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Cassandra

Peters said that while the RBNZ is independent on domestic monetary policy, it has no mandate whatsoever to involve itself in US domestic politics, and certainly not without consulting the Foreign Minister. Peters’ intervention was less about America than about reasserting a basic principle that New Zealand’s public institutions should be focused on New Zealand not meddling in the culture wars or power struggles of Washington.” according to Ani O’Brien. Totally agree.
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January 18, 2026 8:03am
- Mike
  
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  Can you tell me how many other foreign ministers have also criticized their reserve bank governors (or equivalent)?
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:18am
  - Cassandra
    
    I’m sure you can do some research yourself Mike. I’m not interested in what other foreign ministers say or do, on this issue anyway, but I am concerned about NZ. You, presumably, are not.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:32am
    - Mike
      
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      You are concerned that Winston Peters curry Trump’s favor, while our currently more reliable allies stand up on matters of principle?
      
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      January 18, 2026 9:49am
      - rouppe
        
        Winston Peters is protecting his patch.
        
        Rightly or wrongly he doesn’t like any other official formally commenting on foreign policy matters.
        
        He said much the same thing to David Seymour was well over a comment on recognising a Palestinian state.
        
        Much as you and the other Socialists love making everything about Trump, sometimes it just isn’t.
        
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        January 18, 2026 10:47am
      - Cassandra
        
        Reliable as ever, Mike, express yourself to put it all in the pejorative. Actually as thoughtless as ever is more accurate. Saying nothing is not “currying favour”. It is keeping out of something which is internal US politics. It’s all a matter of timing. The group letter is not a good idea when an investigation has just been announced.
        
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        January 18, 2026 11:20am
      - RichardX
        
        Cassandra,
        
        I believe you are wrong to declare this as purely an internal US political issue. Unfortunately the USD is too important to the global economy.
        
        Is there any part of the joint statement you believe to be factually incorrect or wrong in principle or is your objection based solely on how Trump may feel about it?
        
        From my reading, they are saying the Fed Reserve system is important and only functions properly when fully independent and free from political interference as long as it, and its staff, also comply with the rule of law and democratic accountability.
        
        At a stretch it is possible you believe principles should be subjugated to pragmatism but that renders any future principled position you may take problematic.
        
        I believe it’s impossible to come up with a comparative hypothetical situation as this is a unique set of circumstances entirely of Trump’s making. It could not have happened this way under any other President.
        
        https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260113~ec4630b9fa.en.html
        
        We stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell. The independence of central banks is a cornerstone of price, financial and economic stability in the interest of the citizens that we serve. It is therefore critical to preserve that independence, with full respect for the rule of law and democratic accountability. Chair Powell has served with integrity, focused on his mandate and an unwavering commitment to the public interest. To us, he is a respected colleague who is held in the highest regard by all who have worked with him.
        
        As an aside, given Trump’s track record for pardoning convicted fraudsters, does anyone else feel a sense of irony that Powell is being investigated, in part, for fraud?
        
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        January 18, 2026 3:11pm
      - RichardX
        
        I ran out of edit time but wanted to add that I believe the joint statement is very similar, in principle, to the video from Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin and others talking about refusing unlawful orders.
        
        Neither is something that has ever needed to be stated quite so starkly before as there appeared to be an understanding and commitment to the rule of law from those most affected.
        
        Both public offerings are factually accurate and if you take away any partisanship, you cannot argue against it unless you are looking for a way to avoid the President’s wrath.
        
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        January 18, 2026 3:30pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        @Rouppe, I think the Key wording is that he was not informed prior to signing.
        In this regard I agree.
        On a personal level NZ should make it a Policy of not taking sides on any Foreign Fad of the day.
        This will come back to Burn you.
        On a side note, When FBI Director opened up a Office in NZ his public statement condemning China and the reason to open an office in NZ was to Halt China was a Disgrace.
        Where was Winnies Public statement then ??
        
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        January 18, 2026 3:53pm
  - Paulus
    
    But Winston is different as he needs all the publicity he can to try and get over the 5% margin in the next election.
    As of his era (older) I have considered it, but there is no way that I believe he can be trusted as his history tells us, in just about anything except the love of his dog !
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:49am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They are not foreigners to the bank they operate, Brennan should be sent home now, she does not speak for this government or country
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:51am
  - leoj
    
    So what Mike?
    
    Our new Reserve Bank governor needs to keep her head down and focus on New Zealand. Correctly, Peters is advising her to butt out on US affairs.
    
    Not a good start for Breman who has just indicated she is yet another sufferer of TDS.
    
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    January 18, 2026 11:01am
- Northshoredoc
  
  Agree, Winston 100% correct on this.
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:31am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Exactly. It doesn’t matter that she was right. We’re not paying her to comment on US politics.
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:44am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Wrong. The actions of the current US admin against the Fed Chair, coupled with the aggressive stance against Europe over Greenland, have the potential to destabilize the global economy, and destroy the US economic system.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:17am
  - kowtow
    
    Now do China , Russia , Venezuela ,Iran ,India , Brazil and South Africa.
    
    ps Trump is bigly wrong over his Greenland thing .
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:34am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      None of those countries are the world’s biggest economy nor have the global currency status of the US dollar.
      
      If the US dollar loses its status, and gets dumped, the house of cards will collapse.
      
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      January 18, 2026 10:03am
      - kowtow
        
        The US dollar lost its true status a long time ago . Wasn’t it Nixon who took it off the gold standard in order to fight the Democrat’s war in Indochina .
        Since then it’s been only supported by , well smoke and mirrors.
        
        As to houses of cards ; are you worried about Trump’s actions on the basis of financial self interest or more general morality.
        
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        January 18, 2026 1:25pm
  - Cassandra
    
    Separate issues, slightly. If NZ is going to take issue on the RB thing it should be a Government approach. Our governor’s job is NZ monetary policy. Greenland etc is a different matter altogether.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:35am
    - Mike
      
      No, these issues are all directly connected. Trump is asserting unconstitutional powers and in doing so destroying the basis for economic and security cooperation with the countries that have most supported the postwar world order, an order led by the US.
      And he’s doing this to satisfy mad whims and pursue petty grievances.
      
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      January 18, 2026 9:54am
      - imalwaysright
        
        We are a country on its knees because we are lazy, corrupt, and we have crap governments.
        I don’t think we are in a position to give advice.
        
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        January 18, 2026 10:05am
      - Christopher Thomson
        
        What unconstitutional powers is he asserting?
        
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        January 18, 2026 5:59pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Wrong. Trump is now linking economic factors to the Greenland situation with threats of additional tariffs against countries who speak out against the potential US takeover.
      
      I would appreciate knowing our Governments position on that matter.
      
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      January 18, 2026 10:06am
      - rouppe
        
        The Reserve Bank governor in nz does not represent the nz government.
        
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        January 18, 2026 10:50am
      - Cassandra
        
        It’s not a matter for the NZ RB.
        
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        January 18, 2026 11:21am
      - Mike
        
        NZ needs to speak in favor of the rules, whether on security, trade, environment, human rights and whatever.
        It’s all linked .
        
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        January 18, 2026 12:54pm
  - Quail
    
    Slightlyrighty,
    You are absolutely correct!
    The NZ economy (and currency) is one of the smallest and most vulnerable in the world.
    The NZD has been a productive tool and one of the world’s most traded currencies for international currency traders .
    They are able to, and do, manipulate NZD because of its size!
    So the Reserve Bank Governor was absolutely correct to defend the NZD.It is her job.
    On the other hand Peters is not squeaky clean on RB matters, being responsible along with Labour’s Robertson ,for the inflation that was caused by that unlovely pair changing the PTA (Policy Targets Agreements) to include employment.
    National rescinded that mistake but NZ is still paying for that.
    Peters should go away and shut up!
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:57am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Much of the enquiry into the fed chair is the $3 billion cost of funding doing up the fed, they can not answer where the money went, far too much corruption going on
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:54am
    - AitchW
      
      Bit like Adrian Orr’s splurge on the reserve bank offices.
      
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      January 18, 2026 2:31pm
- pb
  
  The biggest problem in the West, is that we have ceded our sovereign right to control our money supply to foreign bankers. The right to control our currency should not rest in the board room of off-shore bankers. International banksterism is the heart of darkness. We need take back the money supply. Create a lot of small banks. Lend wisely to productive industries. Central banks = central control. To take it back from the grey spiders risks the wrath of the Globo Banksters, but these are men without chests, and should be trapped in their lockers.
  
  Ref: Gadaffi’s Gold Dinar, the Entire BRIC currency strategy and the resultant consternation in America, Saddam Hussein’s Euro Dollar oil trade, president Hamilton’s bimetallic. I suspect the entire war on Russia is about weak failing monetary systems, the Euro Bankers need Russias Natural wealth Collateral to keep extending loan terms.
  
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  January 18, 2026 5:25pm
Chuck Bird

This is 30 minutes of interesting viewing, especially for Australia.

Denmark’s Clash With ISLAM Is Escalating — And the Nation Is Saying “NO MORE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtYWfv-PQq4
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January 18, 2026 8:04am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  Thanks but the AI narration is unbearable.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:10am
  - leoj
    
    Yes. When will You Tube figure out that AI is pissing people off.
    
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    January 18, 2026 11:11am
artemisia

Taking food from rock pools and the sea. Some not happy even where it is legal, as it is mostly. Seems like some want more (and more and more) regulation but how would that work in practice. Inspectors counting starfish per person and then what?

New Zealand has a huge coastline and massive EEZ. How much of a problem is it if some rock pools and the ocean are sources of food if taking is legal?
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January 18, 2026 8:17am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Formenting mischief, Arty?
  
  The problem is strip-mining by Asian immigrants. The NZ consensus was that you just don’t do this – and also relevant is that we don’t eat starfish & other rockpool life. People from some countries don’t share either our consensus or our distaste for these creatures.
  
  Clearly, a level of education is required, but booting a few out will also focus attention like nothing else. That requires regulation.
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:30am
- Cassandra
  
  The gatherers are stripping the rocks and pools of every form of life. Destroying the whole environment. It should banned.
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:31am
  - Ra Henare
    
    So more criminals.
    Maybe a better response might be taxing the take.
    
    Just a thought.
    
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    January 18, 2026 8:37am
    - pdm
      
      Ra H – Chippy will be on to that.
      
      Stand by for a letter from him thanking you for the idea.
      
      No no hang on – no letter because Chippy will want to take full credit for the idea which he will probably never get round to implementing anyway.
      
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      January 18, 2026 9:58am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He has been absent, funnily enough they announced a new digital tax this week, not a word from Hipkins. Are we sure he has survived the barbecue season?
        
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        January 18, 2026 10:57am
  - artemisia
    
    Banned how?
    
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    January 18, 2026 8:42am
    - Mike
      
      Amend the rules according to location and species. This already happens, so if the scope of rules needs to be adjusted that provides the legal protection. Enforcement follows.
      
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      January 18, 2026 8:50am
      - artemisia
        
        A few hundred pages of new regulations would nearly cover that Mike. Then there is ‘education’ and ‘enforcement’. A whole new bureaucracy, gotta love that.
        
        Anyway my point was how would bans work in practice, and so far only vigilantes with guns looks like a go.
        
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        January 18, 2026 12:29pm
    - Cassandra
      
      Form vigilante gangs to shoot Chinese beach goers? Start with a bylaw and then get a fisheries fella to confiscate a Lexus. Gotta start somewhere.
      
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      January 18, 2026 8:52am
      - kowtow
        
        Start with hefty fines.
        
        ‘A senior Civil Defence manager was caught with five times the daily pāua limit and claimed he had “limited” knowledge of the rules, while believing he could gather it on behalf of a group.’
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/civil-defence-boss-kumeroa-tuhaka-caught-with-undersize-paua-in-protected-akaroa-area/XKKZR6A6IZBLHHO6KJ25PPOTEE/
        
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        January 18, 2026 8:58am
      - pdm
        
        kowtow – the name (kumeroa tuhaka) suggests entitleitis is the more likely reason.
        
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        January 18, 2026 10:01am
      - Hard Cheese
        
        @kowtow
        
        I thought Maori were supposed to be spiritual guardians of the land and sea and know better than anybody else how to protect our natural resources. Isn’t that why we consult with them on these matters?
        /s
        
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        January 18, 2026 4:53pm
- Northshoredoc
  
  Simple solution for Auckland is total ban on all collection to a distance of 50 metres offshore. Beaches and rocks have been stripped bare over the last couple of decades time to let it recover.
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:34am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘In the past couple of decades’ that , and the meth scourge,with all the other ills therein associated all to sell some butter to ‘north Asia” .
    
    Is it worth it.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:37am
- KH
  
  Clearly this is a problem of Asian immigrants. the interesting thing is that the MSM refuses to identify that factor.
  Why would they hide such factors from us.
  
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  January 18, 2026 12:00pm
- Paulus
  
  Not sure those of Indian ethnicity are coastal plunderers.
  To busy making a familyn life via the Dairies.
  Many of our so called own perhaps too.
  
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  January 18, 2026 2:13pm
Sparrow

It’s a dream surely. A geriatric egotistical white male and his mobile phone ruling the Western World. No you have been dreaming or watching too many replays of Dr Strangelove. Go and have another G&T.
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January 18, 2026 8:17am
Yvette

Trump Has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but Neither Got What They Really Wanted
President Trump has María Corina Machado’s medal, but he is not recognized as the prize laureate. Ms. Machado did not win Mr. Trump’s endorsement to become Venezuela’s president.

It was a window into the president’s psyche, including his deep need for affirmation of his role as a “peacemaker,” even after a year of ordering military strikes on several continents. It was also revealing of Ms. Machado’s political calculations. Her party overwhelmingly won the 2024 presidential election in Venezuela but has been barred by Mr. Trump from any role in governing the nation after the capture of Nicolás Maduro. – New York Times (subscription)

Does this interaction hold two unfortunate problems: 1 – that María Corina Machado has given away her medal in bargaining to win Mr. Trump’s endorsement of her to become Venezuela’s president, and 2 – that Trump has accepted as his a medal he has not personally won, and in regard to his seeking such a Nobel Prize, can the judges award him any medal when he currently immorally holds a prize they did not award to him?
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January 18, 2026 8:30am
- Interested Party
  
  Ever since Obama got the Nobel peace prize for doing SFA, that organisation has lost all credibility with me
  
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  January 18, 2026 11:43am
  - Mike
    
    Whereas you were happy with Kissinger getting it?
    
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    January 18, 2026 1:48pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      No.
      Also Obama after a short time in office.
      I agree it has been “Captured” and not worth the Kudos.
      
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      January 18, 2026 4:02pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Fatties want the rest of us to pay for their greed remorse.

Wegovy $460 per month to be subsidised down to $29 or $9 for concession card holders.

I’d rather my tax contribution went on leukaemia drugs.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/584348/pharmac-seeking-clinical-advice-on-funding-wegovy-weight-loss-medication
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January 18, 2026 8:35am
- imalwaysright
  
  Make it an interest charged loan. The can pay it back with the money they will save on excess food.
  Everyone wins…
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:11am
  - Paulus
    
    Pay it back – that’s a laugh for a start !
    
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    January 18, 2026 2:14pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Why?
      
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      January 18, 2026 2:25pm
- Ghost
  
  If some of these morbidly obese people can lose the weight and keep it off, in the long run it will save the health system money. But will it work…. I see these drugs can cause faster weight gain when stopped. Then there is the diet. I heard from a friend that some patients on it don’t want to change away from their junk food diet, and lie that they’re now eating healthy.
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:17am
  - Sweet Hitchhiker
    
    Ghost, the trouble is a lot of Polynesians eat fast foods and bakery foods every day. They think this is our normal diet. Back in their homelands they would grow taro, green bananas and breadfruit etc, or buy them and fish cheaply at market. Here these foods cost a fortune. Taro is over $20 a kilo these days. Just about every middle aged Polynesian I know has diabetes or is on dialysis. Many of them do try to eat healthy. Unfortunately the kids have been raised on fast foods and its hard to change such habits.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:39pm
- Paulus
  
  Obesity is the New Zealand’s leading mortality area in the not too distant future.
  Primarily it is genetic, but some families and children will and are follow their parents into morbidity. Look at the corresponding Health/Weight Diabeticity problems currently.
  Polynesian which includes including Maori are sad to watch the fact that obesity is prevalent in many families and in some cases they are proud of it.
  Only watch some families in the supermarkets with their sugar inflation and you will see the future.
  Drugs will make no difference despite the publicity of a long term unproven effect.
  
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  January 18, 2026 11:03am
- Colville
  
  I would think on a purely spend vs reward scale the weightloss drugs would have a massive ROI.
  How much would it save down the track on heart attacks, diabetes etc.
  
  I know a young guy who went on something similar a while back. Dropped 30 kg and put a little back on but he is a shadow of his former self.
  
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  January 18, 2026 11:46am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    From the reading I’ve done, you have to stay on it for life, it’s not a one-off like surgery. That makes the maths very different if the taxpayer is being told to subsidise fatties, forever.
    
    More generally, this is a new drug. Testing notwithstanding, no one can be sure what the 10 year impact will be. Wegovy seems to mimic the endocrine system, amongst others. I’m no medic, but I hope users proceed with an abundance of caution.
    
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    January 18, 2026 5:47pm
    - Colville
      
      From my reading of years ago. The holy grail for drug research was /is hair loss in men, Weight loss in both sexes and dick pills for men. All vanity products.
      Solving cancer is great but govt will regulate how much you can charge.
      Vanity products are the wild west.
      
      A drug to reduce or reverse female libido decline in menopause is the 4th but lesser aim.
      
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      January 18, 2026 7:59pm
Ra Henare

I used to support Trump. With his closing the borders, elimianting fraud etc etc.

But now I am convinced he has lost the plot with his God complex.

https://ground.news/article/e3e29f89-cda9-46a8-b14f-9aac751ed33a

Also his attack on the woman shot by that ICE guy(who is now a millionair from donations).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-agents-told-not-stand-001052345.html
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January 18, 2026 8:41am
- Jebahco
  
  “still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”
  
  Regarding the ICE agent shooting, for a true perspective its best to go behind the Mainstream media especially NZ’s.
  There are other views of this including a neighbour’s upstairs window account of what happened prior and during the incident.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:43am
  - JerJer
    
    Yes. I agree. I fully support the actions of ICE. In the USA it is different, the cops are armed, and they are attacked a lot. If you get stopped your do what they say. If you don’t there could be problems as this lefty woman has found out. The woman’s wife will be charged with a crime soon enough, because she is a big part of this, and will end up in jail. Nothing will happen to the officer and the loser protesters will have to either find a job or something else they don’t understand to loudly complain about. It’s all really getting a little bit boring.
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:13am
    - Ra Henare
      
      So the ICE agent becomes a millionare (no charges) for shooting an UNARMED women and then commenting Fucking bitch.
      
      It will be interesting to see the ICE agents physcological profile and history of poor decisions.
      
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      January 18, 2026 3:27pm
      - JerJer
        
        I don’t see the issue. If someone hit me with a car I would have said the same. We all saw her on the video, and I think the officers description was spot on.
        
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        January 18, 2026 5:44pm
      - Christopher Thomson
        
        It’s the woman’s wife who has become the millionaire. Currently stands at US$1.5 million.
        
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        January 18, 2026 6:38pm
      - Colville
        
        The shooter was a afghan vet, swat member and firearms instructor. Not the guy who goes off without cause.
        
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        January 18, 2026 8:01pm
  - Yvette
    
    President Trump and members of his administration have said that Renee Good, the woman killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, “weaponized her vehicle” against the agent who shot her — an interpretation they claim is confirmed by the agent’s cellphone video.
    “She didn’t try to run him over,” Mr. Trump said on the day of the shooting. “She ran him over.” […]
    
    In a video analysis, The Times focuses on some of the key contested moments of the agent’s cellphone video alongside other footage. More videos are likely to emerge, but the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots, Jonathan Ross, had been run over. The footage provides visibility into the positioning between the agent and Ms. Good’s S.U.V., and the key moments of escalation. It also establishes how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place [– subscription]
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html?searchResultPosition=2
    
    Regardless of what one thinks of the New York Times, it is not so much that the evidence here is in words but rather videos, including Ross’ own phone, time matched one video to others, which show Ross was not in a position where Good’s car could run him over.
    
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    January 18, 2026 11:19am
    - Jebahco
      
      An interesting view point from a body language analyst on the Renee Good’s shooting.
      It was a result of an unfortunate sequence of events, which sadly reflects how polarizing american politics have become.
      Form your own opinion.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvscj1Yny1w
      
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      January 18, 2026 3:44pm
- virtualmark
  
  “Give us Greenland or I will raise taxes on Americans who buy imported products”
  
  The man is a genius.
  
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  January 18, 2026 11:58am
- Ra Henare
  
  I asked Grok to summarise the know videos of the incident. As I dont have an x account I couldnt view the videos.
  
  For better or for worse.
  This is what, I am sure, will be the argument in the wrongful death court case.
  
  https://grok.com/c/96a56f42-c7a3-4715-9108-abe81ad79cca?rid=69f8c277-5c9e-43f9-a290-1b64bc1684a7
  
  I am a truth seeker. So open to any more facts.
  
  Of course it will not change the mind of the many non open minded commenters here.
  So be it.
  
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  January 18, 2026 3:24pm
- Gary Benner
  
  Ra,
  “I am convinced he has lost the plot with his God complex.”
  
  Have you not learned over the last year how Trump works? Greenland is critical for security in the new world order. China and Russia are already scoping out the territory – as China has already done down our way with live firing exercises in the Tasman Sea. Announcing an intention and using peaceful means to achieve that seem way better than how Putin managed his area of concern.
  
  Take a look at a non-mercator map of the region and you see just how critical it is. Doing nothing will allow hostile forces to take control. One has to admire the foresight here, as no previous or other US President has even discussed the issue with the public. And note how Trump manages these processes – right out in the open, no secret insurgency run by the CIA.
  
  And the ICE guy did not set out to be a millionaire, it was Renee Good’s actions that set the scene where people donated to his costs. He now is in hiding with his family, recovering for the documented injury. I’d lay a bet that he’d prefer not to have had the incident occur anyway as the true costs of managing the incident and emotional effects on his family may well be more. Anyway “millionaire” is not what it used to be anymore.
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:56pm
  - Ghost
    
    Greenland do not want to be taken over by the USA. Taiwan also do not want to be taken over by china. Two
    
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    January 18, 2026 5:29pm
  - Christopher Thomson
    
    As I mentioned above, it is the woman’s wife that has become a millionaire.
    
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    January 18, 2026 6:50pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The forestry industry wants to keep leaving their slash mess behind – effectively privatising the profits and socialising the costs.

The reality is that much of the topography of the East Coast is poorly suited for anything but native bush.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360925194/forestry-group-urges-government-remove-legal-accountability-slash
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January 18, 2026 8:47am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Mike McRoberts disses his mother’s pakeha culture through faint praise, and blames other people for his father’s refusal to pass on his Maori culture and language.

Sad, really.

http://www.1news.co.nz/2026/01/18/mike-mcroberts-i-felt-uninvited-to-my-own-cultural-party/
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January 18, 2026 8:53am
- pdm
  
  Bollocks.
  Par for the course from someone who has been taken in by the activists and enablers behind the scenes in all areas of Television in New Zealand.
  
  Even Damien Grant let us down in his opinion piece this morning with a reference to Aotearoa instead of our country’s correct name New Zealand.
  
  The epidemic continues to spread – far worse than Covid ever was.
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:09am
  - leoj
    
    It’s as if the maori culture is the only one in existance and we must all adhere to it.
    
    The takeover must stop. It’s past time to tell maori to get stuffed.
    
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    January 18, 2026 11:21am
    - Paulus
      
      In short time those of Indian ethnicity will let the Maori stuff themselves, which is why Maori are panicking to get as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
      Look at Fiji some 40 plus years ago.
      
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      January 18, 2026 2:17pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        I don’t want my country overrun and controlled by Indians. I’ve seen India.
        
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        January 18, 2026 9:29pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Lets just be thankful that Mike didn’t write the content of the autocue machine that he was paid an exorbitant amount of money to read aloud…
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:15am
- Flossie
  
  I read an excert from McRoberts’ book. I went to a small-to-medium sized primary school in the 1960s and I very clearly recall many lessons on Maori history. From the names and dates of the early explorers, to the names and landing places of the canoes in the great fleet. We learned of Maori cultivating and storing kumara, catching eels, cooking methods, how pas were built, and of weaving cloaks. We played stick games, made pois, and sang Maori songs. And heaps of other stuff, including counting to ten.
  
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  January 18, 2026 1:26pm
  - Mike
    
    Same here. But it was always about pre-contact Māori, nothing about the musket wars, introduced diseases of the conquests of Waikato and Taranaki etc.
    
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    January 18, 2026 1:54pm
    - Flossie
      
      McRoberts was bemoaning not being au fait with his “culture”, not the current whinges.
      
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      January 18, 2026 4:58pm
      - Mike
        
        It was a romanticized view of Māori life – models of pa, poi waving, a couple of songs, a Europeanized myth or two…
        
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        January 18, 2026 5:16pm
- Christopher Thomson
  
  He needs to answer which of the cultures made the greatest contributions to the world.
  
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  January 18, 2026 6:54pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

RIP to one of the greats.

Fantastic mo, too.

http://www.1news.co.nz/2026/01/17/former-all-black-grant-batty-dies-age-74/
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January 18, 2026 8:56am
- Mike
  
  He was so small his grandmother had to hand knit his first rugby jersey.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:41am
  - Jack5
    
    That’s nothing, Mike. This child was so small she was kept in a sandwich bag.🙃
    
    https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/premature-baby-born-the-size-of-a-bag-of-sugar/
    
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    January 18, 2026 11:53am
artemisia

BlackRock bails on $2b NZ climate fund

Less than three years later, BlackRock is walking away from its NZ climate fund.

Game changer? Lots of bigly talking up though.

“This is a game changer for the clean tech sector and another example of the pragmatic and practical steps the Government is taking to accelerate climate action while growing our economy,” then-Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said at the time, highlighting his government’s target of reaching 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/blackrock-bails-on-2b-nz-climate-fund/
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January 18, 2026 8:56am
- CJames
  
  Everyone is trying to memoryhole their pro climate change stances at present. Look at Germany suddenly deciding it needs to build lots of Gas Turbines in a hurry. Then there is all the firms like Blackrock and BP walking away from their “investments”. All those sceptics have been proven right.
  Amazing how Trump pulling out of IPCC has caused the stampede or was that just the final straw – elites fearing the wrath of populism. UK and Australia seem the last ones left. If the coalition win the next election here, I think the ETS will go.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:13am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Green ‘investment’ was only ever subsidy farming.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:40am
  - JerJer
    
    Yep. When you called it a scam a few years ago, it was a big problem. People would yell at you. Now they mostly accept it was a scam (except idiots like Swarbrick and co since it is their meal ticket), but they don’t want to admit their stupidity for believing in the first place.
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:16am
  - Master Mariner
    
    At sea and limited Internet, Have you seen Chancellor Mertz latest statement condemning shutting down Nuclear Power plants.
    Finally he can read the room //
    Too little , Too late.
    
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    January 18, 2026 4:08pm
- Boy Geoff
  
  Any comment from Chloe Swarbrick about BlackRock’s lack of green investment fortitude?
  
  Oh, that’s right, Chloe’s publicly stated that she understands neither environmentalism nor economics.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:17am
  - Taieri
    
    Chloe’s publicly stated that she understands neither environmentalism nor economics.
    ———-
    
    Or anything else…
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:44am
    - Jack5
      
      It’s Clueless Chloe, then. 🤢
      
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      January 18, 2026 11:55am
    - David Garrett
      
      Incredible isn’t it? The Green Party in 2025 bears little in common with the original party, or its form in 2010.
      
      Back then, although they still had the social activism, their primary focus was on the enviroment. I can’t remember who was who now, but one of them focused on forests, one on rivers, one on the ocean etc.
      
      This pack of communist clowns now has ONE “spokesperon for the environment”. In other words they no longer even pretend that the environment is their main concern.
      
      Surely there is room for a “real” green party, whose primary focus was the environment, as it once was. That would fragment the green vote nicely, and be excellent news for those of us on the right!
      
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      January 18, 2026 2:16pm
      - Mike
        
        Yes, it must be very disappointing for you, as such a notable environmentalist.
        
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        January 18, 2026 3:33pm
      - CJames
        
        He is probably a lot more environmentally minded than any of the Communist/ Democratic Socialist run countries that Chloe wants us to emulate.
        
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        January 18, 2026 6:00pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Another failure from Hipkins
  
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  January 18, 2026 11:01am
Tomtoddy

Apparently, this woman is a journalist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnj04idztaw
Masih Alinejad. She has some balls taking on the useless UN.

It seems that the uprising in Iran has been squashed by sheer force and tyranny. Sad that no one intervened, not even the US. Too many rockets ready to strike in retaliation?

The irony of the religion of peace having to gun its own defenceless people down on its streets to maintain its vicious control is not lost.
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January 18, 2026 9:20am
- AitchW
  
  One has to wonder why the UN is standing back and watching the atrocities.
  Having said that it does have a history of waiting till the shooting is over before riding in, flags waving.
  Remember East Timor?
  I despair of the incompetence, corruption, and ineptitude of the UN.
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:25am
  - Mike
    
    The East Timor abandoned by Australia, the US and NZ in 1975? The East Timor that voted for independence under a UN-organized referendum in 1999? The East Timor we sent our military to after the referendum to support that independence?
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:46am
    - Jack5
      
      As bad as the UN ceding western New Guinea to Indonesia in 1962-63?
      
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      January 18, 2026 11:58am
      - Mike
        
        Both awful.
        
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        January 18, 2026 1:56pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    In the mid 60’s I was in Famagusta on a ship and the Swedish UN troops were there on the walls to keep the peace.
    
    Shootings started and the Swedes pulled out and they sent in the British Tommies to sort it out!!!
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:49am
  - R
    
    The UN has been controlled by MARXIST despots since the 1970’s. You may recall the STRONG WORDS, from the UN when Russia invaded The CRIMEA….thought not, neither do I.
    Not a squeak of dissent from the world MSM either. Nor any condemnation from our Marxist Opposition either.
    
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    January 18, 2026 10:15am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  President of the Committee was Somalian!!!!
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:52am
- Rawhide
  
  Ms Alinejad is an Iranian living in exile in the U.S. She has been the target of two assassination attempts by Iranian agents on American soil. The Iranian plots against have been thwarted by U.S. law agencies. Some of the assassins have been tried and jailed. She has 24/7 police protection to protect her from the Islamic Republic. She is a brave and courageous woman.
  
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  January 18, 2026 1:39pm
Nikola Donatello

Where is the Green Party rally in Auckland this morning protesting against the murder of thousands of people in Iran?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglee733wno

Chloe is silent.
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January 18, 2026 10:01am
- JerJer
  
  She is trying to use Google to find out what Iran is. There will be a press conference in about a year when she is done.
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:18am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  What a pity that the Iranian was popped for shoplifting. It could have been her finest hour.
  
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  January 18, 2026 10:26am
cas

Has anyone had any donation receipts rejected by IRD because of the lack of a signature on them? I submitted some the other day and two were rejected for spurious reasons ( which I have challenged) including the lack of a signature. Other reasons included the lack of the name of the donor, the amount, and the date all of which which I thought were quite clear.
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January 18, 2026 11:02am
- jonno1
  
  Have never had a problem, but I do check that the rules are covered. Once, years ago, I requested a replacement receipt (before submission) where there was no signature, just name and title. The organisation complied.
  
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  January 18, 2026 2:27pm
- artemisia
  
  See IR1130-2021 on the IRD website. Sets out the receipt requirements incl signature.
  
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  January 18, 2026 2:41pm
  - cas
    
    Thanks. They’ve let them through previously without signatures.
    
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    January 18, 2026 3:49pm
- mandk
  
  Are you serious?
  
  Would you accept an expense claim at work, if it had no signature, no date, no amount and no indication of what it was for?
  
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  January 18, 2026 2:41pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

There is something seriously wrong with how nursing is organised in this country. We’re encouraging our young ones to take on a student loan to train, and then we don’t have work for them on graduation. Meanwhile, nursing is on the approved visa list, and we import them by the gross. On top of that, foreign nurses remit vast sums back to the home country – it’s an export strategy in the Philippines, for example.

I’m not decrying foreign nurses, all the ones I’ve met seem to be good at their jobs. I also appreciate that graduate anythings are not as useful as people with experience. But, the current strategy ain’t working.

You would think that, given the govt is the majority employer of nurses, workforce planning would be more straightforward than in most other areas of the economy.

My thought would be to cancel nursing degrees as the minimum entry requirement into the profession. Instead, we should return to the enrolled nurse model, with bursaried on-the-job training, nurses home accommodation, guaranteed job offers and a period of bonding.

Starting out working life with a job and without a student loan debt would mean that NZ nurses are less likely to need to head to Aus for financial reasons.
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January 18, 2026 11:20am
- Sir Henry Morgan
  
  Indeed. You’d think this would be common sense, the type of stuff we fund a government to handle. But nope.
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:09pm
- AitchW
  
  Recent graduates in all sorts of professions bugger off overseas to earn some coin, indulge in the fleshpots and experience the wide world before coming home more experienced, wiser, and better at their jobs. We should encourage it!
  
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  January 18, 2026 9:08pm
mogg

KJK and the Darlington Nurses have just had another victory, the court has ruled that NHS UK must provide separate & safe spaces for women; this means that trans men are no longer allowed access to nurses change and shower facilities.
This ruling will apply to all employers not just NHS, so in future transgressions will mean big fines and compensation.
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January 18, 2026 11:48am
- Colville
  
  So three sets of changing areas now? Can you imagine the cost of retrofitting old buildings?
  
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  January 18, 2026 3:53pm
Jack5

Gold! Gold! Is it time to head for the diggings?.

The latest gold price on Comex, the world’s biggest exchange, is $US4601.10. That’s a tad over $NZ8000 an ounce.

Trump’s pressure to lower the US dollar is pushing up gold’s price.

Silver, too. Right now it seems to be holding over $US90 an ounce (about $NZ156,50).
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January 18, 2026 12:42pm
Yvette

President Trump announced he is slapping new tariffs on a bloc of European nations until they come to the negotiating table to sell Greenland.

1 – how much is Greenland worth if you buy it?
2 – why does President Trump not end the Ukraine / Russia war by buying which ever is cheaper – Ukraine should be a bargain rate as Russia has wrecked quite a lot of it, and could it cost less than Greenland, which would not then be needed?
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January 18, 2026 12:44pm
- Mike
  
  Can we put Huntly and Levin up for sale?
  
