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Anthony Melchett

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/mongrel-mob-s-anthony-pearce-challenges-his-jail-term-in-the-court-of-appeal/

Another of Labour’s chosen ones that they want out on the street. Fortunately 3 strikes just keeps him prison as it in place at the time of the offending.

Interesting decision, I would have expected the judge to have gone with letting him out because it was in line with 3 strikes being dropped. Definitely would have if it wasn’t being reinstated.

I’ll need help with this one – is breaking into someone’s house while being chased by police, pointing a gun at them then jumping into their bed and telling them to say they are their boyfriend tikanga or Mana motohake?
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March 28, 2024 8:03am
- Keith White
  
  He would have lost mucho mana had he not done those culturally-necessary things.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:28am
Scott

I started watching 1 News last night about the budget. According to them the budget’s no good. It’s not the right time for tax cuts you see?

The reporter Maiki Sherman said it’s not the right time for tax cuts, Chloe from the Greens said it’s not the right time for tax cuts. Even an ordinary worker said the tax cuts were no good anyway because they would only enable him to buy an extra 3 Chupa chups a week.

After that I turned the TV off. Who can bear such one sided reporting? No one in NZ apparently wants tax cuts even though that was a central plank of National’s election campaign?? Apparently all we want to do is pay as much tax as we can to the government so they can spend it on our behalf?
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March 28, 2024 8:04am
- Flossie
  
  I couldn’t agree more Scott. They devoted about the first nine minutes to this one sided rant. Was there a single pro government person interviewed? Then followed all that up with their Jobs For The Boys item. We also turned it off (yes I know…why were we even watching in the first place!)
  I was tempted to write and complain but have done so previously only to receive a white wash reply.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:29am
  - Clyde
    
    Of course it is biased crap, but unless everyone complains each and every time there is such crap delivered, then the crap will continue. My suggestion is to complain to TVNZ and copy the email to the Minister. Even if TVNZ turn down the complaint, take it to the BSA. The BSA will soon get sick of crap being delivered and pressure from the Minister, the BSA etc will eventually make a difference.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:12am
    - kowtow
      
      Just don’t watch them or subscribe .
      
      And vote for a political party that’ll sell /abolish all this state fnded madness .
      
      The closest to that would be a very strong Act party .
      
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      March 28, 2024 11:00am
    - wsk12345
      
      Complaining would require first watching it – and sorry, I’m not doing it.
      
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      March 28, 2024 11:05am
      - Bridgenag
        
        yes Really! Why torture yourself
        
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        March 28, 2024 1:27pm
- Paulus
  
  Looks as though with the shortly demise of Newshub Maiki has got the open Government slanging to herself as she will try again to take on the other world.
  Of course she is also a financial expert remember – she like her ilk know everything, and will let us know if we watch, which we can go without.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:09am
- AJL
  
  Okay, so I don’t know the exact vericity of the source, but I’d be interested in peoples thoughts on this one here:
  https://democracyproject.substack.com/p/why-nicola-willis-needs-to-resign
  
  (Please ignore the clickbaity title, its a bit dumb).
  
  It’s basically a discussion of the tax cut plan, but from the point of view of like…. allegedly, John Key, Matthew Hooton (hardly a left winger), and (potentially) Simon Bridges having concerns about them.
  
  Basically, the argument seems to boil down to three things:
  A) If you want to be the government of fiscal responsibility and paying down debt, you like… need money to do that. Now is a reasonable time to pay down debts, and could easily be spun as “We aren’t doing the tax cuts just yet, because fiscal responsibility is more important”. Taking on debt to service the tax cuts would be seen as odd.
  B) Tax cuts at this time are likely to be Inflationary, rather than growth encouraging (I don’t know enough about economics to figure one way or another on this one, but it sounds reasonable)
  C) “Move fast and break things” isn’t actually what people want from their governments. They want predictability, and spending an extra year or two to bring people along for the ride/get voters used to the idea would be a good *political* move. (This was John/Key’s approach, back in the day).
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:09am
  - wsk12345
    
    They can get fucked. This IS NOT a tax cut just a very small adjustment to brackets. From memory it takes the bracket about a third of the way to where they would be if they had moved with inflation or wages or whatever they anhould be indexed to over the past 15 years.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:08am
  - zulumonster
    
    The veracity of the source is exposed by the statement “Outside of the Beehive, there’s an almost total consensus that it would be crazy to push through tax cuts at the moment.”
    How do they know this? It may be the case for all the people they talk to … it doesn’t make it true!
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:28am
    - artemisia
      
      A young public servant was interviewed on the telly news last night. Clearly prearranged, not a random person on Lambton Quay. Tax cuts a terrible idea.
      
      He was not asked if his own job could be for the chop. That could be one of many possible reasons to influence his opinion about tax cuts. We will never know as he was not asked.
      
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      March 28, 2024 12:02pm
      - nzgoose
        
        It would be more likely to have been pre arranged if they found someone on lambton key that wasnt a public servant. but yes they would have had some pressure about the performance one would hope so yes naturally would think tax cuts (that are not tax cuts) are a bad idea.
        
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        March 28, 2024 12:19pm
  - greybeard
    
    How can tax cuts be inflationary?
    No new money supply is being created and added to the system.
    Either the Govt gets the tax and spends it, or the worker gets reduced tax and more in hand to spend.
    Same number of $$, just used by different people.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:42am
    - cmm
      
      Tax cuts can be inflationary in much the same way as money printing is inflationary: it puts more money in the hands of the public to spend on the same amount of goods.
      
      If the government spends the money instead of giving tax cuts then you are right – same amount of money vs same amount of goods and services therefore no change to inflation.
      
      However, if they used the money to pay down debt then that would reduce inflation.
      
      There are some second-order effects too:
      
      If the government tightens its belt, then people are less likely to live high on the hog. People become more prudent. This chills the economy and reduces inflation.
      
      If the government spends up, then people feel flush and rush out and spend money – inflationary.
      
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      March 28, 2024 11:55am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      It’s the same money the previous government was wasting, its neutral at best, but Labour think government spend is not inflationary, you can’t make this shit up
      
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      March 28, 2024 12:32pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Regardless what they say nothing will change until the Government gets its spending under control.
    
    Get your own house in order before anything else.
    
    A good example is Milet ( Argentinian President).
    Start there with his example.
    
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    March 28, 2024 1:30pm
- AitchW
  
  And of course a public servant who was, I suspect, more interested in keeping his job than seeing the rest of us enjoy a long, long overdue adjustment to the tax brackets. Not a tax cut at all, merely an adjustment to brackets to make the system fairer.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:44am
- Prince
  
  Interesting that the guy with the Chupa Chups was so well prepared for the ‘man in the street’ interview…!
  And the other ‘man in the street’ just happened to be a public servant facing the axe.
  And according to Maiki, unemployed get no tax cut at all (of course that’s just another lie).
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:02am
  - Sacha
    
    No income = no tax cuts.
    Tough for the unemployed all right. They should get a job.
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:13pm
    - kowtow
      
      And there’s plenty of jobs.
      
      Otherwise we wouldn’t have to be importing tens of thousands from China , India , Philipines, Fiji etc all while there’s an army of unemployables soaking up our taxes.
      
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      March 28, 2024 2:13pm
- MCōs
  
  I had another look at 6pm News you refer to and Maiki Sherman didn’t give an opinion. She did say that Act didn’t think the cuts went far enough
  The Leaders of the Greens & Labour were critical of the government, but they would be wouldn’t they.
  You can see for yourself on TVNZ+
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:08am
  - AitchW
    
    She may not have said it but reading between her shouted lines you could hear her contempt for the government.
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:47pm
- Ghost
  
  I would agree, it’s not the right time for tax cuts, delay them a few years and use that money to fix the mess the country is in. For a year or two ramp up the health budget, clear the backlog. Stop the drain of our health professionals overseas. Etc.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:23am
  - artemisia
    
    Never ever going to be a level of funding that the public health and education sectors pronounce they are satisfied. They are black holes and their guardians have agendas.
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:10pm
    - Ghost
      
      The book are a mess. We know that becuase the government keeps telling us. It’s not the time for tax cuts. It’s time to fix the damage of the last 6 years, not continue doing what we do best, ignore and pass it on to the next generation.
      
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      March 28, 2024 1:23pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        So what would you do about those lower income people struggling to pay their way?
        Give them a government handout I suppose.
        Mmmm………more socialism.
        
