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Cassandra

Any deal worked out for the Ukraine/Russia war will be short term. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has warned that Russia is “creating the option for itself to wage war against NATO by 2029.” That marks the third time this month that senior German officials have warned of a potential NATO-Russia confrontation in the next four years.

Cipher Brief (US think tank) expert General Philip Breedlove who served as NATO Supreme Allied Commander, told Fox News that he sees “a lot of truth” in the warning. Breedlove emphasized that Putin’s ambitions extend beyond Ukraine and that the Russian leader aims “to rearrange the security architecture of Eastern Europe back to a Cold War status where he controls all those buffer countries and has this buffer between him and NATO.”

Anyone who thinks we’re getting “peace for our time” is right. The Munich Agreement lasted precisely 11 months.
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November 28, 2025 8:00am
- kowtow
  
  ‘The Munich Agreement lasted precisely 11 months.’
  
  At least Britain, belatedly, used that time to begin rearming.
  
  What will the Germans et al and esp Britain do now in the little time available .
  
  Oh that’s right , net zero , migrants in closed miltary facilities and monitoring social media for hurty words.
  
  Si vis pacem parabellum.
  
  Meanwhile every EV imported into the west is literally a spy machine and push come to shove, a bomb , already delivered.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:11am
  - Hard Cheese
    
    Meanwhile every EV imported into the west is literally a spy machine and push come to shove, a bomb , already delivered.
    
    You don’t actually honestly believe this, do you?
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:31am
    - kowtow
      
      if it’s good enough for the Chinese authorities re Teslas and for the IDF ……
      
      https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-swerves-away-from-chinese-cars-driven-by-worries-of-spies-lurking-in-everyday-tech/
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:35pm
      - Bullion
        
        You do realise that it doesn’t have to be an ev
        
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        November 28, 2025 1:46pm
      - kowtow
        
        bullion
        
        As the story says , it could be your ‘fridge .
        
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        November 28, 2025 2:56pm
      - Hard Cheese
        
        The set “Every EV imported into the west” is slightly larger than the set of electric vehicles driven by Israeli defence force personnel. What data is the CCP going to collect from John Smith driving his Atto 3 around Auckland? How does his EV become a bomb without anyone noticing?
        
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        November 28, 2025 5:01pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    Every tank of gasoline is a bomb and every phone a spy device.
    If you are worried about the invasion of fuel and communication equipment then you have lost your mind.
    If you want to do a serious investigation of the subversion and back-dooring of comms, then do that in a serious and scientific way.
    
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    November 28, 2025 4:33pm
- herb1
  
  General Sir Richard Shirrif put the whole US ( Russian) capitulation plan into perspective, when he said. “We need to stop treating the US as an unreliable ally, they are our enemies friend”
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:33am
- Handyman
  
  It is not about Ukraine any more. It is positioning for the next Russian invasion of, potentially, NATO.
  I suggest giving Ukraine 100 Tomahawk missiles and seriously blowing up the Russian oil hub. All Russian oil from Siberia will begin to freeze and cease to flow.
  Then immediately declare a unilateral ceasefire, pending tweaking the current deal on the table. Let Russia have the Donbas. Agree to army reductions (that will happen anyway).
  Show photos of Ukraine taking delivery of another 100 Tomahawks.
  
  The downside is that Putin could lob a small nuclear missile out of pique.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:41am
  - Jake Dee
    
    Russia is out producing America and NATO ~10 to 1 in missiles of all types.
    Talking heads and flapping gums in the MSM are causing the West’s mouth to write cheques that their collective posteriors cannot cash.
    Their rhetoric has far out-paced their physical abilities.
    
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    November 28, 2025 4:39pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Ukraine needs a 1000 long range large cruise missiles to take out Shahed drone and Missile factories, power stations, oil and gas pumping stations, port infrastructure, bridges and refineries, slow escalation is probably safest to not precipitate a nuclear reprisal.
    
    Much of the OECD is now rushing to develop Tomahawk class cruise missiles, and smaller to avoid reliance upon USA suppliers in resisting Chinese + Russian and middle eastern belligerence.
    
    Patriots have also lost their shine as a lot of Russian missiles are getting through and US is no longer a reliable supplier. Israeli and European missile defenses are getting more orders.
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:12pm
- RoboRob
  
  Sure, but what do they propose? As far as I can tell its either Nato boots on the ground in Ukraine or they lose.
  
  They can continue on with the status quo which will drag out the war for another ~5 years and result in the total loss of the Ukraine and a massive death toll.
  
  Yes Russia bad. Yes dangerous future if we let them win. What is the proposal?
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Putin like all his predessors does not care a damn for the loss of Russian people
    – Stalin like he will kill as many Russions as necessary.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:14pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Boots on the ground isn’t that helpful. Front lines are a deadly no-mans land of 20-30km width with short range drone threat extending out to 1-200km more sparsely. People moving around are mostly only for logistics, and it is surpassingly unlikely that any Nato troops will come to front lines.
    
    Offense is nearly impossible, and devastatingly costly, relying on infrequent fog to make significant advances. Mostly it’s about digging in and hiding on defense for Ukraine with drone resupply. But big Russian 1 tonne glide bombs now with 200km range @ 200 per day following addition of small engines make that difficult as bunkers can be blown up – need a yet to be developed countermeasure for that.
    
    What Ukraine really needs is a large supply of big long range drones to attrit Russian infrastructure.
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:18pm
- Simon
  
  GAE is folding its tent in Europe and concentrating on CCP. GAE collapse is going to be spectacular. NZ should be aligned / neutral with CCP by then though
  
  No one in Europe is going to fight Russia to protect the cultural mess that is modern Europe
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:05am
  - Don Beckett
    
    No-one should align with China until the despot Xi Xinping is ousted or dies. I won’t support any Chinese products either.
    
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    November 28, 2025 10:47am
    - Jake Dee
      
      Then you will be out-produced, out-played and out-fought by those who do.
      Anyone who does business with China will be in a better position than anyone who doesn’t.
      Simple as.
      
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      November 28, 2025 4:41pm
  - AitchW
    
    Anyone referencing GAE sounds like some tinfoil hat wearing chemtrailer.
    If anyone has designs on a global empire it’s China.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:30pm
    - Wandering Star
      
      GAE is just a more PC, and therefore less accurate, label for ZOG.
      
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      November 28, 2025 1:54pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      What does Global Empire actually look like in practical terms?
      Does it mean “global pre-eminence”, “leadership in the rules based international order”, “full spectrum dominance”, “the indispensable nation”, “setting the global agenda” all things that Washington was claiming for itself as recently as a few years ago?
      Again and again it’s the same thing, Beijing and Moscow must never have what Washington must always have.
      Why is this?
      Ask Washington, they set, and must always set, the global agenda.
      
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      November 28, 2025 4:46pm
- amospicton
  
  On the evidence of Ukraine Russia is incapable of waging was against NATO – even excluding the US. Their performance has been shockingly poor. Poland alone represents a significant challenge. Unless it wants to employ nuclear weapons and why would it do that?
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:06am
  - R
    
    Nuclear weapons -why?…..because to a COMMUNIST DESPOT Russian, WINNING at any cost is everything. People are only usefully pawns.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:29pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      Are you serious calling Russia “COMMUNIST”?
      Did you get hit on the head in 1990 and just awoken from your coma on Thursday?
      
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      November 28, 2025 4:48pm
- Ross Bayer
  
  Cassandra, I did see your short BIO recently and that probably explains some of what you post. However what you have posted has no basis in fact.
  NATO is on its last legs
  NATO has aggressively moved toward Russia since the end of the cold war
  The German Government is trying desperately to ban the largest political party the AFD
  Nothing that these people say is anything but Kabuki
  All EU states have lost the economic war against Russia
  RUSSIA HAS NO INTENTION OF MOVING WEST after defeating the west and the most corrupt country in the region.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:38am
  - Cassandra
    
    Quite a lot of people with skin in the game would disagree with you.
    
