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NeverMindTheBollocks

Credit where credit is due: this is an important story, ex Stuff.

It explores the world of boarding houses, where vulnerable people are placed alongside home D convicts and others who exploit them.

Weasel words from MSD – “We do not place people in private rental accommodation such as boarding houses or hostels. People make their own decision about whether accommodation is suitable.”

Helen Clark closed down the mental health institutions. Care in the community – yeah, right. This one is definitely on her.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350261614/property-investor-accidentally-inducted-mental-health-system-stunned-lack
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May 13, 2024 8:02am
- Matt Long
  
  It’s plain awful, Clark gets a free ride because Ardern and Lange were so much worse, but the damage she has done to New Zealand is just plain awful.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:14am
  - imalwaysright
    
    NZ is a political sandbox where we give the country’s intellectually challenged sociopaths free reign to build their sandcastles and destroy our futures.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:39am
- Jinky
  
  these are Victorian poor houses returned.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:52am
- jkt
  
  Part of your outrage is misdirected.
  
  “Weasel words by MSD.” No the quoted words are not weasel words.
  
  People should be allowed to spend their entitlements how they see fit. People who causes a nuisance should be reported to the authorities and should be dealt with promptly.
  
  Reducing the options to house people who suffer mental health breakdowns (or act anti socially) to hospitals or prisons was not a smart move.
  
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  May 13, 2024 11:02am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Another story from the missing facts file.

A Philippina wants to stay permanently in NZ but has cancer. She was given a student visa, despite having cancer and has now graduated with a First Class Masters in Contemporary International Studies from the Institute of the United Pacific in Palmerston North (what? where?).

She’s been declined a work visa for health cost reasons, despite her responding well to treatment plus her drug of choice coming off patent in a few months & then plummeting in cost. Seems unreasonable, right?

What’s not stated is who picked up the tab for her treatment while she was a student, including drugs, specialist haematology services etc – I’m guessing it was us.

The kicker? She worked for the Member for Tijuana.

http://www.1news.co.nz/2024/05/12/health-improves-treatment-gets-cheaper-so-can-stiffany-stay/
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May 13, 2024 8:02am
- RoboRob
  
  Regardless of the cost of medication dropping. We should not be granting visas to people with health issues unless their is a massive advantage to NZ in doing so (of they have the funds to gaurantee no cost to NZ). Sure if Elon musk is sick but wants to move here, bring it on. But some pleb with a degree in progressive nothingness aint in that boat.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:59am
- cmm
  
  “Contemporary International Studies ” from ” Institute of the United Pacific”
  
  Surely that tells you everything you need to know.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:25am
Chuck Bird

Looks like a HE to me.

Maxien Stevens, transgender inmate who claimed she was punished for prisoner relationships, loses appeal

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/maxien-stevens-transgender-inmate-who-claimed-she-was-punished-for-prisoner-relationships-loses-appeal/ROGI6BSLRBFGNBDFDKBH67C5K4/
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May 13, 2024 8:03am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Sort of makes you understand why Chippie is so confused.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:34am
- rouppe
  
  That person is not transgender.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:36am
  - Notsofast
    
    Other inmates touched his breasts though.
    Truth in sexing in the judiciary is an idea that would escape the great minds in charge.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:15am
- sirknz
  
  Save the money and put it through the wood chipper.
  
  No room for pedophiles anywhere in society.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:31am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That sheila is a bloke and he needs a shave.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:59am
  - jkt
    
    You know what I think.
    
    Give them enough rope and they will all hang themselves …. I mean the irrational progressive media and irrational progressive politicians.
    
    They bought right into the radicalised Climate Change Theory …. and every other critical theory, mind you.
    
    The truth is out …..
    
    Climate changes and people have feelings. Who would have thought!!
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:15am
Anthony Melchett

What a great country we live in.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jason-tuitama-jailed-for-killing-cass-maguire-in-wellington-hit-and-run/YHCGUGB2ERBKHAQ74R4IY5IZGI/

Drive drunk while already suspended and kill someone. Leave the scene. Don’t worry, you will get your prison sentence halved because you play rugby. Suprised they didn’t let him off altogether.

The weak judges here seem to be having a competition to see who can give the most discount.

Justice Isac adopted a starting point of eight years imprisonment.

He arrived at a sentence of four years and four months, after calculating a 45 per cent discount, taking into account Tuitama’s guilty plea, his young age and the steps he’d taken in rehabilitation.

Justice Isac also noted Tuitama had come from a good home with loving parents and was a promising rugby player. I know you are struggling for players this year in the all blacks but come on now.

Imagine how short the sentence would be if he could have got himself a section 27 report.

He will be out in 2 and get a limited license so he can get to training no doubt…
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May 13, 2024 8:07am
- NothingLeft
  
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  The real guts of this crime here was drink driving, while suspended (aggravating), and leaving scene. The death is random chance and probably shouldn’t impact sentencing much. I personally feel 2 years is enough, and don’t see what benefit there is to a higher sentence in this case – just taxpayer expense and higher likelihood of turninng him into a life-long drain on taxpayer. The rugby good family stuff is all irrelevant.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:13am
  - Zoso
    
    What?
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:23am
  - jkt
    
    Banned from driving multiple times!!
    
    He could easily have been on a three strikes sentence and these two young ladies getting on with their lives. He might have benefitted from better application of the law.
    
    He is indeed a victim of a timidity when it comes to breaking the law.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:25am
  - Anthony Melchett
    
    “The death is random chance and probably shouldn’t impact sentencing much”
    
    Tell that to the deceaseds young child who has a life sentence without a mother.
    
    Dumbasses drink and drive badly, yet it’s others that should pay?
    
    Don’t keep him jail too long as he may become a career criminal. Ok, keep him in jail forever then.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:01pm
    - cmm
      
      “Tell that to the deceaseds young child …”
      
      You’re looking at it the wrong way around.
      
      Why should someone get a lighter sentence just because they had the good luck to not kill someone?
      
      THis should not impact sentencing though. The point is not to let them off lighter, but to rather charge everyone the same regardless of whether or not they cause death or injury.
      
      Treat all recidivist drink driving scum the same. Chuck them in prison.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:31pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    According to discussion on newstalkzb this morning, the guy was totally drunk, speeding, didn’t have his contact lenses in (too drunk to put them in), fled from the scene without stopping to ascertain if anyone hurt.
    Pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
    Came from a “very good family “ and had allegedly completed 600 hours of community work.
    Both these used as reasons for a lesser sentence.
    Makes a change from all the people blaming their law breaking causing death on a violent upbringing and colonisation, I suppose.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:07pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Question for you all is what would a longer sentence actually achieve?
    
    I think the most sensible metric for imprisonment (which appears to be something like what is done by govt) is what minimizes long term costs to society; a net present cost if you will. Recidivists and other dangerous people should be put away for longer to reduce potential damage/cost from them and must also be careful to consider costs to population (not just direct costs on govt) with higher personal danger and insurance costs etc
    
    This is a dumb- fuck who doesn’t consider consequence before acting, longer jail term at best prevents recidivism while he’s away – but just cancelling his license and banning vehicle ownership is a lot cheaper than locking him up for $200k/year.
    
    Deterrence effect on others is clearly negligible, particularly in an era where most dangerous demographics don’t listen to news , so longer sentence is not helping anything with that.
    
    And vengeance is a dumb reason from a utilitarian standpoint.
    
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    May 13, 2024 1:25pm
    - waikatosinger
      
      If you want to be utilitarian about it, a bullet in the brain is cheaper still and has zero recidivism rate. Or if you don’t care about the recidivism rate so much, having no custodial sentences would be a nice cheap option. Or better yet, give everyone a gun and let nature take its course. The survival rate for kiddy fiddlers would go WAY down.
      
      I am not advocating for any of this mind you. I am just pointing out that a least cost utilitarian lense maybe isn’t the best way to view issues of law, order and justice.
      
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      May 13, 2024 2:19pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Do you really think that “ just cancelling his license and banning vehicle ownership” will stop this guy from driving again, drunk or not drunk?
      Plenty of people have access to cars that might not be theirs and don’t give two hoots if they have a valid drivers license or or not.
      The focus should be on the victims of this driver – their family and friends – not just shrugging shoulders and saying too bad.
      He should at least be subject to a sizeable fine paid to the child of the woman he killed after which he took off and didn’t bother to look back.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:24pm
Grunter

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Two pointless wars with mass killing of people continuing.

The evil Zelensky continues to throw young men into the meat grinder despite the obvious defeat. This guy is demented.

Netanyahu continues his mass killing of civilians – even the US admits his Gaza war is pointless as Hamas will continue no matter how many Israel kills.

