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Scott

I was really pleased to see David Seymour speaking out in support of the BBC newsreader who was censured for changing her script from “pregnant people” to “pregnant women”. Seymour is quite right, this idea of “pregnant people” is a denial of biological reality.

https://youtu.be/eEzfDyPtFCM?si=q_1jsTj7OCuQEYAw

I hope he’s right that we are passed peak wokeness that peaked around 2020? Jacinda did a lot of harm and was the queen of all things woke and made it hard to speak up about these kind of issues. There was only one opinion allowed on many issues under Jacinda’s reign.

Can we all now agree on reality, there are only pregnant women, not pregnant people? I think we can. 😊
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November 10, 2025 8:03am
- lifesgood
  
  Who on earth would downtick you.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:26am
  - Maggie's ex partner
    
    pregnant people maybe?
    
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    November 10, 2025 11:33am
    - keepcalmcarryon
      
      lol snap
      
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      November 10, 2025 3:49pm
  - Michael Sommerville
    
    The woke!
    
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    November 10, 2025 1:14pm
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    The pregnant people
    
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    November 10, 2025 1:48pm
  - muzled
    
    Pregnant people?
    
    There are 3 more than you and I thought… 😉
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:05pm
  - Paulus
    
    A Pregnant man, not a women, as we understand it, would down tick anything she wanted.
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:12pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    It often appears there is a sudden cluster of downticks when woke ideology is ridiculed. Almost as if it’s a coordinated pile on.
    
    If downticks “don’t matter”, why have them?
    
    Show who’s posting them so we can see who is just repeatedly being a dick.
    
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    November 10, 2025 4:07pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Perhaps the downticks were based on the fact that she did onair editing of the script????
  
  So fired for not reading the approved script (As a message to others)
  
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  November 10, 2025 3:22pm
Damocles11

China in September announced it would lower its emissions by 7 to 10 percent from their peak by 2035, marking the first time it had set out a target for cutting them outright. Climate experts said China’s target falls far short of the action needed to avert catastrophic climate change. China produces approximately 30% of global carbon dioxide emissions and around 26% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it the world’s largest emitter of both.
The previous New Zealand government pledged to slash New Zealand’s net greenhouse gas emissions to half of 2005 levels by 2030, as our contribution to the Paris Agreement.
New Zealand will put forward an updated target of a 51-55 percent reduction in overall emissions by 2035 – criticised by ‘climate experts’ as “shockingly unambitious” when it was first announced at the start of this year.
But first the 2030 target must be met – and ‘climate experts’ say the government is rapidly running out of time to say how it will be achieved. It is yet to commit any funding, or announce detailed agreements, to purchase the estimated billions of dollars of offshore carbon credits it needs to meet New Zealand’s Paris obligations by the 2030 deadline.
New Zealand is responsible for approx 0.17% of global emissions. 🥴
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November 10, 2025 8:07am
- Don Beckett
  
  It’s all bullshit. NZ is already carbon neutral. Get out of all these crazy outfits, or we will end up like the country was before the advent of colonisation.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:42am
  - Paulus
    
    Before the “advent of colonialism” is happening very fast already.
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:13pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  That will be when they have installed more super critical coal plants, more big hydro and more nuclear, which are all baseload energy (unlike ridiculous and expensive unreliables) and just happen to produce less Co2 (which doesn’t affect the climate to any significant degree anyway).
  
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  November 10, 2025 4:11pm
Swifty

Pearls of wisdom from Jacinda:

https://x.com/ionewells/status/1987287334396796975?s=46

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November 10, 2025 8:14am
- imalwaysright
  
  Has she fronted in NZ for her book or movie release?
  
  She was in Scotland, England, and the US recently on a promotional tour but seems to have forgotten the country of her birth that she has destroyed economically and socially.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:16am
  - Keith White
    
    There are a number of lawsuits against her ready to serve papers when she lands here again.
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:28pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      Do tell.
      
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      November 10, 2025 3:41pm
    - SoloView
      
      Hi Keith.
      Can you help me with who has these lawsuits ready to serve?
      I’ve googled search (with various search parameters) and can find nothing current.
      
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      November 10, 2025 3:56pm
      - Keith White
        
        I have one; I know of others who have theirs; they wait until the recipient can be served in person.
        
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        November 10, 2025 10:29pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Who was it, again, who politicised ‘climate change’ in NZ ?
  Hypocrite.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:45am
  - Swifty
    
    Quite right Don.
    
