Open mike 23/07/2011

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  1. Carol 1
    23 July 2011 at 6:46 am

    This is no doubt a big shock for the people of Norway. And it’s not the kind of country that I’d have expected an attack of this sort.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254260

    But part of the speculation (as in the above link) is that Norway is a weak link, an relatively easy target in NATO and the forces in Afghantistan. The Al Qaeda network is the prime suspect, apparently because it’s thought the new leader wants to make his mark.

    Is there a lesson in this for NZ?

    And why are there so far, no reports of this on Stuff or NZH or TV3? It’s on the TVNZ news website & RNZ news.

    • Carol 1.1
      23 July 2011 at 7:18 am

      Hmmm. Jonkey’s photo op got a big bit of exposure on Al Jazeera news, with Obama, mainly becuase after Obama talked about the NZ-US relationship, he made a statement about the attacks in Oslo. JK just sat there grinning while Obama made all the comments. What a dork!

      • jackal 1.1.1
        23 July 2011 at 10:54 am

        Duncan Garner was just talking it up on the Nation saying “every door has been opened.” But then he contradicted himself by saying some important people couldn’t meet with Shonkey because they had important debt crises talks. If people are putting off meetings because they have more important things to do, I wouldn’t describe that as every door has been opened. What a crock!

        • Reality Bytes 1.1.1.1
          23 July 2011 at 7:43 pm

          Yeah and the stuff.co.nz ran a story titled “US grants John Key’s every wish”, and in the same story:

          “Key’s suggestion that a coast guard ship visit New Zealand was quietly batted aside by the Americans.”

          Hello editors? God-damnit the standard of journalism in this country sucks.

          • felix 1.1.1.1.1
            23 July 2011 at 7:53 pm

            These examples are only problematic for those who think words have meaning.

            For example the wilfully illiterate right-wingers will interpret that last one as “out of the ones they granted, every one was granted”.

            And why would they interpret it thus? Because they’re a bunch of fuckwits, that’s why.

        • Frank Macskasy 1.1.1.2
          25 July 2011 at 12:33 am

          Yeah, i picked up on that as well, J.

      • prism 1.1.2
        23 July 2011 at 11:58 am

        I caught some comment by Obama about us having more to do with the USA that made me uneasy. It is well known that when big ships turn over and sink that they drag nearby objects down with them. I don’t want us to be the USAs dinghy.

        They’ll get us involved in their machinations while they swan around on the surface trumpeting high integrity and standards of human rights and a past history of great democracy, and under the surface carrying on subterranean ops like Mac the Knife.

        • Colonial Viper 1.1.2.1
          23 July 2011 at 7:49 pm

          It is well known that when big ships turn over and sink that they drag nearby objects down with them.

          The big fat heavy anchor for the US at the moment is the USD. They can’t do anything except continue to weaken and debase it, and their political system won’t allow them to raise enough tax to sort out their country without further massive borrowing.

        • rosy 1.1.2.2
          25 July 2011 at 12:37 am

          “It is well known that when big ships turn over and sink that they drag nearby objects down with them. I don’t want us to be the USAs dinghy.”

          Nice metaphor, Prism.

    • Carol 1.2
      23 July 2011 at 8:12 am

      I see, Stuff is trying to downplay the Oslo attacks and keep Obama meets Key as it’s headline news.

      • Deadly_NZ 1.2.1
        23 July 2011 at 4:18 pm

        And still NOTHING about Labours policy release earlier in the week. How can you win an election if the media will not report your policy releases, (something about procurement or was I dreaming?( well at least the Dominion reported it. But the comments section is still empty.)) but is rampant over any little mistake.

    • Vicky32 1.3
      24 July 2011 at 6:08 pm

      My son phoned at 07.00 on his way home on Saturday morning,  from a night shift (apparently, towards morning they have little to do but check the BBC news on the internet! 🙂 ) to tell me about it. It wasn’t known then that Al Q had nowt to do with it…

  2. Lazy Susan 2
    23 July 2011 at 7:25 am

    I have had the dubious pleasure of receiving a letter from John Boscawen, Act Party with a “Parliamentary Survey”. According to the letter he’s written to 100,000 households.

    The letter draws equivalence between the Greek debt crisis and New Zealand’s financial position with lines like “New Zealand’s total overseas debt, public and private, is nearly as bad as Greece’s” and “Are we the Greeks of the South Pacific”

    The letter finishes with the following loaded question offering the reader to tick the apprpriate answer:

    ( ) I support balancing the budget – no more spend, borrow and hope

    or

    ( ) I support further increases to government spending, borrowing and taxation

    You then fill in contact details – return to Boscawen and apparently he’s going to deliver the results of the survey to Parliament.

