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Tomtoddy

Reports coming out of Wellington this morning suggest a National Party coup maybe underway. Rumours are swirling around Maureen Pugh as leading a takeover of the leadership of the party probably as soon as caucus meeting on Tuesday. Pugh and a small tight team of back benchers have been doing the numbers and it seem Sam Uffindel, a likely future Minister of Corrections would be her deputy to balance the North Island/South Island interests.

Pugh has been heard saying that the West Coast is owed a Prime Ministership as it is well over 100 years since Dick Seddon represented the electorate. She was also overheard saying with coal making a big comeback and several new dams planned on Coast rivers it was important the region had strong representation.

Jimmy Meager, would likely lead Pugh’s finance role. They were seen having a coffee on the Cook Strait ferry returning home avoiding flying to save fuel. It is believed Pugh thinks Jimmy has the right name for a Finance portfolio.

Dr Carlos Cheung seems to be involved as Pugh has always claimed he is Parliament’s natural DEI man covering Spanish and Chinese interests.

Catherine Wedd is another likely participant in the coup team. She is keen to be ranked more highly in the social welfare portfolio area probably a future Minister of Relationships.

There is even a whisper that Gerry Brownlee may put his weight behind the coup. He has always been keen to finish his career in a ministerial role possibly in construction as Minister of Carpentry.
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April 1, 2026 8:00am
- Yvette
  
  This is jest another rumour.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:13am
- Blog-aholic
  
  To be fair it is April 1st.
  
  That said if National actually acted upon their campaign promises to stop the re-definition of New Zealand into the odd, grifting, ethno-marxist tribalised co-governanced entity they said they would , they might have a fighting chance.
  
  What is odder still, is that Labour have been found to be at Josef Mengele levels of harm and lying and yet they are rising?
  
  This country of fooked.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:20am
- Nukuleka
  
  Tomtoddy: thanks for giving me a reason to chuckle at the beginning of the day. Particularly loved the reference to Gerry as Minister of Carpentry.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:35am
- pdm
  
  Worth far more than one uptick TT.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:43am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Very amusing. It must be April the 1st!
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:51am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Meagers only been in Parliament half a dog watch!!!
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:58am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Media are picking Meager to go into cabinet with the reshuffle.
    
    I know what they say about first term MPs , but he does seem to be very much on the up, I seen him in the plane when going to work in Napier 3 times this year, he kind of had an aura around him, it’s hard to explain, but obviously Luxon does not have that, it’s weird how some people have a vibe.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:53am
  - OlderChas
    
    And I’ve kept a few Dog Watches – both First and Last Dogs.
    
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    April 1, 2026 1:26pm
- Taieri
  
  A good one! It’s 1st of April today after all:)
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:32am
- Paulus
  
  Well they can all be better than the Labour Opposition !
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:37am
- Yvette
  
  Maureen Pugh still suffers a situation where as as MP she asked a question (on global warming / climate change) on behalf of a constituent but that was twisted to make her appear ignorant or stupid herself.
  It is the same fate that befell the “Mad Butcher” when an exchange of humour became a racist slight.
  In both cases the truth rested in early reports, not those that followed after malign opportunism was realised.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:20am
- Jethrod
  
  Gosh…. are you sure you’re not Simon in disguise?
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:03am
- Tomtoddy
  
  Did some of you nice people think I was serious???? Really?? Downticks don’t worry me a scrap but had you forgotten today’s date??
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:42am
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    Don’t be alarmed; there is a clique of readers who get their rocks off by downticking every comment.
    
    As someone noted the other day the comment “water is wet” would recieve at least 2 downticks.
    
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    April 1, 2026 12:44pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Tom: Acceptance as truth by a significant number is always the hallmark of the good April Fool!
    
    You had me going until the bit about “the Coast deserving a prime ministership” Well done!
    
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    April 1, 2026 6:51pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Likewise -I took it hook line & sinker.
      
      Well done.
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:42pm
- Wayne1749
  
  “Dr Carlos Cheung seems to be involved as Pugh has always claimed he is Parliament’s natural DEI man covering Spanish and Chinese interests.”
  
  LOL! Chinese dude called ‘Carlos’
  
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  April 1, 2026 12:15pm
- Ra Henare
  
  1st of APril. Well done.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:49pm
Cassandra

Bloomberg: “The biggest oil supply shock in history has reached the one-month mark. Prices have surged, growth forecasts are being cut worldwide, and shortages are emerging across Asia, from Thailand to Pakistan. But the energy industry is warning that the crisis is only beginning.

In conversations with more than three dozen oil and gas traders, executives, brokers, shippers and advisers over the last week, one message was repeated over and over: The world still hasn’t grasped the severity of the situation.”

I’m not too sure what this means and I get the impression that the NZ Government has indeed hoisted the severity. That of course is not a solution and short of more tankers from thin air there isn’t one. The EU energy commissioner says that states should reduce the domestic demand for oil. Fortunately for Europe the weather is improving. Countries across the world are implementing measures: Lithuania its halving train fares, rationing in Ethiopia, WFH in Indonesia.

However, this is not playing out as expected. JD Vance currently working out how to say “I told you so”.

I don’t think destroying Iran’s infrastructure is necessarily the best next step but it must be tempting.
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April 1, 2026 8:01am
- Northshoredoc
  
  Awaiting the usual suspects to come along with their comments on four dimensional chess etc etc.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:07am
- Philview
  
  I listened to a podcast a couple of months ago and an economic commentator was talking about how the global system is rigged to enrich a few people. Wars are planned for their benefit he claimed. I thought he was talking rubbish but he made come projections for the year ahead so will be interesting to locate who he was and if he predicted this one.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:15am
- Inandout
  
  The Arab oil nations have joined Israel to finally get Iran back to 1979 normality. They want oil to flow like 99% of the world want. Screaming at our keyboards produces zilch.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:15am
- imalwaysright
  
  Trump, of whom I am usually a supporter, seems to be telling the West that if they don’t join him he will have to take radical measures that will possibly end their ability to get oil from the area.
  
  Hard to form a successful coalition of the unwilling and resentful.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:46am
  - R
    
    ‘Unwilling and…’ reminds me of a Nursery rhyme about a hen wanting help to grind the corn, or similar. Pretty much sums up the moral commitment of some quarters to the western lifestyle
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:50am
    - Sacha
      
      The Little Red Hen. You can find it on the net. Essentially it’s the story of those who won’t help in an endeavour, but are only too willing to take advantage of a successful out come. In this case, the developer keeps it all for herself –
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:02am
    - imalwaysright
      
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      I was going to suggest that ‘moral’ is subjective and open to interpretation, but its been a very long time since any conflict was about anything other than money.
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:16am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    What he is trying to do is to get the Europeans to “pull finger” and pull their weight.
    
    They have hidden behind the US since WW 2
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:30am
  - Stu2
    
    Going into a land war allied with Trump could mean having him declare victory when it had not been achieved, after taking significant loses.
    
    His regard for allies is minimal.
    
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    April 1, 2026 2:24pm
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    The coddled, degenerate European leaders are already unwilling and resentful.
    
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    April 1, 2026 4:47pm
- Damocles11
  
  Tempting if you want to commit war crimes, or tempting if you want to further restrict the worlds access to oil? Not sure I get which of these you are referring to, could you elaborate? Prior to this war Iran was supplying approx 3.3 million barrels per day, so totally obliterating their oil infrastructure and Kharg Island may not be the stroke of genius some seem to think it is.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:59am
  - kiwimike
    
    Just who were they supplying this 3.3 million barrels too ?
    
    China !
    who was financing all their proxies, terrorism and atrocities against their own people.
    So China is the banker for the Worlds largest terrorism sponsor.
    
    there fixed that for you…
    you’re welcome !
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:57am
    - virtualmark
      
      It’s a fungible product in a global market. So effectively they’re supplying those 3.3 million barrels to everyone in the world.
      
