Press Release 19.11.11 Who was assassinated?
‘Who was assassinated?’ asked Dr Peter Cleave, Mana candidate for the Rangitikei in response to a recent internet posting by Peter Wheeler. Wheeler’s blog refereed to John Key as ‘the smiling assassin’.
Peter Wheeler has put the John Key story together well,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘But if we look at his nickname, the smiling assassin we need to ask who exactly it was that was being hurt. If we think of the Occupy movement and the need for financial reform around the world but especially in New Zealand with all of the failed finance companies and the way John Key thinks about power and money it becomes all the more alarming. The smiling assassin? The ones who were assassinated were the regular folk who saved their money but then invested it in outfits like Merrill Lynch.’
Dr Cleave referred back to his earlier Press Releases about former National and Labour politicians involved in the collapse of finance companies and asked, ‘Why did we and why are we still continuing to trust the likes of John Key?’
Dr Peter Cleave suggested that Mana supporters in Rangitikei could assist in the overthrow of a sick financial regime with failed financiers at the helm in 2011.
http://wheelerscornernz.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-key-smiling-assassin-or-hero-you.html
Friday, November 18, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Age and race Press Release 18.11.11 Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, RangitikeiVideo 124
Press Release 18.11.11
‘Age discrimination as well as racism?’ asks Dr Peter Cleave.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana Candidate in the Rangitikei electorate today asked the leadership of the Act, and National parties what their policies were on age as well as other matters including race.
‘We know what John Banks and Don Brash think of Maori and Polynesian situations,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘Will the teapot tape show a negative attitude to older people as well?’
Dr Cleave said that Mana had the best policy for elderly people.
‘People of retirement age will be better treated by Mana than by other parties,’ Dr Cleave said in an internet posting today.
Dr Cleave said that the elderly would not be forgotten by Mana in the Rangitikei and noted the irony in media attention being given to Winston Peters of New Zealand First when Mana had a better policy.
One more thing- Dr Cleave offered some questions for starters on the teapot tape;
‘Is the government guilty of double standards if it supports eavesdropping on its people without their knowledge as in the Urewera but then complains when someone eavesdrops on them as in Epsom?'
‘Age discrimination as well as racism?’ asks Dr Peter Cleave.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana Candidate in the Rangitikei electorate today asked the leadership of the Act, and National parties what their policies were on age as well as other matters including race.
‘We know what John Banks and Don Brash think of Maori and Polynesian situations,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘Will the teapot tape show a negative attitude to older people as well?’
Dr Cleave said that Mana had the best policy for elderly people.
‘People of retirement age will be better treated by Mana than by other parties,’ Dr Cleave said in an internet posting today.
Dr Cleave said that the elderly would not be forgotten by Mana in the Rangitikei and noted the irony in media attention being given to Winston Peters of New Zealand First when Mana had a better policy.
One more thing- Dr Cleave offered some questions for starters on the teapot tape;
‘Is the government guilty of double standards if it supports eavesdropping on its people without their knowledge as in the Urewera but then complains when someone eavesdrops on them as in Epsom?'
Scary unspoken agendas Press Release 17.11.11 Dr Peter Cleave Mana Rangitikei
Press Release 17.11.11
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei said today in an internet posting that he was more interested in the unspoken conversation between the Johnnies on the spot, John Key and John Banks.
‘The teapot tape will be interesting,’ said Dr Cleave,’ but what about the shared agendas of these parties? They are agreeing on strange things about race, age and right wing economics and that has to be scary for a lot of people.’
Dr Cleave went back to his campaign theme of ‘lost communities’;
‘The elderly are forgotten in the Rangitikei and sometimes live in very isolated situations. Just like unemployed people and beneficiaries in small towns throughout the electorate they have strong needs in the areas of transport and housing as well asbasic living costs. A National-Act coalition will leave these communities forgotten again.’
Dr Cleave also announced his election night gathering for Mana supporters in the Rangitikei at the Gretna Hotel, Taihape.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei said today in an internet posting that he was more interested in the unspoken conversation between the Johnnies on the spot, John Key and John Banks.
‘The teapot tape will be interesting,’ said Dr Cleave,’ but what about the shared agendas of these parties? They are agreeing on strange things about race, age and right wing economics and that has to be scary for a lot of people.’
Dr Cleave went back to his campaign theme of ‘lost communities’;
‘The elderly are forgotten in the Rangitikei and sometimes live in very isolated situations. Just like unemployed people and beneficiaries in small towns throughout the electorate they have strong needs in the areas of transport and housing as well asbasic living costs. A National-Act coalition will leave these communities forgotten again.’
Dr Cleave also announced his election night gathering for Mana supporters in the Rangitikei at the Gretna Hotel, Taihape.
Wheelers Corner 17th November
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47 17th November 2011
This Week: 1. the real John Key: 2. Roget’s Thesaurus editorial bull: 3. John Banks mouths rubbish: 4. Hokowhitu School makes news: 5. Local Hero makes headlines.
NEWS FLASH; CONTENT OF TAPE RELEASED VIA EAVESDROPPER.
An Eavesdropper friend at the Herald on Sunday sent me this transcript of John Key’s and John Bank’s conversation at a local café in Epsom;
JK “Tea’s nice”.
JB “Yes I agree”
JK “It’s good to kiss baddies, sorry I mean babies”
JB “I agree”
JK “It’s good to see so many of the media here”
JB “I agree”
JK “Is there anything you don’t agree with”
JB “Only if you say it’s OK to disagree”
JK “Brash is a bit of a twit”
JB “I agree”
JK “I doubt I’ll need the Act Party next term”
JB “I agree”
JK “You agree! Are you sure?
JB “Well, you have not told me not to, and orders must be obeyed”
JK “So if you are elected and you bring Don Brash as baggage and since he is your leader you’ll have to obey his orders, is that correct?
JB “I don’t know how to answer that, but I’d sooner obey your orders”.
JK “That’s nice to know”
JB “I agree”.
The rest of the tape is un-publishable because it contains swear words and language of an adult nature, such as the buying of Italian and Greek shares etc from the sale of our assets…and Banks becoming Minister of Nothingness assisting Steven Joyce…
1.
Is Key what he says he is? I would suggest that in looking at John Key that we understand that: “It is extremely important to see that intelligence and intellect can be used for ends other than those of gaining “truth” or “insight” or “knowledge.” One can learn to be cunning rather than clever, smooth rather than clear, convincing rather than rationally persuasive, articulate rather than accurate. One can become judgmental rather than gain in judgment. One can confuse confidence with knowledge at the same time that one mistakes arrogance for self-confidence. In each of these cases a counterfeit of a highly desirable trait is developed in place of that trait”.
The John Banks cup of tea media beef up allows John Key to use all of the above for self publication and to hide the fact that he is actually very insecure…this from Metro…
“During Key’s brief spell for Merrill Lynch in Sydney in 2001, he helped fire 500 staff as part of savage worldwide retrenchment by the bank. In the past, Key has appeared proud of his ability to sack without feelings. He told Metro magazine: “They always called me the smiling assassin.” These days he insists these were not cheerful sackings. “In the end I had to carry out wider responsibilities, but I think I’m fundamentally a nice guy, but have to follow instructions,” he says. Do you remember who said those words at the end of the 2nd world war?
2.
Death knell, nose dives, meltdowns, tsunami, catastrophic defeat, So it’s all over bar the shouting, the smiling baby kisser has won; the PR machine can be put away. The great predictor has spoken, but wait there is more, even Palmerston North may be eaten up by the great national party machine according to our great predictor local editor Michael Cummings [pictured], yeah… yeah…
Based on shonky Fairfax Media [telephone] opinion polls Michael the local news media whiz kid on Thursday broke out his Roget’s Thesaurus and found a bunch of words to illustrate his conviction that Labour was dead in the water.
Predictions often don’t come to pass, for example;
· Did the world self destruct in the year 2000, no it did not.
· Did Bill English win in 2002, no he did not.
· Did Labour lose in 2005, no it did not.
· Did the All Blacks thrash France as predicted by the media,
Where was your heart in that game’s final two minutes, mine was pounding as it looked as if all predictions were going to be wrong, yet again, but we were saved by a penalty goal kicked by someone dumped some weeks before.
John Key has had his cup of tea with John Banks in one last effort to save Act from a death knell, nose dive, meltdown, catastrophic defeat…yeah…yeah. National has fallen from above fifty percent and is now looking for allies, as it would be wise to do.
Key has brought MMP into disrepute by buying the support of failed John Banks and the zero party he supposedly represents. His currency for this buy off is the votes of his wealthy supporters in Epsom, the money involved is paid for by you the tax payers of New Zealand in the form of a salary paid to John Banks and possibly Don Brash both are failed ex-national has-been’s who are wealthy and the recipients of huge tax reductions earlier this year. The PM has done a like deal with Peter Dunne by selling off National Party supporters; one could imagine that the other parties contesting Epsom [Labour, Greens, etc] may now suggest that their supporter’s party vote National. I doubt that they would resort to this ‘Back hand betrayal”, of their supporters as the Nats are now doing.
