TELEVISION NEWS
Sky News policy change: now sympathetic to victims, not aggressors
“From a clear blue sky, a government jet delivers its payload on Homs.
[Picture of one jet, and explosion on ground]
The opposition has NO SUCH FIREPOWER.”
—Sky News report shown on TV3 NEWS, 6:25 p.m., Thursday 27 December 2012
I watched television news on several New Zealand channels frequently during the recent Israeli blitzkrieg on Gaza, and also during Israel’s even more devastating Operation Cast Lead four years ago. I can not recall one commentator—whether from the BBC, ITV, the American networks, the Australian networks or the NZ networks—ever saying “an Israeli jet delivers its payload on Gaza. The people of Gaza have NO SUCH FIREPOWER.”
This radical victim-wards tilt by Sky News is sudden, and encouraging. Can we now look forward to similar reporting, sympathetic to the civilians being bombed rather than the aggressors, when Sky News next sends a report from the Occupied Territories and Gaza?
Does it occur to you that news should be impartial and not sympathetic to anyone? Do you have topics of interest other than the perfidity of the Jews? Like, oh, I dunno, New Zealand politics?
Pop – Who are you trying to kid here? Unless you are a complete moron, you know damn well that news broadcasts are seldom, if ever, so perfectly “impartial” – whatever side of the fence you are on. Do not tell me what the news coverage “should” be, this world does not (fortunately) run according to “should’s” (or by “ideals”) Where there is clear evidence of an atrocity, evidently you would prefer that no hint of sympathy be demonstrated for the victims? No, let’s be “impartially” cold-blooded!
If I have got you wrong, please clarify yourself, I have no desire to inflict an injustice upon you.
Well yes – I would like the news to be impartial and something to be desired. Morrissey’s wording is quite specific – he’s creaming his panties that sympathies are shifting in the opposite direction. I prefer my data cold-blooded because then I can at least work out for myself where my sympathies lie.
Does it occur to you that news should be impartial and not sympathetic to anyone?
It certainly has occurred to me, as you would realize if you had actually read my post.
Do you have topics of interest other than the perfidity of the Jews?
The “perfidity of the Jews”? All of my criticisms are of the leaders and the armed forces of a rogue state; bizarrely and no doubt cynically you accuse me of some medieval confessional campaign. Some of the worst depradations carried out by IDF troops are in fact committed by Bedouin Arab recruits; if you had been aware of that, no doubt you would have exercised your grand sarcasm and accused me of worrying unduly about the “perfidity of the Bedouins”. Or would that not fit with your cunning plan of accusing me, and any other critics of the Holy State, of anti-Semitism?
Like, oh, I dunno, New Zealand politics?
I urge you to take a look at my oeuvre of the last two years on this excellent site, then I challenge you to say with a straight face that I show no interest in New Zealand politics.
*winces at Morrissey’s use of the American spelling of “realise”*
Let’s recap. Your header: “Sky News policy change: now sympathetic to victims, not aggressors” – very leading, manipulative and makes you sound as bad as the MSM. How about just saying “Sky News reporting now more balanced”? Less hysterical Pilcher on crack, no?
And going back over your posts of the last few weeks it’s mostly attacks on Israel (often justified, but kind of obvious – I’d be very surprised if anyone on The Standard WASN’T aware of the bullshit Israel gets up to) and these bizarre attacks on comedians of Jewish ancestry and/or faith. I’m surprised you’ve left Woody Allen and Sarah Silverman untouched so far.
…these bizarre attacks on comedians of Jewish ancestry and/or faith.
Still with this attempt to insinuate I’m having a go at “the Jews”. Unless you are an imbecile, you will realize that I criticize ideologues, including comedians, who attack the weak, the poor, the vulnerable and the officially despised. If you had read my transcript of Baron Cohen’s obscene performance on the Letterman show, you would have seen I was just as critical of Letterman and his halfwitted audience.
I’m surprised you’ve left Woody Allen and Sarah Silverman untouched so far.
“Unless you are an imbecile, you will realize that I criticize ideologues, including comedians, who attack the weak, the poor, the vulnerable and the officially despised.”
Citation (still) needed. All you’ve done so far is attack Sacha Baron Cohen for being Jewish, Moz. You have yet to provide any evidence that SBC is a zionist, let alone a ‘shill’ for Israel. Face it, pal, you’re a bigot. You’re young though and you may mature with some life experience under your belt. I genuinely hope thats the case, because you show glimmers of understanding from time to time, which is encouraging.
All you’ve done so far is attack Sacha Baron Cohen for being Jewish…
Liar.
Lynn, is there any sanction against someone telling malicious lies like this fellow has just done?
I have been banned for a month for simply downloading too much of an article; for this fellow to lie like this seems to me to be a far more egregious offence.
Lynn, I will e-mail you personally about this libel, and I expect something to be done about it.
You’re young though and you may mature with some life experience under your belt. I genuinely hope thats the case, because you show glimmers of understanding from time to time, which is encouraging
A glimmer of understanding would help you out no end!
The Voice of Reason, speaketh!
Edit: Use of the words such as bigot towards Morrissey’s train of thought, are frankly an insult to those who genuinely suffer and have suffered persecution.
You might not agree with Morrissey, but he is on the money with his contentions about the *entertainment industry*, but a serious blockage will not allow you to accept what is blatant!
“You might not agree with Morrissey, but he is on the money with his contentions about the *entertainment industry*, but a serious blockage will not allow you to accept what is blatant!”
What contentions about the *entertainment industry* (oh the snobbery that reeks of) – it might surprise you to know that Hollywood etc isn’t a secret cabal run by Zionist Jews – unless you’re some sort of paranoid bigot conspiracy theorist.
So you and Morrissey can put down your well-thumbed copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf and back away from them slowly.
Got many jewish relatives, or even friends do you pop?
The *entertainment industry* is a machine designed to shape opinions through the use of repetative messages, images and stereotying,which seems to have gone over your head.
Seems to me your possibly *invested* in or near the industry, which might account for your claims of freelance working?
….well-thumbed copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf…
You know, even if you had the ability to craft a hard-hitting attack, dredging up those allegations would still be seen as a pathetically desperate tactic.
Today seems to be a real Dave Shearer day, for anyone interested at some time during the morning RadioNZ National are going to be playing music from Dave’s CD collection this morning…
Belated seasons greetings to everyone at TS and the very best for 2013. AND a big thank you to lprent and everyone else who makes TS a daily must even if I don’t comment. BUT will be today haviing just caught up with some of the newer posts!
Yeah. That sort of triggered me to come out of lurking. Thanks for all the work this year everyone. And good to see it working on my phone too. Awesome.
The people over at BraveNewCode provide that. They appear to have managed to fix up the bugs that our rather large comment sections were producing a few months ago.
Here’s a comment from what is obviously a really f**king sick mind, i found it by linking into one of the comments listed in the little box over to the right which shows who commnented where, and am commenting here because i can’t find the post in which this comment occurred,
”Just because SOME private armies have done BAD things is no reason to have an idealogical opposition to all Private armies, we should judge them on outcomes.” unquote,
The link of course takes you straight to ‘kiwiblog’ and the words in capitals are my doing,
Really??? just because some of these private armies have done ‘bad things’, you know minor transgressions like murder,rape and pillaging???
There’s one hell of a lot of human suffering inherent in a ‘private army doing bad things’ that the sick little puppy over at kiwiblog brushes aside as simply bad things….