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    November 10, 2025 10:59am
- NZer In Exile
  
  She has absolutely no clue about the climate. Disturbing.
  
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  November 10, 2025 4:14pm
Yvette

COP30: NZ must commit to buying offshore credits to meet Paris target, climate experts say

Will people ‘drowning” in their Pacific islands all understand this …
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November 10, 2025 8:26am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Not sure what your point is, but most people ought to be able to grasp the point that spending a certain amount of money to buy a lot is better than spending the same amount of money to buy a little
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:25am
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Not if what you are buying is the emperors new clothes.
    
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    November 10, 2025 1:50pm
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      If you have evidence that overseas carbon credits are not genuinely buying actual reductions in carbon emissions, by all means share it, not only with us but also with the relevant authorities.
      
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      November 10, 2025 3:35pm
      - Dougal10
        
        Lol you prove they are all genuine before buying them with our money
        
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        November 10, 2025 7:56pm
Swifty

But the education unions say our state education system is world class….

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578352/education-review-office-says-stronger-consequences-needed-for-struggling-schools

Our state education system rewards failure – in as much as it’s the failing schools that get the extra funding.
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November 10, 2025 8:47am
- sungsamning
  
  You’re behind the times. That is the new definition of ‘world class’.
  
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  November 10, 2025 1:05pm
Cassandra

A quiet day in Tauranga and, it seems, on Kiwiblog. The only overseas news seems to be more worries about Andrew and Sarah (yawn) and the new Mayor of NY who now has to raise many squillions to pay for his promises of free child care and public transport. Taxing the rich simply means that those who don’t absolutely have to live in Manhattan will move to London or Miami. Or Wanaka or the Mount where’d they’d be welcome.
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November 10, 2025 8:50am
- Nukuleka
  
  Not much point in moving to London, I wouldn’t have thought, considering its mayor, Sadiq Khan, is another socialist Muslim mayor.
  
  I’m wondering if a pattern is going to emerge of major western cities with large numbers of ethnic minority groups electing Muslims as mayors. One swallow does not a summer make, nor as in this case two swallows, but…
  
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  November 10, 2025 9:01am
  - Cassandra
    
    The London Mayor can’t impose taxes. Anyway, we want them to relocate to Tauranga/Paradise.
    
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    November 10, 2025 9:29am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The NY Mayor cant impose Taxes either.
      ‘While the mayor’s budget outlines spending priorities, it cannot include tax increases without approval from the state Legislature in Albany. That means the mayor cannot unilaterally raise taxes. The mayor can, however, make proposals and use his political clout to influence various lawmakers and the governor to get those changes approved.’
      https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/what-powers-nyc-mayor/
      
      There are a few other promises Mamdani has made which are dubious too.
      
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      November 10, 2025 9:52am
    - zulumonster
      
      Fairly tough ask to convince them to move to Tauranga when even the Mayor of Tauranga doesn’t seem to want to move there …
      
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      November 10, 2025 3:09pm
Chuck Bird

Liam Lawson did well with a 7th place in Brazil.
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November 10, 2025 8:53am
- Biscuit
  
  Chuck, Liverpool got a 2nd place in Manchester this morning but do you hear ME cheering?
  
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  November 10, 2025 9:10am
  - Local Miller
    
    Oh, the irony. 😉
    
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    November 10, 2025 10:40am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Coincidentally, Liverpool are also 7th.
    
    No, wait, they’re actually 8th.
    
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    November 10, 2025 5:02pm
- kowtow
  
  Irony alert .
  
  Climate catastrophe meeting at the same time/place as burning huge quantities of evil Amazon forest destroying ‘fossil fuels” to propel pointless cars hamster like round a circuit.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:15am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I wonder if Jacinda managed to wangle a ticket to the Grand Prix
    
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    November 10, 2025 5:03pm
sungsamning

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/gop-rep-lashes-party-mamdani-act-introduced-congress/
GOP Rep. Lashes Out at Her Own Party as the ‘MAMDANI Act’ is Introduced in Congress.
Fifty years after a Republican administration ignited New York City residents in opposition with an attitude summed up by the classic headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” a New York Republican wants to lower the volume of the partisan political outrage over the city’s political embrace of far-left Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the only Republican member of Congress who represents New York City, took issue with a proposal by fellow Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia that would deny New York City any federal funds as long as Mamdani is mayor, according to Fox News.
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November 10, 2025 9:02am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPl1VuDcjOk
Supreme Court Drops Devastating News for Democrats!
Shockwaves hit Washington D.C. as the U.S. Supreme Court delivers devastating news for Democrats in a ruling that could change the political landscape overnight. The decision has lawmakers scrambling, analysts stunned, and both parties preparing for the fallout. In this video, we break down exactly what the Court decided, how it impacts upcoming elections, and why Democrats are calling this a major setback. Stay tuned for full details, expert legal analysis, and insider reactions from Capitol Hill. Subscribe now for nonstop breaking news and political updates.
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November 10, 2025 9:02am
- NothingLeft
  
  wow, a whole summary paragraph of verbiage that doesn’t actually deliver any information.
  
