A Week In New Zealand
I've been busy with other stuff lately that hopefully will generate finances if it comes to fruition and haven't blogged. Because as explained last week, blogging doesn't make bloggers any actual money unless they become a bastardised product placement section for people and things that can't make MSM.
Since that post I've had one of the guilty email claiming their innocence and that they were just joking. I don't know how that works, you know asking someone to do something then saying they didn't mean to it was just a joke?
Rumours of my demise are premature. Rumours that I am in fact the blogger at Dim Post who has also gone into early retirement are also incorrect. And before Poneke puts out another breathless post of QED ignorance, Dim Post is not, I repeat not, in Hong Kong presently.
I saw Pansy Wong in the street today. Well I'm sure it was her. Chinese, short, black hair, glasses running quickly down Des Voeux Rd Central in front of trams with a large briefcase. It must have been her, fundraising for the National Party according to Red Alert. That explains things. Sammy's sent her out to do some work.
New Zealand appears to the rest of the world to have closed because of a mine.
And I've cringed reading bloggers opine and wish those involved their prayers and thoughts. Hello? That's really very nice and all but can you please make it not sound like you are the Mothers and Fathers of the Nation. We are not. And come on half of you have never set foot in a church.
2,600 people died in mines in China last year and I ask how many cards were sent from John Key to the Mainland in condolence? The most coverage I've seen here is a day in the local paper. Families can receive as little as 250,000 Yuan (NZ48,000) with an extra 30,000 Yuan (NZ5,800) if they have a funeral within 24 hours of signing the document. Escalating down the longer the families spent wondering about it. It's little to us, massive compensation for them.
The good thing I guess is that Coasters have realised they aren't as tough as they say they are and they may just be as hopeless as everyone else is in dealing with tragedy, bawling their eyes out in frustration around TV cameras. The MSM wouldn't accept that there can actually be no update on the situation when a mine has blown and communications are lost. It's not a 115 minute Hollywood movie for heaven's sake. More theories of what could have happened were dreamed up. Experts called in to comment. All this will be lapped up by "middle New Zealand" and those in jobs or states of unemployment that allow them to be actually home for the 6pm news.
I'm recalling a secretary in my days working in New Zealand's slave labour economy, she would have updated us on ever single bowel movement at the mine, ear all day on her radio on the desk. Telling us teary eyed how horrible it was. Oh with this woman you would think she had a relative trapped in the Twin Towers at 9/11 the way she carried on.
Still New Zealanders are angry that rescue workers weren't sent in right away. Because they would have DIED or set off another explosion. Is the answer. The explosion video may have been better played on Friday night to grasp reality into the heads of New Zealanders, many whom work in offices and on nice safe rural enclaves overground.
Everyone in New Zealand is now an expert in mining because TVNZ and TV3 has shown diagrams of the mine and watched coverage after coverage. I've been waiting for Crusher to come in and serve the cold hard facts, 29 men paid above average pay rates because the work is bloody dangerous, most likely instantly died in the initial violent explosion....now media please piss off where you came from. Crusher's handlers have done well to hold her back.
The Christchurch earthquake was bad, the mining disaster was worse because of the loss of life. But after the dead are buried, who will remember the mine disaster outside of Pike River? Who remembered the last one?
And if New Zealand thought it was gloomy this week, rumours of the death of Kiwifruit industry appear exaggerated as well. Zespri plumps it will have a record year. Perhaps that $35 million of subsidy/bailout is better spent elsewhere and the industry has a dominant enough position that it can fund its own growers for what has happened.
FIGJAM Power disgracefully looks to cut a deal with his natural party of choice, Labour on the Electoral (Finance and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill. Inept fool.
And in breaking news - Michael Laws now appears to be doing the most silly thing that an adult can do. No, not piss off multitudes of women, but getting in an online stoush with the Whale when he takes the piss out of those suffering from mental illness. Just quit Michael, you aren't going to win that one.
Yep, a week in New Zealand indeed.
Now over to the small matter of North Korea launching a big one at South Korea....bet that barely makes the news.
Since that post I've had one of the guilty email claiming their innocence and that they were just joking. I don't know how that works, you know asking someone to do something then saying they didn't mean to it was just a joke?
Rumours of my demise are premature. Rumours that I am in fact the blogger at Dim Post who has also gone into early retirement are also incorrect. And before Poneke puts out another breathless post of QED ignorance, Dim Post is not, I repeat not, in Hong Kong presently.
I saw Pansy Wong in the street today. Well I'm sure it was her. Chinese, short, black hair, glasses running quickly down Des Voeux Rd Central in front of trams with a large briefcase. It must have been her, fundraising for the National Party according to Red Alert. That explains things. Sammy's sent her out to do some work.
New Zealand appears to the rest of the world to have closed because of a mine.
And I've cringed reading bloggers opine and wish those involved their prayers and thoughts. Hello? That's really very nice and all but can you please make it not sound like you are the Mothers and Fathers of the Nation. We are not. And come on half of you have never set foot in a church.
