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NeverMindTheBollocks

The US seems to be functioning ok, despite the budget standoff.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing a government shut down here for a couple of weeks. The squawking from the usual suspects would be most entertaining.
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November 7, 2025 8:01am
- kowtow
  
  Essentially happens every Christmas/New Year period across the west .
  In France apparently they all go on holiday for a cuppla weeks late summer as well .
  
  Essential services all manage fine .
  
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  November 7, 2025 11:47am
Cassandra

New York has just elected its first Moslem mayor, a socialist to boot; Virginia and New Jersey have elected Democrat governors, beating the Republicans. While one swallow does not make a summer, Gavin Newsom must be feeling a little more hopeful. But early days.
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November 7, 2025 8:04am
- Inandout
  
  Cass, one of the elected Dems wanted to see his Republican opponent killed along with his children. He still got elected.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:08am
  - NothingLeft
    
    A performative statement in an age where every one I disagree with is Hitler, but still sad in demonstrating the extremity of partisan political divide.
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:31am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    I think that was the guy going for that states Attorny General….but I might be wrong.
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:44am
- artemisia
  
  It is possible that the GOP is quietly happy at the new NYC mayor. It was always going to be a Dem anyway and an extremist will get a lot more eyerolls than a moderate. Especially when capital flight starts to bite.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:11am
  - Cassandra
    
    Perhaps, although it’s the NJ and Virginia governors which are the more important. Congress is finely balanced and Trump will not want his final two years stymied.
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:29am
    - Foxfour
      
      When Obama was President those states governors also flipped – from Democratic to Republican (2010)
      NJ- Chris Christie
      Va -Also flipped to GOP when Biden was President
      
      Virginia is the only only one thats a consistent swing state, and of course the suburbs of Washington DC form a good portion of the voters. So no surprise for that.
      Now Virginia can redistrict to rub out some house seats for Republicans
      
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      November 7, 2025 8:46am
  - Gravelroad
    
    It will depend on how much free stuff and political influence Mr Mamdani is able to secure for his followers and acolytes.
    That is why they voted for him- no other reason.
    Ps – most of the above will never have heard of “capital flight.”
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:48am
    - MCōs
      
      What free stuff did Mister Z promise?
      Daycare. We have free kindergartens
      Public transport. We have limited free PT.
      
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      November 7, 2025 9:12am
      - Cassandra
        
        If all goes to plan (and it is a supersized ‘if’), a New Yorker will be able to drop their child off at a free nursery (he has pledged universal childcare up to the age of five), take a free bus to work (fares are to be scrapped across the service), stop off for groceries at a shop which sells the essentials at wholesale prices (subsidised premises are to be built across the city).
        
        And return home to an apartment where the rent has not gone up for years — a freeze has been ordered on one million residential properties under local government control.
        
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        November 7, 2025 9:33am
      - kowtow
        
        Nothing is “free”.
        
        Someone always pays.
        
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        November 7, 2025 11:48am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Or read a book of any sort in the last 10 years. Populations are getting massively dumber/more ignorant as social media turns us all into gibbering goldfish. Just a few billion monkeys throwing shit at each other.
      
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      November 7, 2025 9:32am
  - AitchW
    
    Except the Dems will blame the Republicans, and their dopey supporters will swallow the story hook, line, and sinker.
    I believe, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but a staggering majority of women 18 to 45 voted for the new mayor.
    Liberal women. Screech endlessly about oppression then vote for a pro Palestinian, pro Islam mayor.
    As the Americans say, “Go figure”….
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:55am
    - Ra Henare
      
      H.
      Isnt freedom of speech and freedom choice a wonderful thing.
      Except of course if it’s someone, or something you dont agree with.
      
      NYC will be an interesting socialist experiment under the new young radical.
      
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      November 7, 2025 4:29pm
- Im Right
  
  It’s a Democratic stronghold, it was ALWAYS going to be a Democrat winning.
  Now if it were a Republican state/stronghold and Democrats won then that’s a whole different ball game, but that didn’t happen, the ball game didn’t change.
  And a big plus….let USA actually watch a socialist mayor in action, I will guestimate only 10-20% of his campaign promises actually get done.
  Socialists talk a good game, rarely deliver!
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:29am
  - NothingLeft
    
    They quickly run out of other peoples money to spend, especially at state level where rich ‘geese’ are able to vote with their feet rather than be plucked bare in service to the ravening socialist mob..
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:35am
- nz_aj
  
