Isn’t this Spark Advert with the dancing working class Dad connecting with his daughter by listening to Spotify soooooooo good?
It’s sooooooo good it almost makes you forget that Spark was once publicly owned and sold off for a pittance. It’s soooooooo good that it almost makes you forget that Spark recently led a team of NZ businesses to Apartheid Israel to swoon over the technology Israel has used to keep Palestinians under a brutal and illegal occupation.
To be true to Spark however I think this advert needs a do over. In light of Spark visiting Apartheid Israel, the advert needs to feature a Palestinian Father desperately trying to use Spark’s technology to warn him if Israeli drone strikes will murder his daughter on her way to school.
Now that would be an advert wouldn’t it?
Fabulous @ Martyn Bradbury.
Fuck Spark! And not in that good way.
And lets not forget that arch rich shitbag theresa gattung.
Made millions out of you and me because, you know, swindling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_Gattung
And let’s not forget the hypocrisies of old Mr Cock-Nose himself. Big/Little jimbo bolger.
Saw this add today at the movies I wonder for a while what the hell it was about until he hit the dancefloor.
Thought it was going to be an at work health and safety add right up until that point .
I dunno about the first scene when dad looks a looks a bit pissed off though.
Yes martyn,
And spark got more public money lots of it billions even though it is a privately owned company that used to be owned by us top play catch up with new technology after the digital rollout.
Apply those Spark public funding rules to Kiwirail.
If Kiwirail was suddenly privatised again, it would be getting billions poured into it to play catch up in the “hi-tech rail business now”!!!!!
But because it is owned by us now, Kiwirail doesn’t get virtually anything, but money to pay the dividend back to the Government!!!!
While all this is happening they are currying some bullshit economic studies out of SS Joyce”s mega Propaganda agency MBIE.
Like the “Gisborne Economic Study 2014”, the MBIE constructed using cherry picked phoney road studies to close the Gisborne rail line in 2014.
Now it is sure they are trying to sell us a plan to turn it into another Jonkey rail bike/cart/cycleway and please check the media blitz by Joyce/Bridges/ect’ you will read all about it again (around a week or so} when Parliament resumes so I hope you cover this issue and free to use my evidence here Cheers.
“Government is systematically closing most regional rail down using phoney whitewash studies!!!!”
So go figure the logic = that this government only spend all our tax dollars on private company’s and not our own companies???????
THE key difference between the BERL and KiwiRail reports on the Napier-Gisborne rail line is that BERL considered environmental and social responsibilities, while KiwiRail did not.
We witnessed a “whitewash” at the unveiling of the MBIE East Coast economic study in 2014. This study was promised to all councils in Hawke’s Bay/Gisborne as a trade-off instead of reopening the rail service, and there was no response to our pointed questions to Steven Joyce and Gerry Brownlee at the launch.
We asked both Ministers: “Why has no one considered environmental and social responsibilities, and impacts of more trucks roaming through residential zones in all towns and cities through the regions without rail to lower the 24/7 truck gridlock?”
We stated that a qualified environmental research company, had been monitoring air pollution, noise effects of these heavy freight vehicles in suburban areas. The results were dire for the public health of communities exposed to the increasing number of these vehicles in our region.
In our research we discovered this region had the fastest-growing truck activity area in the country. According to NZTA statistics, Hawke’s Bay-Gisborne truck activity grew at 12.5 percent in 2012-13, compared to a national average of 6-8 percent.
At the launch we pulled out an air-monitoring filter (Gravimetric) that collects exhaust and tyre dust particles over 24 hours. When the filter is black it is heavy pollution, as was the one we showed the room — saying this is a public health issue now and rail can be used to reduce the pollution to the public.
I discussed this in-depth with Mr Brownlee at the tea break. He seemed to want to learn about this issue so I asked, “Have you read the 2005 Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment report on the Napier heavy traffic noise and air-quality issues?” He had not.