Both these outcomes were obvious at the outset. And yet more bombs and bullets is still deemed to be the answer.
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May 13, 2024 8:08am
- kowtow
  
  …….and Putin’s role in this slaughter of his own soldiers for his personal aggrandization?
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:12am
  - Grunter
    
    The reality is, even if you don’t like it (which most of us don’t), Russia was always going to win this war. More soldiers, more weapons, more factories to make ammo. It was game over for Zelensky in April 2022 when he ripped up the Istanbul peace agreement. He can blame the other clownman Borris Johnson for that. Borris said “We can save you”, then a few months later said “sorry, we only have 40 tanks and our army is the smallest its ever been…”
    
    That’s the reality – which doesn’t mean we all join the Russia fanclub – it just means NATO have stuffed up big time.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:59am
    - imalwaysright
      
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      Don’t forget Vonderleyen on the news about the same time, waving an A4 sheet in front of the camera. She said it was Ukraine’s application to join the EU! And she was going to see that it was approved within a couple of weeks.
      They are a bunch of clowns.
      They are wokists , wringing with misplaced self belief, who thought they could overthrow Russia using a proxy and financing it with the wealth of the west.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:52am
      - jkt
        
        Who is trying to overthrow Russia!
        Get real.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:29am
    - kowtow
      
      Still blaming everyone except the principal , Putin in one case and The Mullahs and Hamas in the other.
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:13am
      - Grunter
        
        kowtow – you’ve missed my point…..all I’m saying is there is no logical point in Israel and Ukraine continuing these wars.
        
        If you think Russia wasn’t provoked at all then that is a very biased view – and completely wrong based on the realities of what has actually happened since 1991. That doesn’t mean Putin should start a war – but he was clearly provoked big time.
        
        The Gaza situation I agree is far more complicated and Hamas obviously are evil butchers. All I’m saying is, Israel carpet bombing Gaza doesn’t achieve their stated war objective of eliminating Hamas – so what is the point apart from pure revenge?
        
        Just be honest, it is now mass killing as an act of revenge. Then judge if that is the right or wrong thing to do. Even the US warmongers are saying they now don’t agree with it.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:51am
      - Scott
        
        Grunter – Israel is not carpet bombing Gaza. Israeli soldiers are instead fighting house to house and losing their own lives in the process.
        
        Israel could turn Gaza into glass. But they are trying to minimise civilian casualties while defeating their sworn enemies, Hamas.
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:01pm
      - kowtow
        
        Grunter
        
        Israel has every right to finish the job in Gaza .ie to degrade Hamas’ abilty to wage war as far as it practically and realistically can.
        
        There are a number of full so called battalions of Hamas that need to be “dealt to” , as they’re still standing units . They’re the Rafah ones.And Israel was always going to go after them too.
        
        There’s also evidence of continued “military”capability in units still all over Gaza , hiding in the vast tunnel network.
        
        And as long as there’s even one single Russian soldier occupying sovereign Ukraine territory then they too have an absolute right to end that , by military means .
        
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        May 13, 2024 2:02pm
      - Grunter
        
        kowtow
        You’ve just explained why wars are fought. Two sides disagreeing, both wanting the other to be “dealt to”. Blind rage persists.
        
        Leaders on both sides are absolutely obsessed with “winning” this war, and that means that “nuclear Armageddon” is getting closer with each passing day.
        
        Smashing Hamas doesn’t mean they go away (the opposite is what always happens with the Muslims).
        
        Smashing Russians to what point…? Remember, Putin’s teleprompter has only 6 minutes to decide which button to push….
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:21pm
      - Nobby2
        
        I recommend that everyone should view the film “Screams Before Silence” about the atrocities committed by hamas terrorists on and after 7 October 2023 and you will then understand Israel’s anger and their strong motivation to hunt down and eliminate every hamas member and follower that they can until there are no hamas terrorists left. Israel will not forget what happened on 7 October 2023 just as they did not forget the terrorist attack and killing of their athletes at the Munich Olympic games in 1972. The perpetrators of the killings in 1972 were hunted down and eliminated. If you attack Israel you can expect an aggressive reaction from them.
        
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        May 13, 2024 5:44pm
  - Simon
    
    “and Putin’s role in this slaughter of his own soldiers for his personal aggrandization?”
    
    Putin is a major winner domestically. He is having a good war. Those GAE clowns running Ukraine and their Ukraine puppets are doing nicely as well.
    
    Putin & GAE feeding ordinary people into the slaughter getting off on it. They are all scum.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:05am
    - kowtow
      
      No he’s massacred the elites of his military and now empyting prisons and extending conscription.
      
      He’ll be very unpopular with the mothers , widows , wives and sisters .
      
      No doubt his corrupt , kleptocratic ,filthy rich elite mates , whose sons are sunning themselves in the resorts of Cyprus or Thailand won’t be as concerned as their children aren’t involved.
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:17am
    - jkt
      
      Of course Putin and the Hamas supporters are “enjoying” these wars. What is not to like… right!
      
      Stop blaming those who respond to aggression.
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:32am
      - jkt
        
        OK. I am defeated.
        
        Blame those who defend themselves against the aggressor, terrorists, invaders, scum of the earth, criminals and Putin. Aggressors and Putin are the real victims. Yeah, right.
        
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        May 13, 2024 2:57pm
  - WaynelSexton
    
    The Russian military is barely in Ukraine going by Ukrainian prisoners of war stats.
    
    13.8 percent of the Russian prisoners are actually Russian. 86.2 percent are described as separatists.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:04am
    - Jake Dee
      
      Source please
      
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      May 13, 2024 2:02pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    Treating these hugely complex as the result of the internal mental state of a single man is just foolish. It’s kindergarten level thinking, or a belief in witchcraft, the idea that bad things happen because there are bad people out there thinking bad thoughts and performing some weird occult rituals.
    But Putin is not a magician, he is a powerful man but just a man
    
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    May 13, 2024 2:01pm
- Agricola
  
  Another name to remember as one with whom the well informed can always, reliably, disagree. There’s quite a few populating that parallel universe.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:48am
- Notsofast
  
  Zelensky started the war, and all previous facts have been erased.
  Read 1984 to better understand your own mind.
  
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  May 13, 2024 11:02am
Pope Punctilious II

Hamilton residents will be delighted to learn their local council is spending $525,000 on
“embedding Te Tiriti o Waitangi into the council”. The figure includes:
– $175,000 for the development of a Tiriti policy
– $175,000 to develop a mātauranga Māori framework and implementation
– $175,000 to develop a te reo policy, including a te reo app for staff
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May 13, 2024 8:15am
- Stellaboxer
  
  And there was me thinking that their business was running a average sized town.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:55am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    TBH I now blame the government. These councils could be fixed by simple amendments to the Local Government Act.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:42am
    - jkt
      
      Of course you will blame the government.
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:37am
- RoboRob
  
  Time for the local government minister to step in.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:02am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    And do what? This is chicken feed compared to Wellington council and that carries on.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:37am
    - RoboRob
      
      I was referring to meeting with them and telling them he thinks they should act responsibly during a financially difficult time period.
      
      But other things off the top of my head…
      
      Alter the local govt act and remove at least the clause you quoted the other day that essentially lets them do anything they want so long as they think its for the benefit of the city.
      
      Add a clause that says n pct (90%?) of funding must go to core services (and spell what they are out). If a council wants to spend 10m on a rainbow crossing they better also be spending 90m on waste and water infrastructure for example.
      
      Total deficit in a year cant be larger the n pct.
      
      The average rate rise over the previous 10 years cannot be more then n pct over rate of inflation for that period. All councils would likely fail this at the moment.
      
      I know that the govt itself has major issues with this stuff too but these local administrators need to have boundries set.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:21am
- Benedict Yu
  
  This is insane.
  
  If councils need a mātauranga Māori framework, can’t they band together and just have one? I’ll answer my own question. It is most likely that each local iwi is demanding a bespoke mātauranga Māori framework.
  
  As for a language app. That is even more insane. Aren’t there off the shelf language apps?
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:40am
  - Burtland
    
    you should stop looking for the sensible in the insane
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:17am
  - RoboRob
    
    The figures also look highly suspicious. Interesting that everything adds up to $175,000. Its almost like they have a budget to spend and just split it three ways.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:23am
- Simon
  
  Apart from anything else economic shit weight the productive have to carry. Not good medium to long term.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:07am
- Burtland
  
  rinse and repeat in every council in NZ – DEI employing the unemployable
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:21am
- backster
  
  How much are the Hamilton Council reducing rates by this year.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:42am
- Prince
  
  The Consultants ‘developing’ these policies will be even more delighted.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:47am
- Notsofast
  
  The same is needed twice over for an Islamification policy and a radical trans activist policy. Get the 3 mighty cults in control of the common plebiscite.
  
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  May 13, 2024 11:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “However, the free Hamilton council app was tailored for its own staff with a focus on its Māori strategy, waiata, karakia and Kiingitanga, local treaty settlements, local mana whenua and maataawaka, Carson said.”
  Free? Really free?
  
