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| "Freedom movement" possibly bites dust |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 19-06-2023, 03:43 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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The Democracy NZ party having a bit of trouble.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...ate-exodus
"The fledgling political party led by former National MP Matt King has lost one-third of its announced candidates over a dispute with party leadership.
Stuff understands at least five candidates - Lee Smith, Steve Cranston, Dr Matt Shelton, Kirsten Murfitt, and Bill Dyett - are no longer with DemocracyNZ.
Their candidate profiles have been scrubbed from the partyÔÇÖs website.
Its polling has oscillated between 1-2%, well short of the 5% threshold, meaning its fortunes likely rest on KingÔÇÖs candidacy in the Northland electorate which he won for National in 2017.
It is understood that the exodus came after Cranston ÔÇô who is also a prominent member of┬áGroundswell NZ┬áÔÇô was fired by the board on Saturday after expressing discontent with the actions of senior party figures. That resulted in the other candidates quitting in protest.
DemocracyNZ has advertised its political platform as ÔÇ£freedom, family and farmingÔÇØ. Much of its rhetoric concerns opposition to the pandemic response and climate change regulations.
It had been seen as the leading light for the so-called freedom movement, which is split between various parties, including the Brian Tamaki and Sue Grey-led Freedoms NZ and the recently announced Leighton Baker party."
They were unlikely to pick up many votes & this may mean even fewer for them if they look so shaky at this stage.
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| Microsoft Defender |
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Posted by: brucem - 19-06-2023, 11:33 AM - Forum: PressF1
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Recently I started getting, approximately daily, an email saying: Real-time protection was turned off on the Windows device Desktop ....... 
When I go to Defender I am told that the machine is protected, managed by Malwarebytes.  Can I stop the notification from Microsoft?
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| Glenda Jackson dead at 87 |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 18-06-2023, 02:48 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26234103
[b]"Glenda Jackson, [/b] [b]who has died aged 87,[/b]  [b]had scant patience for the usual foibles and pretensions of her profession.[/b]
"I regard acting," she once said, "as a serious job for serious-minded people."
Hollywood showered her with admiration and two best actress Oscars. But Jackson was not easily flattered.
Famously prickly, her view of Tinseltown often bordered on contempt. "If I'm too strong for some people," she said, "that's their problem".
And, at the height of her acting power, she gave it all up for a career in politics.
In 1971, having appeared as Elizabeth I in the historically dubious film, Mary, Queen of Scots, she reprised the role in BBC TV's Elizabeth R.
The six-part series saw her play the Virgin Queen from princess to ailing old woman.
At the age of 56, Jackson announced she was quitting acting - to stand as a Labour parliamentary candidate in the 1992 general election.
"The best theatre is trying to tell the truth," she said. "And the best politics is trying to tell the truth."
In an otherwise miserable election for her party, she won a notable victory in Hampstead and Highgate, which had been a Conservative seat for two decades.
But the most controversial moment in her political career came in April 2013, when Parliament was recalled to pay tribute to the former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.
Lady Thatcher had just died. But Jackson saw no reason to rein in her criticism of a woman she believed "had inflicted heinous social, economic and spiritual damage upon the country".
Conservative MPs were furious when the Speaker refused to rule her remarks out of order. One political commentator accused the Labour left of being "petty", "childish" and "self-indulgent" with its ungracious attacks on the Iron Lady's memory. The writer was Jackson's son, Dan Hodges.
Jackson decided not to defend her seat at the 2015 general election. And - at the age of 79 - she returned to acting."
Jackson was winning accolades for her acting work as recently as 2020, when she won a Bafta TV Award for best leading actress for her performance in Elizabeth is Missing, about a woman suffering from dementia.
Shortly before her death, Jackson completed filming The Great Escaper, in which she co-starred with Michael Caine."
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/j...ed-aged-87
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| The benefits of Covid-19 - if any! |
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Posted by: Mzee - 17-06-2023, 05:39 PM - Forum: PC World Chat
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I recently got Covid, which has been interesting.
First of all, I don't know what the fuss is about, no worse than the average dose of Flue.
Covid had some interesting side effects:-
* I  had swollen feet for many years, which the medical profession could not cure. My feet 'deflated', and have remained so for a couple of months, so far.
* My Prostate was painful. The pain increased during Covid, but has now been reduced to a twinge now & again.
* I developed old age spots on my arms & hands, these have vanished.
It seems that my immune system was asleep, & Covid was a wake up call.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
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| David Seymour 'subhuman' comment |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 16-06-2023, 04:47 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Any damn fool using this term causes loud alarm bells to sound; that is doubly so when the person is a politician & particularly a right wing politician. That really is a disgraceful comment which any politician should know better than to ever use - under any circumstances.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...6261a&ei=8
t people, but "fIt's no wonder the economy is in recession, wages are going backwards, places like "Ōpōtiki resemble Mogadishu, and the health and education sectors are in crisis."
