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NeverMindTheBollocks

Ding, dong, the itch is gone.

Happy anniversary, everyone!
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January 19, 2024 8:00am
Yvette

‘It’s a deliberate strategy to erase us’ – Whanganui iwi prepare for national hui
Te Korowai o Wainuiārua chairperson Aiden Gilbert said a group would travel from the central North Island to represent the three iwi Uenuku, Tamakana and Tamahaki.
He said the iwi collective’s main concerns were the dialling back of Resource Management Act reforms in which Māori seemed to have “more say”, and impacts on freshwater policy Te Mana o Te Wai.

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From 1840, the Crown – through its officers, orders and, eventually, legislation – gradually intruded on and disturbed the varying degrees of customary (including spiritual) association that Māori communities had with the foreshore and seabed

Many other examples now set in law suppose Maori have a greater affinity with water than non-Maori.
This may have contributed or allowed there to currently be te Puna, a Maori Adivisory Council that presides over Taumata Arowai, the Water Regulator.

The establishment of Taumata Arowai is one of three pou, pillars, of the Government’s Water Services Reform Programme (the other pou are regulatory and service delivery reform). A dedicated water services regulator will be essential to provide safe and reliable drinking water and improved delivery of wastewater and stormwater.
https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/about/who-we-are/

Māori seemed to have “more say”, and impacts on freshwater policy Te Mana o Te Wai.

Water is of course the essence of life to non-Maori to – a couple of days without it has life threatening consequences, like death in some cases, longer without it makes that result inevitable.
Maori, through te Puna and Traumata Arowai have their position of power in this regard, written into current law.

.. Taumata Arowai is one of three pou, pillars, of the Government’s Water Services Reform Programme (the other pou are regulatory and service delivery reform)

… Arowai speaks to the attention to be in the presence of wai. It conveys our focus on wai as a taonga, and our focus to put wai mauri, wai mana and wai ora at the centre of everything we do.

Wai
Note this during the next couple of days
Who has a “deliberate strategy to ~~erase us”~~ control things just a little bit and wai
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January 19, 2024 8:01am
- cas
  
  There are motorcycle convoys riding over to the hui. I hope the police will check for any stolen or unregistered ones.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:12am
  - lifesgood
    
    Why aren’t they at work?
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:50am
    - Inandout
      
      life, the meth labs can be left for a day or two.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:35am
    - Paulus
      
      What makes you think with our Welfare State that they and their Whanau need to work ?
      We pay taxes (including GST) for them to get money continually.
      
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      January 19, 2024 11:09am
    - coge
      
      Where is their income?
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:10pm
  - Paulus
    
    What a load of b…ocks – as usual.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:30pm
- Damocles11
  
  ‘Erase us’. ‘Destroy maori’. The use of genocidal language, in the context of what is primarily a debate around the paramount use of Te Reo names for NZ government departments ….this is a grave insult to all New Zealanders. But we seem to be such a milquetoast and complacent nation that we just accept the ongoing lurches towards extremism and eventual anarchy like a bunch of frogs sitting in a pot while the water gradually gets hotter.
  A couple of examples of what might constitute a genuine – but not genocidal – assault on Maoridom would probably look something like this –
  
  – A complete ban on the speaking and teaching of Te Reo.
  
  – Maori ownership of lakes and rivers overturned & restored to ownership of the people of New Zealand.
  
  The government isn’t proposing to do anything that would represent an ‘attack on Maoridom’. But not one *mainstream* commentator seems to have the guts or the honesty to call out the hysterical over-reaction that is coming from the usual stirrers and dividers amongst the maori elite and separatist agitators.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:36am
  - Paulus
    
    The Maori views are strongly fanned by the media who are Government hating as they did not elect them despite trying hard.
    It is getting worse, for example, on predominantly feminist RNZ.
    Luxon will not crawl to them like Ardern did, and will only talk to them when he is ready – not whenever they want him
    Current Government, for the hating media, is a new ball game.
    But they consider that they still run everything.
    Will be some hard lessons yet media.
    We elected this Government over your dead body.
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:14am
    - riffer
      
      Anything this government can enact another government can throw out.
      
      And if you want to start talking about dead bodies WRT politics that’s going down a dangerous path.
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:39pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Labour didn’t even last two terms before they collapsed they should worry more about what happens after the country biffs them out instead.
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:53pm
      - Damocles11
        
        Tuku ‘Underpants’ Morgan said tonight on OneEwes that as far as responses by Maoridom go, “nothing is off the table”. More dog whistling vis a vis violence.
        
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        January 19, 2024 6:34pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        riffer we need Swiss style referendums to cement in policy (IE policy no go without %75+ super majority). That would stop a lot of the tit for tat policy negations of which you speak.
        
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        January 19, 2024 9:50pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Banana but they can do a hell a lot of damage before the (notoriously indifferent and passionless) sheeple wake up and give them the boot.
        
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        January 19, 2024 9:52pm
  - Keith White
    
    Kipling.
    
    It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good, When the Saxon began to hate.
    
    They were not easily moved, They were icy — willing to wait Till every count should be proved, Ere the Saxon began to hate.
    
    Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show When the Saxon began to hate.
    
    It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud When the Saxon began to hate.
    
    It was not suddenly bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead, When Time shall count from the date That the Saxon began to hate.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:15pm
- Rumblestrip
  
  The sense of entitlement is so embedded that removal of special privileges is being described as “genocide.”
  
  Insanity.
  
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  January 19, 2024 2:46pm
- backster
  
  I think they meant maori have a greater affinity with beer (not water) than non maori.
  
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  January 19, 2024 4:10pm
- Jake Dee
  
  If the water systems are a technological and management issue, then the Iwi will have to convince the public why Māori have greater technological and managerial skill than pakeha.
  If it’s a spiritual or metaphysical issue (which I do believe is important) then the Iwi will have to concede that the government is a spiritual power that can change such things.
  If the Iwi are being honest here (and I believe only some of them are) then they are trying to sit between two stools, saying that their mana (honor) can only be maintained by the government giving them a fat slice of a lucrative contract and a huge dose of managerial power.
  This isn’t going to fly. people know the difference between maintaining your spiritual beliefs and getting a big piece of political power.
  Not giving someone a fat slice of cake is not the same as starving someone to death.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:35pm
CJames

The latest brainfart that has come from the pretend Masters of the Universe meeting at Davos is that farming and fishing should be criminalised as ecocide.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/01/eco-extremist-demands-farmers-fishermen-be-tried-for-ecocide-in-latest-day-of-davos-insanity/
No doubt that straight after this virtue signalling performance, the delegates tucked into caviar and wagyu beef. Then they would have got back in their private jets to go back to haranging the huddled masses to eat insects and like it.
When will the activists here take up this clarion call? The Greens are currently doing their best to self-destruct but no doubt this will be part of their next campaign.
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January 19, 2024 8:01am
- Gravelroad
  
  I guess the orange scarf worn by the woman pictured is made of synthetic material.
  She should keep it.
  Will be handy for her in future.
  She can eat it when there is nothing else.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:15am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    And made from petroleum products.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:19am
- Matt Long
  
  Are those greens calling for genocide of farmers? Perhaps the SA government could take a case on behalf of the Boer?
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:20am
  - cmm
    
    Iran wont offer then $100M to do that.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:34am
  - CJames
    
    I am certain they can resurrect Stalin to destroy their versions of kulaks. Why Ukrainians hate Russians. I mean Zimbabwe was the blueprint for getting rid of farmers wasn’t it. From breadbasket of Africa to basketcase in just a few short years. IIRC, their government was pleading for the white farmers to come back. I wonder how that got on?
    No doubt one of the yarpie reads will be more up to date an the agricultural failures in southern Africa.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:55am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      The neighbouring countries welcomed the farmers with open arms and went into joint ventures with them.
      
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      January 19, 2024 9:23am
  - Paulus
    
    I understand that probably Iran paid South Africa to call Genocide against Israel.
    Genocide coming from South Africa is a laugh in itself.
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:17am
    - Philview
      
      South Africa also abstained from the UN resolution to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is clear they now have an anti West bias.
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:05pm
      - mawm
        
        The ANC hates Israel because of the alleged cooperation with the development nuclear bombs and supply of weaponry to the apartheid government. As they have always supported the PLO etc. it was an easy step to abet Iran’s war on Israel.
        
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        January 19, 2024 5:50pm
    - Sarkozygroupie
      
      There is a very long and ingrained history of virulent antisemitism deep within the ANC. It is no surprise the South African Government did this.
      
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      January 19, 2024 3:32pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  My challenge to her would be to go without anything created by farming or energy production.
  
  Problem should sort itself out in about 28 days…..
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  I hope they’re enjoying all that “boiling”.
  
  ‘Forecast for Davos 1’560 A.S.L.
  Friday 19. January 2024
  Min
  -6°C
  Max
  -6°C’
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:47am
  - Scott
    
    Yes, if global warming is real then shouldn’t the concept lead to predictions that came true?
    
    Global warming or climate change was supposed to lead to the end of snow.
    But big news in Britain, they had 20cm of snow and – 10C temperatures. Ok well that’s just the weather you say?
    
    Well on Sunday I watched live an American football game played in Kansas City in a temperature of – 19C. That’s the fourth coldest temperature at a NFL game ever!
    There was also record cold in Iowa as they headed to the presidential primary of – 25C! Coldest primary ever according to CNN.
    
    So what’s the deal? Is climate change a hoax?
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:34am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Scott,
      
      A bunch of scammers taking your money and promising to alter the temperature of a planet is real.
      
      The premise is the hoax.
      
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      January 19, 2024 9:45am
      - leoj
        
        Yes, the climate freaks thinks “more tax” but what is the money used for?
        
        No one knows.
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:51am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Human emissions cause some global warming but the is no cliamte emergency.
      
      Judith Curry: “Relax, there is no climate emergency!”
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4YUnZIKneY
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:59am
    - riffer
      
      I’m not gonna try and argue with you because it sounds like it’s be like wrestling with a pig, but I suggest you do some googling about how melting ice in the Arctic is having a devastating effect on the airstream and redirecting cold air from the Arctic further south. It’s one of those perverse outcomes – where warming in one place can cause that place’s still cold (remember warming of 20C from -100C is still bloody cold) air to move somewhere else.
      