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  May 13, 2024 11:35am
- Skippytony
  
  Thats cheap
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:45pm
- Piniwi
  
  Look at the source of this money (follow the money) it was the bribe for signing up to 3 Waters that funded this folly. Raising the obvious question. Now that 3 Waters has been scrapped shouldn’t these bribes be repaid to the Government? Money for old rope.
  
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  May 13, 2024 3:13pm
Matt Long

RFK junior, who tried to walk the abortion vote and election away from Biden by saying abortion up to birth should be up to the mother, subsequently made this statement on X;
“I had been assuming that virtually all late-term abortions were such cases, but I’ve learned that my assumption was wrong. Sometimes, women abort healthy, viable late-term fetuses. These cases of purely “elective” late-term abortion are very upsetting. Once the baby is viable outside the womb, it should have rights and it deserves society’s protection.”
“Kindness” unfortunately removed protection from babies in New Zealand, but the kind of thing he describes would never happen here just because it is legal, would it?
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1789121919951704481
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May 13, 2024 8:16am
- CJames
  
  No – it wouldn’t happen here. IIRC abortion is only in the first 20 weeks – that is not viable late-term. Abortion might be bad, but safe legal abortion is way better than unsafe illegal abortions.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:47am
  - Matt Long
    
    I think you should check your recall.
    
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    May 13, 2024 8:50am
    - CJames
      
      No my recall is pretty good. From Wikipedia but check the links there
      The Abortion Legislation Act 2020 is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand allowing unrestricted access to abortion within the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, and repealing sections of the Crimes Act 1961 related to unlawful abortion. After the 20-week period, women seeking an abortion must consult a qualified health practitioner who will assess their physical health, mental health, and well-being. The Act also provides provisions for conscientious objection rights for medical practitioners and exempts abortion services from certain Crimes Act provisions, while extending the definition of health services to include abortion services under the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994.
      Elective abortion care had been available for several decades in New Zealand before this Act was passed, but women had to maintain a fiction that they were suffering from mental illness in order to get an abortion.”
      I do not know how many after 20 weeks are done. Do you?
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:00am
      - Matt Long
        
        This comment is at odds with your earlier comment, and no I have not seen numbers for New Zealand otherwise I would have quoted them.
        However all abortions have risen by 25% since Arden’s legislation became law.
        
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        May 13, 2024 9:18am
      - MCōs
        
        Here’s an Annual Report from last year with all sorts of information
        What it doesn’t have is the specific info you’re after, but it does say some abortion requests were turned down on the basis the fetus and mother’s health was not at issue
        1.6% of procedures are classified as ‘later abortions’
        https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/publications/abortion-services-aotearoa-new-zealand-annual-report-2023-v2.pdf
        
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        May 13, 2024 9:32am
      - MCōs
        
        Refer to pages 11 & 12 of the report above
        Abortion numbers have stayed pretty much the same for the last ten years
        
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        May 13, 2024 9:37am
      - CJames
        
        I missed out the abortion is UNRESTRICTED in first 20 weeks. the curse of a small screen. Need to go back to a big one.
        I found the report for 2021 – after the law change. Number of abortions dropped 2010-2020. It shows general abortion rate had dropped 50% since 2010, (: The general abortion rate is the number of abortions per 1,000 of the mean estimated population of women aged 15–44 years.) though the ratio to known pregnancies stayed about the same -20%. Only about 1000 are after first 12 weeks. There were 102 after 20 weeks. From the ages given of those women, I would hazard a guess that many would have been for issues like Downs syndrome or birth defects picked up by ultrasound/ blood tests.
        
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        May 13, 2024 9:42am
  - wsk12345
    
    Um no. Ardern changed the law – iIRC during the covid early times – to allow abortion up to and during birth.
    
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    May 13, 2024 8:52am
    - kowtow
      
      And Princess Kindness was very proud of that “achievement” of hers.
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:10am
    - lifesgood
      
      She has blood on her hands. That is straight out murder. What sort of inhumane society have we become?
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:20am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Maybe toss a coin to see if we keep the baby or the adult.
        
        It wouldn’t be popular anymore . Guaranteed .
        
        16000 kiwis every year.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:29am
    - Ghost
      
      The bill was Andrew Little’s. the law was changed by members from labour, greens, national, and act voting in support of it.
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:28am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Melissa survived a failed abortion that obviously occurred over 20 weeks.
    
    Simon O’Connor tried to introduce an amendment to the Ardern abortion bill that said if a baby survives an abortion it should not be left to die. This was voted down. I thought Simon was talking about something that may have happened once so I Googled.
    
    I made contact with a woman in the US who survived such an abortion. A nurse was told to let a breathing crying baby to die. Although she assisted in abortions she could not do so. She took baby Melissa to where prem babies were cared for.
    
    If that could not happen here why was O’Conner’s amendment voted down?
    
    MELISSA OHDEN (USA)
    Melissa is the survivor of a failed saline infusion
    abortion, and the author of the award winning
    book featuring her life story, “You Carried Me: A
    Daughter’s Memoir” and “Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence”, released in January 2024. She is the Founder and Director of The Abortion Survivors Network, the only healing and advocacy organization for abortion survivors and their families worldwide. She has testified before Congressional committees
    numerous times.
    
    https://familyfirst.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Forum-on-the-Family-2024-Poster.pdf
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:20am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Looks like some here support infanticide.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:47pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    At 20 weeks the baby is half made.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:38am
    - wsk12345
      
      It’s pretty much fully made, just has some growing to do.
      
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      May 13, 2024 2:45pm
Chuck Bird

This one is premium

Labour’s decisions continue to affect us negatively – Heather du Plessis-Allan

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labours-decisions-continue-to-affect-us-negatively-heather-du-plessis-allan/SX4HQAM3QZBZ7PKYEI5XDDSZXQ/
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May 13, 2024 8:24am
- cmm
  
  Wow, did she really think that voting National reverses everything?
  
  Here’s some news for you HdPA: you’ll be a granny long before the borrowed billions will be paid off.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:39am
  - MCōs
    
    The “borrowed billions” will never be payed off and there’s no point in thinking it ever will be
    It’s the level of the debt that’s the issue and what the money is borrowed for.
    
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    May 13, 2024 8:52am
    - cmm
      
      The borrowed billions will be paid off one way or the other.
      
      There is the belt tightening way, which would take a couple of decades but the punters won’t sign up to that.
      
      Then there is the other option: complete economic collapse. The punters won’t sign up for that either, but they won’t get a choice.
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:11am
      - Grunter
        
        Well put cmm.
        
        The Left seem to think they have the choice of running endless deficits and ballooning debt that never gets paid back.
        
        They don’t realise that at some point the music has to stop. And then it is chaos as there are too many bums and not enough seats.
        
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        May 13, 2024 9:31am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I’ll just leave the billions for my 10 month old great grandson to start paying.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:40am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Apparently under Modern Monetary Theory governments issue money to themselves and then spend it.
      I’m not sure if they take out a loan at all!
      Am I wrong?
      The big enemy of MMT is devalued currency through inflation.
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:35am
      - Master Mariner
        
        That’s how I see it too.
        Like a Theory, It can and has been proven wrong.
        As we borrow more and More and produce less and less.
        The only Outcome is Failure.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:05pm
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        If you devalue the currency by money printing, you will need to produce more exports to pay for the same amount of imports. Which is effectively the same as just repaying the debt.
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:23pm
      - Skippytony
        
        MMT is more marxist magical thinking
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:48pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Global and local economy is going to be so massively impacted by AI+robots in next 10 years – displacing majority of workforce out of work with cheaper automatons, that ruminating about such issues as national debt is pointless.
    
    Golden age or dystopian collapse? I think as fragile as our hugely complex and interdependent economies are it is more likely to be the latter. Most techno optimists seem to have nothing more than ‘she’ll be right’ arguments as to why it won’t go very very bad for average person who will have nothing of value to offer the world in return for their ongoing needs.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:19am
    - Grunter
      
      I keep searching for an intelligent, logic based scenario of how this global sihtshow has a happy ending…..
      
      I haven’t found one yet, but I am open to suggestions?
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:34am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The BRICS countries seem to have a viable plan. Their basic premise seems to be backing their currency with precious metals.
        We may soon be looking at people trading a wheelbarrow full of USD for a pocket full of roubles.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:40am
      - Burtland
        
        We may soon be looking at people trading a wheelbarrow full of USD for a pocket full of roubles.
        
        long long long way to go – currently 91Ru to 1US
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:30pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      The robots will inherit the debt?
      
