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mikenmildagain

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A classic case of what goes around comes around:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/06/neri-oxman-bill-ackman-plagiarism-accusations
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January 7, 2024 8:02am
- Matt Long
  
  Which elitist institute of higher education is Mrs Ackman the leader of?
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:07am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Um, she’s a professor at MIT, and presumably remained silent while her husband was attacking another professor for alleged plagiarism.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:10am
    - Matt Long
      
      No, she is not according to your link, did you read it.
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:17am
    - All_on_Red
      
      They found that in a 330 page Dissertation that she had omitted quotation marks from 4 paragraphs…
      She also failed to cite one source.
      That’s it
      Hardly on Gays level.
      It might backfire now because her Billionaire husband is pissed and is putting resources and staff into examining the work of those at Business Insider who did this beat up.
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12931811/Bill-Ackmans-wife-Neri-Oxman-accused-PLAGARISM-multiple-parts-MIT-dissertation-billionaire-husband-slams-hit-job-designer.html
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:22am
      - CJames
        
        Reading the business Insider article, they also reported that she used a lot of Wikipedia information. However, most of Wikipedia is lifted off other sources, without attribution. Therefore, listing Wikipedia is misattribution.
        It is also relevant that Neri Oxman didn’t marry her husband until years after her dissertation. She had a previous marriage. Ackman would have no association with what she did for her PhD. That makes it look like it is very much a smear campaign of guilt by association.
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:31am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        Um, they are both beat ups. Gay resigned over the antisemitisms beat up. If she was an actual plagiarist, she could hardly continue in a senior academic role at the university.
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:33am
      - CJames
        
        “Gay resigned over the antisemitisms beat up.” Really milky? She is rewriting history. Her position was untenable. She was a diversity hire without the academic or management ability to justify it. It backfired in a big way. They put her back to just a lecturer but with an inflated salary to persuade her to jump. I suspect the Board will also go.
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:44am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        Strange then that she received academic prizes and was a senior administrator at Harvard for 10 years ‘without academic or management ability’. Must have been a coincidence that these allegations arose after she allegedly supported antisemitic demonstrations.
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:54am
      - david in Aus
        
        @milkmaid. Why someone with such a thin academic record receive academic records diminishes the institution. It’s obvious those academic prizes were based on racial quotas.
        
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        January 7, 2024 10:08am
      - Che Guava
        
        “It might backfire now because her Billionaire husband is pissed and is putting resources and staff into examining the work of those at Business Insider who did this beat up.”
        
        Hey, what’s a little bit of academic plagiarism anyway, when the well-connected Jewish Wall Street billionaire donor husband is going to set his dogs on those responsible for exposing the wife’s plagiarism?
        
        I must say, when I first heard about this extremely ironic development, the prospect of coming to KB today for the downplaying of both the plagiarism of the wife (having unequivocally condemned the Harvard woman for the same) plus the continued denial of the exercise of coordinated Jewish power exercised by the billionaire husband in revenge for exposing his wife (having strenuously denied that this phenomenon is common, while also pointing out that this is exactly what is going to happenin response from Ackman) was very exciting.
        
        You certainly aren’t disappointing me, ladies and gentlemen.
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:24am
      - CJames
        
        With regards to the departure of Ms Gay from Harvard, there appears to have been three campaigns which people like Milky and CG have morphed into one.
        After her Congressional testimony, where she and a couple of other university presidents couldn’t give a yes/ no answer to a simple question on antisemitic hate speech, the was a campaign by several big law firms not to hire any Harvard graduates. Together with this other firms rescinded employment letters to people who had supported a petition on 8th October which among other things, called for a stop to the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians and totally blaming the terrorism on Israel. That petition had caused controversy and Ms Gay issued a statement “that did not directly address the controversy but instead said university leaders were “heartbroken” by “the attack by Hamas that targeted citizens in Israel this weekend, and by the war in Israel and Gaza now under way”. That did not calm the storm so next day “, clarified that the school “condemn[ed] the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas”. ” Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region,” she said. “This was 8-10th October and from the BBC website.
        In November, some big donors (~1600 according to CNN) announced they would stop giving money.
        Then came her Congress testimony on 5th December. For that, she was prepped by big name PR and law firms. After it, law firms announcing it would stop hiring directly, citing as a reason her testimony. As well as that, Bill Ackman announced he was in a serious dispute over their handling of stock he had gifted in 2017 – about $70M worth. Ackman had started a campaign about antisemitism at Harvard.
        Through all this, the Harvard Corporation continued to support the President
        Chris Rufo through the NY Post announced that they had found plagiarism in Ms Gays thesis. The board said they had earlier investigated and threatened to sue the NY Post in October as they were demonstrably false. Then the President submitted corrections. Then came more allegations of plagiarism on Jan 1st. It now was identified as being present in about half of what she had published over a 24 year period – and she had a very slim portfolio.
        Then came her resignation on 2nd Jan. It must have been an agreement with the Board as she kept her salary despite going back to just being on faculty.
        So it wasn’t antisemitism or racism which caused her to lose her job, it was just she carried too much baggage. She was a diversity hire which backfired. Something that should cause heads to roll in the Corporation.
        
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        January 7, 2024 3:02pm
      - CJames
        
        With regards stuff on Wikipedia, what is its source? A lot is cut and paste from other sources, very little of which has academic attribution. One would need to do a full check on Wayback and the timelines to see when the texts in question were posted and what modifications have been done to them and by whom. For all we know, someone may have lifted them from Ms Oxham’s work of 12 years ago. That would be embarrassing, wouldn’t it.
        
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        January 7, 2024 3:08pm
      - Che Guava
        
        CJames
        “In November, some big donors (~1600 according to CNN) announced they would stop giving money.”
        
        Not just any 1600 plus donors, but, very specifically, 1600 plus Jewish donors:
        
        https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/11/economy/harvard-alumni-donations-antisemitism/index.html
        
        “More than 1,600 Jewish Harvard alumni threaten to withdraw donations over antisemitism concerns.”
        
        This is not an insignificant distinction. It is qn extremely salient fact, because it directly supports my consistent contention, which is that coordinated elite Jewish influence and pressure got her fired because Gay was insufficiently supportive of Israel’s interests, not plagiarism which is just an outward pretext to distract from the real, more obvious explanation.
        
        It’s notable that the controversy was for weeks unambiguously over “anti-semitism on campus,” yet plagiarism was ostensibly the reason for her removal. “Plagiarism” is much less politically sensitive than “organised Jewish influence” which is dismissed as an anti-semitic trope. It’s not.
        
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        January 7, 2024 3:20pm
      - DistantObserver
        
        If I was Bill, I’d be more worried about the $ his new wife took from Jeffery Epstein.
        Just saying.
        
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        January 7, 2024 3:52pm
      - cmm
        
        In some ways I think Che G is partially right.
        
        I think those liberal Jewish benefactors were happy to go along with supporting DEI. They were happy to support Gay just because she was black. They were happy to turn a blind eye to Gay’s awful academic record.
        
        But with the antisemitism, they withdrew their support – both financially as well as the DEI support.
        
        Fair enough. Why hold the asp to your bosom?
        
