to have a word about that.
Here’s what I think as a New Zealand citizen with Treaty Rights on top, to boot:
1. When America’s position in this world, is a currency over-printing syndrome to even get by, Jeannie’s tone didn’t fit with me well. A realization of more humility from Jeannie’s military trainers is needed. At the moment that is seriously lacking in Jeannie’s tone when Leavitt does press. It didn’t fit in the real world with me.
2. When over-printing currency to acquire what you need as a nation (such as fossil fuels acquistion) in a climate where the greatest American export industry thus far is offering debt bonds for other nations (China, Japan, Germany for example – buying up almost $1 trillion a piece) to buy foreign debt, run up on purpose, by the USA – Jeannie’s tone is also out-of-line with reality of people who are more conscious of preserving the planet for future generations.
Her trainers need to have a word to all male pilots first to tune that attitude and tone. Then Jeannie second.
[Photo - Col. Jeannie Leavitt - Fox News] (more…)
3D CHAORI ACTION MOVIE CINEMA – GETTING A $1 BILLION A YEAR EARNING, MAORI & CHINESE ACTION FUSION INDUSTRY MOVING
He was a Maori Prince, a Viking of The Sun. She, a Chinese Princess from the Ming Dynasty.
In a new horizon, in a mythical land on a new frontier, they were cast in an epic war to fight for their love.What the world needs to see is 3D mythological cinema of this nature in New Zealand.
3D Chaori Cinema (Asian-friendly Maori action movie cinema) is a $1 billion a year generating industry waiting to happen in NZ. In my mind’s eye I see it growing in New Zealand. It supports the already well established 3D cinema of NZ. It just makes movies a lot quicker for the growing Asian movie market of the world.
It needs a development fund to get started. Russell Crowe the first person in the world of Maori descent to win an Oscar and Hollywood’s Lucy Liu are giving a similar concept a go in the film, Man with Iron Fists. We need to move more into 3D with Chaori cinema texts in and from New Zealand. Cliff Curtis, a Maori actor has also been a success starring in Asian nations in an Asian action star mythological film.
We have enough trial models on display in aspects of this genre to really go for it and develop it further. Chaori cinema is another strand of cinema to be developed in New Zealand to sit alongside what Sir Peter Jackson, John Barnett and newcomers like James Cameron have already achieved from New Zealand.
It is a brand new cinema strand though, that can only make the overall package more attractive when perceiving New Zealand as a stand out filmmaking nation location. It makes sense to develop Chaori cinema and Maori cinema that is Asian-markets friendly, more.
It’s an authentic visual expression of New Zealand for the wider world’s markets.
[Photos: Spin Off and Business Insider online].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific 8.10.12~
A GARDEN OF ANGELS – LAKE TEKAPO SUMMERS & KHALIL GIBRAN POETRY
In the Kiwi dream, The Child asks: What is beauty?
Then The Bard sagely replies:
Beauty is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
Beauty is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
Beauty is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
. . . But you are life and you are the veil.–Khalil Gibran poetry, Lebanon.
Peace!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 20.9.12~
WAR WEARY WATCH – THINKING ON PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT’S RESOURCES & HUMAN RESOURCES
A word about bankers, political games, greed of a wealthy few and the topic of war propagation.
Like all things wisely considered, finding the balance is key. In a multitude of counselors there is safety.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 20.9.12~
OF GOODNESS THAT PERVADES REALITY: OPTIMUM DAD TIME – SEPTEMBER 11th 2012
Dad and I went for lunch yesterday. He imparted a lot into my brain and I guess, my life too.
One word lingered today in my consciousness that dad had reinforced with me as a coach friend. The word is a good one. It is “optimism.”
About optimism:
Hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.
The belief that good must ultimately prevail over evil in the universe.
–Oxford Dictionary defintion.
