General Debate 11 June 2026

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Scott

Further on the California elections and specifically the LA mayoral race, some responded that there was no specific evidence of fraud. That it’s a massively Democrat city and Spencer Pratt coming 3rd is no surprise at all.

Here’s the thing. The numbers themselves are specific evidence of fraud. Raman does a tearful concession speech after coming 3rd after the in person votes and the mail in votes received by the election date were counted.
But the mail in votes after the election date overwhelmingly favoured Raman.
(Source, manny ottawa Instagram)

Raman jumps from 20% mail in votes before election day to 37% mail in votes after election day.
The sample size are massive groups of 500,000 and 650,000 votes.
For sample groups of this size the margin of error is less than 1%.
This 17% swing is statistically impossible.
This data indicates ballot manipulation and fraud.

Whose doing it? The Democrats have been doing it for years. Going to homeless people and paying $2 for their vote is an example on video.
So the numbers themselves are impossible and prima facie evidence of fraud.
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June 11, 2026 8:06am
- RoboRob
  
  As I mentioned yesterday, the California rules allow most of this, except perhaps paying someone for their vote.
  
  If you are a Dem strategist and you don’t want the Rep to make the run off it is pretty simple. Polling indicates one Dem will easy make the election but your third candidate is trailing massively. So you go out a vote harvest, encouraging them all to vote your trailing candidate. These are mail in votes.
  
  At election time the votes fall as per polling results, however when you start counting mail in votes 80+% of those fall for the third unpopular candidate. This looks really dodgy, as statistically that shouldn’t happen BUT the California laws are designed to legalise this sort of skulduggery.
  
  So not illegal, not voter fraud and if the lawyers come in everything is just fine (except maybe the paying people for their votes bit).
  
  Remember the whole aim of the ‘Jungle primary’ system in California is to make sure that the actual election is always between two Dems. This is by design.
  
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  June 11, 2026 10:05am
Nikola Donatello

I heard the opposition transport guy being interviewed about the cost of this latest public transport subsidy.

Its cost at 68 million seems low. The guy said the costs were correct. He claimed that it would cause more people to use public transport but could not say how many.

But… If they have modelled the costs, that means they must have an assumption of the numbers of new PT users. 🙄

It would be great to see the detailed costings.

I just don’t trust Labour on any policy. They have a perfect track record of everything they touch falling to pieces.
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June 11, 2026 8:47am
- pdm
  
  `It would be great to see the detailed costings.’
  
  Labour don’t do detail Cass – they never have since the millenium.
  
  HDPA had the poor sod on the rack by the time she had finished with him. He did not have a clue.
  
  Another Labour sacrificial lamb put up to cover for the party’s collective ignorance.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:02am
  - pdm
    
    Oops sorry ND and Cass – I am used to Cassandra being first on the board in the mornings.
    
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    June 11, 2026 9:13am
- Blog-aholic
  
  It is a stark revelation that ‘the model’ will cost 68m and encourage more people to use but they have no idea of the numbers ………this iteration of Labour (like the last couple) are like meth, never, not once.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:26am
- RoboRob
  
  I heard the Labour turkey on last night. When questioned on the price being too low based on the estimated $1200 savings he said
  
  a) Not everyone will get that bigger saving
  b) it will cost more then $65m but the extra revenue from increased usage will bring the net cost down to $65m
  
  That the interviewer didn’t pick him up one either claim was poor.
  
  Re a). Labours release says that $1200 is the AVERAGE savings. Thats total savings / num people = $1200.
  
  Re b) How exactly is the government going to earn additional revenue from increased public transport usage? The services are all council owned, any extra revenue will go to the councils. Increased usage will mean more subsidies which is an increased cost.
  
  Labour are total muppets on anything financial but it is sad that people aren’t sharp enough to recognise the maths don’t add up.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:35am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  According to Utikere in answer to HDPA, the base information was obtained using the Auckland Transport modelling developed when that organisation was looking at an $20 cap and Labour supposedly updated it and just extrapolated it from there across the country. So lots of potential for failure or fiddling in the numbers right across their modelling. Did they ever get their numbers right when they were in government ?.
  
  It looks like their campaign is off to a bad start with it mainly fringe fiddling and challenges over their numbers.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:42am
Raphael

And now for something non-political.

I am a HUGE fan of the Stargate series. (It is my favourite SciFi universe). Last year Amazon, who now owns MGM announced that they were going to do a new Stargate show, and it was being put together by the original show runners and producers.
A couple of weeks ago Amazon, through Variety, announced that the show was cancelled because “it would appeal too much to the existing fans”. In other words it wasn’t being made for that mythical “modern audience” who don’t actually even watch this type of show (and which the original Stargate SG1 series mocked in their 200th episode).

Since then my X feed has been blowing up with fans from all over the world, from all walks of life, from all political sides, banding together to try and get Amazon to reverse their decision. Michael Shanks (who acted as Dr. Daniel Jackson in series, https://x.com/MichaelShanks) and Rachael Luttrell (who acted in the Atlantis series https://x.com/rachel_luttrell) along with scriptwriter/producer for the series Joseph Mallozzi (https://x.com/BaronDestructo) have been actively partcipating.

Fans have raised funds to have a plane flying a banner over the Amazons headquarters, Change.org petitions are sitting at over 100,000 signatures. French fans had just build a 1:1 scale Stargate model that they had at a Stargate Con in France a couple of weeks ago that had then one and only Richard Dean Anderson attending.. And today they’re doing a tweet storm.

So if you’re on X and if you were a fan of the show, or if you are a fan of shows where you would like Hollywood to actually care about existing fans, do take the time to make a post to #SaveStargate, and tag @AmazonMGMStudio and @PrimeVideo
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June 11, 2026 8:51am
- plc
  
  Surely if you are on X then you are a Nazi
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:38am
- RoboRob
  
  I have decided it is better to not push for or support old IP being remade or released. There is a near 100% success rate in butchering everything that made the old show / movie / book good.
  
