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| Trump indicted |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-08-2023, 03:38 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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He's charged with atempting to overturn his election result in Georgia in 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66505804
[b]"Former US President Donald Trump has been charged with attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state of Georgia.[/b]
He and 18 others have been indicted on counts that include racketeering in a 41-count indictment issued by a Fulton County grand jury.
The indictment marks the fourth time Mr Trump has been criminally charged this year.
He has denied the accusations in all cases.
Mr Trump, currently the frontrunner in the Republican Party's race to pick its next candidate for the White House, said the investigation by Ms Willis, a Democrat, was politically motivated.
In a statement, the Trump campaign described the district attorney as a "rabid partisan" who had filed "these bogus indictments" to interfere with the 2024 presidential race and "damage the dominant Trump campaign".
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| ACT pledge 'racist & inhumane' |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 14-08-2023, 03:25 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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ACT have pledged to abolish cultural reports provided to judges. A law lecturer says this is  racist & devoid of compassion & humanity. 
It would be damned near miraculous if our political parties were to acknowlege the reality that harsh penalties don't always bring about the change in criminal behaviour they like to claim & instead, actually looked at what works, rather than than vote catching by appealing to the 'lock em up brigade'.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/act...8b446&ei=8
"ActÔÇÖs pledge to abolish cultural reports is racist and devoid of compassion and humanity. Cultural reports are designed to provide judges with important detail and context about a person who has committed a crime, and any events or issues that may have contributed to their offending.
Act is claiming that cultural reports are being used to ÔÇ£favour criminals and go soft on victimsÔÇØ, that they are a misuse of public funds and that scrapping them will ÔÇ£make our country safer and ensure that sentencing is appropriate to the crimeÔÇØ.
But these claims have no basis in evidence and reality.
[b]Lecturer Fuimaono Dylan Asafo[/b]ÔÇó3h
[b]pinion by Auckland University Law Lecturer Fuimaono Dylan Asaf[/b]
It is clear that Act has not researched cultural reports, but that they are taking figures and statistics out of context and exploiting recent tragedies for their own political gain.
The reality is that these cultural reports (which National also wants to cut funding for) are one of the few ways that our criminal legal system can show compassion and humanity. They not only allow judges to do their jobs reliably and accurately by seeing crimes and the people who commit them in context.
They also allow judges to more deeply consider why someone has come to the moment they are in as they stand before the court. These reports enable judges to understand more about a person, their life and background, rather than simply the details of their offence.
Unlike Act, there are many experts in the criminal legal system who have carefully studied how cultural reports work. These experts have told us time and time again that these reports are essential to keep communities safe and create a fair and equal society for all.
Another experienced lawyer, Russell Fairbrother, has stated that cultural reports bring a ÔÇ£natural humanityÔÇØ to the system and that anybody with a sense of decency, would want someone being sentenced to have their background considered.
ÔÇ£YouÔÇÖve got to be able to understand why someone responds in the way that they respond...because you canÔÇÖt address the problem until you identify it and then find a way out,ÔÇØ says Fairbrother."
Its dificult to comprehend that any political party can be so willfully ignorant. There are any number of various reports & studies which show  that harsh methods do not work well, & can instead have the effect of creating lifelong criminals - which virtually no one wants.
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| Greens' subsidies on solar |
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Posted by: harm_less - 13-08-2023, 06:30 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Finally a political party has seen the light (pun intended) and intends to incentivise the uptake of domestic PV solar uptake. We have seen EVs subsidised over the past few years by way of the Clean Car Discount system but as EV numbers grow we have seen little to support the added electricity demands of charging those vehicles on both a household and grid capacity basis.
Apart from the financial benefit to individuals, including landlords, in adding a few PV panels to their dwellings the environmental advantage of removing demand from our grid which is presently contributed to with thermal generation overall this is a well balanced policy.
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1690498505465585664
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| Maui fires |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 13-08-2023, 03:20 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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So far at least 89 people are known to have died but may well be more.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66489815
[b]Additional expert support has been deployed to Hawaii, where forensic work is continuing to find victims of the devastating wildfires.[/b]
At least 89 people are known to have died but there are fears this number will rise further, with hundreds still unaccounted for.