An inclination to put the most favorable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome. (more…)
LEGAL ENTERTAINER MAI CHEN ON RIGHT BRAIN SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY MIND SETS OF ECONOMIC INNOVATIVE GROWTH FOR KIWI WINNERS
Legal expert Mai Chen has been doing some way cool press lately as a writer and talk show talent in and around the law. Never boring, always entertaining, philisophically interesting and enlightening with empathy, Chen offers her latest thoughts to up New Zealand culture’s innovative hotness.
What did she say? Mai was really good on The Close Up show with broadcaster Mark Sainsbury yesterday.
In journalism guest commentary news, her latest article in the New Zealand Herald is titled: Olympic Effort for a Better Future. (Parts I particularly like in the bold font).
“The Olympic Games is the reason my family emigrated to New Zealand. My father had trained the Taiwan gymnastics team for both the Tokyo and the Mexico games and in 1971 he was headhunted to train the New Zealand gymnastics team. (Wow!)
As a result I grew up in a household where the wisdom of top athletes was seen as the key to success in all areas of life. I was reminded of this last year when, in the midst of my own marathon effort to write a book while running a law firm, Dad began coaching me with Olympic insights once again.
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful – will win,” said Roger Bannister. “Your heart must clear the bar first,” said world champion pole vaulter Sergey Bubka. “The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination,” he reminded me, quoting Billy Mills, a rank outsider who blitzed the field to win the 10,000m in Tokyo.
The coaching helped me not to quit when working seven days a week for two years really got to me.
Just think about Oscar Pastorius, South African sprinter and a double amputee, who runs on artificial legs.
[Makata Taka Hela aka Mr. Billy Mills - world champion Olympian 1964. Photo - Ray Wyatt.Net].
We need an [athletes] mindset to propel our export industries into a position of strength on world markets. And we need it to solve tough policy and law reform issues we face, like keeping superannuation affordable, addressing Maori claims to water, or structuring our domestic broadband market to enable Kiwis to compete abroad from here. (True dat. So could be improved by real broadband developers not media posturing posers!) (more…)
DESMOND TUTU TEACHES OF THE LESSONS OF WAR FROM SUDAN’S SCARRED HISTORY
Wise Commentary today is Bishop Desmond Tutu talking of lessons from war in an open commentary piece.
“(CNN) — In the coming days I will be in Juba and Khartoum, the capitals of South Sudan and Sudan.
My fellow Elders Martti Ahtisaari, Mary Robinson and I are going there to try to ensure that the terrible lessons of war are not forgotten.
Tutu hopes to speak to both sides of a continued and increasing conflict in the two countries to allay more war in the region.
Read more at the cap.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 6.7.12~
HOW KIRK DOUGLAS HELPED TO BREAK BLACKLIST
ABC’S David Muir zooms viewers in to celebrate the life of Kirk Douglas, as a Hollywood light who stood against censorship in a culture where politics was too heavy-handed and blacklist occurred from government. A friend and mentor named Robert, who is 91 and lives in Beverly Hills, once got black-listed because he worked as a journalist who would socialize with black people in Los Angeles when reporting.
He was Jewish, yet he could pass for Parsee. Robert was associated to Lena Horne‘s circle of friends, when Lena was black-listed as a communist. He was blacklisted too. They were crazy times. Robert is still a registered member of Pen America to this day, an organisation that is a global literary community dedicated to protecting free expression and celebrating literature in humane ways.
David Muir’s story goes: “In the 1950s Hollywood was consumed by the blacklist. Writers, producers and actors were called before Congress amid fear they might be Communists. The mere mention of a name was enough to end a career.
“It was the worst time in Hollywood,” Hollywood veteran Kirk Douglas told ABC News. “Everybody told me I was crazy.”
Crazy because as a producer of Spartacus Douglas put his own career on the line, his own fortune, to hire Dalton Trumbo, one of those writers on the blacklist.
“If you do it … you’ll never work in this town again. You will be declared a Communist,” Cleo Trumbo, Dalton’s wife said people told Douglas.
