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Yvette

Of the 9351 hate incidents reported between January 2022 and January 2024, more than a third targeted people of Asian descent, followed by 8.9 percent aimed at people of colour and 7.2 percent targeting Maori.
Auckland had more than 3700 cases reported, the highest among all major centres, followed by Canterbury and Wellington, both with about 11,000 incidents reported.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509717/rise-in-hate-incidents-reported-to-police

The first sentence there says 9,351 incidents.
The following second sentence then says Auckland 3700 cases, but does “both with” mean “Canterbury and Wellington” 11,000 incidents each or between them, so total incidents are 14,700 or 25,700 incidents in all.

When reporting is so errant, it strongly discourages one from reading any further.

But the second last sentence of the article says –
However, the minister would not comment on the latest data on hate incidents and Asian communities being overwhelming targeted, saying these matters are “operational”.
– which makes me wonder:
• How is such a general statement “operational”, and
• Is data recorded of any cultural identity of the haters as well as that of the hated?
If Asian communities, as a group, are being overwhelming targeted, who is doing the targeting?

perhaps relevant information : population portions – 70.2% European (3,297,860 people) 16.5% Māori (775,840 people) 15.1% Asian (707,600 people) 8.1% Pacific peoples (381,640 people) – if it is not “operational”
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February 21, 2024 8:02am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Its so much fun watching the Leftie MSM with their tits in a tangle and their bowels twisted as their favoured legislation regulation and policies are repealed or ditched.
  I especially enjoy that Sherman woman on TV1 whinging on night after night. Long may it continue.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:04am
- rjay
  
  And possibly Asians have a higher propensity to report a hate crime while other ethnicities may just respond “in kind”.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:18am
Opie

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/auckland-museum-to-shift-from-colonial-museum-to-te-tiriti-led-museum/

Next – Auckland museum requests government bailout due to large financial deficit because of high costs and vastly reduced visitor numbers.

Sure, make a museum that erases history and pretends that Maoris were a kind, loving and technologically advanced race if you want, but why does it have to be instead of what we have currently?

Why must Maori everything be promoted in favour of everything else to satisfy the 5 percent? Most maoris want to learn actual history, not a fluffed up version of how to think.

People literally struggling to feed their families yet we waste so much on nonsensical virtue signalling.
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February 21, 2024 8:03am
- TripeWryter
  
  A friend of mine is a phamacist.
  The Pharmacy Council is requiring pharmacies to start their business days with karakias and powhiris from April 1.
  He is a Christian. He will not be praying to Maori gods. ‘It is not my culture and how are they going to police it?’
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:49am
  - trout
    
    April 1 is an inspired choice for a start date.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:11am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    From April 1?
    Surely it’s a joke that will be gone by lunchtime?
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:17am
    - Jack5
      
      Not just Auckland. Stoic, Scottish Southland giving its museum a Maori name.
      
      https://icc.govt.nz/council-agrees-to-name-new-museum-te-unua-museum-of-southland/
      
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      February 21, 2024 9:36am
- nathie
  
  Imagine if a Marae disowned their heritage and changed their world-view outlook to become more “colonial”?
  
  It would be absurd. Just as it is for Auckland Museum to be undertaking this change.
  
  Presumably at considerable cost too i.e. money will be diverted away from core activities.
  
  Sack the Museum board and hierarchy.
  
  Enough of this nonsensical historical “genocide”.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  All part of the ongoing Coup that hardly anyone will admit to.
  Wake up!!
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:21am
- Philip Hart
  
  “repatriation” sounds a like “lots of overseas trips for me and the bros”
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:21am
- Flossie
  
  I was so disappointed visiting Auckland’s museum last year. Hadn’t been for many years and had loved the early NZ displays of the British immigrants clothes, tools household stuff etc. Where has it all gone? It appears it is now a museum of Maori culture only
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:14am
  - lifesgood
    
    Totally agree, Flossie. I was there last week and shocked. If it wasn’t for the colonisers there would be no museum. Walking into the museum now you would be led to believe no non-maori inhabit this land. What a bloody disgrace. Who are these people who come up with these virtue signaling whacky ideas? I grieve the loss of my culture from the museum. Getting rid of the beloved colonial street was an indication of where they were going.
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:19pm
- Nobby2
  
  The Board, senior management and staff need to be reminded in no uncertain terms of the name and purpose of the Auckland Museum. The museums official name is the Auckland War Memorial Museum and it was built to honour the Servicemen and women of World War 1 and later on to include all servicemen and women of all subsequent wars and conflicts that New Zealand has been involved in. It is not a museum to be maorified by the woke / politically correct board, management and staff. If they want a maori museum they should get some of the treaty settlement money that has been handed out and go and build a maori museum somewhere else and let the current Auckland War Memorial Museum get back to its original purpose and reason for being.
  
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  February 21, 2024 3:32pm
Chuck Bird

By Bjorn Lomborg

Don’t raid aid budgets to fund climate policy

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxRncWDShWdRxzSHtZJhDGvqjw
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February 21, 2024 8:03am
- Cassandra
  
  It’s supposed to be a war memorial. It has become a Maori propaganda vehicle. A travesty.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:55am
imalwaysright

Hipkins is like a religious zealot blindly reciting his scriptures.
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February 21, 2024 8:04am
gorse

While I totally agree with comments that describe Robertson as the worst finance minister in living memory, I would say he should be described as the worst finance minister in the history of New Zealand.
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February 21, 2024 8:08am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The whole previous regime appeared to be the worst in history on every front, this crap that Robertson saved us through covid is utter bullshit, as I remember he originally borrowed 4 billion for covid and the wage subsidy was only going to be for small business, to hell with the rest, it took Bridges to say open the flood gates, Robertson then when feral snd borrowed 50 billion which on 25 billion was used in COVID, main question to Robertson is, where did the other 25 billion go.
  
  Robertson the worst fin min, Ardern and Hopkins the worst two PMs, (worse than Rowling) Hipkins a total failure on education, health is by far in the worst state in history.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:15am
  - rouppe
    
    He is regularly described as “saving jobs”. The only reason he had to “save jobs” was because he killed them via putting the whole country into home detention.
    
    That’s like a fireman being called a hero for putting out a fire they set.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:24am
  - Ian Boag
    
    the wage subsidy was only going to be for small business, to hell with the rest, it took Bridges to say open the flood gates
    
    Warehouse, Harvey Norman etc piled in and got millions. Not quite the “small business support” idea that GR started with.
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:07pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Gorse,
  
  If it weren’t for Fortunato Ofa Mbo Nchama, Robertson would be the worst finance minister in the world.
  
  Fortunato Ofa Mbo Nchama is the finance minister for Equatorial Guinea.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:19am
  - David Garrett
    
    imalways: Fortunato…Hmmm….one of the Ministers up here in Tonga is called Seventeen…he is as stupid as his name implies.
    
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    February 21, 2024 1:44pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Without being at the Cabinet table, there’s no way to really know how much of the damage was due to Robertson personally. It’s quite possible he was outnumbered by very ignorant people with very strong spending wishes.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:00am
  - Keith White
    
    When one disagrees with one’s employer on matters of moral and ethical importance, and that disagreement is to no avail despite reasonable argument; one still has the option of quitting.
    
    Robertson was not behaving ethically.
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:12am
Stellaboxer

Hipkins claimed on Hosking this morning that Robertson was a minister “ interrupted “ as was many of his cabinet colleagues and couldn’t achieve half of what he wanted. Hipkins included himself in this intervention by Covid into what would otherwise been the construction of utopia. So there is a case to say that Covid saved the country. Imagine the state of the place if it hadn’t intervened. You see folks every cloud really does have a silver lining.
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February 21, 2024 8:12am
- Inandout
  
  Stell, I can vividly remember NZ pre Covid and even back then Labour were floundering and knew they had to buy MSM loyalty to cover for them.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:02am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Heard him say including his self, hahaha, he was minister of education for 5 years total fail. He was minister of police for one year, sent in to fix the mess, it got worse, min of health for one year which with outcomes getting worse, min of covid which will find he was a total failure especially isolation
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:18am
  - Keith White
    
    As the Minister of Health he stated that the mandated Covid vaccines were “safe” and “100% effective” and “prevent(ed) transmission”.
    
