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NeverMindTheBollocks

Interesting that the OJ coverage makes no suggestion of the possibility of him suffering from football-induced brain injury. He certainly made some odd decisions later in life, at least one of them rage-fuelled.
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April 12, 2024 8:02am
- I remember when
  
  Or, equally likely, his use of steroids.
  Interestingly, they both seem to apply in many cases.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:03am
  - Colville
    
    I didnt know cocaine was a steroid.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:25am
- kowtow
  
  That’s right , that’s why so many football players, boxers etc go round murdering their wives and anyone else near by .
  
  Next!
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:55am
- Kiwiguy
  
  OJ can finally rest in peace knowing his wife’s killer is dead.
  
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  April 12, 2024 12:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Labour was quick off the mark to attack Penny Simmonds when she pulled the plug on spending by the Ministry for Disabled People.

Perhaps this was to divert our attention away from the fact that this new Ministry with 350 staff must have been so badly set up by Labour that it needed to spend up large on consultants and contractors.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/04/advocate-calls-for-investigation-into-spending-by-ministry-for-disabled-people-whaikaha-as-10m-blowout-revealed.html
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April 12, 2024 8:07am
- bjools
  
  Labour….Modus operandi.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:39am
  - pdm
    
    Labour doing what comes naturally.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:11am
    - Paulus
      
      Looking after its mates on the Taxpayer without declaring staff numbers.
      Many Departments and Councils do this to keep notified staff numbers down, so their former staff who took redundancy, can get business from them.
      Much wider than ever appreciated particularly with Councils.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:16am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That ministry also never had funding to tie them over till June 30, they had no checks and balances, and the staff were trained to mislead an incoming government.
  I watched Q time the last few times, they try too attack Simmonds , but she simply bats them off with facts, they keep trying to ask dates, and she simply refers them to the ministries public statements that the minister was not notified properly, isn’t it strange, they are attacking Doocey on mental health, and it appears he had been mislead by the ministry as well. Both ministry’s were started by the hopeless Lsbour government
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:43am
  - Paulus
    
    Todays Minister for media opprobrium is Melissa Lee.
    To think she is a dumb person is rather stupid, but that’s the media.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:20am
- Rich Prick
  
  350 staff? What on earth do they all do?
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:23am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Umm, hand reports Ministers that are prepared by contractors? And then blame contractors if the info in the reports turns out to be nonsense?
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:30am
    - rouppe
      
      I’m going to defend contractors a bit here, and yes I am one.
      
      I’m an IT contractor. I’ve been working in this government department for about 3 years. 75% of the IT staff here are contractors. 100% of the test resources are essentially contractors as they are supplied at that sort of rate by a third party.
      
      “Get rid of the contractors” and there would be no staff to deliver IT support.
      
      Why am I a contractor? Only partly the money. I don’t get paid on public holidays, sick days, or any leave I take, including the mandatory 2 weeks over Christmas. I can lose my job on 2 weeks notice. Take that tenants!
      
      Mostly, after 30+ years as a salaried employee, it’s to avoid the HR bullshit.
      
      This department is likely to tell most of the contractors (except the ones they really really can’t afford to lose) that they need to convert to perm. Public service rates for it workers are not to market, and in this department that’s constrained further by the union negotiating pay scale for everyone.
      
      In this market here what’s going to happen:
      1. Some will go perm, and stay longer term
      2. Some will go perm but immediately approach hiring firms, and the moment a better paid opportunity comes along, leave
      3. Some will leave immediately.
      
      The effect of 2 and 3 will be a massive drop in IP, as some of us here have been in the job for a substantial time. The hiring process to replace each one will take 3 months. That’s how long the last one took anyway. There’s been about a 50% hit/ miss radio with hires while I’ve been here.
      
      On the other side, there are 4 layers of management between me and the CIO, and another two from the CIO to the CEO. To my mind that is an unnecessarily large management layer.
      
      Get rid of the contractors? Sure, if they’re not delivering for the front line. I reckon you should start with not hiring Deloitte, PWC, McKinsey and any communication consultants, social media consultants and the like. Then look at you core purpose, and what skills you need for that. Then you can look at your perm vs contractor mix.
      
      Right now it’s burn every contractor and offer voluntary redundancy because that management layer doesn’t want to look at their purpose
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:51am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep, good IT people are worth their weight in gold.
        
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        April 12, 2024 5:47pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Same as all Govt departments, waste our taxes.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:27am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    350 people who might be better employed pushing wheelchairs in hospitals and the like.
    Then they might actually deliver something for the disabled.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No, nup, that means work – physical work.
      These 350 are troughers and never been employed in the Private Sector – and we all know why!
      
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      April 12, 2024 3:05pm
  - R
    
    Nothing! thy were vote fodder for Labour.
    
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    April 12, 2024 2:24pm
- Taieri
  
  Why do we even need a ministry for disabled people? How will such a ministry improve their lot?
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:46am
  - PurplePen
    
    And as I’ve said before, all the other little ministries for special needs groups such as women, maori, pacific island, ethnicities, aged, youth. Better to combine them all into one Ministry For Equality or as someone pointed out earlier just beef up the Human Rights Commission. I’m surprised we don’t yet have one for my lot LGB .. and then also for the lot in rest of that alphabet soup that have taken over our treehouse.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:09am
    - Taieri
      
      Why should there be a ministry for equality? Are there still any laws which allow discrimination in NZ? Other than the Maori wonderfulness of course, but that’s another story and no ministry for equality or any other ministry is going to change it.
      
      As for the Human Rights Commission…get rid of that as well. Where was this outfit during the Covid times?
      
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      April 12, 2024 11:18am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Saw a woman on tv a week or so ago who cited that 25% of New Zealanders are disabled!
    Must be a low bar to qualify
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:56am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Was she talking physically, or mentally, or both?
      Lazyness is a disability. Too much effort to switch off the TV and get out of bed.
      
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      April 12, 2024 3:08pm
    - Keith White
      
      Anyone who voted Labour, Greens or Maori more than once qualifies for intellectual disability.
      
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      April 12, 2024 4:58pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      I’ve got a gammy knee. Does that count?
      
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      April 12, 2024 5:49pm
Benedict Yu

Why is the Government allowing Willie Jackson to dominate the news about the woes of the media?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/04/willie-jackson-calls-media-minister-melissa-lee-stupid-says-she-doesn-t-know-what-she-s-doing-amid-newshub-tvnz-turmoil.html

In a reminder of the horror show of the last government, Willie Jackson asks “Why can’t they mediate some sort of business deal?” to which the response should be “That is not the role of government, now STFU 🤬.”

Melissa Lee totally lost the plot yesterday when she insisted to Mike Hosking that Facebook and Google could be made to pay for news content in New Zealand. Later in the day Heather du Plessis-Allan ended up telling her that she was acting “weird and shady”. 😳 Ouch.

Then we had this exchange in an interview with Lisa Owen.

““How? How though minister? When you say you are providing support for modernisation and innovation, how are you doing that?” asked Owen, with the same tone you might use on a disobedient child.

“That’s part of the cabinet paper and I’m not prepared to talk about that…”

“So your ideas are secret, but you have got ideas?”

“Definitely.” 😳😳🤡

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-04-2024/the-five-most-baffling-moments-from-melissa-lees-post-newshub-interviews

What a mess. 😭
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April 12, 2024 8:08am
- Philview
  
  We all know that much of the media was
  corrupted by the last Government. Melissa knows this and the media knows this. However the media will not admit this fact and will call Melissa a conspiracy theorist if the issue is raised. She probably has no interest in helping the media but is called anti democratic for not helping. She is in a no win situation.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:17am
  - I remember when
    
    Perhaps Melissa should explain that she has responsibility for the Government supported media but is not directly involved in the private sourced.
    The future direction of media and its form, should be driven by the ‘experts’ who should, presumably, already be employed by TV and Radio and ensuring they are on the right path.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:17am
    - Paulus
      
      All the so called media are against Melissa Lee irrespective of whether they are Taxpayer funded, or Private.
      They did not win the election.
      
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      April 12, 2024 2:03pm
- G152
  
  Jackson is a mouth programmed by liebor.
  Couldnt even steel up a knife.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:18am
- bartybart
  
  she has always come across as crazy
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:26am
  - kowtow
    
    And how exactly has Jackson come across .
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:57am
    - Keith White
      
      Jackson is all tiki and no nous.
      
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      April 12, 2024 4:58pm
- peterwn
  
  Seems a case for Prime Ministerial support, similar to the teachers’ payroll issues in 2009 or so when the PM had to step in and put Stephen Joyce on the job as the issue had become beyond the capabilities of the Education Minister and CEO.
  The problem with current media issues is that journos who are central to the issues have the biggest megaphone.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:31am
  - peterwn
    
    On reflection, this is assuming there is actually a problem to start with.
    