But Douglas, hired Dalton Trumbo anyway, and Spartacus became the top movie of the USA that year. The movie wasn’t only a box-office winner, it was also instrumental in breaking the blacklist.”
Douglas realized that within the face of Dalton Trumbo’s faceless story was his own story, that “there by the grace of God, go I.” He acted on that basis with integrity in liberty, in one pivotal action of inclusion that went beyond surface appearances of the milieu-of-the-day, thus changing history. With confidence in peace Douglas disciplined a system that had become drunk on power, elitist exclusion for personal gain and was blind to the image of itself, while being clearly unjust towards humanity. Kirk Douglas hacked the system of inequality and greed backed unjustly by a state system’s might.
The tyranny of the blacklist was broken. He was an agent of redemption, the only true firm foundation of real grace. Freedom returned, the marginalized advanced and Kirk Douglas included others more honestly with his spirit of wise compassion and fearless courage to love others as he wanted to be treated himself. He demonstrated: “there by the Grace of God, go us.”
[Photo caption: Source: Wikipedia, courtesy of Mesa County Libraries. Spartacus movie still ATTV].
[Photo selection: Author's own & Graden Carter for Vanity Fair]
To the grey-set, wise Jewish doms of Beverly Hills, California… for their humanitarian philosophical thoughtfulness… their sense of humor in displaying a wider humanitarian cause through the oft shallow glitz of show biz’s circus… we say “thank you.”
News selection: as broadcasted on air in New Zealand by Mr. Peter Williams, TVNZ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.6.12~
THE BEST TRAINING CHAMPION – ANITA FINNEGAN’S PASSION FOR GROWING EDUCATED WINNERS OF PACIFIC ISLAND YOUTH – IS EPIC!
“There is no one like her,” educationalist Rachel Skudder says of her pioneering and entrepreneurial Greek-Kiwi mother, Anita Finnegan today.
The Best Training Champion is an advocate of Pasifika and Polynesian youth rising up, getting educated and going for gold in their dreams.
Always a fan of Anita’s work; her abilities, perceptive insights, her amazing children and her unique wisdom are a hallmark of this special lady. Finnegan’s ability to impart life skills that go the distance in the high altitudes across a young person’s dream, is only offset by her sparkling wit, shared wisely from a ferocious Irish intellect she shields with measured fun.
You just gotta watch this clip! Anita is a woman whose story could rival USA’s Oprah in the beginner’s years of struggle when Anita started out in education and business. Her life has been a roller coaster yet here Finnegan stands today. In fact, the two women should meet.
They’d revolutionize Africa or New York’s education system… in a day of brainstorming! Anita Finnegan is Epic! I have always loved Anita and her fun family. Smart fun! They make us proud to be Kiwis of the South Pacific.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.6.12~
WORKING TOWARDS GIVING UP NUCLEAR WEAPONS – WHO HAS THEM IN THE WORLD?
Documentary director Lucy Walker created Countdown to Zero in 2010. The documentary gave a timely warning about the escalating nuclear arms race. It was heavily promoted by Lisa Halaby of Santa Monica, aka Queen Noor of Jordan in the US.
I’m running a link to the doco’s movie trailer again as its message is something the majority of the world agrees with.
In many ways we’ve designed the world wrong. We are twenty years behind on green technologies rapid advancement in the world.
Energy should have been spent on creating better food supplies for the years ahead, preserving water supplies and air quality, rather than a nuclear arms race that no one on earth, can afford to tolerate. From an environment perspective, we definitely should have had less wars. So, with what remains and a populaton that’s growing, how can we ensure that we all get on the same page in preserving what’s left more sustainably.
Again, nations of us that posess nuclear weapons capability are: Acknowledged: Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia, United States, North Korea. Unacknowledged: Israel. Seeking: Iran.
