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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A DENIAL OF NATURAL JUSTICE BY GOOGLE ADSENSE - ACCOUNT AT KIWI RIVERMAN ARBITARILY DISABLED WITH NO EXPLANATION...

Some months ago Google Adsense arbitarily disabled the account at Kiwi Riverman with no explanation. Despite sending a number of messages through the appeal system, we have never received a reply or explanation for the disabling of our account. There was literally a deafening silence!

I have always believed that we lived in a western democratic society and that the world wide web was expressed in the same democratic way.

Google Adsense was based in the United States of America - the land of the free. There was an arrogant denial of natural justice in this instance.

I would hope that if a member of Google Adsense management or somebody close to them reads this post, I would appreciate them making a comment at the end of this post.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

THE TRUTH ABOUT BARACK OBAMA...

The Truth About Barack Obama:

Rumors the Obama campaign shouldn't try to correct.

The Barack Obama presidential campaign introduced a new site last week, FightTheSmears.com, that it hopes will debunk persistent myths about the senator: that he's a Muslim, that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance, etc. As we have argued before, restating the myths often reinforces them, no matter how persuasively they've been refuted.

Rather than restate untruths about Obama, the campaign would do better to start some rumors of its own. Here's a template e-mail the Obama campaign might consider disseminating.

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Sunday, November 04, 2007

LET'S PUT THE QUESTION: DOES THE STATE OF TEXAS AND GOD LOVE TO EXECUTE? YES I THINK!

Do Texas and God love to execute? Your thoughts about this? Yes or no?

Texas will almost certainly reach the grim total of 400 executions in 25 years this month, far ahead of any other American state. The toll is testament to the influence of the state's conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural mix of Old South and Wild West. Some critics say the South can be seen in the racial bias of death sentencing, more than 41 per cent of the inmates on death row in Texas are black, but blacks are only about 12 per cent of the state's population.

In America God is allegedly a little different, he wears a big cowboy hat and a semi automatic hand gun, delivers justice via an electric chair and apparently has an IQ of 3, the ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘love each other’ God was allegedly replaced in favour of the furiously stupid and psychopathic God by popular vote in America in 1832, how one can balance the apparent ‘goodness’ of God with a corrupt death penalty system that seems to have a penchant for executing black people is something claimed only a bible thumping Texan could understand. Amen.

The Writers Lounge

Sunday, September 02, 2007

HE IS OUR PETER JACKSON - FILM MAKER EXTRORDINAIRE - ANOTHER KIWI SUCCESS STORY.

He is Peter Jackson from New Zealand - the world's highest paid director for King Kong.The Guiness world record for the biggest paid fee paid to a director. That's a lot of money for some great writing.It was also the biggest film budget too - US$207 million for King Kong.

If Peter Jackson doesn't like what studios offer him, which includes 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures profit share offer for the yet unmade HALO - he backs off and looks elsewhere.He can afford to - THE LORD OF THE RINGS made US$2.7 billion at the box office alone -with 20 Oscars from his films he can do what he likes.There are more movies, a partnership with Microsoft for new kinds of video games, and even ideas for a television mini- series.

Don't get the idea that Peter Jackson is some sort of big- head - he isn't! He's lost a lot of weight and has replaced those horn rim glasses with contact lenses, but at heart he is still that big overweight young man who started his professional life making a low budget gory comic zombie movie BAD TASTE, on weekends around the Wellington region for three years or so.

He was self- taught and was involved in just about everything in that film - the $10,000 cost coming from his weekly wage as an engraver for the local paper.Twenty years ago this very month, the New Zealand Film Commission finally relented and agreed to financially back an unknown young film maker from Pukerua Bay just a few miles outside of Wellington City.

He said he used to save up and buy four or five rolls of film, shoot them all up in a day, store them in the fridge until his next pay cheque and get them processed.When he had to pay the lab bill he couldn't afford film until the following week.

He was living at home with his parents at the time, and when he got his first $5,000 from the film commission he resigned his job as an engraver the very next day.

Today Peter doesn't have to store film in his fridges in his homes, offices or jet. He can afford as many rolls of film he wants, whenever he wants, in a jiffy,and get the film processed in a multi- million dollar facility that he owns in Wellington. He no longer has to go cap in hand to anybody to get money for his films. Now the world's biggest studios come to him! He is Mr Peter Jackson, and the world is his oyster.

