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NeverMindTheBollocks

I blame Helen Clark.

General incompetence.

Wellington CC is a special case. I wonder if anyone will swap the new conference centre for 50km of pipe repair.
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March 15, 2024 8:01am
- bjools
  
  or Cycle ways
  tsunami warnings
  waterfront statues
  etc etc
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:14am
- cmm
  
  Helen Clark is the symptom. The voters are the problem.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:42am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Yep. We all created this problem over many elections as we turned a blind eye to the thin end of the wedge as it was steadily slipped under the door, most recently all the luvvies who voted in droves for Ardern and then a few short years later swung over to the coalition parties, wondering where their golden girl had led them.
    
    Ship of fools.
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:21pm
- Jack5
  
  CMM’s … the voters are the problem …
  
  Their choices, too.
  
  Local body politics became a less important route into national politics for the ambitious. Business folk on one side, trade unionists on the other. Plumbers who could understand pipes, accountant-types who could read balance sheets.
  
  In stepped cycling mad Greens; arts luvvies who want acoustic-rich town halls, galleries and street puzzles; Maori activists out to rename the show; sports lovers who want billion-dollar stadiums.
  
  Now far, far fewer everyday folk happy with roads, water supplies, sewerage, power, school-street safety, and broadband cable.
  
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  March 15, 2024 11:04am
Kiwiguy

How the news media has changed…
In the old days, the news used to tell us what happened, and we decided what to think about it.
Nowadays the news tells us what to think about something, and we have to decide if it really happened that way or not.
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March 15, 2024 8:02am
- pdm
  
  Well put kiwiguy.
  
  Worth more than one uptick.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:33am
- MCōs
  
  In the old days the newspapers were at least as opinionated as they are today
  The Daily Mail used to fervently advance the cause of Hitler, Mussolini & fascism in England pre WWII
  It used to have a lot more clout in those days
  https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GDCS&u=webdemo&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CEE1863506114&asid=1710561600000~f9c98653
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:07am
  - Che Guava
    
    “The Daily Mail used to fervently advance the cause of Hitler, Mussolini & fascism in England pre WWII”
    
    Many did. Hitler was famously Time magazine’s Man of the Year, and, as I have commented on before, even the Zionists had a pact with the Nazis in the form of the Haavara Agreement.
    
    Only after WW2 was this scrubbed from the record, or at least conveniently memory holed, lest any unnecessary confusion or ambiguity be allowed to enter the equation.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:20am
    - Sparrow
      
      Having been born during the war have always remembered what my cockney dad said some years later. If it was not for Churchill and the working class we would have been speaking German. As he put it the Toffs were all Hitler lovers. Yes there were fascists amongst the working class but heavily outnumbered. When the Cliveden Set or the Mitfords were mentioned Dad would go ballistic. He entered Belsen with the first special forces patrol.
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:13am
      - kowtow
        
        Churchill was essentially an aristo.
        
        It was basically down to him and him alone.
        
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        March 15, 2024 12:13pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Gee, imagine having to speak German (which is a purely speculative trope, btw). Oh, the horror of such a backward culture being foisted on us! I mean, what have the Germanic peoples ever achieved?
        
        Yes, much better for Britain, in common with much of the West, to have Islamic rape gangs, boat people being welcomed in and put up in hotels at taxpayer expense, the dissolution of the family unit, high crime rates, high addiction levels, unpayable national debts, lack of social cohesion, and cities like London and Birmingham looking like Middle Eastern bazaars with nobody speaking English (ironically) and being no-go zones at night. Are you tired of winning yet?
        
        With 80 years hindsight, can we really still say we “won” the war?
        
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        March 15, 2024 12:15pm
      - alwyn.a
        
        @kowtow.
        It would be very hard for Churchill not to have be an “aristo” wouldn’t it?
        When your Grandfather was a Duke, your father a Lord and you were born in that magnificent edifice that is Blenheim Palace how could you not be affected?
        
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        March 15, 2024 3:10pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Not sure that todays Germany is much to write home about either Che.
        
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        March 15, 2024 3:27pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Guava yes they did win the war and then the west had 60 years of pretty good times. The commies and assorted misfits got to work on wrecking the joint after that. We are now truly in a handcart to hell unless there is a radical change in direction.
        
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        March 15, 2024 7:47pm
  - Michael Johnston
    
    A fascinating read, with a warning to us in the present – all of the same frustrations with political inaction in the established parties that attracted the youth of 1930s Britain to the fascist Mosley are also evident today. But I think it’s false equivalence to argue that the media was the same then as it is now. The linked article is clearly an opinion piece, written by a politician. The difference is that, back then, journalists took seriously the duty to be as objective in their reporting as possible. Now, it’s difficult to distinguish what passes for journalism from opinion columns like the one you linked to.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:26am
  - Nukuleka
    
    Your link would appear to reference specific newspaper articles written by a couple of UK Members of Parliament, expressing their own personal views in favour of fascism. This hardly supports your assertion that newspapers in the past were as ‘opinionated’ as they are today, where we find the coverage of most issues wilfully slanted towards a left wing ideological viewpoint. You’ll have to do better than this, MCõs.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:38am
    - MCōs
      
      The point is that newspapers at the time used their influence to push the point of view of their owners, not merely factual report the news.
      And their articles and opinions were repeated in newspapers here.
      You can use Google to find out for yourself
      
      “So we can be under no illusion that Rothermere the First was a supporter of the Nazis. And he had the power to say so through his Mail ownership”
      https://amp.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2011/dec/06/dailymail-oswald-mosley
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:54am
  - Jack5
    
    MCos is talking about the range of big newspapers in London, which offered a range of political opinions.
    
    NZ regions typically had one morning newspaper, one evening newspaper, and their sharing of news through the Press Association meant they had a fairly common philosophy, perhaps with the morning paper leaning a little Right and the evening paper a shade Left.
    
    A lot of people, in the US as well as in Britain, were reluctant to go to war with Nazi Germany. A key reason was the devastating losses of World War 1.
    
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    March 15, 2024 11:10am
  - leoj
    
    Hitler was a socialist, head of the National SOCIALIST party.
    
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    March 15, 2024 6:14pm
- Space Goldfish
  
  This is one of the best and most accurate posts I have seen in a while. Thumbs up.
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:48am
slightlyrighty

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350212958/green-mp-suspended-amid-migration-exploitation-claims

and here we go again.

It turns out the Greens have known about this for 6 weeks before acting.

It’s got so bad they’re having to schedule the scandals so they don’t over-lap….
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March 15, 2024 8:02am
- CJames
  
  It doesn’t look like their candidate vetting procedures are any good – they haven’t learnt from the troubles National had.
  But it is a Green list MP – just a drone voting as they are told to with no responsibility so no loss to Parliament.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:23am
  - Matt Long
    
    That’s one advantage of MMP, the greens can just revolve people off their list as they fall one after another without the taxpayer heaving to fund another by-election.
    The disadvantage is that these kind of people are in parliament at all.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:49am
  - David Garrett
    
    CJames: Almost 30 years in, and still people have limited understanding of MMP.
    
    On all issues other than conscience votes, ALL Members – electorate or List – vote as they are told to. ACT is the only party which allows individual MP’s to vote contrary to the rest of their caucus, provided they give notice of their intention first.
    