      So to summarise, climate change isn’t a hoax. Just like one rainy day doesn’t mean summer is over.
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:43pm
      - Taieri
        
        That’s why 20% of the Baltic Sea is frozen at present. Mostly in the Gulf of Bothnia, which is…in the Arctic.
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:10pm
      - OTGO
        
        I agree with riffer. The climate is changing. Just like it has done for billions of years, even before humans began inhabiting the planet.
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:58pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        riffer if you use a decent search engine you’ll find that none of the climate changes today are at all “unprecedented” and there is zero evidence that Co2 is the main control knob of the earth’s average temperature. Never has been and there is no reason why it would be now. But you do you.
        
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        January 19, 2024 9:58pm
    - Conservatarian
      
      Don’t forget also that the NFL playoff game in Buffalo (in upstate New York, in the far northwest of the state) scheduled for the following day (Mon NZT) was postponed by 24 hours due to snowstorms.
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:14pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Another fruitcake. She has no clue.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:53am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Personally I would like to see commercial fishing ended. Farming is great , all power to the farmers, fish and mussel farming I think can be great but the industrial harvesting of wild animals in my opinion, and that’s all it is, is obscene.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:54am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I believe in commercial fishing of wild animals but the quotas are way too high and unsustainable. The people responsible for setting the quotas need to be held to account.
    
    An example is crayfish. Fishermen are required to keep logs of how many traps they place and catch quantities. The are setting more traps than ever and catching less.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:20am
  - Paulus
    
    Who owns the Commercial Fishing Rights in New Zealand ?
    Though so !
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:18am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Those with special racial and tribal heritage?
      
      Marvelous stuff.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:02pm
- riffer
  
  Putting it into perspective, this is an extreme view. It’s not representative of the majority. I wouldn’t expect it to be given much credence.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:44pm
penguincouple

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350151492/stalemate-five-year-spat-over-17-letter-maori-street-name

…… and there are people who continue to wonder why New Zealand’s productivity is so low. Well look at what we spend our precious time, effort and limited taxpayers’ funds on.
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January 19, 2024 8:01am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Don’t worry about productivity. David Seymour is fixing that by abolishing the Productivity Commission and setting up a Ministry of Regulation.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:40am
  - Grunter
    
    It would be more accurate to call it The Ministry of De-Regulation.
    
    If Seymour does what he says, runs a full and proper cost/benefit analysis over any government regulation of his choice, then he will ditch almost all existing Govt interference.
    
    When you properly analyse down to 3rd, 4th, 5th level consequences you would ditch all the controlling muck the central planners have cooked up over the years.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:03am
    - Mike
      
      I look forward to NZ improving its current ranking for ease of doing business.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:30am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        That will take some time to unlock the shambles we have
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:45am
      - riffer
        
        Given that, for the fourth year in a row, last year NZ was ranked as the best country in the world to do business, it’s going to be interesting to see how it can be improved.
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:47pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        @riffer
        
        Where was NZ ranked best country in world to do business for four years in a row? Are you referring to the World Bank “Doing Business” report?
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:20pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Riffer NZ is a basket case for all but about 20% of the population on many many fronts. This becomes glaringly obvious when one moves to Aus (which is by no means perfect) and learns the ropes there. The “ease of doing business” metric appears to be some kind of vested-interests turd polishing stunt. Just like Melbourne being long touted as “the most livable city in the world” (which was always total BS, except purportedly for the wealthy business traveler, though I doubt even that!).
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:14pm
    - riffer
      
      Potential for woeful decision making here, especially if the benefits are only expressed in financial terms.
      
      But, that’s a mistake for this government to learn. It’s not just about money.
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:46pm
      - Taieri
        
        especially if the benefits are only expressed in financial terms.
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        And the benefits of the Well-being Budget were? Care to remind me?
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:12pm
    - sungsamning
      
      They need a website, and FB page where the public can list dopey rules and regulations that are impacting them. Then those could be first in the que for elimination.
      
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      January 19, 2024 1:42pm
      - artemisia
        
        There was the Loopy Rules Review under the last National Government. Huge number of submissions, and the review group travelled the country running sessions where people could make an oral submission.
        
        I submitted, written and oral, and at the well attended session I attended there were some amazingly awful stories of red tape and (usually) giving up.
        
        Start there, invent a new wheel later.
        
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        January 19, 2024 2:24pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      Yeah, a missed opportunity by ACT. Just think of every time the media says “Ministry of Regulation” instead of “Ministry of Deregulation”. That constant repetition would shift people’s perception over time to accept deregulation as the new normal.
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:50pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        David Seymour has already answered this question. ‘Deregulation’ is just one aspect of a suite of activities that fall under ‘Regulation’ and that he has in mind.
        
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        January 19, 2024 3:51pm
  - burt
    
    Surely he’ll just follow the example of the previous government and remove all targets and just say everything is improving?
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:06am
  - Homas
    
    …and if we had a Ministry of Truth, there would be no lies – right Mikey?
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:12am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Ministry of regulation to roll back on copious amounts of regulations, snd not to tie the people who pay tax in knots
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:44am
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    What are your views on NZ’s productivity?
    Is it disproportionately low because we tie ourselves up with too much contra-productive stuff (as Penguin’s example)?
    Do you think the Productivity Commission assisted in any meaningful way?
    Say something useful for a change. Go on, treat us.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:21pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wonder if this will work?

https://www.facebook.com/theunitedspot/posts/pfbid02svfB9H6onRVbHW73MGaUxCzLC8HNsyvUduKziXz4tNQiAD8vgUN4yS4JRTj1bdgpl

Yep
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January 19, 2024 8:01am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDTEjakP_I8
Trump Vows to Oppose Central Bank Digital Currency.
Imagine the government being able to lock your bank account for saying a word they don’t like.
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January 19, 2024 8:02am
- Grunter
  
  CBDC’s are being cooked up in most countries as we speak. This is the ultimate controlling tool for the central planning freaks because these are all being designed as ‘programmable’ currencies which means someone (somewhere) can set the rules of how it is used. Just imagine if a Labour/Greens/Maori govt was setting the rules!!!!!
  
  And it will be very difficult (if not impossible) not to be part of this as these will only work if they are issued as the only valid currency (most people given a choice would not use a CBDC).
  
  And don’t get sucked in by the Govt PR/BS that is on its way from the central planners. They will tell you why CBDC’s are a good thing – resist these as much as you can.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:38am
- Taieri
  
  Imagine the government being able to lock your bank account for saying a word they don’t like
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  They can do that anyway with or without CBDC; Trudeau did that in Canada.
  They can do anything. Remember Mrs Gayford and her fight with Covid?
  
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  January 19, 2024 1:15pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    People forget this. The Covid lockdowns proved we have no rights.
    
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    January 19, 2024 2:52pm
- KiwiSapper
  
  The biggie is putting stops on the account owner from making payments to groups / organisations / religions / ANYTHING, that their little minds object to .
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:51pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHk6TGhLtA
Reform Might Hold Balance of Power.
Tory rebels including Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick have given Rishi Sunak further warnings as his Rwanda bill goes through another round of votes in the Commons tonight. Tory MP Suella Braverman warned Rishi Sunak that it’s the final chance to listen to the British people.
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January 19, 2024 8:02am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Maybe the Palestians could be sne to Rwanda.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:24am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The Nazis allegedly wanted to ‘resettle’ Jews in Madagascar.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:50am
    - imalwaysright
      
      That’s right. Zionist leaders and the Germans had the plan ready to go but hostilities escalated and scuppered the deal.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:33am
    - Paul
      
      [Mod – debate what is said, don’t make it personal]
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:35pm
- Paulus
  
  In the UK we hear that Conservative Government is being presented, via the cheap gutter media, as non Sunak voters any more .
  It is because they say he is a very rich Indian in their paper sales diatribes, as they want another Labour Government – sadly I expect they will get one too.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:24am
  - James Stephenson
    
    The Conservatives really have only got themselves to blame. They had a golden opportunity to change the face of politics in England for a generation at least and they fucked it up, not enough collective spine to stand up the media and public service.
    
    There’s a lesson here for National if they’re sensible enough to take heed…
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:02pm
    - Conservatarian
      
      Correct. Thirteen plus years of “conservative” government which resulted in hate speech laws and waves of immigration (legal and illegal) well beyond its ability to cope.
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:21pm
CJames

For all those who wish to have a bit of light relief by following the best Climate Trial of the Century – Michael Mann (he of the Mannmade hockeystick) is suing a group, including Mark Steyn for defamation. After 12 yerars of Mann dragging his feet, the trial has started. The plaintiff tried to introduce 5000 pages of new evidence during jury selection for the judge to read overnight. Understandably, the judge let them know what he thought about that ambush.
Of course, the media including the Grauniad (milky’s bible) will play it up as a heroic crusade by a virtuous academic, but reality is his thinskinned petty obnoxiousness has been called out.
Follow the daily podcasts here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unreported-story-society4/episodes/TRAILER-Climate-Change-On-Trial-e2b3vqu
Steyn who is representing himself (he has won 4 out of 4 in Canada, UK and Australia) on similar cases, comes out with great one-liners. Mann might win, but what reputation he has left will be shattered. The Streisand effect.
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January 19, 2024 8:02am
- Colinxy
  
  Michael Mann already lost his defamation case against climatologist Dr Tim Ball. I believe it was the latter who quipped that Mann “should be in State Pen not Penn State” which got the former so incensed.
  
  I imagine this one will go the same way; Mann is astonishingly protective of how he created his hockey stick (or was when I could be bothered keeping up with it). He seems to fear discovery.
  
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  January 19, 2024 4:52pm
Vinicius

Garrick Tremain has a cartoon on how to relieve stress and improve your mental health!

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/tremain-friday-s-cartoon
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January 19, 2024 8:03am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Retail (theft) therapy?
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:25pm
Matt Long

“What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools
“A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/kids-reading-better-paper-vs-screen
But here in NZ where a centrist government is proposing to ban smartphones from the classroom, our world leading educators know better.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507024/cellphones-can-have-positive-use-in-classroom-principal
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January 19, 2024 8:07am
- slightlyrighty
  
  My Daughter’s school has banned cellphones starting this term, and shut off the school wifi during breaks…
  
  after a bit of grumbling, the social activity among the students is starting to thrive….
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:25am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    And they can still contact you if needed?
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:48am
    - James Stephenson
      
      Somehow we managed before the stupid things were invented. Kids don’t need to be in constant contact with their parents.
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  So it banning cellphones and giving them dumb phones a bit like giving up smoking and taking up vaping?
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:01am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    See the downticks?
    That means I am right over the target!
    