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    November 28, 2025 10:11am
    - Cassandra
      
      Just for the record, I retired from the Army 41 years ago. Since then I’ve been on the Executive of the Institute of International Affairs, a member of various US bodies and quite ill ie with time on my hands to read widely on the topics which interest (obsess?) me. My opinions change frequently, guided by Lord Keynes.
      
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      November 28, 2025 10:56am
      - Mike
        
        Just a friendly caution: you are readily identifiable. Kiwiblog has seen doxxing before.
        
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        November 28, 2025 12:01pm
      - JohnRidd
        
        If you wanted people to believe your prophesies, you should not have used the name, Cassandra.
        
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        November 28, 2025 1:19pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        Just for the record “Cassandra”, argument by credentials is a fallacy and meaningless and on the internet and under a pseudonym they’re even more so.
        They’re actively negative in fact.
        If you can’t logically demonstrate your point without reaching for credentials and experience that nobody can actually prove then you are demonstrating that your argument is actually rather weak.
        
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        November 28, 2025 4:53pm
      - Ghost
        
        What’s wrong Jake, you starting to realise that while you pretend you know what you are talking about, someone might actually have the knowledge you so badly lack
        
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        November 28, 2025 8:43pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        Ghost
        Credentials do not make facts, presenting credentials do not make facts, presenting credentials as a pseudonymous commenter on an internet internet forum are even less likely to make any facts.
        Facts speak for themselves.
        
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        November 29, 2025 1:43am
      - Ghost
        
        Poor you, you spout crap [ Mod – personal …. ]
        
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        November 29, 2025 7:52am
    - Cassandra
      
      Mike: many thanks. I posted under my name a while ago but the abuse stopped that. I’ll take your advice.
      
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      November 28, 2025 8:14pm
  - David Garrett
    
    All complete – and poorly written -rubbish
    
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    November 28, 2025 10:12am
    - Cassandra
      
      I hope you’re addressing Ross Bayer?
      
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      November 28, 2025 10:18am
      - David Garrett
        
        Cass: Indeed I am…your comments are almost always very sound – i.e. they align with mine!!
        
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        November 28, 2025 11:19am
  - Gwilly
    
    Absolutely spot on with your analysis Ross.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:44pm
    - Christopher Thomson
      
      If NATO is on it’s last legs why did 2 more countries join and why is there a waiting list of countries wanting to join?
      
      NATO is a defensive organisation. It is not ‘aggressivley’ moving toward Russia. Ponder the question why are the countires that were previously part of the WARSAW Pact aligning to the West. It is Russia that is aggressively moving to the West.
      
      All the EU states have not lost the economic war against Russia.
      
      Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and the ability to read and comprehend the openly stated desire of Russia will know that Russia intends to conqueor the currently free and independant Baltic states. It will use Transnistria as a springboard to conqueror Moldova and Romania. All this will be achieved under the guise of what it has done to Ukraine. The ultimate goal will involve the sugjugation of Poland.
      
      Do you think the reason Poland has the stongest military in Europe is for any other reason than they know exactly what Russia intends. The Poles have a long and distasteful memory of just was being conquered by Russia entails.
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:18pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    LOL, truly clueless commently (barring German anti AFD effort)
    
    Putin wants to recreate the Russian empire. They’ve invaded 19 countries in the last 100 years, many several times – it’s a cultural pattern. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are firmly in his sights. Probably Romania and Moldova too. Not that he has any ability to do it.
    
    Nato has only ever existed to resist Russian hegemonic ambitions. They invite people in who feel threatened by Russia – which is basically all their neighbors. Nobody is afraid that Nato/Europeans will try to invade them, because they aren’t hegemonic autocrats.
    
    And Russian economy is wholly fucked if you were paying any attention to data not created by Putins propaganda puppets. Industry collapsing, all reserves being spent, oil receipts plummeting, unable to pay its soliders or welfare bills, massive borrowing. Take your blinders off.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:16pm
- Gussy Fink-Nottle
  
  Appreciate your regular input on this (and other matters) Cass.
  And I can (almost) appreciate Putin’s ‘why’.
  I can’t understand the ‘how’ though. Given it’s taken this long to secure 50k sq m of Ukraine, how do the Ruskies expect to take back the former Eastern Block in its entirety?
  The ‘Peace for our time’ analogy is hardly apt when their blitzkrieg yields only 1/5th of 1 country in nearly 4 years.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:42am
  - Cassandra
    
    The reference to Munich is to describe the impermanence of any deal this time. The Poles, Finns, Latvians, and so on all feel a bit nervous.
    
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    November 28, 2025 10:14am
    - Mike
      
      Munich is too often used as a glib lesson from history. The time to stop Hitler’s war had arguably passed with the reoccupation of the Rhineland.
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:05pm
      - Christopher Thomson
        
        No it hadn’t.
        
        German was flabbergasted by the lack of forceful response. A response would that would have stopped Germany dead.
        
        It was the prevarication and a lack of posivitve action that emboldened the German regime.
        
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        November 28, 2025 5:22pm
      - Cassandra
        
        CT I think that was what Mike was saying.
        
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        November 28, 2025 8:16pm
  - R
    
    how do the Ruskies……..Nuclear weapons! The last resort and ultimate weapon, to a deluded despotic COMMUNIST Russian. The people of his own country, and the target country, are dispensible in the pursuit of A COMMUNIST VICTORY for the world revolution
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:36pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      Not really communist though, more Fascist ‘everything in the state’ as Putin’s Oligarchic Mafia takes ownership everything of worth (murdering anyone who resists) and pockets any profits while turning everyone into their subjugated peasants.
      
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      November 28, 2025 2:07pm
  - Handyman
    
    The next war will not have a front line. It will be hundreds of drone missiles flying each way each day until one side loses too much property and civilians. That side will not be Russia.
    
    How many days of 100 people being killed each night in Paris and Berlin will France and Germany withstand until they go “Well, it’s only Estonia. Let’s declare a ceasefire as long as Russia promises not to do it again”.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:53pm
- NothingLeft
  
  I’m not worried about Russia in the long term. They are a decaying husk, 30 years of Mafia rule have killed any chance of resurgence leaving them a petrol station masquerading as a super power. Their population is shrinking, they have suffered perhaps irrevocable brain drain, their infrastructure is moldering, their techno-industrial base foundering and regressing into fully third-word shitholism, unable to even keep their indigenous oil and gas economy going without foreign expertise and tech. Conventional military is gone – soviet equipment all used up or hopelessly antiquated – with no hope of re-emergence given they have lost their international markets on back of poor performance in Ukraine war. They can’t afford to develop new stuff or rebuild large stockpiles.
  
  The drone tech and missiles they are replacing it with are crude too – though the west has learned now the need for quantity over quality, and the west is rapidly developing advanced defensive measures to deal with threat of drones (Ukraine’s drone interceptors are taking down more and more Shaheds), point defense anti-FPV drones guns (like mini Phallanx) followed by laser drone defenses such as Israel’s iron Beam will largely end them as a threat for more wealthy countries within 2-3 years.
  
  They are also undergoing demographic collapse with half as many 1 year olds as 40 year olds, and their education system is awful outside of schools for rich elites and that can’t maintain a significant tech base without it. They’ve also lost a million workers and killed off a huge amount of industry with the economic destruction imposed by the war effort.
  
  And they are losing their influence in the world. Caucasus states are giving Putin the finger, client states Venezuela Syria and Cuba are basically unsupported now.
  
  The biggest danger they represent to the world now is through now perhaps inevitable break-apart into regional warlordism equipped with nukes. The world is going to need to step in and remove that threat when they fall apart.
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:47pm
  - Wandering Star
    
    Your “crumbling Russia” argument falls to pieces simply by considering why the US is so obsessed with Ukraine at all – it borders (and therefore provides proximity to) the US’s number 1, or at least its number 2, geopolitical challenger.
    
