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mogg

Doom O Clock on the Dow today, half of last week’s gains have gone, those dam profit takers. O well back to work again.
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August 26, 2025 8:19am
- pdm
  
  It was still a decent move at the end of last week so some downward adjustment was to be expected.
  
  Volatile times so it could swing either way over the next year or so. As long as the overall trend is upwards as it largely has been there is nothing to worry about.
  
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  August 26, 2025 8:34am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I am looking at buying some Rocketlab.
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:43am
    - pdm
      
      We leave that to the experts Chuck.
      
      Prefer to pay professional managers and focus on offshore investments which (hopefully/usually) have more upside.
      
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      August 26, 2025 8:49am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I have done okay with my share portfolio.
        
        I do use an advisor at CraigsIP and go to functions to hear Mark Lister.
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:07am
      - pdm
        
        Bloody hell – how could you get 3 downticks for that Chuck?
        
        Envy obviously.
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:23am
      - imalwaysright
        
        [Mod – we don’t need running commentary on downticks or what you think of them]
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:26am
      - RoboRob
        
        I have a small portfollio of self selected shares. The bulk of my saving is in managed funds. Buying your own shares is really beneficial, you learn how overseas markets work and more about indvidual companies. It gave me a quite different outlook on NZ and our processes.
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:38am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        pdm. I could say the ABs play well, and I will get down ticks. I think this is wrong. I only down tick people for what their post says, and not what their views on other issues days ago.
        
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        August 26, 2025 10:28am
      - Paulus
        
        Should that be the same when in Kiwisaver it is seen, in principle, that the only people who make money are the Managers, which was the idea in the first place sold by the Life Insurance Industry to Cullen.
        
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        August 26, 2025 2:13pm
    - RoboRob
      
      Rocket lab is my best performing share. Bought at $10 IPO (wont buy at IPO in the future). Then bought as it dropped. My average share cost is $4.30 USD, the current price is $47.22 USD. I sold half my shares at around $22 becuase I thought it was a bit over priced! Got all the money I had put in and a little profit.
      
      Anyway current return is 998.14% ! Pitty I dont have that many shares 🙂
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:09am
      - pdm
        
        Good on you RR.
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:25am
    - NothingLeft
      
      I don’t understand how Rocketlab are supposed to survive SpaceX’s near term rise to operation of fully reusable Starship – which is likely to be a tenth the cost to operate. And Blue Origin – with worlds #2 mr money bags Bezos backing it and a huge customer in Amazons competing communication constellation, and thirdly Chinese reusable rockets copying spaceX scampering along to arrive in a few years.
      
      Rocketlab have done a great job, but I really can’t see how they are going to endure such insurmountable competition.
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:41am
      - cmm
        
        “SpaceX’s near term rise to operation of fully reusable Starship”
        That is highly aspirational.
        
        But, yes, there is increasing competition in this space and RL could face some headwinds.
        
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        August 26, 2025 10:21am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        Rocketlab are targeting a niche market of micro-sats that even a Falcon 9 is not worth launching for, let alone Starship. How many customers microsats would you have to line up to fill the cargo bay of Starship?
        
        So their main competitors in future will be other Rocketlab clones.
        
        Of course the question will also be how big the microsat market gets, but given how even the USAF and NRO are getting away from big spysats like the KH-11 (a couple of years ago they simply donated two Hubble-sized mirrors to NASA to use in its new space telescopes, because they didn’t need them anymore), the market could be set to grow for quite a while yet.
        
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        August 26, 2025 1:00pm
  - mogg
    
    I couldn’t agree more, except this might be the last chance to get the tax free capital gains. If we get the looney left in office next year it will be full on unrealised capital gains tax, or Chloe’s wealth tax.
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:47am
    - JerJer
      
      Yeah, but that’s not likely. They are unlikely to get back in, and even if they did, it would be easy to avoid. I guess many would be considering it a risk and moving their holdings offshore currently to mitigate that risk. There are already taxes on unrealized gains on offshore stocks that you do declare (FIF) but even those you can easily avoid.
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:22am
      - RoboRob
        
        Interested in how you avoid those!
        
        I already pay US capital gains on share sales (if applicable) and each year declare my US taxed dividends and pay the difference in tax to the NZ government. NZ tax is much higher then the US tax. I have stayed under the 50k limit to avoid the hasstle of FIF taxes.
        
        I have commented here before, that the govt just doesnt raise the FIF cutoff with inflation and as such discourages people to invest overseas.
        
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        August 26, 2025 9:33am
      - mogg
        
        Thanks for the reminder, I suppose I should be recording my DRIP reinvestment transactions on the FIF form. I have declared, but never bothered with the official form.
        
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        August 26, 2025 10:00am
      - peterwn
        
        I would not be too sure about that. The Left have the upper hand with the media and can often say what they like. Labour can promise to do better next time compared with their dismal performance under Jacinda. They can spread misinformation like it was wrong to waste money cancelling the ferry contract and that the new ferries would have been just the thing (even thought they were turkeys for the intended use).
        So Chris Luxon and co are left with hoping the economy will pick up for the next election, those who actually want jobs will find them etc. Chris will be having to use all his OMO marketing skills to sell National to the electorate next year (which is more fickle than mums doing the washing).
        