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    January 19, 2024 2:23pm
Maggie Pie

For anyone reading KB this morning who might have woken up in a sh!t mood….this should brighten up your day 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1615888109283209222

FULL SCREEN/SOUND UP
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January 19, 2024 8:08am
- pdm
  
  Maggie the problem with Ardern is that like a very bad smell she keeps coming back.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:12am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The even bigger problem pdm, is that you may be a lot closer to the mark than you think 🙁
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:16am
    - pdm
      
      Aaaah Maggie what is the scuttlebutt among `the girls’ at the tennis club?
      
      Come on – spit it out!!!
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:29am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes, I know one or two people who are getting anxious that the Labour Party will beg Ms Ardern to come back as their leader – to save them and so on.
    I feel a bout of shop lifting coming on.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:18am
    - Rusty
      
      Gravelroad
      
      She might make a comeback under the name Jacinda Gayford.
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:31am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The Fockers
        
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        January 19, 2024 11:36am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      How the hell we oils that dork? She just css as my walk back into parliament, let’s. It forget she had Labour at 30% last Christmas
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:50am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Should have said how would that work, she just can’t walk back into parliament
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:14pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Qué?
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:31pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Helen Clark 2.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:03am
- Scooter
  
  I think she is plotting her return, not sure when the Harvard gig runs out but doubt she has many other offers.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Note, not wanted at the UN
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Even the UN thinks she is fake? Wow!
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:24pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh no, mikenmild missed making the anniversary announcement this morning.
  
  Thank goodness you were here to commemorate the day, maggie Pie.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:11am
- MCōs
  
  I never wake up in a shit mood
  In fact I’m pleased to wake up!
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:54am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀 Onya’ cossie!
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:12am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, MCōs.
    
    I sometimes notice that a regular Kiwiblogger has been quiet a few days and murmur ‘Please, not a death!’ to myself.
    
    Some of you can be insufferable, opinionated progeny of unmarried parentage at times but I’d not a demise on any of you.
    
    A sore ingrown toenail, maybe, but…
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:16pm
- KiwiSapper
  
  Sadly. an audio and visual photoshop operation. The large screen was actually showing a football match and a score was cheered by a gathering of football supporters…..
  
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  January 19, 2024 4:00pm
Matt Long

Shoplifting, if they voted for Obama it must be right.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/18/i-was-a-privileged-mother-of-two-when-i-began-shoplifting/
AOC knows it’s only to get food for the poor starving Dickensian children.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hrRLuJrnlcY?si=CHK3o6uYiv2edqXm
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January 19, 2024 8:09am
Matt Long

It’s time the Rental Fagans faced criminal charges for keeping ghost homes people can’t live in.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/18/chris-bishop-demands-kainga-ora-fill-empty-social-houses/
Megan Woods, the irresponsible ex-minister.
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January 19, 2024 8:12am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Brand new houses not used, and private houses bought above the price to cut out private buyers lying empty
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:53am
Matt Long

Can ACT kill off the Firearms Registry aka gang’s shopping list like light rail?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/18/firearms-registry-faces-govt-review-even-as-100k-guns-registered/
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January 19, 2024 8:14am
- Matt Long
  
  I just had to uplift my ex cop brother in law’s guns because he did his firearms licence application online as requested and their faulty process meant his old licence expired before the Arms Officer got to him.
  And yet they think they can successfully run a database of all legal firearms.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:18am
  - cmm
    
    My suspicion is that the following will play out:
    * They will enact the register.
    * At some stage there will be a massive database crash and all the info will be corrupted.
    * They will then give up and go back to the current licensing system.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:21am
    - pdm
      
      cmm – I think Nicole McKee and ACT will have something that actually works in place before that happens.
      
      But, of course Labour enabled legislation is not noted for its usefulness or longevity so one never knows for sure.
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:33am
    - Colville
      
      cmm.
      
      The register is live now.
      If you buy or sell a gun (as I have done) you must register all your weapons.
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:45am
      - kowtow
        
        ‘all your weapons.’
        
        Kitchen knives
        Cricket and baseball bats
        Boots
        Bottles
        Chairs
        Cars
        Rocks
        Machetes
        Sickles
        Sythes
        Four by twos
        Hammers
        Screw drivers
        Rolling pins
        
        Etc
        
        But yer , ‘guns” bad.
        
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        January 19, 2024 9:22am
      - Colville
        
        kowtow.
        
        How about you bring as many of your list as you like and I bring one real weapon and we see who wins?
        
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        January 19, 2024 9:56am
      - kowtow
        
        Still missing the point .
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:31am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Yep, About 100k on the register.
        Not me, I will wait till last minute.
        Zero trust in NZ Police holding personal data unfortunately.
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:15pm
      - rangitoto
        
        Do Hellfire missiles have to be registered?
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:15pm
  - iMP
    
    The process is a nightmare. Worst public admin I’ve encountered. Too hard!
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:22am
    - Colville
      
      Great story bro.
      
      Complete piece of piss. Took less than an hour to do all mine.
      
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      January 19, 2024 8:47am
      - kowtow
        
        “Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:31am
      - cmm
        
        Unless you have a one-man-war size armoury, an hour seems like an awfully long time.
        
        Tops should be 2 minutes per firearm:
        Type/Make/model/calibre/serial number.
        
        Shotgun/Remington/870/12g/123456
        Rifle/Sako/…
        
        What more could they possibly need?
        
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        January 19, 2024 3:49pm
  - Humai
    
    As a matter of interest, what’s the lead time? My licence is up for renewal later this year and I have not yet heard from them.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:29am
    - Colville
      
      Might be a year delay for an inspection.
      Start it today would be my advice.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:36am
  - Conservatarian
    
    Good man.
    
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    January 19, 2024 2:29pm
- GJM
  
  100k guns registered. Thorpe thought there were 1.2million guns in nz, an (then) at least 30k illegal ones
  Not as far through as they claim. Many of those registered are e,g collectors , mnay have hundreds
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:43pm
cmm

So the driveway machete attacker who maimed his victim gets off prison-free because the dudge is worried he might be forced to join a gang if he was sent to prison.

Given the trajectory this bloke is on, I suspect joining a gang would probably be career enhancing.

But it does also make one wonder who is in control of corrections. Why do we, as a society, just shrug our shoulders and hand over control of the prisons to the gangs?

How about this: If you want to get rid of gangs in society (which is harder to control), then first stamp out gangs in the environment that is easier to control (ie. the prison system).

Corrections needs to reestablish who is top dog. That might mean some very “tough love”. But now gangs are running these state funded gang pads. They are in control of the correction staff. They can get pretty much any contraband they want through extortion of the corrections staff.

This corruption leads over into the whole criminal world and from there into society. They run the prisons therefore they’re effectively immune to the cops and judiciary. Just offend. Take what you want, vandalise what you want, act brutally.

If we’re allowing gangs to run prisons to the extent that we can’t send violent offenders there, then the system is fundamentally broken. This needs some serious fixing.

Does Luxon have the balls to take this on?

Perhaps it is too hard and nobody has the stomach for it. Perhaps Cindy’s strategy of working with the gangs and, essentially, bringing them into the tent, is going to be continued.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mans-youth-sees-him-avoid-jail-after-vicious-machete-driveway-attack/R5N2JIQCRRENNISUC4Y5YJRH6M/
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January 19, 2024 8:18am
- Swifty
  
  One look at this guys FB page will show you he’s already infected with gang culture.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:35am
- Taieri
  
  Does Luxon have the balls to take this on?
  ———-
  
  No. Just huff and puff…
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:36am
- Blackbob
  
  The new prison system in El Salvador might be worth copying here to get rid of the gangs
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:49am
- MCōs
  
  “The victim then walked past the men and picked up two empty beer bottles before smashing them and approaching Minhinnick and his friend”
  
  Fairly boisterous behaviour all round. Hardly surprising Mr Min got his retaliation in first
  
  I don’t know how bad the gang problem is in prisons, but the way the present government was talking before the election there could be a lot more of them locked up in the coming period
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:15am
  - cmm
    
    Other than getting them off the streets for a bit, there is not much point in locking them up if prisons are just a home away from home for the gangs.
    
    Locking them up is a start, but it isn’t the end of it.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:37am
- Grunter
  
  I hope Mark Mitchell had a decent holiday and rested. He will need to go hard very quickly on these scumbags if he is to live up to his “Labour is soft on crime” calls from the last 3 years.
  
  If we don’t jail a machete attacker then there is no judiciary system.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:17am
  - MCōs
    
    What about the guy threatening the attacker with the broken beer bottles?
    As always there’s more to this story, I suspect
    Much more
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:56am
    - cmm
      
      Certainly there is more to this. Certainly the “victims” are not clean either and should be charged with threatening etc.
      
      But the way to resolve these issues is to walk/run away (if you can).
      
      Try to win your fights by a hundred yards.
      
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      January 19, 2024 11:29am
  - riffer
    
    Not sure what Mitchell can do here. He is not allowed to direct either the Police or the Judiciary on individual cases, so he would have to seek a law change that would have an effect on all sentencing, rather than try and change one case.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:00pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pathetic sentence. Why are they soft?
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:08am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    This is exactly why 3 strikes is so necessary, and in the case of violent first time crimes like this one (where the offender escapes jail by the skin of their teeth), I’d argue it should be 2 strikes.
    
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    January 19, 2024 2:12pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Why two?
      It was a violent attack, why a second chance? This is what is wrong in NZ.
      Hard punishment is a deterrent.
      
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      January 19, 2024 2:28pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        I fully agree – in this case the guy should have been locked up. But there are always going to be borderline cases, three strikes is the backstop and I don’t see why some people shouldn’t be on two strikes.
        
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        January 19, 2024 3:14pm
iMP

Pro-Hamas Pro-Palestinian (anti-Semitic?) protestors keep turning up to public events (like the Chch and Nelson kite festivals). Palestinian protests are annoying people. They turn up to everything. Most of us don’t want family public events politicised and hijacked. It’s a kite festival for goodness sake. Do your march, support your cause, but stop hijacking other’s events!!

If you must, go do it at a big Rugby game, then you’ll find out what the NZ public think about your pro-violent politics!
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January 19, 2024 8:20am
- CJames
  
  They aren’t proPalestine – they are antiJew. Don’t try to put a gloss on their hatred.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:00am
  - KH
    
    That’s not how it is CJames.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:45am
    - leoj
      
      That’s exactly how it is.
      CJames is on the money.
      On the hand, you………..don’t have clue.
      