    What the letter fails to point out of course is that most of our debt is private debt, not public debt as it is in Greece. This debt has been used to fuel property speculation in the housing and farming sector. If we want to reduce our total overseas debt, in the long term, policies such as Labour’s proposed CGT would be a good place to start.

    This looks like blatant electioneering – anyone know what budget this might be coming out of? 100,000 households wouldn’t come cheap.

    • Secret Squirrel 2.1
      23 July 2011 at 8:41 am

      I thought Boscawen was a straight up hardworking MP (I think generally he is), but this makes him look like just another bullshitting parliamentary rorter.

    • prism 2.2
      23 July 2011 at 12:09 pm

      If this ACT survey succeeds in its aims to receive many loaded replies (I received one of these) then it will be an indication of an ignorance of politics and the economy in a large part of the NZ population that lacks discernment. This then is likely to lead to a future with living conditions that accelerate downwards and mediocre politicians who have no brain, vision or competence to address the problems much less restore responsible government policies and living conditions. I think in Alice in Wonderland there was a queer tea party. We may have a similar story to tell.

    • the pink postman 2.3
      23 July 2011 at 3:00 pm

      Our local Tory (Nat) MP has also been very busy sending propaganda and questionnaires.We have also had personal letters from Key telling us how good it all is . All delivered by NZ Mail.
      All paid for by the taxpayer. The local candidate also has half page adverts in the local rag . Nothing from Labour which is rathet bad. How can National get away with this yet Labour gets knocked back by the election commision . Something stinks!

      • Deadly_NZ 2.3.1
        23 July 2011 at 4:28 pm

        Simple, get every one on here that gets one to complain to the Election Commission. How many complaints does it take????? Play them at their own game. Also if you see anything that’s not kosher Complain…. well I assume that they only have a set amount of cash to use for the election, so if you get shonky letters promoting KY then complain, and keep on complaining. I will if I get one without the correct badging and shit, that Whaleslime is bleating over about the Labour Party

  3. Colonial Viper 3
    23 July 2011 at 9:27 am

    Norway attacked, government + Labour Party targetted

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-norway-blast-view-idUSTRE76L5RR20110722

    Highly organised and lethal attack. Has potential to be a falseflag psychological op striking one of Europe’s more stable prosperous social democracies.

    Usual suspects now being blamed, muslims, immigrant groups, other religious groups, libyan fanatics etc. As yet very few facts are known.

    One to watch – this happening at a time of increasing EU financial instability driven by big big money flows.

    -edit didn’t see your post Carol 🙂

  4. marty mars 4
    23 July 2011 at 9:49 am

    30 years ago we joined arms and marched for our values – for equality.

    “During the Tour we put away our supposed differences to work cooperatively. The cause didn’t differenciate on ethnic or colour lines, age, gender or sexuality, class or political persuasion – all worked towards the goal of equality because that goal was in alignment with our values – nothing has changed and everything has changed. The cause is the same but the vehicle to effect change is different.”

    “I call on all those who marched and opposed the Springbok Tour to consider that cause and the challenges we face today. Which political party today, aligns with our marching and protesting back then. I know what john Minto and Hone think – it is the Mana Party. I agree with them.”

    http://mars2earth.blogspot.com/2011/07/tour-lessons-for-today.html

    The exhilaration and connection we felt back then can be felt again today – opposing the Springbok Tour didn’t fractionate or divide us – it bought us together then, and the cause of equality can bring us together again, today.

    • Pete George 4.1
      23 July 2011 at 10:22 am

      Trying to resurrect the Springbok Tour mentality in relation to modern issues looks more try-hard than the Brash resurrection, the only thing going for it is it’s a bit more recent than the waterside strike.

      Yearning for past glory or gory is a hopeless story.

      The Springbok tour was very divisive in this country, is that the aim of Mana?

      • marty mars 4.1.1
        23 July 2011 at 10:42 am

        try talking about what you know – might give some nice long silences.

        • Pete George 4.1.1.1
          23 July 2011 at 11:00 am

          Looking forward is better than looking backwards, particularly looking back so far to a completely different issue. New Zealand today is nothing like South Africa thirty years ago.

          It doesn’t take much to know that.