The election of course is not over until the fat lady sings…I have faith in the 99%, but I’m not predicting a winner, that would be foolish [especially after the RWC final]. What I wish for is that every one should vote, if you wish to vote for those who rob the poor to pay the rich that is over to you. An impossible dream says the predicting and predictable editor; tell that to the French rugby team…they were one point away from winning the rugby world cup when the final whistle blew…
3.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei today took exception to the comments made by John Banks, Act candidate for Epsom currently circulating on the internet. Banks talks about Maori and Polynesian people on the dole at home watching pornography and planning burglaries. 'Why do we have to put up with this sort of nonsense?' asked Dr Cleave in an internet posting today. 'This is outrageous behaviour. Not only is the New Zealand public having to watch an abuse of MMP as they are seeing with Act and National in Epsom with the patently false standing of a National candidate there, we have a former Mayor of Auckland making an awful spectacle of himself.'
Dr Cleave wondered why this kind of comment was not being censured by the Race Relations Office. 'Banks would not get away with this in some other countries,' he said. 'Why are we putting up with this kind of silliness here? New Zealand used to be known as a place of fair play and balance. Here we have an established politician making a prat of himself in a gerrymandered electorate and being endorsed by the Prime Minister over a cup of tea! How could our image possibly be further tarnished?’
4.
When is the treaty not a treaty…when a council wants to continue to pollute and destroy others heritage…its even worse when a Minister of the Crown Nathan Guy permits such anti-environmental behaviour to continue favouring Fonterra and farmer dominated councils.
An Independent candidate in this year’s elections was arrested and led away in handcuffs at an Armistice Day commemoration attended by the Minister of Internal Affairs Nathan Guy yesterday.
Otaki candidate, Phil Taueki [pictured] is a Foxton RSA member who was attending a ceremony on the Foxton RSA premises with his partner Cr Anne Hunt when Police Officer John May tapped him on the shoulder and asked him outside. As Mr Taueki was leaving, four other police officers arrived and arrested him for a breach of his bail conditions.
Mrs. Hunt says the police claimed that he had given only twenty-three and a half hours notice that he would be attending a function attended by Horowhenua’s Mayor Brendan Duffy rather than the required twenty-four hours.
The police ordered a journalist covering the event not to take photographs.
Mr Taueki’s lawyer, Steven Price is currently out of the country and was unable to represent him for yesterday’s appearance in the Levin District Court.
Mr Taueki had applied for a variation of his bail conditions to ensure that he would be able to address campaign meetings if the Mayor also attended.
Mr Taueki is taking the Horowhenua District Court to court to stop Levin’s storm water draining into Lake Horowhenua which is privately-owned.
Mr Taueki who is a direct descendent of Tauheke who signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of Mua-Upoko, says he is heartened by the response he is getting on the campaign trail as he describes what he believes to be the most blatant violation of the Treaty of Waitangi in recent history.
Despite the fact that Mua-Upoko has always owned Lake Horowhenua , the Crown removed all ownership rights by passing a law placing control of the lake in the hands of a domain board appointed by the Minister. Since then the lake has deteriorated to such an extent that it is now ranked one of the worst lakes in the country.
Mr Taueki says that he was not surprised by his latest arrest, due to comments Mr Guy had made to his campaign manager after a candidates’ meeting last Tuesday.
And although he was forced to spend several hours in a police cell on Armistice Day, he is philosophical, considering this latest incident to be part of an ongoing campaign of harassment by the police, the local council and politicians ever since he returned to New Zealand to champion the rights of his iwi. In his campaign manifesto, he says that if you don’t stand up for your rights, it is inevitable that you will lose them.
However, he says that his arrest at an RSA premises on Armistice Day shows a distinct lack of respect for the rights and freedoms that New Zealand servicemen fought to preserve.
For further information, phone Mr Taueki on 367 3872 or e-mail him on philtaueki@gmail.com
5.
Hero or Villain…local educator makes world news.
Principal of Hokowhitu School :
Educators are understandably afraid. Why? Look what happened to Alan Alach. But rather than reinforcing our collective silence, we should be uniting. Don’t let Alan’s courage be in vain. Phil Cullen of Australia (a Member of the Order of Australia - a sort of Aussie knighthood-for services to education) writes this letter to the editor in response to the article that led the attack on Alan’s work (shown in its entirety here):
“The article by Jessica Button on 4 November suggested that the education minister was displeased with the principal of Hokowhitu School for alleged injudicious remarks on a blog site. Mr Alach is an ebullient critic of national standards. He seems to think that they constitute a confining process that constricts and lowers overall curriculum standards; and which does nothing to promote purposeful achievements in reading, writing and mathematics. As a practicing school person, he is worried overall about the effects that politicking for corporate benediction has on children’s focus on learning.
Mind control of schooling and the use of officers to bring schools into line are pandemic. Mr Alach’s blog vocabulary indicates that he does not like it being used in New Zealand . Australia certainly uses forms of Gestapo-ism; but I will not be called to account for saying that. When Joh was king in Queensland and I was a state director of education, in charge of about 1200 primary schools, I was sometimes called to account by school principals and nasty names were used. I felt aggrieved, of course. However, when at times I checked the accuser, it was often a principal who knew a thing or two. As far as school leadership was concerned, we did not have many Alachs. There were some, and although they doubted my parentage at times, I learned to give way, especially to the Alachs. On reflection I do wish that there were more Allan Alachs in our work-force; brave state-employed, good school operators unafraid to be critical; reminding superordinates that they don’t know everything.
Some advice for Ms Tolley: “Young lady, part of your job requirements is to eat crow. Do it and just spit out the feathers; not seek revenge. ”Phil Cullen A.M. Former Q’ld State Director
Peter J Wheeler
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47 17th November 2011
This Week: 1. the real John Key: 2. Roget’s Thesaurus editorial bull: 3. John Banks mouths rubbish: 4. Hokowhitu School makes news: 5. Local Hero makes headlines.
NEWS FLASH; CONTENT OF TAPE RELEASED VIA EAVESDROPPER.
An Eavesdropper friend at the Herald on Sunday sent me this transcript of John Key’s and John Bank’s conversation at a local café in Epsom;
JK “Tea’s nice”.
JB “Yes I agree”
JK “It’s good to kiss baddies, sorry I mean babies”
JB “I agree”
JK “It’s good to see so many of the media here”
JB “I agree”
JK “Is there anything you don’t agree with”
JB “Only if you say it’s OK to disagree”
JK “Brash is a bit of a twit”
JB “I agree”
JK “I doubt I’ll need the Act Party next term”
JB “I agree”
JK “You agree! Are you sure?
JB “Well, you have not told me not to, and orders must be obeyed”
JK “So if you are elected and you bring Don Brash as baggage and since he is your leader you’ll have to obey his orders, is that correct?
JB “I don’t know how to answer that, but I’d sooner obey your orders”.
JK “That’s nice to know”
JB “I agree”.
The rest of the tape is un-publishable because it contains swear words and language of an adult nature, such as the buying of Italian and Greek shares etc from the sale of our assets…and Banks becoming Minister of Nothingness assisting Steven Joyce…
1.
Is Key what he says he is? I would suggest that in looking at John Key that we understand that: “It is extremely important to see that intelligence and intellect can be used for ends other than those of gaining “truth” or “insight” or “knowledge.” One can learn to be cunning rather than clever, smooth rather than clear, convincing rather than rationally persuasive, articulate rather than accurate. One can become judgmental rather than gain in judgment. One can confuse confidence with knowledge at the same time that one mistakes arrogance for self-confidence. In each of these cases a counterfeit of a highly desirable trait is developed in place of that trait”.
The John Banks cup of tea media beef up allows John Key to use all of the above for self publication and to hide the fact that he is actually very insecure…this from Metro…
“During Key’s brief spell for Merrill Lynch in Sydney in 2001, he helped fire 500 staff as part of savage worldwide retrenchment by the bank. In the past, Key has appeared proud of his ability to sack without feelings. He told Metro magazine: “They always called me the smiling assassin.” These days he insists these were not cheerful sackings. “In the end I had to carry out wider responsibilities, but I think I’m fundamentally a nice guy, but have to follow instructions,” he says. Do you remember who said those words at the end of the 2nd world war?
2.
Death knell, nose dives, meltdowns, tsunami, catastrophic defeat, So it’s all over bar the shouting, the smiling baby kisser has won; the PR machine can be put away. The great predictor has spoken, but wait there is more, even Palmerston North may be eaten up by the great national party machine according to our great predictor local editor Michael Cummings [pictured], yeah… yeah…
Based on shonky Fairfax Media [telephone] opinion polls Michael the local news media whiz kid on Thursday broke out his Roget’s Thesaurus and found a bunch of words to illustrate his conviction that Labour was dead in the water.
Predictions often don’t come to pass, for example;
· Did the world self destruct in the year 2000, no it did not.
· Did Bill English win in 2002, no he did not.
· Did Labour lose in 2005, no it did not.
· Did the All Blacks thrash France as predicted by the media,
Where was your heart in that game’s final two minutes, mine was pounding as it looked as if all predictions were going to be wrong, yet again, but we were saved by a penalty goal kicked by someone dumped some weeks before.
John Key has had his cup of tea with John Banks in one last effort to save Act from a death knell, nose dive, meltdown, catastrophic defeat…yeah…yeah. National has fallen from above fifty percent and is now looking for allies, as it would be wise to do.