    He was lying on all three counts.
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:14am
- Michael Johnston
  
  Actually if Covid hadn’t come along and provided Ardern with her podium of truth, there’s a very good chance her government would have been booted out after a single term. So I’m not sure I agree about that particular ‘silver lining.’
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:18am
- nathie
  
  Also Hipkins had tears forming when he announced Robertson’s resignation yesterday (as per tv news).
  
  Initially I thought woah that’s a bit unusual … but in hindsight perhaps Hikpins was struck by the realisation his team is deserting him?
  
  If so nevermind Labour MP’s rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking Labour Party Titanic …. Robertson has been airlifted to safety by Otago Uni’s helicopter and is waving goodbye, suckers!
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:23am
- pdm
  
  Stella – excellent.
  
  However, It is relevant that – but, for Covid Labour would have been goneburgers in the 2020 election.
  
  Covid therefore has its good points as you state but, was categorically bad for New Zealand and New Zealanders in th long term.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:08am
G152

One day in the near future Arabian people are going to take to heart the message that if they attack Israel then they will cause their people Military and civilians to be slaughtered.
It would appear that the lesson so far has eluded Aljazeera and their biased commentators.
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February 21, 2024 8:12am
- Cassandra
  
  And Prince William. How do you have a ceasefire when your enemy retains many hostages and its armed capacity to have another go? We didn’t leave Hitler and the German army intact to simply try again. Hamas must be defeated – destroyed – before Israel can feel even partly safe. Then sort out the two state setup.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:58am
  - leoj
    
    100%
    
    I didn’t know that Marama Davidson visited Kiwiblog but clearly she does as you have a downtick.
    
    The other downtick is Chloe.
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:09pm
  - Ghost
    
    I actually don’t find anything wrong with his statement
    
    We all want to see an end to the fighting as soon as possible
    
    https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/1759918664403259822?
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:28pm
ecco

Excellent interview yesterday by Michael Laws with Hilary Calvert on the Platform on the appointment of Grant Robertson and how that happened. Calvert is a Dunedin local.

Apparently Labour changed the Otago Uni Council mix and put in more government appointments which explains how Robertson got over the line. I was wondering how on earth he could have been appointed after his abysmal track record as finance minister.

It appears that Otago University is a dumping ground for ex Labour Party pollies eg Curran and David Clark.

The implications of turning Otago Uni into a socialist cesspit will have wider consequences for Dunedin with the ensuing drop in enrolments especially from conservative parents who would have been considering Otago for their child. It would be quite concerning for a lot of right leaning Dunedin residents what might happen to Dunedin following Robertson’s appointment.

Will be interesting to see if the Waikato Uni med school for GP’s eventuates. Thus further diminishing Otago uni’s relevance.

Wonder where they can send Chippy? Massey University?? He clearly has no offers on the table.

Anyway the long form interview with Laws and Calvert yesterday on the Platform is well worth a listen. I think parts of it are also on YouTube as well.

https://youtu.be/t9kvE3kKbBs?si=DXI3bQA5UloEfNSc
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February 21, 2024 8:18am
- DaleK
  
  I find Sean Plunket unlistenable due to his arrogance and obvious lack of research combined with his constant overtalking and interrupting of interviewee’s. Michael Laws does have some good interviews and I do particularly enjoy his discussions with Hilary Calvert. Overall, however, The Platform has been a disappointment for me.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:00am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Sorry DaleK down ticked in error. Plummet would do well to stop swearing too.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:15am
  - ecco
    
    Laws is totally listenable. One of the smartest commentators in the NZ media currently. I make sure I tune in at 10am if I can, or else listen to his interviews later on in the day. His weekly slots with Calvert and Craig Stobo are very interesting and insightful.
    
    Agreed Plunket can be a bit OTT but I commend him for starting up the Platform, otherwise we would be at the mercy of NZME, Stuffed and TV 1 and 3.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:55am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Dunedins enrolment is dropping thanks to their huge expensive rebrand, including maoriforcation
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:21am
- artemisia
  
  Don’t you think an ethno-uni will be a huge student drawcard, especially for those looking from overseas?
  
  Me neither.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:31am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The brand Otago university was a great draw card, it will now be unrecognisable
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:32am
    - Paulus
      
      Hasn’t the University changed its name to a Maori one yet – assume that is the first thing the new Vice Chancellor will do to get more Maori students!
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:24am
- Grunter
  
  I agree, it was a very good interview.
  
  As a Dunedin local and an Otago alumni, I find it very sad that Otago Uni is in such a woke state and it’s only going to get worse with Robertson leading the way. It is already a financial disaster. And their future plans will only make it worse (check out their website, it’s shocking).
  
  The University makes up a huge part of the Dunedin population and economy. There is every chance it will need Govt funding to bail it out, but will the Govt be able to afford that?
  
  What a mess!
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:41am
  - ecco
    
    Yes it’s sad to see what is happening to Otago. I know many fiercely proud graduates who went there.
    
    Unfortunately Dunedin, and Wellington, are not going to be high priority for the coalition government’s allocation of scarce resources.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:02am
  - Paulus
    
    Not sure I can see Nicola Willis wanting anything to do with Robertson wanting more money for Uni.
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:26am
  - Taieri
    
    Says Grant R. :
    
    “I think of myself as academic-adjacent: I have two brothers who are professors in the [United] States and I also have a long association with the university.”
    
    “It is a dream job for me in many ways.”
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/‘otago-boy’-coming-home
    
    Great stuff. I’ve got a progeny who is working as a scientist at an European university and had an aunt who was an university professor, which should also make me academic-adjacent, just as Grant is. May be I should have applied for the Otago job. Bit too late for that now though…
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:02pm
    - Ghost
      
      I think it is a great way to look at things. From now on when the prime minister wants a holiday his children or even wife can come into work and be prime minister. Goes for everyone. Surgeon wants a day off, great, his brother the accountant can come in and do his work. USA president wants a day off his wife can do the job, oh wait, they already follow grants theory…..
      
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      February 21, 2024 12:07pm
    - David Garrett
      
      “I think of myself as academic-adjacent
      
      The man has a BA (Hons) FFS…his dissertation was on the history of the NZ University Students Union
      
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      February 22, 2024 9:23am
  - ISeeRed
    
    After Wellington I’d say Dunedin is the most dependent on taxpayer money for its size.
    
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    February 21, 2024 5:52pm
- David Garrett
  
  It appears that Otago University is a dumping ground for ex Labour Party pollies eg Curran and David Clark
  
  And for disgraced Green ones…Meteria Turei is on the faculty, teaching some aspect of made up Maori bullshit. She’s got herself a chin scribble since she left parliament, so that increases her credibility hugely.
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:50pm
kevn

Insult to NZer’s… fat link
https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/keeping-our-education-system-and-universities-in-the-labour-party-family?

[everything after the ? is unnecessary. mod.]
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February 21, 2024 8:20am
- Souvlaki
  
  Otago will rue this appointment…..but too stupid to ‘see wood for trees’.
  They deserve to sink into oblivion….and I am one of their alumni.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:30am
- Simon
  
  University of Melbourne, ACT or Sydney are better options for NZ kids if can afford. The fees are the same for NZ as Aust citizens so the Aussies know to grab NZ top talent.
  
