Green MP Sue Kedgley says a report on TV violence released today shows that New Zealand children are being exposed to some of the highest levels of TV violence in the world.

The Green Broadcasting spokesperson welcomed the Report on TV Violence, which was funded through a Green Budget initiative.

The report found that on average, eight episodes of violence are being screened during every hour of television programming. “That means approximately 481,800 episodes of violence are being screened each year on New Zealand television, much of it during so-called ‘children’s viewing times’,” said Ms Kedgley.

“This is a shocking statistic. Clearly, violence pervades New Zealand television to such an extent that its constant presence and influence represents a public health threat, especially to young children.”

Ms Kedgley said she was shocked by the report’s findings that children’s cartoons have the highest levels of violence of all programmes — an average of 18.7 incidents of violence an hour — and that there was more violence during afternoon ‘children’s viewing times’ than during supposedly ‘adults only’ late night viewing.

“This is alarming, especially in light of the US Surgeon General’s finding in a 2001 report on youth violence that continuing exposure to TV violence between the age of 6-11 is a more significant risk factor than broken homes, abusive parents, neglect and anti-social peers.”

Ms Kedgley said the high levels of violence on TV2 — a state-owned channel that targets children and young people – and Sky’s Nickelodeon cartoon channel were of real concern. “It appears that some of the cartoons our children are watching are little more than animated thuggery,” she said.

Ms Kedgley says parents cannot be solely responsible for regulating and monitoring the content of television viewed by children. “All broadcasters, and especially our state broadcaster, must take responsibility for ensuring that our children are not exposed to potentially harmful television content, in the form of gratuitous and excessive violence.”

“There is a growing level of anxiety in the community about how violent our society is becoming. If we are serious about trying to make New Zealand a more peaceful, less violent society, we must implement the report’s many comprehensive and thoughtful recommendations as an urgent priority.”

Ms Kedgley strongly supports the call for a new mandate for the Broadcasting Standards Authority, to address and monitor television violence. “The BSA needs to be given legislative teeth and the power to regulate to ensure that networks set and meet acceptable levels of violence,” she said.

NaturalNews) The big food companies have dreamed up yet another clever con to sell processed junk foods to parents and children: A "Smart Choices" label that implies the food product is a smart choice for health and nutrition. The problem is that the standards for qualifying for this designation were set by the food companies themselves, and processed junk foods like Froot Loops (a sugary breakfast cereal) qualify.

Froot Loops is 41 percent processed white sugar. It also contains processed flour and partially-hydrogenated vegetable oil. But that's not all you'll find in the box: Froot Loops is also made with synthetic coloring chemicals, including Red #40, Blue #2, Yellow #6 and Blue #1. The No. 1 ingredient of Froot Loops is sugar, and each serving contains 12 grams of sugar.

So how, exactly, did Froot Loops qualify for the "Smart Choices" label?

I'll tell you how: Because the Smart Choices label is a marketing fraud. It's a manipulative, dishonest food package labeling system that is intentionally designed by the processed food companies to mislead and misinform consumers into buying processed food products, in my view.

You'd have to be deeply misinformed about nutritional basics to think that a processed breakfast cereal made of 41% sugar, partially-hydrogenated oils and artificial coloring chemicals is a "smart choice" for any child. A more appropriate label might be "Diabetes Choices" or "Obesity Choices", but certainly not "Smart Choices."

In my opinion, this marketing fraud is little more than a marketing gimmick. It makes you wonder who, exactly, came up with it.

Did Tufts University sell out to the food giants?

The president of the Smart Choices board is Eileen T. Kennedy, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. (http://nutrition.tufts.edu/11745629... )

Eileen Kennedy and other Tufts University faculty members have established ties with the Kellogg's company, having participated in a "Children's Health" forum that was co-sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

That event, held in June of this year, was entitled: 'Children's Health: The Future of Food & Nutrition Policy'. It claimed to offer in-depth discussions on topics like " childhood obesity, nutrition standards, global child nutrition  and school food." (http://www.reuters.com/article/pres... )

(Did their discussions ever mention that perhaps children shouldn't eat breakfast cereals made with 41% processed sugar?)

In promoting the event, Eileen Kennedy was quoted in a joint press release, admitting how closely her university works with food companies:

"Working with our colleagues across academia, the food and nutrition industry, government agencies and nonprofit organizations, we will influence and change the
nutritional landscape for our children."

She certainly accomplished that. Now, products made with 41% refined white sugar are fraudulently marketed as "Smart Choices."  