Key has brought MMP into disrepute by buying the support of failed John Banks and the zero party he supposedly represents. His currency for this buy off is the votes of his wealthy supporters in Epsom, the money involved is paid for by you the tax payers of New Zealand in the form of a salary paid to John Banks and possibly Don Brash both are failed ex-national has-been’s who are wealthy and the recipients of huge tax reductions earlier this year. The PM has done a like deal with Peter Dunne by selling off National Party supporters; one could imagine that the other parties contesting Epsom [Labour, Greens, etc] may now suggest that their supporter’s party vote National. I doubt that they would resort to this ‘Back hand betrayal”, of their supporters as the Nats are now doing.
The election of course is not over until the fat lady sings…I have faith in the 99%, but I’m not predicting a winner, that would be foolish [especially after the RWC final]. What I wish for is that every one should vote, if you wish to vote for those who rob the poor to pay the rich that is over to you. An impossible dream says the predicting and predictable editor; tell that to the French rugby team…they were one point away from winning the rugby world cup when the final whistle blew…
3.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei today took exception to the comments made by John Banks, Act candidate for Epsom currently circulating on the internet. Banks talks about Maori and Polynesian people on the dole at home watching pornography and planning burglaries. 'Why do we have to put up with this sort of nonsense?' asked Dr Cleave in an internet posting today. 'This is outrageous behaviour. Not only is the New Zealand public having to watch an abuse of MMP as they are seeing with Act and National in Epsom with the patently false standing of a National candidate there, we have a former Mayor of Auckland making an awful spectacle of himself.'
Dr Cleave wondered why this kind of comment was not being censured by the Race Relations Office. 'Banks would not get away with this in some other countries,' he said. 'Why are we putting up with this kind of silliness here? New Zealand used to be known as a place of fair play and balance. Here we have an established politician making a prat of himself in a gerrymandered electorate and being endorsed by the Prime Minister over a cup of tea! How could our image possibly be further tarnished?’
4.
When is the treaty not a treaty…when a council wants to continue to pollute and destroy others heritage…its even worse when a Minister of the Crown Nathan Guy permits such anti-environmental behaviour to continue favouring Fonterra and farmer dominated councils.
An Independent candidate in this year’s elections was arrested and led away in handcuffs at an Armistice Day commemoration attended by the Minister of Internal Affairs Nathan Guy yesterday.
Otaki candidate, Phil Taueki [pictured] is a Foxton RSA member who was attending a ceremony on the Foxton RSA premises with his partner Cr Anne Hunt when Police Officer John May tapped him on the shoulder and asked him outside. As Mr Taueki was leaving, four other police officers arrived and arrested him for a breach of his bail conditions.
Mrs. Hunt says the police claimed that he had given only twenty-three and a half hours notice that he would be attending a function attended by Horowhenua’s Mayor Brendan Duffy rather than the required twenty-four hours.
The police ordered a journalist covering the event not to take photographs.
Mr Taueki’s lawyer, Steven Price is currently out of the country and was unable to represent him for yesterday’s appearance in the Levin District Court.
Mr Taueki had applied for a variation of his bail conditions to ensure that he would be able to address campaign meetings if the Mayor also attended.
Mr Taueki is taking the Horowhenua District Court to court to stop Levin’s storm water draining into Lake Horowhenua which is privately-owned.
Mr Taueki who is a direct descendent of Tauheke who signed the Treaty of Waitangi on behalf of Mua-Upoko, says he is heartened by the response he is getting on the campaign trail as he describes what he believes to be the most blatant violation of the Treaty of Waitangi in recent history.
Despite the fact that Mua-Upoko has always owned Lake Horowhenua , the Crown removed all ownership rights by passing a law placing control of the lake in the hands of a domain board appointed by the Minister. Since then the lake has deteriorated to such an extent that it is now ranked one of the worst lakes in the country.
Mr Taueki says that he was not surprised by his latest arrest, due to comments Mr Guy had made to his campaign manager after a candidates’ meeting last Tuesday.
And although he was forced to spend several hours in a police cell on Armistice Day, he is philosophical, considering this latest incident to be part of an ongoing campaign of harassment by the police, the local council and politicians ever since he returned to New Zealand to champion the rights of his iwi. In his campaign manifesto, he says that if you don’t stand up for your rights, it is inevitable that you will lose them.
However, he says that his arrest at an RSA premises on Armistice Day shows a distinct lack of respect for the rights and freedoms that New Zealand servicemen fought to preserve.
For further information, phone Mr Taueki on 367 3872 or e-mail him on philtaueki@gmail.com
5.
Hero or Villain…local educator makes world news.
Principal of Hokowhitu School :
Educators are understandably afraid. Why? Look what happened to Alan Alach. But rather than reinforcing our collective silence, we should be uniting. Don’t let Alan’s courage be in vain. Phil Cullen of Australia (a Member of the Order of Australia - a sort of Aussie knighthood-for services to education) writes this letter to the editor in response to the article that led the attack on Alan’s work (shown in its entirety here):
“The article by Jessica Button on 4 November suggested that the education minister was displeased with the principal of Hokowhitu School for alleged injudicious remarks on a blog site. Mr Alach is an ebullient critic of national standards. He seems to think that they constitute a confining process that constricts and lowers overall curriculum standards; and which does nothing to promote purposeful achievements in reading, writing and mathematics. As a practicing school person, he is worried overall about the effects that politicking for corporate benediction has on children’s focus on learning.
Mind control of schooling and the use of officers to bring schools into line are pandemic. Mr Alach’s blog vocabulary indicates that he does not like it being used in New Zealand . Australia certainly uses forms of Gestapo-ism; but I will not be called to account for saying that. When Joh was king in Queensland and I was a state director of education, in charge of about 1200 primary schools, I was sometimes called to account by school principals and nasty names were used. I felt aggrieved, of course. However, when at times I checked the accuser, it was often a principal who knew a thing or two. As far as school leadership was concerned, we did not have many Alachs. There were some, and although they doubted my parentage at times, I learned to give way, especially to the Alachs. On reflection I do wish that there were more Allan Alachs in our work-force; brave state-employed, good school operators unafraid to be critical; reminding superordinates that they don’t know everything.
Some advice for Ms Tolley: “Young lady, part of your job requirements is to eat crow. Do it and just spit out the feathers; not seek revenge. ”Phil Cullen A.M. Former Q’ld State Director
Peter J Wheeler
Wheeler@inspire.net.nz
I would like to thank those who have donated to Wheeler’s Corner, while I don’t know whom you are your assistance is humbly accepted and highly valued. Thank you. If any one else would like to donate the address is Wheeler’s Corner Access Manawatu PO Box 4666 Palmerston North.
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Press Release evening 14.11.11
Press Release evening 14.11.11
‘It looks like MMP but it works like racism,’ said Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei after a candidates meeting in Feilding tonight in reference to John Key’s ‘cup of tea’ with John Banks in Epsom.
‘Here you have a leader of a small party, Don Brash of Act, who rails about race based funding and has done so since his Orewa speeches when he was in the National Party,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘There you have a new member of Act, John Banks who echoes his leader with the twist that Polynesians and Maoris are living off benefits in South Auckland, laying about watching pornography and planning burglaries. And John Key needs these people in Parliament to make his numbers secure. So he sits down with them and cuts a deal where his party goes soft in Epsom so that Act has a better chance of winning the seat. It looks like MMP but it works like racism. Banks and Brash probably will get to be in government, taking their race ideas that have effectively been endorsed by National with them. MMP should stay but we have to make modifications so that this kind of thing does not happen in Aotearoa- New Zealand.’
Dr Cleave said that arrangements like this made New Zealand an international laughing stock.
‘A head of state sitting down with a small group of nutty right wingers using race as campaign tool? This is ridiculous.’
Dr Cleave was looking ahead to taking the Mana campaign for Rangitikei further north, to Kakahi in the King Country, this week.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Press Release 14.11.11 Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei
Press Release 14.11.11
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei today took exception to the comments made by John Banks, Act candidate for Epsom currently circulating on the internet. Banks talks about Maori and Polynesian people on the dole at home watching pornography and planning burglaries.
‘Why do we have to put up with this sort of nonsense?’ asked Dr Cleave in an internet posting today. ’This is outrageous behaviour. Not only is the New Zealand public having to watch an abuse of MMP as they are seeing with Act and National in Epsom with the patently false standing of a National candidate there, we have a former Mayor of Auckland making an awful spectacle of himself.’
Dr Cleave wondered why this kind of comment was not being censured by the Race Relations Office.
‘Banks would not get away with this in some other countries,’ he said. ‘Why are we putting up with this kind of silliness here? New Zealand used to be known as a place of fair play and balance. Here we have an established politician making a prat of himself in a gerrymandered electorate and being endorsed by the Prime Minister over a cup of tea! How could our image possibly be further tarnished?’
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei today took exception to the comments made by John Banks, Act candidate for Epsom currently circulating on the internet. Banks talks about Maori and Polynesian people on the dole at home watching pornography and planning burglaries.
‘Why do we have to put up with this sort of nonsense?’ asked Dr Cleave in an internet posting today. ’This is outrageous behaviour. Not only is the New Zealand public having to watch an abuse of MMP as they are seeing with Act and National in Epsom with the patently false standing of a National candidate there, we have a former Mayor of Auckland making an awful spectacle of himself.’
