She may have a point. It does seem that they have no compunction about continuing to muck up the planet, allowing mining companies to virtually buy their candidate in the election, if the article in the second link has it right.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/02/untet...tion-plan/

[b]"In response to the announcement, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said there were no surprises nor "meaningful solutions" in the Government's "bingo card for environmental destruction and trickle-down economics".[/b]
“Christopher Luxon is not in the boardroom anymore. The irony is these bullet points wouldn’t even hold up in the corporate world: vague, immeasurable and untethered from reality and evidence as they are.

“What on earth does raising the energy New Zealand brings to international relationships mean? For who precisely, and how in reality, does the Government want to ‘improve the rental market’?"
She said when someone showed you who they were you should believe them and the Government had shown that its focus was "squarely on gutting environmental, climate and social gains in order to line the pockets of a few at the top".
"They could at least be honest about it."


Really - 'be honest??!' A politician?? A Tory politician?!!




I recall the Welsh politician who helped set up the  Brit NHS, Nye Bevin, having some interesting - & colourful - thoughts on Tory Politicians...



https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/23/big-co...-campaign/


"It was the 1908 miners’ strike in Blackball on the West Coast that led to the birth of the Labour Party.


So there was a rich vein of irony last year when Stockton mine management stopped work, called a meeting and told all its 310 workers to vote for its own man instead.
“That certainly pisses me off, given the advocacy that I have undertaken for the mining industry on the Coast, through all my time in Parliament,” says Labour’s Damien O’Connor.



The veteran MP is smarting at a revelation in new disclosures published by the Electoral Commission: ASX-listed mining firm Bathurst Resources donated $32,600 to 29-year-old independent Patrick Phelps to fully fund his campaign for more mining on the West Coast. 
Candidate spending limits were $32,600 at last year’s election. So Bathurst, unhappy with a Labour policy banning more mining of conservation land, funded Phelps’ entire campaign – every last dollar. It gave him a far bigger war chest than the more established candidates."

This could possibly lead to the end of Netanyahu's govt. Until now, those who are Ultra orthodox have been excused military service & they're saying that if laws are passed to oblige them to serve, they'll refuse to do so & will then be imprisoned.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cYRsF5dIPI

As the sun approaches its peak in the solar cycle we can expect more of this.
A CME is currently interacting with the earth as we speak, it should still be visible this evening across all of NZ.
Just find a dark spot and point your camera south.
A long exposure and tripod is recommended.

Auroa should be visible below the white line, with better sighting the further south you go.

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The great spaghetti harvest, washing of the lions & The Plutonion-Jovian are my favourites,

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/april...day-pranks

1) 1957 The great spaghetti harvest

2) 1698 The washing of he Lions.

3) 1980 Big Ben goes digital

4) 1962 Colour TV, with a mesh sheet, Sweden.

5) Patrick Moore, the Jovian-Plutonion effect

6) Edison's miraculous machine

7) The volcanic eruption that wasn't.

Policy announcement - 

https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/...n-walking/

I have a Gigabyte B460m D3H motherboard with an ASUS Core i7 10700t CPU. The current BIOS is version is F4. From what I can glean from the Gigabyte site, the current BIOS looks like F26 (any chance someone more knowledgeable could check?).

Should I consider upgrading or remain at F4, I have no perceived problems at present.

This vigourous response to a BBC interviewer by the Guyana president is a good presentation of the potential hypocrisy of implementing emissions restrictions on developing countries.

It may eventually be an end to their govt. but it seems unlikely to happen quickly & the ultra orthodox tend to be very right wing.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68684069

"Israel's High Court has issued an order in the long-running dispute over ultra-Orthodox military exemptions, deepening a crisis in the government.
It instructed a funding freeze for ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, educational institutions whose students are eligible for conscription.

Haredi parties in the government have reacted angrily, while a secular party has threatened to quit over the issue.
Ultra-Orthodox exemptions are opposed by a majority of Israelis.
The Haredi community comprises about 12% of the population but those in full-time Torah study are exempt from mandatory military service.

Conscription applies to almost all other Israelis, apart from Israeli Arabs, from the age of 18 for both men and women.
The government is debating a bill which reportedly seeks to strike a compromise by allowing exemptions with limitations.

But the draft plan is fiercely opposed by Haredi parties. Two of those parties - Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) - hold 18 seats in the 72-seat emergency government.
On the other hand, the secular, centrist National Union party, which holds eight seats, is insisting exemptions are scrapped altogether.
The party's leader, Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff, has threatened to pull out of the government over the current plan."

This could be the holy grail of plastic recycling and increase the incentive for collecting waste plastic.

And I wish them every success, I hope they win their case & are awarded bazillions...from the McBishops very own fortune.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...LznMWA5xrs

"Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki is facing a potential defamation lawsuit by Taranaki drag queen duo Erika and CoCo Flash.