  NZ universities are generally a waste of space. Getting worse with being infested with Labo losers.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:42am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I may be out on a limb here…
  
  But I’d rather ex-Labour MPs are put out to pasture in some backwater University rather than inventing themselves as some local-body busy-body,
  viz.
  Fran Wilde
  Chris Laidlaw
  Ruth Dyson
  Phil Goff
  Margaret Shields
  etc
  etc
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:49am
  - ecco
    
    Still grates on me though that as a taxpayer we are paying that bloated salary for a bloated guy.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:01am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t forget Tennis ball Bendon Pope, he is still on the DCC although he stood in unison against Robertsons Dunedin Hospital cuts.
    
    DBP is around 73 years old, why would you bother
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:36am
    - pdm
      
      Wayne Brown is 77 and from a distance (Hastings) seems to be more than a few steps better than those who recently preceded him.
      
      Mind you Benson-Pope is nowhere near the same calibre and probably struggles to tie his shoelaces.
      
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      February 21, 2024 10:17am
  - rouppe
    
    My son has just started at Canterbury. Last thing I’d want is rubbish like Robertson polluting that institution.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:31am
    - Close Hen Counters
      
      My son is finishing his final year of law at Canterbury and just loves the place. Great choice rouppe – nice rebuilt city, miles cheaper flights than flying to Dunedin, rent much cheaper after first year (if he is in a student hostel), skiing and beaches a heartbeat away. I hope he has a great time … I’m sure my son’s degree (LLB) still stands for ladies, lager and beer 🙂
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:54am
      - David Garrett
        
        Close Hen: Nice to know my alma mater is still the first class institution it was.
        
        Auckland of course always claimed that their law school was better…I used to enjoy reminding Auckland grads that but for one text, ALL the standard texts at all NZ Law Schools were written by Canterbury academics. I’m pretty sure that is still the case.
        
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        February 21, 2024 1:55pm
- Ruawai
  
  Labour and Greens are very clever at getting their people in local body councils and education boards. Either that or they have nowhere to go in the private sector so this is their natural habitat. National and Act need to start infiltrating in order to stop the rot.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:56am
- kevn
  
  Thanks mod, not my specialty. Don’t want to offer a link that is no-go.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:27am
Toes on the nose

Jeez Ginny weak on ZB hating on Mitchel for getting aid to starving Africans (and possible conflict with terrorists) and making a business profit. Also does Chippie need to ask Brock Purdy if he can borrow his nickname?
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February 21, 2024 8:23am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Heard the interview, it was pathetic
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:32am
Paulus

Having calmed down over the appointment of Grant Robertson to Otago it is both sad and disappointing that he should get that appointment.
I expect the salary will be about $450,000 plus perks similar to others, except Auckland.
Who made the decision to appoint him ?
It is reported that Clare Curren and David Clark are to join him – both being ex Labour failed MPs too.
Otago appears to be effectively bankrupt so it is appropriate that a failed Finance Minister gets the job – he will decimate it further I expect.
He even supersedes Muldoon as a disastrous Finance Minister.
Shame on New Zealand for this stupidity but not sadly surprising.
Herald call that he is leaving Politics – yea, and how does that fit in with the products of our Universities ?
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February 21, 2024 8:24am
- ecco
  
  It’s called cronyism.
  Dunedin is the Wellington of the south.
  Shudder to think what it’s like living there. uuggghh
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:59am
  - Taieri
    
    Shudder to think what it’s like living there.
    ————
    
    Not too bad. Now, if we only could have a normal council…
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:21am
- nathie
  
  Paulus – health warning ahead …. it was reported yesterday his salary will be $630k (presumably that includes perks, surely).
  
  Mind you, how appropriate for an “elitist”, “rich prick” chardonnay socialist.
  
  Wonder what Labour PM’s and MP’s of the distant past would be thinking (if they somehow could).
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:05am
  - Paulus
    
    Even Jacinda only got $500,000 – she will be jealous !
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:30am
- Yabster
  
  his salary is around mid $600k .. what a joke he and the Uni ARE.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:07am
  - Jack5
    
    The Prime Minister’s salary is $471,049 plus $22,606 for expenses. As chief executive of Air NZ Christopher Luxon received $4.2 million.
    
    Those figures are from the NZ Herald, which compares the PM’s pay with the NZ median wage of $61,692.80.
    
    The Otago Daily Times compares Robertson’s total wage package at the university, $629,000, with his pay as an ordinary MP – $163,961.
    
    Otago University’s given Robertson a golden retirement – on the taxpayer.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/how-much-does-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-get-paid-cabinet-ministers-salaries-and-perks-revealed/D5GC56L5ANH6XERNBLZFND746Q/
    
    AND
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/grant-robertson-new-otago-university-vice-chancellor
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:48am
- Inandout
  
  Paulus, Muldoon did have some idea of economics and Think Big was a mild success, although nowadays would be stymied by years of ‘objections’.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:10am
  - Jack5
    
    Muldoon was a Far Left clown in economics: he introduced price controls to fight inflation and they, of course, failed.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:14am
    - Paulus
      
      Some of Muldoon’s Think Big projects have been a success – look at what occurred in Taranaki subsequently.
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:32am
      - David Garrett
        
        Paulus: Both the Ammonia-Urea plant and the Methanol plant – I worked on its construction in 1983 – are still going, both utilizing Maui gas. Since Ardern fucked the oil and gas industry they will have to shut down when Maui finally runs out.
        
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        February 22, 2024 9:26am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Hosking said this morning the salary is 650 k.
  Mind you that is better than the 800 k suggested yesterday
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:39am
  - Inandout
    
    G, Hosking does rise early I suppose, along with sharemilkers.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:53am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He said he went away and found out, it’s 650 k
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:39am
- pdm
  
  Paulus – I heard a Salary of $629,000 mentioned yesterday. May have been on HDPA’s programme but not necessarily from her personally.
  
  Apparently the incumbent is on more so Robertson’s lack of credentials may have resulted in some salary pruning.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:22am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    800 k was also mentioned yesterday
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:39am
- david
  
  Paulus,
  Your guess might be light by about 50%. Much better dosh than being Minister of Finance.
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:21am
- rjay
  
  Don’t forget materia turei in the law dept.
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:45am
greenfinger

It never cease to amaze me how someone that managed to screw over a country so publicly in the last six years can still land a fat cat job that pay over 10 times the salary of the average kiwi battler! The board of Otago Uni has a lot to answer for. Fire the lot, I say!
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February 21, 2024 8:24am
- Cassandra
  
  He appointed the board (Council) which hired him. Very clever. Very dishonest. Are you surprised? Will National take any action? Hint: National control the purse strings. Question: will Willis have the courage to shaft Robertson? Or sort out any of our universities as they slide into irrelevance.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:20am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘He appointed the board (Council) which hired him.’
    
    Haiti or Pakistan spring to mind…..
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:25am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Hmm, they maybe happy he has gone, he can be checked on as things go, and he can be told no new funding
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:42am
- mogg
  
  That’s a bit unfair we still have a higher rate of growth that Ecuadorian New Guinea.
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:06pm
TripeWryter

What on earth got into the Labour MP Virginia Andersen this morning on Mike Hosking’s programme?
On Wednesdays she does a gig with Mark Mitchell, the Police Minister, former cop, and former security guy, and grandson of the late Air Commodore Frank Gill, a once-upon-a-time National Party minister.
And this morning she fired cheap broadsides at Mitchell for ‘shooting people’ in Mogadishu.
It really is an astonishing listen.
I suspect this is going to blow up in her face and Labour’s, too.
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- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Listen here..
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/pollies-labours-ginny-andersen-hits-out-against-nationals-mark-mitchells-previous-work-history-in-the-military-contracting-sector/
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:52am
  - Ghost
    
    What a nasty (self moderated)
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:58am
  - Swifty
    
    My god.
    
    I suspect she will come to regret that intemperance.
    
