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softail 1450

For all those with VIKING heritage May the 8th is International VIKING heritage day, it’s organised by the ODV and is going to be a big deal even here in our country so mark it on the calendar.
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April 13, 2024 8:07am
- PhilBest
  
  It would be like Mark Steyn to say (even if he doesn’t on this occasion) that western civilization needs a bit of the Viking spirit again, in the face of modern feminization and soy-boy syndrome…
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:36pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You think they should sweep through the motu and do away with the literati and rape the peasant girls?
    
    (seemed to work out OK for my lot in the end)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Iona
    
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    April 13, 2024 1:30pm
    - Paulus
      
      Can’t find the place called Motu in my Atlas – is it in New Zealand ?
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        38.2825° S, 177.5406° E
        
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        April 13, 2024 3:36pm
      - Jethrod
        
        Isn’t that built-up.
        Large skyscrapers and all
        
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        April 13, 2024 7:00pm
      - Jethrod
        
        One of the few wilderness rivers in NEW ZEALAND!
        
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        April 13, 2024 7:02pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Here’s one Kiwi with a slice of Viking blood – along with Saxon, English & Celtic – roughly in equal proportions. 🙂
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:07pm
- JJ56
  
  I have Dupuytren’s contracture so I known the handshake …
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:04pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’ve got Ledderhose as well….
    
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10605618/
    Fortunately not Peyronie’s though.
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:04pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  Some NZ Vikings are sailing the Helly Hansen Three Kings race. Facing 4-5m swells up there today!
  
  https://www.rnzys.org.nz/rnzys-events/three-kings-offshore-race/
  
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  April 13, 2024 2:18pm
- KH
  
  My Viking ancestors sailed here in 1000AD. All the land is ours. So you lot can either pay up or f••k off.
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Whistleblowers from the Washington D.C. National Guard will tell Congress that Donald Trump did want them deployed during the Capitol riot and the Army delayed telling them to mobilize in a bombshell hearing next week.
So Donald Trump never asked for troops – so the lying left say……
Things are turning all pear shaped for the so called committee.

https://shorturl.at/cnBZ9
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April 13, 2024 8:08am
- Scott
  
  Quite right Steve. Trump wanted the national guard there but the mayor of Washington and also Nancy Pelosi refused.
  So it was never an insurrection. It was a protest against a stolen election. If it was an insurrection it would be the first time no insurrectionist brought a gun to the conflict.
  
  Trump obviously needs to organise his insurrections better? Seeing as he wanted the National Guard to be there to guard against trouble?
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:55am
  - Paulus
    
    Don’t worry the Democrat Judges will change the Laws to suit their purpose.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:00am
  - PhilBest
    
    Not enough people know anywhere near enough details about all this. When Tucker Carlson finally aired security camera footage that had been shared with him (in his Fox News role) by Kevin McCarthy (Republican House Speaker), it was treated as “news” by those who covered it (and of course the Left “MSM” didn’t) – “insurrectionists” strolling around exchanging pleasantries with Capitol Security and generally following instructions – and the “QAnon Shaman” got released soon after from the absurd prison sentence he had been sentenced to. But anyone who had been following the issue directly on social media had already seen cellphone footage – tons of it out there – that showed the same thing. It is frightening how narratives get established and actual video evidence counts for nothing, at least partly because even the “goodies” don’t know how to use the ammunition that is available.
    Anyone who saw actual footage of James Fields and his Dodge Challenger at Charlottesville would also know that the narrative that he was some kind of right-wingnut equivalent of an Allahu-Akhbar pedestrian-rammer, is a frame-up. The latter would have been going 10 to 20 times the speed and would have killed dozens, in the same circumstances. The one woman who died was sandwiched between two cars trapped in the crowd, that Fields rear-ended because he couldn’t see them.
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:50pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  The threshold of army deployments on US soil is extremely high, and there is also the issue of the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits the deployment of the US Armed Forces to enforce law on US soil.
  
  If Trump called for deployment of troops at the Capitol, he may well have been wrong in law to do so.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:20am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Members of the National Guard are rarely covered by the Posse Comitatus Act because they usually report to their state or territory’s governor. That means they are free to participate in law enforcement if doing so is consistent with state law. However, when Guard personnel are called into federal service, or “federalized,” they become part of the federal armed forces, which means they are bound by the Posse Comitatus Act until they are returned to state control.”
    
    Insurrection Act:
    “In addition, the Insurrection Act allows the president — with or without the state government’s consent — to use the military to enforce federal law or suppress a rebellion against federal authority in a state, or to protect a group of people’s civil rights when the state government is unable or unwilling to do so.”
    
    DC District of Columbia is not a State. The DC Guard is always under Presidential Control. (That would be Trump in 2021.)
    
    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained#:~:
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:47am
  - mawm
    
    He wanted the National Guard, not the Federal military. The National Guard of each State is under command of their Governor except for DC which is under command of the President or his designee.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:49am
  - virtualmark
    
    The President controls the DC National Guard, of which there’s about 2,000 troops (+ about 700 airmen). The President can call the DC NG out.
    
    *If* Trump, as President, wanted 10,000 National Guard members called out then he would need to have negotiated that with the Governors of other states. There is no evidence that he did that – in fact the evidence is to the contrary.
    
    And all the evidence to date, given under oath, is that Trump did not call out the DC NG. (*)
    
    Yes it’s possible the people in the article Steve links to may testify before Congress. However:
    * Previous testimony, under oath, has been very clear that Trump did not call out either the DC NG or any other troops.
    * So if these new “witnesses” testify otherwise then either (a) they are lying under oath or (b) previous witnesses lied under oath.
    
    (* When the DC NG did eventually turn out on Jan 6 it was at the “request” of Mike Pence. I say “request” because the VP is not in the direct chain-of-command for the DC NG and so Pence actually had no formal authority to order them to do anything.)
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Mike Pence can be the designee?
      Troops from other States yes. Trump had time to negotiate with Governors from mid Dec.
      The truth is slowly coming out.
      
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      April 13, 2024 12:29pm
    - Scott
      
      Virtual mark – this subject is clearly disputed as to the facts –
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13293449/DC-National-Guard-whistleblowers-say-ready-deployed-January-6-Trumps-orders-hours-held-Pentagon-bombshell-testimony-contradicting-Capitol-riot-committees-story.html
      
      Personally I believe Trump and his allies. Remember that Trump had been smeared by the media as a Russian agent for years. That was a lie.
      I believe Trump. I disbelieve his enemies given their track record of lies.
      
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      April 13, 2024 1:11pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Actually no, it’s not disputed. Read the evidence set out here https://www.justsecurity.org/93316/anatomy-of-a-conspiracy-theory-and-a-smear-still-no-evidence-of-trump-order-for-10000-guard-on-january-6th/
        
        Interestingly, these whistleblowers will apparently testify that Secretary of Defense Chris Miller called out the Guard. Well here’s Chris Miller testifying that (a) he didn’t and (b) he doesn’t know where that idea came from … https://twitter.com/january6thcmte/status/1552041350941532168?s=46
        
        So far all you and Steve have linked to is supposition and allegation. Now if those people testify under oath then there’s grounds for a bigger discussion, but until then the evidence is consistent that:
        * Trump floated the idea of calling out the Guard,
        * But in the context of them protecting his supporters,
        * But didn’t actually call out the Guard,
        * Couldn’t, on his own at least, have called out 10,000 Guardsmen,
        * Meanwhile Pelosi, Milley and others had legitimate fears that he wanted to use the Guard as part-reason for invoking the Insurrection Act.
        
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        April 13, 2024 2:05pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Tell you what though Scott, since you and Steve both clearly love conspiracy theories …
        
        The one person who could quickly clear up the “10,000 National Guard” thing is Mark Meadows, because it all originates from an interview he gave to Fox News.
        
        Meadows was subpoenaed by the Jan 6 committee, but didn’t appear, as did Pete Navarro, Steve Bannon and Dan Scavino.
        
        The DoJ charged Navarro & Bannon with contempt of Congress, and won. Navarro’s in prison right now, Bannon is meant to be.
        
        Here’s the conspiracy … the DoJ declined to charge Meadows & Scavino. Why? The legal theory is that it was in return for them testifying in other future cases. Mmm. What cases?
        
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        April 13, 2024 2:29pm
      - Scott
        
        Virtual – I don’t believe the Jan 6th committee sorry.
        There was no insurrection. The whole thing is a hit job designed to stop Trump getting voted back in.
        
        I hope he does get back in. America can take its place back on the world stage. Israel will sort out Hamas. The American economy will help the world economy get ahead. The border will be secured.
        
        Everyone will be a lot happier. Except for you and DPF. And the mainstream media. 😊
        
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        April 13, 2024 3:12pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Scott that’s simply not credible.
        
        There’s an immense volume of video footage of Jan 6 – so it’s a factual event that cannot be denied.
        
        An insurrection is “a violent uprising against an authority or government”. It’s clear that Jan 6 was a violent event intended to stop the regular business of the government.
        