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      May 13, 2024 7:37pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Ironically all borrowings are funded by future energy consumption. This is true of the 30 trillion us dollars too.
    The only way to stop this is to collapse civilisation.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:10am
- Wayne Mapp
  
  Government debt turn around can occur remarkably quickly. It really only requires two things. First, not borrowing more, in short not running continuous deficits. Second, a growing economy.
  Governments worry about debt as a percentage of GDP, not the absolute number. Since 1990 we have gone from debt at about 60% of GDP, down to 10% in 2008 (Cullen was reasonably strict on spending, at least for the first 6 years). Then rising in two steps to 45% of GDP. The first step being the GFC and Christchurch earthquake and the second step being Covid and Robertson’s failure to restrain the deficit after Covid was over.
  So while 45% is too high, it is not the inevitable harbinger of catastrophe. The government has time to get things right.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:55am
  - Grunter
    
    Quite right Wayne.
    1. Stop the Deficits – sounds like we have another 3 years of these. I’m hoping to be proven wrong, but so far it’s been softly softly (and an expanded school lunch program). Plus interest payments of $10B+
    
    2. Grow the Economy – as a trading nation in the current global climate that is going to be very difficult at best. The economic ‘pulse’ from China growth has now ended. Maybe India free trade can help us out?
    
    I can’t see this one being “turned around quickly” under the current regime.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:39am
  - wsk12345
    
    So what happens when we hav another major natural disaster or financial crisis when we are already at 45%. Next thing you know we are at 70% – how do you come back from that?
    
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    May 13, 2024 2:49pm
    - Grunter
      
      NZ couldn’t come back from that, we are too small and too reliant on global trade. That’s why it made no sense to go to 45% debt because of a flu.
      
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      May 13, 2024 3:31pm
Maggie Pie

O.M.G. Who on earth would want to impersonate JAG?

https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1789457606127583718

There’s no real clues in the ‘replies’ either.
Although I see a few on ‘X’ are saying it could be Willie Jackson 😀
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May 13, 2024 8:27am
- softail 1450
  
  MP, Whoever it was they’d better not meet Genter on the street unless they’ve paid up their insurance cover 100% .
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:37am
- Benedict Yu
  
  That is quite funny. JAG she has complained to twitter about being impersonated but has been ignored.
  
  One person replies “Have you tried shouting at them?” 😂
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:37am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Anyone not sure whether they are communicating with the real JAG can just say something bad about cycleways and observe the response.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:05am
softail 1450

Matt Long ,I’ve heard people say that when RFK Jnr had the brain eating worm removed from his head the surgeon got confused , Jnr is just another presidential wannabe being sold as a moderate ,he’s not a moderate he’s a far left grifter who fell in love with Fidel Castro over a lavish lunch one day,🦤🦤
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May 13, 2024 8:32am
- Inandout
  
  soft, as you mention Castro I watched Tucker interview Justin Trudeau’s brother to get a better understanding of that weird PM. Anyway Tucker didn’t bring up Justin’s parentage but it was still a fascinating interview.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AjGdrJaF8
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:28am
  - softail 1450
    
    Inandout ,The Trudeau legacy is trash ,Justin’s Mum spent a week on tour with the Rolling Stones and didn’t hold back on the free love , this was when she was married to PM Trudeau, YouTube deleted all references to it years ago (probably with pressure from soy boy Justin) but were forced to put it back online when it could no longer be denied, does Justin look similar to Keith ?😳
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:32am
    - Ghost
      
      Margret was married to Trudeau in 1971. Justin was born in 1971. It was not until 1977 she went and partied with the Rolling Stones. YouTube deleted nothing.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:48am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Slapper is a slapper.
        She called it Just,in so it must be Trudeau’s . French fry.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:47am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Me too, Quite fascinating.
    Definately a bit of “Yin and Yang” in that family.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:10pm
Benedict Yu

I have recently posted on entertaining state sector job advertisements. Yesterday we had the senior Ministry of Transport executive vacancy. No knowledge of transport required. 😅 Knowledge of Maori ways of knowing and customary practice mandatory.

Today we have a good news story. 😀😀

The Ministry for Regulation, David Seymour’s new ministry, is looking for a fixed term economist. You need to know about regulations. You need to be an experienced economist. The Treaty and tikanga Maori are not mentioned.

https://www.seek.co.nz/job/75650863?type=standout&ref=search-standalone#sol=a63772c32302a6b528befbae698c9906f60eedd0
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May 13, 2024 8:33am
- cmm
  
  “The Treaty and tikanga Maori are not mentioned.”
  
  Maybe by now they are just an assumed requirement, like not having a criminal record.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I think it is far more likely that the Ministry is responsive to David Seymour.
    
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    May 13, 2024 8:59am
- Anthony Melchett
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/court-of-appeal-rejects-sovereign-citizen-appeal-by-auckland-instructor-chris-wiremu-who-hit-students/GLG4LJZM7NHA3NJTIE4U5HAQUQ/
  
  This guy seems like he knows the [Mod – drop your racial crap from your messages]
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:06am
NK

Tottenham will draw with Man City Wednesday morning our time which will allow Arsenal to win the Premier League.

You all know it 🙂
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May 13, 2024 8:33am
- bartybart
  
  a gift from Spurs to Arsenal! i think they’d lose just to spite the gunners
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:40am
  - pdm
    
    I thought Liverpool were the top team.
    
    Biscuit has spent hours and hours here telling us that.
    
    I am so disappointed and also worry he may stop feeding the cat and may even kick said cat.
    
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    May 13, 2024 8:52am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Tis a cruel jape you pay PDM…
      
      LFC are the greatest team in the world, but alas not the current top dogs in the EPL.
      
      That honour belongs to the odious Manchester Cheaty… oopps Manchester City
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:30am
- JimBobJoe
  
  1-Nil to Spurs after 20 minutes, 4-1 City at the end of the game.
  
  Arsenal are about to find out what its like to play against a side that was built by alleged multiple breaches of the financial rules of the league.
  
  Liverpool know what its like to play outstanding football and amass points totals in the mid ninety point range at season end – only to lose the title by a point twice.
  
  City play some nice but boring football – but the club has been put together in an interesting way.
  
  City, a middling club, with little in the way of history in terms of trophies and the second team in Manchester for a very long time.
  
  A team known more for committed supporters used to losing. Suddenly the most valuable brand in football according to its published commercial revenue…. with most of the commercial partners coming from the small state run by Citys owners…. where everything is controlled by the ruling family…
  
  Yip – no related party transactions that breach the rules.
  
  And of course City claim they are innocent of breaching any financial rules of the Premier League …. but are facing only 115 charges under those rules, including multiple charges of not cooperating with the league during the investigation.
  
  Yes – I am a bit pissed about City. : )
  
  /Rant ends
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:43am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    City know they’re going to lose but they’ve made sure they won’t lose their ill-gotten titles and they’ve pushed the case out 6+ years, accumulating titles along the way.
    
    Money just isn’t an issue for their owner.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:26am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      City wont lose the case. Its been kicked down the road by the EPL so its overtaken by upcoming financial rule changes.
      
      The 115 charges will be settled by a fine and that will be it.
      
      Meanwhile other teams who play by the agreed rules will be left thinking why bother. Im think Gunners, Spurs…even Utd have stayed inside the rules
      
      The EPL is happy kicking Everton and Forest around…. But City just play delay delay until the find a compromise with the governing body.
      
      EPL is dying…….
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:26am
- Libertarians are right
  
  Possibly, Spurs actually have the best record against City in the Premier League. It will be hilarious if it’s the case.
  
  West Ham are also a very outside chance but Spurs are Arsenal’s best hope. Also note that if Liverpool beat Villa, Spurs still have a theoretical chance at Champions League Football if they beat City and Sheffield AND Villa lose to Crystal Palace. It’s just enough for them to pull out something crazy against City.
  
  Also note that they’re the Spurs so they’ll lose their last game against Sheffield anyway.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:33am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    Spursy is in the dictionary for a reason…. Tottenham are absolute flakes…
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:27am
Maggie Pie

You’ll love this!

Having saved the climate, Greta Thunberg gets arrested at the Eurovision pro-Hamas protest in Sweden 😀

The fab Katie Hopkins tells Greta…. “get a f*cking job”

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1789530325829263611

LOL
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May 13, 2024 8:49am
- MCōs
  
  What does Hopkins do for a job?
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:53am
  - CJames
    
    Yell insults at the wokes.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:02am
    - mandk
      
      That’s a noble calling in my book.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:02am
    - mawm
      
      Insults the wokes with that lovely voice using words they don’t understand.
      
