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CJames

As the IPCC has officially declared that the high emissions RCP 8.5, with all its derivatives and subsidiaries is totally implausible, that makes all the modelling the Climate Change Commission did rubbish.
https://www.climatecommission.govt.nz/our-work/adaptation/national-climate-change-risk-assessments/2026-national-climate-change-risk-assessment
Their just released doom laden scenarios are only GIGO fantasies. I note their report using the implausible scenario came out after the IPCC killed it. Don’t they read the news, or did they hope no-one would notice?
The CCC’s climate change bad weather events already causing “long-lasting hurt, grief and fear” are just nothing out of the ordinary weather events in places where complacency has allowed people to do things like develop flood plains or not maintain existing infrastructure. Keeping willows out of riverbeds is not as important as creating a rainbow community stuff. Rather than the bureaucracy accept responsibility for not doing their job, it is easier to blame climate change and suck more money out of the punters to cover up their inadequacies.
The technocrats aren’t competent, why should they be allowed to continue ruling us with their ineptitude. Look at the backgrounds of senior staff in the various levels of government organisations. Does an advanced degree in basketweaving make you superior to a sparkie? Because they think it does.
Rather than going back to the drawing board, a better idea is just get rid of them altogether. The organisation used assumptions they knew were wrong so needs to go. They are no different to the BSA. An easy victory for David Seymour.
Be aware that the CC are co-governance all the way down. Look at the Maori words throughout their writings on the website making the text a word salad. They are a useless organisation. However, any move against them will bring out all the grifters – no doubt a Waitangi Tribunal claim as well. Getting rid of the organisation will make their people and contractors lose income they will never replace. They don’t have marketable skills in the private sector. Maybe they could learn to code, or failing that, drive a truck?
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May 9, 2026 8:01am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Someone should tell the Climate Change Commission that if I want weather hallucination then I’ll use Chat GPT.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:03am
  - Nobby2
    
    Never Mind. My mantra is , if you want to know what the weather is going to do, ask a farmer or a fisherman, as they rely on it to run a sucessful enterprise.
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:46am
    - Ra Henare
      
      Or a local experinced Glider Pilot 🙂
      
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      May 9, 2026 2:37pm
      - Phronesis
        
        They are easily identified by the silly hat.
        
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        May 9, 2026 3:23pm
- Waipuk
  
  Nothing will change. Everytime it rains there will be some, so called, scientist on TV or social media saying it’s climate change. Journalists will lap it up as you don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:12am
  - wisteria
    
    I recall an opinionated tree grower saying to me that her science was better than mine.
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:01am
- kowtow
  
  The great and the good make a bigly deal about mental health and youth ( wimmin too) .
  
  Yet they and the media are doing huge damage , in terms of anxiety etc ,with their neo religious , planet doom cult.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:20am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Correct.
    There are people who believe this crap and become depressed, or at least scared.
    Maybe that’s the point, its much easier to control scared and depressed people and its easier still to get their money from them.
    
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    May 9, 2026 11:58am
- redeye
  
  You are correct, the Climate Commision is a complete waste of money and resources. But can I just point out that river flats and floodplains in New Zealand are among the most fertile lands we have, and if we all stopped farming on them NZ would be in considerably worse economic trouble. In New Zealand we farm around 1.5 million hectares of flood hazard zones (FHZs).
  In 2017 dairys EBIT in FHZs was $1.25 billion in 2017.
  So it’s not complacency that keeps us farming these areas but the results it brings.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:38am
  - CJames
    
    I wasn’t talking about stopping farming. Things like that and golf courses or playing fields are ideal uses on flood plains. Just don’t build subdivisions or put low level bridges with lots of piles on them.
    If you need critical infrastructure on floodplains, build above the floodline, with stopbanks and better drainage
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:30am
- R
  
  Drive a truck! ..Most of them wouldn’t be competent to drive a significant truck; have you looked in the driver’s cab of a modern truck, nearly as complex as a airliner cockpit.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:11am
- JackRabbit
  
  CJames The technocrats aren’t competent, why should they be allowed to continue ruling us with their ineptitude?
  
  Know your B’s.
  Bullshit through:
  Bullying
  Bribery
  Blackmail
  Banishment (threat of)
  
  Same as for Big Pharma Covid theatre, Vaccine snake oil promotion, etc.
  
  It is all about generating revenue for the elites.
  
  If there was no kickback in the way of pocket pissing, back pocket payments, research grants, overseas trips, fancy well paid jobs, none of it would happen.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:25am
- JJ56
  
  Actually the CCC’s risk assessment is ultra vires its legislation. Section 5ZQ of the Act requires that the Commission “must take into account,” “current effects and likely future effects of climate change” and “the likely economic effects”.
  
  The Minister would be subject to legal action should he take any actions based upon this Risk Assessment, and should probably cut the CCC’s budget in half.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:45am
- Bullion
  
  This is such a BAD FAITH post.
  
  In the appendix of the report they outline what they use: RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 as outlined in AR5.
  
  And they even highlighted the unlikelihood of RCP8.5, direct quote:
  
  Where possible, risks were assessed using evidence that aligned with global warming equivalent to approximately 1.5°C
  by 2050 and 2°C by the end of the century for a low climate impact scenario, and using evidence that aligned with approximately 2–2.5°C by 2050 and 3–3.5°C by the end of the
  century for a high climate impact scenario. Note the emissions trajectories in RCP8.5 are now generally considered to be unlikely given global efforts. However, the scenario is still sometimes used to help consider the possible range of some impacts where there are uncertainties in the models.
  