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      January 19, 2024 11:11am
  - Master Mariner
    
    In all honesty, They are 5% of the population with low self esteem and feel the need to be useful.
    Whether Climate Change, Nuclear power, Anti fishing, etc now the trend is pro palestine.
    Basically rent a crowd networked through Universities and the likes of Greenpeace etc.
    Time to declare Greenpeace as non charity amongst others.
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:22pm
    - Taieri
      
      Time to declare Greenpeace as non charity amongst others
      ———–
      
      Time to review the status of all charities. Too many of them are just lobby groups and vehicles to pressurize government to enact legislation favoured by small but vocal minorities.
      
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      January 19, 2024 1:21pm
Matt Long

Melei calls out the control freaks at Davos.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/argentine-president-praised-calling-davos-elites-abandoning-freedom-socialism-drops-truth-bombs
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January 19, 2024 8:24am
- Grunter
  
  This was a brilliant speech, although he was less animated than he usually is. His conclusion needs to be sent to every NZ MP.
  
  Some highlights:
  
  “We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world, rather they are the root cause.”
  
  “Libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the project of life of others, based on the non-aggression principle, in defense of the right to life, to liberty, and to property. With its fundamental institutions being: Private property, markets free from state intervention, free competition, the division of labor, and social cooperation. Where you can only be successful by serving others with goods of better quality at a best price.”
  
  “In concluding, I would like to leave a message for all entrepreneurs and business people here, and for those who are not here in person but are following from around the world:
  Do not be intimidated either by the political caste nor by parasites who live off the state. Do not surrender yourself to a political class that only wants to perpetuate itself in power and keep their privileges.
  You are social benefactors, you are heroes, you are the creators of the most extraordinary period of prosperity we have ever seen. Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it’s because you offer a better product at the best price, thereby contributing to the general well-being. Do not yield to the advance of the state. The state is not the solution, the state is the problem itself. You are the true protagonists of this story.
  And rest assured that starting today, you can count on Argentina as an unconditional ally.
  
  Long Live Freedom, Dammit!”
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:36am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    ‘ parasites who live off the state’
    
    Nailed it
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:09am
    - MCōs
      
      That’ll be me
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:57am
      - krazykiwi
        
        I doubt it. I’d wager that you had a tax-paying job most of your life and you are now living of the contributions to national superannuation. That is in no way being a parasite.
        
        What is being a parasite is living off welfare because it is more convenient than putting in a decent days work.
        
        We have far too many parasites in this country, and they have been nurtured and their votes harvested for 40 years by an increasingly socialist state (Fast under Labour, more slowly but still under National).
        
        New Zealand needs a Melei, and soon.
        
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        January 19, 2024 11:44am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        He’s talking about bureaucrats, not beneficiaries.
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:17pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Sorry krazykiwi, what past generations paid in taxes is dwarfed by the value of what pensioners receive in super, healthcare, palliative care, residential care subsidiaries etc. today. For example, most of the healthcare we will typically ever receive in our lifetimes is towards the end and very, very expensive but subsidised by other people’s taxes. Most retirees today haven’t fully paid for their pension in advance through income taxes paid in the past. It’s just a massive income transfer from the current younger working population. Purely from a fiscal perspective, the pension in NZ is just another form of welfare.
        
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        January 19, 2024 3:04pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    This is all pretty standard Ayn Rand Libertarianism from the 1950s and 60s. It has some strengths but also some weaknesses. The problem is time scale. An individual acting in their own best interests over the short term doesn’t always provide the best outcomes over the long term. a parent charging over their own children to escape from the burning building first is acting in their own best interests. Trying to make sure the kids get out first could kill you. What’s better over the long term?
    I see Milei is in negotiations with the British government over the status of the Falkland Islands. that could be interesting. How does that get sorted under strictly libertarian principals? I guess you could offer to buy them out but what if London won’t sell or the islanders object?
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:33pm
- krazykiwi
  
  This is a great speech. My one criticism is that he focused too strongly on capitalism being the solution to social and economic problems. This is too narrow, and missing the main point: It problem is the tyrannical, neo-Marxist elites who are co-opting corporate power, built by capitalism no less, in order to subjugate the masses.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:42am
  - ISeeRed
    
    The AI version is a bit freaky:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtegqgKYR-U
    
    AI is used not only to translate and narrate in his voice (including his accent) but also resync his lip movements!
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:23pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Also, Melei forgot his chainsaw. It would have been useful removing the landing gear from 100s of private jets thereby creating a boom for the $US2,500/night Davos hookers and the suppliers of caviar and Dom Pérignon all of whom are still counting their takings from the recent COP climate love-in.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:47am
- Master Mariner
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5rV5aVRYeg
  
  Heritage President Goes Scorched Earth on Globalist Elites at WEF
  
  And so it continues, Talk about own Goals.
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:44pm
Matt Long

It’s a bit like shop lifting, a poor public prosecutor uses public funds allocated to prosecute Trump for her boyfriend’s luxury travel.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-trump-prosecutor-fani-willis-faces-hearing-alleged-misconduct
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January 19, 2024 8:28am
- Matt Long
  
  It must be alright because I’m certain everyone concerned voted for Obama.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:41am
- thirteenstars
  
  “GEORGIA DA FANI WILLIS”
  
  Thought that was her full name until I inserted some mental commas.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:56am
Swifty

Luxon gets it:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350151615/pm-chris-luxon-firms-iron-grip-national-party-caucus

Do the basics well. Explain and substantiate the why and what. Explain trade offs. Deliver, deliver, deliver.

Everything Labour and the Greens didn’t do.
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January 19, 2024 8:33am
- leoj
  
  Let’s see if he delivers on a treaty referendum.
  
  Get used to the fact that he’s soft and woke.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:09am
  - riffer
    
    Treaty referendum won’t happen. Too many people are hot under the collar over this one and I am sure he’s been warned that it only takes one crazy in a clock tower to derail everything.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:03pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Or maybe on principle the coalition don’t cave to the lefty/racist thug veto.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:39pm
Matt Long

Now the co-religionists of peace in Pakistan have attacked their brothers in Iran in reprisals.
What won’t those Zionists cause next?
I’m sure the Iranians will work to restore peace like they do right across the region.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pakistan-conducts-retaliatory-strikes-inside-iran-amid-fears-of-widening-conflict/ar-AA1n9IQs
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January 19, 2024 8:35am
- cmm
  
  Just because they are all Muslims does not mean they get on.
  
  Think of the Irish Troubles between Catholics and Proddies. Then kick it up a gear or three.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:48am
  - kevn
    
    cmm… Then chuck in a bunch of migrants to the Irish mix.
    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/18/irish-government-sends-in-riot-police-to-tipperary-as-locals-protest-closure-of-last-hotel-to-accommodate-asylum-seekers/
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:54am
- NothingLeft
  
  Given Iran’s recent belligerence; could it be that they now have nukes and are looking for an excuse to use them against a western power? Needling the west with attacks in the middle east in hopes of significant attacks on Iran so that they can then, with some degree of justification, launch nukes against their enemies.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:57am
  - CJames
    
    Iran has never bothered waiting for any provocation before launching attacks. The mad mullah can self-justify anything. The only things that have stopped them so far is Mossad and their own incompetence.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:11am
    - CJames
      
      Bugger = pushed post before correcting spelling mistake – mullah. Have to keep DG happy.
      
      [Mod – fixed, DG will never know]
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:12am
    - G152
      
      And the fact that if the crazies pullout a nuke they will need a sunscreen with a rating of millions and Iran doesnt have the dosh for that
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:15pm
Maggie Pie

A bestie retweets…

“If whiteman hadn’t colonised Aotearoa and created a consumerist capitalist society, strong wahine toa like Golriz Ghahraman wouldn’t have shoplifted”

– Marama Davidson
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January 19, 2024 8:39am
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Where is Aotearoa?
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:50am
  - sirknz
    
    Depends on your political leanings. Some say it is all of NZ, some say it is the North Island only, others say it is just outside of Huntly, and others say it was a fictional place created by some guy in the late 1800s.
    
    I like asking the virtue signalers what they have against the South Island every time they use the A word.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:46am
    - Paulus
      
      I assume Aotearoa is somewhere in the Great Ether from when the name was invented quite recently.
      
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      January 19, 2024 1:32pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Next Country over from Narnia.
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:19am
    - imalwaysright
      
      S.O
      
      More like Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell.
      
      There is a similarity that is too close as to be accidental
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:08pm
- Cassandra
  
  The wahine in question would still be living in Malaysia. Try shoplifting there, Golly, and you might find out what a rotan is.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:18am
- Grunter
  
  Did “Mad Marama” actually say that publically? Or is it a piss take?
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:21am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Yes, she really is that stupid.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:26am
- John Loveridge
  
  That can’t be real. Surely it’s a parody?
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:55am
- Rumblestrip
  
  I still can’t get over how quickly, and blatantly, the narrative was shifted from GG being a criminal to being a victim.
  
  Does anyone think it would have played out the same way if the perpetrator was, say, a female Act MP?
  
  The cognitive dissonance must be overwhelming.
  
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  January 19, 2024 5:01pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “If whiteman hadn’t colonised Aotearoa and created a consumerist capitalist society, strong wahine toa like Golriz Ghahraman wouldn’t have shoplifted” – Marama Davidson
  
  Definitely living in a parallel universe. How does this happen to people???
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:45pm
BeaB

After the long years of Ardern-adoration by the media, they have now decided to make every story they possibly can as negative as possible about Luxon and National.
Both major channels last night ran negative stories. One even showed Judith Collins eating salad, I am not sure why. They were obsessed with the catering.
TV3 clearly regards the Tainui hui as far more important than a new government and lambasted Luxon for not going cap-in-hand to render obeisance.
The cartoonists of course run their usual Labour-luvvie lines, totally ignoring the fertile ground for satire of Golriz’s alleged stealing, Hipkins’s plunge in the polls, the scandal of empty state houses and the 12 billion dollar debt of Kainga Ora.
We are in for a depressing few years from our biased media. I just hope Luxon ignores them, doesn’t try to win them over and forges ahead with the change we are all longing for.
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January 19, 2024 8:42am
- artemisia
  
  That huge Kainga Ora debt. Has anyone had a good look at why so much was borrowed? Like could it have something to do with skyrocketing social housing waiting lists. (Hint – yep, obviously.)
  