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  November 10, 2025 2:22pm
David George

it’s the fifty year anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the iconic song of the event by Gordon Lightfoot .

“The ship was the pride
Of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go
It was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned…

The legend lives on
From the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said
Never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy…
https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A
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November 10, 2025 9:13am
- Paulus
  
  Kitchee Goomie is the place where the fabulous Longfellow’s Hiawatha came from.
  By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  At the doorway of his wigwam,
  In the pleasant Summer morning,
  Hiawatha stood and waited.
  All the air was full of freshness,
  
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  November 10, 2025 2:22pm
- Jake Dee
  
  I saw this video recently about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  “Underwater Drone Reached the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, It Captured Something No One Expected”
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl8qlP9mjz4
  Long story short they discovered a large number of hatch cover clamps and vent funnels missing. The ship would have been taking on water at a massive rate but it would have been difficult to notice due to the nature of the iron ore.
  The ship was doomed.
  
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  November 10, 2025 6:22pm
Nikola Donatello

Incredibly 18 percent of children are not vaccinated for measles.

https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/vaccine-information/immunisation-coverage

So 1 in 5 parents either ignorant or wilfully neglecting their parental responsibility. Many European nations have rates above 95 percent.

Time to make childhood vaccination compulsory.
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November 10, 2025 9:19am
- Chuck Bird
  
  And where do you stop? I certainly did not agree with compulsory Covid 19 vaccinations.
  
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  November 10, 2025 9:43am
  - Flossie
    
    I do wonder if the measles that is around now is a different thing to when I was a child in the 50s. I and my siblings – plus cousins, neighbourhood kids and just about everybody in school – got The Measles and I don’t recall any serious consequences for any of us. I am not trying to make light of what some suffer now, but is it different?
    
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    November 10, 2025 9:51am
    - MCōs
      
      Some little kid at our intermediate school died of something
      Could have been measles. Nobody said much. Life just went on, but as you say pretty much all the kids got measles, mumps, chickenpox as I recall
      The one everyone dreaded was polio
      
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      November 10, 2025 10:16am
      - Jethrod
        
        The year I was born, all schools in NZ were closed for a term whilst people came to terms with a polio epidemic. There was at least 2 at my school that had debilitating effects of polio. But as I recall they both got on in life without playing the victim card, like what would happen in these times. I also remember other people who suffered, that I worked with, lived with and socialized with. Suffered is perhaps too strong a word.
        
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        November 10, 2025 10:29am
      - MCōs
        
        We had a kid who had what I now realize was probably epilepsy. He would stop mid what he was doing with a mild seizure that lasted maybe twenty seconds and then carry on.
        He got all sorts of shit from his classmates, poor bugger
        There was another kid who’d had polio and while he could walk it was with a shuffling gait
        He got bullied for his disability too.
        I’ll never forget them and how mean kids could be.
        
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        November 10, 2025 12:20pm
      - GazzaW
        
        I have an old friend who is now aged 80. He caught polio at the age of 8 prior to the advent of the Salk vaccine and has been in a leg brace ever since. He’s led a very successful business life, was awarded a decoration for services to the public and has a public profile that most here would recognise. Regrettably age has caught up with him and simple ailments that most average senior cits cope with on a daily basis have now confined him to a wheelchair. I refer to joint pain, difficulties in accessing a daily shower, loss of his drivers license and his all round independence including having to live in a full care retirement unit. The big tragedy in his life was the lack of an appropriate vaccine to prevent his transaction of polio.
        
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        November 10, 2025 12:27pm
      - Local Miller
        
        In my late teens I had a good friend who had had polio. It affected his right arm so it was permanently bent at a right angle, with zero mobility in the elbow, but his hand and shoulder were minimally affected. He played base guitar, left handed because he could use the right hand to pluck the strings despite the restricted movement.
        One of the most popular kids in the group, and NO ONE ever gave him a hard time.
        
