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All he ever really wanted to do was to ride a Wallaby at Flemington, because it was all about timing the run.
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Asked to explain his selection and coaching philosophy for the World Cup rugby, he said it was 24 more years to get a second chance to win on home soil.
For Paris it was all about how they wore their Akubra hats, saying digging himself out of a form slump hole was what all great stand up comedians did when they were only an outside fringe chance of getting a laugh from the toughest meanest critics he had ever faced down while hiding behind a microphone – and he loved it.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/132765918/worst-press-conference-ever-wallabies-coach-eddie-jones-bizarre-media-rant-even-by-his-standards
Paris in the Springtime.
If Oz fail to qualify out of the group sages – Jones can be back for the King Charles 111 Stakes (Group 1) 1600m at Randwick. Lose the quarter-final, and Jones can be back for the Caulfield Cup. If they lose in the semi-finals, back for the Cox Plate at Flemington.
Which business organisations wanted hundreds (known of)/thousands? of foreign nationals on accredited employment work visas (AEWV) based on the promise of employment when they arrived – but no actual jobs. These people are allowed to pay money to an agent "for the promise of jobs" so they qualify.
It's a scam and the country should be downgraded by Transparency International and other organisations for allowing this corruption.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/08/immigration-new-zealand-reveals-115-migrants-six-auckland-properties-at-centre-of-exploitation-probe-after-newshub-uncovers-horrific-conditions.html
Sort of inevitable. But this is why regulation should prevent any avenue for corruption.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/immigration/300952610/review-ordered-into-migrant-work-visas-after-115-workers-crammed-into-6-houses
Buscatastrophe over in Auckland, coming to an end in Wellington.
Bus driver numbers are improving and they still had enough buses for drivers. And they had plans to expand the network into Kapiti and Horowhenua – and prove that TG was not required.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/300952524/bustastrophe-no-more-council-to-return-all-suspended-bus-routes
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-ferries-suspended-birkenhead-te-onewa-northcote-pt-bayswater-to-stop-running/YNWSKOZI3VBILFAYO5CAR4BYK4/
It's a pity that there are no trained ferry crew in the rest of the world to recruit to keep services operating. We just got lucky with there being roads with buses on them overseas.
Pacific Islanders seek refuge from global warming.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/132763925/new-report-finds-labour-migration-a-key-economic-sector-for-the-pacific
lol
Rudy Giuliani's indictment on a racketeering charge has New York City mafiosos gleeful at the prospect that, if convicted, the former federal prosecutor could be brought down by the same law he wielded against La Cosa Nostra.
Veteran mob lawyer Murray Richman told The Messenger that he's "spoken to several of my clients" since Giuliani, former President Donald Trump and 17 co-defendants were charged with violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
"You can quote me to say, 'They're f—— thrilled,'" Richman said Wednesday.
"I don’t want to say the language, but they really ripped Rudy a new a——."
[…]
Civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby, who represented reputed Gambino associate Stephen "Sigmund the Sea Monster" Sergio during the 1990s, said he hadn't spoken with any "alleged members of organized crime" since Giuliani was indicted.
"I have noted the reactions from some family members of alleged organized crime people, and they are thrilled and delighted," he said.
Kuby also said he wanted to call Monday's indictment, which alleges a sprawling conspiracy to illegally overturn Trump's 2020 election loss in Georgia, "a sad day in America" but couldn't keep himself from laughing.
"I will spare you the fake sanctimony," he said.
"It is just delightful to watch the guy who expanded RICO prosecutions well beyond their original intent, and did so grasping for the biggest headlines, to watch him be indicted by the very law that he championed."
https://themessenger.com/news/wiseguys-rejoice-at-seeing-nyc-mafia-buster-rudy-giuliani-indicted-on-trump-rico-charge
RG has placed his Manhattan apartment up for sale.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300952041/rudy-giuliani-forced-to-sell-new-york-flat-to-cover-legal-bills-linked-to-trump
Maybe it will save the area, as it has declined relative to Brooklyn.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-brooklyn-became-richer-popular-pandemic-millennials-brownstoners-gentrification-2022-4
Rudy's digs.
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-1182-s4lfjd/45-east-66th-street-10w-upper-east-side-new-york-ny-10065
He could rent a place in Hells Kitchen.
Bill Nelson talks about the moons south pole being the next confrontation between China and the USA – iced water being the commodity.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3230675/nasa-chief-warns-moons-south-pole-may-become-another-south-china-sea
But India and Russia will be there first – within a week their race will be decided.
India is expected to get there on the 23rd and Russia on 21st or 22nd. Pipped.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66530022
Whatever the result of the race a new era in moon tea is set to begin.
https://moonwatersynergy.com/moon-water-tea-using-moon-water-to-brew-your-tea/
So instead of taxing the uber rich more to pay for infrastructure and other societal benefits.
PM Hipkins decides to hit everyone with 12c per litre in fuel taxes over the next three years.
This is how you lose elections people. Is he really this thick, or is his heart just not in it anymore?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/17/petrol-taxes-would-go-up-12c-per-litre-under-new-govt-proposal/
Chippy is not thick…..egalitarianism is the focus, the principle being that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
A petrol spreads the load, and is fair.
That should read a petrol tax spreads the load which is fair….
it's not egalitarianism when some people have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital gains while others cannot afford food because of their high rent (a direct result of the system that gives people such large amounts of wealth tax free).
50% of NZ has less than 4% of the wealth – egalitarianism in action, a la Labour and National.
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https://news.sky.com/story/sir-michael-parkinson-former-talk-show-host-and-journalist-has-died-12933785