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        August 26, 2025 10:43am
      - JerJer
        
        RoboRob….to answer your question above, there are a few ways.
        
        i) Invest in FIF exempt shares. There are many of them in Australia and the UK.
        
        ii) FIF only applies if you have purchased over the limit. If you have purchased under the limit, and the value of the shares increases over the limit then FIF apparently does not apply.
        
        iii) There are various investment vehicles on the NZX that invest in overseas shares that are not FIF exempt, but the investment vehicle is exempt (and capital gains tax does not apply either). So, you can invest there, and take the benefit but not bother with FIF.
        
        Obviously the Greens and Labour would probably try to kill option iii). But for now, it exists.
        
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        August 26, 2025 10:46am
      - RoboRob
        
        @JerJer
        
        Thanks for that!
        
        I had always read ‘total cost of attributing interests does not exceed the $50,000 threshold at any time in the year’ as the value of the shares. But you are right, it appears its the total purchase cost of the shares.
        
        In which case my portfolio is miles away from that and I can consider investing again! Previously I had decided it was too much hassle and cost to have to deal with FIF tax and just moved my savings to NZ based funds to let them deal with it.
        
        I will say it again though, FIF taxes and the tiny threshold really do act as disincentive for saving and investments. I am (somewhat) happy to pay tax on my overseas earnings (dividends and profits), even though the money has never come back into NZ. However having to do a pile of paperwork and / or pay an accountant for the privilege of paying taxed on unrealised gains is just bullshit.
        
        p.s. All my individual stocks in the USA through hatch so the other ‘outs’ don’t really work for me, but good to know.
        
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        August 26, 2025 11:46am
    - R
      
      Or in all probability BOTH.
      The life failures, who populate the LEFT in NZ politics, are envious of the motivation of those who have the ability for RATIONAL thinking about their decisions, before implementing them.
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:30am
- JerJer
  
  Looks good to me. Stocks recovered stringly from the fake media induced tariff crash a lot earlier than I predicted. Market will be up 10% (tax free gain + dividends on top) or more by end of year. Contrast that to another 3-4% loss on leveraged property or 1% gain after tax from a deposit account and I know where I would put my money. Hold long, ride out the bumps, invest on the dips. Don’t day trade. Diversify. Simple rules.
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:02am
  - mogg
    
    I would add one thing, make sure to keep to your risk profile, ie if equities boom sell some at the higher prices to keep your risk stable.
    DPF said last week that ‘stocks are more volatile’ than fixed interest’. He is wrong, the biggest risk of all is not having a pre-determined percentage of your portfolio in risk investments. With all good actively managed funds they will carefully manage the downside.
    
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    August 26, 2025 10:13am
  - mogg
    
    There is a very informative interview with Jason Boyes on Sharesies. He has well over 2 M shares in Infratil, so he is somebody ‘ who eats his own cooking’. Well worth listening to.
    
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    August 26, 2025 12:50pm
  - Quail
    
    JJ,
    Apparently the Reserve bank is predicting a 7%rise in house prices later this year.
    Doesn’t seem to be much interest in the substantial fall in the NZD caused the OCR cuts though.
    Inflation is still with us , this time not only because of our ailing currency but also the continued deficit budgeting and spending of the coalition Government.
    Anyone with a term deposit (including KiwiSaver ) in NZ is ,to use a favourite Trump term , being ripped off !
    
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    August 26, 2025 9:19pm
- peterwn
  
  Sounds like Sisyphus who was condemned for ever to push a large boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again, etc, etc. At least it only rolled half down the hill this time, so he can achieve greater heights when he pushes it up again.
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:15am
  - pdm
    
    pw – when I sold my Financial Services business and left the industry in March/April 2009 the Dow was sitting at around 7,700.
    
    Given it is now at about 45,300 that is good cop no matter what anyone says.
    
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    August 26, 2025 10:10am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Ah yes the ancient Greeks and their lovely ideas of eternal torture. I wonder where the books of the NT got this concept from?
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:49pm
artemisia

Te Pūkenga breakup: Govt warned de-merger would lead to more people staying on Jobseeker for longer Herald today.

Would? Or could? May seem trivial to focus on a word, but it is a misleading headline, and a poor look for an important issue. There is a big difference between would/will and could/might. The ‘would’ appears in the headline and in a small number of instances in the article where it is in the context of a potential risk. Not ‘would’ then? ‘Could’, ‘may’ and ‘risk’ – plenty of those indicating advice from officials is warning of consequences.

Fair enough, that is part of their role, but let’s see what actually happens when the officials publish the post implementation review. These are standard operating procedure are they not, or are more orders for carpets and brooms under way for the professional managerial class.

Hopefully Minister Simmonds has set a date for the PIR delivery.
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August 26, 2025 8:20am
- rouppe
  
  Who would remain on the dole? Those studying indigenous studies, which hopefully have been cancelled?
  