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        March 28, 2024 1:32pm
- all true
  
  All what the government has to do just clean out all the dead wood in all the governmental department.
  The savings they make they could cut the taxes even further.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:41am
- R
  
  so they can spend it on our behalf?……
  Scott, as you may not have noticed during the last six years; the socialists can spend your wages’ /salary much more wisely than you!
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:48am
  - Swifty
    
    And when Robertson spent your money it wasn’t inflationary, but if he left it in your pocket and you spent it – it was inflationary.
    
    Apparently.
    
    That’s logic I just do not follow.
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:05pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  I disagree. I think they need to raise the tax brackets urgently now that full time minimum wage earners creep in to the 30% tax bracket.
  I for one want to keep more of my salary.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:55am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s not compulsory for these dead beats to accept it.
  
  They are trying to suggest the budget is a Ruth Richardson style budget, god these fools get worse by the day, for a start Government to give money to child care, also money for families and tax cuts, as opposed to Richardson cutting benefits, these muppets are simply lying on ever issue
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:19pm
- Ian Boag
  
  National campaigned on the tax cuts. Fair enough.
  
  They campaigned that the foreign buyer tax and internet gambling tax would fund it. I admit to a degree of scepticism at the time, but these were campaigned on as “rock solid” numbers …
  
  Then Winston killed the foreign buyer thing so that tax went away. Currently, Treasury’s best guess about the internet gambling tax might raise as much as a quarter of the projected figure.
  
  So now the cuts are to be funded out of general tax revenue …. at a time when general tax revenue is projected to be taking a hit.
  
  National did not campaign on funding the tax cuts out of general tax revenue. Noone would have believed them. Now – noone would get too grumpy (except with Winston) if it was explained that Winston killing the foreign buyer thing has also wounded the tax cuts for now.. No ranting or raving, just a calm acknowledgement that signing the coalition agreement has changed things. It happens with coalitions.
  
  Leaving aside of course that at a time when the RB is trying to take money out of people’s pockets to nail inflation, it seems a bit odd that the gummint should be working against the RB by putting some money back in said pockets.
  
  I’m nearer 80 than 70 and none of this stuff really affects me so I’m just saying how I see things going.
  
  Go figure.
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:56pm
- Countrygirl
  
  The thing is if the media et Al can get the tax adjustments stopped then they can get rid of Nicola Willis who is a big threat. Unfortunately she said, before the election, that she would resign if tax cuts didn’t go ahead.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:19pm
- ISeeRed
  
  I’m sick of reading about people turning off the TV news. News flash: you don’t have to turn it on in the first place!
  
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  March 29, 2024 8:12am
artemisia

Interview Barbara Edmonds and Mike Hosking early this morning, before 6am. Ms Edmonds reiterated Labour would not cut taxes, but would invest in the productive economy. In response to what exactly, Ms Edmonds said investing in the productive economy means Labour would not stop school builds but would stop deep public service job cuts.

Ms Edmonds is Labour’s finance spox. Not sure she has her arms around the role.
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March 28, 2024 8:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I have heard her a couple of times. She just spouts word salad 🥗. No clue. No credibility.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:15am
  - herb1
    
    In other words more of what we saw in the last 6 years
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:33am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Basically grow the far left swamp so that no matter where you turn it’s far left quick-sand everywhere. Yeah NZ really needs that (again)!
      
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      March 29, 2024 12:44pm
- pdm
  
  Arty the lefty media are extolling her as a brightly shining light within the Labour Caucus.
  
  The number of times she has been caught out or Willis has slayed her at Question Time (like she did yesterday) suggests Edmonds is nothing more than a dim glow in the far distance.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:22am
  - Simon
    
    Edmonds eh. Fits with the theory that Labo dont have competent people to draw upon as great chucks of society are now effectively brain dead useless.
    
    That was National’s line that Labo are incompetent. But it missed the wider point is that the pool that Labo draws upon for its ranks of MPs is brain dead useless. Its not just Labo. Huge problem for NZ.
    
    Further Grant Robertson for eg has parachuted himself into a $600 k govt non-job. The system it self reinforces the brain dead. Again huge problem
    
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    March 28, 2024 8:34am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Edmonds is nothing more than a dim glow in the far distance.
    
    She must be Grant Robertson’s promised “light at the end of the tunnel”
    
    the country was today in “reasonably good shape”, said Robertson. There was, he said, “light at the end of the tunnel”.
    
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/26-02-2021/its-been-quite-a-364-days-grant-robertson-on-the-covid-crisis-and-plans-to-tackle-house-prices?amp=
    
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    March 28, 2024 8:36am
  - softail 1450
    
    pdm, “a dim glow in the far distance “ careful there pdm, Ardern was even less than that yet she managed to nearly destroy our country beyond repair in 6 years.
    
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    March 28, 2024 8:40am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They always thought she was a star
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:27pm
- igm
  
  When has anyone in Labour ever been anything but a loser who has lived a life at taxpayers’ expense?
  Look at the commercial backgrounds of these imbeciles, starting with the leader . . . zilch!
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:25am
- jkt
  
  Labour talk a lot.
  
  3Waters could have allowed them to create better outcomes for all NZers. But they tagged on their ideology and sabotaged the entire initiative. Rightly so, the implementation of their one size fits all approach would have added significant costs with a project that was funded by a broad base of ratepayers who would have had little control/say where the money was spent.
  
  Alternative: They could have placed the management and operation of all water and wastewater treatment plants under the control of a single or regional “authorities” and funded this activity through tax.
  
  Funding it this way would taken the some of the burden off ratepayers. This approach would have relieved poverty and created consistency across NZ in terms of level and quality of services and protection of the environment. Councils would have continued to provide the localised reticulation and management of water services.
  
  But then Labour had to add ideology.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:30am
  - jkt
    
    It is a shame that ‘up tickers and down tickets’ do not share their views on how we can improve water and wastewater services supplied to our communities.
    
    A more rational approach to supplying these services to communities is needed to better protect the environment, public health and building a more resilient society and lift people out of poverty.
    
    Piling more cost onto ratepayers is not helping everyone, not over taxed ratepayers and very definitely not the poor. Providing better quality services may well take pressure off other public service providers.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:05am
    - nzgoose
      
      Piling more costs onto over taxed tax payers for those that councils have looked after there infrustructure or those that provide there own is also not helping, better to ensure that the management of these services by councils are placed higher on priorities than vanity projects and feel good idea’s to ensure adaqute funding is allocated first.
      
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      March 28, 2024 12:25pm
      - jkt
        
        You do know that ratepayers are also taxpayers and that renters pick up the cost of tax and they also pay tax.
        
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        March 28, 2024 6:19pm
  - Ghost
    
    Why should councils have their assets taken off them because some councils haven’t been doing their jobs? Some councils are doing their job. They’ve ring fenced the water rates to be used only for water, storm, sewage infrastructure
    
    Help the small councils who can’t afford it, put commissioners in with the councils who are not doing their job. Let those who are keep doing what they are doing.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:14am
    - wsk12345
      
      And above all else tell the councils to stop wasting money on vanity projects until
      They have caught up with sortiting their water roads and rubbish responsibilities.
      
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      March 28, 2024 11:24am
      - igm
        
        Look at Porirua’s 17.5% rates increase, then drive from Paremata to Aotea Lagoon where there are slips neglected for two years or so.
        No matter, hundreds of thousands are being wasted on what will be an underutilised cycle lane.
        As those affected are mainly ratepayers, nothing matters, but were it in Porirua’s state housing area, the problem would be rectified.
        Maybe there are more votes there, as they sure pay no rates.
        
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        March 28, 2024 4:14pm
    - jkt
      
      I for one would prefer to receive more affordable services, better quality services and better environmental outcomes.
      
      3Water labour style would not have done that.
      My proposed model has been demonstrated to be effective and you can’t even fuck it up even if you bring in “cultural controls”.
      
      Under my model the quality and level of services that you receive will be the same north/south/east/west and it allows government to inject tax payer money into it equitably, without favour!!
      
      Ratepayers will receive value.
      
      And government can still support councils that need help with distribution of services on a case by case approach.
      