  So basically RCP 2.6 used for low and RCP6.0 for high, except in certain circumstances where 8.5 is also used.
  
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  May 9, 2026 7:48pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The US is looking to revoke passports for those with child support payment arrears of $2,500+.

I don’t support deadbeat Dads foisting their obligations onto the general taxpayer, but on the whole I think the civil rights overreach is troubling.

Coming to a small group of islands near you?

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62r52l107po
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May 9, 2026 8:01am
- peterwn
  
  Across the ditch, the ATO can stop someone with tax arrears leaving the country. So can IRD if student loans outstanding. Outstanding fines – have your credit card ready at the departure gate. So Uncle Sam is not doing anything out of the ordinary.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:51am
  - rouppe
    
    Solo mums here not having to identify the father is a fraud committed on the rest of us.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:55am
    - TripeWryter
      
      rouppe:
      it isn’t all solo mums.
      The mother of my children was allowed to swan off to live overseas without ever having been made to arrange with the authorities her liable parent contributions.
      I have in a box several years of correspondence between Winz, the IRD, and me in which they demanded that I tell them where she was.
      I didn’t know and I told them I didn’t wish to know, either.
      Life had become very simple without her in it.
      But it was evident that they had allowed her to leave New Zealand without nailing down her responsibility to pay up.
      They must have caught up with her eventually because several years after our children had left my care sums of money mysteriously started to appear in my bank account.
      I asked my bank where the cash had come from; a helpful teller (remember bank tellers?) did a little digging. It came from the IRD’s child support agency.
      
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      May 9, 2026 1:10pm
      - rouppe
        
        Slightly different as you had identified the other parent. It’s not your responsibility to keep track of her.
        
        I’m talking of the ones who know who the father is, refuse to say, and so get full whack from the state plus money from the dad, but he pays less than what IRD would ping him for.
        
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        May 9, 2026 4:51pm
    - Paulus
      
      Problem is that mny of these Mums have no idea who screwed them, as they could have been drugged or pissed at the time, if they could remember.
      Where can we find the numbers of solo mothers ?
      
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      May 9, 2026 1:35pm
      - artemisia
        
        A tad over 80,000 on Sole Parent Support March 2026. Not all women of course but most will be. Only part of the story as there will be some on other benefits and many working.
        
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        May 9, 2026 2:59pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Their(US) Point of Difference is revoking the passport.
    NOT stopping people leaving the Country.
    
    I have put the “”revokeing for outstanding Child Support”” in the pre election stupidity basket.
    
    Only 6 months to the mid terms. So revoking passports for unpaid child support will die in a ditch.
    
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    May 9, 2026 2:43pm
Waipuk

Will the world run out of time before it finds a real alternative to petroleum?

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CpLSsWt7C/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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May 9, 2026 8:04am
- JackRabbit
  
  Waipuk,
  
  [10 Oil is not a limited supply that is derived from dead dinosaurs. If oil truly did come from dead dinosaurs, based on all oil consumption, and the calculated mass to produce said oil, there would have been 2 dinosaurs per square metre of land. Just over 100kg per square metre.
  
  [2] It has long been discovered that oil if being produced under extreme pressure under the earth’s mantle.
  
  [3] Energy solutions have been discovered, but given the greed to stop competition and affordable solutions, that technology gets suppressed.
  
  [4] And even with electricity generation sources, such as Hydro, which we have in abundance in NZ, having tapped very little of the potential generation, it gets stopped by the Marxist greens and Tribal TPM and “co governance” “white owes us” activists. These groups are unaware of where the funding and motivation comes from to fuel their outrage, but the source is heavily tied to those who suppress new forms of energy.
  
  Limit supply of energy and you drive the price up, putting the public into a state of continual servitude just to survive.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:37am
  - David Garrett
    
    Oh dear…
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:50am
    - RichardX
      
      JackRabbit
      According to latest scientific theory based on similarities between old dilapidated structures on Mars and on Earth, and according to the US governments remote viewing project ‘Stargate’ several decades ago, a part of the Earth’s population may be long term descendants of colonists from Mars.
      
      Mars destroyed itself, probably in the same way the subsequent Atlantis colony destroyed itself. If you were a Martian Landing on earth, with plans for world domination, you would thank Jacinda for all her preparation work. If you were a freedom lover you utter, “oh no, not again” and throw support behind an Act / National government to get rid of the serpent in the new Garden of Eden.
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/09/general_debate_23_september_2020.html#comment-2807119
      
      Jack Rabbit has some interesting beliefs
      
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      May 9, 2026 10:05am
      - Charlotte Wells
        
        oh dear ……
        
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        May 9, 2026 2:11pm
Pope Punctilious II

The Judean Peoples Front vs. The People’s Front of Judea:
https://drrawiritaonui.substack.com/p/te-pati-maori-delay-reinstating-kapa?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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May 9, 2026 8:05am
- pdm
  
  PPII
  
  A four way split in the Maori Electorates as Labour, Greens, Maori Party No1 (Tamihere Faction) and Maori Party No2 (the rest) fight for the seats.
  