    If any Nat or Labour MP voted against their caucus, they would immediately be excluded. And members on both sides of the main aisle have been excluded for “going rogue”, i.e. not following orders.
    
    I’ll say it again: when it comes to toeing the party line and voting as directed, ALL MP’s, List or electorate – vote as directed – unless they are Act MP’s
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:54am
    - Che Guava
      
      So under MMP, ALL* members vote as they are told.
      
      *except when they don’t, because there is nothing saying they must.
      
      That doesn’t sound like a feature of MMP at all, it’s a feature of the conventions within particular parties, even if they are common among many parties. More limited understanding of MMP.
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:10am
      - bennerg
        
        Che, whether MMP or FTP or even STV, the current systems since inception have allowed party control. From selection through to day to day voting, once aligned with a party, who have to follow the rules.
        
        Ever heard of Party Whips? They aren’t called that for nothing.
        
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        March 15, 2024 9:44am
      - Che Guava
        
        Allowed party control, but not mandated party control, as demonstrated by ACT.
        
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        March 15, 2024 9:48am
      - bennerg
        
        Che, you stated:
        
        “Allowed party control, but not mandated party control, as demonstrated by ACT.”
        
        An outlier in the overall context.
        
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        March 15, 2024 3:28pm
      - leoj
        
        There is nothing positive about MMP when the party demands blind loyalty, no matter what.
        
        NZ has been far less stable under MMP that it ever was under FPP.
        
        When we had simple majorities to pass bills without haggling between coalition parties, if a govt didn’t get the job done, we kick them out.
        
        1960 after one Labour term.
        
        1975 after one Labour term.
        
        Do a bad job, get booted. Simple.
        
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        March 15, 2024 6:23pm
    - bennerg
      
      David, may I refer you to my Guest post from 2022 where I addressed this very issue, and proposed a couple of minor changes that would make a huge difference.
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/05/guest_post_the_ardern_changes.html
      
      I had suggested:
      
      1. All electorate MPs are independent, and so are responsible only to their electorate voters.
      
      2. List MP’s are Party affiliated as present, and can be chosen for specific skills. The Party vote creates the government, who then formulate legislation etc, however all voting is exclusive to the electorate MP’s. This dynamic requires the Party in power to create legislation that they know will pass the vote of the MP’s representing the people, or if rejected, have to make changes so it will.
      
      I have long railed against the fact that our “local MP” gets elected here to represent us in the regions, but the moment they get to Wellingon, they have to represent the Party, who have “Whips” to ensure they do. This creates a centralised control of policy, disenfranchising the voters.
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:42am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      To be clear, are you saying this doesn’t happen in other Parliamentary systems such as first-past-the-post?
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:08am
  - backster
    
    Well considering drunken Mayors and Ministers of Justice. and dodgy share dealers,Labour have not provided much of an example either.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:56am
  - leoj
    
    Tana will simply be replaced with another socialist/communist drone.
    
    MMP sucks to high heaven because it all party based.
    
    Voting should be about voting for representatives not parties.
    
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    March 15, 2024 6:17pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How many more dodgy Greens does NZ have? Who is next due in the naughty corner?
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:25am
  - Mobile Michael
    
    Losing two MPs to scandal within 6 months of an election when you have a caucus of 15 points to a deep problem with Candidate vetting. How many more skeletons are there lurking in Green MP closets?
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:29am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Darlene, Darlene, Darlene, Darleeeeeen!
  Sung to the tune of Jolene.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:28am
  - sirknz
    
    Come on Darlene
    I swear that you need
    To pay everything to me
    
    To the tune of ‘Come on Eileen’
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:15am
- mandk
  
  You shouldn’t be surprised that the party has become embroiled in a migrant exploitation scandal.
  
  Afterall, the personal motto of the party’s Immigration spokesperson is “Take drugs, do crime”.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:30am
- pdm
  
  `It’s got so bad they’re having to schedule the scandals so they don’t over-lap……’
  
  Exactly what Mike, Mike, Mike, and Mike said when he was eviscerating Chloe this morning.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:38am
- Paulus
  
  See she is a chosen one, a Wahine with a Moko !
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Now we know why James Shaw resigned on Jan 30 and is still polluting parliament, very coincidental don’t you think?
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:56am
- Clyde
  
  It was classic Hosk this morning when he interviewed that Swarbrick person. She was determined to read the carefully written piece from the comms team in the Watermelons and he was equally determined to get some straight answers – which she failed to provide.
  
  While these are only allegations at the moment, for this Tana woman (complete with barcode) to be stood down by a party blind to the shortcomings of its MPs, it seems like something serious has gone down.
  
  Thank goodness for the Hosk to apply the heat to the soles of the feet of Watermelons and actually hilarious to hear Swarbrick repeat “Mike” so often. And people vote for these cretins!!!
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:14am
  - AitchW
    
    She was starting to get quite shirty toward the end, I suspect because Hosking didn’t accept her carefully scripted and oft repeated word salad and instead pressed her to answer some very simple yes/no questions. The best part was when he simply cut her off having tired of her endless prevarication.
    
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    March 15, 2024 4:29pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Made the mistake of reading the article.
  
  Hmm. I day trial employment – not sure I have ever liked that concept, feels exploitative.
  
  However, claiming $25k does seem like a bit of a reach.
  
  I expect both parties are scumbags here.
  
  But stuff (and the ERA) have their narrative:
  
  Employers are bad, workers are good!
  
  But, the employer is married to a Green MP? Journalist heads explode. Cannot compute the narrative….
  
  going to be entertaining!
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:23am
Suze Wainwright

I sincerely hope that Chlöe can speedily resolve the only serious party of the left’s kaupapa issues.
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March 15, 2024 8:03am
- David Garrett
  
  Their what issues??
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:11am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Manglish word meaning ‘crooked.’
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:28am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Kaupapa – a te Reo word meaning set of values, principles and plans which people have agreed on as a foundation for their actions.
    
    I just felt that with the Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand being so proud of their kaupapa, the new co-leader might want to tidy it up a bit – what with thieving MPs and now an alleged migrant exploiting MP.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:29am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You could have said that instead of bastardising the English language.
      If it was satire, I withdraw my comment, and sorry I missed it. Too often Manglish raises it’s ugly head.
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:29am
  - Simon
    
    kaupapa = honesty, integrity
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:38am
  - nathie
    
    Note that Suze specialises in satire (which people tend to miss).
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:11am
  - riffer
    
    Kaupapa. (noun) topic, policy, matter for discussion, plan, purpose, scheme, proposal, agenda, subject, programme, theme, issue, initiative.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:19am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      NZ should have immersion Maori forced on it by a minority of woketards?
      
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      March 15, 2024 7:50pm
  - Kiwiguy
    
    Kaupapa.
    In English this is pronounced cow-papa.
    IE, the father of a cow.
    In other words: Bull.
    
    I’ll let the rest of you extrapolate this out further!
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:43am
- Grunter
  
  Why use the word “kaupapa”?
  
  I Googled it and got this…
  “A kaupapa is a set of values, principles and plans which people have agreed on as a foundation for their actions.”
  