    Incidentally, the US only cares about Afghanistan to the degree it borders China.
    
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    November 28, 2025 2:03pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      ??? USA gives no fucks about Ukraine (especially the current president – though he is out of step with majority of Americans on this), except as an expression of their top-dog global leadership and a general altruistic interest in keeping the planet prosperously peaceful and democracies in the ascendency.
      
      Other than an antiquated and likely 90+% non-functional nuclear threat (nukes require a lot of maintenance that Russia has been skimping on for 30 years) Russia are for the most part an irrelevancy to the globe, a withered husk of a superpower.
      
      Only real threat to USA is China, and various creeping social malaises.
      
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      November 28, 2025 3:46pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        “USA gives no fucks about Ukraine..”
        
        Then why have they been pumping tens of billions of dollars into Ukraine for the last three years, and to a lesser extent, the previous 10 or more years?
        
        If you want to reach the correct conclusions, you really have to consider the facts.
        
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        November 28, 2025 8:26pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    Considering this “crumbling Russia” thesis.
    How many new weapon systems, including weapons systems of completely new categories has Russia put into active use over the last 3 years?
    Now do the same calculation for the USA, France, Britain etc.
    
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    November 28, 2025 4:59pm
- Jake Dee
  
  What’s wrong with a buffer between Russia and NATO? They’ve been mutually hostile for years and a buffer between the two will help achieve peace.
  It’s the totalizing liberal universalism that creates the illusion that rules are there for others to follow but not the liberal powers of the west.
  You might not think that Russia security concerns are valid but THEY DO and that’s what counts.
  America has two massive oceans east and west to act as its buffers, a friendly nation to the North that it still has enormous power over, a less friendly nation to the south that it exercises even more control over. It invaded and blockaded Cuba to prevent a hostile power from arming it with weapons that could threaten its security.
  Israel is allowed to enforce it’s buffer zones in Lebanon Palestine Syria and Egypt with lethal force whenever it likes.
  Shall we go through the list of national governments that Washington has toppled to remove threats to its security?
  Again and again we see this, Washington and the West are not bound by the rules they enforce on others.
  It’s Rule of the Gun disguised as the Rule of Law.
  
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  November 28, 2025 4:30pm
Chuck Bird

Just 2 minutes

What a Wonderful World — Thanks to CO2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4nzRFhwuuU
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November 28, 2025 8:02am
- cmm
  
  Yup, CO2 really is a wonder gas. Without it there would be no life on this planet.
  
  We are currently operating close to the bare minimum levels to sustain life. Plants are literally on the brink of starvation and would perform much better with an extra 50 to100% more CO2 (that’s why growers will sometimes add CO2 to green houses).
  
  In theory you could use alternate gases based on the same groups (eg. replace carbon with silicon), In practice that would not work for many reasons – including the fact that any such compounds would not be gases.
  
  That said, we have a Goldilocks zone of the perfect mix of gases and perfect gravity etc to sustain life. Mars does not have these which is why all the talk of terraforming Mars is complete bullshit.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:34am
  - Ian Boag
    
    would perform much better with an extra 50 to100% more CO2
    
    Not quite that simple. Increase in CO2 has no effect if the limiting growth factor is water or nutrients. There is evidence to suggest any “extra” growth is not in the nutritious bits of plants. An increase in atmospheric CO2 is likely to be accompanied by warmer temperatures which increases the rate of land degradation.
    
    It is not hard to find info about this question. I love the “wonder gas” idea but it doesn’t quite stack up ….
    
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    November 28, 2025 9:07am
    - cmm
      
      You are partially correct, but also somewhat incorrect.
      
      There is ample evidence that plants need LESS water with increased CO2 levels and that is why we are seeing greening of desert margins.
      
      Here’s how it works:
      Plants have pores on their leaves which are guarded by guard cells (stomata, if I recall my junior school biology).
      Plants must open these pores to allow CO2 in so that they can perform photosynthesis and make yummy food). However they also lose water through these pores causing them to dry out and die if there is insufficient water.
      If CO2 levels are higher then they do not need to open as many pores to gain the required CO2, so they lose less water.
      
      If anyone with high school biology wants to correct what I have written then I always welcome a second chance at education.
      
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      November 28, 2025 9:20am
      - Ian Boag
        
        Try this …. ChatGPT on the “CO2 as plant food” debate
        
        https://chatgpt.com/share/6924c8d6-75a0-800d-93ed-c237168af067
        
        Works in greenhouses because water/nutrient levels are also managed.
        
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        November 28, 2025 9:29am
      - Ian Boag
        
        I looked at …
        
        do plants need less water when CO2 levels rise?
        
        and got this
        
        https://chatgpt.com/share/6928b6ac-aa1c-800d-9052-73b0a405bf7c
        
        which kind of suggests it is not that simple.
        
        I guess we just agree to disagree as unfortunately noone is going to set up a planet-wide experiment that might answer the question. Even if the answer is so obvious and readily predictable for people who have done high school biology 🙂
        
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        November 28, 2025 9:41am
      - pdm
        
        With AI and ChatGPT I subscribe that it is only as good as the data put into it.
        
        ie Garbage in Garbage out.
        
        Can someone convince me otherwise?
        
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        November 28, 2025 9:45am
      - Ian Boag
        
        @pdm
        
        ie Garbage in Garbage out.
        
        Can’t argue with that. One should always do a sniff test. I have seen chatGPT stuff that was plain wrong. However in this case I thought the responses I obtained made sense – perhaps you have read them and on the basis of your biological expertise you disagree with them?
        
        Basically the summaries said that the “CO2 as plant food” notion doesn’t quite cut it.
        
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        November 28, 2025 10:25am
Souvlaki

This article confirms Sroubek is still in NZ,
but by my reading, fails to explain WHY he can stay.
Can some of our Lawyer contributors explain it to this lay person?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580246/why-convicted-drug-smuggler-karel-sroubek-still-hasn-t-been-deported
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November 28, 2025 8:06am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Maybe it has a lot to do what what he know about people he knows?
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:10am
- Gravelroad
  
  If you know the right liberal people in politics, all things are possible.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:26am
  - Jake Dee
    
    Why would any liberal go into bat for this white heterosexual male convicted gangster?
    If it was a brown Muslim or black lesbian, that would be another story.
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:15pm
- grumpy
  
  lawn mowing [ Mod – give it a rest ]
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:36am
- Philview
  
  The US have started killing drug smugglers and I have read criticism saying the Courts should decide the fate of drug smugglers not the US military. Obviously waiting for the courts to deal with just this one drug smuggler is a very slow process.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:39am
  - kiwimike
    
    Decltae the cartels a clear and present danger and go after them in their havens incl their bankers.
    
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    November 28, 2025 4:48pm
- Jethrod
  
  His legal fees must be off the scale,[ Mod – not sure which bits of this rant qualify as “debate” ]
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:41am
- Yvette
  
  According to recent reporting, Karel Šroubek has already filed an application for judicial review in the High Court in Auckland, following his unsuccessful Tribunal and Court appeals (dismissed last Monday). His challenge is limited now to certain grounds (humanitarian) rather than the full suite of earlier appeals.
  
  But between 2007 and 2009, Šroubek had returned to his homeland on three separate occasions – showing, I assume, considerable errors in border monitoring both here and in Europe with each departure and arrival each way, so at least twelve failures.
  
  Former Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway took less than an hour to not only reverse the deportation order, but to also grant him residence in his real name. It emerged the minister knew of his Czech convictions when he made his decision.
  A reasonable logic is that Šroubek “knows someone, or something about someone”
  
  But, given the three visits Šroubek made to his homeland should demonstrate his challenge that he has ‘exceptional’ humanitarian grounds to remain here, should really take less than an hour to sort out. But it won’t.
  