Dr Cleave wondered why this kind of comment was not being censured by the Race Relations Office.
‘Banks would not get away with this in some other countries,’ he said. ‘Why are we putting up with this kind of silliness here? New Zealand used to be known as a place of fair play and balance. Here we have an established politician making a prat of himself in a gerrymandered electorate and being endorsed by the Prime Minister over a cup of tea! How could our image possibly be further tarnished?’
Press Release 13.11.11 Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei
Press Release 13.11.11Draft Press Release 13.11.11
Drifting into two kinds of debt and more.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei said today that there were two major kinds of debt for constituents in the Rangitikei electorate to beware of. The first of these is the ETS. Unsuspecting taxpayers will foot the bill while corporates slide out of their commitments. At this stage we will overshoot our commitment to Kyoto. Who will pay?
Dr Cleave set out the broad strokes of the present ETS position for Aotearoa-New Zealand;
• NZ is expected to overshoot its Kyoto target by 18%
• The ETS pays for less than 20% of the resulting liability
• The Government is borrowing forest credits to cover the gap and when this is properly accounted for, NZ is today 49 megatonnes in deficit – a multibillion dollar liability, the scale of which depends on future carbon prices.
‘As if this is not bad enough there is a catch,’ said Dr Cleave. He then set out the way this forty nine megatonne deficit could drift into escalating debt depending on carbon prices. This total position of a 49 megatonne deficit is worth:
• $1 billion at the $20.33/tonne carbon price used in the Budget;
• $2.45 billion at the $50/tonne figure the government uses for modeling after 2012 (when the credits seem much more likely to be purchased); and
• $5 billion if carbon prices rise to $100/tonne.
‘We cannot afford to sit with our heads in the sand denying the science of global warming and calling the ETS ‘a big con’ as Ian McKelvie is doing,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘And just as the Occupy protesters are telling us about the way financial markets have been corrupted we need to be wary of the same thing happening with the carbon market. It would be tragic if corporates manipulated this so that poor and working folk bore the burden of ETS overshoots.’
The second kind of debt is illustrated in a recent letter to the Manawatu Standard by Peter Wheeler (12.11.11). This involves Manfeild;
‘Manawatu District Mayor and National candidate for Rangitikei does it again, firstly he bails out the Manfeild Park Trust using rate payers money by buying back land gifted to the trust. Beat that for stupidity. Then he plans to sell off large chunks of district council land to the PNCC to get his council out of hock. And now he thinks that the National Parties policy on the Emissions Trading Scheme is a load of rubbish. What next, a subsidy to dairy farmers to continue polluting our rivers and land. He is already being subsidised for doing just that [polluting our rivers].
Even after this erratic and irrational behaviour the Manawatu Standard’s Grant Miller attempts to paint McKelvie as some sort of hero. We all know the National Party could nominate any farm animal as its candidate for Rangitikei and still win the seat but these days I'm sure even dairy farmers are looking for forward
looking leaders who accept that climate change is a fact and that farming or continuing to pollute our rivers needs serious consideration.
Finally and using the now infamous words of his [McKelvie's] party leader Key,
"Just show us the money" Ian. You couldn't do it for Manfeild; you couldn't do it for your council, so we must presume that you can't do it for the ETS.’
‘I support what Peter Wheeler is saying in his letter,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘We cannot afford to drift into debt this way.’
‘There is more,’ said Dr Cleave ‘There is a culture of aimless drift in the Manawatu at the municipal and the parliamentary representative levels. A major case has drifted in and out of court recently between Horizons and the Palmerston North City Council with one accusing the other of non- compliance regarding pollution. Aside from lawyers’ fees there is mention of a $600,000 fine. I have called for the Auditor General to look at this wastage of ratepayers and taxpayers money,’ said Dr Cleave. ’These things should not be getting to court, there should be proper systems whereby one council monitors another without wasting money on lawyers and fines.’
Dr Cleave noted that many locals are upset.
‘The unconscious drifting into debt of Ian McKelvie has been well described albeit in an unflattering way by Peter Wheeler in his letter above,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘What happened at Manfeild seems to have been more of the same; a strange kind of lofty denial that there is a debt and then an ongoing drift into further debt. Put that together with the drift and stagnation that we have with the Manawatu River and its pollution and I say the people of the Rangitikei deserve a lot better.’
One final thing; Dr Cleave said,'Peter Wheeler makes a good critique of the local Fairfax media who have set a standard in reporting minutiae and leaving out the main story that would set John Cleese off on one of his silly walks. As council and court proceedings are covered point by dreary point the progressive pollution of the Manawatu river by cities, towns, farmers and others has gone on noticed by some and almost willfully ignored by others. Who has been part of the problem and who has been part of the solution?'
Drifting into two kinds of debt and more.
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei said today that there were two major kinds of debt for constituents in the Rangitikei electorate to beware of. The first of these is the ETS. Unsuspecting taxpayers will foot the bill while corporates slide out of their commitments. At this stage we will overshoot our commitment to Kyoto. Who will pay?
Dr Cleave set out the broad strokes of the present ETS position for Aotearoa-New Zealand;
• NZ is expected to overshoot its Kyoto target by 18%
• The ETS pays for less than 20% of the resulting liability
• The Government is borrowing forest credits to cover the gap and when this is properly accounted for, NZ is today 49 megatonnes in deficit – a multibillion dollar liability, the scale of which depends on future carbon prices.
‘As if this is not bad enough there is a catch,’ said Dr Cleave. He then set out the way this forty nine megatonne deficit could drift into escalating debt depending on carbon prices. This total position of a 49 megatonne deficit is worth:
• $1 billion at the $20.33/tonne carbon price used in the Budget;
• $2.45 billion at the $50/tonne figure the government uses for modeling after 2012 (when the credits seem much more likely to be purchased); and
• $5 billion if carbon prices rise to $100/tonne.
‘We cannot afford to sit with our heads in the sand denying the science of global warming and calling the ETS ‘a big con’ as Ian McKelvie is doing,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘And just as the Occupy protesters are telling us about the way financial markets have been corrupted we need to be wary of the same thing happening with the carbon market. It would be tragic if corporates manipulated this so that poor and working folk bore the burden of ETS overshoots.’
The second kind of debt is illustrated in a recent letter to the Manawatu Standard by Peter Wheeler (12.11.11). This involves Manfeild;
‘Manawatu District Mayor and National candidate for Rangitikei does it again, firstly he bails out the Manfeild Park Trust using rate payers money by buying back land gifted to the trust. Beat that for stupidity. Then he plans to sell off large chunks of district council land to the PNCC to get his council out of hock. And now he thinks that the National Parties policy on the Emissions Trading Scheme is a load of rubbish. What next, a subsidy to dairy farmers to continue polluting our rivers and land. He is already being subsidised for doing just that [polluting our rivers].
Even after this erratic and irrational behaviour the Manawatu Standard’s Grant Miller attempts to paint McKelvie as some sort of hero. We all know the National Party could nominate any farm animal as its candidate for Rangitikei and still win the seat but these days I'm sure even dairy farmers are looking for forward
looking leaders who accept that climate change is a fact and that farming or continuing to pollute our rivers needs serious consideration.
Finally and using the now infamous words of his [McKelvie's] party leader Key,
"Just show us the money" Ian. You couldn't do it for Manfeild; you couldn't do it for your council, so we must presume that you can't do it for the ETS.’
‘I support what Peter Wheeler is saying in his letter,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘We cannot afford to drift into debt this way.’
‘There is more,’ said Dr Cleave ‘There is a culture of aimless drift in the Manawatu at the municipal and the parliamentary representative levels. A major case has drifted in and out of court recently between Horizons and the Palmerston North City Council with one accusing the other of non- compliance regarding pollution. Aside from lawyers’ fees there is mention of a $600,000 fine. I have called for the Auditor General to look at this wastage of ratepayers and taxpayers money,’ said Dr Cleave. ’These things should not be getting to court, there should be proper systems whereby one council monitors another without wasting money on lawyers and fines.’
Dr Cleave noted that many locals are upset.
‘The unconscious drifting into debt of Ian McKelvie has been well described albeit in an unflattering way by Peter Wheeler in his letter above,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘What happened at Manfeild seems to have been more of the same; a strange kind of lofty denial that there is a debt and then an ongoing drift into further debt. Put that together with the drift and stagnation that we have with the Manawatu River and its pollution and I say the people of the Rangitikei deserve a lot better.’
One final thing; Dr Cleave said,'Peter Wheeler makes a good critique of the local Fairfax media who have set a standard in reporting minutiae and leaving out the main story that would set John Cleese off on one of his silly walks. As council and court proceedings are covered point by dreary point the progressive pollution of the Manawatu river by cities, towns, farmers and others has gone on noticed by some and almost willfully ignored by others. Who has been part of the problem and who has been part of the solution?'