Reformed: South Africa – voluntarily dismantled. Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 26.6.12~
FINANCIAL LITERACY – THE BIBLE & THE TORAH
טֹ֗וב יַנְחִ֥יל בְּנֵֽי־בָנִ֑ים וְצָפ֥וּן לַ֝צַּדִּ֗יק חֵ֣יל חֹוטֵֽא׃
–one reason why if you are Jewish, you should always take a copy of The Torah (or a bible) to work if you want to are the wise words in Hebrew, above.
Or, you can take a print out of your favorite piece of poetry to memorize while at work, if you want to as well.
[Image - Beth Jacob Congregation, Los Angeles on Facebook. Photo caption: "Recently Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks inspired us with his words of Torah throughout his visit. Shabbat morning at Beth Jacob brought unprecedented crowds to our shul. We look forward to continued efforts of Achdut and enthusiasm."].
It takes all kinds of people to make the world go round. :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
A BULLETPROOF ARMS TRADE TREATY – PACIFIC GOVERNMENTS OPPORTUNITY
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~
PRINCE CHARLES TALKS SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY – FOOD, WATER, SOIL, CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY SECURITY
Whether rich or poor, we all need food and water in livable climes, for future generations to have quality of life.
Organic gardener Prince Charles Mountbatten, first in line to the British throne, pre-recorded a message for the leaders of the UN’s Rio+20 summit in Brazil. The conference that is all about sustainability, Prince Charles said:
“Climate change and food security, need to be more integrated.”
“It is, perhaps, a trait of human nature to act only when the worst happens, but that is not a trait we can afford to rely on here”
“Waiting for the worst to happen would be “too late to act at all.”
“Like a sleepwalker, we seem unable to wake up to the fact that so many of the catastrophic consequences of carrying on with ‘business-as-usual’ are bearing down on us faster than we think, already dragging many millions more people into poverty and dangerously weakening global food, water and energy security for the future.”
“One thing is clear. We need to be much more informed about the actual state of the planet.
“If this could happen, at least then we would know what the state of the planet actually is – and then plan accordingly,” he said.
He went on: “We do not have long to capture such a comprehensive picture, and so I would appeal to you as you meet here in Rio to make an even greater and concerted effort to persuade policy and decision-makers to act before it is finally too late.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 18.6.12~
SMART WATER ECONOMIES – PRODUCT CHOICES & SAFE WATER INVESTMENTS
Wairere News
35 gallons of water go into making each cup of coffee. That’s if you account for the H20 utilized to grow and cultivate coffee beans. 635 gallons go into making one hamburger. That’s because our cash cows can be expensive to farm.
As populations rise, standards of living improve, the world’s demand for clean fresh drinking water has rapidly accelerated. In some places, such as central California, the North China Plains and India – water demand has outstripped local supply. Global water consumption will rise 40% within 20 years. Desalination technologies, water reuse, and conservation are of vital concern. Tremendous economic, ecological, and geopolitical impacts due to quality water suppy – means that water is a currency to invest in. If you’re an investor, start thinking this way more.
Cheers!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.5.12~
USA NEWS – 13.2.12
Today the Wall Street Journal asks: Why are women missing in Asia’s board rooms? Photo caption: European Pressphoto Association
Some news links from the USA we’re reading today are:
International spotlight – Afghan Massacre Ended as Search Began
Mrs Clinton plays a gender card: ‘Extremists’ Out to Control Women
Can Obama urge WTO to loosen ‘China’s strangle hold’ on rare earth minerals
U.S. Officials Debate Faster Pullout in Afghanistan
Saving $ – Prof: Gingrich Should Drop Out
Florence Art – Clues to a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci
WSJ – China High-Speed Rail Section isn’t built to last
The Hunger Games – The Texas version: Texas Teens Rob Girl Scouts
Substitute teacher suspected of molestation arrested
WSJ: Global Investment in Australia Soars
Oil price hike distractions – Britain to Join Obama in Discouraging Israel to stike Iran
International news: Israel Air Strikes Kill 18 in Gaza
Jeff Bridges really really wants to be a bigger movie star in Asia
Classical violence a la musique
Trade Issues With China Flare Anew
WSJ: Facebook, Google to Stand Trial on Censorship in India
Is this really necessary? Arizona May Let Doctors Lie to Patients
US opinion- What Greece Means
WSJ Op-Ed- Though heavily populated – India is not a Superpower
Or, Pass the Books. Hold the Oil
Support Our Sponsors: Crucial Memory Upgrades
Stuck by economic engineering – The Go-Nowhere Generation
Are vegetarian columnists killing the meat industry? All red meat is bad for you, study finds
LA Times pontificates – Why did Disney’s ‘John Carter’ flop?