  And then drilling down into why those waiting lists quadrupled under Labour? (Hint – being kind with OPM, plus maybe because Labour’s new rules for landlords made a lot more households too risky as tenants.)
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:13am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    The increased debt is mostly because Kianga Ora built 13,000 houses.
    This is one area where National needs to continue to build at least some Kianga Ora homes. The last National government built virtually no new Kianga Ora homes even though there was significant population growth. That cost them politically. The current National government needs to learn from that and build a credible number of Kianga Ora homes. Which will be less than 2,000 per year, but probably needs to be around 1,000. In fact during the election campaign PM Luxon committed National to continuing to build state houses.
    Yes it is OPM, but isn’t that true of all government spending.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:49am
    - Grunter
      
      Wayne – spoken like a true socialist! And yes it is true of all government spending – it is all OPM.
      
      The house supply problem could be quickly fixed by getting rid of the RMA (and no replacement), along with abandoning all the silly regs that make the cost to build a house out of reach for a bunch of Kiwis (eg woke H&S, minimum wage rates, etc, etc).
      
      People know how to build houses. People know how to buy & sell houses. We don’t need the central planners involved at all.
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:52am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Yes, single story dwellings that comply with the code shouldn’t need a council approval.
        Monitoring should be the job of insurers.
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:17pm
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        Generally the Key administration got most things right. In fact the size of the state reduced from 33% of GDP to 29% which I thought was pretty impressive. But not building any new state rentals (net) was a blind spot and cost National. If you think I am a socialist then I guess you must think the PM is also a socialist. Since he thinks some state house building is desirable.
        In my view Luxon has a pretty good sense of the appropriate balance between private and public.
        I see that Hooton is continuing his attack on the Key administration saying it was “do nothing”.
        How about the 2010 tax cuts, the partial privatisation of the electricity companies, freeing up planning and regulation, major infrastructure build (5 major motorway projects, fibre, CRL). Plus dealing with the GFC and the Christchurch earthquake. Faster growth than Australia for a number of years, with the consequence that the brain drain pretty much stopped.
        Hooton has an apparent beef with Key and English which means he is not taking an objective view.
        
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        January 19, 2024 12:24pm
      - Taieri
        
        Wayne Mapp:
        
        How about reducing unsustainable immigration?
        Will any government ever address that?
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:24pm
    - artemisia
      
      Credible number of homes? How about a credible number based on the number of households on the waiting list in 2017. Like under 6,000. Now – over 25,000.
      
      There’s wood and there’s trees …..
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:31pm
    - nova
      
      13,000 homes sounds great, but how many additional state houses do we have? Some of these were replacements rather than net new. And how much did each house cost to build? That level of debt implies almost $1 million per house, surely given the economies of scale these could be built more cheaply?
      
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      January 19, 2024 4:06pm
      - artemisia
        
        Half of the social housing waiting list are eligible for a 1 beddie. Most of those are single people, a few couples – none with children. So if new builds follow that demand, plenty will be small and probably medium to high density. Lower cost or should be. It used to be different back in the day when most households waiting / housed were families.
        
        Have to wonder where those single people lived back in the day and what has changed. Talking about many thousands of people, not a few here and there.
        
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        January 19, 2024 5:28pm
- Grunter
  
  Bea – I don’t watch/read this muck called MSM anymore, but I’m not surprised that it is getting worse. I encourage everyone to switch it off, it is poison for your brain.
  
  Luxon needs to defund all MSM and NZ on Air. It is corrupt, racist and woke neo-Marxism. They will get worse as time ticks on.
  
  The free-market media (eg Kiwi Blog) is now well established and provides more choice than ever before.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:28am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Kiwiblog and others freeload off the (admittedly low value left wing propagandist) main stream medias output as fodder for commentary.
    
    My solution; give every electorate MP a yearly discretionary $1 million media support budget to allocate as they see fit, enough to cover 5 high quality journalists apiece, a few hundred in total, distributed all throughout NZ’s regions. No other govt support of media. It would quickly restore balance to media, and would likely see non-conventional outlets (like blogs) supported too.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:05am
    - Grunter
      
      Why not leave it up to the natural fall of supply & demand? Write a good book/blog/newsletter and make millions. Write a crap book and make zilch. Why would TV/Radio/Newspapers be any different?
      
      If Chloe wants “Chloe Radio” – go for it using Chloe dollars (not mine)
      
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      January 19, 2024 10:58am
      - NothingLeft
        
        When left wing govt is in power they throw endless money at their propagandizing media mates, when right wing is in power they change nothing. We clearly need a fundamental and enduring rebalancing to stop the insane left wing bias.
        
        Democracy needs diligent and unflinching media to interrogate government and (fairly) inform the voters, but internet has taken away the advertising support that used to pay for it. A free (and even handed) press remains an essential need for functional democracy, and needs to be paid for somehow. All the signs are that it is failing commercially in NZ with continual shrinkage, and threatened closure of many outlets.
        
        We could argue about the means and quantum of funding, but I don’t think NZ media survives without taxpayer funding of some sort.
        
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        January 19, 2024 11:38am
      - Taieri
        
        We could argue about the means and quantum of funding
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        “Quantum” or quantity?
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:26pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        How would natural supply and demand in the media actually work? There are plenty of billionaires and multi-millionaires subsidizing loss making news outlets. Michael Bloomburg and Jeff Bezos are just two I can think of. Plus Elon Musk.
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:38pm
- jon
  
  Can anyone throw any light on WHO is paying for this Hui? Given the numbers, we are excitedly told by the MSM who are attending, hundreds or thousands, i wouldnt be surprised if the taxpayers are making a substantial contribution.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:33am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Net Taxpayers will foot the bill, directly and indirectly.
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:27am
  - Paulus
    
    We taxpayers are paying whatever and wherever – why do you think otherwise ?
    All that transport petrol costs and of course food for two days for people who eat like there is no tomorrow.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:38pm
- leoj
  
  Your hopes re Luxon might not be enough.
  
  He is against a referendum on the treaty claiming it to be “divisive”.
  
  The bloody country is already divided.
  
  Get used to it. He is a soft cock who has already given the Greens thief, Golriz, a pass just because she is a woman.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:06am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Leo,
    
    He’s starting to look like that guy on a boys trip who wants us all to go for a lovely long walk whilst the rest of us are trying to swallow a breakfast hangover cure.
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:27pm
- Paulus
  
  Luxon and the Nationals will not talk to them when THEY want and that will, continue.
  Media – Grow up.
  
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  January 19, 2024 1:33pm
Skippytony

I have a new hero….

https://x.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1747870867902926899?s=20

Well worth a few minutes of your time. Not often someone gets up in that forum and calls them out
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January 19, 2024 8:44am
- NothingLeft
  
  Elon posted this on topic of Javier Milei’s address to Davos: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1748036927821942798?s=61&t=dBbdqd_YOX7K8phCZrsUOQ
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:41am
Grunter

The USA Federal Government is by far the biggest central State planning/control organisation the planet has ever seen – and it’s growing at a fast pace. It is now clearly a bloated socialist regime.

Some numbers:
-The US federal government spent 6.13 trillion dollars in 2023. That figure is larger than the GDP of every nation on the entire planet except for the U.S. and China.

-More than 70 million Americans are on Social Security.

-More than 65 million Americans are on Medicare.

-More than 81 million Americans are on Medicaid.

-More than 41 million Americans are on food stamps.

Since 1980, the size of the U.S. national debt has gone from 1 trillion dollars to 34 trillion dollars (that’s USD, so about $56 trillion NZD).

The interest cost of this debt will soon approach $1Trillion pa. So even if they fleeced all ‘the rich pricks’ and stole all their money, they still won’t be able to pay the interest cost….

(The combined net worth of some of America’s most prominent billionaires, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Ken Griffin, Mark Cuban, Ray Dalio, and George Soros, adds up to approximately $726 billion according to data compiled by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.)

The USA is a key part of the global monetary system. This house of cards ponzi scheme will one day fall, and we are all part of that ponzi.

BTW – the EU, UK, Japan and China, etc all have their own very similar monetary ponzi schemes. All connected to the bigger US one. Some call this ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ – but this is not a theory and it is not ‘Modern’. The same siht has happened throughout history, and it has failed every time.
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January 19, 2024 8:57am
- Cassandra
  
  To be fair, Social Securtis the OAP and Medicare is the retired person’s health insurer. Even millionaires use Medicare. But the point is valid: America and others are eating their seed potatoes, eventually the merrigoround is going to stop.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:23am
  - colina
    
    As with many Government finances the US is certainly a very serious mess
    
    https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/no-way-out
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:45am
- cmm
  
  Yup, the debt per person in USA is now approaching $US100k and only getting worse.
  
  The Americans are all completely used to the easy life (for now) that this fuels. I think they would really struggle with any belt tightening – just stopping spend more, let alone paying it back.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:56am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Two means of unwinding:
    – money printing, which will screw the US and global economy destroying trust in financial institutions
    – AI created growth: within this decade AI will make manufacturing and other laborious processes very cheap and countries will correspondingly get wealthy with rapid rise in GDP as we start doing a whole lot of jobs that are currently uneconomic with rapidly expanding robot workforce. Big country houses for everyone, rapid infrastructural improvement. Gonna be very weird.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:14am
    - Taieri
      
      And pig farmers are making wings…
      
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      January 19, 2024 11:10am
      - NothingLeft
        
        Tesla bot folding laundry (teleoperated, but will soon be autonomous)
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyURDZB7imo
        
        Crude google robot doing some domestic tasks:
        https://youtu.be/zMNumQ45pJ8
        
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        January 19, 2024 11:47am
    - Master Mariner
      
      One other means was the issuance of CBDC.
      
      However Trump has already ruled out if elected. Back too square one.
      
      AI , If all the hype is correct ( I have my doubts initially), Then proof in my mind would be too use it too shine for Weather Forecasting. Not too my knowledge has it showed much success.
      I’m really leaning towards its uses such as writing letters , stories, etc.
      Intill AI can catch a fish, Shear a sheep, Then I will take notice.
      Thoughts?
      
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      January 19, 2024 3:58pm
Yvette

In not attending the Hui is it useful to Luxon, in any game of political chess, to have “the opponent” explain their next move?
“I look forward to what comes out of the hui” – Luxon

And what of any views not raised at the Hui – will they have any mandate?
Check, mate
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January 19, 2024 9:08am
- Cassandra
  
  A load of hooey will come out of the hui. Tuku will be in his element. As usual Shane Jones has summed it up well as a moan fest. These people will never stop and the people paying the bills – the rest of us – are getting sick of it. Get a life. Get a job. Go on a diet. Make sure your kids go to school. Stop bludging.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:27am
  - mandk
    
    Jones is correct.
    
    It will be a moan fest, just like Waitangi Day is actually Maori Grievance Day.
    