  The competition is still between Šroubek and Kim Dotcom.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:42am
  - Jake Dee
    
    “knows someone, or something about someone” could also be “is working or has worked for someone”.
    Someone who has influence within the NZ government.
    Several 3 letter acronyms come to mind.
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:18pm
- RoboRob
  
  Some terrible decisions from Galloway and the judge who ‘… granted him a discharge without conviction – meaning he could avoid authorities attempts to deport him’ .
  
  If Dotcom can fight extradition for 20 years I guess Sroubrek can too. The questions here is where do the funds come from for his legal team. Does he have rich (left wing) backers?
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:00am
  - Paulus
    
    Thought we heard that Dot Com was not very well so I suppose he is still on our Health Service as we believe may be required regularly.
    Not sure he is transportable as he would easily get a Doctors to testify to satisfy a Judge.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:20pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      The true enemy he is fighting is gravity, and it’s likely to get ‘im before too long.
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:24pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    Why do you think rich left wing backers are the most like candidate for being Karel Šroubek’s supporters and patrons?
    A white male heterosexual violent kickboxing drug smuggling gangster from Prague.
    What about any of that shouts “Leftwing !” to you?
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:23pm
- Yvette
  
  On second thoughts, having been to the loo in the interim, I would deport Kim Dotcom to the Czech Republic, and Šroubek to the United States.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:02am
- Simon
  
  System can’t afford to show competency in matters of immigration. Generally mass low wage immigration must be seen as more of a mistake or error rather than a deliberate policy.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:07am
- Ghost
  
  Because like Dotcom he knows how to play the system
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:54am
  - RoboRob
    
    But unlike Dotcom, he doesn’t have the money for expensive lawyers. Where are his legal funds coming from or has he lucked out and gotten some amazing legal aid lawyers?
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:35am
    - Ghost
      
      Both his lawyers are listed as legal aid lawyers on the Ministry of Justice website
      
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      November 28, 2025 11:56am
      - R
        
        So we, the ‘taxpayer’ are complicit in the retention of an undesirable immigrant
        
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        November 28, 2025 12:45pm
      - Christopher Thomson
        
        No, we are not complicit.
        
        We, the long-suffering taxpayer, are press-ganged into paying for this undesirable.
        
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        November 28, 2025 5:28pm
- Jake Dee
  
  I think I’ve mentioned this before regarding the Sroubek case, the most likely reason is that he’s been a “Confidential Informer” aka a “narc” “snitch” etc.
  That’s earned him favors, probably with European security forces that they’re trading in with New Zealand security forces.
  What we’re witnessing is the public face of an internal fight between various factions of the New Zealand government, some who recognize the credits that Sroubek has and some that don’t.
  I think I remember a similar case from 20+ years ago when a former IRA man, married with children, was also facing deportation because of his dubious immigration paperwork.
  As far as the public could see that man had been picked up by the cops in Northern Ireland carrying ammunition. Charges were filed, but nothing went to court and many years later he emerges again in New Zealand with a wife and children.
  What’s the missing invisible piece that connects the two halves of that story together?
  
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  November 28, 2025 5:13pm
Conservatarian

Another diversity dividend was paid in the West yesterday with a terror attack by an Afghan in the US illegally (having overstayed his visa). Initially allowed into the US totally unvetted by the “President Biden” regime, as a “whoops sorry” for its disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in around Aug 2021. A regime which never met an illegal immigrant it didn’t want to turn into a future welfare recipient and (D) voter.

He even gave us an allahu akhbar as he paid the dividend, but the good and the great among us will scratch its collective chin and wonder at his motive.
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November 28, 2025 8:10am
- Cassandra
  
  All those virgins? Little does he know that it’s a Catholic plot – they’re all geriatric nuns.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:39am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Joke of the year!
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:23pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Stuff perfectly played the propaganda role of saying he was a lone wolf in their headline with zero evidence.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:53am
  - Ghost
    
    U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro Called him a lone gunman in her stand up, should stuff ignore her? As did Jeffrey Carroll, Executive Assistant Chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. Kash Patel Said the suspect appeared to have acted alone
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:19pm
    - Christopher Thomson
      
      There is quite a difference between lone-wolf and lone gunman.
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:29pm
- Ghost
  
  Can’t blame any president. He was granted asylum in April by the Trump administration. He worked with the cia in Afghanistan which is why he was allowed into the USA
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:09pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Lee Harvey Achmed
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:25pm
  - Conservatarian
    
    “He worked with the cia in Afghanistan which is why he was allowed into the USA”
    
    No, he was allowed into the US because of the erroneous belief in “magic soil” held by the global liberal order – if you import a man from the third world into the West, the “magic soil” of the West (the United States in this case) will cause that thirld worlder to automatically and immediately adopt the culture of norms of the West (the US in this case).
    
    A contemptible, easily disproven notion that has catastrophic results. Time and time again.
    
    I can’t quite tell who hates us more – the third worlders who perpetrate these crimes, or the disciples and adherents of the “magic soil” theory.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:57pm
artemisia

A(nother) good point from Ani O’Brien concerning the proposed removal of the 4 well-beings from the Local Government Act. Along with focus on core services. This does not seem to have had much airtime in the big regional councils proposals announcement.

The 4 – social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being. And whatever they mean depends on local decisions made, but since it is OPM why not push the boat out.

We could all ask our councils about spending on each of the 4, plus outcomes of course. I know, some hope, but might focus them and if asked via fyi.org.nz the responses will be publicly available. And co-ordinated activism is a thing these days, right?

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/government-axes-regional-councils-in-historic-overhaul/
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November 28, 2025 8:13am
- Swifty
  
  I was at the pre-algamation Auckland Coty Council when the 2002 LGA took effect and the for well-beings became the cause du jour.
  
  I must confess that, at the time, I thought “how modern, how sophisticated, how forward-thinking….”
  
  I now recognise that as youthful naïveté.
  
  Just like Ardern and Robertson’s well-being budget, it’s just an open license for those inclined to massively increase the scope of their role and activity and to try to solve the world’s problems – rather than focus on delivering on a strictly defined list of areas and outcomes and doing them to a very high and efficient standard.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:41am
- Quail
  
  It is sad that none of these local Government reforms appears to be enacted in this term of Government.
  Vote for us — or else!
  And then ,just maybe , one of their MMP partners will say no again!
  Oh dear ,how sad , never mind!
  Pretty cynical is my judgement.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:13am
Chuck Bird

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November 28, 2025 8:17am
graham

I continue to despair at the falling standards of our broadcasters. News reports, whether on television or radio, used to be presented in a professional manner, with an appropriate degree of formality. Now, the increasingly informal approach and use of slang is badly diminishing their reputation. We hear of what the “cops” are up to, and reports on “kids”.

The latest example was on Newstalk ZB this morning, in the sports news, when the presenter reported on something that would be happening “this arvo.”

In a news report. 🙁

I despair.
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November 28, 2025 8:19am
- David Garrett
  
  Graham: Many of these terms with “o” or “ie” on the end are the result of Australian influences on our language. Twenty years ago no-one would have known what “hospo” meant for example.
  
  And unlike the sloppy or just plain incorrect usage I rail against on here, it is certainly correct that language evolves over time, and we are stuck with influences from our closest neighbor. So just smile and enjoy the “barbies” in the coming summer!
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:34am
  - Cassandra
    
    And a stubby.
    
