Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Alfie,
There is also a little gas-powered trap on the market which attaches to trees, automatically drops the possum and resets after each kill. That sounds like a good idea but my neighbour has one and hasn’t killed a single possum in four years.
I do hear about them but have also been told the likes of the one you have is the reason there are so many 3 legged possum limping around the bush. Still that makes for easy shootin' but must admit, they are pretty cruisy around here .A friend kicks them off his deck and then they get shot. He has the fattest Kereru I've ever seen in his trees
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Alfie,
But until there’s a viable alternative
A viable alternative is not cutting doc spending and trapping/ shooting. People who live around here.Many go trapping and many ask permission to wander over private land doing this.Many shoot possum, the fur is worth money.There are alternatives. the situation you mention may be because of 1080. Birds are poisoned too you know.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to izogi,
To be fair, though,
I have afriend who took it upon himself to eradicate rats ,stoats and possum from the hillside near his place by the Orakei basin. He has gone out and trapped for some time but has now saved the hillside and birdlife and native bush is flourishing. Others do the same in other spots. It's become an annual event I think via Council or it could be doc. Fair is seeing if alternatives to 1080 are viable and fair is if particular communities get a say in what they want for their area. I see the devastation one measly possum can do to one of our big Kanuka. I still would rather anything but 1080 around here. We have many hives around here ,many pets, many birds.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
There are better methods, but these are labour intensive and hence more expensive
Other solutions can be the likes of the Trapinator and with the sale of 2 of these babies, the trap has then paid for itself so it is actually a job creator also and somebody gets comfort in the knowledge that 1080 is unnecessary, a skin is recycled and someone has a job making them. Win win.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Paul Campbell,
What’s interesting there is that NZ has apparently ceded subpoena rights to foreign courts
So FBI can come and arrest DotCom without incident. How the fuck is any of this good for NZ? What will we have left? As someone wrote, once you cede any thing ,very rarely can you get it back.
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Gotta sunset from a few nights back.
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Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to simon g,
It doesn’t bother me that it’s kept “secret” for legitimate security reasons, it just irritates that journalists act like nobody else could possibly have figured it out.
If it was so bloody dangerous why show up with an entourage of Media at all?. Patrick Gower forgot his passport, must have been really worth going that far without it, to suddenly not be allowed the next flight in a Hercules. This was just a Key/Bush copycat visit to troops for a fucking photo op. This snake knows no bounds of crass behaviour. Why leap over there just as the TPP was announced and what did it achieve? Absolutely nothing. Secret mission, my arse. The only thing I suspect can happen from it is, an announcement that the troops stay will be extended. Key has started the chat about how safe they are and how needed they are, and look at that, photos of important person (in his mind) seen supporting the farce. Of course Gerry has already set the stage over here
Then as Key keeps assuring the public about extending the troops deployment, the wording changes ever so slightlyI think there should be an exit point and that exit point at about two years feels about right to me.
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
So there is 2 Pat(t)ersons, Architects in 2 days before the Courts.The extra "t" pleaded guilty Just to save confusion and
Defence lawyer Michael Lloyd initially asked for an adjournment so he could enlist the services of an expert to review the police's evidence and entered a not guilty plea on behalf of his client.
running someone over is an accident, not the same, but a " not guilty " suggests to me ,he thought about shirking responsibility. I know it's expected from the Lawyer but still...
Do we need another piece of legislation to make these assaults that Judges find a bit harsh judging on to at least acknowledge it was assault? The fine line this judging is taking seems to favour a good Lawyer and prominent person over the rest .
This guy, seems to be another one -
Polity: TPP, eh?, in reply to Alfie,
all-too compliant mainstream media.
They are too busy on secret Johnny (aka George Bush) visiting the boys in beige brigade in Iraq. So dangerous some had flack Jackets
