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Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:37 am, September 27th, 2017 - 116 comments
Categories: climate change, economy, Economy, Environment, ETS, farming, national, nz first, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, water, winston peters, you couldn't make this shit up - Tags: rachel stewart
If you wanted to know all that is wrong with New Zealand right now recent publicity about Fonterra's boss Theo Spiering's salary provides a perfect example. The boss of the organisation owned by farmers who complained bitterly at how cleaning up our rivers that they polluted and addressing climate change caused by their stock would send them broke is paying the boss of their organisation large amounts of money. Without complaint.
How much? A cool $8.3 million a year which is $160,000 a week. And he is not the only Fonterra executive with a super sized pay cheque.
From Stuff:
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings earned a total of $8.32 million in 2017, a 57 per cent jump from last year.
His earnings are made up of a $2.46m base salary, superannuation benefits of $170,036, and performance payments for 2016 and 2017 of $1.83m and $3.85m, the co-operative's latest annual reports shows.
Spierings is not the only big earner in New Zealand's largest company, with 23 other executives receiving up to $1m for their efforts. Of those, five left the company during the year.
I am surprised the farming community is not up in arms like they were at the thought of paying a modest water tax during the last weeks of the election.
Where are the pitch forks and the loud protests and the marching in the street with rather awkward protest signs? There has been not a peep from the so called backbone of the country since the news broke.
Paying modest amounts to a fund that will start the clean up process is bad but paying the chief executive and others ridiculous amounts for doing their job is fine?
Rachel Stewart in the Herald has the perfect response in this article discussing Peters' play for Government:
Winston is also a rare breed of politician who uses the word "neo-liberal" as a pejorative. This is good. This is very, very good. Because on Monday, a perfectly odious illustration of the "n" word made for nauseating headlines. One that inspired the NZF leader to put his money where his mouth is.
Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings' salary (including bonuses) of nearly $8.3m was announced. It made for sickening reading, and not only for the many Kiwis struggling to afford the basics of milk and cheese. It is a galling example of everything wrong with our nation's addiction to dairy farming, nest feathering, and inequality.
Fonterra wasted no time in attempting to justify the bonuses. Chairman John Wilson said short-term and senior executive incentives were met, which brought in about $2 billion of cash and working capital.
"Clearly these numbers are high from a New Zealand perspective and we absolutely respect and understand that, from an Australasian and a global perspective which is the nature of our business, they're actually well within the bands of what those global executives earn."
Oh, so it's New Zealanders who just don't understand the ways of the world then? Here's an idea. How about Spierings' remuneration being tied to meeting water quality and environmental targets, rather than how much capital he raised.
I can understand Fonterra's fear of a progressive Government. It by itself is one of the country's biggest CO2 emitters because of the burning of coal to turn milk into powder. Farming also produces huge amounts of methane and the farming sector as a whole produced 46% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2013.. In 2013 it pumped out 1.17 million tonnes of CO2. The country's total output of CO2 and equivalent greenhouse gasses (including methane) was 76 million tonnes. Farmers seem to think it unfair that they should pay the cost of their pollution of the world's environment. But if you are going to preserve the environment, and farming needs a sustainable environment, then the cost has to be met.
But hey someone accuse me of engaging in the politics of envy. After all these people are super beings with amazing talents that justify the payment to them of insane amounts of money while their company sells a product that too many poor Kiwi families cannot afford to buy.
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116 comments on "Good work if you can get it "
David C 1
Lefties whine that NZ doesnt add value to products before sending them offshore then when a company does this they whine about a chap getting paid a fair whack.
That glass of milk really is half empty all the time huh?
You can add value to a product and not pay someone more a week than pretty well anyone earns a year.
Adrian Thornton 1.1.1
Yes and I never heard of any management taking a 50% + cut in salaries when Fonterra was not doing so well….
Enough is Enough 1.1.2
"There has been not a peep from the so called backbone of the country since the news broke"
I know you live in West Auckland and probably rarely leave the 09 coded area but this comment is very far from the mark and really shows why farmers currently have issues with ignorant city dwellers.
Here in the Waikato this is a huge issue amongst farmers and there is outrage.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2017/09/angry-farmers-savage-fonterra-ceo-theo-spierings-pay-cheque.html.
Try doing some simple google research before laying into farmers again
Bearded Git 1.2
"A fair whack"-$8.2 million a year!
I'd love to hear the opinion of share-milkers on this, up to their armpits in muck getting up at 4am every morning and getting paid the equivalent of 2 days of Spierings' annual salary.
You can't articulate the argument you affect disagreement with. That's why you have to run these pathetic red herring lines instead.
The whinging about water charges just got put into context.
Add value? I thought they subtracted water?
DoublePlusGood 1.5
Fonterra is supposed to be a coop with farmers being the shareholders. If that's true, this vast largesse arising from business success should be redistributed among the shareholders.
That…is how it is supposed to work, right? Fonterra has failed in their capitalist obligations to their shareholders.
Stuart Munro 1.6
Yeah – what is Fonterra making that we weren't making in 1960?
Not a sausage.
Bulk commodities – the same blight that gets us among the lowest per kilo fisheries returns in the world.
The guys who actually get good returns back to the farmers – Westland for one – manage without 7 figure salaries.
David C 1.6.1
Yeah right. Apples and bananas there..
Westland is what.. a 50th the size of Fonterra?
Stuart Munro 1.6.1.1
And size is a good thing? Fonterra's effective monopoly makes it lazy and unaccountable. It's really just a producer board in drag – and if it can't compete with agile light-footed operators it's not because it's cleverer.
Tautoko Mangō Mata 1.7
It is what constitutes " a fair whack" that is the issue, David C.
he has no answer to that and has wandered off on his own tangent.
mpledger 1.8
The thing is that Fontarra aren't adding much value to the product before it goes off-shore (according to Bernard Hickey), their core product is milk power i.e. milk+heat.
well there is about 20 million cubic meters of milk produced a year… getting rid of the water (80%?) out of it seems pretty sensible to me..
maybe they can arrange a water tax refund for putting that back into the environment?
DoublePlusGood 1.8.1.1
That isn't how hydrology works.
Brigid 1.8.1.2
And that's what you call adding value?
The sum of Fontera's added value?
No more than the dairy board were doing in the 1950s 60s.
It seems only you are fooled.
I suppose the question is: Is there anyone willing to do the same job for less?
I'm pretty sure you'll find that there's several thousand.
I find it amazing that supply and demand doesn't seem to apply to CEOs.
It is like an unwritten rule to keep their wages high, to keep claiming we need to pay this to attract the "best". That is patently BS. there are many people capable of doing this job. Recently a Sports Ass chose an English man over a local candidate. Now he needs a work visa etc and the checks by Immigration over "whether a kiwi can do the job" are lacking. It is not who is the very very best person to do the job but cana kiwi do it.
McFlock 1.9.1.1
Capitalism does not pay the highest income person who does the best job.
Capitalism pays the highest income to the person who is best at negotiating a high income. This tends to be at the expense of actual management performance.
[edit: that link is to a pdf of a study that found that firms which paid CEOs in the top 10% bracket returned on average 13% lower profits to shareholders than the average stock return]
I have seen similar stats. That is why I say it is an unwritten rule whereby they all perpetuate the BS line to keep CEO wages high.
KJT 1.9.1.1.1.1
And Japan manages to have some of the world's biggest and most successful companies. With most top executives paid less than an eighth of Fonterra,s.
I believe there's a large amount of who you know in there as well.
McFlock 1.9.1.1.2.1
yup. As well as "what's in your pants" and "what's your ethnicity".
Kevin 1.9.1.1.2.2
It's an 'old boys club' of the worst kind DTB.
You can be shit at the job, realise your time is up, take the golden handshake and then move on to the next CEO job with the commensurate salary.
Look how hard it is to actually get rid of some of these CEO's. The cost is fucking ridiculous.
Gabby 1.10
Fair whack my arse davy.
lloyd 1.11
Fronterra adds less value to its milk than any other milk company operating in New Zealand
Jason 1.12
Fonterra doesn't actually add value to many of its products at all. Despite that being an obvious objective. See https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/30/51025/rod-oram-fonterra-failing-basic-tests
three big problems:
– Fonterra is still a massive volume, not value, player in global dairy markets, to the detriment of its owners and the New Zealand economy;
– China is highly problematic for the co-op, particularly its $700m investment in Beingmate, a local infant formula company;
– It is unclear how Spierings and other senior executives are earning their big bonuses; and are they incentivised on the right performance measures?
Dazzer 2
"There has been not a peep from the so called backbone of the country since the news broke." BS
Borrowing billions internationally at Ponzi scheme interest-rates. Fonterra dumps milk on the international market, and charges NZ consumers double the price.