Two ticks- Peter Cleave, Mana
Monday, 7 November 2011, 12:58 pm
Press Release: Farmside
3 November 2011
Peter Cleave: Address to constituents in Taumarunui 20.10.11
Peter Cleave and Mana – two ticks from Rangitikei for supporting rural communities rorted by Lines Company with their (not so)smart meters
Submission:
I met Peter Cleave recently, and for my money he and MANA deserve two ticks on election day. This man is short on ego and rhetoric, and long on listening and taking on board the plight of the rural poor in Rangitikei
He is so right about the demise of small rural communities - communities like Taihape in the Rangitikei Electorate, which in an ideal world he hopefully will be representing soon. While our hospital, shops, and timber mills close, throwing hundreds onto the unemployment scrap heap, to become more fodder for the beneficiary bashers, our erstwhile National MP studiously ignored the plight of this community - far to busy dreaming up draconian legislation such as the reduced ability to be represented under legal aid, which on top of the recession would further disadvantage the working poor and beneficiaries.
In standing for MANA Peter Cleave joins heroes of the poor such as Sue Bradford, in trying to turn around the brave new world mantra of asset sales and user pays - so beloved by John Key's government and, by association, his stooges in the Maori Party.
A brave new world that on one hand preaches the evils of global warming, and taxes us for our use of that life giving element, carbon, while on the other hand allows monopoly powercos to rort the public with (not-so)smart meters. Oh well, the more electricity used by these powered appliances - they aren't just meters in the old sense - and their (not-so)smart adjuncts - smart appliances and smart plugs, the greater the excuse for Labour, National, and the environmentally deluded Greens to push for yet more inefficient industrial wind developments to litter our iconic rural landscapes with their pin-wheel junkyards.
What we in rural communities need is the facility to generate our own electricity, and sell it back to the powercos, as happens in at least 40 countries. The banks in these countries are only too happy to offer cheap loans for 100% of the infrastructure costs to domestic power generaters, because they know their investment is 100% safe. The cost to the home power generater is easily covered by what they sell their excess power for. Instead many in the Rangitikei are lumbered with one powerco forcibly requiring them to spend more on their power - not less! What madness is this, and who is driving it? You guessed it - BIG BUSINESS, aided and abetted by BIG GOVERNMENT which just loves those fat dividends the state owned powercos deliver.
What can we do? In the meantime, don't pay the robber barons any more than you have to. Shun smart appliances, and turn everything off at the wall when not in use. A microwave oven constantly switched on at the wall, over a year can use as much power from the little lights that stay on, as it does in actually cooking food. And lobby candidates and your elected representatives to support a domestic electricity buy back tariff. That's two small steps...
Go Peter Cleave! Go MANA. Kia kaha
Press Release: Farmside
3 November 2011
Peter Cleave: Address to constituents in Taumarunui 20.10.11
Peter Cleave and Mana – two ticks from Rangitikei for supporting rural communities rorted by Lines Company with their (not so)smart meters
Submission:
I met Peter Cleave recently, and for my money he and MANA deserve two ticks on election day. This man is short on ego and rhetoric, and long on listening and taking on board the plight of the rural poor in Rangitikei
He is so right about the demise of small rural communities - communities like Taihape in the Rangitikei Electorate, which in an ideal world he hopefully will be representing soon. While our hospital, shops, and timber mills close, throwing hundreds onto the unemployment scrap heap, to become more fodder for the beneficiary bashers, our erstwhile National MP studiously ignored the plight of this community - far to busy dreaming up draconian legislation such as the reduced ability to be represented under legal aid, which on top of the recession would further disadvantage the working poor and beneficiaries.
In standing for MANA Peter Cleave joins heroes of the poor such as Sue Bradford, in trying to turn around the brave new world mantra of asset sales and user pays - so beloved by John Key's government and, by association, his stooges in the Maori Party.
A brave new world that on one hand preaches the evils of global warming, and taxes us for our use of that life giving element, carbon, while on the other hand allows monopoly powercos to rort the public with (not-so)smart meters. Oh well, the more electricity used by these powered appliances - they aren't just meters in the old sense - and their (not-so)smart adjuncts - smart appliances and smart plugs, the greater the excuse for Labour, National, and the environmentally deluded Greens to push for yet more inefficient industrial wind developments to litter our iconic rural landscapes with their pin-wheel junkyards.
What we in rural communities need is the facility to generate our own electricity, and sell it back to the powercos, as happens in at least 40 countries. The banks in these countries are only too happy to offer cheap loans for 100% of the infrastructure costs to domestic power generaters, because they know their investment is 100% safe. The cost to the home power generater is easily covered by what they sell their excess power for. Instead many in the Rangitikei are lumbered with one powerco forcibly requiring them to spend more on their power - not less! What madness is this, and who is driving it? You guessed it - BIG BUSINESS, aided and abetted by BIG GOVERNMENT which just loves those fat dividends the state owned powercos deliver.
What can we do? In the meantime, don't pay the robber barons any more than you have to. Shun smart appliances, and turn everything off at the wall when not in use. A microwave oven constantly switched on at the wall, over a year can use as much power from the little lights that stay on, as it does in actually cooking food. And lobby candidates and your elected representatives to support a domestic electricity buy back tariff. That's two small steps...
Go Peter Cleave! Go MANA. Kia kaha
Friday, November 11, 2011
Windfarms?
An interesting contribution from a Mana supporter;
*
*EU governments did not do their homework on wind energy*
*
It now appears that wind farms may have no benefits at all*
According to the European Platform Against Wind Farms (*EPAW*), which
represents over 500 associations from 23 countries, the National
Renewable Energy Action Plans adopted by EU States in June 2010 have
failed to answer two essential questions: how much will be saved in
greenhouse gas emissions by the EU target of 20% renewable energy by
2020, and how much will it cost Society to implement this policy (1).
The Platform argues that it is a violation of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe's Aarhus Convention on Human and
Environmental Rights, which is a mandatory part of EU law. (2)
From a political point of view, remarks EPAW, it is nothing short of
irresponsible that billions upon billions of euros of public money would
be spent on “green investments” without first conducting feasibility
studies showing the expected results in terms of CO2 saved. “After all”,
says its CEO *Mark Duchamp*, "using less fossil fuels is the whole
purpose of this pharaonic investment which, on the negative side,
destroys 2 - 5 jobs for everyone it creates (3), stalls the recovery of
the EU economy, threatens the existence of the euro, destroys the
tourism potential of countless natural and cultural assets, causes
losses in property value in the billions of euros, affects the health of
wind farm neighbours (noise + infrasounds), is driving many species of
birds and bats to extinction, etc."
What is happening now, according to EPAW, is that the public is slowly
awakening to the fact that wind farms may not be saving anything at all
in terms of fossil fuels burnt and CO2 emitted. That's mainly because
the wind farms' erratic production force fossil-fuel power plants, which
are needed to back them up when wind is not optimal, to spend much more
fuel working in stop-and-go mode - much like a car in city traffic as
opposed to highway. "As a matter of fact", recalls Duchamp, "in 2010 the
Spanish government paid a little over 1 billion euros to these plants,
to compensate them for the impact of wind and solar on their operation."
The Platform draws attention to*"the Bentek report"* (4), which shows
that wind farms, when increased emissions from back-up plants are
considered, save much less CO2 and other gasses than what is claimed by
the wind industry, governments, and green activists. Says Mark: "if you
deduct from this much smaller quantity of savings the additional
emissions caused by fossil fuels burnt to manufacture, transport,
install, and maintain wind turbines and their power lines; if you
consider that these come on top of fossil fuels burnt to build gas-fired
or coal-fired power plants to regulate and back up the erratic and
unreliable production of wind energy; if you deduct the CO2 released
into the atmosphere by the oxidisation of peat in countries like the UK
or Ireland; if you also deduct lost CO2 savings resulting from the vast
quantities of natural carbon sinks (peat, forests, vegetation in
general) that are being destroyed by the large footprint of wind farms;
if you deduct the transmission loss of electricity produced far away
from where it is consumed (about 9%); if you deduct all this from the
meager savings evidenced by the Bentek study, then it is quite possible
that the overall savings in CO2 and other gasses may in fact be negative
- i.e. wind farms would cause overall use of fossil fuels, and CO2
emissions, to increase by a few percentage points. Indeed, a European
study by Dr Udo concludes on this possibility (5)."
It is noteworthy, stresses EPAW, that the massive build-up of wind farms
in countries like Denmark or Germany has not caused any measurable
reduction in CO2 emissions or use of fossil fuels. In Europe, the Irish
grid operator EIRGRID shows on its website real data on wind energy
production and CO2 emissions, from which similar observations may be
drawn.*Dr Fred Udo*, a distinguished engineer from CERN in Geneva, now
retired, did a study based on Eirgrid data. His conclusions put in doubt
the very usefulness of wind energy (5).
The North American Platform Against Windpower (*NA-PAW*) coincides. "In
North America" comments her CEO, *Sherri Lange*, "studies on the
efficacy of wind energy are notoriously absent from policy documents on
that form of energy. As in other matters, our governments blindly follow
influential lobbies, in this case Green Activism and Big Wind. This is
not a proper way to determine policy."
*Contacts:*
Mark Duchamp +34 693 643 736 (Spain)
Skype: mark.duchamp
CEO, EPAW www.epaw.org
save.the.eagles@gmail.com
Sherri Lange +1 416 567 5115 (Canada)
CEO, NA-PAW www.na-paw.org
kodaisl@rogers.com
*References:*
*(1) - EU National Renewable Energy Action Plans:* 19 of the 27
countries have left in blank the assessment of estimated costs and
benefits of their renewable energy policy support measures, including
expected GHG reduction and job creation (Article 5.3). The others have
been fudging the issue.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/renewables/doc/nreap__adoptedversion__30_june_en.pdf
*Here is the case of Belgium:*
"No such assessment was carried out in the framework of this plan."