          • marty mars 4.1.1.1.1
            23 July 2011 at 11:04 am

            is saying something that means nothing the same as saying nothing?

            It takes a bit to know the difference Pete.

            Equality is the issue back then and today.

            • Pete George 4.1.1.1.1.1
              23 July 2011 at 11:26 am

              You’re unlikely to get many people fighting in the streets for “equality”.

              And equality is not something that can be imposed. It’s ok to try for it a bit but it’s basically undefinable and unachievable, everyone has different ideas of what’s equal.

              • marty mars …
                23 July 2011 at 11:33 am

                Have you looked around the world recently?

                Where were you on the tour pete – did it activate any of your core beliefs?

                • Pete George …
                  23 July 2011 at 12:59 pm

                  I was quite remote from the tour, my first daughter was born then and I was living in rural Otago, well away from the action with more important things to be concerned about.

                  Sure, I considered the different arguments over the tour, the rights of people in other countries versus the rights of people to do what they wanted here, the right to protest versus the rule of law.

                  I was anti apartheid and in particular admired rugby players who made stands against it. But I also thought that rights and freedoms here were important too.

                  I was annoyed that opportunity seekers and those who liked any old excuse for anarchy caused more mayhem than was justified.

                  And I think that’s all got very little to do with present day New Zealand.

                  • felix …
                    23 July 2011 at 1:21 pm

                    Anyone surprised that Pete didn’t have a position on the tour? Just like that other deeply inspirational politician John Key.

                    • Colonial Viper …
                      23 July 2011 at 4:27 pm

                      Yeah I’m deeply surprised, a man with his principles, who would’ve thought. Actually I’m quite taken aback.

              • Colonial Viper …
                23 July 2011 at 11:56 am

                And equality is not something that can be imposed. It’s ok to try for it a bit but it’s basically undefinable and unachievable, everyone has different ideas of what’s equal.

                Don’t try this bullshit post modernism ‘equality means whatever you want it to mean so it means nothing’

                When a woman doing the same job as a man gets 5% less pay, that’s not equal geddit? And a million other examples.

                • Pete George …
                  23 July 2011 at 12:13 pm

                  Your model, communism, failed as a concept last century. We are moving forward with a more balanced mixed model, it will never be perfect but better than anything blind idealism will every come up with.

                  • Draco T Bastard …
                    23 July 2011 at 1:00 pm

                    Commun1sm hasn’t yet been tried. The USSR, China etc were/are state capitalist. You can tell this by the oppression and lack of democracy.

                  • Colonial Viper …
                    23 July 2011 at 1:08 pm

                    successful democratic socialist enterprises and non profits worth billions of dollars is what we need to develop in this country.

                    but better than anything blind idealism will every come up with.

                    Actually, we need to rekindle idealism and ideals in NZ.

                    Not succumb to your “its good enough to sell out” ideology

              • the pink postman …
                23 July 2011 at 3:11 pm

                They did in the 1930s PeteG,.the Spanish Civil War. However the poor sods who fought the Fascists came back to abuse . Many were blacklisted and refused work. Most stayed unemployed until their country once again needed them to fight the same enemy. This was the story in Aotearoa and the UK . Im afraid the Tories and their friends still have the most power.
                However we won the fight against apartheid and we may (note may) win the day with the Murdoch scandal

          • prism 4.1.1.1.2
            23 July 2011 at 12:15 pm

            Pete G 11am

            Looking forward is better than looking backwards, particularly looking back so far to a completely different issue.

            Remember the truism of Santayana “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. .” If you don’t understand the whys and wherefores of the past then you are not much better than a newborn babe when forming opinions.

            • Pete George 4.1.1.1.2.1
              23 July 2011 at 12:32 pm

              I agree, you should look at and learn from the past, but you still need to devote much more time looking at the present and at what can and should be done in the future.

              A lot of lessons were learnt from the Springbok tour, some good and some bad. I doubt many people would want to resurrect anything like that again without a damn good reason, and the ambitions of a fringe political group don’t come close.

              • marty mars …
                23 July 2011 at 2:57 pm

                resurrect what? – the attitude and feelings of believing in equality and letting the powers that be know it – you never did it in the first place so it’s no wonder you wouldn’t now – no loss because sitter on the fencers weren’t the intended audience – I was talking to those who did protest, who did believe enough to put themselves on the line.