Head office: (In NZ's banking district!) 109 Fanshawe Street, Auckland Central,
Classical Masonic architecture, and space out front for dozens of tractors with political banner swinging from the forks.
Executives are lucky, farms are too busy with crap weather, haven't the time to complain.
Once was Tim 4
It's all a bit hazy now but was it not these same Masters of the Universe that pushed for restructuring of Fonterra so that it was no longer a true cooperative such that the participants shares (or at least any profits from them) could be listed and sold?
The effect then being that farmers were then solely dependent on the earnings from a per kg. price on what they produced?
IF that is so, you can then imagine the pressure from banks and others to sell in order to repay debt, or even perhaps just to buy treats and trinkets or take a holiday to Bali with wifey and the kids. And in this case, not something easy to reverse.
Sounds a bit like Natzi reasoning for the sale of power companies – that is a short term windfall rather than long term returns.
Can anyone clarify?
GregJ 4.1
The changes to the capital structure are fairly well covered on the Wikipedia entry for Fonterra.
Spierings was appointed CEO in 2011 after the vote to change the capital structure occurred. I imagine though that many of the board are the same people.
What bugs me is not his salary . Fonterra are slowly getting less mistake-prone, and very slowly turning their attention to value-added products and services.
What bugs me is that after 9 years of calm economic conditions under a highly capitalist government, Fonterra remains our largest company and the closest to it, Fletcher Building, is weakening. Where is the great economy with outstanding progressive world leading businesspeople that we should expect?
We have no other giant companies pulling in the world's wealth here and bringing outstanding careers and R&D , driving productivity and wages up and up.
Instead we have Fonterra alone, stumbling along. When it was formed it was the third largest dairy company in the world, and it's now slipped to sixth, and continuing to fall. We deserve a better economy than this, guided by a smart government.
It's not a company it's a co-op, one that's effectively a logitics outfit running a farm to market model. The largest boys club I've seen in this land behind Fletchers and it's equally craptacular management.
You can't compare it to companies as it's forced to distribute to it's unit holders via the payouts. It's this co-op model that allows alot of ineffective and inefficient processes, overpaid managers, out of control IT spend (SAP etc) to hide out in.
If Dairy farmers were actually taken for a tour through the largesse that vendors and managers indulge in compared to say how Tatua operate they'd be a very angry mob indeed.
NZ is all about niche, Fonterra is all about commodity and needs to be smashed up into niches IMO. It's keeping other nimble players out and not returning the value it should to the farmers.
mickysavage 5.1.1
But that sounds like *splutter* communism …
tc 5.1.1.1
Isn't that what a co-op model is about Mickey ? Maximum distribution to members and keeping the central mechanism as lean and market focused as possible.
There's a reason Tatua and others have long lists of Fonterra farmers wanting in as they pay more / KG.
Isn't that clear evidence the scale model has failed alongside paying Theo 'next in line' Sperrings a massive amount to do SFA just like Ferrier and others before him.
If these blokes are soooo good why isn't the payout/kg better than the smaller operators ?
Once was Tim 5.1.1.1.1
Can you answer my question above @4?
If that's the case then it's less of a coop.
It seems that its a howto on corporatising a cooperative.
The day the Coop Bank tried that shit on would be the day I left them.
It seems by doing this, they allowed their shares to be traded (and presumably to be sold offshore). A lesson on how to lose control of your destiny.
Presumably all done in the name of 'foreign investment' – code for ownership with profits going offshore.
Remember …. it's a question
tc 5.1.1.1.1.1
Yes that appears to be the case, Weldon probably had a hand in this as they were eyeing it off as a juicy NZX listing.
Weldon's NZX also hoovered up rural publications critical of this share trading structure as the slippery slope to another Fletchers or any large corporate you can name that uses it's board as a shield paying out massive exec salaries.
So it's sort of a half way house as far as I bothered following it as once I saw Weldon BS and spin around why NZX were buying up rural magazines I smelt a rat.
The boys gone onto prove my instincts about right based on his work at mediawonks as he's not served their shareholders very well has he.
Once was Tim …
OK. So its a Cooperative on paper and in name only without SFA of the benefits, but effectively a corporation – subject to the whims of its masters of the universe board and CEO. They'll claim they have a duty to their shareholders of course – but who exactly are those shareholders?
Are they still the farmer, or the owner/profit-taker of the shares?
I can only imagine the effect of large parcels of shares being snapped up by something like Nestle or another in the future (bearing in mind the state of our Comm Comm).
Seems to me that many farmers were hoodwinked. The reason I asked the question is that I seem to remember NinetoNoon discussing it all years ago with some farmers' representative expressing their concern.
You know what will happen of course….it'll go the same way as something like Xero inevitably will.
And yes, I agree – it was probably someone like Weldon's bright idea.
Short termism
Tracey …
Coop mames it sound like the sharehokder farmers are in control. They are not. It is a giant corporate monopoly and behaves accordingly.
They're over paid – by about $8m/year.
Gabby 5.2
He's getting over 1% of the profits addy. I guess that leaves a bit for the shareholders.
Adrian Thornton 6
Good piece here mickysavage, I think your opening line said it all…
"If you wanted to know all that is wrong with New Zealand right now recent publicity about Fonterra's boss Theo Spiering's salary provides a perfect example "
His salary is an obscenity.
Greed has shown itself to be public enemy number one, as we have just witnessed, a huge part of NZ's voting public just opted to promote (or at the very least maintain) their own self interests over that of the common good…which is all a vote for National amounts too once you cut away the froth and the rhetoric.
I do believe that going forward Labour has to understand that this middle vote that it relied on so heavily on during Clarke's time has for all intents and purposes gone, the third way, New Labour project is doomed, that much is plainly obvious.
This has proved to be the case in the UK, and in the US where the only successful way forward for a real Left project has been embracing a traditional and core (called hard Left by a reactionary media, like The Guardian) Left wing manifesto, and talk directly to the hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters who are desperate for a voice, and have shown that they will not only come out and vote, but are inspired to work hard on the ground to promote Socialism.
Corbyn and Sanders have shown quite clearly what a real 'Youth Quake' looks like, and what real mobilized citizens who are inspired by the prospect of REAL change also looks like…having Grant Robertson, Mike Williams, Helen Clarke looking like the optical backbone of Ardern is certainly not that..unfortunately for us and for the country.
Greed has shown itself to be public enemy number one
We've actually known that for several thousand years:
Keeping the playing field level was a matter of survival. These small-scale, nomadic foraging groups didn't stock up much surplus food, and given the high-risk nature of hunting – the fact that on any given day or week you may come back empty-handed – sharing and cooperation were required to ensure everyone got enough to eat. Anyone who made a bid for higher status or attempted to take more than their share would be ridiculed or ostracised for their audacity. Suppressing our primate ancestors' dominance hierarchies by enforcing these egalitarian norms was a central adaptation of human evolution, argues social anthropologist Christopher Boehm. It enhanced cooperation and lowered risk as small, isolated bands of humans spread into new habitats and regions across the world, and was likely crucial to our survival and success.
The reason hasn't really changed – it still comes down to survival but we've been persuaded that Greed is Good. This wouldn't be the first time either. We can go back to the Roman Empire, the British Empire, The Greek and the Egyptian. And they all ended the same way – the same way that our present empire will.
Unfortunately, our present is set to take a hell of a lot of other life with it.
marty mars 7
Good post. Obscene for sure and shows the farmers are more like the beasts they work than they'd probably imagine.
Butter is $6.50 a Block here – 6 fucken fifty dollars.
Another big sham is saying these top execs are worth that – they arent – it is bullshit. They get paid it because the people that do the same things get it. Oh and who sets those values? They fucken do!
Whispering Kate 8
I am not up with the economics thing of Fonterra but from a simple perspective, if farmers can afford to and willingly allow their CEO to earn this huge amount per annum – then surely they can afford to pay water levies to help clean up the waterways of this country. Why are they whinging if they are so wealthy they can let their CEO earn this much.
Siobhan 8.1
and while we are at it, they can afford to pay their workers on the farm better.
https://agrihq.co.nz/topic/people-and-lifestyle/careers-skills-education/farmer-groups-bag-immigrant-rules
Gristle 8.2
I hope dairy farmers realise that each and every one of them is paying Mr Spiering on average approximately $1,000 per annum.
Melanie Scott 9
Fonterra is a huge monopoly. They don't have any competition in NZ so why does a CEO (in NZ) need to be paid such a ridiculous amount? How does that help the economy? Apart from the urgent need to clean up the environment which has been so badly abused by dairy farming, would it not be better to help the local economy by a) keeping the domestic price of dairy products lower, b) pay the farmers more so they could spend more in the local economy (hopefully)? The priority should certianly go addressing the environmental impact. Perhaps Mr Thiering could set up a trust for environmental r&d? I won't hold my breath.