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    November 28, 2025 10:41am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Stubbies are brief shorts. It’s a ‘tinny’ that you have at your barbie.
      Of course, nowadays, ‘tinny’ is also used when one purchases a joint of Mary Jane – wrapped in tinfoil.
      Oh, the language today !!!!
      (Mary Jane = marijuana. )
      
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      November 28, 2025 11:02am
      - David Garrett
        
        Don: Does a tinnie only contain ONE joint’s worth?
        (I have never bought one; always grew my own). Loooong time ago now. As I understand it, weed today is a very different substance from 40 years ago)
        
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        November 28, 2025 11:23am
      - Don Beckett
        
        David. I don’t know – I have never bought any, but you are probably correct that it contains a few doofers (do for the day).
        The only few times I had a joint was back in the early ’70’s when my younger brother grew his own, & on maybe 2 or 3 occasions joined him. I was for going down the road to the pub for a couple of beers, but his offer was free. 🙂
        
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        November 28, 2025 12:24pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    “…we are stuck with influences from our closest neighbor.”
    
    Neighbour…
    
    A rare win for the common man!
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:29pm
    - PurplePen
      
      I’ll add to that the habit that some MSM have adopted in writing the date as the USA does June 20. When did that start and why.
      
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      November 28, 2025 2:43pm
- greybeard
  
  Not to mention the wrong pronunciation of basic words by professional radio hosts: Wellington’s Max Towl cannot pronounce “distribute” and “contribute” correctly, and Timesaver Traffic’s Andy Harwood constantly says “Troy Street” instead of “Tory Street” . That one is bloody annoying .
  For people whose livelihood depends solely on an aural medium some of them do a lousy job.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:47am
  - kowtow
    
    The number of broadcasters who say “bought” instead of brought .
    
    That’s a shocker , worse though is how often that appears in print.
    
    I now come across people who say they have “brought” an item from a shop . Not in the sense of carried it , but as in the past tense of to buy.
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:03am
  - Don Beckett
    
    What about ‘jepradise’ and ‘opporchunidy’ etc. etc. 🙂
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:05am
    - lifesgood
      
      Oh don’t get me started! “Different than” or “to” It’s “from” you clowns. “Somethink” or “everythink”” I can’t stand thay one, what’s wrong with people. I’m a bit of a pedant because I also hate “Offten” Seems eveyone’s doing that one now but not me. There are others I find annoying but I won’t bore you.
      
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      November 28, 2025 1:13pm
- R
  
  Forty years of ‘Tomorrow’s Schools ‘ education.
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:49pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Yikes! 40 years of dumbing down our kids.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:14pm
  - Mike
    
    Bring back the education boards, polytechnics and the university grants committee.
    
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    November 28, 2025 4:20pm
KKNZ2025

UK budget reply from Kemi Badenoch

A stunning performance

https://youtu.be/8ZYD4cD3yHw?si=JcoH4qBTM8qHAjcE
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November 28, 2025 8:21am
- mogg
  
  Straight from the party who have set the UK on it’s current pathway to bankruptcy, have you seen the mass immigration graphs under the Tories. During their last year in office alone 944,000 majority low skill people were allowed to enter UK. These people are now allowed to sign on for benefits and apply to bring in their families. The Tories increased UK debt levels to those not seen since WW11.
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:02am
  - Paulus
    
    I rather think the Tony Balir was the original author for allowing illiterate people into the UK as long as they would vote Labour.
    Look at the Muslims Mayor of London and others.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:26pm
- NothingLeft
  
  lotus easters podcasters in absolute despair: https://youtu.be/v9fMVFKNX8Y?si=qGbQP9WFByw7tyKL
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:51pm
Swifty

Import the Punjab, you become the Punjab:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/459-truck-licences-cancelled-after-nzta-audit-finds-fraudulent-conversions/NZ5JNFUQIRHGJEJUFJNXIKGLDY/

Having said that, my Indian flatties are half laughing and had pulling thrower hair out at this.

One point they made when we talked about this last night was that they thought it wasn’t that allowing Indian immigration was the problem, it’s they TYPES of Indians we are allowing to immigrate that’s the problem.

Their words, not mine:

“With masses of poorly educated, brain-dead Punjabis you’re asking for trouble.

They’re corrupt and stupid. It’s very well recognised in India.”

Again, their words, not mine.

I see this week they’re all protesting their innocence and demanding to be let off.

Just deeply dishonest people.
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November 28, 2025 8:30am
- Cassandra
  
  Presumably your informants are Hindus? While I have no way of knowing for sure I suspect that the caste system might be alive and well?
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:43am
  - Swifty
    
    It is indeed.
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:13am
  - cmm
    
    There is certainly no love lost between different tribal groups in India.
    
    About a month ago I was discussing trust with an Indian Sikh and his list went something like:
    * Other Sikhs
    * White people
    * Hindu
    …
    * Indian Muslims
    * Other Muslims
    * Maori
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:41pm
- Jack5
  
  About 60 per cent of the people in India’s Punjab are Sikhs.
  
  NZ mightn’t have enough immigrants from India to have a problem of discrimination within this immigration.
  
  California, following the lead of Seattle, has banned caste discrimination within its Indian population.
  
  In India, even the Sikhs have caste discrimination:
  
  https://indianexpress.com/article/research/how-caste-permeated-the-sikh-community-10021125/
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:20am
  - cmm
    
    Yup.
    
    They do not leave the inter-group rivalry behind. They bring it here instead.
    
    It is not just Indians either.
    
    The Sunni vs Shiite rivalry between Muslims is strong. I have spoken to both Sunni and Shiite Afghanis and both said they would not go into the other’s mosque or community centre etc for fear of their lives.
    
    It is interesting that South Africans in NZ do not have the same problem. They might have issues in South Africa but here there is camaraderie. I’ve met Afrikaners, Xhosa, Coloured and Indians from South Africa and all have been glad to bump into a kindred spirit. Heck, even a Kenyan nurse was happy to meet a “fellow African”.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:50pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      The Sunni Shiite thing is relatively recent in terms of mistrust and fighting. They got along pretty well for centuries after the shit-storm surrounding the original schism died down, and a lot of Arabs 50yrs ago and even up until today in calmer gulf states don’t even know if their people they do business or employ are Sunni or Shia – just not a big deal.
      
      Post WW2 Oil-funded Wahabbism and Iranian revolution really blew it all up (quite literally in many cases). Too much money in the hands of fundamentalist nutjobs intent on fucking the world up.
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:59pm
KKNZ2025

No surprises there
“Nearly 460 commercial driver licences have been revoked as part of a crackdown on fraudulent activity, with every foreign driver being born in the same country.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/459-truck-licences-cancelled-after-nzta-audit-finds-fraudulent-conversions/NZ5JNFUQIRHGJEJUFJNXIKGLDY/
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November 28, 2025 8:31am
- kowtow
  
  Their visas should also be cancelled.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:58am
  - Master Mariner
    
    Visa’s cancelled ?
    They are now all running Immigration NZ after “Upskilling”//.
    Interestingly enough they all worked / obtained said licenses from the UAE of which they will mostly come from the same Indian Identity / Caste.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:36pm
- Jake Dee
  
  Are they mentioning exactly which “foreign country” and if not why not?
  
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  November 28, 2025 5:30pm
imalwaysright

Judith Collins was on the Platform discussing the inquiry into the Phillips case.

I can understand an inquiry into an emergency response, but an operation over nearly 4 years would surely have been continually reviewed and assessed as it went on ?

But they do have to explain how and why a single cop got into a fatal gunfight in the dark with a known armed offender, and with a child present.
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November 28, 2025 8:33am
- Anthony Melchett
  
  The whole thing is giving me fritzl vibes…
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:38am
- Paulus
  
  And how good are the SAS who tried to find them ?
  
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  November 28, 2025 3:29pm
Scooter

I bet the two 22 year old Kiwis caught arriving at Melbourne airport with 36kg of meth will be regretting that decision. Also interesting is their social media postings which could implicate them even more. Multiple trips to South East Asia, even boasting the numbers of stamps in their passports. It will be interesting to see what the jail time will be. No doubt a lot harsher than it would be here.
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November 28, 2025 8:34am
- Simon
  
  No name suppression and their photos on the front page. Unlike the mass censorship of crime and the rights of criminals, ahead of everyone else, in NZ.
  