  Or those studying building, electrical etc which hopefully have not been cancelled.
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:32am
- Ehlana
  
  I heard that too, but no explanation of the mechanism by which breaking up Te Pukenga (an administrative action) would stop people from studying. Or even could stop them from studying.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:35am
- rjay
  
  We learned in a post the other day that advice from civil servants has become very shallow compared to years gone by. This is because of incentives to move around between ministries rather than become a subject expert.
  So civil servants, who by nature believe in centralisation, have given a half pie warning about decentralising. Ho hum!
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:37am
NothingLeft

In the ‘suicidal empathy’ files (driven by Narcissistic low status academics attempting to invert the meritocratic order of the world to raise themselves to the top):

In last 20 years recorded rapes in UK, Germany and France have increased by 6-8x, while in Poland they have halved from levels that were already lower than western Europe.

Whatever could be causing such a rapid decline?

https://media.scored.co/post/1XHEzy79UWrH.jpeg
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August 26, 2025 8:27am
- mogg
  
  Matt Goodwin has a good blog out today, he reckons that the recent dramatic changes to British society have been pushed through by only 10-15% of the elites. Being the Uni-Party, Civil Service blob and MSM types BBC, Guardian etc.
  
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  August 26, 2025 8:56am
  - Phronesis
    
    I feel like being of british descent I should understand british society. But I increasingly realise that I really don’t. The class structure is just so foreign to us. It seems bizarre to me that the upper classes would conspire to screw over the lower class by importing endless unskilled labour. That they really hate them that much. But it’s the most plausible explanation for what is happening.
    
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    August 26, 2025 9:40am
    - cmm
      
      Is it really that foreign to us?
      
      We have the Wellington Beltway “class” with all the academics etc onboard.
      
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      August 26, 2025 10:23am
    - Hammie
      
      Is it much different to our government importing endless unskilled labour from India?
      
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      August 26, 2025 11:26am
    - NothingLeft
      
      It’s “Communal Narcissism” where a group or tribe within larger society develops an in-group belief in their superiority on some pretext that then allows them to disregard and denigrate non-members as ‘other’ and ‘lesser’ and not worthy of consideration or even basic human rights in many cases. Most typically these people don’t and mostly intellectually can’t actually formulate or ruminate on the basis or underpinnings for their beliefs, and can’t defend them in anything more than the most superficial way, but hold tight as NPCs to their in-group identifiers, shibboleths and parrot whatever they believe are the key precepts as gospel to maintain their bona-fides with their tribe – the ‘virtue signal’ we have become so accustomed to seeing in media old and new is just an individual’s overt declaration of that Narcissism. This is the natural preserve of the ‘Karen’.
      
      In millenia past this communal Narcissism was seen most commonly amongst aristocracies, and priestly castes, but in recent times has become the pathology of neo-marxist and other loopy left wing quasi-religious indoctrinaires from academia. Greens, Te-Racists, Labour MPs, Gender and Environmental ‘activists’ all beating their chests desperately seeking the attention and accolades they feel they deserve…
      
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      August 26, 2025 12:57pm
pdm

Is it just me or is Kiwiblog very slow logging in etc this morning?
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August 26, 2025 8:35am
- cmm
  
  Comes and goes.
  
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  August 26, 2025 8:49am
- imalwaysright
  
  Probably the 50 odd NZ data centres downloading.
  Wait until you get a power cut as well…
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:59am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Yes always best to have a plan B ready for a large/lengthy comms and/or electricity blackout. People blithely assume it “can’t happen here”.
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:02pm
Frank the tank

Quite clearly the Maori caucus controls the Labour party at the moment given Henare’s “off the reservation” actions.

Anyone within the Feckless (media) going to call this out?
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August 26, 2025 8:40am
- AitchW
  
  Imagine a Labour/Maori/Green government with TMP and the Maori caucus calling the shots?
  It’d make Ardern and Robertson’s debacle look positively attractive.
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:38am
  - pdm
    
    Aitch – we have had that.
    
    Nanaia Mahuta and Wee Willie Jackson had huge amounts of influence in the period 2020 to 2023.
    
    Neither Ardern or Hipkins had sufficient standing to bring them into line and we pay a price today. Here is an example:
    https://nominister.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/act-council-candidate-exposes-kapiti-councils-unelected-kaumatua/
    
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    August 26, 2025 10:14am
    - Skippytony
      
      My theory is that the Māori caucus has the same kind of “lock” on Labour that the trade union movement had back in the 70s – they hand out dead rats and the party eats them.
      
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      August 26, 2025 10:35am
    - Philview
      
      Yes I have always thought Jacinda Ardern must have been a weak leader within the Labour Party. She frequently seemed blindsided by policy announcements made from her Maori MPs and the media had to scramble to cover the oversight. The Maori caucus was a party within a party with its own leader.
      
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      August 26, 2025 1:20pm
Chuck Bird

I wonder if this government will use Eroad type system to issue speeding tickets?

Opinion: Road-user charges can pay for more than just road maintenance – NZ could lead the way

Road-user charges could be used to set a congestion price, manage on- and off-street parking and monitor speed limits without the need for any additional technology, saving on setting up separate congestion and parking pricing schemes and speed cameras.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/opinion-road-user-charges-can-pay-for-more-than-just-road-maintenance-nz-could-lead-the-way/CXK3AOZHCJFUPG2A5OHVFFQOHY/
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August 26, 2025 9:03am
- Keith White
  
  Maybe, Chuck, maybe…
  
  …Until the system’s hacked…
  
  …Or until there are regular brownouts and blackouts as we descend into Manila-style power supplies thanks to the Captain’s Call…
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:07am
  - balanced
    
    Scarey stuff.
    
