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5:30 pm, November 18th, 2019 - 17 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Great work from Unite Union, recovering historical underpayment for already low-paid employees:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/403563/mcdonald-s-workers-in-for-boost-after-payroll-bungle
Unions are great for workers!
Yep cudos to Joe Carolyn and the comrades at the union.
Some good pics of the Chch tornado damage.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/117508980/christchurch-tornado-throws-van-15-metres
Video of it forming,
https://www.facebook.com/531639584/posts/10157032277329585/
I guess that's the end of the South Island complacency about weird wind weather events.
Other vids here, surreal.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/117503708/at-least-one-person-injured-after-christchurch-tornado
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/96538880/tornado-rips-through-small-west-coast-town
https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/108686831/severe-thunderstorm-warning-for-waimate
Crazy stuff.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/11/national-mp-says-there-s-1000-years-of-coal-to-burn-on-west-coast.html
Now I know why bridges thinks pugh is "fucking useless " she smsays out loud what the nats think .
lol.
Trump's favorite loses in Louisiana governor's race
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/17/trumps-favorite-loses-in-louisiana-governors-race/
What AI – Artificial Intelligence – can do down on the farm
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/17/what-ai-down-on-the-farm-could-mean-for-rural-america_partner/
The Bank of Google…yeah, nah. Hope it crashes and burns. They have far to much power as it is
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/google-checking-accounts-cache-citigroup-bank
I think we are heading for a crash due to unrealistic expectations. Will the US taxpayer bail out an insolvent IT currency issuer ?
Not sure if someone wants to take this a little further and expand it into a post down track, as I’m a one eyed pirate atm due to a injury is sustained today. It’s my master eye aka my left one
I found this interesting piece on China over at Defencetalk.com which might be over interest to you and it’s tad Australia centric but it stills applies to NZ as it’s economy, Defence, Sth Pacific Aid etc is tried to Australia at the same time. Most importantly it also mentions the Antarctic/ Southern Ocean Region which is going to be the nexts “Grey Zone” similar to what is currently going on in the Sth China Sea
https://www.defencetalk.com/military/posts/355179/ there is a 60mins link in that post along with a few other links
https://navalinstitute.com.au/implications-for-maritime-trade-a-nz-perspective/
Cheers,
Exf.
My sympathies. I'm losing sight in my left eye as I get older. You can't fight genetics. Whatever you want to do, do it now while you can.
The secret lives of rats
https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2019/11/urban-rat-tracking-wellington
rodents, you say..
https://twitter.com/thehumanxp/status/1195831582227156992
"Plural policing ?"
'Policing' is increasingly falling to private security and citizen-led initiatives. Yet the wages and the training don't match the responsibility. So what can we do?
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@ideasroom/2019/11/15/895999/plural-policing-should-come-at-a-cost#