      Destroy that infrastructure and we’re paying massively more for oil, and condemning the global economy to a 1970s type recession.
      
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      April 1, 2026 1:29pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    …so about 3-4% of world supply. Should be easily absorbed by reduced usage due to high price. Problem is Straits of Hurmuz carries about 20% of worlds oil mostly from other gulf states.
    
    Russia, supplying ~10% of worlds oil losing it’s shipping ports to Ukrainian drones is also a big problem. Down something like 3million barrels per day now (~3% of world) from what they were in 2025.
    
    Suggestion is that the damage done to Russia’s Baltic terminals will take 1-2 years to fix. That oil supply isn’t coming back soon.
    
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    April 1, 2026 5:29pm
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  Since the USA is largely self sufficient in oil, the most tempting must surely be to say “fuck it” and just leave the rest of the world to figure out its oil supply.
  
  There is an ongoing narrative of this being “Trump’s war” and why should the rest of the world go and help Trump with “his” war.
  
  Nope, it is everyone’s war because it is everyone’s oil that is being impacted.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:01am
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    A lot of people in the US do think they can just leave the rest of the world to sort out its own oil supplies, since the US has oil of its own – which oil companies are going to be happy to sell at low prices to US customers, when they could be selling it at a higher price internationally.
    
    Yeah, right.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:06am
    - NothingLeft
      
      US govt can obviously pass laws to require it as a matter of military security if needed. Trump may even have war-powers that enable him to do it by executive order.
      
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      April 1, 2026 5:31pm
  - David George
    
    Trump has said just that and fair enough.
    Provide some help get the Straits of Hormuz open or STFU.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:11am
    - septic skeptic
      
      I think if all the sane countries in the world teamed up maybe we could degrade the aggressors military and go for regime changes. Is that what you had in mind?
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:21am
      - Paulus
        
        Who do you mean as sane Countries in the world ?
        
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        April 1, 2026 9:39am
      - David George
        
        “degrade the aggressors military and go for regime change”?
        Yes, it’s a consequence of abject cowardice that this vile regime still exists.
        
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        April 1, 2026 9:46am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I said regimes. Plural. There are two aggressors.
        By sane I mean Europe, Asia (aside from NK), South America and Canada, Oz and NZ..
        
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        April 1, 2026 10:07am
      - kowtow
        
        Isn’t that what the UN was meant to be doing over the last 80 odd years .
        
        Oh wait they think there’s an existential weather emergency destroying the planet and meanwhile instead of thwarting dictatorships , constantly reward them.
        
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        April 1, 2026 10:45am
      - Taieri
        
        Yes, it’s a consequence of abject cowardice that this vile regime still exists
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        This vile regime can only be destroyed from within. By the Iranians.
        
        BTW: It’s a bit pathetic that someone, who several times evaded draft calls others cowards…
        
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        April 1, 2026 12:28pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Small fact check
      
      the Straits of Hormuz are OPEN TO ALL except Irans enemies.
      
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      April 1, 2026 2:54pm
    - Damocles11
      
      Well said. Trump should either get the Strait open or STFU. Sick of the windbag raving on about obliterating this and that & giving deadlines and then getting his bluff called: he caused the mess, now he needs to clean it up, and quick smart. Enough TACO already!
      
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      April 1, 2026 3:46pm
  - kowtow
    
    It’s amazing .
    
    France , Spain and now Italy are reported to have denied /limited airspace/landing rights to US military .
    
    1973 all over again.
    
    The more things change the more they stay the same.
    
    btw all these breathless media reports of “closed’ soh .
    
    interest.co.nz reports some shipping movements .Marine radar confirms. Tankers are moving. The Strait is not “closed”.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:15am
    - Jack5
      
      Shades of the Suez crisis in 1956!
      
      That began with the Israelis trying to bust the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba, and rose to a British-French-Israeli seizure of the Suez Canal.
      
      This ended under heavy pressure from the United States, the Soviet Union, and the UN.
      
      As Wikipedia says:
      
      “The crisis demonstrated that the United Kingdom and France could no longer pursue their independent foreign policy without consent from the United States.”
      
      Does Trump know about this?
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
      
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      April 1, 2026 10:17am
      - virtualmark
        
        Israel was involved in the Suez crisis primarily because it was part of their deal with the French to build the Dimona nuclear reactor.
        
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        April 1, 2026 1:31pm
      - Wandering Star
        
        There are certainly parallels with the Suez Crisis: the British Empire was declared dead in the wake of Suez, and future historians will decare the time the US Empire was pronounced dead to be at or about the time Iran forced them to back down from their botched regime change operation.
        
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        April 1, 2026 2:46pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Only a handful and going to countries Iran considers friendly and have paid a toll.
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:19am
      - kowtow
        
        Yep, but it is not “closed”.
        
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        April 1, 2026 2:27pm
    - kiwimike
      
      yep just controlled by the cruise missiles on the Iranian shore…..
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:59am
      - Ra Henare
        
        Cruise missiles on the Iranian shore…
        
        Perhaps some research is needed Kiwimike. Cruise missiles are designed for distance, not short hops. Remembering Cruise missiles are low level flights. Iranian coast is close to mountainous terrain sorta defeats cruise missile fired from inland.
        
        Iranians have drone small boats, drone mini subs, minsubs and drone mines. (forget images of mines as balls with spikes on).
        
        AI equiped mines can sit on the bottom. Analyse ship size and propelleor signature. If they find a match ie as a naval vessle, rocket up to attack the vessel.
        
        PS. Modern acoustics can identify ships by the sounds created by the ship as it moves through the water. This accousrtic technology has been around for decades (at least since late 1960s when I was doing anti submarine survellance)
        
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        April 1, 2026 3:01pm
    - Taieri
      
      The more things change the more they stay the same.
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      Yep. Afghanistan still ruled by Taliban. Libya, Iraq and Syria are still failed states. And Deranged Don is still deranged.
      
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      April 1, 2026 12:30pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    “There is an ongoing narrative of this being “Trump’s war” …”
    
    If it goes tits up it will definitely be ‘Trumps war’. Nettanyahu will see to that.
    He’s also the reason for the international resistance, no one trusts him and its becoming obvious, even to Trump, that this is empire building using America to do the spade work.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:22am
  - Cassandra
    
    Yes and no, cmm. Trump started it and didn’t have a clear, achievable aim. Plus Iran has proved to be more resilient than Trump and Cassandra anticipated. Trump really should have got allies on board first but I understand the difficulties in that.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:32am
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘didn’t have a clear, achievable aim. ’
      What utter nonsense
      https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/you-dont-think-theres-a-plan-really
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:44am
      - septic skeptic
        
        I’m sure they had a clear military plan in that they knew which targets to hit, in what order and with what weapons. I think it is generally recognized that the two flies in the ointment (SOH and the difficulty and risk of boots on the ground) was enough to deter previous administrations. Netanyahu, Trump and Hegseth went ahead regardless and with no clear plan for the final outcome. Scratch that, Netanyahu probably has a more coherent plan for what Israel expects to get.
        
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        April 1, 2026 11:23am
      - virtualmark
        
        Rationale #1: There’s an imminent threat to the US.
        Rationale #2: Stop Iran getting nukes.
        Rationale #3: Stop Iran funding terrorist militias.
        Rationale #4: Regime change.
        Rationale #5: Punishment for supposed Iranian election interference.
        Rationale #6: World peace!
        Rationale #7: To leave a better world for our grandchildren.
        Rationale #8: Pre-emptive hit because Iran is supposedly planning to assassinate Trump.
        Rationale #9: Fulfill God’s purpose.
        Rationale #10: The Israelis made me do it.
        
        All 10 stated by Trump within 6 days.
        
        Personally I do think #10 is correct.
        
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        April 1, 2026 1:35pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        #8 was 2025.
        
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        April 1, 2026 4:52pm
    - cmm (semi-retired edition)
      
      “But he started it”. I haven’t heard that since I graduated from the sand pit.
      
