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Yvette

White supremacy can nationalistically say stuff like the protection and preservation of our own ideals and beliefs is of the same importance as the protection and preservation of these lands, and the context appears to be about two decades ago – but White supremacy mostly pisses people off by their tactics.

Brown supremacy does need to be too prominent, not with this Jacinda Ardern led Labour Government – with its majority, its compliance of the media (subjected to interpretations of the Treaty as it goes – but stretching from the 1840s through to Mana o te Wai statements) and an Opposition only as strong as David Seymour.

Which wolf will win?
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January 19, 2023 8:01am
- Yvette
  
  Of course : Brown supremacy doesn’t need to be too prominent …
  I haven’t had my medication yet
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:09am
- Mike
  
  Wolfie from the Tooting Popular Front?
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:26pm
kiwimike

A reminder of the Liars we revere as Icons like David Attenborough.

https://polarbearscience.com/2023/01/18/no-more-wef-backroom-deals-for-sir-david-attenborough/?fbclid=IwAR3bVK3sftgNjhQgURuA146393_grwVc4SOKW7nYHkwiCvzJiPlOoN1hvNQ
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January 19, 2023 8:02am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Things that make you go hmm

Sister André tested positive for the coronavirus in January 2021, shortly before her 117th birthday, but she had so few symptoms that she didn’t even realise she was infected.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300787345/worlds-oldest-known-person-a-french-nun-dead-at-age-118
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January 19, 2023 8:03am
- I remember when
  
  Is it just me, or have death notices stating died suddenly and unexpectedly become more frequent.
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:43pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Keep cake away from office, suggests UK food watchdog head

‘While temping in an office in south London, Mick used to bring in biscuits, doughnuts, and chocolate bar multipacks, which he would “munch on” all day as well offering them out.
But he claimed he was told by management his diet was “aggressive” to his female co-workers who were trying to be health conscious.’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64315384
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January 19, 2023 8:03am
The Redbaiter

The sole National candidate for the Tukituki electorate, a female whose career has been in the main in doing “journalism” for the mainstream media, was in business with the sitting Labour MP? Can’t be true.

A perfectly good candidate (an airline pilot) but bearing the unfortunate characteristics of white male-ism has withdrawn his nomination claiming unethical behaviour during the selection process?

Wasn’t new President Sylvia Wood going to fix all this kind of thing? Maybe the Nat party should return to selecting candidates on merit rather than their diversity component.
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January 19, 2023 8:06am
- redeye
  
  Sounds more like a Slater/Lusk paid for hit piece to me.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:16am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yep disgusting, Winston’s money muddying the waters again
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:50am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    A hit-job is precisely what it was.
    
    The real irony though is all the lefties on social media cheering Slater on because he’s doing Winston Peters’ bidding. He’s all good when he’s on THEIR side!
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:57am
    - The Redbaiter
      
      Sorry Tony, but according to the candidate who has withdrawn, there was no such involvement. Quote-
      
      “To be clear, I have not engaged, paid, nor requested anyone to investigate or ‘dig stuff up’ on anyone else – ever.”
      
      As you know I have no regard for Slater/ Lusk, but bringing them in to this as some kind of consequential factor would seem like an attempt at distraction from what was a possibly prejudiced/ unfair selection process.
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:16am
      - peterwn
        
        Seems the pre -selection interview isdid not go well for him and he withdrew. The names of potential candidates remain confidential unless they are pre-selected although there is nothing to stop unsuccessful ones outing themselves if they choose
        
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        January 19, 2023 11:02am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        TR, the withdrawn candidate declaring he hasn’t paid for any dirt digging doesn’t mean that someone else hasn’t paid for anything…
        
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        January 19, 2023 11:49am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        This whole hitjob is coming from Slater and Lusk ffs, play their dirty politics, we can really see who you are now
        
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        January 19, 2023 12:46pm
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      Tony, reading some of Slater’s tweets, it sounds like he’s a bit miffed his modus operandi of drip feeding salacious tidbits of information has been laid bare for all to see…
      
      Also seems to be adopting a bit of a don’t shoot me, I’m only the messenger persona.
      