        To say otherwise, as you are, is complete ostrich behaviour.
        
        And note that the witnesses to the Jan 6 committee were Republicans, nearly all of whom served in the Trump administration. This was Trump’s own people. Just dismissing sworn testimony because you just don’t like it isn’t adult behaviour.
        
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        April 13, 2024 3:51pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘WASHINGTON, Dec 30 2021 (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said the defense secretary would be the individual solely responsible for approving requests that would involve District of Columbia National Guard troops in civilian law enforcement activities.
    The move came as a result of a months-long Pentagon review of how the military generally handles requests for the National Guard within Washington, D.C.
    The district’s National Guard is the only one in the country that reports to the president, with the authority previously delegated to the Army secretary by the defense secretary.
    The review came after questions were raised about whether the National Guard was deployed quickly enough to try and help stop the Jan. 6 mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol building.
    “The Secretary of Defense is now the single approval authority for all requests that would involve District of Columbia National Guard personnel participating directly in civilian law enforcement activities or that require the deployment of DCNG (D.C. National Guard) personnel within 48 hours after receipt of the request,” a Pentagon statement said.’
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-refines-dc-national-guard-approval-authority-after-capitol-riot-2021-12-30/
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:17pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Yes, this is basically in response to January 6 and to the use of Guardsmen to clear Lafayette Park in June 2020.
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:12pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Most of the court cases are turning to shit as well, even the one starting this week has a witness that is deeply flawed and could crash the whole case
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:12pm
Benedict Yu

These deaths of babies and young children at the hands of their parents seem to be increasing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350240705/baby-accidentally-fatally-injured-during-argument-mum-claims

In this case, the mother claims that the baby’s father pushed her during an argument. She was holding the baby, stumbled, and the baby’s head collided with a refrigerator.

The mother therefore wants the baby’s death to be recorded as an “accident”. Nobody is to blame.

Interestingly, until about 1990, the child homicide rates for Maori and non Maori were about the same. After 1990, the homicide rates for Maori children rose dramatically.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/29237/child-homicide-rates-for-maori-and-non-maori

This picture does not support the claim that “colonisation” is to blame for high Maori family violence and child homicide. Surely the adverse impacts of colonisation were more acute in the 1970s and 1980s, before Treaty settlements, the revitalisation of the Maori language, and the recognition of Maori Science and Maori world views?

It is important that we understand what is causing so much harm and death in Maori families. This is because in the next 30 years there will be dramatic changes in the demographics in New Zealand.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/11/27/nzs-demographic-divide/

The Maori population is younger with higher birth rates. So unless something changes, the absolute numbers of Maori children being injured and killed will continue to escalate.
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April 13, 2024 8:12am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Was ‘Once Were Warriors’ prophetic or galvanising?
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:19am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Alan Duff based Jake the Muss on his mum. True.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:31am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      What about uncle bully
      
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      April 13, 2024 12:15pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The movie had done good tunes.
    
    I went to the bar at Mangere Bridge where the big fight was, it was quite a friendly bar, older guys who look ex mom were now older and friendly, there is about 4 or 5 pool tables to fight over
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:14pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  1990 was NZ’s sesquicentennial – the same year that many activists would have formally kicked off a variety of colonialism grievance initiatives
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:24am
  - PurplePen
    
    Interesting talk from Rafe Heydel-Mankoo at Cambridge about some benefits and truth of colonialism.
    
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O02RrKCZ64Y&pp=ygUTUmFmZSBIZXlkZWwtTWFua29vIA%3D%3D
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:59am
    - Kiwiguy
      
      That’s an excellent, fact-filled speech that has all woke ignorant leftards squirming in their seats.
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:23pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  I was just about to put this article up. Why were the Maori caucus of the Labour party so silent on all these baby deaths. They are so vocal about everything else that they think discriminates against them.
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A lot are SOCKs
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:08am
- Dougal10
  
  The rise in state supplied welfare coincides nicely with your figures
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:13am
- Gravelroad
  
  I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing that can be done to prevent some people from harming and killing their babies and young children.
  More money won’t stop them – either given or taken by way of fines, because what happens is never their fault.
  Life is cheap. Lose one to violence – just have a replacement.
  Not very civilised perhaps, but that is the way of life for some who are ruled by petulance, violence and immaturity.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:17am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I think a big problem is young women making terrible choices about the men that they partner and reproduce with. (I use “partner” because few are married.)
    
    After the death of this baby, the woman had a second baby with the father who “accidently” killed the first baby.
    
    These young women have choices.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      These young women like the income from WINZ.
      Just keep popping them out – the Govt pays.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:50am
      - JohnRidd
        
        They divorced the men and married the government.
        
        I don’t know who said it first.
        
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        April 13, 2024 1:53pm
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        Lindsay Mitchell has published on this. These young women are being farmed. The optimal number of kids is 3, it ensures a free house and maximum benefit to support the latest boyfriend and his mates.
        
        The kids welfare, well SOCKs so who cares?
        
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        April 13, 2024 4:54pm
  - artemisia
    
    Also possibly actions influenced by addiction. There’s a lot of it about, and much more potent options these days.
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:47am
- AndyW
  
  Sorry, I “reported” when I meant to “reply”.
  Surely it has something to do with certain groups in NZ discovering, and adopting, US “gangsta” rap and its associated attitudes/culture.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:16am
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Great post, thanks BY. Apart from “the recognition of Maaori Science”. Pre-contact Maaori culture was a pre-scientific culture.
  
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  April 13, 2024 11:18am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  The Kirk government created the domestic purposes benefit in 1974. 1990 would be around the time that kids raised by single mothers on welfare started to become parents themselves.
  
  The DPB is the single most damaging thing any NZ government has ever done. It’s very hard for a country to get ahead when they are subsidising the production of so many children by people who are incapable of raising them properly.
  
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  April 13, 2024 11:38am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    I can’t fault your analysis. But unfortunately it’s hard to imagine any government repealing that nefarious piece of legislation. Remember the outcry when the Key government tried to compel DPB mums to identify the fathers of the babies? However, if the present government is serious about reducing intergenerational welfare, they should limit the DPB to one child only per woman (with exceptions for multiple births, of course).
    
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    April 14, 2024 8:31am
- miltonF
  
  From my point of view it seems to be driven by the ideology of “de-colonisation”.
  
  This makes sense, as when Māori were integrating and adopting western values (being colonised) the stats were improving.
  
  Now that they are getting back to their roots and traditional culture (de-colonisation) the stats are worsening.
  
  This should be no surprise to anyone, as child homicide was extremely common in Maori culture before colonisation. The “Nobel savage” myth.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:22pm
- julesnzuk
  
  The “revitalising” of the Maori language is no such thing (there are no native speakers and is just forced on people top down in a condescending, annoying manner) and is doing nothing whatsoever to help the economic advancement of Maori New Zealanders. Maori did well when a) they had more job opportunities and b) there was no crap about “de-colonisation” and they adopted Western culture and c) they hadn’t been seduced by the cult of victimology
  
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  April 14, 2024 7:03am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Isn’t this just a little over the top?

“My blood pressure is through the roof. I know the cause of the anxiety is the uncertainty of not knowing if I get to keep a job, any job…
“Then if I lose my job, I am entering a saturated market at a time when all departments are reducing and even the private sector is laying off staff.”
She had to seek the help of her doctor to cope, she said.

Another said some people were taking sick leave because the uncertainty had been so overwhelming.

“People are just watching stuff happening, thinking, ‘oh my God, no one’s safe. There’s nowhere to hide’.”

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/514151/education-ministry-workers-on-tenterhooks-awaiting-job-cuts-news
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April 13, 2024 8:18am
- John Loveridge
  
  If you’re in that situation it is very stressful. But that is no reason superfluous staff should be retained. Life’s tough, reality bites sometimes, these people are going to have to get out and tread the boards.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:40am
  - rouppe
    
    Agree. I’ve been made redundant twice before
    
    This time I’ll highly likely be required to choose between going permanent or losing the job I have.
    
    Fortunately I have spent the last 40 years saving and investing so I’m leaning strongly towards early retirement. Fuck them all.
    
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    April 13, 2024 9:59am
- MCōs
  
  A company I worked for in Bangkok shut up shop in November and everyone was laid off.
  One of the guys came to see me out of the blue a couple of months later in NZ. He said he became so depressed he had to leave the country for a couple of weeks.
  He’d had a pay out of thirteen months salary and he already had a job to go back to, so money wasn’t the issue, but suddenly after about 16yrs all his old workmates had scattered. He sat at home, unmotivated, watching TV eating and getting fat.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:55am
- Benedict Yu
  
  The smart people should have seen this coming. A year ago it was increasingly clear that there would be a change of government. What did they think would happen?
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:37am
- Gravelroad
  
  Suggest that none of these poor, anxious, self absorbed people try for a job in farming , animal management or food and beverage (grape growing) production then.
  They would never, ever cope with the job conditions and uncertainty of production, selling, market driven costs and volatile prices for produce.
  But, hey,don’t let it stop you from marching against and blaming farmers and growers for climate change.
  Time for some people to grow up and face the change others have had to.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:39am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Signs up in the Hawkes Bay looking for people wanting to work in the freezing works.
    