  They’re all blue states, so no surprises. A big yawn that the media are making a meal of.
  With the extremists taking over the Dems, it won’t help them nationally.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:37am
  - Cassandra
    
    They swing actually and both went from Republicans to Dem. I repeat – Trump will not want a Dem Congress. The Mayor thing is an inconsequential nonsense. NYC being daft as usual.
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:21am
- lastmanstanding
  
  And in a couple of years the same voters will ask why NYC and these States are broke. Morons.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:44am
  - Foxfour
    
    Ask yourself how much the budget deficit has increased just this year under Trump ( and his previous term too)
    
    Its the same for NZ , the budget deficit has increased under Luxon-Willis as the economy cratered after their December 23 austerity.
    Whos the morons ?
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:49am
    - Spam
      
      Probably the person who calls Luxon & Willis increasing the budget deficit “austerity”.
      
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      November 7, 2025 8:54am
      - Foxfour
        
        Wasnt intended was it.
        Economic activity decreasing is called a recession -less revenue and benefits payments rise dramatically which destroy the hoped for economic confidence- but never mind Michelin Guides is here rah rah.
        Voodoo economics if theres a ‘ number’ for more food tourists…. only a moron could believe that
        
        Tell us more about the increased Trump deficit
        
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        November 7, 2025 9:06am
      - Spam
        
        So now you’re doubling-down and referring to to rising benefits as austerity.
        
        Awesome.
        
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        November 7, 2025 9:17am
      - Foxfour
        
        Now listen very carefully!
        Rising benefit numbers- largest in 30 years- is recession
        Recession means larger revenue drop for Government – more than they were able to save under “austerity” -actually that was more to pay for revenue loss going to landlords tax benefits- backdated to boot
        
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        November 7, 2025 11:25am
      - Jethrod
        
        Um …… In 2023 Labour left the largest deficit in living memory(for some) which culminated in a recession because the Coalition is making progress in lowering it.
        So enough of the listen carefully.
        
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        November 7, 2025 12:47pm
      - Foxfour
        
        Jethrod, 2023 was after the Covid disruption- when all governments spent to rescue the economy
        
        Remember too Luxon and Willis have moved the goalposts last year to make their budget numbers “appear’ better than they are
        
        2023 BEFU half year budget update
        
        “The Operating Balance Excluding Gains and Losses (OBEGAL) is expected to record a
        deficit of $7.0 billion in the 2022/23 fiscal year, and a deficit of $7.6 billion in 2023/24.
        
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        November 7, 2025 4:34pm
      - Foxfour
        
        7 Nov 2025
        
        “Treasury is nudging the Government to sell state assets that are underperforming or are no longer fit for purpose.
        It is continuing to sound alarm bells over the Crown’s finances being on an “unsustainable” path forward.
        The Crown isn’t bringing in enough revenue to keep the lights on. Debt is…… NZH paywall, but you get the picture
        
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        November 7, 2025 4:55pm
    - Swifty
      
      The left has so misused the word ‘austerity’ that it is now effectively meaningless.
      
      (The same as they’ve done to ‘racism’, ‘indigenous’ and ‘inclusion’.)
      
      ‘Austerity’ now means just any budget whatsoever delivered by non-left parties, even if it is spending more than the last lefty government.
      
      To paraphrase Hitchens ‘austerity’ is “a word created by socialists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
      
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      November 7, 2025 10:33am
      - Foxfour
        
        Listen very carefully
        Better than the spin doctor word ‘fiscal discipline’ used in Dec 23
        Nor economic growth repeated ad nauseum this year when there was none !
        
        Now its swapped to repairing foundations or other gobbley gook as the deficit increases
        Do tell us more about buzz words which you don’t like
        
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        November 7, 2025 1:06pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    NYC almost went broke in 1975. They have form for unhinged fiscal management.
    
    Be a good chance to buy up property for cheap assuming it eventually returns to sanity.
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:39am
- NZer In Exile
  
  A commenter on another blog wrote this about New York:
  
  “Future historians will record that the election of a Communist Muslim as mayor of NYC will be the tipping point when the USA devolved irrevocably into the status of a corrupt, insolvent banana republic peopled by mental and moral defectives. Collapse is baked in the cake at this point, and all the sane portion of the population can do is prepare accordingly.”
  