  This clearly shows the Maori Seats are well past their use by dates – 140 odd years past in fact.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:22am
  - Boy Geoff
    
    Will that create an over hang or a hangover? I’m confused…
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:53am
  - kowtow
    
    With such division and chaos on the far left in Maori electorates surely an opportunity for a centre left party such as National, that’s shown how pro Maori it is, to capitalise on that flank.
    
    Given the tiny turnouts required to win seats in the racial electorates there , must be worth a shot!
    
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    May 9, 2026 11:10am
    - leoj
      
      National, a centre left party……
      
      Brilliantly put because it’s true.
      
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      May 9, 2026 12:57pm
- 3-coil
  
  Thankyou Pope PII
  for the most excellent informative link.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:25am
Southern Raider

The major thing about the UK elections that is really scary in the hundreds of extra council seats that the Greens and Independents have got. The Greens in the UK seem to be more bat shit than even our ones and the Independents are predominantly Muslim Sharia aligned.

Shouldn’t be God Save the King, it needs to be God Save the UK.
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May 9, 2026 8:16am
- sungsamning
  
  Reform and Great Yarmouth First did pretty well. Pity about the watermelons.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:36am
- kowtow
  
  Tousi tv has a post on this.
  
  Very interesting. A Labour candidate in Oldham doesn’t even speak English!
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:31am
  - David Garrett
    
    Kowtow: WSC – once the MP for Oldham – must be turning in his grave
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:52am
    - Michael Sommerville
      
      And Enoch Powell saying “I told you so!”
      
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      May 9, 2026 10:15am
      - Paulus
        
        Enoch was right, but he was referring to those from the Caribbean who came to Britin to replace so many men who never came back from War.
        London Transport survived with their employment.
        
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        May 9, 2026 1:39pm
      - kowtow
        
        He was referring to ‘Commonwealth immigration”.and it was in the context of the Labour govt’s Race Relations Bill.
        
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        May 9, 2026 2:25pm
- Scott
  
  Umm, well from another perspective Reform have won over 1400 seats and Nigel Farage looks like the next prime minister.
  
  So it’s not all doom and gloom by any means. 😊
  
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  May 9, 2026 11:43am
- leoj
  
  In 1938, Churchill informed the UK and the world the danger of Islam.
  
  Possibly too late now. Successive governments have failed to stem the flow of middle east migration (legal and illegal). Now, they pay the price.
  
  Only one solution: Deport by the million back to their shitholes.
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:01pm
Ghost

The weekly release of the USA’s ufo files has begun

https://www.war.gov/UFO/
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May 9, 2026 8:18am
- JackRabbit
  
  And it is predictable that the deep state will only release what they want us to see. Not what they don’t want us to see.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:39am
  - Ghost
    
    so far it is mostly a release of what has already been out in the public for a while. time will tell what else they release, and what is released they can’t stop or control
    
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    May 9, 2026 12:52pm
- Michael Sommerville
  
  But they won’t release the file that shows Trump is an alien! /s
  
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  May 9, 2026 10:17am
  - imalwaysright
    
    We’re all aliens, Michael.
    
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    May 9, 2026 12:08pm
- Hard Cheese
  
  Why is it that these UAP sightings are only captured with low resolution, grainy black and white cameras? And why are they often seen as having lights? If they’re aliens from another galaxy, it’s hardly likely their spaceships need navigation lights.
  
  Anyway, for all the dumb stuff Trump does you have to give him credit for releasing these files, transparency is a good thing.
  
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  May 9, 2026 3:53pm
  - Ghost
    
    Military videos are typically infrared cameras that are used to track missiles, not take nice pictures
    
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    May 9, 2026 4:56pm
    - Hard Cheese
      
      Sure, but considering the number of events around the world being captured in real time by random bystanders on cellphones with high resolution cameras, you’d expect the FBI would hold more than just military infrared images.
      
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      May 9, 2026 7:31pm
      - Ghost
        
        I’d say wait and see what else gets released. There are over 40 military videos meant to be released in the next batch next Friday. The FBI don’t hold military videos or photos, they get released by the military. The fBI releases have been mainly from the 40’s onwards. Old files that were already in the public domain. I think you will find these drops are testing the waters for public reaction, that there is far better to come, from many sources, not just the USA gov
        
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        May 9, 2026 7:55pm
David Garrett

Good morning from the Kingdom…a very pleasant 23C with humidity no worse than Auckland …well maybe a little more
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May 9, 2026 8:18am
- Ra Henare
  
  and good morning from the larger Kingdom where local festival season is in full swing. Dang these Cambodians know how to party.
  
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  May 9, 2026 2:50pm
Scott

Nick Shirley should get a Pulitzer prize for his reporting on the Somalian fraud in Minnesota, the “Learing Centre”, one of many examples of fraudulent child care facilities.

Now he’s gone to Cuba and shown what’s really happening. They can’t get petrol and everything is shutting down. Petrol is $10 a litre on the Black market in a country where the average wage is $14 per month. The electricity is turned off without warning.

https://youtu.be/TNlUqn4VyU0?si=eeXeU7Emv7OCv0x8
Shirley is followed by a 2 star General no less and has to leave early.
Two things stand out for me:
– Socialism doesn’t work. Cuba has had over 60 years of socialism and the streets are full of rubbish, the buildings are old and decrepit and the cars are from the 1950s. They are earning $14 per month!
– Trump’s strategy is working. Venezuela has gone. They are no longer selling petrol to Cuba. The Mexicans are no longer selling petrol to Cuba either because Trump told the Mexicans he’ll tariff them if they do.
Cuba is crumbling and we are in the last days of the communist tyranny there. Cuba shows us what socialism is really like. I hope young people watch Nick Shirley and see how bad socialism is and why we should not support it here.
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May 9, 2026 8:25am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Hmm. All those years of American trade blockades and whatnot are taking their toll. What do you think NZ would look like in similar circumstances?
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:33am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Yes, fair comment. Would a capitalist Cuba fare any better under the same sort of pressure?
    