  I’m confused on so many levels. (Chloe & principles?!)
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:22am
- JimBobJoe
  
  I see your satire is wasted on some Suze!! All those reflexive downticks
  
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  March 15, 2024 2:29pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Interesting that the Green have stood down MP Tana over what looks like an employment dispute. It’s been painted as an immigrant rort, but at least so far there are no reports of teams of migrants living in sheds.

Compare & contrast with the Greens’ defence of Golly G. Methinks Tana may be on the outer within the party.
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March 15, 2024 8:04am
- David Garrett
  
  Nevermind: Nah…she’s got a chin scribble, so that’s worth 10 points all by itself.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:13am
  - Clyde
    
    Wonder what happens when these chin scribblers go past the scanner in the Supermarket? Does the till come up with out of date special?
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:17am
  - riffer
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    That’s two racist comments in one morning. You must be feeling very proud of yourself.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:22am
    - grumpy
      
      Has she not got a chin scribble?
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:39am
    - pdm
      
      rascist riffer?
      
      I thought DG was stating a fact.
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:41am
      - riffer
        
        If I have to really explain why Garrett’s post was racist you are stupider than I expected.
        
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        March 15, 2024 10:20am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Careful, riffer will call in the thought police – the actions of a good fascist.
        
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        March 15, 2024 11:06am
      - rangitoto
        
        A chin scribble is an optional choice. It has nothing to do with race.
        
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        March 15, 2024 1:17pm
    - JimBobJoe
      
      No more racist than calls of redneck, paheka spat out, palagi spat out, honky etc
      
      You know riffer – racism flows from the Left every day in their polices and their constant attack on western cultural …
      
      But hey its only your enemies who are racist….
      
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      March 15, 2024 2:31pm
      - Ghost
        
        So because one side doesn’t respect you means you should lower yourself to their standards? Yes calling it a chin scribble is disrecptpful and racist. But hey, often the right is no better than the left, even when you try to justify it.
        
        Time people draw a line in the sand and reuse to act like the other side that they often whinge about the behaviour of, instead of acting the same
        
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        March 15, 2024 2:38pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Not sure how it’s racist. Insulting, yes. Usually people say that because they see it as pretentious. Those kinds of symbols are normally accompanied by quite a large helping of smugness.
        
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        March 15, 2024 7:55pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Oh and I would say someone with neck tattoos would most likely be a dickhead.
        
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        March 15, 2024 8:02pm
  - DimChappie
    
    Tana has listed her priorities – a full-on He Puapua Maori radical:
    Decolonise climate crisis responses through matauranga māori; empower māori to restore taiao marae.
    Ensure all whānau live in dignity in an affordable, warm home with guaranteed minimum income.
    Me hoki whenua mai. Promote constitutional transformation through Matike Mai and He Puapua.
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:41am
    - Don Beckett
      
      seems she should be a member of tePahti Maori.
      
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      March 15, 2024 11:04am
    - Bridgenag
      
      and none of the iwi’s with billions pay for anything!
      
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      March 15, 2024 1:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Long may it continue. Soon there will be no crazy Greens left!
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:32am
  - Flossie
    
    There’s an endless list I fear Steve. And each one probably worse than the one before.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:41am
    - pdm
      
      mrspdm knows one of their list candidates who was in the mid 20’s on election day with no interest or intention of going into Parliament.
      
      He is now only 6 or 7 sackings away.
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:43am
  - CJames
    
    That is tautology, isn’t it? Are there any Greens with more than 50% sanity?
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:52am
    - David Garrett
      
      CJ: That’s actually a serious question. In my time – 15 years ago now – we knew which Green MP’s had which Green hobby horses: I can’t remember who was who now, but one would be obsessed with planting trees, another would preach endlessly about clean rivers etc.
      
      Mad Cath Delahunty was a bit of an exception – Mad Cath, who spoke Manglish every time she spoke, usually banged on about colonization and Maori issues, and hardly ever about environmental issues.
      
      My point is back then the “social justice” issues took second place – a very close second place to be fair – to genuine “Green” i.e environmental issues. That seems to have gone now; they are all primarily Social Justice Warriors who don’t even pretend that they aren’t watermelons, i.e Green on outside, red on the inside.
      
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      March 15, 2024 9:09am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Mad Cath – Minister for Mars once said something about a lovely Waitangi day on TV.
        “Waka and watermelons” and did not realise she had put her foot in it!
        Embarrassing for the rest of the Greens.
        
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        March 15, 2024 9:22am
      - RoboRob
        
        Was saying the same the other day. Shaw is the last of the environmentally focused Greens and he is soon to be gone. The sad thing is the people who vote for them becuase of the word Green, not realising they are just voting for an extreme left party.
        
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        March 15, 2024 9:35am
      - Flossie
        
        Robo…they’re voting for another racist feminist party.
        
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        March 15, 2024 10:06am
      - cmm
        
        Mad Cath was the beginning of the end.
        
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        March 15, 2024 10:09am
      - julesnzuk
        
        Replying to Flossie. Not sure how you make out that they’re a “radical feminist” party given that most of them subscribe to the idea that natal males have the right to hijack women’s spaces and identities and that women can have penises. They believe women should be silenced on this issue and subject to grotesque misogynist abuse if they don’t passively acquiesce. Need I mention the perpetrators of horrific sexual violence agains women and girls – Hamas – whom they also support? The Greens have contempt for women and there is nothing feminist about them.
        
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        March 15, 2024 11:38am
  - Random T Person
    
    Sorry mate there’s a practically endless supply of bright eyed bushy tailed young hypocrites.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:55am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yet they are still taking votes from hapless Hipkins
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:14am
Maggie Pie

What is it with the Greens and honesty?

ACCUSATIONS OF MIGRANT EXPLOITATION!

https://twitter.com/RMarchNZ/status/1733998525300855271

“Be Gay. Do Crime” LOL!!
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March 15, 2024 8:05am
- G152
  
  Modern day slavery from the do gooders party.
  Whats the next revelation going to be??????
  And do we care
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:08am
  - kowtow
    
    I care .
    
    Te Media , the left and particularly the Greens ; all evil and faults laid at the feet of the white , settler , colonisers .
    
    And yet when we read the details of these increasingly common cases they turn out to be a modern phenomenon, a by product ( or is it an endemic feature) of our new found embracing of mass , uncontrolled third world immigration and “multi culturalism”.
    
    What the leftwould call the diversity dividend .
    
    Care ?
    Yes , the more they are exposed for the lying hypocrites they are , the better.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:20am
- imalwaysright
  
  Watched the ex netballer hack presenter on tv1 breakfast talking to some muslims who play cricket.
  Every time he responded to her exaggerated baby talk, (because she has assumed he’s probably not capable of comprehending someone speaking English ) she responded with the word “beautifo!”
  (Beautiful)
  I got the impression that she was awestruck just because he was a muslim.
  Odd woman
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Dishonesty*
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:33am
- bjools
  
  Honesty and integrity is for others.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:48am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Just imagine if they find this did not happen the way it’s being portrayed, imagine the whaling of oh the right used a hit job that failed, even though these are own goals
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s not the Right that have organised this “hit job”.
    