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      May 13, 2024 5:39pm
  - MCōs
    
    Not Hipkins, Hopkins
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:04am
    - jkt
      
      Funny.😹
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:15pm
  - David George
    
    She’s a part time columnist and comedian and full time caller out of BS.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:07am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YUGE media star in the UK!
    Has millions of adoring fans all round the world. Hated by anyone who’s obese, ghey, those with neck tattoos, and by lefties in general.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:09am
    - MCōs
      
      I wouldn’t say I hate her.
      My mother also said not to use that word, she said nothing about loathe, detest and despise
      In lieu of working she pulls in the big bucks by pretending to be permanently xenophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, ultra royalist, climate change deniers, racist . . . .
      She knows which side the toast is buttered
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:38am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        You’ve never come across to me Cossie as being someone who’s obese 😀
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:26am
  - softail 1450
    
    MCos, Endlessly triggers you MCos.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:36am
    - MCōs
      
      Not endlessly
      But she, and other grifters have found that laying on the outrage is profitable
      That’s what annoys me
      Russell Brand is another one and Brian Tamaki
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:11pm
      - JimBobJoe
        
        One persons outrage is another persons straight forward calling out their world being corroded by dumb leftism and mass migration
        
        The whole establishment which tilts left always call resistance – far right, popularism, scare mongering, unnecessary outrage.
        
        I think Ms Hopkins has some points when you consider Londons population is now almost half non English by birth – the Edgeware Road is almost like being in the Middle East, with all signs in Arabic and Middle Eastern music blaring…
        
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        May 13, 2024 5:08pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How easy it is for the MSM to ignore the gross incompetence of the Ardern regime:

I am talking about the Auditor-General’s damning exposé on the previous government’s “Shovel-Ready” and New Zealand Upgrade infrastructure programmes.In forensic detail, it exposed myriad failures of process and governance that saw billions of taxpayer dollars shovelled into projects with little regard for cost, quality or value.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/a-shovel-ready-autopsy/
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May 13, 2024 8:57am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Reported in December here:
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504638/nz-upgrade-shovel-ready-programmes-lacked-transparency-and-rigour-auditor-general
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:16am
- mikenmildagain
  
  And here:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/133460439/former-governments-15b-infrastructure-spendup-rushed-illinformed–auditorgeneral
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:17am
- mikenmildagain
  
  And here:
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/former-governments-infrastructure-budget-blowouts-criticised-in-auditor-generals-report/XEI2A3UOWNDGRFBAA4ZCNA6S5I/
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:18am
  - Local Miller
    
    You are being disingenuous mma. If you had read the article you would have noticed that one point was “Predictably, the report sank with barely a ripple, lost in the pre-Christmas frenzy.” Not that it wasn’t reported on but that it was released just before Christmas (note the NZ Herald article is dated Dec 13th), at a time when most people are getting ready for Christmas and a long break.
    As with so many such bad news for the Liebour government reports, they are released at a time when they will get the least attention from the MMA and hence the public.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:26am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      The report was published in September. Are you claiming the news media conspired with the government (and the auditor-general?), or did the then opposition political parties just not do their jobs?
      
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      May 13, 2024 9:32am
- Local Miller
  
  I still wonder what happened to Robertson’s “Ministry of Delivery” roll. Did he ever actually report back to Cabinet on how well the governments projects were going? I suspect we have the ironic situation where the “Minister of Delivery” failed to deliver.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:21am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Don’t worry, we’re getting a ministry of regulation now.
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:33am
    - softail 1450
      
      M&M, Will they be regulating silly comments?
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:39am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Bound to be, if you think that the government should censor blogs.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:07am
    - Jethrod
      
      That is a comment that is …. UP tick right, DOWN tick right.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:54am
PurplePen

UK banning woke DEI jobs in its public service. One for Seymour’s Ministry of Regulations to tackle here.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/esther-mcvey-common-sense-minister-b2543540.html
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May 13, 2024 9:04am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Exactly right. The ministry of regulation will soon be famous for producing more useless regulations.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:41am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    Actually removing DEI would be removing regulations, not creating them.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:19am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      From the article:
      
      new guidance would stop all external EDI spending
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:10am
  - softail 1450
    
    M&M, they’ll have to to keep up with silly comments 😅
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:41am
RoboRob

Current wind power generation at 44MW out of a maximum of 1259MW. Has been < 200 since mid last week (when I started looking at it again).

Makes sense that all of our new generation should be wind right? Note how much Coal is being used.

Battery 1 MW
Co-Gen 113 MW
Coal 453 MW
Gas 829 MW
Geothermal 972 MW
Hydro 3894 MW
Diesel/Oil 0 MW
Solar 11 MW
Wind 44 MW

https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/live-system-and-market-data/consolidated-live-data
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May 13, 2024 9:08am
- NothingLeft
  
  wind is driven by changing thermal gradients and tends to be strongest in Spring and Autumn when rate of change in temperatures is largest. More settled and lower wind in mid summer and mid winter, and winter in particular tends to have less wind due to lower solar energy to drive air convection.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:25am
  - RoboRob
    
    Thats a problem then, becuase we need the power most at the height of Winter and Summer.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:27am
  - marcw
    
    “tends to be strongest in Spring and Autumn”
    
    It’s autumn now – so your point is?
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:25am
    - jkt
      
      There is doubt about the point that he was making.
      What exactly is your point? Nitpicking?
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:23pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    In short, The Equinoxes.
    Otherwise bang on.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:15pm
- Local Miller
  
  Total Power Generation = 6317MW
  Wind = 0.7% of total and 3.5% of capacity.
  Solar = 0.2% of Total
  
  Only 99% to go to make wind & solar the backbone of our power generation. net Zero by 2050 here wo came.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:34am
  - Burtland
    
    has the Climate Commission come up with a solution yet ?
    – maybe we need a magician rather than a clown ruling this organ
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:10am
    - jkt
      
      Give it time and much more money, we are getting there …. Yeah, right.
      
      There is a place for renewables in the mix. Everyone tells us how wonderful renewables are and how well the are performing. Let the market sort it out.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:27pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  What is obvious from that set of figures is that NZ is already highly supplied by renewable energy in the form of Hydro and Geothermal.
  
  So obviously we have expertise in those generation categories, so it makes a lot more sense to build out those capabilities further and NOT invest in unreliables like wind and solar.
  
  Is there no more Hydro generation sites that are doable?
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:34am
  - RoboRob
    
    The RMA, IWI and green lobby groups have made it practically impossible to build new Hydro or Geo.
    
    Find any piece of land to flood and a greenie will find an animal that is effected. An IWI will require a koha proportional to the spend on the project to pacify the local tuniwhas. Varous neighbours, trampers or hunters will lodge appeals under the RMA.
    
    The reason that all the generation is Wind is becuase it can actually be built. It makes no sense though, we should be looking at more base line power, not more intermittant supply.
    
    Im not against wind. It is cheap and quick to build. The issue is that we have just given up on baseline eneergy construction, and its what we need.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:33am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      We need NUCLEAR ASAP.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:06pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Oh look, there they go! All the Greenies rolling around on the floor, making stupid noises and having anxiety attacks!
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:07pm
      - RoboRob
        
        Totally agree, just didn’t want to add it to the discussion. We need more baseline power, the source really doesn’t matter too much.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:18pm
    - Drone
      
      RoboRob I love the phrase “it’s cheap and quick to build”, in my mind it almost sounds like “the power generated will be cheap and reduce your electricity costs”, but obviously it isn’t and it won’t reduce your power costs. We’ll still need to build more baseload generation or accept that we won’t have power when the wind doesn’t blow. Perhaps that is the way the nation is evolving, the rich will have batteries to tide them over when the wind doesn’t blow and the poor have candles. So are we building twice to serve one need, probably.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:30pm
  - jkt
    
    Of course there are opportunities.
    But there are far too many self imposed obstacles, barriers are probably a better description of the RMA and the green ideological bigots.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:34pm
- Grunter
  
  I’m no Greenie, nor am I an energy expert/engineer, however…
  
  This system has caught my eye and seems to make some sense.
  https://www.eavor.com
  
  A closed-loop geothermal system that is starting to show promise in a number of real-life pilot systems. It is very different to what we currently have in NZ.
  
  Any ‘expert KBers’ with a view….?
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:47am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Looks good.
    Basically a heat exchanger buried a mile and a half deep.
    Big temperature difference means good efficiency.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:02pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Geo is far better than solar or wind.
    Nuclear SMRs is also a closed loop system. It is always on and you can turn it off or on quickly. Not sure how many to power say Auckland. I am thinking 2 Rolls Royce ones would be enough. Best part is you can put then wherever you want. Not on a hill, not in a geo area, not facing the sun, not in a river.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:33pm
    - jkt
      
      Why we opt for large solar farms when decentralised free standing solar is far more resilient and scaleable. Every roof top can feed electricity into battery storage and then into the network.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:40pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Panels need replacing every 25 years?
        Same as turbine blades need replacing.
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:24pm
      - jkt
        
        And your car?
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:02pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Not every rooftop gets sun. Not every rooftop is suitable to get enough sun to make the investment economic. Not eclvery region get enough hours of sunlight per year to be economic.
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:03pm
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Pray tell – Battery storage… you mean highly flammable Lithium based batteries? No thanks
        
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        May 13, 2024 5:11pm
- PurplePen
  
  It does make you wonder why we bother with wind and solar, especially as they’re intermittent sources.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:59am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Keeps the Green nutbars happy.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:13pm
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  For the electrical experts here on KB:
  
  How much additional electricity was required to power the heat pumps installed under healthy homes legislation?
  
