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" " Shepard Fairey's (b. 1970) Barack Obama "Hope" poster (2008) is credited with helping to elect the 44th president of the United States. Steve Rhodes/Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but what about the paintbrush? Can a piece of art be so significant that it changes the world? Some pieces have had that power. But more than its inherent value, artwork often becomes groundbreaking in part due to the way people react to it and the circumstances that surround it, explains Ted Snell, honorary professor at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia. As...

Trigger-happy people are dangerous, guns shoot people and males get high on guns more than females. Police tried the careful approach to a guman in Aramoana and lost out. There has to be a better program for these 'lost boys' sent away from home by the sleazy-peazy Australian government wanting to slide out of their failures to integrate people. We are much the same here, but we haven't the option to pass the parcel. So let's have a sensible program, and give them something to ground them here, ability to turn their lives around and have a regular earning job and still keep in touc...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, February 26th, 2021 - 5 comments It seems that the Springbok tour protests in 1981 had a deep and abiding effect on David Seymour, even though he would not be born until two years later. He was clearly affected by the experience or lack thereof and has clearly harboured a deeply felt opposition to apartheid ever since. But regrettably his deeply felt opposition to apartheid is not matched by his understanding of what it involves.  Because he has confused the ability of par...

An Aucklander who spent six minutes at a store where a Covid-19 case was working had to wait nearly eight hours on the phone to get advice from Healthline. Even if this item isn't correct in every detail it illustrates cracks in the Covid management policy widening. Are front-line workers being properly paid and rested? Are investigators really on top of their job keeping up with the urgency needed, that was shown earlier on? NZ can't afford to be complacent. Recently one student was phoned a number of times without success, and a visit to the house wasn't made. In the meantime the...

I have concerns about the enthusiasms of NZ police from time to time, but I wouldn't trade the worst of them for Russians. Herodotus 3 Great to read this, thank you to the the community and mana whenua, for some real action on our environment. I just hope that all abide by this and we don't see any going against this as it is viewed as "optional". Better to see the local body/govt formalise this. Better still enlarge such protection into other areas �� "Mana whenua on Waiheke island are placing a two-year rāhui on the island in a bid to stop four species of kaimoana...