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      March 28, 2024 1:02pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ask Edmonds “what is the difference between a recession and a productive economy?”
  What’s the bet she will divert?
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:37am
  - kowtow
    
    They clearly consider creating and maintaining a huge ‘public service’ as productive . Productive to their voter base .
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:06am
  - rouppe
    
    I’ve repeatedly had this conversation with socialists when I had rental properties:
    Socialist: rental properties are taking from the poor. You should invest in the productive sector
    Me: what do you mean by the productive sector
    Socialist: well, businesses, obviously
    Me: I can’t invest in private businesses, and I won’t risk my retirement money on a start up. give me an example.
    Socialist: businesses on the stock market
    Me: when I buy shares in a listed company, where do you think the money goes?
    Socialist: blinks a few times, then… The business?
    Me: no. When I buy shares in a listed company the money goes to the person who sold the shares. A private citizen, just like me. Not one cent goes to the business. So the money has gone from one private citizen to another. How is that investing in the company, from the company’s perspective.
    Socialist: goes red in the face and screams vitriol at me.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:58am
- Paulus
  
  Edmonds needn’t worry Helen Clark is there currently to help them all, as the only Opposition is still the media, and not Chippy, who still talks crap when he can get the media to listen to him which they will.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:12am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Didn’t she make the mistake of saying about the number of landlords owning more than 200 properties, but had forgotten that property management companies lodge multiple bonds so they were included as “owning more than 200”!!!!
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:58am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Buildings have not been stopped here, many of the schools waiting were never getting the go ahead, no funding, no plan, utterly pathetic, what Stanford did is put building that had no funding on hold an inquiry into the disgrace they was Labours mess, but no funding but costing when schools wait.
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:26pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Mugshots get a LEGO makeover.
This could happen in NZ with far too many bad bastards getting their feelings hurt after doing bad shit.

https://rightsideoffers.com/redbloodedconservative/californias-latest-privacy-craze-mugshots-get-a-lego-makeover/?
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March 28, 2024 8:07am
Cassandra

Segregation at the University of Auckland has come in for some criticism. I think the KKK reference is a bit OTT – the segregation is bad enough without resorting to hyperbole. However, that’ll become to topic, not the awful decision by the University to set aside areas for Polynesians only. It defies belief. A Māori law student defends it because he faces discrimination every day, he says. No details of course. Winnie is doing himself lots of favours by tackling these issues. National should not leave a vacuum, this is a matter of principle.
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March 28, 2024 8:09am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Where is the safe place for the pale, stale, white supremist, racist male?
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:17am
  - rouppe
    
    The public spaces. Where Maori don’t go because they feel judged just walking in there, according to the student union rep.
    
    In fact, someone should put up a sign there saying “only for those without their own spaces. No Maori, Pacifica or rainbow.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:00am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I can hear Greenies stamping their feet and throwing tantrums.
      What shall we do? Give them a hug? Nope, fuck it, video it and slam it all over social media!
      
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      March 28, 2024 2:59pm
  - mawm
    
    SO – the workplace?
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:57pm
- Bridgenag
  
  One of the Blokes at Bowls was ranting because his daughters friends thought all Maori extra privileges were a “redress” ffs
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:32pm
- cmm
  
  The best Luxon can come up with is Cindy’s old line: highly disappointed.
  
  How about this:
  Universities are taxpayer funded. No funding for racist organisations.
  
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  March 28, 2024 3:07pm
greybeard

On 27th March at 5.00am this item appeared:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/food-drink/350226252/more-bowl-lollies-dietitian-ranks-10-popular-breakfast-cereals

Later on March 27th at 4:47pm this item appeared:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350228492/sanitarium-proposes-end-some-cereal-brands

Is this just bad timing, or what ?
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March 28, 2024 8:09am
- thirteenstars
  
  If they mess with Marmite there will be hell to pay.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:48am
  - MCōs
    
    Marmite is already a mess
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:52am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I can tell you that our Alaskan host families hate it.
      Toast, butter and marmite, and they don’t like it. Strange.
      
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      March 28, 2024 10:19am
      - thirteenstars
        
        That’s a shame because it was a great American, Patrick Henry, who in 1775 exclaimed, give me Marmite or give me death!
        
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        March 28, 2024 10:46am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        These are different Americans 13stars.
        Alaskans are not weird, just different. I like them.
        
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        March 28, 2024 3:00pm
  - Paulus
    
    Thought I heard them say they will not touch Marmite – never had it and never will.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:13am
    - MCōs
      
      I used to consider marmite & cheese sandwiches fine dining when I was a kid.
      
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      March 28, 2024 11:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Marmite and lettuce when Mum could not afford cheese.
        Actually refreshing.
        
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        March 28, 2024 3:02pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Correct, they are looking at ramping it up
      
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      March 28, 2024 12:38pm
  - PurplePen
    
    I’m a vegemite guy .. can do what they like with marmite.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:43am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Get outta here.
      Mods, ban that guy now!
      
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      March 28, 2024 3:04pm
    - cmm
      
      I really struggled with NZ Marmite. It is basically black margarine.
      
      South African Marmite is sharp. About twice as sharp as Vegemite. You hardly use any of that stuff.
      
      Settled on Vegemite here.
      
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      March 28, 2024 3:10pm
- Flossie
  
  Quite disappointing to know my favourite cereal will disappear.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:13am
- MCōs
  
  That first article is about Australian breakfast cereal
  Maybe all those kiwi Sanitarium products aren’t replicated over there.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:29am
- Gjc
  
  I am very disappointed to see that Vita Brits have been quietly dropped from production. (Sanitarium bought Grain Products some years ago ) They just became unavailable at the super market. No explanation as to why that I can find.
  Vita Brits is the only Weetbix type cereal that doesn’t go soggy when milk is added.
  Am trying Pams weet bix at the moment…..
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:49am
- Bridgenag
  
  Don’t you all think it is time Sanitarium paid taxes? What about the billions in the special peoples “charities’
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:33pm
Benedict Yu

I do not condone vandalism of any kind.

However IMO pedestrian crossings should be, well, pedestrian crossings. I would prefer transport authorities to focus on delivering transport services rather than celebrating rainbow 🌈 or any other communities.

However I am obviously part of a minority. If the majority of folk want rainbow crossings, I guess we will have rainbow 🌈 crossings. 😐
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March 28, 2024 8:11am
- Taieri
  
  If the majority of folk want rainbow crossings
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  Were the majority of folks ever asked if they want it?
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:28am
  - Paulus
    
    Why ask if they like so many things just goes ahead as Councils love to spend your money on minority groupies.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:15am
- waikatosinger
  
  I agree. These faux crossing annoys me. And not just the rainbow ones. The ones with bricks and the ones on top of speed bumps and even the ones with white stripes in places where a crossing should not be.
  
  The road code defines a crossing and sets out how everyone should behave around one. There are diamonds on the road for the safe stopping zone. There are rules about how close to one you can park. There are rules about how long you must wait and how that changes if the road is divided with a traffic island in the middle.
  
  These unofficial crossings have no rules because they are not pedestrian crossings. They are just weird pieces of road with bricks and strange paint job.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:46am
  - PurplePen
    
    I dislike the raised crossings that aren’t actually pedestrian crossings. They’re just a raised path, have no markings, no diamonds. But some pedestrians and drivers treat them as pedestrian crossings and you get who-stares if you don’t stop. Getting a bit tired of community sanctimoniousness .. is that a word?
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:47am
- AitchW
  
  I surprised that the rainbow community is happy to be walked all over like that.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:48am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Was told that if someone does you wrong….write their names on a piece of paper and put it in you shoe. Liked that one
    
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    March 28, 2024 1:35pm
    - Jack5
      
      Police are treating the painting-over of the rainbow crossing as a hate crime, says the Herald.
      
      That’s a heavy reaction to what some may see as vandalism.
      
      Is this a repeat of the police’s Woke bias at the Auckland Posie Parker ruckus?
      
      How does the “hate crime” approach square with the views of new Police Minister Mark Mitchell?
      
      Also, are the police looking at any gang actions as “hate crimes”?
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-conduct-search-warrant-after-rainbow-crossing-on-aucklands-karangahape-rd-painted-over-number-of-items-seized/7I6CBAYBXRB3NM2XQDDJNASUXE/
      
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      March 28, 2024 5:00pm
[email protected]

Just received the EV RUC notice. It states that “RUC will apply to your vehicle from 1 April. You have until 31 May 2024 to buy your first RUC license. It’s an offense to drive a RUC vehicle without a current RUC license.”

I can’t figure out if I can drive our EV in April!
It’s Illegal to drive without but have until 31 May. Which is true? The NZTA website does not clarify the issue.
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March 28, 2024 8:14am
- Cassandra
  
  You are being obtuse. It’s quite clear. Scheme starts Monday. You have until 31 May to implement it.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:04am
  - [email protected]
    
    So you are expected to drive illegally. Who in their right mind would purchase a RUC license 1 April since you have to provide your cars odometer reading. The later you purchase the license the longer you can drive for free.
    