  Every privately owned rental property in the country was required to install sufficient heating to heat the main living room. In small units this is around 4kW of heating, up to about 6kW in a larger residence.
  
  There are 500,000 privately owned rental properties. How much additional power generation is required if 50% turn on their heat pump for an hour at 7am?
  
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  May 13, 2024 12:46pm
  - Burtland
    
    400 MW
    
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    May 13, 2024 1:56pm
    - Local Miller
      
      Actually probably less than 400MW. A good Heatpump is giving over 4:1 return on power input. Heatpumps literally are that, depending on whether you are heating or cooling, they either pump heat into the house from outside, or out from the inside. Working on the same principle as a fridge with expanding gases, 1W of work can result in the gas picking up heat equivalent to what would be produced by over 4W of power, and transfer it into/out of your house. The trick ins that the heatpump isn’t warming the house directly, it’s only shifting the heat around.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:15pm
  - MCōs
    
    Regardless of who provides the heater tenants can be expected to warm up their dwellings to a comfortable temperature during the winter and heat pumps are more efficient than other contraptions
    On the other hand the houses/flats/apartments/hovels could be unheated leaving the surplus electricity available for the well off to heat their entire houses.
    
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    May 13, 2024 4:25pm
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      MCos, sees the trees but not the woods. Or diverts the thread away from its core intent?
      
      The real question here is when the government makes a policy they should think about the broader consequences. If I require all homes to install a heater how much extra power production do we need? If this many people convert to EVs how much more power generation do we need? Surely they should be acting on both ends of the system, not just driving increasing demand. Then surprise surprise we have an energy problem.
      
      As for leaving excess power for the well off, who are these well off you speak of? I suspect in the lefty tradition it will mean anybody with money except myself. Gotta love those politics of envy and hypocrisy!
      
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      May 13, 2024 7:42pm
- wsk12345
  
  Gosh what happens when the gas runs out per last week’s news. I guess we just bring in more coal for the Huntly units but what about those that are not dual fuel?
  
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  May 13, 2024 2:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Seems like some of our Teacher Training Courses are useless:

“For example, over a third of teachers said they were not able to manage classroom behaviour when they started in the role and a third of new primary school teachers said they were unprepared to teach science.

ERO has found that over a quarter of new teachers say their teacher education was ineffective.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516632/many-new-teachers-feel-unprepared-for-classroom-ero
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May 13, 2024 9:14am
- cmm
  
  A quarter say their training was ineffective? I’ll bet that another quarter found it ineffective but said nothing about it and a further quarter are ineffective because they just are not a good fit.
  
  I am unsurprised they are incapable of teaching science. Primary-level science, and primary-level maths, is beyond most of the people attracted to becoming teachers (in my limited experience).
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:31am
  - mandk
    
    And yet a further quarter don’t realise that their training was ineffective because they are a bit dim?
    
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    May 13, 2024 9:49am
    - softail 1450
      
      Ymandk, yeah but those dimwits could have become either Green, Labour or Ti party Māori MPs.
      
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      May 13, 2024 10:47am
    - Paulus
      
      Not dim. but see that Teaching is an easy well paid way out, with lots of days finishing at 3pm, and what holidays.
      What the hell has that to do with being a Teacher ?
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:08am
      - greybeard
        
        Ah, the old “they only work 35 hours a week and look at all those holidays” mantra.
        My daughter is a primary teacher: she has a double-degree from Vic, followed by a one-year post-grad teaching qualification.
        She has taught in Indonesia, London and here.
        Her week-days are made up of before-school preparatory work, normal class time, after-school preparation, meetings, marking, self-improvement and keeping up to date, parent-teacher communications, sports, mentoring, and plenty more.
        You try looking after 32 kids 5 days a week: making sure they all get the attention they deserve, that your teaching standard is as high as possible, that all day and every day you set an example to them.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:00pm
      - Burtland
        
        modern teaching has got more in common with barn farming chickens now, theyre even looking to control the feeding
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:27pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @greybeard
        
        From my experience and observations, the hard-working teachers are working long hours because they are having to carry the can for ineffective teaching colleagues, a very loose, ill-defined curriculum, and poorly directed support structures (teacher aides, pupil counsellors, truancy officers, teacher advisors).
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:01pm
    - cmm
      
      mandk: I was hoping that there’s be 25% good teachers out there. But maybe you’re right.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:40pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    New teachers say they can’t teach secondary science and maths.
    How did they get their degree?
    Do they all plan on being history teachers with their low quality degrees.
    NZ gets the lowest 25% of graduates to try to teach the top 25% of graduates.
    If it was a dog , I would put it out of its misery.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:07pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Degrees are handed out like Library cards.
      If they can’t teach then no big deal, the Teachers we have can’t teach either. They are Marxists indoctrinating the kids to be lefties – capitalism is bad, socialism good. All that shit.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:39pm
- kowtow
  
  The important thing is they get paid time off in the middle of an education emergency to thwart the democratic will of the people as expressed through the last general election.
  
  ‘Secondary school teachers in Dunedin and Queenstown will step away from their whiteboards at 1pm today, to hold paid union meetings about the National-led coalition government’s attempt to reintroduce charter schools in New Zealand.’
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/union-meetings-against-charter-school-proposal
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:56am
  - Grunter
    
    Would you trust the bloke in the picture (New Zealand Post Primary Teachers’ Association president Chris Abercrombie) with your kids….?
    
    He seems a bit mixed up in appearance so I do wonder what is going on in his head.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:52am
    - Burtland
      
      “improving the educational outcomes for ākonga”
      
      thats going on in his head – marxist word soup
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:38pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He is a bit of a mess.
      A hard 8 hours work in an engineering workshop would be beyond him.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:41pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    These paid union meetings during school time with the kids being sent home are being held 13-24 May.
    
    The focus of these PUMs will be our response to the government proposals to channel money out of public education and into charter schools and how we as a union will continue to develop our constitutional objective to affirm and advance Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
    
    https://www.ppta.org.nz/events/paid-union-meetings-faqs/
    
    PUMs. Yip, yip. They are actually activism strategy seminars (ASSes) designed to get teachers up to speed how evil parental choice is for their children currently being dumbed down and indoctrinated in union-controlled schools.
    
    Here’s the PPTA policy on charter schools:
    
    https://www.ppta.org.nz/campaigns/charter-schools/
    
    Building up our public school system, funding it properly, having qualified registered teachers in front of every young person and having subject specialists, that should be our focus. We should not be focused on getting public money to private individuals to run schools as they see fit.
    
    Oh, yes we should. The funding belongs to the child/parent not the protection racket that currently runs the NZ education system. If a parent wants to send their child to a publicly-funded but privately-run school that’s their business.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:28pm
- Clyde
  
  The truth is with teacher training is that many of the students are themselves lacking knowledge in what they are supposed to teach.
  
  The role of teacher education institutions should be teaching knowledgable people HOW to teach. Its called pedagogy. NOT teaching them basic knowledge.
  
  I have seen students who are just about to graduate who don’t know how to use a calculator, didn’t know that the earth went round the sun, and didn’t know what caused light and dark. I kid you not.
  
  A huge proportion of student’s time is now taken up with Marxist maorification. There is no solution to this until Erica Stanford sorts out the teacher training mobs.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:07am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Simple to have a standard intelligence/knowledge test that must be passed to be allowed to enter teacher training.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:15am
    - Paulus
      
      Must also be in Maori though first !
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:09am
    - Local Miller
      
      We actually have a standard intelligence/knowledge test that must be passed to be allowed to enter teacher training, it’s called SCHOOL!
      
      If school worked as it should, anyone entering teacher’s training would have the basic knowledge they need to teach others. All teacher’s training should need to do is provide the teaching skill and reinforce the previously learned knowledge.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:19pm
- Sacha
  
  That’s quite a good article.
  Primary school teachers used to be trained at Teachers Training Colleges. The courses were practical, and the teachers had classroom experience with experienced teacher, and were often mentored during their first placements in local primary schools, called ‘normal Schools’- which were attached to the training colleges.
  Then it was decided that Universities should take over and it was all downhill – universities were designed for higher education, not basic learning.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:50pm
- John Loveridge
  
  This could explain why so many of my children’s teachers are useless.
  
