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I’d like to see a Philip Matthews post about how our comments go down the urinal.
Justin Bieber’s 25yo model wife goes down with blood clot in the brain. Media admitting it is probably covid related.
Next global covid wave is now firmly underway when many countries pretending covid is defeated, removing ALL mitigation AND reducing data collecting and reporting to hide the ongoing pandemic from citizens.
More big name celebs and fam will be keeling over, will this lead to public questioning/rejection of “Its mild, learn to live with COVID” Big LIe?
NZHerald editorial all about Shane Warne early death – “Party animal, let that be a lesson to the rest of us to live healthier!” – no mention he had a serious run in with covid. Deliberately burying this or just that stupid?
BA2 and sub variants ( this thing mutates fast!) looking very dangerous. Only 50% uptake of boosters by Kiwis So huge swathe of double jabbed Kiwis have basically no protection thanks to waning vax immunity. Even the boostered will start waning in a few more weeks. Then what?
There is no exit plan from this pandemic is there?
Are we there yet? (Repeat regularly). No, iIt’s bigger than all of us, but stick together and we will get there possibly.
A good young adults book, ie suitable for adults and teenagers is about Eyam UK 1600s plague and a family there.
A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh, a novel for young adults, Puffin Books, 1983
I’ve got a collection of classics – Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola.
Havent read a novel forever. Would just go back to these if I decided to tale up novel reading again. That’s what a classic is right? You can keep going back to it, and each time as you have struggled in the world and aged it reveals more insights?
Literature today is produced, controlled and consumed by Middle Class Marxists. Waste of time, best avoided.
This story is an example of our dissolute fractured society. There are always two sides to a story but I think that the main points of bad faith behaviour against someone trying to be a good parent need noting. Why are we so amoral now, when it comes to basic human love for each other and wanting to facilitate good lives for each other??
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/462406/the-town-that-backed-a-child-sex-abuser
Radionz has vanished into RNZ and good judgment everywhere in government has vanished up its own orifices, never to be found again. I like this RNZ statement promoting its latest on its GreatPlan. If only Labour could put all its efforts into picking up the best of the years, amalgamating all into a new/old entity fit for the future!? I fear sadly not, just settling for deck attendants/stewards/galley cooks tidying the deck chairs away and throwing the bits for tomorrow’s stews into the pot.
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Broadcasting minister Kris Faafoi announcing the new public media entity today.
Mediawatch: Can RNZ + TVNZ = new PME in 2023?
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Mediawatch (Colin Peacock): Can RNZ + TVNZ = new PME in 2023?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018833954/rnz-tvnz-new-pme-in-2023
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/463243/government-plans-to-shake-up-new-zealand-s-inadequate-waste-recycling
Better late than never. When does it start – haven’t looked. Lately there have been too many disappointments. What a good positive thing to have up their sleeve when people are saying that Labour never does anything.