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I thought CNN was trying to get a bit more objective, trying to take the middle ground rather than be on the left side of every issue? They hired Scott Jennings who just by himself is a reason to watch CNN.

But no, CNN reveals their true colours when they report on two men who travel to New York city to throw two home made bombs at people protesting against the New York city mayor.

Here’s how CNN framed it:
“Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather,” the CNN account wrote on X. “But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

https://freebeacon.com/media/whoopsie-cnn-accidentally-sympathizes-with-terrorists/

Just two crazy kids enjoying the weather who somehow found themselves throwing two bombs at protestors? Somehow they just got caught up in it? It could happen to anyone, right?

CNN did amend the article, somewhat, after some much needed criticism:

“Two Pennsylvania men on Saturday followed the route taken by thousands as they crossed the George Washington Bridge into New York City,” the updated article read. “But less than an hour later, their trajectory took a dark turn as they were arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home.”

But still the passive voice. Somehow these men found themselves tossing homemade bombs, somehow things took a dark turn, who can explain it?

Things become clearer when we find out about the lead author of the article:

” It will surprise no one to learn that the story’s lead author is a Los Angeles-based they/them who attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a degree in gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley.”

Of course they do. 🤔
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March 12, 2026 8:08am
- R
  
  It wasn’t the ideologically educated youths fault; IT was the voice in their heads. An old excuse revived! from yesteryear
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:44am
- peterwn
  
  So a misunderstood guy came to Christchurch several years ago to enjoy the nice weather and somehow got arrested by a couple of rural cops.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:42am
- Raphael
  
  It will be interesting to see what happens with Paramount buying Warner Bros.
  
  The Ellisons already sorted out CBS by unleashing Barry Weiss onto them (who is doing some outstanding work, the latest an expose on hospice fraud in L.A. https://x.com/bariweiss/status/2031435977298682113 which already had Newson trying to silence Dr. oz when he raised it a month or so ago)
  
  Will they do the same with CNN once they have control?
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:57am
imalwaysright

Watties to close three plants.

Growth, growth, growth…
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March 12, 2026 8:11am
- NothingLeft
  
  Been a terrible year for Arable farming in Canterbury due to cold wet weather and hail. Lots of farms going out of business – being sold on to dairy farmers, so likely a less frozen and canned vege production down there.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:53am
  - Local Miller
    
    It doesn’t make sense that after one bad year farms are going out of business. Farms typically have cycles of good and bad years, and if they are holding over profits from the good years to support the bad, then one year shouldn’t be an issue. It’s a different thing if there have been several bad years in close succession.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:27am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Canterbury dairy is earning ~50% more than arable now even in a good year. but on top of that it’s been a terrible year for Arable just further speeding the conversion to dairy, which I guess is good for NZ in higher export receipts. But supermarket vege prices will be rising due to lack of supply.
      
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      March 12, 2026 2:51pm
      - Jack5
        
        Not everyone’s optimistic about dairy prices:
        
        https://www.financialcontent.com/article/marketminute-2025-12-9-dairy-market-braces-for-a-tsunami-of-milk-in-2026-rising-production-and-price-pressures-reshape-the-landscape
        
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        March 12, 2026 7:42pm
- Don Beckett
  
  I wonder if it would be worth the growers – according to Te News , there are a thousand or so of them – to form a co-operative & take over th operation ?
  I guess it depends on the bottom line, but it is rather a tragedy that we are losing so much of our manufacturing base in the agricultural sector. Where are the growers going to sell their produce?
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:21am
  - peterwn
    
    People will buy the cheapest. The landed price of overseas tinned products is probably significantly less than the ex factory price of local product.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:46am
    - Jack5
      
      If Labour backs National and ACT on the proposed free trade agreement with India, stand by for more cheap food imports.
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:40am
    - Flossie
      
      I’m afraid I’m guilty of buying the cheapest. As an example, this week a certain butcher is charging $16.99 /Kg for NZ beef mince – and that’s a special and NOT Prime Mince (that’s even dearer). Right next to this in the cabinet is Australian beef mince at $14/Kg. How is it possible to import meat cheaper than NZ can supply our own? I would prefer to support local farmers but on a pension it all adds up,
      
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      March 12, 2026 1:44pm
      - Gulag1917
        
        NZ beef will be higher quality.
        
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        March 12, 2026 3:52pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        “NZ beef will be higher quality.”
        
        Are you sure of that?
        
        You should go to the weekly sales sometime and see the animals that are being sold.
        
        The rank, manky stuff is going to mince.
        
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        March 12, 2026 9:50pm
- Wairoa Native
  
  Not a great result. The loss of local food processing and jobs (about 350 in this case) in New Zealand is mostly driven by globalisation and free trade deals, which allow cheap processed foods from countries like China, Thailand, and Vietnam to compete with local factories. While we can export raw produce more easily under these trade deals, the counterpoint is that the same agreements make it easier for processed imported foods to enter our market at lower cost, putting pressure on local processing. A bit of a catch 22 for us.
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:16am
- Paulus
  
  But New Zealand does not own Watties – it is an Aussie is it not ?
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:53am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Yank
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:34pm
  - Wairoa Native
    
    Apparently it is now owned by the Kraft Heinz Company, a “U.S.‑based multinational food and beverage corporation”. Bought by Heinz way back in 1992 from from Goodman Fielder who merged with Wattie’s back in 1987.
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:36pm
  - Jack5
    
    No, Paulus. Wattie’s isn’t/wasn’t Aussie. The origin is Hawkes Bay, NZ.
    
    In the mid-1930s, still in Depression hard times, James Wattie, manager of Hawkes Bay Fruitgtrowers, and Harold Carr, a young local accountant formed a syndicate, borrowed through bonds to local businesseople, and started a canning fatory in an old cottage. Next year, the firm, J. Wattie Canneries, had a new factory, and grew until it dominated the NZ market in the 1950s, and in the 1960s was exporting. It expanded in Australia as well as in NZ.
    
    In 1972, when the firm was Wattie Industries, James Wattie retired. He was also well known for his racehorses. Even Stevens won the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in 1982.
    
    Heinz, of America, bought Wattie’s in 1962, for, AI Duck tells me, about $565 million.
    
    Heinz was enveloped into Kraft Heinz, since split into new entities. A dominant investor in Kraft Heinz was legendary investment company Berkshire Hathaway.
    
    The Americans owned Wattie’s through J. Heinz Company (New Zealand), which reported a bottom line loss for 2024 of $187.866 million, compared with a loss of $51.883m the previous year.
    
    The pre-tax loss for 2024 was $218.5 million (2023:$70.2m). This was after writing off assets of $210.5m. including intangibles (perhaps brand values) of $117.6m, property, plant and equipment $83.5m, and right-of-use assets $9.3m.
    
    Sales for 2024 were $742.7m, compared with $739.3mn the previous year. Cost of sales were $639.8m, compared with $682.9m in 2023.
    
    Net operational cash flow for 2024 was a deficit of $6.4m, compared with a surplus of $42.9m in 2023. A fall in payments to growers and staff was outpaced by a fall in cash from customers.
    
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    March 12, 2026 1:07pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    American….
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Heinz
    
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    March 12, 2026 1:25pm
- ISeeRed
  
  Slowly our industries are being outsourced, our population replaced, our freedoms eroded. But we’re white supremacists if we notice. And a Luxon hater.
  
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  March 12, 2026 2:20pm
- NothingLeft
  
  It’s not the end of the world, Dairy is taking over that land, still employing people and is earning a lot more export dollars than veges.
  
