First they came….

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This guest post quotes the statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller in Germany after World War II about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power. The comparison to NACT policies towards the education sector is striking.

THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

In education in New Zealand we had them coming for the teachers, then the principals, then the Boards. All the while the Ministry of Education, our countries worst performing Ministry, sided with the Minister and against the many experts and commentators that were and continue to argue that National Standards are fundamentally flawed.

Now they are coming for the Ministry – it is hard to feel sorry for any of the people there who will be joining John and Bill’s dole queue.

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  1. Justin 1
    6 August 2010 at 2:47 pm

    In bad taste.

    • Draco T Bastard 1.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:04 pm

      Truth is only “bad taste” to those who don’t want others to know it.

    • felix 1.2
      6 August 2010 at 3:06 pm

      Notice how righties always get upset when people speak ill of the nazis?

    • jbanks 1.3
      6 August 2010 at 4:03 pm

      Yep. You know you’re on some smoke hazed conspiracy shite when you self goodwin in the first paragraph. Crap like this is like shooting your cause in the foot.

      • lprent 1.3.1
        6 August 2010 at 4:29 pm

        I’d think that you recognize the sensation quite well. You’d be one of the most regular at doing it…..

        • jbanks 1.3.1.1
          6 August 2010 at 4:54 pm

          haha you really don’t get it do you hoppy?. If you weren’t always spouting that “Labour is infallible, National want to eat your children blah blah blah it’s the end of the world nazi ” rubbish all the time then you wouldn’t scare away the intellectual lefties who even if people don’t agree with they’re at least in the realm of reality.

      • Rich 1.3.2
        10 August 2010 at 8:19 pm

        Because one geek lawyer in 1990 was entitled to dictate that nobody’s ever allowed to refer to the key events of the 20th century in Internet discussion? An *American* lawyer, you’ll note, not someone from any of the countries who suffered Nazi occupation or bombing in WW2.

        And while the Nazi’s were unique in the level and focus of their evil, it’s important to remember that the mainstream right (Lindbergh, Rothermere, Halifax) in Britain and the US held them in high regard right up to the point of war.

        • felix 1.3.2.1
          10 August 2010 at 11:01 pm

          “Because one geek lawyer in 1990 was entitled to dictate that nobody’s ever allowed to refer to the key events of the 20th century in Internet discussion?”

          Nah, “Godwin’s Law” simply states that the longer an internet discussion goes on, the more likely it becomes that a comparison with nazis will be made.

          It’s a “law” in the scientific sense, not in the legislative sense.

    • Jum 1.4
      6 August 2010 at 4:03 pm

      Obviously, then there’ll be nobody left when they come for you, as you are not concerned for the first group to fall over on this government’s list.

      • jbanks 1.4.1
        6 August 2010 at 4:28 pm

        Come for me? Nobody left? Keep spouting this ridiculous tripe and there will be nobody left alright.

  2. Draco T Bastard 2
    6 August 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Now they are coming for the Ministry…

    Links? Sources?

    Not that I disbelieve you, it’s the type of thing that the NACTs, being a bunch of psychopathic authoritarians, would do after all but it would be nice to know what you’re basing your post upon.

    • Gosman 2.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:06 pm

      You forgot Nazi’s in that list DTB.

      So long as they stay away from your mates in North Korea though eh.

      • felix 2.1.1
        6 August 2010 at 3:09 pm

        Today’s mission: Mention North Korea as many times as you can.

        Bonus points for laughing at your own ignorance and random insertion of smilies for no reason.

        LOL!!!1

        😀 😀

        • Gosman 2.1.1.1
          6 August 2010 at 3:13 pm

          Obviously there must be additional bonus points for adding random 1’s into posts.

          11111111

          I’m beating you now felix!

        • Rex Widerstrom 2.1.1.2
          6 August 2010 at 3:40 pm

          Bad tastes tend to make me feel ill… Kim Jong Il.

