New Global Reality and Al Gore

Posted 28th Dec 2015 to Summer Report Radio New Zealand

Your Program got it right this morning... We are living in a different century and we need to deal with different problems..
THE USA has been Following it’s old formula of protecting it’s interests with Military Force and not keeping the Peace as a Superpower should.
All the problems of today are down to a couple of supreme court Judges in the USA who took it upon themselves put George W Bush in Power and bounced out a President who
understood the need to change with the times. And be a force of reason.

Eventually as more and more people are educated there will be a critical  A HAH moment when we collectively realize we are all vulnerable human beings together in charge of our own survival.

New Zealand Tourism Bubble 2015

Posted 22nd December to Morning Report Radio New Zealand

Why are people sounding Happy that our Tourism Industry will be broken by shear numbers in February
This is not good for the Country or the Industry it is a Bubble.
Our Government has failed us again. Surely the objective of good Tourism is To improve the Quality of the Product
Not burst it for a four week boom. Ironically the Department of Conservation is the Key Player in Our Tourism Industry yet there is a total lack of Funds
For the Department to Improve its Services and Products let alone Expand them.

The system is Broken and our Tourism Leadership is about inept as it can be.

The United States: Golbal Police or Fire Department

Posted to the New York Times New Paper December 10th 2015

Comedian Bill Maher may not be a politician but he has the ears of powerful People on this Planet
There seems to be a consensus on his show that the United States of America is NOT the World’s Policeman..

Actually by default, It Is. And also a Fireman.

Mr. Maher points out that US Governments and their Corporations embarked on a reckless adventure over the remains of the World’s Previous Empires

But Sadly Bill, Someone has to be in charge of the people of Earth or it will go to hell in a handcart.

All the Ultra Rich who own everything will agree with the question posed the old Midnight Oil song... “How do we sleep when our beds are burning”

Yes playing with fire is fun but it doesn’t look so attractive if there is a back draft.

The USA started a fire in Humanity  in 1900 when we dreamed of being a World Power

Just like Real Fires, Metaphysical Fires must be controlled, and not with Force but Soft Power and Foresight.

American Angst: Mr Robot

A rare clip from TV that shows the darkness of America's material society embeded in a convoluted story of self deception and delusion

Antarctic & Fiordland Center Christchurch

Posted 30th November 2015 to the Mountain Scene Newspaper Queenstown

The Purchase of the Antarctic Center in Christchurch by Real Journeys is a great chance to showcase Fiordland National Park and Real Journey’s Tourism Products

The Les Hutchins Trust Originally wanted to show case Fiordland in the Town of Te Anau but the numbers did not Work well... 

Ideally the Airport at Christchurch will be a much greater venue opportunity for such a venture
Especially if attached to the Antarctic Center... Parts of the Te Anau Glow Worm Caves would be easy enough to copy... Go back in time on the Steamer Tawera to the Milford Track, Relive the Excavation of the Homer Tunnel Tunnel, Experience Fiordland and Queenstown with 360 degree cinema screens.. Build a Scale Diorama of the Manapouri Power Project, Explore the Marine life in the Depths of Milford Sound.. ? A Prefect Opportunity to fulfill the founders dream... And why not ?

Osama's Grand Plan - On Track

Posted 17th November 2015 to Morning Report Radio New Zealand.

It seems Osama Bin Laden lives on thanks to the past actions of George W Bush
Christopher Hitchins once pointed out that Bin Laden was trained as an Engineer and knew how structures work
and where and when to strike them.

The USA was pretty much going to respond to the Terrorism in a predictable way
And the dysfunctional Political Structure of the Islamic World  Bin Laden would know that the West would get dragged into a
Impossible conflict with it’s historical enemy form the Crusades.

 Popular speculation is he was aiming for the destruction of the West
But some say he was simply wanting to topple the hated Saudi Royal Family..

as for George Bush his daddy was always pushing for a new world order!
Intentions or not at this point of the prospect of never ending Terrorism from the disaffected sons of Islam means we are inching towards those goals
Every passing hour. It is a Insane Game where we are literally & figuratively playing with Fire!

Political Anxiety in New Zealand

Posted 16th of November 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper

 Good letter from C Findlater of Ryal Bush this weekend on the state of New Zealand’s Gross national Happiness which seems to be on the decline.
Really it has to be said Thatcherist Capitalism does work well if you are Very Lucky and have the means to stay lucky and don’t mind the anxiety that one day your luck will eventually run out.

 As for our Politicians... We don’t really get to pick them, they sort of pick themselves just like all people in power today they all pick each other and we get to endorse
Someone we didn’t want in the first place in an what is jokingly called an election...