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      January 19, 2023 11:53am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Luxon appears to have rubbed Slaters nose in it and simply said they are not in the party anymore so we don’t care
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:44pm
  - Ghost
    
    Two of the most vile names in politics. Both should never be trusted, and wouldn’t know the truth if it was standing in front of them. Still remember the many lies Cameron would spout on whale oil, and then claim that people just need to wait for it to come out, never did, he was just always full of shit. Also would carry out some of the most vile attacks on people. No idea why anyone gives him the time of day any more.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:59am
    - Mike
      
      They were heavily involved in the shenanigans when that metcenary bloke got selected a few years back. Addicted to politics as a game.
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:30pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yep, his failure is enough to hamper one’s health
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:48pm
  - peterwn
    
    If he had hired Simon Lusk as a consultant he either did not listen to him or he should ask for his money back for receiving dud advice.
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:49am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I just waiting for a Party to select a one legged drawf lesbian. Gotta be diverse and represent everyone.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:32am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Only if it’s the right leg
    
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    January 19, 2023 12:31pm
- peterwn
  
  Aha! Unfortunately the only news on this I could find was a Herald paywalled article, but the teaser gave sufficient info. I think I recently met the ‘perfectly good [male] candidate’ several weeks ago and whoever I was speaking to indicated interest in Tukituki (as I seem to recollect). We discussed how the National Party Board was selected, and I asked him if he had done ‘National101’ (an online course for budding candidates) and he had not, it seemed he thought it was not necessary. After some general discussion it became quite apparent (my opinion) that he was quite unsuited as a National candidate. What has transpired would seem to support my view. The selection system has worked precisely as intended.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:33am
  - The Redbaiter
    
    “After some general discussion it became quite apparent (my opinion) that he was quite unsuited as a National candidate.”
    
    If this is so, why was he selected on previous occasions? When “diversity” was not the National party’s touchstone?
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:46am
    - Colville
      
      If this is so, why was he selected on previous occasions?
      
      Maybe National have learnt a little from previous mistakes?
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:20am
      - Ghost
        
        Selected and lost against Stewart Nash.
        
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        January 19, 2023 10:30am
    - peterwn
      
      He probably did not perform well as a candidate. Probably all talk no do
      
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      January 19, 2023 11:06am
      - I remember when
        
        We don’t want all talk and no do candidates and unfortunately the all do and no talk suffer a similar fate.
        
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        January 19, 2023 1:53pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      So he has failed in attempts to get the candidacy before? End of story then
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:49pm
  - Ghost
    
    Here is one that isn’t paywalled
    
    https://www.politik.co.nz/dirty-tricks-in-national-party-candidate-selection/
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:20am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Who is creating the bullying? Sounds like the vulgar foot soldiers Slater and Lusk are involved, take with a grain of salt
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:49am
- crackle
  
  “was in business with the sitting Labour MP? Can’t be true” You can’t be in business with someone with a different political outlook than yourself now? It’s that sort of partisan dumbfuckery that adds to polarization.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:13am
  - Colville
    
    I dont know about you but there is no way I could be in business with a Leftard. We would be forever fighting and never get any work done!
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:22am
    - The Redbaiter
      
      A “different political outlook” is one thing. The local Labour MP is another.
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:40am
    - crackle
      
      I’ve collegues and freinds who sit well to the left politically others who are I what id call populist voters that vote for the party who has the most popular leader at the time. Get on with all of them and they’re more than entiltle to their views.
      Personally I have pretty strong libertarian tendencies will hold my nose and vote Act despite my disappointment that they went all authoritarian when it came to vaccine mandates etc.
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:47am
      - Mike
        
        Redbaiter is famous for his insistence on the purity of the conservative revolution, which is just around the corner.
        
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        January 19, 2023 12:34pm
- pdm
  
  Red – we do not want in Tukituki anyone with any association with the lightweight Anna Lorck. She has been known to my family since the early/mid 80’s at High School. She is not a nice person.
  
