Fiordland Advocate - Cue Television Ends

Posted 19th April 2015 to the Fiordland Advocate Newspaper Te Anau NZ
 

 I see Southland’s Cue TV has gone off air for good after years of struggle to keep afloat financially. Cue had covered many TV Items in the Fiordland Area for years despite the lacking a Te Anau News team, so Cue will be remembered here albeit on a limited Youtube selection.

Cue had a low profile in the South West but now there is going to be very little TV coverage of Stories unless some disaster happens. 

It would have been handy if the TV let people know of the Overcrowding In Milford Sound this Summer or covered the visit of the Daughter of Sir William Pickering one of the most famous New Zealanders of all time to Fiordland, but sadly all the Big Network News journalists are glued to Auckland now. 

Maybe A regional Southern Lakes Tourist info Channel might be born one day but it will be out of Queenstown no doubt .

Overcrowding at Milford Sound NZ

Posted 19th April 2015 to the Southand Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ.

 I see the day has dawned that The people charged with orchestrating  Milford Sound tourism are hearing discords that have been predicted for years now.

It seems Plan A to just pretend Southland tourism never ever evolves is not working so maybe it’s time to look at Plan B and take control of the Beast.
Again, for the Busy Summer Months, Place a Gate at Knobs Flat in the Eglinton Valley and Bus all tourists in from there to their connecting boats.
Unless they buy a Tramper Pass to use the Road to do walks or have booked accommodation.  Yes it would be great to collect tolls to pay for the other Park assets
Outside the “Golden” Milford Area and perhaps give Te Anau it’s much needed Interactive Heritage Museum or even Pay off our Ornamental Airport facilities.

Sadly It will be a hard thing to stop Central Government from taking the Money to blow Northwards.  But the Idea that we need to keep our tourism experience an organized pleasant one rather than a low budget free-for-all I think is still worth Considering at this point in the narrative.

I think the Word we are looking for here is QUALITY.  And that involves keen creative thinkers!

Invercargill & Aluminium-Ion Battery Breakthrough

Posted 12th of April 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

Your reader Mr Brian Campbell has brought up an interesting Development on Aluminium-Ion Battery Development out of California,
It’s no wonder the US Energy Barons like the Koch Brothers have together put up a almost a Billion Dollars in Campaign money to get a Politicians to go to bat for them. Because It’s not cliché Rocket Science that if this new Battery dovetails into new sustainable Energy Sources there will be a massive power shift in the Western economies. And that will shift political Power as well, right down to its roots.

As for Invercargill and Manapouri Power... If the World can stand such an upheaval you might be making more Rio Tino Ingots that one can imagine and Invercargill can carry on into the future on the same 1970 track.

The only problem is the dysfunctional American Political system is now flooded with un-capped Energy Extraction Money.


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Responsibilities of the New Zealand State

Posted 9th April 2015 to the Dominion Post Newspaper Wellington NZ

 Listening to how our Government has handled the Home Care Contract situation one feels like reminding the Government that
Their primary purpose is to look after all it’s citizens, that is the social contract MPs are signing up to when they become representatives.

As we speak, New Zealanders who have been good honest hard working people are being displaced from housing because they are physically unable to
work hard enough to compete with overseas investors and the children of the wealthy. Now If they have to care for a Mentally or Physically damaged Family member or loved one this could make life totally intolerable!

Might I suggest that if we can not fix our economic system we can at least build care facilities for our Fine Citizens who have never done crime or held any malice
so they do not become displaced because of bad luck and avoid letting them becoming prey to the people we lock up in jails at great expense.

The best way of doing this?? I suggest traditional Villages with subsidized small Cottages with Communal Gardens and Workshops where Skills and Care can be shared. (with the Elderly as well.)

I gather the old State Mental Hospitals where going in that direction before they where scrapped by the free-marketeers.
But in 2015 any intellectual will tell you the free market is ultimately degrading humanity. Totally.

 

Dominion Post - LED Lighting Breakthrough

Posted 7th of April 2015 to the Dominion Post Newspaper Wellington NZ

This Morning on Radio NZ Kathryn Ryan stumbled across the environmental Black Hole that is Capitalism..
The Wellington City Councils Power Saving LED street lighting has thrown light on the fact that our Modern Capitalist System is fueled by stupid WASTE... And it is literally choking the Planet!

It’s quite clear now we can either waste resources like there is no tomorrow  or go on living
with a functional society that we can hand on to our children.

Our Government HAS to take responsibility to fight for it’s people and not just it’s Corporations.
Massive Energy Saving opportunities should only be positive turning point.

They are literally subsidizing the degradation of Nature if they take away the ratepayers energy saving windfall made by new technology.

There is an expectation that one day in the future there will be a Nuremberg type trial for those committed heinous Crimes against Nature.

So lawmakers beware.

Green Political Revolution - Waste Not!

Posed 15th April 2015 to the Southand Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

  
Hamish Rutherford wrote a piece for you March 30th about the NZ Green Party in a state of Indecision
I always though that the Green Revolution was not going to come from the Intellectual Left
but from the conservative elements in our society. After all what could be more conservative than conservation!
The Green Party should be there to cross the t’s and dot the I’s  and they need to hold wrong doers to account.
I can never figure out why we have not gone back to Reusable Bottles in New Zealand. One thing the Green Party should
Do is get the community involved in stopping waste and in other countries Bottles are seen as a priority.
So why is WASTE no Green enemy number one ? Making an Automobile uses as much energy as the fuel equal to Seven Years driving
So why are there no incentives to recondition Cars ?  I think the Green Revolution will come from the People that are the owning class as they don’t want to loose everything for the Luxury of Waste. This will be a silent revolution and it will not be televised.
However conservative America currently is a sticking point because they need directions from Jesus first. But the Idea of “Free Will” will eventually kick in, when faced with oblivion..


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