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        January 7, 2024 9:49pm
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      Seriously mike? Perhaps you should keep up. Ackman’s main gripe with Gay that had him cease his Harvard donations, was her inability to defend against anti-semitism. Specifically, a question asked of her in Congress “whether calls for genocide against Jewish people constituted a violation of Harvard’s code of conduct”. The initial allegations of plagiarism were made by Chris Rufo and had nothing to do with Ackman who only subsequently enjoined them to his complaints about Gay because Harvard refused to fire her for her ineptitude in that Congressional testimony. Why mike, do you think that donors fled Harvard after her testimony?
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:48am
      - Che Guava
        
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        “Perhaps you should keep up. Ackman’s main gripe with Gay that had him cease his Harvard donations, was her inability to defend against anti-semitism.”
        
        You guys need to get your story straight: some of you are saying that Harvard was all about plagiarism (yet are now excusing plagiarism in this case), while others deny this and say that, actually, the Jewish donors had her removed for not protecting their collective interest on campus (yet deny the fact of coordinated enforcement of Jewish interest).
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:32am
- CJames
  
  You didn’t actually look at what her plagiarism was did you milky? She properly attributed where she got the 4 paragraphs from (in a 300 page document IIRC), but she didn’t put the quote marks around them. That is orders of magnitude less than what Ms Gay did.
  As there now seems to be a plagiarism war started, I suspect a lot of academics are going to get caught out by unoriginal thoughts.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:21am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Academic Writing isn’t really Ms Oxman’s field…
    
    Now, if she was plagiarizing other folks’ designs, then that might be a real problem.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:32am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      She has a PhD in architectural design and is a professor at MIT. I think it’s safe to say she would be aware of academic writing standards. But I’m glad to see you agree that these two cases aren’t really plagiarism.
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:36am
      - Inandout
        
        m&m, your arguments are becoming more infantile. Take a break.
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:50am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        But I’m glad to see you agree that these two cases aren’t really plagiarism.
        
        You see nothing….
        
        Plagiarism is passing off someone else’s writing and ideas as your own.
        
        Now, in its most common form plagiarism occurs when you quote someone else’s words and fail to acknowledge that those words were written/spoken by someone else.
        
        It’s an easy mistake to forget to acknowledge the author of words that have stuck in your mind or were scribbled down in your notes months ago.
        
        But if there is a pattern of failing to acknowledge authorship… especially in Academic writing, then it’s a problem, as it suggests the writer is lazy as well as being incapable of providing his/her own perspective on an issue.
        
        BUT the main problem in Academia or the Creative Fields is taking other people’s ideas and claiming them as your own.
        
        I’ve come across 2 examples of plagiarism in commissioned work that I was editing.
        
        One I would ascribe to sheer laziness –
        
        The second was possibly just a failure to acknowledge the authorship of a pretty obscure piece of research. (i.e. the article read as if the writer had made the observation.)
        
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        January 7, 2024 9:24am
      - All_on_Red
        
        IIRC Gay had over 50 instances of plagiarism.
        Thats quite a lot…
        
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        January 7, 2024 9:32am
  - Che Guava
    
    Can you only be a little bit guilty of academic plagiarism, just like you can be a little bit pregnant?
    
    Reminds me of Joyce claiming “it was fairly legal” in relation to that National advert.
    
    Clearly, the principle guiding most views here is not the objective distinction between plagiarism/no plagiarism, is it the subjective distinction between their guy/our guy.
    
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    January 7, 2024 11:37am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Or it could have been an honest mistake on Oxmans part.
      But hey an Associate Professor missing quotation marks on 4 paragraphs in 330 pages is just the same as the President of Harvard having 50 examples across a dozen Papers
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      ‘Clearly, the principle guiding most views here is not the objective distinction between plagiarism/no plagiarism, is it the subjective distinction between their guy/our guy.’
      
      Cool projection.
      If cant cant see the degree of difference then I suggest you take that plank of wood out of your eye.
      Got any good Conspiracy Theories for us today?
      Lol
      
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      January 7, 2024 12:02pm
- Simon
  
  Gay tip of the DEI plagiarism iceberg. Also just see the first DEI air accidents.
  
  Still hidden is the DEI health care wasteland.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:54am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yeah I heard about United going with DEI filtering of pilots. One airline I will NEVER again fly with. FFS!
    
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    January 7, 2024 6:11pm
- Simon
  
  On July 29, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing
  
  Who was flying that aircraft?
  
  Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was FIRED and then rehired through United’s DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?
  
  Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training?
  
  https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1743346866186514878
  
  This is DEI pilot problem I think Mike was talking about the other day.
  
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  January 7, 2024 9:03am
  - peterwn
    
    It was totaled as far as United was concerned. Presumably it will be sold ‘as is where is’.
    
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    January 7, 2024 12:21pm
- Damocles11
  
  Mildmike seems to get the first post every day, quickly derailing the discussion right from the outset. Sad!
  
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  January 7, 2024 3:25pm
- Jake Dee
  
  It may have been that it was Jewish interests who pulled the trigger on Claudia Gay. But they didn’t make the gun. If Harvard, at the absolute top of The Ivy League just doesn’t follow its own rules then that’s on all of them. Now the taboo about calling out plagiarism has been broken expect a lot more top academics to fall.
  Plenty of solid evidence against Dr. Martin Luther King jr. but he was just too important to touch. This corruption runs deep and it’s no good to say that this piece here doesn’t stink just because that piece over there smells worse.
  
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  January 8, 2024 12:11am
- Stellaboxer
  
  The Guardian lol 😂
  
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  January 8, 2024 9:17am
Chuck Bird

Let us not allow any Jew hating Paleatians here.

The Brutal Reality About Palestinians the Media Ignores | David M. Friedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns45KuFlZwY
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January 7, 2024 8:05am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Imagine headlining a story “The Brutal Reality about White People”.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:08am
  - dubya
    
    Sounds like a crappy Netflix show or the names of 2/3rds of last years sociology/polsci/media studies masters dissertations.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:20am
  - Gravelroad
    
    I believe I did read a similar story not so long ago:
    “I am a prevention violence minister and I know who causes violence in the world, it is white cis men. That is white cis men who cause violence in the world.”
    Marama Davidson MP and head of the cult of No Consequences.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:25am
    - G152
      
      How then does she account for the NZ gang structures, the frequent shootings and the recent spate of murders?????
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:38am
      - kowtow
        
        Easy.
        
        Capt Cook .
        
        Innit.
        
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        January 7, 2024 10:32am
    - MCōs
      
      Look at the fuss that caused
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:56am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        Gravelroad might be under the impression that Davidson’s comment about while men justifies genocidal comments about the Palestinians.
        
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        January 7, 2024 9:00am
  - iMP
    
    “Old white men should be replaced with young women” – Julie Ann Genter overseas import Green Minister.
    
    For which I took her to the Himan Rights Commission. Result: “Not sexist or racist”. Face plank and disillusion swallow.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:38am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Perhaps the Human Rights Commission is governed by a narrative rather than principles.
      
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      January 7, 2024 9:25am
      - kowtow
        
        In the spirit of that narrative and the fad to rename all things to woke and diverse , may I suggest it be called ;
        
        The ShePerson Wongs Kommission.
        
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        January 7, 2024 10:34am
      - ISeeRed
        
        What? It hasn’t been abolished yet?
        
        Oh.
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:44am
- Clown
  
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  I know this blog is insanely pro-Jew, but give it a rest already? This is almost stuff.co.nz level of propaganda
  
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  January 7, 2024 9:51am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Clown,
    Its the new in thing for those who want to portray a certain image of themselves.
    In a couple of months, when their brain hurts, it will be something else.
    
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    January 7, 2024 10:20am
    - kowtow
      
      In a cuppla months it will still be DPF’s and if your head is hurting why don’t you and the clown foxtrot oscar off to a kluless sworbrick site or somesuch .
      