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    April 12, 2024 2:32pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  HDA is the shady one, she hates Luxon, she is becoming as bad as Tova and Jessica. Media has stated handouts will not save us, same with the face for radio yesterday, snd company heads also, what more is the minister too do, paying for FB adverts would be a revenue stream, and how they get around blotting media pages with these unwanted adverts is beyond me.
  
  I think she is dying too say media soul their soul yo the devil, and are dying by crucifix and Holly water
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:48am
  - pdm
    
    Totally disagree G.
    
    She does acknowledge his business acumen but is at the same time frustrated by his wokeness.
    
    Like most of us.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:23am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      She acted like this well before being PM, she has made no secret she is with Act
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:34am
  - Sacha
    
    @ G – What on earth are you trying to say?
    
    ‘I think she is dying too say media soul their soul yo the devil, and are dying by crucifix and Holly water’
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Not hard to work out is it? Sold their folds to the devil, and they will die for that, the people are waving crucifix s and Holly water, it was a bit of (SARC)
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:33am
      - Cassandra
        
        None the wiser and not even better informed. What is holly water etc? Is that like ivy water? How do you fold a devil?
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:03pm
  - leoj
    
    When you take the blue shades off G, you will, only then, realise how weak and woke Luxon is.
    
    So was Air NZ under his watch.
    
    He is no leader and is shit scared that he might upset the media, who hate him no matter what he does.
    
    He’s PM for God’s sake. It’s past time that he showed some courage.
    
    HDPA is merely expressing what we already know but you have yet to discover.
    
    Take the shades off.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:10am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I have told the likes of you before. My opinion is my opinion, I use to give ACT my Party vote, but no longer, end of story, worry about your own opinion
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:41am
      - Dougal10
        
        You have previously stated that you used to vote labour and have never liked act!
        
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        April 12, 2024 1:17pm
  - Philview
    
    HDA is one of the few journalists who held the last government to account. I don’t have an issue with her holding the new government to account as she has been consistent.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:18am
- Grunter
  
  “That is not the role of government, now STFU
  
  I’d go even further – the Govt has zero role in any of this media industry change. The more the Govt intervenes, the more the market will be distorted for the bad.
  
  Sell/close RNZ & TVNZ….stop NZ on Air and all the other bribes.
  
  Why should taxpayers be forced to borrow more to have a bunch of numbies intervene in the media industry?
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:51am
  - MCōs
    
    “The more the Govt intervenes, the more the market will be distorted for the bad.”
    Where does one draw the line?
    Should the government have been active in eradicating M Bovis? Rabbits, possums and other pests . . .
    Or should all that be left Feratid Farmers?
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:17am
    - Taieri
      
      Apples and oranges…ever heard of them?
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:47am
- newview
  
  I wouldn’t worry too much about Willie Benedict, his clown act on the AM show this morning just confirms the idiotic hypocrite that he is, and what most people see. Willie was in control of broadcasting for six years and this is where we are. People who believe Willie are gullible and imo not too bright.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:53am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He is loud and proud, but Jackson is the devil media sold their souls too
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:01am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Saw Jackson on am show.
    Not sure what was more sickening , him or the rest of them, including Stanford, giggling along to his fetid antics.
    Someone needs to grow a pair and put him in his place.
    
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    April 12, 2024 12:05pm
  - Paulus
    
    Never heard of him until now!
    
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    April 12, 2024 2:05pm
- Swifty
  
  Melissa Lee just got a caning on RNZ at about 8:50am.
  
  The phrase ‘train wreck’ was used in relation to her media interviews this week – and that as the week has unfolded her interviews have got worse…..
  
  Dear me.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:57am
  - Jack5
    
    Red Radio is no judge of Melissa Lee. Of course this Left-wing mob is after her scalp.
    
    Radio NZ was at the core of Wily-Willie Jackson’s media-empire building under Labour. He forged it into an alliance with the 20 or so State-subsidised tribal radio stations, and Radio NZ was a leader, if not the leader, of the Maorification of the English-language media.
    
    Radio NZ and TVNZ are State-owned media that, by their bias, have rejected the decision of voters at the General Election. They are giving defeated politicians like Wily-Willie and the Greens an undemocratic share of coverage.
    
    Melissa Lee has it tough as the target of the last Left holdouts like Radio NZ.
    
    Doubtless, she will turn her attention to them next, and soon. First the subsidies, then the fully owned.
    
    TV news carries scenes of people understandably distressed by loss of jobs. Melissa Lee’s right to act carefully, slow as she may seem to many of us.
    
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    April 12, 2024 1:05pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Mess is right. Lee has made a meal of this. Since her corporate welfare bailout plans must be discussed by cabinet before she can openly talk about them, she’s done the stupid thing and made intimations that have only served to provoke some well-deserved interrogation.
  
  National are showing themselves to be pretty weak in many areas around the culture wars, of which bailouts to woke media organisations are certainly an example. They don’t want to go anywhere near anything remotely controversial and it’s only NZF and ACT that seem to have any guts.
  
  That said, even ACT, along with National, have a real problem taking any action over banning the use of puberty blockers on children, which is rampant in this country, or sex and gender activism in schools. ACT championed and drove the Conversion Practises law which criminalises even parents from talking children off the cliff when it comes to undergoing life-changing chemical or surgical gender reassignments.
  
  So when Lee eventually starts rolling out her plans for bailing out woke media companies who can’t keep their houses in order, I won’t be in the least surprised.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:58am
  - septic skeptic
    
    National must be pretty stupid if they are considering a bailout for Newshub (Warner Bros). The optics of slashing wastage in the public sector only to spend it on multinational corporate welfare are terrible. That, plus the fact that outside the Wellington beltway nobody watches them, nobody trusts them and nobody cares that they have to find another career because time has caught up with broadcast news.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:06am
    - thirteenstars
      
      It won’t be a direct bailout. The Digital Services Tax Bill, which from memory is likely to generate $60 million per year, will be used to support news, current affairs and other such shows.
      
      And that’s how National will try to sell it, as if they’re making the best of a bad situation. After all, who wants to see news and current affairs hampered? We all know a robust local voice is vital to our democracy and independence.
      
      Yada, yada, yada.
      
      Lee will effectively adopt the argument the media have been chanting ever since Newshub announced its demise months ago. The effect will be to keep the corruption and wokeness alive and kicking.
      
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      April 12, 2024 12:18pm
      - Jack5
        
        You can read details of the Digital Services Tax Bill here:
        
        https://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2023/0288/latest/d11615779e2.html?
        
        Or from here you can download a copy of the IRD’s commentary on the bill:
        
        https://www.taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/-/media/project/ir/tp/publications/2023/2023-commentary-dst-bill/2023-commentary-dst-bill-pdf.pdf?
        
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        April 12, 2024 1:28pm
  - Paulus
    
    If Melisa Lee was not the failed media Minister they would take no notice of her.
    In opposition in that role she did very good work, but now the media are stuffed it is her fault.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:27am
    - thirteenstars
      
      You’ve got it backwards. Lee has scored an own goal by self-leaking details about a policy paper which cabinet has not fully discussed or approved.
      
      Further, the details she’s talked about have got that failed media in a frenzy because it contains the possibility of a bailout via taxing social media companies and giving the proceeds to that failed media.
      
      Worst of all, the Digital Services Tax Bill was opposed by National when it was introduced by Labour last year. All she had to do was continue that opposition and the media wouldn’t have had cause for hope of a bailout. Instead she now appears to back it and the questions are coming thick and fast.
      
      National is likely to go down as the party that breathed new life into a corrupt media that was about to be hoist by its own petard.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:43am
  - Taieri
    
    the Conversion Practises law which criminalises even parents from talking children off the cliff when it comes to undergoing life-changing chemical or surgical gender reassignments.
    ———-
    
    The law, which criminalises parents for trying to prevent their children from being chemically and physically castrated. Dr Mengele would be proud of his modern disciples.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:51am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Prohibiting sending gay teenagers to ‘straight boot camp’ is one thing.
      
      But AFAIK this regime prohibits any individual from doing anything other than to affirm the gender identity of a minor. So if a 14 year old girl says “I am a boy” you need to unreservedly affirm her decision. That seems crazy.
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:55pm
  - Paulus
    
    Can’t do this until Winston returns from the USA !
    
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    April 12, 2024 2:06pm
- imalwaysright
  
  “Facebook and Google could be made to pay for news content in New Zealand”
  
  Or they could just decide to switch off their services for a day or two and give Melissa some time to reconsider!
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:58am
- Ultima
  
  I said this before, ML should be joining the dole queue with the journalists. She’s providing fuel for the opposition by being incompetent.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:24am
- BananaLlama
  
  Nah, just Journalists bleating and moaning for the government to do something and trying to drag Melissa Lee down with them, the Taxpayer Union poll was pretty conclusive with the overwhelming number of kiwis wanting them to stfu and go broke.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNoenEOJlw
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:47am
  - BeaB
    
    I’m surprised Melissa Lee is handling this so badly when she did such a good job in Parliament demolishing Willie Jackson’s mad schemes.
    Surely she has advisers who can help her with some stock answers about the worth of media and its place in the modern world without that silly laughing she does that the media love to highlight.
    I suspect Winston is making mischief in the background and I hope it’s to stop any money being shovelled out. The media has to learn the hard lessons and adjust to the world as it is today.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:22am
    - Jack5
      
      Melissa Lee spelled out her program for the media in a guest article on Kiwiblog. This was when she was in Opposition, a couple or so years ago.
      