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    March 28, 2024 4:57pm
- cmm
  
  FFS no wonder you were easy to dupe!
  
  It says it right there.
  Driving after 1 April is an offense.
  But there is a two month grace period during which you would be breaking the law but they will not prosecute you.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:05am
  - [email protected]
    
    NZTA says you can’t apply for an EV RUC license before 1 April. So are they going to be able to handle over 100,000 RUC license application on 1 April?
    
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    March 28, 2024 1:46pm
- Paulus
  
  Possibly a scam as it has been around for some time in trying to get your money.
  Have has similar tries over months.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:16am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Democrats cannot run on Joe Biden’s record.
That means they have to triple down on fear-mongering.
If Trump wins the 2024 Election it will be the last American Election and Trump will be President for Life! That is how desperate the left are, and there are left voters dumb enough to believe this.
The end of Democracy!!

https://pantsonfirenews.com/cbs-journalist-asked-2024-voters-about-january-6-and-got-one-response-that-left-her-speechless/?
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March 28, 2024 8:14am
- jkt
  
  Trump is their best chance, no argument there.
  First time ever that two opposing parties have the same strength and weakness! Trump.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Trump is pissing all over Biden.
    The close polling is only what the media tell you. They would not lie, would they?
    
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    March 28, 2024 3:06pm
    - jkt
      
      They have been saying that Trump does just that. (Pissing on people) I thought they were trying to defame him.
      
      Trump does seem to be the only Republican asset of any value.
      
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      March 28, 2024 6:26pm
Maggie Pie

Labor leader half-witt Chris Hipkins, comes out on the news last night and compares the Destiny Church’s actions of painting out the ‘rainbow crossing’ in Gizzie, as being akin to what’s going on at Gloriavale.

You won’t see Bishop Brian being charged and convicted of pedophila….. unlike Gloryholes leader Johnny Benjamin, who just received 11 years in jail 🙁

https://tinyurl.com/2kuch6v5
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March 28, 2024 8:15am
- pdm
  
  Maggy spot the difference.
  
  Destiny Church People paint over an ineffective pedestrian crossing in Gisborne and get arrested
  
  Maori activist paints over part of a Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand) Treaty display and walks free,
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:26am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    As my dear ol Nan used to say… “Everything’s turned arse about face these days”
    
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    March 28, 2024 8:31am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Any Christian group must surely be “right-wing” (the baddies). A left-wing group defacing a “symbol of colonialism” can only be seen as “the good guys.”
    
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    March 28, 2024 8:52am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Is it just me or is determining what actions are permissible now dependant on the political leanings on the group making them?
    
    For example, it now seems permissible to put up signs excluding White People from certain spaces, but there would be an outcry if someone put up a sign that excluded brown people from a particular place.
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:00am
    - Paulus
      
      A number of a multi million recent new Kura – no longer a Primary school, have had the street named changes to reflect it being a new Maori orientated Kura, with school underneath.
      Built for 700, we understand, but only some 300 there with the old school 300 metres away now empty. Wait and see what is done with it – Total Immersion I expect, but from where.
      There is a 7 year old Maori Secondary School within sight across the valley.
      New Kura ex decile one with mixture of Maori, Islander, Refugees, and Immigrants, but with unusual new three story buildings, and all Maori orientated.
      Cannot see any population growth there anyway as there are other Primary Schools in the area.
      Maori Wahine Head Teacher of course.
      Black and White tiled to reflect its concept but will fall off in an earthquake.
      Large Secondary school in the not too far away area cannot get finished as money now no longer available for them.
      Who makes these sorts of decisions in the Education Department ?
      
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      March 28, 2024 10:33am
  - I remember when
    
    Media make big thing of the danger of violence against minority groups who then confront the Destiny Church members at the pedestrian crossing repaint.
    How did a couple of cross-dressers reading stories at children’s libraries suddenly become the symbol of our lack of empathy and bias?
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:07am
  - RoboRob
    
    Pot hole in road reported. Wait at least a month for a fix.
    
    Gay pride paint on road painted over. Re painted within 24hrs.
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:18am
    - Yvette
      
      “St Peter, a greater number of skittled pedestrians, apparently smeared in wet white paint, are arriving at the Gates? Should we open that extra lane beside Covid Express?”
      
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      March 28, 2024 10:33am
- Inandout
  
  Someone should ask Chris what went on at the Labour groping camp?
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:47am
  - PurplePen
    
    Doesn’t count for MSM as it was an erroneous act from the left in the past. Only right erroneous historical acts matter … and very recent left ones.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:51am
- nz_aj
  
  Crossing on K’Rd was also painted out a few hours ago. Its made a mess, fair amount of paint tracked down the road in each direction from vehicles passing.
  
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  March 28, 2024 8:52am
- imalwaysright
  
  “Gizzie”
  
  Proper names please, its Gizzbin!
  
  Heard the murraycan whether man, Bran Dolino, on tv three this morning call it “terryfiddy gizzbin”
  
  His pronunciations are as bad as his predictions .
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:15am
  - cmm
    
    5 miles from Hazbin?
    
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    March 28, 2024 3:13pm
mandk

I see one of the rainbow crossings on Karangahape Road in Auckland has been painted over.

This is good, as far as I am concerned. It might encourage councils not to waste ratepayers’ money virtue signalling by creating crossings that are potentially dangerous because they do not conform with the traffic laws.
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March 28, 2024 8:16am
- alphabeatrium
  
  It’s funny that one apparent objection to painting the crossings white is traffic safety, but that objection is never raised if it’s rainbow coloured…
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:24am
  - herb1
    
    Most road markings are white and they’re there for safety reasons. Perhaps the council could tell us at what point does white paint move from safe to unsafe
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:41am
- Ghost
  
  There was a person knocked over on a pedestrian crossing down here a few years ago. A few of them are made out of pavers. Turned out she was in the wrong as it’s not painted white it’s not a legal crossing.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:39am
- Paulus
  
  Listen, one of the greatest problem facing New Zealand is that minority persons always get whatever they want.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:36am
  - MCōs
    
    Destiny Church
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:19am
  - wsk12345
    
    No only the correct minorities. Intelligent people are marginalised, Christian’s, bald white men, lndlords, people who help themselves, etc etc. all minorities who are treated with distaste and disgust.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:28am
- thirteenstars
  
  It’s a lead story. Breathless reporting. Chloe Swarbrick brands it a hate crime. Police appeal for information. No doubt vast resources are being employed to catch the offenders. Destiny Church members arrested following the Gisborne action.
  
  Expect the Human Rights Commissioner to weigh in, to issue condemnations. Expect prosecutors to file hate crime charges.
  
  Meanwhile, we just commemorated the violence directed at women a year ago at Albert Park by a frenzied mob of trans activists, where a man who fractured the eye socket of a 70-year-old women–while the police refused to get involved– was released without conviction by the court, and where Shaneel Lal, Activist in Chief, bullhorn in hand, who lead the assault, whipping the mob into a frenzy, faced no charges and is now employed by a Labour MP as an assistant courtesy of the taxpayer.
  
  How’s it going, New Zealand?
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:18pm
Simon

You could argue that the Labo govt were just DEI garage. Mostly a bunch of people in positions of power because of racial identity, without merit. Its even worse with the Gweens. The Gweens “human capital” are now criminal & Marxist.

Though the alternative is that maybe Labo last govt were the most competent people available to Labo. Labo just didn’t have any more competent people waiting in the wings. That was it.

To describe Labo & Gween MPs properly would never make it through moderation. So must always zone down reality here. But the lack of merit and ability in the parties to the left of National maybe reflects wider society. There is now a great wash of incompetent unproductive useless people in society who weren’t there in the numbers of say 15 years ago.
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March 28, 2024 8:17am
Scooter

Not much to offer a single person, no kids, not on a bene or retired. Seems looking after one’s self is a disincentive these days.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/how-april-1-changes-to-minimum-wage-benefits-and-superannuation-could-affect-you-the-front-page/
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March 28, 2024 8:25am
Rusty

Someone should ask Chris Hipkins if he now knows what a woman is?
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March 28, 2024 8:37am
kowtow

We join US/UK to moan about China interference .
People wondering about timing.