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  January 19, 2023 6:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The problem with Tribal Rule:

A long read, written 25 years ago, but so relevant today.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/roger-sandall-an-australian-dilemma-reconciling-the-irreconcilable
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January 19, 2023 8:07am
- alex Masterley
  
  Thanks for the reference.
  As you say an interesting read.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:20am
- crikey
  
  Maggie: Thank you for posting this link. Although writing in an Australian context, pretty well everything Sandall wrote about here, in 1997, can be directly related to the tribalism now being promoted in New Zealand. Sandall was a New Zealander by birth so perhaps he had both Australian and New Zealand situations in mind. Yes, it’s a long read, but worth spending 20 minutes of one’s life reading it.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:57am
- Jack5
  
  Highly pertinent to NZ today. Thank you, Maggy W.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:32am
hmmokrightitis

For observers on yesterdays thread, my promised “gang” story.

Nephew is a copper. One fine day, he and a couple of others (given the territory, they have to travel in at least pairs and often as a four if on a pickup) were asked to go and collect a certain esteemed gang member, apparently quite high up the hierarchy as he had a couple of things that he needed to discuss with members of the constabulary.

Off said 4 go, reach last known address. Nope, hasn’t been here for a while. They figure out he’s gone bush. Given their local knowledge and knowledge of this particular client and his compadres, they figure hey, its not too far, lets go look.

Off into the bush they go. Two hour bush bash they arrive at the makeshift encampment (had been used as a support base for weed operations). No sign of our protagonist. Fan out. 15 minutes later, found him; well, dead him.

Remember this character is a lead figure in one of THE hardest gangs in the country. They found him down by the creek bed. Appears he had slipped and hit his head on a rock, curtains. But the best bit?

This he-man was dressed in women’s underwear, matching, frilly, lacy, sexy. Whole 9 yards.

Best story Id heard in years.
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January 19, 2023 8:07am
- redeye
  
  Looking forward to seeing pronouns added to the Mob patches.
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:13pm
- Mike
  
  Was a storyline from The Sopranos?
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:35pm
Tomtoddy

The Guardian is an obnoxious rag, run by Commies for Commies. However, it has influence. A recent writer penned this deeply disturbing line….“One of the goals of system change is to supersede individual virtue.” This is discussing the Biden Green New Deal (only ‘Biden’ in name – it is his handler’s work) and similar moves by Trudeau in Canada and others including our own dear leader. (I presume she is still leader, or has she disappeared?)

“To supersede individual virtue” is one of the most evil and tyrannical statements I have ever read. It is the language of dangerous elites prepared to squander all that has been achieved by the magnificence of human ingenuity and individual brilliance. It is totalitarianism, Stalinism, Pol Pot-like dictatorship. It is coming. Be very afraid.
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January 19, 2023 8:09am
- pdm
  
  TT – I bet she is on TV news tonight lauding those she has elevated from the Labour Caucus `car park puddle’ to replace the inept ministers standing down (for that read – kicked out) from Cabinet because they see they have no chance of being in Government this time next year.
  
  A second bet is that she will make an announcement about a further announcement for when she will announce the date for this years election.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Can she trump the Cost-of-living figures that come out today?
    
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    January 19, 2023 8:36am
    - pdm
      
      maggy – doubt it.
      
      Besides she does not like Trump. – he is `orange’ you know.
      
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      January 19, 2023 8:40am
    - Tempist
      
      CPI release for the December 2022 quarter is next Wednesday (25th) – presumably the number crunchers who aren’t on leave can’t get into the office anyway because of the public transport meltdown in the Capital
      
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      January 19, 2023 8:43am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She has nothing to laud about
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:52am
- kowtow
  
  Cast your mind back to the “progressive” hysteria over the succesful , democratic Brexit vote in the UK.
  
  Plenty of talk then from the ‘right on’ crowd about disenfranchising an electorate they disagreed with.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:17am
- Bloody Dago
  
  Most if not all tyranny has been put down by the rabbid dog called civil unrest and revolution. If the supersession of individual virtue is a goal of these Marxist psychos, hold onto your guns you will need them.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:26am
- Frank the tank
  
  I wonder which handpicked New Zimbabwean elites are getting instructions in the Swiss ski town at present?
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:31am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Damien O’Connor and his entourage are there.
    
    https://twitter.com/TrevorH53038397/status/1614708607949635585
    
    Don’t know if Cindy is making an appearance or not.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:18am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Mummy dearest is there
      
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      January 19, 2023 9:54am
      - Keith White
        