      Give her a break. The TV in people’s home shows familiar TV personalities understandably upset because their jobs are going. It’s not the moment to be thundering about (inevitable) cuts.
      
      Amid this the State-owned media give unfairly representative coverage to the Greens and defeated Labour. They are trying to overturn the General Election result.
      
      Melissa Lee is probably right in her tactics. The last-hope Digital Services Tax Bill will fade out when overseas giants throw it in their wastepaper baskets. The media won’t be able to blame the Coalition.
      
      Sweat it out, Melissa Lee.
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:45pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I had not appreciated that Melissa has been in Parliament since 2008. She was not a Minister in the Key and English governments. So she had a 15 year wait to become a Minister.
      
      It is far too early to give her a fail mark. However being a Minister is completely different to being in Opposition. I am sensing that she is finding that transition somewhat challenging.
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:59pm
- Paulus
  
  Our Lisa is taking over the role of femme fatale now in political terms of attacking the elected Government.
  Her afternoon programme she asks for opinions and then selects what she wants to condemn the Government or Ministers.
  Another silly girl showing now the others have, or are are going, she has her own afternoon hourly programme.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:24am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  She is coming across awfully I must say.
  She would be better just saying it is a shame to see the changes in the way that the public chose to consume media has affected these legacy platforms.
  
  Lament it, and accept it, and move on without any commitment to do anything.
  She is really playing her hand badly and coming across and lost and foolish.
  
  I would be offering some platitudes to the press, and some hard facts, but in my mind’s eye imagining the same enemedias metaphorical head being held under the water until the bubbles stop.
  Crocodile tears.
  
  They are Enemedia: both to the centre-right parties and any people that are sick of Maori as special people, wasteful spending, worsening statistics and actual incompetence with a touch of madness of the last 2 terms.
  I heard Elon Musk last night say that he has always been political, but he is just more visible now. He stated that he sees Wokeness as an actual thread to western civilisation – he is not wrong.
  So DIE MSM DIE.
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:44am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Benedict, leave Willie alone. He is doing a great job digging his own hole that he can drag his followers into.
  
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  April 12, 2024 3:10pm
I remember when

Now that ‘atmospheric rivers’ have become so common Air New Zealand has cancelled all their new aircraft purchases.
They have all been replaced with flying boats.
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April 12, 2024 8:08am
- thirteenstars
  
  Air New Zealand already call their planes “sky waka”.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:00am
  - Paulus
    
    Yes, New Zealand, now some other recent name, has lost the Second Battle of Waitangi.
    Many sickly white Liberals, as Jacinda followers, are still igno0ring what the electors and Government wanted.
    This is why Chippy has gone Shtum, as it is all being done for him by the media party, and these people, probably Wellingtonians still in the Public Service.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:32am
Bridgenag

SAME HAPPENING HERE

At What Point Do We Say ENOUGH? (III)

Critically thinking about what’s happening to America
https://open.substack.com/pub/criticallythinking/p/at-what-point-do-we-say-enough-iii?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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April 12, 2024 8:12am
- Rusty
  
  @ Bridgenag – read your link. What’s happening in America is happening in other western countries.
  
  The overthrow of democracy and Christianity.
  
  Can I just add when the founding fathers of America enshrined into the American constitution.
  
  “The right to bear arms”
  
  They weren’t just referring to the American people taking up arms to protect themselves against criminals or an invading army.
  
  It was to protect the American people against their own government if they went rogue.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:16am
Maggy Wassilieff

Gangs at large……Just another day in Aotearoa

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/514062/prisoner-and-corrections-officers-take-refuge-in-van-after-shots-fired
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April 12, 2024 8:15am
- G152
  
  Start shooting back until they get the message. How about the use of previolence action where if gang members appear to be carrying weapons they can be shot. The threat should end about 5 seconds later
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:22am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Good God! Saw pics of the incident on ‘X’ 🙁
  Wonder when Mitch intends passing the law on applying Thin Lizzie Concealer?
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:24am
  - Prince
    
    ?
    
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    April 12, 2024 8:43am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      IYKYK
      
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      April 12, 2024 9:09am
      - Bridgenag
        
        The Blokes at Bowls never understand all those letters …. mind you I don’t either
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:54pm
      - Bridgenag
        
        Maybe the same as the rainbow lot? Just asking
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:55pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, Mark Mitchell is the Minister of Corrections and Police. NZ waits..and waits.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:24am
  - leoj
    
    Mitchell is still glowing about his Christmas card from Cuddles Coster.
    
    Mitchell has been spending far too much time around weak, woke Luxon. It’s rubbing off.
    
    The namby-pamby Nats have become linguini-spined.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:15am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes, Mitchell has to realise he is the Minister OF Police, not the Minister FOR Police.
      
      He works for Us, not Them.
      
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      April 12, 2024 12:12pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  That might be the end of prisoners being allowed to attend funerals of gang members.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:26am
  - peterwn
    
    Cases need to be considered on their merits especially if the prisoner is a close relative of the deceased. In this instance it seemed that the prisoner was the innocent subject of the attacks.
    
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    April 12, 2024 8:55am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Yeah nah.
      
      Pay your debt and no day trips for family events.
      
      Dont like it.. Dont do crime..
      
      People are to soft on arseholes who get given a lag, espexial gang members
      
      I know peps who have done time. They dont whine about it as they know they are culpable and accept the punishment…
      
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      April 12, 2024 9:26am
      - Taieri
        
        Pay your debt and no day trips for family events.
        ————–
        
        Attending the funeral of your nearest and dearest is not a “day trip for family event”.
        
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        April 12, 2024 10:56am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        @Tairei….. Still tough, especially for gang members. You are doing lag you have done something serious or have a very long list of prior non custodial sentences…
        
        You have vacated far more important family based activities like… Looking after aged parents… Being there to raise your children.
        
        Missing out on a funeral because you are banged up in the pokey is small beer compare with those duties..
        
        So I say again …. No day trips for funerals for the incarcerated
        
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        April 12, 2024 3:10pm
- lifesgood
  
  If decent law abiding citizens were forbidden to go to funerals during COVID low life, prison scum should be forbidden too. Going to prison means you lose privileges. Goodness we are soft.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:29am
- imalwaysright
  
  Mark “Isolated incident ” Mitchell is looking weak.
  
  Time to declare them terrorists and deploy the army.
  Look at the list of terrorist organisations, how many of them have engaged in gunfights on our streets?
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:30am
- MCōs
  
  There’s a Māori Urupā in Mangere Bridge and every now and then there will be a burial, usually with a lot of mourners & often with a number of gang members in attendance
  One day I talked to an older curator and I asked him about the gang members. He said if they leave flags he takes them down, he won’t let them leave alcohol bottles on the graves or congregate out on the street. He says they should pay due respect to the deceased and he lets them know
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:47am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh heck, that’s not how it’s done here in Gizzy….
    
    https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/21/graveside-drinking-gang-insignia-headstones-considered-in-gisborne/
    
    According to Councillor Aubrey Ria:
    
    She said “probably most people had not had a negative personal experience with a gang member in the last 10 to 15 years”, and that perception of intimidation came from media coverage of gangs.
    
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    April 12, 2024 8:55am
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: That is one brave man.
    
    Maggy W: Councillor Aubrey Ria is totally full of shit. Every time I am stuck in a traffic jam caused by gang members riding their bikes to a funeral I have a “negative personal experience”
    
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    April 12, 2024 8:59am
    - MCōs
      
      You could tell by talking to him the guy has mana
      He didn’t come across as a shouty, foot stamping type
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:31am
- David Garrett
  
  If prisoners are allowed out for tangi at all – and that’s something they need to “rethink” – the rule should be if there are any gang members present the leave is immediately cancelled, and the prisoner returned to the prison.
  
  As an aside, I don’t see any commitment from Luxon to tackle gangs in a serious way. Along with restoring 3S, that should be his governments key criminal justice policy.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:57am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    What about tools to give police the right too smash gangs? Has this not been well rehearsed? I note ACT and NZF have gone quiet on all this as well
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:03am
    - kowtow
      
      It’s not just a question of tools for the police.
      
      We as a society need to make being involved with gangs in any way a total no no.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:07am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Remember “we know where you live..” We need an o/s task force. IMO
        
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        April 12, 2024 10:50am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  “Du Plessis said protocol around letting prisoners attend tangi needed a “rethink”.
  