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/renewables/transparency_platform/doc/national_renewable_energy_action_plan_belgium_en.pdf
*And the case of Scotland:*" Table 4.1 lists those environmental topics
for which data has not been practical to obtain and provides a summary
of the approach taken to address the issue.
Box 4.1 SEA Objectives
- Biodiversity, fauna and flora: Avoids damage to, and seek to enhance,
designated sites and protected species?
- Conserves and enhances Scotland's natural heritage?
- Population: Safeguards or enhances the living environments of communities?
- Protects the noise environment of communities?
- Human health: Has no adverse impact on human health?
- Soil: Protects or enhances the quality of soils?
- Water: Protects the water environment?
- Air: Reduces pollution or emissions to air generated by the energy
sector and protects air quality?
- Climate factors: Reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, including CO2?
- Material assets: Reduces the proportion of wastes disposed of to landfill?
- Protects Scotland's assets of economic and recreational value,
including those of importance for the tourism industry?
- Reduces/minimises the use of natural resources in the energy sector?
- Cultural heritage: Protects, conserves and enhances, where
appropriate, Scotland's historic environment (including the setting of
listed buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments)?
- Landscape: Respects and protects the character, diversity and special
qualities of Scotland's landscape?"
http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/08/14102833/9
In the words of *Pat Swords*, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical
Engineers and a Chartered Environmentalist: *"All that expenditure and
impact on the landscape and biodiversity for a question mark!"*
*(2) - Pat Swords *takes the EU energy plan to the UNECE Compliance
Committee for violations under the Aarhus
Convention**http://live.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/pp/compliance/C2010-54/Correspondence%20with%20communicant/toCommC54_invitation2discussion.pdf
*
*
(copy and paste the link)*
*Next step in the procedure is to take place in December 2011.*
(3) - Green jobs destroy other jobs:*
http://brunoleonimedia.servingfreedom.net/WP/WP-Green_Jobs-May2010.pdf
http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf
http://www.thegwpf.org/press-releases/3773-top-economist-warns-green-jobs-creation-will-undermine-recovery.html
*(4) - The Bentek Report: *"The research in this report, however,
suggests that wind energy, as it has so far been developed by PSCO in
Colorado and by numerous utilities in ERCOT, has had minimal, if any,
impact on CO2, yet has lead to a significant increase in SO2 and NOX".
http://www.bentekenergy.com/documents/bentek_how_less_became_more_100420-319.pdf
*(5) - The (Dr) Fred Udo study: *"/The consequence is that an investment
of billions of Euros in wind turbines produces not more than a few per
cent reduction in CO_2 output.
/
This analysis does not take into account the energy necessary to ramp
the conventional generators up and down nor the energy to build wind
turbines nor the extra transmission lines with their additional losses.
/It is highly probable, that taking all these effects into account will
show, that the few per cent gain in CO_2 will revert to a loss (i.e. an
increase in CO_2 )."
/http://www.epaw.org/documents.php?lang=es&article=backup11
*
*EU governments did not do their homework on wind energy*
*
It now appears that wind farms may have no benefits at all*
According to the European Platform Against Wind Farms (*EPAW*), which
represents over 500 associations from 23 countries, the National
Renewable Energy Action Plans adopted by EU States in June 2010 have
failed to answer two essential questions: how much will be saved in
greenhouse gas emissions by the EU target of 20% renewable energy by
2020, and how much will it cost Society to implement this policy (1).
The Platform argues that it is a violation of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe's Aarhus Convention on Human and
Environmental Rights, which is a mandatory part of EU law. (2)
From a political point of view, remarks EPAW, it is nothing short of
irresponsible that billions upon billions of euros of public money would
be spent on “green investments” without first conducting feasibility
studies showing the expected results in terms of CO2 saved. “After all”,
says its CEO *Mark Duchamp*, "using less fossil fuels is the whole
purpose of this pharaonic investment which, on the negative side,
destroys 2 - 5 jobs for everyone it creates (3), stalls the recovery of
the EU economy, threatens the existence of the euro, destroys the
tourism potential of countless natural and cultural assets, causes
losses in property value in the billions of euros, affects the health of
wind farm neighbours (noise + infrasounds), is driving many species of
birds and bats to extinction, etc."
What is happening now, according to EPAW, is that the public is slowly
awakening to the fact that wind farms may not be saving anything at all
in terms of fossil fuels burnt and CO2 emitted. That's mainly because
the wind farms' erratic production force fossil-fuel power plants, which
are needed to back them up when wind is not optimal, to spend much more
fuel working in stop-and-go mode - much like a car in city traffic as
opposed to highway. "As a matter of fact", recalls Duchamp, "in 2010 the
Spanish government paid a little over 1 billion euros to these plants,
to compensate them for the impact of wind and solar on their operation."
The Platform draws attention to*"the Bentek report"* (4), which shows
that wind farms, when increased emissions from back-up plants are
considered, save much less CO2 and other gasses than what is claimed by
the wind industry, governments, and green activists. Says Mark: "if you
deduct from this much smaller quantity of savings the additional
emissions caused by fossil fuels burnt to manufacture, transport,
install, and maintain wind turbines and their power lines; if you
consider that these come on top of fossil fuels burnt to build gas-fired
or coal-fired power plants to regulate and back up the erratic and
unreliable production of wind energy; if you deduct the CO2 released
into the atmosphere by the oxidisation of peat in countries like the UK
or Ireland; if you also deduct lost CO2 savings resulting from the vast
quantities of natural carbon sinks (peat, forests, vegetation in
general) that are being destroyed by the large footprint of wind farms;
if you deduct the transmission loss of electricity produced far away
from where it is consumed (about 9%); if you deduct all this from the
meager savings evidenced by the Bentek study, then it is quite possible
that the overall savings in CO2 and other gasses may in fact be negative
- i.e. wind farms would cause overall use of fossil fuels, and CO2
emissions, to increase by a few percentage points. Indeed, a European
study by Dr Udo concludes on this possibility (5)."
It is noteworthy, stresses EPAW, that the massive build-up of wind farms
in countries like Denmark or Germany has not caused any measurable
reduction in CO2 emissions or use of fossil fuels. In Europe, the Irish
grid operator EIRGRID shows on its website real data on wind energy
production and CO2 emissions, from which similar observations may be
drawn.*Dr Fred Udo*, a distinguished engineer from CERN in Geneva, now
retired, did a study based on Eirgrid data. His conclusions put in doubt
the very usefulness of wind energy (5).
The North American Platform Against Windpower (*NA-PAW*) coincides. "In
North America" comments her CEO, *Sherri Lange*, "studies on the
efficacy of wind energy are notoriously absent from policy documents on
that form of energy. As in other matters, our governments blindly follow
influential lobbies, in this case Green Activism and Big Wind. This is
not a proper way to determine policy."
*Contacts:*
Mark Duchamp +34 693 643 736
Skype: mark.duchamp
CEO, EPAW www.epaw.org
save.the.eagles@gmail.com
Sherri Lange +1 416 567 5115
CEO, NA-PAW www.na-paw.org
kodaisl@rogers.com
*References:*
*(1) - EU National Renewable Energy Action Plans:* 19 of the 27
countries have left in blank the assessment of estimated costs and
benefits of their renewable energy policy support measures, including
expected GHG reduction and job creation (Article 5.3). The others have
been fudging the issue.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/renewables/doc/nreap__adoptedversion__30_june_en.pdf
*Here is the case of Belgium:*
"No such assessment was carried out in the framework of this plan."
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/renewables/transparency_platform/doc/national_renewable_energy_action_plan_belgium_en.pdf
*And the case of Scotland:*" Table 4.1 lists those environmental topics
for which data has not been practical to obtain and provides a summary
of the approach taken to address the issue.
Box 4.1 SEA Objectives
- Biodiversity, fauna and flora: Avoids damage to, and seek to enhance,
designated sites and protected species?
- Conserves and enhances Scotland's natural heritage?
- Population: Safeguards or enhances the living environments of communities?
- Protects the noise environment of communities?
- Human health: Has no adverse impact on human health?
- Soil: Protects or enhances the quality of soils?
- Water: Protects the water environment?
- Air: Reduces pollution or emissions to air generated by the energy
sector and protects air quality?
- Climate factors: Reduces emissions of greenhouse gases, including CO2?
- Material assets: Reduces the proportion of wastes disposed of to landfill?
- Protects Scotland's assets of economic and recreational value,
including those of importance for the tourism industry?
- Reduces/minimises the use of natural resources in the energy sector?
- Cultural heritage: Protects, conserves and enhances, where
appropriate, Scotland's historic environment (including the setting of
listed buildings and Scheduled Ancient Monuments)?
