Pasta News Network - New Zealand

The final version of the New Zealand History Curriculum contained no significant changes in spite of widespread concerns. The consultation process was an exercise in window dressing. The review panel was stacked, dissenting historians were silenced, the terms of reference limited, the period of consultation constricted, and the outcome predetermined.

What has been produced is not a "history curriculum" as such. What has been produced is a perspective on history that is fundamentally based on Critical Race Theory.

Expect homeschooling parents to increase in numbers as everything continues to be tainted by identity politics and woke machinations.

Waka Kotahi is understood to have flagged concerns directly to Government regarding the frequency of its policy U-Turns saying that it ‘sets a bad example’ to the nation’s drivers as we head into the Christmas holiday period.

“We always recommend that you plan your route ahead of time. U-Turns waste a lot of energy because you end-up just driving back past stuff you’ve already driven past!”

Worth a chuckle, NZTA would be perfectly capable of saying these things though.

Covid is a controversial and emotive topic. People hold strong views often based on bitter or difficult personal experiences. In the midst of the pandemic there were no perfect solutions but experts and officials worked under intense pressure to provide their advice to government. A broad array of recommendations covering numerous issues needed to be synthesized into coherent pandemic policies for approval by Cabinet.

My intention is not to second-guess the science or the decisions made by experts but to examine what recommendations were made by the relevant technical committees and then compare those with how the government decided to act and how those actions were presented to the public by the Prime Minister, the former Director-General of Health, Dr Bloomfield and others.

The Precautionary Method was ignored over fear. The only thing to quell that fear was to try and vaccinate everybody regardless of the safety signals.

Excellent citizen journalism by Cranmer.

The scandal surrounding Pfizer’s contracts with the European Union over COVID vaccines has taken a new turn. The European Parliament’s COVID committee (COVI) approved on Wednesday, January 11th a proposal to ban Pfizer representatives from Parliament because of the company’s repeated lack of transparency.

Albert Bourla systematically refused to attend COVI committee meetings in October 2022 and December 2022, triggering protests from committee members. “The EP has a right to full transparency on the details of this spending and the preliminary negotiations that led to it,” tweeted Kathleen Van Brempt, chair of the COVI committee in December.

"The bill comes due." - Baron Mordo

Over the last few years, there has been much written about the destruction of American democracy. Frequently the threat has been of alleged interference in U.S. elections by Russia, China or other state actors. Government agencies, the name of election integrity, were assigned to identify and disrupt these foreign intrusions. As more and more information is revealed about these agencies, it seems that America's Intelligence Community participated in these activities domestically, and in a way that poses a grave threat to both election integrity and American democracy.

JFK was right.

Neil, are you serious that the vaccine has saved “tens of millions” of people from dying from COVID like you said at timestamp 16:40 in this YouTube video.

I don’t think you are serious.

But let’s put it to the test.

The same Mr. Tyson that exults the virtues of being curious, learning and asking questions about everything, but do not do that when it comes to vaccines.

Am disappointed, thought he was better then that. See timestamp 3:52 - 5:02.

Neil is running for cover just as expected. He ignored my email and text messages.

With animals, there is no such database.mRNA vaccines in the “animal health” or veterinary markets are difficult to track until the company or the USDA is ready to release information on that product’s development or release. The USDA and/or the NIH have no mechanism for tracking potential new vaccines, drugs or biologics for the animal market.

Therefore, one must rely on press releases, the occasional peer reviewed paper, conference notes, USDA grant and contract notifications, university websites and company profiles for discovery of such new products. Not adequate, in my opinion, and most definitely not transparent. By federal law, the public should have open access to the results of this type of federally funded research.

In today’s substack, the state of mRNA “vaccines” for animal “health” is discussed.Citing public sources, I will review what is known and not known about commercial liaisons and partnerships, the corporations involved, ongoing research and products in various states of development.

Dr. Malone then proceeds with listing a number of articles which should raise an eyebrow.

This is fine.

After three booster campaigns in 2022, the Japanese are now in a league of their own among mRNA consuming countries, administering far more boosters than countries that had far more coercive vax campaigns.

Japanese over 65 have done their best to reduce Japan’s 612-million-dose stockpile of mRNA jabs, with 3rd, 4th, and 5th jab rates of 91%, 82.5%, and 56%, respectively. But unfortunately, Japan has started 2023 by reporting its highest ever daily Covid death tolls. During the booster era starting in early 2022, each wave has been noticeably higher than the last.

The cumulative effects of mRNA vaccines at work.

What makes this even more awkward is that Covid is far less lethal nowadays putting into question why many countries still push 2021-era health protocols.

These days Apple is associated with the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook – game-changing products so wildly successful that they have changed the way we live. But even the most valuable company in the world has had its fair share of marketing missteps and hardware blunders.

Apple wasn't always as profitable as it is today, and the failure of some of its earlier products would have doomed most other tech companies to the annals of history. Here we take a look back at some of Apple's most infamous hardware flops. See if you agree, and let us know in the comments of any other questionable Apple devices that you think deserve to be named and shamed.

Accurate list.

Three things:

• Newton was under appreciated.
• Still want to see a Pippin in action one day.
• Pricing the G4 Cube at the same price as an expandable G4 Tower was never a good idea, otherwise a beautiful piece of engineering.

For the fourth year in a row, Sony brought its electric car prototype to CES to show it off to a global audience. But this year we finally got what we’ve wanted all along: a production date. We also got a name: “AFEELA.”

According to Sony’s presentation, the car will start US preorders in the first half of 2025, and the first shipment will be delivered to North American customers in spring 2026.

In terms of specs, we didn’t hear a whole lot new this year. Presumably it will have the same or similar specs as were announced originally – 400kW (536hp) dual-motor all-wheel-drive, 0-100km/h (0-62mph) in 4.8 seconds, and a top speed of 240km/h (149mph). We still have no information on price or battery size.

Was not expecting to hear the name Sony and EV's in the same sentence, but if you make most of the worlds image sensors and have several successful software platforms then why not.

Looks civilised with enough "future glam" but that name though...

In the early days of Nerdcore, RhymeTorrents.org released a number of samplers of Nerdcore that was available at that time. This was Volume 2.

"Rai - Sunny Sunny Sunday" for how bubbly it is without being overtly cute with bonus break beats.

In the early days of Nerdcore, RhymeTorrents.org released a number of samplers of Nerdcore that was available at that time. This was Volume 1.

"Monzy - Kill Dash Nine" would be my pick as a Unix admin.