    It’s an own goal by the left…. It’s “Stuff” reporters that’ve been sniffing around.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350212641/bike-shop-green-mp-and-alleged-migrant-exploitation
    
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    March 15, 2024 11:37am
- RoboRob
  
  It’s the whole left wing ‘Do as I say not as I do’ attitude.
  
  The leftwing extremist Green party is the shining example of this, from ministers with the most Air miles and highest transport costs, to justice ministers who steal and a small business minister who rips off her staff.
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:39am
Chuck Bird

Jew hating in New Zealand. I just heard from a reliable friend that he came across a Jewish man with young children being abused by a well dressed man and woman. The young children were crying.
What is the bet the couple were Green supporters?
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March 15, 2024 8:06am
- imalwaysright
  
  Why were they being abused by well dressed people?
  Did they say they practiced the Jewish religion?
  What was the situation that initiated the abuse?
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:26am
- pdm
  
  I hope your friend intervened Chuck.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:41am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    He offered the man and his children a ride but they declined his off. At that stage, the couple had left.
    
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    March 15, 2024 8:49am
- Che Guava
  
  Always pushing the “they hate us cos we’re Jewish” trope aren’t you. Sounds pretty dubious tbh Chuck.
  
  What evidence did your “reliable friend” adduce to support his contention? Even if this Jewish man was being abused, what was the context? Was it because he is Jewish, or was it because of something he had done? Very different things.
  
  I think that people are increasingly switching off as the prevalence of evidence-free assertions of “Jew hatred cos we’re Jewish” increase.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:58am
  - Cassandra
    
    Anti semitism is alive and well, Che, believe me. Or even better believe the copious evidence. You’d have to be deaf and blind to be unaware of it.
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:11am
    - imalwaysright
      
      “Or even better believe the copious evidence…”
      Show us the evidence.
      Disagreeing with an individual does not mean that you are bigoted or racist.
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:33am
      - Che Guava
        
        There is copious evidence of criticism of Jews and Israel (particularly given their actions in Gaza), but of course, you have to remember that criticism and noticing states of affairs is all that “anti-semitism” actually means. On this understanding, it’s true that ant-semitism has increased.
        
        On the other hand, there are approximately zero cases of Jews being hated solely for being Jewish. It just doesn’t happen.
        
        People hear the word “anti-semitism” and they have been programmed to automatically think that this means “irrational hatred of Jews simply for being Jews.” It doesn’t, because nobody “hates” Jews just for being Jews, they “hate” (or criticise, or question or challenge) Jews because of the actions of Jews. Rightly or wrongly, that’s the basis of it, not hatred for hatred’s sake.
        
        Pretending that it’s irrational hatred for no reason at all (despite the phenomenon of “anti-semitism” evidently following Jews wherever they are and at whatever time) is just Jews letting themselves off the hook. If it’s always “irrational” then it can be dismissed without argument. As soon as it is acknowledged that some Jews play a part in the rise of anti-semitism, then they have to defend themselves, which they obviously would rather avoid.
        
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        March 15, 2024 1:08pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    You never stop Che. Use so many of J Goebbels lines of attack is quite scary really.
    
    But at least you are open about it…
    
    “nobody “hates” Jews just for being Jews, they “hate” (or criticise, or question or challenge) Jews because of the actions of Jews.”
    
    You have gone for a whole races behaviour in the above quote, when do we move on to the Hygiene bs??
    
    I’ve been listening to The Rest is History pod, and they have rolled on to Germany in the 1920s and 1930s….. your riffs are echoing with their review of the misguided philosophies of that time…
    
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    March 15, 2024 3:09pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    You’re off the rails with this Jew thing Guava. Get deprogrammed.
    
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    March 15, 2024 7:58pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Lefties anyway, Labour supporters can’t see woods for trees either remember
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:22am
- Gin and Sonic
  
  Chuck Bird – please report this incident to the NZ Jewish Council. I am sick of NZers saying antisemitism doesn’t exist and most of it comes from the Left these days via divisive intersectional politics.
  
  Synagogues are heavily fortified and have security teams, all on police advice ,monitoring the threats. But you try and get our Left media to report on it.
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:17pm
- Ghost
  
  What’s the bet you don’t know anything about who was behind it and just want to use this story as a means to attack the greens with zero evidence to your accusation.
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:20pm
Matt Long

Having forced him out of running as the Democratic Candidate the DNC has set up a unit to smear Robert Kennedy and try and lawfare him out of running for President as a third party candidate.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-panicked-about-third-party-candidates-swinging-election-trump-single-biggest-threat
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March 15, 2024 8:08am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Donald Trump should throw a few million to RFK Jr’s campaign to ensure it happens.
  It would be well worth splitting the vote.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:46am
  - cmm
    
    That might backfire and split votes off Trump.
    
    Both RFK and Trump are essentially running as anti-establishment candidates.
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:05am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I don’t think Trump has much to worry about.
      His win will be yuge/bigly.
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:39am
    - Ghost
      
      There were some polls showing RFK taking votes off Trump. RFK only needs to stop the other candidates reaching 270, then it’s up to the house to elect the president
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:45am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I just read something about that:
        
        https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4502438-what-if-no-candidate-wins-270-electoral-votes/
        
        However, Trump will make his 270 very easily.
        
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        March 15, 2024 12:00pm
Chuck Bird

Not premium.

Green MP Darleen Tana steps down amid migration exploitation allegations

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/green-mp-darleen-tana-steps-down-amid-migration-exploitation-allegations/DPN6MXH6HBCNHLWJ2LJMFNQIRM/
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March 15, 2024 8:12am
- Hong Jianhong
  
  If she knew what was going on, she is gone. There is not much tolerance for ripping off migrants and visitors. Even more so if a Green MP is involved, the champions of the down trodden. 😫🙄
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:17am
  - soundhill1
    
    If it’s not already starting soom immigrants from Israel will be coming.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jjtr1ZShJE
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:06pm
Hong Jianhong

What a mess.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350212958/green-mp-suspended-amid-migration-exploitation-claims

I heard Chloe being interviewed by Mike Hosking. She was giving that word salad a good toss. 😂 Honestly she reminded me of Jacinda. I half expected her to launch into “From the river to the sea…”

Anyway I’d bet a Benedict Yu pork bun that this MP is a gone burger.
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March 15, 2024 8:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Wonder where Benedict is???
  
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  March 15, 2024 10:42am
  - Jack5
    
    ️🀄️Benedict? He wouldn’t ghost us …
    
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    March 15, 2024 12:00pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Nah, but he might ‘Hong’ us.
      
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      March 15, 2024 1:08pm
Southern Raider

For those who missed NewsTalk interview with Chloe this morning the highlights can be summed up as “Mike.Mike.Mike.Mike.Mike”

What an absolute word soup trainwreck. And apparently was repeating lines from the Greens press release
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March 15, 2024 8:25am
Maggie Pie

‘THE REDBAITER HAS ISSUES’….. about Golly 😀

https://twitter.com/TheRedBaiter/status/1768048966632165739

OMG we love Red!!
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March 15, 2024 8:25am
- kowtow
  
  On a number of her bandit raids she was accompanied by “associates” . A number of the stolen items have not been returned .
  
  Where are those items ,who are those ‘associates”.
  