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      January 7, 2024 10:37am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Kowt
        Beautifully put.
        Well done.
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:10am
      - Che Guava
        
        I actually appreciate DPF very much for being good enough and adult enough to allow strong dissent on issues that he has a personal stake in.
        
        Some of my fellow commenters, however, act like spoiled children when anyone steps off the pro-Israel train. These people have no right to condemn “the left” for group-think and dogmatic idealism on the topics that the left are emotionally invested in, because the behaviour of the former is identical to the latter’s.
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:47am
      - Che Guava
        
        imalwaysright
        “Kowt
        Beautifully put.
        Well done.”
        
        Good lord, judging by the ratio of up/down ticks they clearly think you weren’t being ironical.
        
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        January 7, 2024 2:26pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Che,
        I wondered if it was worth pointing it out!
        
        I was looking forward to the downticks.
        
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        January 7, 2024 5:05pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    My support for Israel is less about being pro-Jewish and more about our shared democratic and free society ideal, from our membership of the US Western Empire.
    
    There is no-way I would like to be ruled by a Muslim based ethos, where I am an infidel and have less rights than a Muslim. Nor do I wish to be ruled by a Totalitarian regime such as China where the state has inconceivable power.
    
    So while I am critical of aspects of our Empire, the founding ideals and philosophy are still a better alternative than any other option. Thus I see Israel as a small beacon of light surrounded by darkness. I would like to see them survive against all odds.
    
    Equally, this puts me against the neo-marxists that would love nothing more than to pull down our Empire from within for their own ideological or nefarious reasons. That’s why I can’t stomach the Greens or TPM or the Global Socialist movements like WEF. The alternative they offer has been shown to be worse for the majority in all examples where it has been applied.
    
    I suspect many KBers share similar views. There are other blogs dedicated to those promoting neo-Marxism and minority rule.
    
    That said it doesn’t mean I agree with the war in Gaza. It would be akin to going to a concert that becomes overrun by the Mongrel Mob and them not letting anyone out of the venue – killing a few that try to leave. Then the police wage war on the Mongrel Mob with a stance that civilians in the venue are expendable. I would hate to be a civilian in that concert and I would hate to be a civilian in Gaza. It’s a situation where an international intervention, ie International peacekeeping and police force needs to be deployed to enable proper democratic processes to prevent rule by thugs.
    
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    January 7, 2024 4:51pm
    - DistantObserver
      
      “My support for Israel is less about being pro-Jewish and more about our shared democratic and free society ideal.”
      
      Oh please, what fantasy ‘free society’ is that? The one currently inflicting daily humiliations to the people they are occupying in West Bank?
      I want nothing to do with it.
      Good grief, why is it so hard for us to maintain our own sovereignty and power of decision.
      
      @9m:25s
      Imagine this was your 13rd old daughter.
      Presumed guilty and hauled off for questioning for an hour by a solider without ones parents on the accusation of picking up a knife.
      All I can say is the Father is very restrained.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdGcej-6D0
      
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      January 7, 2024 5:51pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Now do the people tortured raped and murdered by Hamas
        You comments reek of false equivalence and you should be ashamed for your clear bias.
        What a disgrace
        
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        January 7, 2024 8:11pm
      - DistantObserver
        
        Those former IDF soldiers speaking out would disagree with you.
        I believe the term commonly employed term here is ‘whataboutism’, you haven’t rebutted the core point.
        
        History did not start on 7th October and the tragic thing is the echos of past history.
        What I don’t get is amongst all this religious stuff, what happened to the sentiment of
        “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”?
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTxDYtNhno
        
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        January 7, 2024 10:38pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      I am glad that you see your (and presumably NZ’s) position as being in an Empire, I broadly agree. But I don’t think I’m under any sort of obligation to believe whatever is the current foundation myth of that empire. There is no way the New Zealand and Israel are founded on the same principles Those founding ideals and philosophies certainly aren’t the same before as they are now. The current systems says it’s based on Human Rights something, something, and Democracy something, something else with the new invention of something called “the International Rules Based Order, whatever that means.
      The United Staes of America wasn’t founded on any of those things. They have run through various concepts such as “Divine Provenance”, “Liberty” and “Manifest Destiny” before dumping them all into the trash can of history and inventing something else as the times demanded.
      Ironically the idea that we now have the true ideology, against which all previous epochs and foreign nations must be measured is progressivist and Marxist. The religion of my tribe is obviously the one true faith so all past times and other tribes are wrong.
      
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      January 8, 2024 1:05am
- MCōs
  
  There used to be a genuine anti Jewish holocaust denying person on this forum whose non de plume escapes me
  They disappeared when moderation commenced
  There were some pretty wild comments back then
  
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  January 7, 2024 11:45am
  - mandk
    
    There were two at different times.
    
    One posted under the name Kea, and the other posted under the name Reid.
    
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    January 7, 2024 1:41pm
  - Che Guava
    
    How would denying the holocaust necessarily make someone anti-Jewish? I don’t see how the one follows as a consequence of the other. Of course, it is possible, but I don’t see how there is any necessary connection.
    
    Wouldn’t denying the holocaust just consist of scepticism towards the veracity of a particular set of historical claims and the narrative surrounding them, such scepticism being independent of any negative attitudes towards people involved in the event(s) in question? Some Jews themselves have been, and still are, holocaust sceptics, but does that make them anti-Jewish? I wouldn’t have thought so.
    
    To illustrate the principle, would someone who is deeply sceptical of claimed events surrounding either the life or the death of Jesus therefore be “anti-Christian” and have hatred towards Christians? Again, they could be anti-Christian, but then again, they may just be unconvinced by the claims of Christians.
    
    If the “holocaust denial equation” I note above is universally valid heuristic, then someone’s scepticism of Christ’s life and death would entail that sceptic’s hatred of Christians. Wouldn’t it?
    
    This logic is obviously ridiculous to most reasonable people.
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:41pm
    - mandk
      
      I suppose you could quibble about the precise number of people killed in the holocaust. It could be four million, or five million, or six million.
      
      But what is undeniable is that the killing was on an industrial scale. It is also undeniable that most of those killed were killed simply because they were Jewish.
      
      To argue otherwise is patently anti-Semitic.
      
      And, to borrow your words, this is obvious to most reasonable people.
      
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      January 7, 2024 3:33pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        “To argue otherwise is patently anti-Semitic.
        
        And, to borrow your words, this is obvious to most reasonable people”
        
        There should still be a place for reasonable people who practice reasoning, reasoning can lead to skepticism, and skepticism can lead to uncomfortable questions .
        It is our prerogative, and tantamount to our duty, to be skeptical and to question, so that we can at least honour the victims with the truth, and burden the protagonists with the blame.
        