    Would WINZ accept veganism as a valid reason for turning down a role?
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:44am
    - Colville
      
      Just don’t lick your fingers?
      
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      April 13, 2024 12:39pm
  - MCōs
    
    Doesn’t always work that way, gravel road.
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:43pm
- PurplePen
  
  And in the NZ Herald…
  “Education Ministry staff have told RNZ about their crippling anxiety as they and Oranga Tamariki staff wait to learn next week if they have lost their jobs”. Crippling anxiety!!!?! WTF crybabies. I’m sorry, but all this was forewarned months ago.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/education-ministry-workers-on-tenterhooks-awaiting-job-cuts-news/UW3ENZBSNZETRKYQSNZBMZL7SU/
  
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  April 13, 2024 2:44pm
Ipanema69

Just like to send a quick shout to the f****n morons who voted for Winston first in 2017. You gave us this mess that the Nats and Act are now trying to clean up.

On the day WRP shuffles off this mortal coil I will raise a glass in celebration and NZ will be a better place.
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April 13, 2024 8:21am
- Paulus
  
  I will too, but with Whisky.
  I will pass it through my kidneys first, over his grave.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:04am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Here, hear!
  
  Winston is a hypocrite of the highest order. He’s out there beating the drums for our inclusion into AUKUS, while his party was instrumental in reducing our navy to a 2 frigate force, and was also part of the government that eliminated our Air Force Strike Capability.
  
  For the record, I do believe that we need to be in AUKUS, but if Winston hadn’t been so near sighted 25-30 years ago, we would have a great deal more to contribute to this arrangement.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:25am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Bill English would still be pm, Nats would have received the same covid victory and would have won again, no Cindy premiership, I will never forgive him for that. However, I must say he has conducted himself very professionally ( not listening to any waffle from Tova over broadcasting hold ups) what surprises me the most is Shane Jones, he has been very professional, he has spoken with complete ease and fits in the cabinet very well. As I remember, he was awful under Labour, wreck less
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:22pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Yes, this Deity has been very impressed by Shane Jones so far this term. He seems to have finally grown into the job, and is not playing the blow-hard (yet).
    
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    April 13, 2024 4:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Americas Cup Team NZ defence is a foiling monohull.
Going to Barcelona. It is at Wynyard now but doesn’t say if we will see sea trials on Auckland Harbour.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/emirates-team-nz-unveil-new-ac75-boat-to-defend-america-s-cup-at-barcelona/ar-BB1luFBA
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April 13, 2024 8:24am
- rangitoto
  
  It has already been out sailing. Mozzy Sails analysis:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G338boX-x4Q
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:10pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Thanks for that. Interesting.
    
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    April 13, 2024 3:34pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Mozzy sails does pretty good analysis. Always worth listening to.
    
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    April 13, 2024 8:15pm
Grunter

Reports that Israel is preparing for an expected Iranian retaliation attack within the next 24-48 hours. Hospitals etc on alert. US military bases expect to be targeted. No one knows how quickly this could escalate, but if Iran hits Israel territory this will likely blow up very fast. Israel will not muck around.

Meantime, in Ukraine NATO are desperately trying to delude Zelensky into thinking he can still be saved. Speculation is rife that Ukraine will attempt something stupid on Putins inauguration day on May 7th. They need to spark something to drag NATO directly into this war.

I have zero faith in any of the leaders of western countries. None of them has any credibility nor the skills to defuse this dangerous global mess.
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April 13, 2024 8:27am
- Che Guava
  
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  The Israelis are loose cannons. Backed by the US security guarantee they bribe out of US politicians, they think they can do anything they like because America is obligated to fight Israel’s wars for it. It’s like an abusive relationship: even when the US tells (or meakly suggests) them that they should pull their heads in, the Israelis ignore them and do what they want because they know they are the tail wagging the US dog.
  
  One may reasonably ask why Israel are bombing and killing Iranian diplomats in Syria, which are two countries that they are not at war with? Is this the “self-defense” pretext that they use to excuse whatever they do?
  
  They act this way because, converse to the rhetoric, Israel, not Iran, is the belligerent in the region, and they want to spark a wider conflict that they will then use America to fight for them.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:33am
  - James Stephenson
    
    The conflict could end today, if the Muslims accepted Israel’s right to exist. Personally, I’m fine with however Israel decides to play the “attack is the best form of defence” policy.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:00am
    - Che Guava
      
      No nation has a “right to exist.” They exist if they can, and if they can’t, they don’t. What makes the Jews so special that they claim an absolute right to exist as the State of Israel, no matter the effect it has on anyone else? The entitlement is off the charts, but this is nothing unusual.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:25am
      - James Stephenson
        
        The Jews decided, after the discrimination they’d suffered for a couple of Millenia went properly “off the charts”, that they were going to quit running, go back to their homeland and fight for their right to exist as a people because their history tells them that without a State of Israel they can’t. All they really want is to be left alone, and the conflict stops as soon as they are.
        
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        April 13, 2024 11:05am
      - mawm
        
        Ch – As to the Israelis killing Iranian “diplomats” – these were people who were working to destroy Israel and make sure that it ceased to exist.
        
        But by your logic it’s not OK then for Israel to continue to try to exist. At the moment they are showing that they can by killing off those who don’t want them to. Nothing makes them special, they know that they are in an existential fight and will do anything they can to continue to exist. I like to think that I would be prepared to kill someone who is trying to kill me rather than wait for him to succeed.
        
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        April 13, 2024 11:09am
      - RightNow
        
        Perhaps they’re so special because they continue to exist despite all their neighbors trying to exterminate them.
        Palestine will exist if they can, they have no special right to exist either.
        To the victor go the spoils.
        
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        April 13, 2024 11:15am
      - Pope Punctilious II
        
        Do Turkish nationalists not claim that Turkey has an absolute right to exist, no matter what effect it has on anyone else (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds)?
        
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        April 13, 2024 11:20am
      - bjools
        
        Therefore you don’t believe in the UN.
        The very premise it was founded on.
        Lets name a few others with similar circumstances
        North Korea
        Taiwan
        DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)
        Zimbabwe
        Angola
        South Sudan
        Liberia (a state for freed slaves)
        
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        April 13, 2024 11:33am
      - Che Guava
        
        “The Jews decided, after the discrimination they’d suffered for a couple of Millenia went properly “off the charts”, that they were going to quit running, go back to their homeland and fight for their right to exist as a people because their history tells them that without a State of Israel they can’t. All they really want is to be left alone, and the conflict stops as soon as they are.”
        
        One has to ask, as I frequently do, why is it that the Jews have been “discriminated against” everywhere they’ve been and at all times?
        
        It’s a combination of two main elements:
        
        1. They see themselves as a special people deserving of special privileges and special consideration, and for much of those millennia, it was they who deliberately segregated themselves from the gentiles they lived amongst (e.g. they had their own communities with their own laws, their own institutions and so on). That is, they “othered” themselves, because they didn’t see themselves as being French, German, Dutch or whatever …… they were Jews above all else, who just happened to live in those places for the time being; relatedly
        
        2. This “separateness” caused friction with the gentiles whose cultures the Jews refused to assimilate to (in fact, even in 2024, what says “we are Jews who don’t want to assimilate to your gentile culture” louder than “we need our own Jewish nation where we can be and stay Jewish”?QED). Moreover, because of their status as being “separated” from the gentile majorities, Kings and other nobles of the time would use Jews as tax farmers, economic middle men and the like and, because Jews (unlike Christians) believed in usury, they often engaged in economic exploitation of the gentiles.
        
        Eventually, a combination of these factors (and several others) led the gentiles to deeply dislike the Jews, see them as a pernicious and subversive element, and so demand their expulsion, which occurred in hundreds of locations across Europe.
        
        That was the typical pattern of “discrimination” against the Jews.
        
        You can argue the rights and wrongs, but, as I have argued on numerous occasions, in general, Jews themselves are the principal cause of anti-semitism, because anti-semitism is a reaction to Jewish behaviour and the friction it tends to cause with gentiles, not an irrational pathological hatred with no explanation.
        
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        April 13, 2024 1:51pm
      - Che Guava
        
        “Do Turkish nationalists not claim that Turkey has an absolute right to exist, no matter what effect it has on anyone else (Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds)?”
        
        Again, any collective can claim a “right to exist” – but so what? The question is can they exist as a nation, which is really a political or military question based on facts, not abstract claims to having rights.
        
        Ultimately, without the military backing and security guarantee they receive from America, Israel would not exist. This is why it’s so crucial for there to exist a disproportionately Jewish-dominated elite in the US particularly (and the West more broadly) because such an elite advances Israel’s interests. It’s also crucial that the gentile public in these places support Israel, which is why, for instance and especially, the “conservative” movement in America is so heavily Jewish and pushes Jewish and Zionist interests so incessantly.
        