Looks like original comment has been removed (?) although it is quoted below:
Yoza (240) Says:
December 28th, 2012 at 10:29 am
“I disagree. Just because some private mercenary armies have done bad things, is no reason to have an ideological opposition to all private mercenary armies”
Mercenaries are vermin and one of the very few reasons the use death penalty could be justified. This is just another nail in Shearer’s coffin, no sane person could justify the use of killers for hire and continue to lead a charade masquerading as a viable progressive alternative to the current bunch of corporate facilitators whom we have currently managing the population.
A disarmed police officer has his police issue taser turned on him but it misfires.
Greg O’Connor uses the incident to argue for guns to be issued to officers instead.
From news reports on RadioNZ National it appears that pepper spray was deployed first as an attempt to control one or all of the drunken teens,
It just so happens that ‘a child’,no age was given, also received a face full of pepper spray AND THEN the place went really mad,(i wonder if the female wielding the brick was the child’s mother),
What the Police Association seems to be saying is that if all officers were armed with fire-arms they could have after spraying a child with pepper spray by-passed the use of tasers and gone straight to the use of fire-arms,
Hell if they can justify shooting an innocent motorist on an Auckland motorway justifying the shooting of a drunken mob would be a breeze…
Yeah, aren’t tasers supposed to replace using a gun, if they were not ever going to use a gun on a family in their own home, then…
…but to be fair, the taser was taken from the police officer (???after their head had been bashed and so when a gun was acceptable to be used).
How about this. If police are to be attacked by fists then police can use a baton, if police are to be attacked by knives, then they should be armed, if police are to use tasers because???? Tasers break the skin, they cause people to lose balance and harm themselves, they can not be used in high places, even the use on hard surfaces can cause excessive harm from bad falls, they even are know to cause cardic arrest in people with pace makers, and cause highly anxiousness mental patients to die. They complicate policing since the public doesn’t know what mood the police are in and so what form of control they are going to use. Like pepper spray on children???
Policing takes time, we should not be freeing up police and ignoring the risk of more aggressive policing, or at best more adverse results like the above. Police seen as the enemy in not good for public order.
listen while we play our Green Tambourine
‘taint no big thing, the toll of the bell
love is the drug and we need to score
For Whom? follow the lemmingway
The Power and The Glory:Ever met a Quiet American?
failing hopes, over the cliff they go
Infant Formula Mongolia outta Waitake?
the human is a biped quadrabikes continue to roll over
trapped in their crushed cage
more pods cast on beaches Sea Shepherd harpooned
(i’ll straighten up soon guys, limited budget to critique right back at ya’ ;))
Julia Deans Banshee Reel (Fiona’s gone to cruise control, took a body blow)
Ahhh, Maggie Death
(if i should fall from Grace with God return to the garden)
Don’t wanna be a flatfish gasping shallow water
“ya can’t always get what ya want, but if ya try some times, ya just might find
You get what you need”
we were livin’ off the bone, rollin pin scones
they’ll be down at Kellys pawn shop number nine
(the stench of spirits on their breath)
bruises on my flesh set me heading for The Doors
well you took my love and you set on a ship
the bodies come floating back to me…
Morning Song
from The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion-B.C
New Zealand Aotearoa is a small village
we need a remedy not Sometimes Salvation
who needs sugar when you’ve got guarana
Time Will Tell.Late at night when the lights are low
She slips off her stockings and shoes
Keep your eyes wide open and your hands upon the Wheel
hit him in the Roadhouse Julie.remember Sandra Lees’ time?
Hopeless Romantics. Promise You Anything including
a Dagger Through The Heart-John Daniel
Key’s a crawlin’ king snake and he only rules “his” world-John Lee
“This Is Hip”; can’t recall, The Ghost of Tom Joad
Galveston oh Galveston I am Lineman
You’ve got to try a little kindness, show a little kindness
Shine your light for every one to see
they took turns at Becky; watch the last Act fall
Star of the County Down and fuzzy.
Anchorage, Alaska, or Justice in Ontario?
they asked for water; exxon gave them gasoline.
Now, it’s Big Red Sun Blues.
a pistol is the Devils’ Right Hand
the devils right hand, the devils right hand.
Rock, Salt and Nails comes before Dirty Water
cos i’m whaling, out on the sea
step inside The Everlasting Grace. Stand Inside Your Love
of Raindrops and Sunshowers.The Sacred and Profane
Machina of the gods.
it’s Still, So Early in The Spring smelt The Blacksmith
watching Lassie Gathering Nuts. E Minstra;
if love was a train i think i’d ride me a slow one
but the L i N don’t run to Gizzy any more
Katipo Widow. hourglass lice.
Prior to Maddy there was Gaudette
Come ye o’er France, we want more of the same
for Wild is The Wind. They Can’t Take That Away
from the Cotton Tail, Keeper of The Flame;
Nina, sultry ballerina, or Ella: Scott Fitzgerald?
you know that it would be untrue
you know that i would be a liar
if i was to say to you The Standard couldn’t get much higher
-A Day is a Thousand Comments: A Thousand Comments is A Day
Watch and Learn; Draco is a Shaman and felix (viper) keeps on killing
Thanks Tim. Our Love Is Hear To Stay.
Somethings Gotta Give
Set The Controls For The Heart of The Son
(careful with that axe) John Bunyan
“I cum for ma’ boy”. amerikan eugenics Marion
The Secret? don’t need a saucer!
Foolish Games-The Grass is Blue
He will be waiting; I AM Ready, Are you?
(when i get this feeling, i can’t help myself)
it’s always cold inside the Icehouse, though the rivers never freeze
(they all die young on the Boulevard)
see the wreckage All Lined Up
must be something in the
Atmosphere. Halos and Horns?
and he says in another place
“You are a priest forever,
In the order of Melchizedek,
because of your reverent submission”
(although He was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered)
hence, death shall have no dominion or pizza.
corpus Mundi’s washing day, Tuesday’s pay the rent
Thursday’s get the stains out, Friday money’s all been spent.
-Johnny’s Ghost (on Horses)
p.s. Who Will Save Your Soul (there’s an angel standing by) Amen
“The diatribe perplexed most people in the pews. For Ruth, it felt more personal. She is Catholic and gay, a reminder that both are the broadest of churches. She is also director of public affairs at the pressure group Stonewall, so deeply embroiled in the struggle for equal rights. “For me, God is love,” she says. “So why do I have to justify my very right to exist?” She was not alone in having to endure priests using their sermons to spout prejudice. For this was the year an insecure Church, confronted by an increasingly secular country, celebrated Christmas by lashing out in ways that only served to demonstrate its own demons and display its impotence.
One befuddled bishop conjured up the spirit of Hitler by comparing the Coalition’s intention to legalise gay marriage to the ideology of fascism. In so doing, he exposed the most basic rule of debate: when you resort to bringing in the Nazis, you have obviously lost the argument.”
Well Hitler declared himself Catholic, and most Germans were christian at that time. So it would be half right, if your argument was that opposition to gay marriage might have links to fascist ideology; because homosexuals were murdered in the holocaust. But the bishop isn’t saying that, instead the reverse i.e. arguing that homosexuality was fascist, and that anyone that opposes the bishop’s hateful and bitter version of Christianity is a ‘Nazi’. *yawn*
Over Christmas you only had to read comments, in the Herald, from Church leaders which were nauseous and abominable (I say this as one who struggles to remain a church-goer).
