wheeler's Corner NZ: February 2019

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Jordan Petterson the Canadian bringer of wisdom and other acts of stupidity Wheelers Corner 11 2nd March 2019...

Jordan Peterson...Master-mind or super con-man?

People [males mainly] are happy to pay from $70 to $270 bucks to listen to this, beef loving, very biblical, and pro-male, I think, so-called self-improvement expert give advice, at a price, on how to live ones life.

Nothing new in that, individuals have been doing it for hundreds of years, religious, political and social individuals have been doing this forever and ever, but today it has as much to do with making money as any real desire to change behaviour of the masses.
All behaviour is learned so it goes without saying that behaviour can be unlearned...but hey these days money rules the roost...

Oh dear me what people will do for money, fame and glory...A new guru, a new source of wisdom for the masses. So lets take a look at what some people have said about this yet another new Canadian master mind visiting to sell a product:

"OPINION: How much would I have to pay you to sit through a two-hour self-help sermon, peppered with relentless biblical references, delivered by a misogynist? A lot of young men, some older men and a baffling number of women paid between $70 and $270 to experience such torture. (Fellow columnist Martin van Beynen also attended, and had a different take.)

I am talking about the drab monologue burped out by celebrity pop psychologist Jordan Peterson on Wednesday at his sold-out Theatre Royal show in Christchurch.

I understand why men turned up - Peterson has said things like "the masculine spirit is under assault"; The patriarchy makes sense because men are naturally more competent; Violent attacks are what happens when men do not have partners, and monogamy is the answer for that. He's also an inspiration, in the way Logan Paul is an inspiration. He has lucked his way into making US$80,000 a month from his Youtube channel in donations alone". Go to:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/110765984/i-went-to-see-jordan-peterson-and-it-was-equal-parts-boring-and-terrifying to read her full review of Jordan Peterson traveling pop celebrity show:

Another view of this intellectual giant is: https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018636024/jordan-peterson-his-12-rules-for-a-chaotic-world
2.

Simon [build no] Bridges says the CGT is a tax on a tax!...so he will no doubt move to remove GST from rates [which is a tax]...but wait it was the Nats who upped GST from 12.5% to 15% after they promised not to do so...]

Poor old Simon and his house owning mates, who are yet once again on the wrong side of the river without a bridge!

3.
COMMUNITY PROTEST: Government appointee to MCHB maintains his autocratic approach to community: Duffy acts like duffy-duck:

This from from: Cr. Brent Barrett

Thanks to co-host Lorna Johnson and to all you amazing people who shared the event on social media and who invited friends and who showed up and who were with us in spirit.

What a wonderful group of people supporting Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective

Jean Hara, Dr Anna Skinner and Mayor Grant Smith did a wonderful job representing to the Board on the value and vital services the Collective provides in our community.

The vote was held shortly after.

Barbara Robson, Karen Naylor, Michael Feyen and Barbara Cameron voted to honour the existing contract.

Adrian Broad, Brendan Duffy, Ann Chapman, Diane Anderson, Dot McKinnon, and Oriana Paewai voted to cut the existing contract.

So the final count was 6 - 4 to cut the Collective's contract.

Not the result we wanted, but together we will press on!

Looking ahead, we will all need to keep supporting the Collective as they work to secure funding to sustain their work. Will be in touch!

Kia kaha Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective!!!

Outside gate 2.

Inside board room:

My View:
Brendon Duffy continues to display his well known usual dictatoral style with his comments...which brought laughter from the public present. Little could have been expected from Cr. Adrian Broad that great backer of Toyota...read the full report from the MS: https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/110869144/protest-fails-to-save-womens-health-collective

Chairman
Dot McKinnon (appointed member) against

Board Members
Diane Anderson (elected member) against
Adrian Broad (elected member) against

Barbara Cameron (appointed member) for
Ann Chapman (elected member) against
Brendan Duffy (appointed member) against

Michael Feyen (elected member) for
Nadarajah (Mano) Manoharan (elected member)
Karen Naylor (elected member) for

Oriana Paewai (appointed member) against
Barbara Robson (elected member) for

Checking out how each board member voted is very interesting, remember that those appointed members were appointed by the the National Government. The Brendan Duffy type depends on doing what the boss says hoping that will get him reappointed, since he lost out to Michael Feyen in the Horowhenua local election. to learn more about 'Duffy' ducks history go to: https://vimeo.com/95914061?ref=fb-share&1=
4.