  In my humble opinion these raids sound not like some impulsive woman’s mental health issue but a planned , organised criminal enterprise in which she went equipped with bags to conceal her looting.
  
  It’s too convenient she does not recall the raid where she netted the $695 Zambesi shirt which has not been recovered.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:42am
- pdm
  
  MP – red has a way with words that is for sure.
  
  You should get him as Guest Speaker and to present the trophies at the Tennis Club end of season function.
  
  The `girls’ would love him in his `budgie smugglers’ and I am sure he would appreciate you ladies in your dinky little tennis skirts.
  
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  March 15, 2024 8:46am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Ah, tennis skirts.
    
    Netball never recovered once they got rid of the pleated skirts…. mmmm… OK, back to work!
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:26am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He appears to hate everyone who isn’t in a punk shirt
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:25am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well he’s not wrong is he?
  
  How could that judge have not seen the optics, and taken the opportunity to recuse herself from the case.
  
  Beggars belief, unless your belief is that they really don’t care who knows how the old boys (and girls) network really works.
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:29am
  - RoboRob
    
    On the radio this morning some legal organisation was out defending the conflict of interest. They said the case was held as normal and no special treatment given.
    
    FFS it was a basic shop lifting case, of course it was fucking held as normal. She walked in and pled guilty. Now the judge has given it three months for people to forget about this case before giving out a likely suspended sentence.
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:45am
    - Ghost
      
      Our courts are busy. Lauren Dickason had her sentencing delayed now set down for June.
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:14am
PeeJay

See the kids at Freyberg High School in Palmerston North did themselves proud with their treatment of Seymour when he visited the school this week. Spitting, swearing, trying to get to his car etc. The school should be ashamed of themselves. Whether you agree or disagree with the government, the fact that the kids were so riled up just shows the indoctrination at our schools is out of control.
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March 15, 2024 8:30am
- Inandout
  
  PJ, many of these pupils have been primed to later vote Greens and until they become parents will live in a woke dream world. I don’t think Palmy Boys High produce such rubbish pupils.
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:53am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Yep, they are hearing the ‘child hating death cult’ and ‘white supremacist state’ or veiled threats of conflict being repeated by the hysterical, so they feel justified showing such disgusting behavior.
    Saint Jabcinda got treated rather better at schools, at least while there were request for selfies and before the ‘F–k you, Jacinda!’ people would appear at her public events.
    I think the age when politicians can expect to be treated politely is long over, with mud and dildoes, but is is sad to see students think they have the right to act like this.
    All under the banner of a Tino Rangatiratanga flag though, and haka.
    The racism of low expectations.
    We would not try to tell a savage that they should not act like a savage.
    Rolling back something as basic as having government departments named to be useful for the vast majority of people is going to be seen as a genocidal outrage by the perpetually stupid and aggrieved.
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:01pm
- cmm
  
  Were the teachers actively riling them up I wonder?
  
  No homework for a week if you go hassle him.
  
  They know there are no consequences for kids, so use them as foot soldiers. Just like gangs do.
  
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  March 15, 2024 10:00am
- nathie
  
  When I was at high school the perps would have been caned or stood down or expelled (or all 3!) and the whole school given a dressing down at assembly.
  
  Wonder if nowadays nothing happens to the perps and some of the teachers quietly or openly commend them?
  
  If so is this why society is going down the drain?
  
  Regardless this doesn’t reflect well on the school.
  
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  March 15, 2024 10:12am
  - gravedodger
    
    Considering the majority of pupils would not know who Seymour and ACT actually are, it is almost a certainty the mob were sent out by politically indoctrinated Teachers.
    Foot soldiers just waiting their opportunity.
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:32am
Bridgenag

Coming to us soon…….

In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-the-latest-victory-against-right?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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March 15, 2024 8:35am
wairarapapaul

I want my PIJF fund money back from Stuffed. The article above by slightlyrighty that was linked to the Greens latest MP being stood down states
“anyone coming to Aoteroa needs to be treated with respect … this has absolutely has no place in Aoterea,“
If they can’t spell the most basic Te Reo why should we give them money to do so?
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March 15, 2024 8:41am
- kowtow
  
  But spelling is a coloniser settler construct .
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:18pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    So’s the name Aotearoa…. but don’t tell anyone.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:13pm
Rusty

Every sentence began with “Mike” from Chole Swarbrick on Hosks show this morning. Lost count of the Mikes.

Which other female politician used to talk like that when she was feeling the heat from “Mike” and later refused to go on his show anymore?
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March 15, 2024 8:45am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The repeating of a persons name, so that they supposedly feel positive towards you, was such a transparent trick by the Great Communicator.
  It was so overdone it was cringeworthy when PriNZcess used to make her appearance.
  I guess it was part of her Communications degree.
  …That, and always remember to SMILE.
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:06pm
PaulP

I’m sure inland Revenue will be looking closely at the non-payment of PAYE and whether it is isolated to this one employee or an ongoing pattern. Especially since using PAYE for business purposes or private expenditure is a criminal offence.

As the husband looks to be the sole director it’s likely his problem but given Tana was a director until 1 April 2019 the timing of complaints and non-payment of PAYE will be interesting.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350212958/green-mp-suspended-amid-migration-exploitation-claims
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March 15, 2024 8:53am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  There has been two separate complaints
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:31am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Despite Wellington CC being deeply in the sh*t, the spending on non essential items continues. Cycle lane creation and associated traffic island extensions proliferate around town, surrounded for months by orange cones for Africa and bored H&S fluropeople (I won’t say workers). The cost must be enormous.

Meanwhile, Wellington continues to host the Covid dregs who gleefully accepted inner city accommodation and harass girls and women on the Golden Mile.

The incompetence is staggering.
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March 15, 2024 9:09am
Maggie Pie

From a bestie on ‘X’…..

Clearly the Greens have integrity problems 🙁
First it was Golriz and her CV.
Second it was James and his Degree.
Third was Golly again and her 5 Finger Discounts.
Now it’s Dana…. and accusations of running a Sweatshop/Gulag.

What’s next?
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March 15, 2024 9:16am
- graham
  
  Golriz certainly wasn’t the first … remember Metiria Turei who, in 2017, proudly talked about committing benefit fraud …
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:36am
  - RoboRob
    
    $40,000 not paid back and never chased.
    
    And the Greens who gladly employed her in a back office role after being an MP became untenable!
    
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    March 15, 2024 9:50am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I see she is a tutor at the Otago Law Faculty these days.
    Also now sporting the obligatory ‘chin-scribble’.
    
    Wonder if Grant is considering getting one?
    
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    March 15, 2024 10:14am
    - RoboRob
      
      Is Otago now where washed up left wing politicians go to pasture?
      
      Also I thought GR was getting paid 750k for is VC Otago role and read in posts above another uni VC is ‘only’ being paid ~360k. Why the huge difference?
      
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      March 15, 2024 10:42am
      - alwyn.a
        
        I suspect that Vic were a bit cute about the truth with the figure for the VC pay.
        He is new to the role and, if not appointed to the job until the middle of the year they could claim that his pay for “this year” was what he got in the last half of the year.
        
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        March 15, 2024 3:16pm
    - Aquarius
      
      Hope it was done the traditional way
      Otherwise wouldn’t it just be a tattoo ?
      