My guess is Biden /Sunak needed a distraction from domestic woes . Oz wouldn’t play and we did .

btw WSJ didn’t even mention our part , wow , we really do box above our weight ( not)

Instead of Hooton getting a say on this , pity te legacy media paahti didn’t get Anne Marie Brady’s view , now that would be interesting . She seems to have been very effectively sidelined , odd that.
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March 28, 2024 8:38am
I remember when

Item on Newshub Tuesday about High Need Children facilities being over capacity.
These facilities, catering for classes of 8, are considered vital for those needing their services.
Stated that the need would grow by more than a thousand pupils over the next 10 years.
What wasn’t mentioned, was that many high need rural children either don’t, or have limited ability to access their services.
There are waiting-lists, limited numbers of facilities create access difficulties (distance) and many who should be are not referred.

Moving the problems to the future!
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March 28, 2024 8:50am
kowtow

Plunkett on Platform is covering the library parody of women business very well .

Yesterday he had one of the performers on . She said the genesis of this was from one Cath Sheard .

See ; ‘South Taranaki District Council’s Libraries and Cultural Services Manager Cath Sheard, pictured with Christina D’mour said Rainbow storytimes help children, and adults, realize it is the rich diversity of our world which makes it such a wonderful place.’

and

‘LIANZA also does not condone online bullying of any kind. Australian and New Zealand libraries support equity, diversity and inclusion, and drag queen story times demonstrate this as well as encourage children to see and accept difference in their communities.’

https://www.librariesaotearoa.org.nz/korero-blog/australian-and-new-zealand-libraries-support-equity-diversity-and-inclusion

It’s got nothing to do with children reading and everything to do with activists pushing left wing ,”progressive” politics .

Trojan Horse or more correctly perhaps Transjan Horse .
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March 28, 2024 8:52am
- alphabeatrium
  
  Imagine literacy lessons aimed at children, rather than drag shows aimed at children.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:25am
TripeWryter

I woke up this morning to hear the Education Review Office is saying that children’s behaviour in classrooms has deteriorated ‘in the last two years’.
What a surprise! In the last two years! Really?
How about the last 35 years?
That was when I watched on the TV news one night (when TV news was still watchable) an education bureaucrat or NZEI type telling us they were giving away corporal punishment and were going to ‘model positive behaviour’. That would then pass on to the ‘students’.
They gave away their authority.
When adults give away their authority they create a vacuum.
Children hate vacuums; it makes them feel insecure.
Bullies love vacuums because they move to fill it because they’re trying to find out where authority is.
That’s how you get chaos in the classroom.
Teachers brought it on themselves.
Matters have been made worse because Authority such as the Teaching Council seems to line up with the children.
It seems extraordinary to ordinary people, for example, that a teacher can be disciplined for pulling the earpods out of a smartarse teenager’s ears during class.
It seems extraordinary that a teacher can expect to be spat on by a stroppy, hormonal 11 year-old girl, and she is not backed up by her principal or the board.
I asked my granddaughter recently how she liked her this year’s teacher.
‘She’s good,’ she said. ‘Really strict. I like that.’
My granddaughter is 7. Her teacher is Indian.
Anecdotally (from the grandchildren and their parents here and in Australia) the strict teachers that kids like seem to be Indian and South African women.
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March 28, 2024 8:58am
- alphabeatrium
  
  All of my favourite teachers were strict, except one who was really strict, but rather more stressed than strict, and died of a heart attack half way through the year…
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:27am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, I bet they also pushed you the hardest, gave the most homework and demanded the best results….. and got them!
    
    Talk to any ex-military people and they will tell you the same. Their favourite instructors pushed them the hardests, demanded the most … and achieved it.
    
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    March 28, 2024 3:29pm
- Anthony Melchett
  
  I like me a south African woman. You know what you are getting and they aren’t afraid to speak their mind and call a spade a spade.
  
  Hard workers too generally.
  
  I’m biased though because most of the ones that are here have come here to escape the mind virus which we are now infected with
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:31am
  - TripeWryter
    
    Anthony Melchett: my piece before was a bit of a rant.
    But then Nick Mills (Wellington Newstalk ZB) read out a sobering e-mail or text from a teacher who daily confronts bad behaviour – and what she is not allowed to do in response exept, it seems, take it. Bitten, kicked, spat on, insulted.
    SthEffrikkin women … late last year my granddaughter and I went to a movie at Albany.
    As we sat waiting for the movie to start and enjoying our popcorn and icecream a large gaggle of perhaps 20 children and maybe five mothers came into the theatre.
    Two things became evident: the mothers were telling – ordering – the children to sit where directed, and with whom. The mothers were South African.
    The children were well-behaved throughout.
    I mentioned this to my daughter’s South African neighbour (he and his wife and family migrated from Durban last year) and his aunt.
    They laughed. ‘Welcome to our childhood,’ he said. South African women are known to be plain-speakingly assertive. And their kids know it.
    His wife is a teacher at a school on Auckland’s North Shore. She has been horrified at what she was expected to put up with in the classroom.
    ‘Asian’ children are the best behaved, she says.
    My grandchildren’s primary school in Brisbane is run by a South African woman.
    My daughter thinks she is a bit too authoritarian but there is no doubt the school is well run.
    Discipline problems are sorted out quickly and effectively.
    Incidentally, in conversations with Maori parents over there many said they sent their children to the school because it had a good reputation and they knew their kids were safe there.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:31am
    - jon
      
      TripeWryter, no consequences nowadays. When i was at primary school in the late 50s, every morning the teacher would place a leather strap on top of her desk where all the kids could see it and get the message that misbehaviour wouldnt be tolerated. She rarely had to resort to using that strap.
      
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      March 28, 2024 1:42pm
- Paulus
  
  I was always told that it a young women could get a job elsewhere she became a Teacher – still apparent I believe.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:39am
- Fedup oldie
  
  Quite a few years ago I was 4th Form Dean at a state school.
  Half way through term one a group of students approached me asking if they could be placed into a different mathematics class.
  When asked why they responded that the teacher can’t control us!!
  The majority of students want the classroom to be a structured learning environment.
  It is achieved by setting that expectation from day 1.
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:42pm
- cmm
  
  TW: You’re onto it, but I think you are missing a bit.
  
  When you see the young buck taking on the old buck, he’s not just trying to take over control of the herd. He’s testing the old buck to make sure the old buck is still a strong leader – that gives the whole herd a feeling of safety.
  
  Similarly the youth naturally push the boundaries of adults (parents, teachers etc). They don’t just do this to be naughty. They also do this to find the boundaries which help to make them feel safe. They don’t feel strong, they want somebody strong in charge and keeping them safe.
  
  Take away those boundaries and they will continue to push until something pushes back.
  
  Unfortunately for many, the first thing that ever gives them any resistance are:
  * Wrapping themselves around a power pole at 3 am.
  * The courts.
  * Gangs.
  
  It is no wonder that gangs are booming. They’re a place that gives structure and discipline which the kids need and crave.
  
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  March 28, 2024 3:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic for high schools Part 30.
More bending and twisting of Maori selling the land.
Maori have been paid twice for their land: “Once from the sale of their land, and secondly, from all the benefits of colonisation which Maori received. Just think, for a moment, of all the things Maori have today which they did not have in 1840. The list would be virtually endless. And for that list, they can thank the British.”
But one never hears Maori today thanking the British for all they have done for Maori.

“What’s happening here is exactly what happened in other regimes in the 1920s and 30s, preparing the ground for dictatorship. In the case of New Zealand, it’s preparing the country for tribal rule.”

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-30/
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March 28, 2024 8:59am
- cmm
  
  People looking back from today look at a bit of Auckland land and complain that it is now worth $50 million an acre or whatever and they sold it for a few pounds an acre.
  
  What they fail to realise is that the value is not so much in the land itself. The value comes from Auckland being built there.
  
  If Auckland had instead been built at Thames, then Thames would be worth $50M an acre and Auckland land would still be (relatively) cheap.
  
  Of course, if NZ had been built in PNG, then PNG would be the shining beacon and NZ would be what PNG is today.
  
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  March 28, 2024 3:34pm
Yvette

Why would the National, New Zealand First, ACT Coalition Government proposed bill – on clarifying New Zealand citizen rights and responsibilities – mention the historic Crown – Maori document at all?
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March 28, 2024 9:00am
- jkt
  
  Transparency?
  Honesty?
  