          *budum… cha!*

          Do I get double points? 😀

    • lprent 2.2
      6 August 2010 at 3:29 pm

      It is a guest post… If we don’t get a relevant link then we usually don’t add them. We’d either throw the whole post out or post as is. In this case I did look up the source of the quote because I was interested in where it came from – you can see my comment in italics.

      I figured in this case it’d either do either as a warning or as opinion on the news… So it got posted.

    • Fabregas4 2.3
      6 August 2010 at 8:03 pm

      Mu understanding is that the Ministry of Education is to be restructured (code for reduced) because the Minister no longer has faith in their policy advice. This may mean of course that they are on the right track and oppose what Tolley is doing to education. But it is quite true that they have appeared, in their visits to Principals meetings to be thoroughly supportive of the Government (I understand the requirement to do so in terms of their public service role). But some of the things I have heard including comments such as “If you don’t agree with National Standards then you can always resign” from the Secretary of Education at a meeting in Kaikohe were plainly unhelpful, dictatorial, and from the Tolley school of Professional Consultation.

  3. Gosman 3
    6 August 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Amazing to see Godwin’s law actually take affect so rapidly.

    Hey I know, why don’t you campaign on the slogan – “National – Just like the Nazi’s but much worse” at the next election and see how many people take you seriously ;).

    LOL!

    • felix 3.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:10 pm

      LOL!! You don’t know what Godwin’s Law is! 🙂

      Just like they don’t in North Korea LOL!!!

      🙂

      • Gosman 3.1.1
        6 August 2010 at 3:14 pm

        You missed the random 1. I’ll give you a couple just so you don’t fall too far behind.

        1111.

    • bbfloyd 3.2
      6 August 2010 at 5:06 pm

      brilliant idea gos!!! the news media would be able to promote them as “nazi light” . fascism without the bayonets…

  4. mcflock 4
    6 August 2010 at 3:10 pm

    um – while I don’t like NACT and indeed think that their policies kill people, succumbing to Godwin’s Law is a bit much. Especially on an anniversary of Hiroshima.

    Painfully obvious hyperbole doesn’t help any cause.

    • Gosman 4.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:16 pm

      Wait a minute mcflock.

      You have to check with felix if you can reference Godwin’s law or not.

      • felix 4.1.1
        6 August 2010 at 3:26 pm

        😀 😀 LOL1!!!! Korea!

        • Gosman 4.1.1.1
          6 August 2010 at 3:31 pm

          Ooooooooh You are so naughty!1

          🙂
          🙂
          🙂
          🙂

          (I was falling behind in the happy face stake)

        • Puddleglum 4.1.1.2
          7 August 2010 at 10:32 am

          Felix, you’re the best! A maestro of timing and concision.

          That truly made my morning. You’d set it up beautifully.

          I just wanted to let you know how very much your skills are appreciated. I’d also been noticing Gosman’s use of ‘LOL’ as some sort of strained attempt at affecting derisory superiority but I couldn’t have retorted as well as you.

          And Gosman, well done for maintaining the humorous tone – if not quite with Felix’s deftness.

          anti-spam: dies – as in laughing!

          On the topic, the education portfolio is always going to be a difficult one for a National led government in much the same way as the Agriculture portfolio can be difficult for a Labour led government.

          Tolley might consider how Anderton did as Minister of Agriculture – came to be grudgingly accepted as a competent minister by farmers and, even, seen as a voice for them in Cabinet. Keeping your sector at least respectful of you is surely the stuff of an effective ministerial skill set. Tolley, sadly, gets a fail on that score.

  5. Danyl Mclauchlan 5
    6 August 2010 at 3:26 pm

    This guest post quotes the statement attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller in Germany after World War II about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power. The comparison to NACT policies towards the education sector is striking.

    Yeah, now that you mention it reducing the number of policy advisors in the Ministry of Education IS kind of like the imprisonment, torture and mass murder of dissenters during the Third Reich. Thanks Guest Standard Writer!