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  March 12, 2026 2:54pm
  - Sacha
    
    Maybe the Farmers’ Markets will come back.
    Local produce, garden fresh.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:03pm
artemisia

Primary teachers’ union angry over government offering individual pay rises There is talk of the union taking legal action. Could the primary teachers union win this court case? Looking in from the outside, it does seem unlikely that employers will not be permitted to make a pay offer to employees on individual contracts. However, the TEU lodged a similar case in December, I think still ongoing. If found in favour of that union that would be an interesting and potentially far-reaching precedent. And particularly interesting to the primary teachers union, and perhaps even more so to the non union members offered a pay rise from next week.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/589281/primary-teachers-union-angry-over-government-offering-individual-pay-rises
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March 12, 2026 8:12am
- sungsamning
  
  Six munths ago, I couldn’t even spell teecher. Now, I are one.
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:21am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Well said!
    Very amusing but sadly, you are probably close to the truth
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:45am
    - sungsamning
      
      Back in the day (1966) my primary school teachers all dressed like professionals with self respect, and degrees. they had plenty of public respect too. Now most of them look they are on the way to the gym. Now, not so much.
      
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      March 12, 2026 12:12pm
      - fightingtemeraire
        
        Look at the teachers on crossing patrol at Aberdeen Rd School in Hamilton.
        
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        March 12, 2026 12:34pm
- AitchW
  
  Master stroke by Sir Brian Roche.
  How many union members who really don’t give a hoot about “giving effect to the Treaty” will now cancel their membership?
  How many union thugs will be sent into staffrooms to stop them leaving the union?
  Well done Sir Brian!!!
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:20am
Reg Perrin

Beach Hop is due to start in 2 weeks. With all of the focus being on Fuel stocks, its not going to be a good look with a Couple of Thousand Gas guzzlers, driving around in circles for a week.
It will be an easy target for a media pile on if prices continue to rise and fuel stocks start coming under pressure
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March 12, 2026 8:18am
- Don Beckett
  
  It’s entirely up to the owners of the vehicles. There are no laws being broken, so the last thing we need is govt. or someone deciding that we should be stopped – it’s about a thing called FREEDOM.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:24am
  - Reg Perrin
    
    Not saying it shouldn’t go ahead and is something i will be attending, but seeing as the MSM are predominantly left and sympathetic to Green causes it is an easy target if fuel shortages start becoming an issue
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:35am
    - AitchW
      
      Chloe will be outraged no doubt.
      Maikai Sherman will chase the PM through Wellington airport demanding to know why he hasn’t cancelled it.
      Chris Hipkins will ask Helen Clarke to comment on it.
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:40am
      - Reg Perrin
        
        And Chris Luxon won’t be able to answer whether he supports it or not
        
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        March 12, 2026 1:18pm
sungsamning

The origin of this issue goes back to 2021 and the relaunch of the Build Back Better European green energy program to fight the non-existent climate change problem. We have been highlighting the consequences within the EU auto sector. [The climate change scam sure isn’t doing them any good. No doubt Chinese vehicle manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. Then there’s the war on ICE cars.]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/10/volkswagen-loses-half-their-profit-now-plan-to-cut-50000-jobs-over-next-four-years/
Volkswagen Loses Half Their Profit, Now Plan to Cut 50,000 Jobs Over Next Four Years.
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March 12, 2026 8:20am
sungsamning

Lloyd’s of London reversed its suspension of tanker insurance in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump moved on three fronts: the U.S. Development Finance Corporation offered political risk insurance, the Navy was put on notice to protect shipping, and Trump eased sanctions on Russian oil while speaking with President Putin. [Will the UK do anything about Khameni juniors property empire in London? Will mark Carney ‘rescue’ the rules based order? How about the Mullahs funds in the Isle of Mann? This isn’t a Bush-Obama war.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_S2yfSfUBY
Trump Breaks the UK’s Middle East Shipping Empire.
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March 12, 2026 8:20am
- Jack5
  
  It’s too early to relax about Hormuz. Oil, gas, fertiliser …
  
  It’s ABC, but very interesting:
  
  https://abcnews.com/video/130972628/
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:45am
  - sungsamning
    
    Agreed; it ain’t over until its over. However this isn’t Bush/Obama leadership with dumb ideas about nation building, and no idea of what success will look like. Let alone an exit strategy. And the demonstrations against the regime were organic, and nation wide. Not astroturf.
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:16pm
    - Taieri
      
      Let alone an exit strategy.
      ————-
      
      So, what’s the exit strategy for this one then?
      
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      March 12, 2026 1:04pm
      - David Garrett
        
        Taieri: Excellent question…and Trump not only doesn’t know the answer, he doesn’t understand the question… “Exit strategy? It’s a hoax…OK?”
        
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        March 12, 2026 3:35pm
- Ross Bayer
  
  oh get real this is not in any way a true representation of the situation
  
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  March 12, 2026 1:55pm
kowtow

Labour Spin Doctor Dept aka the msm continue their relentless attack on Luxon , now his holiday diary was empty.

There you have it , the guy’s not entitled to a holiday .
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March 12, 2026 8:26am
- AitchW
  
  Funnily enough he probably did more work at his desk in that time than he would do in 3 months of photo ops….
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:21am
- Groggy
  
  you mean the same guy that publicly opined we shouldn’t be allowed so many holidays. Hypocritical much?
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:54am
  - AitchW
    
    Do you think all he does is wander round the country looking for photo ops?
    Do you think perhaps he might have been at his desk for a couple of weeks?
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:42am
    - Groggy
      
      well he certainly wasn’t brushing up on his communication skills.
      
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      March 12, 2026 4:36pm
- RoboRob
  
  Haven’t seen the reports but the issue is that he put himself in this position. There were a series of interviews with polis and they were all asked about their holiday plans. Seymour and Winston talked about taking a break before the big election year and where they might go. So did the left wing MPs. Luxon tried to ‘man up’ and was talking about being stright back to the office.
  
  It was a stupid story to spin and I called him out here at the time. Clearly the media weren’t fooled and are now coming with the receipts. If only he had just been normal and talked about spending time with family and friends.
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:27am
  - Ghost
    
    be honest and there is no story. get caught not being honest and apparently it’s the media to blame.
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:27pm
    - RoboRob
      
      My point exactly!
      
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      March 12, 2026 1:09pm
- sungsamning
  
  Reason number 958 to shut down RNZ and TVNZs ‘news and current affairs’.
  
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  March 12, 2026 12:17pm
  - Ghost
    
    shut down rnz and tvnz for an article on stuff?
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:26pm
kowtow

De industrialisation continues apace.

The drive for net zero now means no veggies.
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March 12, 2026 8:28am
- Jack5
  
  Kowtow’s talking about Kraft Heinz Wattie’s closing its frozen vegetable factory in Christchurch and coffee factory in Dunedin.
  
  Jobs lost: 350. Contracts with growers affected: 220.
  
  More competition as the way to bring down supermarket food prices? Yeah.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:53am
  - Burtland
    
    Why are these large NZ organizations so bad at consumer products when outfits like Duck Island ice cream has a 50m cue outside their shop at 9pm
    
    Cant sell coffee in a growing coffee market – Greggs coffee wont be missed – crap management, crap product.
    
    Fonterra are much the same – couldnt sell Inuit pies to Inuits- but were smart enough to get out.
    
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    March 12, 2026 1:06pm
  - Flossie
    
    What would you do about it if you were the Government?
    
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    March 12, 2026 1:49pm
    - keepcalmcarryon
      
      Rename the factories in te reo.
      
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      March 12, 2026 2:24pm
      - R
        
        That would probably improve the bottom line; particularly if there were KFC handouts!
        
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        March 12, 2026 3:16pm
- Wairoa Native
  
  From a cost perspective, it can be cheaper for a multinational like Kraft Heinz to import processed products from their own lower-cost production sites overseas rather than process New Zealand-grown food locally. We have relatively high labour, energy and other overhead costs, our smaller market makes it harder to achieve economies of scale that larger global factories have.
  