              • McFlock …
                23 July 2011 at 4:00 pm

                So we’re all agreed – we need to boldly look forward, without necessarily knowing what’s behind us, although we should occasionally peek over our shoulder, and side to side, otherwise while we are moving forward we might be ambushed by some sort of resurrected monster that is behind us and moving forward more quickly than us.
                 
                 

            • Treetop 4.1.1.1.2.2
              23 July 2011 at 12:41 pm

              History is a good teacher. History always has a trail, just look at the phone hacking in Britain and how not acting sooner to stop the hackers, who is now being exposed, (politicians, top cops, newspaper heads).

      • felix 4.1.2
        23 July 2011 at 3:20 pm

        “The Springbok tour was very divisive in this country, is that the aim of Mana?”

        Yes the tour was divisive. That’s National for you.

  5. freedom 5
    23 July 2011 at 10:30 am

    hey Peter Squirrel

    some guys have the balls to stand up and admit they are wrong, care to do the same?

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5329433/Hewson-puts-the-boot-in-1981-tour

    • millsy 5.1
      23 July 2011 at 10:54 am

      He’ll probably be left off a few Christmas card lists.

      Ever noticed that the rugby players who opposed sporting contact with the Afrikaner regime have found themselves on the outer as far as the NZRFU is concerned?

  6. prism 6
    23 July 2011 at 11:47 am

    Worth listening to for people who want NZ to flourish with employment in the ranks of value added and innovated products. What can we do except the basics of primary extractive industries?? I want to see NZ made on lots more things! And here are some ideas, some history about things we have designed, developed and made and could do now. And note that he will be heard again in September in one of the main centres I suppose.

    11:05 Michael Smythe on Radionz with Kim this morning.
    Michael Smythe is a design enthusiast and practitioner, and the author of New Zealand Design: a History of New Zealand Product Design (Godwit, ISBN: 978-1-86979-574-0). He will be a guest at the Going West Books and Writers Festival 2001 in September.

  7. The Voice of Reason 7
    23 July 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Think I just heard irony free zone and No 1 fan boy Key on National Radio describing himself as ‘the luckiest New Zealand Prime Minister ever!”. I’d suggest his good luck is in inverse proportion to the bad luck the rest of the country is experiencing under his watch, aye?
     
    Still, nice that he’s not bothered that Obama didn’t even know his surname. Jiohn reckons nobody in NZ knows who he really is either.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    • Colonial Viper 7.1
      23 July 2011 at 12:55 pm

      Key is a hex on this land.

      • chris73 7.1.1
        23 July 2011 at 3:00 pm

        Gee it must be sticking in your craws that no matter what John Key says or does it doesn’t effect his popularity one jot and he’ll be returned as leader of this country

        As Goofey says (in private) “I wanna be like John”

        Hehehehe

        • felix 7.1.1.1
          23 July 2011 at 3:18 pm

          “…no matter what John Key says or does…”

          Interesting admission. You’ll trumpet his popularity, but you won’t back his words or actions.

          Very revealing.

          • chris73 7.1.1.1.1
            23 July 2011 at 5:21 pm

            Interesting yourself, where do you get that from?

            I do indeed back his actions

            • felix 7.1.1.1.1.1
              23 July 2011 at 5:27 pm

              The words “no matter what John Key says or does” implies that you acknowledge that not everything he says and does is all that.

              Otherwise why would you add them? Their only function in the sentence is to separate his popularity from his deeds.

              • chris73 …
                23 July 2011 at 5:38 pm

                The point being that all you lefties wail and nash your teeth and try to paint John Key as some sort of bogeyman

                Yet hes the most popular PM since…well…actually hes the most popular PM ever

                Meaning more Labour supporters prefer John Key as PM to Goofey as PM

                As to your point, he is a politician so of course hes…economical with the truth

  8. Pascal's bookie 8
    23 July 2011 at 12:51 pm

    Ooh scary muslims.

    http://www.facebook.com/people/Anders-Behring-Breivik/100002651290254

    Meanwhile, on KB, unintended irony abounds in the General debate thread as regulars Tutt Tutt about the mortal dangers of immigration to scandinavia, and in the sme comments say helen Clark should have been shot. Though there is some disagreement on the latter point. Hanging Cullen is also debated.

  9. Ianupnorth 9
    23 July 2011 at 1:50 pm

    Something really nice about seeing the most right wing paper in the UK suddenly realise everything they have believed in has created the current global meltdown!

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8655106/Im-starting-to-think-that-the-Left-might-actually-be-right.html

    It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up.

    The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything.

    John Key, are you listening?