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        November 10, 2025 3:13pm
      - Skottowe
        
        GazzaW: “He caught polio at the age of 8 prior to the advent of the Salk vaccine…”
        
        I’m 78. I was, I think, 6, when the Salk vaccine was introduced here. Ours was the first cohort in NZ to be vaccinated with it. It was by no means perfect – a friend of mine developed so-called “polio flu”, a known side-effect of that vaccine – but it stopped the cycle of epidemics almost immediately, as I recall. I was an infant, so I don’t remember the epidemic which closed the schools. But my late mother complained that my older siblings did their schoolwork at the kitchen table in the mornings, then dashed outside in the afternoon, to play with all of the local children! None of them contracted polio, though.
        
        Our parents’ generation was justifiably terrified of polio and its effects. Nobody my age and older could forget the schoolmates with leg-irons, or with a withered arm or leg, or the children who got sick and never returned to school. So said parents were very keen for us all to be vaccinated. The Sabin vaccine was introduced when I was in the 4th Form. We all had it. My late mother was very pro-vaccination: the only one for which she refused consent was the BCG vaccine. She believed it to be unnecessary. Recent research has proved her correct, much to my amusement. Had she still been alive at that stage, she’d also have been diverted by that piece of news.
        
        I’ve read somewhere recently that those who survived polio can, in late middle age, develop post-polio syndrome. There are a range of symptoms, I believe. It’s a cruel last slap of that awful virus.
        
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        November 10, 2025 4:01pm
    - Northshoredoc
      
      ‘I am not trying to make light of what some suffer now, but is it different?’
      
      No.
      
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      November 10, 2025 10:18am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I am not trying to make light of what some suffer now, but is it different?
      
      Back in the 1950s we didn’t see the damage that measles wreaked on the very young babes…(blind, deaf, intellectually impaired babies were often placed in care)
      
      Measles is a very serious disease for babies with their undeveloped immune system; it is usually not so serious (and may be mild) for children.
      
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      November 10, 2025 1:42pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Here’s a list of complications. Some are pretty nasty.
      
      https://chatgpt.com/share/6911595c-9064-800d-a31c-89dfc8aee206
      
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      November 10, 2025 4:23pm
  - Jethrod
    
    Elsewhere on this blog is a post:-
    “Why faith in science is declining”.
    This could be a starting point.
    
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    November 10, 2025 9:52am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      People are scared that “those who know best for them” are having questionable mRNA Covid product put into unrelated routine vaccines “for people’s own good”.
      
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      November 10, 2025 4:23pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Yeah, that put people off real vaccines that work.
    
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    November 10, 2025 1:07pm
  - Paulus
    
    As far as I am concerned the Government must make children have the appropriate injections despite the do gooders who are actually do badders.
    What I said before tax payers wouldbe happy to provide a KFC voucher for every new child vaccinated if the realised tha damage to an invaccineted child.
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:24pm
- RoboRob
  
  The misinformation around the Covid vacines did a huge amount of damage to public trust in medical professionals.
  
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  November 10, 2025 9:44am
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Take a bow everyone who was cheering government over reach during Covid.
  These are your/our/their consequences.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:12am
- Northshoredoc
  
  It is an applaing statistic, however, I do not support compulsion.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:17am
  - Paulus
    
    I do !
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:27pm
    - Keith White
      
      OK then, I’d like to compel everyone who cheered the jab mandate that shortened my child’s life, to donate a kidney to those with terminal kidney failure.
      
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      November 10, 2025 2:34pm
      - Keith White
        
        Oh, so someone does not like the idea of compelling one person to accept a risky medical procedure to improve others’ health – but at the same time demands another person to accept a risky medical procedure to protect others’ health? Got yourself a consistency problem, bro/sis…
        
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        November 10, 2025 3:45pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    That’s principled. But a lot of the deficit is just pure parental laziness, and woo-woo religious nuttiness, which is hard to countenance.
    
    There is massive difference between the older schedule of vaccinations with well established safety data, and covid not-really-a-vaccine and we won’t bother with long term safety checks before we roll it out. Which seems to have killed about 1 in 2000 who took it via and increase in cardiovascular deaths in following 6 months.
    
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    November 10, 2025 2:30pm
- Mike
  
  The vaccine disinformation started well before Covid, although the need to develop new vaccines so rapidly boosted (geddit?) support for already well-established cohorts of anti-vaxxer nutcases.
  
