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[Nato]

Jackass Star Ryan Dunn Dies in Fiery Car Crash

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10733485

 

Not overly suprising but a shame to see. I always thought Preston would be the first to go

[C Steppa]

Woman dies after waking at own funeral

 

A Russian woman woke up at her own funeral after being wrongly declared dead ? and was so shocked that she suffered a heart attack and died for real.

 

Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, started screaming after her eyes fluttered open and she awoke to the sounds of mourners praying as they filed past her coffin, The Daily Mail reports.

 

Husband Fagili Mukhametzyanov said his wife was immediately rushed back to hospital.

 

"But she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good," he was quoted as saying in The Daily Mail.

 

Mr Mukhametzyanov said he was originally told his wife was dead after she suffered a heart attack and collapsed at home.

 

"She wasn't dead when they said she was and they could have saved her," he reportedly said.

 

"I am very angry and want answers."

 

A hospital spokesperson said the matter was being investigated.

 

 

 

 

http://news.msn.co.nz/article/8264918/woman-dies-after-waking-at-own-funeral

[Nato]

What a hero.

 

A two-year-old Chinese girl left unattended fell 10 stories from her family's apartment window and survived after being caught by a woman passing by, state media reported Sunday.

 

The toddler was in critical condition Sunday with internal bleeding and other unspecified injuries while the woman who saved her suffered a broken arm, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency said.

 

The girl, named Zhang Fangyu but known by the nickname Niu Niu, was in the care of her grandmother Saturday afternoon when the older woman left the 10th-floor apartment outside the eastern city of Hangzhou to run an errand, CCTV said.

 

Neighbors saw Niu Niu dangling from the apartment window for several minutes, Xinhua said, and when the girl fell, Wu Juping "kicked off her high-heeled shoes" and ran to catch the child.

 

"It was so urgent. I saw her when she was about to fall and rushed there, and after tens of seconds she fell off," CCTV quoted Wu as saying.

 

A 31-year-old mother, Wu told CCTV that when she saw the hanging girl she thought of her own seven-month-old son who had once fallen from a high chair and cut his mouth: "I thought to myself `I should stretch my arms to her.

 

 

Because I am right here, I must get her.' Then I made it. I caught her in my arms."

 

The impact knocked Wu out and sent her crumbling to the ground along with breaking her left arm, the reports said.

 

CCTV quoted an unidentified doctor at the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang Hospital as saying that a scan showed no damage to Niu Niu's brain but that the girl's abdomen was swollen in a sign of possible injury to organs.

 

-AP

[penco]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10738127

 

Strainer deemed religious headgear for Pastafarian

 

Pasta strainers are now considered suitable religious headgear in Austria ... at least as far as the transport authorities are concerned.

 

Three years after applying for a new driver's licence, an Austrian man has finally received the laminated card.

 

And the picture shows him sporting an upturned pasta strainer on his head.

 

Nothing to worry about: the authorities ruled the kitchen utensil was a suitable religious accessory for a Pastafarian.

 

Niko Alm, an entrepreneur, told the Austria Press Agency he had the idea when he read that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for "confessional" reasons.

 

The atheist says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted "faith" whose members call themselves Pastafarians and whose "only dogma ... is the rejection of dogma," according to its website.

 

Accordingly, Alm sent his application for a new driver's licence in 2008 along with a picture of himself with a colander on his head.

 

The stunt got him an invitation to the doctor's to check he was mentally fit to drive, but after three years, Alm's efforts have paid off.

 

He now wants to apply for Pastafarianism to become an officially recognised faith in Austria.

 

-AFP

[EuphoricMilk]

A nice feel good story for ya.

 

Michael Laws attacked in bar

 

Radio broadcaster Michael Laws was assaulted at a Whanganui bar on Friday in what he says was a cowardly and unprovoked attack.

 

The firebrand talkback host and Whanganui district councillor said in a statement he and a companion had entered the bar - which police said was Caroline's Celtic on Victoria St - about 11.30pm after attending another function earlier that evening.

 

''As I walked into the area of the bar where the band was playing I was attacked from behind by an assailant. It was entirely unprovoked and I had neither exchanged words nor looks with this individual.''

 

He said he was not seriously hurt but suffered some damage to his right eye, cheekbone and mouth.