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  November 7, 2025 9:56pm
David Garrett

Meanwhile up in the Kingdom it’s a fine still morning…going to get hot later today
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November 7, 2025 8:07am
- KiWombat
  
  27 yesterday in chch
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:28am
  - David Garrett
    
    Ki: Yeah…the garden city often has very high temps in November…then it cools off again…still my favorite city…I couldn’t cope with the winters now tho
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:30am
    - MCōs
      
      That’s the problem with
      1 – Living for years in the tropics
      2 – Having a wife who has panic attacks when the temperature plummets to 25°
      
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      November 7, 2025 9:18am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Having a wife who has panic attacks when the temperature plummets to 25°
        
        I’ve lived with the opposite for 40+ years..
        
        Hubby would insist on opening windows/ doors and discarding most of his clothes when the temperature rose above 16C.
        
        It’s been a bit of a trial for him surviving Gizzy summers…
        
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        November 7, 2025 10:41am
    - wsk12345
      
      Winters here are actually great. Crisp bluebird days rhst you can dress for. Unlike some places where the wind makes it impossible to be warm and the greyness drags you down (looking at you PN and Wellington).
      
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      November 7, 2025 11:21am
      - MCōs
        
        The advantage Wellington has over the likes of Palmy and numerous other centres is that while the weather can be horrendous a lot of the time you can’t beat it on a good day.
        The most beautiful harbour in the whole wide world whereas Palmerston North on a lovely sunny day when we stopped for lunch recently still looked like a cemetery
        The new road leading to paradise is watched over by a flock of windmills resembling vultures
        
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        November 7, 2025 12:20pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Lived in ChCh for a while in the eighties. Then took off to AKL in August and it was like arriving in a lovely warm paradise by comparison. ChCh winter nights can be bitterly cold, especially in a draughty old student flat. We had an external shower room. Getting out of the shower into the bitter cold you’d dry yourself off manically fast as if you’d just fallen through a frozen lake in Alaska. Then you’d speedily put on 5 layers of clothes to warm up again. We had coal fireplaces in the bedrooms. The coal fires were cranked up to near white hot but you could only feel warmth if you were within 6 feet of the fireplace. Ah, those were the days.
        
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        November 7, 2025 10:09pm
  - lastmanstanding
    
    The Waipareira Trust demonstrates all that is wrong with Maori organisations. They refuse to adhere to good governance and management principles. They ignore conflicts of interest. They arent transparent in their disclosures and fail to disclosure relevant information. The list goes on. Hardworking taxpayers many of them Maori have handed over Billions of dollar to these organisations most of it going to build power bases and enriching the Elites and their friends.
    If I was Maori I would be asking the hard questions and demanding answers. The Pollies and civil servants wont. They are scared witless lest they are accused of racism. Racism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:49am
    - Rodney Hide
      
      Follow Shubz on X. He is asking the tough questions. He’s funny too.
      
      Rodney
      
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      November 7, 2025 9:02am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        Tim Selwyn also had a funny article at The Daily Blog which really poked the borax at John Tamahere (you got a mention also as an example of past political fights)!
        
        But TDB pulled it and now the site seems to be in limbo over the last 48 hours so I can’t help thinking that Bomber and company have also been sucked into the Te Pati Maori shitstorm.
        
        BTW, although it was deleted here yesterday you can read the full text of Tim’s article over at No Minister, and I think a couple of other sites also got it before it was Yezhoved.
        
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        November 7, 2025 9:12am
- Ra Henare
  
  In the Kingdom of Wonder, the wet season is coming to an end. Overnight temps down to a cool 24c. Tourist season begins(Until March)
  
  Duvets needed for nighttime sleeping.
  
  The 3 day Water festival has just finished with hoards of Cambodians out enjoying themselves.
  
  And gosh horror, firework displays each evening.
  Local dogs seem unaffected????
  
  And NOBODY cares about the US Elections/Or Trump.. Hence happy chappies.
  
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  November 7, 2025 4:37pm
artemisia

Media looking for a ‘poor me’ headline?

Some Wellington social housing tenants complaining about a 2.2% ‘rent hike’, based on cost increases less than inflation.

One tenant interviewed is about to pay $20 more rent per week the other $6.