Has anyone read the article on Stuff which headlines ‘Judge critical of Talley’s request’
Talley’s wanted a $10.000 security payment for costs against an ex-employee fighting
for her fish processing job,she had worked there for 10yrs.
The judge dismissed Talley’s application for the security payment and ordered it to
contribute $750 towards the employees costs of defending “This unmeritorious application”
(Judges words)
I say good on Judge Colgan, top marks.
Sorry i can’t link.
I am surprised that her original application was turned down merely because it was outside the time limit. IIRC many applications to the Employment Court are allowed outside the time limit.
Was just passing through, so to speak, and still had the article up on another tab. I am very disturbed (but not unsurprised) by Talley’s attempts at intimidation.
DPS “blow” more than the their budget (them NAct cats sure are scaredy); Leon filled me in on the
Detail, just a little. Still Glocks?
maybe this govt shoulda sat up straight in class and listened to the Educational Experts;
anticipate more canings to come (along with smoking in the toilets)
Human hand “evolved for fighting” argues another science priest;
try a little open-handed gesture, or prayer: Meanwhile, back in the jungle out there,
Family violence in NZ is still on the increase, reports local “Shadbolt” 😉
joe-Gerry only reached 83, sigh, 90 would have been more FAB (thats me) BIG RAT. 🙁
many of the elderly and disabled are still in “grim limbo” following the SandStorm
see how far removed the US is from “civilisation”?
Return of the Ottomans?-above Syria, Iraq, to the Left of Iran, and comparitively stable on the table.
anyway,
seems the sun always shines on t.v, yet not today at the queens park aslide to Splash Planet
scattered showers to continue; sorry folks, not much helium remains but plenty of methane
Talking Heads-“Warning Signs of things to come” so we may as well throw our arms around
each other, Hunt and Collect.
my agenda? if any of you fellow worker bees wanna chip in and lend a carpenter a hand
is to research these clowns thoroughly in the new year
then
rip them limb from limb til’ it’s their “blood on the floor” some more
and
i’ll do it for a kennel, chow and the odd cannon bone or ball thrown in
no pointer being backwards going forwards, english or german;
all’s fair in Love and politics
Boom! (how much is that labradoodle in the window Steven? gotta Speer?)
C.V.-big wreck was a 38 deluxe with a 396 / 402 chambered
(Left minds think alike Bruce)
it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Oh Well, gotta dash-see what else ya all been scrawling.
Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argues that the technological progress of the past 250 years could be a unique historical episode. He cites falling productivity levels and rising inequality as evidence that living standards are no longer improving as quickly. My colleague Martin Wolf shares some of these concerns, asking in an October column whether unlimited growth may be a thing of the past.
A novel interpretation of this trend is starting to gain credibility among some economists: it is not that technology is stagnating but that monopoly interests are suppressing innovation. And the incentives for them to do so are increasing.
Put a different way, companies have an interest in sabotaging progress and efficiency because not doing so could lead to the sort of abundance that might make it impossible to monetise anything. After all, how can you mark up manna that falls from heaven?
The inevitable consequence of increasing productivity is that, eventually, there will be not enough demand to meet supply. IMO, the developed nations (such as those in the OECD) pretty much passed that state many decades ago which is why we have seen a rise in services and products that are, essentially, useless as well as the majority of people having to work more.
have to say this out loud D (checking the connection) that the personal-political is the only way to
act in good faith over these consumption matters, imho
Good award to J-A.G bad one two; check out her resume, she’s hot (in a helpful way)
lightweight Ardern is Flockie (is that fly-strike? wotta dagg)
Crimson Nile flows a pathway to the promised land
don’t bother with Muffin s anymore even though you all ate them for breakfast,
they are colonial imports anyway UK or US
fender you are in the stratosphere casting at all times of the tide
solidarnosc to our Warsaw friend
some great bubbles floating about the spectrum
great MO; getting physical there at times
what a vivacious femme fatale
don’t give up on decyphering; it’s all in there. I chequed mate 😉
keep dropping these E-tablets xtsy; they prove to be therapeutic and we’re only making plans for
Generals and Majors as Postman Bill always delivers. you sure are a trooper karol
(if you don’t mind the lariot)
keep sprinkling that saltpeter. Hi Hilary, Huggin right back at ya.
the die is cast Ripley.
What a buzza muzza; sawing right through at different lengths and depths
always Nick S the threads, maybe reads the tea leaves.
I’m Red through and thrown back again. Do we really want to play in the mud and throw pies
(It’s not always about “the leader” or his corpulent, addicted side-kick; It was Heydrich the
Allies made a concerted play for) He had the real “will”. D.C will be read again.Watch this frame.
J’Accuse’s a Rock Star. Oh Vienna-Ultravox Ian;reminds me of Orange Crush and the sound of
Hueys.
savage as always michael (can’t hide those wings behind pulp fiction suits)
On point Rhino tough-hided thing you.Some more creative writing ready to penetrate the plains?
I often forget our tangata whenua colleagues; we can be blind to our biases, i know.
yet, lots of absolutism guff being uttered freely.
Oh well (limb from limb was metaphoric) but I have always thought a “researcher” would be an
Apt application for a dogged Calvary man like me.
-Zorro (from the Planet Caravan)
ps, now, my shopping list for the evening is
teas
deoderant
carrots
and a light bulb (i kid u knot; that’s the gospel senors and senoritas)
🙂 (debt free my socialist friends)
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Hi,Over the weekend I revisited a podcast I really adore, Dead Eyes. It’s about a guy who got fired from Band of Brothers over two decades ago because Tom Hanks said he had “dead eyes”.If you don’t recall — 2001’s Band of Brothers was part of the emerging trend of ...
Buzz from the Beehive The 180 or so recipients of letters from the Government telling them how to submit infrastructure projects for “fast track” consideration includes some whose project applications previously have been rejected by the courts. News media were quick to feature these in their reports after RMA Reform Minister Chris ...
It would not be a desirable way to start your holiday by breaking your back, your head, or your wrist, but on our first hour in Singapore I gave it a try.We were chatting, last week, before we started a meeting of Hazel’s Enviro Trust, about the things that can ...
Calling all journalists, academics, planners, lawyers, political activists, environmentalists, and other members of the public who believe that the relationships between vested interests and politicians need to be scrutinised. We need to work together to make sure that the new Fast-Track Approvals Bill – currently being pushed through by the ...
Feel worried. Shane Jones and a couple of his Cabinet colleagues are about to be granted the power to override any and all objections to projects like dams, mines, roads etc even if: said projects will harm biodiversity, increase global warming and cause other environmental harms, and even if ...
Bryce Edwards writes- The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. ...
Michael Bassett writes – If you think there is a move afoot by the radical Maori fringe of New Zealand society to create a parallel system of government to the one that we elect at our triennial elections, you aren’t wrong. Over the last few days we have ...
Without a corresponding drop in interest rates, it’s doubtful any changes to the CCCFA will unleash a massive rush of home buyers. Photo: Lynn GrievesonTL;DR: The six things that stood out to me in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Monday, April 22 included:The Government making a ...
Sunday was a lazy day. I started watching Jack Tame on Q&A, the interviews are usually good for something to write about. Saying the things that the politicians won’t, but are quite possibly thinking. Things that are true and need to be extracted from between the lines.As you might know ...