      I don’t know what the aim is either, but our ignorance does not mean there is not one. It seems maybe he’s really just hoping to kick the coals a bit and have the Iranians rise up and take care of their own business.
      
      I would argue that the Iran has only been “resilient” because the USA has been incredibly restrained in what they do and are trying to limit damage to people and infrastructure. ie. they have been trying to target the Iranian government rather than the people. If they were in an all-out war with Iran then Iran would be flattened pretty quickly.
      
      But it seems to me the Americans are not wanting a conventional invasion style war (eg. Iraq), so this means nudging around the edges. This is the kind of unconventional environment where Iraq can be rather effective with drones and other asymmetric methods.
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:48am
      - R
        
        Had Russia not stepped in to support Iran with military hardware, the slouch would probably have ceased by now. The Iranian people would now live in a superior lifestyle country, eventually, with a civilized government; maybe democratically elected.
        But there are probably still a lot of pigs to fly by.
        
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        April 1, 2026 11:25am
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      So the Iranian attacks on assorted nations over the last 47 years weren’t starting it?
      
      Remember Lockerbie? that was Iran.
      
      Remember October 7? that was Iran.
      
      Remember the post from a few days ago about all those murdered by the fatwa? that was Iran.
      
      Remember the cowards, appeasers, and quislings of the world cowered under their beds while innocents were being slaughtered?
      
      The US now has a president who has said enough is enough, time to fight back.
      
      Ask again, who started this war.
      
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      April 1, 2026 10:36am
      - virtualmark
        
        Lockerbie was Libya.
        
        October 7 was Hamas on its own, to the chagrin of Hezbollah and Iran. (And it turned out to be yet another massive own-goal by the Palestinians)
        
        Not saying the Iranian regime aren’t destabilising nutters who we’d be better off without. But you can’t pin those two particular examples on Iran.
        
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        April 1, 2026 1:38pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Charlotte if you cant get your facts straight why should any of your comments be believed.???
        Lockerbie – Libya
        OCt7th Not Iran
        
        Who started the war.
        Even a bear with little intelligence would say Israel/USA.
        
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        April 1, 2026 3:12pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        Try Google; “reports from former Iranian officials, Iran tasked the PFLP-GC and Libya with the attack, though Libya was officially blamed…”
        
        Complemnts of the BBC; “fresh evidence that Iran, not Libya, ordered the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988.”
        
        Al Jazeera; “evidence Iran’s secret service and a Palestinian group were behind bombing of Pan Am flight 103.”
        
        What say you now?
        
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        April 1, 2026 4:54pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        Google “Hamas is extensively trained, funded, and armed by Iran, forming a key part of Tehran’s Axis of Resistance”
        
        The Washington Post “The Palestinian militants behind the surprise attack on Israel began planning the assault at least a year ago, with key support from Iranian allies.”
        
        The Wall Street Journal; “In the weeks leading up to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, hundreds of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s fighters received specialized combat training in Iran”
        
        [Mod – these little jabs from both sides can stop now]
        
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        April 1, 2026 4:59pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Virtualmark and Ra Henare, there is credible evidence that Iran was ultimately behind Lockerbie. Al Jezeera did a documentary on it years ago. They had first hand quotes from Iranian officials and sighted US Intelligence Agency cables saying so. This was reported all around the world including in NZ at the time. I also seem to recall an Iranian defector claiming same back in the very early 2000’s. So don’t go throwing Charlotte’s comment in the bin.
        
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        April 1, 2026 10:07pm
    - Interested Party
      
      “There is no clear plan”, has to be one of the most stupid comments I hear these days. They had a clear plan and objectives, as stated at the beginning. Regime change wasn’t one of them, would be nice for it to happen – but they don’t want to do an extended ground war, they know that’s up to the locals (if they can help out with targeted operations they will). Someone once said something like “the first casualty of a war plan happens straight after the first shots are returned”. In today’s fast paced world, too many people have spent too much time watching Netflix movies, and have that as their filter”
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:06am
      - Hard Cheese
        
        What is the plan then? You left that small detail out.
        
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        April 1, 2026 7:26pm
  - Wayne1749
    
    If the US says ‘fuck it’ now, and leave, then Iran will be in a stronger position than before the war.
    
    A good thing, I think, because Iran is the country that has resolutely opposed the genocide in Gaza and can challenge Israel.
    
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    April 1, 2026 12:16pm
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      The genocide where the birthrate is increasing, that genocide?
      
      Those [Mod – deleted] can’t even get that right eh.
      
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      April 1, 2026 12:52pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Charlote, please state facts not fanatasies.
        
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        April 1, 2026 3:13pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        In the first six months of 2025, approximately 17,000 births were recorded.
        
        That’s 2,844 a month, 709 a week, or 102 a day.
        
        Now, in an actual genocide this is what happens; “It is impossible to determine the exact number of Jewish babies born in concentration camps, as most were immediately murdered”.
        
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        April 1, 2026 5:11pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The US is unlikely to be self sufficient in oil for all that long. Fracking output is patchy, to say the least.
    
    On the other hand, the Western Hemisphere will likely have sufficient oil for quite awhile. The combo of heavy Canadian + Venezuelan oil, plus lighter, sweeter Mexican + Guyanan oil will keep the US going. Although the US doesn’t own that oil, you can be sure that its hegemony will see that its supplies do not run short.
    
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    April 1, 2026 6:44pm
- Master Mariner
  
  “The world still hasn’t grasped the severity of the situation.”
  I am a litle unsure why ? Once the Carrier Group was sent then this was a totaly predicted outcome.
  The IEA sent a warning that Government leaders were down playing the magnitude of the closure the SOH will cause.
  The IEA has failed spectaculary in its mission statement of incorporation,
  “Mission
  The IEA works with governments and industry to shape a secure and sustainable energy future for all”
  To this,
  “We provide authoritative analysis, data, policy recommendations and solutions to ensure energy security and help the world transition to clean energy”.
  You have failed .
  And here’s the band aids on an amputated arm,
  https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/2026-energy-crisis-policy-response-tracker
  NZ is let down by Government ministers with no idea of Supply Chains.
  NZ officials should be the first to stop using flights ( See Malaysia’s response in link).
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:36am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    ” NZ is let down by Government ministers with no idea of Supply Chains.”
    
    Most people think supply chain is just the truck that offloads boxes of wine at their supermarket.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:51am
- David George
  
  You could argue that the changing list of targets is a result of chaotic thinking or that it’s a deliberate strategy. Whatever. The consequence is that the Islamic regime are now unsure quite what to prioritise.
  They are so screwed that they’re now recruiting children to fight*, their huge underground missile facilities “bunker busted”, the Arabs joining the fight and 80 million Iranians against them.
  *https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/30/iran-recruit-children-defend-the-homeland/
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:42am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Just a small fact check…
    
    for minors to sign up for checkpoint patrols and logistics roles
    
    They are NOT recruiting kids to fight!!!!!!!
    
    With limited Internet/communications and massive damage. Does NOT take much rational thought to come to the conclusion that many people are needed for communication ie checkpoint/message carrying
    
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    April 1, 2026 3:17pm
- Simon
  
  Slowly sinking on that Iran has got this. Slowly MSM letting the plebs in. Slowly.
  
  National have been a disgrace. Totally inept. NZ gonna feel some pain.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:49am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I really don’t get what you think National should have done. What would you have done, join the USA and use our troops and navy to open SOH leaving USA and Israel to concentrate on the bombing campaign?
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:36am
    - Simon
      
      Price reductions in NZ via dropping petrol tax. Not expand welfarism & handouts. Let people keep more of their own money in times like this.
      
      Maintenance and even expansion of the state when the productive capacity of NZ, which carries the state, is greatly harmed.
      
      National are utter garbage. Smug garbage like you have to pay $4 a litre if you want the pot holes fixed. Given the size and utter waste of govt. Telling people to go fly.
      