A $20 / 2.2% rent increase suggests rent is about $900 pw for a 2 beddie. If correct no wonder the tenant can’t afford food. Even though she says it is cheaper than private rentals. More likely this is per 2 weeks, and the reporter Lauren Crimp is innumerate, did not ask about the affordable rent limit subsidy or is keen for a ‘poor me’ headline. Because reasons.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578044/wellington-social-housing-tenants-frustrated-at-rent-hikes
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November 7, 2025 8:07am
- pdm
  
  Probably getting housing supplement too which further reduces the impact on their pocket.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:16am
- Martonman
  
  Thats low just got my Contents Insurance renewal from a major insurer. Increase of 23% over last year. Last year was 18% up.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:28am
  - Taieri
    
    I got rid of the contents insurance altogether, just wasn’t worth it considering all exclusions. Considering going to the third party only on the car insurance as the premium is coming up to nearly 10% of the insured value. House is another story, the premiums are increasing just about exponentially, but this one is unavoidable in the Shaky Isles.
    In nearly forty years in the same house I had two claims, one worth about $300 and one worth just over $2000. The latter one due to the damage from the lighting strike.
    
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    November 7, 2025 10:26am
- 3-coil
  
  Artemisia: meanwhile….the rapacious private landlords in Wellington are lowering their rents in a tightening market. So luckily for these whinging social housing tenants, they will be able to relocate to cheaper private rental accommodation!
  The biased leftist “reporter” Lauren Crimp (the innumerate wimp) couldn’t bring herself to point out the silver lining. More typical taxpayer funded, far-left RNZ misinformation.
  
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  November 7, 2025 9:18am
Yvette

• “Twelve months out from an election, to have a party split, that’s going to be a tough challenge.”

John Tamihere has several times now insisted that the ancestory-defined Maori Party will apply ‘tikanga’ to its proceedings while others insist that
“the proposal to remove the explicit Treaty obligation on school boards could reduce the Crown’s ability to support Māori educational success in accordance with its obligations under article three of te Tiriti o Waitangi, education officials said”

• Mental dissonance, or cognitive dissonance, is the mental discomfort experienced when holding two or more conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when one’s actions contradict their beliefs.

That’s what I often get reading the ancestory-defined ‘news’.
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November 7, 2025 8:17am
- PurplePen
  
  You hear claims all the time about the Treaty that conflate modern political rhetoric with historical and legal reality. Such claims are out in force again in relation to education curriculum. Consider:
  
  The Treaty ceased to have legal force after the Constitution Act 1852 superseded it. That Act was repealed in 1986. For the next 100 years, the Treaty was functionally irrelevant while NZ developed its governmental and legal system.
  
  “Crown obligations” exist solely because Parliament created them through the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, not from the Treaty itself.
  
  Calling the Treaty our “foundational document” ignores that our actual foundations are the Constitution Acts of 1852 and 1986. If the Treaty were truly foundational, it would be entrenched in these. It isn’t mentioned.
  
  The “partnership” concept is Waitangi Tribunal interpretation, not Treaty text. Article 1 ceded sovereignty to the Crown; Article 3 made Māori British subjects. That’s not partnership, that’s subjects under Crown authority with certain protections.
  
  The claim that “legislation states the education system should honour the Treaty” is circular reasoning. Parliament put those words there. Parliament can remove them. The 1975 Act doesn’t mandate Treaty references in other legislation. Each was a separate Parliamentary choice.
  
  If the Treaty were truly “essential” to both parties, the physical document wouldn’t be in tatters from neglect. Its condition reflects how both parties treated it historically: as an artifact, not a living covenant.
  
  The Treaty only “lives” because the 1975 Act revived it after a century of irrelevance. What Parliament revived, Parliament can let rest.
  
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  November 7, 2025 2:51pm
  - kowtow
    
    Not to mention the letters patent and royal charter 1840 and Hobson’s declarations of sovereignty.
    
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    November 7, 2025 3:24pm
Chuck Bird

This is behind a paywall. One reason why I am happy to pay to read it. I wonder if Luxon will read it.

Why NZ’s heifers don’t deserve the climate blame – Jane Smith

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-nzs-heifers-dont-deserve-the-climate-blame-jane-smith/4G2LF4IICVFXFALFRW5PCF55LI/
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November 7, 2025 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  chuck
  
  If you’re a member of your local library you can arrange to have a pressreader account through them.
  
  Lots of news sources , incl NZME .
  
  And you’re paying for it , through your rates.
  
  ps we covered jane Smith yesterday in GD. Can listen to her on podcast “the country” , she’s a regular guest on that radio program.
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:27am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I listen to her regularly. I do not find $4 a week unreasonable compared with what I pay for Sky.
    
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    November 7, 2025 10:09am
- Steve Todd
  
  Can you give us a brief summation, Chuck?
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:49am
  - sirknz
    
    The carbon cycle is pretty much settled science therefore cows aren’t bad for the climate.
    