In our Weekly Roundup last week we covered news from Auckland Transport that the WX1 Western Express is going to get an upgrade next year with double decker electric buses. As part of the announcement, AT also said “Since we introduced the WX1 Western Express last November we have seen ...
TL;DR: The six key events to watch in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy in the week to April 29 include:PM Christopher Luxon is scheduled to hold a post-Cabinet news conference at 4 pm today. Stats NZ releases its statutory report on Census 2023 tomorrow.Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers a pre-Budget speech at ...
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic ...
The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led Government. Yesterday it introduced to Parliament one of its most significant reforms, the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The Government says this will ...
This is a column to say thank you. So many of have been in touch since Mum died to say so many kind and thoughtful things. You’re wonderful, all of you. You’ve asked how we’re doing, how Dad’s doing. A little more realisation each day, of the irretrievable finality of ...
Identifying the engine type in your car is crucial for various reasons, including maintenance, repairs, and performance upgrades. Knowing the specific engine model allows you to access detailed technical information, locate compatible parts, and make informed decisions about modifications. This comprehensive guide will provide you with a step-by-step approach to ...
Introduction: The allure of racing is undeniable. The thrill of speed, the roar of engines, and the exhilaration of competition all contribute to the allure of this adrenaline-driven sport. For those who yearn to experience the pinnacle of racing, becoming a race car driver is the ultimate dream. However, the ...
Introduction Automobiles have become ubiquitous in modern society, serving as a primary mode of transportation and a symbol of economic growth and personal mobility. With countless vehicles traversing roads and highways worldwide, it begs the question: how many cars are there in the world? Determining the precise number is a ...
Maintaining a safe and reliable vehicle requires regular inspections. Whether it’s a routine maintenance checkup or a safety inspection, knowing how long the process will take can help you plan your day accordingly. This article delves into the factors that influence the duration of a car inspection and provides an ...
Mazda Motor Corporation, commonly known as Mazda, is a Japanese multinational automaker headquartered in Fuchu, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The company was founded in 1920 as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd., and began producing vehicles in 1931. Mazda is primarily known for its production of passenger cars, but ...
Your car battery is an essential component that provides power to start your engine, operate your electrical systems, and store energy. Over time, batteries can weaken and lose their ability to hold a charge, which can lead to starting problems, power failures, and other issues. Replacing your battery before it ...
In most states, you cannot register a car without a valid driver’s license. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule. Exceptions to the RuleIf you are under 18 years old: In some states, you can register a car in your name even if you do not ...
Mazda, a Japanese automotive manufacturer with a rich history of innovation and engineering excellence, has emerged as a formidable player in the global car market. Known for its reputation of producing high-quality, fuel-efficient, and driver-oriented vehicles, Mazda has consistently garnered praise from industry experts and consumers alike. In this article, ...
Struts are an essential part of a car’s suspension system. They are responsible for supporting the weight of the car and damping the oscillations of the springs. Struts are typically made of steel or aluminum and are filled with hydraulic fluid. How Do Struts Work? Struts work by transferring the ...
Car registration is a mandatory process that all vehicle owners must complete annually. This process involves registering your car with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and paying an associated fee. The registration process ensures that your vehicle is properly licensed and insured, and helps law enforcement and other authorities ...
Zoom is a video conferencing service that allows you to share your screen, webcam, and audio with other participants. In addition to sharing your own audio, you can also share the audio from your computer with other participants. This can be useful for playing music, sharing presentations with audio, or ...
Building your own computer can be a rewarding and cost-effective way to get a high-performance machine tailored to your specific needs. However, it also requires careful planning and execution, and one of the most important factors to consider is the time it will take. The exact time it takes to ...
Sleep mode is a power-saving state that allows your computer to quickly resume operation without having to boot up from scratch. This can be useful if you need to step away from your computer for a short period of time but don’t want to shut it down completely. There are ...
Introduction Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) has revolutionized the field of translation by harnessing the power of technology to assist human translators in their work. This innovative approach combines specialized software with human expertise to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and consistency of translations. In this comprehensive article, we will delve into the ...
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Among the vast array of portable computing options available, iPads and tablet computers stand out as two prominent contenders. While both offer similar functionalities, there are subtle yet significant differences between these two devices. This ...
A computer is an electronic device that can be programmed to carry out a set of instructions. The basic components of a computer are the processor, memory, storage, input devices, and output devices. The Processor The processor, also known as the central processing unit (CPU), is the brain of the ...
Voice Memos is a convenient app on your iPhone that allows you to quickly record and store audio snippets. These recordings can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as taking notes, capturing ideas, or recording interviews. While you can listen to your voice memos on your iPhone, you ...
Laptop screens are essential for interacting with our devices and accessing information. However, when lines appear on the screen, it can be frustrating and disrupt productivity. Understanding the underlying causes of these lines is crucial for finding effective solutions. Types of Screen Lines Horizontal lines: Also known as scan ...
Right-clicking is a common and essential computer operation that allows users to access additional options and settings. While most desktop computers have dedicated right-click buttons on their mice, laptops often do not have these buttons due to space limitations. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on how to right-click ...
Powering up and shutting down your ASUS laptop is an essential task for any laptop user. Locating the power button can sometimes be a hassle, especially if you’re new to ASUS laptops. This article will provide a comprehensive guide on where to find the power button on different ASUS laptop ...
Dell laptops are renowned for their reliability, performance, and versatility. Whether you’re a student, a professional, or just someone who needs a reliable computing device, a Dell laptop can meet your needs. However, if you’re new to Dell laptops, you may be wondering how to get started. In this comprehensive ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
The Green Party has today launched a step-by-step guide to help New Zealanders make their voice heard on the Government’s democracy dodging and anti-environment fast track legislation. ...
The National Government’s proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act will mean tenants can be turfed from their homes by landlords with little notice, Labour housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said. ...
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson is calling on all parties to support a common-sense change that’s great for the planet and great for consumers after her member’s bill was drawn from the ballot today. ...
A significant milestone has been reached in the fight to strike an anti-Pasifika and unfair law from the country’s books after Teanau Tuiono’s members’ bill passed its first reading. ...
New Zealand has today missed the opportunity to uphold the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, says James Shaw after his member’s bill was voted down in its first reading. ...
Today’s advice from the Climate Change Commission paints a sobering reality of the challenge we face in combating climate change, especially in light of recent Government policy announcements. ...
Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
Mai ia tawhiti pamamao, te moana nui a Kiwa, kua tae whakaiti mai matou, ki to koutou papa whenua. No koutou te tapuwae, no matou te tapuwae, kua honoa pumautia. Ko nga toa kua hinga nei, o te Waipounamu, o te Ika a Maui, he okioki tahi me o ...
Paul Goldsmith will take on responsibility for the Media and Communications portfolio, while Louise Upston will pick up the Disability Issues portfolio, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced today. “Our Government is relentlessly focused on getting New Zealand back on track. As issues change in prominence, I plan to adjust Ministerial ...
Recreational catch limits will be reduced in areas of Fiordland and the Chatham Islands to help keep those fisheries healthy and sustainable, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. The lower recreational daily catch limits for a range of finfish and shellfish species caught in the Fiordland Marine Area and ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has welcomed an important milestone in New Zealand’s hydrogen future, with the opening of the country’s first network of hydrogen refuelling stations in Wiri. “I want to congratulate the team at Hiringa Energy and its partners K one W one (K1W1), Mitsui & Co New Zealand ...