Picture Lisa Wheeler London 2018

The big brave President of the US who avoided Vietnam like the plaque, and bull-shitted his way out of serving his country. Well the truth is now public...

A Criminal in the Oval Office?

Michael Cohen Accuses Trump of Lying, Racism & Illegal Activity
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. President Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, has accused his old boss of committing multiple criminal acts before and after he became president. Cohen made the charges during more than five hours of explosive public testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/28/headlines/michael_cohen_tells_congress_trump_committed_multiple_criminal_acts

If you have the time have a quick listen to or read of Trumps Lawyers defence of various criminal behaviours of dear Donald Trump, coward and draft dodger, tax crook and sexist nut case. If ever a Extinction Rebellion movement was needed its in the United States. Trump is gearing up for a take over of yet another oil rich country...that should take the peoples minds off his criminal history...

wheelers corner each Monday 4 pm on 99AM

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Wheelers Corner 10. 23rd Feb 2019 Stepping up to the plate.

Reminder from Brent Barrett...

Wow! What a response!!! Looking forward to seeing you all on the morning of the 26th of February 2018.)

Gather from 8.30 at Gate 2 in Heretaunga St. You're most welcome to bring a banner or sign of support!

The District Health Board meeting opens at 9 a.m. with a deputation from the Collective, joined by Mayor Grant Smith and others.

Together, we'll join them and fill the room to overflowing with support for women's health and the vital valuable services provided by Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective.
Thanks all for your interest and support for women's health, and the amazing health work the Collective provide in our region.
2.

Simon Bridges said the Government Tax Working Group’s call for a capital gains tax was an ‘assault on the Kiwi way of life’. That betrays a very depressing and limited view of the Kiwi way of life, says Hayden Donnell.

The ink had barely dried on the Tax Working Group report and Simon Bridges was already declaring war. It had recommended a capital gains tax on investment properties and income from shares, offset by an income tax cut for working New Zealanders. That was an atrocity in Bridges’ mind. “This Tax Working Group report is an assault on the Kiwi way of life,” his minders presumably typed as he sweatily clambered into some Winston Churchill LARPgear. “I will fight it every step of the way.”

The tweet was dispiriting for anyone who’d hoped for a sober discussion on the equity of our country’s tax system rather than a Civil War against Michael Cullen. Instead of putting forward a constructive alternative case, Bridges seemed to be ready to lead a platoon into battle to defend the baches of Omaha Beach.

But it was also dispiriting in what it said about Bridges’ view of the Kiwi way of life. To him, it seems there’s nothing more quintessentially Kiwi than buying a portfolio of investment properties and hocking them off with no obligation to divert any of your oversized profits to the State. There’s having a beer at the barby, heading to the beach in your jandals on a sunny day, and using the tax-free capital gain from one investment property to fund the deposit on a lifestyle block. Kiwi Onion Dip, sausage rolls, and raising the rent on your third property twice-yearly. In Bridges eyes, the Kiwi way of life is being rich and using property to make yourself richer.

That really is a typical New Zealand lifestyle, provided you speak only to the broad range of New Zealanders John Key used to encounter in the Koru Lounge; the people at the top of this graph and the children waiting to inherit their share of the estate.

But there is another Kiwi way of life. It could involve renting a damp and substandard home in perpetuity, fearing eviction because the next one could be something worse, or no home at all. It could be living in a car or a motel room paid for by the Ministry of Social Development. Or it could be having a mid-sized income – the type that used to comfortably get you a house – and still watching as price growth in a booming untaxed property market outpaces your savings.

Unlike someone with a multi-property portfolio, the people living that Kiwi way of life pay tax on every single cent of their income and every item they purchase. They’re the ones whose lives are made more difficult, and less secure, by New Zealand having an economy geared around property investment – the Kiwi way of life that Bridges wants to defend.

Maybe Bridges doesn’t speak to a lot of people living that other Kiwi way of life. Maybe he usually associates more with people like him, who own four homes and have vested interests in commercial property investment firms. Or his deputy leader Paula Bennett, who owns three properties. Or his shadow attorney general Amy Adams, who owns eight houses. Or his front-bencher Todd McClay, who isn’t sure how many properties he owns.