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      March 15, 2024 11:16am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She’s not a tutor…(they barely make the minimum wage)
      
      She’s a Senior Lecturer. ($100,000 -$145,000).. enroute to a Professorship.
      
      https://www.otago.ac.nz/law/metiria-stanton-turei
      
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      March 15, 2024 11:16am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Good God!
        
        I see under her ‘He Whakarapopototangamahi’,
        that there’s no mention of benefit fraud.
        
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        March 15, 2024 12:02pm
      - Jack5
        
        Otago University law school teaching covers a wide field:
        
        https://www.otago.ac.nz/law/staff
        
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        March 15, 2024 12:50pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “Wonder if Grant is considering getting one?”
      
      Hmmm. I quite like the Australian Aboriginal term “white blackfella” (a derogatory term used to describe jumped up urban twats who like to pretend they are “indigenous”).
      
      I take it he now has the obligatory carving around his neck???
      
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      March 15, 2024 8:10pm
  - MCōs
    
    Interesting that there’s an awkward silence from the other parties who have all had their own miscreant MPs over the recent past
    
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    March 15, 2024 5:47pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You’ve forgotten the bullying (allegations both ways) of Dr Elizabeth Kerekere.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/489360/green-mp-elizabeth-kerekere-resigns-from-party
  
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  March 15, 2024 11:20am
  - graham
    
    Ohh yes, I had forgotten that one … goodness, there’s been a few!
    
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    March 15, 2024 11:41am
- kowtow
  
  I’d add Swarbrick’s claim to not understanding the full import of her screaching “river to sea”.
  
  Another bare faced liar.
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:21pm
- dh
  
  It’s more than integrity problems, It’s criminality problems.
  
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  March 15, 2024 6:53pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Not to mention Marama Davison of “white cis men are responsible for the violence in the world” apparently stated while in a state of distress after a run in with a Brian Tamaki motorcycle rally rider – timeline not verified – while participating in an angry mob happy to assault a 70yr old women.
  
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  March 15, 2024 7:04pm
nathie

So who are Golriz’s “goons” and why isn’t the media making much of an effort to find out who they are and their background (like they would if it were a right-wing MP’s “goons”)?

That is, the fellow shining torches at the press’s cameras. Not only is it rather pathetic but what does this say of Golriz’s character to be allowing this (for two days in a row now)?

And who was the woman who returned clothing that Golriz stole on her behalf? What did she say to the shop staff when she returned stolen goods?

Why is the MSM being selective when it comes to the public interest?
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March 15, 2024 9:18am
I remember when

Has the visual media media started to turn on Golriz?
Newshub last night showed both the detail she used in her shoplifting and drew attention to the Judge’s associations.
Also used the skill employed in stealing the garments to undermine the ‘mental health’ defence.
Seems to be a move to the let’s make her an example approach.
As the ‘rolling door’ approach to Green’s Parliamentary representation continues (another gone already), how realistic is them being the leading ‘Party of the Left’?
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March 15, 2024 9:18am
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Revolving door, surely
  
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  March 15, 2024 9:57am
- kevn
  
  I remem… Perception, indeed.
  
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  March 15, 2024 10:04am
Grunter

Finally some sense from the Dunedin City Council. Selling off the Aurora electricity lines business is a no-brainer when the DCC’s debt mountain is forecasted to grow to $1.5 Billion. Well done to the 13 Councilors that voted Yes (Cr Marie Laufiso voted No – she is extreme hard left, even for Dunedin!)

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511705/dunedin-council-takes-aurora-energy-proposal-public

The opportunity to become even more focused and efficient is still there by getting out of the unprofitable Railways business, Dunedin Airport, Dunedin Forests, and a bunch of event venues.

Invest in 3-Waters & pick up the rubbish and stop increasing rates +19%
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March 15, 2024 9:42am
- Jack5
  
  Christchurch City similarly has investments – about $3 billion worth.
  
  It would be okay if the City Council were intelligent enough to run them like Tauranga Port Company, which is half-owned by the Bay of Plenty Environmental Council through its investment arm Quayside Securities.
  
  Labour councillors would want to squeeze it and support union wage claims rather letting it be independent and an outstanding success like that of the Tauranga port.
  
  Christchurch City investments:
  
  https://www.cchl.co.nz/
  
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  March 15, 2024 2:16pm
Bridgenag

A sensible Aussie …….

Why C-19 Vaccines Don’t Prevent Infection
Paper by Morens, Taubenberger, and Fauci offers clear explanation

https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/why-c-19-vaccines-dont-prevent-infection?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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March 15, 2024 10:20am
Maggie Pie

SOUND UP

Tory Whanau’s dream of a ‘culturally-enriched’ Wellington……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh8wPRnZOk8

There is no doubt this country is heading in a very dangerous direction.
The Coalition government needs to ACT and put New Zealand First before it’s too late.

Just saying.
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March 15, 2024 10:32am
- Swifty
  
  There are few sounds on this earth that I loathe as much as that.
  
  I loathe the words, I loathe their purpose, I loathe the message, I loathe the intent behind it all and I loathe what submitting to that total invention does to the minds of its followers.
  
  Some say that the call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth, and it’s message is one of peace, I say those statements are just more lies to be thrown on the heap of thousands of other lies told in support of that death cult.
  
  This is just a big ‘fuck you’ to the good people of Wellington from Whanau – the majority of whom are atheists or agnostic and wish to be able to go about their daily lives without having this religious fundamentalism blasted at them multiple times a day.
  
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  March 15, 2024 11:01am
  - kowtow
    
    It is literally anti Christian supremicism.
    
    In content , context and execution.
    
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    March 15, 2024 12:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump arrives at Florida Court.

Classified documents hearing. No charges against Biden for having documents that he did not have the power to declassify.
Different when the left do it.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/donald-trump-arrives-at-florida-courthouse-for-classified-docs-hearing/ss-BB1jTDby#image=11
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March 15, 2024 10:51am
- Inandout
  
  SO, in Biden’s case charging him would introduce elder abuse. The cunning Dems will play on his senility until he can be jettisioned.
  
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  March 15, 2024 11:07am
- All_on_Red
  
  There is a possibility, and I stress possibility, the case will be dismissed because of Selective Prosecution.
  The Judge has already pointed out no President has been prosecuted for this before
  https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1768308069765701827.html
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:10pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Thing is Joe was Vice President, so not able to declassify.
    He stole them.
    Time to check Obama’s husband’s pantie drawer?
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:10pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhAc-5zRTlw
Trump Drives Through Black Atlanta Hood.
Dems are panicking as Black and Hispanic people look likely to vote for Trump.
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March 15, 2024 10:52am
- imalwaysright
  
  As Biden once said “Poor kids are just as smart as white kids”
  
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  March 15, 2024 11:48am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Blacks are leaving the “Plantation” thanks to people like Candace Owens.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCS2b87SbiM
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:21pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, its a positive trend. Ditto for Hispanics.
    
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    March 15, 2024 5:43pm
- dh
  
  Good. Support Trump the whole way. Wish he could also run and lead NZ as a side hustle. That would truly get NZ back on track but it wouldn’t go down too well I’d imagine lol. We just have lefties and slightly lefties here but I suppose that’s not to bad for a tiny country.
  