  Prisons are a moral and fiscal failure- Bill English – culture runs deep
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:10am
  - Jake Dee
    
    I don’t think it can be suppressed here if it’s a foreign case.
    
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    November 28, 2025 5:29pm
Southern Raider

Will all the details of the Tom Phillips enquiry be shared or if the public are being blocked from the meetings does that mean Govt departments who failed the kids and the family will be able to hide and nothing will change.
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November 28, 2025 8:35am
- BananaLlama
  
  I wish i could tell of my experiences when dealing with government agencies. They really do hide their incompetence behind the children and it’s a ticking time bomb that will blow up in their faces one day.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:16am
- imalwaysright
  
  Its a bit odd that the enquiry will be secret, yet they gave Julie Christie access to make a TV documentary on the very subject of the enquiry.
  
  Are these people stupid?
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:33am
  - R
    
    The answer is obvious!
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:55pm
- Ghost
  
  What can be shared will be shared, what is blocked by the courts won’t be, and info about the children will be protected. As Judith said, the children deserve to know what was done to try and save them
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:24pm
G152

I see Minto spreading fliers around.
Would appear that hes still protesting over something or other
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November 28, 2025 8:36am
- David Garrett
  
  G152: If he wasn’t protesting about “something or other” he would die. Endless protest is literally what he lives for.
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:27am
  - lifesgood
    
    A more bitter man you never saw. What a sad and miserable life.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:17pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    like Penny Bright who used to haunt these parts.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:50pm
Tomtoddy

Trump acts again cleaning out fraud, deception and gross misuse of taxpayer funding in Minnesota. Using Somalis and immigration fronts huge amounts of govt money was going into the pockets of local crooks and overseas terror organisations.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claimed she knew nothing about it but the dark cloud hanging over her spreads.
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November 28, 2025 8:38am
- artemisia
  
  If the congresswoman knew nothing at all about the huge Minnesota frauds she clearly wasn’t taking much notice. Though nor were the various funding agencies for quite some time. One should assume checks and balances were in place for Medicaid, Feeding Our Future and Housing Stability Services Program but maybe inadequate.
  
  And there is mention that funds may have gone to Al-Shabaab.
  
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  November 28, 2025 8:57am
- Im Right
  
  Ugggh Omar is a mystery as to why she is still allowed to be a Rep in the senate.
  The evidence as to her shenanigans between her brother, and apparently she has a new husband, it was clearly immigration fraud back then, still is now.
  I’m at a loss as to why she has not faced court proceedings yet.
  It cannot be because she is a Muslim woman, part of ‘the squad’…as Trump has been in power twice when she has been there, so cannot blame Democrats of shielding her.
  I feel there must be more to it all, that we are unaware of.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:02am
  - imalwaysright
    
    DNA test of her and her brosband is in order.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:39pm
  - cmm
    
    Perhaps letting her keep her position as an example to point at is beneficial to the Republican position.
    
    Something along the lines of don’t interrupt your enemy when they’re making mistakes.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:53pm
- MCōs
  
  Is this what you’re talking about? You don’t give any details details or references.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/immigration-fraud-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
  From what I understand fraudulent marriages are used to illegally immigrate to the US. This happens at multiple locations over there and probably here too.
  Some people fighting tooth and nail to get into our country that others would give an arm and leg to leave.
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:24am
  - Conservatarian
    
    Why have you used a left wing source like the NYT? Of course they are not going to talk about the diversity dividend provided by the Somalians.
    
    Once were refugees fleeing from tribalist civil war.
    Now they are the prime looter of the Minnesota taxpayer, which in turn is the prime funder of Al-Shabaab (the Somalian branch of Big Terror)
    
    The average Somali has an IQ of 67. Yet he is smart enough to loot the government of Minnesota.
    
    In 1984 Reagan won 49 states, and lost Minnesota.
    
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    November 28, 2025 9:50am
    - MCōs
      
      If the NYT is left wing, which publications over there do you consider neutral?
      My inbox is receives unwanted emails from a number of American publications every day that are far to the left/right of those guys with all the latest shock horror stories that are sure to end someone or others wretched career.
      The best and most even handed ones, of course, and there’s maybe two, are the ones I agree with.
      
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      November 28, 2025 10:26am
      - Cassandra
        
        I subscribed to the NYT for years. It is a Democratic Party newsletter.
        
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        November 28, 2025 10:47am
      - NothingLeft
        
        Wall Street Journal. The Hill are both pretty center. Most big media skews left, but the New York Times is far left like the Washington Post or UK’s Grauniad.
        
        check the media bias site:
        https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive?utm_source=adfontesmedia&utm_medium=website
        
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        November 28, 2025 1:08pm
  - artemisia
    
    There are the main taxpayer funded huge frauds in Minnesota – Medicaid, Feeding Our Future and Housing Stability Services Program. There has been a great deal in the media about these, and not finished yet.
    
    Immigration fraud may well be an issue but those prosecuted for the above frauds were already in the US, legally or not.
    
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    November 28, 2025 9:53am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    I would suggest that anybody interested in the details of this massive fraud case, take a look at the Powerline blog.
    
    For those who may be sniffy about such a source compared to the New York Times, herewith something about Powerline:
    – Founded in 2002 and still run by two lawyers (both now semi-retired) with decades of court-room experience.
    – Both based in Minnesota so intimately familiar with local politics.
    – both GOP, although both were Vietnam War protesting communists in their youth.
    – One in particular, Scott Johnson, has been writing about this massive fraud case for years – and being ignored by the likes of the NYT.
    
    The tag to start with is Feeding Our Future”, where their analysis started in 2022 with this intro:
    
    Briefly, Feeding Our Future (“FOF”) was a fraudulent nonprofit that accessed an astonishing $240 million in federal money, ostensibly to feed needy children in Minnesota. Under the supervision of Minnesota’s Department of Education, FOF distributed that money to a network of Minnesota nonprofits who allegedly delivered the actual meals to children. But it turns out that the money mostly went to luxury purchases, fancy cars, overseas vacations, gold and jewels, new houses, and property in places like Kenya and Turkey. FOF kept a slice of the $240 million and added to it by charging kickbacks. The entire fraud has now unraveled in a series of 48 or more indictments announced last week by the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota.
    
    And now leading up to their most recent post where the whole thing is spinning off in new directions of investigation:
    
    Yesterday afternoon City Journal published my column “Minnesota’s Somali fraud problem” (“It’s about greed, not terrorism”). I wrote it as a diplomatic corrective to the Ryan Thorpe/Chris Rufo City Journal column “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” (the headline is a quotation).
    
    The Thorpe/Rufo column seems to have been written and promoted to achieve the kind of attention it has received. In yesterday’s City Journal newsletter, for example, the editors touted the column as describing “schemes that allegedly siphoned billions in taxpayer funds and even routed money to the Al-Shabaab terrorist group” (the phrase “even routed money” has now been deleted from the newsletter).
    
    The Thorpe/Rufo column has created an uproar.
    
    Johnson ruefully notes that the story has finally taken off in a way he was never able to achieve via the blog, but is grateful nevertheless.
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:00am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘But it turns out that the money mostly went to luxury purchases, fancy cars, overseas vacations, gold and jewels, new houses, and property…’
      
      Sounds just like BLM.
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:50pm
  - David Garrett
    
    MCos: Marriage no longer provides automatic residence in NZ, and hasn’t for a long time, Back in 2003 I had the devil’s own job getting my then wife residence – although we had a child together. The 20 year age gap was the major problem I think.
    
    We lasted six years, which is not bad for two people with very little in common, and she is now gainfully employed as a prison officer. Being Tongan, female, intelligent and bi-lingual, she could have risen quickly up the management tree if she had wanted. But I suggested that, so of course she took a different path.
    