Developing children’s books for adults - Lissa Price‘s sci-fi novel ‘Starters’ isn’t just for kids
WSJ: Are women missing from Asia’s board rooms? Peep it.
[With thanks to Matt Drudge, CNN, New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.3.12~
CURBING BANKS & CEO’s FROM TOO STRONG A HAND IN A NATION’S PLANNING, FUTURE DIRECTION AND IMPACTS ON CULTURE & R&D INVESTED SUSTAINABLITY
A country that is planned financially well, offers all of these words in its sustainable garden for its people’s well being.
I was looking for some smart quotes about agriculture. Instead, I happened upon this video clip that was more than I’d bargained for finding. The clip claims that forward government planning is essenial for a safe free market. When governments don’t plan banks effectively become in charge of allocating the nation’s resources because they advance the credit lines and the governments don’t.
In The Real News, Paul J. interviews Michael Hudson who says financial planning of a nation is like agriculture. You need to plan ahead well to get a harvest. When governments don’t plan sufficiently (subsidies, tarriffs and taxes) as governments need to then the banks take over and they begin to run nation’s economies.
Michael Hudson posits that when banks hands are too strong over a nation’s economic governance, their projects are aimed at snatch and grab and hit and run methods that equate to asset grabs quite quickly that leave an economy with loaded down debt (hedge funds culture). What always suffers is the R&D side of a nation’s affairs too as banks just want to make more and more of a profit from countries existing asset bases – they are not about long term plans goals investments or sustainable prosperity.
This interview is fascinating as it covers a historical period of centuries in world examples and journeys through WWI and WWII. From 1980 the industrial sector began to squeeze for profit. Stock options then altered how managers ran companies, as businesses became more selfish and not about majorities of workers. Managers now are involved in squeezing short term a return on their stock options – they are not concerned about long term sustainability of productive methods.
Writing this from New Zealand – I have to ask myself, who holds what stocks in what areas? Especially if such people are leaders, or politicians and what is the wise R&D level companies should be investing each year?
Should legislation be set in place to secure a long term and more sustainable path forward for New Zealand companies, to balance out the people in power with stock options, harmful management models, benefits and pay offs – that ruin a companies longevity in the long term?
Watch video clip to discover more. It is an interview about “concentration of ownership leads to a concentration of political power” and ”big banks, public power and public policy.” In New Zealand Australian owned banks were the big winners in the last three years known as the Global Financial Crises. Many profit flows went back to the banks, thus gutting R&D and also infrastructure in New Zealand.
This gap needs to be closed in the next three years so that more goes back into New Zealand, and the people of New Zealand, not placed into the hands of a few. I like these words as New Zealand considers an asset sales culture ahead. Who stands to get what when and how, could be well guided by the principles that Paul and Michael share above.
[Perhaps for New Zealand a mix of opinions between John Key, Bill English, Winston Peters, Wira Gardiner, Ralph Norris, Metiria Turei etc could be reached using Paul and Michael's thought templates to reach a good balance for New Zealand peoples and businesses long term futures. If not, we gut New Zealand for Wall Street styled culture at banks recommend- and who wants to hand the future direction of this beautiful country over to foreign cowboys and cowgirls just because banks want to have a rodeo? Culturally, we are not even legally able to do that - so a discussion of significance along the lines of what Paul and Michael convey - should be had in New Zealand - especially for Christchurch's sustainable rebuild and repayment and Maori Iwi's future business aspirations and potential being realized to benefit all New Zealanders long term too].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 26.2.12~
THOUGHT AND ACTION
“There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.”-Thomas Henry Huxley
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.2.12~
PETRA BAGUST SHARES FAMILY HOLIDAY JOYS AS A TV STAR, HUMANITARIAN MOM
Be wisely brave. Say yes.