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  March 15, 2024 7:00pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwmb5R0VTE
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain.
The left has a new weapon called D.I.E. – Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. These might seem like three harmless words, but they are nothing more than a glossy coat the left has used to camouflage their favourite way to undermine the foundations of Western society.

So, how do we stop it? You’ll just have to tune into this week’s episode to find out!
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March 15, 2024 10:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Comic Part 17. More deliberately missing information on Chiefs understanding the Treaty.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-17/
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March 15, 2024 11:30am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

And now I see even Bishop Brian has taken time out of his busy schedule
to deliver a strong message aimed at Wellington’s Mayor …..

https://twitter.com/BrianTamakiNZ/status/1768198844523888813
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March 15, 2024 11:45am
- MCōs
  
  Busy schedule of counting his money
  https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=george%20carlin%20on%20religious&tbm=&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#fpstate=ive&ip=1&vld=cid:80b5f95e,vid:GoYyiNRtMEE,st:0
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:05pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    But why would you have a problem with that Cossie?
    
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    March 15, 2024 12:48pm
    - MCōs
      
      I’m just mad I didn’t think of it first rather than working for a living
      
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      March 15, 2024 12:51pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Do you believe in reincarnation?
        You might come back as an 18yo Solo-Mum with 2 kids 😀
        
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        March 15, 2024 1:07pm
      - MCōs
        
        Do you remember your life before you were born?
        Well, that’s what it’s like at the other end.
        “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust”
        
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        March 15, 2024 5:58pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Oh God No!
  I have been woken by call to prayer in the wee hours of the morning too often when overseas. They have louspeakers out over residental areas with that awful wailing. It was annoying when I was on Penang island recently, but the thought of it being heard in NZ would be more than annoying – it would be chilling to consider that we are on course to end up like Londonistan.
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:21pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Funny isn’t it…..eventhough I know my partner has never met Tory Whanau, overheard him before on a conference-call calling her “a complete nutcase”
    
    Assume he must have read something somewhere?
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:42pm
Jack5

Vape-sniffing dog …

In concern about vaping, Florida’s Lake County has trained a Labrador to detect nicotine and THC, the main ingredient of marijuana. The Wall Street Journal reports that in its first week of work, the dog found two vape devices.

In a bigger programme, Arizona’s biggest school district, Mesa Public Schools, installed in two toilet blocks vape sensors linked to cameras outside.

About five students a day have been caught vaping, half of them using devices that contained THC, the marijuana drug.

Texas passed a law last September that temporarily places any student found vaping or using marijuana in an alternative disciplinary education program.

The WSJ says, however, that federal surveys indicate student vaping is declining.

A survey last year asking high school students whether they had used an e-cigarette in the last 30 days drew 10 per cent “yes” responses, compared with 20.8 per cent in sn 2018 survey.
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March 15, 2024 11:47am
rjay

The next Green Party candidate is a teacher from Hamilton whose Masters thesis is about queer maori youth. Not a friend of Posie Parker apparently. Great to have such a person removed from little children and to the safety of Parliament.
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March 15, 2024 12:13pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I thought it was Francisco Hernandez….an ex Otago Uni Student President.
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:08pm
  - alwyn.a
    
    I think they are assuming that Hernandez will be replacing James Shaw.
    It is now possible that Tana will be gone before Shaw gets around to quitting.
    
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    March 15, 2024 3:29pm
Chris Nisbet

Poor old Willie Jackson – thinks the media are giving him a hard time.
He’s funny.
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March 15, 2024 12:24pm
Jack5

The sudden dive of the Chilean airliner between Sydney and Auckland is the lead story of the “Wall Street Journal” on line.

In what it describes as an exclusive story it suggests the cause may have been a flight attendant serving a mean [meal] brushed a seat controller in the cockpit, and
the seat pushed the pilot forward into the controls.

For those on Kiwiblog who subscribe, and I’ve noticed a few:

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/cockpit-mishap-might-have-caused-plunge-on-latam-boeing-787-ee3dd7b4?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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March 15, 2024 12:44pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  That’s a rather ‘mild’ description to what I’ve seen posted on X. People with knowledge of the situation reckon the hostie was giving the pilot a BJ 😛
  
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  March 15, 2024 12:55pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Some years back I was at an Akl hotel and the LATAM crew (the Lan Chile) came in after a flight.
    
    What a bunch of well groomed, well presented and good looking crew of both sexes.
    
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    March 15, 2024 1:55pm
- MCōs
  
  Someone could work that up into Christian movie with backing from the Destiny Church
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:04pm
Hugh Jarse

Time to drop the haka now that it has been thoroughly politised by the likes of the wahines in the Hurricanes and the Rangatahi at Palmerston North ?. What a cluster the Ardern government has created. This aggressive behaviour is just going to get worse now that the lollies are being locked away by the Coalition.
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March 15, 2024 1:25pm
Jack5

Auckland Grammar headmaster Tim O’Connor says the NZ education system is in disarray.

He’s interviewed in a audio interview at the NZ Herald site, and outside the paywall.

You can bypass the adverts by jumping to 3:35 and O’Connor gets rolling around 5:50.

I like the point (around 18:20) where O’Connor suggests bringing maths specialists into schools to get the standard up.

Go to the web site, and click on the audio:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/auckland-grammar-headmaster-tim-oconnor-blasts-nzs-education-system-says-its-in-disarray/VQSPWO7WNRB45F4WBRE2XSAJBA/
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March 15, 2024 1:40pm
- Jack5
  
  A sample of Tim O’Connor’s views from the Herald audio:
  
  “Learning should be difficult. When we are learning something new, it shouldn’t always be easy, but we’ve now got a society that [considers] education should be a form of entertainment.
  
  “And when education becomes a form of entertainment, we’re in all sorts of trouble. We are losing in students basic resilience, and so that when you have to perform at a high level, you actually can’t.”
  
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  March 15, 2024 1:55pm
  - MCōs
    
    I remember secondary school and for me learning was difficult
    It was difficult because I had no choice in the subjects I took and not only were some inconsistent with my abilities, but the teachers were uninspiring
    Once I progressed to tertiary education it all changed when there was more of a purpose to the subjects I studied, which was to directly advance my career
    
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    March 15, 2024 5:04pm
Bobba Fret

Kiwiblog website loading much faster for me today (it has been quite slow the last week or so).
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March 15, 2024 2:08pm
thirteenstars

Ides of March. 2,068 years ago, Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Theatre of Pompey, stabbed 23 times, apparently dying of blood loss as none of the wounds were deep enough to be fatal.
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March 15, 2024 2:32pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tucker Carlson talks to the “Shaman” from Jan 6th 2021.
Jake Chansley. Follower of QAnon.
The media sure did twist this!

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/unveiling-the-truth-the-qanon-shamans-role-in-the-january-6th-capitol-riots-03-14-2024/
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March 15, 2024 2:37pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Student spits at Seymour’s feet.
There are some fucking dirty pigs in NZ.
No respect.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/principal-responds-to-students-performing-haka-spitting-in-front-of-seymour/ar-BB1jUNqz?
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March 15, 2024 2:40pm
- MCōs
  
  Did you say that when some lowlife threw human excrement at the police during the parliament protest?
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:09pm
  - kowtow
    
    Citation required .
    