    • Draco T Bastard 5.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:41 pm

      Nazi Book Burnings

      The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to ceremonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology.

      Now you may be able to see the similarities.

      • Gosman 5.1.1
        6 August 2010 at 3:43 pm

        Damn ! I must have missed the official launch of National’s book burning policy.

        I do enjoy a good book burning.

        • Jum 5.1.1.1
          6 August 2010 at 4:14 pm

          No book burning under this clever government – they’ve just merged Archives New Zealand and the National Library into the Department of Internal Affairs and called themselves ‘Ministry of Information’ so that they can spy on who is reading what. The books don’t get burned, just the fingers of the people.

          • Gosman 5.1.1.1.1
            6 August 2010 at 4:32 pm

            No book burning?!? How dare this Government get compared with the Nazi’s without book burning.

            It makes me so mad that I want to dress up in a leather uniform and engage in some late night goose stepping torch parades with the fraulein.

    • Rex Widerstrom 5.2
      6 August 2010 at 3:46 pm

      Actually, since Guest Poster has attributed ongoing persecution of teachers, principals and boards to the Ministry itself, the entire precept upon which the post is based is erroneous.

      In fact the purge of policy advisors from the Ministry is, in GP’s comparison, therefore akin to the arrest and execution of the SA and not the persecution of the Jews.

      Those who do not understand history are doomed to write badly constructed blog posts… or something like that. Let’s hope GP isn’t a history teacher.

    • prism 5.3
      6 August 2010 at 9:42 pm

      Isn’t it the point that people disappeared, were taken away by the authorities, and nobody knew what to do so did nothing, deciding it was SEP? At the end one understood better the enormity of the program of arrests. What happened to the disappeared is a further chapter.

  6. marsman 6
    6 August 2010 at 3:49 pm

    NACT resemble a bunch of bumbling,bullying,bullshitting buffoons, baboons and boot-boys. Did I mention brainless?

    • Gosman 6.1
      6 August 2010 at 3:56 pm

      Nazi’s!1

      And… errr…. North Koreans

      🙂 :)!!1

      BTW Rex yours was an admirable effort but you forgot to mention North Korea directly so no bonus point sorry.

      • Rex Widerstrom 6.1.1
        6 August 2010 at 4:14 pm

        Just give me a minute while I channel Redbaiter….

        You ill informed pinko scumbag. Take your stinking bonus point and give it to your masters in North Korea!!!1111!!1 Pinko!! Errr… scumbag!!11 Did I mention pinko?

        • Gosman 6.1.1.1
          6 August 2010 at 4:35 pm

          Much better.

          Funny you mention Redbaiter. I got a lifetime ban from his old Crusader Rabbit blog for the very reason you mention. He stated I was too left wing.

          LOL!1

          🙂

          North Korea.

          • Rex Widerstrom 6.1.1.1.1
            6 August 2010 at 4:52 pm

            I love the way “progressive” is the worst insult, kept in reserve for those truly deserving of contempt. Apparently there’s no one on the right who wants to see any progress (read: change) whatsoever.

            Since even going backwards requires that we change direction, I think politics needs to coin a new term: stagnators.

            Of course there’s plenty of fine fellows whose example we can look to, like Stalin, who was quite the conservative. And Kim Jong Il… he certainly doesn’t want no stinkin’ progress.

          • lprent 6.1.1.1.2
            6 August 2010 at 5:00 pm

            Now that is so warped you’d think that we’d entered a event horizon ……

  7. Pete 7
    6 August 2010 at 4:15 pm

    I actually feel sorry for the Ministry of Ed staffers – the Public Service Code of Conduct’s first principle is that they carry out Government policy – which I suppose Guest Poster means when they say “siding with the Minister”. A little BS for my liking – it shows that they are acting with the integrity expected of public servants.

    It’s not like Tolley listens to advice contrary to the Party line anyway.