I see the Chinese Leaders consider themselves as “administrators”  which is really all we need , the “Game Show” of our Western elections is  really O T T if you think about it.
It should be seen as a Job of Work, not a throne.

Climate Change Oppinion - Trilobites !

Posted 7th November 2015 to the Fiordland Advocate Newspaper

John Baird of Winton has brought up a problem Scientists have with this planet, that is that it is a wonderfully complicated place
And one can not explain it’s complexity to the average person without having to make every argument a one issue problem.
Too much Co2 is not our single problem on planet Earth. Nor is the presence of Human beings, but it is a deadly certainty that
current Human Political thinking is going to choke the Planet to Death if it fails to address the Finite Nature of our resources on this pale blue dot we live on.
The Trilobites managed to Rule this Planet for 270 Million Years because they just got on with living without Wars, Agriculture, Energy Extraction, Religion or Politics..

We are way smarter than Trilobites are we not? We have 269.99 Million Years to go to beat them!

The plight of Raif Badawi - Media Test

Posted 3rd November 2015 to Media Watch Radio New Zealand.

If you need to test our Media organizations for morality
All you have to do is check which ones have published or addressed the Story of Raif Badawi
In Saudi Arabia...

Some News is pure fiction but most damage of it is distortion by omission for reasons of moral rectitude.

Democracy fails when the is no voice of reason to guide it...

 

 

Bernie Sanders - The New Great Bird of the Galaxy

Posted 3rd November 2015 to the New York Times Newspaper.

 Ode to the 2016 Visionary,

The Late Gene Roddenberry's future visions have captured the American imagination  in his fiction Stories
The technology excited  many generations of Americans but it was the political development of the Earth under the benevolent guidance of the Future United States
That was one of his greatest Visions.

Today In the World of Roddenberry followers there is one Politician that looks to be ready to take on Gene’s Great Vision for Humanity  where ultimately the Earth is a Peaceful Garden like Planet
And responsible people are rewarded and no people are left to perish in misery. And Humanity its self the currency.

They say if there is one message to the future from the creator of Star Trek from his past incarnation it would read “Feel the Bern”!

Mankind's New Epoc - The Anthropocene era

Posted 27th Oct 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

Our Planet is a good old home, It’s got 4.45 Billion Years on the Clock and is fit to go several Billion more.
It was the Planet of the Trilobites for 270 Million Years and the Planet of the Dinosaurs for 135 Million years after that
And now we have just started the Anthropocene Era (aka the Time of the Biped - Primates)

I often wonder what the place will look like with us as tenants after 100 Million Years
considering we have just about wrecked it after a few mere decades of Global Domination...

It’s a funny thing we don’t actually have a body of our greatest minds yet to steer us as a species but I guess the Trilobites didn’t either and they managed OK.

Unlike our Trilobite ancestors we are part Bonobo and part Chimpanzee in our genetics and we don’t know if we should be peaceful or violent, should we except change or stand our ground... We don’t even know, will we still even be one species or fork again, there could be a Anthropocene Explosion involving some form of intelligence!

Any rate I hope our first Crazy Centuries are “remembered” when we hand over the planet to it’s next Tenants and I hope they forgive our mistakes, with any luck there will be many millions of Anthropocene Years to fix them. 

The Cycle Trail Solution - New Zealand

Posted 25th Oct 2015 to the Fiordland Advocate

 I don’t wish to comment on the State of Cycle Trails in New Zealand today and if they are a panacea..
I don’t think we are on a bandwagon when we ask for the use of our National Park for a new Recreation Resource
And Tourism Product....  It’s been 30 years since the Kepler Track was cranked up and I think we can afford to try something new.
The Trail From Manapouri to Te Anau was a merger of two Ideas.. In the 1990s I mooted that if the Kepler Track was extended to
Manapouri Township so we could have a Bus Service between Towns to service Trampers, Shaun Cantwell was pushing a decade later to
Make a Recreational Cycleway down the Upper Waiau River then someone had the bright Idea to Combine the Ideas and Join the Communities
togeather with a Showcase Fiordland Project. And the odd thing was, at the start... The Department of Conservation was going to drive it.
So really, there was no real downside... In 2007...


A E Nicholson

* Published 29th Oct
 

United States of Planet Earth - President Who ?

Posted 23rd Oct 2015 to Radio NZ - The Panel with Jim Mora.

Please Ask the panel for me..
If The US President is the most powerful man on Earth
Which candidate would the People of Earth Want to Vote for ?

Has anyone ever done a Poll ? If Not why Not?

George Friedman on Europe - Darwin Perspective

Posted 12 October 2015 to the Nine to Noon Program Radio New Zealand

As you might have noticed in your Job, European Humans are Highly Strung fearful Beings !
Mr Friedman has uncovered a nasty truth... Prosperity is Power and wielding Power makes Humans Scared of retribution.

