#nz news

[yeltsinsstar]

David Seymour flags asset sales in State of the Nation speech

Can we sell him? Or gift him to the US? I'm sure he'd feel more at home there.

[evelynstarshine]

[antiestablishmentaf]

Are kiwi police overstepping and conducting mass surveillance?

Some excerpts:

Police use of number-plate spotting systems has skyrocketed to nearly 700,000 times a year - or almost 2000 times every day.

Two years ago, the systems were used a third of that amount.

Legal challenges that this constitutes mass surveillance were recently thrown out...

The police officers tap into systems run by two private companies, mostly to check on 'suspicious' persons, and also used to investigate high-volume crime like at shops, gangs, wanted or missing persons and for "intelligence gathering", the audit said...

The systems let officers call up CCTV footage of any car stretching back up to 60 days, by automatically identifying its number plate.

Both systems can access live or stored camera footage..

The Public Defence Service said two years ago that the use presented "a real risk of going into the territory of mass surveillance"...

Police headquarters only did its first "baseline" audit on ANPR use in 2022, sparked by their admission they misused the system twice to track cars during Covid - when they reported the cars as stolen when they were not, to circumvent the rules on live tracking...

The technology also allows police to "track" a vehicle in real-time, but since the misuse detected in 2022 and a tightening-up, tracking has dropped to just 20-30 times a month...

The number of cameras linked to the two networks is not known exactly, but it is many thousands of cameras.

[nunejn]

Assine

Sexo

Na força do ódio: por que tanta gente sente tesão quando está com raiva?

Colaboração para Universa*

12/11/2024 19h00

Apesar de soar contraditório, muitas pessoas sentem tesão quando estão com raivaImagem: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Pode parecer contraditória e um tanto estranha, mas trata-se de uma situação normal e corriqueira. Emoções conflitantes são comuns em qualquer tipo de relação e sentir tesão quando se está com raiva é um deles. Há parceiros, ou pelo menos um deles, que sentem muito tesão durante um bate-boca sem entender bem o motivo.

O desejo surge nessas circunstâncias porque tais discussões, inconscientemente, levam o casal a pensar que podem se separar. Portanto, o sexo intenso é uma forma de mostrar o domínio da situação, reafirmando que os laços afetivos entre ambos ainda existem.

O chamado "hate fucking" acontece até mesmo com casais que se dão bem e que na maioria das vezes demonstram equilíbrio na relação, não necessariamente apenas entre aqueles que brigam constantemente e alternam beijos e farpas.



Juca Kfouri

De como Bodão e Bonner derrotaram Luxemburgo



Jamil Chade

Deixo o X para estar do lado certo da história



Casagrande

Alguém tem dúvida de que CR7 chegará aos mil gols?



Milly Lacombe

Papel da mulher tem sido ignorado no debate do 6x1

O poder da raiva no sexo

Muitas pessoas acabam conseguindo demonstrar melhor o que sentem quando estão com raiva do que quando estão tranquilas. É por isso que o sexo, nessas condições, torna-se mais intenso e com mais envolvimento. Há quem diga que o orgasmo, inclusive, é mais arrebatador.

Fazer sexo para expressar sentimentos —ódio, tristeza, frustração, alegria ou amor, tanto faz— é apenas uma maneira de se conectar com o outro. Aliás, a briga também é uma forma poderosa de conexão entre os que se amam ou que se odeiam... Assim, o sexo, quando aparece numa relação de ódio, também é isso: uma maneira de se conectar com a emoção alheia. E esse sentimento pode ser frustração, desapontamento ou tristeza com o par.

Faz sentido?

Existem explicações científicas para esse mecanismo tão paradoxal. A visão do outro, do seu corpo, de seus gestos e de sua postura influenciam a sexualidade e estimulam a liberação de várias substâncias químicas —os hormônios— a partir do comando cerebral. Adrenalina, serotonina, dopamina e testosterona costumam influenciar na geração do tesão.

Conteúdo UOL

Entretanto, essa resposta biológica independe do fato de a pessoa ser bacana ou não, se desperta amor ou ódio. É relativamente comum que as pessoas se sintam atraídas por aquelas com quem elas sabem que são incompatíveis ou odeiam, já que a atração sexual não tem um componente predominante racional ou consciente.

[planefood]

I love my cities subreddit because everyone on there is deranged and miserable just like real life

[ladydisofdurin]

New Zealand’s second ever Māori queen, Nga wai hono i te po was announced as the new monarch of the Kiingitanga today on the final day of the tangihanga (funeral) of her father, King Tuheitia.

[hxans]

I find it very concerning that the same week Newsroom gets axed, TVNZ is dropping Sunday, Fair Go, and all but its 6pm news show. In this day and age of misinformation, we need active and trustworthy journalism from multiple vectors to help shed light on things, and hold people accountable.

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

I have never seen bigger dick energy in my entire life!! Holy fuck this woman is queen shit!!

[yeltsinsstar]

DOC to raise concerns with Miami Zoo over treatment of kiwi

How this American zoo is treating this poor kiwi is disgusting. The bird is clearly stressed, probably because kiwi are nocturnal and they have it in a brightly lit room that is basically a fucking petting zoo.