  “The reality is that it used to be a lot stricter and there used to be a lot more rules around gang presence. Unfortunately, that has softened over a number of years, and so that is something that does need to be re-evaluated and reconsidered for the safety of everyone – both staff, prisoners and the public that are there.”
  
  I hope Goldsmith or whoever the accountability lies (Corrections or Justice) is listening.
  Innocent people couldn’t attend funerals during Covid for instance, so the idea that criminals/gang members need to be let out of prison for a tangi is far from a given to me.
  
  Want to be with family?
  Don’t commit crimes.
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:49am
I remember when

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Is Shortland Street in trouble?:
If it isn’t, it definitely should be.
Apart from the fact it provides work for a relatively small number of New Zealanders, it has no redeeming features.
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April 12, 2024 8:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Short of talent street.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:37am
  - MCōs
    
    I wouldn’t have taken you to be a viewer
    
    Or are you the Patricia Bartlett type. Look at all the porn so we don’t have to.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      She had suitcases full of porn – so she could prove porn was out there.
      A friend told me I think, or maybe it was someone on Kiwiblog?
      If you ever want a lesson on how not to act, or overreact, watch short of talent street.
      7pm tonight said the google machine.
      
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      April 12, 2024 2:03pm
- G152
  
  Auckland Star used to back onto Shortland Street
  
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  April 12, 2024 12:58pm
  - MCōs
    
    Thai Consulate is in that street. So is an extremely expensive Wilson’s car park as I found out
    
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    April 12, 2024 5:10pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not another hospital building to lie unused?
  
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  April 12, 2024 6:13pm
Anthony Melchett

https://twitter.com/Indiratweets/status/1777995757213364415

Screeching lefty media hack blaming everyone but herself for the failure of the media.

Getting absolutely fried in the comments and still trying to argue.

They have so little self awareness it’s glorious.
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April 12, 2024 8:25am
nathie

Friday funnies: The Library.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcybIRS2W8s

But wait there is more: Californians Move to Texas (6 episodes).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y
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April 12, 2024 8:28am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Not a lot of crime here.’ ‘Why?’ “cos everyone has a gun.’
  Brilliant series.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:47am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Is he in jail?
Oh lefties, go to your safe place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oz_zIdfCKE
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April 12, 2024 8:29am
imalwaysright

With all the missiles fired at Gaza , how can the Israeli government be sure that they themselves haven’t already killed the hostages?

Also, what is the point of Hamas having hostages if the Israeli government attack anyway. Isn’t it the point of hostage taking to inhibit such attacks?

The hostages have been there for six months, food, water, and medical supplies are scarce. Would Hamas be interested in the care of hostages who seem to be of very little tactical value ?
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April 12, 2024 8:44am
- Che Guava
  
  No, despite the tens of thousands of dead Palestinian civilians undermining the claim, the Israelis only ever use the utmost care and selectivity when deploying their weaponry, so it follows that the hostages must be alive.
  
  But who knows? The lives of ordinary Israelis seem to come second to whatever benefits the wider group and the more powerful Jews in general. For instance, assuming they didn’t see it coming (which seems doubtful, given how vaunted Israeli intel is), they sat on their hands for hours before acting on Oct 7th, and then when they did act (as can be deduced from the damage caused by what could only be advanced Israeli weaponry) many (if not most) of the Israeli casualties were due to friendly fire.
  
  The best we can say is that at least it gave them a good excuse to invade Gaza, and probably annex it into Israel, given that there’s nothing for the Gazans to return to now.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:54am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Another day … Another rotten fruit post. Your hate for Jews continues…. Sad, as otherwise you seem educated and smart….
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:28am
  - Taieri
    
    a good excuse to invade Gaza, and probably annex it into Israel
    ————-
    
    And to acquire as new residents a couple of millions of their sworn enemies? Why would they want to do that?
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:00am
  - Geri Sjovik
    
    And where is the proof of these ‘tens of thousands’.
    
    As usual you can’t provide it yet you still go on.
    
    Put up or shut up.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:05am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Hamas have admitted their numbers are wrong.
      https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/04/09/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-admits-to-flaws-in-casualty-data/
      
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      April 12, 2024 12:46pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    So Che, this physiognomy stuff, can you provide some specific details of how we can use it to identify Jews in particular?
    
    Asking for a friend.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:58am
- cmm
  
  Using hostages, civilians or prisoners as a human shield is against the rules of war. Any deaths of these are all on Hamas’ head.
  
  From the very start, Israel have said that they will do whatever they have to do – and will not be limited by the presence of hostages.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:05am
- Paulus
  
  It has been said that few of the hostages are still alive anyway, and those alive have been taken to Iran to stop Israel trying to free them.
  They will never be returned alive as Hamas will consider that a failure.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:36am
- All_on_Red
  
  “how can the Israeli government be sure that they themselves haven’t already killed the hostages?”
  
  Because the whole World would know about it by now…
  
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  April 12, 2024 12:44pm
Maggie Pie

And I see in The Horrid where OJ Simpson karked it this morning. The big C got him. They’re describing him as an NFL hero.

At least his wife Nicole put a lie to that hoary old chestnut….
“when you go black, you never go back”
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April 12, 2024 8:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  I guess in the states they have too treat him as innocent, suggesting he is anything else the a football hero would cost them possibly billions. Whether we like it or not, US laws are the law
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:51am
  - thirteenstars
    
    The dead can’t be defamed. You can call Simpson anything you like, either here or in the US.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:04am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Oh really? Snd no family is going too say that’s not true, as I have stated, the US have some very strange laws
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:30am
      - thirteenstars
        
        Yes, really.
        
        “In no state can a defamation claim be successfully maintained if the allegedly defamed person is deceased.”
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#Defamation_law_in_modern_practice
        
        “Under common law and according to the definition of this defamation, deceased individuals cannot be defamed. Defamation is defined as an act or statement that damages one’s reputation. The dead do not have reputations to damage. ”
        
        https://www.minclaw.com/legal-resource-center/what-is-defamation/can-dead-people-defamed/
        
        You really must let go some of your assumptions about “strange laws” in the US. As regards defamation it’s in fact harder to successfully sue a person in the US due to the effect of the First Amendment which places an almost absolute value on free speech including the right to express very strong opinions about other people.
        
        Further and with regards to Simpson, over the years I’ve heard many commentators in the US express an *opinion* that Simpson committed the murders. Try that here and you’ll have a big problem.
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:34pm
  - David Garrett
    
    G Giant: You clearly don’t know OJ did nine years in jail for aggravated robbery. He was a piece of shit.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:07am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      David yes I do, but Maggie talked about what his wife eoukd have thought, she never mentioned burglary, what I am saying if the press had called him a murderer they would be punished by family, burglary would not get feelz
      
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      April 12, 2024 9:10am
      - David Garrett
        
        G: It is not possible to defame the dead either in NZ or the UK; I would be very surprised if the law in the US is any different since it is also a common law country. But then there are 51 legal systems in the US, all of them somewhat different, so I guess it is possible to defame the dead in one or more states.
        
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        April 12, 2024 9:19am
      - nova
        
        Common law might say that you can’t defame a dead person, but what about tikanga? In the case of Peter Ellis this was applied to allow the appeal to proceed after Peter’s death, and the Supreme Court noted:
        
        “The Court was unanimous that tikanga has been and will continue to be recognised in the development of the common law of New Zealand in cases where it is relevant. Notably, this was simply a confirmation by the Court, rather than a new development”
        
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        April 12, 2024 9:52am
      - Taieri
        
        In the case of Peter Ellis this was applied to allow the appeal to proceed after Peter’s death
        ———-
        
        I’m neither a lawyer nor an expert on “tikanga” (whatever that is), but in this case it was only right that Ellis was rehabilitated and his name cleared, even posthumously.
        
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        April 12, 2024 11:04am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Taieri
        
        I agree that it is good that Ellis had his name cleared.
        
        I also found it slightly sinister that the Supreme Court accepted tikanga for a case that many would struggle to object to.
        It seemed like a good opportunity to instill tikanga and at the same time clear the name of a long suffering recently deceased white homosexual man who lived with his dear mother, the other victim.
        Opportunism at its finest!
        
        But now we have tikanga welcome in our Supreme Court.
        I wonder if the next case will be as pallateable.
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:28pm
    - lifesgood
      
      A murdering piece of shit.
      
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      April 12, 2024 9:23am
      - MCōs
        
        Maybe his was. I, for what it’s worth think he dunnit.
        However
        This is NZ where justice is by and large colour blind
        Polls taken in the US at the time indicated that whites thought he was guilty and blacks not guilty of the 1994 killings of his white ex wife and partner
        Blacks had long had the rough end of the stick when it came to extrajudicial lynchings in the US and false imprisonment so there was plenty of suspicion of the system.
        There was probably a bit of ‘fuck you, whitey’ too
        
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        April 12, 2024 9:53am
      - kowtow
        
        repyling to mcos
        
        I recall commentary at the time to the effect that the view in the so called black community was that ;
        
        he done it , but by golly we don’t want to see him go down to whitey justice .
        