    That was just poisonous.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:00am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Hipkins has stated he has heard about what she said, and is yet to listen to the video, sounds like she may well be in trouble, but Hipkins is so weak and pathetic it will be a warning, I think things change when you start smearing a cabinet minister from parliament
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:46am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    And to think that hysteric was a government minister minister. What a statesman.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:34am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      And apparently the boy from the wairarapa running mate if he is leader one day
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:47am
- Dougal10
  
  It maybe her way of jumping ship.
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:05am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is that thick she won’t even know what she has done is wrong
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:48am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Ginny certainly showed her nasty side this morning. I expect the lefties will think she is possibly future leadership or deputy leadership material having a nasty side like that.
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:27pm
- Nobby2
  
  I heard her appalling comments this morning as well.
  I won’t be holding my breath waiting for the msm to follow it up and ask her why she said it and if she is going to apologise.
  Hipkins is a soft cock and he won’t ask or tell her to apologise.
  She is a nasty, vindictive witch who hates the fact the shoe is now on the other foot with Mark and can’t get over the fact that labour lost.
  As the saying goes; We won, you lost, eat sh _t.
  
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  February 21, 2024 5:07pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Frank Gill – the Muldoon acolyte who said we should welcome all white Rhodesians because they are “kith and kin” ….
  
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  February 21, 2024 7:30pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  Usually quite like her combativeness and far better in that slot than Megan Woods. But she’s clearly got the tongue of a nasty fishwife.
  And here’s yet more proof of how she would have dealt with the teenage volunteers she berated, despite her comical I don’t recall but it doesn’t sound like me defence she ran at the time.
  
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  February 21, 2024 7:32pm
Maggie Pie

Just in the shower and think I heard Ginny Anderson on ZB accuse Mark Mitchell
“of being a Mercenary and getting paid to shoot people in foregin countries” 🙁

Surely I must have misheard something??
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February 21, 2024 8:27am
- Stellaboxer
  
  No Maggie you heard correctly. She said he was paid to shoot people overseas.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:33am
- Souvlaki
  
  Yes!
  Very revealing as to her REAL personality….NASTY…flabbergastingly so!
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:33am
  - Paulus
    
    She is still rated an Heir Apparent.
    Wow, desperate.
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:34am
- Grunter
  
  Maggie – you heard correctly. She also asked him how many people he killed. Hosking was gobsmacked and let the filth flow out of her mouth.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:37am
  - rouppe
    
    Worse than that, she asked Mark if he kept a tally of the number of people he shot.
    
    She is going to be – or should be – roasted for that.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:21am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      She said it twice
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:49am
  - Swifty
    
    I wonder if she would have hurled those nasty questions at Charles Upham?
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:28am
    - nathie
      
      Or today, Willie Apiata?
      
      https://vcgca.org/our-people/profile/2/willie-apiata
      
      Bet she wouldn’t dare, instead would be in thrall!
      
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      February 21, 2024 9:35am
      - Swifty
        
        Yes, good point nathie.
        
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        February 21, 2024 9:55am
- nathie
  
  She kept repeating that a number of times.
  
  Such a nasty, spiteful person.
  
  Also ignored Mitchell’s reasoning that his work was sanctioned by the UN.
  
  And this talk about Andersen being a potential future Labour leader is a joke. She disparages people and does so unfairly. Not exactly traits that will resonate with most voters.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:40am
  - rouppe
    
    She started with “that ten years overseas is the really interesting bit but we won’t go there”, and shortly afterwards went there, boots and all
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Future Labour leader? We just got rid of a tyrannical bully.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:58am
  - Paulus
    
    It is such comments as this which make s her an heir to the Party.
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Did she say it in Parliament? If so, ask her to repeat it in public – she won’t.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:41am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    But they were both on the Hosk’s breakfast show.
    She sounded manic!!
    
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    February 21, 2024 8:44am
    - Souvlaki
      
      ? Subtherapeutic lithium perhaps?
      
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      February 21, 2024 8:48am
      - david
        
        Has to be medication, as surely it was too early in the day to be alcohol that loosened the normal constraints that rational thinking usually imposes on the quality of discourse.
        
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        February 21, 2024 11:25am
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    Steve – I think with Hosking would count as being in public.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:27am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yep. I was thinking it was a third party thing.
      
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      February 21, 2024 10:56am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She was on the radio, not on parliament grounds let alone the chamber
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:51am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He ran a security firm in waring nations, not sure that makes him a killer, she would have to be very careful with those accusations
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:51am
  - Yabster
    
    he should sue the idiot woman for liable.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:15am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He only has to have shot one person and he wouldn’t be able too surely, he probably did shoot people, but there was a point to it
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:52am
      - cmm
        
        Unless he was a gunner on a helicopter or such, he’s unlikely to have shot anyone.
        
        War isn’t like video games and movies.
        
        During WW2 most infantry soldiers (the generally most active sort) shot nobody. Not one.
        
        During WW2 there were over 125 million servicemen in all services on the Allied side. There were about 5 million German military deaths in all services, the vast majority in the army. Therefore your chance of being a “lucky one” that killed a Jerry was, on average about 1 in 25 or 4%.
        
        Of those deaths a large % were caused by bombing and artillery. This heavily skews the stats to a few key people that do most of the killing. Maybe 1.5 to 2 million were actually shot in combat as most people think of it (ie. infantrymen shooting eachother on the battlefield).
        
        So basically that meant 100 million servicemen shot around 1.5 million Germans. Your chance of being a soldier that shot a German during WW2 is around 1 in 60 or less than 2%.
        
        Modern conflicts are not much different other than the increase in helicopters and aerial ground attack. Other than those shooting artillery, bombing or operating machine guns out of helicopter gunships, only very few soldiers actually get to kill anybody.
        
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        February 21, 2024 12:35pm
    - Paulus
      
      No ,I think that is just what the media and the Labour Party would want.
      Distraction and all the media support they can buy !
      
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      February 21, 2024 1:32pm
- Chris R
  
  You have it right! I applaud Mr Hosking for not interrupting Ms Andersen as he really let her go until she destroyed herself. It was an appalling stunt and I expect that should Chris Hipkins take her conduct responsibly she’ll have no future in the Labour Party.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:17am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The Labour Party set a very low bar, wouldn’t be surprised if this was planned by the equally nasty Hipkins
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:54am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    She will probably be promoted by Labour!
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:58pm
kowtow

So many commentariat types in te media saying what a Good Sort Robertson was to always turn up.

Not . He refused to appear on Peter Williams over “The Great Reset”.

Talking of Robertson , I see NZME Derek Cheng thinks R fulfilled his maiden speech mandate , child poverty and climate.What bollocks ,passing a few bills fixes nothing.
Especially while the whole country has been plunged into an inflationary nightmare with massive debts that will take generations to pay off.

Again the commentariate saying they saved jobs during lockdown ……well they locked us down.

That’s like thanking a fireman who set fire to your house for turning up to the smoldering wreck.
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February 21, 2024 8:28am
Maggy Wassilieff

Manaakitanga in action in Nuhaka-Wairoa

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509728/we-were-hiding-in-the-house-feeling-absolutely-threatened-traveller-s-motorbike-stolen-and-stripped
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February 21, 2024 8:33am
- kevn
  
  Maggy… Get ’em of the couch and pass a drug test. Some employers dream?
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:45am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Being German, had they not heard of Carl Volkner?
  They were actually quite lucky if you ask me.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:47am
  - Jack5
    
    Does the Ringatu religion, of which the NZ Maori Party’s Rawiri Waititi is said to be a minister, have any connection with the faith of the Pai Marire (Hauhau) fanatics who decapitated Carl Volkner and ate his eyes.
    