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  November 10, 2025 3:44pm
- wsk12345
  
  [Mod – use correct usernames] you do know that healthy kids don’t die or even get particularly sick from measles don’t you?
  
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  November 10, 2025 8:34pm
Swifty

DNA evidence confirms German bloke’s ancestors lived but 2km away – 3,000 years ago.

https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1987519233291416034?s=46

Fascinating.
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November 10, 2025 9:23am
- Jethrod
  
  Approximately 100 x great grandfather’s!
  
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  November 10, 2025 12:33pm
- Conservatarian
  
  Thanks for this overwhelming evidence of indigeneity but the UN has already ruled that Europe has no indigenous people (apart from some Arctic Circle types such as the Sami of Finland).
  
  The UN definition of indigenous includes the group being non-dominant in the particular society.
  
  Tough luck for now white people of Europe. Though it won’t be long until you can be considered indigenous.
  
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  November 10, 2025 3:17pm
- Local Miller
  
  And probably BS. Even at only 75 generations (40 years per generation) that’s 75 times the original DNA was halved to get to the current state. In other wards about 1 part in 2 to the power of 75 of the original DNA strands exist in this guy. Any link to a 3000 year old, degraded sample is coincidental.
  
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  November 10, 2025 3:24pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    40 years per generation????
    
    So mothers giving birth to the next generation at 40?
    
    In Europe around 200 years ago, during the early 19th century, the average life expectancy at birth for women was approximately 38 years.
    
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    November 10, 2025 3:43pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      Yeah, much closer to 25 years per generation.
      I remember a good bit in Michael King’s “the History of New Zealand” explaining how the grey haired Maori tribal elders (Komatua = without parents) that Captain Cook met would have been in their 50s.
      Being a grandparent in your 50s would have been the norm in pre-modern societies.
      
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      November 10, 2025 6:30pm
  - Swifty
    
    I don’t think you understand how DNA works.
    
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    November 10, 2025 5:11pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not much “get up & go” in that family
  
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  November 10, 2025 5:06pm
imalwaysright

Mark Mitchell said that the Police Commissioner has begun the process of cancelling Jevon McSkimmings medals.

Process?
How hard can it be?

Look up his file and type ‘All awards and medals cancelled because he’s a convict.’
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November 10, 2025 10:07am
- Ghost
  
  He has two LSGC medals given by royal warrant under Queen Elizabeth. The commissioner needs to prepare a formal recommendation paper for the minister. The minister reviews then issues a formal rescission order. The medals then have to be returned.
  
  He plead guilty 3 days ago, I would expect by next week the medals are returned.
  
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  November 10, 2025 10:23am
  - MCōs
    
    Can the King or Governor General put a spanner in the works?
    Maybe the King doesn’t want to set a precedent in case something happens in another case that might cause embarrassment?
    
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    November 10, 2025 12:28pm
    - Mike
      
      The royal warrant probably doesn’t require the king to do anything personally. Action would be delegated to GG, PM or Minister.
      
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      November 10, 2025 12:54pm
Conservatarian

The Henry Jackson Society has reported (as cited by Carl Benjamin) that the 43,000 people being monitored by the UK Home Office’s “terror watchlist” includes 39,000 Muslims.

Thank goodness the British state is so heavily focused on Tommy Robinson and 13 year old white boys portrayed on TV shows.
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November 10, 2025 11:47am
Christopher Thomson

You only get 1 Long Service and Good Conduct medal (for 14 years of unconvicted crime) and after that you get a clasp to the medal.
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November 10, 2025 12:00pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  In he services they are awarded for “undiscovered crime”!!!!
  
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  November 10, 2025 7:04pm
Chuck Bird

This 46 minute video should be viewed by our climate change alarmist minister. Not much chance.

Debunking Climate Change Myths with Dr. Judith Curry ( PT. 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMTHj30NaR4
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November 10, 2025 12:32pm
Conservatarian

Luxon did his usual appearance on Hosking’s Monday show this morning. Hosking served up a nice half volley for Luxon to go on the attack over state-funded RNZ’s misrepresenting of the summary on a report on youth offender boot camps. Luxon yet again flubbed a chance to criticise his enemies for their lies. Between he and Goldsmith, National surrenders the narrative at every chance they get.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/ – see from 1 min 30 sec in.

Compare this to the stage managed media under Brand Ardern:

“first Tova then Jessica” and by implication, “Has Barry Soper been removed from the room yet?”
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November 10, 2025 1:16pm
Ghost

Former National MP and Minister of the Crown, Roger Neville McClay QSO, has died aged 80 after five years fighting cancer.