More likely, though, he doesn’t mention the people living that way because they vote at a lower rate, and when they do they tend not to vote National. He thinks he can win the next election in the way they’ve been won in the past – by shimmying up to older people with multiple properties and whispering softly in their ear than nothing is ever going to change. If a capital gains tax is an assault on anything, it’s not on the Kiwi way of life – it’s on that Kiwi selfishness. The Kiwi way of lifting up the people who already have enough, and entrenching the position of those who don’t have as much. The Kiwi handout to the already well-off. That’s an assault worth carrying out.

Jordan Peterson who is touring NZ at this time to sell his various books: Who is Peterson you may ask? Is he NZ's latest male guru?
The Guardian publishes a new comment on him every few days – which aggregate all his rambling pseudo-philosophical nonsense and his creepy remarks about women and the evils of feminism, and come away with an impression of a malevolent gibberish-spouting misogynistic demon. All of this turns out to be a great marketing tool. Peterson is now the most famous public intellectual in the world, and this week he’s here in New Zealand, speaking to crowds in the Auckland Town Hall, Wellington Michael Fowler Centre and the Royal Theatre in Christchurch. Tickets are around the $150 mark, which is $150 more than you’d usually pay to see an author on a publicity tour.
So much for honest [yeah right] Jordan Peterson:

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Thursday, 14 February 2019

Time for Action Wheelers Corner 09 16th Feb 2019

Come and join together with other like minded people who work towards a better and more caring community for us all: This week and in particular on the 26th Feb 2019: Join the caring ones at the:
MIDCENTRAL DHB GATE 2 HERETAUNGA ST. PN at 8.30 to 9.30am TUESDAY 26th Feb 2018...

Jean Hera helps run the Womens Health Collective in Palmerston North.

This from Jean:

Manager and Community Health Worker
Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one
Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective wrote these words:

“We provide health promotion but our practical services are what is key for our clients. We provide practical free and low cost women’s health support to many of our most vulnerable women, and to so many on low incomes. Our annual questionnaires with 250 women visiting the centre to use our services provides clear evidence of this. Our 2018 survey handed out randomly to those visiting the Centre for services included 41.8% Māori and 7.2% Pasifika. This is the highest ever Māori numbers and when combined with Pasifika reaching almost half of the women. We are well known through word of mouth in these communities and Māori and Pasifika women often want to go outside their own communities for sexual health and other personal health need.

The financial year 2017/2018 we had 5950 client contacts and numbers are generally increasing over the years. Of these client contacts, 4490 were visits. Our most popular service is free pregnancy tests (we are the largest community provider) which also involves information as required (We had 2459 contacts for pregnancy related help; 2231 pregnancy tests (we provide a 2nd test as back up usually), 97 were for pregnancy/maternity information only and others received this at the time of their pregnancy test; 113 received abortion information/support. Contraception information/referral assistance is in high demand also (454 contacts) and with free condoms and lube available (330 asking us for these) with many others just helping themselves on a daily basis to the free supplies we make available in a number of help yourself locations). We had 233 contacts for sexual health information and referral, separate to our cervical screening clinics. We had 823 contacts involving referrals to other health providers for various need but mainly sexual and reproductive health related need. We are the only service apart from the NZ Prostitutes Collective fieldworker to supply the NZPC starter packs for sex workers. We provide the administrative support needed for the visiting nurse cervical smear clinic to provide 222 cervical smears with referrals as required. Our clients are more vulnerable and many have chaotic lives which often involves a lot of extra work to recall and support them to come.

Alongside of our MDHB contract we have provided access to many other important services including to a counselling service which is subsidised and can be free when this is needed - 288 sessions were provided, and a lower cost osteopath for women and children - 919 sessions. This lower cost registered osteopath is often referred to by midwives and GPs. We provide a wide range of women’s health information, menstrual care supplies, a library, mental health support, a safe place for LGBTQ+ including transgender support.