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    May 9, 2026 8:43am
    - R
      
      There wouldn’t be the same pressure , if Cuba had been of democratic governance, not Marxist socialism
      
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      May 9, 2026 9:16am
      - Bullion
        
        I don’t think it being democratic would matter see Chile, Iran, Guatemala etc.
        
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        May 9, 2026 8:13pm
  - Inandout
    
    NM, let’s be realistic here. When Castro installed communism Cuba traded their sugar with the Soviets. It was a cozy arrangement as the income paid for a reasonable standard of living for the general population. Then the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991 and the support for Cuba ceased. US blockades work on paper but don’t forget that American territory Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Many Cuban workers use that base for income given the average income for a Cuban is $14 a month. No, Cuba has been a cot case since big daddy Russia stopped supporting them. Oil embargoes didn’t stop electricity outages 2o years ago, it was the hugely inefficient communst regime.
    
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    May 9, 2026 8:50am
    - Taieri
      
      When Castro installed communism Cuba traded their sugar with the Soviets
      ———–
      
      Originally, Castro was not a communist. His initial political stance, while radical, was primarily nationalist and anti-Batista. It was only after, following the coup of 1959 and overthrow of Batista, his overtures to the US were rejected that he changed his approach, declared himself a Marxist and decided to align Cuba with the USSR.
      Needless to say, even before Castro’s coup, Cuba was not exactly a paragon of freedom, democracy and prosperity for all.
      
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      May 9, 2026 10:49am
  - David George
    
    Cuba is able to get everything it needs from China and Venezuela was giving them free oil. They can’t buy stuff because they’re broke, they’re broke because they’re too useless to produce anything anyone wants to buy.
    Classic communist catastrophe.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:58am
    - Ian Boag
      
      too useless to produce anything anyone wants to buy
      
      Thank the Lord for milk powder, red meat and tourism. Anything else we sell is diddly …
      
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      May 9, 2026 6:19pm
- sungsamning
  
  No way that’s going to happen. The NY Times owns it. Wrong party, and making the Dems look bad. Two strikes. President Trump could possibly give him the Freedom Medal though.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:37am
- Philview
  
  I read a while back that Nick Shirley and his family were targeted with many death threats. It sounds like he has plenty of courage to keep going.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:42am
  - Inandout
    
    Phil, that real journalist has uncovered literally billions of dollars of fraud and he is now a marked man. I wait for the day that creepy Omar is arrested.
    
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    May 9, 2026 8:53am
  - Swifty
    
    Yep, I understand some Russians have told him unequivocally that if he turns his guns onto their frauds and schemes his family’s lives will be ended.
    
    I saw an interview with him a few weeks ago saying as a result he’ll be staying right away from Russian fraud.
    
    What a disgraceful situation.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:00am
- Ra Henare
  
  So 60+ years of US restrictions didnt have anything to do with it Scott?
  
  Of course Socialism works. Look out your NZ window. What do you see.
  
  Socialism/Communism is working well in Vietnam.!!!!!
  
  But then again their population is NOT being attacked by US deepstate/Political Ideology.
  
  Of course Venezuala and Cuba have been shitholes.
  
  Nothing to do with Socialism but definately to do with economic war being waged by US.
  
  I do struggle to see what benefit accrues to the US in turning Cuba in to a shithole and reducing their citizens to abject poverty.. They dont have Oil??!!!!
  
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  May 9, 2026 2:57pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The hypocritical media (but I repeat myself) are at it again.

The Maori Party are in complete meltdown mode, with MPs splitting and entire electorate organisations walking out the door.

Can you imagine how this would be front and centre for days and weeks if it were National or ACT?

Stuff has it buried well down their app’s batting order, and there’s no follow up critique, “explainers” or comment sought from other Party leaders. You could call it disinformation by omission.

And they wonder why people don’t trust them.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360976177/te-pati-maori-crisis-mps-could-walk-out-ahead-election
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May 9, 2026 8:31am
- Ghost
  
  It was breaking news when stuff posted the article yesterday. A day old article isn’t going to remain at the top
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:36am
  - R
    
    But it surely justifies ‘follow up of developments’ reporting!
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:19am
    - Ghost
      
      What developments have there been?
      
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      May 9, 2026 9:32am
      - David George
        
        How would we know?
        
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        May 9, 2026 10:00am
      - Ghost
        
        You’d know because there would be an article on it, or kiwiblog would be putting up a post on it. There is no follow up article yet because there is nothing to follow up from the original article yesterday
        
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        May 9, 2026 10:02am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Ghost, it used to be called “journalism”.
        
        You don’t think a journalist asking a few pointed questions couldn’t turn up further detail?
        