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    January 19, 2024 9:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Are we seeing some tribal grand-standing on play as the Kiingitanga hui claims media attention…away from the annual Ratana appearance and Waitangi dramas?
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:28am
- Grunter
  
  When “hui” turns into “doie” – as it will at some stage, that is when the wider population will realise that this is about Maori Separatism/Apartheid (apartheid the Afrikans’ word for separatism).
  
  Apartheid can ONLY be delivered by a combination of State laws and violence – no society has ever willingly agreed to apartheid.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:38am
  - kowtow
    
    Cultural apartheid .
    
    No laws required .
    
    We do it already ie how many non maoris are members of Ratana .
    
    It has been said that the US is at its racially most divided while at Sunday worship .
    
    Is the caste system partof the constitution in India .
    
    Etc
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:26am
    - Paulus
      
      Who really care about the Ratana Circus.
      It is meaningless to very many Maori too, but the excused for a feed for those there annually.
      
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      January 19, 2024 1:44pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        I think the government would be making a major mistake if it discounts the influence of the Ratana church.
        I also think the Ratanas would be making a major mistake if they discount how dangerous progressive wokism is to them. It’s a pseudo-religion so all forms of Christianity will have to be absorbed or destroyed by it. They are natural enemies. the only religions that wokism can tolerate are fake ones.
        
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        January 20, 2024 12:45am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I live in Ngaruawahia. I did not get an invite. Should see if I am allowed in to represent Luxon, Peters or Seymour?
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:40am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You don’t need an invite….
    
    “The hui is open to all and will be conducted in accordance with Tikanga. The hui at Tūrangawaewae will be one of several opportunities for people to express their views and explore potential solutions,”
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/te-ao-maori/350150213/kiingitanga-hui-preparations-are-now-finalised-whats-happening#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20hui%20is%20open%20to,potential%20solutions%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:08am
  - David Garrett
    
    Chuck: If you want to waste a day listening to a lot of dishonest bullshit – ACT is NOT proposing a referendum on the treaty itself, but rather its supposed “principles” – fill your boots. You can report back to us.
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:03pm
    - Paul
      
      Hi David, I had a visitor today, Heads a Major Educational Institute in Rotorua, he is a passive individual, he says violence is being planned if a referendum goes ahead.
      
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      January 19, 2024 7:54pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “violence is being planned if a referendum goes ahead”
        
        Hopefully the coalition is fully aware of this and has put adequate resources into monitoring people planning/fomenting anti-democratic and treacherous stuff like this.
        
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        January 19, 2024 10:53pm
- Littletramp
  
  So now you see why National chose Tama Poaka to come onboard at the last by election.
  And many would say that Luxon is new and green at politics?
  It is the biased media playing checkers, and he is playing 3D chess.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:22am
  - greybeard
    
    I heard Poaka speaking with Tim Dower this morning, and he seems quite impressive.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:40am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Said on the news that Poaka was going to listen with his eyes and see with his ears!
      
      Sounds like a character from Yellowstone .
      
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      January 19, 2024 12:42pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I had check. I heard what he said with my own eyes.
        
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        January 19, 2024 1:45pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Chuck,
        
        Nice one
        
        I just hope he doesn’t take a dump in the urinal!
        
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        January 19, 2024 6:15pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Lots of hui and no doey.
  I bet there will be plenty of good food there. So who pays for all that?
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You do, and the Net Taxpayer.
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:38am
Maggie Pie

A bestie now living in London makes an interesting observation…..

“It ‘s a very rare thing to experience any form of criminal violence among the predominately white residents of a citys more affluent suburbs, unless it comes from the outside”

She cites the examples of Mayfair where she currently resides, Melbourne’s Toorak, Vaucluse in Sydney, Fendalton Christchurch, Kandallah in Wellington, etc.

I think the majority here will relate to exactly where she’s coming from.
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January 19, 2024 9:38am
- NothingLeft
  
  economic and cultural diversity is ~~our strength!~~ the root cause of most crime.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:16am
  - Taieri
    
    economic and cultural diversity is our strength! the root cause of most crime.
    ———-
    
    The collapse of social and community standards is far more important.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:29pm
- Paul
  
  But Maggie, they don’t stay put, we are the only country in the world where vermin drive.
  
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  January 19, 2024 7:56pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Is it too difficult for our journos to do just a wee bit of easy fact-checking before they try to rewrite history?

In this article on Hakacise (haka exercise), the Journalist writes:

She also had whakapapa to Ngāti Toa and was married to a German Whaler, James Heberley, who was one of the first Pākehā to climb to the summit of Mt Taranaki.

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/01/18/maori-in-two-minds-over-new-zealand-pr-mans-hakacise/

OK, I can accept that the journo has never heard of James Heberley (especially if not a Wellingtonian), but couldn’t he/she recognise that James and Heberley don’t seem to be German names?

Was the journo unaware that there’s copious info on early whalers in NZ and James Heberley.

The German is obviously Ernst Dieffenbach who climbed Mt Taranaki with James Heberley.

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22367788
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January 19, 2024 9:45am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Flaxmere is losing its only supermarket. Apparently, it’s not economic to upgrade.

I wonder whether those who have shoplifted there will reflect on the connection.
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January 19, 2024 10:09am
- greybeard
  
  That is what I thought as soon as I read the article.
  It must be very unusual for a supermarket chain to relinquish the only outlet in an urban area.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:38am
- leoj
  
  The prevailing “culture” is not a winner.
  
  Locals might have to re-think.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:00am
- artemisia
  
  Devastated locals and unhappy advocates say as not everyone has a computer for getting their groceries online. Sounds like a great opportunity for a community initiative to help their own. Just as one idea, there’s a library with computers, engage a volunteer or two to help with an order. Local 10 year olds would be fine.
  
  Closing down because not able to make a buck – there’s a lot of it about. Shrinkage won’t help.
  
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  January 19, 2024 1:39pm
- Paulus
  
  Being in an area of low socio decile I suspect that it has had a greater share of low financial record from all sources
  
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  January 19, 2024 1:47pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

South Taranaki DC wants royalties remitted by Central Govt in respect of solar farms built locally.

As far as I know, solar farms do not pay royalties to Central Govt.

Taranaki Daily News
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January 19, 2024 10:14am
- NothingLeft
  
  Why would you build utility solar farms outside of highest sunshine regions of NZ?
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03036758.2020.1763409
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Cost of transmission?
    
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    January 19, 2024 11:47am
  - Taieri
    
    Why would you build utility solar farms outside of highest sunshine regions of NZ?
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    Why would you build power generators which, at the best, have only 25% efficiency and require vast areas of land?
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:31pm
  - CJames
    
    They aren’t building them where it is near load, or good sunshine. They build them close to switchyards which are below rating so they don’t have to pay those fees. If they want to build where most sensible from a generation point of view, they would be uneconomic.
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:12pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Cj,
      
      Yes, its a half arsed scheme that solves nothing.
      
      I wonder if there is a regulation in place to ensure the land is returned to its pre solar state, similar to mining agreements, when the panels deteriorate and become uneconomic .
      
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      January 19, 2024 6:23pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  maybe that should really read ‘South Taranaki Iwi’?
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:48am
Hugh Jarse

Can shoplifting be prescribed generally by Doctors or counsellors as a treatment for mental illness now that it has been championed by the media and lefties ?, or are there limitations on its use to certain professions, races and genders ? asking for a male MP friend of mine.
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January 19, 2024 10:18am
Its only I

Iowa
2083000 registered voters
718000 registered republicans
102000 people voted
53219 voted for Trump
14% of registered republicans voted for Trump.
Lots of republicans sat on their hands.

Does anyone know who the person is who does Trump’s social media posts for him? Genuine question
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January 19, 2024 10:20am
- leoj
  
  So what.
  The non-voters didn’t vote no, did they?
  Stick your TDS.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:59am
  - Its only I
    
    I think your living proof TDS is not what you think… probably of what I think though.
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:13pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Trump being on ballot is already a forgone conclusion (baring Democrat lawfare subversion), and the weather was abysmal. So voting war rather pointless while simultaneously painful
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:50am
  - Paulus
    
    Sadly the USA is still a country of people with guns – anybody appear to be able to obtain a gun of every type.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:50pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Interesting. Quite a low turnout. I wonder how this compares to previous years, and Dem voter turnout
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:12pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Terrible weather, though. Snow for Africa, to mix my metaphors.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:09pm
  - Its only I
    
    One year is kinda meaningless though.
    What were the other years stats?
    
    A bit of voter apathy with Trump a foregone conclusion?
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:45pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

I see a story out of Ponsonby whereby a local is complaining that a public toilet is being used on a frequent basis for cottaging, during daylight hours. No thought is given to the possibility of children walking in while these deviants are in the act. Apparently the Police are disinclined to act.

Perhaps that section of the gay ‘community’ should fund raise for a purpose-built structure, instead of indulging in their disgusting public behaviour.
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January 19, 2024 10:23am
- Maggie Pie
  
  When we’re at Tindalls, we’ll often head up to the ‘Cottage Tea Rooms’ @ Puhoi.
  They do the best Devonshire Cream Tea’s in NZ.
  
  Didn’t know there was one in Ponsonby.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:06am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Is this a parody?
    Very odd.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:28pm
- cmm
  
  “Apparently the Police are disinclined to act.”
  
  Wot, and be accused of homophobia?
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:58pm
  - Colville
    
    or catch their boss in the act…
    
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    January 19, 2024 6:50pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Heteros doing random sex meetups with strangers at public bogs WOULD probably be charged with some crime if caught. Get a room? Have they not heard of sex hookup apps???
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:59pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

A coup by stealth has been interrupted and Maori are squealing. That is what is behind this meeting.
Be interesting to see how much bullshit comes from the media.
Included is a link to the online book “The Psychology of Takeover.”

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/threats-protests-emergency-gatherings-with-the-so-called-maori-king-whats-really-behind-maori-kicking-up-such-a-big-fuss/
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January 19, 2024 10:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Articles of the Treaty:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOs-lVtOzDM&t=3s
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:36am
leoj

New World closing Flaxmere store but to continue with the Havelock Nth store.

When will maori figure out that their culture is not helping.

Control the gangs and the reprobates and supermarkets might return.

It’s up to maori.
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January 19, 2024 10:54am
- Bevan
  
  Steady on mate. You’re starting down the path of personal responsibility there – that cant do.
  
  The problem is colonisation and the resolution is apology for past grievance followed by substantial pay out.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:00pm
- Swifty
  
  The US experience:
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdtf_epcY0M
  
  Worth a watch.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:13pm
- David Garrett
  
  leoj: No No NO!! Everything that negatively affects Maori, from obesity to under achievement in school to over representation in prison is OUR FAULT.
  
