Vili's acheivement individually brilliant

"I've dedicated so much to my parents, but tonight it was all about Val and all about [coach] Kirsten [Hellier], and just the hard work we've put in over the last 10 years,"

Valerie Vili 2008.

Valerie Vili's win last night at the 2008 Beijing Olympic shot put shows what an individual can do if one puts ones mind to it.

While Valerie wouldn't profess to be a role model, her achievement is surely a great example to others, especially those in the community in which she comes from, the Labour Party fed welfare disaster of South Auckland.

Valerie never gave up, she had a goal, individually pursued it after getting support from her parents and coaches, not the State, and as a result has become a well deserved success on the international stage.

The collective approach of the current Labour led Nanny State, where they teach you in school that it is OK just to participate rather than win, was ignored by Vili, and just as well.

If she and her parents hadn't ignored the Labour Party collective mantra, we wouldn't have heard the name Valerie Vili today.

Well done Val, I hope you enjoy your win and make a bundle out of it.

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Mark Weldon strikes out on Carbon Trading

When Mark Weldon came from a well paid Wall Street job at the beginning of this century to become CEO of the New Zealand Stock Exchange [NZX.NZ] I held much promise for this dynamic, ambitious, innovative and successful young man.

Weldon has fostered the NZX from a economic backwater exchange into a more broad based one with more revenue streams-even though it is still a underdeveloped exchange, but that is another story.

Unfortunately Weldon's latest push for more revenue, in the form of launching a "Carbon Trading platform", whatever that means, is at the risk of ameliorating his good results so far, and more.

Weldon seems to have caught the zealotry nature of the carbon trading Nazis , like Minister for "Climate Change", whatever that means, David Parker.

Mark talks of his TZ1 Carbon Platform as "leading the world" and "innovative".

"The most important thing NZX can do here is get the right CEO, free the business to succeed, and hold a high quality team accountable for results."

No it isn't Mark. Trading a real asset is the most important part of any market. Even if you had the smartest person in the world who fully understood the carbon trading market, you will still find it impossible to make this kind of platform a long term success because of its fraudulent nature.

Mark Weldon goes on:

"Mark Franklin is the perfect CEO for TZ1. He has the right technical background, knowledge, relationships, credibility, strategic skills and drive. Mark chose this position ahead of a number of global roles on offer to him - a choice that reflects his belief in the potential of this market.

Quite frankly we have heard this kind of enthusiasm for business and markets based on nothing for as long as human beings have had a history. The majority of Internet businesses and wild poppies traded in Holland during the 1600s were two similar fake manipulated markets and both of them collapsed with spectacular results.

The carbon trading market collapse will make those meltdowns look like a Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie.

The carbon trading market and the "economics" on which it is based has its genesis in the fraud that is the Enron invented carbon trading market and its associated Al Gore pushed "climate change" movement, scientifically disproved and with a negative economic impact rather than a positive one-which clearly makes it a liability rather than an asset.

To put so much misplaced faith in a market for trading carbon credits simply defies economics 101, something that Mark should have remembered from his 3rd form economic class-an asset has to have a clear value, be easily understood have a real demand based on an intrinsic value, not a demand pent up by politicians and scientists on the State breast-in other words a false market.

When the price of an asset is based on the regulator or principle organiser of trading that asset, TZ1 in this case, or the government setting or influencing the carbon price, then the relationship of trading to the value of that asset is not only artificial but in the long term unsustainable, in the true sense of that word, and will eventually lead to its collapse.

Mark Weldon has forgotten the basics to investing, what an asset is, the fact that a market relies on real assets to have any chance of a long term future and the history of previous economic collapses.

Putting faith in "Carbon Trading", being excited and passionate about it being a huge success is a thin veneer pasted over the reality behind it that it is based on a fraud.

You should be ashamed of yourself Mark.


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Colmar Brunton Poll:17 August 2008

Aug 17, 2008

National on track for gold (2:53) video

National is on track to win gold in this year's election despite recent unwelcome headlines.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has picked up support but is still trailing in National leader John Key's wake.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters was caught up in the saga over receiving secret donations from wealthy businessmen.

And secret tapes hinted at leadership divisions and a secret agenda in the National Party.
But despite the drama, it doesn't seem to have hurt the party. National still has the support of more than half of all voters.

Labour has closed the gap a little, now on 37%. But Labour's gain is the Greens' loss. They are polling just 3.5%. The Maori Party sits just above 3%, New Zealand First is in deep trouble on 2.6% and United Future and the Act Party barely registered.

Continued


Colmar Brunton Poll: 20 July 2008
Colmar Brunton Poll: 22 June 2008

c Political Animal 2008

National Party list out

The National Party list out this evening comprises yet more new MPs. This is in stark contrast to Labour's current motley crewe, which is comprised mainly of MPs from the 1980s.

The National Party's 2008 list is out and is as follows:

Name
Electorate

John Key
Helensville

Hon Bill English
Clutha-Southland

Gerry Brownlee
Ilam

Simon Power
Rangitikei

Hon Dr Nick Smith
Nelson

Hon Tony Ryall
Bay of Plenty

Judith Collins
Papakura

Hon Maurice Williamson
Pakuranga

David Carter
List

Anne Tolley
East Coast

Hon Murray McCully
East Coast Bays

Dr Hon Lockwood Smith
Rodney

Dr Wayne Mapp
North Shore

Chris Finlayson
Rongotai

Tim Groser
New Lynn

Steven Joyce
List

Hon Georgina Te Heuheu
List

Nathan Guy
Otaki

Lindsay Tisch
Waikato

Pansy Wong
Botany

John Carter
Northland

Phil Heatley
Whangarei

Dr Paul Hutchison
Hunua

Shane Ardern
Taranaki - King Country

Dr Richard Worth
Epsom

Hon Tau Henare
Te Atatu

Sandra Goudie
Coromandel

Eric Roy
Invercargill

Dr Jonathan Coleman
Northcote

Kate Wilkinson
Waimakariri

Chris Tremain
Napier

Chester Burrows
Whanganui

Craig Foss
Tukituki

Allan Peachey
Tamaki

Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga
Maungakiekie

Hekia Parata
Mana

Melissa Lee
List

Kanwal Bakshi
Manukau East

Jo Goodhew
Rangitata

Jacqui Dean
Waitaki

Paula Bennett
Waitakere

Chris Auchinvole
West Coast Tasman

Nicky Wagner
Christchurch Central

David Bennett
Hamilton East

Dr Jackie Blue
Mt Roskill

Katrina Shanks
Ohariu

Colin King
Kaikoura

Paul Quinn
Hutt South

Michael Woodhouse
Dunedin North

John Hayes
Wairarapa

Simon Bridges
Tauranga

Amy Adams
Selwyn

Louise Upston
Taupo

Todd McClay
Rotorua

Tim Macindoe
Hamilton West

Aaron Gilmore
Christchurch East

Nikki Kaye
Auckland Central

Dr Cam Calder
Manurewa

Dr Conway Powell
Dunedin South

Stephen Franks
Wellington Central

Marc Alexander
Wigram

Malcolm Plimmer
Palmerston North

Mita Harris
Mangere

Terry Heffernan
Port Hills

Ravi Musuku
Mt Albert

Jonathan Young
New Plymouth

Richard Whiteside
Rimutaka

Paul O'Brien
List

Youngshin Watkins
List

Hamuera Mitchell
List

Viv Gurrey
List

Dugald McLean
List

Simon O'Connor
List

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c National Party & Political Animal 2008