Peter's Life and World Events

Thursday, August 30, 2007

ECHOES OF LIAM - THE SAD DEATH OF YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER, LIAM ASHLEY IN 2006. R.I.P.

The following story was written and posted on now defunct blogsites in 2006. It was one of the saddest stories I have ever written about.
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A most tragic case of parents tough love gone so sadly wrong - their youngest son loses his life!

A 17 yr old Auckland, New Zealand,youth was facing a charge of unlawfully converting his mother's car. His parents decided albeit wisely or unwisely, to try and teach their youngest son some responsibility for his actions. They persuaded the District Court judge to remand him in custody and enable him to gain some first hand knowledge of the justice system - a little time at the coalface, if you like!

The youth, named Liam Ashley, was transported from the court with 13 other remand prisoners in a private security company's van which was divided into four compartments - there has not yet any reason given to why the Corrections Department did not transport the prisoners to the remand prison - and Liam was put into one of the compartments with two other men, one of whom was a violent gang member with a string of 80 convictions behind him.

That man has now been arrested for Liam's death after allegedly beating and strangling the youth to death with his handcuffs on the way to the remand prison.

The 25 yr old man is understood to be a member of a notorious local gang with convictions for firearms offences, escaping from custody and aggravated robbery.

His last court appearance which resulted in him being in the same security van as young Liam, was for aggravated robbery and wounding with intent, and had to be accompanied to court by four armed guards because of his violent history and unpredictability.

How on earth was the youth, who has had no previous offences,placed with such a felon?

The devastated family find the situation that led to their son's death, untenable, intolerable and unacceptable under any circumstances, and obviously negligent. They, too,wonder just how their son could have been placed in the van with such a person.They do not need any reminding that it was their initial decision to have their son put into custody, when he could have been bailed.

When the van had arrived at the remand prison Liam had not been breathing. Ambulance officers managed to resuscitate him, but such was the severity of his subsequent brain damage the family later had his life support turned off.

A post mortem established the cause of death and an enquiry will be held to determine why Liam was put in the van with such a violent prisoner.

A devastated family continues to grieve for the death of their youngest son in such circumstances.

The prisoner has now been officially charged with the murder of the youth who had his own challenges; he was an at risk youth who had been assessed with ADHD earlier in his young life, something that undoubtably created its own difficulties.

Updates to the story:

The prisoner was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. An appeal aganst his sentence was denied in 2007.

Young Liam's sad death has resulted in a number of changes to the transportation of prisoners in New Zealand. The private company previously involved has not had its contract extended. The Corrections Department itself will assume this role in future, as was done back in the days of the old Prison Service.

Prisoners will be manacled while being transported in future.

Nothing will bring young Liam back,but let's hope his death was not all in vain. The changes that have been made by the NZ Corrections Department should ensure that the situation that led up to Liam's death will not be able to be repeated.

Even in retrospect,I don't blame Liam's mother for the decision she made; it was made out of love and concern for her at risk young son.

My Write Niche

Saturday, August 04, 2007

MY VENTURES INTO NICHE BLOGGING - I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT IT WAS BEFORE!

I have always been a general sort of a blogger, just writing about what caught my fancy at the time. But that changed when I moved to Blogger weblogs. I now have a team of four, all with specific niches.

They are all New Zealand based niche blogs: NZ politics, general subjects, controversies and local affairs. I am also learning how to add some banners, and will also download a picture or two when I get the hang of it.

I am also wide open for advice and hope to attract some comments along the way. So if you feel inclined, please do so.

I am also going to link back to 'Blogging Fingers', an excellent source of advice for Blogger bloggers.

Niche Blogging

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Silver and Black equals Gold in New Zealand sports - what a weekend...

To understand us, you would have to be at least an Australian. They are probably greater sports nuts than we in New Zealand.

Most of our competitive sports are played against the Australians. They love to rub it in when their sides beat us. If I'm honest that is quite often, but...

Part one - The Men:

When the Men in Black, the All Blacks from New Zealand, the consistently most successful and historically greatest rugby team and rugby brand in world rugby, said by France to be the Brazil of rugby - and what a compliment that was, thank you very much, come calling things can get pretty difficult for opposing teams.