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  March 12, 2026 2:26pm
  - Jack5
    
    In 2024, the latest figures I could find, New Zealand exported $275 million worth of vegetables.
    
    https://unitedfresh.co.nz/assets/site/Vegetable_Industry_Values_2024.pdf
    
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    March 12, 2026 5:49pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Last 10 years …
      https://chatgpt.com/share/69b25af6-5958-800d-9404-f614f22badba
      
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      March 12, 2026 7:21pm
Gravelroad

I heard a teacher union man on talkback the other week.
Sounded like a school kid himself. Liam.
It was obvious that the union is expecting and promoting a more comfortable government for themselves coming up.
And are cynically dragging their heals on every and any current government reforms in the meantime.
Kept moaning about pace of curriculum change forced on teachers and they can’t possibly do it without a lot more money and help.
Poor things.
Can’t cope with change.
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March 12, 2026 8:39am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  They can no doubt easily handle changes in the opposite direction – those that reduce real teaching and expand Maori nonsense.
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:51am
- sungsamning
  
  I understand that a lot of policy areas are covered by several different departments. So, the ministers all tend to think the other guy will fix it. and the swamp exploit it to the hilt.
  
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  March 12, 2026 12:19pm
lastmanstanding

Looks like Starmers a gonna in the UK. Papers released showed he was warned not to appoint Mandy as US Ambassador. Pity the citizens. UK is the reason for us retaining 3 year terms. They have to wait 5 years when they elect a dud Government.
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March 12, 2026 8:43am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Starmer has been a dead man walking for ages. Who will replace him?? Red Ed, Red Angela, Lammy???
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:51am
  - mogg
    
    They know they are on course for a sound thrashing in the May local elections, after losing many of their stronghold seats Starmer will go. Their paymaster unions will want Rayner and she will be another incompetent. It would be great to see Lammy takeover just to highlight how ridiculously out of touch Westminster has become, the British public just despise the whole lot of them.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:11am
    - Paulus
      
      The greatest shock in the May local elections will be the huge increase of Muslim members as they all vote one way.
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:57am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  The more the pain they feel, the more likely they are to learn.
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:51am
  - Phronesis
    
    They still won’t learn though. NZ is probably going to reelect a government that literally shut the country down a few years ago. Inconceivably stupid but not unlikely.
    
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    March 12, 2026 9:53am
  - gravedodger
    
    Nah it will all be someone else’s fault, Starmer’s public employment pre history is sure catching him out.
    His life was formed in the Blair years so the dopy idjit went to a many times failed Blairite, Mandelson for his US ambassador and boy oh boy is that savaging him as he ignored all advice not to go there.
    Did not even have the Cojones to front the House when the exposure went out, sending a no name nobody to his scheduled executiion.
    What a total cluster.
    
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    March 12, 2026 1:01pm
- MCōs
  
  One dud government after another over there. Or more precisely one dud PM after another
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:03am
- NothingLeft
  
  He’s clearly incapable of shame or admission of screwing up and he’s a Fabian zealot for whom anything that furthers the revolution is permissible. He’ll only be replaced if he’s pushed.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:14am
- imalwaysright
  
  Starmer’s allegiance is to the EU, his job is to bring the UK to its knees so that they beg to return to the EU.
  
  There are other European countries who want to leave the EU, but they are seeing what happens if they do.
  
  The EU is the Fifth Reich.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:41am
  - Paulus
    
    The Fourth Reich was led by an Austrian man remember, the Fifth a German woman.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:59am
- sungsamning
  
  His successor won’t be any better. Just another uni party duffer owned and operated by the city.
  
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  March 12, 2026 12:21pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  He’s not a goner yet because there’s no replacement ready. Rayner is still praying the taxman clears her for her housing larceny, Streeting is compromised by his Mandy links, Burnham got blocked from trying for a seat in the Commons, Miliband (or someone around him) for some reason realise he’s only popular in his own kitchen, Lammy is too thick to know there’s a sniff of power, Yvette Cooper-Balls probably doesn’t even like herself so knows she has no chance of winning a party vote. And I’m not sure any of them will have advanced enough by the time of the May bloodbath.
  
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  March 13, 2026 2:11am
Yvette

Disgraceful dropping of the Te Papa vandalism case – Peter Williams

From an Official Information Act (OIA) Request – Te Tiriti exhibit
• We have accepted the protest action in good faith and not “covered it up”
• The defaced panels are not a designed experience for our visitors such as we would normally
provide. This makes it hard for our FOH kaimahi to manage and support questions. We have safety
and wellbeing concerns for our kaimahi over the busy summer period should the panels not be
removed
• Security monitoring shows the risk of retaliatory actions (e.g. damage to other parts of the exhibition,
taonga Māori) that we believe will be exacerbated by the extended presence of the defaced panels. [1]

Any exhibit resulting in safety and wellbeing concerns should have immediately been removed from display.

It was not, as Peter Williams writes, “an art installation”, but rather a “political history record”, attacked for political reasons, and probably left on display for further political reasons.

Since there is clear evidence of the perpetrator vandalizing Te Papa property which has had financial costs, is it for yet more political reasons that the Crown has dismissed charges – and does that not encourage similar criminal actions?
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[1] https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/assets/76067/1718078675-response-to-oia-request-removal-of-treaty-display-combined-7-jun-2024.pdf?
kaimahi – worker, employee, staff member
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March 12, 2026 8:54am
- pdm
  
  Yvette – Peter Williams last sentence is telling.
  
  “I’m embarrassed to live in such a corrupt country.”
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It pays to have the right connections…..
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:39am
- R
  
  Clearly there is still a large number of ideologically deluded activists to be removed from public appointments, both in the public service, and city councils.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:49am
- Swifty
  
  It’s not in the public interest to denounce the vandalism of public property, for political reasons, through the transparent prosecution of those involved in it?
  
  Right, got it.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:58am
cmm (semi-retired edition)

I have some mixed feelings on this…

A grandmother of a child that was killed by a dog is supporting the dog owner.

On the one side, I can understand that in a small community they are probably all friends with visious dogs roaming around and a dog killing a child is seen as an accident and not to be taken personally.

On the other, if people don’t make a stand these problem dogs won’t be sorted out.

Perhaps that’s what they are really trying to avoid. Cleaning up the dog problem won’t make anyone any friends in a community like that.

So, as always, we just go park the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/katikati-fatal-dog-attack-grandmother-of-victim-backs-accused-dog-owner/VOWQO46AZRGJBD3SNEQOHWVWZA/
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March 12, 2026 9:01am
- kowtow
  
  The state licences dogs.
  
  The state has basically stepped back and allowed mayhem.
  
  Broken windows and all that.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:15am
  - Phronesis
    
    I think we should consider dog ownership in the same category as firearms ownership. I keep my guns locked in a large safe. I take them out for a walk now and then and exercise them a bit. They seem to enjoy it, I know I do. They are under my control at all times and I am entirely responsible for any consequences that might ensue.
    Now imagine if my guns had a habit of popping over to the neighbours on their own and injuring a few people. Would anyone be allowed to own a firearm if that was how they behaved?
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:00am
    - kowtow
      
      Yep and given the state licenses these matters they ( in their various guises) could declare that dog or indeed car or drone or any other thing they license for that matter ,that ownership is a privelige , not a right.
      
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      March 12, 2026 1:50pm
  - Hugh Jarse
    
    No the state does not licence dogs, central government develops and introduces the Animal Control Act, under that Act local government is given the responsibility for regulating dogs including prosecutions where necessary. They get the licence fees to administer the Act, employ dog rangers etc. Above all though owners are responsible for making sure their dogs are under proper care and control and don’t bite or kill anyone. Start pointing the finger at owners and then the local bodies. If the local bodies feel they haven’t got the legislative tools to deal with dogs they should be approaching central government outlining what’s needed. Then it’s a central government problem.
    
