American Psychological Association - US Torture

Posted 22nd August 2015 to Kathryn Ryan, Radio New Zealand

 US psychologist Jean Maria Arrigo warned that the American Psychological Association was complicit in state sanctioned torture ?
Is TV to Blame ? A US Supreme court Judge said it works for Jack Bauer, (a fictional TV character)
If that is the case then TV is actually misleading the public as to it’s almost useless effectiveness for getting information.

It’s effect to scare populations is another matter.

So that beggar's the question, was the Bush Administration a Bunch of Thugs ?
They certainly scared Al Gore in Florida..

John Key - The National Austerity Party

Posted 20th August 2015 to the Christchurch Press Newspaper Canterbury NZ

 I have a lot of time for the policies of the Green & Labour Parties and I love Mr Peter’s no nonsense stance.
But if I was to enter politics I think I would go for the National Party because They need some Idealism as they appear to have lost their way.

The Contract politicians make to get in power is to make Government function for the good of all with a sense of justice and National Pride
This should be universal for all parties who should differ only in delivery.

The current National Politician are really an austerity party where as before National had a better grip on how capitalism works.
And what controls where needed to stop it from going off the rails.

Their biggest problem should be how Kiwis with money can invest it back in their Nation and get a good return without risk.
If National can’t deliver this then they lose their core purpose for being.

Austerity, Flags, Trade Deals, Tourism Branding, Sporting Events are all Window Dressing to cover up for lack of talent  in the art of
making capitalism run smoothly.

Tim Shadbolt reportedly once said, to be a good leader you have to make sure the plumbing keeps working.

I guess plumbing could be a metaphor for Money & Justice piped in to our homes.

Not so easy to keep up maintenance when our elected leaders are the kids from the Lord of the Flies.

Landcorp - State Owned Realestate NZ

Posted 19th August 2015 to  Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

 Hearing ex Landcorp head Chris Kelly on National Radio on the state of this SOE makes one ask again if our leaders have lost their way.

It was a Nobel thing that Governments past broke in new farms for returned servicemen but its sad that we have to suffer WARS to do this,
and as we didn’t have any wars for a while our government deemed that this service should be scrapped and replaced with a State owned Enterprise.
This was despite the fact they had a Ballot System in place for keen young Farmers who wanted to have a farm of their own and had not served in any conflict.

In today's crazy world it would be comforting to have such an option especially when you look at the capital gains the winners of those Ballot Farms have today.

Just why is it servicemen where so much more deserving than ordinary workers and children of farmers anyway? Every Worker Risks their life in one way or another when they do a job,
policemen risk their lives as much as many servicemen, large amounts of servicemen & women are purely their for administration and support and are less likely to get killed in their job
than your average Taxi Driver.

So how did the great Ideal of a Government hand Up  end up carving up the unspoiled Vista of Make Manapouri to sell Lifestyle Blocks to Rich People for Trophy Houses?
And How did they manage to pull a Public Easement off of a Landmark Hill with links to early Maori there to sell it to an Asian National? 

It’s all a bit of a mess.  Perhaps next election cycle the public should “vote in” a Parliament that is not a bad parody of the Lord of the Flies and bring in some grown ups for a change.

United States of Humility - Bernie Sanders

Posted 17th August 2015 to the New York Times Newspaper

On Bill Maher’s TV Show the other Night on Guest stated that American has won the Stewardship of the World but is at a loss to know what to do next.

YES the Anglo American elite owns nearly all the Military Power and Economic Power (as they print the world’s money)... but what to do?
Do we go with Bernie Sanders and try and go to the next level or do we pretend the World is still a load of colonies waiting to be exploited by Anglo US Corporates?

I think we are at a Crossroads. America Can Keep fighting the Rest of the World or Try and use it’s power to heal it.  Both Trump and Saunders are the Alpha Males in this Struggle
The rest are really time servers looking for a meal ticket living under the comfortable delusion that the 1980s is the World’s blueprint forever.

Whatever the outcome, the True Leader of the USA will need to have superhuman guts to address the real problem of planet earth. To Many People and not enough planet, too many Pointless People and way too many unwanted People.

NZ Flag Oppinion - Aaron Nicholson - Designer

Posted 14th August 2015 to the Southland Times Newspaper Invercargill NZ

A Life time ago I took a Visual Communications Course at the Southland Community College (now SIT)
One of my Tutors was a Mr David Russell Who encouraged us to use our eyes and brains together  and see things that other
Didn’t, so for a bit of fun in one class I applied this advice to the NZ Flag design with the Idea it had to do the following things, Instant Recognition, for starters
A nod to the Commonwealth as well as Maori and a touch of our communal passion for sports without using Black or Rugby Logos of any kind.

But I did not submit it this time around as I think the chosen Flag that gets picked in the end will be despised because of the way this referendum has been presented
And yes, other Artists feel the same.

Up until 1946 all Kiwis held British Passports, this is a commonwealth Country with a English Head of State. I think that EVERY new Flag on offer slights this historic Fact
Is not just wrong but actually creepy.

NZ Flag Oppinion - Otago Daily Times

Posted 14th of August to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

Re Audrey Young’s story on the Flag Design Selection
Let it be known that not all flag designs have been submitted because some artists do not want to be tarnished by the kill-joy way Mr Key has gone about
This referendum  also the fact that our Scots Irish English History is Stomped on is bizarre coming as it is from a man who brought back Knighthoods.
So my Flag design that Incorporates a Stylized Union Jack was never submitted.

Poor John Key... He is cursed, Potentially Fun thing he touches turns sour. The Flag debate was always a bit of fun for artists but not anymore.
Cycle Trails where suppose to be Fun ad so was the filming of the Hobbit Movies but Mr Key Spoiled the Party Just like the Idea of Building a utopian Christchurch
And the art of Property Speculation and investment now has the shine taken off.

No offense Mr Key but you are a Party Pooper. You could have had a Newspaper Poll and spent the Flag money on Otago Health Services.
What ever Flag you pick will remind everyone of THAT every time they see it.  

Media Climate Distortions - ODT

Posted 3rd August 2015 to the Otago Daily Times Nespaper Dunedin NZ

Out here in the Rural Heartland I have noticed the seeping in of Right Wing American Talkback rhetoric about Man Made Climate Change.
If you want to Argue that Cows have a negative effect on the environment I think it’s fair to argue that maybe it’s not that much on a planet this size.
But you surely can’t say that Cows don’t exist or in the Case of Man Made Climate Change, that it is all an Illusion.

However the Right Wing Shock Jocks don’t stop there They call man made Climate change a Faith or Religion which is bizarre to say the least.
If being slightly concerned about a possible danger is just “Faith” to them, then I think they must have no fear, empathy or a desire to survive.

As someone who has lived in the USA I would like to point out that Right Wing Shock Jock Radio Hosts are what you call “Barking Mad”
and they do it for ratings and entertainment. Yes they DO exist albeit in a Logic Free Bubble. Please do not take what they say too seriously.

And don’t ask scientists for complicated facts if you can’t understand complex issues that you are not trained to comprehend.
Very few people can articulate how an Iphone works...That dosn’t mean they don’t exist or that they run on magic!