  We FORCE grossly overweight Maori to McDonalds and insist that they supersize everything.
  
  Get with the program man!
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:17pm
  - sirknz
    
    Don’t forget the mandate to smoke more cigarettes.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:43pm
  - Countrygirl
    
    And I hear we are going to fund a programme for Maoris with a anorexia. From what I’ve seen it should be very inexpensive to run. Obesity appears to be a much greater problem.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:49pm
- Philip Hart
  
  New World stores are all owner operators under the Foodstuffs wing. It’s likely nobody wanted it. Why would you want to put yourself and family through that? Countdown will probably fill the gap eventually. The Aussies don’t mind a little Kiwi cannon fodder
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:48pm
Maggie Pie

And interesting that newspapers in the UK describe Paki MUSLIMS who are before the courts facing underage child traffiking and rape charges, as….’ASIANS’

Surely that can’t be right?

https://twitter.com/sammywoodhouse1/status/1747758474803437951
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January 19, 2024 11:32am
- NothingLeft
  
  ‘Paki’ is considered Raycist in UK. But yeah it’s bullshit euphemistic woke cover given to hide the highly specific south west Asian Muslim ethnic locus of most of this offending. Surprise surprise a culture steeped in Misogyny and permissibly abuse of infidels is home to majority of this sort of crime.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Labour Councillors and Politicians tried to close down that very obvious aspect of sexual grooming of lower-class white girls.
    
    The Labour Party is mired in shame over “cultural sensitivity”, which always means sensitivity to one culture and one culture alone, and it sure as hell isn’t the culture of white working-class girls.
    
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/05/grooming-gangs-scandal-labour-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer/
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:29pm
- James Stephenson
  
  “Asian” in the UK has always meant the sub-continent but yes the media, politicians, police are at pains to avoid linking the “M-word” to these crimes, a fact that is inextricably linked to the abject failure of the authorities to put a stop to these rape gangs.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:30pm
  - lifesgood
    
    You are right. My English daughter-in-law always refers to Indians as Asians. I told her we just call them Indians and she thought that was strange.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:06pm
  - Paulus
    
    India is historically know as the Sub Continent I believe.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:52pm
  - cmm
    
    Refering to everyone from Turkey to Japan as “Asians” is just pointless.
    
    There is only a point in classifying a group if they have some common features.
    
    What’s common between a Pakistani, a Japanese and a Singaporean?
    
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    January 19, 2024 4:26pm
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      Rice?!
      
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      January 19, 2024 7:21pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  They’ve been doing that for a long time. Not sure why. I imagine some irrational woke reason is the cause.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:02pm
thirteenstars

Vivek Ramaswarmy endorses Trump and becomes something akin to a co-campaigner, and nails it:

https://youtu.be/x24syXhyzcg?si=Vi7ZjhLVOMhvqEcT&t=308

It’s pretty obvious he will be the VP choice. The man’s got more heft then Obama with none of the glibness and meaningless campaign slogans.
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January 19, 2024 11:41am
- MCōs
  
  Obama isn’t a contender to be Trump’s potential VP
  Whoever the poor sod is that gets the job can flag away any future ambitions
  
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  January 19, 2024 1:24pm
  - Colville
    
    given trump will be 78 when he is elected he has >5% chance of croaking it each year . 5.5% – 7.5% over the 4 years of his second term.
    I would say his VP has a 25% chance of becoming POTUS.
    
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    January 19, 2024 6:55pm
- sungsamning
  
  Yeah, he’d be fine as VP. Tucker Carlson is best left in X, where he is doing an excellent job with a much larger audience than he had at Fox.
  
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  January 19, 2024 2:11pm
- cmm
  
  Vivek will be an excellent President. But he has youth on his side. Give him another few years to develop.
  
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  January 19, 2024 4:28pm
NothingLeft

Trumps barbed comment about Vivek just prior to voting in Iowa makes it seem less likely, given he had said that he had already made his pick. But current odds:

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics/us-presidential-election-2024/republican-vp-nominee
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January 19, 2024 11:58am
NothingLeft

An observation on current evolutionary pressures on people in the west:

We are selecting for smarter men (hypergamy) and dumber women (they are the ones who have most kids), as more intelligent women chose not to have kids for various reasons. I read somewhere that on current trends 50% of western women will be childless by 2030

Intelligence is highly genetic, and has some sex-chromosome linked expression. So over time this will move the female bell curve to the left, making women on average dumber, and male bell curve to the right, making men on average smarter, increasing sexual dimorphism in intelligence.

Thus the consequence of woke misandry is women (over long term) end up dumber than men on average. This trend will certainly please feminists.
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January 19, 2024 12:07pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Oh wow…
  I’m convinced.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2024/01/us-rapper-zeddy-will-who-got-five-women-pregnant-at-the-same-time-hosts-joint-baby-shower-sparking-internet-frenzy.html
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:42pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    At least you can tell that white girl is a dyed blonde.
    
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    January 19, 2024 1:16pm
- westernScientist
  
  Na, its just a selection for stupider people overall, no reason to think that the woman are selecting mating partners based on higher intelligence. The norm thought history has been for women to select on standing within a society, which is probably still true. Currently (in the west) we just have three divergent societies occupying the same geographical space, loosely we could call them the ferals, who have lots of kids to a number of different males who have high standing in the scumbag world – gang members, etc, the career virtue signallers, who have very few kids, but enable the successful breeding of the ferals and could be viewed as the preening ones in rat utopia, and the productive public who still have 2.1 kids in a monogamist relationship and produce something of value. Read into that what you will, but I would not draw the conclusion that there is selection for more intelligent males….
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:58pm
- cmm
  
  Just looking at averages is an extremely broken thing to do. All that shows you is the average. ie the centroid of the Bell Curve you talk about. That isn’t where the action is.
  
  What has been observed is that girls (and women in general) are on average better at high IQ testing subjects like mathematics at school. ie. Their Bell Curive is slightly to the right.
  
  But the shape of these Bell Curves is different: the girls are more clustered around the centre while the boys’ curve is flatter and thus has more outliers.
  
  The shape is important because top end mathematicians etc are at the extremes. The boys’ curve is flatter so they have a few more at the extremes (both the very stupid and the very clever).
  
  Thus, when you look for your engineers and such, you will inevitably end up with more boys.
  
  Similarly when you look for the lower IQ end of the spectrum for manual jobs, you will also find more boys.
  
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  January 19, 2024 2:10pm
  - tf78
    
    Wouldn’t this depend on the age of the participants?! i.e. Boys generally mature later than girls.
    
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    January 19, 2024 7:17pm
- miltonF
  
  Firstly, the offspring will inherit the genetic intelligence traits of its parents. It is not sex dependant. A high intelligence male mating with a low intelligence female will create offspring somewhere in the middle (an average). There will be no difference in the intelligence of the boys and girls.
  
  Secondly, the scenario we are facing is more like the movie “Idiocracy”. We are selecting for and encouraging the breeding of low IQ individuals. Full stop. This is a feature of socialism. Naturally, the success of an individual and their ability to reproduce is directly tied to their ability to succeed. In other words, naturally, more intelligent people will be richer and more able to support a family. Socialism reverses this. Taking all of the resources from successful people and diverting it to low IQ, incapable people. Thus providing low IQ people with the resources to reproduce well beyond their natural means.
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:57pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  You can be “intelligent” and also be a train-wreck personality wise. Just saying.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:04pm
Yvette

Te Pāti Māori leaks Government’s draft Treaty of Waitangi principles
The Bill proposed, according to the document shared by Waititi, the three new Treaty of Waitangi principles be:
Article 1: The New Zealand Government has the right to govern all New Zealanders
Article 2: The New Zealand Government will honour all New Zealanders in the chieftainship of their land and all their property
Article 3: All New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and duties.

That compared with the current Treaty of Waitangi principles, which were:
1 – The Government has the right to govern and make laws
2 – Iwi have the right to organise as iwi and, under the law, control their resources as their own
3 – All New Zealanders are equal before the law
4 – Both the Government and iwi are obliged to accord each other reasonable cooperation on major issues of common concern
5 – The Government is responsible for providing effective processes for the resolution of grievances in the expectation that reconciliation can occur.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/01/te-p-ti-m-ori-claims-leaked-government-s-draft-treaty-of-waitangi-principles.html

If the current Treaty of Waitangi principles are numbered, doesn’t each of ACT’s items equal their relative number, and 4 and 5 procedural extras?

Is someone just yanking my chain?
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January 19, 2024 12:08pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Quoting from the report: “The bill will also change the nature of the principles from reflecting a relationship akin to a partnership between the Crown and Māori to reflecting the relationship the Crown has with all citizens of New Zealand. This is not supported by either the spirit of the Treaty or the text of the Treaty.”
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507090/government-confirms-leaked-document-was-a-ministry-treaty-principles-bill-memo
  
  Looks like the ToW has nothing to do with all of us who are non-Maori Citizens of New Zealand.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:46pm
  - Yvette
    
    Maggy – Looks like the ToW has nothing to do with all of us who are non-Maori Citizens of New Zealand.
    
    That this is true may indicate the principle recently covered by the US Supreme Court – just as Abortion is not in the US Constitution, 83 percent of New Zealanders are not mentioned directly in the Treaty of Waitangi
    
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    January 19, 2024 12:58pm
    - nova
      
      Actually most of the people mentioned directly in the treaty are now dead. Certainly Queen Victoria is, as well as the Chiefs of the confederation. The treaty mentions the chiefs and their families but doesn’t directly make provisions for their descendants, other than those implied by the common law inheritance process in British law.
      It is certainly the case that everyday New Zealanders no longer have the same rights as British subjects, we need a visa if we want to work in the UK, but I’ve never beard anyone complain about that aspect.
      
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      January 19, 2024 4:17pm
Aunty

A very powerful speech from the President of Argentina at Davos.

Will this fall on and resonate with the deaf ears of New Zealanders and particularly the media??? probably not.

Even Elon Musk has picked the speech up.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1747865288429682866
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January 19, 2024 12:18pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Hello Aunty. It’s been a while. It is a great speech, and I agree: probably not.
  
  Now… humour me: Do you still contend the Pfizer vax is safe and effective, and would you give it to children?
  
  Yours sincerely, Covidiot Whack-Job Nutter.
  
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  January 19, 2024 12:33pm
krazykiwi

Damon Imani crashes Davos (19 seconds) 🙂
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January 19, 2024 12:47pm
- muzled
  
  Real or not?
  