Then this will make your blood boil. Ratepayers outpaying farmers by quite a lot…
Perhaps we should picket farms?
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ratepayers-dwarf-farming-industry-93-million-in-funds-given-clean-up-nzs-fresh-water-2017
lprent 9.1.1
You have to love the way that almost all of the farmer contribution to cleaning up fresh water are estimates and not sunstantiated or backed by anything apart from Nick Smith.
Perhaps they should formally and transparently account for all of the investment that they assert that they are doing. Then at least you wouldn't have a known liar with numbers like Nick Smith smearing them by trying to say what they have really been doing. It isn't like he is a credible source.
I remain quite unconvinced that farmers are doing enough towards cleaning up their own mess that they produce with the countries water. All that I hear are unsubstantiated anecdote by the people with the least to lose if they are lying, and steadily deteriorating water stats for everywhere except the cities and where NGOs are involved.
Plus of course Nick Smith redefining ever worse standards for water pollution so that his pollution stats in the countryside don't look like National's miserable failure. It just makes the farmers look like miserable failures if they have spent a purported 10 billion dollars of their own money resulting in worse standards for 'fresh' water and measurable poorer quality in almost every aquifer and waterway that they are associated with.
Gristle 9.1.1.1
Fonterra, like Dr Smith, are also playing fast and loose with definitions.
The programme of fencing waterways is defined (going from memory) encompassing bodies of water at least 1m wide and continuously flowing. So automatically the Selwyn and many other Canterbury Rivers are removed from the mix as they don't flow continuously. And one of the reasons that they don't flow continuously is the volume of water extracted for dairy irrigation.
In North Otago there is an instance of a dairy farmer using a creek as his stock track, and then getting the stock underneath the road using the Waikaura Creek Bridge as an underpass (as the State Highway bridge takes the traffic over the top of the creek.) see Creek in StreetView
Even with this definition the claim that 90% of waterways are fenced is really incorrect unless you add the tautological criteria that" a waterway is something that is fenced."
Further, having fencing only implies that stock do not go in the waterway. On the weekend, up in the North Island, I saw one fenced riverbank being grazed by dairy cattle.
(Why is it that every time I hear the phrase "Dr Smith" I see the the robot from Space Family Robinson flailing its arms and crying "Danger! Danger!.")
greywarshark 9.1.1.2
On Nick Smith – it is interesting that he is in an electorate with a lot of retired people. And Nelson is so comfortable to live in, good weather, an airport, lovely surroundings and teachers fight to get jobs here. Such a lot of comfortable people, who don't want to take a real interest in the difficulties of the country. They may have 30 years left to live after they retire of the same 'careless rapture'. Or they keep on working and congratulate themselves that they are still contributing to society, not a superannuiant without thinking about the shrinking jobs there are. But insurance companies have the line about not wanting your standard of living to go down when you retire. Not many of them are hard working, worn out hulks having worn out all their joints slaving for their wages as young to middle aged do.
So Nick keeps getting in in Nelson, the petty bourgeois think he's all right. Water and stuff, we're all right, that's an SEP. He started off cleverly with renting out half his house as an electorate office. Now has a small hall for meetings for the worthies of the community, good works etc. And keeps up a constant campaign of photo ops grinning beside the latest edifice or service that has been started in the region, and regularly provides a diary of his doings, and the things he wants to be connected with.
And that this story had to wait til AFTER 23 September
jcuknz 10
I agree that it is an obscene salary/payment for NZ. But with the idiots pressing for us to be part of the global economy it is simply pigeons coming home to roost. People running big outfits on the global scene get big payments and it doesn't really depend on if they are any good as the guys basic salary of 2.6 million shows … also an obscene amount.
I wish though folk here would get their facts right because more pollution comes from townies than farmers who are slowly getting it right while townies do little or nothing that I can see happening.
mpledger 10.1
One of the commentators on RNZ said that a big European dairy company that has twice the turn-over of Fonterra and has more value-added products than Fonterra has a boss that is earning half the amount that the boss of Fonterra is.
And that Spierings performance payments must be based on milk powder because their value added production is so low and that is a terrible incentive structure because it's just the same product that we've been producing for ever.
He also said that the reporting of Spierings pay was reported incredibly poorly so it's very hard to know what's going on compared to the openness of comparable organisations in Europe.
Draco T Bastard 10.2
[Citation Needed]
No evidence I've seen shows that farmers are getting better. Lots showing the opposite.
Townies, on the other hand, have been cleaning their living space up for centuries. It's why towns and cities are even habitable.
mauī 10.3
6 million cows are the effluent equivalent of 90 million human's crapping all over NZ unregulated. Human crap in towns and cities is much more regulated and we only make up less than 5 million in number.
tracey 10.4
Yeah we arent doing anything. Well unless you count $93m to clean up fresh water…
joe90 10.5
while townies do little or nothing that I can see happening
Tracey's link above makes it clear who's doing little or nothing, and it ain't the townies.
Gabby 10.6
Unfair juicy, I totally stopped shitting in rivers.
marty mars 10.6.1
greywarshark 10.7
jcuknz
I've noticed that RW rash breaking out on you before. Drink more water (pure) and take walks in the fresh air and let it leak in your every pore.
Fonterra's corporate shills are rotating their spin cycles as we speak to make Thiering look like a human being.
Meantime, here's what you are supposed to say:
"Our business to society platform is the modern embodiment of that unique ideal: that a company that doesn't give value to society shouldn't exist."
– Judy Marks, CEO, Siemens USA.
Granted, the following interview is rich in jargon, but it has clear commitments and examples of commitments, and underneath it is a whole bunch more useful than the nonsense we got out of the Fonterra Chairman yesterday:
http://www.politico.com/sponsor-content/2017/09/where-business-meets-society?cid=201709hp
eco maori 12
There is more to this picture than what meets the eye when someone does the right thing and that pisses some top brass off they get persecuted for doing the right thing.
Theo is the General of a large operation that's spans out across our world and a lot of other people are trying to under mine him and fonterra so one has to be a smart cookie to run such a operation and keep all the bad shit that can infect fonterra.
In my opinion we should celebrating fonterra success one does not bite the hand that feeds it I.E All that foreign cash flowing into OUR economy. Larger society don't like it when a small country like ours can dictate the price on anything that is the way of the world. and that makes it hard work to get a fair price for there products
As for pollution well the government is responsible for that they make and break OUR laws and they set the standard fonterra did not set up the shoddy carbon trading scheam guess who did the national did PS I HAVE A POST ON OPEN MIKE 26/09/17
Its about why we produce milk powder.
Fonterra is a 2O Billion dollar co operative You no that old saying is you pay what and you get what you will figure it out
tracey 13
And the cynicism/contempt to wait until the first business day after the election to publish this…
JC 14
$8.2 Million!! That pay equates to $160,000 per week.
Median weekly earnings for wage and salary workers rose $32 (3.1 per cent) to $1094 for fulltime workers in the year to June 30, Statistics New Zealand data showed.
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings was paid $8.32 million in 2017 – an annual increase of 78.5 per cent.
But remember that's just the tip of the iceberg, (or Fonterra's payroll.
Figures for 2015:
"(The dairy giant's last financial statement showed more than 4000 of its 18,000 world-wide staff earn at least $100,000 per year, while 17 staff earn more than $1 million annually.)"
Fonterra's highest earners
$100,000 – $200,000: 3482 staff
$200,001 – $300,000: 402 staff
$400,001 – $500,000: 66 staff
$800,001 – $900,000: 6 staff
$900,001 – $1 million: 8 staff
$1 million – $2 million: 13 staff
$2 million – $3 million: 2 staff
(Nb this maybe before they axed 500 jobs).
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/278949/fonterra-defends-top-salaries-after-cuts
Perhaps if they took a paycut that would cover some of the costs associate with cleaning up our waterways.
If I recall correctly the revenue from the "water tax" was estimated to be c $100 million. ( or approximately 12 years of Theo Spierings salary, with bonuses.
Loved this:
Great to hear that Theo Spierings has enough money to clean up a bit of a creek that his mates crapped inhttps://t.co/3RfKGpLYz5
— Michael Field (@MichaelFieldNZ) September 25, 2017
Gristle 14.1
JC, I took the mid-point of each of the pay brackets you provided above and multiplied that by the number of employees in each of the pay brackets. The grand total comes to $773,500,000. Yes, that is $773 million dollars. For each farmer that that is a cost of on average $77,000. (This figure does include the actual costs of collecting, processing, delivering etc. )
JC 14.1.1
Far Out! $773 M!. That'd go a long way to cleaning up the shit.
Nb those staff figures were from a 2015 report. And the breakdown of salaries only accounted for 4813 staff.