McClay’s son, Todd, current Trade Minister and MP for Rotorua, shared the news of his father’s passing on social media, saying the former Youth Minister died late on Friday, November 7, surrounded by family.

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A sad loss for his family.

He was the first politician I ever encountered, the father of a friend, and when he would come to the school to talk about politics he never played politics and pushed national.
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November 10, 2025 2:59pm
- Mike
  
  His conviction and loss of airfare entitlements was an unfortunate end to a public career. Fortunately, a QSO is harder to remove than a long service medal.
  
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  November 10, 2025 3:37pm
plc

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360879708/well-known-figure-pleads-not-guilty-indecent-assault-charge-three-decades-ago

There is no name suppression but a “news” organisation has decided it won’t say who it is….for “legal reasons”.

Interesting to know the real story behind the decision
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November 10, 2025 3:31pm
Ghost

The reporting on this is becoming interesting, both stuff and nz herald refuse to name him, claiming legal reasons.

Former ACT Party president Tim Jago has pleaded not guilty to indecent assault.

Jago was charged with indecent assault last month relating to an allegation from 1995.

He pleaded not guilty at the North Shore District Court on Monday and elected trial by jury.

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November 10, 2025 4:19pm
Ghost

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was asked to proffer his opinion on Te Pāti Māori in light of its decision to expel two of its electorate MPs from the party. He said Te Pāti Māori was “completely irrelevant in this place” and was a “joke”.

“I have not seen a policy idea about what they are doing to lift cervical screening rates for Māori, immunisation for under 2s,” he added.”

“From what I have seen they are not serious – any of them – about dealing with issues that confront Māori, let alone all New Zealanders.”

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I’m not sure even the Māori party know why they are there, but I do think this civil war will damage them.
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November 10, 2025 6:22pm
Swifty

Waste, fraud and abuse – 20 million dead people allegedly marked as ‘alive’ in the US social security database.

https://x.com/chicago1ray/status/1987581639057134062?s=46

And it gets worse…..
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November 10, 2025 6:57pm
Swifty

Student debt a crushing burden for some:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578436/dinner-or-debt-pensions-cut-to-cover-student-loan-payments

I’m starting to think universities should be held to greater levels of accountability in driving cost out of tertiary education – and perhaps better matching student numbers to job market demand.
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November 10, 2025 7:10pm
Swifty

To his credit – Hipkins damns the Maori Party.

https://x.com/henrycooke/status/1987757863197196687?s=46

I’d die of embarrassment if that was said about me.
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November 10, 2025 7:28pm
- Ghost
  
  Prime Minister Hipkins would jump into bed with them quicker than he could say deputy Prime Ministers Waititi and Swarbrick
  
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  November 10, 2025 7:43pm
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    Heh.
    
    Fair point.
    
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    November 10, 2025 9:33pm
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    Yes “The Anglo Saxon” on u toob very aptly points out examples of Hipkins pulling significant U-Turns.
    
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    November 10, 2025 9:45pm
Jack5

The NZ Defence Force has issued a bulletin about the visit to NZ of five German transport planes.

It talks of the “German Air Force,” a description copied by most of our news media.

The world knows it by its official name, the Luftwaffe, the title painted on the fuselages of its big transport planes.

The Luftwaffe, disbanded at the end of World War 2, was re-founded in 1956.

The Defence Force put on a Maori cultural welcome for the Germans.

Mmm. New Zealand colonists’ most able soldier in the land wars was the Prussian, Gustav von Tempsky. Wokies have been wiping his name from North Island streets.

The guerrilla leader’s most apt memorial may be the Von Tempsky Bowie knife made in NZ and marketed internationally. Favourite weapons of Von Tempsky’s Rangers included his version of the Bowie knife.

The colonial troops, and those Maori who were their allies, are as much part of the New Zealand story, as are the resisting Maori tribes.

About 200,000 New Zealanders are estimated to be of German descent. They include Russell Crowe and footballers Josh Kronfeld, Christian Cullen, and Awen Guttenbeil.
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November 10, 2025 9:45pm
- Mike
  
  The term ‘New Zealand colonists’ most able soldier’ is just a tad hyperbolic. I get why you might want to exclude Tamati Waka Nene, Ropata Wahawaha, or Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, but even if you specified Europeans only, von Tempsky is hardly to be elevated to a unique place in your pantheon.
  
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