    Also from the code:
    “they also have a duty not to compromise their employer or their Minister by public criticism of, or comment on, Government policy“.

    (here: http://www.ssc.govt.nz/display/document.asp?navid=296&docid=6828&pageno=2#P51_4324)

    So what should they do? Seems like a Catch 22 to me.

    • jcuknz 7.1
      7 August 2010 at 11:48 am

      They can help to vote this lot out in 2011 … else go on the dole if they feel that much abused.

  8. dave brown 8
    6 August 2010 at 4:27 pm

    This trivialises Niemoller and the nature of fascism.
    This outfit are rightwing arseholes.
    They won’t become fascists unless somebody poses a threat to their class rule.
    They havnt come for me yet, so relax.

    captcha: late

    • Gosman 8.1
      6 August 2010 at 4:36 pm

      Actually I sent the boys around just a few minutes ago.

      Should be there any minute now…

  9. Scott 9
    6 August 2010 at 4:53 pm

    The comparison between the Nazi’s and our current government fails for many reasons.

    The Nazi’s ran their murderous system of death camps with brutal and callous efficiency. This government couldn’t organise a picnic excursion without at least a dozen flip-flops and u-turns.

    However offensive and odious it may have been, the Nazi’s at least had an ideology. What does John Key believe in? And did he believe the same thing yesterday?

    Oh, and how about the fact that the Nazi’s murdered millions of people? Who did National/Act kill?

    Captcha: religions. Perfect

    • lprent 9.1
      6 August 2010 at 4:58 pm

      That is probably the most perfect back-handed rebuttal I’ve seen for a while…….

    • Gosman 9.2
      6 August 2010 at 5:00 pm

      “…Who did National/Act kill?”

      Give us time. The Nazi’s only came into their own during their second term.

      • bbfloyd 9.2.1
        6 August 2010 at 5:15 pm

        gos… you dad is going to be so pissed off when he finds out what you’re being silly here when you should be doing your maths homework….

      • Puddleglum 9.2.2
        7 August 2010 at 11:24 am

        There’s a HUGE difference between a policy to deliberately persecute and kill people and the harmful effects of particular policies.

        There is, however, an intermediate case: Where there are predictable and extensive harmful outcomes of a policy, including in some cases the death of people, but the policy is implemented for other reasons. That raises an ethical question that implicates the personal responsibility of those who advocate particular policies.

        One of the reasons I consider myself to be on the ‘left’ is that I’m convinced that many of the policies advocated by the right have been shown by research to undermine wellbeing, increase human suffering and, ultimately, lead to early death.

        For example, allowing advertising to children has been shown to instill materialist values; those values, in turn, are known to be associated with lowered wellbeing, increased mental and emotional health problems and physical problems (e.g., obesity, diabetes) that can lead to early death. (for the research on the link between materialist values and wellbeing see Kasser’s 2002 book, The High Price of Materialism – a rather pedestrian but useful summary of the research to that point).

        The evidence on these matters is often as conclusive as evidence gets and has been presented to policymakers (so they can’t plead ignorance). The only justifications, so far as I’m aware, are that, either, the future benefits (about which we would have to claim to be ‘sure’) will be so overwhelming that short-term suffering, etc. is worth it; or, there are other values (e.g., economic freedom) that are of such importance that they outweigh such suffering. I don’t buy any of those justifications for reasons I’m happy to go in to.

    • Rex Widerstrom 9.3
      6 August 2010 at 5:33 pm

      And don’t forget that Gerry Brownlee couldn’t even annexe the Coromandel successfully. Real Nazis wouldn’t have evn noticed the bump as their tanks rolled over those hippies.

    • felix 9.4
      6 August 2010 at 10:15 pm

      Say what you like about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it’s an ethos.