The coalition Government is delivering on its commitment to improve resource management laws and give greater certainty to consent applicants, with a Bill to amend the Resource Management Act (RMA) expected to be introduced to Parliament next month. RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has today outlined the first RMA Amendment ...
Overseas models for regulating the oil and gas sector, including their decommissioning regimes, are being carefully scrutinised as a potential template for New Zealand’s own sector, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. The Coalition Government is focused on rebuilding investor confidence in New Zealand’s energy sector as it looks to strengthen ...
Emergency Management and Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell has today released the Report of the Government Inquiry into the response to the North Island Severe Weather Events. “The report shows that New Zealand’s emergency management system is not fit-for-purpose and there are some significant gaps we need to address,” Mr Mitchell ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is today travelling to Europe where he’ll update the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Government’s work to restore law and order. “Attending the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva provides us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while ...
Associate Agriculture Minister, Mark Patterson, formally reopened the world’s largest wool processing facility today in Awatoto, Napier, following a $50 million rebuild and refurbishment project. “The reopening of this facility will significantly lift the economic opportunities available to New Zealand’s wool sector, which already accounts for 20 per cent of ...
Hon Andrew Bayly, Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing At the Southland Otago Regional Engineering Collective (SOREC) Summit, 18 April, Dunedin Ngā mihi nui, Ko Andrew Bayly aho, Ko Whanganui aho Good Afternoon and thank you for inviting me to open your summit today. I am delighted ...
The Government is delivering on its commitment to bring back the Three Strikes legislation, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee announced today. “Our Government is committed to restoring law and order and enforcing appropriate consequences on criminals. We are making it clear that repeat serious violent or sexual offending is not ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has today announced four new diplomatic appointments for New Zealand’s overseas missions. “Our diplomats have a vital role in maintaining and protecting New Zealand’s interests around the world,” Mr Peters says. “I am pleased to announce the appointment of these senior diplomats from the ...
New Zealand is contributing NZ$7 million to support communities affected by severe food insecurity and other urgent humanitarian needs in Ethiopia and Somalia, Foreign Minister Rt Hon Winston Peters announced today. “Over 21 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across Ethiopia, with a further 6.9 million people ...
Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Paul Goldsmith is congratulating Mataaho Collective for winning the Golden Lion for best participant in the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale. "Congratulations to the Mataaho Collective for winning one of the world's most prestigious art prizes at the Venice Biennale. “It is good ...
The Government is reforming financial services to improve access to home loans and other lending, and strengthen customer protections, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly and Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced today. “Our coalition Government is committed to rebuilding the economy and making life simpler by cutting red tape. We are ...
“China remains a strong commercial opportunity for Kiwi exporters as Chinese businesses and consumers continue to value our high-quality safe produce,” Trade and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay says. Mr McClay has returned to New Zealand following visits to Beijing, Harbin and Shanghai where he met ministers, governors and mayors and engaged in trade and agricultural events with the New ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has completed a successful trip to Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, deepening relationships and capitalising on opportunities. Mr Luxon was accompanied by a business delegation and says the choice of countries represents the priority the New Zealand Government places on South East Asia, and our relationships in ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
I was initially resistant to the idea often suggested to me that the Government should deliver an arts strategy. The whole point of the arts and creativity is that people should do whatever the hell they want, unbound by the dictates of politicians in Wellington. Peter Jackson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Eleanor ...
Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda” backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. About 50 protesters targeted the main entrance to the TVNZ building near Sky Tower and also picketed a side ...
Opinion by Lynley Hood. Forty years on from my 1985 Fulbright Grant, my disquiet over the war in Gaza evoked some troubling questions. The answer to my first question – What is the primary purpose of the Fulbright Programme? – was on the Fulbright NZ website. It says: US Senator, ...
The ministers responsible for green-lighting major projects need to be open about potential conflicts of interest, says Transparency International. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University It has been a particularly distressing start to the year. There is little that can ease the current grief of individuals, families and communities who have needlessly lost a loved one to men’s ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Lichen, the first described example of symbiosis.AdeJ Artventure/Shutterstock Once known only to those studying biology, the word symbiosis is now widely used. Symbiosis is the intimate ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Hemsley, Head, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Olena Ivanova/Shutterstock “Childhood” and “dementia” are two words we wish we didn’t have to use together. But sadly, around 1,400 ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government’s Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has just published its second report. It was set up by Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth in 2022 to provide: ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A YouGov poll for The Courier Mail, conducted April 9–17 from a sample ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University There’s been much talk in recent months about what a possible second Donald Trump presidency in the United States could mean for Europe, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the ...
A brief round-up of submissions on the controversial proposed law. This is an excerpt from our weekly environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. Last week, submissions on the controversial Fast-track Approvals Bill closed just hours after the government released a list of stakeholder organisations who were sent letters advising how they could ...
A poem from Robin Peace’s new collection Detritus of Empire: feather / grass / rock. Cereal giving I see a woman’s hands, see her curious hands break a stalk as she walks through the tall prairie, the savannah, the steppe, wherever it was. See her idly bite the grass that ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Hemingway’s Goblet by Dermot Ross (Mary Egan Publishing, $38)A handsomely produced (debossed cover, lovely ...
The Commissioner's decision validates the longstanding efforts of the local community and ensures that Awataha Marae will be managed to serve the needs of the local community, particularly for hosting tangihanga. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tristan Salles, Associate professor, University of Sydney Examples of Australian landscapes.Unsplash Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time – ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Castagna, Lecturer, Creative Writing, Western Sydney University Day Day Market, ParramattaPhoto: Garry Trinh I live on the edge of Parramatta, Australia’s fastest-growing city, on the kind of old-fashioned suburban street that has 1950s fibros constructed in the post-war housing boom, ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Ryan, Teaching Fellow in Economics, University of Waikato GettyImagesfatido/Getty Images There is an ongoing global debate over whether the high inflation seen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic can be lowered without a recession. New Zealand is not ...
The ‘Wicked Game’ heartthrob is in his late 60s now. That didn’t stop him putting on a lively, goofy and very sparkly show. Apart from ‘Wicked Game’, which graces a sultry playlist of mine simply called 💋, my last sustained Chris Isaak listening session took place when I was about ...
Analysis - Two ministers were stripped of portfolios in a warning to Cabinet, drama broke out at the Waitangi Tribunal, and the gang patch ban bill ran into opposition. ...
Tara Ward makes an impassioned plea for some vital pop culture merch. In April 1999, I became obsessed with a new reality television show called Popstars. Every Tuesday night, five strangers transformed into music royalty before my very eyes as Joe, Keri, Carly, Erika and Megan were chosen to form ...
PNG Post-Courier In the early hours of ANZAC Day, aerial photographs captured an impressive gathering of Australians and Papua New Guineans at Isurava in the Northern (Oro) Province. The solemn dawn service yesterday was held at a site steeped in history, where some of the fiercest battles of World War ...
The PSA is shocked that Oranga Tamariki has used the cost cutting drive to downgrade its commitment to Te Ao Māori and remove many specialist Māori roles. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland There can be no more powerful symbol of the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea than the prime ministers of these neighbouring countries walking together on the ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Robinson, Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Andrew Netherwood Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Viktoria Kahui, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, University of Otago Getty Images/Amy Toensing Biodiversity is declining at rates unprecedented in human history. This suggests the ways we currently use to manage our natural environment are failing. One emerging concept focuses on ...