    Do we really want the Clark advised McAnulty to have live and historical records of our whereabouts?
    
    Imagine the power they could wield for their next nefarious national (tax money laundering) emergency.
    
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    August 26, 2025 9:19am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Apparently McAnulty’s partner is Chippy’s press officer. That’s handy.
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:34am
- peterwn
  
  Eroads and the like is already used by employers to monitor location and speeds of company vehicles. Environment Southland chairman has just been given a figurative flogging around the fleet for exceeding the speed limit 100 or so times in his Council issued car.
  So this is quite feasible as well as automatically issuing tickets (more likely automatic direct debits) for using bus lanes or using the Grafton Bridge or Hataitai tram tunnel.
  
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  August 26, 2025 9:23am
  - pdm
    
    True pw.
    
    Son who is an Orchard Manager has a company vehicle and while he has some personal use – eg he took us to the airport in it – this is strictly overseen and controlled.
    
    He is not able to take it to golf at the weekend.
    
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    August 26, 2025 9:29am
    - Keith White
      
      If my employer provided me a car I’d accept, of course, the restrictions in return for the use thereof.
      
      But feck the concept that I buy and own a car and the government through its faceless bureau-stasi acolytes tells me where I can’t go and tells the workld where I am and where I have been.
      
      Imagine* one of Cahill’s union-mobsters leaks whereabouts of vulnerable women and children to evildoers and molesters and vengeful baby daddies, or leaks physical location of firearms licence owners – and their families – to feral meth-head melanogangsters.
      
      *It’s easy if you try – corrupt NZ cops misuse databases daily. OIAs prove so.
      
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      August 26, 2025 9:42am
    - Paulus
      
      Have heard that for example the CEO of Tauranga Concil, as part of his enormous package, has a $12,500 Fringe Benefit Tax charge against the Council owned car he drives, as part of his remuneration and this gives him free driving and is correct in respect of perks to include in his remuneration.
      After all Ratepayers pay anyway.
      
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      August 26, 2025 2:24pm
- Handyman
  
  And so it begins….
  Experts will offer suggestions on how to use the new tracking technology for “transport justice” and “equity”.
  
  Expect to see:
  Tax rates based on CO2 emissions of vehicles. (To encourage EVs and to save the planet).
  Lower tax rates for social vehicles eg school busses, charities and iwi fleet cars.
  Tax discounts based on the driver rather than the car. For example, lower rates for beneficiaries., students.
  Higher rates in city centres to subsidise public transport (because the current 85% is not enough).
  
  Of course to get any money for roads the standard rate will need to be increased to compensate.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:02am
  - Keith White
    
    I’m already planning my application for an exemption; my wheels have octocylinders attached and equity demands they are treated the same way as binarycylinders.
    
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    August 26, 2025 10:10am
  - Local Miller
    
    We may not have the EVs much longer. Another cargo carrier has announced they are no longer going to ship EVs due to the risk. It’s not so much that there are a lot of fires as that when there is a fire it’s catastrophic. Granted these are both shorter haul, around the west coast of the USA, Alaska and to Hawaii, but if there’s another EV fire in the near future insurance on car carriers will go through the roof and we’ll quickly see more and more carriers refuse. I estimate the flow of EVs to NZ will slow to a trickle over the next 2 – 3 years.
    
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    August 26, 2025 10:45am
    - Stu2
      
      Depends on the battery tech – no problem with LFP
      
      I wouldn’t buy anything with NMC though
      
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      August 26, 2025 11:38am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Matson Line.
      
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      August 26, 2025 4:22pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Was listening to Te Platform today on that very topic. Sean Plunket thought only “cookers” would think those things might happen!
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:04pm
Handyman

There is very little wind generation this morning. 100MW out of the total 5,600MW being consumed.
Gas is generating 500 MW. What will happen in a couple of years when there is no gas?
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August 26, 2025 10:07am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Hopefully leadership with brains and courage will have highly efficient coal plants up and running and using the abundant supply of NZ coal. Simples.
  
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  August 26, 2025 8:09pm
Keith White

Crime Story with a Happy Ending.

“Houston Homeowner Shoots and Kills Two Men in Ski Masks Dressed as Police, Who Shot at Him.

“[The homeowner] became suspicious, because, you know, they have a ring camera too, and the suspects were saying they had a warrant, but it was just two people and they’re masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that,” said Lt. Khan with HPD.

“Police said the men shot at the homeowner through the door, prompting the homeowner to return fire. The homeowner was not hurt in the gunfire, but the two men were both hit and pronounced dead at the scene.

Evil off the streets, lots of taxpayers’ money saved now and ongoing, a happy ending indeed. FAFO in a nutshell.
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August 26, 2025 10:14am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360802436/one-slip-and-youre-guilty-universitys-unusual-ai-crackdown-rattles-students
Interesting: I applaud the University’s quick and decisive action here. Well done them.
Very young-looking Dr. Lensen: we seem to have our own Sheldon Cooper !
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August 26, 2025 10:20am
- cmm
  
  Generative AI is a huge problem in that it removes the lower-level work that actually builds competence.
  
  The reason a career ladder is called a ladder is because that is how it works. Get on the bottom and climb up the ladder building competence at each rung.
  
