Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Anke Richter,
what it means is that you have to “go there”, as much as it hurts or confronts or shocks you, instead of sweeping the past under the carpet and let it rot there until it becomes toxic waste.
My query was kind of rhetorical. Some years ago I was offered a place in a Child Protection course. I was doing famously filling out the form until the section..."we prefer that those who have experienced abuse and who have not come to terms with that abuse do not enroll for this course. This is not a venue for therapy." I was forced to really think hard about the expression.
As you point out..'coming to terms with' very likely involves acknowledgment of guilt from the perpetrators and enablers...if this is not forthcoming, where does that leave the victim?
Sometimes, many times, 'learning to live with it' is the best one can hope for.I find that there’s real flip side to the Kiwi mentality of not wanting to dig to deep in the dirt, of keeping it light and pleasant and nice, and the notion of “just get on with it”.
Yep.
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Anke Richter,
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung” (coming to terms with the past) –
We use that expression...but what does it really mean?
FWIW...media reports at the time of the shitstorm constantly referred to the "charismatic" leader. This word always has negative connotations for me now. -
Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to izogi,
Hi Rosemary. Do you know which day he was quoted on the 7am news bulletin?
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20170407
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20150311-0717-anti_1080_protesters_distancing_themselves_from_person-048.mp3and while finding that, i stumbled across this site....
http://www.postmanproductions.org/?p=3119
(11 March, Morning Report search...natrad has the broadcast dates under the heading, I just kept clicking back until I reached the right day. I remember hearing it, so it must be there, somewhere. Sometimes, sometimes, stuff disappears from the google...totally. Have to polish my tinfoilhat when that happens!)
I am inclined to think that this was the action of someone at the end of their tether. The cheese finally slipped off the cracker. The load was not properly secured and the boat capsized in the bottom of a trough in a rough sea.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/72967707/polio-victims-societys-forgotten-about-us
We spoke to more than 20 Kiwis who believe they are suffering from post-polio syndrome. Most complained their GP did not know about the syndrome, or did not take it seriously. Many had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's.
Of the 20 DHBs contacted by the Star-Times, only two replied to say they had staff who were aware of the syndrome.
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" It’s little wonder the occupation is famed for its drinking."
Rare quality writing in the Herald...http://www.nzherald.co.nz/canvas-magazine/news/article.cfm?c_id=532&objectid=11529162
It is impossible to encounter evil unscathed.More impossible to encounter this manifestation of evil where the perpetrators and enablers still exist in our world....unscathed.
Brave Emma. Brave Anke.
Strength and healing to the damaged children inside the now adult survivors.
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What Ben Benfield says is correct. There was the early mention of an inside job....then that angle totally disappeared. We thought we had misheard.
That has happened on more that one occasion on Natrad. A particular story will get aired....you expect more...it never comes.
I guess the security of their funding plays a part.
(and yes,,,I did realise it was a press release from SHOT :))
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Scoop's scoop....http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1510/S00279/1080-baby-food-scare-seems-on-inside.htm
“As it turned out, it was an inside job, i.e. someone within the poison pest control business.”
Bill Benfield who has written two conservation-based books exposing the 1080 fraud, was interviewed by National Radio at the time the blackmail threat was made to Fonterra. His view of an “inside job” was broadcast in the 7 a.mnews bulletin. The same day it was quickly removed and absent in subsequent bulletins.
That makes you wonder at government covering its backside by controlling national radio,” he added.
(bold mine)
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Eh?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11529598
The head of New Zealand's branch of the US Pentagon's missile and fighter jet manufacturer is coming to Whangarei to help Northland companies arm themselves with information to win lucrative contracts with international governments.
Graham Lintott, former Air Vice-Marshal with the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), is managing director of the NZ branch of Lockheed Martin, and has been invited to speak at a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) workshop on Monday.
Military Industrial Complex?
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End of Life Choice Bill....
Has its own webpage....http://www.lifechoice.org.nz/
The motivation for this Bill is compassion.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I get the feeling that many of the vocal anti-1080 people are pikie/hippy types who like nothing better than scrambling around bush, probably with a gun.
Some, but not all.
Pragmatically, we are not able to turn back time and restore NZ to how she was before the human invasion.
Maybe, we'll have to acknowledge that we will never be free of 'pests' and concentrate on making environments and ecosystems that encourage and strengthen remaining populations of native species.
Some communities rely on being able to hunt introduced species for food. Way easier to go bush for a pig or a deer than drive 200ks to Pak n Save.
(And wild pork...yum!)