    I suspect a lot of councils in some parts of the country are intimidated by gang member and feral owners and the staff are too scared to do their jobs, hence the rise in killings by dog.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:21am
    - R
      
      Basically, the gangs are still trying to control society. Unfortunately a large segment of voters, including MSM agenda, are wanting to return to a third world status society; judging by published ‘polling'(?) data.
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:33am
    - kowtow
      
      Local councils are very much a part of the state .
      
      The courts to which dog owners on the rare occasions they are prosecuted are part of the state .
      
      The act is an act of parliament , part of the state .
      
      ACC which pays out millions of our $ per annum for dog attacks is part of the state
      
      yes dog owners are immediately responsible , but once the state sits back , as it does and the message goes out about bugger all enforcing its own laws and licensing responsibilities ( broken windows) then the state is responsible for allowing what is now approaching anarchy , in relation to dogs .
      
      From small things like shit on the pavements or worse all over children’s sports grounds right up to frequent serious attakks and now increasing fatal attacks .
      
      This is New Zealand . No one should be savaged to death by dogs.Ever.
      
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      March 12, 2026 12:46pm
    - Simon
      
      “I suspect a lot of councils in some parts of the country are intimidated by gang member and feral owners and the staff are too scared to do their jobs, hence the rise in killings by dog.”
      
      I also suspect this. Especially in gang controlled rural towns across the North Island. Now even in parts of Auckland, controlled by gangs. If you know you know.
      
      Come to kiwiblog where so many operate in a fantasy world.
      
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      March 12, 2026 2:48pm
  - AitchW
    
    Local councils register dogs.
    In some cases the property is inspected for fencing.
    Not sure if local councils are “the state”.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:44am
greybeard

New World, Waikanae.
Pam’s canned apricots 410g , 60% fruit, $1.79
Watties canned apricots 410g , 59% fruit, $2.99 club price, $3.49 normal price
Not hard to see why buyers avoid Watties if all of their products have such a price difference.
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March 12, 2026 9:17am
- artemisia
  
  Shocked. Seems to be everyone in the industry is shocked.
  
  Heinz Watties have made serious losses over the last few years.
  
  Lalalala 3 Monkeys?
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:25am
  - Don Beckett
    
    If these are cheap imports from China, surely anti-dumping laws come into effect.
    I wouldn’t touch anything from China at the moment.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:32am
- MCōs
  
  Pam’s apricots come from South Africa.
  They may be cheaper to grow, can and ship over here than Watties or they may be undercutting Watties to put them out of business.
  In the good old days home grown apricots may have been protected as I believe bananas are in Queensland.
  
  Personally I’m no great fan of anything in cans. I like stuff right off the tree
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:30am
  - MCōs
    
    Those soup concoctions in cans give me the creeps
    
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    March 12, 2026 9:39am
    - Don Beckett
      
      ………….give you the creeps – or the craps ? 🙂
      
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      March 12, 2026 5:12pm
  - Yvette
    
    Mcós, despite Watties claiming to select ‘Pick of the Crop’, their cans also carry MADE IN SOUTH AFRICA on the label.
    https://smartfox.co.nz/products/watties-apricots-halves-in-clear-juice?
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    March 12, 2026 9:41am
    - MCōs
      
      And China!
      It seems since Heinz got involved back in the nineties things have changed
      
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      March 12, 2026 10:05am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    ” or they may be undercutting Watties to put them out of business.”
    
    I doubt they really care about a teeny-tiny NZ brand like Watties. It is a tiny competitor to them. Watties in or out of business means nothing.
    
    Watties on the label does not necessarily mean there are NZ fruit inside. Watties import foreign canned fruit too, so they are more a customer than a competitor.
    
    The SA fruit canners certainly operate cheaper than NZ canners but they also do canning for dozens of international brands – including Watties and Pams. NZ brands will be tiny alongside huge brands in UK etc.
    
    All Pams has to do is email them a label graphic and an order and a few months a shipment of cans arrive. Job done. No pesky NZ unions and growers to deal with. Product is half the price.
    
    Pams etc shop around. This year it is apricots from South Africa and peaches from China. Next year it might be the other way around.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:42am
  - R
    
    South Africa doesn’t have such a irresponsible minimum wage, and generous welfare system; that the motivated employees in NZ TAXED to support. Hence a lower product cost.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:35am
  - AitchW
    
    With a minimum wage approaching $25 here I’d bet my right arm that the South African ones are a whole lot cheaper to land in NZ.
    The freight from SA to here would be a few cents per can.
    I guess it’s a fact of life now that mass manufacture of some foodstuff here is just prohibitively expensive. Maybe if the cannery was in the middle of a huge orchard and the fruit was harvested by Watties and taken straight to the cannery it mugh be cheaper, and if the factory was predominantly robot labour it would be cheaper still.
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:49am
- David Garrett
  
  Grey: to be fair Watties are much better quality…I haul ten cans of them up here every time I return from NZ
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:47am
  - R
    
    The economic perception with NZ citizens is that quantity is much more important than quality. Just listen to trade union spokespeople daily
    
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    March 12, 2026 9:52am
- Damocles11
  
  Yeah, well that’s the cost of making and doing stuff in NZ. Another iconic NZ brand will invariably fall over and eventually we’ll be eating veges from China. Nothing to celebrate in all this, the hollowing out of the New Zealand economy continues. GDP per capita will continue to fall while we import more Uber drivers and construct tens of thousands of ugly shoeboxes for people to live in.
  
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  March 12, 2026 9:59am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Agriculture is getting more and more automated, something that will only accelerate with AI so wages are becoming less and less a factor. It’s competition with higher earning products (especially dairy) that is driving NZ arable farming under.
    
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    March 12, 2026 2:59pm
- Reg Perrin
  
  CEO of Watties was on ZB this morning blaming increased Gas, Power costs as the main reason for the closures.
  I would expect more industries that are heavy Gas users to close as they become uneconomical
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:15am
- Southern Raider
  
  Try Woolworths Creamed Corn vs Watties. It’s night and day difference.
  
  Woolworths is cheaper but it’s rubbish. It’s only about 20% actual corn and the rest is all filler.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:35am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘t’s only about 20% actual corn’
    
    Look on the bright side .
    
    Your bowels will be forever grateful.
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:50pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Watch Pam’s and Woolworths now put their own brand prices up
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:37am
- Paulus
  
  Are not quite a lot of Watties tinned stuff cheap of overseas origin – eg Peaches from China ?
  
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  March 12, 2026 12:03pm
- wsk12345
  
  Yeah but there are apricots and apricots. If I ate canned ones I’d buy both and try them then pick the tastier ones. Apricots can be very bland.
  
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  March 12, 2026 5:28pm
Swifty

One of the reasons I’m extremely cynical about ‘by Maori, for Maori’ politics and Maori politics generally is the total absence of discussions of achievements or outcomes.

While I’ve heard or read talk of pouring money or ‘resources’, the frequently-used diversionary euphemism for our cash, into Maori initiatives literally hundreds of times, I don’t recall ever in my life hearing a politician talk in terms of Maori outcomes achieved.

When have we heard a lefty politician say “my initiative moved 20,000 Maori families into work where they’ve stayed for the last 12 months” or “the number of Maori kids living in two-parent households has increased by 20,000 in the last year” or similar.

Or even “my programme has been so successful at achieving it’s stated objectives that it’s job is now done, it is no longer needed and can be closed down completely.”

Never, that’s when.

