"A Radio NZ item this morning tells us the Overseas Investment Office approved the sale of another 22,000 hectares of land to foreigners in August, most of it for forest development.
In the biggest deal, a Swiss company, Corisol New Zealand, was cleared to buy more than 18,000 hectares of forestry land in Canterbury from Ngai Tahu Forest Estates.Ngai Tahu apparently told the OIO it was selling the forest blocks as part of a change in its investment strategy.
The land is at Ashley Downs, Hanmer, Mt Thomas, Okuku, Omihi and Oxford.
We should not be astonished.
The tribe’s managers long ago commodified their spirituality."
4 comments:
corporations don't have spirituality.
But Jonesy, Corporations (corporal - body) have equal rights to us because the courts said so, therefore, they have spirituality. That's also why we mustn't be mean to them and say they are soulless vehicles of oppression - shhhhhhh!
They don't have equal rights, though they have quite a lot of rights. Too many, IMO
And they have the muscle, legal and political, to ensure that their rights are realized, where as a real person, might not.
Very un-equal indeed!
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