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      April 1, 2026 1:26pm
- virtualmark
  
  “Scorched earth” type attacks are forbidden under Article 54 of the Geneva Conventions 1977 and Article 14 of the Geneva Conventions 1987.
  
  “It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population…for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse party”.
  
  There is an exception where a country is allowed to destroy its own infrastructure as it retreats from its own territory, but that clearly wouldn’t apply to the US attacking Iran.
  
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  April 1, 2026 1:27pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Hasn’t slowed Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure Powerplants, hospitals, schools, shopping centers. Murdering pensioners walking the streets with FPV drones. Genocide in the occupied regions. 200000+ documented war crimes to date.
    
    The Geneva convention is a joke. Unenforced it only ever punishes the more enlightened democracies that adhere to it as they try to improve the lives of those being tyrannized by despots.
    
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    April 1, 2026 5:50pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Kind of.
      
      The “teeth” of the Geneva Convention is the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
      
      So, for example, Putin has been charged at the ICC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_arrest_warrants_for_Russian_leaders). In practice Russia is not an ICC signatory and so as long as he stays in Russia then he’s fine. But it severely restricts where he can travel to. For example he couldn’t attend the BRICS Summit in South Africa because SA is one of the 125 countries who are signatories. Interestingly he could meet with Trump in Alaska because the US is also not a signatory, but he wasn’t prepared to meet in the continental US because of the possibility his plane might need to make an emergency landing somewhere like Canada or Europe.
      
      The US isn’t a signatory but I do wonder whether Hegseth in particular might find himself charged at the ICC. For example Venezuela probably has a case against him for war crimes for the “no quarter” bombing of their fishing boats. Again, the US probably wouldn’t hand him over but it would severely restrict where he could travel to.
      
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      April 1, 2026 6:22pm
    - Damocles11
      
      “We’ll ‘improve their lives’ by wiping out their energy infrastructure and desalinisation plants!”
      
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      April 1, 2026 6:30pm
Philview

I read this morning that the last Labour Government drew up plans to store reserves of fuel but were voted out before implementation. The Coalition Government and Shane Jones decided it would cost too much and ditched the plan. I assume not an April Fools joke and something we will be hearing a lot about.
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- Ghost
  
  Unfunded, books were a mess, the diesel alone was going to cost the govt $80 million, $45 million for the tanks.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:05am
  - Interested Party
    
    Yet they managed to waste (or misspend) $30b under the guise of covid
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:10am
- pdm
  
  Megan Woods asked a question along those lines at QT yesterday.
  
  If I remember correctly the self proclaimed `Matua’ avoided it and we got no more info on it.
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:34am
- kiwimike
  
  Winston & Seymour knew about it…..
  
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  April 1, 2026 12:02pm
- Damocles11
  
  Yeah, let’s store umpteen years worth of fuel, deliver ‘light rail for Auckland’ + 100,000 KiwiBuild homes….but ban oil and gas exploration and let Marsden Point get shuttered. (Facepalm). Anyone who believes that Labour can deliver anything obviously also believes in unicorns.
  
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  April 1, 2026 4:14pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  Labour had no money to implement anything Phil. They had already committed NZ to massive expenditure with no increase in revenue to cover it. That is why we have a structural deficit for Treasury’s foreseeable future. You have to understand, Labour lie like flatfish. When you understand that and measure anything they say ever against the fact that they lie, you will never believe a word they say again.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:10pm
sungsamning

Australia is forced to beg Donald Trump for oil after years of green policy and domestic neglect lead to a massive fuel shortage and energy crisis due to the Strait of Hormuz and Iran War. [Who’d have thought closing refineries, and going ‘green’ would be a bad idea. Its not just Labor. The ‘Liberals’ are culpable too. They’re just Labor lite.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFIsY7zbVA
Woke Australian Leader BEGS Trump for Help After Nation RUNS OUT OF OIL Due to Leftist Negligence!
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April 1, 2026 8:07am
- kowtow
  
  Come on , it won’t just be leftist negligence.
  
  The whole of the political Establishment , essentially , has bought into this “green” fairytale nonsense.
  
  Across the west.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:50am
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, they certainly have. They were scared of the moral power the early greens had before they metamorphosed into watermelons. Then they fell in line with the WEF, and UN.
    
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    April 1, 2026 2:13pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Left have controlled govt bureaucracies for decades – and are the true authors of our civilizational decline. So yes, leftist negligence.
    
    O’Sullivan’s law: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing
    
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    April 1, 2026 5:53pm
- Wandering Star
  
  You’ve got to laugh at the fact that the US has eased sanctions on Iranian oil coming onto the world market because the US is now desperate to keep the global oil supply up due the disruptions they have caused by attacking Iran. Frickin’ geniuses.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:52pm
sungsamning

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gulf allies of the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are urging President Donald Trump to continue prosecuting the war against Iran, arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough by the monthlong U.S.-led bombing campaign, according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials.

After private grumbling at the start of the war that they were not given adequate advance notice of the U.S.-Israeli attack and complaining the U.S. had ignored their warnings that the war would have devastating consequences for the entire region, some of the regional allies are making the case to the White House that the moment offers a historic opportunity to cripple Tehran’s clerical rule once and for all. [They have memories of Bush/Bama forever wars with inferior planning, and no exit strategy. This time they want the job done properly. Luckily; they have a competent administration that’s up to the task.]
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-mbs-gulf-war-uae-89f690b952fe28d3140c537b70fa5051
Gulf allies privately make the case to Trump to keep fighting until Iran is decisively defeated.
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April 1, 2026 8:08am
- Ipanema69
  
  I agree but the Gulf allies need to “pick up a weapon and stand a post” to quote Col Jessop from a few good men.
  
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  April 1, 2026 1:20pm
  - sungsamning
    
    I think some of them have. Anyhow; they’re offering genuine support. Temporarily dumping all sanctions on Russia would be a big help. Oil prices need to come down. And gas is needed for fertilizer sooner rather than later. Notice how NATO, the UN, and EU are pretty irrelevant in this equation.
    
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    April 1, 2026 2:15pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Re Apnews article
  according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials
  
  To quote Mandy Rice Davies.
  
  They would say that wouldnt they.
  
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  April 1, 2026 3:21pm
Yvette

Nearly all New Zealanders communicate primarily in English – English being the most common modern global lingua franca.
So then, when signage (some crucial to immediate understanding – notably road safety information) and other communications are given in more than one language, why is English not always first?
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April 1, 2026 8:18am
- pdm
  
  I sent in a submission along the following lines, only one sentence, on something about a place called Otautahi (sp).
  
  Rough quote:
  `I would like to submit on this matter but as I do not know where or what Otautaki (sp) is I am not able to.’
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:38am
  - Paulus
    
    Where they play cricket on the television !
    
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    April 1, 2026 12:20pm
    - Flossie
      
      That gets my goat!!
      
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      April 1, 2026 1:06pm
  - Yvette
    
    Pdm, to help you oaut, Otautahi is just north of Caper Reinga (but part of Australia), the entity that runs New Zealand roads, or part of Auckland Islands (which are about as far from Auckland as you can get) or the Scottish capital of Otaugo
    
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    April 1, 2026 12:21pm
- sungsamning
  
  Woke is on the way out in the USA. However; the memo is travelling rather slowly, and hasn’t quite reached these shores. Dumping RNZ, and TVNZs ‘news and current affairs’ would hasten the process.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:17pm
graham

Stand by for a battle.

“Broadcasting Standards Authority v Sean Plunket and The Platform – BSA claims formal jurisdiction over Māori tikanga ‘mumbo jumbo’ comment”

(Paywalled)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/media-insider/media-insider-broadcasting-standards-authority-v-sean-plunket-and-the-platform-bsa-claims-formal-jurisdiction-over-comment/premium/TVS3U5ENWFGXDGJQDTYDS4T4ZQ/

The Broadcasting Standards Authority claims it has jurisdiction to consider a complaint laid against online-only broadcaster The Platform – a move that puts it in a major stand-off with some politicians and free-speech advocates.