    They also taste delicious.
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:52am
- Foxfour
  
  Nothing about Climate ‘theology’ makes real sense, its best seen as faith based dogma
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:53am
- Spam
  
  [Mod – nz herald own the article, please don’t bypass their paywalls]
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:55am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Thanks, Spam.
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:58am
- Taieri
  
  [Mod – NZ Herald own the article, they have decided to paywall it, we are not bypassing that]
  
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  November 7, 2025 10:28am
David Garrett

Just read the latest on former Deputy Police Commissioner McSkimming…how did that very sick puppy get to such a position? The man could easily have been appointed Commissioner FFS.
Police vetting systems clearly seriously inadequate
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November 7, 2025 8:37am
- Souvlaki
  
  They certainly are!
  https://share.google/jIBcnixpdlt8Gc8nR
  
  In trouble in Oz other week…’inappropriate use of police helicopter’…
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:42am
  - Foxfour
    
    It was Police business – a conference of something
    
    I dont understand these sort of VIP flights gotchas.
    For any organisation they have to keep pilots hours current – so that can mean flying A-B and back again or just loops.
    The RNZAF for instance does this every day, yet if the take a VIP trip that government/defence related there’s squawks from the media
    
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    November 7, 2025 8:58am
    - peterwn
      
      When he was PM, John Key’s son was ‘pinged’ for using a military helicopter for making a film clip, the implication being that Dad organised it. He did not arrange a military helicopter, the clip used some creative trick photography, but it fooled the media.
      
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      November 7, 2025 9:35am
      - Foxfour
        
        Enough ultra rich national party donors with their own helicopters for a ‘free ride’
        
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        November 7, 2025 11:29am
    - kowtow
      
      His juant to Tassie cost thousands when he could have got a commercial flight for hundreds.
      
      Also diverted an “operational” helicopter to essentially an administrative jolly for the boss. ie egregious waste of scarce resource.
      
      Funny thing is in Oz cos he “apologised” the commentariat quickly forgave him , as that’s not something the Big Cheese’s do there , allegedly.
      
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      November 7, 2025 11:54am
- KiWombat
  
  Apparently it’s not what you know – – –
  
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  November 7, 2025 8:45am
  - Souvlaki
    
    Yep….that was swept to oneside summarily…wasn’t it!😳
    
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    November 7, 2025 9:03am
- MCōs
  
  The real question is how many other people in all sorts of trusted positions have similar stuff on their work computers that nobody can access because it’s hidden behind multiple passwords
  Furthermore
  If they do get caught who’s going to dob them in?
  
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  November 7, 2025 9:33am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    IT
    
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    November 7, 2025 10:39am
    - Ghost
      
      encryption
      
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      November 7, 2025 12:21pm
  - Ipanema69
    
    MCos, back in about 2002 I had a staff member working in a remote area of Southland for a few weeks. I was approached by IT about some of the websites he was visiting outside of working hours. It was just garden variety playboy type images (the internet did not really support high quality video streaming).
    
    I decided to let it slide given his location and his isolation from his girlfriend!
    
    However IT knows everything!
    
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    November 7, 2025 12:40pm
    - Ghost
      
      Unless they use Tor
      
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      November 7, 2025 12:50pm
      - [email protected]
        
        I suspect that with tens of thousands of people working on the TOR project that governments already have a way of intercepting and decrypting TOR usage.
        
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        November 7, 2025 6:14pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Hard core privacy freaks doing very dodgy stuff (like running dark-web drug markets for example) usually get caught because they make just ONE mistake that leaves a breadcrumb trail to their sorry selves.
        
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        November 7, 2025 10:17pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  They say beauty is skin been and ugly goes all the way to the bone. In the case of the NZPoPo I think it may be a case of ugly given that right at the coal face they recently dismissed a youn woman who was feeding intellegence to her Killer Beez boyfriend, a crime she has admitted to……….
  
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  November 7, 2025 9:47am
sirknz

[Mod – deleted]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/worst-objectionable-material-case-rotoruas-jae-mclennan-loses-name-suppression/RCWYLXU3UVCOZNMN376N7DZ6JE/

Defendant has ~50k child porn images on his devices, the district court judge gives him a (light in my opinion) sentence. Appealed to High Court and the judge grants the piece of crap a further 10% discount.

You don’t accidentally amass 50k images of anything, let alone this disgusting filth without some very serious intent behind it.
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November 7, 2025 8:50am
- Ghost
  
  5 years is still a decent sentence. wasn’t home detention, which is a plus
  
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  November 7, 2025 10:40am
Swifty

New Yorkers waking up today:

https://x.com/mericamemed/status/1986320140825461014?s=46

I see today also that Mamdani has announced plans to move the Mayor’s office underneath a local hospital.