        In fact, this is probably one of the reasons why KB is filled with rabid Zionists who (I assume) aren’t even Jewish. You believe what you are told to believe because it is beneficial for you to believe it.
        
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        April 13, 2024 2:05pm
    - herb1
      
      “No nation has the right to exist”. Yet you think Palestine has a right to exist regardless of atrocities inflicted on its neighbour? And indeed on its own people.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:55am
      - Che Guava
        
        ““No nation has the right to exist”. Yet you think Palestine has a right to exist regardless of atrocities inflicted on its neighbour? And indeed on its own people.”
        
        No. As you correctly quote me I say that no nation has a right to exist, which is very different to the empirical question of whether they can exist or not.
        
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        April 13, 2024 1:57pm
    - Paulus
      
      And any hostages who remain alive, if any, be returned to Israel.
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:08pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Che,
    
    The Iranians the Israelis killed in Syria were the IRGC liaisons to Hezbollah. Given that Hezbollah are currently firing Iranian-made missiles at Israeli they seem to be a justified target.
    
    Note that if they had been Iranian diplomats then that would have been a whole bigger problem. But Israel was very careful to bomb the building only after the Iranian ambassador had left.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:04am
  - bjools
    
    I’m not sure I have ever seen a comment on here, that has been this wrong, on EVERY level.
    1. EVERY conflict involving Israel, has always been between itself and the Arab Nations or their proxy’s.
    2. Israel has started NONE of them.
    3. The USA has NEVER been combatively involved in any conflict involving Israel.
    4….”the Israelis ignore them and do what they want because ….” They are sovereign nation, under attack of threat of attack every day.
    5. They have no actual influence over the USA, but the USA uses them as a buffer against aggression in this region.
    6….”ask why Israel are bombing and killing Iranian diplomats in Syria, which are two countries that they are not at war with?” technically they are in an undeclared war with all of them, these “diplomats” were known representatives of Iran, who had been supplying weapons and training to people attacking them.
    Israel also attacked arms shipment moving to Hezbollah through Syria.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:06am
    - Che Guava
      
      There were objectively far fewer problems in the Middle East region before the Jews started arriving in large numbers and decided it was a nice place to set up a nation for themselves. Just one problem: other people already lived there. That’s the rub of the entire shit show. The trouble it has led to since was easily foreseeable from the outset.
      
      People like to delude themselves into thinking it is everyone except the Jews who are the cause of the conflict.
      
      Obviously, it does take two to tango in any conflict, but the genesis is the Jews imposing themselves on the inhabitants of the region: it’s not an “irrational hatred of Jews” that is the cause of the trouble, the cause is the Jews driving people out and stealing their land, then claiming it as their own as a promise from God. Everything since has been a reaction, with the Israelis consistently ignoring international law and humanitarian principles to realise their aim of a Greater Israel free of non-Jews (or at a minimum with a heavily Jewish demographic advantage). Right now, they are engaged in what will inevitably be the annexation of Gaza.
      
      Moreover, it is America’s unconditional (and bought) loyalty to Israel that has turned the Arabs against America. America used to have excellent relations with the Arab would, prior to its acknowledging Israel. Israel is a clear liability to America, not an ally with shared interests. America’s policy of fighting Israel’s wars for the last 20 or 30 years has been one of the main factors in the US’s decline over that time.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:44am
      - bjools
        
        1. Jews have lived in Canaan (Israel) from 3rd C BCE
        2. Arabs as the tribes at the time coexisted at around the same time.
        3. Islam (muslims) did not exist till 600AD
        4. …” Greater Israel free of non-Jews”…
        NEVER been a principle of the state of Israel.
        5.”America’s policy of fighting Israel’s wars for the last 20 or 30 years has been one of the main factors in the US’s decline over that time.”
        The USA has NEVER fought with Israel in any battle, let alone war.
        6. “turned the Arabs against America”….really and of the Abraham Accords?
        https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Israel+accords
        I would say this an anti Iranian effort by Arab nations.
        
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        April 13, 2024 12:34pm
      - PurplePen
        
        Yes and no. They got beaten by some empire about 1000BC and mostly exiled to Babylon. They were allowed to return after a while, and allowed to build a temple and a tennis court. Then the Roman empire came along. Jews and Romans fought about 200AD and Romans won of course and exiled the Jews, Romans destroyed the temple but kept the tennis court. Pockets of Jews existed all over the Levant and Europe ever since with skirmishes and issues here and there. Get to the mid 20th century post WWII and they finally get back to where they originated. The rest is recent history.
        
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        April 13, 2024 12:50pm
      - miltonF
        
        Exactly Che.
        
        The Muslims would hate the Israelis equally as much if they wore crucifixes around their necks rather than the Star of David.
        
        It is not their identity, but their actions which bring Zionism into disrepute.
        
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        April 13, 2024 4:31pm
      - NothingLeft
        
        Judaism didn’t get fully established till about C6th BC. References to things in the Talmud and Bible that happened hundreds to thousands of years earlier history (creation myths, Moses, Abraham etc) is ahistorical invention.
        
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        April 13, 2024 5:20pm
      - cmm
        
        “There were objectively far fewer problems in the Middle East region before the Jews started arriving in large numbers and decided it was a nice place to set up a nation for themselves”
        
        Coincidence.
        
        It is probably the oil that was more of an issue and that just happened at the same time.
        
        Another huge issue was the general reduction of colonial forces in the area. All the European colonial forces (France, Germans, Italy, but mainly Britain) stabilised the region through Pax Romana.
        
        When decolonisation, the vacuum lead to increasing Islamic hostility.
        
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        April 13, 2024 6:27pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Killed diplomats..
    
    Yeah yeah… An IRG commandrr coordianting attacks on Israel using militias as the tactical units. So very much a legitimate target… Id Iran wants peace they can stop funding and directing militias in a proxy war on Israel
    
    Iran srikes Israel… They can kiss goodbye to large swathes of their military capacity as they will be smashed… And the Arab world, especially Saudi, will cheer the Israelis on..
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:56am
- MCōs
  
  Shouldn’t it be Putin who defuses the mess over there or he is somehow the good guy now?
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:59am
  - Grunter
    
    The “Goodies vs Baddies” thinking got us into this mess. And it won’t get us out of it. It is such a shallow view on reality.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:16am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Politics is a smokescreen for the real purpose:
      Sell weapons and steal assets.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:45am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        The most insightful comment today.
        
        Although there is no doubt Hamas is an evil organization exploiting Palestinians to allow Hamas leaders to live a rockstar lifestyle in Qatar, far from the destruction.
        
        There are many more commentators questioning how Hamas orchestrated and carried out such a large attack with no timely Israeli military response.
        
        Hamas preparations and intentions were well telegraphed to the Israel intelligence,
        
        They came through the most surveilled and electronically monitored border in the world,
        
        and still got 2 unopposed hours to run amok and take hostages.
        
        Why?
        
        could Netanyahus imminent corruption prosecution have anything to do with the unbelievably poor Israeli response?
        
        And perhaps the opportunity of untold riches for the leadership of Israel with the American military aid money flooding into Israel?
        
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        April 13, 2024 12:21pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Cool conspiracy theory Bro
        Most of the ‘money’ is in the form of Grants to be used solely for Military purchases.
        So Israel never actually gets cash…
        ‘Most of the aid—approximately $3.3 billion a year—is provided as grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services. ‘
        https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
        
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        April 13, 2024 2:21pm
    - bjools
      
      It’s called….Human nature….to see life this way.
      
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      April 13, 2024 11:36am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well Ukraine is already toast. NATO has dribbled in all its spare capacity and is toast too. So Iran may open the next front (if they havent already in the Red Sea) and then its all on for Taiwan.
  
  Europe has gleefully de-industrialised over the last 30 years, Britain has turned off its last blast furnaces and can’t make steel anymore, Germany bet on relying on Russian gas and is discovering what life without industrial energy looks like…
  
  But most importantly, they have their pronouns down pat and they are all on track for their Net Zero targets!
  
  Interesting times.
  
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  April 13, 2024 5:01pm
  - julesnzuk
    
    Hopefully there is at least the beginnings of a backlash against the pronoun crap in the UK.
    
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    April 14, 2024 7:13am
SmokerGuy

So a new Curia poll finds 53% of people still want a tax cut. But how would you know as it is right down in the bowels of the herald site and I can’t see it mentioned anywhere else. The media have been on a crusade to find anyone they can to say tax cuts should be ditched yet a poll where people say they still want them is barely mentioned. When are the media gonna finally understand why people distrust them so much???
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April 13, 2024 8:32am
- John Loveridge
  
  All I’ve seen from the media is stuff like Chippy saying the Government is stiffing you to provide tax cuts for wealthy landlords. They still don’t get it.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:43am
- rouppe
  
  I’ll be getting a tax cut in June.
  