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    November 28, 2025 11:45am
    - Taieri
      
      Back in 2003 I had the devil’s own job getting my then wife residence
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      No problems with residency for my partner in 2014. Approved with very little fuss in a very short time. She was 50 at the time.
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:16pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      “But I suggested that, so of course she took a different path.”
      
      I’ve struck that myself, its extremely frustrating seeing someone ignoring beneficial advice out of spite for the source.
      
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      November 28, 2025 12:43pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      female preference often skews towards lifestyle and other comfort related factors over career ascendancy. Competition is far less frequently a driving motivation (for obvious evolutionary reasons)
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:30pm
lastmanstanding

Any middle income taxpayer thinking of voting Labour should read the just released Labour UK Budget. Labour UK have hammered the middle income taxpayers and will gift the funds raised to what they call Benefit Street. Here Labour if they get to occupy the Treasury Benches will do the same plus gift the Maori Elites. They know no different. You have been warned.
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November 28, 2025 9:05am
- Simon
  
  National already handing out hundreds of millions pa to Iwi elite, also including special rights and control of vast parts of the country.
  
  “You have been warned”. What the ?
  
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  November 28, 2025 9:13am
  - R
    
    A situation that National inherited. The background has been well covered during the past year.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:00pm
    - Christopher Thomson
      
      They may well have inheritied it, but they have done fuck all about changing it over the last 2 years.
      
      That’s why they have lost my votes.
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:41pm
- Steve Todd
  
  @lastmanstanding @ 9:05AM
  
  Well, that is one interpretation. Here’s another—
  
  • Headline rates of income tax, VAT and national insurance will not go up, which Reeves says means Labour has kept its manifesto pledge not to raise taxes on working people.
  
  […], many voters may be relieved that there was no income tax rise and only the wealthiest will be affected by the mansion tax, while lower energy bills will also be good news for households. […].
  
  See https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/26/budget-2025-key-points-rachel-reeves. A continued freeze on income tax thresholds is hardly hammering the middle-class.
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:31am
- kowtow
  
  The problem of course is so many people in NZ are govt workers , or tied to state entities in one form or other .
  
  They know that Labour/green is the engine of big state and their continued life on the gravy train.
  
  A huge proportion of those are also the “educated” female demographic.
  
  When it comes to real and industrious workers , the ones with any get up and go , they’ve got up and gone .
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:55am
  - MCōs
    
    Big government is getting bigger as we head towards central government instigating Combined Territory Boards, which abolish a layer of democracy to be replaced by some sort of tyranny of the majority as the mayors of the main cities expand their fiefdoms.
    In general NZ urban population centres tend to be more left wing than the rural areas. So a mayor who may have majority support in the city could have minority in the CTB area o/all, but still be the dominant mayor on the board because he represents the largest number of voters in his city
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:27pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  @lastmanstanding
  True, but National should also be aware of how almost all of this was enabled by 14 years of the previous Tory government:
  
  The welfare bill, shielded by the Chancellor, is set to rise and rise, paid for by a tax burden increasing to its highest level since the Second World War. Soon enough, around eight million workers will be ensnared in the 40 per cent income tax bracket; and a far greater number than before will pay the 45p rate. The dream that we would become much more competitive outside the EU is slipping away, too – thanks to a massive increase in the corporation tax rate. This is all set against the backdrop of popular anxiety about crime, illegal immigration, cancel culture and strikes.
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:11am
sungsamning

https://www.westernjournal.com/us-rep-cherfilus-mccormick-turned-now-know-extreme-luxuries-accused-using-stolen-fema-money-funds-buy/
US Rep Cherfilus-McCormick Has Turned Herself in.
For those of you upset that Florida Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick allegedly used your taxpayer money to win herself an election, please note that she didn’t just use it for that.

Instead, of the $5 million overpayment of COVID-era disaster relief to a healthcare company controlled by her family didn’t merely win her the seat of the late Alcee Hastings. No, that was only $1.14 million of it. And even some of that went to purchasing a 3.14-carat yellow diamond ring.
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November 28, 2025 9:14am
- Christopher Thomson
  
  A democrat woman of colour.
  
  Quelle Surprise.
  
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  November 28, 2025 5:44pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biwxcq11ssY
What’s really happening in the coalition? Seymour responds.
Is the Coalition really in chaos — or is it just political noise?
ACT Leader and New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour joins #PacificMornings to respond to growing media speculation about tensions inside the Government. [A real journalist asking intelligent questions.]
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November 28, 2025 9:14am
wisteria

I note that the latest gig seems to be “Rolling Chris Luxon”. What a catastrophe that would be when we now have a Prime Minister who knows and understands economics and its effects on the general populace, as well as being able to keep his ministers doing what is expected of them. Having met him several times over recent weeks he continues to impress with his knowledge his very pleasant personality and warm manner.
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November 28, 2025 9:14am
- nathie
  
  Notice that when leftie MSM like Stuff yesterday, feature an article on that criminal Tom Phillips they always use a picture of him smiling.
  
  OTOH when they always feature Luxon they use negative imagery of him.
  
  Seems the likes of Stuff and NZME journalists have more sympathy for a criminal who kidnaped his own children, committed burglaries and shot at Police … rather than the Prime Minister.
  
  No wonder trust in the MSM continues to decline …
  
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  November 28, 2025 10:53am
  - Ghost
    
    No, they’re in the courts fighting the suppression orders, they don’t support that monster.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:05pm
    - nathie
      
      Umm, I was discussing the contrast in photographs used, and the fact remains Stuff use “nice” photos of a criminal and “bad” photos of the PM.
      
      I’m questioning the judgement of their editorial team.
      
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      November 28, 2025 1:59pm
      - Ghost
        
        You claimed stuff have sympathy for the criminal, no, they are in the courts fighting the suppression orders, they wouldn’t be doing that if they had any sympathy. They are using the photos the family have probably supplied or got from social media.
        
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        November 28, 2025 2:04pm
      - Christopher Thomson
        
        Considering the huge range of photo’s available of both persons it is the correct observation that the political leanings of the publisher are easily discernable in the pictures used.
        
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        November 28, 2025 5:46pm
      - Ghost
        
        here is the stuff article, I wouldn’t call that a smile, actually I’d say the photo is a bit creepy
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360900621/government-announces-public-inquiry-disappearance-tom-phillips-children
        
        Their heralds photos
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/tom-phillips/
        
        If you think those photos are better than the ones of Luxon then you are dreaming
        
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        November 28, 2025 7:23pm
- leoj
  
  Pleasant, warm and WEAK.
  
  The country needs a strong and bold leader.
  
  Luxon is neither.
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:20am
  - imalwaysright
    
    He would be OK if he answered a question BEFORE he indulged us in his word salad.
    
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    November 28, 2025 12:49pm
- R
  
  PM LUXON is possibly the sharpest prime minister that this country has ever had.
  
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  November 28, 2025 1:04pm
  - Conservatarian
    
    I presume this statement was made ironically.
    
    I witnessed (via a clip on TwitterX) his recent simpering presentation of flowers to the netballer turned state funded ethno-activist Jenny May Clarkson when she departed the far left taxpayer funded national broadcaster.
    
    Luxon, they hate you and they always will. Don’t kill them with kindness. Remind them they’ve shit the bed, and defund them.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:01pm
- Paulus
  
  Media are board waiting for Parliamentary Christmas parties so they can make some so called news scandals.
  
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  November 28, 2025 3:35pm
- sungsamning
  
  Yeah, best NZ can do is a National led coalition moving forward in low gear. Its a hard job finding the perfect coalition.
  
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  November 28, 2025 6:19pm
keepcalmcarryon

Shane Jones allowing commercial take in marine reserves is bad enough while locking out the public, opening a loophole to allow commercial take of marlin, he’s also about to let the trawlers in to finish off the South Island inshore fishery as well.
He’s also threatened recreational fishers.
Pull your head in Shane or you are going to lose a lot of NZ first votes.
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November 28, 2025 10:36am
imalwaysright

On the Platform Michael Laws is discussing, with the Tax Payers Union representative, the Christchurch Council paying the local Iwi $1,360,000 to write a report for the Council on how the Council should interact with the local Iwi…!

