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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
Apologies for the belated OM.
You’re forgiven.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/andrew-little-plans-fast-track-review-hate-speech-laws?variant=tb_v_5
Better late than never… should have happened years ago. So many people hurt and had their lives turned upside down. Still, good on Andrew Little for getting on to it asap after March 15 event.
Thomas Beagle: “while some argue that the rise of the extreme right is a good reason to give our government more power to monitor people and limit certain forms of political expression, the international rise of neo-fascist governments is surely a reason to make sure we don’t carelessly give our government powers that may be used against us in the future.”
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-03-2019/why-mass-surveillance-is-not-the-answer-to-the-atrocity-of-christchurch/
People do have a history of using representative democracy to produce oppression. The problem seems to arise when elected reps get the idea that they are a privileged caste who know better than voters. Then they embark on political careers as servants of vested interests. We’ve seem politicians of the left and right both do so.
And of the centre; don’t forget the centre, Dennis, or you could be accused of being a ‘moderate’ 😉
Good point. I was tacitly including them in my spectrum-wide framing, but I agree it’s better to do so explicitly.
Great initiative. I hope this happens.
“Little said he was fast-tracking a widespread review of New Zealand’s existing hate speech legislation.
This would include deciding if hate crime should be established as its own separate offence, as it is in the United Kingdom…
… “I certainly think that the laws dealing with what we call ‘hate speech’, and human rights law, are woefully inadequate,” Little said.”
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111661809/hate-crime-law-review-fasttracked-following-christchurch-mosque-shootings
MSM in the USA along with guardian is now in the gutter. It’s sad world when RT look’s like the responsible one.
Trust is one of the crucial cords in the fabric of society but is becoming as rare as a Dodo in Düsseldorf.
I’m going to have a poke around inside the server this evening to look at why a new drive in the big hdd raid keeps dropping off the array (I suspect a cable issue).
While it is offline I’ll add another ssd into the the standard’s raid array as another spare. One of the ssd’s that is in there is starting to show some wear on the low level scan.
So expect to have the server go down tonight for an hour. Probably latish as I have to get Lyn off a provincial flight from Taranaki where she has been shooting (cameras).
Just as well you added “(cameras)” otherwise the police might have paid you a visit. 😯
” (I suspect a cable issue)”
Reckon they mighta been Morted?
Great video explaining structural racism in Britain – spoiler alert – it’s here too.
https://youtu.be/611Fu5HU8Kc
Watch as our world disappears before our eyes as Climate change worsens.
https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/101-videos/0000015d-3cb1-d1cb-a7fd-fcfd49980000
Disgusting and really – didn’t mean to cause offense? sure you didn’t
“A Hamilton City Councillor who wore an anti-vaccine t-shirt to an autism awareness event says she didn’t mean to cause offence.
But Siggi Henry, known for her strident anti-fluoride stance, is defending her anti-vaccination views, saying many parents are too accepting of medical advice.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/111670561/hamilton-city-councillor-apologies-for-wearing-antivax-tshirt-to-autism-fundraiser
Scum are scum, wherever they be.
https://twitter.com/annamerlan/status/1111686703071277056
On the cost to communities.
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When we talk about vaccines, we tend to talk about the clinical impact of refusing them, the potentially deadly danger that vaccine-preventable diseases pose to the unvaccinated or the immunocompromised when herd immunity breaks down. Every grave illness and death is an individual tragedy, but the cost of vaccine hesitancy also enforces a shared public toll.
[…]
The numbers can grow much bigger still. Researchers at the CDC estimated that handling 107 cases of measles that occurred in 2011 cost state and local health departments between $2.7 million and $5.3 million. In 2014, 42 people came down with the disease after passing through Disneyland at the same time as a never-identified person with measles—and subsequently infected 90 additional people in California, 14 more in other states, and a further 159 people in Canada. The cost of controlling the outbreak, just in California, totaled almost $4 million. And in 2017, a five-month outbreak of measles in Minnesota infected 79 people and cost the state $2.3 million.