In a decision published today, the authority said it had determined it could accept and was “required to consider under the Broadcasting Act, complaints about The Platform’s Live Talkback programme, because the programme meets the Act’s definition of ‘broadcasting’.”

So in a quite breath-taking move of supreme arrogance, the BSA has asked the BSA if it can claim formal jurisdiction over The Platform, and the BSA has replied to the BSA, “Sure, go right ahead”.

The BSA would appear to be wildly out of control in making this decision and imperiously awarding itself a new power. I suspect they have just kicked off one almighty fight …
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April 1, 2026 8:22am
- RoboRob
  
  Surely thats an April fools joke? That was all resolved some time ago. I believe Goldsmith, the minister in charge of the BSA, stepped in and said ‘lets just let this play out’.
  
  Luxon even stepped in and said ‘that sounds wrong to me’, un typically strong words from PM Luxon. Surely then the BSA, that is still waiting on Goldsmiths restructuring, would have dropped this.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:05am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Goldsmith, Luxon, BSA. Description of tikanga as mumbo jumbo. Which side did you think they would land on? Free speech?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:29am
  - R
    
    The BSA is another NGO style dept that is a tentacle of the Labour Party, continuing the Ardern Hipkins agenda.
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:30am
    - RoboRob
      
      Perhaps the Minister in charge of the BSA should complete his review and do something about it?
      
      The clock is ticking.
      
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      April 1, 2026 3:11pm
- sungsamning
  
  The entire BSA needs a DCM.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:18pm
Scooter

Did Chris Luxon seriously call himself the CEO of NZ in his interview with Tova O’Brien? Is he having a Muller moment or wishing he was back in charge of Air NZ. Weird. At least Nicola Willis seems to be coming into her own and is sounding like the most reasonable and stable at this time. Maybe we should have Nicola as PM and Shane Jones/Winston as deputy.
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April 1, 2026 8:26am
- septic skeptic
  
  Well I wish he was back in charge of Air NZ. I mostly use Jetstar anyway.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:31am
  - Ian
    
    Lucky you – you obviously live on Jetstar’s main trunk route. Spare a thought for those of us in the provinces…
    
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    April 1, 2026 3:23pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      Fair point. Not that Air NZ are any less rapacious now without Luxon.
      
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      April 1, 2026 4:41pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Shane and Winston are more likely to go with Labour this time around. Assuming they can get enough seats to keep the 🍉 🍉🍉 out of the equation and Hipkins gets his marching orders.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:34am
  - sungsamning
    
    That would be a deal breaker for a lot of supporters. Winston and Shane can’t fail to be aware of that.
    
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    April 1, 2026 2:19pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      😆😆😆
      Half a term as PM would probably suit Winston for a swansong. As for a deal breaker, once his got your vote the rest is up to him, sunshine. Besides, there will without doubt be another bandwagon to jump on come time to campaign in 2030.
      
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      April 1, 2026 4:39pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Not much of a CEO when the staff ignore him…
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:42am
- Interested Party
  
  The Well he sought of is, like all PMs are meant to be, although many labour PMs couldn’t manage a pissup in a brewery. He probably should have phrased it better, either way the media would have twisted it. Yes he’s the CEO, but also needs to be a leader (his style often doesn’t demonstrate this).
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:17am
- kiwimike
  
  David Seymour
  Winston is a Foriegn Minister only
  
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  April 1, 2026 12:05pm
Gravelroad

Just watching Sweden v Poland in the UEFA qualifier match.
There is a bloke in the Poland team named Kiwior.
Surely this must be a cultural misappropriation?
He just got a yellow card.
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April 1, 2026 8:34am
- pdm
  
  Perhaps he bought the name with a dollop of koha.
  
  Money really does talk in these matters.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:45am
- Cassandra
  
  He has an interesting life. A talented footballer, played for Arsenal among other clubs. His glamorous wife is known as “the Queen of Twerk”.
  
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  April 1, 2026 8:47am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    I think that is the first time I have seen twerk and glamorous in the same sentence without a not somewhere in there.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:03am
    - kowtow
      
      Ha ha . I had eggzakery the same thought!
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:10am
      - Cassandra
        
        Have a look at her pic. She’s glam.
        
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        April 1, 2026 9:34am
  - Flossie
    
    His wife surely cannot be Queen of Twerk. Hasn’t that title been awarded to Meghan Markle?
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:18am
    - Cassandra
      
      David Seymour.
      
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      April 1, 2026 9:35am
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      ‘Twerp’ it’s spelled/spelt ‘T W E R P’.
      
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      April 1, 2026 10:40am
    - kiwimike
      
      Twerp !
      
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      April 1, 2026 12:09pm
KH

Iranian speaker trolls Trump
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/31/where-to-invest-during-iran-war-ask-or-dont-mohammad-bagher-ghalibaf
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April 1, 2026 8:55am
Graham Sharpe

The Right Honourable Christopher Hipkins.
Was he right? Was he honourable?
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April 1, 2026 8:58am
- Simon
  
  Is a criminal investigation under way? No. It’s just all theatre for the plebs. Boosted losers.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:51am
- cmm (semi-retired edition)
  
  I am sure he’s a habitual liar just like Cindy. Telling the truth feels uncomfortable.
  
  I don’t even believe he likes sausage rolls. He’s too damn skinny.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:52am
  - imalwaysright
    
    So is Nicola Willis, her weight loss has gone too far. Her health should come first.
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:45am
    - Albie
      
      She’s morphing into a Megan Kelly. Looks aside, she’s doing a pretty good job under the circumstances. Some on this blog it seems would like to give Barbara Edmonds a go.
      
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      April 1, 2026 2:02pm
- sungsamning
  
  No.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:21pm
fightingtemeraire

Sent This to Luxon this morning

Here is an idea!!!

You and Willis shuffle off and get in a real leader.

I have had to lead men when I was a Chief Officer and Master at sea.

You haven’t a clue, you are basically a Manager and nothing else and you are only slightly above Labour in that regard.

After 6 years of Labour you should be streets ahead and you are basically on level pegging with Little Chippie.

Go and get a real leader in.

What about Chris Penk??? The Submarine Service (aka The Trade) only takes the brightest and the best.

Btw I will be voting either ACT or NZF for the Party Vote and also electoral vote.
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April 1, 2026 8:59am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yep, there are only 2 types, Followers and leaders.
  I second your concerns as well.
  I really do not think they fully understand the full implications of the lack of Energy security in NZ and the cost to society.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:40am
  - R
    
    Who is ‘they’?…… Basic sentence construction..Subject and predicit! Old school I realise.
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:00am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Predicate
      
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      April 1, 2026 11:54am
      - R
        
        Artificial intelligence predictive text, blame Microsoft
        
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        April 1, 2026 7:38pm
- Paulus
  
  Presumably that Penk, whom I like, will at least be Defence Minister, when announced tomorrow.
  He was first I believe an officer in the RNZ Navy before Australia – and he is a qualified Lawyer.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:44am
  - RoboRob
    
    The real test will be what Luxon does with Goldsmith and Watts. If the retain or expand portfolios that says it all about Luxon.
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:09am
- wisteria
  
  What an arrogant comment. Go and get yourself a real job.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:56am
- R
  
  So you’re not interested in the countries economic situation that your grandchildren will inherit.!
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:04am
  - Charlotte Wells
    
    Anyone who let’s their grandchildren live in the Aotearoa of the future should be asked if they really care about their grandchildren.
    
    Mine all live overseas, with my blessing.
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:26am
    - Flossie
      
      I don’t know that one can “let” their grandchildren do or not do anything. Rather their own prerogative. or maybe if they’re under age, then their parents’.
      
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      April 1, 2026 1:09pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Mine all live overseas, with my blessing
      
      So other people’s grandies fund your pension. Nice.
      