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  May 13, 2024 7:37pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump and his 3D Chess.
Gag order, but he has the 2nd Amendment. Labeled Judge as corrupt!
He is seeing if Merchan will put him in jail. The Judge will cave.

https://patriotpowerednetwork.com/trump-defies-gag-order-denounces-judge-as-corrupt/?
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May 13, 2024 9:15am
- cmm
  
  I can’t see the 2nd helping unless he’s prepping for a gunfight.
  
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  May 13, 2024 9:32am
  - softail 1450
    
    cmm, 😂😂😂,True.
    
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    May 13, 2024 10:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Part of it will be teaching his successor.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:49pm
Maggie Pie

I wonder if ‘our man in Ireland’ was rooting for Bambi Thug?

Looks his type 😀

https://mol.im/a/13409373
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May 13, 2024 9:21am
cas

I’ve always liked Steve Braunias’ writing even if sometimes I don’t agree with him. I thought I would share this from Newsroom. He is writing about the Ockham Book Awards’

‘The awards are held at the Aotea Centre. Not many people ever attend. The back half is generally empty. It makes for a barren experience, and it’s usually cold, too. Fake ferns are placed onstage. The similarly lifeless Jack Tame is placed onstage as Ockham MC, and routinely delivers a perfectly meaningless opening monologue with scarcely a single detailed reference to the 16 shortlisted books. As for the 16 shortlisted authors, they have to sit next to each other in the same row! Good grief. In short, it’s a deplorable exercise, but such is the nature of awards ceremonies.’
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May 13, 2024 9:30am
- David Garrett
  
  Cas: Steve Braunias is an odious thug who has a habit of getting drunk at the kind of functions you refer to and then hitting people.
  
  I am reliably informed that someone threw a glass of wine in his face at a recent function (the guy wrote a letter to the Listener and identified himself as the person who threw it)
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:53am
  - kowtow
    
    He’s recently done quite a long ,detailed essay, I’d call it ,as it’s not a news report, in the Herald on Liz Gunn’s and camera guy re their chargesand trial for trespass /assault /resisting arrest at Auckland airport .
    
    He still couldn’t help himself getting in some nice cheap shots against her at the end of the piece.
    
    btw That’ll be an interesting case to follow when the judge delivers finding/verdict around 28 May .
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:00am
    - David Garrett
      
      kowtow: Braunias wrote an assassination piece on me for Metro five years after I had left politics. He and his photographer spent two whole days in the village of Kaukapakapa trying to dig dirt on me (I was informed within thirty minutes that they were there). Kaukapakapa is a “blink and you’ll miss it” village comprising a school, a general store, a hairdressers, and a gas station. Braunias was ordered off the school grounds – the principal immediately advised me they were there – and similarly got nowhere with the other people in the village. (The hairdresser called me and told me she had told him to “fuck off” in exactly those words)
      
      He eventually managed to locate a former neighbour who accurately described herself as “the biggest bitch in Kaukapakapa” who gave him some dirt. He was so determined to find some more that he contacted some guy in Australia I had gone to school with – and had not seen since – and my former headmaster. I left school at the end of 1974.
      
      He got my half-brother drunk, and winkled out some information about what I was like at age four – I kid you not – and some sensitive family information. The article destroyed my fragile relationship with one of my sisters, who is an obsessively private person.
      
      Braunias is a first class [banned noun].
      
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      May 13, 2024 11:45am
      - Mike
        
        Aw, who else has been mean to you?
        Although I agree he needn’t have visited the rural wasteland to find material to poke the borax.
        I used to enjoy his whimsical Listener columns.
        
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        May 13, 2024 11:56am
      - David Garrett
        
        You might find the destruction of a fragile family relationship funny Mikey/Milky/ Whatever, but I don’t.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:13pm
      - Mike
        
        Are you alleging someone other than yourself is responsible for that?
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:23pm
      - kevn
        
        DG… Is the word ‘journalist’? Tis a noun.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:34pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        DG is the Town Crier of Kaukop.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:52pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Is this what you and your fellow Labour Party colleagues mean by “be kind” Milky?
        
        Time to go back under your bridge for a sleep.
        
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        May 13, 2024 12:56pm
      - kowtow
        
        I hear you.
        
        And couldn’t agree more.
        
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        May 13, 2024 1:52pm
Maggie Pie

A talkback caller asks…

Given that the mothers are all on benefits, do gang members pay ‘child support’?
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May 13, 2024 10:30am
- RoboRob
  
  No. Gang members are also on benefits becuase they have no income.
  
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  May 13, 2024 10:37am
  - kowtow
    
    Plenty of income from drug trafficking and no doubt all manner of other illegal activities.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:04am
    - rouppe
      
      That’s what bugs me about IRD.
      
      Target gang members looking for assets in excess of income, trusts, shell companies…
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:41pm
  - cas
    
    One was with his partner and child in our local supermarket this am when there is loads of work around. He had a red sweatshirt emblazoned with a gang symbol. Poor child , aged 2ish or younger who was in the trolley, was wearing a red sweatshirt.
    
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    May 13, 2024 11:47am
    - kevn
      
      cas… and knowing you were paying for his groceries.
      Indirectly.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:32pm
    - DimChappie
      
      What a racist. He might well be an IT contractor on his day off.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:54pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    All part of being a warrior!
    
    Let someone else pay for your wife and kids dinner, and the house, and the power, and their clothes….
    
    No self respecting warrior would ever consider these his own responsibility !!!
    
    BTW, has anyone else noticed that they are all ugly?
    Sad little people .
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:24pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Oh they have an income all right. Harleys are not cheap.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:54pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

This is a second post from yesterday that I missed.
“Who really broke the Treaty?” John Robinson.

I have ordered the book.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/the-most-important-book-to-be-published-in-nz-in-the-last-50-years/
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May 13, 2024 10:35am
- Mike
  
  What other books have you read about the treaty, Steve?
  
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  May 13, 2024 11:52am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Not about the treaty per se but ” A Conversation With My Country” by Alan Duff and “A Savage Country” by Paul Moon should be on every child’s reading list.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:39pm
    - Mike
      
      Perhaps you ahould also read Paul Moon’s four books on the treaty and on NZ in the 1830s and 1840s.
      
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      May 13, 2024 12:49pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I can’t read. Did you not know that? My partner reads it out to me.
    That is what you get from growing up in the sticks way out the back of Te Kowhai.
    
    I like Harry Wakatipu by Jack Lasenby.
    
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    May 13, 2024 12:59pm
    - Mike
      
      I feel a bit sorry for her having to read all of Kiwiblog aloud.
      
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      May 13, 2024 1:17pm
      - Grunter
        
        That’s quite good for you Mike 🙂
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:42pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Whooossshhhh
        
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Chuck Bird

I have been wondering how people get taken in by these scams. Are they cold-called, texted or emailed? I have more than $ 500k in shares but deal with a broker. Anyone know how these scams work?

NZ First candidate, former police officer file Reserve Bank complaint against Kiwibank after losing $500,000 in scam

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-first-candidate-former-police-officer-file-reserve-bank-complaint-against-kiwibank-after-losing-500k-in-scam/4IBC4SKA4VGBJGVPFZL4H4SEAU/
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May 13, 2024 10:44am
- Local Miller
  
  People get sucked into scams because they never learned that if it sounds too good to be true, then it is too good to be true. They got sold a get rich quick scheme or lend me X and I’ll give you back 10X, etc.
  I’m still amazed that the infamous Nigerian scam still works. Does anyone really believe that someone sitting on millions of $$$$ will contact a total stranger asking for help.
  But then is suppose a sucker is born every day.
  
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  May 13, 2024 12:10pm
- kevn
  
  Chuck…. Remember Gold Corp back in the 80’s? Had all their clients gold bullion safely stored.
  But, it wasn’t.
  Where did it all go? I don’t recall the outcome.
  
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  May 13, 2024 12:31pm
  - trout
    
    The Goldcorp scam was convincing investors that the gold they purchased (that they could sight) was safely held in trust. The company sold “unallocated gold certificates”, holding the real gold in its vaults. But it turned out there was not enough gold to go around, and what was there was claimed by funder BNZ. The gullible investors lost out.
    The architect of the scam, Ray Smith, spent time at one of the prison farms down country; IIRR he designed a golf course for inmates.
    
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    May 13, 2024 1:55pm
    - civil serpent
      
      He was acquitted of fraud (in relation to the “not enough gold to go around” claims) but convicted and imprisoned for quite separate offences under the Insolvency Act.
      
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      May 13, 2024 2:19pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        But didn’t he end up living in a nice resort in the USA?
        
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        May 13, 2024 3:15pm
    - Grunter
      
      “…there was not enough gold to go around”
      
      So just the same as all the banks? They all run fractional banking systems. I think about 15%-20% of the money actually exists.
      
