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| Funny on radio |
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Posted by: Kenj - 01-08-2023, 03:32 PM - Forum: PC World Chat
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Just heard this on steam radio.
Bloke asks his wife... "what would you do if we won Lotto?"
"Take my half and leave you" she said
"OK" he said "Here's $13.50, we won 4th division last night"
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| 40 years since Kirsa Jensen disappeared |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 01-08-2023, 03:20 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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How the hell can it have gone by so fast, her poor family will probably never know for certain now what happened to her.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3009381...v2-cpwCzEl
"The 40th anniversary of what might fairly be considered the nationÔÇÖs most enduring murder mystery will be marked by a small gathering of mostly retired police officers on a patch of seaspray-covered grass near Napier.
Her body has never been found and the prospect of ever solving the case is diminishing, though hope is certainly not lost, especially among the small group that will gather beside the four young pōhutukawa, and small plaque that mark the site where Kirsa was last seen alive.
Retired detective inspector Ian Holyoake, 81, who headed the inquiry team when Kirsa was first reported missing, will be there. So will detective Darryl Moore, who holds the file now.
ÔÇ£In years gone by KirsaÔÇÖs mother Robyn would come along, but unfortunately she is not well and wonÔÇÖt be making it this year,ÔÇØ he said.
ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs always been on my mind, and IÔÇÖve never forgotten the first of September for the past 40 years,ÔÇØ Holyoake said.
He believes prime suspect John Russell, who took his own life in 1992, was most likely the one who killed Kirsa.
Holyoake wasnÔÇÖt sure many people would turn up at this yearÔÇÖs memorial.
ÔÇ£I wouldnÔÇÖt think thereÔÇÖd be a big crowd. Maybe eight or ten, something like that. A lot of people who worked on this case, needless to say, have passed away now,ÔÇØ Holyoake said."
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| Those high crime rates we supposedly have |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 31-07-2023, 07:26 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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The deeply cynical use of crime by the right when there's an election not too far away, which somehow some inevitably fall for...
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/07/30/me...erleading/
"All eyes were fixed on Auckland last week when a gunman entered a construction site and opened fire.
This incident comes after a year dominated by negative headlines about crimes committed by young people: ram-raids, smash-and-grabs and burglaries, just to name a few.
A Herald poll earlier this year found 67 per cent of respondents felt more unsafe now than they did five years ago.
Psychotherapist and co-host of The Nutters Club on Newstalk ZB, Kyle MacDonald, tellsThe Front Page podcast that once anxiety has taken hold, it can be very sticky.
ÔÇ£Once weÔÇÖve had these impressions of very frightening events, even if weÔÇÖre not directly impacted by them, those fearful thoughts can stick really hard, because thatÔÇÖs actually part of whatÔÇÖs kept the human species wandering around the planet as long as we have.ÔÇØ
MacDonald explains our rapid response to fear is a survival mechanism thatÔÇÖs an entirely normal part of what makes us human.
Our levels of anxiety are, however, affected by the narratives we see coming from politicians and the media.
ÔÇ£ThereÔÇÖs nothing more topical than crime in an election year, and fear is one of the most powerful ways to get peopleÔÇÖs attention,ÔÇØ says MacDonald.
They are cheap, easy to produce and present as live breaking news and the kids committing the crimes boasting on social media for notoriety guarantees a self feeding loop which terrifies the middle classes and sets the get tough on crime lynch mob off.
The perception is that crime is out of control, despite the evidence showing a spike, but in context, isnÔÇÖt the hysteria clickbait the mainstream media are selling it as.
The number of serious repeat ram raiders is about 100, 80% of whom are already known to welfare agencies who are the kids from John KeyÔÇÖs draconian welfare reforms that saw kids in cars, state house tenants thrown onto the street for wrongful meth testing and whose parents were incarcerated in our private prison industry.
How will more draconian policies fix the problems the last set of draconian policies created?
