Daily review 19/03/2024

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  1. joe90 1
    19 March 2024 at 5:38 pm

    Will no one think of this awful woman's feelings.

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    Times columnist Melanie Phillips was laughed down by BBC Question Time’s audience after she pointed to “video pictures” she’d seen on YouTube that showed “food markets in Gaza” were “stocked” in denial of official reports of famine.

    Phillips’ remarks came in a heated back and forth with Scottish National Party Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, requiring host Fiona Bruce to intervene in an attempt to challenge some of the writer’s claims.

    […]

    Bruce: “OK, so just a minute, and I’ll let you speak, I promise, but just to be clear what you’re saying, when you’ve got the WHO and the UN and the EU humanitarian chiefs saying there is famine in Gaza, you’re saying that’s not true? Is that what you’re claiming?”

    Phillips: “You can go on YouTube… and see pictures of the stocked food markets in Gaza. Why are you laughing? Because it’s outrageous. Have you seen them?

    [Audience laughter]

    Phillips [cont’d]: “Why are [the audience] laughing? Have you seen these video pictures?”

    Bruce: “Melanie, I have looked at some of them. They don’t have timestamps on them. I’ve got to point that out. So I don’t know when these pictures were taken. I mean, if you have proof that they were taken [since] October…”

    .https://www.mediaite.com/uk/why-are-you-laughing-question-time-guest-melanie-phillips-denies-famine-in-gaza-cites-youtube-video-pictures/

  2. adam 2
    19 March 2024 at 5:42 pm

    So a week ago, we started to get serious reports that the IDF and Prison services in Israel – were torturing people to make a link between UNRWA and Hamas.

    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/03/11/israel-tortured-palestinian-detainees-forced-them-to-make-false-confessions-about-hamas-links-unrwa-report/

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/13/after-the-unrwa-report-more-accounts-of-israels-torture-in-gaza

    Since these reports and others saying UNRWA is not terrorist organisation. Australia, Sweden and Canada have all unfrozen their funding of UNRWA. We however have a minister more happy to call people nazi – than do his bloody job.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/15/unrwa-funding-australia-reinstates-gaza-aid-october-7-hamas-claims

  3. SPC 3
    19 March 2024 at 8:03 pm

    The TPM sports policy stated that the Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others and went on to say that natural ability should be developed by ensuring opportunity to Maori

    Too many of our tamariki miss the opportunities in sport because of the financial burden placed on their families will give up and turn to drugs and gangs. Sport is the alternative for many keeping them busy and offering them opportunities to travel and be better, see the world and give them the confidence our tamariki rightfully deserve in their own country.

    https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/maori_sports

    Winston Peters chose to conflate "natural ability" with a claim of supremacy to justify his attack on co-governance as racist (to broaden the old white support base to those without natural talent for competitive sport of all ages).

    "The moment you say that, unchallenged by the mainstream media, unchecked – nobody said a thing about it – you're heading down the pathway of separatism, apartheid and all the ugly business or racism and exclusivity," Peters said.

    Here he is not so much attacking co-governance, but separate funding for Maori in sport, education, health and housing etc

    Essentially he is then attacking Te Puna Kokiri and whanau ora – signalling an intent to cleanse the nation of government funding for separate Maori organisations.

    Whether his political strategy of moving to the right of ACT, such as removing references to the Treaty in legislation, goes as far as ending funding for Maori broadcasting and kohanga reo is not yet known. But we know extremists just go on further to hype up their base.

    When you are saying that someone is superior in their DNA, you're saying that they're entitled to different, superior, better treatment. That's awful, it's ugly, it's horrible, and I'm disgusted in my country, the mainstream media and other politicians never called it out."

    I'm disgusted whenever an Archie Bunker turns up and wants the 1950's empire back, all while thinking he's Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was a student of history. Empires come to an end and the people develop the least worse form of government – democracy, which means women need separate bathrooms in the Commons and an indigenous peoples identity and Treaty rights are respected.

    • SPC 3.1
      19 March 2024 at 8:34 pm

      Now a native school lesson about the methodology of science and learning.

      Winston Peters, the man.

      If a person of superannuant age was privileged enough to go to university, they did so at a time when this was uncommon – that indicated an origin, or future, of privilege.

      How people use that privilege is up to them.

      One would know that there was little education in Maori history at the time, nor the story of native education well known.

      At one point it was thought Maori might die off a as a people. And it had also become uncommon for there to be any discussion of Treaty rights.

      And so Maori were coming to assimilate into a settler society, just as migrants were.