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        April 12, 2024 10:11am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        MCos:
        How about the slow driving, illegal killing, aggravated robbing piece of shit?
        
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        April 12, 2024 10:24am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I bet his daily could Sue, US have very strange laws which I thought you would have known. Not necessarily federal, but each state will have different parameters as well.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:01am
    - G152
      
      He was targetted by broken arsed cops who couldnt get him for the first crime
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:02pm
- MCōs
  
  If OJ hadn’t murdered his ex wife we never would have heard of the Kardashians; so there’s that
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:56am
  - Colville
    
    Another reason to hate the prick.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:31am
    - MCōs
      
      I’ve got no issue with the Kardashians because I don’t watch their programmes
      I’m more annoyed with the Carters who endlessly advertise Chemist Warehouse
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Or of the restaurant waiter Ron Goldman for that matter, Cossie.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:33am
- virtualmark
  
  Poor old OJ, now he’ll never be able to find out who the real killer was.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:01am
  - All_on_Red
    
    https://babylonbee.com/news/oj-simpson-excited-for-god-to-tell-him-who-real-killer-was
    
    I remember watching the whole Trial.
    One of his legal team sidled up to the table where the gloves were and had a look. Then he went and spoke to Johnny Cochrane who then whispered to OJ.
    I think they knew they were too small.
    But when he put the Gloves on and they didn’t fit, that was an amazing moment. I don’t think he could believe his luck.
    He was a fantastic athlete though.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:43am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      I was sitting in a diner in Chicago with my boss when the decision was announced on the TV. Without exception every Black in the diner cheered.
      
      It took a few years but that feeling did fade in the Black communities but yes, at the core of it there was definitely an attitude of poke-Whitey-in-the-eye and who cares if OJ’s guilty.
      
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      April 12, 2024 12:03pm
- I remember when
  
  Peter Arenella, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
  
  “This is not a good day for the American justice system unless one believes that the L.A.P.D. were not only incompetent but criminal in their investigation of this case.”
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:23am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Hate to tell you this but the two detectives charged with investigating the case were known in the LAPD as “Dumb and Dumber”.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:56am
softail 1450

“The US is spending an astounding $80,000 per second, 4.6 million dollars a minute on Ukraine ,a country renowned for its corruption” <—— an official figure from the US congress yesterday….
WOW no wonder old Joe doesn’t seem to worry about anything he’s causing, his “big guy”10% is $8000,00 a second what’s he got to be concerned about?? that country is great for the people of this country as it gives us an opportunity despite our perilous financial stare to say “ look it could be worse” 🤣🤣
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April 12, 2024 8:57am
- virtualmark
  
  $80,000 a second = $6.9 billion per day = $2.5 trillion per annum.
  
  So no, clearly not true. Try harder.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:14am
  - Colville
    
    yes clearly BS….decimal points matter!
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:33am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      ‘Those damned dots’ – Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
      
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      April 12, 2024 6:21pm
- virtualmark
  
  Now 80,000 **rubles** a second would be plausible. That’s about US$27.5 billion per annum.
  
  Did management in St Petersburg forget to give you the currency exchange rate?
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:15am
  - softail 1450
    
    Virtualmark , I see you don’t have to do much around here to be labelled a Putin Sympathiser by virtualmark 🤡🤡🤡
    
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    April 13, 2024 6:38am
- MCōs
  
  America has a history of propping up corrupt regimes so that’s nothing new.
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:24am
  - Che Guava
    
    Indeed. For instance, they give Israel $3.8B per year of US taxpayer money, or $10,000,000 a day, and have done for years. And that’s beside the recent massive injections of direct funding and the indirect security guarantee the US gives them, without which Israel could never be as belligerent towards their neighbours as the are.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:43am
    - virtualmark
      
      To be fair to Israel, it lives in a “kill or be killed” neighbourhood, so it’s not so much belligerence as what you have to do to survive.
      
      Maybe if Israel’s neighbours changed their way things would settle down …
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:10am
      - Che Guava
        
        As I’ve argues many times, the principal author of Israel’s woes is Israel.
        
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        April 12, 2024 11:19am
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Yeah, that chick that was raped was totally asking for it.
        Should have worn a hijab.
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:01pm
      - Hugh Jarse
        
        Can I just change Che’s comment a little to better represent the situation. The principle author of Palestines woes is Hamas. Had they not attacked Israel on 7 October they would still be sitting on the beach, counting their UN millions, enjoying the company of goats and small boys and not hiding in ruins looking nervously skywards
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:36pm
    - Taieri
      
      Is the Israeli government a “corrupt regime”? I was under the impression that Israel is a parliamentary democracy and its government is formed as a result of free elections. A phenomenon very rare in that part of the world…
      
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      April 12, 2024 11:09am
      - Che Guava
        
        Does it really matter if Israel is a parliamentary democracy? They are a belligerent and hostile nation bent on the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews and the expansion of their territory, which is far more significant as a criterion for judging them than their constitutional arrangements.
        
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        April 12, 2024 11:23am
      - Taieri
        
        They are a belligerent and hostile nation bent on the ethnic cleansing of non-Jews
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        Bollocks. About 20% of Israel’s citizens are Arabs.
        
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        April 12, 2024 1:55pm
      - Paulus
        
        Israel is being called corrupt as their Prime Minister wants to change society in Israel in that Orthodox Jews will do National service and pay proper taxes.
        
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        April 12, 2024 2:25pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    As does every major player on the world stage. The CCCP kept the thuggish Castro regime afloat for decades…. The CCP keeps the tyranical Kim family regime afloat in North Korea.
    
    So whats the point of your dig at the US?
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:31am
- herb1
  
  Maths not your strongpoint
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:52am
- Geri Sjovik
  
  This corruption you mention.
  
  Any proof of that?
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:09am
- softail 1450
  
  Virtualmark, To be fair I didn’t do the maths as it was a quote from a congressman and reported by Alex Christoforou who is usually quite good with his reporting , Perhaps Alex meant those figures for the entire US money printing and borrowing for a year yet that amount would be a low estimate if that was the case ?? Google Alex Christoforou “Russia 10 to 1 ammo advantage” if you’re interested , and sorry teachers I’ll try harder with my maths.
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:18am
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Puberty blockers have been shown to cause long-term fertility problems in boys, according to a preprint study from Mayo Clinic. Latest article on anecdotal evidence seems same is happening in New Zealand under the radar ?Or is it just sneaky stealth .

The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, analyzed more than 130,000 sperm cells from male children with gender dysphoria.

All participants were 17 or younger.

TRANS CHILDREN WHO TOOK PUBERTY-BLOCKING DRUGS HAD MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, UK STUDY FOUND

The researchers analyzed the testicular cells of boys who had been taking puberty blockers for anywhere from three months to 52 months, and compared them to cells of a control group who had not been on the blockers.

Among those on puberty blockers, the researchers identified mild to severe “sex gland atrophy,” determining that the medications accelerated the aging and function of testicular cells.

Boy taking pills
Puberty blockers have been shown to cause long-term fertility problems in boys, according to a Mayo Clinic preprint study. (iStock)

The findings suggest that puberty blockers’ impacts may be permanent — disputing claims that such effects can be reversed.

The researchers also detected cases of microlithiasis, which is marked by the presence of small clusters of calcium in the testicles.

‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ TREATMENTS DON’T BENEFIT YOUTH, SAYS PEDIATRICIANS GROUP: ‘IRREVERSIBLE CONSEQUENCES’

Additional research from Mayo Clinic has linked testicular microlithiasis to an increased risk of testicular cancer.

“We provide unprecedented histological evidence revealing detrimental pediatric testicular sex gland responses to [puberty blockers],” the authors wrote in the study findings.

Doctors highlight the risks
Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center and a Fox News medical contributor, was not involved in the Mayo Clinic research but commented on the use of puberty blockers.

“Thousands of U.S. children — more than ever before — are experiencing gender dysphoria and many go on to identify as transgender,” Siegel told Fox News Digital.

Dr. Marc Siegel and Dr. Brett Osborn
Dr. Marc Siegel, left, of New York, and Dr. Brett Osborn, right, of Florida, both offered thoughts on the potential risks of puberty-blocking medications. (Dr. Marc Siegel/Dr. Brett Osborn)

“They certainly still face a stigma for this, which needs to be addressed — but at the same time, the growing rush to gender-affirming treatment is disturbing, particularly without parental approval.”

In 2021, approximately 42,167 children received gender dysphoria diagnoses, almost triple the 15,172 reported in 2017, according to Reuters.

“Much of this is politically driven, and may lead to premature treatments that are not offered in the U.K., Finland, Sweden or many other countries,” Siegel said.

EXPOSING THE TRANS AGENDA AIMED AT OUR KIDS: FAITH LEADER REVEALS HOW PARENTS CAN KEEP CHILDREN SAFE

Among the puberty-blocking drugs is lupron (leuprolide), which is a type of hormone therapy used for advanced prostate cancer.