So perhaps only getting part way down the Berg… I'm unsure of Fonterra's actual staff numbers but,
"More than a third of Fonterra's 18,000 staff are based overseas, Mr Hurrell said."
So the salaries and wages cost has to be considerably more!
( Incidentally a tanker driver I know started on a $37.50 an hour with Westland Milk)
JC 14.2
Edit: Link added,
Also Rod Oram has a piece on this and Fonterra on RNZ.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201859988/business-commentator-rod-oram
(Pretty much most of the interview but guts c 6.45 – 11.50 mins…)
A couple of key points he raised were:
"Fonterra's poor governance", (in relation to financial reporting), and
"5600 staff received a share of bonuses"…
If you want a say in the operation of Fonterra put your money where your mouth is and buy a dairy farm ,and become a supplying shareholder.
There are a few farms on the market at the moment and the added bonus of a 40 cent divident from an approx $6.20 Fonterra share is the icing on the cake.Annual return of 6.45 %,not to be sniffed at.
But be carefull where you buy your farm as different farming systems and geographical areas influence the economic return and environmental footprint.
In Canterbury , a fully irrigated dairy farm ,with pivots ,state of the art effluent management , subject to Ecan environmental plans with good infrastructure ,fertility and good location could cost you up to $60000 per Ha .
For a 200 Ha property thats up to $12 million.Add another $2.17 million for Fonterra shares and your on your way.
As a shareholder you get an opportunity to speak to Theo at the numerous meetings he attends with shareholders over the year .
There are a number of specialist dairy farm brokers out there.Why don't you do it !
Ah… so we can only have an opinion if we own a farm. To follow your logic farmers can have no opinions about anything other than farming… no views allowed on education, policing, health, and so on.
Ian 15.1.1
Fonterra is a privately owned company.You can have as many opinions as you like ,but if you don't have any skin in the game it's none of your business,so to speak .
tracey 15.1.1.1
Then we need to pass a law and levy money straight from them and forthwith stop the indirect subsidies to its shareholders. You cool with that? Less R and D from taxpayers. Inclusion in ETS like other polluters ( 450m there)
Ian 15.1.1.1.1
Before you pass any laws you need to develop some policies,let the voters Know what they are and if you get the mandate just do it. Untill that happens your just another whining loser.
lloyd 15.1.1.1.1.1
Ian, its fairly obvious from the whining about water taxes and the ridiculous salaries of ineffective executives that dairy farm owners/Fronterra shareholders are whining losers.
Stuart Munro 15.1.1.2
But we do have skin in the game – they're pooing in our rivers, drying them up, and rigging local dairy prices to make many staples unaffordable.
These corrupt CEO 'salaries' are a US trope – in Korea they'd slap Spierings in jail for a few months while the prosecutors went through the books.
Never happen here – the Gnats are benter than he is.
You either failed to understand the point of the post or deliberately spinning away from it. Considering that you're a RWNJ I figure that it's likely to be the latter.
Why don't you do it !
Clean up your shit, filth.
If thats you David Parker, good luck with the negotiations with Winston.
Ad 15.4
Once you have bought that dairy farm, and bought shares, your voice is through an elected representative on the Fonterra Shareholder Council.
Can you tell me how this Fonterra Shareholder Council influences the actual Fonterra Board of Directors?
Robert Guyton 15.5
"state of the art effluent management"
Says it all. Managing sh*t, with pipes and ponds and…stuff.
Ian; you've got it all wrong.
So how should I manage it Robert ? Package it and sell it to greenies ? The bees are going berserk on the lemonwoods and my conference pears at the moment. Major conference going on in the pear tree today.
You missed Ad's question. Prolly just an oversight.
No oversight tracey. The fonterra board is elected by shareholders. The shareholders council is a very different beast and has been pretty ineffectual over the years for many reasons. It is currently being reduced from 35 to 25 members and hopefully will have more influence.
But in saying that I have been able to discuss issues with the top table including Theo and They have a pretty difficult job. For example Theo has to consider political risk to Fonterra and I'm not talking about our tinpot bunch of pollies ,but Brexit ,Trump , China/north Korea , middle east / Russia where we sell our highly valued butter ,australia where Fonterra collects 20 % of the milk ,Sri lanka ,and south america ,the Caribean and so on. Try and sort that lot out.
You said it: political risk to Fonterra has nothing to do with 2c per thousand litres and all that posturing was simply a denial of personal responsibility.
gsays 15.5.1.1.1.2
They also have to come up with ideas like making businesses wait 3months instead of two for money fonterra owes them and, this is a doozy, give fonterra a 20%discount!
Absolutely priceless! What a brilliant business mind, worth every penny.
State of the art effluent management is soil and the organisms that thrive therein. If your soil can't manage the effluent that lands on it, you are doing something wrong.
Good news about the pears-to-bee.
Why are you so ignorant about everything?
Investing in R&D with government…
Now we've established that we all have financial skin in the game as well as wanting rivers we can swim in, I expect you'll start to exhibit a little more gratitude. You can thank me for correcting your ignorance for a start.
It occurs to me that what with Fonterra allegedly being a co-op 'n'all, that sign should really say "I'm a stupid capitalist. I pay my employee $160k a week"
Look, this is neo-liberalism in action. Farmers have nothing to be concerned about – the money will trickle down eventually.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2017/09/angry-farmers-savage-fonterra-ceo-theo-spierings-pay-cheque.html
Ian 17.1
Sorry Grant that is newshub in action. A dairy farmer struggling big time rang up and I don't doubt the severely bad situation they are in. It makes a change from pimping the poor to boost their ratings. They are a sick bunch of so called journalists trying to revive a cadaver. Take no notice.
tracey 17.1.1
Ad hominem is no substitute for facts
RuralGuy 18
I'm a dairy fonterra, supplier and shareholder of Fonterra. I'm not "up in arms". In fact I think the guy is underpaid.
For context; my farm produced 198723 kgMS last year. Theo's salary cost me .004 cents per kgMS. Even if he got paid zero, it would not have made 1 cent of difference to my payout.
My total contribution to his pay was about $750. At the start of the season the farm gate milkprice was $4.50, and by the end it was $6.52 including the dividend. So my revenue went from $894k to $1.3m. So against the additional 400k that he drove Fonterra to deliver to me, I'm happy to pay the man his $750.
What's interesting is that most of the posters here haven't worked out why Fonterra has achieved. Milk is the highest cost of goods for Fonterra. So he oversaw business improvements that meant that Fonterra could adsorb a milk price that went from $3.90 to over $6.00 but still achieve a strong profit. I got a 40 cent dividend on a milk price that is above $6. That is a phenomenal result.
His remuneration is set by a board containing 9 farmers, who are elected by the other 10,000 Fonterra members. Theo works for his farmers, and we reward his hard work.
Finally, it's also worth bearing in mind that my contribution to milk for schools, kickstart breakfasts and DOC Living Water through Fonterra is about 6 times the cost to me personally than Theo's salary. So let's not ignore the fact that this man initiated and impleted the largest ongoing private social good programmes ever seen in this country.
…but but but 2c per thousand litres is communism and the living end and the sky will fall on your heads.
Isn't milk powder etc sold at auction – so price is related to supply demand.
geoff 18.3
All that money sloshing through the fonterra system and yet the polluting goes on.
You talk about the cost to you of Fonterra's 'social good' programmes but you don't acknowledge the shagging of the environment by the dairy industry you're a part of.
Portraying yourselves as do-gooders while at the same time filling the rivers and aquifiers with cow shit and nitrates and ecoli. Nice.
bwaghorn 19
The water tax on irrigation was bumble fisted wedge politics. If it was about fixing streams it would have been a tax on all farmers . not just a minority. Nice post to keep building hate on farmers though
marty mars 19.1
He's paid too much though eh waggy, surely you would concede that.
bwaghorn 19.1.1
one could give ones self an ulcer when it comes to how much people get paid or how much they spend on shit like paintings , worry about what you can change .
marty mars 19.1.1.1
You can't change shit with that attitude mate but whatever
Barfly 19.2
Irrigation as done currently in Canterbury is it not a very bad idea BW?
I agree about the irrigation/universal tax but isn't Canterbury the leading edge of this madness?
I personally have no hate for farmers (only a little envy because my life is not so shiney)
I have no hate for you as a farmer and I hope (possibly forlornly) that more farmers learn to see to the world as you do.
I beg you to have tolerance for those who have no appreciation of your life and circumstances and who attribute beliefs to you from stupidity and ignorance.
Many people arrogantly (I include myself) simply get things wrong or simplify to an imbecilic degree.