    • prism 9.1
      23 July 2011 at 3:29 pm

      @Iamupnorth 1.50pm
      Charles Moore wrote this in the linked The Telegraph item.
      “One must always pray that conservatism will be saved, as has so often been the case in the past, by the stupidity of the Left. The Left’s blind faith in the state makes its remedies worse than useless. But the first step is to realise how much ground we have lost, and that there may not be much time left to make it up.”
      but he also says as quoted earlier:
      The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them.
      I have just heard how some of the poorest paid workers, cleaners are being treated. That backs up his second quote. Yet he really wants conservatism to be saved, because that is where his interests lie I guess, as he is never likely to be forced to seek work as a cleaner.

      The unfair working conditions I heard – A couple have bought a camping ground and want the cleaner on minimum wage to sometimes stay on site till 11 pm till they come home (sort of baby-sitting the site) for no pay. She has recently been phoned and requested to drive their car some miles to pick them up as their car has broken down. With no concern for her own plans and needs, and no doubt with no pay for it either.
      Another cleaner was not on roster and went away for a couple of days, for which she was abused by her angry employers. She was not entitled to days off, and should carry her cellphone with her at all times in case they might want to call her back to work. Another cleaner at the same motel had a young girl with her, who was her daughter helping with the work which her mother was not able to get through in the time paid for. Two workers for one miniscule wage!

      Why would women put up with this. Answer – You work as required or you’re fired. There are plenty of others wanting a job.

      Other job sectors also have low wages ie co-pilots being paid in the $30,000’s.

      The harsh self-centred class system way of treating workers of early NZ is being reproduced with the erosion of controls to protect workers who are also on low incomes. A double whammy started decades ago and into which no government has made reasonable inroads.

      • Colonial Viper 9.1.1
        23 July 2011 at 4:24 pm

        Ahem. Employers seem to forget how many tens of thousands of dollars of damage the average employee can inadvertently do to a business in seconds.

        You know, like when workers during the industrial revolution threw their wooden shoes called ‘sabot’ into machinery to stop them.

        I recommend a watching of “Fight Club” to any employer who is determined to be an a-hole.

  10. the pink postman 10
    23 July 2011 at 2:43 pm

    Lock up your daughters theYanks are coming!
    Joking apart what is this this cunning bastard planning for Aotearoa with the USA. Are we going to go back to the days when “Where the USA goes so do we regardless of why?

    • Draco T Bastard 10.1
      23 July 2011 at 2:50 pm

      Looks like it. RWNJs, being the Authoritarians that they are, bow down and kiss arse of those they see as having the most power and are more than happy to sell out an entire country just so that they can get a pat on the head from that power.

  11. rod 11
    23 July 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Perhaps they will all arrive just before the election for more photo opportunities

    • the pink postman 11.1
      23 July 2011 at 3:16 pm

      Bloody hell Rod I never thought of that ! Don’t shout it around ,there is nothing more these Tories would love than the band and flags just before an election

  12. jackal 12
    23 July 2011 at 3:22 pm

    Asshole of the Week Award – Peter Whittall

    Yesterday, the Pike River Mine inquiry revealed that Peter Whittall did not even attend a test evacuation to see if somebody could escape up the 100 metre-plus vertical ventilation shaft, which is the mines only means of escape other than the main 2.3km tunnel. Whittall said he was on the road doing a shareholder briefing, showing exactly how highly Pike River Coal viewed the safety of it’s workers.

    • prism 12.1
      23 July 2011 at 3:42 pm

      @jackal
      Well you delegate these organisational things don’t you. No use having dogs and doing the barking yourself.

  13. rosy 13
    23 July 2011 at 10:28 pm

    What the????? when organisations care more for their agenda that their people. Truly mindboggling
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9759935

    Frustrated aid groups said they want to deploy more food assistance in Somalia but don’t yet have the necessary safety guarantees to do so. The anarchic country has been mired in conflict for two decades and its capital is a war zone.

    The renewed threat from al-Shabab means only a handful of agencies will be able to respond to the hunger crisis in militant-controlled areas of southern Somalia. And the largest provider of food aid — the U.N. World Food Program — isn’t among those being allowed inside.

    The U.N. fears tens of thousands of people already have died in the famine, which has forced Somalis to walk for days in hopes of reaching refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia…

    … Somalia’s prolonged drought devolved into famine in part because neither the Somali government nor many aid agencies can fully operate in areas controlled by al-Shabab.

