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2:51 pm, September 18th, 2024 - 7 comments
Categories: humour, Satire -
Tags: the civilian
The Civilian, a site that dedicates itself to “All the news that’s fit on a page” is back – along with the unemployment rates rising. Hopefully for readers this will last a while along with the satire news that author Ben is so good at.
It only appears to have been running for a few days, but I have added it to the feed for as long as Ben is willing to provide it (please stay under-employed). I urge readers to find his donations or subscription page which appears to have in-explicitly been omitted to help Ben stave off the honourable starvation of an artist.
Currently the site only has a few posts starting 2 days ago. There is no history of older posts (Ben: I’d be happy to assist in porting older posts). If you haven’t read his previous work before, you may have to use the wayback engine before the site had technical issues and fell over. I have arbitrarily picked a Wayback page of September 1st 2022 as an example, but that also eventually falls over with timeouts. Any help finding a working Wayback page that is viewable would be appreciated.
This is a taste of the the latest news from The Civilian
“Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English“
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English.
The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came to power – that all departments communicate chiefly in English, for the sake of clarity.
At the time, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the change was about New Zealanders’ right to navigate their government.
Today he welcomed the change to Māori Language Week as a great way to get all kiwis involved.
The NZ National Library archived it!
https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20130330195119/http://www.thecivilian.co.nz/
Cool.
Yeah this sort of stuff needs its own site.
We have lost satire on TV (James, Clarke, M and G, Public Eye and Ardern on Spitting Image UK).
I wonder what his take on this topic will be
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17-09-2024/#comment-2011315
I came across it on Facebook yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised to see it back.
Good satire.
It's hard standing out doing satire in the US – given some of their media and what they cover.
The Babylon Bee has a go and a take on pager risk in the USA.
https://babylonbee.com/
The Drudge Report – beginnings with the stain on the 1600 PA dress (and so on to the Mocking Jay girl on fire dress – hunting POTUS played by the acting worlds Donald, winter is coming each 4th November) notes the clothing apparel of Laura (prairie coyote not a cat lady) Loomer when with the current Donald.
https://x.com/yashar/status/1834679889104191578
Braunias did a great job last week with Seymour as Sherriff.
Great to see life still in political speech.
Interesting. All of the posts are visible (including the old ones) via search.
For instance https://thecivilian.co.nz/?s=collins shows two posts, the first of which is from November 26, 2021
Looks like the site front page is only displaying the "top stories" section.