Because of a deliberate re-conditioning program for 22 selected All Blacks that kept them out of the Super 14 professional rugby competition for eight weeks, they have had a less than perfect start to test rugby for the year. However they have lost only one of the internationals this season, againt Australia in Melbourne three weeks ago. On Saturday the All Blacks struck back and beat the Aussies in the final game of the series which decided the Bledisloe Cup against Australia, and the Tri-Nations Cup between NZ, South Africa and Australia.

Despite the rhetoric emanating from Australia and South Africa, the All Blacks talked the talk and walked the walk - and put their money where their mouths were! They have been decisive in victory. The AB's machine will be rolling forward towards the Rugby World Cup in just over a month in France.

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Part Two - The Women:

The men battle away at rugby, rugby league and soccer, while the women battle away at netball. Australia and the New Zealand Silver Ferns have been doing just that in the last week. A few days ago the Aussies 'kicked butt' and proclaimed themselves as the top dogs(no I'm not going there) and played again on Saturday night. Hey, Netball is not supposed to be a contact sport, you know? There were women flying around landing on their backsides as if they were playing indoor rugby. The Silver Ferns came back and took out the game in exra time after it was all tied up after regular time. Well done girls! They have their World Championships at Auckland later in the year. The Championships were taken off Fiji after their inane military coup a few months ago. That is a subject for another post at another time.

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Part Three - The Rest:

All eyes were on the rugby and netball and the results of other sports were overshadowed.

The NZ Women's cricket team beat the Australian women.

The Phoenix men's soccer team beat the Sydney team 3-0 in a pre-season game.

The NZ Warriors had a good win against the West Tigers in the NRL - the National Rugby League Competion.

The New Zealand 'Tall Blacks' basketball team beat Venezuela in a series in NZ. NZ actually ranks number 12 in the world. Not the Aussies, but a team ranked well above them never the less.

Scott Dixon won his third consecutive race on the Indy Car circuit, on his 27th birthday, in the US - still running second in the competition

So that was our sporting weekend - Silver and Black equalled Gold.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

A SPECIAL GIFT TO THE ALL BLACKS FROM THEIR MAIN SPONSORS - ADIDAS

A special gift from Adidas and the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) will make sure the All Blacks stay connected to their homeland at a purely grass roots level for the World Cup in France this year.

The NZRU and Adidas are in the process of cutting a piece of turf from dozens of grounds around the country.

Soil from the turf will help to make up the gift that the team will take to France in August.

Adidas NZ marketing manager Craig Waugh said the idea behind the campaign was that the 1072 All Blacks to date were "Of This Earth".

"The turf we are collecting from clubs around the country will cover the rugby grounds on which every All Black has played," Craig said.

"We'll then be creating a very special gift to send along to France with the All Blacks when they contest the World Cup."

NZRU marketing manager Fraser Holland said turf would be collected from major stadiums like Eden Park, Waikato Stadium and Carisbrook, as well as small provincial grounds like Southbridge, the home ground to first five-eighths Dan Carter, and Opunake Beach, home to prop Carl Hayman.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

International Muslim protest at Salman Rushdie knighthood award:

As some British Muslims protested at the awarding of writer Salmam Rushdie’s coming knighthood, reports are coming through about concerted mass strikes and demonstrations in India, Iran and Pakistan; others distanced themselves from the effigy burning and reprisals.

There was about 20 demonstrations at Regents Park mosque in London after prayers, with men with covered faces waving placards, one of which allegedly read “God save the Queen”, and shouting slogans.

Mosque staff distanced themselves from the demonstration. A woman from the director- general’s office stating ” We do not sanction this protest or the views they are expressing.”

Why is it many Muslims cover their faces when protesting? Haven’t they the courage of their convictions, or is they just lack old fashioned intestinal fortitude?

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Home About Us Press Site Map Learning Bridge Youth Af. Americans Latinos Contact Us Get Involved Login-register Choosing Friends
Human beings are by nature social beings who interact, are interdependent, and thus, in need of friends and companions. Much of our lives are spent in such social associations, and friendship is indeed an essential component in human relationships. Since early childhood, friends help us through changes we may face as we go through the different stages in life. Through friends we share our ultimate fears, sorrows, happiness, and goals. Such friends can help heal certain wounds and memories of the past and help us meet the challenges of the future.