And as predictable as clockwork, Peeni Henare now adds to my list:

“He was most proud of securing a significant boost of funding for Whānau Ora.”

He joins the Willie Jackson school of politics, no outcomes, never any outcomes, only ever talk of how much cash has been secured from the pockets and purses of NZ families which just disappear into the ether.

Why we put up with it I just don’t know.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/589316/outgoing-mp-peeni-henare-on-being-maori-a-politician-and-why-he-s-walking-away-from-the-labour-party
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March 12, 2026 9:17am
- imalwaysright
  
  Its hard to believe that so many individual ordinary citizens can be given public money on the strength of them declaring themselves ‘representatives’ of their tribe or iwi etc.
  
  Before any money is handed over, then surely the Government should have evidence that the people being represented agree that these self appointed representatives are authentic.
  
  Its not just Maori groups, the Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand are pulling the same stunt.
  Have they declared themselves to be the representatives of Islamic women of NZ, or have the Islamic women of NZ collectively appointed them?
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:10am
- artemisia
  
  Why do ‘we’ put up with it Swifty? Because media, politicians and bosses know the alternative is neverending “RACIST’ splashed all over the front page. True or not it’s a powerful disincentive.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:51am
  - Swifty
    
    Good point.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:57am
Jethrod

Dam Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson are having a wee soiree in Dunedin on the 16th of April to regurgitate Covid and other misdemeanors with Stacey Morrison at the Dunedin Festival! Yawn!
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March 12, 2026 9:29am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Damned?
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:58am
- Bloody Dago
  
  Opportunity!
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:59am
Maggy Wassilieff

Mike Hosking on the Covid enquiry

(12) It’s as much our fault as anyone. A party that gets about 30% support in an MMP election got 50% in 2020. Too many of us loved being told how to wipe our bums and too many of us were too lazy to think and work out where it was all heading.

(17) Neither of the reports were really needed. We are the experts because we lived through it. Some of us still bear the scars.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/mikes-minute-my-observations-on-the-covid-inquiry/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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March 12, 2026 9:43am
- Jethrod
  
  Unfortunately the 2 enquiries seemed to have lost their way. The people who drove the Covid response seem to have slithered out from giving evidence meaning it was a inconclusive back-patting exercise that in the end the present Government seems to be the can carrier.
  Agree with Hosking’s take on it.
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:07am
  - NothingLeft
    
    An enquiry in keeping with the finest Yes Minister traditions.
    
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    March 12, 2026 3:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Bryce Edwards on the Covid enquiries:

This is not a whitewash, but nor is it the grand scandal some wanted. What it really is, is a portrait of governance under pressure, warts and all. Transparency gaps — like unshared teen vaccine advice — breed long-term distrust. The absence of tracking on mandate fallout is not just sloppy administration; it is a failure of democratic accountability, hiding the costs of policy from the voters who bore them.

https://www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-briefing-the-covid-inquirys
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March 12, 2026 9:48am
- imalwaysright
  
  The general tenor of these and other reports into the actions of Governments and Public servants seems to be that ‘mistakes were made’ and they will do better next time because of their ‘learnings’.
  
  How can an investigator decide that the actions were mistakes rather than that they are deliberate malfeasance?
  
  It seems that the consideration that the people acted in an intentional, conspiratorial, and illegal manner is anathema in NZ.
  
  The finger gets wagged and they all go back to work on Monday…
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:26am
  - AitchW
    
    And Hipkins and his supporters crow that the report casts him, Ardern, Robertson, Bloomfield and Orr as saviours on white chargers..
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:52am
- mogg
  
  The early covid years made Ardern and Labour very popular so they wanted to keep it going for as long as possible. The Barricades around parliament gave the middle finger not just to the protesters but also the rest of the country got the same message, which was ‘f*** you’
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:35am
  - keepcalmcarryon
    
    Labour so successfully politicized the science that it became impossible for them to drop the lockdown without disappointing so many righteous adoring fans even when scientific reality began to increasingly differ from the podium of moral superiority.
    What was the money spent on?
    20% pandemic, 80% gaslighting with benefits.
    
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    March 12, 2026 2:35pm
- NothingLeft
  
  The real lesson is, as ever, that bureaucracies and politicians are lumbering stupid beasts, easily startled, prone to stampeding and possessed only of the low intelligence of the herd. They’re intrinsically incapable of dealing sensibly with difficult or urgent issues. As such they should be kept away from matters of importance – like running countries.
  
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  March 12, 2026 3:10pm
Damocles11

The Government has extended a second loan to a struggling Bay of Plenty kiwifruit development through the Provincial Growth Fund. It brings total Crown support for the project to $8 million. An additional $3 million loan was granted to Te Whānau A Maruhaeremuri Hapu Trust, which had already received a $5 million loan through the PGF to develop 33.8 hectares of green kiwifruit orchards at Raukōkore Waihau Bay. The move was approved at the end of 2024 but only came to light after an Official Information Act request.
The Coalition is cutting ‘wasteful spending’? Could have fooled me. Another example of how this government seems to have endless amounts of funds available if you are ‘the right sort of person’.
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March 12, 2026 9:54am
- RoboRob
  
  Talk to Winston. The Provincial Growth Fund is the price of doing business with NZF and is somewhat an election slush fund. It does seem better managed under National then the Labour iteration though.
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:33am
  - MCōs
    
    Better managed by the same bloke
    Maybe he’s under a shorter reign
    
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    March 12, 2026 12:16pm
I remember when

The ninth Covid epidemic is upon us.
People are dying from Covid.
Of course they are, if you want to catch Covid you go into hospital or retirement homes.
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March 12, 2026 10:00am
- MCōs
  
  I don’t think anyone wants to catch Covid or go into hospital.
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:07am
- AitchW
  
  Are they dying of covid or with it one wonders?
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:56am
- wsk12345
  
  I’ve spent quite a bit of home in hospitals recently and not managed to catch a thing!
  
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  March 12, 2026 7:59pm
Philview

The US is attempting to destroy the Iranian Government while protecting the Iranian people. The regime will not step aside and are creating wider problems for the world. The US could quickly bring the country to its knees by destroying power, water and food supply but this would mean a humanitarian disaster. What are the next steps?
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March 12, 2026 10:07am
- kowtow
  
  Reports now that US drones are patrolling the skies over Tehran and are even targetting IRGC/Basij checkpoints and roadblocks.
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:42am
- Ra Henare
  
  You omitted Trump has to balance the Iran invasion (which I suspect he was on a power trip from Venezuala and thort it would be a quick vote winner)
  
  To destroying Iranian civilians. A sure vote looser.
  
  The fkup Tomahawk bombing the Girls school would be in PR terms a minor vote loser.
  
  and PLEESE dont give me the BS that Iran bombed the School. That is blatant Trump mis information. Repeated by sheeple without a rational brain.
  
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  March 12, 2026 4:10pm
David Garrett

A question for the Trumpists here…didn’t ur boy announce the other day that the Iranian navy had been destroyed ?
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March 12, 2026 10:19am
- Ghost
  
  This is a good Ai
  
  https://youtube.com/shorts/OLjhtc3bm88?si=iWsyh4MN5zfl6kCi
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:25am
- Scott
  
  David my dear fellow. Give it time. Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day. 😊
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:27am
  - MCōs
    
    Probably not the best example
    I heard Trump say something to the effect Iran had been subjected to probably the fiercest attack in the history of everything
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:10am
  - David Garrett
    
    Scott: Well yes…but he said destruction had already been achieved
    
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    March 12, 2026 11:11am
    - Scott
      
      David, when dealing with Trump one must take him seriously but not always literally. He sometimes uses hyperbole to get his point across.
      However the reporting I have seen suggests that the Iranian navy which consists of something like 9 vessels, have been sunk?
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:30am
    - Ghost
      
      last i read they had sunk 17 boats, don’t know what the current total is, but this is apparently what they have
      
      Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Naval Forces
      133 patrol and coastal combatants
      5 amphibious vessels
      6 logistics and support vessels
      
      Iranian naval fleet
      18 submarines
      70 patrol and coastal combatants
      One mine warfare and countermeasure vessel
      23 amphibious vessels
      17 boats designated for logistics and support
      a substantial number of patrol boats with a full-load displacement below 10 tonnes
      
      article
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:40am
      - MCōs
        
        Iran has attacked a Thai ship, which has given the Thais a fright because unlike us they rely on oil for power generation.
        My wife tells me public servants are being told to work from home and people are being told to go to bed early
        The really big power consumers are the giant shopping malls. If the shit really hits the fan their business hours might be curtailed.
        