I believe that you could be invaluable to an incoming government to try to sever this almost "Gordian knot"
Pat 19.2.1
the tax was poorly designed….if it was to raise revenue to begin repairing the damage to water caused by dairy farming it was a failure….a quick look at a map of impacted rivers overlayed on a map of irrigation shows how misguided it was….a far fairer option would be to apply a levy per milk solid on all dairy farms…a levy of a shade over 5 c per kilo milk solids produced would raise the 100 million per annum it was stated would be collected…water bottlers could be treated separately…..now the election is over it has to be said Labour could have been a lot smarter on tax.
http://www.mfe.govt.nz/freshwater/national-targets-swimming-water-quality/water-quality-swimming-maps
https://teara.govt.nz/en/irrigation-and-drainage/page-1
bwaghorn 19.2.1.1
you are the winner of my first ever +1000
barfly there has to be some whip but the lefties do their cause no good by being rabid nutters about it , also there is an element of having to target the next generation as some of the older generation are to stuck in their ways ,
it is getting better out here
Yes I no that things need to change for the better I do care about OUR environment hence eco yes our rivers need to be clean up and this will happen . The big picture is still that national have had the controls they change the rules so our forest could be wasted if national had made laws to keep our environment clean than we would not be arguing about this now
Trust me when I say some one is shit stirring please there is a larger under bellie in NZ that has a lot of influence hence why the dick heads are still harassing me PLEASE
Don't let these people play you
What one needs to consider is there has been no bad MSM coverage on fonterra for ages next minute
Ha Ha I forgot there's no corruption in the NZ systems everyone rights are respected and All our politicians are truth tellers everyone that is a civil servant never discriminate against any one no not in perfect New Zealand we shear with our neighbours no matter who they are we have a pristine environment we all pay our fair share of taxes we have no debt New Zealand is perfect. All our children are healthy we have no people under the bridge our jails are nearly empty and The MSM All ways reports the truth and is never influence by other conflicting interests
YEA RIGHT
No One is reading OUR posts on this website no one is spinning shit about me and has to back track and use trivial bull shit to try and damage my credibility there is not a Court order to suppress any information about me Maori have been treated respecfully and been fairly compensated for past wrongs The western society help all 3 world nation Live people live a happy life We have no wars Well I say what a perfect SOCIETY !!!!!!!!!,!!!!!!!!!
by the way I used this same name on fonterra website 12 years ago so I did Not make it up 3 months ago Ka Pai
timeforacupoftea 25
The only good point of Fonzterror paying the Boss big dollars is that he will be paying IRD $3 million in tax.
If Gristle is correct pasted below more IRD TAX will be collected to help pay for the unemployed etc.
$773,000,000 / 100 * 40
= $309,200,000 Yes another $309 million dollars of IRD TAX
I would love to know how much in total Fonzterror workers pay in TAX to the IRD each year, God it must be heaps.
and Gristle said
Hi time,
I am not too sure where you are going with your comment. I think the logic is pay more in salaries means employees pay more in tax, which means more can spent on social welfare, education etc.
Does this mean that you support the minimum wage to go up because more tax will be paid?
Alternatively, are you genuinely concerned about the levels of remuneration in Fonterra and your comments about tax are trying make a silk purse out of a pig's ear?
I hope you did not let Joyce con you
lloyd 27
What I don't understand about Fronterra is why everyone working for it isn't part of the co-op. All the workers should have shares in the firm.
On the other hand the ratio between the smallest and largest income for worker shareholders should be fixed.
I am sure such an arrangement would get all the workers looking at added value.
It would also mean the farmers would get paid more.
Melacon 28
Since I do not wish to contribute any more of my money to these greedy people, I have decided to boycott their products – Anchor, De Winkel, Fresh 'n Fruity, Mainland, Mammoth, Perfect Italiano, Piako, Primo, Symbio, and Tip Top. There are alternatives.


Malie, in Hawaii can be a woman's name and Kristine has chosen to use the literal translation here for the title for this painting. Malie in Hawaiian means calm and peaceful, pleased or satisfied and seems to name how the dancer is feeling as we find her in a quiet moment of solitude. Although her subjects are often beautiful Hawaiian women, the artist hopes that her mood and spirit shine through even more powerfully than her beauty to bring this calming ambiance to the room.


JAMMU, Aug 20: In a significant order, High Court has directed Director Rural Development Department Jammu and Assistant Commissioner Development Ramban to clear outstanding liability before next date of hearing failing which their salary head shall be attached.
These directions were issued in a petition filed by Nazir Ahmed Shah seeking initiation of contempt proceeding against the respondents for violating the directions of the court whereby respondents were asked to consider the claims of the petitioner for the release of outstanding liability.
Advocate Irfaan appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner was allotted construction of CFC building at Tethar Lower Banihal under scheme PMRP model village in the year 2006 but the respondents failed to release the entire liability in favour of the petitioner despite completion of the work constraining the petitioner to knock the doors of the court.
"Despite admitting the outstanding liability the same is not being released and not only this on 29.05.18 directions were issued to ACD Ramban to file fresh compliance and in default he had to appear in person and even that has not been complied", the counsel for the petitioner submitted.
After considering the submissions, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal directed Director Rural Development Department and ACD Ramban to clear the outstanding liability before next date of hearing failing which their salary head shall be attached and their salary shall not be released till the liability is cleared or till further orders from the court.


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The Past Christmas on TV
Christmas is properly over now: adults are back at work; kids are back at sch— wait, what? Another lockdown?
Well, the festive season is over either way, isn't it? So it's time for my annual look back at some of the TV highlights. Or what was on, anyway.
Doctor Who Revolution of the Daleks
This year's Doctor Who special felt like a bid by showrunner Chris Chibnall to keep fans happy. Popular character Captain Jack Harkness is back, properly this time — after a cameo-ish appearance last season, this is his first major role in the show since 2008. And the proper Daleks are back, too — we got a sort-of-Dalek two years ago in the last special, but, after that's used as the model for an army of "security drones", the real Daleks turn up to exterminate them, with the 2005-style bronze Daleks making their first full appearance since 2015 (yes, it's been that long).
Of course, the one thing most fans would really like Chibnall to do is bugger off and let someone better write the show. He hasn't given us that gift yet, sadly, but at least this is one of his better episodes. It's suitably romp-ish for a seasonal special, with plenty of running down corridors, exploding enemies, and the odd gag or two. There's even some political satire, albeit fairly familiar, heavy-handed, and underdeveloped. Well, that's Chibnall's whole style, isn't it? He can't seem to escape it, or doesn't want to (there are surely other writers or script editors he could employ to help point him in the right direction).
The other big news this episode is the departure of regulars Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh). The latter has been one of the highlights of this era, but is given short shrift here. He barely has anything to do all episode — with a cast this big there's no time for everyone to get emotional subplots (or what Chibnall thinks passes for them), and here they're shared between the Doctor, Ryan, and Yaz… plus returning villain Robertson, of all people, who is arguably the episode's main character. What a shitty way to write out two of your leads. And when it comes down to it, Graham only decides to leave the TARDIS because Ryan wants to go, and he wants to spend time with Ryan. Walsh is a fine actor when given the chance, and he deserved better. Ryan's reasons for leaving aren't quite as underwritten, but Cole does most of the heavy lifting, injecting a lot into unspoken moments to convey what Ryan's feeling. A bit of screenwriting advice I once read asserted that, if you don't bother to give your characters subtext, a good actor will invent their own regardless — it feels like that's what's happened here; or, at least, Cole has expanded well on the thin material Chibnall gave him.
In any other recent era, Revolution of the Daleks (an inaccurate title — it should've been called something like Purity of the Daleks, or even Security of the Daleks) would be a middle-of-the-road episode, at best. At present, it's probably going to be remembered as of the highlights of the era. There are now rumours that Jodie Whittaker is planning to leave the show after her next run, having completed the more-or-less standard three series. Well, the wrong person is going: she's a fine Doctor let down by poor writing, and we'd all be better off if Chibnall would go and let someone else have a crack at giving Whittaker the material she deserves.
Cinderella A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
With theatres mostly shut this November and December due to Covid restrictions, the UK's traditional pantomime season was a write-off. But where there's a will there's a way, and so an all-star bunch of actors and entertainers (including the likes of Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hollander, and Anya Taylor-Joy, plus multiple surprise cameos) came together over Zoom to record this hour-long panto in aid of Comic Relief. (FYI, there are two versions available: a 60-minute one that aired on BBC Two, and a slightly extended 63-minute cut available on iPlayer.)
I imagine it would've been easier logistically to film everyone separately (and would we have been any the wiser?), but instead they seem to have wrangled all these stars together on the same Zoom call and performed it in more-or-less real-time. That 'almost live' aspect adds an element of unpredictability to proceedings — there's the occasional tech issue, and a fair degree of corpsing and improvisation. Looking at other reviews, I guess this wasn't to everyone's taste ("a poor effort when better productions were hidden online"), but I thought it added to the do-it-yourself charm. It's not a slick production by a bunch of pros, but has an air of fun similar to a bunch of mates doing their best and having a ball. The end result is very silly, of course, but all in the right spirit.
Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse
Sky's big special this year was this based-on-a-true-story tale of when a young, bereaved Roald Dahl went on a trip to meet an ageing Beatrix Potter. Two of the great British children's authors meeting up at very different points in their lives? It's a wonder no one's thought to film this before. Although, based on the evidence here, the meeting was fairly short and inconsequential — that they met is an interesting bit of trivia, not a defining moment in either's life. To get this anecdote up to barely-feature-length (it's just over an hour without ads), there's a lot of expanded backstory on both sides. The Roald side feels like it must be broadly true — it's all about him (and his mother) struggling to cope with the deaths of both his sister and father — but the Beatrix side feels dreamt up to balance it out — it's just about her arguing with an agent about the contents of her latest book. Eventually, these threads converge on the eponymous pair's brief meeting… and that's the end. It's a slight and gentle film, but it made for moderately charming Christmas Eve fare.
Comedy Specials
As usual, the schedules were full of sitcoms and panel shows offering half-hour doses of festivals merriment. Highlights included a fourth Christmassy edition of The Goes Wrong Show, in which the accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society turned their attention to The Nativity, with predictably disastrous — and hilarious — results. I get that Goes Wrong is too silly for some, but it hits just the right note for me. A more heartwarming tone was struck by the Ghosts special, in which Mike's overbearing family coming to stay (clearly not set this Christmas, then). In keeping with the style of the recent second series, their presence prompted flashbacks to the life of horny MP Julian, which, via a series of kinky sex parties, delivered a message about appreciating your family while you can.
Meanwhile, Shakespearean sitcom Upstart Crow very much engaged with the current situation in an episode entitled Lockdown Christmas 1603, which imagined Will and his landlady Kate stuck at home during a plague-induced lockdown. Naturally this was a vehicle for observations about present-day life. It would be too kind to call it satire, but it was moderately amusing. After several years of Christmas specials, Not Going Out instead turned its attention to that other major end-of-December event: New Year. A show already fond of gathering its whole cast in a single location for basically a one-act play was perfect fodder for lockdown-constrained filming, and that's what we get here: everyone gather for New Year's Eve. Cue their inevitable sniping at one another — but when that gets too much, the assignation of New Year's resolutions turns into some kind of group therapy session. It's quite bold of a sitcom to deconstruct its characters' defining foibles so explicitly, especially when there are more series on the way. One suspects the life lessons learnt won't last…
Also watched…
Blankety Blank Christmas Special — Yet another revival for the popular gameshow. It was supposedly a one-off, but I suspect it was intended as a backdoor pilot; as it was a ratings hit, I'd wager we'll see more. I could've included it in the comedy roundup, because its main appeal is less as a gameshow and more in the format's potential for humour.
Death to 2020 — I brazenly counted this as a film for statistical reasons, but it's a TV special really. My full review is here.
Have I Got 30 Years for You — An entertaining but also insightful look back at three decades of the predominant news quiz.
Things to Catch Up On
This Christmas, I have mostly been missing Black Narcissus, the BBC's three-part re-adaptation of a novel most famous for being adapted into a film by Powell & Pressburger. It's on iPlayer in UHD now, which is usually an incentive for me to catch it. Talking of three-part re-adaptations, I also didn't watch Steven Knight's version of A Christmas Carol — that was on last year, when I didn't have time for it until after Christmas had passed. "Guess I'll have to try to remember to watch it next year, then," I said. Oops.
Next month… Perhaps Cobra Kai. After loving season one, I deliberately didn't rush on to season two so that I didn't burn through it too fast before season three. Then Netflix announced season three for early January, and then moved it forward to January 1st, and now instead of nicely spacing it out I just feel very far behind. Must resist the urge to burn through two seasons now instead…
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4 thoughts on "The Past Christmas on TV"
Michael on January 29, 2021 at 10:21 pm said:
I feel like Jodie Whitaker is going to be the Colin Baker of modern Doctor Who (only without the entertaining behind the scenes stories for the eventual DVDs — or whatever medium comes next) — good actor let down by poor scripts. I feel like the same issue that plagued season 22 plagues Chibnall's work — they just don't quite know how to pace the stories.
Season 22 was the experiment with 45-minute episodes that ended up having the Doctor and Peri traveling to whatever the danger was for the week for the first half of episode one (it's even more obvious if you saw them syndicated in the United States where the episodes were split apart into 25-minute segments and the first episode always had the Doctor ad Peri being cut to and arguing for the running time before arriving into the conflict to start part two). So, I felt like Chibnall just didn't quite know how to pace the extended run time here — and what could or should have been character moments to set up the departure of two of the fam instead ended up being tedious, dull and boring.
And then, we get news that he's added a new companion for series 13 and only eight episodes. This doesn't make me feel better.
badblokebob on January 31, 2021 at 4:47 pm said:
I think you're right about how she'll be remembered — so much unrealised potential. If she's (and we're) lucky, someday her Doctor will end up reappraised in audio adventures, as Colin has been. But that's scant reassurance when things could be done better now.
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Government Experiment Brainwashes Children to Manipulate Conservative Parents - Daniel Greenfield
by Daniel Greenfield
They're not your children anymore. They're a "treatment group."
#C02Kult.
That's the hashtag for it in Germany, where they know a bit about mass hysteria and brainwashing. It shows up every time students are manipulated into another school strike for the "environment".
The Joan of Arc of C02Kult is Greta Thunberg, the daughter of two Swedish celebrities, and a 15-year-old suffering from Aspergers, who became a popular lefty figure for leading environmental school strikes.
"I overthink. Some people can just let things go, but I can't, especially if there's something that worries me or makes me sad," Greta said. "I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn't do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head."
Greta claims that she began to suffer from depression when she was only 8-years-old because of global warming. She claims to have gotten her mother to stop flying and her father to turn into a vegetarian.
The autistic teenager spends a lot of time being afraid and sharing her fear. "I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day," she told leaders in Davos.
As with all child activists, some see a passion for social responsibility, while others see child abuse.
Had Greta been born in another time and place, she might have been just as afraid of witches or subversives. Terrified teens who were encouraged to act on their fears were responsible for everything from the Salem witch trials to the crimes of the Cultural Revolution. The fault lies with the adults who traumatize children and then unleash them on society to win their political battles.
There's a name for that. Child soldiers.
A recent paper in Nature is titled, "Children can foster climate change concern among their parents" which suggests that the best way to influence adults is by brainwashing their children.
Or, as its abstract states, "Child-to-parent intergenerational learning—that is, the transfer of knowledge, attitudes or behaviours from children to parents—may be a promising pathway to overcoming socio-ideological barriers to climate concern." The ideological barriers are conservative politics.
What was put into practice was an "educational intervention designed to build climate change concern among parents indirectly through their middle school-aged children in North Carolina, USA."
That reads like the title of a KGB project from the Cold War, but it's an academic paper in America.
The study found that "parents of children in the treatment group expressed higher levels of climate change concern than parents in the control group. The effects were strongest among male parents and conservative parents, who, consistent with previous research, displayed the lowest levels of climate concern before the intervention. Daughters appeared to be especially effective in influencing parents."
They used to be your children and grandchildren. Now they're a "treatment group".
Some of the 10-14 year olds being targeted were exempt from human experimentation because they were in the "control" group. 166 students and 199 parents did get the "treatment". After two years of this, the paper gloated that "parents who identified as male or conservative more than doubled their level of concern about climate change".
Danielle F Lawson, a grad student at North Carolina State University, credited the level of trust between parents and children. It's exactly this trust that environmentalists and all totalitarian ideologies exploit.
"We also found that the results were most pronounced for three groups: conservative parents, parents of daughters, and fathers," Lawson is quoted as saying in an NCSU press release.
This, the NCSU release informs us, "was noteworthy because conservatives and men are typically among the least concerned about climate change."
"There's a robust body of work showing that kids can influence their parents' behavior and positions on environmental and social issues," Lawson asserts.
Scientific American's article on the study is illustrated with a picture of, who else, Greta Thunberg.
The release thanks the Department of Interior's Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center for its support.
Lawson's bio claims that she's looking to build "climate literacy" through "intergenerational transfer in familial and community groups". It's not a new idea. The USSR's educational system was built on the conviction that brainwashing children was an effective tool for controlling their parents.
The North Carolina grad student lists Kathryn Stevenson and Nils Peterson as the professors she's working under. Both of their names appear on the Nature paper. Lawson's activities are creepy, but not original. Stevenson's research reeks of a disturbing obsession with figuring out how to manipulate children into accepting her views that we would associate with the USSR or Communist China.