    A Wikipedia entry says that at the Battle of Sentry Hill in April 1864:
    
    The soldiers who were all hidden behind their high parapet, did not open fire on us until we were within close range. Then the bullets came thickly among us, and close as the fingers on my hand. The soldiers had their rifles pointed through the loopholes in the parapet and between the spaces on top (between bags filled with sand and earth), and thus could deliver a terrible fire upon us with perfect safety to themselves. There were two tiers of rifles blazing at us. We continued our advance, shooting and shouting our war-cries.
    
    Now we cried out the ‘Hapa’ (‘Pass over’) incantation which Hepanaia had taught us, to cause the bullets to fly harmlessly over us: ‘Hapa, hapa, hapa! Hau, hau, hau! Pai-marire, rire, rire – hau!’
    
    As we did so we held our right hands uplifted, palms frontward, on a level with our heads – the sign of the ringa-tu. This, we believed, would ward off the enemy’s bullets; it was the faith with which we all had been inspired by Te Ua and his apostles.
    
    I wonder whether this “ringa-tu” has any connection with Rawiri Waititi’s Ringatu faith?
    
    The gruesome murder of the Rev. Volkner:
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sylvius_V%C3%B6lkner
    
    The Pai Marire (Hau Hau):
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_M%C4%81rire
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:08am
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      You are suggesting that Maori were Cannibals – could not be so !
      
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      February 21, 2024 1:34pm
- nathie
  
  Despite two cases having been opened – one for theft, and one for threatening behaviour – police confirmed there would be challenges laying charges.
  
  “Under the Solicitor-General Prosecution Guidelines, police must be able to locate sufficient evidence to meet the evidential test – which requires sufficient evidence to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction,” they said in a statement.
  
  For crying out loud NZ Police. Get a search warrant and bring in officers from other centres to assist, then raid the gang address. Bet it will turn up stolen goods, illegal drugs and weapons.
  
  But even if it didn’t (unlikely) it will give the gang the message that they will be harassed and cannot go about breaking the law with zero consequences.
  
  It’s not hard, is it.
  
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  February 21, 2024 8:47am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    There also used to be a crime called “receiving stolen goods”?
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:47am
  - imalwaysright
    
    You would expect this crap in a corrupt African republic.
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:58am
    - Keith White
      
      We are well down the road to being a corrupt Ethnostate.
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:19am
Warren

The accolades for Grant Robertson continue to flow eve though he lied and decieved New Zealander’s throughout his his time as Finance Minister.
People have short memories and have forgotten the hack on his first Budget where he orchestrated a lie about the National Party hacking the Buget and blaming their Leader Simon Bridges for instigating it.
Then there is the Health and Hospitals underfunding that for decades according to Labour and the Finance Minister Grant Robertson that never stopped I could go on and on with the lies and deciet Grant Robertson told with the help of Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, they couldn’t lay straight in bed that’s how politically criminal they were and their will to blame others for their own incompetence for everything that went wrong on their watch.
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February 21, 2024 8:37am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I hate it how they are saying it’s thanks to Robertson during Covid for saving many people’s companies and jobs with the wage subsidy. But it was his bloody government that forced us to close down and stop trading, and that was the only reason we needed the wage subsidy!
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Does a Ph.D trump a Deputy Prime-Ministership?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/rob-macculloch-vice-chancellor-grant-robertson-he-s-not-qualified-does-not-deserve-the-job-what
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February 21, 2024 8:37am
- Scooter
  
  He’s ex Labour that’s all you need for Otago Uni it seems.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:21am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    and as woke as
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:04pm
Scooter

Ferals again. At this rate NZ will be well and truly off the tourists radar. Who wants to travel half way round the world to be ripped off, intimidated and threatened?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/german-visitors-bizarre-trip-to-nuhaka-motorbike-stolen-then-paraded-in-front-of-them/UZPHHZWOWNASFD7J3FROB7VJPI/
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February 21, 2024 8:40am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Everyone needs some soppy shit – not.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/labour-loses-heavy-hitter-leaving-hipkins-emotional/ar-BB1iytp6
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February 21, 2024 8:45am
Stellaboxer

So on one radio show the leader of the opposition claims that the worst finance minister in the country’s history was interrupted in his great work by Covid 19 and would otherwise delivered Utopia and a member of his shadow cabinet states , not claims, that the current Police minister was “ paid to shoot people “ in Africa. Obviously they haven’t worked out that one of the major contributors to their current position in the political landscape was the publics fatigue with their negativity, dishonesty and smearing of their political opposition. Along with the media they seem to be completely unaware of when to stop digging.
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February 21, 2024 8:52am
Maggy Wassilieff

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134780-500-our-human-ancestors-often-ate-each-other-and-for-surprising-reasons/
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February 21, 2024 8:57am
- kevn
  
  The early settlers will be relieved at that prospect. Not hunger then…
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:17pm
Kiwiguy

The silver lining to Grant Robinson’s new job at Otago Uni:
As finance minister, he affected the lives of about 5.269 million people.
At Otago Uni, he can only affect the lives of about 25,000.
His direct influence has dropped to about 0.47% of what it was.
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February 21, 2024 8:57am
- Paulus
  
  Maybe but at what cost will he stuff Otago Uni further than it already is from under a Labour Government ?
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:36pm
kowtow

Auckland War Memorial Museum going full woke . Treaty led , whatever that means .

Why not go the full hog and just cancel yourself entirely as you really are the epitome of a “colonial” relic .

Oh no , pigs still have to trough.
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February 21, 2024 8:58am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump will post bond meaning he is appealing.
Engoron is trying to put him out of business and it’s not going to work – Lawyer.
Leticia James says $400M is a lot for a developer. I don’t think she comprehends the Trump World.
Trump lawyer Chris Kise told Newsweek the appeal would come within the 30-day window. ‘The case raises serious legal and constitutional questions regarding “fraud” claims/findings without any actual fraud,’ This is how crooked the left are – drain the swamp.

To outlay that sort of money, Trump has the gloves off.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-will-post-bond-for-400m-after-fraud-decision-says-alina-habba/ss-BB1izXPu#image=2
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February 21, 2024 9:00am
- All_on_Red
  
  He doesnt have to front with the actual cash.
  He will have a third Party, like a Bond coy or Bank/Ins coy issue the Bond and he will pay them a Fee for the Guarantee.
  Everything will be dismissed on Appeal- eventually.
  He might have to go up the ‘tree’ a bit…
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:42pm
Maggie Pie

‘Citizen-of-Auckland’ finds himself surrounded by Chloe acolytes in Freyberg Square
while legally filming Auckland Rainbow Event.

GRAPHIC CONTENT 🙁

https://youtu.be/L2RxMpHlYvE
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February 21, 2024 9:10am
- RightNow
  
  Great cameo performance by the pink haired man’s Adam’s apple near the end!
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:29am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Actually had my partner fooled there for a moment 😛
    
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    February 21, 2024 9:51am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  People dancing to their own images in the window.
  Must be off their tits.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:37am
- Swifty
  
  Those trans activists are full of hatred for anyone who dares to disagree with their ideology.
  
  If they were spoken to like that they would run to the news media screaming ‘hate speech’.
  
  Just plain disgusting behaviour.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:47am
  - Sacha
    
    If everyone ignored them, they would gradually fade away for lack of attention.
    Wishful thinking, I know.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:54am
Vidar

The Auckland War Memorial Museum seems poised to step away from its sacred duty. As New Zealand’s bastion of remembrance, the museum has long stood as a solemn tribute to our fallen heroes, a place where the echoes of our past conflicts and the bravery of our soldiers are preserved in the silent vigil of history. Yet, the Draft Annual Plan for FY 24/25 paints a different picture, one where the focus shifts dramatically from this hallowed ground to broader, arguably less pressing social agendas.

The intention to transform into a “social impact organization” is not just a deviation; it’s a dereliction of the museum’s foundational promise to those who served under the shadow of war. Diluting its core with environmental concerns and expanded educational roles risks side lining the very essence of our military heritage. Furthermore, amid financial strains and calls for modest levy increases, one must question the prudence of diverting scarce resources from the preservation of our war memorials to other causes, however noble they may seem.

