{"id":5289,"date":"2015-05-28T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2015-05-28T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T21:03:38","slug":"big-payout-for-arab-sheikh-by-national-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=5289","title":{"rendered":"Big payout for Arab Sheikh by National Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5291\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar.jpg\" alt=\"emirofqatar\" width=\"750\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar.jpg 1355w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar-1024x635.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/emirofqatar-495x307.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">Sheikh Hamood Al Ali Khalaf&#8217;s was recently offered $4 Million dollars by the National government to avoid a legal case of $20-$30 million after New Zealand government spent more than $11.5 million to help establish a demonstration farm in Saudi Arabia \u00a0due to bungling by the minister of foreign affairs Murray Mcully.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">The National government has decided to blame the previous government and avoid shouldering any blame. In 2003 the labour government prevented live sheep exports to the Middle East a policy that is humane and creates freezing works jobs in our own country. Why should our farms support foreign freezing works in Saudi Arabia it makes no sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">&#8220;Even if we achieve nothing more than the removal of the source of major aggravation in the relationship, while creating a hub for New Zealand businesses to launch into the Middle East and Africa, [the farm] proposal would be justified,&#8221; Mr McCully wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #333333;\">A Neo-liberal approach of building farms in Saudi Arabia and sending live sheep exports to the Middle East won\u2019t improve New Zealand business \u00a0it will only offer\u00a0<\/span>Saudi Arabia\u00a0an opportunity to exploit our economy for minimal profits. These countries need to buy our exports on favourable terms and avoid having Kiwi\u2019s setup our industries in their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Sheikh Hamood Al Ali Khalaf&#8217;s was recently offered $4 Million dollars by the National government to avoid a legal case of $20-$30 million after New Zealand government spent more than $11.5 million to help establish a demonstration farm in Saudi Arabia \u00a0due to bungling by the minister of foreign affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5316,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/5316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}