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        January 7, 2024 6:08pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Interesting 3 minute interview with an Arab Israeli. Palestinians were not called such till after 1947 – they are really just Arabs who live – or want to own – Israel.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1cVsyUXxYM
  
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  January 7, 2024 11:57am
Matt Long

Chris Rufo lays out plans to redeem higher education in the US.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/after-harvard-shakeup-chris-rufo-offers-conservative-game-plan-retake-elite-institutions
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January 7, 2024 8:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Conservatives already have their own ‘elite’ institutions, don’t they?
  Liberty University
  Trump University
  Bob Jone University
  Hillsdale College
  Regent University
  Prager University
  etc, etc
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:16am
  - kevn
    
    mma… Meanwhile in the world of Petone. Your keyboard awaits.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:40am
All_on_Red

As we all know Mikenmild is a great fan of Elon Musk and on numerous occasions has expressed grave concern for the profitability of X, formerly Twitter.
But fear not Mikey, your hero isn’t alone in having an unprofitable media entity.
Poor Jeff Bezos is losing $100 million a year at the Washington Post.
Readership has plummeted as the “Washington Post is also failing to engage audiences. Four years ago, the Post boasted 139 million monthly visitors. By the end of last year, it had less than 60 million”
Oh dear, how sad. Never mind.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/01/05/the-washington-post-is-in-big-trouble-n2168357
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January 7, 2024 8:30am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Good. Perhaps he has ideas for the WaPo as good as Musk’s for X. Or maybe he should concentrate on his idea for moving all the polluting factories into space.
  They are both terrible human beings.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:38am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Both are extremely hard working geniuses that have made incredibly beneficial contributions to humanity.
    
    [Mod – please debate without making it personal]
    
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    January 7, 2024 10:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      @NothingLeft,
      “They are both terrible human beings.” from Mike.
      That is not making it personal by Mike?
      Whatever you said can not be more personal than that, unless you insulted Mike…..
      
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      January 7, 2024 2:42pm
      - Ghost
        
        Are Elon and Jeff members of the blog Steve? I’d be careful asking that comments against public figures be stopped, that’s most of your posts
        
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        January 7, 2024 4:49pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Given the performances of this poor woman from NBC it would seem that there is no hope for the MSM at its base of reporters: Vivek vs the MSM again
  
  You have to love the sight of a White Liberal Woman lecturing about White Supremacy to a Brown person.
  
  I did like Bonchie’s comment on the reasons that the WaPo and others simply refuse to acknowledge:
  
  As to the reasons behind this precipitous fall, I think they are fairly obvious. Nothing the Post produces is worthwhile. Their columnists are boring parrots who all say the same thing, levying the same boring attacks they were levying nearly a decade ago. Even a died-in-the-wool liberal can only take so many Jennifer Rubin columns claiming the end is nigh for the nation because Republicans get to vote.
  
  Then there’s Taylor Lorenz, who has done more to harm the Post’s credibility in the few years she’s worked there than any other “journalist” at the outlet. She’s been caught committing multiple ethical violations dealing with her “stories,” and the response from her employers has been non-existent. Of all the people who should have been given the boot long ago, Lorenz was one of them.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Typical leftie reporter, asks a question and then won’t shut the fuck up or listen to any answer.
    Who was she interviewing? Oh yeah, herself!
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:51pm
iMP

Oh dear, Tova O’Brien dumped for a second time as uneconomic. Time to catch on Tova? Listener/viewers don’t think you’re awesome and ‘mother of the nation.’
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January 7, 2024 8:41am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Perhaps she could write some blog posts about biblical archaeology.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:43am
- pdm
  
  If only Stuff would get rid of her as well.
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:44am
  - Tweedse
    
    I suspect that will happen when Stuff itself closes this year. Prediction.
    
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    January 7, 2024 12:14pm
    - sungsamning
      
      Do you think $tuff will still be around at Kings Birthday?
      
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      January 7, 2024 1:47pm
      - Ghost
        
        It’s not going anywhere.
        
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        January 7, 2024 1:59pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      That would be very sad. 😂
      
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      January 7, 2024 6:16pm
- Gin and Sonic
  
  Any truth to the rumours that the vile Shaneel Lal has also been, finally, dropped as a columnist for the Herald? Please let it be true.
  
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  January 8, 2024 4:24pm
G152

Watching Aljazeera {I know, hamas propoganda} and someone picked up what looked like a wrapped corpse at the center.
Folks, it didn’t bend…..
Fresh killed are fairly loose. Old killed still would bend.
And the obsession with numbers of children killed.
Easy solution.
SURRENDER.
Stop the BS and the constant rocket attacks.
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January 7, 2024 8:46am
CJames

A Russian woman in Canada wasn’t allowed citizenship because she was convicted of criticising Putin while living in Canada. So Canada is nowcriminalising free speech about events outside its borders.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/06/oh-canada-government-blocks-citizenship-due-to-russian-conviction-for-criticizing-the-ukrainian-war/
“Notably, the charge was based on two blog posts that Kartasheva wrote and published in Canada.
She expressed disgust at reports in March 2022 that Russian troops had killed Ukrainians in the town of Bucha. Not only did she write the blogs while living in Canada, she notified Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada about the charges and supplied the underlying papers to the government.”
Must be the Brave New World of Commissar Trudeau. When are the Canadian elections?
And for the benefit of Milky, I properly attributed the source.
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January 7, 2024 8:51am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  I don’t think you read the fuller CBC story:
  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maria-kartasheva-russia-citizenship-conviction-1.7074233
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:57am
  - CJames
    
    No Milky. She was living in Canada. She wrote while she was in Canada. She was sentenced in absentia by a puppet court.
    
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    January 7, 2024 9:11am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, and it seems more likely than not that she will get her Canadian citizenship.
      
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      January 7, 2024 9:40am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Canada is f****d until that colossal dork and his minions are voted out.
        
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        January 7, 2024 6:18pm
Inandout

In this mad world of shopping you can walk out of a supermarket with a load of unpaid items, yet can’t wear ‘an offending’ t-shirt.
https://twitter.com/2ETEKA/status/1743425205362671832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1743425205362671832%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
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January 7, 2024 8:55am
- kevn
  
  Inand… The Otaki locals should have a T shirt rally in the store.
  
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  January 7, 2024 10:07am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I wonder how many gang members they have frog marched out of their shop?
    
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    January 7, 2024 10:44am
    - igm
      
      Seeing as Otaki prides itself as maori capital of NZ . . . what would one expect?
      
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      January 7, 2024 5:39pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Inan,
  
  Hard to believe this is New Zealand .
  
  These bastards need to be taught a lesson, hopefully by a total boycott.
  
  Tradies should refuse to do maintenance .
  Truckies should refuse to deliver.
  Waste management should refuse to pick uo their trash.
  
  And New Zealanders should refuse to shop there.
  
  Don’t tolerate this.
  
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  January 7, 2024 10:38am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    What about sending Foodstuffs NZ letters stating that you feel strongly about freedom of speech and will be doing your shopping elsewhere until they remove the trespass notice? This means avoidance of Paknsave, New world, 4 square stores around NZ.
    
    Perhaps a bud light moment in NZ?
    
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    January 7, 2024 11:43am
    - Ghost
      
      You will never get a bud light moment in NZ because people really don’t care. How’d the spark boycott go? No one cares. Boycotts simply don’t hold the power here they do in the USA.
      
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      January 7, 2024 11:55am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Ghost, you might be right but there are some differences between changing a telco supplier and choosing a different supermarket or brand of beer.
        
        The bud light consumer as a boycott is the most simple. You are at the liquor store, lots of products to choose from, just pick one that isn’t part of the bud family of beers.
        
        Conversely, changing my telco is something I might do very infrequently. It’s probably going to involve time and forms and payment setups, research into different options etc. Then are the other companies offering a different option – likely to be just as pro-trans. So why go to the effort?
        
        But for many, shopping at Countdown is probably just a 5-10 minute drive. So not as easy as a Bud boycott but much easier than Telco change.
        
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        January 7, 2024 12:16pm
      - Matt Long
        
        I up ticked you Ghost because mostly Kiwis have a she’ll be right attitude and let people get away with stuff.
        However the anti Jacinda people were quite successful at making her run.
        