- Landscape: Respects and protects the character, diversity and special
qualities of Scotland's landscape?"
http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/08/14102833/9
In the words of *Pat Swords*, Fellow of the Institution of Chemical
Engineers and a Chartered Environmentalist: *"All that expenditure and
impact on the landscape and biodiversity for a question mark!"*
*(2) - Pat Swords *takes the EU energy plan to the UNECE Compliance
Committee for violations under the Aarhus
Convention**http://live.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/pp/compliance/C2010-54/Correspondence%20with%20communicant/toCommC54_invitation2discussion.pdf
*
(copy and paste the link)*
*Next step in the procedure is to take place in December 2011.*
(3) - Green jobs destroy other jobs:*
http://brunoleonimedia.servingfreedom.net/WP/WP-Green_Jobs-May2010.pdf
http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf
http://www.thegwpf.org/press-releases/3773-top-economist-warns-green-jobs-creation-will-undermine-recovery.html
*(4) - The Bentek Report: *"The research in this report, however,
suggests that wind energy, as it has so far been developed by PSCO in
Colorado and by numerous utilities in ERCOT, has had minimal, if any,
impact on CO2, yet has lead to a significant increase in SO2 and NOX".
http://www.bentekenergy.com/documents/bentek_how_less_became_more_100420-319.pdf
*(5) - The (Dr) Fred Udo study: *"/The consequence is that an investment
of billions of Euros in wind turbines produces not more than a few per
cent reduction in CO_2 output.
/
This analysis does not take into account the energy necessary to ramp
the conventional generators up and down nor the energy to build wind
turbines nor the extra transmission lines with their additional losses.
/It is highly probable, that taking all these effects into account will
show, that the few per cent gain in CO_2 will revert to a loss (i.e. an
increase in CO_2 )."
/http://www.epaw.org/documents.php?lang=es&article=backup11
Press Release 12.11.11 Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei
Press Release 12.11.11
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana candidate Rangitikei, today congratulated Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry, for their work in The Carbon Challenge, 2010.
‘It is so refreshing to see that someone has a good grasp of where we sit as a country regarding the Kyoto Protocol, said Dr Cleave. ‘It makes a change from listening to people like Ian McKelvie, National candidate for Rangitikei, dismissing the ETS as “a big con”. ‘
Dr Cleave asked people to consider the following summary from the Sustainability Council;
NZ is expected to overshoot its Kyoto target by 18%
• The ETS pays for less than 20% of the resulting liability
• The Government is borrowing forest credits to cover the gap and when this is properly accounted for, NZ is today 49 Mt in deficit – a multibillion dollar liability, the scale of which depends on future carbon prices.
‘We have to take our emissions policy seriously,’ Dr Cleave said. ’To be flippant or dismissive of any attempt to deal with emissions is irresponsible. This is a matter we have to round on and deal with properly internationally, nationally and here in the Rangitikei electorate. Already we are at the stage where if we are not careful the ETS could offer another example of corporate corruption like the practices on Wall Street that have given rise to the Occupy movement. We need a sound and sensible emissions policy that meets the Kyoto target.’
Dr Cleave concluded by saying,’ The tragedy is that the liability will fall on families and households. This is yet another form of corporate welfare subsidised by the less well-off. Working and unemployed people in the Rangitikei electorate and elsewhere should not be asked to carry the can for the multibillion liability involved in overshooting the Kyoto target while corporates turn a profit.’
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana candidate Rangitikei, today congratulated Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry, for their work in The Carbon Challenge, 2010.
‘It is so refreshing to see that someone has a good grasp of where we sit as a country regarding the Kyoto Protocol, said Dr Cleave. ‘It makes a change from listening to people like Ian McKelvie, National candidate for Rangitikei, dismissing the ETS as “a big con”. ‘
Dr Cleave asked people to consider the following summary from the Sustainability Council;
NZ is expected to overshoot its Kyoto target by 18%
• The ETS pays for less than 20% of the resulting liability
• The Government is borrowing forest credits to cover the gap and when this is properly accounted for, NZ is today 49 Mt in deficit – a multibillion dollar liability, the scale of which depends on future carbon prices.
‘We have to take our emissions policy seriously,’ Dr Cleave said. ’To be flippant or dismissive of any attempt to deal with emissions is irresponsible. This is a matter we have to round on and deal with properly internationally, nationally and here in the Rangitikei electorate. Already we are at the stage where if we are not careful the ETS could offer another example of corporate corruption like the practices on Wall Street that have given rise to the Occupy movement. We need a sound and sensible emissions policy that meets the Kyoto target.’
Dr Cleave concluded by saying,’ The tragedy is that the liability will fall on families and households. This is yet another form of corporate welfare subsidised by the less well-off. Working and unemployed people in the Rangitikei electorate and elsewhere should not be asked to carry the can for the multibillion liability involved in overshooting the Kyoto target while corporates turn a profit.’
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Southern support for Mana- Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei
On the stump Dr Peter Cleave has been talking about a southern dimension to Mana support for the last fortnight and this is found in the New Zealand Herald's report of 10.11.11 below.
Dr Cleave has been pointing to two main things. Theseare the support for Clinton Dearlove in Te Tai Tonga and the strength of feedback to his own internet campaign. The latter has resulted in a significant number of Press Releases being run by news agencies on the net.
The New Zealand Herald report below on street polls in the South Island showing four percent support for Mana seems to go with Dr Cleave's assertion of a swell in support for Mana south of Lake Taupo as well as in the South Island itself.
NZ Herald Thursday 10th November, 2011
Mana leader Hone Harawira is in favour of street polls rather than the traditional telephone polling.
A New Zealand Herald street poll has detected more support for parties on the extreme left and right political than is shown in its Digipoll survey.
Hone Harawira says he's heartened by a showing of 4 percent support for Mana in the South island and 3 percent in the North Island.
“They're finally starting to realise when you get away from that old school Digipoll where all you’re doing is ringing people with landlines, and therefore cutting out about 80 percent of the poor and 60 percent of Maori, then you are actually going to get a more true reflection, so I am really comfortable with where we're at,” Mr Harawira says.
He suspects Mana is probably attracting about 2 per cent support, so it has a lot more work to do.
Dr Cleave has been pointing to two main things. Theseare the support for Clinton Dearlove in Te Tai Tonga and the strength of feedback to his own internet campaign. The latter has resulted in a significant number of Press Releases being run by news agencies on the net.
The New Zealand Herald report below on street polls in the South Island showing four percent support for Mana seems to go with Dr Cleave's assertion of a swell in support for Mana south of Lake Taupo as well as in the South Island itself.
NZ Herald Thursday 10th November, 2011
Mana leader Hone Harawira is in favour of street polls rather than the traditional telephone polling.
A New Zealand Herald street poll has detected more support for parties on the extreme left and right political than is shown in its Digipoll survey.
Hone Harawira says he's heartened by a showing of 4 percent support for Mana in the South island and 3 percent in the North Island.
“They're finally starting to realise when you get away from that old school Digipoll where all you’re doing is ringing people with landlines, and therefore cutting out about 80 percent of the poor and 60 percent of Maori, then you are actually going to get a more true reflection, so I am really comfortable with where we're at,” Mr Harawira says.
He suspects Mana is probably attracting about 2 per cent support, so it has a lot more work to do.
Lost community, lost decade
IMF chief Christine Lagarde's warning (9.11.11) of a lost decade of low growth corresponds with Dr Peter Cleave's argument (18.10.11) about a lost decade in New Zealand in the area of finance due to lax regulations and shady practices. Both articles are copied below;
Christine Legarde, the International Monetary Fund managing director, warned of the risk of a “lost decade” unless nations act together to counter threats to growth.
Christine Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps
Comment
“In our increasingly interconnected world, no country or region can go it alone,” Ms Lagarde told a forum in Beijing yesterday. “There are dark clouds gathering in the global economy.”
Advanced economies have a “special responsibility” to restore confidence and lift growth, while China should boost consumption and allow its currency to rise, she said.
European leaders are looking to China as a potential source of funds to help solve the sovereign debt crisis. China and India said the global economy was in a “critical phase”. The two nations said policy co-operation was needed across the world to avoid the higher debt trap.
Ms Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps.
“If we do not act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty,” she said.Address by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting
> of constituents in the Kahuterawa Valley, Rangitikei Electorate 18.10.11
> Dr Peter Cleave began the meeting by ensuring that the constituents there
> knew his name and that he was standing in the Rangitikei electorate.
> He then went on to say that the case of the two former cabinet ministers,
> one a knight of the realm, in court in the Lombard Finance case shows how
> close these ex-politicians are to the whole dodgy bag of financial tricks
> that people are protesting about around the world.
> 'Former National minister Sir Douglas Graham and former Labour minister
> Bill Jeffries are a disgrace,' said Dr Cleave. They face penalties of up
> to $500,000 each for misleading investors in Lombard Finance.
> Some of the charges involved can carry a jail term of up to five years.
> 'Why are Graham and Jeffries and the other two Lombard partners not being
> treated in the same way as former Labour MP Philip Taito Field and given a
> jail term?,' said Dr Cleave.
> Graham and Jeffries from National and Labour, the two biggest parties in
> New Zealand, have allowed themselves to be the face, the apparently
> trustworthy face, of a financial system that went out of control in this
> country to a greater extent than elsewhere. Do we have any major finance
> companies not threatened with charges of deceit and corruption?
> Mana is making several steps to clean all this up.
> One is to take the people protesting around the world seriously by
> listening to them.