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November 7, 2025 9:24am
- kowtow
  
  Lol.
  
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  November 7, 2025 11:55am
cas

I see the latest ‘ let’s get outraged at the government’ story, getting the homeless off main city streets , particularly in Auckland, is getting pushbacks from the loveys.

I think it was a reporter from 1 news who interviewed a homeless man on Queen Steet, who demanded to be housed even though he had left emergency motels twice because he didn’t feel safe and had just left a third emergency housing place for the same reason. I expect there are quite a few for whom street living is a way of life.

Explanation – I was only watching 1 news while I waited for the cricket to start.
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November 7, 2025 9:25am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Labour will be quite happy if they all get moved to motels in Rotorua.
  
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  November 7, 2025 10:40am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  No problem, says Chloe. I’ve got a place in Auckland Central, I’m hardly ever there what with flying weekly to Wellington if not flying around the world to climate change conferences – there’s a bed there for you.
  
  Actually, she didn’t say that. No surprises, eh.
  
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  November 7, 2025 10:43am
  - greybeard
    
    Swarbrick has been MP for Auckland Central for over 5 years: what steps has she taken, or suggested, to solve HER problem ?
    
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    November 7, 2025 1:39pm
    - MCōs
      
      It’s the council that makes the by laws and central government who can give the police authority to act.
      Simeon Brown is the Minister for Auckland
      All the local member can do is make representations on behalf of her constituents
      
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      November 7, 2025 8:20pm
      - greybeard
        
        “All the local member can do is make representations on behalf of her constituents”.
        Exactly ! So please tell us, what has she done for the last 5 years ?
        
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        November 7, 2025 9:00pm
- artemisia
  
  Didn’t feel safe? Three times? Possible, but not that likely. More probable he was asked to leave because of his behaviour or because not living up to his responsibilities there. Easiest to blame someone else.
  
  We took on a guy living in emergency housing to give him a chance. He lost the job and by then he was on his 3rd motel. Kicked out for good reasons we were well aware of. (We don’t try to help folk any more.)
  
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  November 7, 2025 4:56pm
Rusty

I didn’t even know there was a law on fines for drivers smoking or vaping with under 5 year olds in the car.

The police have more important things to do than enforcing that. If irresponsible parents smoke or vape in the car with kids then they probably do it at home as well.
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November 7, 2025 9:31am
Chuck Bird

I have not been able to find a video of her speech. The verson in print is very impresive. We could use someone like her in NZ politics.

Pauline Hanson’s full speech at Mar-a-Lago: ‘Australia is on a dangerous path’

https://www.noticer.news/pauline-hanson-full-speech-cpac-mar-a-lago/
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November 7, 2025 10:06am
- Foxfour
  
  Please explain…
  
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  November 7, 2025 11:31am
- Groggy
  
  We don’t need her, we already have our own racists in parliament – the ACT Party.
  
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  November 7, 2025 1:37pm
  - than
    
    TPM you mean.
    
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    November 7, 2025 3:59pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Groggy?
    Best you check your facts before you blather on about Ms Hanson being racist.
    
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    November 7, 2025 4:45pm
  - Swifty
    
    Pathetic.
    
    You mean ACT have tried to stop the spread of social division by resisting policies of racial discrimination.
    
    And your best effort is to simply yell ‘racists’ and run away?
    
    Again, a pathetic effort.
    
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    November 7, 2025 5:45pm
slightlyrighty

So Labour want free Cervical Cancer Screening. While I understand the devastating impact of a cancer diagnosis, lets look at the politics of Cancer Screening Programmes.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation of NZ has been pushing for years to get a screening system in place.

I, personally, have been to parliament to assist in lobbying for such, with presenting petitions and meeting MPs, and, as yet, we have had plenty of words but little action.

And Labour announces this measure.

Now, I do not begrudge women for getting this, however, Cervical Cancer affects 6.8 women out of every 100000. This is less than Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Non Hodgkin Lymphoma, Memanoma and Thyroid Cancer.

Prostate Cancer, for which NO screening programme exists, let alone a free one, affects 52.4 men per 100000 annually, and approximately 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed in their lifetime.
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November 7, 2025 10:15am
- Jack5
  
  While we’re on prostate ….
  
  Up to 15 of Britain’s National Health Service hospitals are about to trial a new rapid test for prostate cancer, with diagnosis within a day.
  