For Muslims in all conditions; and specifically when living in a society where we are clearly a minority, the issue of choosing good friends is essential for preserving our beliefs and life-style.

Influence of Friends

Prophet Muhammad advised that a person is influenced by the lifestyle of friends; so, be cautious whom you befriend. If one is negatively influenced by those we associate, with then the consequence could be disastrous. [Qur'an 43:67] Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: "The example of a good companion and a bad companion is like that of the seller of musk compared to the one who blows the blacksmith's bellows. As for the seller of musk; either he will grant you some, or you buy some from him, or at least you enjoy a pleasant smell from his perfumes. As for the one who blows the blacksmith's bellows; either your clothes could burn or you will get an offensive smell from the smoke of his fire."

Friends & Friendship

Friends are people, who spontaneously seek the company of one another; who like and wish to do well for the other, believing that the other party reciprocates these feelings with good intentions.

Friendship is a voluntary, informal, reciprocal and interpersonal relationship that is mutually productive and characterized by mutual positive regard. Friendship is intended to facilitate social-emotional goals of the participants, and may involve varying types and degrees of companionship, closeness, affection, and mutual assistance. Friendship is manifested through honesty, sincerity; trust; openness; loyalty; reliability and the durability of the relationship over time.

In Islamic literature, the root meaning of the terms used for friend indicate some of the essential qualities necessary for friendship ... Siddiq (truthful/honest), Khalil (associate/link), Wali (protector/overseer), Rafiq (kind/caring).
"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." [Author, Douglas Pagels]

Who do You Choose as Friends & Why?

Researchers conclude that an individual's opportunity to make and maintain friends over their life course is influenced by various factors such as age, gender, physical status, ability/disability level, living environment, cultural/religious background, socio-economic status and psychological characteristics [Johnson and Troll, 1994].

When you choose your friends, which qualities are most important ...

Social status / Popularity
Income level / Wealth
Looks / Appearance
Race/Ethnicity
Faith and/or Character
Political Affiliation
Intelligence / Education
Interest / Hobbies / Skills
Compassion / Care
Loyalty / Reliability
Different Kinds of Friendship :

for pleasure {could be positive or negative}
for usefulness/utility {could be positive or negative}
for virtue = friendship of character. {must be positive}
natural friendships = between father/son, siblings ... {ought to be positive}
Sayedna 'Ali advised:
"Befriend the righteous, flee from the transgressors, avoid the hypocrites and do not associate with deceivers."
To form a healthy and long-lasting friendship, people must be productive in that relationship, and they cannot be causing harm to themselves or the other person involved. "Once destructiveness enters into a relationship, it can no longer be characterized as a friendship." [Joseph A. Devito: The Interpersonal Communication Book.] This is not only true in friendship relationships but also in marriage relationships and parent-to-child relationships.

Best of Friends

Wise ones have said ...

"The best friend; according to the estimation of Allah, is the one best to his/her friend." [Prophet Muhammad]
Best friends aren't born, they're made, one great memory at a time
"Complete friendship is the friendship of good people similar in virtue; for they wish good in the same way to each other in so far as they are good, and they are good themselves. Such friendships last as long as they are good; and virtue is enduring." [Aristotle]
Many people will walk in and out of your life; but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Are you the kind of person that meets the standards of a good friend?

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Lets chill out a little today, friends. A little humor can be the elixir of life. Lets laugh at ourselves!

Keeping to my desired intention to add a little humor once more and deciding to kick political correctness all the way to the toilet of the American White House, not the old white house around the corner down by the park with all those overgrown trees and bushes - lets have another joke dear friends!

There were three Indian squaws, probably related to the chief in last weeks story. One slept on a deerskin, one slept on an elk skin and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All became pregnant and the first two had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys.

This goes to prove that sons of the squaw on the hippopotamus are equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

As the chief said in my story of last week,the thong has long ended but the malady is still lingering on.

But later the chief rushed into the tent of the medicine man and shouted, "I'm shrinking!" The medicine man replied calmly, Now settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."

In the morning the chief, the medicine man, the squaws and their sons all rode off to the Little Big Horn!