  I’ll be paying zero tax.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:02am
  - Che Guava
    
    Good for you. I suppose the rest of us will have to take up the slack caused by your personal good fortune.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:51am
    - rouppe
      
      Luck had nothing to do with it.
      
      Though to be completely accurate, I’ll still be paying tax, just not paye.
      
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      April 13, 2024 1:08pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Ah, but you’ll be paying PAYE in about three years’ time, when you start collecting New Zealand Superannuation.
        
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        April 13, 2024 2:31pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Steve Todd.
        That Tax on Super is just numbers. No physical Tax like money earned taken away.
        
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        April 13, 2024 3:36pm
      - rouppe
        
        Dang it!
        
        Though according to a certain member who says he is living in Cambodia, ird don’t deduct nz tax when you’re living overseas in a country with no tax Treaty collecting New Zealand Superannuation
        
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        April 13, 2024 4:47pm
  - softail 1450
    
    rouppe , if you’re paying no taxes in this country after June is it asking to much to know what you’re being sentenced for ?👮‍♂️👮‍♂️
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:52am
    - rouppe
      
      Got me there 😆
      
      Just the paye portion ..
      
      That was a good one though.
      
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      April 13, 2024 1:09pm
- MCōs
  
  It’s a funny old world we live in
  When Labour wins the election of the Greens go up in the polls the public are stupid sheep
  When a poll favours tax cuts the public are wise beyond measure
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:03am
  - Taieri
    
    When a poll favours tax cuts the public are wise beyond measure
    ———–
    
    Q: When the public doesn’t understand the difference between the tax cuts and tax brackets change?
    A: When we see the comments like the one posted above.
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:44pm
  - SmokerGuy
    
    Look I give zero shits if the media report economists like Bagrie saying they should not implement tax cuts. All I’m asking is they report other angles on a story. It’s got nothing to do with what people on here think of the public and you’re just being a shit stirrer for saying that!
    
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    April 13, 2024 2:09pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s about third on the list of articles on my phone, it was at the top last night, it is not paywalled, I was so happy to read this.
  
  Man lefties hate it when whinging in comments that tax cuts are wreck less, and you belt them back that threshold changes are not tax cuts but giving back the stolen taxes of Labour
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:28pm
- PurplePen
  
  We’ll always vote with our back pocket I’ve always been told.
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:27pm
- NothingLeft
  
  more than 50% of the population pay no effective income tax (getting more from welfare or govt salaries than they pay)
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:59pm
Benedict Yu

No wonder this media company is going out of business.

“Major SH1 rail bridge partially collapses; heavy rain and thunderstorm warnings remain”

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/04/weather-evacuations-power-outages-as-significant-rain-event-continues-to-lash-new-zealand.html

A “State Highway 1 rail bridge” 😳
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April 13, 2024 8:39am
- softail 1450
  
  Benedict Yu , Old Joe Biden told a story of him crossing the Francis Scott key bridge many many times by train despite there being no train lines on the bridge, perhaps the Newshub “journalists” who may lose their cushy one eyed jobs should apply to the White House,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC apparently KJP is on the lookout for an honest fact checker for her press conferences.
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:50am
- Ehlana
  
  Don’t you get sick of being stuck behind trains on SH1? Why don’t they stick to the railway tracks that have been built especially for them?
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:52am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That took me a while to get.
  Anyone from media asked Kiwirail why their trains are on SH1?
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:59am
  - PurplePen
    
    Just written and asked them about the newshub headline.
    
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    April 13, 2024 1:32pm
- Dougal10
  
  And that bridge could have been taken out on a sunny day as all that water came from the mountains on the west coast .
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:17am
  - Chris Nisbet
    
    Yes, was that collapse due to the bad weather?
    
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    April 13, 2024 9:27am
- MCōs
  
  The article referred to says
  “Repair plans are underway after the partial collapse of a rail bridge over the Rangitata River, off State Highway 1 between Ashburton and Timaru”
  Off SH1, which I interpret as alongside SH1
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:08am
  - bjools
    
    off State Highway 1
    Could also mean….connected to…SH1
    Which it is not, but SOUNDS much more sensational and implies a blockage of SH1.
    Either poor language skills or deception by implication.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:23am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Seems the news item has been edited. It is different rom what it was earlier.
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:09am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Too be fair I am pretty sure that’s the bridge that runs right beside the highway, I might be wrong, but there is one right beside the highway, mind you there are several rivers passing over from Omar’s up to CHCh
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:33pm
    - Taieri
      
      There are two SH1 Rangitata Bridges, one over the main river and the other over the South branch. Railway bridges over both river branches are not very far from the road bridges, the one over the main river is actually very close and parallel to SH1.
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:55pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        That’s the one I am talking about
        
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        April 13, 2024 7:59pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Hahahaha, like the woman whinging on about 40-50 yearold baby boomers coming too hospital pissed at night, I sent a message saying the youngest BB is now 60
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:30pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  To be fair to the media, perhaps they had in mind the Awatere Bridge. I was surprised to see that it was still open as recently as 2007.
  
  https://www.marlboroughonline.co.nz/marlborough/information/archictecture/bridges/awatere-road-rail-bridge/
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:40pm
Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: For Your Own Good
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-for-your-own-good?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Great video
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April 13, 2024 8:50am
Chuck Bird

PETER WILLIAMS: How can media survive?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/peter-williams-how-can-media-survive
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April 13, 2024 8:55am
- Cassandra
  
  They won’t, not in their current form anyway. Like the other 95% I’m sick of lies and obfuscations. If I want an expert opinion I’ll ask for it (usually don’t have to ask, I’m married).
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:06am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If I want an expert opinion I’ll ask for it (usually don’t have to ask, I’m married).
    
    Can I plagiarise?…Pretty please.
    
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    April 13, 2024 9:51am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Here’s a few hints about what _won’t_ help them survive…
  – Telling me your going to shape my opinions.
  – declaring that I’m:
  – far-right
  – Nazi
  – racist
  – transphobe
  – climate science denier
  You get the picture.
  And then telling me that legacy media are need to defend democracy.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:23am
  - Paulus
    
    Maybe get some male Political Reporters !
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:06am
    - pdm
      
      Benedict Collins and Jack Tame are no better.
      
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      April 13, 2024 10:26am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        He said “male”
        The emasculated are not in the game.
        
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        April 13, 2024 3:41pm
- mawm
  
  Chuck – Peter Williams asking for money for Reality Check Radio – https://realitycheck.radio/offair/?mepr-unauth-page=241662&redirect_to=%2Fpodcasts%2F
  
  It would be sad to see them disappear.
  
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  April 13, 2024 11:19am
- julesnzuk
  
  Getting basics like the names of countries right would be a start. Apparently New Zealand is now called “Aoteoroa” now – because some media people decided it is. The arrogance of these people is breathtaking.
  
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  April 14, 2024 7:16am
softail 1450

Bridgenag ,Very funny .
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April 13, 2024 8:55am
CJames

I wonder if buried in NZ legislation, there is a requirement for all new cars to be fitted with a kill switch? It is a buried requirement in US legislation and we normally follow them.
https://www.aier.org/article/fact-checkers-are-gaslighting-you-on-the-feds-vehicle-kill-switch-mandate/
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April 13, 2024 9:18am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Apparently geo-fencing and time schedules are becoming a thing for cars.
  I can’t see those features getting misused by climate-hysterical governments at all…
  /sarc
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:28am
- JackRabbit
  
  Cars used to have a “kill switch”. It was called an ignition switch, which had a key you inserted.
  
  Keyless entry was always a bad idea, from a security and safety point of view.
  
  No doubt the kill switch is for EVs, to be used in the event of Lithium Ion thermal runaway.
  
  Spoiler alert: If the battery of an EV is in thermal runaway, a kill switch has no effect.
  
  Warning: If the kill switch is anything other that a mechanical one, e.g. one that can be accessed by remote, it will be accessed and abused by the deep state.
  
  “Car #278655434 is going to a Trump rally. Disable it.”
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:52am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    Could be a lucrative business for a smart electronic engineer to come up with a covert kill-switch defeat hack.
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:34pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Decades ago I had a Lotus Elan S130
  It had a hidden switch which would disconnect the Battery.
  Not sure why anyone would steal one.
  Chances are it would break down
  Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious
  
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  April 13, 2024 11:15am
  - virtualmark
    
    Good taste Red. My choices were more Italian, but I’d have happily had an Elan.
    