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        January 7, 2024 12:51pm
      - Ghost
        
        Quicker to change telco companies than it is to get in your car and go do your shopping.
        
        The thing is no one cares about this lady, a couple of people on the internet the rest, nope. People only care when it involves them. The media may or may not pick up the story, I tend to think they won’t, and even if they do people will bypass it and not give it a second thought.
        
        People won’t change supermarkets because of this, we’re creatures of comfort. Society is more about image than actions, put an Ukraine flag on your Facebook profile now replaced with an Israel flag, sometimes a Black Lives Matter flag. It’s all about image not action now. A handful of people may get out and protest something but most will just keep on with their life as is, where is, u til something touches them personally
        
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        January 7, 2024 1:42pm
    - peterwn
      
      It was a decision made by the owner-operator of the Otaki New World. Nothing to do with Foodstuffs. she can always ‘supergold’ to Waikanae and do her shopping at the New World there.
      
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      January 7, 2024 12:39pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Maybe – but that means no consequences for those who made this decision. I think if Foodstuffs stores in NZ saw 10% of their business drop there would be some desire to rectify the situation. Because the question as the article says is who do they ban next? People wearing a Make Ardern Go Away hat perhaps?
        
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        January 7, 2024 12:46pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      They don’t care. They are proud of their wokeness.
      
      They will only learn when it hurts them in the pocket.
      
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      January 7, 2024 1:29pm
- Mummy
  
  Where can I get one of those T shirts?
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:13pm
  - lifesgood
    
    How can the truth be offensive?
    
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    January 7, 2024 1:05pm
    - JackRabbit
      
      “How can the truth be offensive?”
      There’s a new T-Shirt design right there.
      
      Along with:
      “Jack (male) and Jill (female) went up the hill…”
      
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      January 7, 2024 1:59pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-nr21ZCDw
Why China Can’t Sustain Its Global Power | Peter Zeihan.
Key points include China’s limited capacity to project power beyond its coastline, its heavy reliance on international trade for resources and market access, and the potential consequences of a breakdown in the global system. The video also touches on the implications of the Ukraine war for China’s strategic ambitions, particularly regarding Taiwan.
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January 7, 2024 9:07am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Demographics means that China’s population will soon start to fall. Demographics also include many more males than females within military age groups. Xi undoubtedly knows that the window to assault Taiwan will close in a few years. It’s risky business, out there.
  
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  January 7, 2024 4:41pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZUEf4YLLg
Will Supreme Court Side With Election Integrity?
The ACLJ and President Donald Trump have filed their appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court – now the 14th Amendment “disqualification” case that bans Trump from the 2024 ballot is in the Justices’ hands.
At this very moment, the ACLJ is representing the Colorado GOP at the U.S. Supreme Court in our fight to overturn the flawed decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to remove President Trump from the 2024 ballot.
This week we filed our reply brief at the Supreme Court, and President Trump filed an appeal on Wednesday. Now our appeal and the President’s appeal have been packaged together for the Justices to review.
So now we are waiting for the Supreme Court’s next move. We hope the Justices – as early as today – issue an order taking up the case. It’s very hard to predict what the Justices will decide and when.
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- slightlyrighty
  
  So it comes down to how SCOTUS rules.
  
  I would expect Clarence Thomas to rule in favour of Trump. (Happy wife, happy life)
  
  Alito would most likely side with Thomas, and has done so 86% of the time, but as a constitutionalist, may be swayed.
  
  John Roberts has worked with the Liberal side of the court before, and as a Bush Appointee, possibly represents one of the 2 votes needed to uphold the removal of Trump.
  
  This leaves us with the three Trump Appointees.
  
  Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Comey-Barrett.
  
  I do not expect all three to automatically support Trump. Gorsuch is an originalist in matters of the constitution, so it may fall to how he interprets Trump’s actions of Jan 6, and if that qualifies as insurrection.
  
  Kavanaugh is regarded as more conservative than Gorsuch and less conservative than Alito. He has some interesting views of Presidential Power and has voted against Trump on some issues in the past.
  
  Comey-Barrett is also an originalist in constitutional matters and could well be swayed by an “as written” view of the law.
  
  I do not see all three of Trump’s appointees supporting the outcome that favours Trump. In fact, I might suggest that only Alito and Thomas would be his only supporters.
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:42pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Interesting opinion. I assume the SCOTUS majority will see the issue for the legal crock it actually is.
    
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    January 7, 2024 1:53pm
    - Mike
      
      As it isn’t a legal crock, the justices are more likely to rule Trump eligible coz, reasons, and then declare their ruling not to be a precedent.
      See Bush v Gore.
      
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      January 7, 2024 2:15pm
      - sungsamning
        
        It is a crock. The intention was to stop Civil War rebels from running.
        
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        January 7, 2024 5:07pm
      - Mike
        
        For some reason, after the civil war legislators were onboard with the idea that future rebels would be unwelcome in public office.
        
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        January 7, 2024 5:31pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    The reality is that there has been no charges or conviction relating to Jan 6th. being an insurrection instigated by Trump – it’s only been in the mouths of Democrats & other leftists & TDR sufferers.
    I cannot see SCOTUS banning Trump from the ballot.
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:03pm
    - Mike
      
      Many insurrectionisys have already been convicted and jailed. A criminal conviction for Trump is not necessary to disqualify him from the ballot.
      
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      January 7, 2024 2:27pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      The 14th Amendment does not require a charge or a conviction.
      
      It states:
      
      “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
      
      The remedy for this is not by the supreme court ruling, but by congress. Congress has, on 2 seperate occasions, overturned such a ban.
      
      It all falls to how SCOTUS choose to define the cations of the Former President on Jan 6. An origonalist reading of the 14th Amendment should see the matter referred to congress.
      
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      January 7, 2024 2:32pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/maori-party-leader-illustrates-everything-that-is-wrong-with-the-maori-party/
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January 7, 2024 9:10am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Meanwhile, the Stop Co-governance blog continues to illustrate everything that is wrong with Julian Batchelor.
  
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  January 7, 2024 9:41am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    You can thank the Jacinda Arden led Labour Greens government for the creation of the Stop Covernance. Prior to that we had been like the frog in the pot of gradually warming water – that is mostly unaware we were being cooked. But the aggressive, activist Jacinda led government pushed the racial division agenda so hard some of NZ finally woke up.
    
    Attack Julian Batchelor all you want MMA – the more you do that the more credibility it gets in my eyes.
    
    Others supportive of his cause say he is the wrong man for this job. Well they may be correct in that there are others with better credentials for the job. But the fact remains that Batchelor is the one with the resources and the backbone who actually did something. So even if he isn’t perfect we should be supporting him not bitching about him in the background.
    
    Similar to Tamaki when it came to opposing the Plandemic and Vaccine mandates. Might not be your cup of tea but he had the balls and the following to standup to the Government during a time when few others did. For that he has my respect and gratitude.
    
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    January 7, 2024 11:53am
    - sungsamning
      
      Dead right. I didn’t see the Presbyterian, or Anglican church leaders taking a stand for freedom.
      
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      January 7, 2024 1:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      When Mike attacks Julian Batchelor it just shows that Julian is on target. He had the gonads to start the ball rolling. Others do nothing for fear of being branded ‘racist”
      Call me ‘racist’ if you want, I don’t give a fuck what the radical activists call me.
      
      Good response Pineapple Lumps.
      