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      May 13, 2024 3:48pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If you don’t know the person calling, tell them to foxtrot oscar then hang up.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:04pm
- MCōs
  
  My former wife told me the other day she was looking at her online banking and someone has made a purchase using information that she later found out had been stolen
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ancestry dot com did it to me. Set up an account for my daughter to use and paid with a BNZ Debit card. Someone tried but missed out – so the Bank told me. Some place in Africa doing online gambling.
    
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    May 13, 2024 4:08pm
- mogg
  
  Absolute financial naivety/stupidity, that’s how they work. It’s beyond belief that someone with $500 thousand to invest would not be registered with a Broker. Any decent brokerage would charge less than most Kiwisaver annual costs to invest that sort of money, probably around the 1% mark. (You do have to ask though) . And you will get invited to their investment seminars, they don’t cut corners when it comes to the food and wine.
  
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  May 13, 2024 2:37pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Can you explain – do you mean find a broker to invest your $$ in EFTs or shares or what? Can you direct me to some useful reading on this please as money stuff isn’t my forte.
    
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    May 13, 2024 3:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Tell me you bank account number and I will find the right broker for you.
      
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      May 13, 2024 4:09pm
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Go read Jarden Wealth Managements website. Will give you a feel for what a wealth manager can do for you and fee structures.
      
      To be honest – if you want to invest in shares and not do the research ETFs that passively track a bundle of stocks like top 30 will serve you well enough over a 10 year run
      
      Note: I am not a finance professional, the above is not investment advice and you should consult a financial professional before investing : )
      
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      May 13, 2024 5:20pm
Grunter

I see you can now be accused of being “borderline racist”…. 🙂 🙂

These people – do they not realise how stupid their words are??

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/councillor%E2%80%99s-comments-%E2%80%98borderline-racist%E2%80%99
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May 13, 2024 10:48am
My-Gumboot

Helen upset at the ending of the Sunday show.
“.. victim of an unwillingness & /or incapacity to think outside the box on funding of long form current affairs programming.

Perhaps Helen, Jack and Miriama and co should have looked outside the left wing, socialist, pinko, biased, commie box themselves. Might have picked up some ratings..
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May 13, 2024 11:12am
- Handyman
  
  Clarke has forgotten that the first action of Ardern re covid was to ban long form journalism by banning magazines (eg Listener, North and South).
  
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  May 13, 2024 6:29pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m not interested in their thinking outside the box until there’s evidence that there’s any thinking inside the box that exists between their ears.
  
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  May 13, 2024 8:03pm
surfing

Ha ha , government is saying anyone that has been waiting more than 4 months for specialist need to be contacted and to get updated referrals.

Last time we needed (couple of years back), my son was waiting nearly 12 months before getting seen by a specialist.

It’s a joke, there is no way they can recover this quickly.
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May 13, 2024 11:15am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am starting to think the coalition Govt really does not know how much NZ was wrecked by Jaspinda. It is just not sinking in.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:09pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Afte my comment to you I had a call from North Shore Hospital about a cancelled appointment to see a specialist for rotor cuff tear. I took it.
  This is the second time around now of seeing a specialist – after 3 separate x-rays at different times. The system is going in circles. Admin is the problem, 5 people doing 1 person’s job.
  I do hope this turns out good, the pain is increasing even with heavy meds.
  
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  May 13, 2024 4:16pm
  - surfing
    
    Good luck.
    
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    May 13, 2024 6:19pm
Maggie Pie

Imagine the reaction if the headline said Judith Collins rather than Olaf Scholz 🙁

https://mol.im/a/13409295
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May 13, 2024 11:17am
Philview

I read that Professor Robert Patman won the Critic and Conscience award. I don’t really want to criticise him while using a pseudonym but he was described as ‘fearless’. While I am clearly not fearless, I do think that the Professor does tend to lean towards positions of neutrality rather than criticise China. Whereas he has a greater tendency to criticise right leaning Western governments.
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May 13, 2024 11:18am
- kowtow
  
  Yep , I reckon someone who could be called “fearless” is Anne Marie Brady but seems to get sidelined .While ole Patman is the go to guy.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:44pm
Chuck Bird

Who supports Winston’s toilet bill?

McBLOG: Winston’s straight flush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpBIWSfddEI
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May 13, 2024 11:26am
- Mike
  
  I think the poor taxpayers support all of Winston’s bills, including toilet expenses.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:13pm
Swifty

Helen Clark is upset:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/helen-clarks-scathing-response-to-tvnz-decision-after-final-sunday-episode-airs/AQOMJIFGZJAKRDQGBNYY22RKJU/

She thinks losing a tv show is shameful.

But I see she wants to plow even more taxpayer money into friendly state broadcasters while our most disadvantaged kids go unsupported:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018938135/a-broken-system-report-says-education-system-failing

No, this is what is shameful Ms Clark.

Such sick priorities these lefties have. Just sick.
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May 13, 2024 12:59pm
- Damocles11
  
  TVNZ didn’t have to chop Sunday, they had many other options. The people running the place are incompetent but Luxon / Goldsmith won’t act. It’s amazing how little the Coalition are doing to actually reverse the Leftist takeover of our organisations & institutions. Drain the swamp? Nah, the elite is the elite I guess.
  
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  May 13, 2024 1:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I am not losing any sleep over it. Should have happened more than 10 years ago.
  Far too many on the Net Taxpayer tit!
  
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  May 13, 2024 4:28pm
Maggie Pie

I call Leo…. ‘The Queen City’s answer to KTH’ 😀

Just another reason why everyone we know adores him so much!

https://twitter.com/LeoMolloyNZ/status/1789565962234261722
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May 13, 2024 1:30pm
kevn

Maggie…. Making their families proud. Maybe not.
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May 13, 2024 2:13pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. Really?
Lefties, get the keys off Mum and go to your safe place in the basement.
This is for the adults OK?

https://www.prageru.com/video/as-the-rich-get-richer-the-poor-get-richer?
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May 13, 2024 2:38pm
Maggie Pie

Remember when McD’s had inside playgrounds for kids?
This is New Lynn today after 6 years of a ‘soft-on-crime’ Labour gubmint 🙁

https://twitter.com/PureBloodKiwi/status/1789427299785314776

At least they had the good sense to vote National in this time.

(Unbelieveably, both Labour’s Debra Russell and the Green rag-n’ bone-man entered parliament on the List for the same electorate. The hole system is r**ted.)
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May 13, 2024 3:19pm
- cmm
  
  For a brief period they seemed to pull their heads in a bit after National took power.
  
  Now they’ve realised that National is going to be pathetic too – so business as usual.
  
  I wish I could say it was just Jafa land, but they’re getting braver here in Chch too.
  
  NZ wonders why it can’t attract quality staff from overseas – here’s why (along with a few other solid reasons).
  
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  May 13, 2024 4:45pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YIP.. tuff maori warriors beating up an a 10yo tilttle asian kid.
    
    Must be ‘gang prospects’ hoping for a patch
    
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    May 13, 2024 6:13pm
thirteenstars

Sky News. Trump pulls 80-100k crowd in blue state, New Jersey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1qestqiBQE

Looks like a nice crowd.
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May 13, 2024 3:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “He wont win”
  According to Mike. Now Mike is a very smart guy, but he is wrong here. Very wrong!
  
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  May 13, 2024 5:19pm
Ghost

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which blocked a summons order from the Waitangi Tribunal for Children’s Minister Karen Chhour.

Article
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May 13, 2024 4:12pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  On a related note, Don Brash has just sent out an appeal for people to sign this petition to get rid of the Waitangi Tribunal…
  https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/end-the-waitangi-tribunal
  
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  May 13, 2024 5:07pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Done already
    
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    May 13, 2024 5:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Signed – not sighed!
    The time has come to stop the extortion of the Net Taxpayer!
    
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    May 13, 2024 5:39pm
    - MCōs
      
      Are you a ‘net taxpayer’ these days?
      How do you determine what one is considered 13% of your expenditure is tax for a start.
      
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      May 13, 2024 6:33pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes – interest.
        
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        May 14, 2024 8:02am
- surfing
  
  So, do maori run this country, or the government?
  
  That is the question.
  
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  May 13, 2024 6:18pm
sht1971

And Newshub wonders how they got into trouble. With everything going on in NZ and the world they lead with the story that Sam Cane won’t be All Blacks captain!
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May 13, 2024 6:42pm
Maggie Pie

Got a bit riled earlier when I herd about AT imposing 24/7 hourly parrking charges in the CBD from 1 July.
Then jusy watching OneEwes before and realised by the look of the people they intervewd who woud be afected by it, they probaly wouldnt be ratepayers anyway.

Certainy doesnt worry us.
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May 13, 2024 6:52pm
Swifty

It’s way past time we had a revolution in education in this country:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjVTE9gkEkQ&t=833s

Teachers closing schools in order to hold trade union meetings on partnership schools just brings them into contempt in my view.
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