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    April 13, 2024 2:12pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Other cars I had were two Alfa Romeo 1750GTV’s, a 1300 Guilia. One of my faves was a Brick Red 1978 Fiat x19-Designed by Marcello Gandini, engine by Aurelio Lampredi, Chassis by Dallara and made by Bertone. I wish I still had that one. I bought it with 10,000kms on it.
      Had a 246 GTS for awhile. Rusty piece of crap. The chassis used to flex…
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:30pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Fix
      It
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      Tony?
      
      before the 80’s a Ferrari only became (relatively) reliable after it had been professionally stripped and reassembled to correct all the assembly fuckups.
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:56pm
  - softail 1450
    
    All on Red, , That particular car is now highly sort after and good examples are very expensive,I guess you’d remember the little hardtop sports they made with I think a Renault or fiat engine rather than their 1600 ford based DOHC version,I don’t recall the name of it now but it was a fast nimble and good looking car.
    I owned a Mk2 lotus cortina for a while when I finished my apprenticeship,good examples of them go for $80k these days they were brilliant cars I repaired quite a few 7s that had a habit of breaking their rear chassis rails and you are right as they got older they were unreliable unless they were meticulously maintained.
    
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    April 13, 2024 2:35pm
    - virtualmark
      
      The little hardtop that came with a Renault engine was the Lotus Europa.
      
      To be precise, the original Lotus Europa’s came with a Renault engine & gearbox. It was a bit of a weird installation … Lotus had to rotate the whole arrangement 180 degrees so that meant they’d have had four reverse gears and one forward. So Lotus had to reverse the diff to sort that out.
      
      Later versions of the Europa were available with the same Lotus twin-cam that went into the Elan. And there were even later versions with a racing version of that motor, and then a few with the in-house Lotus 2-litre engine.
      
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      April 13, 2024 3:34pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I almost bought an Esprit off Mike Clark in Khyber Pass Rd.
        After giving it a thrash he was verrry grumpy I didn’t buy it!
        The Elan blew up six months after I sold it. That owner wasn’t happy with me either.
        
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        April 13, 2024 4:48pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Had a Lotus Europa 35 years ago. Loved driving it but one day after parking at the grocery store the door fell off while opening it.
        
        Luckily the local Ridgecrest California cop was dating my sister so didn’t get a lot of tickets.
        
        Very distinctive looking car only 34 inches high.
        Did get called into the China Lake Police department one day because a car that looked like mine did a hit-and-run on the bushes at the Officers Club. They even read me my Miranda rights when I got to the police station!
        
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        April 13, 2024 5:52pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      That Cortina was a rocket ship in its day.
      And yes, very expensive now.
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:41pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Heh, you got me looking at Pistonheads now
        https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/14453197
        Stunning. Never drove one but would love to.
        
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        April 13, 2024 5:30pm
EssenX

I read this morning that Tova wants the Government to “do something” so that the media has a level playing field? I don’t understand. How is the status quo not a level playing field?
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April 13, 2024 9:19am
- mandk
  
  Level playing field?
  
  What a great idea. We should start by withdrawing all public funding from RNZ and TVNZ, and let them compete commercially.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:29am
  - EssenX
    
    Touché.
    
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    April 13, 2024 9:49am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Maybe she’s asking that the government calls a halt to the PIJF (I gather that we’re still handing out money from it), which clearly _doesn’t_ make for a level playing field.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:30am
- John Loveridge
  
  Tova must be worried about losing her job. Again.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:46am
  - gravedodger
    
    Tova does not lose jobs they just somehow leave her.
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:46pm
- nathie
  
  Typical MSM – no analysis from them on the rise of social media giants over the last 10+ years gobbling up advertising revenue and how to counter it.
  
  And no analysis from them on the rise of social media giants over the last 10+ years gobbling up viewers/readers/listeners and how to counter it.
  
  Plus no analysis from them how Labour did nothing about it 2017-2023 when social media was (is) in full flight. And no criticism of Labour wasting tens of millions on failed RNZ/TVNZ mergers and continuous cash subsidising Te Ao maori worldview stories. But zero $ for the MSM to survive this new environment.
  
  Instead they revert to form – conducting witch hunts against National/ACT/NZF hoping to score scalps. As if that would actually change the landscape for them …
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:46am
  - Swifty
    
    The news media have had 30 years to respond to the rise of the internet and its inevitable impact on their business operations.
    
    And now they want NZ families to rush to their rescue with more taxes?
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:04am
    - Mike
      
      No, the principal request from legacy media is for social media giants paying for the content others publish.
      
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      April 13, 2024 11:29am
    - MCōs
      
      All the major newspapers and the minor ones for that matter have responded to the rise of the internet by going online
      The problems are many, but the main one is cash flow
      This is partially overcome by advertising and/or subscription
      Some publications are packed with clickbait articles about the royal family, medical malpractice, war porn, sensational court cases, beneficiaries damaging state houses and loads of advertising
      Others have biased political hit pieces that prove left/right wing politicians are baby eating drongos and heaps of advertising
      
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      April 13, 2024 11:30am
  - Paulus
    
    Yawn !
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:08am
- JackRabbit
  
  Its All Over, Red Tova.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:53am
- Burtland
  
  given media have all the answers for society, its odd they dont have a viable business model for their own industry
  
  goes to show just how smart they are – maybe the rest of their advice is dumb too
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:01am
- thirteenstars
  
  Do something? If Melissa Lee had some grit she’d send an open letter to the corporate media with a bunch of bullet points along the lines of:
  
  – work harder
  – work smarter
  – compete better
  – write stories viewers want
  – stop whining
  – etc.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:35am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The attack dog Melissa Lee is on a leash being held back by someone.
    I can guess.
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:21am
  - julesnzuk
    
    Add “use the correct name for our country” and “communicate in the English language” to that list. Basics.
    
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    April 14, 2024 7:19am
- softail 1450
  
  EssenX, I want Newshub to do the right thing for thinking New Zealanders and install cameras all over their buildings and offices so that thinking New Zealanders can laugh like drains when observing the crying ,tantrum throwing and gnashing of teeth when security staff usher all the woke 300 off the sight for the final time to make sure they don’t thieve anything..
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:14pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I think “level playing field” is code for “make Google and Meta give us money”.
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:49pm
mandk

Brave girl fights on after her school denies her request to have a Prayer Club:
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/fifth-grader-11-speaks-out-after-school-banned-her-from-starting-interfaith-prayer-club-due-to-lack-of-funding-just-weeks-after-approving-lgbtq-pride-group/ar-BB1lw8J6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCT
S&cvid=1369dc2a607b4627a8a945a486d7dbec&ei=12

God speed you, young lady.
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April 13, 2024 9:26am
NeverMindTheBollocks

No cyclists on Adelaide Rd this morning, and no bus lane runner camera crews either.

Climate change isn’t as important on wet days, apparently.
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April 13, 2024 9:28am
- imalwaysright
  
  That’s a dangerous road. A complete mess of obstructions.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:47am
- peterwn
  
  And no bus stop seat or shelter at the new city-bound bus stop in Adelaide Road (which replaced two bus stops outside Loafers Lodge and Jaycar). Presumably insufficient money. Yet more people probably use that bus stop than cycle along Adelaide Road.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:40am
Chuck Bird

I just got ACTion | The Week in Politics in my inbox.

I do not agree with everything but they are sticking up for farmers in regards to methane.

They also support Israel.
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April 13, 2024 9:39am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  With a little work we might get them to stand up for the rest of us with regards to CO2.
  One step at a time I guess.
  
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  April 13, 2024 9:50am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Act already has a sensible view on CO2. NZF does to some extent.
    
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    April 13, 2024 10:59am
    - Conservatarian
      
      NZF says that NZ should basically “drill, baby, drill”. Shane Jones as Minister of Energy has been constantly pushing back on the Greens and others in the anti-development crowd who seek to stop NZ from exploiting our mineral resources. Funny how the “progressives” never want progress in people’s standard of living.
      
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      April 13, 2024 1:02pm
      - cmm
        
        If anyone cared about the CO2 thing then they would drill baby drill.
        
        Gas and oil generate a lot less CO2 per unit heat than coal.
        
        Cindy’s sly plan of shutting down NZ oil and gas and replacing it with coal essentially doubles the CO2 from the power sector.
        
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        April 13, 2024 6:33pm
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      I wonder how they feel about us handing over billions of dollars when we fail to meet our emissions reductions targets.
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:47pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Who is the money meant to be handed to?
        
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        April 13, 2024 5:20pm
- peterwn
  
  ??? I thought that was a bus company in Canberra.
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:35am
Yvette

Judgement of the media going down the toilet.

Just one simple example –
During the covid pandemic, regardless of your views on it, was there any thorough half hour or hour programme that fully explained how vaccines work, and how the covid vaccine differed(in synthetic content and the final stage of delivery) to earlier vaccines, so viewers were able to then make a fully informed decision about their own up take of the technology, or the decisions others made or were forced to make?

That the Government then did not direct television to perform their most basic purpose of being a state entity – dispersal of information to offer unbiased vital health information – in a time recognised internationally as possibly endangering entire populations, as evidenced by New Zealand being completely shutdown.