This isn’t about resisting progress or denying the importance of environmental or educational initiatives; it’s about honouring a commitment. It’s about ensuring that the sacrifices of our forebears are not just a footnote in a museum that once stood as a beacon of remembrance.

It’s high time the government scrutinizes the museum’s board, the appointment process, and the very Act that seemingly grants funding indefinitely with scant oversight. This unchecked guarantee of perpetual funding, without stringent accountability, undermines the museum’s original mission and the public’s expectations.
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February 21, 2024 9:13am
- Swifty
  
  Well said.
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Went there about 25 years ago to see what had changed.
  Big gorilla with no neck asked for my entry ticket. I did not buy one. I showed him my Council Rated Demand and told him I pay the wages of everyone here. Then I just pushed past him. He did nothing.
  Once inside it was hard to know if I was in the War Memorial museum or Te Papa.
  Yes, they had taken the place over. I won’t be back.
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:16am
  - lifesgood
    
    It is really sad what the woke idiots have done/are doing to Auckland War memorial Museum, built in honour of our mostly European returned and deceased soldiers. I don’t want to take my grandchildren there for fear of giving them a warped view of the history of New Zealand.
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:34pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Hear hear, what that person said.
      
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      February 21, 2024 4:28pm
Grunter

Covid Update, released just 2 days ago.

But you won’t find this in the MSM despite Auckland University being involved.
Irrefutable confirmation by a massive global study that the jabs are not safe.

99 million vaccinated people included globally. So this is huge.

Auckland Uni Press Release
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024/02/19/99million-people-in-largest-global-vaccine-study.html

The actual Study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X24001270?via%3Dihub

What is also interesting is that NZ’s main contributor to the study was none other than Helen Petousis-Harris from Auckland University. She constantly told everyone to get the jab. Now she is saying (in academic gobbelde-gook), that it is not safe.
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February 21, 2024 9:16am
- Vidar
  
  For the BNT162b2 vaccine: Between 4 and 7 young males out of every 100,000 vaccinated might experience myocarditis.
  
  For the mRNA-1273 vaccine: Between 9 and 28 young males out of every 100,000 vaccinated might experience myocarditis.
  
  Doesn’t seem that bad?
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:01am
  - Keith White
    
    Context
    
    1. a threefold increase is not a small increase, especially when…
    
    2. the ‘reasoning’ for enforcing the jab by mandate was to protect others, yet…
    
    3. the jab was never able even in Pfizer’s own first research-lab studies to prevent transmission, plus…
    
    4. the jab was not thoroughly tested and indeed MedSafe tried to say no to approving it but was overruled.
    
    So each and every one of the dead and damaged were made to take an ineffective but occasionally deadly and damaging vaccine For. No. Protection of others, while being denied freedom of choice, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.
    
    That is bad.
    
    Also – swine flu: by October 1976, 45 million people, 25 percent of the U.S. population, had been vaccinated where there had been only a single U.S. death from the 1976 swine flu. But, 32 Americans died the vaccine. The immunization program was officially halted on December 16, 1976. 2 months. We’re still going with the JODAD after 3 years!
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:27am
  - Grunter
    
    I guess it’s only “bad” if you were one of the unlucky ones that died from a heart attack//
    
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    February 21, 2024 12:45pm
- kowtow
  
  You also won’t find much about the NZDF mandates and the recent court findings .
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:29am
artemisia

Some pharmacies worried about pseudoephedrine crime. Can’t they just choose not to stock it and pop a decent sized sign in the window?
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February 21, 2024 9:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  With the ban, the meth manufacturing has not slowed down.
  I think it is just the “ban” idiots found something they could ban so they did.
  Meanwhile those who are plagues with flu, headcold, sinus etc get to suffer. The pollen gets to me and antihistamines just make me tired.
  Pity we can not ban “stupidity.”
  
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  February 21, 2024 9:46am
- cmm
  
  It’s as dopey as banning sugar because people use it for brewing.
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:08pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  When I find a pharmacy that stocks the stuff I think I’ll keep a fair-sized stash of the stuff at home. I have no confidence that some future government won’t ban it again.
  That stuff works!!
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:57pm
- Paulus
  
  Sadly pharmacists I suppose are too woke.
  Many now are of Asian ethnicity.
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:39pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/german-visitors-bizarre-trip-to-nuhaka-motorbike-stolen-then-paraded-in-front-of-them/UZPHHZWOWNASFD7J3FROB7VJPI/

German tourists meet the mongrel mob, and the mongrel mob win.

Cops disgraceful response…
“Enquiries are ongoing to determine any further police action.”

Mongrel mob member stole my son’s motor bike, cops found the scumbag, who faced a maori court for no punishment. Its a disgrace and Maori are getting off the crimes they commit against people who actually work!
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February 21, 2024 9:42am
- kowtow
  
  Coster calls it policing by consent.
  
  Robert Peel would be turning in his grave.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:28am
  - surfing
    
    The cops should have dealt with the entire family at the time the crime was reported. And taken away all the kids they find in that house of criminal scum and placed them into state care.
    
    The way cops operate today, is to let the crims finish their crime spree, then follow up later. “Follow up later” policing is a scourge on society . It is almost like the police are aiding and abetting criminal behaviour.
    
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    February 21, 2024 10:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Plod is scared of offending the thieves.
      
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      February 21, 2024 11:22am
  - Keith White
    
    Coster sez “noone dindu nuffin.”
    
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    February 21, 2024 11:28am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He is a corksoaker
      
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      February 21, 2024 4:35pm
Maggie Pie

Apostle Brian smells a RAT ………

https://twitter.com/BrianTamakiNZ/status/1759797202304790713

check the comments 😀 😀 😀
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February 21, 2024 9:55am
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Hard to disagree with (20% tithe now) Tamaki.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:01am
- Ghost
  
  It was a $128 million bailout for all universities
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/06/27/university-bail-out-128m-temporary-boost-announced/
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:03am
Scooter

Grant, always the bridesmaid never the bride. Maybe he will finally make it good at Otago Uni or crash and burn for good.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/509711/grant-robertson-the-consummate-political-support-partner
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February 21, 2024 10:03am
- kevn
  
  Scooter… A gentle commute from Welly to Dunners from time to time. Shouldn’t be too hard.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:07am
Hugh Jarse

Well Ginny’s outburst against Mitchell this morning will just about guarantee her the Labour leadership once Hipkins stops crying and leaves. The left will be loving it. McAnulty is going to have to raise the stakes considering to beat her in the left popularity stakes.
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February 21, 2024 10:06am
- surfing
  
  Is she nuts? Who’d give this woman a job, she’s hysterical.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:19am
- Blog-aholic
  
  I think Ms. Andersen has taken her plot somewhere, left it behind and forgotten now where it is…..
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I thought Ardern was the tantrum thrower (Air NZ).
  Seems Ginny said “Hold my beer.”
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:29am
NK

I’m being advised that Efeso Collins has died this morning after collapsing at a charity event. If true, that’s absolutely shocking and horrific. I truly hope it’s not the case and he pulls through.
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February 21, 2024 10:10am
- surfing
  
  Bloody sad, he looked in OK shape too.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:18am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Excess deaths from the cause that dare not speak its name are still running pretty high.
    
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    February 21, 2024 1:22pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      We will have to wait to see what caused it but I suspect its more Excess Weight than anything else…
      
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      February 21, 2024 1:52pm
- Taieri
  
  If true
  ——–
  
  It is.
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/21/green-mp-efeso-collins-dies-after-collapsing-at-auckland-charity-event/
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:18am
- pdm
  
  NK – breaking news on NewstalkZB about 10 minutes ago that he has died.
  