        According to the media (I know…), it appears that courtesans, prostitutes and other sellers of such personal services are doing boffa box office in Davos. No doubt they’re the only hucksters there who are actually providing value for money and not ripping off their clientele…
        
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        January 19, 2023 11:20am
    - Paulus
      
      Isn’t Helen Clark at Davos along with Ministerial hangers on, and there all paid for by the Taxpayer too !
      Business Class at least and five Star Hotels etc
      
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      January 19, 2023 11:18am
      - Nickc2
        
        Clark’s there to present a paper on something. I wonder if Cindy asked her to take her place and write a report for her?
        I think Cindy’s in Napier trying to stamp out bushfires concerning her position as PM.
        
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        January 19, 2023 11:30am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Link please?
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:37am
Maggy Wassilieff

What was the point of the Health Reforms?

The reforms have been pushed through during a global pandemic, after years of unaddressed workforce shortages. Says Powell: “I cannot conceive of a more irresponsible decision from a health leadership to make, and that’s clearly political.”

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/30m-plus-on-a-transition-to-what
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January 19, 2023 8:11am
- kowtow
  
  Covid was political and an awful lot was done under its “cover”.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:18am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It was a superb distraction for many draconian policy implementations around the world during the last few years. Just a coincidence of course.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:20am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Stating that the reforms are clearly political is stating the obvious.
  
  The tail has wagged the dog for 5 years…..
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:20am
- Yvette
  
  7 April 2020 – Statement from the Prime Minister on Dr David Clark
  “Yesterday evening the Health Minister advised me of his trip to a beach during the lockdown and offered his resignation,” Jacinda Ardern said.
  “Under normal conditions I would sack the Minister of Health. What he did was wrong, and there are no excuses.
  “But right now, my priority is our collective fight against COVID-19. We cannot afford massive disruption in the health sector or to our response. For that reason, and that reason alone, Dr Clark will maintain his role.
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/statement-prime-minister-dr-david-clark
  
  This is Ardern telling the nation one man is too vitally important to dismiss, but Andrew Little can decommission 20 DHBs and totally restructure a Health Sector while it is crisis over staffing, funding and the covid pandemic.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:31am
- Cinematic
  
  What’s another $30m down the drain? Labour and savvy consultants are all sipping champagne and patting themselves on the back whilst NZ slides down the gurgler.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:35am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The Health Reforms were the usual Labour Party scam, a coat of paint to cover up the rot underneath, but nothing of any substance has actually been done.
  
  The same with everything they touch.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:53am
  - RoboRob
    
    100%. The current reforms would give labour 3yrs prior reform and 3yrs post reform to say…. either We are going to deal with the issues with our reform (prior) or We have implemented major changes and we need to work through the teathing issues (post).
    
    Most DHBs needed major bail outs and so merging them and wiping debt is a cunning way of hiding failure.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:09am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s about the colour of ya skin ya know
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:54am
artemisia

Been thinking about waste, priorities and the first 100 days of a new government, whatever the stripe.

There are thousands of third party contracts funded by taxpayers, large suppliers and individual contractors.. Public sector staffers manage the contracts. In my experience, managing those contracts is a not a widespread skill in the public sector, partly because the managers are too busy. (And also in my experience, plenty are too busy because they are doing, not managing. But that is another story.)

So, how about a would be government specifically commissioning a list of contracts coming up for renewal in the first year if that’s not already in the plan. How are the contracted outcomes being reported and rather importantly are they being met. And of course are the outcomes still necessary and value for (taxpayer) money.

If there are deficiencies take a long searching look at the taxpayer funded folk who are supposed to be managing the contracts.
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January 19, 2023 8:14am
mikenmildagain

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The good ol’ boys will be whooping today in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi as they celebrate Robert E. Lee Day. And because everything is bigger in Texas, they have Confederate Heroes Day, instead of limiting themselves to worshipping one treasonous general.
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January 19, 2023 8:17am
- herb1
  
  No Mike , theDemocrats are far to busy at the moment with their present leaders cockups ,to worry about their past leader and hero
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Texas needs to have a look at Alaska before they blow their arse about “bigger”
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:31am
- Frank the tank
  
  As opposed to team woke elite that are praying at the altar of corporate woke at Davos right now.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:35am
Maggy Wassilieff

The good old days?