She is one of the few faces in New Zealand that has the ability to combine the spirit of community with her unique brand of compassion and Kiwi empathy.
Flipping through the local paper, I couldn’t help but notice that Petra Bagust, a TV star and humanitarian mom sharing the joys of holidays with the family.
Guest Spotlight Blog Commentary today, Petra shares:
The best holiday I’ve ever had was …
This past summer on a camping adventure with my extended family. It was like being a child again, swimming before breakfast, solar showers and toasting marshmallows around a campfire – heaven.
And the worst was …
When six of us hired a yacht in the Greek Isles but didn’t want to moor at busy ports. Our Greek captain started ranting and raving. We “abandoned ship” by kayak, rowboat or swimming, and I swam back to the boat and started peace talks …
With endless time and money I’m off to …
Great Barrier Island for six weeks, followed by trekking in Morocco and Turkey. A stop-off in Spain wouldn’t be out of the question on the way home.
The best travel advice I have is …
Be wisely brave. Take a “yes” mindset with you. Some of my favourite holiday memories were made by meeting locals and trying something new.
I never leave home without …
My husband. He’s adventurous, his sense of direction is impeccable and I like his humour.
Petra Bagust is the co-presenter of Breakfast, TV One, weekdays from 6am.
–Anyone who can rise and shine at 4 be ”on” on the TV at 6 and still look like a million squillion bucks for a nation morning-by-morning, is well worthy of having their opinions printed twice, I reckon!
Or in other words, as you would say in Hollywoood “Petra gives good face” and with her mega-sexy accent Petra is ”good at the blah blah” too.
Thx Petra.
As first printed in the New Zealand Herald.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.2.12~
EXPERIENCES INTO SONG – THE ART OF LEONARD COHEN
He’s sombre prophet, mordant wisecracker, repentant cad, writes Dorian Lynskey of Leonard Cohen‘s unique place in hearts as an artist.
Leonard Cohen says “All I’ve got to put in a song is my own experience.”
The Maestro is back with a great new album, Old Ideas – and more wit and wisdom.
To read more, check Lynskey’s feature here.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 21.1.12~
WINSTON CHURCHILL ON CONTINOUS EFFORT = POTENTIAL
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
via WhatDidWinstonChurchillSay.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 14.1.12~
GREAT SPIRIT CREATIVITY by SITTING BULL
CULTURE OF THE HEART
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and the souls of its people.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.1.12~
KEEP GOING – WINSTON CHURCHILL, SUSHI-SAMBA, MIYAGI-TECH, IWI-KIWI SMART PHONE TRIBAL, BASEBALL CAPS
Hats: Kinda liking this cap 2day. Sums up a vibe where New Zealand’s kids are at. In NZ we’re told China’s slow down could hit Aussie hard.
This in turn could hit NZ hard too. Well, I reckon that green tech electric cars are kinda a key for Kiwis to hunt out a way to be sorta more norris rich in our McKenzie country, creative funny shandy andy amish Northland Auckland ways. We could make the engine components with Japan staff as new corporate whanau, USA too, if we felt like that, right here in NZ. Eat sushi 4eva in cool vineyard like pubs after work each week with heaps of avocado (apparently! more so than the fish).
Maybe we should set up a high-tech electronic plant that does that? Somehwere nice, by the sea maybe. You could take your surfboard to work, or canoe. Then after really geeking out at the day job, creating electronic green powered technology all day, working alongside robots we made too, you could just leave work and hit the waves or take a dip. (more…)
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