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        May 9, 2026 11:31am
      - Ghost
        
        Actual journalisms doesn’t include making up stories, which is what some here want them to do. They’ve reported the story, its been less than 24 hours since it ran, there is no updates, stop trying to make up that there is more to report yet. some of you really are worse than msm
        
        I doubt you will get any update now until the Māori party release their list
        
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        May 9, 2026 11:41am
- Nikola Donatello
  
  I am not sure that many people care. I am not going to spend any time trying to understand the various factions of the party. If they implode, fine.
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think a little bit of analysis of how TMP is no longer making hay from taxpayers’ $$$$$ wouldn’t go amiss.
    
    Now we just have to figure out how Labour Maori are going to locate the ca$h cow$.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:07am
    - Boy Geoff
      
      Who’s going to finance and control the next hikoi?
      
      How will the PR/Marketing and merchandise be arranged?
      
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      May 9, 2026 10:00am
      - AitchW
        
        MUMA has plenty of funds.
        
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        May 9, 2026 11:10am
- AitchW
  
  Why wasn’t Sherman (before her troubles) chasing Waititi and Ngarewa Packer through Wellington arrivals shrieking questions about their imminent resignations?
  Was it to protect her upcoming place on their list?
  
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  May 9, 2026 8:45am
  - pdm
    
    Why List Aitch?
    
    If the articles I have seen in the last 24 hours, plus comments here, are remotely correct she could pick her Electorate to run in.
    
    The Maori Party are sure as hell not going to get anyone in on the list and Maiki will be doing what is best for Maiki I would think. She exudes that sort of manner.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:28am
    - AitchW
      
      I think she’s astute enough to realise that TMP is a spent force and will likely lose its Maori seats to Labour.
      Maybe a job at TV3?
      Or a “consultancy” somewhere?
      
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      May 9, 2026 9:51am
      - Colville
        
        No way in hell would she take the vast pay cut to be a MP.
        
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        May 9, 2026 10:06am
      - Ghost
        
        She will end up on 3 news
        
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        May 9, 2026 10:13am
      - Paulus
        
        Tova must be smiling as she is now back as the Media Queen again !
        
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        May 9, 2026 1:44pm
  - Boy Geoff
    
    Maiki couldn’t create mischief for Waititi and Ngawera-Packer!
    
    After all, that’s what a friend would do…
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:08am
  - Ian Boag
    
    TMP list positions aren’t worth a knob ….
    
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    May 9, 2026 6:21pm
- MCōs
  
  TPM falling apart is no longer news.
  From my observation Maori have always been fragmented and never had a common leadership except for specific issues
  But then again neither has any other ethnic based group in NZ
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:08am
  - Ghost
    
    I doubt people really care either, just the politically tragic.
    
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    May 9, 2026 9:10am
- leoj
  
  Does anyone really care what TMP does?
  
  It’s the epitome of racist.
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:04pm
sungsamning

A local movement backed by ordinary people — many with NO political background whatsoever — has just stormed the elections and taken TEN out of TEN seats. [Well done Great Yarmouth First doing this on a 46% turnout. Labour’s vote collapsed nationwide. Voters are abandoning the uniparty.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFprrRHjx4k
Starmer Does The UNFORGIVABLE In Horrific Emergency Speech After LOSING Elections!
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May 9, 2026 8:32am
- MCōs
  
  From what I understand the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth was kicked out of the Reform Party, started a new party called Restore, which has now won all ten local body seats.
  Rupert Lowe won the seat in 2024 for Reform from the Conservatives. He was ejected from the party because of allegations of serious workplace bullying, which he denies of course. He reckoned he was a threat to the leadership of Farage.
  
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  May 9, 2026 9:28am
  - pb
    
    10 out of 10 contested in Yarmouth, thats very interesting. The rule of organised intolerant minorities. But in this case, the organised minority are English speakers rejected by the Uniparty. Reform is Uniparty, trying to reform like the Terminator 2000.
    
    https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship-small-minority/
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:13am
    - sungsamning
      
      Yes, some think Reform is controlled opposition. They don’t want all immigrants repatriated. Restore do. I’m glad Reform did so well in the Council Elections. I hope Restore do well in the general election.
      
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      May 9, 2026 6:19pm
  - sungsamning
    
    I hope it wasn’t workplace bullying. Rivalry, or a personality clash look far better than that.
    
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    May 9, 2026 6:16pm
- Ian Boag
  
  There has to be some reason why we – in NZ – give a shit about UK’s local politics …. do we allocate the same attention to France, Germany, Italy or Spain?
  
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  May 9, 2026 6:23pm
sungsamning

On April 23, the US Treasury Department announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990—the annual information return filed by tax-exempt organizations—to improve transparency and strengthen oversight, specifically targeting reporting on government contracts, government grants, and fiscal sponsorship arrangements. The stated goals are to detect misconduct and hold wrongdoers accountable. [Poor Democrats won’t be to get up to some of theit usual tricks. Nonprofits have been used for money laundering. Then, there’s the Tides Center. Between 1996 and 2010, the Tides Center served as a fiscal sponsor to some 677 separate projects with combined revenues of $522.4 million; in 2010 alone, the Center was actively managing nearly 200 projects. Investigating this stuff shouls keep Secretary Bessents staff busy]
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/08/treasury-department-goes-after-dark-money/
Treasury Department Goes After Dark Money.
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May 9, 2026 8:32am
Philview

I read a report yesterday in the Herald that National are going to campaign on raising the retirement age and would be a day one policy. I don’t know if the Herald are making it up but going into a tight election it doesn’t strike me as good politics to make that sound a key priority.
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May 9, 2026 8:50am
- rouppe
  
  Don’t misinterpret “day 1 policy” with the retirement age going up from April 1 2027 or something.
  