  Foreign ideas in NZ these days?
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:14am
CJames

This looks very much like they want to introduce hearsay into Court evidence and make it unchallengeable. More evidence of special treatment for Maori?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/law-commission-says-change-needed-to-ease-tikanga-evidence-into-court/CPKNMWYFHFGUTBMOMN7OGVK4OU/
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March 28, 2024 9:04am
- kowtow
  
  Nothing short of a constitutional coup going on .
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:07am
- Inandout
  
  CJ, this commission is steeped in things Maori, immersed some might say.
  https://www.lawcom.govt.nz/about-us/our-people/
  
  The influence is disturbingly deep.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:16am
- I remember when
  
  Perhaps the Police need to explain where ‘rainbow crossings’ are covered in the Rode Code.
  Are they even legal?
  What do the liberal blotches of green that now appear on roads actually represent?
  Is the Rangitikei Street/Featherston Street intersection, in Palmerston North, now the worst example of ‘traffic management’ in New Zealand?
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:18am
  - greybeard
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350228773/karangahape-road-rainbow-crossing-auckland-covered-white-paint
    Note the several references to “vandalism” : no mention of the original “vandalism” when the rainbow crossings were created.
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:31am
    - Paulus
      
      But you must have agreed for the Council to paint the crossing in pretty colours – after all you paid for it.
      
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      March 28, 2024 10:41am
- I remember when
  
  Is there any group who less represent the ‘average’
  New Zealand citizen than the judiciary?
  A group that have grown up, largely, in a privileged position in society.
  Many in families with generations involved in the law, private schools, separated from much of society.
  Largely untouched by the results of their decisions.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:56am
slightlyrighty

So teachers are complaining about the bad behaviour of kids in school.

I recall a few people, myself included, predicting that this would be a potential outcome of the passing of the Anti-Smacking bill. The state dictating how parents choose to discipline their kids has had a flow on effect, and the removal of Parental Authority has contributed to a lack of understanding and acknowledgement of authority in general.

and yet, children are still being killed, and it seems, in increasing numbers.
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March 28, 2024 9:05am
- alphabeatrium
  
  Did that bill actually change the behaviour of any parents?
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:28am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Alph,
    
    Yes it did, just not the bad ones unfortunately .
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:48am
  - kowtow
    
    The law breakers continued to break the law .
    
    Good parents were cowed into submission and society gets the mayhem the greens /left wanted .
    
    I feel the teacher’s unions who’re pinkos are getting a taste of karma , bwahahaha.
    
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    March 28, 2024 9:50am
Tomtoddy

Michael Mann, the climate change guru says, “The @GOP has to be destroyed for America to survive…. A party that coddles racism, misogyny, bigotry, nativism, fascism, hatred, hypocrisy and dishonesty, has no place in this or any country.”

Gives you some inkling what is behind the push on climate. Aint nuthin to do with climate.
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March 28, 2024 9:11am
- jkt
  
  Not a fan of Michael Mann.
  Not sure I want his endorsement on anything.
  
  But one can understand that he will share that view based on his stance on science.
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:17am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  “The @GOP has to be destroyed for America to survive…. A party that coddles racism, misogyny, bigotry, nativism, fascism, hatred, hypocrisy and dishonesty…”
  In one breath he talks about the Republicans, and then starts referring to the Democrats.
  Lol.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:37am
  - jkt
    
    The Mann is a breath of fresh air …..
    I guess he doing his best to change (manipulate?) the climate.
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:16am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Make that ‘a breath of HOT air’.
      
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      March 28, 2024 1:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

NZCPR.
Houston we have a problem.
“Our Supreme Court has become infected by the virus of activism.”
Activist Judges should be reigned in by Parliament.

https://www.nzcpr.com/spotlight-on-the-courts
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March 28, 2024 9:12am
Maggie Pie

OMG! Just about spilled all the Honey-Puffs in my lap 😀

A tennis bestie tweets…… “Bet this pedo wished he got name suppression”

https://twitter.com/adnanbelushi/status/1772887511456715049

LOL!!!
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March 28, 2024 9:31am
- Ghost
  
  Saw that last night and thought he looked a bit like a Wayne Kerr too
  
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  March 28, 2024 9:41am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Nominal determinism
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:37pm
- Bridgenag
  
  White fella never going to get suppression
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:42pm
Maggie Pie

In case you missed it.

Cadburys have forgone their Christian roots and changed the name of Easter Eggs to…..
“Gesture Eggs”

https://thesun.co.uk/news/26943303/cadbury-fans-change-easter-eggs-blast/

This to recognise diversity! gO wOKE. gO bROKE.

Last time I buy any of their shitty eggs 🙁
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March 28, 2024 9:56am
- Ghost
  
  A spokesperson for Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, told The Sun: “This promotion is not Cadbury led and we had no involvement in any way.
  
  “All Cadbury Easter shell eggs sold in the UK reference Easter very clearly on the packaging – sometimes multiple times.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:06am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Did you read the entire story Ghost?
    You seemed to have picked on one little line to suit your narrative 🙁
    
    Just saying.
    
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    March 28, 2024 10:15am
    - Ghost
      
      I’ve read a few stories on it, and your pushing the wrong side
      
      Cadbury said the ‘gesture eggs’ promotion was independently run by Freshstore which operates the discount store and denied having any involvement in it.
      
      It’s understood the eggs pictured were named as ‘Special Gesture’ eggs by the independent retailer and that ‘Easter’ is routinely used in other areas of Cadbury’s advertising. Article
      
      “We have contacted Freshstore, the independent retailer who put up this poster in a very limited number of stores, and we understand they will be taking these posters down.”
      Article
      
      Meanwhile everywhere else including nz and Aussie they are being called Easter eggs.
      
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      March 28, 2024 10:27am
      - MCōs
        
        Apart from that The Sun is a dreadful newspaper
        Their coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 was despicable and the paper has been largely boycotted in Liverpool ever since
        
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        March 28, 2024 10:39am
      - kowtow
        
        The Sun ?
        
        Never the same after they went all woke over the Page 3 girl.
        
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        March 28, 2024 12:36pm
- AitchW
  
  Their chocolate is pretty crap anyway….. Whitakkers all the way for me.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:29am
  - Ghost
    
    I prefer rainbow or waikato
    
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    March 28, 2024 11:41am
- lifesgood
  
  I haven’t bought them for years. They are foul, over sweetened crap.
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:46pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I used to dine in the Cadbury Dining Hall in my distant past…
  
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31100/dining-hall-quaker-school-whanganui
  
  Can’t remember getting any Easter Eggs there tho’
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:10pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

A climate change expert can’t answer simple questions.
I posted this a while back but it’s worth a repeat.
You can almost see the rings being run around him.

https://rumble.com/v4lus1w-john-kennedy-humiliates-climate-crazy-with-extremely-easy-questions.html?
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March 28, 2024 10:07am
Jack5

Man knifed on train in south-east London in front of passengers, including children.

Knife crime rampant in UK, as in NZ.

How to defend yourself from a knife attack: wear armour or carry a pistol?

Could, could, could … eventually … there be a return to law allowing citizens to carry guns for protection?

As with Britain’s 17th century Bill of Rights, whose text includes: “the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.”
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March 28, 2024 10:10am
- Keith White
  
  The State always wants a monopoly on violence.
  
  Except when the State’s nomenklatura want protection from violence for themselves, and so they arm their functionaries a.k.a. Praetorian Guards.
  
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  March 28, 2024 3:12pm
tedbear

It seems the Greens have discovered NZ’s climate has its own emissions but they don’t give any detail what they are.
https://www.greens.org.nz/climate_action
“We’re focused on reducing our climate emissions”
I’ve not heard of this before.
Does anyone know the names of the emissions that wind, rain, clouds, sun and snow give off?
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March 28, 2024 10:12am
- jkt
  
  Wow.
  This lot is bordering on very useless.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:21am
Yvette

What legal standing has a “rainbow” pedestrian crossing?
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March 28, 2024 10:18am
- Blog-aholic
  
  None whatsoever.
  
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  March 28, 2024 10:56am
- Jack5
  
  It discriminates against the colour blind!
  
  One in ten men suffer from this.
  
  So rainbow crossings are sexist, too. 😄
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:17am
- I remember when
  
  Is there a standard format for ‘rainbow crossings’?
  Do they have to have horizontal or vertical lines?
  Can lines be on the diagonal?
  Can they include diamonds, triangles or circles?
  
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  March 28, 2024 2:48pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nek minut there will be PENIS paintings on the road!
    Beware – guys in drag have a PENIS!
    FFS.
    
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    March 28, 2024 5:53pm
colina

The wonderful green revolution !!!