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  January 18, 2026 1:59pm
  - Ghost
    
    Sure, but who would want to buy either?
    
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    January 18, 2026 2:12pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Harsh!
      
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      January 18, 2026 3:52pm
    - Colville
      
      Levin is a suburb of Wellington now Transmission Gully is open.
      
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      January 18, 2026 3:55pm
      - Mike
        
        Levin is as much a suburb of Wellington as Huntly is of Auckland.
        
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        January 18, 2026 5:31pm
      - Colville
        
        Really Mike? How many thousand sites are up for resource consent in Huntly?
        
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        January 18, 2026 6:48pm
- Master Mariner
  
  An interesting point,
  Blackrock was waiting in the wings AFTER a Ukrainian Victory.
  Why buy a company when you can own a Country at a Discount,
  Interesting side note , Is how much has this contributed to Death and Destruction in Ukraine ?
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:17pm
Colville

Nothing says Hawke’s Bay summer like lighting the log fire in the middle of January!
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January 18, 2026 12:45pm
Hollyfield

For those of you watching Tousi TV, you may be interested in this interview of Mahyar Tousi by Winston Marshall. He talks about the situation of his father in Tehran.
Winston Marshall was a banjo player in Mumford & Sons, caused an outcry when he placed a like on a book “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy”, and had to leave the band. He now does political podcasts.
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January 18, 2026 12:59pm
- Master Mariner
  
  He has some very interesting Interviewee’s.
  My favourite was The Deutch Bank Sustainability CEO.
  About Net Zero, ESG, DEI and Banking.
  Eye opening.
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:20pm
- MCōs
  
  Some might say that’s not an entirely accurate account of the circumstances around his departure from the band
  
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  January 18, 2026 8:26pm
Master Mariner

Kerry Packer once Famously said “Once in a life time does an Alan Bond come along” ( Words to that effect), Basically meaning a Deal of your Lifetime when he sold a TV Station in Oz for a fortune only to buy back for peanuts etc.
So with this in mind, What was the deal for NZ foreign owned Data Centres for Electricity ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/trump-wants-tech-companies-to-foot-the-bill-for-new-power-plants-because-of-ai.html

Whether you like him or not it is very hard to disagree with him.

“The price to secure power capacity in PJM has exploded in recent years with $23 billion attributable to data centers, according to watchdog Monitoring Analytics. Those costs are passed down to consumers. This amounts to a “massive wealth transfer,” the watchdog told PJM in a November letter.”

Not only pay for there own Power but also Pay to upgrade the Grid, Why should ordinary Americans subsidise Big Tech.

So, What was NZ secret Deal to supply “Green” power to the Data Centers in NZ and how much are we paying for it when it is near collapsing the Grid ??

The annointed one and her secret Deals , Black rock anyone ? Incidently Blackrock have finished with there 2 Billion “Green” fund in NZ. Solar Zero broke / What a shit show //
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January 18, 2026 1:09pm
- rouppe
  
  Microsoft has signed a 10 year deal to be supplied with all the electricity produced by the recently commissioned Contact Energy Te Huka 3 geothermal power station.
  
  So it is happening here
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:32pm
- Ghost
  
  one of the issues overseas with the datacenters is their huge consumption of water for cooling. its not just the grid that will be a worry
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:37pm
  - CJames
    
    That isn’t correct. They take a lot of water when filling the system, but after then, the cooling towers only need topping up to match the evaporation or when they are down for an extended period and drain the system down.
    
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    January 18, 2026 6:03pm
Yvette

14 January
Manage My Health admitted some people it told had been affected by the hack, had not.
Two weeks after the breach was first reported, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was yet to make any public statement about the matter.

Is this from RNZ the latest and possibly the last of the Manage My Health hack
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January 18, 2026 1:50pm
- Ghost
  
  what is the PM meant to say? Minister of health has commented and ordered a review. That is the correct person to be speaking up on this, not the PM
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:20pm
  - AitchW
    
    Luxon allows his ministers to front foot this stuff. Unlike Ardern and Hipkins who yapped at every passing car.
    
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    January 18, 2026 9:59pm
Paulus

Didn’t realise that the hacked Medical Records Company was a Government Department.
Thought it was private !
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January 18, 2026 2:22pm
- kowtow
  
  I wonder where they stand on the fact that the law requires them to keep people’s data safe .
  
  Prosecutions pending. Nah ,that’s just for the Plebs.
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:13pm
- Master Mariner
  
  Maybe it should never of been privatised in the first place.
  Whats next Jails ?
  NZ privatising the wrong things under “New age Group think”.
  Marsden Pt being high on the list after been run down during privatisation. Same as NZ Ferries and Toll prior.
  The list keeps on giving.
  
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  January 18, 2026 4:44pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360926152/cyclist-flown-hospital-serious-injuries-after-tauranga-crash
This is now the best Stuff can do: some twit falls off a bike, and it is National News !
I fell off my bike many times when I was a kid and nobody cuddled me !
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