  If it is raised, I’d expect it to start going up sometime in the 2030’s.
  
  Bloody better, anyway, since I turn 65 next year.
  
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  May 9, 2026 10:06am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Learn from the past.
    
    Start immediately and raise it 6 months every year for 10 years. Worked for 60-65 with no great fuss or disruption.
    
    Abate it to $100k while at it …. 🙂
    
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    May 9, 2026 10:27am
    - Taieri
      
      Abate it to $100k while at it…
      ————
      
      Why stop at $100K? Abate it to $0.
      Or even better, provide a compulsory lethal injection to everyone over 65.
      
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      May 9, 2026 10:30am
      - Ian Boag
        
        To compare stuff – the supported living (aka disability) benefit (also a long term thing) is abated – starts at $8k/year – and gets to zero at $70k total income. … $70k is widely quoted as “average” NZ income.
        
        $100k is 50% above “average” income – seems a reasonable place to turn off the old age benefit and save $1-2bn of low quality spend. Unless of course you could point at something else that would save $1-2bn just like that ….
        
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        May 9, 2026 11:47am
    - rouppe
      
      Since you’re a history buff, you failed to mention the “transitional retirement benefit” for those most affected by the immediate change.
      
      Mind you that only helped those 6 months or less away from the then 60 years.
      
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      May 9, 2026 12:04pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Sounds harmless enough ….
        
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        May 9, 2026 6:24pm
- sungsamning
  
  Hmmm… I think a man called Winston might have something to say about that.
  
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  May 9, 2026 6:20pm
Swifty

Michael Laws nails RNZ:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFh7dmgrEpY&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D

Defund them.
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May 9, 2026 8:55am
F E Smith

Apropos of our host’s post the other day on the Virginia redistricting, saying that the GOP had it coming to them because of the Texas effort:

The Virginia Supreme Court has just voided the referendum result. Seems the Dems didn’t follow the procedure correctly early on.

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-voids-virginia-gerrymander/
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May 9, 2026 9:18am
- CJames
  
  The very important point is that it was state law, just for Virginia. That means the court decision there is the final word and can’t be appealed. The only way to change that is change their Constitution. Oh wait, the Democrats tried that and it is the reason this case law went against them.
  
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  May 9, 2026 10:38am
Taieri

A councillor at the Dunedin City Council has had his access to the “confidential” council information restricted and will not be permitted to attend non-public workshops. This is apparently due to his sharing of “confidential” information with the media. It appears that this decision has been made by the council’s Chief Executive.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/ongs-access-confidential-info-restricted-following-leaks

This bloke appears somewhat eccentric by all accounts, but he is still an elected councillor. Is it up to the council CEO to make such decisions? It seems a bit strange that an employee disciplines her employer.
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May 9, 2026 10:27am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I agree. Can any of the KB legal beagles cast any light on what statute and case law has to say about the power of Council employees to limit the functions of (elected) Councillors?
  
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  May 9, 2026 11:36am
  - Swifty
    
    He will have been judged to be in breach of the councillor code of conduct which he has sworn to follow and abide by – he transmitted confidential materials to all and sundry on his council email account, an open and shut case.
    
    When this occurs, the CE will have powers to take action as a result.
    
    Seems reasonable to me. The council needs a mechanism to deal with councillors who have gone berserk. 😁
    
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    May 9, 2026 12:31pm
- MCōs
  
  Somewhat eccentric?
  The guy sounds like a irresponsible, paranoid contrarian with a persecution complex
  
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  May 9, 2026 11:43am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    True, but hey, that’s a valid strand of the community that’s entitled to representation, eh.
    
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    May 9, 2026 12:04pm
  - Taieri
    
    Somewhat eccentric?
    ———-
    
    I’m being kind.
    This is not about his idiosyncrasies, but about the fact that he’s still an elected councillor.
    
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    May 9, 2026 12:37pm
  - Paulus
    
    Is that all ?
    
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    May 9, 2026 1:48pm
I remember when

‘Highly unusual’: Judge spares dogs from death row after seal attack at beach: NZ Herald.
Kina Beach attack: Bo and Koda escape death row after High Court appeal.

Does the need for this decision show the need for more thought in our dog attack legislation?
According to the item, the dogs were not known to be viscious and were on a ‘unleashed dog beach area.’
Unfortunately, the owner, who says he didn’t know what to do, allowed the dogs to continue their attack for up to 30 minutes.
Surely, the dogs were behaving naturally and any penalty should be on the owner.
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May 9, 2026 10:54am
- kowtow
  
  Don’t care if the area was “off leash” , those animals by law must still be under control and clearly weren’t .
  
  There’s far too much damage being done by crap owners of dogs , who are doing “what comes naturally” , and that’s exactly why they must be under control ……at all times.
  
  Once again the judiciary sending the wrong signals.
  
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  May 9, 2026 11:35am
Swifty

UK Greens are a grenade with their pin already pulled:

https://x.com/archrose90/status/2052878931028476244?s=46
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May 9, 2026 11:27am
Swifty

Sad goings on at the Waihi Beach MENZ Shed.

It’s been going for years and has been well supported by local men. Then of late a few local women have started to attend and are insisting on membership etc.