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TELEVISION NEWS
Sky News policy change: now sympathetic to victims, not aggressors
“From a clear blue sky, a government jet delivers its payload on Homs.
[Picture of one jet, and explosion on ground]
The opposition has NO SUCH FIREPOWER.”
—Sky News report shown on TV3 NEWS, 6:25 p.m., Thursday 27 December 2012
I watched television news on several New Zealand channels frequently during the recent Israeli blitzkrieg on Gaza, and also during Israel’s even more devastating Operation Cast Lead four years ago. I can not recall one commentator—whether from the BBC, ITV, the American networks, the Australian networks or the NZ networks—ever saying “an Israeli jet delivers its payload on Gaza. The people of Gaza have NO SUCH FIREPOWER.”
This radical victim-wards tilt by Sky News is sudden, and encouraging. Can we now look forward to similar reporting, sympathetic to the civilians being bombed rather than the aggressors, when Sky News next sends a report from the Occupied Territories and Gaza?
Does it occur to you that news should be impartial and not sympathetic to anyone? Do you have topics of interest other than the perfidity of the Jews? Like, oh, I dunno, New Zealand politics?
Pop – Who are you trying to kid here? Unless you are a complete moron, you know damn well that news broadcasts are seldom, if ever, so perfectly “impartial” – whatever side of the fence you are on. Do not tell me what the news coverage “should” be, this world does not (fortunately) run according to “should’s” (or by “ideals”) Where there is clear evidence of an atrocity, evidently you would prefer that no hint of sympathy be demonstrated for the victims? No, let’s be “impartially” cold-blooded!
If I have got you wrong, please clarify yourself, I have no desire to inflict an injustice upon you.
Well yes – I would like the news to be impartial and something to be desired. Morrissey’s wording is quite specific – he’s creaming his panties that sympathies are shifting in the opposite direction. I prefer my data cold-blooded because then I can at least work out for myself where my sympathies lie.
Does it occur to you that news should be impartial and not sympathetic to anyone?
It certainly has occurred to me, as you would realize if you had actually read my post.
Do you have topics of interest other than the perfidity of the Jews?
The “perfidity of the Jews”? All of my criticisms are of the leaders and the armed forces of a rogue state; bizarrely and no doubt cynically you accuse me of some medieval confessional campaign. Some of the worst depradations carried out by IDF troops are in fact committed by Bedouin Arab recruits; if you had been aware of that, no doubt you would have exercised your grand sarcasm and accused me of worrying unduly about the “perfidity of the Bedouins”. Or would that not fit with your cunning plan of accusing me, and any other critics of the Holy State, of anti-Semitism?
Like, oh, I dunno, New Zealand politics?
I urge you to take a look at my oeuvre of the last two years on this excellent site, then I challenge you to say with a straight face that I show no interest in New Zealand politics.
*winces at Morrissey’s use of the American spelling of “realise”*
Let’s recap. Your header: “Sky News policy change: now sympathetic to victims, not aggressors” – very leading, manipulative and makes you sound as bad as the MSM. How about just saying “Sky News reporting now more balanced”? Less hysterical Pilcher on crack, no?
And going back over your posts of the last few weeks it’s mostly attacks on Israel (often justified, but kind of obvious – I’d be very surprised if anyone on The Standard WASN’T aware of the bullshit Israel gets up to) and these bizarre attacks on comedians of Jewish ancestry and/or faith. I’m surprised you’ve left Woody Allen and Sarah Silverman untouched so far.
Less hysterical Pilcher on crack, no?
??????
…these bizarre attacks on comedians of Jewish ancestry and/or faith.
Still with this attempt to insinuate I’m having a go at “the Jews”. Unless you are an imbecile, you will realize that I criticize ideologues, including comedians, who attack the weak, the poor, the vulnerable and the officially despised. If you had read my transcript of Baron Cohen’s obscene performance on the Letterman show, you would have seen I was just as critical of Letterman and his halfwitted audience.
I’m surprised you’ve left Woody Allen and Sarah Silverman untouched so far.
Keep watching.
“Unless you are an imbecile, you will realize that I criticize ideologues, including comedians, who attack the weak, the poor, the vulnerable and the officially despised.”
Citation (still) needed. All you’ve done so far is attack Sacha Baron Cohen for being Jewish, Moz. You have yet to provide any evidence that SBC is a zionist, let alone a ‘shill’ for Israel. Face it, pal, you’re a bigot. You’re young though and you may mature with some life experience under your belt. I genuinely hope thats the case, because you show glimmers of understanding from time to time, which is encouraging.
All you’ve done so far is attack Sacha Baron Cohen for being Jewish…
Liar.
Lynn, is there any sanction against someone telling malicious lies like this fellow has just done?
I have been banned for a month for simply downloading too much of an article; for this fellow to lie like this seems to me to be a far more egregious offence.
Lynn, I will e-mail you personally about this libel, and I expect something to be done about it.
Aw, poor wee diddums is upset. Is it coz I is black?
I’ll open this bottle of whine for him Commentor Formerly Known As The Voice of Reason, if you’ll call the whaaaambulance…
Save it for Messrs. Sue, Grabbit and Runne.
A glimmer of understanding would help you out no end!
The Voice of Reason, speaketh!
Edit: Use of the words such as bigot towards Morrissey’s train of thought, are frankly an insult to those who genuinely suffer and have suffered persecution.
You might not agree with Morrissey, but he is on the money with his contentions about the *entertainment industry*, but a serious blockage will not allow you to accept what is blatant!
“You might not agree with Morrissey, but he is on the money with his contentions about the *entertainment industry*, but a serious blockage will not allow you to accept what is blatant!”
What contentions about the *entertainment industry* (oh the snobbery that reeks of) – it might surprise you to know that Hollywood etc isn’t a secret cabal run by Zionist Jews – unless you’re some sort of paranoid bigot conspiracy theorist.
So you and Morrissey can put down your well-thumbed copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf and back away from them slowly.
Got many jewish relatives, or even friends do you pop?
The *entertainment industry* is a machine designed to shape opinions through the use of repetative messages, images and stereotying,which seems to have gone over your head.
Seems to me your possibly *invested* in or near the industry, which might account for your claims of freelance working?
there is always The Life of Pi and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
ahhh To Live and Die in L.A
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
….well-thumbed copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf…
You know, even if you had the ability to craft a hard-hitting attack, dredging up those allegations would still be seen as a pathetically desperate tactic.
Thanks for the work on the site over the last few weeks Lyn, the mobile version is now usable.
Today seems to be a real Dave Shearer day, for anyone interested at some time during the morning RadioNZ National are going to be playing music from Dave’s CD collection this morning…
That’s ‘new’, i just tried to edit the above comment and a little note tells me i don’t have permission…
My fault. Now I remember why the setting for caching the re-edit was not to cache. Fixed now.
It is on right now.
Belated seasons greetings to everyone at TS and the very best for 2013. AND a big thank you to lprent and everyone else who makes TS a daily must even if I don’t comment. BUT will be today haviing just caught up with some of the newer posts!
Yeah. That sort of triggered me to come out of lurking. Thanks for all the work this year everyone. And good to see it working on my phone too. Awesome.
The people over at BraveNewCode provide that. They appear to have managed to fix up the bugs that our rather large comment sections were producing a few months ago.