  10. Herodotus 10
    6 August 2010 at 7:38 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWu-QOVekeU
    Manic Street Preachers on a similar vein as the post.. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
    http://www.msppedia.org/index.php?title=If_You_Tolerate_This_Your_Children_Will_Be_Next
    A perfect song, great video and a great powerful message. Something of depth unlike many examples of the music world today.

  11. Fabregas4 11
    6 August 2010 at 8:55 pm

    I guess that the Teaching Advisors who worked with Principals and Schools and have been tasked with promoting National Standards (some of their work is on the proviso that schools are introducing the Standards) and who will be jobless at the end of the year might be feeling that the master that paid their wages to do her work has now turned her attention on them.

    http://www.nzei.org.nz/site/nzeite/files/media%20releases/2010/MR%202010_53%20-%20Concern%20for%20future%20of%20education%20advisors.pdf

  12. felix 12
    6 August 2010 at 10:13 pm

    Hey kids.

    You do realise that the post isn’t actually comparing NACT to Nazis on the basis that they’re both all about murder and race-hate, don’t you?

    Please tell me you understand this.

    I mean I know Gosman doesn’t get it, but some of you others really should know better.

    • Fabregas4 12.1
      6 August 2010 at 10:50 pm

      Well done Felix, the post attempts to show that what the government is doing, across all areas but in this instance in Education, works on the basis that it affects ‘others’.

      Transfer the idea to 90 Day Bill – easy to sit here in safe, professional jobs and feel unaffected – but if you were a service worker? Or to unemployment rising, lazy buggers who should get off their arses until it becomes you. The Ministry, and they are not alone in this regard, it seems have been caught like this too as the Minister and Key have attacked ‘useless’ teachers, ‘incompetent’ principals and ‘renegade’ Boards and they stood by. Now they are the target – that is the posts observation.

      And the fact that Key looks somewhat Goebbels like is mere coincidence.

      • Pete 12.1.1
        7 August 2010 at 12:10 am

        Sorry, I doubt the majority of the staff in the Ministry simply ‘stand by’ on this without feeling otherwise. They are paid (as I mention upthread) to carry out Government policy.

        So would you rather attack public servants for being neutral and doing what would be expected (even if it were a leftist government in charge), or have them compromise all public servants (which would be lapped up by the current govt and their ardent supporters) so that there is greater impetus for cuts?

        Disappointing post.

        • loota 12.1.1.1
          7 August 2010 at 12:14 am

          Those with principles, and means, will walk. Others will just grit their teeth and bear it, hoping for better days.

          • Pete 12.1.1.1.1
            7 August 2010 at 12:38 pm

            Most, in this climate will stay and grit their teeth, but others will privately be protesting this when and where they can.

            The march in Dunedin yesterday is just one example of where this can happen.

    • Scott 12.2
      7 August 2010 at 10:13 am

      Felix, the guest poster quotes a statement about how the Nazi’s “came for” (i.e. murdered) the Communists, Jews etc, and then says “The comparison to NACT policies towards the education sector is striking.”

      What other conclusion are we expected to draw?

      • felix 12.2.1
        7 August 2010 at 12:22 pm

        That the writer has an age of >12, an IQ of >75, and expects the reader to have the same?

        The writer is obviously comparing tactics (and responses), not drawing literal equivalence between actions.

        Scott you’re a lawyer. You’re smart. You know this. Why are you pretending to be a buffoon?

  13. MrSmith 13
    6 August 2010 at 10:14 pm

    Can we ban everyone that is shallow enough to post LOL on this site please. makes me want to spew.

  14. jcuknz 14
    7 August 2010 at 11:35 am

    I thought it was the job of a public service department to implement government policy so I don’t see how ‘they are coming for the department’. OK they could be gunning for some of the principals and teachers but those appear to be dominated by the left wing so it is inevitable there will be conflict with right wing policies..
    Really it is a pity that the teachers cannot just get on with it and change things if and when there is a left wing government. In any case it is my impression that most schools are simply doing that and it is just a few union dominated schools which are kicking up a fuss on the basis of Labour right NACT wrong rather than any real basis for discontent.. They test already and the proposal is just a different test .. what the heck?