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      January 7, 2024 1:58pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        These are the people who truly deserve new year awards. The grifting prats who generally get them should give them back.
        
        Perhaps there should be a People’s Award for Bravery at the same time as the general grifting prat awards.
        
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        January 7, 2024 6:22pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    Specifics mma, specifiics.
    
    And in your own words, not copied and pasted from google, media sites, newspapers, the back of bud lite can, or the Labour or Greens website.
    
    Can you construct an objective sentence worthy of debate?
    
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    January 7, 2024 1:55pm
Ra Henare

Further to a request from GD yesterday.
The Pros and Cons of living in Cambodia.

This perspective from a 77 year old Kiwi living primarily on NZ Super.
Have been here for the majority of the last 9 years. Living in both Phnom Penh, the Capital and Siem Reap a Tourist town.

Cons.
Level of competence of GPs. In General, Obviously exceptions.
Local Cambodian Doctors don’t have the level of expertise of NZ GPs.
(See Pros re my Cardiologist, Dentists and Ophthalmologists (Cataracts).
Amount of trash in the Countryside.
No social security. There is no social welfare.
So there are some beggars(who don’t spit at you if you don’t give money) and petty crime/thefts

Pros.
Warm and sunny most days.
April is hot but there are these wonderful things called Aircons.
The people. Friendly and appreciate senior Citizens.
No Ram Raids and seemingly senseless crime
I feel confident walking around the main areas of the city at 1am.
Low living Costs:
INCOME:I can live a comfortable lifestyle on my NZ Super.( I dont have to go back to NZ every 26 weeks.
INTERNET unlimited Internet on my phone for 6 USD/10NZD a month 4g 10-20mbit
RENT:. I live in a modern, western style 1 bedroom(50sqm) apartment with balcony.
Furnished, WIFI, Trash removal, aircon, modern appliances twin hob gas stove, washing machine etc. Cleaning lady comes once a week changes sheets etc. Security.
Siem Reap 210 USD/340NZD a month No Gym No Pool
Phnom Penh 400 USD/650NZD month(includes Gym and Pool)
Electric bill runs from $30USd/50NZD a month to 65USd/105NZD (all depending on AC usage.
Cooler months November to February low AC usage. April October Hot months.

Lack of rules. Cambodians have a very relaxed view on laws and rules they don’t agree with. Which can be a challenge to Rule oppressed Kiwis. Often traffic(Moto Sccoters) going wrong way on one way roads and against traffic on any road. Including highways. But you get used to it. I still find it hilarious.
No Health and safety oppression. Can be a shock to kiwis seeing construction workers wearing flip flops and hanging off buildings with no safety harness.

Police. Are very relaxed, A traffic accident (no injuries. Wills ee policeman as negotiator(not ticket writer) working out culprit and deciding compessantion if any to damaged party. Ie how much to fix the damaged vehicle.
ON the other side of the coin. Local justice is metered out to thievs by local community before perpetrators are dragged of by police(who have been watching said justice)

As mentioned. I have a great Cardiologist (who trained in the USA and Australia.
The eye Doctor that Did both my eye Cataracts.
Luckily I have a Russian doctor I use as a GP(has become a personal friend)

IN Summary. Cambodia society reminds me of the NZ I grew up in in the 50s and 60s. VERY family orientated and she ll be right environment. I think being a Buddhist country helps everything being mellow.
You dont have to learn the local language. English is fine in the City.
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January 7, 2024 9:24am
- Grunter
  
  Thx for that. Very interesting
  
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  January 7, 2024 11:04am
- wsk12345
  
  Lovely country. It’s on my list of possibles for when I leave here.
  How do you avoid coming back to NZ every 26 weeks and still get pension?
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:43pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    wsk.
    You have a right under the superannuation Act, section 26 Refers, to be paid overseas. Its called Portability. by MSD.
    Its on application and has a few requirements. You must be ordinarily resident when you apply and physically present in NZ.
    2 choices.
    Permanently resident in a country.
    Long term travel.
    Payment is based on number of months you have spent in NZ between ages of 20 & 65 (540 months). etc etc etc
    Upside is that no PAYE is deducted from your Super.
    
    The 26 weeks is just for those wanting to go on holiday with no paperwork required.
    
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    January 7, 2024 3:29pm
    - rouppe
      
      Further to that.
      
      Ra Henare is completely correct wrt Cambodia and many other places.
      
      However nz does have reciprocity agreements with some countries, and the portability is not so straightforward with some of those.
      
      Notably Australia, where the agreement means you come under their superannuation rules which means if you have any assets you get no super.
      
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      January 8, 2024 6:03am
- Ra Henare
  
  I missed the dentist bit. Some excellent dentists can be found. Well trained with all modern equipment.
  
  Recently had two crowns done in Siem Reap. Three visits. 1. Prepare tooth get mold, 2. Fit crown. 3. Checkup all was well. Colour matched Ceramic tooth. All up $120USd/$195NZD. each crown/cap
  
  PS. Some dentists you can almost roll up and start the procedure same day. My crowns started the following day from me rolling up.
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:44pm
  - House
    
    $1,600NZD for a crown done in NZ, inc GST.
    
    I felt lighter as a result… in the pocket.
    
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    January 8, 2024 10:37am
- MCōs
  
  In NZ with its ‘health & safety oppression’ about ten construction workers die per annum
  In Cambodia the number is estimated at fifteen hundred
  https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/cambodia-ilo-estimates-about-1500-construction-workers-die-each-year-due-to-unsafe-working-conditions/
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:06pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Dont work in Cambodian construction!
    
    I would point out that the report is from
    
    The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that more than 1,500 workers are killed each year by occupational accidents in Cambodia. Most of these accidents occur in construction sites, brick kilns and small enterprises that have neither the knowledge nor system in place to protect workers.
    ……
    More than 300,000 construction workers in Cambodia, have no idea how many total workers covered by this ILO report.
    
    Of course we can all find fault or a negative comment on any country.
    Do you want me to start on negatives about NZ?
    
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    January 7, 2024 3:40pm
- The Housekeeper
  
  Ra, why don’t you have to return to NZ for 26 weeks to continue receiving NZ Super?
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:06pm
  - MCōs
    
    I thought it wasn’t just a matter of returning after 26 weeks, but NZ must be one’s primary place of residence
    When I applied for National Superannuation the buggers were able to find out from Immigration at the push of a button when I’d gone in & out of the country, the flight numbers and in some cases the seat number.
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:20pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      See my comment
      As mention above. The 26 weeks is for temporary absence no paperwork. You have a right to live and be paid overseas on application (paperwork required)
      
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      January 7, 2024 3:43pm
      - fernglas
        
        The only catch is that you have to fill out and return a form every 6 months to confirm your overseas address. It needs to be witnessed by a local with a stamp. Seems a bit silly when they are actually paying you less than if you were in NZ full time, but there we go.
        
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        January 7, 2024 6:11pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Fernglass. Its actually to prove you are still alive 🙂
        Can be witnessed without a stamp but then the form has too be sent snailmail instead of email.
        
        Ferking ridulous in this day and age. ie need stamp and random signature.
        Form does NOT ask for signature person to provide contact details.!!
        
        Not sure where you get paid less? from.
        If you have been permanently in NZ for 540 months(they dont count time away up to 6 months as not resident) or time in Australia.
        
        But you get paid Gross amount of super with no tax deducted. So you get paid MORE than in NZ fulltime.
        