The PCE report was a year-long study of the Napier section of the expressway. The commissioner strongly recommended more use of rail to lower the public health effects of heavy truck movements.
We supplied Mr Brownlee with a copy of this report and asked him to review the problem. This way he would know the justification for spending taxpayer money on rail when we again raise the need for rail, to counter the increased truck movements that will drive people from their homes or end their lives prematurely.
What is sad is that like the KiwiRail report, this new, “broad” economic report contained no mention of environmental or social responsibilities.
The 2014 economic potential report is clearly flawed and in direct conflict with NZTA’s own policy to have strict regard for environmental and social responsibilities in its road activities.
NZTA, the road controlling agency, provided advice on transport for the report instead of The Ministry of Transport, which covers rail, road, air and sea transport.
Predictably the research documents provided were only road studies and there was no review of any rail efficiency/environmental reports. It is no wonder the study showed no support for reopening the Napier-Gisborne rail service!
We could name six solid Ministry of Transport rail studies and none were reviewed. Why?
We regard the economic study to be a waste of taxpayer funds, unless the Government commits to a review and inclusion of these responsibilities.
The Citizens’ have now approached the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment to review the omission of public health and safety concerns, and the non-consideration of Ministry of Transport rail efficiency and environmental studies which could have clearly shown why rail is required — if not just for economic reasons
You can add endless other companies to using advertising spin to conceal what they are really up to. Problem is, most people fall for all this brainwashing stuff, and do not think and see further than the tips of their noses.
That is also why John Key and his Nats are still over 40 percent in the polls and have won three elections.
Gimme, gimme, gimme fun and excitement, and I do anything you want me to do, that seems to be the motto.
Why would Israel deliberately target a child going to school?
Why do you always phrase whatever is on you mind as a question?
I cant think of a reason why they would, but then again Im not a child-murdering Israeli.
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To answer your question. Please read the definition of apartheid.
The definition of Apartheid is separate development not killing little girls on the way to school for the sake of it . If Israel really wanted to do that they could wipe out the population if the Gaza Strip in about 15 minutes.
Oh for god’s sake Gosman, don’t be so thick. How do you think a regime like apartheid (or any other authoritarian regime) maintains it’s power of the population? It ain’t by democratic mandate. It’s by rule of brute force;
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre
Contrast with this;
ref: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28439404
If you don’t understand the many faces of authoritarian repression then you’re not as clever as you think you are. Clue: they don’t all dress as stormtroopers from the Nazi era or Lucas’ Galactic Empire.
Phew goose. I’ll respond to your genocidal thought experiment like this.
Thanks for this Martyn. I absolutely love this ad. Great to see normal working class people used for a change. Dad and his lovely daughter are a real treat to watch dancing together. Both obviously enjoying the other’s company 🙂
Maybe SPARK is getting the message, ordinary Kiwis do exist and have lives after all.
I also love the ‘stopping a drinking driver from driving’ ad, featuring the two old guys, preventing the young fellas getting into the car after consuming alcohol. Again ordinary Kiwis featured. The look on the young guys’ faces is priceless, when one of the men says “my balls are in your hands if you get into the car” and then again when the other man gets into the driver’s seat to drive them home and changes their music over to what he likes 🙂 Their looks say a thousand words 🙂
Normal working class Kiwis looking out for one another, regardless of the age discrepancy in both ads. Brilliant.
Thanks for sticking up your hand and letting us know how much you get suckered in by propaganda.
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When I first saw this ad, I thought it was an anti-domestic violence advert. I still find it a bit chilling.
is me Dave, and someone else posting under the name Dave.
As a child I spent lots of playing monopoly with my father. Owning one of the utilities on the board ensured a steady and ongoing income and the opportunity to purchase one was welcome. Had Telecom remained in government the same could apply. heavy users of say toll calls paid more and they were the wealthier ones so all was fair. The dividends could be reinvested in the company for the benefits, and employment of kiwis. On ongoing cash cow for kiwis. makes sense to me, in fact I cannot really see a downside.
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