It appears to me that our contract was transferred to a cluster or section of the MDHB that we just do not fit in to in terms of what they are responsible for (except possibly the youth aspects – but we have not been a youth contract we have been a women’s contract which includes youth). There appears to be no mention of women specifically (except in the cluster heading) just maternity, lactation, and gynae. The community aspect appears to be linked to community midwifery and lactation services, child and youth services only. Yet it also says ‘the service is working toward an integrated system with more community providers being connected into the cluster over time. This will be reflected in all aspects of the report’. On further reflection on the clusters it appears we would fit better under the Primary Public Community Health Cluster which includes sexual health, spans generations and a primary, public and community health focus.”

If you'd like more information please contact:

Jean Hera

Manager and Community Health Worker
Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one
Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective
(06) 357 0314
53 Waldegrave Street
PO Box 4253 Palmerston North

Together we can change negative behaviour into community action:

This from: Cr Brent Barrett

So encouraging to see the strong community support for Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective!

Thank you all for getting the word out. We know some can only speak out quietly about this. That's just fine - please do keep doing that - word of mouth is the most powerful

Looking forward to seeing you all on the 26th!

Please record the time and place: MIDCENTRAL DHB GATE 2 HERETAUNGA ST. PN at 8.30 to 9.30am TUESDAY 26th Feb 2018...

Please put this in your dairy and share with your friends and next door neighbours

2.
Will the US invade Venezuela? If history is any guide, it sure is possible!

A bit of history to ponder! Is this what we want for NZ...

Yet another forever war....
Or do you want and wish for less bloody wars
Now is your chance to bring about that change.
I want peace, but not at the expense of others lives...

Getting our council to recognise that when we talk about a peace city, we mean just that...it won't be easy...but together we can do it. We can introduce real ethical behaviour that our councillors can model...

Generally we seem to follow the so-called leader... maybe its time we got the leader to follow us...
Go to 'commondreams' and scroll down untill you come to the item on the US take over of Venezuela...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/12/why-does-united-states-america-want-overthrow-government-venezuela?cd-

These three white alt right nut cases represent all that is wrong in our world today: from left, JOHN Bolton, Mike Pompeo both pro-war followers of Trump and lastly VP Mike Pence that strange fellow who wont spend time alone with a married woman because he cant control his sexual behaviour...and these three are running the USA.
Thank God we live in NZ...

3.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Make love, not war!

What do we mean by that?

We mean, stop using bombs and sanctions and bases and walls and massive prisons to relate to other people.
We mean, start using aid and diplomacy and respect and friendship and love.

Love?
There are various kinds: eros, or romantic love; phileo, or brotherly love; agape, or love for all humanity (and species beyond humanity).
"Agape," said Martin Luther King Jr., "means understanding, redeeming good will for all . . . . It is an overflowing love which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is not set in motion by any quality or function of its object."
"Agape," King said, "is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community."

Agape is something RootsAction aspires to. We are dedicated to bringing people together to understand our own power to create loving, rather than warring, policy and society.

Unfortunately the 2019 NZDIA Forum (aka 'Weapons Expo') is ‘pencil booked’ for the Palmerston North Central Energy Trust Arena on 29 - 31 October 2019. Booking by the Arena management has been accepted but confirmation is 'on hold' pending the outcome of a PNCC closed workshop on development of a venues use/hire policy on 18 March. The Council may or may not choose to consult the public with a draft proposal but Peace Action Manawatu, plus local and national supporters, will be well prepared to oppose the Wexpo if PNCC allows it to hire the Arena venue.

Wheelers Corner Monday 4pm 999AM

Monday, 11 February 2019

Special Wheelers Corner 08 12th Feb 2019 regarding protest over MCDHB cutting of funding to Womens Health Collective.

Message from: Wheelers Corner:

Peace Action Palmerston North...Its Our Future Manawatu...and heaps of caring people support the Women's Health Collective. Please share this as we all gear up to assist getting a clear and concise message to OUR local district health board and its strangely silent members...

As promised here is the time and location of a protest in regard to the cutting of funding to the Womens Health Collective:

Please record the time and place: MIDCENTRAL DHB GATE 2 HERETAUNGA ST. PN at 8.30 to 9.30am TUESDAY 26th Feb 2018...

