Posts by Sacha
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
it's also a very human thing to want to categorise other people as soon as possible.
it's a survival response to assess friend and foe, isn't it?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to recordari,
[TMI]
that was fine
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But I still firmly believe that most people, on first contact with a stranger, are nice. Most people we meet are decent. Most people we meet are fair.
Global research says Kiwis are rather tolerant and social contributors.
New Zealanders are keen volunteers, kind to strangers and tolerate migrants, minorities and gays, a study says.
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New Zealanders ranked fourth alongside Britain in the pro-social category, with 57% of participants saying they had volunteered time, donated money or helped a stranger in the previous month.
The US, at 60%, was the most pro-social OECD country.
(Note that's saying something good about the US)
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to vangam,
partly a reaction on Taane's part to years of persecution and discrmination from the fuzz.
he seemed pretty relaxed about them in that interview
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I wouldn't rely on O'Connor's account given that he wasn't even there
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Heather Gaye,
an ongoing punctuated conference call, 24/7
excellent
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Close Up had Tiki and O'Connor's versions of events (stream, 9m).
Here's the keen police union rep from the text summary:
But Police Association president Greg O'Connor said Taane's version is fictional.
"This is nothing to do with the words of a song," O'Connor told Close Up.
O'Connor said police deal with bad language every day and it is like a term of endearment. He said in this instance a fight started on the dance floor when one of the patrons was annoying some of the women.
He said wisely the police didn't get involved but watched the bouncers shadow them out. The mood changed and that's when the music started and the crowd joined in the chanting, O'Connor said.
He said police got it sorted at the time and went back later for a chat.
"That was where he (Taane) went off and refused to co-operate," O'Connor said. He said police had no intention to arrest when they went back but were forced into a corner by the unco-operative singer. The situation could have got out of control, O'Connor believes.
"His (Taane's) actions were then completely unreasonable and he was completely out of control."
From the clip (5m40 on), O'Connor claims the offense of provoking violence occured during the later re-visit, not the original one.
I imagine he might be deemed to have prejudiced a fair trial..
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Jackie Clark,
you're clearly not one of them Mean Girls then
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to James Butler,
your secret is safe, etc
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Kumara Republic,
could be against WTO rules.
Classic. Says a lot about this this government's disdain for notions like "independent":
One part of the legislation allegedly breaching the trade accords is the "regulatory holiday", which removes Commerce Commission oversight of the UFB network until the end of 2019.
Under the planned law, the Crown would regulate the internet infrastructure instead.
According to the Wigley report, the GATS requires telecommunications industries to have an independent body resolving disputes. By taking the commission out of the mix, the report argues the bill breaches its international obligations.
Similarly, in the AANZFTA, the terms controlling the sale of services on the network must be decided through commercial negotiations or approved by a telco regulatory body (the commission). But under the bill these terms are determined by the Crown.
Communications Minister Steven Joyce dismissed the claims.
"It is noted the definition of "telecommunications regulatory body" in most international agreements New Zealand is involved in can be interpreted to include ministers, government etc as well as regulators such as the commission."