The funding to support that work isn’t being conjured out of the air. It’s coming from the budgets of public agencies, which have already been facing years of cuts and have no secret stashes of discretionary money to spend.
https://www.wired.com/story/anti-vaccine-movement-true-cost/
Who is ‘scum’, Joe?
Precicely…who are you referring to?…
And while you’re caught up on costs…
$4bn has been paid out by the US taxpayer on top of DoJ costs as they defend the liability free pharmaceutical companies…
$4bn for vaccine damaged, injured and maimed children…
Scum!
I’m guessing the wanker who put a yellow star on his jacket, thus equating the nuttery of anti vaxers with the horrible racist human suffering of the nazi holocaust, Phil.
Surely you’re not that fucking stupid…oh, that’s right….
Your posts regarding vaccines prior to the chch events, showed how little you understand about the subject…
So, not just one of your pathetic few words followed by a link…I’m asking you again…who precisely are you referring to as scum?
If you’re going to reignite the discussion, then you’re going to need to explain yourself…clearly…
One, Two
Does the yellow star not enter your consciousness? If you are strongly anti vax does that limit your vision?
On more than one occasion you’ve suggested others to not use certain terminologies… and yet you’ve asked a pejorative laced question….
Does the hypocrisy limit your thought?
I think it’s important to note this as well. I cannot remember hearing these and I think that is wrong.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111470236/messages-of-condolence-form-asia-in-the-wake-of-the-christchurch-attacks-went-unreported
+1 marty
It needs to be said.
I’ve been watching stories with a few, but the same, keywords for a couple of weeks.
‘Ardern’ being one of them.
I commented on her popularity in Arabic press around the 17th.
You could write a series of articles just on the articles generated.
Are our media eurocentric on purpose?
The stories were one obvious keyword away.
It is shocking how much of the world we hear nothing about. On a regular basis.
Someone shoots themselves in the foot in the USA every day and we seem to have some sort of cheap news feed with them. Yet other things, I forget how many interpreters they need at Auckland hospitals but we have a huge number from a wide range of countries here.
I don’t think Nuttyahoo’s heartfelt message has been mentioned either.
So you’re equating him with these Asian leaders? yeah nah please try harder.
Oh boy.
https://twitter.com/londonartnews/status/1111701466220281863
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/banksy-chimpanzees-brexit-day-1504156
Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
A modified version of the Christchurch shooter manifesto circulating online includes a payload that overwrites the master boot record in Windows to show a custom message upon system reboot.
Modifying the master boot record (MBR), which contains details about available partitions and helps load the operating system, allows the malicious payload to start immediately when the computer boots, even before the operating system is started.
It is suspected that this weaponized version of the manifesto is being distributed as a vigilante attack against those who want to download the original document and to halt its spread
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vigilantes-counter-christchurch-manifesto-with-weaponized-version/
That is cool.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/385473/serial-robber-let-into-nz-four-times-without-authorities-noticing
Immigration New Zealand said travellers coming from visa waiver countries, including Australia, were asked questions about convictions on their arrival card and would be refused entry if they did not meet character requirements.
If not, Australians were granted a residence visa on arrival.
Five Australians were deported last year.
Last year, the then New Zealand high commissioner in Canberra told the Joint Standing Committee on Migration that Australia was deporting about one New Zealander a day.
AirNZ lacks cred. Get with it I say. Body art on this guy looks good.
They seem to think it competes with the koru that they use.
wtf.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018687642/air-nz-denies-man-with-ta-moko-a-job
Keep these types rising to the surface – they are low and must be voted out. Plus wtf Hamilton – another dipshit representative – sort these muppets out please.
“A Hamilton politician has criticised New Zealand for commemorating those killed in the Christchurch terror attacks.
City councillor James Casson took to his political profile page on Facebook to share his views on the Christchurch shootings and give advice on how Kiwis should respond to the mass killings.
… Hamilton Mayor Andrew King was saddened by Casson’s comments and didn’t believe his “fringe opinions” reflected the views of most New Zealanders.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/111672944/hamilton-city-councillor-urges-kiwis-not-to-mourn-christchurch-terror-attack-victims-anymore