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  • How to Factory Reset iPhone without Computer: A Comprehensive Guide to Restoring your Device
    Life throws curveballs, and sometimes, those curveballs necessitate wiping your iPhone clean and starting anew. Whether you’re facing persistent software glitches, preparing to sell your device, or simply wanting a fresh start, knowing how to factory reset iPhone without a computer is a valuable skill. While using a computer with ...
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  • How to Call Someone on a Computer: A Guide to Voice and Video Communication in the Digital Age
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    21 hours ago

  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #16 2024
    Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost, Creel et al., Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control ...
    Skeptical Science
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  • Where on a Computer is the Operating System Generally Stored? Delving into the Digital Home of your ...
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
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  • How Many Watts Does a Laptop Use? Understanding Power Consumption and Efficiency
    Laptops have become essential tools for work, entertainment, and communication, offering portability and functionality. However, with rising energy costs and growing environmental concerns, understanding a laptop’s power consumption is more important than ever. So, how many watts does a laptop use? The answer, unfortunately, isn’t straightforward. It depends on several ...
    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • How to Screen Record on a Dell Laptop A Guide to Capturing Your Screen with Ease
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    21 hours ago

  • How Much Does it Cost to Fix a Laptop Screen? Navigating Repair Options and Costs
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • How Long Do Gaming Laptops Last? Demystifying Lifespan and Maximizing Longevity
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    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    21 hours ago

  • Climate Change: Turning the tide
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
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    23 hours ago

  • Faxing from Your Computer A Modern Guide to Sending Documents Digitally
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    24 hours ago

  • Protecting Your Home Computer A Guide to Cyber Awareness
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    24 hours ago

  • Server-Based Computing Powering the Modern Digital Landscape
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  • Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
    The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    24 hours ago

  • Jones finds $410,000 to help the government muscle in on a spat project
    Buzz from the Beehive Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones relishes spatting and eagerly takes issue with environmentalists who criticise his enthusiasm for resource development. He relishes helping the fishing industry too. And so today, while the media are making much of the latest culling in the public service to ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    1 day ago

  • Again, hate crimes are not necessarily terrorism.
    Having written, taught and worked for the US government on issues involving unconventional warfare and terrorism for 30-odd years, two things irritate me the most when the subject is discussed in public. The first is the Johnny-come-lately academics-turned-media commentators who … Continue reading → ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    1 day ago

  • Despair – construction consenting edition
    Eric Crampton writes – Kainga Ora is the government’s house building agency. It’s been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but independent) consenting authority, Consentium. It’s a neat idea. Rather than have to deal with building consents across each different territorial authority, Kainga Ora ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • Coalition promises – will the Govt keep the commitment to keep Kiwis equal before the law?
    Muriel Newman writes – The Coalition Government says it is moving with speed to deliver campaign promises and reverse the damage done by Labour. One of their key commitments is to “defend the principle that New Zealanders are equal before the law.” To achieve this, they have pledged they “will not advance ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • An impermanent public service is a guarantee of very little else but failure
    Chris Trotter writes –  The absence of anything resembling a fightback from the public servants currently losing their jobs is interesting. State-sector workers’ collective fatalism in the face of Coalition cutbacks indicates a surprisingly broad acceptance of impermanence in the workplace. Fifty years ago, lay-offs in the thousands ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • What happens after the war – Mariupol
    Mariupol, on the Azov Sea coast, was one of the first cities to suffer almost complete destruction after the start of the Ukraine War started in late February 2022. We remember the scenes of absolute destruction of the houses and city structures. The deaths of innocent civilians – many of ...
    Open ParachuteBy Ken
    1 day ago

  • Babies and benefits – no good news
    Lindsay Mitchell writes – Ten years ago, I wrote the following in a Listener column: Every year around one in five new-born babies will be reliant on their caregivers benefit by Christmas. This pattern has persisted from at least 1993. For Maori the number jumps to over one in three.  ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    1 day ago

  • Should the RBNZ be looking through climate inflation?
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links
    The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours, as of 9:16 am on Thursday, April 18 are:Housing: Tauranga residents living in boats, vans RNZ Checkpoint Louise TernouthHousing: Waikato councillor says wastewater plant issues could hold up Sleepyhead building a massive company town Waikato Times Stephen ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    1 day ago

  • Gordon Campbell on the public sector carnage, and misogyny as terrorism
    It’s a simple deal. We pay taxes in order to finance the social services we want and need. The carnage now occurring across the public sector though, is breaking that contract. Over 3,000 jobs have been lost so far. Many are in crucial areas like Education where the impact of ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    1 day ago