 

Whanganui police Sergeant Colin Wright said a couple of porcelain veneers were knocked from Laws' teeth when he was punched in side of the head.

 

Laws said he was not able to confirm rumours that the individual was a gang member - ''although I would not be surprised''.

 

''I have encountered continuing attempts to intimidate myself and my family since championing Whanganui's anti-gang legislation.

 

''It has never intimidated me and neither will this. In fact, exactly the reverse. The person who did this was a coward.''

 

According to witnesses the attacker was European and wearing a green and black hoodie to conceal his identity, Laws said.

 

Wright said the bar did have a CCTV camera but the footage had not been obtained yet.

 

However it was thought the camera was not trained on the area of the bar where the incident occurred.

 

Police had no suspects and there was nothing to indicate what had motivated the attack.

 

''He's a man who's obviously quite forthright in his opinions and not everyone agrees with those opinions, but whether this happened because of who he is or whether it was a random attack we just don't know,'' Wright said.

 

Laws is a former mayor of the city.

 

 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5404138/Michael-Laws-attacked-in-bar

 

To say he had it coming is an understatement. I hope the man responsible was shouted a beer or ten for his efforts.

[Pakage]

did you see the headline about this on the front of the paper today?

 

"Attacker hit like a girl" - Laws

[Known One]

the guy's sporting a black eye and a couple of broken dental crowns... yet calls out the guy for hitting like a chump.

 

[Dr Awesome]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5471878/Teens-blind-date-nightmare

[perceptualChaos]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5471878/Teens-blind-date-nightmare

 

Ultimate troll!

[perceptualChaos]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10745793

[Pakage]

Teachers and principals have the right to search through students' personal diaries, cellphones or laptops under new guidelines issued by the Education Ministry.

 

The guidelines, released today by Education Minister Anne Tolley, say searches and confiscations affect student rights and their privacy and should only be carried out if a student has, or is believed to have, an item that poses an immediate or direct threat to safety.

 

Article

 

WTF..

[perceptualChaos]

That's fucking bullshit... how the hell did a law like that ever pass? If teachers suspect students of having drugs or weapons they should only have the right to call the police and detain the students while waiting for the police.

[Pakage]

one step closer to the police state. soften up the kids to random searches so by the time they're adults it will be normal.

 

i cant see this law being abused at all...

[Ignition]

how the hell did a law like that ever pass?

[Subverse]

how the hell did a law like that ever pass?

 

standardly. This next election shaping up to be very interesting ... the shit's going to hit the fan if national get another term

[C Steppa]

how the hell did a law like that ever pass?

 

standardly. This next election shaping up to be very interesting ... the shit's going to hit the fan if national get another term

 

Don't think this is any "if" about it.

[Taiko]

Until Labour gets a new Captain for their boat, they are not going anywhere.

As much as i hate to say it, National will get a second term under John Key.

[Known One]

Phil Goff.. National Party MVP

[Ignition]

Phil Goff.. National Party MVP

 

[Nato]

NZ Herald coming correct with some hard-hitting journalism.

 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10748398

[EuphoricMilk]

Teach them they have no rights now and they will be oblivious to other things you take from them later.

[EuphoricMilk]

This has been in the process of being passed with out much (any?) media coverage.

 

Long, rage enducing read

 

http://nzfoodsecurity.org/

 

What is the Food Bill?

 

- A Government Bill introduced to Parliament in May 2010, which has since passed its first reading and been through a Select Committee review. It is awaiting a second reading as at 20 July. It may be enacted in the near future.

 

What are the problems with the Food Bill?

 

 

- It turns a human right (to grow food and share it) into a government-authorised privilege that can be revoked by the Governor-General.

 

- It makes it illegal to distribute ?food? without authorisation, and it defines ?food? in such a way that it includes nutrients, seeds, natural medicines, essential minerals and drinks (including water).

 

- It will push up mainstream food prices by subjecting producers to red tape and registration costs. Food prices are already rising due to increased energy costs and commodity speculation, while effective disposable incomes are falling.

 

- Growing food for distribution must be authorised, even for ?cottage industries?, and such authorisation can be denied.