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        March 12, 2026 11:52am
      - All_on_Red
        
        They have sunk 51 boats.
        The IRGC (who now runs Iran) keep trying to send their speedboats out to drop mines but they are being blown up before they even leave the harbour. The benefit of total air supremacy.
        Missile and Drone activity is around 90% down.
        The US Navy apparently has Helios installed now and are using Ukrainian anti Drones.
        The Jets have got converted Rockets fitted with Hellfire seekers- much cheaper than AMRAAMs.
        
        In other news Venezuela is now pumping 1.2m BPD.
        Saudi Aramco have upped the flow on their Pipeline in the Red Sea from 1m BPD to 7m BPD.
        Ships are transiting the Straits- transponders off.
        
        Or as one wag put it;
        “Oil Prices Down”
        “Gullible Russian Propagandists most hurt”
        
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        March 12, 2026 12:38pm
      - Burtland
        
        shipping isnt safe until the 18 midget submarines are accounted for
        
        https://youtu.be/sXIJKlROikM
        
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        March 12, 2026 2:15pm
      - Taieri
        
        Iran has attacked a Thai ship, which has given the Thais a fright because unlike us they rely on oil for power generation
        ————-
        
        The attacked ship isn’t a tanker. It’s a bulk carrier.
        
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        March 12, 2026 8:07pm
    - rouppe
      
      President Truman announced on August 14 1945 that Japan had unconditionally surrendered.
      
      Yet Japanese soldiers kept fighting in certain Pacific theatres for decades.
      
      But since his name wasn’t Donald Trump I guess that’s different.
      
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      March 12, 2026 1:23pm
- David Garrett
  
  …But to be fair the BBC has just said they could use fishing boats to mine the SOH..
  
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  March 12, 2026 10:29am
  - Taieri
    
    Here is a very comprehensive and easy to understand explanation of the topic:
    
    https://chinarussiareport.substack.com/p/naval-mining-the-strait-of-hormuz
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:48am
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      My dear boy, Mr Garrett is a lawyer. You’re going to have to make it a lot simpler than that.
      
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      March 12, 2026 10:10pm
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    As was the case during WW2. Many fishing smacks and such were pressed into service as mine sweepers and mine layers throughout British waters and no doubt elsewhere.
    
    One of their benefits was that WW2 era mine detecting equipment could not operate with steel hulled vessels making wooden fishing boats ideal for mine sweeping. Mine laying is even more primitive.
    
    A standard sea mine is about 900kg (some are significantly smaller) and all it needs is to be rolled off the back of a large-ish power boat or deployed from aircraft.
    
    So yes, you can have zero naval vessels and still have significant mine laying capability by using a hodge-podge of civilian vessels.
    
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    March 12, 2026 10:55am
    - Jack5
      
      Want a sea mine, go to Finland.
      
      Here’s a Finnish expert on latest mines – “intelligent mines”:
      
      “They have target detection, safety and arming systems, with many independent mechanical and electronic safety features to reduce collateral damage. And a modern sea mine can identify and classify the target very precisely, while being devastatingly effective.”
      
      They can direct the shock energy from the blast in specific direction.
      
      https://www.defence-and-security.com/analysis/sea-mines-are-back-10538989/?cf-view
      
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      March 12, 2026 11:49am
      - Ra Henare
        
        During the gulf war 1990 -1991 and mining of the gulf.
        Mines were a big problem.
        
        An inventer friend of mine with his team designed a superfast Jet ski that had the “”hull”” equivalent of a destroyer.
        
        Each morning US seals?? would drive in formation down the gulf. Mines would detect them. But by the time they reacted the mines were exploding harmlessly behind them.
        
        He made over 2 mill USD from that contract (worth 4.7 mill today)
        
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        March 12, 2026 4:15pm
- RoboRob
  
  Has it not been?
  
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  March 12, 2026 11:35am
- sungsamning
  
  The major units have been sunk, and the fires are out by now. There are a number of small vessels left for now.
  
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  March 12, 2026 12:40pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Trumpists will never accept anything from Trumps lips as anything but dinkum truth.
  
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  March 12, 2026 4:11pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Along with the bunker busting bombs
  when Trump said
  
  “”President Trump declared that the bunker-busting bombs used in the June 2025 U.S. strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities.
  
  https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-weighs-strikes-iran-nuclear-program-obliterated/story?id=130426644
  
  Now in 2026 he is talking about eliminating the eminent threat from Irans nuclear bomb ability.
  
  If 2025 statement is correct. Then there would be no reason for 2026.
  
  If 2026 statement is correct. Then obviously the 2025 event was bullshit.
  
  Now we add in the changing goalposts, they have changed to
  Regime Change!
  Freeing Iranian people
  
  Wonder what the next propoganda statement will be.
  
  I am guessing cessation of hostilities by USA. (Leaving Israel to continue leading the charge with non direct involvement of US Military)
  
  Object achieved. Evil leadership removed, or some other moralistic sounding BS.
  
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  March 12, 2026 7:41pm
rouppe

Does the Republican Party have no say over who it’s candidates are?

The former embattled Democratic mayor of a Chicago suburb is running for a seat in Georgia as a Republican after relocating to the area following her scandal-plagued tenure in office.

Tiffany Henyard, who once declared herself a “super mayor,” is the lone GOP candidate for South Fulton County’s District 5 on the Fulton County Commission, according to election records.
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March 12, 2026 10:26am
Jack5

There’s a New Zealand connection to a Stuff report today about Trump’s 18-year-old granddaughter, Kai.

She has a Youtube video with the title: ” I Tried the World’s Most Expensive Grocery store.”

This is about her visit to store called “Erewhon” in Los Angeles.

“Erewhon,” which is “nowhere” spelled backwards, is the title of a classic novel by English writer Samuel Butler. It was inspired by his experience as a runholder in early-colonial Canterbury. It is remembered now in the name of Erewhon Station, near where Butler ran his sheep station.

It’s also the name of a very upmarket store in Los Angeles.

This is from Stuff’s report:

” … Erewhon is not a strategic oil hub just south of Kharg Island. It’s a famously, gratuitously expensive store in LaLa Land where a Hailey Bieber smoothie will set you back $US21 ($NZ54), despite the fact that it doesn’t even contain Hailey Bieber.”

“La La Land” refers to a 2016 film of set in Los Angeles.

Kai Trump’s video has set off of counter-videos attacking her.

Kai seems a typical, decent teenager, but the anti-Trump mob pounced.

Kai’s video:

https://youtu.be/BDa8__sXB3o?si=sohHRDJB8hfDIkFJ
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March 12, 2026 10:28am
surfing

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360950141/weve-won-trump-says-iran-war

Trump won the war, so why are Iran still firing drones and missiles?
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March 12, 2026 11:50am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  So Iranian women are now free, right?
  