[evelynstarshine]

The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun down old men and women waving white flags, shell lines of refugees queuing for aid, and deprive hospitals of power and medicine – and all New Zealand does is a collective shrug. When, however, Yemen’s Houthis disrupt the passage of frozen meat, pizza bases and iPhones through the Red Sea, suddenly New Zealand goes on the warpath. We have declared war on Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and sent a strike force of six men and a dinghy to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the USA.

I think New Zealand’s moral compass is pointing somewhere just south of Hell, while the Houthis, along with South Africa, in their own distinct ways, have become champions for human decency as they confront the genocidal state of Israel and its powerful enablers.

“New Zealand and other nations are suffering from the problems with the Red Sea and the inability to take cargo ships through there – and that is adding a lot of cost… that is affecting every New Zealander,” says Minister of Defence Judith Collins.

Collins had the chutzpah, the incredible cheek, to say she was concerned the Houthi’s actions were impacting people who depended on food imports. Sorry, Judith, that is outrageous hypocrisy at a time when the UN says 500,000 Gazans have already entered the famine stage of food deprivation.

The massive empathy gap between our government and the Houthis when it comes to the suffering of Gaza is simple. The Houthi have direct experience of a genocidal siege that, along with military strikes and disease, killed 400,000 people (please absorb that number) – the greatest humanitarian crisis on the planet from 2015 until recently. Saudi Arabia, supported by US and British intelligence, weapons and bombs, sought to control Yemen and inflict collective punishment on its people. During those years, according to the UN, hundreds of thousands suffered from cholera – a fate that awaits Gazans if Judith Collins and her ilk get their way.

The Yemeni – who rallied in the streets in their millions this month to defy the UK and USA – have empathy born of suffering. They have humanity; our government does not. Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a spokesperson for Ansar Allah (the Houthis), says their goal is simple: stop the genocide and get fuel, food and medicine into Gaza.

“We cannot allow these crimes to be repeated,” Al-Bukhaiti told Grayzone's Max Blumenthal this week. He went on to say: “Our war is a war of morality.” Interesting turn of phrase. People ignorant of history and geopolitics, like our own defence minister, can write the Houthis off as “pirates”. I don’t. Nor do people like the great American Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein who said this week:

“As a Jew I would have respected any government, any people in the world during the Nazi Holocaust who had done what the Houthis are doing.”

Finkelstein went on to say that what the Houthis have signalled is that there will be no business as usual in the shipping lanes while the US and Israel commit genocide in Gaza. That is a moral stance if I ever heard one. He reminded us that “No Business As Usual” was one of the slogans of the Vietnam War peace movement.

“No Justice, No Peace” was another slogan that echoed a similar sentiment - it first appeared in the USA in the 1980s in response to pervasive violence and discrimination against African Americans. Here in Aotearoa, “Ka whawhai tonu matou, ake, ake, ake” (We will fight on, for ever and ever and ever) originally a riposte to a call to surrender to the British and settler colonial forces at the battle of Ōrākau, was adopted by activists in recent decades as a challenge to the State to address injustice or face Maori resistance.

At Ōrākau, our white forces slaughtered Maori women and men as they attempted to flee – bayoneting the already-wounded as they lay defenceless, which I think helps partially explain the powerful speeches of solidarity I heard in Civic Square Wellington this week delivered by Maori in solidarity with Palestine. Like the Yemeni, like the Vietnamese, like the Palestinians, like the Aborigines, like African and Native Americans and others like we of Irish descent, Maori know all too well what siege, slaughter and famine mean.

We were also very disruptive during our confrontation with the New Zealand state when we opposed sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa. In 1981 we had a National Government fighting for the rights of both white supremacists and Kiwis who loved rugby but lacked human empathy when it came to black people. Now in 2024 we again have a National Government, again indifferent to the suffering of people of darker skin, a coalition government fighting for Jewish Supremacists (as the Zionists state is described by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem).

Today the moral compass points to South Africa and to Yemen. One route is navigated by the legal scholars of South Africa; the other, more immediate and muscular, by the Houthi who know all about the violence the powerful can inflict on them but chose to stand with the oppressed, not the oppressors.

I’ll give the last word to Ansar Allah’s Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, because it’s so rare to hear these people unmediated by some US general or neo-conservative commentator:

“We know the story of David whose slingshot defeated Goliath. We don’t fear the weapons of the enemy. We believe a victory for Yemen will be a victory for morality and the highest values. We believe that a victory on the awareness front is more important than a military one - because the main cause of suffering from wars around the world is due to a lack of awareness.

We know there are a lot of good people around the world – if they found out the truth, their positions would change.”

EUGENE DOYLE is a Wellington community organiser and environmental campaigner.

[tianalaurence1]

Princess Anne called the ‘most elegant woman in the world’

[sixth-light]

Yet another good reminder that even other Anglosphere authors have to basically arm-wrestle US book editors to be allowed to retain any vestige of their own dialect and culture in their writing and this is why lots of people have Opinions about American...everything.

[mucking-faori]

This stupid bitch is going to court over a 90 minute course

Also the course is specifically on maori world views in regards to land and working with iwi and maori clients, so it's not even like she's being taught about maori "religious" beliefs that could conflict with her own.

[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

One for the literal history books...

50,000 people 🖤🥝

[pierog]

IM GAY BITCH

petitioning the 1986 homosexual reform bill, from mates & lovers (a history of gay new zealand) by chris brickell

[hellhoundlily]