 

- Under the Food Bill, Food Safety Officers can enter premises without a warrant using all equipment they deem necessary, including guns (Clause 265 ? 1). Police can be Food Safety Officers, and so can members of the private sector, as at Clause 243. So Monsanto employees can raid premises like houses or marae without a warrant, backed up by armed police.

 

- The Government has created this bill to keep in line with its World Trade Organisation obligations under an international scheme called Codex Alimentarius (?Food Book?). So it has to pass this bill in one form or another.

 

- There are problems with Codex also. Codex will place severe restrictions on the content of vitamins, minerals and therapeutic compounds in food, drinks and supplements etc. The Food Bill means that non-complying producers can be shut down easily ? thus it paves the way for the legal enforcement of Codex food regulations.

 

What are the implications for Food Security in NZ?

 

- The bill would undermine the efforts of many people to become more self-sufficient within their local communities.

 

- Seed banks and seed-sharing networks could be shut down if they could not obtain authorisation. Loss of seed variety would make it more difficult to grow one?s own food.

 

- Home-grown food and some or all seed could not be bartered on a scale or frequency necessary to feed people in communities where commercially available food has become unaffordable or unavailable (for example due to economic collapse).

 

- Restrictions on the trade of food and seed would quickly lead to the permanent loss of heirloom strains, as well as a general lowering of plant diversity in agriculture.

 

- Organic producers of heirloom foods could lose market share to big-money agribusiness outfits, leading to an increase in the consumption of nutrient-poor and GE foods.

 

If the bill is going to be passed anyway, what can we do?

 

- People must decide if they will allow the enacted bill to apply them individually. The hardest thing to realise here is that we actually have a choice. Yet we do. The Crown tells us we are subject to legislation only by our consent ? in other words by our individual, informed choice ? here.

 

This consent can be formally revoked using a notarised Claim of Right (see www.claimofright.org for a template). If such a Claim is not disputed by affected parties like the police, Ministry of Justice etc, the claimant is no longer subject to legislation (though still subject to Common Law).

 

- Those who choose not to be subject to the enacted bill and other prohibitive legislation individually can then take steps to protect their collective interests using the formal contract the Queen has with the Natives of this country ? the contract being the 1835 Declaration of Independence and its subsequent variation, Te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840.

 

Again, the hardest thing here is a mental hurdle that must be overcome ? our indoctrination over, or simple weariness of, the constitutional law of this country. But again, once this is achieved, the final solution is elegantly simple. For more on this, see www.maoricustomarylaw.com. [Aug 19 - this site is down. To meet experts from all around the country, visit Te Tii Marae, Waitangi, on 27th and 28th October - Independence Day. For more, see whakaminenga.]

 

 

Details about the Food Bill

 

The bill is here.

 

Under the bill, any ?undertaking? (anyone) that ?processes? (grows/produces) ?food? (plants/anything that can be eaten/plant material/seeds) for ?sale? (bartering/offering/giving away/feeding people/selling for reserve bank notes etc) OR that just ?sells? (barters, gives away) any ?food? (plants, seeds etc) however that ?food? is acquired will need to be licensed by the government in some way, or have a specific exemption.

 

This is outlined in the Meanings Sections (Sections 8-10) that are appended below in Appendix B.

 

The bill is vague on whether seeds are food if for non-grain-producing plants or others where seeds are eaten, like sunflowers. In other words seeds for rice, potatos, kumara, wheat, barley etc are all ?food?, but seeds for brassicas may not be? but may also be.

 

And further it?s very vague on whether giving away for no reward (amazingly) constitutes ?selling? under the bill.

 

People may be outraged that they can?t grow carrots and regularly swap them with their neighbour two doors down for his potatoes (or face jail). They will clearly be criminals under this bill.

 

However this is all side-show stuff.

 

The key factor is seeds. In many cases they specifically are food, of course. Grain seed, seed potatoes, rice, maize, quinoa, many staples etc etc ? as the bill stands all these will explicitly be controlled substances, with similar penalties for possession as drugs.

 

Regarding not-normally-eaten seeds, it?s a short hop (via a single court ruling probably) that they are ?food? by virtue of both being plant material and being ?capable of being used for human consumption? (Section 8, see Appendix B below).

 

So the Food Bill is wide open for seed control ? for staples already, and the rest by dint of a court ruling (after seed banks are raided without warrant and seeds condemned, perhaps, and the actions challenged).