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      April 1, 2026 1:54pm
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        I will be long dead before that is a worry to any of them.
        
        I have my own pension fund and have done all my life.
        
        Also my own health plan.
        
        There’s nothing I receive from the government via robbery of others by the IRD.
        
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        April 1, 2026 5:26pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        I’m a bit confused. Are you telling us that you have your own pension plan and will not be accepting the gummint one? That’s noble, but seeing as gummint will by default give it to you, it’s a bit dumb.
        
        I was just talking about the general situation where oldies draw their pension, the grandkids have shot through and thems as is left are funding the pemsions.
        
        And don’t give me “but I paid all my taxes” stuff – the pension bit of that was going to your olds …
        
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        April 1, 2026 6:31pm
    - Ghost
      
      people are free to live where they want, no need to be a child about that and claim grandparents don’t care about their grandchildren if they live in NZ.
      
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      April 1, 2026 5:31pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        people are free to live where they want
        
        and expect the people who are still here to fund their grandies’ pensions …. 🙂
        
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        April 1, 2026 6:17pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Wrong way round. I was talking about departed grandchildren not having to care about how someone else is paying their grandparents’ pension ….
        
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        April 1, 2026 6:45pm
    - Drone
      
      And children Charlotte…
      
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      April 2, 2026 7:39am
Damocles11

Treasury analytical notes regarding superannuation show that it is projected to climb from costing 5.1% of GDP today, to around 8% of GDP by 2065.
‘The annual bill for universal pensions could reach $151b, which is $25b higher than today. On top of that, there’ll be half the number of workers to pay for it with their taxes.’
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, that much is clear. But if we don’t address the unsustainable and ultimately ruinous path we are on, then we will just trudge knowingly into collective penury and collapsing living standards. My guess is we will choose the later option, just shutting our eyes and hoping for the best.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360958645/top-tax-rate-873-2065-youve-got-be-kidding
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April 1, 2026 9:04am
- Paulus
  
  I and a few friensds have decided to think of the next election in that we will vote like probably 60% of the voters, for whoever will give us more money – we do not care where it comes from like borrowed Ardern/Robertson did so that does not matter – we want more, more, more.
  It has been said tha there must be some $40 billion of that borrowed over the motu – but where ?
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:51am
  - cmm (semi-retired edition)
    
    Yup, there becomes a point where if you can’t beat them then join them.
    In this case just join the lolly scramble.
    
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    April 1, 2026 9:55am
  - Damocles11
    
    I think New Zealanders have always voted for who will give or guarantee them the most.
    We don’t have a Capital Gains Tax but we do have ‘Working For Families’. (Why should I be forced to work for someone else’s family, and what is ‘fair’ about that?)
    But “we’re entitled to it don’t you know, because we paid our taxes.”
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:58am
    - Ian Boag
      
      New Zealanders have always voted for who will give or guarantee them the most.
      
      Absolutely. Why did Muldoon win in 1975?By planting a fiscal bomb that is only looking to blow up now 50 years later.
      
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      April 1, 2026 6:47pm
      - Quail
        
        IB,
        Sorting out an energy crisis , may just have had something to do with it!
        It was not all about keeping cats in dairy’s
        The inflation generated did cause grief for him, just as present inflation is causing grief for all NZ .
        Douglas sorted that inflation, who is going to sort this crisis?
        That is the problem.
        
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        April 1, 2026 7:14pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        The fiscal bomb I referred to was the pension. 60-year olds got it for free. Moved gradually to 65 year olds being funded by the less-than-65s because they expect the (current) less than 50s will fund them because they expect the same from today’s less-than 40s. Like any Ponzi scheme it will fall apart one day. I will be dead by then 🙂
        
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        April 1, 2026 7:29pm
- Philview
  
  The peaker boomer birth year are in their mid 70s now. They are forecasting continual mass migration to keep the pension ship afloat.
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:09am
- Ian Boag
  
  annual bill for universal pensions could reach $151b, which is $25b higher than today
  
  Wot? Current bill is a bit short of $25bn …. could knock about $1bn off that by abating pension to be all gone at $100k of income. Asset testing like Oz at similar levels would probably get another $1-2bn (wild guess). Broadly speaking a house plus $1m or so deals to it there. Give or take a bit. Then start increasing the age to 70 by 6 months a year starting tomorrow. All pretty gradual and unlikely to throw oldies straight into hardship.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:03pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    Maybe you meant $51bn?
    
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    April 1, 2026 6:19pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  8% is less than a lot of other developed countries are paying for pensions already
  
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  April 1, 2026 4:56pm
- NothingLeft
  
  LOL, lets stop pretending the world is going to keep spinning and economics has any predictive value.
  
  Anthropic internally now reckon they will have AGI within 6-12 months. Everything we think we understand about the world and economics stops working soon after that.
  
  Superintelligence arrives a few months to years later, and will thereafter own control of the earth. Chimpanzees do not beat grandmasters at chess, we don’t exactly how and when we will lose control, but lose control we shall.
  
  I doubt humans will survive as Superintelligences compete for who gets to convert more of the world into parts of itself. Might take 10 years might take 100 but humans are done for, unless we stop it now. But population are too dumb and distracted to do it.
  
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  April 1, 2026 6:06pm
Quail

Noted with interest on American news last night, that there is now substantial interest and action in wave energy, as an energy supply, with claimed huge economic benefits.
Progress is being made in implementing this.
Comparison with coastlines vs population of NZ and the US means NZ. has far more options in that field than the US,
Perhaps this country should urgently investigate what appears to be a substantial source of clean energy!
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April 1, 2026 9:29am
- virtualmark
  
  The problem with wave energy is that you sap energy from the tides. In turn that saps energy from the moon, slowing its orbit. As its orbit slows the moon will fall closer and closer to the earth until eventually one day it won’t be able to remain in a stable orbit any longer and will crash into the earth.
  
  We are better off burning old dinosaurs and trees.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:57am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Is this an April Fools joke
    
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    April 1, 2026 10:56am
    - virtualmark
      
      Yes!
      
      (The real challenge with wave energy is that in the attractive high-energy sites you occasionally-but-still-regularly get some colossal waves that wreck your equipment).
      
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      April 1, 2026 12:56pm
    - Charlotte Wells
      
      ?You needed to ask.
      
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      April 1, 2026 12:58pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Wave energy comes from wind – ultimately solar radiation.
    
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    April 1, 2026 11:25am
- Ian Boag
  
  Has been coming forever (along with tidal) – costs look pretty sad.
  
  https://chatgpt.com/share/69cc6f7a-b010-8320-b7a5-d9a15ea681c1
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:10pm
Tomtoddy

https://www.nzcpr.com/a-wake-up-call/ Great research and commentary by Muriel Newman and Dr Reaney. Worth your time to read.
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April 1, 2026 9:29am
- Master Mariner
  
  Great article TT, Fully agree.
  Scorched Earth Policy by NZ Green evangelical Ministers of all parties.
  Unfortunately this crisis has plenty of legs left and I’m picking at least 12-24 months of disruptions left before any light at the end of the tunnel.
  
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  April 1, 2026 9:48am
- nz_aj
  
  The ship has sailed. It’ll never be economically viable to rebuild a refinery here.
  No significant new commercial gas discoveries have been made in New Zealand since 2006. From 2015, 58 explotority wells were drilled with nothing found. There probably isn’t a large amount of gas left waiting somewhere in NZ. As an alternative gas supply, we’d be better to return to gasification of NZ coal.
  For emergency and dry year electricty supply, we’d best rely on the Huntly Power Station burning NZ coal. To increase capacity we’re best to develop all viable geothermal power stations.
  We need to pursue energy independance, and cheapest possible cost of energy. This probably means electrification of as much of the economy as possible.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:06pm
  - Jack5
    
    “Gasification of NZ coal” is old stuff, the production of “coal gas,” also known as “town gas” or “syngas.”
    