This fear mongering clickbait is generating real world ramifications with ACT and National promising ankle bracelets on children and a return to counter productive Military Boot Camps.
Youth crime has spiked and it needs actual solutions, what we are getting is just more raw meat fear mongering for ratings.
The anxiety a recession creates cancels out compassion, empathy and rational debate. As the desperation drives violent crime via a Crime Porn News filter to insecure viewers, watch how the crime debate disintegrates into lynch mob level bumper sticker slogans."
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| Ukraine takes the war to Moscow |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 31-07-2023, 12:14 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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Drone strikes on an apartment building in Moscow caused damage. I wish they wouldn't target civilians; it makes them little better than the Russians. Go after military targets & leave civilians alone.
"War coming back to Moscow" said Zelensky.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66352765
[b]"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned war is coming back to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow.[/b]
Mr Zelensky said attacks on Russian territory were an "inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process" of the war between the two countries.
Russia's defence ministry said three Ukrainian drones were downed on Sunday, with two crashing into offices.
Vnukovo Airport, southwest of the city centre, was also briefly shut.And in a video address on Sunday from the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Mr Zelensky said that Ukraine was getting stronger.
"Today is the 522nd day of the so-called 'Special Military Operation', which the Russian leadership thought would last a couple of weeks," he said.
"Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia - to its symbolic centres and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...es-on-kyiv
"Ukrainian drones attacked tonight. Facades of two city office towers were slightly damaged,ÔÇØ Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin posted on Telegram. Moscow and its surrounding area are more than 500km from the Ukrainian border and the ongoing conflict there, but have been targeted in┬áseveral drone attacks this year.
w come several weeks into a Ukrainian counter-offensive to claw back territory captured by Russia since large-scale hostilities erupted in February 2022.=
On Friday, Russia said it had intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over its southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, with at least 16 people wounded by debris falling on the city of Taganrog."
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| Israeli protests |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 28-07-2023, 04:09 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Massive protests continue in Israel after their idiot far right govt passed laws which will curb the power of courts. They appear to want a dictatorship, & many are deeply disturbed by what they're doing. 
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-prot...s-forward/
"Earlier this year, the government announced a plan to curb the court's power, sparking major protests across the country. The bill that passed its first reading on Monday would remove the court's power to review and overrule decisions made by government ministers.
Critics say the government is undermining the country's independent judicial branch and its democratic system of checks and balances.
Crowds streamed onto major highways across Israel on Tuesday, with some protesters throwing flares and others lying down or burning tires to block traffic. Police used water cannons against some demonstrators near Jerusalem, and a horse knocked one protester to the ground in Tel Aviv, BBC News reported.
Israeli military veterans staged a demonstration at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, while other protests were called for outside the Israeli Defense Ministry, the president's residence and the U.S. embassy.
Reservists from Israel's Mossad intelligence service and its Shin Bet domestic security agency threatened to stop appearing for duty in response to the proposed judicial reforms, BBC News reported. They joined hundreds of other reservists who have made similar declarations, despite a warning from the military that it will act against anyone who fails to report up for duty, the BBC said.
Since the start of the year, a series of Israeli army raids have killed and injured scores of Palestinians in the West Bank in response to a spate of Palestinian attacks. The most recent raid on the Jenin refugee camp saw at least 13 Palestinians killed and thousands driven from their homes in a two-day operation that was the largest carried out by the Israeli military in the Palestinian territory in 20 years."
At the end of last year, Netanyahu began his sixth term as Israel's prime minister ÔÇö a return to power made possible by the veteran politician┬áforging a coalition┬áwith members of extremist, far-right and ultra-religious political parties that had long existed on the fringes of Israeli politics.
After returning to office, Netanyahu appointed some of these controversial figures to leadership roles within his government, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, a radical ultra-nationalist who has chanted "death to Arabs" in the past and was convicted of inciting racism and supporting a terrorist organization. As the Minister for National Security, Ben-Gvir is now in charge of Israel's police."
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