Hail cripples massive solar farm.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hailstorm-destroys-massive-solar-farm-sparking-fears-of-chemical-contamination
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March 28, 2024 10:27am
- PeterB
  
  Need to install coverings for the panels.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Solar Panel raincoats – stormproof.
    The Warehouse, the Warehouse, where everyone gets a bargain.
    How come NZ is not first on this?
    
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    March 28, 2024 5:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Oh the irony .
  
  These abominations installed at huge cost to the taxpayer and environment , as a cure for global ‘warming” , destroyed by lumps of ice , ice falling from the frigid heights .
  
  Ice by the way is also a ‘greenhouse’ gas , H2O in one of its various states .The major one , innit.
  
  What have the “scientists” got to say about dihydrogen oxide , while they obsess over carbon dioxide and methane ………
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Scientists are not here. They had today off to piss off to the beach.
    They should be back about Wed, Thurs, no fuck it, see you about when I get in on Monday April 8th, about lunchtime. I need time to wind down from my holiday you know!
    
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    March 28, 2024 6:03pm
Maggie Pie

Elon tweeted my partner earlier and he’s just shared it with me.

Sums it up in one classic pic 😀 😀 😀

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1772738821924229340
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March 28, 2024 10:29am
- Jethrod
  
  That is showing the best side of J.A.G.
  POOR KID
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:21pm
Master Mariner

Gone Rogue ?

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350223186/former-gcsb-minister-frustrated-agencys-failure

An interesting comment from minister for Mfat at the time, ( pre Covid) was “5 eyes” needs to stick to its mandate.
This was never questioned to what Nanaia Mahuta meant ?

I think all the mesaging / cancel culture ,to do with Covid had to be directed through a co-ordinated agency such as GSCB and “partners”.

The dots are not hard to join.

Look at what is currently happening in the “States” with CIA / FBI going “Rogue’.

Do you honestly think NZ is not part of the same problem?

As more and more comes to light overseas, I find the timing of NZ releases “interesting”.

I am pretty sure there is a hell of a lot more too come, When it sees the light of the day is any ones guess however.

Interesting enough, ASIO ( Aust) has been banned from “Security Briefings”. Why ?
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March 28, 2024 10:46am
TripeWryter

This is interesting. It appears the ABC has had to apologise to Posie Parker and pay out some money to her because they told lies about her.
Some of those lies I believe were repeated by media in New Zealand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmyjIgDrAk
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March 28, 2024 10:59am
- Swifty
  
  Thanks.
  
  They was they just openly lied to discredit her and whip up a frenzy was a disgrace.
  
  They did exactly the same with Jordan Peterson to discredit him too – and to fuel opposition to his visits etc.
  
  And where are our ‘disinformation’ experts on this issue?
  
  Crickets.
  
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  March 28, 2024 12:19pm
Jack5

Thank goodness, the Coalition’s Erica Stanford is on the job with immigration. If we still had a Labour Government the country would be overwhelmed by year’s end.

The UN estimates the world has a hundred million refugees, and overseas crooks are obviously targeting NZ as a soft target to make money from this.

Ratbag locals, too, are cashing in on NZ being one of the world’s softest migration destinations.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512265/too-many-asylum-seekers-making-false-claims-government
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March 28, 2024 11:14am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Wonder what Erica has planned for convicted drug dealer and Czech overstayer Karel Sroubeck?
  All gone very very quiet.
  Some of the twitterati refer to him as …’The man who knew too much’
  
  About what I haven’t got a cloo.
  
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  March 28, 2024 11:58am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Apparently Karel is a good mate of jacinda gayford.
    Something fishy about the whole affair.
    
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    March 28, 2024 12:18pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The latest stuff I can find out is that his appeal case was heard in September 2023.
    
    There’s some kind of review of matters here:
    
    https://laurentlaw.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Lessons-from-the-Courts-LegalWise-March-2024.pdf
    
    But as I am unable to decipher legalese, I remain clueless as to whether this means Sroubek has overstayed his welcome and has run out of options.
    
    Strange that the MSM hasn’t kept us informed….
    
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    March 28, 2024 3:45pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      “I love the smell of lawn-clippings in the morning”
      
      – ClarkE 😀 😀 😀
      
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      March 28, 2024 5:14pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

A “Global Warmer” Against the Polluters

https://www.nzcpr.com/a-global-warmer-against-the-polluters/
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March 28, 2024 11:29am
Tom Hunter

Well lookie here…

Stasi:
Comrade Bradbury, we need you to argue that racial segregation is a good thing

Screaming Beard:
Eh? But I’ve been arguing against it all my life. And what justification can I possibly use to justify racism?

Stasi:
Here’s some books on intersectionality theory, critical race theory and White fragility. I’m sure you’ll find all the arguments you need.

Screaming Beard:
Wow. I’m so glad I have The Party to think for me
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March 28, 2024 12:27pm
Ghost

I hope he ends up before the courts and not just the Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal.

A high school teacher sent a female student naked pictures of himself, gave another a sex toy and bragged about sexual relationships with former students.

The allegations against the teacher, who has interim name suppression, are detailed in papers before the Teachers’ Disciplinary Tribunal which is today considering the case, after the teacher admitted his conduct.

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March 28, 2024 12:39pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350229266/why-investigators-are-looking-dirty-fuel-baltimore-bridge-collapse
Well I reckon one of the cabin crew accidentally knocked the switch on the back of the Pilot’s chair……
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March 28, 2024 12:40pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Written by a 10 year old. ?
  
  It is a concern however for the wrong reasons stated / gathered for the article.
  
  I have been watching a few Marine related websites, Which actually raises a few more concerns.
  
  The investigation will reveal all however.
  
  Very reluctant to say, But it looks highly likely the Bridge team did not understand there ( Ships) Black out procedures and over reacted.
  
  Emergency power was restored as intended ( With in 45 seconds as per SOLAS requirements), Why they dropped anchor and went astern thereby losing control of vessel.
  
  Again, Very reluctant too comment further without getting more facts.
  
  Same as in Airplanes, Ships have procedures and Drills for this exact scenario ( Blackout). Just not convinced this was followed ?
  
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  March 28, 2024 1:58pm
  - greybeard
    
    OK, OK: we all get the fact that you are apparently an experienced sailor/mariner/whatever:
    I was simply trying to make the point that not so long ago a passenger plane had a strange event which for days was attributed to any one of a zillion reasons but which turned out to be a very mundane “person vs seat ” incident.
    Get a bloody life, Mariner: stop being so perfect.
    
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    March 28, 2024 4:14pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      I may of been clearer, “Written by a Ten year old” was referencing to the article. Basically “Cheery Picking inuendo ” and putting a opinion piece together.
      “person vs seat ” incident.’. Yep absolutely. Could not agree more.
      
      “Get a bloody life, Mariner: stop being so perfect.”.
      
      I have got a life mate and others rely on me as much as I rely on them.
      I make No apologies there. Ill take that as a compliment.
      
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      March 28, 2024 4:57pm
      - Sparrow
        
        You are right Master Mariner we should wait for further info before jumping to conclusions. However what did puzzle me was that power was restored so why the accident ? I was under the wrong impression that power had not been restored before the collision. Your comment ref possible confusion on the bridge is very valid. As a Master Mariner who left the sea back in the dark ages of the Slow Greens witnessed on many occasions as to whom was in control when the Old Man came to the bridge especially when picking up pilots or in busy seaways. With a pilot onboard the Master is still in command but how much actual ship handling have todays Masters done. Its a guess but two pilots and the Master must have exchanged many quizzical looks at each other as the disaster developed as to who was in command. Its the Master.
        
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        March 28, 2024 6:36pm
      - Ghost
        
        It never regained power
        
        The ship was traveling at 8 knots, a normal speed for the area that Diamond described as “ahead slow.” The ship never regained engine power, but Diamond said a diesel backup generator did kick in, restoring the electrical systems — the possible source of a puff of black smoke visible in video of the collision circulating on social media.
        
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        March 28, 2024 7:04pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        @Sparrow.
        Without fully knowing but “I’m assuming” they never lost there Engine, Only Power too control the Engine.
        This was evident with Transverse Thrust ( Swinging to Starboard) and Going astern.
        
        The power when lights went out was reactivated when the Emergency generator came too life, This controls ( By Emergency Back up) things such as Controllable Pitch propellor and Steering pump.
        
        So “maybe” they did not lose there Engine ( still Running), Just the abiltity too control it via Emg Generator powering CPP and Steering motors.
        