Many more remain in emergency shelters after fleeing from the flames.
Firefighting efforts are continuing in parts of the island of Maui, including around the devastated town of Lahaina.
Mr Greenberg added that while close to 1,000 people are still yet to be contacted, some of these may be safe but out of reach for a number of reasons.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green visited Maui on Saturday and told reporters he was expecting to see "significantly higher numbers" of fatalities in the coming days.
"It will certainly be the worst natural disaster Hawaii ever faced," he said.
"It may be the worst fire that America ever faced."
The main road to Lahaina was briefly re-opened to residents on Saturday, before quickly being closed again.
The Kahakuloa road is open, but locals say it's far too dangerous to attempt to drive that way. The road - known simply here as "the backroad" to Lahaina - is barely wide enough for one car, has many hair-pin turns, and a steep drop-off.
Residents are furious about the decision to keep the main road closed to the potentially homeless survivors.
Hundreds who fled with proof of their residency are waiting in traffic, hopeful that they will be allowed through. But with the queue of cars stretching for about a mile, and news that the road has shut once again, they don't know whether they'll be forced to turn around.
Liz Germansky, who lost her home in the fire, is angry about the response. "The government's getting in the way of people helping," she says, while sat in the same traffic queue.
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| FFS leave GST alone Chippy |
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Posted by: Wainuiguy - 13-08-2023, 11:06 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics...pp-android
A policy that will save the average family $4-5 a week.  A policy trumpeted loud last week in breathless emails to the devoted saying they had a "massive" cost of living announcement this Sunday.  Except Nicola Willis had already announced it 10 days prior.
A policy Labour's Finance Minister says is unworkable 
A policy Labour's Revenue Minister likely resigned over
A policy that is almost universally being panned by tax experts and economists 
If Chippy thinks this is the win he was wanting then by next poll he will be sorely disappointed.
GST is almost the perfect tax.
Everyone pays it.
Poor people pay less of it and rich people pay more.
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| One of the CT brigade on the run |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 12-08-2023, 03:59 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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Yet still posting online.
He sounds just lovely; or something. Possibly mentally ill.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3...ing-online
"A conspiracy theorist who has been on the run for more than a year on charges of threatening to kill former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has continued to have a presence online according to experts in the field.
Richard Trevor Sivell, 40, was arrested in March last year by armed police at a rural property near Te Puke where he lived in a caravan and appeared in the Tauranga District Court the following day on the threatening to kill charge.
He was released on bail, but then┬áfailed to turn up to his next appearance and hasnÔÇÖt been seen since. A warrant is out for his arrest.
The Disinformation Project, an research group studying disinformation in New Zealand, has been closely following SivellÔÇÖs online activity since before his arrest. They believe they have linked him to two Telegram channels set up in recent months, as well as various ÔÇ£sock puppetÔÇØ accounts, where the user disguises their identity.
The organisation says an analysis of the phraseology and language used on the Telegram channels as well as various other data points, suggest with a high degree of probability that they are controlled by Sivell.
Disinformation Project director and founder Kate Hannah said posts on the accounts used phrases unique to Sivell.
One channel contains a list of numerous politicians, academics and journalists, amongst others, to be arrested and brought before a ÔÇ£military tribunalÔÇØ for ÔÇ£crimes against humanityÔÇØ.
Hannah said the account had been particularly active in recent weeks, with Judge Paul Kellar added to the ÔÇ£NurembergÔÇØ list after he jailed┬áNathan Raureti Symington, who had shot at pictures of Ardern with firearms and a crossbow in a video titled ÔÇ£Enemies spotted in the wildÔÇØ.
Hannah said she also featured on the list and her picture had been posted again out of the blue last week. She took it as a threat.
ÔÇØThe name┬áNuremberg┬á... is referencing the execution of war criminals ... at the end of World War Two and the Holocaust, so it is a death threat and it does sit with me as I go about my every day business.ÔÇØ
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