Health PHYSICAL & MENTAL

BREAK THROUGH THE CENSORSHIP OF ALL THE NEW ZEALAND MEDIA ABOUT ALL THINGS APPERTAINING TO THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION ON OUR FUTURE – OUR CHILDREN! WE KNOW WHY CHILDREN ARE FAT AND EVEN MURDEROUS AND THE DUMBING DOWN MEDIA IS BLAMING US -THE VICTIMS. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH! 

He dials 197 to hide his phone numbers and if asked his number by the radio station’s nazi boy guarding the phone lines gives a number of someone – a pal or pals  who keep  phones lifted, so the nazi phone boy finds that phone is indeed busy!
He writes poetry at http://www.bestpoet.com – just one of many sites.
His supine country men and women never join in to help by ringing.; NZ ? thus get carte blanche – being allowed to spread their lies unhindered to this day on radio and tv and newspapers.

Sometimes an angry host cuts off all the dear old ladies who sound like Brian!  FUNNY!. TALKBACK HAS TAPES OF ALL BRIAN’S VOICES. Brian Evans can sound like heaps of people disagreeing with the Rush Limbaugh type hosts we support -cunning  bullies- even then folk are too scared to ring.  John Minto is not scared but preciously says : “Oh the hosts are too ‘right-wing’ “- yes he does and did!

So what hope have we?

……………….Brian says :We copy America – and now potential bullies from the government – I mean agencies like police and genetic profilers etc etc etc are being put in schools here just like America to “stop the young school bullies” -who learn their bullying really and now even murder from our government approved filthy television. Television Junk food makes you extremely mad and neurotic as well! It has decimated our people in every way -again approved by Government dietitians etc . Not a squeek out of doctors -watch other Mcfuddled junk food shops go up in our kids’ hospitals!
Your kids can soon watch the new crap – another  film on vampires – where on bus stops they proclaim  “watch teen blood mixed with lust” – just what our school bullies do not need. Hey and young police could be bullies also. Wretched news for you – but you voted in  crooks and seem to hate the Greens who would have kept us decent helthy and informed. I mean they only get 5% – what in God’s name  is wrong with us?  Well Paul Holmes is God just now – maybe Mike Hosking -  the archangel Gabriel will be God next)

They are giving us a police-state folks – just like America and China and Britain etc. . for a New Order one world government . Monsanto will put us all on ’suicide seeds’  and we will all be eating Mcloony Happy Meals..Look up Alex Jones! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFhbSolKWP0    -soon no free speech internet either!
They make our kids fat also and fat people cannot march in protest – check out the skinny Green party.
To be fair Alex Jones is too plump now ironically. The nazi US obesity is now our disease also.  A Big Tragedy it will be if  we lose Alex.
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Brian : March 28 2009 I sent this email to Letters@nzherald.co.nz
and The Waiheke Gulf News at editor@waihekegulfnews.co.nz

“Who could be the new bullies in our schools?
I hope our kids answer back at school, if these foolish expensive surveillance agencies are set up in schools, to do even genetic profiling of our kids to quell violence.
Imagine bright young Johnny or Hemi or Vera :

“Please sir – all you have to do is clean up dumb television  – all that crazy junk food and crime shows.”
“Please sir, stop blaming my Mum and Dad. Both do shift work to pay the rent and are very sick now from cheap junk food and are very very tired and pre-diabetic.”

“Sorry sir, but are you nuts?.”

“You want a police-state, Mister policeman?”

It will require huge courage by the children but it will happen – it has got to.- or we get the fourth reich -more powerful now because of a nazi-controlled Hollywood, internet and all other media.
These threatened Orwellian-style adult bullies in our schools must not be allowed to proliferate.
Thus we desperately need a ‘Sensible Society Trust’ – not a ‘Sensible Sentencing Trust.’
Brian John Evans”
And phone etc

Now it is up to the people of New Zealand to in whatever way you can to    BREAK THROUGH THE CENSORSHIP OF ALL THE NEW ZEALAND  MEDIA ABOUT ALL THINGS APPERTAINING TO  THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION  ON OUR FUTURE – OUR CHILDREN!  WE KNOW WHY CHILDREN ARE FAT AND EVEN MURDEROUS AND THE DUMBING DOWN MEDIA IS  BLAMING US -THE VICTIMS. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH! AND WE OUTNUMBER YOU. We are presently just numbed and stunned. If  you don’t want to be nice – then go away – CELEBRITY GRINNING JOKING POSEURS – You are  the softy, mother’s boys, look-alikes, news or weather men or the hard, much harder TV  women- all chosen as being totally without conscience – you never question your nazi TV bosses RIGHT WING POLICIES OR MODUS OPERANDI – You are collaborators all.