It is also used to stop early puberty in children, according to WebMD.

“It helps to delay sexual development (such as growth of the breasts/testicles) and the start of menstrual periods,” WebMD reported.

“It also helps slow down early bone growth to increase the likelihood of reaching normal adult height.”

gender affirming medicine puberty blockers hormones pentagon
In the majority of cases, one physician recommends that any hormonal interventions should be delayed until an older age. (iStock)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported 10,000 adverse effects in children in 2017 — including mood swings, cognitive problems, suicidal thoughts, longer-term fertility problems, seizures, migraines, brittle bones, brain swelling and vision loss, according to Siegel.

Experts also warn of the potential mental impacts of these drugs.

“Transgender individuals are three times more likely than the general population to suffer from anxiety, depression and neurodevelopmental issues,” Siegel warned.

“Much of this is politically driven, and may lead to premature treatments.”

Although some studies have shown that interventions such as puberty blockers may decrease anxiety in the short term, Siegel pointed out that “there are no longer-term head-to-head trials versus extensive therapy and watchful waiting.”

Puberty blockers typically lead children down a path to long-term use of transgender-affirming hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone, he noted.

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Puberty blockers typically lead children down a path to long-term use of transgender-affirming hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone, according to doctors. (iStock)

“These hormones carry their own risks — for example, estrogen may increase the incidence of breast cancer,” Siegel said.

“Bottom line, I don’t believe puberty blockers should be given routinely to children and teens for gender dysphoria,” Siegel said. “There are too many long-term risks, including the idea that the children or teens may change their minds.”

SURFER BETHANY HAMILTON SPEAKS OUT AGAINST NEW RULE ALLOWING TRANSGENDER WOMEN TO COMPETE WITH FEMALES

In the majority of cases, Siegel recommends that any hormonal interventions or gender reassignment surgeries be delayed until an older age.

He added, “Intensive supportive and cognitive therapy makes sense as an initial approach.”

Silhouette, group of happy children playing on meadow, sunset, summertime
“Transgender individuals are three times more likely than the general population to suffer from anxiety, depression and neurodevelopmental issues,” Dr. Marc Siegel of New York warned. (iStock )

Dr. Brett Osborn, a Florida neurologist and longevity expert who was also not involved in the new research, noted that previous studies have shown that puberty-blocking drugs can alter the normal progression of testicular cells, potentially leading to atrophy or abnormal development.

“Specifically, the drugs impact the normal function of ‘spermatogonial’ stem cells (SSCs), which are crucial for sperm production and overall reproductive health,” he told Fox News Digital.

“The changes induced by these medications may be permanent, contrary to popular opinion among transgender activists.”

“Disruption in their development could result in reduced fertility or other reproductive issues later in life,” he continued. “Based on the researchers’ histologic findings, the changes induced by these medications may be permanent, contrary to popular opinion among transgender activists.”

Added Osborn, “These medications are not as benign as billed.”

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Hormones such as testosterone, progesterone and estrogen are critical for brain development, memory and cognition, one doctor noted. (iStock)

The risks go beyond infertility, the doctor warned.

“There are also downrange effects of altered hormone levels on brain development, let alone other organ systems,” he said.

Hormones such as testosterone, progesterone and estrogen are critical for brain development, memory and cognition, Osborn pointed out.

The doctor called for “safer and more effective” treatments for those with gender dysphoria.

“Gaining insight into the full impact of these medications – the usage of which has become more prevalent — is crucial for future generations.”

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April 12, 2024 9:05am
- stewmar
  
  Has anyone read this hefty tome?
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:40am
  - lifesgood
    
    Nope! Way too long.
    
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    April 12, 2024 10:24am
    - Don Beckett
      
      I read it – partly from curiosity – but it is very repetetive. It needs to be edited, but to late. Rather boring actually.
      
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      April 12, 2024 11:09am
      - Bridgenag
        
        too
        
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        April 12, 2024 12:59pm
- Flossie
  
  TLDR
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:45am
  - Bridgenag
    
    It seems I have to google all the letters these days
    
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    April 12, 2024 12:59pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Oldpark any chance you could give us the short version? 😅
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:33pm
Matt Long

The NHS commissioned Cass report is scathing over poisoning and mutilation of children.
National and Matt Doocey in particular will comment on New Zealand’s very high usage of puberty blockers, and suicide rates after mutilation for trans ideology, soon?
https://x.com/2ETEKA/status/1778524514915340772
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April 12, 2024 9:09am
- Matt Long
  
  Why Doocey?
  https://x.com/2ETEKA/status/1778273348134568314
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:12am
  - peterwn
    
    He is Mental Health Minister. He has taken a deep interest in mental health matters as a MP and has taken time to understand as much about mental health issues as possible.
    
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    April 12, 2024 9:22am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He is also a mental health specialist is he not? I thought that is why he came into the Nats to be an advocate for the sector
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:03am
    - kowtow
      
      He worked at Tavistock , NHS England.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:13am
    - Notsofast
      
      Are you serious? This guy advocates that children choose their own sex, which some believe is determined at conception.
      
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      April 12, 2024 10:21am
      - Taieri
        
        which some believe is determined at conception
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        Some?
        
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        April 12, 2024 1:57pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        No. The Tavistock Centre provides a wide range of mental health services. IIRC the Minister in his role there had no connection with their trans programmes. Happy to be corrected.
        
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        April 12, 2024 2:11pm
      - Notsofast
        
        He is a rainbow dude is what I gather. He is the problem not the solution.
        
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        April 12, 2024 6:35pm
      - Jack5
        
        Tavistock Centre, now closed, was a centre of child gender transitioning:
        
        https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665
        
        The closedown:
        
        https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/31/why-the-tavistock-gender-identity-clinic-was-forced-to-shut-and-what-happens-next
        
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        April 12, 2024 8:16pm
- Notsofast
  
  From RNZ
  
  “No one was available for interview, but in a written statement the Clinical Director of Primary and Community Care, Sarah Clarke, said the agency was “aware” of the NHS requirement for puberty blockers to be prescribed through its clinical trial process.
  
  The organisation had contracted the Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa to update the guidelines for gender-affirming care, which would cover the use of puberty blockers, Clarke said.”
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513980/government-won-t-say-if-it-will-follow-britain-s-move-to-ban-routine-use-of-puberty-blockers
  
  Brilliant. Patha is driven by the disgraced Wpath. Both organisations are headed by men pretending to be women.
  Full steam ahead New Zealand. Let’s see how many families can be wrecked as fast as possible.
  This is truly diabolical.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:01am
peterwn

The new fast track resource consenting bill seems to have some speed wobbles of its own leaving Bish with a bit of egg on his face. Seems 200 firms made enquiries concerning the proposals. When the Government was ready to receive proposals, it (under Bish’s name?) sent out emails to the firms ‘inviting’ or ‘requesting’ them or whatever to submit applications by 3 May. The text of the communication the not been released so it is not possible to determine the clarity of the email. Seemed some receivers of the email who were blissfully unaware that it went to all parties may have assumed it was being sent to selected firms only. Given that assumption, and given that stock exchange listed companies are obliged to keep the market informed of issues that could affect share prices, two listed companies (with submarine mining proposals) issued releases to the effect that they had been ‘invited’ to apply for a fast track consent with the implication that the invitations were exclusive. No this got the anti-mining lobby to go all emotional and they complained to the stock exchanges concerned and to Bish. Bish was a bit horrified to think that the circular email (in his name?) was being interpreted in this way. Moral for Bish and his people – the email should have stated that it was being to all those who had shown initial interest.
The NZ company concerned correctly advised NZX and the market of the invitation which saw its share price increase 25% and NZX imposed a trading halt. Company this morning issued a clarification and presumably trading will resume at 10am Friday. It will be interesting to see if the 25% share price increase is sustained.
It just shows that Government agencies and Ministerial advisers have to be super careful in their communications.
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April 12, 2024 9:18am
- SWIM
  
  Wow .
  I have that invitation, actually multiple copies from various sources.
  Its unconceivable that any company receiving it would consider it to be a personalised invitation when (a) its not addressed to them and (b) its one of a series of communications that has been sent out to all consultancies and RMA type barristers who are interested in the process.
  
  Public submissions close in 2 weeks, application for the Fast Track schedules close May 3.
  Exciting times for the property sector. Some shit might finally get done!
  
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  April 12, 2024 9:41am
Tasman devil

Jackson is just another another parasitic Maori myth teller with a European first and surnames. Tamatha Paul is representative of the new generation of such wastrels.

