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December 10, 2024
Essay by Keith Rankin. A few days ago I watched a recording from Al Jazeera of Earthrise Systems Change. The news banner at the bottom of the screen told this story: “One person killed and at least five others injured in a car-ramming attack in central Tel Aviv. Medics say all victims in Tel Aviv ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Al Aqsa provocation and the media game ‘Israel says’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/10/keith-rankin-essay-al-aqsa-provocation-and-the-media-game-israel-says/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Al Aqsa provocation and the media game ‘Israel says’">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I was concerned when the story broke last month about inappropriate subediting by RNZ staff of ‘wirecopy’ from international sources such as Reuters. The wire-tampering story broke with particular reference to stories about the war in Ukraine; and, at least for that story, it needs to be understood that Aotearoa New ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/13/keith-rankin-analysis-narratives-and-narrators-the-curious-rnz-story/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Essay by Keith Rankin. I was intrigued to see this Daily Telegraph story – King Charles’ coronation: Australian man Simon Abney-Hastings could be rightful heir to British throne (published NZ Herald, 9 April) – about an Australian resident who could be said to be the rightful king of the United Kingdom and those Commonwealth countries ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Monarchy Past and Present, Succession, and Credible Threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/keith-rankin-essay-monarchy-past-and-present-succession-and-credible-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Monarchy Past and Present, Succession, and Credible Threats">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Kayt Davies in Perth I wasn’t good at French in my final year of high school. My classmates had five years of language studies behind them. I had three. As a result of my woeful grip on the language, I wrote a terribly bad essay in my final French exam. The more I ... <a title="Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/04/kayt-davies-ai-will-take-media-jobs-but-will-free-up-time-for-fun-stuff/" aria-label="Read more about Kayt Davies: AI will take media jobs but will free up time for fun stuff">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. “Antlers grow through a mechanism that is very similar to cancer. But, because deer can keep that growth in check, they are extremely resilient to cancers. … “Sardinia’s own dwarf deer, a relative of Ireland’s giant elk, was eradicated within a hundred years of human colonization, some 9,000 years ago.” Thomas ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – To Be a Good Cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/keith-rankin-essay-to-be-a-good-cancer/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – To Be a Good Cancer">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The academic study of history, more than anything else, is about the relationships between social elites and the lower classes. Yet, when it comes to the present, the relationships between elites and wider society is under-discussed, both popularly and academically. (In academia, it is the province of sociology, a social ‘science’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/keith-rankin-essay-how-do-left-wing-elites-make-their-money/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week the world population reached eight billion people, at least according to some sources. See these world population clocks, which do not agree: refer Worldometer and the US Census Bureau. The growth rate of the world population is slowing. Indeed, there is a possibility that it will never reach nine ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Population Imbalances in a World of Eight Billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/keith-rankin-essay-population-imbalances-in-a-world-of-eight-billion/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Population Imbalances in a World of Eight Billion">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This morning, RNZ played the following story: Health stats show 87 people have died in their homes from Covid-19 since March, which references New Zealand’s most media-visible expert, Dr Michael Baker. (And this on today’s Morning Report.) Before commenting on today’s story, it is pertinent to check out a story published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/10/keith-rankin-essay-public-health-watch-where-does-michael-baker-get-his-facts-from/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2022
Essay by By Raymond Maisano, Head of Australia and New Zealand, Cloudflare. Aotearoa New Zealand makes up a small portion of the world’s population, yet the country is being hit by a relatively bigger share of cyber attacks. Chances are, you’re familiar with the term ‘distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack’. Not because your organisation ... <a title="Submission – Why New Zealand is a ‘sweet spot’ for DDoS attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/22/submission-why-new-zealand-is-a-sweet-spot-for-ddos-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Submission – Why New Zealand is a ‘sweet spot’ for DDoS attacks">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The new (though not unfamiliar to older New Zealanders) crisis of 2022 (and most likely beyond) has become, alternatively, a ‘cost of living’ or an ‘inflation’ crisis. The public discussion treats these two ‘enemies of the people’ as one and the same thing. But they are not. Indeed such conflation is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/21/keith-rankin-essay-problem-of-price-increases-cost-of-living-versus-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Problem of Price Increases: ‘Cost of Living’ versus ‘Inflation’">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2022
Analysis Keith Rankin. One of the major themes in my life, as a baby-boomer growing up in the 1960s, has been the relationship between ‘man’ (aka humankind) and ‘nature’. Science – especially applied science, and western philosophy – was presented as a progressive economic project which involved ‘taming nature’. And indeed there were successes, many ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Nature: Friend or Foe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/26/keith-rankin-essay-nature-friend-or-foe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Nature: Friend or Foe?">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I watched the very short movie Forgive Us Our Trespasses on Netflix today (Saturday, March 05). Set in Germany in the 1930s, it starts with a schoolteacher giving an arithmetic lesson to a class of children. The question posed was that the cost of caring for a disabled child was 12.00 ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/05/keith-rankin-on-immigration-new-zealand-cancelling-disabled-children/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Immigration New Zealand Cancelling Disabled Children">Read more</a>