Somalia, of which Mogadishu is the capital, has been gripped by civil war for decades and, since 2006, Islamist al Shabaab militants have been fighting to topple its Western-backed government and establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Late last week, al Shabaab claimed an attack on a restaurant in Mogadishu - during which nine people were killed.
 who were already banned from leaving, have been confined to their towns. Aid workers and diploma
d up and left. Guards are under oroSeymour's Ōpōtiki reference relates to hundreds of patched Mongrel Mob members flooding the small Bay of Plenty town earlier this week for the funeral of a local gang leader. Seymour has been fiercely critical of the situation in Ōpōtiki, where schools and roads were closed as red cars and motorbikes convoyed through the town to Whakatāne for the tangi of Steven Rota Taiatini.
"We share the anger of the people of Ōpōtiki being terrorised by the subhuman actions of weak individuals unable to solve their problems like civilised members of society," Seymour said earlier this week. "Labour should be ashamed that they have allowed things to get this bad under their watch." 
t anyone even approaching the b"We share the anger of the people of Ōpōtiki being terrorised by the subhuman actions of weak individuals unable to solve their problems like civilised members of society," Seymour said earlier this week. "Labour should be ashamed that they have allowed things to get this bad under their watch." 
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| Starvation in north Korea |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 16-06-2023, 03:27 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs
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Things must be really bad if these reports are right, poor souls.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bskbb4r...orth-korea
Neighbours starving.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65881803
[b]"People in North Korea have told the BBC food is so scarce their neighbours have starved to death.[/b]
Exclusive interviews gathered inside the world's most isolated state suggest the situation is the worst it has been since the 1990s, experts say.
The government sealed its borders in 2020, cutting off vital supplies. It has also tightened control over people's lives, our interviewees say.
Pyongyang told the BBC it has always prioritised its citizens' interests.
order. The worldÔÇÖs most isolated country h
The BBC has secretly interviewed three ordinary people in North Korea, with the help of the organisation Daily NK which operates a network of sources in the country. They told us that since the border closure, they are afraid they will either starve to death or be executed for flouting the rules. It is extremely rare to hear from people living in North Korea.
The interviews reveal a "devastating tragedy is unfolding" in the country, said Sokeel Park from Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), which supports North Korean escapees.
become an information black hole. One woman living in the capital Pyongyang told us she knew a family of three who had starved to death at home. "We knocked on their door to give them water, but nobody answered," Ji Yeon said. When the authorities went inside, they found them dead, she said. Ji Yeon's name has been changed to protect her, along with those of the others we interviewed.
A construction worker who lives near the Chinese border, whom we have called Chan Ho, told us food supplies were so low that five people in his village had already died from starvation.
"At first, I was afraid of dying from Covid, but then I began to worry about starving to death," he said.
North Korea has never been able to produce enough food for its 26 million people. When it shut its border in January 2020, authorities stopped importing grain from China, as well as the fertilisers and machinery needed to grow food.
Meanwhile, they have fortified the border with fences, while reportedly ordering guards to shoot anyone trying to cross. This has made it nearly impossible for people to smuggle in food to sell at the unofficial markets, where most North Koreans shop."
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| Ruapehu Skifields |
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Posted by: nzoomed - 15-06-2023, 10:45 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Really worried that the sale could be rushed and there is a call to let the administrators open for business and trade for this season so that there is more time to work out things before rushing into a commercial deal.
The RSSA is wanting to bid on the sale to keep it community run as a non profit. Peter Hillary has been involved in the RSSA, along with iwi and much of the community, would be a shame if we see the fields lost to commercial operators which will be charging double for season passes which put profit into the shareholders pockets, north island skiing is slowly becoming more and more of a rich persons sport.
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| Luxon ordered then cancelled tax payer funded Tesla |
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Posted by: Lilith7 - 14-06-2023, 03:24 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics
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Not really a good look. 
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politi...subsidies/
"National Party leader Christopher Luxon had a fully taxpayer-funded Tesla on order for his use at the same time as he was publicly bashing the GovernmentÔÇÖs EV policy for subsidising ÔÇ£wealthy Tesla driversÔÇØ. The Tesla would have been for LuxonÔÇÖs use, although he would not have owned it.
The Herald understands Luxon was talked out of ordering the car by horrified staff and at least one senior MP, who believed the purchase would be a massive political risk.
The order was placed last year, shortly before Luxon lashed out at the Government for its clean car discount policy, telling NewshubÔÇÖs┬áAM Show┬áLabour was taxing people driving utes to help ÔÇ£wealthy Tesla drivers by giving them subsidiesÔÇØ. The GovernmentÔÇÖs clean car discount, under last yearÔÇÖs settings, took more than $8000 off the price of a Tesla.
ÔÇ£After initially indicating he would take up the offer, Mr Luxon quickly concluded he did not need it and cancelled the order,ÔÇØ he said.
The episode has shone a light on LuxonÔÇÖs political judgment. Some MPs and staff were aware of the purchase and believed it would be politically damaging for Luxon to be driving a taxpayer-funded Tesla while criticising Government subsidies for Teslas. The episode has led to some raised eyebrows in the National Party at LuxonÔÇÖs inability to see an obvious political risk.
Luxon already owns a Tesla, which is kept in Auckland."
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