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        January 7, 2024 11:16pm
- kevn
  
  Ra… How do you sidestep the 26 week requirement?
  
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  January 7, 2024 2:59pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    As mention above. The 26 weeks is for temporary absence no paperwork. You have a right to live and be paid overseas on application (paperwork required)
    
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    January 7, 2024 3:42pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Thanks RH for all that info. Much appreciated.
  
  Many SUVs in Cambodia?
  
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  January 7, 2024 5:36pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    NZer
    Too many.
    Locals use them as status symbols
    Also handy when they go to villages in the country side(dirt roads)
    
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    January 7, 2024 11:17pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Bugger. Will have to look at Japan then.
      
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      January 8, 2024 4:59pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Interesting and useful information
  Thanks Ra
  
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  January 7, 2024 8:34pm
- rouppe
  
  I’m astonished at the number of people that don’t know this.
  
  Not sure I’d pick Cambodia. My recollection of PP was large dirty city. Siam Reap more village feel but being the gateway to Ankor Wat had its own problems.
  
  It is a consideration but Vietnam, Thailand and to a lesser extent Malaysia also there. Heard varying things about the Philippines.
  
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  January 8, 2024 6:12am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Dont know what century you visited Siem Reap.!! haha
    
    The paperwork to retire in Cambodia is real easy.
    One year retirement Visa, renewable via Tourist agency. $290USD. Never have to leave the country
    
    Thailand more expensive and Vietnam max 3 month Visa and must leave the country before renewal.
    
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    January 8, 2024 4:36pm
Swifty

That’s odd.

I don’t ever recall Stuff reposting US articles decrying Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders and others as crazed leftist extremists who consort with far-left lunatics who wish the US state to move towards full-blown socialism with all the massive social and economic devastation that would bring.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/301036210/vivek-ramaswamy-increasingly-embraces-fringe-theories-farright-claims-in-iowa

A pity. The American people deserve to know their future reality under such people.
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January 7, 2024 9:29am
- Swifty
  
  *Sorry, it is the New Zealand people who should be made aware of the devastation such leftist extremists would bring.
  
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  January 7, 2024 11:16am
- Che Guava
  
  “While most people wouldn’t trust information coming from sources like Alex Jones or Steve King, they are more likely to trust a person like Ramaswamy who is running for the Republican Party nomination,” Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University who researches democracy and rhetoric, wrote in an email. “This allows Ramaswamy to ‘launder’ narratives from the extreme right-wing fringe into the mainstream of American political discourse, which is how the extreme-right has taken over the Republican Party.”
  
  In a theoretical democracy, people make up their own minds on what is/isn’t true, and what is/isn’t in their perceived best interests, and then act or vote accordingly.
  
  It isn’t up to some self-appointed and self-interested “authority” or “fact-checker” to proclaim to the people what is and isn’t true or acceptable.
  
  If we actually had a true democracy in substance, one that was more than just a nominal democracy, there would not be a system of narrative-shaping and opinion-control that attempts (and usually is very successful) to steer the public in the “correct” direction, while censoring and “debunking” what is “incorrect” (aka whatever challenges entrenched interests). But because there is such a system, we cannot call it a democracy.
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:03pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Just checking to make sure the coalition of chaos is still in power…….
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January 7, 2024 9:33am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, and they are dumping all the leftie shit they weee voted in on, and are becoming more and more popular
  
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  January 7, 2024 10:35am
- Tweedse
  
  Last I looked they were doing a good job the country voted for.
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Live coverage of Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPq6mAM-I0
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January 7, 2024 9:57am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I just had a quick look. It was on the West Bank and not Gaza.
  
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  January 7, 2024 10:29am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yes, it is in Manger Square, Bethlehem.
    
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    January 7, 2024 12:32pm
- Che Guava
  
  Beautiful. Very nice to see the Palestinians upholding Christianity in the Holy Land. I just hope that church doesn’t get bombed.
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:11pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    I wonder do they have to pay a special tax for non-Muslims to the Muslim overlords to avoid being killed/expelled/imprisoned?
    
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    January 7, 2024 5:39pm
Bridgenag

Scientists at the Center of the ‘Lab Leak’ Controversy met with NIH, Fauci
Fauci’s lies are catching up with him, thanks to “US Right To Know” FOIA

+Over the last year, it has become abundantly clear that Dr. Fauci lied and gaslit Senator Rand Paul during sworn Senate testimony during July of 2021, stating “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially, you do not know what you’re talking about.”
But it turns out that Senator Paul did know what he was talking about, and it was Fauci that was lying and deflecting, much as he did during his sworn testimony in the case of Missouri vs Biden. Or maybe it was just a memory failure, as Fauci repeatedly claimed during his Missouri v Biden testimony.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/scientists-at-the-center-of-the-lab?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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January 7, 2024 10:19am
- Grunter
  
  Fauci is a crook of the highest order. A disgusting human.
  
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  January 7, 2024 11:07am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Faucci was also behind the Aids scare in the 80’s and 90’s sowing fear and reaping rewards from big pharma even then.
    Jail is too good for him.
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:08pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    So along a similar Vein, How would you describe Bloomfield ?
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:23pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Disciple
      
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      January 7, 2024 6:27pm
    - Keith White
      
      The same, just less advanced in destroying his profession.
      
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      January 8, 2024 1:52am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  As the leader of NIAID, it is hard not to see the release of an enhanced infectious disease from a facility that is doing your research as anything other than a massive own goal. More unbelievable is that this level of failure followed by a complete lack of accountability suggests a level of corruption in the US system that we would have previously only associated with anti-western regimes. It is this loss of integrity that is the greatest threat to the American global empire. Can they get it back?
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:08pm
  - kevn
    
    Pineapple… Failure from the top down.
    
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    January 7, 2024 12:46pm
  - Tweedse
    
    I think the level of corruption is independent of political system. Power corrupts.
    
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    January 7, 2024 12:49pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes Twee,
      
      Politicians used to be public servants .
      Nowadays they are corporate servants .
      
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      January 7, 2024 2:12pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Like Musolini quoted, Fascism is the seemless amalgamation between Corporations and state in its simplest form.
        
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        January 7, 2024 2:21pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Check out this.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2RF4sKGa0
  Has the Pharmaceutical Industry Manipulated Covid Vaccine Regulations?
  
  What a fascinating Interview. Its not over yet by a long shot.
  
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  January 7, 2024 2:18pm
ecco

Did anyone see that puff piece in NZH (from the Woman’s Day) about how the newsreader, Mike McRoberts has had such a tough year in 2023, he’s been learning Te Reo in an intensive course which has kept him away from his new wife – Give me a break🥴.

I’d say that TV3 are planning to go down to one newsreader hence that piece and this is him putting his CV out there. He obviously hasn’t read the room that the majority of NZers have had a gutsful of all the Te Reo stuff Labour/left imposed on us and we don’t want any more of it.
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January 7, 2024 11:51am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Yes, it was a trite piece of vomit inducing narcissism.
  
  I used to have enjoy his news reading until he decided he was to be a born again instead of just a plain New Zealander like every one else.
  