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  February 21, 2024 10:32am
Swifty

Stuff is reporting that Efeso Collins has died at a public event:

https://tkr.ro/e/EZdt0Y0Dy2C7XEhS

Tragic if true.
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February 21, 2024 10:14am
Its only I

Trumps Lawyer, Hubba, missed an appeal deadline.

Why does he employ such shyt lawyers?

Habbas face keeps changing. The last time I saw lips like that they had a hook in them.
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February 21, 2024 10:16am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  30 days unless you mean another case.
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-will-post-bond-for-400m-after-fraud-decision-says-alina-habba/ss-BB1izXPu#image=1
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:44am
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘its only I’ has massive TDS
    No doubt fueled by Fake News, hence their comment
    
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    February 21, 2024 1:54pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Fun, isn’t it?
      
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      February 21, 2024 4:38pm
    - Its only I
      
      Oh dear. Are you only looking for Trump’s comfortable lies or are you able to handle a little uncomfortable truth?
      
      https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/blassingame-v-trump/#:~:text=Blassingame%20v.-,Trump,riot%20at%20the%20U.S.%20Capitol.
      
      Red, step back a bit and try a wider view. It’s almost like you are Trump and Trump is you. Any, and I mean the slightest WTF regarding Trump gets you responding like its personal to you..and Steve. Its sad, really farking sad.
      
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      February 21, 2024 5:16pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I dont like Trump at all.’
        I have said many times I think he’s a lying narcissistic clown- good economy though
        So Foxtrot Oscar with your smear
        Im just objective about him
        But clearly he makes you guys lose your minds.
        I mean how nasty is this comment from you about his female lawyer
        “Habbas face keeps changing. The last time I saw lips like that they had a hook in them”
        Get some help, your comments are deranged.
        Oh wait…
        
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        February 21, 2024 5:40pm
      - Its only I
        
        @Red…LoL
        
        Way too serious Red..but hey, you do you.
        
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        February 21, 2024 6:33pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        What’s LOL is how triggered you get about Trump.
        And how nasty.
        Its fun calling you loons out on it.
        
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        February 21, 2024 6:46pm
      - Its only I
        
        @ Red, that’s good, your having fun as well…in your own way.
        Like I said, don’t take it too seriously certainly not personally.
        
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        February 21, 2024 7:44pm
- virtualmark
  
  Probably more accurate to say that Trump and his lawyers decided not to proceed with an appeal to SCOTUS, and so didn’t file documents before the deadline.
  
  This was in relation to civil lawsuits that have been filed against Trump for the Jan 6 insurrection. Trump had claimed Presidential immunity. The Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (second highest court in the USA) had ruled that Jan 6 was Trump acting as a Presidential candidate, not as President, and so Presidential immunity didn’t apply. Trump said he was going to appeal that (SCOTUS being the only appeal option) but has evidently decided not to appeal. So the civil lawsuits are back on the docket and will proceed.
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Who knew?

https://theconversation.com/christchurch-terrorist-discussed-attacks-online-a-year-before-carrying-them-out-new-research-reveals-223955
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February 21, 2024 11:04am
- cmm
  
  Hindsight is 20/20 vision and all that.
  
  For every Tarrant that actually acts there are dozens who don’t get past their keyboard.
  
  “The signs were there” is really a meaningless observation because the same signs were visible in other people who have done nothing.
  
  Much is made of people being “radicalised” by these platforms, but I think that’s broken logic. I think it is often that already radicalised people just find some like minded people to discus their ideas with.
  
  Real radicalisation is different. That happens when some disaffected sap gets found, groomed and led into committing some act. Real radicalisation requires some sort of mastermind that radicalises others.
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:06pm
  - Libertarians are right
    
    The FBI has recently decided that the easiest way to handle people who show the signs is to pull them into a conspiracy, created by the FBI and then arrest them.
    
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    February 21, 2024 1:20pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Too many knew and then no one.
  HEIA wouldn’t even if they had all the totalitarian surveillance that they wanted because it only covers archives that google makes public. Eight had been removed from public view by google due to all the filth that was being posted.
  People need to engage with each other if the aim is to disrupt radicalisation because not even totalitarian states like China can prevent it from happening with all of their mass censorship.
  
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  February 21, 2024 6:03pm
Maggie Pie

This reminded me of when of the girls in my dorm at boarding school printed out $10 notes on the color-copier during art class.
Some of us used them at the Gala Day and we ended up with a locker full of Marmalade and about 80 bucks in real cash 😀

https://twitter.com/imabearhunter/status/1759535412098253258
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February 21, 2024 11:26am
- imalwaysright
  
  Unfortunately the Labour finance position has been filled, though clearly you are more qualified.
  
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  February 21, 2024 11:36am
Grunter

An interesting interview of Prof Jeffrey Sachs on the last 30 odd years of USA and Russia developments. This guy has a lot of hands on experience with Yeltsin etc.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Ptaya7stymw?feature=shared
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February 21, 2024 11:26am
david

Has to be medication, as surely it was too early in the day to be alcohol that loosened the normal constraints that rational thinking usually imposes on the quality of discourse.
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February 21, 2024 11:32am
- greybeard
  
  I assume you are referring to one Ginny Andersen ?
  Although maybe there is something about the nickname “Ginny” which we have all overlooked….
  
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  February 21, 2024 2:27pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Seems there are two truckers, Chicago Joe and Chicago Ray.
I am thinking Chicago Joe was Democrat propaganda – they are desperate.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/chicago-ray-tells-new-yorkers-to-stock-up-now-as-others-join-protest/ss-BB1izEG0#image=2
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February 21, 2024 12:05pm
I remember when

Herald/Newshub report that the Govt is going ahead with their coalition transport projects, despite NZTA estimations they could cost $24 billion more than National’s figures.
“..a report shows the transport agency has estimated they could cost up to $24 billion more.”
“It estimated that 17 projects that National campaigned on could cost between 30.9 billion amnd 46.6 billion, which would be up to $24 billion more than National forecasted…”

Nowhere does Newshub mention that the NZTA estimates are between $8.3 billion and $24 billion more, nor is there any mention of cost/benefit figures.
Of course, it is not only Government policies, add in weather, climate change, fires, sea-level rises, covid, potential diseases,…..
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February 21, 2024 12:21pm
- NothingLeft
  
  probably half that if they dial back road cones and other safety elf extremism to 1990’s levels.
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Last sentence, you forgot “The general Government employed fuckwits.”
  That should cover some huge ground!
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:50pm
I remember when

When looking at large areas of solar panels it is hard to understand that they are environmentally friendly.
They certainly get a different response to that used when compared with an oil pipeline.
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February 21, 2024 12:28pm
- kevn
  
  I remem… In 20 years time (or less) all those hectares of solar panels will need replacing. Not recyclable. Hmmm
  
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  February 21, 2024 2:21pm
- Albie
  
  Absolutely. When an oil pipeline is decommissioned the steel can be recycled. Solar panels are in the same camp as fibreglass wind turbine blades. BTW- Read today that Siemens have had to double their estimates for the maintenance and decommissioning of their thousands of wind turbines in operation world wide.
  
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  February 21, 2024 5:13pm
Maggie Pie

People with legal knowledge of the situation who have spoken on condition of anonymity, maintain that there is NO WAY Ginny Anderson can survive her public outburst against the Minister of Police on ZB earlier today, and may well be required to resign as an MP.

Hmmm.
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February 21, 2024 12:44pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Time will tell and in politics time is counted in hours not days.
  
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  February 21, 2024 12:57pm
- NothingLeft
  
  LOL. The left abandoned accountability a generation back because they are the Goodies™ and so everything they say or do is right or at very worst forgivable, whereas all their opponents are Worse Than Hitler™
  
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  February 21, 2024 1:14pm
- Swifty
  
  Nothing will happen to her.
  
  She is as safe as houses.
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:29pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Just checked the ‘Oral Questons’ for today…. only to find Parliament is not sitting for the next 2 days, assumedly due to the sudden death of Efeso Collins?