You can’t make this up.
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November 28, 2025 10:45am
Jack5

A very brief but interesting view on imported dairy-farm workers by the assassinated American politician Charlie Kirk.

This is a very short clip of him talking to a young American, who’s likely from a dairy farm. Charlie Kirk was talking about American dairy farms, but it’s pretty much what’s happening in New Zealand.

https://youtube.com/shorts/o8wDdSwe1W4?si=HKckevdquTM7DjVh
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November 28, 2025 10:57am
- Don Beckett
  
  I stand to be corrected, but dairy farmers are bound by the minimum wage legislation, so unlike American farmers where there are few regulations.
  
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  November 28, 2025 12:33pm
  - Jack5
    
    Kirk is saying “hire American”. It fits the Trump philosophy of rebuilding US industry.
    
    How does NZ fit?
    
    The unemployment rate for New Zealanders under the age of 24 is 15.2 per cent, according to the link below.
    
    Migrant labour is now vital for NZ’s dairy industry, according to some sources. This wasn’t always the case.
    
    As I recall, a few decades ago courses and schemes encouraged teenagers into farm work.
    
    Presumably, the path of farmhand to share milker to farmer, still exists, but are those taking the first step predominantly New Zealand kids?
    
    What would Charlie Kirk have thought of NZ’s dairy farming and its imported labour?
    
    Dairy farmers have moved far from the days when they were seven-days sloggers who loved co-operatives and voted Social Credit.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360876062/unemployment-rate-rises-53-thats-160000-without-work
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:04pm
    - Christopher Thomson
      
      There is imported labour because the New Zealand labour pool lacks the desire to actually do the work.
      
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      November 28, 2025 5:49pm
      - Jack5
        
        I bet that’s what the slave importers said in the old Confederacy.
        
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        November 28, 2025 9:40pm
MCōs

Quote of the day
‘Who is this guy Jesus everyone is talking about?’
Elizabeth Meyer, sister of Katharine Graham when they were children.
Their’s was a wealthy non practicing Jewish family that owned the Washington Post and this was said at dinner in front of a number of well to do guests.
Religion was not discussed much in their household.
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November 28, 2025 11:24am
- Ghost
  
  Isn’t he the illegal Mexican cleaning the pool and doing the gardens in California?
  
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  November 28, 2025 11:28am
  - Jack5
    
    If he was on Earth now, logically Jesus could well be in the Israel Defence Force.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:13pm
    - Mike
      
      As a rabbi, he would be exempt from military service.
      
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      November 28, 2025 6:41pm
      - Jack5
        
        Rabbi seems to have been a loose term for teacher, Mike.
        
        Probably wouldn’t get you off being called up for the IDF.
        
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        November 28, 2025 9:39pm
  - lifesgood
    
    It always is a bit of a shock to find your airline steward has Jesus on his name tag. Apparently a popular name in South America and other Spanish speaking countries. It’s pronounced Hesus.
    
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    November 28, 2025 1:23pm
cmm

In writing a post a few minutes ago, it crossed my mind how entirely shit modern science education is in schools.

When I was in junior school we did a bunch of experiments etc that I doubt you would see in modern junior schools due to over protective “health and safety” and, well, just useless teachers. A few I remember:
* Extracting chlorophyll from plant leaves. This involved leaves in alcohol to boiling point by putting the test tube of alcohol in a litre of water heated over a bunsen burner. Some care was required to turn the bunsen burner off before adding the alcohol otherwise everything caught fire. 12 years old.
* Experiments with mercury, asbestos, iodine, bromine and a bunch of other “hazardous” substances.
* Boiling up dead rats to get their skeletons.

Now you’re lucky if you get a vinegar and bicarb “volcano”.
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November 28, 2025 12:25pm
- NothingLeft
  
  I remember cheerfully buretting all sorts of poisonous chemicals in chemistry at school, sucking them up into measuring space using our lungs and dispensing measured amounts using our thumbs over the top. Bet that doesn’t happen any more.
  
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  November 28, 2025 1:15pm
  - cmm
    
    Pipetting. That involves using a partial vaccuum to suck up the chemicals (historically sucking on the end using your mouth). These days they use electro mechanical pipettes.
    
    Burettes are usually filled from the top. Normally we used a funnel.
    
    Imagine trying to start to sell cars, matches or electricity in the modern age.
    
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    November 28, 2025 3:05pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      yeah, I think you’re right, pipetting by mouth. Remember chemistry teacher saying girls tended to be worse than boys at controlling suction. There’s a measure of safety in the increasing hydrodynamic backpressure as the level rises.
      
      And I handled mercury with my hands in chemistry too.
      
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      November 28, 2025 4:42pm
- surfing
  
  Our science teacher would take the class outside and explode hydrogen filled balloons.
  
  I’m not sure there was too much science learned, but, it was fun.
  
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  November 28, 2025 4:54pm
Conservatarian

More Epstein files have been released. Fortunately I’m here to inform you.

The political donations from Epstein, a lib in good standing, are at a ratio of 10 to 1 in favour of Democrats. And the Dems continued to pal around with Epstein at Little St. James Island aka Rape Island, including after it became widely known he was into underage girls.

A notable omission from the Rape Island attendees is Donald Trump.

Massive, massive backfire. No wonder the Seditious Six had to stand up and refer to a squirrel over there. Have we had a single illegal order cited yet?
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November 28, 2025 1:54pm
- RichardX
  
  The Epstein client list should be made public….as Patel & Bondi said they would back in February.
  
  Have you worked out why Bondi & Patel changed their position on the Epstein client list?
  
  Have you worked out what is seditious about stating as a fact that the military should not obey illegal orders?
  
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  November 28, 2025 5:43pm
- sungsamning
  
  No, the Dems used an extinct species of squirrel. They should have tried a crocodile.
  
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  November 28, 2025 6:24pm
- Mike
  
  Do I need to explain, again, why a statement that miltary personnel are not required to follow illegal orders, should be utterly unremarkable?
  
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  November 28, 2025 6:36pm
MCōs

It’s a pretty warm and humid day
https://x.com/deco_belle/status/1993601779217625333?s=61
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November 28, 2025 2:17pm
Steve Todd

A devastating takedown of JD Vance (and of MAGA) and his chances of becoming the next president: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfO2xwHBxlc [14:26].
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November 28, 2025 4:27pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Only in your mind… Polymarket has him at 29% far ahead of anyone else and unchanged in months (Newsom leader at 18%), and next republican contender at 3%
  
  https://polymarket.com/event/presidential-election-winner-2028
  
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  November 28, 2025 4:45pm
- Christopher Thomson
  
  LOL, have you never seen anything from that channel before?
  
  Totally anti-Trump.
  
  As accurate and neutral as Rachael ‘madcow’ Maddow.
  
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  November 28, 2025 5:52pm
- Philview
  
  The Democrats’ support base were putting out clips this week claiming that Erica Kirk is 8 weeks pregnant. They seems to think they have the morale high ground but they are poisonous.
  
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  November 28, 2025 7:14pm
- Swifty
  
  That’s embarrassing Steve.
  
  I was expecting a sober, fact-based analysis and with strong arguments mounted.
  
  All I heard was an emotive, schoolboy-like rant, full of baseless claims and attacking him for how one guy cooked his turkey!
  
  Goodness gracious.
  
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  November 28, 2025 7:42pm
surfing

My prediction: The Warehouse is heading toward receivership.

An interior ‘revamp’ isn’t going to do it for me.
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Swifty

Donny gets serious about immigration, it appears:

https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1994268809109078401?s=46
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