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Eleanor Catton has exposed the meme that drives so many New Zealander’s today – don’t speak badly of the money-people, the powerful-people! It’s as simple as that and that’s how fearful we have become. Anytime someone challenges the behaviour of the elite, the response is immediate and vicious. It’s pleasing to see though, that in Eleanor’s case, she hasn’t been silenced, hasn’t been beaten. She’s risen above Key’s bully-boy snipes, Plunkett’s insane public attacks and the whining of the right-wing rank-and-file, and become a beacon for every decent person who can see the manner in which we are being governed at this time.
Thanks, Eleanor.
“Fonterra has lost its multi-million-dollar cheese market in the United States, after “forgetting” to renew its import licences.
The blunder means the company’s 2015 quota is likely to be given to competing companies from other countries, sources said.
Fonterra’s director of global ingredients, Kelvin Wickham, confirmed Fonterra (USA) had not renewed the licences, but refused to say how that had happened.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/65639315/fonterra-in-11m-cheese-blunder
Good grief!