    It’s made from coal. Think of the smelly gas works in towns of old. These days syngas is used mainly to generate electricity.
    
    Extracting coal-seam gas by fracking is an untapped resource for New Zealand. This is extracting gas that already exists within coal seams. Coal-seam gas or CSG is the stuff that blew apart the Pike River mine.
    
    Extracting this coal-seam gas is a big industry in Queensland. The state’s three CSG-to-LNG plants, at the time of the report below (last July), provided a quarter of Australia’s LNG exports. Last year, Australia was the world’s second biggest LNG exporter.
    
    https://www.woodmac.com/reports/upstream-oil-and-gas-coal-seam-gas-to-lng-how-has-the-industry-developed-and-what-next-150390515/
    
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    April 1, 2026 8:28pm
Yvette

■ The problem of ‘woke’ Maorification
Précis
“Woke” ideology, deeply embedded through adoption by influential sectors such as academia, media, and the public service, where dissent is discouraged and conformity rewarded, is difficult to reverse because it is institutional rather than merely cultural. Proponents present their views in moderate or civil tones, masking what are fundamentally divisive and illiberal ideas. Critics of “woke” thinking risk marginalisation or reputational harm, reinforcing the ideology’s persistence.
Ultimately, “woke entrenchment” is a threat to liberal democratic values—particularly free speech, meritocracy, and social cohesion. Meaningful change will require not just political shifts but a broader cultural pushback against these embedded norms, which are seen as resistant to challenge and deeply rooted in contemporary institutional life.
https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/john-mclean-woke-entrenchment

■ An example –
A mental stumbling stone in the path of being helped by a mental health counsellor?
17 Habits of a Valued Treaty Partner
Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna ‘i for the Values Compass of the Edmund Hillary
https://www.flyinggeesepro.nz/downloads/17-Habits-of-a-Valued-Treaty-Partner.pdf

From that first step, we have made progress – although we acknowledge we have far to go. Our Fellows now have the opportunity to hear about Te Tiriti o Waitangi from Rangatira, to understand the impact of colonisation, and are offered an open invitation to learn more. Providing us with guide rails, Fellow Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i developed 17 Habits of a Valued Treaty Partner with input from the Kāhui Māori, which can be viewed on the Flying Geese website. – Rosalie Nelson, Chief Executive of Edmund Hillary Fellowship and Hillary Institute.
https://www.ehf.org/news-blog/reflections-this-waitangi-day-2023.

Someone with deep depression, gravely hindered by a vast conflict in perceptions of reality, does not need an additional stumbling stone of the utter bullshit of a woke counsellor.
Being mentally colonised, and caste with white supremism, “privilege” and guilt, when you are already cognitively fucked doesn’t help anyone.

◦ And an example within an example –
If I sought a counsellor to sort out my Accidental Racism, I would be totally screwed.
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April 1, 2026 9:59am
I remember when

Khylee Quince reflects on Tikanga reforms as AUT law dean tenure ends: Breaking Views.
“Leading the change to “embed tikanga” in law students’ first year of study is the proudest achievement of New Zealand’s first Maori Dean of Law, who is stepping down.”
“Quince said it was significant the first thing law students at her university heard was “a Maori voice talking about Maori law being the first law of this country.”

Quince have always been acerbic.
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April 1, 2026 10:19am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Quince has always been more extremist activist than mediocre law professor.
  
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  April 1, 2026 10:44am
- pdm
  
  Nothing at all wrong with quince and apple jelly or quince jam.
  
  Don’t think I am that keen on a Quince starting with a capital letter though.
  
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  April 1, 2026 11:44am
- Charlotte Wells
  
  The first law of this country would be the law of the jungle then?
  
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  April 1, 2026 12:59pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  “Maori law being the first law of the country”.
  
  True that, but we’ve moved on. Let it go, Kylie!
  
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  April 1, 2026 7:27pm
Jethrod

Now here is something that we could all give support to:-
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360958729/good-friday-you-might-be-able-go-bar-heres-why

Ooh , ooh , what’s the date again?
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April 1, 2026 10:51am
Boy Geoff

Hey, has Chlöe Swarbrick and her chums Tamatha, Ricardo, etc., etc. ever seen (or would she possibly even understand) the photograph at: https://purgatoryisnotaplace.substack.com/p/two-leftists-celebrated-the-ayatollahs ?
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April 1, 2026 11:44am
Jack5

Moon time again …

The launch time for NASA’s flight around the Moon, Artemis 2, seems to be some time from around 11 am tomorrow (NZ time). That’s the first potential launch time. Other potential times seem to reach the end of the month.

The crew are three NASA astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen. They will be the first people to visit the Moon since 1972, but won’t be landing.

The web site space.com says Glover is the first “person of colour” to visit the Moon. Tariq Malik, of Space.com, writes that, at a space conference in Colorado Springs on 17 April, 2023, two weeks after Glover had been named in the Artemis 2 crew, Glover told reporters about a weekly custom of his.

Every Monday on his way to the Johnson Space Centre in Houston he listened to a poem, “Whitey on the Moon,” by Gil Scott-Heron.

Glover said: “It ain’t about racism. It’s about the human condition.”

The vast cost of the space trips to the Moon was questioned by many .

My humble view is that there was pay-off in technology progress that spun off into many fields and benefited everyone around the world. If the money hadn’t been spent, would it have gone to helping the poor, the needy, and desperate? Yeah, right.

You can read “Whitey on the Moon” here:

https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/exhibits/show/economic-inequality/item/3222

Or listen to the poet, Scott-Heron, reading it here:

https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=6NIvpM5LOjWkH10T
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April 1, 2026 12:08pm
- Ghost
  
  bugger, I wont be able to watch it live.
  
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  April 1, 2026 12:42pm
- greybeard
  
  “They will be the first people to visit the Moon since 1972, but won’t be landing. ”
  or:
  “They will be the first people to visit the Moon…”
  
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  April 1, 2026 1:38pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    If they ain’t landing then it ain’t a visit.
    
    More of a drive-by.
    
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    April 1, 2026 7:29pm
vand

What a humourless bunch of down tickers on April Fools Day in response to Tomtoddys satire.
Would make good ayatollahs

e.g. “Pugh has been heard saying that the West Coast is owed a Prime Ministership as it is well over 100 years since Dick Seddon represented the electorate. Sh…. It is believed Pugh thinks Jimmy has the right name for a Finance portfolio.:
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April 1, 2026 12:47pm
- MCōs
  
  The problems with April fool’s day are the pranks are invariably tiresome and sometimes they aren’t pranks at all, which is worse
  
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  April 1, 2026 4:26pm
septic skeptic

So here is my potential solution for the Iran crisis.

1. Trump and the US do what he suggested today and just decamp over the next couple of weeks.
2. China steps in to broker a truce between the Gulf states and Iran. Security guarantees for Iran in exchange for no nuclear ambitions would be desirable but not essential
3. The Gulf states tell the US to remove their bases and negotiate their own security arrangements for the region.
4. That just leaves Israel…
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April 1, 2026 12:52pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Point 5 of course is let’s just stop using USD to transact for oil an move to the yuan.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:42pm
Ghost

Article

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened Tuesday to target American tech and defense companies operating in the Middle East if the U.S. and Israel continue to target Iranian leadership.

The IRGC listed 18 companies it threatened to target for actively participating in terrorist plots, according to a translation of the statement. The companies include Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Palantir, Nvidia, Tesla and Boeing, among others.

Interesting turn of events, I would expect this would come from their sleeper cells.
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April 1, 2026 2:00pm
- Inandout
  
  Ghost, Biden didn’t allow 14 odd million through the southern border for no reason at all. There are some Dems who want to destroy the US for no other reason than Trump is President.
  
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  April 1, 2026 2:41pm
Paulus

I would expect that the so called Sleepers would aleady be employees of these Companies and will stuff them when and wherever they can.
Like New Zealand’s Public Servants who will continue to denigrate and leak confidential information whenever they can, and as anarchist activists will continue their good work with the media.
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April 1, 2026 2:58pm
Ra Henare

Here is a thought.