  15. jcuknz 15
    7 August 2010 at 11:54 am

    What is the basis for them being the worst performing department apart from them doing what the government tells them to do as laid down in the manual I expect?
    Coupling Nazi with NACT is silly left wing extremism … though I admit two of the letters are the same.

  16. George Darroch 16
    7 August 2010 at 2:07 pm

    Oh dear. Nazi comparisons? Really?

    The editors of this site approved this ridiculous post, so they must be considered responsible for its ridiculous content.

    The National and ACT parties are nothing like Nazis – the comparison is extremely distasteful offensive, and counterproductive. Way to Godwin yourselves, The Standard collective.

  17. Descendant Of Smith 17
    7 August 2010 at 2:26 pm

    It’s seems obvious to me that the purpose in the original post were to do with the sentiments expressed by the prose quoted rather than a direct comparison to killing people in concentration camps.

    The notion that the weak and vulnerable are preyed on first , the the next layer up until suddenly it was you and their was no one left to fight is a valid notion and should be expressed.

    We’ve seen these attacks on NZ’s poor and vulnerable from successive governments, we’ve seen the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the poor blamed for their own demise. We’ve seem the well off start to hide behind their gated communities and seen them steal hard-working everyday Kiwi’s jobs and savings. We’ve seen the price of housing pushed up to an ever increasing percentage of income.

    No-ones saying concentration camps are coming, though you could argue they exist in a more legalised way through the ever-increasing imprisonment rate, but this inexorable slide to the few having the wealth can only result in some sort of unpleasantness down the track.

  18. eye saw 18
    8 August 2010 at 9:11 am

    Todays concentration camp is your home.
    You are guarded by a 52 inch plasma guard,that works in with a couch to contain you and sport is provided to make you think that it’s your idea to stay in and watch the “game”.

    At the right moment during the “game” you will see cut ins to a smiling leader sitting in the stand,you will feel “good” and relaxed about the “game.”
    You will vote for this leader.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Climate Change: Turning the tide
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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
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  • Faxing from Your Computer A Modern Guide to Sending Documents Digitally
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  • Protecting Your Home Computer A Guide to Cyber Awareness
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  • Server-Based Computing Powering the Modern Digital Landscape
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  • Vroom vroom go the big red trucks
    The absolute brass neck of this guy.We want more medical doctors, not more spin doctors, Luxon was saying a couple of weeks ago, and now we’re told the guy has seven salaried adults on TikTok duty. Sorry, doing social media. The absolute brass neck of it. The irony that the ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    21 hours ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • How extreme was the Earth's temperature in 2023
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    Skeptical Science
    1 day ago

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

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

  • What’s the outfit you can hear going down the gurgler? Probably it’s David Parker’s Oceans Sec...
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    Point of OrderBy Bob Edlin
    2 days ago

  • Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    2 days ago

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

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

  • Texas Lessons
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    Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
    2 days ago

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

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

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

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

  • Apposite Quotations.
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    Bowalley Road
    3 days ago

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

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

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

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

  • Bryce Edwards: Will politicians let democracy die in the darkness?
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    Democracy ProjectBy bryce.edwards
    3 days ago

  • Was Hawkesby entirely wrong?
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    Point of OrderBy poonzteam5443
    3 days ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Gareth’s WorldBy admin
    5 days ago

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

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

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

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

  • Mortgage rates at 10% anyone?
    No – nothing about that in PM Luxon’s nine-point plan to improve the lives of New Zealanders. But beyond our shores Jamie Dimon, the long-serving head of global bank J.P. Morgan Chase, reckons that the chances of a goldilocks soft landing for the economy are “a lot lower” than the ...
    Point of OrderBy xtrdnry
    6 days ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Cost of living support for low-income homeowners
    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 ...
    BeehiveBy beehive.govt.nz
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