  The UK MRI tests for prostate cancer typically follow a positive result from the traditional “digital rectal examination” — finger up the bum. The MRI then replaces the traditional PSI blood test. Positive MRI scans still lead to a biopsy.
  
  In a UK test two years ago (second link below), 303 men were given both a traditional PSA blood test for prostate cancer and an MRI scan. The PSA test picked up 14 cases of 29 men diagnoses as having prostate cancer that needed treatment, while the MRI scan picked up 25 of the 29.
  
  Magnetic resonance imaging — MRI — uses strong magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed images of organs and tissues inside the body.
  
  Low-field MRI’s are up to five times cheaper to buy and maintain than high-field systems, don’t need helium, and are cheaper to install. AI software has strongly improved the quality of low-field MRI images, once a handicap.
  
  This suggests MRI’s likely to have a rising role in prostate cancer detection.
  
  In a UK test two years ago (second link below), 303 men were given both a traditional PSA blood test for prostate cancer and an MRI scan. The PSA test picked up 14 of 29 men diagnosed as needing treatment, while the MRI scan picked up 25 of the 29.
  
  An NHS article on the UK prostate cancer diagnosis trial:
  
  https://www.england.nhs.uk/2025/10/nhs-artificial-intelligence-ai-trial-to-diagnose-prostate-cancer-up-to-a-month-faster/
  
  UK test of MRI v PSA test:
  
  https://prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/news-and-views/2023/08/mri-screening-programme
  
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  November 7, 2025 2:37pm
- MCōs
  
  I read NZFirst had a members bill in the biscuit tin re prostate cancer, but it was removed in favour of one defining men and women.
  They are restricted to four at any one time because that’s the number of members they have who are not ministers.
  I believe they may have shuffled fourteen bills in and out of the tin this term depending on what’s popular at the time
  
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  November 7, 2025 3:14pm
  - Ghost
    
    https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360877319/nz-first-withdraws-then-re-inserts-bill-defining-man-and-woman-within-24-hours
    
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    November 7, 2025 3:20pm
    - MCōs
      
      Bring Back Noeline Bill
      
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      November 7, 2025 5:41pm
  - AitchW
    
    The old charlatan testing the waters to see what populist policy he’s going to hit at the election.
    Does he still have the blue rinse brigade sewn up now that that nice young Jacinda’s not here any more?
    
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    November 7, 2025 3:30pm
mogg

The BBC newsreader, Martine Croxhall, who read a long convoluted statement about ‘pregnant people’, which was carefully arranged not to mention the word women, who at the end raised her eyebrows and added “women” herself . It has been revealed that she was later reprimanded by the BBC Executive Complaints Unit for expressing ‘ controversial views which might be offensive to Trans people.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/zyNe9pKY8hY
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November 7, 2025 10:32am
Jack5

The Government’s announced more subsidies for the film industry. Or perhaps we should say, State help, because the subsidies are wrapped up as rebate.

Either way it’s subsidies – State support.

From China’s State investments and controls to America’s tariffs and NZ film subsidies – the world’s into State help for industries.

From Finance Minister Willis’s press release today:

“The updated settings will be funded through Budget 2025’s additional $577 million that brought total funding for the International Screen Production Rebate to $1.09 billion.”

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/boosting-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-film-industry

There’s a spiel about it, too, in the Herald, and it doesn’t seem to be paywalled:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/media-insider/media-insider-screen-production-rebate-scheme-boosted-to-draw-more-international-films-tv-shows-to-new-zealand/PAEIB2JXJVFWDBR5GRRJKIHAVE/
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November 7, 2025 10:55am
- mandk
  
  Would you rather the screen production sector in NZ disappeared, even though it is a major exporter, a provider of thousands of jobs, and a net contributor of taxes?
  
  Without a shadow of doubt, that is what would happen without the rebates.
  
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  November 7, 2025 1:13pm
  - Quail
    
    Mandk
    Yes ,it is time to get rid of the industry , not only is Film making costing more than it produces ,Government should just not be involved.
    All those businesses who allegedly “profit “ should be paying. And if they believed they could make money, they would be only too pleased to support their own industry.
    Creative accounting alleging this subsidy is good for NZ is just plain wrong.
    It can be compared with the spend on international yachting
    This industry has bled the taxpayers for far too long!
    
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    November 7, 2025 10:14pm
Gussy Fink-Nottle

Too late to disagree with yesterday’s assertion that the International Convention Centre didn’t cost NZ taxpayers a cent?