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Green MP Sue Kedgley says a report on TV violence released today shows that New Zealand children are being exposed to some of the highest levels of TV violence in the world.

The Green Broadcasting spokesperson welcomed the Report on TV Violence, which was funded through a Green Budget initiative.

The report found that on average, eight episodes of violence are being screened during every hour of television programming. “That means approximately 481,800 episodes of violence are being screened each year on New Zealand television, much of it during so-called ‘children’s viewing times’,” said Ms Kedgley.

“This is a shocking statistic. Clearly, violence pervades New Zealand television to such an extent that its constant presence and influence represents a public health threat, especially to young children.”

Ms Kedgley said she was shocked by the report’s findings that children’s cartoons have the highest levels of violence of all programmes — an average of 18.7 incidents of violence an hour — and that there was more violence during afternoon ‘children’s viewing times’ than during supposedly ‘adults only’ late night viewing.

“This is alarming, especially in light of the US Surgeon General’s finding in a 2001 report on youth violence that continuing exposure to TV violence between the age of 6-11 is a more significant risk factor than broken homes, abusive parents, neglect and anti-social peers.”

Ms Kedgley said the high levels of violence on TV2 — a state-owned channel that targets children and young people – and Sky’s Nickelodeon cartoon channel were of real concern. “It appears that some of the cartoons our children are watching are little more than animated thuggery,” she said.

Ms Kedgley says parents cannot be solely responsible for regulating and monitoring the content of television viewed by children. “All broadcasters, and especially our state broadcaster, must take responsibility for ensuring that our children are not exposed to potentially harmful television content, in the form of gratuitous and excessive violence.”

“There is a growing level of anxiety in the community about how violent our society is becoming. If we are serious about trying to make New Zealand a more peaceful, less violent society, we must implement the report’s many comprehensive and thoughtful recommendations as an urgent priority.”

Ms Kedgley strongly supports the call for a new mandate for the Broadcasting Standards Authority, to address and monitor television violence. “The BSA needs to be given legislative teeth and the power to regulate to ensure that networks set and meet acceptable levels of violence,” she said.

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brianjohnevans says:

So why are we so scared to confront the violence  TV heads and celebrities celebrate.  They get so wealthy while we suffer hugely and for no good reason.

We pay huge tax for jails and police and hospitals and TV should be made to pay much of that tax cost.

Before TV we had one murder a year, so are we actually being brainwashed to self-censorship with all these murders now..

None of the many medias now allow any discussion  about violent TV;  they only scapegoat parents and teachers as the causation of bullying  murderous children.

Blame the victims is standard right-wing policy.

And we fall for it

It is a conspiracy to bring in New Order Police States.   Go Madison Avenue – you go girlymen!

And we copycat America where ‘Three strikes and you are out’ , taisers,  guns, torture,  police helicopters, phone-tapping,  and all the other fascist nonsense originates.

Hitler must be laughing – especially as it is mostly zionists making these propoganda films for our kids.

America imported them or their parents from Nazi Germany as well as nazi geneticists and nazi scientists.

But that is a very long story which differentiates between good jew and zionist,  pugnacious,  warring, New Order,  jew – and due  to Television we have very short attention spans.

Why are we all ignoring this malevolent perversion of our culture and morals that the Green party could have confronted, with a decent vote from us?

When I hugely confronted Talkback Radio on  this issue  then the hosts would send the police to my house.

“Brian – stop harrassing the hosts”.

With no support I folded my tent, licked my wounds and here  I am – thinking… a lot…

http://www.greens.org.nz/press-releases/violent-tv-breeds-violent-society-say-greens

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http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=violent+tv&btnG=Google+Search eta=

http://www.apoem.com

Censorship of the media now includes youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZUv7gXLbTo&feature=related

Wake up people.

The last good president (Kennedy) said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drxqEVbg8V8&feature=related  

Brian John Evans

“The Talkback Terrorist of New Zealand”

http://www.bestpoet.com

Now relax and get a little teary with me with Joan Baez and others & Bobby Mcgee!  Copy and paste the youtube sites  in your browser….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc0tU9JhMmU

feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iX-EcRKXJw&NR=1

Janice Joplin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxk_DoJ8dNQ&feature=related

Johnny Cash!

http://www.joanbaez.com/officialbio08.html

SING BOBBY MCGEE - MUSIC & WORDS HERE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IxfOYpJbBI&feature=related

A freedom fighter is Joan Baez. Go Joan Baez!  You go girl. Show the boys how to do the protest business.

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