Please put this in your dairy and share with your friends and next door neighbours

General comments from last Wheelers Corner:

Did you know that the CEO of MCH is possibly the highest paid public servant in the Manawatu...the tax payers are paying her almost five hundred thousand dollars per year...after reading the reference below you may feel just a little angry at the level of remuneration we pay a 'so called Manager' so we allow her and her government appointed board members can cut funding to a community group that actually assists those in need. And I believe you have every right to be angry...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/110396565/anger-and-dismay-about-threat-to-womens-health-service

Here is a list of the Chairperson and board members of the MCDHB;
A profile statement of each member is provided and can be accessed by clicking on the members' name.

Chairman
Dot McKinnon (appointed member)

Board Members
Diane Anderson (elected member)
Adrian Broad (elected member)*

Barbara Cameron (appointed member)
Ann Chapman (elected member)
Brendan Duffy (appointed member)*

Michael Feyen (elected member)*
Nadarajah (Mano) Manoharan (elected member)
Karen Naylor (elected member)*

Oriana Paewai (appointed member)
Barbara Robson (elected member)

Those with a * are serving or past councillors who seem to enjoy adding to their council income with MCHB income: if each of the people turned down their MCHB income...there would be no need to cut funding to the Women's health clinic...

So as a quick answer the CEO could agree to a 50.000 dollar salary cut, Duffy and Naylor could resign and not be replaced and Feyen and Broad could both resign...and not be replaced and no one would notice...but don't hold your breath...

So what does the Women's Health Collective actually do?

This from:

Jean Hera

Manager and Community Health Worker
Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one
Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective

“We provide health promotion but our practical services are what is key for our clients. We provide practical free and low cost women’s health support to many of our most vulnerable women, and to so many on low incomes. Our annual questionnaires with 250 women visiting the centre to use our services provides clear evidence of this. Our 2018 survey handed out randomly to those visiting the Centre for services included 41.8% Māori and 7.2% Pasifika. This is the highest ever Māori numbers and when combined with Pasifika reaching almost half of the women. We are well known through word of mouth in these communities and Māori and Pasifika women often want to go outside their own communities for sexual health and other personal health need.

The financial year 2017/2018 we had 5950 client contacts and numbers are generally increasing over the years. Of these client contacts, 4490 were visits. Our most popular service is free pregnancy tests (we are the largest community provider) which also involves information as required (We had 2459 contacts for pregnancy related help; 2231 pregnancy tests (we provide a 2^nd test as back up usually), 97 were for pregnancy/maternity information only and others received this at the time of their pregnancy test; 113 received abortion information/support. Contraception information/referral assistance is in high demand also (454 contacts) and with free condoms and lube available (330 asking us for these) with many others just helping themselves on a daily basis to the free supplies we make available in a number of help yourself locations). We had 233 contacts for sexual health information and referral, separate to our cervical screening clinics. We had 823 contacts involving referrals to other health providers for various need but mainly sexual and reproductive health related need. We are the only service apart from the NZ Prostitutes Collective fieldworker to supply the NZPC starter packs for sex workers. We provide the administrative support needed for the visiting nurse cervical smear clinic to provide 222 cervical smears with referrals as required. Our clients are more vulnerable and many have chaotic lives which often involves a lot of extra work to recall and support them to come.

Alongside of our MDHB contract we have provided access to many other important services including to a counselling service which is subsidised and can be free when this is needed - 288 sessions were provided, and a lower cost osteopath for women and children - 919 sessions. This lower cost registered osteopath is often referred to by midwives and GPs. We provide a wide range of women’s health information, menstrual care supplies, a library, mental health support, a safe place for LGBTQ+ including transgender support.

It appears to me that our contract was transferred to a cluster or section of the MDHB that we just do not fit in to in terms of what they are responsible for (except possibly the youth aspects – but we have not been a youth contract we have been a women’s contract which includes youth). There appears to be no mention of women specifically (except in the cluster heading) just maternity, lactation, and gynae. The community aspect appears to be linked to community midwifery and lactation services, child and youth services only. Yet it also says ‘the service is working toward an integrated system with more community providers being connected into the cluster over time. This will be reflected in all aspects of the report’. On further reflection on the clusters it appears we would fit better under the Primary Public Community Health Cluster which includes sexual health, spans generations and a primary, public and community health focus.”

If you'd like more infomation please contact: