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gravedodger

” Waymo” driverless cabs called to anti “ICE” protests in Los Angeles then set on fire by protesters with the infernos reaching over 1000 degrees emitting toxic fumes.
Drivers might just have figured out going to a riot might not be such a good idea but the AI controlled fleet, not so aware kept responding until company executives saw on media and took steps to end the carnage.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-waymo-car-fires-in-recent-los-angeles-protests-caused-the-robotaxis/
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December 30, 2025 8:38am
- Northshoredoc
  
  I travel into or through the USA reasonably frequently but still haven’t had the courage to use one of the driverless ride providers in California.
  
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  December 30, 2025 8:53am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Is there a particular reason why Waymo and the local environment should be punished for the actions of ICE?
  
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  December 30, 2025 10:36am
  - AitchW
    
    I suspect that the anti ICE protestors are largely brainless rent a mob cretins, deeply envious of anyone who works for a living and has a decent standard of living.
    Typical socialist “you got rich off the hard work of oppressed workers” , “you only went into business to make money” morons.
    Wreckers and wasters and probably stoners with it!
    
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    December 30, 2025 2:19pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Yes mostly likely just bored and dumb shits looking for an adrenaline rush with the added camaraderie of being amongst a throng of similar cretins . The ideology is just an excuse.
      
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      December 30, 2025 5:48pm
    - Hard Cheese
      
      As opposed to the brainless rent a mob ICE agents who sold their morals to Trump for a $50,000 sign on bonus.
      
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      December 30, 2025 6:22pm
I remember when

From Breaking Views Archives: Bob Jones – Colonialism Nonsense:
“Take those of Indian ethnicity.
They have the highest educational standards of all Britain’s diverse ethnicities.
They also have the highest incomes and are the least likely to be in prison.”

Do our Indian immigrants have a considerable plus side?
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December 30, 2025 8:44am
- Keith White
  
  Apparently, curry, we are thusly advised by the bien-pensants of the media.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:25am
- Jack5
  
  Indians perform strongly when ethnic groups are compared in UK education, but Chinese are ahead of them:
  
  https://epi.org.uk/annual-report-2025-ethnicity-gaps/
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:04pm
- Sweet Hitchhiker
  
  Indians are very hardworking and focused on education. If only more citizens had their work ethic. They may have the lowest incarceration rates but there is a lot of family violence that rarely gets reported. A friend of mine was driven to suicide by his abusive sons-in-law. A niece was too terrified of her husband to stay with him after he attacked her with a knife one night. Neither of these perps were prosecuted.
  
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  December 30, 2025 7:59pm
kowtow

A picture paints a thousand words.

“We also see Anthony Albanese marching in Palestinian rallies in Sydney, while elements of the crowd carry Hezbollah and Hamas flags and others have their children wearing plastic suicide vests,” Weiser said in the 2002 speech.”

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-spoke-at-rally-alongside-flags-of-terror-groups-hamas-and-hezbollah-in-2000/news-story/45fc0c2eead689c6d39731614294e6be
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December 30, 2025 8:51am
- Wandering Star
  
  ““Anthony Albanese should personally apologise to the Jewish community and all Australians for speaking at a rally featuring flags of a listed terrorist organisation,” he said.”
  
  “It shows incredibly poor judgement and a long history of indifference to the Jewish community’s concerns, which has sadly been so evident since 7 October.”
  
  ““Friends, the Australian Jewish community needs to be able to take comfort from the fact that our Australian leaders understand terror, reject moral equivalence and have empathy with the only democracy in the Middle East, as she continues her search for peace in a neighbourhood of despotism, dictatorship and corruption,” Mr Weiser said.”
  
  You look at these constant expectations of groveling “apologies” to the tiny Jewish Community in Australia when demanded, and politicians being pressured to assure the “comfort” of said community as to Australian politicians siding with Israel no matter what, and it does nothing at all to dispel the view that this community punches well above its weight in terms of the influence it wields, the topic of a separate blog today on KB.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:50pm
- AitchW
  
  kowtow, as the Bible says, “by the company you keep so shall you be know”.
  Or, to put it another way “lie down with dogs, get up with fleas”.
  Albo’s days must surely be numbered.
  
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  December 30, 2025 5:29pm
CJames

Looks like the transcult is collapsing is collapsing like the Soviet Union. Even mainstream media like Newsweek is quoting the big medical review to show that “gender affirming care” is nothing of the sort. What about all the trendies with the “transgender” children that now looks like child abuse.

To quote the review “Nevertheless, the “gender-affirming” model of care includes irreversible endocrine and surgical interventions on minors with no physical pathology. These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic
disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret, and there has been
inadequate research into the frequency and severity of these harms. Meanwhile,
systematic reviews of the evidence have revealed deep uncertainty about the purported
benefits of these interventions. ”

I wonder who will be held to account the evil medical and social practices that has destroyed so many lives, not only the children but the adults who opposed it. The cervical cancer scandal was nothing compared to this. Or like unrestricting third world migration to the west or the demonisation of fossil fuels, will it to be swept under the rug ?
https://www.newsweek.com/liberals-should-read-the-hhs-review-of-pediatric-gender-affirming-care-opinion-11273400
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December 30, 2025 9:20am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Transgender activists are noisy and experienced at using the media. I think that the day one of them has second thoughts then you’ll see searing accusations condemning the doctors, the clinics, the politicians, their parents et al. Comparisons will be made with Dr Mengele. The strapline will be “but you were the adults in the room!”, and rightly so.
  
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  December 30, 2025 9:30am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘experienced at using the media’
    
    A very complicit media , more than happy to push the narrative.
    
    Along with so much other bonkers anti west stuff .
    
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    December 30, 2025 11:36am
- Notsofast
  
  A NZ high court judge just reversed Winston’s Lupron ban so the kids here are being sterilised and emasculated as before.
  Maybe mental illness should not breed is her reasoning.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:44am
  - Ra Henare
    
    reference please
    
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    December 30, 2025 4:30pm
    - CJames
      
      Try this
      https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2025/2025-NZHC-4045.pdf
      
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      December 30, 2025 5:39pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Thanks
        
        However, in this judgment I make a declaration that the Crown should take no
        steps to enforce the regulations pending the judicial review being determined
        
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        Nothing to do with Winston!!!
        
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        December 31, 2025 7:08am
- Raphael
  
  The trans-cultists are still trying to push the idea that all the hormones, etc., don’t do any harm and are fully reversible.
  
  The lies they spread are evil
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:59am
- Philview
  
  New Zealand being a Cultural Marxism stronghold may not be quite so quick to see the end of this stuff.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:40pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

This family are hoping for a state house with disabled access. Certainly, life is tough for them, and won’t get easier.

However – there’s always a “however”, I note that the family surname is Hossein (96% of which families live in Islamic South Asia, according to Mr Google); and that the chances of cerebral palsy are higher within consanguineous marriage. The BBC reports on an interesting study on cousin marriage in Bradford (home to many people of South Asian ethnicity) where the evidence says that the elevated risk of genetic abnormalities among the children produced by such marriages is statistically significant.

The Stuff story – written by a South Asian – does not address this aspect; in my view it’s a material omission.

In my view, in the interests of the public health budget NZ should a) ban first cousin marriage; and b) ban residency visas for such couples. Given the cultural trend for lying to public officials, either situation should result in the stripping of citizenship or residency if evidence to the contrary subsequently comes to light – after all, lying on a statutory declaration fails the ‘of good character’ standard.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360910417/7-year-old-cerebral-palsy-has-waited-most-her-life-suitable-home

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
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December 30, 2025 9:22am
- Keith White
  
  It is entirely correct that consanguineous marriage has very poor outcomes for the children, in terms of genetic defects. In some parts of the world, for example Bradford UK, up to 40% of children in a particular neighbourhood have significant birth defects entirely as a result of this practice.
  
  But that’s not even the worst outcome. The worst outcome – which will have all the professional bill clutches clutching their pearls… but which is nevertheless factual… is the effect on intelligence.
  
  The minimum IQ drop for children born of such marriages or relationships is 10 points; that’s the minimum.
  
  In particular regions and places like Africa, the IQ drop has been observed to be more consistently 20+. Somalia is the poster child, pun unintentional.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:31am
  - Nikola Donatello
    
    I wonder if first cousin marriage is more common in some ethnicities in New Zealand? IIRC Nanaia Mahuta is married to her first cousin.
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:01pm
  - AitchW
    
    Surely there must be an end point for the drop in IQ? After 4 generations of close blood relative marriages the IQ would be somewhere around 20. That’s about the equivalent of a puppy….
    
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    December 30, 2025 5:39pm
    - Sweet Hitchhiker
      
      No, puppies are much smarter than that. The average doggy 🐕 person would have intelligence equivalent to a child of at least 8. Pigs also. Why do you think we have canine police officers?
      
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      December 30, 2025 8:18pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    It’s not 10, it’s an average of about 3 IQ pts. But of course it’s a normal distribution on an individual basis – so some are smarter some dumber.
    
    A far bigger issue is the average IQ of the parents. Intelligence is highly heritable, dumb parents on average have dumb kids, and there is regression to your (for want of a better word) racial mean, so even genius Africans will depressingly generally have lower than 100 IQ kids.
    
    All young women should have that reality drummed into them before they pick the sperm for their kids.
    
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    December 30, 2025 6:01pm
- cmm
  
  Fair enough.
  
  People with various medical issues are banned from coming to NZ. Lack of genetic diversity (eg. caused by being the child of a cousin marriages) should be grounds for refusal.
  
  The BBC article thinks that education will overcome the issue. How naive they are.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:01pm
- Paulus
  
  The reference to a marriage is not appropriate as consaguinity comes almost directly over many hundreds of years and currently, to pure procreation by a man and a women who may be generally closely related within so called families such as brother and very young sister, supported by the so called parents, and the Mullahs, capable of procreation, sister and perhaps male cousin – it is not relevent as far as the procreation matters as such birth rates can derive to become the people to whom the world can be subject, based up a sort of bible called the Koran.
  In the UK the medical health system is in chaose as they cannot contain the mental instability of the exponential growing number of people.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:18pm
  - cmm
    
    It is very unclear what you are trying to say.
    
    The problem arises from cutting down on genetic diversity due to shared DNA. The effect is more dramatic in more recent generations than in past generations.
    
    Two first cousins from a diverse history share about 12.5% of DNA. Second cousins only about 3% (a quarter of that),
    
    But if you stack cousin marriages many generations deep then it gets worse and worse and reduces the genetic pool further. Add other cultural effects such as polygyny (having multiple wives) – common in Africa – especially among Muslims – and we’re almost doubling the genetic sharing due to the reduced number of men contributing to the genetic pool.
    
    In the past many of the kids would have just died due to poor healthcare. Now we keep them alive and the situation compounds.
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:40pm
    - artemisia
      
      If the WINZ rule ever changes back to require father/s to be named to avoid benefit sanctions, it will be very very interesting to see how many times specific names appear. And how many are not paying child support through IRD, or at all.
      
      Anecdotes have been noted ….
      
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      December 30, 2025 4:50pm
- cmm
  
  Somehow this family “needs” a 4-bedroom home. Huh!
  
  At least two kids per bedroom should be fine for anyone in taxpayer funded housing so how many kids do they have? 6? 8?
  
  That’s the other part of the equation. Not only do they have genetic problems (medical and mental), but they also breed at astounding levels.
  
  The sense of entitlement is huge. They snap their fingers and demand that the taxpayer provides every whim.
  
  Pity they couldn’t expend one breath thanking the taxpayers for putting a roof over their heads.
  
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  December 30, 2025 3:16pm
- cmm
  
  Never, did you spot this?
  
  “Disabled Persons Assembly NZ chief executive Mojo Mathers …”
  
  Mojo Mathers was the deaf Green MP. She has found another trough…
  “I am passionate about upholding the rights of tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people and interested in how best DPA can honor both Te Tiriti and the UNCRPD in our work.”
  
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  December 30, 2025 3:25pm
- Michael Sommerville
  
  Lying on a Statutory Declaration is a criminal offence. The person has committed perjury by lying to a Court Officer.
  
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  December 30, 2025 5:00pm
artemisia

YouTube fraud video, viral and still rising. US kid citizen journalist Nick Shirley’s one day of chasing Minnesota fraud has already exceeded 115 million views.
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December 30, 2025 9:45am
- cmm
  
  The Somalis in Minnesota are running massive NGO frauds and the state has gone from running surpluses of about $15bn to a deficit. There is very little oversight over what is going on.
  
  That begs the question: how many NGO frauds are happening in NZ? They are perhaps not quite as blatant or numerous, but they are almost certainly happening.
  
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  December 30, 2025 10:08am
  - artemisia
    
    Yes. One change in New Zealand is that the coalition government has renegotiated or cancelled a lot of contracts with service providers. Not a lot of attention paid publicly but doesn’t take much reading between lines to deduce that some previous outcomes were not sufficiently defined, or met.
    
    For example is anyone in officialdom wondering why Haeata Community Campus was build for 1800 students, has around 600, only a third turn up regularly, and how many students it is funded for. If there is an issue not saying for a moment there is fraud, but is there some taking advantage? And perhaps at other schools with low attendance?
    
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    December 30, 2025 10:33am
    - imalwaysright
      
      It seems that as soon as the money is disbursed to these grifters the job of the public servants is done.
      
      Is there any oversight of the money being spent as proposed?
      Is there an audit?
      
      The Great Robbery of New Zealand .
      
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      December 30, 2025 11:36am
      - Philview
        
        I came across a Facebook page questioning the accountability of the US $20 million that Jacinda Ardern picked up from Melinda Gates. That obviously stirred up the Ardern fan base. However there should be questions from the tax authorities on whether that money is really a bogus donation or in fact an income stream.
        
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        December 30, 2025 2:49pm
    - KH
      
      Any kid with a brain would want to avoid principal Penny “everybody else is wrong” Burrows.
      
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      December 30, 2025 1:40pm
  - rouppe
    
    Errr…
    
    Waiparera Trust?
    Whanau Ora Commissioning Agency?
    Over ordered school lunches?
    
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    December 30, 2025 11:12am
  - Keith White
    
    This is a helpful place to look for what DEI-based immigration requires the rest of us to fund.
    
    https://tools.summaries.stats.govt.nz/ethnic-group/
    
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    December 30, 2025 11:33am
  - artemisia
    
    It’s not just Minnesota. Or just daycares. The deepest government honeypot is blue-state Medicaid
    
    It’s also the Red Apple.
    
    And nowhere does the corruption run deeper than New York State, where everyone wants a piece of a $120 billion honeypot.
    
    Always worth a look and his thrillers are not half bad either.
    
    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/its-not-just-minnesota-or-just-daycares
    
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    December 30, 2025 12:18pm
    - cmm
      
      Nobody argues that fraud isn’t prevalent elsewhere, but normally it’s a little more discrete.
      
      What the Somalies have done is just so bloody blatant. It is taking the piss about taking the piss.
      
      The enabling politicians and government employees have normally had enough doubt to scratch together some level of plausible deniability. That is beyond what is possible with the Minnesota Somalis.
      
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      December 30, 2025 2:17pm
  - AitchW
    
    Ask Tamihere. Or the Mahutas .
    
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    December 30, 2025 5:41pm
Chuck Bird

Just under 25 minutes. He is not 100% right but has a lot of good points.

The Complete Guide to Socialism vs Capitalism (Myths Explained) by John Stossel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZr03g1PI4&t=11s
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December 30, 2025 9:46am
NeverMindTheBollocks

The Islamic Republic of Iran is approaching its end game.

“Iran’s rial on Sunday plunged to 1.42 million to the US dollar … when he (Head of the Central Bank) took office in 2022, the rial was trading at around 430,000 …”. Ten years ago, the rate was 32,000.

When you add in sanctions, the women’s freedom movement and the drought, the likelihood of mass rebellion even in the face of state violence is high. Everyone sees the evidence of inflation, every day. The Mullahs cannot clamp it down, like Tiananmen Square; the internet age means mass communication. The visceral dislike of the Islamic Republic among Americans arising from the seizure of the US Embassy in 1978 is yet another factor.

I’d say that there’s a fair chance that the current regime in Iran will tumble in 2026.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360919558/massive-protests-erupt-iran-currency-plunges-record-low
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December 30, 2025 9:50am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Interesting. I picked up an Australian Financial Review on Saturday that reported this story. Not bad I suppose for Stuff. Three days after the fact.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:21am
  - Jethrod
    
    Probably a second level sub-assistant editor, desperate for news and lucks on this piece on a slow week between Xmas and New Year
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:59pm
- Wandering Star
  
  None of it’s organic though. It’s just 30 or 40 years of constant subversion by the Judeo-Americans, all with the aim of installing a subservient regime that will do the bidding of Tel Aviv. It’s amazing how people will cheer on yet another regime change op in a foreign nation and justify it in terms of the “sovereignty” of the Iranian people, like they have been given a choice in the matter. Then again, the Iranians have been “weeks away from obtaining nuclear weapons” for about 25 years, so I guess the masses will eat up any slop dished up to them.
  
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  December 30, 2025 12:30pm
  - cmm
    
    Wandering: Nobody can reasonably argue that other actors have not stirred the pot. But Iran is a mess in its own right.
    
    A country run by mad religious nuts that persecute anyone that does not share their worldview is going to drive away anyone with any opportunities to leave.
    
    After decades of this, there are few capable people left in Iran that are contributing to the economy and the general welfare of the people.
    
    That said, their arms industry is pretty strong and their drone and missile technology are top notch. That’s soaking up most of their top talent.
    
    So yes, the dabbling of other countries has played a part, but the current leadership etc is perpetuating the worst of the problems they have.
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:46pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Of course many younger commenters will have forgotten the current Iran regime occurred after the USA sponsored regime change that ousted the democratically elected leader (1953) and installed the Shah of Persia. (and access to all that Oil)
    How did that regime pan out?
    
    Ousting the Shah 1979 brought in the current regime.
    How is that working out.
    
    So once again the US deep state sticky fingers will generate another fkup.
    
    Only beneficiary will be Israel (all that oil/ sarc)
    
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    December 30, 2025 4:47pm
    - cmm
      
      Ra, USA certainly have a history of disruption and shit stirring throughout the world. I had the joy of spending 2 years in the South Army thanks to USA causing shit in Angola.
      
      But 1979 was almost 50 years ago. At some stage the people need to take responsibility for their own actions.
      
      The same applies to various people the world over whining about colonialism, slavery or some other historic issue.
      
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      December 30, 2025 8:01pm
Vidar

Watching the scam fallout in Minnesota makes you wonder what a proper forensic deep dive would turn up in NZ charities, and dare I say, Iwi.

Also, LOL @ the people here who would have voted Harris/ Waltz to keep Orange Man bad out of the office.
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December 30, 2025 10:11am
- rouppe
  
  The charities and iwi charities do not reach scam level. They’re not stealing money meant for one purpose.
  
  That’s not to say they should retain their charitable status.
  
  Any charitable entity that qualifies its “charitable activities” by race, and worse familial connection, is not a charity. It is not doing community benefit, it’s doing familial benefit, and should be taxed like a family Trust.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:19am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Dodge a bullet?
  The world dodged two bullets when that Harris/Walz pair lost in November 2024.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:34am
  - cmm
    
    That we dodged the bullet is not really the issue.
    
    What is far more interesting is that the system is so screwed up that they came within a whisker of being President and Vice President.
    
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    December 30, 2025 8:02pm
I remember when

James Cook High School (1968-2026)
Roll 1739 – July 2025, Maori 37.8% (657) and Pacific Heritage approx 45%, Equity index 532 roughly equivalent to deciles 1 and 2.
Name was met with widespread interest and approval as 1968 was the bicentennial of Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour.
School motto ‘Endeavour’ and school crest inspired by James Cook.
Present principal Ms Tina Filipo (Jan 2004 – ):
Our new name – around seven years ago (remember what happened during 250 year commemoration) and every year since then, students have been asking the Board to consider a new name; one that would reflect their identity today while honouring our past.
A thoughful process has guided our kura towards a new name through socsultation with local iwi and the Maori queen’s representative for our region, has said that Te Kahui Ariki is in support of our kura and the name that has been shared Te Haikura A Kiwa.
Kiwa is the guardian of the Pacific Ocean.
Translated, the name means Kiwa High School, however their is a deeper meaning for ourselves and our community when we use our name in te reo Maori.

Lawdy, lawdy.
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December 30, 2025 10:32am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I wonder if the school board consulted with the Royal Navy, being the heirs of James Cook.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:05am
- Mike
  
  Who would have guessed that times could change since 1968?
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:45am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Lol Mike, you seem to be a supporter of the Treaty, but times have long changed since 1840. You also seem to be a supporter of terrorists that attack Israel, yet times have changed since 1949, Israel is a sovereign state. When you are an ideological zealot, a little hypocrisy goes a long way I suppose.
    
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    December 30, 2025 2:21pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      IVV, you do know with the far left it’s not about facts or logic? It’s about the vibe and one’s peer ideological tribe.
      
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      December 30, 2025 2:59pm
    - Jethrod
      
      Whew…. nicely put!!
      
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      December 30, 2025 4:02pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Nothing wrong with the treaty as written. Its all the “”interpretations””that screw up NZ.
      
      In Vino, why hate on Mike, he is entitled to an opinion.
      
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      December 30, 2025 4:50pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        People are entitled to an opinion on endless snark trolling as well.
        
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        December 30, 2025 5:52pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Sorry Ra, but my comment isn’t hating on anyone. And I have no reason at all, and don’t hate on him. All I have done is point out that Mikes zealotry inclines him to hypocrisy.
        
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        December 30, 2025 10:41pm
- Keith White
  
  Perhaps they could have paid a bit more attention to internal issues, for example to what their assistant principal was doing to children under their care for up to 20 years… to the point where he was sentenced to 2+ years in jail, in 2024. Just a thought.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:48am
- cmm
  
  I wonder whether the school will change its motto to something more fitting?
  
  I’ll gift them two (I won’t even expect koha):
  * We woz robbed
  * We’z entitled
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:06pm
  - greybeard
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/manurewas-james-cook-high-school-placed-in-statutory-management-after-shutting-half-its-students-out-of-ncea/P6AWUTA4LYJCQ4JWPPFKWNTFZY/
    
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    December 30, 2025 7:44pm
MCōs

If you have access to The NY Times here is an article you might like to read about Marjorie Taylor Greene and her change of heart over President Trump and MAGA
You may think the NYT is a load of bollocks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/magazine/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-split.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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December 30, 2025 11:42am
- Keith White
  
  If you have ever accessed the New York Times you know it’s a Lima Oscar Bravo publication.
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:48am
- Mike
  
  Is the MAGA movement fracturing?
  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/29/american-reckoning?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
  
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  December 30, 2025 11:51am
  - Keith White
    
    “It’s Guardianistatown, Jake.”
    
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    December 30, 2025 12:31pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      It’s life, but not as we know it Jim.
      
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      December 30, 2025 3:08pm
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    No.
    It’s just the Guardian’s Middle Class Socialists crying into their inkwells and twatting on about ‘racism’ and ‘misogyny’ (yawn) with nary a reference to actual racism or real misogyny.
    
    Apparently, ‘the great majority’ is ‘beginning to mobilize’ (sic – possibly misspelt ‘moralise’), all the while a great wind carries the US economy across the sky.
    
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    December 30, 2025 1:11pm
  - rouppe
    
    No.
    
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    December 30, 2025 2:04pm
  - Mike
    
    My bad then.
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:12pm
- losingtheplot
  
  Jewish space laser lady has a road to damascus moment.
  
  Great article – should be read by every MAGA cultist. It might even shake a few more back to reality. Shame it won’t be.
  
  She was a believer and now she isn’t because she saw the truth of the man and the people around him.
  
  Just one anecdote from the article (and it’s verified by others in the room) – Trump ripped the shit out of her on speakerphone for her bill forcing the release of the Epstein files and threatening to name names. When she asked him why this bothered him so much, he said it was because his friends would be hurt . . .
  
  Bros before hos. There’s so much more in there. Read it if you dare, MAGA. But be warned, it’s dangerous to your faith.
  
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  December 30, 2025 3:28pm
- RoboRob
  
  lol, Greene is positioning herself for future office and is happy to damage her own party in the meantime. Because she is saying anti republican / Trump things, the left media have gone from describing her as a crazy partially retarded woman. Now she is ‘the voice of sense’ in the republican party. The same thing happened with McCain years ago. Hated in the media but when the left discovered he didn’t like Trump, he was a hero. All the ‘un biased’ media was all on board, as they are with MTG.
  
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  December 30, 2025 5:56pm
  - losingtheplot
    
    You didn’t read the article, or you would know she’s done with politics.
    
    She was happy to be a MAGA provocateur until she found out she had some principles that weren’t for sale. That’s when it all went pear-shaped.
    
    That’s not really a thing for Trump.
    
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    December 30, 2025 8:28pm
rouppe

“Fresh attention is being drawn to a Minnesota election policy that allows a registered voter to “vouch” for up to eight people seeking same-day registration. “

Same day registration is just one step towards massive fraud. Electoral or otherwise.

That’s why I oppose it.
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December 30, 2025 12:01pm
- Paulus
  
  Agreed which is why we have to stop it as I understand there are many cases pending but the Police do not have the time to raise prosecutions.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:26pm
Sparrow

For something completely different. The fallout from the Boxing Day Cricket Test has centered on the pitch and the groundsman. Greg Chappell has in my opinion written a brillant article basically criticising the batsmen for a lack of application, guts, just seeking the money.
It’s on cricketinfo. Why make this comment about cricket ? Because Greg’s comments could be applied to many aspects of life today.
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December 30, 2025 12:11pm
- MCōs
  
  A nice piece of purple prose by Greg Chappell in defence of the cricket players from his time who knuckled under fighting tooth and nail for their country while behind closed doors gave an arm and leg fighting for Kerry Packer, which is not mentioned
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:01pm
  - greybeard
    
    Oh yes, Greg Chappell: what a hero. What a prick.
    
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    December 30, 2025 7:40pm
voltaire

I find it very annoying at this time of year when one pays for a digital subscription to the Herald and then the newspaper serves up articles that have already been published in the past.
Whilst I know I could cancel my subscription I don’t believe that is the point, I would rather be able to read new content regardless of the time of year.
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December 30, 2025 12:24pm
- Paulus
  
  Harvey Norman would disagree !
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:26pm
- cmm
  
  Some people learn slowly.
  
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  December 30, 2025 3:48pm
- keepcalmcarryon
  
  Just cancel already, fool me once something something
  
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  December 30, 2025 6:15pm
Swifty

I hope that in the near future we’ll see the end of this rotten, corrupt, islamofascist, anti-human regime.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/irans-capital-hit-by-wave-of-protests-after-local-currency-slumps-to-record-low-pushing-up-food-prices/XK73HVWIVJHGJIPLYEJKTHG3DQ/
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December 30, 2025 12:25pm
- MCōs
  
  People say the same thing about any number of rotten, corrupt regimes
  Next minute they’re replaced by another rotten, corrupt regime
  Happens all the time
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:25pm
  - Swifty
    
    What’s your point?
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:09pm
    - MCōs
      
      My point is if the Iranians change their regime, there’s no guarantee the replacement will be any better.
      Furthermore
      A regime imposed on them by others has almost no chance of being an improvement in the long term
      
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      December 30, 2025 7:34pm
  - Mike
    
    Yes, there’s nothing especially evil about the Iranians when compared with any number of nasty regimes which the US has no apparent qualms about.
    
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    December 30, 2025 3:24pm
- Paulus
  
  Remember in Iran the Sword (read Gun and Torture) is more p0werful than the People, who object – the pen is not allowed anyway as it would be anti Mullahs.
  
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  December 30, 2025 2:29pm
- Ian
  
  Oh, that the same would happen in Afghanistan…
  
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  December 30, 2025 3:37pm
Sir Henry Morgan

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/corrupt-ex-council-manager-filed-late-appeal-to-protect-parole-chances/premium/SDDYOJB76VHSFHCL6BVCOJLIJE/

Even in the slow news season, the stories of New Zealand’s wonderful Indian community corrupting our institutions keep trickling in. Every single time, you just know it’s going to be an Indian.

I wonder what the economic and social costs of all this are? Would be amazed if New Zealand is actually ending up ahead.
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