    Afterall didn’t Plod squirt themselves with pepper spray …….or was it pooper spray.
    
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    March 15, 2024 4:41pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      kowtow, it must have been on TV1 network propaganda thingy
      
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      March 15, 2024 5:37pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Missing your point by a country mile.
    Are you on the right thread?
    
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    March 15, 2024 5:26pm
JimBobJoe

Interesting interview of Michael Schellenberger by Winston Marshall re the Transition of kids and his organisations reporting on an outfit called WPATH, who seem to be bannermen for the trans surgery movement…

Just over an hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nulK60b1lnA&t=20s&ab_channel=WinstonMarshall
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March 15, 2024 3:31pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  Sorry 1h 45m….
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:49pm
Ghost

I would say the vast majority of people do not care

The union representing workers at Televison New Zealand has launched a campaign to stop a proposed restructure which could result in almost 70 redundancies.

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March 15, 2024 3:32pm
Master Mariner

https://centrist.co.nz/ev-fires-on-cook-strait-ferries-ministerial-expert-panel-to-examine-safety/

As the head line states the obvious, Which has be known for at least 3 years , We are now finally accepting the Truth regarding Hazards of EV’s by Sea.

Some great Links in the article.

Wonder why the New Ferries were not going too Fly? Main reason apart from too big for Berthing is the fact of “Green washing” Hybrid Batteries / Fuel system.

Its absolutely incomprehensible for Kiwi Rail to state they state ,

“Here in NZ, Kiwirail insists it has the capability to fight an onboard EV fire, as Autocar NZ reported two years ago: “Specialist firefighter equipment is fixed on all three Interislander ferries. Drencher systems, CO2 smothering systems, fixed water cannons, and water curtains will maintain an EV fire. Ferries and terminals have fire blankets specifically designed for EV fires.”

Mount Erebus anyone, The level of competence in this organisation knows No bounds.

Time to “Drain the Swamp”.
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March 15, 2024 3:51pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I wonder if the ferry could tow a barge laden with EVs to keep the risk down.
  At the first sign of fire from an EV they could cut the tether and maybe blow a hole in the bottom of the barge to ensure the things all sink to the bottom of the sea (where they belong 😉 ).
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:17pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Seriously though, I don’t want the EV fire “maintained” – I want it put out.
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:19pm
Maggie Pie

This is a worry…..people with knowledge of the matter are saying Police were not aware of the previous relationship between Golly and the Dudge, until AFTER the court appearance of Ms Gahrahman on Wednesday.

Hmmmm.
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March 15, 2024 3:52pm
- MCōs
  
  We don’t live in a police state
  I don’t know whether or not the relationship between judge and defendant in this case is kosher
  On the face of it it seems odd, but it’s not up to the police to demand a change, I would have thought.
  Everyone charged with a crime would be guilty if the police had their way!
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:22pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Honestly cossie, best to stick with commenting on
    things you know something about. Like that recipe
    you gave me for Pad Thai. It was DELISHIMO!
    
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    March 15, 2024 4:36pm
- Notsofast
  
  It is an indelible stain on the judiciary that she did not recuse herself.
  
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  March 15, 2024 5:56pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Exactly!
    Even Barry Sopher said tonite he found it disturbing.
    
    Surely the AG will review this whole matter with a view to revoking the dudge’s warrant?
    
    “Perception becomes reality”
    – Elom Musk
    
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    March 15, 2024 6:56pm
  - fernglas
    
    “It is an indelible stain on the judiciary that she did not recuse herself.”
    No it’s not. The hearing was merely procedural. For the sentencing, if the usual practice is followed, it would be before an out of town judge or one who has had no dealings with her. That said, the judge should at the very least have disclosed the fact that she had worked with the defendant; given that they were both representing the same appellant, it is likely that one was paying money to the other for their services. And it seems that didn’t happen.
    
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    March 15, 2024 7:00pm
Master Mariner

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/chris-hipkins-calls-govt-dictatorship-for-ramming-through-law-changes-advice-shows-it-could-breach-international-obligations.html

Jeez , Does he think the average NZ’er is Stupid ?

Best he carry JA bags overseas.
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March 15, 2024 4:12pm
Chris Nisbet

The kids weren’t really spitting at Seymour were they? They were effectively spitting at all the many thousands of people who voted for him and his party.
Scrotes. (Oops, did I say that out loud?)
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March 15, 2024 4:25pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Just heard David talking to HDPA about the incident at Fryberg HS.
  Sounded to me he was being far too lenient towards the Maori kid who spat at him.
  
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  March 15, 2024 4:30pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think we’d better be careful not to invoke some evil spirits….
    
    MAORI RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY PART 1
    THE USE OF HUMAN SALIVA IN RITUAL
    
    https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bes01Reli-t1-body-d7-d5.html
    
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    March 15, 2024 4:48pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Interesting, but it’s still a disgusting habit!
      
      I played Interclub once against a girl from Mt Roskill who continually spat in her palms when she served. Made me feel ill 🙁
      After the first game I ran off to the toilet and stayed there for 6 minutes. Forfeited the match rather than touch the ball.
      
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      March 15, 2024 5:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Imagine the hoik condition of rugby and soccer fields.
        
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        March 15, 2024 6:00pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    How much ‘Maori’ is in the scrote’s bloodline?
    And how did you find out?
    
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    March 15, 2024 5:33pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Well firstly, it’s odds on it wouldn;t be a white kid.
      And secondly, there’s vids of the scrote on X.
      
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      March 15, 2024 5:41pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You can bet Seymour was waiting for the kick in the nuts from a naughty kid.
  
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  March 15, 2024 5:30pm
Ghost

Ummm, whooops

MPs from the governing parties voted in favour of a Labour amendment in a select committee report, recommending the House reduce a proposed tax rate for hybrid vehicles.

With the bill now back before the House, Labour and the Greens are urging the Government to keep the bill as it is for the sake of the climate.

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March 15, 2024 5:07pm
Maggie Pie

HDPA interviewed the guy from the RB earlier about the new KC coins.
Ian something or other.
Asked him what would happen if Charlie died soon after they were minted?
He sort of waffled around a bit tbh.

Is it just me, or do all these people from the RB sound a bit strange?
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March 15, 2024 6:18pm
- Ghost
  
  Yeah, I’d save time and money and just do King William coins
  
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  March 15, 2024 6:40pm
- greybeard
  
  I heard that conversation. Actually, I don’t think that they had ever considered such a scenario ! He probably rushed off to check their procedure manual !
  
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  March 16, 2024 7:40am
Swifty

A wonderful anecdote from the late, great Inga the Winger;

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/oMz6gUWcyMviRLCS/?mibextid=GGtJg3

Wonderful. What a loss.
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March 15, 2024 6:24pm
Albie

A perfect example of why the msm is at best not trusted, at worst despised. Tonight on Newshub 5:30 Eric Young stated “ Elon Musk’s Spacex company has finally succeeded in getting a rocket into space”
FFS- the Falcon 9 launches on average 4 times a month. I work at Rocket Lab so have a casual interest in this stuff.
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