      It was at this time 1950's-60's that Winston Peters received his cultural upbringing. And this is how we should see the like of him – as someone who chose to join the National Party back in the early 1970's while at university

      https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/maori-history-avoided-schools-academics

      The end of academic education for Maori, lest they remain a people of mana.

      https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2022/09/29/the-danger-of-an-untold-story.html

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_schools

      Te Pati Maori

      Why is this on google search

      Why are Polynesians so muscular?

      Food & Nutrition Information. Polynesian body size: an adaptation to environmental temperature? A computer simulation of exposure at sea in the tropical Pacific supports the hypothesis that humans colonising this region have been subject to strong directional selection for a large muscular body.

      Why do Polynesians have denser bones?

      These differences were attributed to the increased height, weight and lean body mass found in Polynesians, rather than any pre- pubescent bone differences, suggesting the difference in ethnic BMD is due to post pubescent alterations in bone growth

      Why are Polynesians naturally big?

      Many researchers also believe that Pacific islanders' bodies are genetically hard-wired to store fat more efficiently. This trait used to make a lot of sense — living on a tiny island, highly susceptible to the effects of the weather, often involved long periods of famine and required a great deal of physical labor

      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83264-3

    • weka 3.2
      19 March 2024 at 11:40 pm

      The TPM sports policy stated that the Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others and went on to say that natural ability should be developed by ensuring opportunity to Maori

      where does it say that?

      • SPC 3.2.1
        20 March 2024 at 12:14 am

        I wrote that above this quote

        Too many of our tamariki miss the opportunities in sport because of the financial burden placed on their families will give up and turn to drugs and gangs. Sport is the alternative for many keeping them busy and offering them opportunities to travel and be better, see the world and give them the confidence our tamariki rightfully deserve in their own country.

        But I presume you are fixated on this, the Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others, that is reference to the public comment by Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi last year that Peters was misrepresenting

        Appearing on AM on Monday, Peters said he was referring to comments made by Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi last year.

        Te Pāti Māori's sports policy in 2022 stated: "It's a known fact that Māori genetic makeup is stronger than others". Waititi was questioned by TVNZ's Jack Tame on whether the statement was racist. Waititi disagreed saying "it's stronger in me, and I've got a whole lot of genetics in me".

        https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/winston-peters-lloyd-burr-clash-in-fiery-am-interview.html

        The current policy document puts it this way.

        As to Our ancestors were not just athletic they were also strategic thinkers with intentions to survive. This all required, stamina, resilience, endurance, speed, agility, and logic. There is great opportunity to showcase the sporting talent of Māori on the world stage

      • Traveller 3.2.2
        20 March 2024 at 2:30 am

        It doesn’t. Well, not any more. But it did. David Seymour referred to it in Parliament in September 2022 (https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20220928_20220928_20), and then Jack Tame questioned Rawiri waititi about the comments (I found the video on FB at https://fb.watch/qVjbViqT09/?mibextid=ytq1xL).

  4. SPC 4
    19 March 2024 at 8:10 pm

    A look at the New York State of Mind of our own aging politician.

    One of his final topics was the Treaty of Waitangi. Peters pushed back on the idea that it was “a partnership between the signatories”.

    ”Today what is being taught at universities on this matter denies the simple fact that neither Queen Victoria, nor her successors, could constitutionally enter, with their subjects, a partnership.”

    Not much of a lawyer then, because the Crown was negotiating with the indigenous people, who had claimed sovereignty in 1835, not subjects.

    And the partnership that was created was one between the UK Crown and the residents in New Zealand, settler and Maori. One that any Crown government in that realm was expected to honour.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-nz-first-leader-winston-peters-to-give-state-of-the-nation-address/BPCKTCK2MBAWRD5CHADECZDG4Y/

  5. SPC 5
    19 March 2024 at 9:35 pm

    The governance rules of English football come under state direction.

    Cry for the beautiful game, the government has come to help …

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68602074

  6. SPC 6
    19 March 2024 at 10:28 pm

    The government cannot afford

    food in schools

    respite services

    Families with disabled children have been left shell shocked after the Government removed funding for respite care without any warning.

    Labour leader Chris Hipkins said the disability community would “pay the price” of Government cuts.

    “The most vulnerable New Zealanders are the ones who are going to pay the price for this Government's fiscal incompetence,” he said.

    Simmonds rejected the accusation funding for families with disabilities was being cut as part of the Government’s cost savings ahead of the Budget. She called it “a temporary pause”.

    “We need to pause and sort out what that criteria was. And so I think, really, there's been a swing too far from no flexibility to total flexibility,” she said.
    Simmonds did not say when the funding would be un-paused.

    Cook Strait rail ferries

    Bus lanes in Auckland

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350218178/parents-worried-their-children-will-suffer-disability-services-suddenly-cut

  7. Joe90 7
    19 March 2024 at 10:40 pm

    GST to 17.5%. Betcha.