  • Meeting the Master Baiters
    Hi,A friend had their 40th over the weekend and decided to theme it after Curb Your Enthusiasm fashion icon Susie Greene. Captured in my tiny kitchen before I left the house, I ending up evoking a mix of old lesbian and Hillary Clinton — both unintentional.Me vs Hillary ClintonIf you’re ...
    David FarrierBy David Farrier
    1 day ago

  • How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
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    Skeptical Science
    2 days ago

  • Backbone, revisited
    The schools are on holiday and the sun is shining in the seaside village and all day long I have been seeing bunches of bikes; Mums, Dads, teens and toddlers chattering, laughing, happy, having a bloody great time together. Cheers, AT, for the bits of lane you’ve added lately around the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    2 days ago

  • Ministers are not above the law
    Today in our National-led authoritarian nightmare: Shane Jones thinks Ministers should be above the law: New Zealand First MP Shane Jones is accusing the Waitangi Tribunal of over-stepping its mandate by subpoenaing a minister for its urgent hearing on the Oranga Tamariki claim. The tribunal is looking into the ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    2 days ago

  • What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
    Buzz from the Beehive Point  of Order first heard of the Oceans Secretariat in June 2021, when David Parker (remember him?) announced a multi-agency approach to protecting New Zealand’s marine ecosystems and fisheries. Parker (holding the Environment, and Oceans and Fisheries portfolios) broke the news at the annual Forest & ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 days ago

  • Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
    Bryce Edwards writes  – Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • Matt Doocey doubles down on trans “healthcare”
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

  • A TikTok Prime Minister.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    2 days ago

  • Texas Lessons
    This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election. ...
    Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's pick 'n' mix of the news links at 6:06 am
    The top six news links I’ve seen elsewhere in the last 24 hours as of 6:06 am on Wednesday, April 17 are:Must read: Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked RNZ Farah HancockScoop: Revealed: Luxon has seven staffers working on social media content - partly paid for by taxpayer Newshub ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    2 days ago

  • Fighting poverty on the holiday highway
    Turning what Labour called the “holiday highway” into a four-lane expressway from Auckland to Whangarei could bring at least an economic benefit of nearly two billion a year for Northland each year. And it could help bring an end to poverty in one of New Zealand’s most deprived regions. The ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    2 days ago

  • Bernard's six-stack of substacks at 6:26 pm
    Tonight’s six-stack includes: launching his substack with a bunch of his previous documentaries, including this 1992 interview with Dame Whina Cooper. and here crew give climate activists plenty to do, including this call to submit against the Fast Track Approvals bill. writes brilliantly here on his substack ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • At a glance – Is the science settled?
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    Skeptical Science
    3 days ago

  • Apposite Quotations.
    How Long Is Long Enough? Gaza under Israeli bombardment, July 2014. This posting is exclusive to Bowalley Road. ...
    Bowalley Road
    3 days ago

  • What’s a life worth now?
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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    3 days ago

  • Howling at the Moon
    Karl du Fresne writes –  There’s a crisis in the news media and the media are blaming it on everyone except themselves. Culpability is being deflected elsewhere – mainly to the hapless Minister of Communications, Melissa Lee, and the big social media platforms that are accused of hoovering ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Newshub is Dead.
    I don’t normally send out two newsletters in a day but I figured I’d say something about… the news. If two newsletters is a bit much then maybe just skip one, I don’t want to overload people. Alternatively if you’d be interested in sometimes receiving multiple, smaller updates from me, ...
    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • Seymour is chuffed about cutting early-learning red tape – but we hear, too, that Jones has loose...
    Buzz from the Beehive David Seymour and Winston Peters today signalled that at least two ministers of the Crown might be in Wellington today. Seymour (as Associate Minister of Education) announced the removal of more red tape, this time to make it easier for new early learning services to be ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    3 days ago

  • Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
    Politicians across the political spectrum are implicated in the New Zealand media’s failing health. Either through neglect or incompetent interventions, successive governments have failed to regulate, foster, and allow a healthy Fourth Estate that can adequately hold politicians and the powerful to account. Our political system is suffering from the ...
    Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
    3 days ago

  • Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
    David Farrar  writes –  The Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled: Comments by radio host Kate Hawkesby suggesting Māori and Pacific patients were being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity were misleading and discriminatory, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. It is a fact such patients are prioritised. ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • PRC shadow looms as the Solomons head for election
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