        But in all honesty, My guess is just as good as any others, I will wait for the report which you will hear more from i’m sure.
        
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        March 28, 2024 8:58pm
      - Taieri
        
        Controllable Pitch propellor and Steering pump.
        ———-
        
        Was that a CPP or a direct drive with fixed pitch? I’d have expected the latter, considering the size of the main engine. And the size of the propeller.
        
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        March 28, 2024 9:46pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  See they’re still running with the bs excuse…. ‘that a crew member accidentally knocked a switch on the pilot’s chair’
  
  As i posted here a cople of weeks back… people with knowledge of the situation are saying one of the hosties was giving the captain a bj.
  
  It’s a cover-up.
  
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  March 28, 2024 5:46pm
Maggie Pie

Just been reading how Chloe has been screaming like a banshee all morning….. ever since she heard about her beloved ped-crossing on K’Rd being painted out in the early hours.

Yet it was crickets for months after she first became aware of Golly and Darleen’s little indescretions.

SHEESH!
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March 28, 2024 12:46pm
- mogg
  
  Best ignored, Chloe is the worlds oldest teenager, a boring windbag with a constant need to feed her own inflated self righteous ego.
  
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  March 28, 2024 2:19pm
Ghost

Sigh

I didn’t get my weekly supply of popcorn, now the greenies are going to freak out and I’ve got no supplies for the entertainment

The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will not go ahead, with Cabinet deciding to stop work on the proposed reserve and remove the bill that would have established it from Parliament’s order paper.

“The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill would have created a 620,000 sq km economic no-go zone,” Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says.

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March 28, 2024 12:46pm
cmm

When was the last time you heard NZ being talked about as the land of No 8 wire?

When I arrived in NZ 31.5 years ago, NZers were proud to think of themselves as practical people who made and fixed stuff. It was a sign of frugality and resilience and was proudly worn as a Kiwi trait (ignoring the fact that pretty much every country thinks the same of themselves – eg Afrikaners have “‘n boer maak ‘n plan”).

I bet now a substantial % of the population couldn’t do an oil change or sort out spark plugs or fix a dripping tap. Probably many couldn’t even change a tyre.

Instead we’re becoming more and more dependent on others, especially government.

I bet more people fill out Form 8 at WINZ than could fix anything.

It’s not just fixing stuff either. How many can bake a decent basic scone? That’s a dying art. Sure, some people will bake etc if it becomes a facebook trend for a month or two, but that’s it.

One things for sure – the cities have lost contact with the countryside. When I moved to Auckland (St Helliers) in 1992, there were three families on the street that had pet lambs in spring. Do you see any of that any more?

As that contact is lost, people become less capable and more pathetic.
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March 28, 2024 12:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Have you tried the HotXBuns from the little cake shop in the StH village?
  
  They are sooo excellent with oceans of melted butter.
  
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  March 28, 2024 2:38pm
  - cmm
    
    My point exactly.
    Could you set up an Aga and bake a hot X bun?
    
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    March 28, 2024 3:03pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Why would anyone want to do that when you can buy them for 60 bucks a doz.
      
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      March 28, 2024 3:19pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        For $60 I would want the actual cross!
        
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        March 28, 2024 4:42pm
- MCōs
  
  In the last ten years I’ve had one flat tyre and one washer that needed replacing
  More important now is being familiar with electronic devices. My mother died at 95 without knowing much more than changing the tv channel or operating the new automatic washing machine she bought when the wringer one expired. She never came to grips with a microwave
  On the other hand the tins were always full of home baking and fruit cake. There were jars of preserved fruit, marmalade and jam. Rows of bottled salmon in the days before the fishing out at the Rangitata was ruined!
  
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  March 28, 2024 4:06pm
Swifty

The New Zealand Government’s annual interest bill is twice our annual police budget.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XxhiHORZw9Q

Puts things into perspective, doesn’t it?
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March 28, 2024 12:58pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

New Zealand ‘going back to reality’ after ‘long, bad dream of Jacinta Ardern’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KeQCMJkzc
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March 28, 2024 1:09pm
Maggie Pie

Tell you what I didn’t know and was wondering if anyone else is into it?

Watched ‘Naked Attraction’ on TV2 last nite.
The girl contestant had all the guys down a handle of Lager….. and then ‘BURP’.
The one who had the biggest and longest she chose to go on a date.
They both met up at a pub later and you should have heard HER! 😀

Just wasn’t sure if it’s a thang out there, or not?
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March 28, 2024 1:16pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
Lefties, this is satire and humour. Get the basement keys off mummy and go to your safe place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nof3eW2S3Co
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March 28, 2024 2:56pm
Maggie Pie

They say the English language keeps evolving. Probably for the last 30 odd years or so,
like a lot of people we know, I’ve always referred to the Christmas Turkey as a “Churkey”

Now look…..

https://twitter.com/UltraDane/status/1773186964281262404
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March 28, 2024 4:33pm
kowtow

Leading the “news” , Plod really going hard on the courtesy crossing paint guys , a victimless crime ,which they label a ‘hate ” crime , of which btw there’s no such thing.And for which what evidence have they .

Meanwhile are they turning up to each and every burglary reported to them.

No .
So yet another nail in the coffin of the Peel Principles .
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March 28, 2024 4:41pm
Chuck Bird

Did anyone hear HDPA interview the admiral who went to help out the flood victims?

He would not let the thirsty people drink the water because it was not certified and would not help the people move the mud as they did not have protective gear. I wonder if he was transgender.
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March 28, 2024 4:47pm
- Ghost
  
  And you wonder if he is a trans why? A stupid comment.
  
  Perhaps instead of your bizarre fascination with trans you could listen, or even google to see what it is about
  
  But it’s now been revealed the tanks weren’t able to be used for drinking because the NZDF is “not a ‘certified’ drinking water supplier”, according to the documents, posing a serious concern for communities in need.
  
  Gilmour acknowledged the issue, citing the need to address certification regulations to ensure future aid efforts are more effective.
  
  “We are working with the water regulation authority to develop a way in which we can test and deliver water, that’s a step that we need to now implement,” he said.
  
  Wasn’t the navy’s fault
  
  More reports indicate that some personnel were unable to participate fully in relief efforts due to health and safety concerns, including insufficient personal protective equipment (PPE).
  
  Article
  
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  March 28, 2024 5:20pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I am with HDPA and Jordan Williams. It seems you are with Jack Tame.
    
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    March 29, 2024 7:37am
    - Ghost
      
      Grow up. This is what you do, if someone doesn’t agree with you, you get all pissy and claim people are with someone.
      
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      March 29, 2024 8:16am
DimChappie

Women terrorised and bashed in a public park – police do nothing to protect them and reluctantly lay some charges against granny basher.
Rainbow crossing painted over: Screaming HATE CRIME headlines and police vow to punish evil vandals. Shame, NZ Police, politicised it seems.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-conduct-search-warrant-after-rainbow-crossing-on-aucklands-karangahape-rd-painted-over-number-of-items-seized/7I6CBAYBXRB3NM2XQDDJNASUXE/
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March 28, 2024 5:32pm
Swifty

A railcar ‘Tokomaru’ back up and running:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V94loRr40XY
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March 28, 2024 6:32pm
Jack5

Under pending Australian legislation, New Zealand could face a tougher battle if it wants to end “501” deportations of Australian criminals to NZ.

The Australian Government had hoped to push through tough new immigration controls this week, but the Senate in a surprise has referred the measures to a Parliamentary committee.

The legislation is designed, according to the government, to make it easier to deport people from Australia.

It would make it a criminal offence for someone to refuse to cooperate with officials trying to deport them, punishable by a jail term of one to five years.

Of relevance to NZ, the proposal would also give the Immigration Minister power to target countries refusing to accept its citizens deported from Australia, even allowing the Minister to refuse visas from any citizens of that country as a response.

The ABC’s report:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/federal-opposition-support-immigration-laws-after-delaying-vote/103645580
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March 28, 2024 7:13pm
Ghost

Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith is in defence mode after asking Te Papa to take down a defaced Treaty of Waitangi display.

But legally he can’t tell the museum what to do.

Article

He may not be legally allowed to, but I wonder if the board are thinking about the upcoming budget and where the minister might think to make cuts
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March 28, 2024 7:37pm
Swifty

In my wildest dreams I could never see a Labour or Green MP talking like this in a NZ Parliament.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLFGUgu8Po4

God it’s refreshing.
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