> The other is the introduction of the Hone Heke Tax and the abolition of
> GST. These reforms will be used to create a more egalitarian life for
> people.
> Across the board Mana is taking steps to involve people who have been left
> out of the financial system altogether. Better job prospects, better
> transport systems, better opportunities for a better standard of living.
> And there needs to be an end to greed. Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries are
> being tried alongside other directors, Laurie Bryant and Michael Reeves.
> Reeves indulged his love of European motor cars - like the Maserati -
> while on the Lombard payroll.
> Mana will bring a new approach, a new broom for this corrupt and unequal
> financial system which so many people are angry about right now.
> Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name
> and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.
>
Christine Legarde, the International Monetary Fund managing director, warned of the risk of a “lost decade” unless nations act together to counter threats to growth.
Christine Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps
Comment
“In our increasingly interconnected world, no country or region can go it alone,” Ms Lagarde told a forum in Beijing yesterday. “There are dark clouds gathering in the global economy.”
Advanced economies have a “special responsibility” to restore confidence and lift growth, while China should boost consumption and allow its currency to rise, she said.
European leaders are looking to China as a potential source of funds to help solve the sovereign debt crisis. China and India said the global economy was in a “critical phase”. The two nations said policy co-operation was needed across the world to avoid the higher debt trap.
Ms Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps.
“If we do not act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty,” she said.Address by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting
> of constituents in the Kahuterawa Valley, Rangitikei Electorate 18.10.11
> Dr Peter Cleave began the meeting by ensuring that the constituents there
> knew his name and that he was standing in the Rangitikei electorate.
> He then went on to say that the case of the two former cabinet ministers,
> one a knight of the realm, in court in the Lombard Finance case shows how
> close these ex-politicians are to the whole dodgy bag of financial tricks
> that people are protesting about around the world.
> 'Former National minister Sir Douglas Graham and former Labour minister
> Bill Jeffries are a disgrace,' said Dr Cleave. They face penalties of up
> to $500,000 each for misleading investors in Lombard Finance.
> Some of the charges involved can carry a jail term of up to five years.
> 'Why are Graham and Jeffries and the other two Lombard partners not being
> treated in the same way as former Labour MP Philip Taito Field and given a
> jail term?,' said Dr Cleave.
> Graham and Jeffries from National and Labour, the two biggest parties in
> New Zealand, have allowed themselves to be the face, the apparently
> trustworthy face, of a financial system that went out of control in this
> country to a greater extent than elsewhere. Do we have any major finance
> companies not threatened with charges of deceit and corruption?
> Mana is making several steps to clean all this up.
> One is to take the people protesting around the world seriously by
> listening to them.
> The other is the introduction of the Hone Heke Tax and the abolition of
> GST. These reforms will be used to create a more egalitarian life for
> people.
> Across the board Mana is taking steps to involve people who have been left
> out of the financial system altogether. Better job prospects, better
> transport systems, better opportunities for a better standard of living.
> And there needs to be an end to greed. Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries are
> being tried alongside other directors, Laurie Bryant and Michael Reeves.
> Reeves indulged his love of European motor cars - like the Maserati -
> while on the Lombard payroll.
> Mana will bring a new approach, a new broom for this corrupt and unequal
> financial system which so many people are angry about right now.
> Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name
> and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.
>
Regional Development- Peter Cleave Mana Rangitikei
Press Release 11.11.11
Dr Peter Cleave responded to an article on the Rangitikei electorate by Stacey Kirk in the Manawatu Standard by going back to his earlier Press Release of 3.11.11.
‘The Rangitikei Electorate needs a strong dose of Regional Economic Development’, Mana candidate Dr Peter Cleave said then.
Dr Cleave a graduate of Auckland (First Class Masters) and Oxford (Doctorate) Universities argued that a Top Down approach has not worked.
In his internet posting today Dr Cleave noted that the candidates reported in the Manawatu Standard article of 10.11.11 were not long on detail.
’We urgently need now to get back to the vision of the 2002 Regional Economic Development Strategy, a vision that embraced a “whole of community” approach’, Dr Cleave said. ‘I would like to thank all media outlets, particularly internet news sites that ran the earlier Press Release of 3.11.11. Also the people from Taihape, Taumarunui and elsewhere who have got back to me or given feedback elsewhere. It is interesting to see where people are getting their news these days and to see them responding in an interactive way.’
The approach taken to Regional Development by Dr Cleave went with his pledge to look after forgotten communities in the Rangitikei Electorate.
‘As I have said repeatedly during this campaign there is so much talent in the Rangitikei Electorate,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘The prospects are so bright but the dreams of constituents have not been realised. I am standing for Mana in Rangitikei with strong regional development in mind.’
Dr Peter Cleave responded to an article on the Rangitikei electorate by Stacey Kirk in the Manawatu Standard by going back to his earlier Press Release of 3.11.11.
‘The Rangitikei Electorate needs a strong dose of Regional Economic Development’, Mana candidate Dr Peter Cleave said then.
Dr Cleave a graduate of Auckland (First Class Masters) and Oxford (Doctorate) Universities argued that a Top Down approach has not worked.
In his internet posting today Dr Cleave noted that the candidates reported in the Manawatu Standard article of 10.11.11 were not long on detail.
’We urgently need now to get back to the vision of the 2002 Regional Economic Development Strategy, a vision that embraced a “whole of community” approach’, Dr Cleave said. ‘I would like to thank all media outlets, particularly internet news sites that ran the earlier Press Release of 3.11.11. Also the people from Taihape, Taumarunui and elsewhere who have got back to me or given feedback elsewhere. It is interesting to see where people are getting their news these days and to see them responding in an interactive way.’
The approach taken to Regional Development by Dr Cleave went with his pledge to look after forgotten communities in the Rangitikei Electorate.
‘As I have said repeatedly during this campaign there is so much talent in the Rangitikei Electorate,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘The prospects are so bright but the dreams of constituents have not been realised. I am standing for Mana in Rangitikei with strong regional development in mind.’
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Dr Peter Cleave, Mana, Rangitikei- Press Release 10.11.11
‘Where are the Press Releases?’ Asked Dr Peter Cleave, Mana candidate for Rangitikei in an internet posting today in response to an article by Stacey Kirk on the Rangitikei electoral contest (Manawatu Evening Standard 10.11.11).
‘Other candidates seem to be relying on the stump to make statements.’
Dr Cleave whose own Press Releases are extensively quoted in such places on the internet as scoop said that many of the things he had identified in the electorate are not being addressed by other candidates. He referred to his statements on the Lines Power Company in the central North Island and the report of the Fair Go team on this company. ‘This is a major issue in the Rangitikei electorate,’ he said.
Dr Cleave also noted the narrow range of voters targeted by other candidates.
‘I never see the other candidates in places like the public bar of the Bunnythorpe Hotel,’ he said. ‘They speak to audiences where they have their own members in attendance. I have never seen another candidate on the picket line at the CMC works where I have been regularly listening to people and trying to understand their concerns.’
Dr Cleave who has based his campaign on the forgotten communities of the Rangitikei area particularly the unemployed in small settlements like Kakahi and Bunnythorpe was concerned at the lack of direction shown by other candidates.
‘Its not enough to simply turn up at a meeting and field questions,’ he went on to say.
‘Other candidates seem to be relying on the stump to make statements.’
Dr Cleave whose own Press Releases are extensively quoted in such places on the internet as scoop said that many of the things he had identified in the electorate are not being addressed by other candidates. He referred to his statements on the Lines Power Company in the central North Island and the report of the Fair Go team on this company. ‘This is a major issue in the Rangitikei electorate,’ he said.
Dr Cleave also noted the narrow range of voters targeted by other candidates.
‘I never see the other candidates in places like the public bar of the Bunnythorpe Hotel,’ he said. ‘They speak to audiences where they have their own members in attendance. I have never seen another candidate on the picket line at the CMC works where I have been regularly listening to people and trying to understand their concerns.’
Dr Cleave who has based his campaign on the forgotten communities of the Rangitikei area particularly the unemployed in small settlements like Kakahi and Bunnythorpe was concerned at the lack of direction shown by other candidates.
‘Its not enough to simply turn up at a meeting and field questions,’ he went on to say.
Video and Press Release 4.11.11 Bunnythorpe
Press Release 4.11.11
‘Imagine John Key and Phil Goff in togas. The mind boggles but the New Zealand economy looks more and more like the Greek one with each passing policy statement from these two,’ said Dr Peter Cleave, Mana candidate for Rangitikei as he returned to Bunnythorpe today to make another key address.
‘Mana has a great approach to the development of regional economies,’ he said today. ‘The Top Down approach has to stop and we need to get out and listen to people in the countryside. For too long people in places like Bunnythorpe have been treated as invisible.’
‘One leader talks about selling assets while the other is from a party with a poor track record in this area,’ Dr Cleave told people in the small Manawatu hamlet today. ‘They would be better off swatting flies with grape leaves. People throughout New Zealand have been let down again with poor policies from the so-called major parties.’
Dr Cleave said how delighted he was to be asked back again and again to Bunnythorpe as the Mana candidate for Rangitikei to make statements that were attracting headlines around the country and pointed to recent Press Releases appearing internationally on sites like allvoices.
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