Content note – discussion of suicide, drug use, workplace violence, mass shootings, probably some other grim emergency room material The Pitt is a 2025 TV medical drama set in a fictional ER in Pittsburgh. It won three Emmys the other night, partly for being very well acted and well written, with great characters, but also […]| Death is a Whale
ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on August 25. As a freelance photographer and videographer, she had captured the suffering in Gaza through indelible images of malnourished children and grief-stricken families. In her will, she told her colleagues not to […] The post Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them? appeared first on Café Pacific | Davi...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement Avaaz, more than 250 news outlets from over 70 countries simultaneously blacked out their front pages and website homepages, and interrupt their broadcasting to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza […] The post 250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza ...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report About 120 journalists, film makers, actors, media workers and academics have today called on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and two senior cabinet ministers in an open letter to “act decisively” to protect Gaza journalists and a free press. “These are principles to which New Zealand has always laid claim and which are […] The post NZ media workers call for ‘decisive action’ by Luxon over Gaza journalists appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a “terrorist group”. Albanese says the move is because an assessment by the intelligence agency ASIO has concluded that Iran used a “complex web of proxies” […] The post 21 questions about the claim that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Australia appeared first on...| Café Pacific | David Robie
By David Robie: Last Saturday, 16 August 2025, I spoke at this Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) rally in the wake of the shocking targeted assassination of six journalists -- four of them working for the Al Jazeera network -- and another person in Gaza City.| Café Pacific | David Robie
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and against genocide for the past 97 weeks. Yet rarely have the protests across the motu made headlines — or even the news for that matter — unlike the larger demonstrations […] The post Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness with Gaza and West Bank appeared first on Café Pacific | David Robie.| Café Pacific | David Robie
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so revealing how Israelis keep begging Trump to end the killing in Gaza, because they understand that the US President has the power to force Israel to stop. It seems like Israelis understand this far better than Americans do. Six former Israeli hostages and the widow of a slain hostage […] The post Caitlin Johnstone: Israelis understand that Trump can end the nightmare in Gaza. Americans should know this too appeared first on Café Pacific | David Ro...| Café Pacific | David Robie
Democracy Now!: Global condemnation is mounting over Israel’s assassination of one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network and another freelance journalist.| Café Pacific | David Robie
Asia Pacific Report: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship Rainbow Warrior III last night to be wary of global “storm clouds” and the renewed existential threat of nuclear weapons.| Café Pacific | David Robie
By Kevin Thomas, Archives Technician 1924 does not resonate the way 1933, or 1941 does when thinking of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. It was, however, a year filled with encounters that would profoundly change both. 1924 was the year in which Franklin Roosevelt returned to the public stage in politics after polio. It was the … Continue reading 1924: A Year of New Beginnings| Forward with Roosevelt
We are proud and excited to be sponsoring the Embedded Recipes conference, for the first time, this year. Embedded Recipes is a small conference with an exclusive and community feel which focuses on open-source embedded systems. Following in the footsteps of it’s older cousin Kernel Recipes, the 6th edition of this conference will host 15 …| www.thegoodpenguin.co.uk
Here's my Cast Iron Brussels Sprouts recipe. Crispy, sweet Brussels sprouts sautéed in a cast iron pan make a great weeknight vegetable side dish. #recipe #castironrecipe| DadCooksDinner
Parents of young children are especially encouraged to join us on Sunday, March 9 to learn more about this life-saving topic. The program will be held at a beautiful home in Summerlin and will feature Dr.| American Friends of Rambam Medical Center
This is a mega-post about our daughter AB’s arrival a little over two months ago, with a bit about BB’s birth three years ago thrown in. I wanted to note| Piper Haywood