The USA would never had voted in FDR and pulled itself together if it where not for the Depression.. Ever since prosperous Politicians have been trying to pull his legacy apart

Ironically The real USA was Forged in the ashes of the Civil War, Modern Europe never had that chance as the USA always stepped in and interfered at critical conjunctures

Then there was the late great Ottoman Empire  now torn to shreds from constant interference from scared People with disproportionate amounts of Money and Power.

You can’t tell me the King of Saudi Arabia is not Haunted by the broken body of the once King of Iraq hanging from a Bagdad Power Pole.

Please Tell Me How can anyone seriously address the Climate change issue when the World is literally and figuratively on fire from conflicts...

USA Gun Violence - Options for change

Posted 24th October 2015 to the New York Times Newspaper USA

It is a strange thing to hear a large proportion of fellow American in High office stating that we should use blunt force on any people we feel are angry with the USA.
There are people running for office now who think gruesomely raining Fire on these people and their families up with high explosives is somehow a good and righteous thing if even we only think they feed terrorists.

Social Media is full of Angry People basically wanting our Commander in Chief to wipe people who don’t want to buy into the American Dream off the Map. America is awash in Anger at the Poor and the Losers
many angry confused people want to let them die with no food, Jobs or Hope..

And our Children bring guns to school to exact retribution on classmates...  We wonder where THAT comes from... I guess it is a Mental Heath Issue... The whole Nation is nuts with anger and it rubs off...  on our children.

FYI Hollywood:  Stop making guns look sexy, it’s as bad for teenage boys as smoking. And BTW, Bullet Trauma is even less sexy than cancer.

The day the World nearly ended in 1962

Posted 20th October 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

There are a lot of events our society likes to remember but this time in 1962 the leaders of the superpowers of the world
Thought they might never see another day and if not for one officer on a Russian submarine, Human Civilization could have been snuffed out for ever.

People where terrified on a mass scale at that time, yet we hardly ever talk about it now and just what trauma that event had on our collective
psyche.

It seemed for a while from the young for the rest of that decade that there could be a better way of Living than Constant Fear and that we
Might make use of our lucky escape.

Sadly subsequent generations have not really learned  much from this and the once great United States has shunned Stern pro-active leadership since then in favor of leaving the the Peoples of the World
To scrap amongst themselves as slaves to strategic economics or just blatantly encouraging internal conflicts.

What thanks did Nikita Khrushchev get for Backing Down? He was removed from power and humiliated.

President Kennedy was also seen as weak for allowing this to happen, and sadly

nobody knows who Vasilli Alexandrovich Arkhipov is, or what service he did for Humanity...

I Hope Fairfax Media remembers :-)

 

Climate Change, is not what you think.

Posted 16th of October 2015 to the Christchurch Press Newspaper NZ

Re your articles...
I find the confusing thing about Climate Change is that it is nonsense to talk endlessly about upgrading our technology, when our problem is all about
WASTE.

Electric Cars seem like a good Idea until you look at all the pointless journeys we do in our societies that are wasted energy, It’s pointless to say
Domestic coal burning causes anywhere near as much CO2 as all the Energy Wasted on proping up the free market. And if you consider America Throws out one third of all their food
Causing a Huge Methane Problem combined with the High intensity Agricultural Waste to produce un wanted food leaves domestic & automotive emissions in the dust.

There is an irony that it uses more energy to make one automobile than to drive it for seven years, yet they are deliberately designed to be obsolete after 4 years.

Paranoia and Conflict are a massive waste of resources... That’s are all due to Emotional thinking and political expediency from our benevolent Super Power across the sea.

 The Upshot is man made Climate Change is caused by the wasteful Luxury of Cultural Stupidity and that looks really GRIM when you add unregulated population growth to the mix .

One day the home truths will come out, but at the moment truths are pure political Poison.. even for scientists!

Human Stupidity is Unnecessarily Choking the Planet ... That is the real hard truth behind climate change.

Message to Bernie Sanders - Bill Maher

Posted October 21st 2015 to Bernie Sanders for President Facebook Page

After the October Bill Maher Interview The People of Earth Finally Speak...

Donald Trump's Real Message of 2015

Comment to the National Memo Online 21st October 2015

An Odentroll Response....

Brian Hanley - Gene therapies for ageing

Posted 2nd October 2015 to Nine to Noon Radio New Zealand

Brian Hanley the "Gene Genie" better not move to fast with giving Humans eternal Life
As they still have not figured out what to do with the limited one the have at the moment.

I can just see that People will be working for Millennium to pay for the Privilege of living and still won't be able to get a house in Auckland !