He even picked a song which was a barely veiled criticism of John Key.
Here’s a comment from what is obviously a really f**king sick mind, i found it by linking into one of the comments listed in the little box over to the right which shows who commnented where, and am commenting here because i can’t find the post in which this comment occurred,
”Just because SOME private armies have done BAD things is no reason to have an idealogical opposition to all Private armies, we should judge them on outcomes.” unquote,
The link of course takes you straight to ‘kiwiblog’ and the words in capitals are my doing,
Really??? just because some of these private armies have done ‘bad things’, you know minor transgressions like murder,rape and pillaging???
There’s one hell of a lot of human suffering inherent in a ‘private army doing bad things’ that the sick little puppy over at kiwiblog brushes aside as simply bad things….
Mansplaination.
http://ideologicallyimpure.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/enter-the-mansplainer/
Think this is the post you refer to: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012/12/trotter_on_the_shearer_backstory.html
Looks like original comment has been removed (?) although it is quoted below:
Yoza (240) Says:
December 28th, 2012 at 10:29 am
“I disagree. Just because some private mercenary armies have done bad things, is no reason to have an ideological opposition to all private mercenary armies”
Mercenaries are vermin and one of the very few reasons the use death penalty could be justified. This is just another nail in Shearer’s coffin, no sane person could justify the use of killers for hire and continue to lead a charade masquerading as a viable progressive alternative to the current bunch of corporate facilitators whom we have currently managing the population.
Actually after reading the PDF written by Shearer maybe he wrote it?
A disarmed police officer has his police issue taser turned on him but it misfires.
Greg O’Connor uses the incident to argue for guns to be issued to officers instead.
Presumably he thinks the guns won’t misfire.
From news reports on RadioNZ National it appears that pepper spray was deployed first as an attempt to control one or all of the drunken teens,
It just so happens that ‘a child’,no age was given, also received a face full of pepper spray AND THEN the place went really mad,(i wonder if the female wielding the brick was the child’s mother),
What the Police Association seems to be saying is that if all officers were armed with fire-arms they could have after spraying a child with pepper spray by-passed the use of tasers and gone straight to the use of fire-arms,
Hell if they can justify shooting an innocent motorist on an Auckland motorway justifying the shooting of a drunken mob would be a breeze…
Yeah, aren’t tasers supposed to replace using a gun, if they were not ever going to use a gun on a family in their own home, then…
…but to be fair, the taser was taken from the police officer (???after their head had been bashed and so when a gun was acceptable to be used).
How about this. If police are to be attacked by fists then police can use a baton, if police are to be attacked by knives, then they should be armed, if police are to use tasers because???? Tasers break the skin, they cause people to lose balance and harm themselves, they can not be used in high places, even the use on hard surfaces can cause excessive harm from bad falls, they even are know to cause cardic arrest in people with pace makers, and cause highly anxiousness mental patients to die. They complicate policing since the public doesn’t know what mood the police are in and so what form of control they are going to use. Like pepper spray on children???
Policing takes time, we should not be freeing up police and ignoring the risk of more aggressive policing, or at best more adverse results like the above. Police seen as the enemy in not good for public order.
Kakariki (we know who hears us)
listen while we play our Green Tambourine
‘taint no big thing, the toll of the bell
love is the drug and we need to score
For Whom? follow the lemmingway
The Power and The Glory:Ever met a Quiet American?
failing hopes, over the cliff they go
Infant Formula Mongolia outta Waitake?
the human is a biped quadrabikes continue to roll over
trapped in their crushed cage
more pods cast on beaches Sea Shepherd harpooned
(i’ll straighten up soon guys, limited budget to critique right back at ya’ ;))
Julia Deans Banshee Reel (Fiona’s gone to cruise control, took a body blow)
Ahhh, Maggie Death
(if i should fall from Grace with God return to the garden)
Don’t wanna be a flatfish gasping shallow water
“ya can’t always get what ya want, but if ya try some times, ya just might find
You get what you need”
we were livin’ off the bone, rollin pin scones
they’ll be down at Kellys pawn shop number nine
(the stench of spirits on their breath)
bruises on my flesh set me heading for The Doors
well you took my love and you set on a ship
the bodies come floating back to me…
Morning Song
from The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion-B.C
New Zealand Aotearoa is a small village
we need a remedy not Sometimes Salvation
who needs sugar when you’ve got guarana
Time Will Tell.Late at night when the lights are low
She slips off her stockings and shoes
Keep your eyes wide open and your hands upon the Wheel
hit him in the Roadhouse Julie.remember Sandra Lees’ time?
Hopeless Romantics. Promise You Anything including
a Dagger Through The Heart-John Daniel
Key’s a crawlin’ king snake and he only rules “his” world-John Lee
“This Is Hip”; can’t recall, The Ghost of Tom Joad
Galveston oh Galveston I am Lineman
You’ve got to try a little kindness, show a little kindness
Shine your light for every one to see
they took turns at Becky; watch the last Act fall
Star of the County Down and fuzzy.
Anchorage, Alaska, or Justice in Ontario?
they asked for water; exxon gave them gasoline.
Now, it’s Big Red Sun Blues.
a pistol is the Devils’ Right Hand
the devils right hand, the devils right hand.
Rock, Salt and Nails comes before Dirty Water
cos i’m whaling, out on the sea
step inside The Everlasting Grace. Stand Inside Your Love
of Raindrops and Sunshowers.The Sacred and Profane
Machina of the gods.
it’s Still, So Early in The Spring smelt The Blacksmith
watching Lassie Gathering Nuts. E Minstra;
if love was a train i think i’d ride me a slow one
but the L i N don’t run to Gizzy any more
Katipo Widow. hourglass lice.
Prior to Maddy there was Gaudette
Come ye o’er France, we want more of the same
for Wild is The Wind. They Can’t Take That Away
from the Cotton Tail, Keeper of The Flame;
Nina, sultry ballerina, or Ella: Scott Fitzgerald?
you know that it would be untrue
you know that i would be a liar
if i was to say to you The Standard couldn’t get much higher
-A Day is a Thousand Comments: A Thousand Comments is A Day
Watch and Learn; Draco is a Shaman and felix (viper) keeps on killing
Thanks Tim. Our Love Is Hear To Stay.
Somethings Gotta Give
Set The Controls For The Heart of The Son
(careful with that axe) John Bunyan
“I cum for ma’ boy”. amerikan eugenics Marion
The Secret? don’t need a saucer!
Foolish Games-The Grass is Blue
He will be waiting; I AM Ready, Are you?
(when i get this feeling, i can’t help myself)
it’s always cold inside the Icehouse, though the rivers never freeze
(they all die young on the Boulevard)
see the wreckage All Lined Up
must be something in the
Atmosphere. Halos and Horns?
and he says in another place
“You are a priest forever,
In the order of Melchizedek,
because of your reverent submission”
(although He was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered)
hence, death shall have no dominion or pizza.
corpus Mundi’s washing day, Tuesday’s pay the rent
Thursday’s get the stains out, Friday money’s all been spent.
-Johnny’s Ghost (on Horses)
p.s. Who Will Save Your Soul (there’s an angel standing by) Amen
-Billy Austin (Oxbridge)
“Londons Calling”
(i miss the Colonial Viper)
hope ya bite soon and continue to rattle their Rusty Cage
🙂
-Chris
You’re always in my heart, mate. This Colonial Viper is getting an upgrade to a Mk VII shortly.
