Prof Marewa Glover

Posts, RTs rep my personal views. FINALIST NZer of Year 2019; Tobacco Section Editor #HarmReduction Journal; Co. Dir; Behavioural Scientist; Poet; 🐑

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

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[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

Coromandel Oyster Company - it’s been too long. As good as ever — straight out of the sea. #NewZealand

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

My take on the UK Government’s new anti-vaping measures.
https://t.co/DLqmPCmu0x
They have no idea what they are doing and will make everything worse. They misunderstand youth vaping and don't care about the far larger numbers of adults at far greater risk.
@jamesmurray_ldn
@DHSCmedia
@DHSCgovuk
@CMO_England

[Quit Like Sweden @quitlikesweden]

"If respected organizations now acknowledge that widespread misunderstanding about vaping is harming smokers, they should also be prepared to explain how that misunderstanding arose and condemn those who helped spread it."

https://t.co/7zjAVuwbnP

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

Anyone who has whakapapa (genealogy) linking them to a Māori ancestor is Māori! We do not think the same. We never did. We never will. Each sub-tribe, iwi (tribe) was sovereign.

All the Māori roll does is prevent Māori from using their vote to influence which party will dominate what happens. It is a wasted vote — a way to sideline Māori, to render the Māori vote impotent. Once on the role, in many electorates you get very little choice.

I tried it and missed out on having a chance to make my vote count. As soon as I could I left the Māori roll so I could vote for a party that could form the government, a party that could have the numbers to shape the future of NZ for the better.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

This is what your grand coalition will look like. The only thing different between them will be the coloured armbands on their Hugo Boss uniforms, as they march their jack boots over our rights. https://t.co/TixQTBCh5v

[Tobaccoharmreduction.net @Tobaccoharmred1]

More than half of adults in Great Britain now believe vaping is as harmful, or more harmful, than smoking. That's not evidence. It's the cost of years of misinformation.

When false narratives drown out science, smokers lose access to life-saving information.

Read more: https://t.co/Gi8KofnX92

#TobaccoHarmReduction #Vaping #PublicHealth #ScienceMatters

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

I disagree.

Firstly, did you know — NZ Superannuation IS NOT automatic? You can simply not apply for it if/when eligible, and people can stop it at any time. A small percentage opt-out. You could encourage more high-wealth individuals who don’t need it to forego it. You could pledge to forego it, but you never know what can happen to your health and abilities, so don’t do that.

NZ Super is a social contract. It started in 1898 as a dignity measure to prevent poverty in old age — not a longevity bonus. Kiwis have paid taxes their whole working lives expecting that floor at 65.

▪️Lifting the age to 68 plus pure longevity indexing sounds “sustainable” until you look at reality.
Japan has world-leading life expectancy but also massive healthy life expectancy gaps. People live longer but spend more years in poor health, frailty, and dementia (now their leading cause of death). The same trend is happening here.

Dementia in NZ: ~83,000 people now, heading for nearly 170,000 by 2050. Early-onset cases (<65y) are rising. Māori, Pacific, and Asian communities are hit hardest. Many won’t get extra “healthy” years to work longer.

▪️Super was never about how long you live. It was about dignity when you can’t work. Indexing purely to longevity ignores morbidity. If any indexing at all, it should be tied to healthy life expectancy — age combined with actual health and morbidity — not raw lifespan.

▪️The Cullen Fund (NZ Super Fund) sits at around $87–92 billion with strong long-term returns (nearly 10% per annum since inception, beating its benchmarks). It was created precisely to help pay for our ageing population without breaking the contract.

▪️Fair changes? Apply any increase only to future generations who haven’t even started working yet e.g. born before 2005. Parents of young children and high school students might make different decisions about education and careers if the social contract, that the Super is, is changed. Protect those already contributing under the old terms.

▪️Meanwhile, youth unemployment is high (15.9% for 15-24 year olds). High migration is filling entry-level and skilled jobs, often at minimum wage. Kiwi kids face delayed starts, lower lifetime earnings, and bigger tax burdens ahead. Don’t hit them with both tighter job markets and later Super.

▪️The contract is intergenerational reciprocity. Current workers deserve the same deal — especially if health doesn’t improve in lockstep with lifespan.

The focus should be on:
• Protecting the Cullen Fund from misappropriation
• Calibrating migration settings to protect employment, business, and education and housing opportunities for Kiwi citizens, and also to exclude migrants from cultures that are incompatible with Kiwi values, beliefs and practices.
• Genuine healthy ageing policies
Not just shifting the goalposts on a 128-year promise.
Dignity in old age shouldn’t be decided by spreadsheets alone.
#NZSuper #SocialContract

[Phil @phil_w888]

"If we accept nicotine addiction as calmly as we do coffee addiction and allow people to switch to, for example, smokeless nicotine products like pouches, we will overcome cancer and cardiovascular diseases." - Karl Fagerström

https://t.co/rsU7XIaWeU

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

@matt_horncastle Go Matthew!

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

The Electoral Commission ad targeting young Māori to join the Māori roll is disgusting blatant propaganda, as in brainwashing. This removes true consent. It is not unbiased education informing young people who can now vote that they have a choice between being on the general vs Māori roll. It is extortion manipulating their sense of identity — saying if you don’t join the Māori roll you are not truly Māori. Wrong!

Anyone who has whakapapa (genealogy) linking them to a Māori ancestor is Māori! We do not think the same. We never did. We never will. Each sub-tribe, iwi (tribe) was sovereign.