Compared to “Compass”, “Gallery” or any other current affairs series of the 1970-80s, state television utterly failed New Zealanders.
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April 13, 2024 9:48am
- imalwaysright
  
  Neither the government nor the media were intelligent enough to lie in detail.
  That’s why any resistance to their propaganda was attacked.
  There was no scientific evidence.
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:13pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sQwcrTxlbw
Why Xi Jinping is missing from the world stage.
It has been 654 days and counting. Xi Jinping hasn’t left China in 21 months. A report claims the Chinese officials are “preoccupied” with protecting Xi’s health. Is the Chinese president not keeping well or just hiding from the world?
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April 13, 2024 9:49am
- virtualmark
  
  When you’re paranoid that if you leave the country they might try to overthrow you …
  
  Or maybe it’s being realistic, rather than paranoid?
  
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  April 13, 2024 10:08am
  - Colville
    
    Harder to use body doubles in meetings if you don’t control the settings. Xi is seriously ill.
    
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    April 13, 2024 11:20am
- Graeme Hall
  
  Not according to CNN, unless Xi stayed only in San Francisco’s China Town on 15th Nov 2023.
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/joe-biden-xi-jinping-meeting-11-15-23/index.html
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:15pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Oops.
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:58pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Chinese economy is in dire depression-level shit, and Xi has been pulling a Stalin on anyone even remotely threatening to his power in China, making him a highly attractive target for assassination. As a tyrant emperor he’ll be terrified of exposing himself.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:51pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1NcEzfRf8
Musk and Milei Meet.
Elon Musk invited Argentina’s ‘Trump’ Javier Milei to hang out at Tesla’s HQ and he drove a Cybertruck.
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April 13, 2024 9:49am
- Che Guava
  
  Just two cool guys, hanging out, right? Argentina has the largest reserves of Lithium in the world, a critical component in Lithium-ion electric car batteries.
  
  Milei is a Deep State op meant to appeal to Boomers who obsess about the threat of “socialism.” The Department of Defence and the State Department are trying to prevent Latin American resources from falling into the hands of Russia and China, which is why they have been promoting Milei in America and helped him get elected in Argentina, which surely qualifies as foreign election interference.
  
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  April 13, 2024 11:19am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Global lithium market has crumbled due to EV winter cutting demand and consequent massive oversupply. Lots of Chinese battery and EV manufacturers and processors going out of business.
    
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    April 13, 2024 4:49pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Bolivia has the largest reserves
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Riveting/disturbing interview of a couple of Dilworth School abuse victims on RNZ this morning.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018934107/mark-staufer-and-neil-harding-the-lost-boys-of-dilworth
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April 13, 2024 9:56am
Maggie Pie

The numbers are almost unbelievable!
More than 400 job cuts from the ranks of those working on ‘Three Waters’

Wonder how many had a surname that rhymed with… ‘ormsby’?

https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/1778643850078384415

Imagine what it would be today if Nanaia was still Minister 🙁
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April 13, 2024 10:06am
- MCōs
  
  I’m confused by three waters and by that which the current administration is doing instead
  However I do know that our water charges are increasing by 25%+ on top of whatever the rates increase will be and the insurance price jack up
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Don’t believe any of the 25%+ stuff Cossie.
    That’s just a load of lefty-generated bullsh*t.
    
    People with knowledge of the matter who wish to remain anonymous, were telling my partner Len has told them to expect an increase of no more than 7.5% in July.
    Perfectly reasonable in the circumstances.
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:55pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Who is this ‘Len’ you speak of Kemosabe?
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The View is coming for your guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hS5e0PkASo
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April 13, 2024 10:21am
- MCōs
  
  Isn’t that an American programme?
  How could they be coming for my (nonexistent) guns?
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:38pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You are the one with the red top on, right?
    
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    April 13, 2024 4:08pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

I am not sure how long Luxon will survive. Another knife in the back from Toxic Tova. She is single handedly bringing this useless gummit down.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350244251/claims-winston-peters-hadnt-been-given-media-cabinet-paper-bullshit-source

If I were in useless Melissa Lee’s position, I would have issued a statement saying simply GO WOKE GO BROKE and walked away. There is no need for gummit to save TV1 or Newshub jobs. They are perishing because people are not watching TV1 and Newshub. Move on will ya?
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April 13, 2024 10:39am
- MCōs
  
  The point of the article is Ms Lee is the collateral damage from the power struggle within the coalition government
  Any unbiased observer could see this coming
  Any biased observer will be having a good laugh or cry
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:09pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    So what are you seeing? Peters is out of the country and is unable to make a decision, Lee was able to easily skewer Curran, and she did very well against Jackson too
    
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    April 13, 2024 12:40pm
  - Conservatarian
    
    The point of the article is Stuff (Tova) citing Stuff (Emily Brookes) citing Newsroom about a supposed “power struggle” within the coalition and about which Peters is supposed miffed. Brookes’ Stuff article notes:
    “Asked whether the proposal had been progressed to Cabinet prematurely, Peters said: “When things happen sometimes, it’s often due to due to over-exuberance on the part of staff members, not to condemn them, and a certain stage in the process is overlooked.””
    
    That’s hardly incendiary Peters rhetoric is it? After all, he is not afraid to criticise.
    
    The truth is, the media is interested above all in what happens to the media. Specifically, whether it will continue to be bailed out, this time by a government which it actively campaigned against.
    
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    April 13, 2024 1:35pm
    - Paulus
      
      Whatever is left of the media today will do everything they can to try and make a hole in the three parties to the first elected MNP Coalition.
      Aye Tova but not gone !
      
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      April 13, 2024 2:30pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She has already stated handouts are not the way, she has a plan but still needs signed off, problem is Peters is out of the country, and parliament is now out till the end of school holidays. Toxic Tova is waffling bullshit about what is happening, she has a paper, it will be released before long, note other media have stared clear
  
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  April 13, 2024 12:38pm
Maggie Pie

STARS IN THEIR EYES – Japanese style.

“And tonite Teriyake, who are you going to be?”

“Tonite Odakyu-san….I’m going to be Louie Armstrong!”

https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1778833261407461856

😀 😀 😀
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April 13, 2024 11:35am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

What happened to the client list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAAe1X_D3I
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April 13, 2024 11:46am
MCōs

Newshub is being replaced by stuff like this https://aseannow.com/topic/1324792-foreigners-shocking-behavior-on-soi-4-sparks-outrage-in-bangkok-videos/
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April 13, 2024 12:03pm
- Inandout
  
  MC, the Asians must look at that grossly drooping body and think being slim may be an asset.
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:11pm
Notsofast

280 of 8000 reported hate speech crimes followed up in Scotland. Here is one of them under the direction of an Islamist.

https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1778844581171171787?t=J24mX5J7ZiflRNXMlfMglg&s=19

“It seems the abuse of @HumzaYousaf Hate Act is picking on all the “right” people. This outrageous arrest of a 74 year old lady in Scotland is revolting.

“Hi {redacted}, I am a victim of the hate/crime bill. On Tuesday two police turned up at my door to arrest me. They would not tell me why, only that it was an allegation

“I was not told anything until I arrived at the police station (in a police van) I was searched, jewellery removed, phone switched off & only at the interview was I told that my anti social neighbour had claimed that I called her a simple mongol.

“I have not spoken to this person since November when she made another false allegation against me. 2 years I have endured damage to my property, abuse, false allegations, this is along with other neighbours who have suffered, the person involved is a private renter, we are all owners.

“I thought I was a strong person, but this nightmare has made me ill, every time I think about it I am in tears, shaking & feeling very unwell. No charges were made…..

“My daughter is now in contact with a lawyer

“I am 74 years old I just wish Useless could be ousted!
{redacted} has since told me by phone that when she asked what would happen if she didn’t get into the police van she was told she’d have to be handcuffed.

“She’s in a right state.” “
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April 13, 2024 1:22pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Did we ever need convincing that the Labour caucus contains some very sick individuals?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350244539/senior-labour-mp-ordered-take-down-gross-social-media-posts
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April 13, 2024 1:41pm
- PurplePen
  
  Unbelievable that intelligent and supposed professional adults could think that that sort of post is actually ok. What did they think to gain from it. It does suggest that people like that have lost what it is to be civil and rational in a civil society.
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:50pm
- AitchW
  
  And Stuff published the same pictures in their article. Gutter press at its worst.
  
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  April 13, 2024 1:58pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  The main issue I see with these cartoon cards is the Samoan artist has no problem naming them Garbage PALE kids. Imagine the outrage if a white artist did a series of cards attacking labour ministers called Garbage BROWN kids. I get that PALE is a pun on Pail but essentially it is focussing on denigrating people of a single race.
  
  What I don’t get is why so many more recent immigrants have do much hatred towards NZ whites. Haven’t we welcomed them in and shared many of our greatest riches with them?
  
  Why isn’t Tova calling out the racism of the artist?
  
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  April 13, 2024 2:32pm
- Jack5
  
  Childish lavatory-humour smears.
  
  The propaganda tactics are interesting, though.
  
  A Labour MP on social media promotes infantile, toilet-humour drawings by a little-known Aucklander lampooning NZ politicians.
  
  Hipkins covers Labour’s arse by ordering the Labour politician to take the drawings down from social media.
  Stuff and Red Radio then put them on their web sites, ensuring the cartoons get broader viewing.
  