Born again Māori are as tedious as sand papering.
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April 12, 2024 9:29am
Yvette

Watch: Willie Jackson goes head-to-head with Melissa Lee in the House
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/04/willie-jackson-calls-media-minister-melissa-lee-stupid-says-she-doesn-t-know-what-she-s-doing-amid-newshub-tvnz-turmoil.html

This short clip (2 minutes 56 seconds) tells more about the matter than does the accompanying Newshub article, which is another example in itself as to why Newshub is not worth any action to “save it”.
Willie Jackson is now trying to blame Lee for the mess he himself contributed to and over saw.
As the video confirms, Jackson is the one befert of ideas now or any sensible comment
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April 12, 2024 9:31am
- bjools
  
  I have said it before
  Willie Jackson is NZ’s “Comical Ali”
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:03am
I remember when

Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year: What’s Happening?: NY Times.
“Global temperatures are rising long-term because the burning of fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases, which warm the planet, to the atmosphere.”
“But the “massive, massive records” set over the past year are beyond what scientists would expect to see even considering climate change,”
“..there are a couple of factors that might be contributing …”
One is the recent reduction in aerosol pollution from container ships traversing the ocean, following new international fuel standards that took effect in 2020.
Ironically, ‘aerosols’ have a cooling effect in the atmosphere, and that has been helping to mask the true extent of climate change until now.”
Also plumes of water vapour from Tongan volcanic eruption plus volcanic soot and aerosols.

Or, perhaps the world has been getting warmer, due to the ending of the last ice age, and things like smog, industrial smoke, aerosols, water vapour, volcanic activity and ships have reduced the speed.
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April 12, 2024 9:42am
- JohnRidd
  
  There seems to be almost complete agreement that the water vapour put into the stratosphere will cause warming of the troposphere where we live. It has been predicted that the elevated stratospheric water vapour could remain high for 4 or 5 years after the eruption.
  
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/15/claim-the-tongan-volcanic-eruption-might-cause-a-breach-of-the-1-5c-global-warming-limit/
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:13am
- Ford Prefect
  
  Theres also the fact that warming oceans release CO2. Could that be the cause ofthe extra CO2 in the atmosphere?
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:19am
  - PurplePen
    
    Which we need more of for better plant growth which is needed to feed the planet. Current CO2 at 400PPM is the lowest it’s been since the last ice age. Get down to 200PPM and plants die.
    
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    April 12, 2024 11:23am
  - JohnRidd
    
    “Could that be the cause ofthe extra CO2 in the atmosphere?”
    
    Yes. It could be.
    
    There is an equilibrium relationship between the CO2 in the atmosphere and in the oceans.
    
    The world started warming before humans could have been the cause. If humans were not putting CO2 into the atmosphere then CO2 would move from the oceans into the atmosphere to correct the imbalance caused by the decreased solubility because of Henry’s Law. We are putting more CO2 into the atmosphere than is needed for this equilibration process so the net CO2 movement is in the other direction.
    
    Something I think is interesting is that the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 ( what NOAA call CO2 growth) correlates well with change in temperature. When there is an increase in temperature, there is an increase in CO2 growth.
    A decrease in temperature correlates with a decrease in CO2 growth. A fall in temperature when CO2 is increasing.
    
    This is only possible if temperature is the cause and CO2 change the result.
    
    This year there was a large lift in temperature resulting is the largest increase in CO2 at Mauna Loa since measurements there began.
    
    CO2 growth data is here.
    https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html
    
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    April 12, 2024 1:23pm
    - JohnRidd
      
      Here is a link to a graph showing the relationship between change in UAH lower troposphere temperature anomaly data and change in Mauna Loa CO2 growth data.
      
      https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y6krd63tctgfk1gtbtsht/Change-in-Temp-and-Change-in-CO2-Growth-1980-to-2023.jpg?rlkey=qmdx72afribigf360ltet0yti&dl=0
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:42pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Don’t forget there are a ton of underwater volcanoes and vents under the ocean. Another factor completely missing from the climastrologists failed doom models.
  
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  April 12, 2024 8:40pm
sungsamning

https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2024/04/08/joe-bidens-former-stenographer-publishes-book-on-why-he-should-be-in-prison-n2637527#google_vignette
Joe Biden’s Former Stenographer Publishes Book on Why He Should be in Prison.
Mike McCormick, who served as Joe Biden’s stenographer traveling with him around the world including to Ukraine, recently published a book revealing what he saw, which included criminal activity in regards to the Burisma kickback scheme. “The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden” lays out probably the most comprehensive account ever written about the scheme.
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April 12, 2024 10:07am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iXenrqoQy4
Vatican Shocks Leftists.
The Vatican has released a document on LGBTF stuff. The usual suspects are not impressed. The Catholic church doesn’t like ‘gender theory’. Its a misguided attempt at playing God.
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April 12, 2024 10:07am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

WTF is going on @ Hamilton City Council?

https://twitter.com/Grace98593441/status/1778243530538037305
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April 12, 2024 10:27am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Idiots are in control of reception…
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:34am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, maybe getting in first before this crowd grows in numbers.
  https://www.chch.com/hamilton-downtown-mosque-opens-its-doors-to-the-community/
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:06am
- mandk
  
  It’s probably just a measure to honour colour-blind S. Africans. //
  
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  April 12, 2024 1:11pm
herb1

How recent has it been that the media were full of stories attacking anyone who spoke out against unethical and illegal behaviour by left wing female MPs. They spoke of the nasty social media comments these MPs had to put up with and the stress on their mental health. Along comes Willie Jackson calling a right wing female MP , thick , and we get a media supported pile on through written,visual and social media. I’d call it double standards, but that implies the media have some standards. As for Willie , he should spend a little more time narrowing down his immediate paternal genealogy
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April 12, 2024 10:31am
- rockape
  
  You can take the Maori out of the meat works but you can’t take the meat works out of the Maori. Jackson is still the ignorant angry bully he was in his youth.
  
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  April 12, 2024 10:50am
- kowtow
  
  I sense the pack mentality from te media hyenas re this Lee business .
  
  They see her as weak and so she’ll be their target as the first trophy “scalp” they take from the coalition .
  
  And of course it’s a double plus good one as she’s seen by them as a traitor who isn’t throwing confetti money at them like they demand she should .
  
  They really are bottom dwelling , nasty , vicious scum.
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:40am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Since Parliament has gone back this term. Labour and its Media hounds have run nasty hit jobs on the following FEMALE MPs
    
    Casey Costello
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/alleged-tobacco-tax-leaker-no-longer-working-ministry-health
    Penny Simmonds
    Nicole McKee
    Melissa Lee
    
    implying or stating that the Ministers weren’t up to the job…..
    
    and in all cases, the messes they were having to clean up had been of Labour’s making.
    
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    April 12, 2024 12:43pm
    - peterwn
      
      And Nicol;a Willis!
      
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      April 12, 2024 1:02pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Yep. Its that misogyny that we are told about any time Ardern of Gholriz was being criticised for something.
      Yet somehow, like the kids sleeping cars seemed to have vanished once the Labour government was in power, the enemedia commentators are not calling this misogyny out now there is a new government.
      Very curious.
      
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      April 12, 2024 3:41pm
- G152
  
  His parent was well known in a certain freezing works not at all delegate related
  
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  April 12, 2024 1:17pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fauci using his G-mail account.

https://shorturl.at/afgR7
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April 12, 2024 10:44am
Maggie Pie

The Horrid reports…a 31 year-old man has been arrested in connection with vandalism
of the K’Rd Rainbow Crossing.
Police Media Spokesperson says this should now free up significant resources
and personnel to investigate other matters….

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1778546398562247045
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April 12, 2024 10:47am
- Taieri
  
  Police Media Spokesperson says this should now free up significant resources
  and personnel to investigate other matters….
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  Such as other rainbow crossings…
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:14am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Not sure if they want to tangle with the Bishop.
    
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    April 12, 2024 3:23pm
- kowtow
  
  Amazing innit.
  
  Te media pardy has spent more time covering the paint stories than the shoot out at the rugby corral and the latest ‘isolated’ incident where the pride of the prisons had to lock themselves in their vehicle at the battle of the vandalised van .
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:44am
- Notsofast
  
  This act could be seen as a love crime by parents who have lost children to the gender cult.
  The police might consider this:
  
  “The quote “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is a thought-provoking statement that highlights the subjective nature of labelling individuals or groups involved in conflicts. It suggests that the perception of a person’s actions depends on one’s perspective and the context in which they are viewed.”
  
  The police might have been advised to hold fire before calling this a hate crime. This could have waited until the court could consider the matter.
  
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  April 12, 2024 2:26pm
  - Nobby2
    
    As I understand it there is no hate crime in NZ law, so how can the police charge him with a hate crime.
    
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    April 12, 2024 3:18pm
- John Loveridge
  
  So, if you want to pull off a big crime, you should first send out a stooge to vandalise a rainbow crossing. That gives you plenty of time to cover your tracks before the police finally get onto your trail. Better still, send out two stooges to vandalise two rainbow crossings!
  