  If there was something good in the past leave it alone and have fond memories, dont ruin it by releasing crap. Think Star Wars as a great example.
  
  Amazon are particularly bad with this and have form with their LOTR series and the wheel of time book conversion. The later was so simple to convert to a series but they had to rewrite it. If I were a Stargate fan I wouldn’t be pushing Amazon to destroy the series.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:42am
Gravelroad

The “Cosmological Framework”
Will this save us if some outfit in far away lands decides to launch a drone/missile attack on Aotearoa?
The excerpt below is from a mailout today by Don Brash at Hobson’s Pledge entitled:
“The New Zealand Army’s Darkest Secret”:
“Human rights advocate Alex Penk recently uncovered that the Army issued General Orders forcing a specific “cosmological framework” onto our troops. The orders dictate that our soldiers must understand and align themselves with traditional Māori deities like Tūmatauenga (the god of war) and Rongo (the god of peace)”.
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June 11, 2026 8:52am
- kowtow
  
  The whole tribe of the god of war thing dates back to the late ’90s.
  
  been going on for a long time.
  
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  June 11, 2026 8:58am
- David Garrett
  
  Jesus Fucking H…and the scary thing is that the army – particularly at grunt level – is largely Maori. God knows where they would go if the balloon ever went up here at home.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Looks like our army has been worshipping the god of war for over 30 years.
  
  This is what makes the New Zealand Army, a small force with few major deployments, so unique. It is not a conventional Western military. In 1994 it transformed itself into Ngāti Tumatauenga: an iwi created by, with and for the state.
  
  https://newsroom.co.nz/2018/11/25/peter-mckenzie-on-army-as-an-iwi-for-monday/
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:25am
  - David Garrett
    
    Maggy: Talking of “unconvential forces” we must never forget the Maori Battalion’s major contribution to WW II.
    
    Formed along tribal lines – quite deliberately to create competition – on the urging of Sir Apirana Ngata it distiguished itself on the battlefield by it’s highly aggressive – and effective – performance, in North Africa and Italy. It sadly also had the highest casualty rate in the 2nd NZEF.
    
    And shamefully, that proud record was not recognised after the war. While European “returned men” could, if they were farmers, go into ballots for “rehab”farms, that same right was not offered to Maori farmers.
    
    It was disgracefully racist shit like that – and issues like Bastion Point and the Raglan golf course 30 years later – that in my view gave rise, at least in part, to the radical shit we see today.
    
    It can only be a feeling, but if Maori had been treated as fully equal citizens after the war, I wonder whether we would have a tattooed clown in a cowboy hat sitting in parliament today.
    
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    June 11, 2026 9:49am
Maggy Wassilieff

I do hope they also learn the following chant

“Hapa! Hapa! Pai Mārire, hau! Hau! Hau!”.

It’s said to ward off bullets (and hopefully missiles) if folks raise their right hand whilst chanting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pai_M%C4%81rire
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June 11, 2026 9:08am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Hmm. Not sure it worked the first time around, or overseas.
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:17am
- RoboRob
  
  They could get out their poi and use them to deflect bullets like wonder woman. Whipping out a Haka might scare off the odd cruise missile. I am sure the navies new wooden waka will be useful for coastal defence.
  
  Are we equipping them with green stone weapons now, is that why funding has gone up?
  
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  June 11, 2026 9:45am
  - David Garrett
    
    Robo: Well times change, but apparently haka were pretty effective against the Afrika Corps in North Africa…along with propaganda about the “cannibals” which formed part of the NZEF
    
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    June 11, 2026 9:51am
Burtland

so Treasury puts out a new estimate of the Carbon Credit bill – just in time for the election -$5 billion

$1000 each to some overseas junta seems fair to stop global warming – will we be stupid enough to believe this scam

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/597859/government-facing-up-to-5-billion-bill-over-carbon-credits-treasury-reveals
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June 11, 2026 9:15am
Gary Benner

Last night I clicked on a link from the right hand column here in Kiwiblog, From “No Right Turn”, on the topic of 33,000 homeless children.

The article referenced an RNZ article where it stated that this figure comes from an advocacy group called “Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness”.

The article states that the “33,000 children” were in “severe housing deprivation”, then “without stable shelter”, then “toddlers living without shelter, it’s babies in temporary accommodation, it’s teenagers packed into bedrooms, or in incredibly unhealthy housing or their cars.”

So what is “homeless” really mean?

Having driven around come of our larger cities recently I don’t see toddlers wandering about on the street looking for somewhere to stay, or anyone in fact apart from a couple of steet beggars – most of whom actually have homes, but find it profitable to beg as a living. And also some teenagers who have fallen out with parents and find street living fun for a while.

I can however accept that there are parents who have failed to provide for their children, either through unplanned pregnancies, or as a result of unstable relationships. So what is the real problem here?

I suspect it is social, with a lack of parenting in their childhood, so as to prepare them for the realities of life, and by default they continue on with the role of parenting totally bereft of the skills necessary to manage a family.

Until that core problem is addressed, “homelessness”, and other ills such as child abuse, will continue, and no amount of money spent on more “homes for the poor” will solve the problem. In fact I suspect it will only exacerbate the issue by ignoring the real problem and facilitating bad decisions.

And I’m sure unscrupulous politicans will continue use this as a means to score cheap shots, covering themselves in their cloaks of sanctimony.
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June 11, 2026 9:56am
- David Garrett
  
  Gary: Clearly this is disinformation of the most heinous kind. Princess Cindy’s first and most pressing priority was to end “child poverdy”, and she could do almost anything, right?
  
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