Targeting young people is especially disgusting. It goes against past Māori beliefs. Each child is born with inherited gifts. ‘Education’ was about supporting the development and expression of those gifts. Obviously jobs have to be done, practical day-to-day necessities needed to be attended to but each child has potential that can be trampled or nurtured. The ad contravenes respect for everything older past Māori believed.

All the Māori roll does is prevent Māori from using their vote to influence which party will dominate what happens. It is a wasted vote — a way to sideline Māori, to render the Māori vote impotent. Once on the role, in many electorates you get very little choice.

I tried it and missed out on having a chance to make my vote count. As soon as I could I left the Māori roll so I could vote for a party that could form the government, a party that could have the numbers to shape the future of NZ for the better. .

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

@BillyBrown1983 @yeah_nah2020 Congratulations Billy!

[New Zealand First @nzfirst]

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[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is criticising Labour's $160 million SolarSaver policy, saying taxpayers should not be covering private home improvements.

Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman, James Ross, said:

“Rather than just removing red tape and making sure cheap finance is available for solar, Labour has reverted to the failed politics of taxpayer-funded subsidies.”

“The best way to encourage solar is to get the government out of the way. Labour is asking families who can’t afford solar, or who may not even own a home, to subsidise those who can. New Zealand needs cheaper, more reliable energy, not another subsidy scheme.”

https://t.co/LOCQKZ36TP

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

🚩 Astonishing. Former long time National Minister, former Auckland Mayor and former ACT leader John banks is calling for Winston Peters to be PM.

“There is no one more experienced, no better operator who can pull levers than 81 year old Winston Peters”

Banks is dismayed at the wokeness of National and the wasted mandate they were given for change “Luxon cannot connect to middle NZ.. if they run on him and business as usual the centre right will lose”

Banks warns NZ that if TOP secure Mount Albert, or get over 5% we will get a govt worse than Ardern’s, and the only way around that happening is Winston Peters and NZ First “running laws, Tane Randall means NZ First is terribly attractive”

John explains that “Act have been drowned and Seymour should never have
taken deputy PM” so Act will not break double digits.

Banks also had Laws on his staff, and recounts how Laws was the hardest working and smartest guy he’s ever worked with “ You’d never find a guy with a higher constitution for work, 20 hours a day and that’s not an exaggeration”

“I’d be very pleased to have Winston Peters as PM” and as Banks says, NZFirst is the only party that can save the centre right coalition.

Amen, he’s always been an incredibly astute politician, and his insights in 2023 (attached quote tweets) has been proven to be completely accurate.

[Ximene @dellavaris]

@MarewaGlover @TaxpayersUnion Govt have to understand that for ex-smokers like almost everyone I know from low-income NZ , vaping is a godsend and the only thing that turned our health outcomes around

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

The so-called leading experts are partly to blame for people going back to smoking and not switching to vaping. They caused this with their prohibitionist anti-vaping anti-nicotine rubbish. Prohibition doesn’t stop everyone from using a substance that is helpful to them, it just creates an unregulated illicit market.

The ban on oral nicotine pouches needs to be repealed. This will give adults who smoke access to an acceptable vastly risk-reduced alternative nicotine only product. Repealing the ban and supporting people to switch to oral nicotine pouches will kick off quitting smoking again.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

My activities are still very limited at the moment. I have been doing some writing, however–thank God.

I'm so relieved to be once again doing something creative and useful.

I have also been watching Professor Paul Kengor's The Dark Side of Marxism from @petersonacademy.  

It does not feature the Marx portrayed by the woke university socialist acolytes (to put it mildly).

I interviewed @DrPaulKengor a year ago or so ago on my podcast. He's a truly engaging, creative and witty storyteller and lecturer.

It turns out that Old Karl was quite the satanic soul.

He was a parasite economically all his life, extorting continual support from his long-suffering relatives.

He wrote (and admired) purposefully demonic poetry and drama.

Most disturbing, however, was his choice of favorite quote. From Goethe's Faust, it's a line I have quoted many times, in consequence of its sheer existential horror.

It's Mephistopheles presenting his identity and central credo:

“I am the Spirit that endlessly denies!
And rightly, too; for all that comes to birth
Is fit for overthrow, as nothing worth;
Wherefore the world were better sterilized;
Thus all that's here as Evil recognized
Is gain to me, and downfall, ruin, sin.
The very element I prosper in.”

I wonder if Zohran Mamdani @NYCMayor knows of the inclination of his apparent intellectual hero?

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

Step 1) Repeal the ban on oral nicotine pouches!

This will give people who smoke access to another effective way to stop smoking — the most popular one in Sweden 🇸🇪 where less than 5% smoke.

Step 2) Ensure stop smoking support provider training is up to date and delivering accurate information (as opposed to the anti-vaping prohibitionist misinformation about vaping).

Step 3) Leave the World Health Organisation and remove World Health Organisation dictates from NZ legislation.

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

It’s a bit like a marriage. So, we could potentially create an (almost) equal equivalent like the New Zealand did when it created civil unions? Civil unions extended legal equality in relationship recognition while initially preserving the traditional, sex-based definition and meaning of marriage — before later integrating same-sex couples into marriage itself. Citizenship by civil definition?

[Pippa Starr - Let's Improve Vaping Education! 🇦🇺 @LivePippas]

🔥#291 Tobacco and Vapes Wars Firebombing in Richmond where 10 nearby businesses affected!
https://t.co/nivfpPhiRP