  If AI replaces the bottom 10 rungs of the ladder, then people will end up on rung 11 without having the learning from climbing the ladder.
  
  Very analogous to our problem with kids turning up at high school without basic maths and language proficiency.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:29am
  - artemisia
    
    If AI replaces the bottom 10 rungs, then those who would once have been employed there are no longer required. The few rung 11 experts will certainly be required, not least to keep reviewing output from rungs 1 to 10 for accuracy and relevance. They will be paid very well. Princes.
    
    The savings will be more than enough to pay the dole for the rungs 1 to 10. A recipe for some serious social problems.
    
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    August 26, 2025 11:02am
    - cmm
      
      Replacing those that are long-term employed by the lower rungs is one thing.
      Quite another is removing the ladder for those that need to climb the lower rungs to get to the top.
      
      We see a lot of emphasis on AI doing the boring work, but often the boring work is the path to the interesting work.
      
      We already have a huge skills shortage that is getting worse as people retire and take those skills with them. Now there is a moat preventing people entering from the bottom.
      
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      August 26, 2025 11:22am
    - rjay
      
      Other ladders get invented. Apprentice carriage builders are few and far between but heaps of tyre repair shops employ low skilled workers.
      
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      August 26, 2025 12:06pm
imalwaysright

The Loafers Lodge fire trial is set for 5 weeks.
How can it take 5 weeks to try someone whose lawyer has said they are pleading not guilty because of insanity ?

Shouldn’t the judge suspend the trial and have the man certified either insane or sane, and then either pass judgement or restart the trial?
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August 26, 2025 10:20am
- RoboRob
  
  Dont bring common sense into it. The lawyers all need to get there feed from the trough for this case. We pay for the prosecuters and judge, and in this case pay for the defense. They are milking the hours on this one.
  
  He already admitted to starting the fire. We already know the outcome. His defense in insanity, so surely the ‘case’ is just determining sanity.
  
  No wonder we have a backlog of cases.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:53am
Maggy Wassilieff

I would pissed if I had to resubmit an assignment based on a suspicion that someone in the class had used AI to complete their assignment.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360802436/one-slip-and-youre-guilty-universitys-unusual-ai-crackdown-rattles-students
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August 26, 2025 10:21am
- cmm
  
  University is increasingly transactional – people just going there to get a bit of paper. Few care about the actual learning opportunity.
  
  As a result, I think we are going to get increased use of what we’d have called “cheating” back in the day.
  
  Using generative AI to write an essay is even more of a cheat than going to the library, finding some books and copying passages verbatum. At least the latter required a bit of research and understanding.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:33am
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    Yep, even more dummies incoming.
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:10pm
- greybeard
  
  It seems as though there were more than one suspected of what is really cheating. ( Cheating themselves as well, when you think about it ). Will it harm anyone to do the test again under stricter supervision ? Everyone has to do it: maybe it will be a good thing in the long run, as well as setting a precedent as a warning to others.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:36am
- imalwaysright
  
  All academic testing and assessment must be done on paper using only a pen.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:47am
  - R
    
    But then the exam markers would have learn to read what passes as writing these days; and would demand more money for the time spent reading.
    
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    August 26, 2025 12:50pm
- Philview
  
  Maggy,
  A couple of students I know have talked about difficulties with the intense Maorification of tertiary education. Therefore, AI is a necessity to get around all the issues associated with that. I am sympathetic to the use of AI in such a context.
  
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  August 26, 2025 10:56am
  - Notsofast
    
    It sounds like time wasted squared.
    This is student abuse.
    They never get this time back, it is in every salient manner a cult like Islam and transgender.
    
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    August 26, 2025 11:54am
  - Colville
    
    Our daughter refused to go back to 2nd year law because of the brown wonderfulness courses.
    
    In Oz now working and just moved into a house they had built in Brisbane , she is 22 and partner is 23. Cant do that here.
    
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    August 26, 2025 2:00pm
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      If only more people would come out and admit that the reason they left NZ / will be leaving NZ is because of the maorification shit and the te reo shit and the maori crime shit…….
      
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      August 26, 2025 3:27pm
  - Paulus
    
    Is AI Maori certified for use ?
    
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    August 26, 2025 2:26pm
    - Ruahine
      
      Yeah. Defnitly.
      
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      August 26, 2025 5:05pm
- rjay
  
  I ran a PTE. Occasionally suspected students of cheating in one way or another. Simple oral exam sorted it. Instant expulsion and no refund. And sometimes loss of student visa. Keeps everyone honest. Being a student is also about learning the rules of employment.
  
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  August 26, 2025 12:08pm
igm

We saw an increase in fines for disabled parking abuse, but all that has occurred is an increase, especially at supermarkets, in particular PaknSave.
The same demographic leave a driver sitting in their cars, reversed in for quick take-offs if, and highly unlikely, someone shows up with the intention of taking action.
The situation is getting near impossible, and we are also hearing someone is supplying copies of permits, and they are poor reproductions, but nothing has been done.
No use complaining to issuing authority, they pass the buck, as do councils.
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August 26, 2025 10:25am
- SoloView
  
  @ igm
  The amount of misuse of permits and parking without a permit at retail outlets is frustrating.
  
  My understanding is that the law for disabled parking spaces does not apply in private car-parks i.e retail outlet car-parks.
  