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  March 12, 2026 1:01pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The US and Israel are still playing ‘whack a mole’ as they destroy launchers.
  But the volume is well down by over 90% to where interception is easier
  ‘The Saudi Defense Ministry stated on March 10 that it intercepted 13 Iranian drones targeting multiple locations, including the Shaybah oil field.[27] The Saudi Defense Ministry added that it intercepted six ballistic missiles targeting the Prince Sultan Air Base in al Kharj.[28] The Qatari Defense Ministry announced on March 10 that it intercepted a missile, which an OSINT account on X claimed was flying over Doha.[29] The Kuwait Armed Forces stated on March 10 that it intercepted four drones and several others fell “outside the threat area.”[30] Iran also launched at least four missile barrages at Israel since ISW-CTP’s last data cutoff.[31] Israeli media reported on March 10 that Iran is firing fewer missiles per day each day since the war started on February 28, citing IDF assessments.’
  
  Looks like March 11 was a good day. Another 60 ships sunk (over 110 now?)- probably the Coastal Speedboat fleet used for drone launching and mines.
  
  ‘The combined force continues to degrade the Iranian Navy as part of an effort to limit Iran’s ability to threaten merchant shipping. CENTCOM released footage of additional strikes on Iranian naval vessels and said it sank over 60 Iranian ships on March 11.[8] CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper said on March 11 that CENTCOM destroyed all four IRGC Navy Soleimani Class Warships.[9] CENTCOM previously struck the IRGC Navy’s Soleimani Class IRIS Shahid Sayyad Shirazi on March 3.[10] ‘
  
  Im seeing reports the US is considering taking control of Kharg Island.
  There are also looooong lines outside Petrol stations in China…Reminder, China buys 80% of Iranian Oil production.
  
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  March 12, 2026 1:11pm
- David Garrett
  
  Surfing: Quite so…and the latest I see is two oil tankers on fire in Iraqi territorial waters. Experts interviewed by the BBC – including a couple of former senior US Navy commanders – say that escorting tankers through the SOH would be no easy task.
  
  I am thinking Trump’s claim that the war is won may turn out to be similar to George W’s claim of “Mission accomplished” – which made the cover of TIME magazine – after they toppled Saddam…someone remind me of how many years after that they were stuck in the Iraqi tar baby?
  
  The big difference this time of course is that the war is not contained to Iran, but includes the SOH…through which 20% of the world’s oil exports pass, and a much higher percentage of the world’s fertilizers…also largely made from petroleum of course.
  
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  March 12, 2026 1:19pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Small correction.
    Nitrogen fertilizer is a fossil fuel product, made primarily from natural gas.
    
    https://www.darrinqualman.com/historic-nitrogen-fertilizer-consumption/
    
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    March 12, 2026 4:21pm
Taieri

Trump won the war, so why are Iran still firing drones and missiles?
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As Scott stated above, one must not take literally what Trump says. Looks like even Trump himself doesn’t really mean what he says. Perhaps he doesn’t know…?
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March 12, 2026 12:58pm
All_on_Red

Our very own ‘Mike’ is a great fan of Melania so he will be delighted to learn;
‘After debuting in theatres across the country in late January, becoming the biggest box office opening for a documentary in over a decade, Melania has moved to Amazon Prime’, where, ‘On its first full day, Melania topped the streaming service’s movie list and came in at #2 on its overall list, which includes movies and TV series, just behind Young Sherlock.’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/03/11/melania-film-debuts-as-1-movie-in-america-on-amazon-prime/
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March 12, 2026 1:00pm
Swifty

I lay blame firmly at the feet of the New Zealand left.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/589321/heinz-wattie-s-restructure-will-have-ripple-effect-employers-and-manufacturers-association-says

2017-23 Labour delighted in heaping more and more compliance, complexity, regulation and cost onto NZ business – and since then any attempt by the Coalition to unwind any of it is invariably met with framing of “this is the biggest attack on NZ workers in NZ history” or similar.

And will the left accept any responsibility at all for this latest Watties news?

Who am I kidding? Not only will they not, they’ll actually frame this as a result of National’s policies and that only by voting Labour will New Zealand be protected from this in future.

It’s all just so dispiriting and I feel greatly for the affected Watties staff, except those who vote Labour. Whether they realise it or not it, they’ve brought this in themselves.
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March 12, 2026 1:36pm
- Ian Boag
  
  When the local product is 50+% dearer on the supermarket shelves I doubt that regulatory paperwork is a huge factor – even when the picking is done by energetic RSE workers. The orchardists will need to get used to a lot less money for their product and digest the question of what is a peach orchard worth now?
  
  It’s not a Lab/Nat thing. This is structural in that there is no way NZ producers can compete with the cheaper imported stuff. In the bad old days you would have needed an import licence or there would have been a tariff, but we don’t do that now. Customer loyalty is to the price sticker, not the source.
  
  Unfortunately – unlike the arable farms – there’s no pathway to convert an orchard into a dairy farm …..
  
  I’ve seen some of the canned products coming from Peru and South Africa as well.
  
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  March 12, 2026 1:48pm
  - Jack5
    
    NZ’s task is to export enough to pay for imports.
    
    The problem is we’ve had deficits in our balance of payments for several decades.
    
    In free-market theory this should mean our currency, which is free floating, should fall until it forces a balance or a near-balance. So far this hasn’t worked.
    
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    March 12, 2026 2:06pm
    - kowtow
      
      Our currency is also traded like a commodity .
      I wonder what effect that has on its “value”.
      
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      March 12, 2026 3:52pm
      - Jack5
        
        More impact may come from our interest rates.
        
        What else would make Japanese Mums’ savings go into NZ loans?
        
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        March 12, 2026 5:07pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      So why do you think it doesn’t fall to get this “balance”? Educate us 🙂
      
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      March 12, 2026 6:03pm
      - Jack5
        
        Perhaps the idea of automatic balance from floating currency is flawed; that is it’s insufficient.
        
        What’s your view?
        
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        March 12, 2026 9:58pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        @Jack
        
        I don’t know. I’ve not seen any of the theory. I assumed that you do know and can point people at why the fall has not happened. Whatever ….
        
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        March 13, 2026 8:37am
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    “When the local product is 50+% dearer on the supermarket shelves….”
    
    And why do you think that is Ian? What do you think are the big cost items for producers?
    
    Also, what during 2017-23 did Labour do to alleviate some of those cost burdens from producers? For example labour costs, costs of power and fuel, insurance, rates, regulatory compliance?
    
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    March 12, 2026 2:31pm
    - igm
      
      Operating costs, regulations, wages, working conditions, etc., then we are unable to compete . . . WEF/UN are really succeeding. Try eating Chinese tinned peaches, they are shit!
      
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      March 12, 2026 3:09pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        I will respectfully disagree about Chinese peaches.
        
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        March 12, 2026 4:47pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Went off to my old mate chatgpt for the rough economics of peach production. Labour costs are brutal as trees need to be thinned as well as picked, the crop has a short shelf life and the trees have to be picked more than once. 10x the cost of apples.
      
      Make of it what you will … hard to blame govt for much of it … but I open to being corrected
      
      https://chatgpt.com/share/69b25422-28ec-800d-a8e8-4164bae99fbd
      
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      March 12, 2026 6:39pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    An outsiders view.
    
    Heinz/Watties uses its brand name to market BBeans at a higher price than other beans.
    
    In my local supermarket Heinz sells at $1.95 for a can
    Other british brands(taste is similiar, they use the same bean stock) sell for $1.50.
    
    A friend of mine used to be an Opps manager at Watties. He told me they tried bgrowing beans in NZ then scoured the world for other sources.
    
    Result. They (Heinz/Watties) continued buying the best quality from Canada.
    