 

This being so, the unenforceability of prohibiting people from growing food for local distribution becomes a moot point. No good seeds means no good food (if any food at all) to distribute.

 

OK, so that?s the problem? what are the solutions?

 

In NZ there are protections against this kind of thing through the Treaty, highlighted in the WAI 262 claim Tribunal findings recently released in relation to taonga species, ie those considered to have human benefit. Such protection is enforceable via the Queen under the 1835 Declaration of Independence, which was reinforced rather than supplanted by the Treaty (Tiriti version, the binding one).

 

Simply put, to stop people from being able to trade food they grow, or to get good seeds to grow it, is just basic treason (the crime of betraying one?s country) and a breach of tikanga and thus the Treaty. The solution therefore lies in the Treaty (the Tiriti version, which on the issue of sovereignty/tino rangatiratanga/ ?full authority? is upheld by the English law rule of Contra Proferentem in contracts. Thus the Queen is bound to be subject to the ?full authority? of regional rangatira by her own laws? and the rangatira can overrule any food police. Hence the Governor-General has veto controls in the Bill ? he is the Queen?s representative, and needs veto power to act as the instrument of rangatira where they wish to exercise their authority ? anything else is unconstitutional.)

 

Details of how to use tino rangatiratanga in this way are available via www.maoricustomarylaw.com. [Aug 19 - this site is down. To meet experts from all around the country, visit Te Tii Marae, Waitangi, on 27th and 28th October - Independence Day. For more, see whakaminenga.]

 

 

Individuals or collectives of people can also contract out from under this legislation by revoking their consent to parliamentary representation. This is done via a properly served Claim of Right. See www.claimofright.org. You can thus nullify your enforceable adherence to legislation enacted by a legislature you are no longer represented in. (See Appendix A.) By serving copies of your claim on all affected parties, you can enforce this contracting out upon agencies that would otherwise assume you?re subject. You file your Notice/Claim via a Notary Public, which leaves nothing up for any dispute that a judge might otherwise have to adjudicate over, and thus no case to defend.

 

It?s also worth noting that due to this point of consent, the legislation is neither in breach of the Tiriti, nor is it treason . This is the only way it can be got away with.

 

With luck this is not rabbit-hole stuff for you. It?s actually very simple. By contrast, legislation like the Food Bill is designed to get lost in. It?s 400 pages of mind-bending rubbish. We have the right to not have to consider these bills, nor get lost in them, nor have them apply to us, and to just go about our peaceful business ? especially when legislation is enacted by people who don?t read it, nor even have it read to them anymore, and who we?re not represented by anyway if we simply tell them so. Judges uphold this basic truth, one might add. It?s about being right.

 

Meanwhile, the Tiriti holds the key for the country as a whole. Judges are sworn to uphold this too, because they have sworn an oath to uphold the law, and the Tiriti is part of our constitutional law. If they don?t uphold it, it?s because not enough people are holding them to account because they are snoozing as to what their human rights are and how they?re about to be seemingly (but not really) taken away. Rather they?ve been given away, by consent.

 

KIA ORA.

 

Appendix A

 

Parliament Brief: The legislative process (from here).

 

?The law is the framework within which citizens consent to be governed. Democratic theory is that having elected their lawmakers (legislators), citizens recognise the legitimacy of the laws made ontheir behalf by the lawmakers and consent to abide by those laws.?

 

[in other words, if you tell your local MP that you revoke your consent for him/her to represent you, and don't vote, you can logically also revoke your consent to abide by all legislation enacted in Parliament - it being the case that you no longer recognise its legitimacy in relation to yourself because, as above, it no longer has any. Nice of them to tell us :-]

 

Appendix B

 

Meaning of food

 

8 Meaning of food

 

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, food?

 

(a) means anything that is used, capable of being used, or

represented as being for use, for human consumption

(whether raw, prepared, or partly prepared); and

 

(b) includes?

