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David George

The Telegraph has been going through the Omani pilot Jihadi’s disturbing social media account. This is Islam, it’s not an aberration or mental illness this is what the Prophet describes as the proper way to live in the world.

“He then quoted a passage from the Koran referring to offenders being “killed or crucified” or having their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides.
In one exchange, another user said a husband should take his “marital right” to sex “by force” and, if his wife objected, make her seek a divorce.
The account linked to Hammami replied that the husband had allowed his wife to become domineering and wrote: “If he had stomped on her head she would have been obedient with him.” “I’d stomp on your head, wipe the floor with you, make you an example to others, and then divorce you.”
The Herald have the story, not paywalled:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/flydubai-hijackers-hateful-rants-while-studying-at-british-university/P5OBO2X6UFHE5FBNENFEKWPKDY/
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October 5, 2026 8:01am
Yvette

For mushrooms, who feel they are kept in the dark waiting for the next load of horse manure to be dumped on them, scroll on by …
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Māori electorates give the party a concentrated, identity-aligned audience and a viable path to winning seats, which it would struggle to replicate in general electorates.

People on the Māori roll have already chosen to be represented through Māori seats, so the party’s pitch about Māori representation and tino rangatiratanga starts from a sympathetic audience, who may be more likely to believe the mantra that Maori are the victims of white privilege, colonisation, and that so many are at the lower extremes of social measurements – a mantra which likely carries less weight in general electorates.

Choosing the Māori roll in the first place is already a signal of engagement with Māori identity and politics, since many Māori are on the general roll. Then turning out within that already-selected group adds another filter. The current government’s decisions on Māori health, Treaty-related legislation, Māori wards, and te reo in the public sector affect Māori directly, which gives many voters substantive reasons to oppose it.

Anti-incumbent voting or disengagement more likely. Turnout on the Māori roll has historically been lower than on the general roll, so some of the “opposition” shows up as non-voting rather than a vote for the other side.

If Maori were not entitled to a more separate health system, why is a separatist voting system allowed to half exist – the electorate vote half?
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October 5, 2026 8:15am
- mike
  
  The Māori seats are a constitutional guarantee of representation, and do no harm to the democratic representation of anyone else.
  
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  October 5, 2026 8:20am
  - David George
    
    We all have “a constitutional guarantee of representation”. It’s called a vote.
    
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    October 5, 2026 8:30am
  - Yvette
    
    Mike, your comment relies on an idealized, non-legal definition of “constitutional guarantee” and overlooks how group-based electoral rolls interact with MMP mechanics, electorate quota calculations, and universal democratic principles. While proponents argue the seats protect minority rights against majoritarian rule, asserting that they carry no trade-offs or impacts on the wider electorate ignores established mathematical and philosophical counterarguments.
    Just watch
    
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    October 5, 2026 8:37am
    - mike
      
      The answer to calls to abolish the seats is easy: convince Māori to switch to the general roll.
      
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      October 5, 2026 8:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Maori are quite capable of winning General seats.
    There is NO argument that they are not represented in our Parliament.
    
    https://www3.parliament.nz/mi/get-involved/features/record-number-of-maori-mps-elected-to-new-zealand-parliament/
    
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    October 5, 2026 8:47am
Tomtoddy

If you need to ruin your day, try reading Verity Johnson on Stuff. She has managed to show how biased they are politically and how empty-headed they are all at the same time. It is pathetic but also dangerous, fostering interest in TOP.
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October 5, 2026 8:33am
Ghost

Pretty sure I saw this movie already…

Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regional leader Friday.

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