Bless You (brought tears to my eyes). Now, if someone could just help me speed up my laptop and broadband aquisition.
Love, John James
Wow! (I owned a Mk X, from memory, but it remained a wreck due to another wreck i created)
“Ayn Rand calling, Ayn Rand calling. The surplus will arrive as promised [loud sounds heard in background as debt collector comes for the radio].”
Hahahhahaha That was good – well played sir, well played. I genuinely lolled
Preacher using Christmas sermon to do some gay bashing. Apparently this was the year for it (see quote below).
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/churches-hostility-to-gay-marriage-only-underlines-their-impotence-8432092.html
“The diatribe perplexed most people in the pews. For Ruth, it felt more personal. She is Catholic and gay, a reminder that both are the broadest of churches. She is also director of public affairs at the pressure group Stonewall, so deeply embroiled in the struggle for equal rights. “For me, God is love,” she says. “So why do I have to justify my very right to exist?” She was not alone in having to endure priests using their sermons to spout prejudice. For this was the year an insecure Church, confronted by an increasingly secular country, celebrated Christmas by lashing out in ways that only served to demonstrate its own demons and display its impotence.
One befuddled bishop conjured up the spirit of Hitler by comparing the Coalition’s intention to legalise gay marriage to the ideology of fascism. In so doing, he exposed the most basic rule of debate: when you resort to bringing in the Nazis, you have obviously lost the argument.”
you are definitely AwakeWhileSleeping
God is Love! (ok, with a little bit of observation of humankinds stoopidity thrown in)
-from your friendly neighbourhood generative, integrative christian anarchist 🙂
(off for fish n chips and a read of the papers now)
Well Hitler declared himself Catholic, and most Germans were christian at that time. So it would be half right, if your argument was that opposition to gay marriage might have links to fascist ideology; because homosexuals were murdered in the holocaust. But the bishop isn’t saying that, instead the reverse i.e. arguing that homosexuality was fascist, and that anyone that opposes the bishop’s hateful and bitter version of Christianity is a ‘Nazi’. *yawn*
Over Christmas you only had to read comments, in the Herald, from Church leaders which were nauseous and abominable (I say this as one who struggles to remain a church-goer).
Has anyone read the article on Stuff which headlines ‘Judge critical of Talley’s request’
Talley’s wanted a $10.000 security payment for costs against an ex-employee fighting
for her fish processing job,she had worked there for 10yrs.
The judge dismissed Talley’s application for the security payment and ordered it to
contribute $750 towards the employees costs of defending “This unmeritorious application”
(Judges words)
I say good on Judge Colgan, top marks.
Sorry i can’t link.
Just read it – here is the link
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8125997/Judge-critical-of-Talleys-request
I am surprised that her original application was turned down merely because it was outside the time limit. IIRC many applications to the Employment Court are allowed outside the time limit.
Thanks for the link veutoviper.
Was just passing through, so to speak, and still had the article up on another tab. I am very disturbed (but not unsurprised) by Talley’s attempts at intimidation.
Households still have a “zero” savings rate-Bagrie (or the money?)
“the label apparel and jewellery please” Toogood to be true
snoop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRN-5yU1pQ
bow wow Wow! no more “candy” for me
DPS “blow” more than the their budget (them NAct cats sure are scaredy); Leon filled me in on the
Detail, just a little. Still Glocks?
maybe this govt shoulda sat up straight in class and listened to the Educational Experts;
anticipate more canings to come (along with smoking in the toilets)
Human hand “evolved for fighting” argues another science priest;
try a little open-handed gesture, or prayer: Meanwhile, back in the jungle out there,
Family violence in NZ is still on the increase, reports local “Shadbolt” 😉
joe-Gerry only reached 83, sigh, 90 would have been more FAB (thats me) BIG RAT. 🙁
many of the elderly and disabled are still in “grim limbo” following the SandStorm
see how far removed the US is from “civilisation”?
Return of the Ottomans?-above Syria, Iraq, to the Left of Iran, and comparitively stable on the table.
anyway,
seems the sun always shines on t.v, yet not today at the queens park aslide to Splash Planet
scattered showers to continue; sorry folks, not much helium remains but plenty of methane
Talking Heads-“Warning Signs of things to come” so we may as well throw our arms around
each other, Hunt and Collect.
my agenda? if any of you fellow worker bees wanna chip in and lend a carpenter a hand
is to research these clowns thoroughly in the new year
then
rip them limb from limb til’ it’s their “blood on the floor” some more
and
i’ll do it for a kennel, chow and the odd cannon bone or ball thrown in
no pointer being backwards going forwards, english or german;
all’s fair in Love and politics
Boom! (how much is that labradoodle in the window Steven? gotta Speer?)
C.V.-big wreck was a 38 deluxe with a 396 / 402 chambered
(Left minds think alike Bruce)
it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Oh Well, gotta dash-see what else ya all been scrawling.
-Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRN-5yU1pQ
(wot? no more links for me?)
Ta. My Bad
In an economy not so far, far away
The inevitable consequence of increasing productivity is that, eventually, there will be not enough demand to meet supply. IMO, the developed nations (such as those in the OECD) pretty much passed that state many decades ago which is why we have seen a rise in services and products that are, essentially, useless as well as the majority of people having to work more.
have to say this out loud D (checking the connection) that the personal-political is the only way to
act in good faith over these consumption matters, imho
Good award to J-A.G bad one two; check out her resume, she’s hot (in a helpful way)
lightweight Ardern is Flockie (is that fly-strike? wotta dagg)
Crimson Nile flows a pathway to the promised land
don’t bother with Muffin s anymore even though you all ate them for breakfast,
they are colonial imports anyway UK or US
fender you are in the stratosphere casting at all times of the tide
solidarnosc to our Warsaw friend
some great bubbles floating about the spectrum
great MO; getting physical there at times
what a vivacious femme fatale
don’t give up on decyphering; it’s all in there. I chequed mate 😉
keep dropping these E-tablets xtsy; they prove to be therapeutic and we’re only making plans for
Generals and Majors as Postman Bill always delivers. you sure are a trooper karol
(if you don’t mind the lariot)
keep sprinkling that saltpeter. Hi Hilary, Huggin right back at ya.
the die is cast Ripley.
What a buzza muzza; sawing right through at different lengths and depths
always Nick S the threads, maybe reads the tea leaves.
I’m Red through and thrown back again. Do we really want to play in the mud and throw pies
(It’s not always about “the leader” or his corpulent, addicted side-kick; It was Heydrich the
Allies made a concerted play for) He had the real “will”. D.C will be read again.Watch this frame.
J’Accuse’s a Rock Star. Oh Vienna-Ultravox Ian;reminds me of Orange Crush and the sound of
Hueys.
savage as always michael (can’t hide those wings behind pulp fiction suits)
On point Rhino tough-hided thing you.Some more creative writing ready to penetrate the plains?
I often forget our tangata whenua colleagues; we can be blind to our biases, i know.
yet, lots of absolutism guff being uttered freely.
Oh well (limb from limb was metaphoric) but I have always thought a “researcher” would be an
Apt application for a dogged Calvary man like me.
-Zorro (from the Planet Caravan)
ps, now, my shopping list for the evening is
teas
deoderant
carrots
and a light bulb (i kid u knot; that’s the gospel senors and senoritas)
🙂 (debt free my socialist friends)