Trump trashing Starmer etc ie go find your own oil. USA has its own jetfuel.

It occured to me that Europe could close the Atlantic to US bound flights by limiting refuelling for jets heading to A merry Car.

From no fuel allowed , to a massive surcharge…..

Lets see how the Dictator likes getting some of his own medicene. /sarc
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April 1, 2026 3:29pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  That’s funny.
  
  Which direction do you think has the most travellers?
  
  Which direction would the most desired goods travel.
  
  What you propose would be a massive European own goal.
  
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  April 1, 2026 5:31pm
Sparrow

Many of us are floundering around in the present unfathomable political environment. Who do we tick ? Labour unlikely as their partners live on different planets to most of us. The Nats whose policy under Key and Luxon is to achieve very little don’t rock the boat is hardly encouraging. That leaves ACT and NZF. ACT is too divisive for many. That leaves NZF with two populist running it. Seems good until we start digging. All politicians are swayed by lobbyists and elites but with these two its in your face. Fishing and Horse Racing it goes beyond simple lobbying. Won’t mention the c word (no not the other c word). Crossed them off. Where too ??
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April 1, 2026 3:37pm
- surfing
  
  Tick reform UK 🙂
  
  You nailed it though. Exactly my thoughts, except I’d be a little harder on national — they fold like a wet wipe as soon as the hikoi appears.
  
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  April 1, 2026 4:57pm
- AitchW
  
  ACT is only divisive because it aims to end gravy trains and treat everyone equally. The professional bludgers and shit stirrers see ACT as a threat to their very existence and make a disproportionate amount of noise.
  
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  April 1, 2026 5:16pm
- Ian Boag
  
  It’s a bit hard. Realistically you are looking at Lab/Nat. ACT are right wing Ayn Rand loons. NZF are whatever-is-good-for Winston/Shane fishing and greyhound loons. TPM are – well – te Tiriti loons. Greens are – well – in so many ways – loons.
  
  So it’s Lab (we care a bit) vs Nat (let’s support the landlords) folk. Neither has the cojones to confront the ballooning super cost thing or to look sensibly at a comprehensive CGT like they have in Oz or Canada (the ones I know about).
  
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  April 1, 2026 7:01pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    “ ACT are right wing Ayn Rand loons”?
    
    Really, Ian? You can do better than a drive-by slag off. How about a critique of their policy as it could be applied to NZ’s problems?
    
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    April 1, 2026 7:33pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Pity you won’t put your name on your rambling about bike racks. Perhaps a summary of the ACT ideas that ring your bell and how they would make NZ a better place to live in?
      
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      April 1, 2026 7:36pm
surfing

If this is true, Trump has screwed the world!

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c36r5p1l7w3t

Trump says US will leave Iran in ‘two or three weeks’ whether ‘we have a deal or not’

Iran will clip the ticket for decades to come.
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April 1, 2026 4:55pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Sad if that happens. Iran is less a war than a rescue mission for the poor Iranians suffering under theocratic monsters.
  
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  April 1, 2026 5:17pm
- Handyman
  
  That would be a master troll. Trump has removed the threat of ballistic missiles reaching London. Never mind nuclear warheads.
  The combined rest of the world can now negotiate with Iran to open the Strait. The US does not depend on the Hormuz. According to the EU and Nato, Iran is not a threat and wouldn’t hurt anyone – “Religion of Peace” and all that. They will probably agree to pay the $3 per barrel tax on all mid-east oil rather than upset their Islamic voter base.
  Europe didn’t work with the US; let’s see how they get on without the US.
  
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  April 1, 2026 5:45pm
  - MCōs
    
    I looked up where the UK, for example, gets their oil and only a minor amount comes from the Middle East
    They have North Sea oil, Scandinavia oil, America and Nigeria, but the price is out of their hands. The oil companies must be making a killing, I’d have thought
    
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    April 1, 2026 7:49pm
  - Drone
    
    Iranian ballistic missiles were never going to reach London, this claim is as bogus as Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction by Tony Blair and George Bush.
    
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    April 2, 2026 7:25am
- Drone
  
  Trump is manipulating the Financial Markets so he and his family and friends can make a killing. Every time he makes a statement about the end of the war markets rise to fall a few says later when amazingly nothing has happened.
  
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  April 2, 2026 7:27am
surfing

Sam Uffindell is a bit of a useless clown — he’s letting the boss put yet another Toll road in Tauranga — there will now be 3 toll roads in Tauranga — here is a list toll roads in the South Island….

….

In the north island…
Tauranga: 3
Auckland: 1

Sam, doing the hard work for Tauranga!

I’m not against toll roads, but, why does the government disproportionally attack Tauranga?
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April 1, 2026 5:07pm
Ghost

A 16-year-old motorist has had their keys confiscated after they were caught performing an alleged dangerous overtake on dash cam.

The teenage driver was referred to Youth Aid for dangerous driving.

article

charge the little shit
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April 1, 2026 5:26pm
- greybeard
  
  Crush his car.
  Give him a good caning.
  Then charge him.
  AND most importantly: publish his name and photo.
  
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  April 1, 2026 6:29pm
- Flossie
  
  This is were we have too many confusing definitions of Adult. Old enough to drive, old enough to be punished for law breaking just like all other drivers.
  
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  April 1, 2026 7:17pm
Jack5

Another case of big debt to IRD …

Auckland ethnic supermarket Auckland supermarket Food 4 Less New Lynn (Ltd) owes more than 90 creditors around $2.9 million, according to the liquidator’s report.

Food 4 Less New Lynn was put into liquidation in February. Inland Revenue is owed around $425,000 in preferential claims and a further $434,000 in unsecured claims – $859,000 in total. The BNZ is another secured creditor, owed just over $1million.

The company is owned by U & S Chand Investments Ltd, which in turn is owned by Amit Prakash, of Howick, Auckland.

The liquidator, Pritesh Patel, reported the supermarket, at 13 Vernonica Street, New Lynn, focused on selling Indian, Pacific Island and other types of ethnic food and general grocery products. It included a halal butchery and takeway curries.

The liquidator reported that despite “reaching out” to the owner of the premises the company operated from, being unable to “progress matters” on lease issues. The liquidator describes the premise owner as company U & S Investments Ltd and not Food 4 Less (New Lynn) Ltd.

“It became quite obvious due to the lack of communication and delays by the landlord (via their lawyers) that there was no merit in pursuing a sales of the business as a going concern as no lease would be available,” the liquidator reported.
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April 1, 2026 5:27pm
Inandout

My goodness Jacob ReesMogg speaks a lot of sense, in a country with massive freedom of speech problems.
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April 1, 2026 6:18pm
greybeard

We know that “New Zealand First” ( yeah, right ), has been in thrall to the racing industry for years, and the marine fishing industry for almost the same time: what is to come next ? Trout fishing ? Deer hunting ? Floundering ? Just how much money does NZF make from these dodgy connections ?
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April 1, 2026 6:27pm
NothingLeft

Grim report from ukraine #3457:

Ukraine offers a bounty system to it’s drone pilots to improve performance – they win points for targets destroyed that they can then redeem for better gear – rewarding the most effective pilots with best equipment. Points are changed depending on what commanders want to see most prioritized day by day.

But recently they’ve run into a problem with killing enemy – who when chased by drones are sometimes opting to quickly suicide rather than get hit by drones and perhaps die slowly in agony from a drone wound.

So now a policy change sees pilots still winning points for such suicides when being chased by a drone.

Sympathy for Russians has to be tempered by fact they signed up for money to go and kill Ukrainians.
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April 1, 2026 6:28pm
Ghost

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is preparing to help the US open the Strait of Hormuz by force, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Citing Arab officials, the outlet reported the UAE is lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution that would authorise such action.

Article

Good, but it is still a long road until things are back to normal even if they do accomplish this.
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