  So there can be spaces allocated in these car-parks but unless the retailer is willing to control the spaces, there’s nothing else that can be done.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:44am
  - peterwn
    
    In South Australia, parking wardens are allowed to enter supermarket, etc car parks to enforce disabled parking. Presumably the resource consents for supermarkets contain a condition allowing this. Also supermarkets etc may invite parking wardens in to enforce parking restrictions, to discourage private enforcement.
    
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    August 26, 2025 7:13pm
- Ghost
  
  I was at warehouse last week. A person had parked in a disabled car park, no permit. Warehouse security came out, wrote down their details and reported it
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:52am
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    Bet it was not of the preferred ethnicities. Seems they have immunity.
    
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    August 26, 2025 6:43pm
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      Is that why those ethnicities are over represented in the justice system, because they are preferred, or just more racism clap trap. Oh and they were btw, as was the security guard who reported them. So you were wrong
      
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      August 26, 2025 8:32pm
sungsamning

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/08/25/the-ticking-timebomb-that-has-democrats-terrified-for-future-elections-n2193186
The ‘Ticking Timebomb’ That Has Democrats Terrified About Future Elections.
It may take time, but bad governance inevitably leads to bad consequences. That’s a reality Democrats have been loathe to accept, as they’ve continued down a black hole of awful policy, whether it be economically or culturally. The bill is coming due, though.

According to a new analysis, a “ticking timebomb” is approaching in 2030, with the electoral landscape set to shift dramatically in favor of Republicans.
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August 26, 2025 10:29am
- Lance
  
  Quite right.
  The voters of Merika can only be saved by troops being deployed in all non GoP cities (soon to be all cities anyway) and voting to be rigged… I mean… gerrymandered… no, I mean.. fair.
  The winning will be too much
  
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  August 26, 2025 2:32pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck3OODK_g0M
Rare Gray-Haired Xi Visits Tibet, Military No. 2 Absent.
The United States is investigating a fentanyl hub in Japan, linked to a Chinese chemical company and a man known only as “Japan Boss.”

Hundreds of Taiwanese troops are training with U.S. forces in Michigan. For the first time, the U.S. “Northern Strike” drills have shifted focus from Europe to the Indo-Pacific, simulating a potential conflict in Asia.

Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping made a rare visit to Tibet, but behind the scenes, experts see unusual signs that could signal cracks in his grip on power.

China’s revenue from property taxes is climbing, even as the real estate crisis deepens. But how are homeowners coping?
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August 26, 2025 10:30am
In Vino Veritas

Further to David Garretts comment yesterday regarding the existence of Palestine. David’s posted that “YES the area was called Palestine”. And subsequently expanded on that with “Britain had a mandate over Palestine granted by the then League of Nations” The name of the area was indeed the British Mandate of Palestine. The area had previously been part of Ottoman Syria (described as an eyalet or province) and been divided into various administrative areas called “Sanjaks” (Acre, Nablus, Jerusalem). None of the boundaries of the Sanjaks were natural or geographical. They were purely administrative.
When the British Mandate was formed (by the League of Nations in 1922), it gave the British authority to fix the boundaries of the Mandate. The boundaries fixed by the British included the lands of modern day Jordan (which by the way, is 78% of the land area of the Mandate). The boundary was confirmed by the San Remo Treaty of 1920. The Treaty was ratified by the League of Nations on 24 July, 1922. So, even if you consider Palestine actually existed, one would have to think Jordan was part of it. And therefore, (so called) Palestinians have a homeland if they so desire.
I would point out that the UN have never changed the original boundaries of the Mandate, yet we have the country of Jordan, who seems, unlike Israel, to be immune from having to divide parts of its land up into “Palestinian” homelands. What to make of that?
If you believed, given the Mandate, that Palestine existed, surely any Jews living in the Mandate would also be Palestinian, and therefore have a say in Palestinian affairs?
With regard to Gaza, it should be remembered that Egypt ruled it from 1948 – 1967. And similarly, Jordan occupied the West Bank in 1948, annexed it in 1950 and held it until 1967. It seems that military might is OK to change boundaries unless that might is Israeli.
This is a pretty brief summary as I see it from the reading I’ve done. If anyone wants to look at the League of Nations Palestine Mandate, it can be found here: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp
and the Balfour Declaration is here: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/balfour.asp
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August 26, 2025 10:40am
- MCōs
  
  Whereas there may not have been a state of Palestine pre WWII there most certainly wasn’t a state of Israel either.
  On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
  Prior to that date the area was known as Palestine and the inhabitants Palestinians, whether they were Arabs or Jews.
  My father went there for a week on leave from Egypt where he was with the NZ Army in January 1941. In his letters it was a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Tel Aviv; all in Palestine he wrote because they were at that time.
  https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel#:~:text=On%20May%2014%2C%201948%2C%20David,nation%20on%20the%20same%20day.
  
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  August 26, 2025 4:08pm
  - Peter S
    
    Historically there was a Kingdom (country) of Israel, established around 1000 BC.
    As noted in the article, there are non Biblical references from around 200 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(united_monarchy)
    
    AFAIK Palestine was only ever a region and never a country in its own right.
    