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  January 7, 2024 12:43pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    He’s the Neil degrasse Tyson of tv3
    
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    January 7, 2024 6:59pm
- jacthecat
  
  The initial nauseating headline referred to ‘Newshub legend’, revised then to ‘Mike and Heidi’s hardest year yet’. Since they have been married less than a year you could also say that it was their easiest year yet?
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:11pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    “Best year yet!”
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:01pm
- MCōs
  
  That’s a fairly innocuous article
  What’s your real problem with the guy?
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Putin attends Christmas Service at the Church of Our Savior Not Made by Hands (Храм Спаса Нерукотворного в Серпухове)

https://www.goshennews.com/news/national_news/russia-orthodox-christmas-putin/image_2f104d4b-b74e-5026-8204-9b0a4581cc36.html
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January 7, 2024 1:02pm
- Matt Long
  
  Ironically it was the rock not made by human hands that destroyed the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman Empires in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, is Putin paying attention?
  
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  January 7, 2024 1:21pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But Putin hasn’t risen up against the Prince of princes.
    
    “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.”
    
    https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Daniel-8-25/
    
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    January 7, 2024 3:27pm
- Jake Dee
  
  Unfortunately it looks like the current war will cause great damage to the Orthodox church.
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/zelensky-warned-over-banning-country-s-oldest-church/ar-AA1myOfn
  
  And it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. You must have seen how Kiev shifted Christmas. They have decided that they now have powers former reserved by Popes and Ceasar. The current battlelines roughly represent an East West split that is military, political, financial and spiritual. I’m not so sure I go as far as those who say it’s a demonic or Luciferian struggle between the powers of light and darkness, but something is going on.
  
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  January 8, 2024 3:23am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Well the thunderstorms did not happen in Auckland – dunno about Tamaki Makaurau.
Now it is fine and hot for a few days, but beware, another front is coming.
I think we should all give up on these clowns.
Look out the window and look at the clouds. Look at my American flag to see which way the breeze is blowing. Then ask the boat if it wants to go fishing. The boat has more clue than the experts!
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January 7, 2024 1:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

After going through GB today I see Mike is getting a hammering with the downticks. I know we should not respond, but sometimes it is nice to make him divert and change his subject because he is wrong.
DG is correct, Mike is here to troll and upset the apple cart.
SNAFU.
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January 7, 2024 2:07pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Good blogs attract trolls. And if it doesn’t, the blog owners can create one to keep the locals awake.
  
  And it’s not a hard job. You just have to disagree with anything truthful. It suits anyone with a keyboard and access to google, that can’t think.
  
  But it would difficult to fill the job, as most people have a conscience and some brain cells.
  
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  January 7, 2024 2:11pm
  - Che Guava
    
    Equating disagreement with “trolling” is frankly dumb. Maybe you’re wrong or your argument is unconvincing – have you ever thought about that?
    
    I’ve never seen so-called “troll” mike calling anyone he disagrees with a troll, yet everyone else habitually calls him one. Try rebutting him if he’s so wrong. He is frequently wrong – but sometimes he is right, and when he is, he gets an uptick from me.
    
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    January 7, 2024 2:55pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You need to learn what ‘troll’ means.
      Mikenmild is deliberately disruptive
      He has admitted he does this deliberately and that he does it for a laugh and to derail the blog.
      Yes, he gets enjoyment out of it.
      What a sad loser.
      
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      January 7, 2024 8:31pm
- Che Guava
  
  Getting downticked doesn’t mean that a commenter is wrong, just that the downticker disagrees. Equally, plenty of patently false comments receive high levels of upticks.
  
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  January 7, 2024 2:19pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    Equally, plenty of patently false comments receive high levels of upticks.
    
    Any examples?
    
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    January 7, 2024 3:07pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Vivek Ramaswamy.
“Republicans running for office have two opponents.
One is the Democrat candidate.
The other is the media which believes its job is to help elect as many Democrats as possible.”
Good attack on the media.

https://patriotpulse.net/vivek-ramaswamy-nuked-the-media-by-dropping-this-devastating-truth-bomb/?
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January 7, 2024 2:14pm
- Mike
  
  Seriously Steve, those webshites you link to are rotting your brain
  
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  January 7, 2024 2:30pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Trust the MSM Mike? 🤣
    
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    January 7, 2024 6:28pm
kevn

mmamike… Real people discussing is not ‘a website’.
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January 7, 2024 3:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

For the first time Hillary Clinton’s name has surfaced in legal documents implicated with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
“The documents, which surfaced on Friday afternoon, are part of a 2015 defamation lawsuit involving Virginia Giuffre, a known victim of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s close associate. Within these pages, it has been discovered that computers were removed from Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion before the FBI could conduct their search, raising questions about the integrity of the investigation and potential obstruction of justice.”
Other evidence from Epstein’s safe was also reported missing. (How do they know?)
Hillary is very good at disappearing documents remember!

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/hillary-clinton-implicated-in-newly-unveiled-epstein-documents/?

With all of this it has been suggested that Hillary likes – Nah, can’t put that here sorry…..
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January 7, 2024 3:03pm
NZer In Exile

Yesterday Mr B Yu was repeating the claim from the climate alarmist propaganda complex that ground thermometers (Note: 70% of the earth’s surface is ocean) with varying sparseness of placement, are more reliable than satellites that scan the entire earth atmospheric temperatures.

Here is but one informative article explaining why that claim is false.
https://heartland.org/opinion/us-temperature-readings-are-junk-negating-climate-science/

You can also look up John Christy’s testimony to the US senate (he runs one of the major satellite data sets) explaining why ground thermometers are far less reliable and open to ideology driven statistical shenanigans.
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January 7, 2024 5:48pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Tony Heller has loads of videos on YT showing how the thermometer measurements get ‘adjusted’ (not just once either), turning cooling trends into warming trends…
  E.g.
  https://youtu.be/JN_Qs4Z0mIc?si=TAsAQfV3NWc52wL_
  Apparently, many stations in the US are getting replaced with ‘estimated’ readings as well, and whaddaya know, the ‘estimated’ readings show lots of warming.
  He also shows just how sparse the ground-based stations are, and explains that it wasn’t so long ago that they were basically non-existent in the Southern Hemisphere.
  Oh, then there’s the problem of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, contaminating readings. Roy Spencer has done a fair bit of work showing that a large amount of the apparent warming can be attributed to UHI.
  
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  January 7, 2024 6:32pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    And thanks to Anthony Watts for the Surface Stations project.
    
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    January 7, 2024 8:32pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

OK girls and boys. BBQ and the neighbours asked me to play this again – twice!
Get your Jacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0au17MypY

Then a newer one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuC4s0ZWgM
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January 7, 2024 6:40pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Nice violin work . Sounds kind of like the maestro Stéphane Grappelli.
  
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  January 7, 2024 6:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Jesus, one downtick already?
  I did not know the speaker of the house was on this blog?
  But her laptop is on!
  
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  January 7, 2024 6:55pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    One day the blog’s phantom pooper will hopefully be caught in the act.
    
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    January 7, 2024 7:51pm
Rich Prick

Worst news. Both of my parents (early 80s) have tested positive for Covid yet again. Where are the lockdowns, regional travel bans, mask mandates, Maori road blocks, work from home orders and vaccine “certificates” for freedom of association?? Just wondering … Or was it all just about a mad socialist deluded by power? I’m thinking the latter. Thank God the bitch fucked off when she did.
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January 7, 2024 9:08pm
- kevn
  
  RP… Have the oldies had plenty of c19 jabs?
  
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  January 8, 2024 7:23am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Yes. So much for vaccination.
    
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    January 8, 2024 9:38am
Ghost

Hmmm, flour shortage coming?

A grain silo at the Champion Flour Mill in central Christchurch has collapsed onto a neighbouring car yard. A man living across the road from the landmark on Moorhouse Ave said he heard a loud bang and looked out his window to see a cloud of dust.
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