That development, with its biblical cost and time overruns, will impact every New Zealander’s pocket; the developer and the builder were public companies, with ACC and Super as significant shareholders. Add the impact of the fire, including on insurance premiums, and the loss of utility and disruption over 10 years in central Auckland.
Ok, not directly bankrolled by the treasury, but clusterf*cks of that scale impact us all.
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November 7, 2025 10:59am
- rangitoto
  
  The disruption and public cost was minor compared to the rail link fiasco.
  
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  November 7, 2025 4:12pm
Ghost

You can expect andrew to be a no show

Democrats on a US congressional committee investigating Epstein’s sex trafficking sent Andrew a letter on Thursday local time requesting a formal interview seeking information about the disgraced financier’s co-conspirators and enablers.

Article
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November 7, 2025 11:15am
- Foxfour
  
  The Feds have ‘ all the files’, just that there’s one name in there that cant be mentioned
  
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  November 7, 2025 11:32am
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    Righto. You have mates in “the feds” and they told you this? 😛
    
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    November 7, 2025 10:49pm
mogg

This might be why people voted Mamdani; https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-crushing-p-500-153246932.html
It’s no wonder Pelosi the geriatric has been hanging on for so long.
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November 7, 2025 12:14pm
- rouppe
  
  The trouble with those two trackers is that they will always act in a delay from the source trades.
  
  By the time the trackers move, it will be well after any advantage is to be had from any (alleged) fortuitous timings by Pelozi or Cruz.
  
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  November 7, 2025 5:28pm
Jack5

A severe warning about the world investment climate — a warning that comes with a twist.

That twist lies in its delivery on YouTube aṡ though from legendary investor Warren Buffett. It’s an AI-simulation of his voice to a still photograph of Buffett.

Still, the figures the 37-minute video quotes on the colossal spend-up on AI are a stark and brilliant analysis of the economic tightrope market-leading companies are walking right now.

The video likens the AI bubble to earlier run-up’s and collapses.

The warning is that there are a lot of naked swimmers in the AI pool.

All this affects far more than those directly holding AI shares.

The video warns that index funds and many other investor funds are exposed to AI stocks.

The video:

https://youtu.be/HblpEMZ8YPo?si=UsruVbcnITNCNMQ_
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November 7, 2025 12:36pm
- mogg
  
  Actively managed funds have had plenty of opportunity to protect the downside.
  
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  November 7, 2025 2:54pm
Ghost

Why do I get the feeling this is going to be Tim Jago again

A prominent New Zealander is facing a fresh allegation of sex abuse and could face up to 20 years’ imprisonment if convicted.

The Herald revealed last month that the well-known figure had been charged with sexually abusing a male and appeared in the North Shore District Court on the charge.

Article

Yeah, here was the last appearance in court

Well-known New Zealander charged with indecent assault can be named

Thank goodness his name suppression was lifted so more people could come forward
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November 7, 2025 1:12pm
- AitchW
  
  For every one who comes forward there is probably one who doesn’t.
  A lot of people who experience childhood abuse do not want to go through the trauma of giving evidence then being cross examined by the defence.
  Some of those who sought redress as a result of the Cartright enquiry declined to appear as witnesses for the prosecution in subsequent court cases against their abusers.
  
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  November 7, 2025 3:21pm
  - Keith White
    
    IMO, worth what you paid for it, the biggest problem at National Womens’ was that ladies in that unfortunate experiment were never given the opportunity to give – or withold – informed consent. And that is bad in many ways.
    
    At that time from a patient’s perspective, “no treatment known to be effective and safe was unethically withheld from women with CIS” because 90-95% of women presenting with Carcinoma in Situ would not develop invasive cancer: and invasive management – cone biopsy +/- surgery – both had a high immediate and longer-term unavoidable risk.
    
    The ladies should have been offered the choice; their bodily autonomy should have been respected; they should have been able to consent, or withdraw.
    
    No effective low-risk treatment was withheld, but when people are betrayed by “those who know better” they feel betrayed, and they were.
    
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    November 7, 2025 7:21pm
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      Wrong Cartwright enquiry.
      
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      November 7, 2025 8:29pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360879347/six-caught-more-450-paua-closed-taranaki-area
Entitlement ? “Customary rights” ?
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November 7, 2025 1:33pm
Swifty

Just waiting to see on social media that this is all National’s fault:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/578195/hipkins-calls-for-more-robust-vetting-after-it-failed-to-identify-mcskimming-s-behaviour
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