Removal of capital punishment for treason happened in New Zealand a few decades ago.
Then I watched a new government start economic changes. They became known as Rogernimics as a name as affordable health care has been dubbed ObamaCare.
Rogernomics was named after a finance minister Roger Douglas and happened with changes in New Zealand that included floating the dollar in the exchange rate with other nations so that interest rates and a basket of other metrics influenced the floating New Zealand dollar on the exchange rate.
What does this all mean and why.
Our Priministers through this Rogernimics period included Right Honerable David Lange who I met as we both served as international debating judges at the 1992 World University Debating Championships in Dublin Ireland held at Trinity College.
The other was Right Honerable Geoffrey Palmer who I sat in on a law lecture at Victoria University in Wellington. I had been a candidate around that time for the election of New Zealand University Student Association President.
Right Honerable Mike Moore as the other Prime Minister of New Zealand around the Rogernomics time and who I have not met. Nor did I meet the Right Honerable Robert Muldoon before Rogernomics came in.
What would it mean to return back to the concept of capital punishment for treason?
How would treason be defined?
And if we looked over the years of Rogernomics would we find grounds for traitorous activity.
Let's set the stage. The Muldoon years was a high IQ PM IQ 160 who when on and chaired the world bank. Robert knew his stuff and with Bill Birch his finance minister they had projects under a umbrella term "Think Big". 1. Turn natural gas into ethonol from the Maui Gas fields of taranaki. 2. ... The list goes on.
It was a time when new uses of technology had productivity gains. Taking a aircraft and loading it up with super phosphate agriculture fertiliser and dusting the hills of the rural landscape let the grass grow so the sheep could bring in more land into productive use.
Now we have seen all those projects get sold off and ethonol now ships to the new owners in Australia at 1.2 cents per litre when you consider it cost close to $2 per litre for a New Zealand car driver to fill the tank with petrol. Ethonol can be mixed unto 15% with petrol.
The power system also broken up and sold off in part.
Up for grabs is the $250 billion of Govenment assets.
But under the government control is $20,000 billion ($20 trillion) of unallocated crown minerals in the seabed 95% and 5% on land.
IMF says global output is 2% not 3% looking out 2016. International Monetary Fund
Professor Steven Hawkings is putting money into a project to get space craft into getting to near stars in 30 years.
We live in an interesting world.
Ruled by our endocrine system humans have an interesting future to negotiate.
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