    So the situation with Israel is more akin to what happened with the break up of the USSR, Serbia and Czechoslovakia. Just with a longer interim and more empires involved.
    
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    August 26, 2025 5:36pm
Stu2

One third of the US coffee market is supplied by Brazil, domestic production in Hawaii is minimal.

With the 50% tariff on Brazil that coffee is largely not being purchased by the US.

Roasters marketing blends with a Brazlian component will have problems maintaining taste and supply when their stock runs out.
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August 26, 2025 10:42am
- cmm
  
  The cost of raw beans (what is under the tariffs) is a very small part of the cost of a cup of coffee.
  
  A kg of beans is somewhere around $US5 per kg which gives around 100 cups. So 5c per cup. 50% tariff adds 3cents per cup. Call it 5 cents for mark ups etc.
  
  Doesn’t really move the needle.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:13am
- Local Miller
  
  Scare mongering, opportunism and anti Trump rhetoric. Brazilian coffee beans were cost USD3.75 in both 2022 and 2023, and jumped to USD6.17 in 2024, a 64.5% increase in bean price, but we didn’t see a massive increase in coffee prices. Some increase, but not massive. I’m a coffee snob, so I’m aware of prices.
  The beans actually make up a small portion of the final cup of coffee, like 25c or less, so a 50% tariff makes this about 40c. The majority of the cost is in the labour and rent and markup of the restaurant, or for retail beans and instant the various processing, transport, markup, etc. costs along the way. Your daily cupper joe should go up about 15c on $6.50, or about 2%.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:29am
- virtualmark
  
  I agree that the cost of the beans is a small part of the overall cost of a cup of coffee. So a tariff on imported beans is likely to only raise the cost of the coffee by a dime or so.
  
  But … if it’s not possible to grow material volumes of coffee beans domestically in the US (narrator: it isn’t) then … isn’t this tariff just a tax on US coffee drinkers? It can’t serve any purpose in encouraging domestic production over imports. It’s just a tax.
  
  I can understand using tariffs on key strategic resources and industries. But coffee ain’t it.
  
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  August 26, 2025 2:22pm
cmm

So syphilis is on the rise – generally a strong marker for unprotected and highly promiscuous sex.

This is all self-inflicted, but “The health system is failing – delivering outcomes more fitting of a third-world context.”

Of course Maori are impacted the worst – 2700% infection rate vs whites.

No doubt that is my fault.

Here’s a thing: stop acting like third world ferals and you might have better health outcomes too.

The sooner government agencies, the media, etc stop pandering and start reminding people that their choices have consequences the better.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360800975/once-forgotten-disease-killing-kiwi-babies
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August 26, 2025 11:04am
- Philview
  
  This ultra Liberal agenda has been pushed on our society but it has consequences.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:33am
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Syphilis is on the rise in Aussie too, as are other STDs. At least over there, it’s attributable to a change in focus of government messaging. Instead of “use a condom and don’t f**k every potential partner that crosses your path” (too judgey), it’s now “get tested”.
  
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  August 26, 2025 11:41am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Play silly games, win silly prizes
  
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  August 26, 2025 12:40pm
- MCōs
  
  How does promiscuous become ‘highly’ promiscuous?
  One is either promiscuous or not.
  
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  August 26, 2025 12:47pm
  - mogg
    
    I think you would have to meet a woman who is highly promiscuous to know the difference. When younger I had a girlfriend whose best friend was highly promiscuous, she was also very attractive, to watch her in action was just amazing.
    
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    August 26, 2025 12:55pm
    - MCōs
      
      I don’t ever recall watching someone else indulging in sexually conjugation!
      Btw
      The adjective ‘promiscuous’ is not gender specific
      
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      August 26, 2025 2:10pm
      - mogg
        
        Where did I say it was?
        
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        August 26, 2025 2:30pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Promiscuous = one or two random “hookups” a month.
    
    Highly promiscuous = numerous hookups a week. Always has backup potential booty calls on speed dial, lest the supply of fresh meat gets low.
    
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    August 26, 2025 8:25pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Yep, syphillis is an old fashioned preventable disease, self inflicted and passed on to vulnerable babies by the feckless.
  But, according to the article, can be cured by antibiotics.
  Perhaps the medical people could also turn their serious attention to the impact of fetal alcohol syndrome on babies in the womb.
  FTA is not so easily cured – if at all.
  Children born with it have lifelong medical conditions and learning difficulties.
  Many women drink alcohol to excess during pregnancy apparently and when something goes wrong with the baby, it is never their fault.
  The excuses are usually : “didn’t know, can’t help it or live too far away from medical centre”.
  Pathetic in this day and age really.
  
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  August 26, 2025 2:57pm
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    Sorry, should have put FAS not FTA.
    
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    August 26, 2025 3:13pm
rouppe

Joel Maxwell has a rant at Taika Waititi over the platters of cigarettes at his birthday bash.

Over the course of the piece, I took away that Joel Maxwell is a racist. He sort of apologizes to David Seymour and Winston Peters for unwinding the smoking ban, partly because they are “indigenous”. He didn’t apologize to Chris Luxon, unless you count “peripherally”. Apparently someone can’t be indigenous unless they’re maori, no matter how many generations back you go.

He laments the difference in smoking rates, saying smoking changes or lack thereof is going to “hit” Maori more.

