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Striking workers are puppets of the Left Wing Unions, how could anyone think otherwise?
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Unions are run by members/workers, decisions are voted on by members/workers, any decision to strike is taken to the ballot box & union member/workers vote yes or no.
The strike was supported by a majority of NZrs.
Just switch to a VPN and reinvent yourself. Site protocols are on archaic architecture so easily overcome. I have 3 active profiles on this site despite at least 6 permanent bans from incoherent.
this one made me laugh as it got caught in the spam filter 😆
Aren’t you a clever one?
A reminder that our media is not a reliable source of truth.
https://www.noticer.news/nsw-anti-semitic-attacks-all-criminal-con-jobs/
"Police confirm NSW’s most serious ‘anti-Semitic attacks’ were all criminal con jobs"
Well, duh. You don't get your embassy staff to do this stuff or send revolutionary guards over for it, you pay local crims to do it.
…who were highly unlikely to be arranging the incidents because they particularly dislike Jews, but very likely because a government that does particularly dislike Jews hired them to do it.
Evidence. You have anything to table?
How does one provide evidence of there being no evidence?
I have a basic grasp of likely vs unlikely to table. Criminal organisations do things for profit and there's no profit in vandalising synagogues or whatever. Therefore, it's likely some external party paid them to do it. There's no profit to the external party in vandalising synagogues either, so it's likely to be an external party with a non-financial motive such as antisemitism. Are there antisemitic governments with a track record of acting against Jews in foreign countries? Why, yes, as it happens. That's the most likely list of potential suspects.
True, but no evidence.
Criminal organizations do such things for payback or revenge for a range of other reasons: generally related to being ripped off on legal or illegal 'business' deals, or for personal reasons, but no evidence presented by the police in that article.
In terms of "likely vs unlikely," how likely is it that 13 incidents involving organised crime gangs arranging vandalism of Jewish property within a short period was due to factors other than an external party hostile to Jews hiring them? That isn't proof, just a basis for assessing likelihood.
And Mossad would never do false flag attacks or media manipulation or honeytrap ops like the Epstein files…
"Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar."
Key words from Catherine Connolly's sppech upon being declared the winner of the Irish presidential election- "inclusive", "listens, reflectss, speaks for peace and neutrality", acknowledges the existential threat of 'climate change', belieces in 'constructive questioning', who vlaues 'diversity,", the Irish and English language, 'new people'". who will act 'humanely' and 'professionally".
Beautiifully and quietly said, she is the essence of 'wokeness" and a welcome new voice in a world that is increasingly exclusive, non-engaging, warlike, posturing and inhumane.
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1580513786251983
We could choose a similar path here again.
She is also rather handy with a ball!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPgn8AgCK4f/
Not bad at all- keeping the balls in the air and alive is definitely a political skill. I had a different experience on stage when my ah 'appendages' fell off while playing Cecil the ram in "Footrot Flats'.
I picked them up, inspected them, twirled them and slung them off stage as I had a song to sing coming up! A moment never to be repeated.
Some politicians lost theirs, others never had any at all……
A natural comedian!
Mac 1. Thanks, just brilliant. Laugh out loud. What was the singing gem that followed? (I'm in hospital after a fall and begin rehab today so that is one to share with hubby)
The song was a duet with Dolores- "I'll be Firm"!
PB, sorry to hear of your fall injury. But as you begin rehab, your recovery will be aided by your sense of humour and positive mindset . Proven.
: )
The problem with the loss of power is more general than automated milking being out, because of the use of pumped water in the sheds.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360866512/concerns-animal-welfare-power-outages-impact-dairy-sheds
And again, if power is critical to their business, and the health and productivity of their herds, they should have invested in back up power supply. Some of them had done that, but not those who are prepared to risk all to maximize profits.
They all had backup generators at an individual level, but when nearly everyone was running on their backup the next level of backup (gen-sets sitting idle in a yard in town) will run out very quickly once the breakdowns start happening.
It's a fickle undertaking running a dairy shed level load on a gen-set, variable loads, large random starts that need careful management, along with complex electronics on everything and things will break. Multiply that out over a week (normal outage would be a few farms for a day max) and hundreds of farms over a huge area and a sizeable outside response will be required. That's happening, appears to be timely and proportionate. If it wasn't we'd be hearing about it, a mob of unmilked cow stuck in the shed will provoke a very emotional social media response.
In the early nineties
local power supply organisationsurban consumers contributed an enormous amount of money to upgrading service assets on rural user's properties and Bradford's reforms then gifted those newly upgraded assets to rural users>30 years later you'd have to ask just how well the owners have maintained their gifted assets.
Power Net have replaced / upgraded their network around Southland dramatically over the last 20 years, this outfit is onto it. There's a stark contrast going from the Aurora area, where Dunedin City Holdings raped the asset base to pay for a stadium, and Southland's two networks where they've done the mahi.
You can't do much when wind loads exceed design, and the Power Net staying was impressive.
How did the service assets, everything on your side of the boundary, fare?
I'm in Whakatipu so we missed the worst, not the sustained power blow they got down south. But lost a couple of substantial trees at home, fortunately without any collateral damage. Over the farm it's mostly flooding where the Kawarau got within a foot of the top of deer fences in one place and they may have lost a paddock, find out when the river drops.
I lost power and internet for 15 hours in Invercargill a week after moving in. My UPS’es would have only kept running for a max of 6 hours if I’d had them plugged in (I was still setting up my office).
Having The Standard on the cloud was the only thing that kept this site running.
The weather was a bit of a shock. I was living in a apartment on a separated block on top of Newton Gully that is pretty exposed to strong Easterlies. I’ve also lived on a house high on the ridge in the hills above Puhio that had quite an exposure (and quite a view). But I have never seen actual horizontal rain before.
But that was what was hitting our living room window. Fortunately the actual amount of rain was light. But you could see the glass visibly vibrate at each drops impact because that water was moving at a very high velocity.
The next 6 months here look like they may be more interesting than I was anticipating 🙂
The raw power of the weather out of the Southern Ocean is something to behold, it's big. Then there's the buzz on everyone when it changes and there's a good day.
PowerNet's social media comms has been very good. I hope other companies of all kinds are watching and learning. The various emergency and council orgs have been good too.
Looking over the data to conclude that
And that it is possible to get an improved performance in a targeted area and yet do more harm than good (such as better first response but a lack of follow up treatment).
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360861128/what-intensive-care-specialist-has-say-about-governments-health-targets