  I hope it’s real.
  
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  January 19, 2024 2:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s not.
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:55pm
Maggie Pie

You’d have to ask the question I guess?

‘The Horrid’ is reporting that NW is pulling the plug on it’s only store in Flaxmere.
Never to return.
The amazing thing is, we’ve got 6 Supermarkets within about a two kilometer radius. Not to mention a couple of Farros, 11 independant liquor shops, 17 Medical Practices and 6 Vets.

Just saying.
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January 19, 2024 1:09pm
- cmm
  
  NW is shutting down for one reason and one reason only: there is insufficient business to make it viable.
  
  This leads me to suspect that the fine citizens of Flaxmere are already going to the PnS and NW supermarkets in Hastings – about 5km away – as they likely do to get all the other things they want.
  
  There is still a Four Square in Flaxmere.
  
  Lots of bleating about nothing.
  
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  January 19, 2024 2:00pm
sirknz

Student loans have been picked up by a $1 media reporter. Usual half done analysis and no attempt to explain the numbers properly.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350149314/student-loans-sticking-around-its-down-five-figures
Sob story about a lady who has got her loan under 6 figures after faffing about at uni with no clear goals or idea of what she wanted to do till she turned 28.

The insights of the article include the startling fact that only 82% of the people who had a loan in 2003 have now paid it back in full. The writer then goes on to list the numbers of men and women who have current student loans and surprisingly, they are roughly the same as the ratio of male and female students at university.

Calling it now, there will be a push for writing off outstanding student loans in the future because Women, Maori, and Pasifika are most affected.
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January 19, 2024 1:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Release the meltdowns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffUDuECOBb8
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January 19, 2024 1:53pm
- Vory v zakone
  
  Meanwhile Steve, the leftards in the media are really panicking in their meltdowns…
  
  https://youtu.be/d2pIlQN-isg?si=L1ecqHUEWbjmk0Lw
  
  #thebestisyettocome
  
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  January 19, 2024 4:27pm
cmm

I see some teens in Nork ended up in prison for viewing and sharing some objectionable material.

Terrible. Shocking that a country would do that to its curious citizens.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/north-korea-film-footage-shows-teenagers-being-sentenced-to-hard-labour/O5S2JPHD6RBNZNXU7B3XOWVQF4/

Look how tolerant our culture is. It wouldn’t happen here.
We can have Tarrant’s Manifesto right? We can ask anything we want about Covid?
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January 19, 2024 2:21pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Cmm,
  
  In Scotland you can get seven years for “hate speech” in your own lounge.
  
  Here’s the police website .
  The reference to The Hate Monster is chilling.
  
  https://www.scotland.police.uk/advice-and-information/hate-crime/
  
  Unbelievable
  
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  January 19, 2024 7:32pm
MCōs

Mr Trump’s got these chaps in his pocket
https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1747809219477147856?s=61&t=yFkzCNMWRCaVt1p5eRxUog
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January 19, 2024 2:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  More Black Americans off the ‘Plantation’ thanks to people like Candace Owens.
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:26pm
  - MCōs
    
    The accent & idiom’s clearly not North Harbour standard, but otherwise it could be yourself
    
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    January 19, 2024 5:40pm
Chris Nisbet

I just heard Margaret Mutu on the news tell us that Act are “literally” rewriting the Treaty.
I think she needs to look up what the word “literally” means, because the proposed bill proposes nothing of the sort.
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January 19, 2024 3:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Another radical leftie paid by the Net Taxpayer to stir shit.
  Is she the one who years ago suggested that 6-7 year old children should be able to vote?
  
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  January 19, 2024 3:29pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I’ve never met the girl, but I’ve seen her described on twitter as….
    even more dangerous than John Tamihere.
    
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    January 19, 2024 3:35pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Mutu herself is a great ‘rewriter’ in her own right.
  
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  January 19, 2024 5:03pm
- miltonF
  
  The projection is strong with these lefties. “Cogovernance” is literally a rewriting of the treaty. Someone show me where in the treaty “cogovernance” is mentioned.
  
  Why are they always claiming the other side is doing exactly what they are doing?
  
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  January 19, 2024 5:07pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I literally had to leave the room when One News started. Daniel told us that the bill proposes changes to the Treaty. What are the chances they’ll publish a correction about that? I won’t be holding my breath.
  They then dove into something about the hui, and at that point I literally told SWMBO I had to get out of the room, and left.
  
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  January 19, 2024 6:07pm
Maggie Pie

OH ffs….only 1EWES could dream up woke bullsh!t like this!

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1748163519046975694

Simon Shallow will be practising the Te Reo version as we speak.
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January 19, 2024 4:06pm
- Inthe09
  
  Meanwhile in the real World she should get use to being followed very closely around any store she enters where the owners are sick to death of shoplifters.
  
  And yes I hope she notices the people pointing at her and talking in hushed tones behind her back.
  
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  January 19, 2024 5:51pm
  - KiwiSapper
    
    “…… I hope she notices the people pointing at her and talking in hushed tones behind her back.
    .’
    Why “hushed tones, especially as hand held public address systems are very affordable nowadays.
    
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    January 19, 2024 8:58pm
- JackRabbit
  
  So nothing from Ghahraman’s exit that exposes the toll on shopkeepers that keep getting ripped off.
  
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  January 20, 2024 5:08pm
Eugene

Met Service thankfully seems to have changed their web site back to mainly English. They have even dropped their obnoxious “gotcha” trick whereby if you clicked on a map location in English it changed to the Maori alternative.
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January 19, 2024 5:09pm
- Inthe09
  
  I’d love that version, I still see all the Te Reo forced down my throat when I hover over a City name.
  
  I gave up using their site a long time ago it became so woke. I just want a weather forecast, fortunately there are lots of better options available.
  
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  January 19, 2024 5:54pm
- Rich Prick
  
  I’m done with this forced re-education. I speak English, show some fucking respect. When I’m in Spain I attempt Spanish with obvious Spanish speakers (usually at local supermarket checkouts), and English with an obvious English speaker. Why must I put up with being warbled at in Maori when they know I have no idea what their gibberish is about? Wokies, you lost us with this impolite shit. Just stop it, you all look stupid.
  
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  January 19, 2024 9:34pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    Apparently there is bad huarere hitting the moutu in the next few days. What the fuck does all of that even mean? Dawn raids for overstayers in Porirua, or my poor old Dad passing away, I have no idea.
    
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    January 19, 2024 10:44pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      There is meaning in those words, just nothing to do with weather. That you don’t understand them is meant to brand you as a social neanderthal, a prole while confirming to those that do understand that they are virtuous and enlightened.
      
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      January 20, 2024 7:38am
Chuck Bird

The US should widen the war against Iran

The Dershow With Alan Dershowitz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vm28rROrc
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January 19, 2024 6:07pm
than

OneWokenews being more noxious than usual tonight. The alternative isn’t much better.
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January 19, 2024 6:07pm
Maggie Pie

Monday can’t come quik enuff!!
Who in their right mind @ZB decided to have that hard-left moron Tim Rockblah fill in for HDPA?

Never seen him till yesterday. Read the Womans Day while I was waiting in the checkout at NW. Had the cheek to call him…. “a rario star of 1ZB”

Looks exactly like he sounds. A ginga with a head like a milk-pudding.
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January 19, 2024 6:10pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  He on par with Jew hating Roman.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:35pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Milk pudding, I was going for a half slobbered Biden ice cream. But yeah.
  
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  January 19, 2024 10:54pm
greybeard

https://www.india.com/sports/nz-vs-pak-devon-conway-tests-covid-19-positive-ruled-out-of-4th-t20i-at-christchurch-6665724/
How come Conway ( and one other ) test positive for covid but all the rest of the team are OK?
After a couple of weeks travelling, eating, sleeping,playing, meeting etc together ?
Just as well the NZ team is up 3-0 for the series….
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January 19, 2024 6:40pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Not everyone gets the flu. And the RAT test only tests for flu or flu remnants, so it has no real value.
  
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  January 20, 2024 4:58pm
fernglas

“Overseas visitor arrivals were 2.9 million in the November 2023 year, compared with 3.89 million for the same 12 months in 2019, 71 per cent of the pre-pandemic figure.”
This very bad. Tourism in the rest of the world is back to or in excess of pre-covid levels. New Zealand is just too far away, and the Covid response must have hurt as well.
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January 19, 2024 6:56pm
Fisiani2

Countdown supermarket in Karori is ending its lease and leaving New World to dominate
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January 19, 2024 7:09pm
- Inandout
  
  Fis, can’t blame them with all the crazy people walking out with unpaid goods. Then there is Consumer and ‘watchdogs’ breathing down their necks.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:12pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    Supermarket entry. One way doors.
    Supermarket exit: Three or more narrow “air lock” type corridors. You enter and door closes behind you. You scan the bar code on the receipt. Exit door opens.
    
    If you enter supermarket and buy nothing, staff will issue a no value receipt.
    
    If you fill up your trolley and leave without paying you get locked in one of the exit corridors like a pig in a farrow cage, and wait while police show up.
    
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    January 20, 2024 5:04pm
- Rich Prick
  
  The supermarket game is a really tough one. Margins are wafer thin and they rely on things like beer, wine and Lotto commissions and land capital gain. Green MP type sticky finger discounts would sink most. The end investment value is the land. If they can survive the thieving Greens in the meantime.
  
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  January 19, 2024 11:44pm
Paul

I like Israel!
This AI also knows how to focus more attention on more immediately actionable intelligence, including selecting some of its targets.

The aircraft is faster, can fly higher, travel farther, for about 15-16 hours, and its intelligence surveillance capabilities extend farther than other previous spy aircraft in Israel’s repertoire.

It can see and analyze issues hundreds of kilometers away, whereas many other systems only detect issues at much closer ranges.

Not only does its spying capabilities have higher resolution, a more sophisticated mix of different sensors, and greater interoperability than previous similar aircraft, but it projects its surveillance in all directions.

If previous spy aircraft were focused on an area in front of the aircraft, the MARS 2 can provide a 360-degree plane defense picture.

It is even superior to the F-35 surveillance systems which were developed around 10 years earlier than the newest technologies on the MARS2.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-782450
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January 19, 2024 8:02pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I think a Russian surveillance plane was shot down by Ukraine recently.
  
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  January 19, 2024 8:38pm
AitchW

How the hell is Zaman not chucking?
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January 19, 2024 10:32pm
- greybeard
  
  He learned from the master : Malinga the slinger.
  
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