This has not gone down well with the men, many of whom have peeled off as the whole purpose of the thing was to create a space for men to gather, socialise, make projects together, share tools, discuss their problems and issues etc.

Unfortunately this has meant the club is now financially shot, because the men created products for sale (furniture, toys for kids etc) the money from which kept the lights on.

I now understand most women have got the message but there is at least one who is hanging on for grim death – claiming all sorts of injustices if women are excluded.

Bloody hell, women have all sorts of spaces men wouldn’t dream of entering – but the blokes can’t even have a workshop or club for themselves without being labelled sexist or misogynist.
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May 9, 2026 11:52am
- Observer of Life
  
  Swiftly: Very sad for the men. Why don’t the women start up their own shed?
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:02pm
  - Swifty
    
    A very good and obvious question.
    
    My best answer is that they have concluded it wouldn’t be viable. Without plenty of experienced men and their lifetime of tool collecting and knowhow, getting together enough women and starting from scratch will be a very steep hill to climb.
    
    That aside, some say it’s actually got little to do with certain women wanting the experience, rather it’s more to do with a few in particular on a crusade against men, they see a perceived injustice (a men only space) and want to destroy it so they can feel like knights in shining armour.
    
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    May 9, 2026 1:39pm
    - Paulus
      
      What these women are doing is what is more apparent than ever in New Zealand in recent years and it will tell at the election again. Bring back Jacinda is their wish, as they got much of what they demanded.
      It is the second great divide, following Maori being the first, today.
      
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      May 9, 2026 1:53pm
      - Swifty
        
        Down with the Patriarchy!
        
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        May 9, 2026 2:26pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      It’s just tiring isn’t it!
      The old guys just want to be able to get away from the other half for a couple of hours. Talk some SH*T.. have a wee moan.. build something and go home. Surely these women feel the same way!!!
      
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      May 9, 2026 2:22pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep. They’re called ‘book groups’. I’m reliably informed that discussion of literature comes second to a wine or two and a deconstruction of the world.
        
        All power to their arm, say I. Vive la difference!
        
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        May 9, 2026 6:24pm
      - Swifty
        
        Yes, and it’s not the blokes wives kicking up a fuss, they think it’s great that their blokes shoot off to the club and do their thing. Gets them out of their hair for a few hours a day.
        
        It’s local single women generally, looking for somewhere to spend their time, and in some cases looking for a partner – or for work done at the house etc.
        
        They are wrecking it – the whole point of it, a place for men, generally a little older, to have their own space for reflection, companionship, build stuff together and talk about their lives and women (!) is reduced when women are present.
        
        And women would say exactly the same thing in reverse, if men chose to invade their spaces.
        
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        May 9, 2026 6:29pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Yes book clubs. They really suck if you’re not a rabid leftie who thinks Ardern was the best thing ever to happen to NZ and who “saved us all from certain death”.
        
        I’ve tried 3. The first tried to coax me into the vax using messages like “tell us what you are scared of so we can help you over come your fears”. The next two were just full of socialists. mENZ shed looking pretty good about now. It’s not easy being a middle aged RW woman.
        
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        May 10, 2026 9:47pm
- Ghost
  
  Its up to each group if they allow woman. I know the one in my town allows woman, they always seem to be full on the days they are open. thankfully the hoarder neighbour goes there, gives the street a break from him.
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:11pm
  - Paulus
    
    The Auckland Club after very many years were voted to allow Women Members, after a well know Judge told her Husband to demand it -.
    It did not take too many years to fold.
    
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    May 9, 2026 1:55pm
    - Observer of Life
      
      I dont understand why women just don’t start their own club.
      
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      May 9, 2026 2:25pm
      - Ian
        
        Why as women, start your own club when all the grafting, funds donated or raised and club infrastructure there when the men have done it and women can just hijack their way in…
        
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        May 9, 2026 2:55pm
      - Swifty
        
        Exactly Ian.
        
        Same as the communist infiltration of the Greens here.
        
        Much easier than starting your own party.
        
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        May 9, 2026 5:06pm
    - MCōs
      
      Which “Auckland Club” is that?
      There are a number of MENZ Sheds around Auckland or are you talking about some sort of gentlemen’s club
      
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      May 9, 2026 2:33pm
      - Swifty
        
        It was The Auckland Club, started 1850s, now defunct. Finished in the noughties from memory. I went there a few times. Lower Shortland St.
        
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        May 9, 2026 3:19pm
      - Jack5
        
        Many similar clubs around the country have been wound up.
        
        A hundred and twenty years ago, travel was slow, even difficult. For landowners and others in the upper class it was handy to have a safe city place to stay overnight.
        
        In regional towns, clubs also provided safe hospitality for judges moving around the country on court business.
        
        What killed most of them?
        
        – As roads and cars improved fewer farmers and other country people needed to stay in the city overnight. Air traffic had an effect, too.
        
        – Changing lifestyle made it increasinlgy unacceptable for men to frequent or be away in predominantly male clubs while wives stayed at home with children.
        
        – Land value of clubs, usually in city centres, soared over the century and decades as towns grew around them.
        
        – If current members closed the clubs and sold the site they would get a windfall gain, often substantial.
        
        Something similar seems to be happening with some golf clubs.
        
        Fewer women are happy with the spouses being away for the long hours of golf matches, and the market value of the green courses rises as cities expand. Suddenly, club members realise there’s a bonus if they close the club.
        
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        May 9, 2026 8:55pm
- Charlotte Wells
  
  “there is at least one who is hanging on for grim death”
  
  Perhaps a membership application to the various women-only gyms in New Zealand would be appropriate.
  
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  May 9, 2026 2:32pm
  - rouppe
    
    It bemuses me that there are women who consider that perfectly reasonable, but are unable to accept a men’s only space.
    
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    May 9, 2026 5:00pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

There’s a P1 story in today’s Post about a property developer who was persecuted by GWRC for wanting to develop sections on what the Council called wetlands. The Environment Court rejected the Council’s position, saying that Council had failed to establish “by a massive margin” that the wetlands actually existed. Nevertheless, GWRC pushed on with its prosecution. The developer spent six weeks in jail and his wife was fined $118k. I guess there’s unreported detail about this; however Council have finally settled.

There’s a confidentiality clause in the settlement. I’m a GWRC ratepayer, and I strongly object to both the monumental incompetence shown by Council in pursuing this case (the more so after the damning Environmental Court decision) and the lack of transparency about how the money that is forcibly extracted from my wallet is spent. I want to know who made these decisions, and I want senior heads to roll among Council employees. These might include Lian Butcher, Group Manager Environment; Julie Knauf (Legal) and Nigel Corry (CEO).

http://www.gw.govt.nz/your-council/our-people/
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May 9, 2026 12:02pm
- Ian
  
  Why would the property developer have spent six weeks in jail for merely trying to develop property – is that a criminal offence. More background, please…
  
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  May 9, 2026 2:50pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I agree, but the Post story did not provide it.
    
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    May 9, 2026 6:28pm
  - Ghost
    
    breaching enforcement orders
    
    Article
    
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    May 9, 2026 6:45pm
Swifty

UK kids protesting against their striking teachers:

https://x.com/patrickchristys/status/2052884387868348450?s=46

Good on them.
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May 9, 2026 12:22pm
- sungsamning
  
  Well done, those students. None of the teachers look like anyone who has a professional degree.
  
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  May 9, 2026 6:28pm
Swifty

AOC is steadily losing her marbles:

https://x.com/mrshermichael/status/2052584687718035836?s=46

I find myself quite shocked someone so ignorant can be a member of the US Congress.
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May 9, 2026 1:09pm
- Ghost
  
  why are you shocked? have you not seen their presidents or vice presidents?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2SLyBL2kdM
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:18pm
- Swifty
  
  An excellent AOC takedown.
  
  https://x.com/brivael/status/2052461307207512120?s=46
  
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  May 9, 2026 1:41pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Underachieving theater kid working as a bar-tender who got selected for office from a pool of applications on the basis of an audition tape.
  
  No intellectual capability, just mouths various word-of-power spells she doesn’t understand to try and maintain a profile with the tik-tok airheads that vote for her.
  
  This is pretty standard for politicians of the left these day. Utterly underwhelming people whose only qualifications for leadership are emoting on social media.
  
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  May 9, 2026 5:58pm
  - Swifty
    
    An excellent summary.
    
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    May 9, 2026 6:15pm
- sungsamning
  
  Ah yes, a poor barmaid from Yorktown, which is not a ghetto area. Far from it.
  
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  May 9, 2026 6:30pm
Steve Todd

Crucial viewing, just in two hours ago, Kiwibloggers.

Joanna Coles at The Daily Beast talks to Glenn Kirschner, former federal prosecutor and host of Justice Matters, about what he calls America’s accelerating constitutional crisis, giving an update on what is happening with Trump’s “Illegal War”; the Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth; the two ICE shootings in Minneapolis; the chances of justice being achieved after 20 January 2029; and, of course, what I think can now be described as “that old perennial”, the Epstein files. A surprise here: he doesn’t think Epstein committed suicide.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_rNz5q1Yc [45:00].
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Steve Todd

Why was Epstein accumulating power, and how did he seemingly “know every single leader in the world?” You guessed it, Kiwibloggers: Israel, Israel, Israel.

Here is the latest Epstein revelation, and it’s very interesting. The brilliant Cenk Uygur at The Young Turks talks to Tara Palmeri, author of The Red Letter, about her stunning new revelation about John Kerry, and more. Enjoy.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Ejdu6_Yb4&t=501s [23:10].
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May 9, 2026 4:37pm
- Swifty
  
  Hey Steve, do you think AOC is losing her marbles or have you another explanation for her increasingly unhinged and incoherent takes on modern life?
  
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  May 9, 2026 4:58pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    Why are you so obsessed with AOC, Swifty? She’s a nobody.
    
    Trump, Hegseth, Patel, Bessent, Blanche, Lutnick, RFK Jnr, on the other hand: ye, gods. What do you make of them, Swifty; people with actual power?
    
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    May 9, 2026 7:31pm
    - Swifty
      
      I think those you name will be looked upon by future generations extremely well.
      
      Glad you think AOC is a nobody, I do too.
      
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      May 9, 2026 8:34pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        C’mon, Swifty. You can’t possibly believe that.
        
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        May 9, 2026 9:08pm
- NothingLeft
  
  ‘Brilliant Cenk Uyger’ LOL You have to be dumber than yogurt to carry water for the left like he does.
  
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  May 10, 2026 8:20am
Swifty

Andrew Neil slays Labour and Kinnock’s boy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBSbTxvlq0
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Target achieved II
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Health Target 5 – elective treatments
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