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David George

It’s now been confirmed that the hijacker used the cockpit’s emergency axe to attack the pilot.
The other thing that has come out is that he studied at a British university.
A couple of years ago the UAE banned their young people from studying in the UK for fear of Muslim indoctrination and radicalisation. Islamic terrorist outfits, including the Muslim Brotherhood, are banned in the UAE but flourish in Britain.
Are they mad?
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October 4, 2026 8:09am
- David George
  
  Note that the Muslim Brotherhood (or branches of it) is banned or designated as a terrorist organisation in several other countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Jordan.
  
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  October 4, 2026 8:21am
- newview
  
  Yes they are mad David. The UK, now a woke socialist cot case. I’m NV here but Graeme Holt when commenting on Chris Trotters blog on sub stack.
  
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  October 4, 2026 8:35am
artemisia

Election 2026: What is on older Kiwis’ minds this election? – Herald today

There are quite a few KB posters (and readers) in this age group. Some have mentioned they live in retirement villages and others may well be looking in that direction also.

National and Labour are both proposing changes to the Retirement Villages Act 2003 wrt payouts to exiting residents. Labour’s changes are retrospective, so would include existing contracts. Either proposal, if enacted, imposes additional costs on operators, especially Labour’s retrospective. Given the size of the sector and the scope of proposals the new costs on operators will not be trivial.

Guess who will be paying? And what would be the likely impact of ECON101 on residents (existing and prospective) and new builds? Including in particular Labour’s retrospective changes impacting existing contracts. Those residents would be the ones who willingly signed contracts ….
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October 4, 2026 8:10am
Cassandra

The Green Party says it will connect the country with intercity passenger rail services. It’ll introduce an overnight rail service between Auckland and Wellington, passenger rail between Christchurch and Dunedin, and to extend the Te Huia train route to Tauranga.

No business case or budget/funding detail is included.

I can’t see any other report but it’s prominently featured on the RNZ Website, under a large photo of and article re TOP’s Wong. Almost like RNZ is showing favouritism.
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October 4, 2026 8:25am
- Positan
  
  The “political” Greens spout ideas before they’ve thought them through. Patently this “rail” proposal would be uneconomic – but when you’re economically clueless, such facts don’t seem to matter.
  
  The inevitable conclusion is that Greens should never be let anywhere near the reins of power. When Labour’s 2017-2023 disastrous saga of ineptitude is recalled, it can be read that a Greens’ administration would have been even worse.
  
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  October 4, 2026 8:40am
- greybeard
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361042037/auckland-wellington-sleeper-train-part-greens-402b-passenger-rail-pitch
  It’s a logical step from bicycles to trains for this woman.
  How many people would take the sleeper train from Auckland to Wellington each night, to make it viable ?
  I bet they haven’t costed the required fares.
  And if Te Huia is already a failure from Hamilton to Auckland, why do they think that adding Tauranga to the trip will improve it ?
  Nuts.
  However , there is probably a case for Chch to Dunedin to be restored, especially for enhancing the tourism experience.
  
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  October 4, 2026 8:41am
- David Garrett
  
  Cass: This is actually a perfect illustration of how utterly in fantasy land the Greens are . Fifty odd years ago there was an overnight train service between auckland and Wellington. It was called the Silver Star (IIRC) and TV ads at the time called it “good for business”. It supposedly catered for business travellers who had business in Wellington – and could spend three days getting there, doing their business, and getting back.
  
  It utterly failed of course because it was much cheaper – and saved much more time – for such travelers to fly down in the morning of the business day, and then fly back that night.
  
  Even if it was so heavily subsidized it was virtually free, this service would attract very little interest. Its only merit is it is less mad that some other Green policies.
  
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  October 4, 2026 8:46am

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