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  April 12, 2024 5:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

“How long will it take to restore Democracy in NZ?”
Amy Brooke.
“This is not a totalitarian state and New Zealanders who want to support Seymour need to tell the present Prime Minister to step back and to rid himself of the notion that he is the CEO of New Zealand. His National party members need to do the same, instead of virtually touching their forelocks.”
There are three leaders, not CEO Luxon and two others.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/how-long-will-it-take-to-restore-democracy-in-new-zealand/
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April 12, 2024 10:58am
Tasman devil

Did Maori have media when colonisers with the surname Jackson moved to New Zealand?

Just asking for Wiremu (Willie).

Also, is Willie Jackson embarrassed about having European ancestry?

Which parts of him get te benefits of colonisation?

The Maori bits, or te European bits?

Just asking for te taxpayers having to put up with his sanctimonious parasitic drivel.
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April 12, 2024 11:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Some of Willie Jackson’s mixed/mystery ancestry was discussed on The DNA Detectives programme
  
  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uodxm
  
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  April 12, 2024 12:32pm
  - Jack5
    
    Wily-Willie expressed embarrassment in learning that, after years of backing “Palestine rights,” the DNA analysis showed he is 30 per cent Ashkenazi Jewish.✡️
    
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    April 12, 2024 8:04pm
- Jethrod
  
  Wiremu Tamahaki, solved it for you
  
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  April 12, 2024 1:01pm
- John Loveridge
  
  The most Maori part of Willie would be his mouth. It’s the bit that hogs all the resources and attention, and makes the most noise.
  
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  April 12, 2024 5:46pm
MCōs

Here’s an interesting story from Phuket
https://aseannow.com/topic/1324743-the-baffling-27-years-of-richard-burrows-aka-%E2%80%98peter-smith%E2%80%99/
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April 12, 2024 11:14am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Why are they always “former Scout masters”? 🙁
  
  And while you’re there Cossie….what are your sources in Phuket telling you about
  the fate of those idiot Day brothers from here who assaulted a Cop??
  
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  April 12, 2024 11:36am
  - MCōs
    
    Nothing in the Phuket news, but here’s an article on on family friendly entertainment
    First is an always popular ladyboy show the kids are sure to enjoy
    https://phuket-go.com/phuket-news/phuket-events/phukets-best-big-shows-for-the-family/
    
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    April 12, 2024 2:53pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Well before we met, my partner spent some time in Bangkok assisting with the establishment of a luxury car dealership.
      While they were there, one of his friends actually had an affair with one of those ladyboys in Phuket. (I’ve seen the photos. O.M.G she is just sooo gawjus!)
      All the guys still rib him about it to this day. But he always says….
      “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” 😎
      
      Were you ever tempted by the devil, Cossie?
      
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      April 12, 2024 3:43pm
- NoFax
  
  I see the story was written by Tim Newton. I’ve watched him on and off over the last few years in his different media endeavours. He never sat right with me, not sure why, and haven’t watched anything from him for more than 6 months.
  
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  April 12, 2024 12:37pm
cmm

When are the government going to deal with the Rotary Club and Lions? The ongoing violence is having a negative consequence on society.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/emergency-services-on-the-scene-of-unfolding-incident-in-westmere-auckland/IWXTUULI7NCMTFU7MIXGKKHFY4/
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April 12, 2024 11:24am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump orders for everyone. Vid went viral.

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-black-supporter-chickfila/?
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April 12, 2024 11:36am
Maggie Pie

Goodness! The headline really had me going for a moment there 🙁

Then I realised the surname was spelled differently….

https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1778463929431437536
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April 12, 2024 11:48am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump has been taken into custody.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oG3qpbNyK0
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April 12, 2024 11:58am
Hugh Jarse

Listening to the media indicates that the coalition government cannot do one thing right, have no policies that the pubic agree with and there is no spokesperson that can be found who will support any said policies.

Most right thinking people know that not all governments get it 100% right and equally none get it 100% wrong. Anyone who asserts otherwise is an activist and therefore demonstrably biased and has no credibility. The New Zealand media has relentlessly attacked this coalition from the day they started negotiations and hence we see them for what they are.
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April 12, 2024 12:16pm
- G152
  
  Is why NZ media is dead
  
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  April 12, 2024 1:26pm
- mandk
  
  “The New Zealand media has relentlessly attacked this coalition from the day they started negotiations …”
  
  It’s worse than that.
  
  Instead of holding the Labour government to account between 2020 and 2023, the media spent virtually all of the time attacking National and ACT. It became even worse when Luxon was elected leader.
  
  I hope TVNZ, TV3, Stuff/The Post, and NZH all go down the drain along with Newshub. They are all sewer rats.
  
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  April 12, 2024 3:25pm
  - Keith White
    
    That’s a little harsh on sewer rats. Rattus Norvegicus has a useful function – they survive mainly on discarded human food, and anything else that can be eaten without negative consequences; so they (a) reduce ambient smelly rubbish and do so (b) staying out of sight and (c) they improve the food chain without charging. None of the media can say likewise.
    
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    April 12, 2024 5:02pm
Handyman

I firmly believe the point of the mini ministries is keep ambitious MPs from causing trouble in caucus. It creates under-worked ministers who can spend time courting votes from “their” people.
According to the woke Labour identity ideology, they needed a ministry and a minister for each “community”. The thing they have in common in that none of the communities want to contribute to New Zealand; they want to be recognised and praised because they are “special”.
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April 12, 2024 12:26pm
Handyman

Odd that the met nz site has no rain forecast for this afternoon but keep the banner headline warning of severe thunderstorms.
They have created the scary orange and red watch/warnings and feel obliged to use them.
Wasn’t it funny the first time they used the red watch/warning and the headlines screamed “unprecedented” red watch/warning.

Prediction: Soon they will start to say the increase in orange watches/warnings is a sure sign of a changing climate.
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April 12, 2024 12:33pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I don’t see that. I think that the criteria for warnings are consistently applied. Red warnings remain rare. I think that to date there have been 3 or 4.
  
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  April 12, 2024 1:32pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Benedict, until a couple of years ago there were none of these ridiculous orange / red weather warnings.
    
    Climate catastrophism – it’s just more anxiety-inducing rubbish.
    
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    April 12, 2024 6:38pm
Maggie Pie

I know I’ve banged on previously about a ‘Dress-Code’ for Parliament.

Had actually hoped the new Speaker might have addressed it. But alas no. Except for the odd exception, the majority those on the ‘Left’ still look like a bunch of unwashed scruffs.

What the women opposite need to do, is take a leaf out of Tanya Unkovich’s book.
She always looks immaculately presented… and always beautifuly groomed.
Actually reminds me bit of my partner’s mum. Obviously a fan of Chanel as well.

Here she is in the ‘Debating Chamber’ yesterday…..

https://twitter.com/nzfirst/status/1778251250989150300
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April 12, 2024 12:54pm
Chuck Bird

This is another reason why I will not vote National. Sean interviews Bob McCoskrie.

Why Is the Government Hiding from the Puberty Blockers Discussion?

https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/why-is-the-government-hiding-from-the-puberty-blockers-discussion
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April 12, 2024 1:55pm
Maggie Pie

So, while Jacinda swans around shopping in the UK city of Oxford this week,
school-holiday traffic in Auckland has come to a standstill.
It’s f***ing chaos out there!
Manhole covers on the motorway have become dislodged due to lack of maintenence, southern lanes of the HarbourBridge are closed in both directions, a rail bridge in the South Island is close to collapse, and the CRL looks like costing ratepayers 5 billion dollars ABOVE the original estimate!!
No wonder she hoofed it last year… knew exactly what was coming.

Just saying.
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April 12, 2024 3:16pm
- Mike
  
  It is indeed a shame that you can’t aford to move to Oxford. Settle for contentment with your lot?
  
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  April 12, 2024 4:37pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    TRIGGERED!!
    
    Wondered how long it would take to entice you out of the basement milkey
    😀 😀 😀
    
    And don’t forget to fish those damp socks out from under the bed before the next landlord inspection. LOL!!
    
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    April 12, 2024 5:01pm
- Scooter
  
  I thought she’d be more at home shopping at Oxfam.
  
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  April 12, 2024 7:20pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Funny you shoud say that Scoots…..
    
    Back in November 2017, RNZ ran a story about Cindy shopping for her clothes
    @ SAVEMART.
    
    That was until she discovered, “that the workers there were forced to sort thru second-hand clothes without gloves…..often finding used tampons, faeces, along with blood & urine stained garments”.
    
    Obviously the Dame’s standards weren’t as high as Gloria’s 😀
    
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    April 12, 2024 7:45pm
John Loveridge

I’m confident that St John’s expensive Maori rebranding and diligent alignment with the principles of Te Treaty mean this sort of thing will never happen again:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/st-john-apologises-to-family-of-rangiora-woman-who-died-after-70-minute-wait/DYFQXD42S5EPJO54UGUFCFLURE/
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April 12, 2024 5:40pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  People with knowledge of the matter who wish to remaim anonymous due to fear of retribution, were saying….. “the entire rebranding exercise cost the equivalent of securing 7 new Ambulances”.
  
  Go figure, eh’ boy?
  
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