(i) plants; and

(ii) live animals intended for human consumption at

the place of purchase; and

(iii) live animals for human consumption that are sold

in retail premises; and

(iv) any ingredient or nutrient or other constituent of

any food or drink, whether that ingredient or nu-

trient or other constituent is consumed or repre-

sented for consumption on its own by humans,

or is used in the preparation of, or mixed with or

added to, any food or drink; and

(v) anything that is or is intended to be mixed with

or added to any food or drink; and

(vi) chewing gum, and any ingredient of chewing

gum, and anything that is or is intended to be

mixed with or added to chewing gum; and

(vii) anything that is declared by the Governor-Gen-

eral, by Order in Council made under section

355, to be food for the purposes of this Act; but

 

© does not include?

(i) any tobacco; or

(ii) any cosmetics; or

(iii) any substances used only as medicines (within

the meaning of the Medicines Act 1981), any

controlled drugs (within the meaning of the Mis-

use of Drugs Act 1975), or any restricted sub-

stances (within the meaning of the Misuse of

Drugs Amendment Act 2005); or

(iv) any cookware and related products; or

(v) any packaging (except edible packaging).

 

(2) To avoid doubt, neither subsection (1)(b)(iv) nor (v) requires

any ingredient, nutrient, or other constituent of any food or

drink or anything that is or is intended to be mixed with or

added to any food or drink to comply, on its own, with the

applicable requirements of this Act that specifically relate to

food in its final consumable form.

 

Meaning of food business

 

9 Meaning of food business

 

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, food busi-

ness?

 

(a) means a business, activity, or undertaking that trades in

food (whether in whole or in part); and

 

(b) includes a business, activity, or undertaking that?

(i) transports or stores food; or 35

(ii) sells food on the Internet; or

(iii) provides, for reward, premises (including mobile

premises) or services in connection with or for

the purpose of trading in food (for example, an

event organiser, an organiser of a market at which

food is sold, or a lessor); or

(iv) is declared by the Governor-General, by Order in

Council made under section 355, to be a food

business for the purposes of this Act; but

 

© does not include a business, activity, or undertaking

that?

(i) carries on any other business besides trading in

food and, in the course of which, acts as an inter-

mediary between persons who trade in food by

providing, for reward, premises a place (includ-

ing mobile premises) or services (for example, an

Internet service provider or an auction site on the

Internet); or

(ii) trades exclusively in food-related accessories; or

(iii) lets for hire any equipment (such as marquees,

tables, and chairs); or

(iv) is declared by the Governor-General, by Order

in Council made under section 355, not to be a

food business for the purposes of this Act.

 

Meaning of processing and handling

 

10 Meaning of processing and handling

 

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, processing

and handling, in relation to food for sale, includes any 1 or

more of the following:

 

(a) preparing the food:

 

(b) manufacturing the food:

 

© packing the food:

 

(d) transporting the food:

 

(e) storing the food:

 

(f) displaying the food:

 

(g) serving the food.

 

Appendix C

 

Select Committee recommendations

 

Small scale businesses

 

We recommend amending clause 95 by inserting new subclause 95(5)

to provide an example of a person to whom the chief executive might

grant an exemption from the requirement to operate under a regis-

tered food control plan or national programme. This example con-

cerns someone who produces in his or her own home any food for

sale, and sells the food to a consumer only, and does not employ or

engage anyone else to assist in the production or sale of the food, and

does not otherwise sell or distribute the food.

 

The treatment of very small-scale food businesses has emerged as

a matter of particular interest in our consideration of the bill. Very

small-scale food traders, or ?cottage industries? are not distinguished

in the bill. It would be difficult to quantify ?small-scale? in terms of

profit, quantity of product, or number of people involved in the oper-

ation, and it is also difficult to define a ?cottage? food industry. Do-

ing so could have the effect of inappropriately including or excluding

particular food-trading activities. Therefore we do not recommend a

generic ?cottage industry? provision, and propose instead that any

exemption from the requirement to operate under a food control plan

or national programme regulations could be made on a case-by-case

basis through the exercise of the chief executive?s exemption power

under this clause.

 

Link to the bill: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0160/latest/DLM2995811.html

[Pakage]

[Ignition]

Random Task sentenced to life for gang rape.

 

Lame, he was my favourite actor.

[Pakage]

9/10 people enjoy gang rape. Thus making the other 10% not even considered statistically significant, hence gang rape is an acceptable escapade thats enjoyable for everyone. My logic is undeniable, let this man walk.