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    March 12, 2026 4:26pm
Swifty

The Maori Party leadership is incompetent.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/mariameno-kapa-kingi-questions-whether-her-own-party-can-be-trusted/5563B45365AU3HE2TZLBGANUXE/

When the we going got tough, they had one job, and they so royally blew it that they now have to take her back and suffer national humiliation.

What a pack of losers.
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March 12, 2026 1:48pm
KKNZ2025

Paul Eagle caught out troughing…no surprises there
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/589391/ex-chatham-islands-council-chief-executive-paul-eagle-apologises-as-audit-exposes-excessive-spending
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March 12, 2026 2:28pm
- Swifty
  
  It’s worse than troughing isn’t it?
  
  He’s fabricated documentation with an intention to mislead. And to mislead the Auditor-General!
  
  That’s fraud.
  
  Awarding contracts to his wife also stinks.
  
  And I see he’s advanced the Costanza defence:
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ
  
  My god, the nerve of him, an ex-Deputy Mayor of our capital city, seven years as a Councillor, six years as an MP, ex-Police and claims little or no knowledge of sound financial processes, procurement rules or probity and good record keeping.
  
  The NZ Labour Party has taught him well.
  
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  March 12, 2026 2:51pm
- greybeard
  
  Not troughing: something more ilEagle.
  
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  March 12, 2026 3:07pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Too much Labour to do stuff legally
  
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  March 12, 2026 3:13pm
- zulumonster
  
  No-one should be surprised by this.
  Looks like Wellington dodged a bullet when he failed in his mayoralty bid …. oh, wait ….
  
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  March 12, 2026 3:40pm
- Apteryx
  
  Not just troughing, but:
  creating fake invoices
  editing invoices
  falsifying the dates on procurement documentation and on a contract variation.
  
  “We have not reached a view on the legality of the Chief Executive’s actions.” Cough, cough. How diplomatic.
  
  And to think — if Jacinda’s endorsement of his candidacy had been effective he could have been mayor of Wellington!
  
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  March 12, 2026 3:45pm
Swifty

“No one can stop Islam in America. This is NOT your country, this is OUR country. This is the land of Allah. If you want to live in a place with no Muslims, I suggest you go to hell.”

https://x.com/sonofliberty357/status/2031737053981888895?s=46
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March 12, 2026 3:00pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Yes, that is Muslim Doctrine. If you don’t want to be taken over by Islam, don’t import Muslims. Presently it’s happening all over Europe, UK & around the world.
  In times gone by, the Catholic church rose up & defeated Islam militarily – The Battle of Tours (730 AD ?) Various battles, & by 1490 El Cid expelled the last caliphate from Spain. Don Juan of Austria in 1570 defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. King Jan Sobieski & his winged Hussars & army from Poland defeated the land invasion of the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 ?
  The Crusades were well intentioned, but some of the Christian kings & princes turned them into an exercise for personal fame, wealth & glory, & so were unsuccessful in the long run.
  
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  March 12, 2026 5:31pm
Gary Benner

This is an excellent speech in the British Parliament by barrister and MP Sir Geoffrey Cox on the topic of Jury trials, and the proposed changes being mooted by Labour there to reduce them. Cox is an amazing orator, and he did it without notes.

https://x.com/DavidDavisMP/status/2031430066077413397

Some points from the 20 min speech;

Cox argued that jury trial transcends party politics and ideological strife. He recalled leading Labour lawyers of the past (Peter Archer, John Morris, Bob Marshall-Andrews) who would never have countenanced diluting this principle. It is, he said, “the most powerful instrument and engine of social justice that this country has ever invented” — a direct public engagement in justice, a built-in safeguard against state oppression and administrative power, and one of the few institutions commanding near-universal cross-party and public assent.

He warned that the Bill risks irreparable damage at a moment when public trust in institutions is already under siege. By removing or restricting jury trial for offences carrying potential sentences of 12 months or more (including many cases of dishonesty, protest or reputational destruction), and by giving judges discretion over “complex or lengthy” cases, the legislation would hand life-changing decisions to a single state-appointed figure. He cited examples such as postmasters/postmistresses in the Horizon scandal and hypothetical protesting MPs, arguing that summary justice can never replicate the protection juries provide.

Cox challenged the Government’s claimed efficiency savings as questionable and insufficient to justify undermining a fundamental right. He noted the arbitrary nature of the three-year threshold and the removal of rights to elect jury trial or full rehearings. “If we take this step, we will be degrading our system of justice,” he concluded, likening it to the visible decline of a civilisation that cuts corners on its core institutions.
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March 12, 2026 3:03pm
Scooter

Wow who thought we had the Elizabeth Taylor equivalent i.e multiple marriages in NZ. 4 really is getting up there.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360950195/national-mp-mark-mitchell-marry-fourth-time
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March 12, 2026 3:22pm
- [email protected]
  
  Must get paid very well to support all those payments to exes.
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:17pm
  - MCōs
    
    That’s not the way it works in NZ
    Whoever has the kids receives a payment for their support to a certain age.
    
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    March 12, 2026 9:39pm
Ra Henare

Confirmed. Journalists and subbies are idiots.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/tauranga-airport-flights-cancelled-due-to-volcanic-ash-cloud-from-whakaariwhite-island/

They say Sou westerlies put aircraft in ash path.

Any idiots with half a brain should be able to read a compass.

ITS A NOR EASTER that puts aircraft approach in ash.
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March 12, 2026 4:04pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Actually, here in Tauranga we have been having Easterlies for the last couple of days fluctuating from NE, E, & SE. So it is feasible that the report is correct, except they got the direction wrong.
  Dumbies.
  
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  March 12, 2026 5:38pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear…
some green MPs aren’t too popular with their membership

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360950254/senior-green-mps-demoted-sitting-mps-likely-wont-return-after-initial-list-revealed
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March 12, 2026 4:30pm
- Don Beckett
  
  Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of idiots.
  
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  March 12, 2026 5:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  The List contains 37 names. Now, there’s the definition of blind optimism.
  
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  March 12, 2026 8:52pm
Jack5

The fabled productivity miracle of artificial intelligence …

The Wall Street Journal reports on an analysis of 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. This covered more than 443 million hours of work across 1,111 employers.

The result:

“AI intensified activity across nearly every category: the time they spent on email, messaging and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business-management tools, such as human-resources or accounting software, rose 94 per cent.

“Meanwhile, the amount of time AI users devoted to focused, uninterrupted work —the kind of concentration often required for figuring out complex problems, writing formulas, creating and strategising — fell 9%, compared with nearly no change for non-users.”

The research so far has found AI tools didn’t reduce work, but intensified it. The employees worked at faster paces, took on broader scopes of tasks and ended up working more hours.
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wrightingright

> “This makes Scott an ideal candidate to lead the New Zealand Graduate School of Medicine, which will have entry requirements and selection processes designed to ensure a cohort of medical students who represent the New Zealand population,”

Represents huh? We know what that is a code word for.

Uh oh, the new Waikato Medical School is going to be very woke and discriminatory.

https://archive.is/pFwdg#selection-1357.0-1357.239
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- Jack5
  
  Jo Lane, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the university’s division of health, is reported as saying the new medical school “will have entry requirements and selection processes designed to ensure a cohort of medical students who represent the New Zealand population.”
  
  That suggests entry will be Woke; race and gender based.
  
  Jo Lane, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the university’s division of health, is reported as saying the new medical school “will have entry requirements and selection processes designed to ensure a cohort of medical students who represent the New Zealand population.”
  
  That, too, suggests entry will be race and gender based.
  
  Otago uses race-criteria for medical entry. Is it now to be Woke-ato University?
  
  Why did the National Coalition leave Neil Quigley as vice-chancellor of Waikato University?
  
  Quigley resigned as chairman of the Reserve Bank in August five months after Orr resigned as governor.
  
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