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You don’t want your retirement savings invested in nuclear bombs, sure. But what about conventional defence equipment that’s also used for essential civilian purposes?
This month’s assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and the Australian navy’s evacuation of people escaping bushfires are two very different events, but they highlight the dilemma faced by KiwiSavers wanting to invest ethically. When does putting your retirement savings into a weapons manufacturer cross the line between acceptable and unacceptable?
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Read more: Tanks, torpedoes and tasers: Why weapons are a conundrum for KiwiSavers
- Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/24-01-2020/tanks-tridents-and-torpedoes-why-weapons-are-a-conundrum-for-kiwisavers/
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The NZDF, Navy Army and Air Force regularly help in disasters from Search and rescue, cyclon and earthquake recovery, Kaikoura earthquake was a good example where the warships came to help, supplying food, clean water, and boots on the ground. But they can also defend the nation if needed.
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Doctors have warned horny young men to refrain from using banana peels to masturbate — the latest bizarre sex trend circulating on social media.
“It’s the closet thing to a blowjob,” wrote one randy Redditor, who claims “he’s been doing it for years.”
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Read more: Doctors beg men not to masturbate with banana peels
- Article: https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/doctors-beg-men-not-to-masturbate-with-banana-peels/
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An expert advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) has described the coronavirus outbreak as potentially "thermonuclear pandemic level bad".
Dozens have been killed by the virus 2019-nCoV since it was first detected in early December, and as of Sunday morning (NZ time) there were 1441 confirmed cases.
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Read more: Harvard expert calls coronavirus outbreak 'thermonuclear pandemic level bad'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/harvard-expert-calls-coronavirus-outbreak-thermonuclear-pandemic-level-bad.html
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The Defence Force is battling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles which cost about $186 million.
It is another chapter in the long running saga of one of the army's most expensive, and most controversial, purchases.
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Read more: Defence Force struggling to find a buyer for 30 unwanted armoured vehicles
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/119010120/defence-force-struggling-to-find-a-buyer-for-30-unwanted-armoured-vehicles
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Taika Waititi has confessed to being a time traveller after a fan noticed his likeness in an 1862 oil painting by Édouard Manet.
A man resembling the Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker with a grey beard appears in Manet's 'The Old Musician', which was pointed out on Twitter.
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Read more: Taika Waititi admits he's a time traveller
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/05/taika-waititi-admits-he-s-a-time-traveller-after-mysterious-manet-painting-discovery.html
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New Zealand's Ministry of Health is stressing the risk to Kiwis from the case of coronavirus confirmed in Australia is "very low".
On Saturday, Australian authorities confirmed a Chinese National in Melbourne was infected with the mystery illness that has so far killed at least 41 and infected nearly 1300.
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Read more: New Zealanders shouldn't be alarmed by Australia's confirmed illness
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/coronavirus-new-zealanders-shouldn-t-be-alarmed-by-australia-s-confirmed-illness-moh.html
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Australia has risen to four nationwide after three cases were confirmed in New South Wales.
NSW Health says three infected men are being treated in isolation in Sydney's Westmead Hospital.
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Read more: Coronavirus: Three more cases of coronavirus confirmed in Australia
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New Zealand's Ministry of Health says the situation here "remains unchanged" as Australia announced its first case of the China coronavirus today.
Dr Caroline McElnay, Director of Public Health for the Ministry of Health, told 1 NEWS the ministry will remain in close contact with Australian authorities over the coronavirus case.
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- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/ministry-health-says-situation-in-nz-remains-unchanged-australia-announces-first-case-china-coronavirus
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