2,600 people died in mines in China last year and I ask how many cards were sent from John Key to the Mainland in condolence? The most coverage I've seen here is a day in the local paper. Families can receive as little as 250,000 Yuan (NZ48,000) with an extra 30,000 Yuan (NZ5,800) if they have a funeral within 24 hours of signing the document. Escalating down the longer the families spent wondering about it. It's little to us, massive compensation for them.
The good thing I guess is that Coasters have realised they aren't as tough as they say they are and they may just be as hopeless as everyone else is in dealing with tragedy, bawling their eyes out in frustration around TV cameras. The MSM wouldn't accept that there can actually be no update on the situation when a mine has blown and communications are lost. It's not a 115 minute Hollywood movie for heaven's sake. More theories of what could have happened were dreamed up. Experts called in to comment. All this will be lapped up by "middle New Zealand" and those in jobs or states of unemployment that allow them to be actually home for the 6pm news.
I'm recalling a secretary in my days working in New Zealand's slave labour economy, she would have updated us on ever single bowel movement at the mine, ear all day on her radio on the desk. Telling us teary eyed how horrible it was. Oh with this woman you would think she had a relative trapped in the Twin Towers at 9/11 the way she carried on.
Still New Zealanders are angry that rescue workers weren't sent in right away. Because they would have DIED or set off another explosion. Is the answer. The explosion video may have been better played on Friday night to grasp reality into the heads of New Zealanders, many whom work in offices and on nice safe rural enclaves overground.
Everyone in New Zealand is now an expert in mining because TVNZ and TV3 has shown diagrams of the mine and watched coverage after coverage. I've been waiting for Crusher to come in and serve the cold hard facts, 29 men paid above average pay rates because the work is bloody dangerous, most likely instantly died in the initial violent explosion....now media please piss off where you came from. Crusher's handlers have done well to hold her back.
The Christchurch earthquake was bad, the mining disaster was worse because of the loss of life. But after the dead are buried, who will remember the mine disaster outside of Pike River? Who remembered the last one?
And if New Zealand thought it was gloomy this week, rumours of the death of Kiwifruit industry appear exaggerated as well. Zespri plumps it will have a record year. Perhaps that $35 million of subsidy/bailout is better spent elsewhere and the industry has a dominant enough position that it can fund its own growers for what has happened.
FIGJAM Power disgracefully looks to cut a deal with his natural party of choice, Labour on the Electoral (Finance and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill. Inept fool.
And in breaking news - Michael Laws now appears to be doing the most silly thing that an adult can do. No, not piss off multitudes of women, but getting in an online stoush with the Whale when he takes the piss out of those suffering from mental illness. Just quit Michael, you aren't going to win that one.
Yep, a week in New Zealand indeed.
Now over to the small matter of North Korea launching a big one at South Korea....bet that barely makes the news.
posted by Cactus Kate at 12:13 AM
11 Comments:
Oh it has here in the UK, Cactus.
That and the Irish financial crisis, along with the X factor and THAT wedding!
I watched exactly 30 seconds of TV. When I saw the reporter coming in her undies because she was on a live cross at a real disaster, TRYING to add some gravitas, but failing miserably, I turned off. Been catching the updates in summary form on-line at the end of each day instead. I like my porn without the snuff bit.
At times like this the media are actually at their worst. It takes me back to those awful CNN days: "So [insert faux expert name here], what do YOU think Sadam is thinking RIGHT NOW?"
haha love it - what a fricken spot on post!!
@ Fairfacts.
You forgot Bristol Palin and Dancing wid der Starz... more people are het up about that than the Democratic voting fraud machine.
I would be very interested in knowing exactly how many compromises the management of the mine had to make to deal with the Green Lobby. Mining is dangerous. You do not make it more dangerous because of Luddite, Stone Age thinking.
Now watch the hypocrites cry over the loss of life and blame the company, who did what they could.
Kate - You are losing your claws. Name and Shame them! Probably the same "pros" who shaft MSM as they suck-up to bloggers to run their "research."
My thoughts on Pike River:
http://www.solopassion.com/node/8151
I forgot to say on my last comment, Cactus, I hope your venture is successful.
Have you ever read Michael Laws's novel, Dances with Beelzebub?
If anything convinced me that that guy is batshit insane, that thing did. It's racist, it's creepy, and it gives several hints that he's into gay BDSM. Amazing stuff.
For him to call bloggers mental is like him, as a black kettle, calling a tree black. totally wrong, and hypocritical to boot.
And yeah, there's been basically nothing here on the korea situation. Although apparentl Sarah Palin thinks North Korea is the USA's ally. Ha.
Do you have a single shred of humanity in you?
Towards people like you, I think you can take it as a "no".
The best part of the entire media show was when an Australian reporter asked the copper why a country Policeman was in charge of the non-occurring mine "rescue". Summed it up that did. Plenty of amateurs and butt coverers (including Collins), not much competance.
LGM
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