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NEW ZEALAND HOLDS the dubious honour of registering the second greatest income in net emissions since 1990, beaten for first place by Turkey. In the same period  the UK has reduced there’s by 40% and even Australia reduced theirs by 12%.  

“A MAN IS A success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night , and in between does what he wants to do”. –Bob Dylan 

THE PRODUCTION of the Lear Jet will finish this year. The first of the famous private jet aircraft, based on a Swiss fighter plane and designed to carry eight people in luxury, was completed in 1963. Since then 3,000 of the planes , have been produced by the Canadian  Bombardier Aircraft company.  

SELF GOVERNMENT in New Zealand got off to a shaky start with six Premiers in the first ten years. The first, —-, only lasted two weeks. The seventh Premier was George Waterhouse who had a large sheep farm running north from Palliser Bay. He was Premier for one year. 

A NZ HERALD senior journo and has come out with a piece detailing the big picture costs of the Kim Dotcom legal saga.  The government lawyers have now spent more than 40,000 hours on the case. It exposes, how money effectively buys access to a much more thorough version of justice than what anyone else gets. Dotcom himself remains in the country, and is expected to be here for years to come.

‘PATRIOTISM IS fundamentally a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world  because you were born in it’ – George Bernard Shaw

THE UK GOVERNMENT  has declined to follow the USA’s lead in suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The UKs arms sold to the Saudis represent  40% of its total arms exports .

A MODELING study published in the Lancet has shown that vaccines against ten major diseases – including measles, HPV, and hepatitis B have prevented thirty seven million deaths between 2000 and 2019. The study estimates that as a result of vaccinations  those born in 2019 will  experience 72% lower mortality from one of those ten diseases  – The Listener

“ HAVING YOUR book turned into a movie is like having your oxen turned into bullion cubes” – John le Carre

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