Will thses days still be counted as part of National’s 100 Day Action Plan, or will extra-time be added at the other end??

Things are dire in the countery and need to be kept moving fgs.
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February 21, 2024 1:58pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  The MSM will count them like they counted the days after the election until the coalition was formed…..even though the votes had not been finalised.
  
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  February 21, 2024 2:31pm
  - MCōs
    
    Whatever the end date it’s just a gimmick that’s being used as an excuse to rush things through parliament under urgency
    Or you could say they’ve made a rod for their own backs by setting impossible targets.
    If another couple of sitting days need to be added you can be sure the Leader of the House will make sure they won’t clash with the Basin Reserve test.
    
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    February 21, 2024 5:13pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      You never got back to me about those BBQ rats either Cossie.
      
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      February 21, 2024 6:28pm
NothingLeft

Red Sea and Arabian Gulf are getting increasingly dangerous, with Iranian supplied drone subs now in hands of Houthis.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/yemens-houthis-now-have-drone-submarines-likely-iran

It’s not hard to imagine a near-future world where a lot of global shipping is shut down by belligerent nations using cheap smart drone aircraft and boats they could similarly do huge damage to vulnerable infrastructure if launched from an innocuous ship in international waters.
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February 21, 2024 2:19pm
- miltonF
  
  These underwater drones are a huge game changer. They basically make warships redundant, except as giant multi million dollar targets. Russia has discovered this recently, losing quite a few warships against Ukrainian drones.
  
  We are going to need some military technological advancement in order to counter this new threat.
  
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  February 21, 2024 6:36pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    It’s well nigh impossible to defend against a torpedo, particular as they get smarter with greater autonomy and ability to slowly travel to target zone and then lay-in-wait for extended periods before sprinting to target.
    
    A few billion in development and deployment by a technologically competent adversary could see USA’s carriers eradicated.
    
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    February 21, 2024 8:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/a-showdown-is-coming-part-4/?
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February 21, 2024 2:29pm
Ghost

Former Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater has been ordered to pay $475,000 to businessman Matthew Blomfield after losing one of the country’s longest-running defamation cases.

Article
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February 21, 2024 2:32pm
- kevn
  
  For google fans… fat link but works.
  https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/google-has-usurped-democracy?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=141621755&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=15bbs6&utm_medium=email
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:09pm
- MCōs
  
  A hollow victory for Mr Blomfield because Slater was bankrupt
  The latter used stolen material to defame the former it seems so why can’t Slater sue Hager or has he?
  https://dirtypoliticsnz.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/dirty-politics_p55-67.pdf
  
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  February 21, 2024 5:00pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

If ejacashun is not failing in NZ, explain this, without telling me that English was not the first language for this brainfart.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/you-had-one-job-am-hosts-react-to-misspelt-auckland-bus-stop-sign/ar-BB1iAYmO?
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February 21, 2024 3:35pm
slightlyrighty

https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2024/02/by-election-declaration-of-results?fbclid=IwAR2CbDcpLgqYNG0JntSou5TwXkklO49FsnEYVHxZqmF3fMvxHhBsx84HB9A

A last rush of last.minute special votes to get a green candidate over the line.

Did the Green party mobilise returning students?

Not illegal, but dodgy if they did.
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February 21, 2024 3:42pm
- Steve Todd
  
  No, it is not dodgy. What a ridiculous comment. It’s called getting out the vote, something the Right in Wellington needs to start working on.
  
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  February 21, 2024 4:34pm
Swifty

Question for the day – is it possible to be anti-Semitic and humorous at the same time?
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February 21, 2024 3:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trucker’s boycott.
Lefties, get the keys off mummy and go to the basement please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhpxXkXTcyo
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February 21, 2024 4:00pm
Steve Todd

The Green Party candidate, Geordie Rogers, has come from behind to snatch the Lambton Ward vacancy on the Wellington City Council (see
https://wellington.govt.nz/-/media/your-council/elections/2023/lambton-ward-by-election/results/final/2024-pukehinau-lambton-general-ward-by-election-final-report.pdf?). So, it would appear that the Green Party machine succeeded in getting the vote out among the students.

The were 588 special votes, of which 536 were valid. Of those 536 votes, 357 were given for Rogers (total = 3,665), 149 were given for Karl Tiefenbacher (total = 3,653), and 16 were given for Ellen Blake (total = 552). In other words, Tiefenbacher’s 196 vote lead on the count of ordinary first preference votes (the Preliminary Count), became a 12-vote lead for Rogers once special votes were counted. There was a total of 8,632 valid votes at the start of the official count.

At the second iteration, Rogers was still ahead, by 13 votes. Then, Tiefenbacher took the lead at iteration 3, by 10 votes; retained it at iteration 4, by 53 votes; and at iteration 5, by 134 votes (3,943 to 3,809).

At this point, Blake had 653 votes. At the sixth and final iteration, of those 653 votes, only 497 were transferable. Of those 497, 338 (68.01%) transferred to Rogers (324 at the Preliminary Count); 159 (31.99%) transferred to Tiefenbacher (153 at the Preliminary Count); with the remaining 156 votes being non-transferable (the same as at the Preliminary Count).

So, as is often the case, the outcome came down to the final iteration. The voters of the Lambton Ward lined up behind the main candidate of the Right, and the main candidate of the Left, with the Left coming out on top by just 45 votes – 4,147 votes (50.27%) to 4,102 votes (49.73%).

With the participation rate being only 25.47% (36.83% at the triennial election in October 2022), then clearly, many people on the Right did not vote. This should be a lesson to those people; if you want to have a majority on Council after 11 October 2025, then you must get organised now, and get out the vote next year, just as the Greens have done, again.

(See here https://dunedinstadium.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/m-pv_description.pdf.) for an explanation of how the majority-preferential vote (PV) works, and the rationale behind the method.)
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February 21, 2024 4:31pm
Inandout

Once again Wellington voters shoot themelves in the foot. That city is beyond hope.
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February 21, 2024 4:56pm
- Steve Todd
  
  Um, Inny, some would say the Right shot themselves in the foot, yet again.
  
  This was a crucial election for the Right, and they let it slip through their fingers. It would seem the Right in Wellington is beyond hope.
  
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  February 21, 2024 5:07pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350187575/42-below-vodka-founder-critically-injured-crash
I am sorry that someone has been injured, and from all accounts it is quite serious.

“The vehicle – understood to be an ATV – rolled into a ditch and got stuck on its roof, a police spokesperson said.
Two of the three occupants were critically injured.On Wednesday, Geoff Ross confirmed his wife and two family friends were involved in the crash, which he said was caused by mechanical failure.”

This is bad: the exact nature of the “mechanical failure” is obviously known by Mr. Ross, and should be published immediately so that owners of the same vehicle are warned of impending failure.
Was it mechanical failure of the vehicle or “mechanical” failure of one of the occupants ?

Or maybe it was one or more of the following:
Weather conditions ? Road conditions ? Alcohol and / or drugs presence ?
Speeding ? Inattention ? Sabotage ?

I am by nature a cynic, and tend to see things which maybe don’t exist. Sorry.
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February 21, 2024 5:20pm
- cmm
  
  Mechanical failures are not always design faults.
  
  Failure of worn out brakes would be a mechanical failure, or a wheel coming off due to too much twattish driving.
  
  I am not saying it is the case here, but the most common component to fail is the nut that does the steering.
  
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  February 21, 2024 5:47pm
DimChappie

The Australian supermarket duopoly – Coles and Woolies – is accused of ripping off customers and suppliers. Surely not happening here.

https://shorturl.at/akCEJ
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February 21, 2024 9:11pm
Ghost

Ummm, ok mr Zelenskyy

What’s the rest of the video show I wonder since it is clipped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxcPpiRNFE
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