So why is the European brain programmed for eternal struggle, conflict and paranoia? Won’t prolonging life at the moment will just prolong misery, if we don't fix that first.

Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement for Workaholics

Posted 7th October 2015 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

 It’s a funny thing How Patriotic People get about Rugby or Flags
We need to tread Very Carefully if we want to Interfere with either of those Icons,
but when it come to legal sovereignty of The People of New Zealand, the MOST  important
Part of a Nation, we let our un-mandated representatives give it away so we can make more rubbish jobs that trash our local environment just to give us something to do.

Funny nobody called for a single referendum on that let alone two!
even a vote of No Confidence wouldn’t have gone amiss when Sovereignty is at stake one would expect.

I feel compelled to ask what is our collective driven need to make people Work Hard ? What are we afraid off if we don’t ?
There are so Many Questions, Where is the NZ Lazy Person’s Political Party? are they a thing or are they just none of the above.

Some-one should Cash in on the Lazy Vote... While it’s still worth something... Stop the Madness of not enjoying life as it’s meant to be!

 

New Zealand Flag Artists - Media Candy

Posted 19th September 2015 to the Southland Express Newspaper Invercargill NZ

 
American commentary on our flag referendum indicates that Kiwis are given one Choice, the Kyle Lockwood Red White and Blue
Is Obviously the preferred flag of the referendum instigators as the others are smoke screen designs.

The Cost of finding out what Kiwis like would be a fraction of the cost of getting them to swallow what could be unpalatable change
Realistically a Newspaper Text Vote competition  would cost almost nothing..

Frankly I was Surprised the media couldn't advise our PM on what “people” like as they specialize in it.
So where is all the money going ?

Not to all the people who worked hard making interesting flag designs.

*Like this one from Otago Southland 

 

Tall Poppies In New Zealand

Posted 27th September 2015 to Sunday at Radio New Zealand.

In Response:

Home Truths,
Yes NZ is rubbish at celebrating it’s Movers and Shakers
Probably because our Media is Australian and our Government is Full of light-weight posers..

Take a Look at our Bank Notes...  only one academic... and he is the Guy who darn near got us all Killed.

What does that say?

Woman in the Workplace - New Zealand

Posted 27th of September 2015 to Sunday Morning Radio New Zealand

In response,
NZ Women are are really quite cleaver ..
They get their Men to be ambitious for them
Men need to be powerful because power is a sex magnate.

Men get pushed beyond their ability time and again, eventfully it kills them and the wives get all the spoils...

Isn’t that a fundamental driver of Western Civilization ?

Any why Islam is so at odds with the West?

Empathy Refugees - Collatoral Dammage

Posted 16th September to Nine to Noon Program Radio New Zealand.

 It’s amazing how the Syrian People where somebody else’s problem until the throw themselves to the Mercy of the Europeans.
We as a whole don’t really care how they die as long as they don’t do it on our Shores.

The Anglo European World had the clout to stop this real Tragedy at it’s roots instead we went on a rampage in Afghanistan and Iraq
And spent ourselves on retribution and bogymen.

It’s a great Failure of our times when we have to think of Fellow Humans as Insects to carry on our great game show that is western life.

If we are asking the Germans to reprise Concentration Camps and Internal Passports to stop Europe from being overrun by Islamic Forces Modern Germans would be incensed beyond comprehension .

Everybody else is broke or hoping to be invisible, Europe is United in name only.

The upshot is this is a Crisis of Empathy, if you help one your hurt another.

It’s no good sacrificing other people to make yourself feel Empathetic-ally fulfilled either.

That amounts to arrogance. Life is about to get very Dark. 

Hobbit Labor Laws of New Zealand

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

Just a comment on the Chicane Cartoon in  your last Thursday’s edition.
The Hobbit Trilogy and John Key have surely darkened Sir Peter Jackson’s Name.
A bunch of Ugly stuff went on to get the Movies made here and the result was disappointing
To the Art-form and to Tourism.

Full marks to Sir Peter for Building the 2nd Hobbiton Set to last, and Sir Richard for upgrading the Weta Cave
But they did little service to the country with the Scenic Locations this last time around.

They recycled some from the LotR Films or butchered others so badly with editing & computers as to make them useless.
They also avoided accessible or Iconic New Zealand Landmarks that could have done with the exposure.

More computer generation meant less work for Real Craftsmen, Writers and Artisans.
And less real scenery meant Less future tourism jobs, even the music score was weak compared to LotR.

I have to say, our light-weight leaders should have negotiated for “windfalls” instead of Crushing the Actors Union, and looting our Coffers.

However, Sirs Peter and Richard at least need never work again.