"Our findings suggest convincing teachers that climate change is real, but not necessarily human caused, may have profound impacts on students," Stevenson insisted after the release of, "How climate change beliefs among U.S. teachers do and do not translate to students."
Her articles and publications obsessively focus on middle-school students and how to manipulate them into accepting her belief system. A 2015 article delves into "fostering climate change hope and concern and avoiding despair among adolescents". Another one explores "psychological factors". A third delves into the "role of significant life experiences" while a fourth explores the role of "friends and family".
A future article seeks to develop a "causal model for adolescent climate change behavior."
One of Stevenson's favorite targets are the children of conservative parents. Or as one piece describes them, individualists as opposed to communitarians. "Kids are just developing their worldviews, their political ideologies," Stevenson says. The study is titled "Overcoming Skepticism With Education". Its abstract admits that it targets children because "worldviews are still forming in the teenage years" and therefore "adolescents may represent a more receptive audience."
Not only is NCSU a public research university, but much of this creepy obsession with manipulating children into supporting a destructive partisan agenda is funded through massive government grants.
Kathryn Stevenson's "Ensuring Readiness For Climate Variability And Change By Leveraging The Power Of Younger Generations" was a grant proposal funded by the USDA to the tune of $149,997.
An upcoming proposal, involving both Stevenson and Peterson, requests $120,000 for "Improving environmental decision making in coastal communities through giving children a voice".
The children don't have a voice. The adults cynically manipulating them are the only ones who do.
The child soldier of the leftists running the Soviet Union was a boy named Pavlik Morozov who, Communist propaganda claimed, had been killed by his parents for informing on his father. In reality, the boy was murdered by other teens. But the leftist regime massacred most of the dead boy's family, including his brother, and used his myth to encourage other teens to turn Thunberg.
Child soldiers have their youth, their sense of security and their future stolen from them. And it's all done when they are still too young to understand the crime that has been committed against them.
Children don't choose to advocate for political agendas. That choice is made for them. Sometimes those decisions are made by their parents. Other times it's made by a totalitarian machine lubricated by hundreds of thousands in grant money stolen from their parents in order to brainwash their children.
Greta, depressed, terrified, angry, and traumatized, is the intended outcome of that machine.
A child soldier.
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Q: Tkinter windows key event What is the event for the Windows key in Tkinter? I'm using Linux, but I would like answers for both Linux and Windows. If Mac has a similar key, feel free to let me know the binding for it. I imagine there are different events for the left and right windows keys.
The windows key doesn't seem to register in my program that is supposed to catch all key presses and print what they are to the screen. I haven't seen an answer in my searches online. I've seen references to Mod4 being associated with the Windows key, but that's not a proper Tkinter event (so says my error):
_tkinter.TclError: bad event type or keysym "Mod4"

E.g. the following code gets the above error.
textWidget.bind("<Mod4>", self.myFunction)

A: After some digging I found this: https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/keysyms.htm
These: <Win_L>, <Win_R>, appear to be the correct keys for Windows. Tested in Python 3.4 on Win7.

A: Okay, I found the answer. It was pretty simple, and I don't know why I couldn't find it on the Internet, anywhere.
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Anyway, the reason my event key-press finder didn't find it was because I had a script running at my computer start-up that defined the compose key as being the left windows key. So, it didn't register for some reason.

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The Germanisten congresses of 1846 and 1847
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Some 200 men assembled in Frankfurt in September 1846 to discuss German law, German language and German history. Among them were famous personalities (such as the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and Ludwig Uhland), renowned scholars, librarians and teachers. They all shared a common self-understanding as Germanisten: scholars of German culture and traditions. The congress in Frankfurt, with its follow-up in Lübeck the following year, were both the start and the culmination of this new academic discipline: Neither before nor afterwards would Germanistik have such a broad scholarly appeal and political importance as in those years leading up to the 1848 revolution.
The notion of Germanist had in the preceding years undergone a semantic shift. It had been initially used in jurisprudence to denote a preoccupation with native (rather than Roman) law. The first to use it in this sense had been Hermann Conring, founder of German legal history, in his De origine juris germanici (1643); usage became sporadic after that, but from the 1830s onwards came to be applied in the modern sense, and included representatives of German philology.
A much more inclusive notion of a Germanist field of scholarship was heralded in 1846 when Ludwig Reyscher, legal scholar from Tübingen, first issued a call for a Congress of Germanists. The invitation was addressed to "Men devoted to the cultivation of German law, German history and language". This broad definition of the discipline as comprising historians, linguists and legal scholars, i.e. three specialisms, met with some response in the late 1840s but proved untenable, and fissioned back into its constituent components. In later years, Germanistik came to apply exclusively to German philology, the study of language and literature; and the academic consolidation even of this more narrowly-defined discipline was slow and hesitant.
hat Germanistik experienced a once-off flourish in the run-up to 1848 was as much a matter of politics as of academic developments. Germanists thought of their discipline as a politically involved branch of scholarship, highlighting everything German, and dedicating their energies to the German nation, its past and its culture, in order to understand its present and future needs and requirements.
Such German scholarship was born from the unsettled years of the anti-Napoleonic Wars of Liberation and the subsequent re-drawing of the map of Restoration Europe. Under French hegemony, the Holy Roman Empire had come to an anticlimactic end, leaving only territorial diffraction and mini-state dynasticism behind. Germanists had found a response to this predicament: an essence of German identity was to be distilled from the study of German culture and history, and could provide a foundation for a reborn nation. Scholarly interest in the German past had the political function to legitimize and rationalize a civic nation-state hitherto unrealized in Germany.
The Germanists thus saw themselves as, broadly speaking, political actors. Matters came to a head when the contentious issue of Schleswig-Holstein (governed by Denmark, but felt to be part of the German cultural and national sphere) was debated. Reyscher wanted to force his colleagues into a vote. In the ensuing controversy, Jacob Grimm, who chaired the proceedings, called upon delegates to observe the distinction between politics and scholarship and to restrict themselves to the latter; but the distinction was seen differently by different scholars. If the majority decided to refrain from a general vote on the issue, this should not be seen as a dismissal of politics, but rather as a gesture of mistrust to the use of voting as a decision-making instrument. Whereas voting was seen as a part of institutional politics using the procedures of parliaments, a gathering of scholars could not use those means to reach decisions, the implementation of which they lacked the means to enforce. Scholars could thus claim free speech on political topics while rejecting democratic decision-making in political matters; they saw their main task to counsel those who were in political control, and accordingly moved in their debates from topical issues to underlying principles.
But Germanists were, nonetheless, political activists in the national movement of their time: they were all dedicated to the nation's unity. The political ideals of the pre-1848 national movement were reflected in their scholarly positions, and the themes of their debate were not so much independently discovered as that they were taken from the political agenda of the times.
The claim to conduct political reflection on a scholarly basis (or, conversely, to extend scholarship into political domain) is already apparent in the Germanists' debate on the Schleswig-Holstein issue. They adduced arguments from legal and intellectual history to support the German claims on these duchies north of the Elbe – an issue which united all hues and shades of German nationalism and which was therefore all the more vehemently propagated. Central to the argument was the posited existence of a German Kulturnation, to which, so the Germanists argued, the Elbe Duchies belonged as much as all other member states of the German Confederation; historical, linguistic and religious ties could then be invoked to justify political unity. Moreover, this culturalist line of reasoning was complemented by a more ethnic-essentialist one: that of the Stammeszugehörigkeit or "tribal affiliation", which traced the population back to ancient German(ic) tribes settled in the region.
Such national attitudes run through the entire proceedings like a red thread: the aim was German unity. This ideal was part of the very formula of Germanistik as the scholarly study of German-ness, above and beyond the petty states and political divisions; it expressed itself in the concept of nationality which was formulated during these congresses. To make up for the lack of a unified nation-state (something which already bespeaks the self-image as a "belated nation", whose development towards constitutional unity had been arrested), a national community was postulated in cultural and ethnic terms. Hence the repeated recourse taken to Germanic antiquity; hence the invocation of the "tribal" roots of, and connections between, the various German lands, still reflected in manners and customs, speech, literature and the arts.
With this creation of the concept of a German nation, the Germanists played a central role in the nation-formation processes of the nineteenth century, and represent an academic element in that process which Benedict Anderson has traced in his Imagined Communities. In their constant thematization of the central question "what is German?", the Germanists offered the culturalist blueprint of a Kulturnation awaiting social and political embodiment as a Staatsnation.
The German diaspora was co-opted into this endeavour. German emigrants (who had settled abroad, especially in America, in great numbers in the preceding decades) were seen as an object of solidarity; their ties to the German fatherland deserved fostering. This led to a series of proposals for the maintenance of German identity abroad, where German emigrants should be offered German education, books and libraries, thus to ensure their continued identification with the German Kulturnation. A continued German citizenship should keep the option of their re-migration open. And political reforms within the German lands were necessary so that a lack of civil rights should not provide a motivation to emigrate to the New World.