Joel, some free advice. Something you don’t give away for free.

Stop smoking. Simple. Don’t moan about it. Don’t blame me for it. Just stop. You go on about us non indigenous, non maori to stop doing all manner of things. For once in your life, practice what you preach, and stop those around you smoking.

I’m sick of your whining.
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August 26, 2025 11:29am
In Vino Veritas

Whilst in the UK, I read a good article by Lionel Shriver in the Spectator on human rights.
Managed to find it on line here for those who are interested.
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-spectator/20250809/281930254052771?srsltid=AfmBOooNJ_WOlB2YcHswRSY8g-SrhkbXjKks9bRhkyvRk3mzD9Zf0dQo
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August 26, 2025 11:45am
rjay

I ran a PTE. Occasionally suspected students of cheating in one way or another. Simple oral exam sorted it. Instant expulsion and no refund. And sometimes loss of student visa. Keeps everyone honest. Being a student is also about learning the rules of employment.
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August 26, 2025 12:15pm
Ghost

Former Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet talking about sightings in the military

YouTube

The next hearing with Congress takes place in a few weeks, 3 military personal with first hand accounts are set to testify.
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August 26, 2025 12:53pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The High Court has found that Auckland Transport ignored their statutory requirement to consider the impact on drivers before deciding to install speed humps, instead starting from the premise that reducing speed was a good thing to do.

On that basis, I’d say every speed hump, traffic calming measure and yes, cycle way in the country is likely illegal. Wellington Council will be facing a world of pain.

“AT are required to consider whether there will be an impact on drivers… it’s a legal obligation they have to consider and the High Court found they had failed to consider and that made the decision unlawful.”

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/571083/the-law-student-who-took-on-auckland-transport-over-speed-bumps-and-won
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August 26, 2025 12:54pm
- R
  
  Promote that student immediately into NZTA, and any other obstructive authority that he fancies. Also promote that judge to Chief of Judges, they badly need some ral world insight.
  
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  August 26, 2025 2:44pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Speedbumps slow emergency responders, ambulances, police and firetrucks, with a higher than-zero impact on death rates in medical emergencies
  
  They also increase damage to cars, increase fuel consumption and brake wear through extra deceleration and acceleration for net cost impact to NZ.
  
  And that is without consideration of the extra cost of installing and maintaining the speed bumps.
  
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  August 26, 2025 3:47pm
- AitchW
  
  I wonder if there will now be a flood of actions against the plague of speed bumps, chicanes, and planters blighting pretty much every town and city in NZ?
  
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  August 26, 2025 5:25pm
MCōs

A new McDonald’s is coming to ‘upmarket’ Newmarket
That’ll make a slight change from the plethora of car yards thereabouts
We actually bought our car directly across the street at the Honda shop. Not one of our better automobiles.
On the positive side there’s a coffee shop I like at the other end of Broadway half an hour walk away.
Halfway along is the train station. Last time we got off the Onehunga express there we had to edge passed a shirtless guy on the platform waving a hammer round threatening to smash another guy he’d taken a snitch to. Fortunately he was hampering by a bicycle he was holding in his other hand
Quite a disturbing sight!
Several security guards were racing towards us down the escalator and a couple of police cars came wailing along to the Remuera Rd entrance as we left.
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August 26, 2025 1:48pm
- MCōs
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/mcdonalds-quietly-wins-consent-for-new-247-newmarket-drive-through/DGED2LOU3FBSDGXF6I2E4G4UPE/
  
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  August 26, 2025 2:12pm
- Eastlander
  
  Newmarket used to be preferable to the CBD because the homeless crazies and social housing louts flocked to the latter instead of the former. No more apparently.
  
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  August 26, 2025 6:13pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  There you go, MCoS. Better a crappy car than public transport, eh.
  
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  August 26, 2025 8:17pm
Keith White

The gift that keeps on giving. Yip, yip, that’s what it is.

Part XIXVIII.

“Infant Mortality Spikes After Decades of Decline

“For decades, U.S. infant mortality steadily declined until 2021. The declining infant death rates reversed shortly after mRNA shots were rolled out for women of childbearing age. Instead of continuing downward, the trend suddenly reversed.

“CDC data now reveal that babies born years after the campaign are dying at a 77% excess rate.

“The causes of death are similar to those documented in vaccinated adults.
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August 26, 2025 2:50pm
Ghost

Idiot.

A break-in and vandalism at the Auckland offices of Kiwi tech firm Rakon has been claimed by a person who says their actions were a protest related to Israel’s war in Gaza.

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August 26, 2025 3:29pm
- Swifty
  
  He needs to be prosecuted and punished to the full extent of the law.
  
  The self-righteousness and entitlement is sickening.
  
  And dangerous.
  
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  August 26, 2025 4:24pm
MCōs

Humans of New York at Gaza https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02acFngVaMNdBaB1mgCJReNZW46UohZL61C4XoCmubYwSHt4MPo7HdkvpouWmSnRe5l&id=100050429952420
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August 26, 2025 5:50pm
Ghost

Thank god this piece of bleep was caught.

A man who police believe has been approaching Christchurch school girls was under a preventive detention order for sexual violence.

Leo Darin Goodwin, 53, is accused of approaching teenagers under the age of 16 in breach of the conditions of the order.

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