  A team hit. Labour gets pay-off from years of media subsidies-bribery.
  
  The cartoons are by Michel Mulipola, described on Wikipedia as an ethnic-Samoan Aucklander who does comic-book art and wrestles professionally. He’s in his 40s.
  
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  April 13, 2024 2:48pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Is Labour MP Peeni Henare the best Labour have got left?
  The mighty Jacinda Ardern Party is in the mud.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:21pm
Inthe09

I read Simon Wilsons (NZ Herald) take on the media survey today – so you don’t have to, thank me later. I’m pleased to report he spends most of the article blaming the reader/viewer – in particular ‘angry middle class Pakeha’ and those nasty multinational social media entities stealing all their advertising revenue.

He appears to come to the conclusion the media should keep doing what they’re doing – and stop listening to those angry white people. He also suggests that most people in the industry could get much better paid work doing something else, but doesn’t elaborate on what that might be.

So all in all it’s a very positive outcome. He along with his peers remain completely deluded and there is every indication they will remain that way for some time to come, possibly right up to the moment the doors are locked when they turn up to work one morning.
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April 13, 2024 2:05pm
- Swifty
  
  What an entirely predictable article from him.
  
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  April 13, 2024 3:28pm
- Graeme Hall
  
  Here is an idea. Instead of begging funding from the country’s hard-working net taxpayers, and assuming these media folk are really as highly talented as Simon seems to think, then why don’t they follow the trail of ex-NBC Megyn Kelly & start their own individual podcasts on YouTube & elsewhere? That way they can start amassing revenues on social media & learn the discipline & risks of running a business. I wish them all the best.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:03pm
  - Mike
    
    In NZ, such ventures are mainly for the cranks who have aged out of regular media gigs.
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:07pm
    - Swifty
      
      Please don’t talk about yourself like that Mike.
      
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      April 13, 2024 6:22pm
- Keith White
  
  One of my professors used to say “ultimately, all delusions are functional from the deluded’s point of view.” He did not know Mr Wilson but he would have used him as the textbook example.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:58pm
- alex Masterley
  
  I read that tripe this morning.
  All I can say is Simon “Foxtrot Oscar”.
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:20pm
Mike

Wonder why our immigration minister passed up the opportunity to promote our country on an international news channel.
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April 13, 2024 2:40pm
- Jack5
  
  Mike would you mind elaborating please, or can you give us a link?
  
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  April 13, 2024 3:01pm
  - Mike
    
    Sure. The minister wouldn’t be interviewed by Al Jazeera for a news item on the changed immigration settings here and in Oz.
    
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    April 13, 2024 4:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Mike don’t do that. He sprays and walks away – assuming it is the Mike of the many names using many VPNs.
    
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    April 13, 2024 4:26pm
    - Mike
      
      Why would you lie like that, Steve?
      
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      April 13, 2024 4:46pm
Chuck Bird

The US must attack Iran before they have nuclear weapons. If they get nuclear weapons they will use them on Isreal and Isreal will retaliate and probably the US as well.

Iranian opposition activist Vahid Beheshti: Only Israel can stop IRGC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjQozKsMd8
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April 13, 2024 3:03pm
- Mike
  
  All the more reason why the US should have stuck with its Nato partners in the deal for Iran not to get nuclear weapons.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:17pm
- NothingLeft
  
  They almost certainly have them already, just building up the numbers until they have sufficient built into effective ballistic missiles to create an insurmountable offensive threat.
  
  It’s 1940’s tech, made vastly easier by modern machine tools, robotics, sensors, chemical and metallurgical engineering praxis and electronics.
  
  The only time to take away Irans’ nuclear weapons capabilities is now, every day that passes makes it more and more likely that it is too late, and in fact their increasing belligerence may indicate that they are already confident in their ability to hit back with overwhelming devastation.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:45pm
  - Mike
    
    Trump abandoned the last chance. Any middle power can get nukes – see Pakistan and North Korea, UK, France and India.
    
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    April 13, 2024 5:06pm
Fisiani2

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68797201

Scottish football is utterly biased against Celtic.
Foreign VAR would make Scottish football honest
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April 13, 2024 4:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Link included.
“Luxon is ‘for’ Maorification and Co-governance. How do we know?

He is learning Te Reo.
He has a personal Maori advisor.
He has openly stated that he wants Maori to govern natural resources in partnership with the government. National is flat out making these arrangements as we speak.
He has appointed an out and out activist, Hamilton West MP Tama Potaka, to be his Minister of Maori Development, Minister of Conservation, Māori Crown Relations, Minister of Whānau Ora. You can read Potaka’s Master’s Thesis. It reads like an activist manifesto. You can read it HERE.”
That is the first 4 points – read the other 6.
“Luxon’s only hand brake is New Zealand First and ACT. If they were not coalition partners, Luxon would put the Maorification and Co-governance accelerator flat to the floor. This is simply a fact.”

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/the-most-profound-thing-amy-brooke-ever-said/?
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April 13, 2024 4:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  White man speak with forked tongue.
  
  https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Luxon-and-devolution.pdf
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:49pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Downticked, thanks Mike.
  
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  April 13, 2024 4:50pm
Surely Knott

What is the NZ Herald’s policy on showing a criminals photo. Is it part of open justice and what is their policy.

CRIMINALS PHOTO SHOWN:

June 2022 Tyrese Fleming a young driver on a restricted license killed 5 teens and was jailed. His face was shown in the article by all media.

In Sept 2023 a young canterbury learner driver, Adam Rapson appeared in court for doing crazy speeds while high, and killed an 18 year old. There are dozens of articles across media, starting in September the month she was run over and his first appearance in court, until Dec.

PHOTO NOT SHOWN

Today the herald reports, Fatima Mohammed, 48, driving a Honda CR-V, did not stop after running over Ian Charles Johnson with both the front and rear sets of her car’s wheels at a Hastings roundabout last June. And left the site of the crash. Killing Ian.

There are only 2 articles (stuff and the herald) . No articles from June when she committed the crime. Her photo is not shown in either article that appeared today.. Why?

FATIMA ARTICLE
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/unlicensed-hastings-driver-toppled-motorcyclist-drove-right-over-him-causing-fatal-injuries-then-fled/FQQTSGFKRRDO5DMPNS7W4E4WI4/

ADAM ARTICLE
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/canterbury-street-racing-fleeing-driver-teen-driver-was-allegedly-on-learner-licence/QQC3XZE6CRFU7AMTOYWY5S5CYI/
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April 13, 2024 5:01pm
- Mike
  
  Have you asked the NZ Herald?
  
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  April 13, 2024 5:37pm
- Ghost
  
  Who cares.
  
  Condolences to the family and friends of Mr Johnson. Because that is all that matters
  
  As for no articles when it happened, there is this website called google, it helps you find things
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/hastings-motorcycle-collision-victim-dies-in-hospital-investigation-ongoing/WUEIWVH3WNCATHV2SE7AU5BDMQ/
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/woman-charged-after-fatal-hastings-crash/GUJAU3V3INEIJJROFWEMKJ3F2I/
  
  https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/name-release-fatal-crash-hastings-0
  
  https://cdn.hbapp.co.nz/news/news/motorcyclist-dies-18-days-after-hastings-crash
  
  https://www.miragenews.com/nz-police-release-name-over-fatal-crash-at-1040549/
  
  That is just a few. Who knew that such a site like google existed…..
  
  Oh and as for photos it is up to the judge to give permission for the journalist to take photos in the court. This was her first court appearance, she wasn’t in court when her lawyer gave her guilty plea, as stated in one of the many articles on this case
  
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  April 13, 2024 6:29pm
Maggie Pie

Enjoying a liitle time out wile te duck is roasting and larfing to myself.
Took the baby for an off-lesh run early this morning up yto the Waiata reserve.
Anyway was just thnking to myself….. imagine if the rolls were reversed and we ran up to strangers and sniff there bums 😀 :: 😀
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April 13, 2024 6:31pm
- Ghost
  
  I have seen the human version of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0PBr6ZUN0
  
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  April 13, 2024 7:02pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    😀
    
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    April 13, 2024 7:08pm
Maggie Pie

X sayibg 10 killed in Bondi mall…all stabed to death by dark skin man.
MORE soon…
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April 13, 2024 7:10pm
- CJames
  
  He was wearing a Kangaroos jersey and shorts then was shot dead by a policewoman.
  
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  April 13, 2024 7:27pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Definitely middle eastern
  
  Many hero’s in that mall who diverted him from young families or kept him from getting off the escalator
  
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  April 13, 2024 7:39pm
- Southern Raider
  
  And just a warrior he only seemed to target women and children and would run away everytime he was confronted by a man
  
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  April 13, 2024 8:25pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Not only was the brave woman cop who neurtalised the dirty b***tard with 3 shots
  not wearing body armer….she was also blond!
  
  https://twitter.com/outpostosint/status/1779045816067612697
  
  GRAPHIC WARNING
  
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