There was, then, a legal-reformist thrust to the Congresses as well: German jurisprudential unification. The systematization of the legal system across all German lands was a key demand among nationalists as an important step towards German unification. Nativist feelings played into this: to render the legal system properly German (as opposed to Roman law) and, as such, turn it into a nation-building force. A debate was sparked amongst the legal scholars present, where Germanisten (in this restricted sense: proponents of native German law) faced Romanisten (those more inclined to Roman law, which others decried as alien and anti-national). Jurisprudence, then, was not an abstract academic endeavour but enmeshed in the social and political issues of the day. A concrete manifestation was the issue of trial by jury, which was advanced by the Germanisten as a step towards civic involvement in the instruments of state, enhancing popular trust in justice and government, replacing secret, written trials by oral, public ones, and aiding a shift from a police state to the rule of law.
Most Germanists were historicists through and through. They were looking for a common-national past which would legitimize a common-national future. The Middle Ages in particular were seen as a glorious, exemplary era of unity; it is in this light that we should understand Jacob Grimm's opening statement at the Lübeck session that the Congresses reminded him of medieval court sessions. This recourse to the past (obviously in reply to present frustrations) had been in the air for some decades. The French Revolution had provoked an anti-Enlightenment backlash; the accelerated abolition of the old legal and constitutional order inspired collective apprehensions and, thence, a collective nostalgia for an idealized past as opposed to an unsettled present.
The importance of the Congresses lies in their impact on German nation-formation. They belong in a series of national congregations and festivals (like gymnastics meetings and choral festivals) that were popular in the run-up to 1848. With those non-academic gatherings they share their structural ordering and programme ritual, involving joint singing of patriotic songs and a festive entrance cortege into the host city. On certain occasions, the "national" colours (black, red and gold) were displayed, flags and heraldic symbols used for decoration, ceremonial receptions by civic authorities took place. All this created publicity, in the root sense of that term, in that it dedicated, suffused and proclaimed a public space. Press coverage broadcast the events to all German readers, and the public portion of the programme created an interface between the citizenry and the delegates. In a Habermassian sense one might say that in this public sphere, the middle classes become an audience which is a part of public power structures rather than its subject.
In the history of science, the Congresses (where the fledgeling discipline of Germanistik first manifested itself as an independent branch of scholarship) were important for the creation of professional-academic networks. Such networks had mainly been held together, initially, by letter-correspondence, but the Congresses represent a move towards non-mediated and institutionalized contacts. Greater significance lies, however, in the fact that the academic-professional network overlapped to a significant extent with the network of those nationalist activists who met in the context of the Germanistik Congresses. The Congresses' protagonists were involved in the more significant political events of the pre-1848 years. Those involved in the 1837 protests of the "Seven Göttingen Professors" against arbitrary government; agitators on the Schleswig Holstein issue; prominent delegates in the 1848 Frankfurt parliament: among all of these we find the names of delegates in the 1846-47 Congresses, who in many other cases were also members of in regional or Estate Assemblies and/or wrote political pamphlets.
The participating Germanists, most of whom had professorial appointments, enjoyed great social prestige, which added lustre to their deliberations and added prestige to their public commitment to a unified Germany, at a time when this was still aspirational. They strongly influenced the agenda, then, for the Parliament that was to meet in Frankfurt in 1848, especially with regard to the Schleswig-Holstein issue. Programmatic parliamentary speeches on that topic were often held by men who had also discussed it in the Germanistik Congresses.
The proceedings of Frankfurt 1846 and Lübeck 1847 are an interface between the intellectual and popular national movements in Germany. Popular aspects are mainly found in the setting of the congress, the sessions themselves were more academic. The transmission of the academic rationalized national ideal to the Frankfurt Parliament foundered in the events of 1848-49, but the shadow of the Germanisten around Grimm reaches into German politics beyond the mid-century.
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Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Uhland, Johann Ludwig
Reyscher, August Ludwig
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Student fraternities, choral societies, Turnvereine
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History-writing : German
The following participants at the Germanistenversammlungen (in 1846, in 1847, or both) were also present as parliamentary delegates in the 1848 Nationalversammlung in Frankfurt: Albrecht (1847); Beseler (1846, 1847); Christ (1846, 1847); Dahlmann (1846, 1847); Deecke (1847); Esmarch (1847); Fallati (1847); Gervinus (1846, 1847); Grimm (Jacob) (1846, 1847); v.d. Hagen (1846); Hildebrand (1846); Jaup (1846, 1847); Jürgens (1846); Luntzell (1847); Michelsen (1846, 1847); Mittermaier (1846, 1847); Hermann (1846); v. Raumer (1846); Rößler (1846); Schmidt (1846, 1847); Schubert (1846, 1847); Schultz (1846, 1847); Stenzel (1846, 1847); Sternberg (1846); Thöl (1847); Uhland (1846); Waitz (1847); Welcker (1846); Wippermann (1846, 1847); Wurm (1846, 1847); Zais (1846).
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Michelsen, Andreas Ludwig Jacob
Mittermaier, Carl Joseph Anton
Welcker, Carl Theodor
Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg (von)
Dahlmann, Friedrich
Gervinus, Georg Gottfried
Hagen, Friedrich Heinrich von der
Schultz, Julius
Albrecht, Wilhelm Eduard
Beseler, Georg
Jaup, Heinrich Karl
Rößler, Carl Gottfried
Stenzel, Gustav Adolf Harald
Waitz, Georg
Wippermann, Carl Wilhelm
Wurm, Christian Friedrich
Christ, Anton
Deecke, Heinrich Ludwig Ernst
Esmarch, Heinrich Carl
Fallati, Johannes
Hildebrand, Bruno
Jürgens, Carl Heinrich
Schubert, Friedrich Wilhelm
Zais, Eduard
Hermann, Paul
Thöl, Johann Heinrich
Schmidt, Anton
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oh, what a classic! and there were soooo many, but this is GREAT!!
I think this episode must have had a psychological effect on me. Whenever I see a celebrity, I don't gawk or ask for an autograph. I just smile and let him go about his business.
Sardi's-? Not quite. First off, Sardi's is in New York. The restaurant in the episode is the Brown Derby; specifically the location on Vine Street, in Hollywood.
The Brown Derby was mentioned numerous times in this episode, so why would you say Sardi's? If you are a Lucy fan, one would never make that mistake.
Yes, this is from the time in the I Love Lucy series that Ricky was making a movie in Hollywood, so the setting was the Brown Derby.
This was one of the many classic celebrity encounters Lucy had.
RIP William Holden who died way too young from a freak accident.


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GAYLORD — A public hearing will be held tonight (Monday) at Gaylord City Hall to receive comment on a proposed special assessment millage that would partially fund the Gaylord City Police department.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 305 E. Main St.
The .75-mill public safety levy by the City Council would apply to all residents and property owners within the city limits who pay taxes on real property with the exception of schools and churches.
By law, the council is allowed assess up to 10 mills for police and fire protection.
It would help offset a projected $198,000 loss in revenue for the city's general fund in fiscal year 2013-14 by raising an estimated $122,810. Losses were because of a nearly $6 million decrease in taxable valuation accounting for a $75,000 loss, and new and outstanding tax tribunal settlements totaling $123,000.
The police department's $1.1 million budget makes up more than half of the city's general fund for the coming fiscal year.
Salaries and fringe benefits account for $970,000 of the department's expenses — that includes the current level of seven officers and one chief but adds a department clerk and parking patrol officer.
City Manager Joe Duff said the department would need eight officers and a chief to maintain 24-hour patrols.
"We've made some significant cuts and we feel we are at a service level for a police department that we won't be able to provide 24-hour service to our community," Duff said, noting Huff and officer Joe Marsiglia, who recently retired, would not be replaced without a millage in place.
Mayor and former Gaylord City Police chief John Jenkins said maintaining 24-hour police protection is one of the main services city government should provide to its residents.
Gaylord resident Tammy LaBouef questioned whether taxes are the answer to the city's problems, noting how it will increase the burden on residents and businesses.
"The reality is we've lost 18 percent of our valuations and we're not getting any help from the state," Duff said.
"We expect to lose another $75,000 next year," he continued, referring to personal property taxes the city will lose because of state reforms.
Labor contracts with the police and public works departments were approved Monday. No salary increase will occur for the first year of the contract, with 2.5 percent increases taking effect the second and third years.
Council authorizing a millage would direct Duff to create a special assessment roll and show how much residents and businesses would pay. Another public hearing would then be held Monday, April 22.


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