  • Climate Change: Criminal ecocide
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago

  • Is saving one minute of a politician's time worth nearly $1 billion?
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    3 days ago

  • Long Tunnel or Long Con?
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    Greater AucklandBy Matt L
    3 days ago

  • Smoke And Mirrors.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    3 days ago

  • What is Mexico doing about climate change?
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    Skeptical Science
    3 days ago

  • State of humanity, 2024
    2024, it feels, keeps presenting us with ever more challenges, ever more dismay.Do you give up yet? It seems to ask.No? How about this? Or this?How about this?When I say 2024 I really mean the state of humanity in 2024.Saturday night, we watched Civil War because that is one terrifying cliff we've ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago

  • Govt’s Wellington tunnel vision aims to ease the way to the airport (but zealous promoters of cycl...
    Buzz from the Beehive A pet project and governmental tunnel vision jump out from the latest batch of ministerial announcements. The government is keen to assure us of its concern for the wellbeing of our pets. It will be introducing pet bonds in a change to the Residential Tenancies Act ...
    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    4 days ago

  • The case for cultural connectedness
    A recent report generated from a Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) survey of 1,224 rangatahi Māori aged 11-12 found: Cultural connectedness was associated with fewer depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms and better quality of life. That sounds cut and dry. But further into the report the following appears: Cultural connectedness is ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Useful context on public sector job cuts
    David Farrar writes –    The Herald reports: From the gory details of job-cuts news, you’d think the public service was being eviscerated.   While the media’s view of the cuts is incomplete, it’s also true that departments have been leaking the particulars faster than a Wellington ...
    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    4 days ago

  • Gordon Campbell On When Racism Comes Disguised As Anti-racism
    Remember the good old days, back when New Zealand had a PM who could think and speak calmly and intelligently in whole sentences without blustering? Even while Iran’s drones and missiles were still being launched, Helen Clark was live on TVNZ expertly summing up the latest crisis in the Middle ...
    Gordon CampbellBy lyndon
    4 days ago

  • Govt ignored economic analysis of smokefree reversal
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago

  • True Blue.
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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago

  • Who is running New Zealand’s foreign policy?
    While commentators, including former Prime Minister Helen Clark, are noting a subtle shift in New Zealand’s foreign policy, which now places more emphasis on the United States, many have missed a key element of the shift. What National said before the election is not what the government is doing now. ...
    PolitikBy Richard Harman
    4 days ago

  • 2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15
    A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 7, 2024 thru Sat, April 13, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week is about adults in the room setting terms and conditions of ...
    Skeptical Science
    5 days ago

  • Feline Friends and Fragile Fauna The Complexities of Cats in New Zealand’s Conservation Efforts

    Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...

    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    5 days ago

  • Or is that just they want us to think?
    Nice guy, that Peter Williams. Amiable, a calm air of no-nonsense capability, a winning smile. Everything you look for in a TV presenter and newsreader.I used to see him sometimes when I went to TVNZ to be a talking head or a panellist and we would yarn. Nice guy, that ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    5 days ago

  • Fact Brief – Did global warming stop in 1998?
    Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Did global warming stop in ...
    Skeptical Science
    6 days ago

  • Arguing over a moot point.
    I have been following recent debates in the corporate and social media about whether it is a good idea for NZ to join what is known as “AUKUS Pillar Two.” AUKUS is the Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine building agreement in which … Continue reading → ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
    6 days ago

  • No Longer Trusted: Ageing Boomers, Laurie & Les, Talk Politics.
    Turning Point: “What has turned me away from the mainstream news media is the very strong message that its been sending out for the last few years.” “And what message might that be?” “That the people who own it, the people who run it, and the people who provide its content, really don’t ...
    Bowalley Road
    6 days ago

  • Minister releases Fast-track stakeholder list
    The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    2 hours ago

  • Judicial appointments announced
    Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    3 hours ago

  • Education Minister heads to major teaching summit in Singapore
    Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa.  The summit is co-hosted ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 hours ago

  • Value of stopbank project proven during cyclone
    A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 hours ago

  • Anzac commemorations, Türkiye relationship focus of visit
    Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul.    “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    4 hours ago

  • Minister to Europe for OECD meeting, Anzac Day
    Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    7 hours ago

  • Comprehensive Partnership the goal for NZ and the Philippines
    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.  The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    18 hours ago

  • Government commits $20m to Westport flood protection
    The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
    24 hours ago

  • Taupō takes pole position
    The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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