(Another longish read)

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/when-the-left-were-actually-left
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January 19, 2023 8:23am
- Inandout
  
  Maggy, I knew Bill around the time of the ECA and he admitted that unions had lost their clout and would have to be more tactical in their actions. The gathering at Eden Park was not that popular with the ‘rank and file’, other than time off work. He was involved in kids’ rugby and was popular in that role. Modern Labour are soft and academic by comparison.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:58am
- CAKE FACE1
  
  On balance, I think that National Socialism was worse than communism. Only just, mind you. Pol Pot, Chairman Mao and Comrade Stalin gave Herr Hitler a good run for his money.
  
  Next week, will newsroom have an article from a Nazi sympathiser, saying how fantastic some Nazi fanatic was? I would say that this would be inappropriate.
  
  No one, quite properly, would platform someone who would glorify the Nazis. The Nazis were beyond the pale; an abomination.
  
  I find it disturbing that it is regarded as acceptable by our media to eulogise communists. It isn’t acceptable. It is deeply wrong.
  
  The suffering the communists caused in the Twentieth Century should never be minimised or glossed over. These communist clowns should be called out for the collaborators to mass murder that they were and are.
  
  I have been to many of the communist paradises. A is for Albania. I’ve been there and it was terrible. B is for Belarus. I’ve been there and it was awful. C is for China. Sinister and disturbing. Every country that communism touched, it destroyed for generations.
  
  Here is my eulogy for Bill Andersen:
  
  He was a communist collaborator, whose collaboration to this degenerate ideology contributed to the suffering of billions of people, and the murder of millions of people. His life was a crime against humanity.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:13am
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    My favourite communist is the late Malcolm Caldwell:
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Caldwell
    
    “Caldwell was one of the staunchest defenders of the Pol Pot regime. He frequently attempted to downplay reports of mass executions by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and was widely criticized by many authorities for doing so.
    
    In December 1978, Caldwell was a member, along with Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, of one of the few groups of Western journalists and writers invited to visit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge had taken power in April 1975…
    
    On 22 December, Caldwell had a private audience with Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia. After the meeting, he came back to the guest house in Phnom Penh where the three were staying in a mood described as “euphoric”. At about 11:00 p.m. that night Becker was awakened by the sound of gunfire… He (Caldwell) had been shot in the chest…
    
    The motives for Caldwell’s murder remain unexplained. Andrew Anthony, writing in The Guardian, notes: “Certainly there must have been some kind of in-house involvement, as the guests were guarded. But who instructed the guards, and why they did so, remains a subject of speculation.”
    Journalist Wilfred Burchett and some of Caldwell’s family members believe that Caldwell was killed on the orders of Pol Pot, possibly following a disagreement between the two during their meeting. This belief was also shared by Australian historian and friend of Caldwell Keith Windschuttle, who claimed that Caldwell had been shot by ‘two of Pol Pot’s henchmen’.”
    
    There is something deliciously ironical about this Pol Pot communist collaborator being murdered by his hero.
    
    I giggled anyway.
    
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    January 19, 2023 11:32am
  - NothingLeft
    
    There is no practical difference – totalitarianism of all types is evil – always devolving into murderous, repressive, hegemonic tyrannies dominated by monsters. Nazism is supposedly worse because of the holocaust but the ideology made no real difference as in practice Mao, Stalin, Kim regime, Khmer Rouge and other Communists killed higher percentages of their population using other excuses. It is all the same shit.
    
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    January 19, 2023 12:12pm
  - cmm
    
    It depends…
    National Socialism gave you VW. Communism gave you Lada.
    
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    January 19, 2023 12:30pm
    - Mike
      
      Don’t forget the Hugo Boss uniforms. Made with NZ wool.
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:41pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The National Socialists (German & Italian) definitely had the sharper uniforms. The Russians & Chinese were too dull & utilitarian.
    
    On any other ground I’d say it was a dead tie.
    
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    January 19, 2023 7:32pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

My partner txt that rumor down the Viaduct is QF144 could have taken on ‘dodgy fuel’ at Auckland 🙁

Anyone hearing this?
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January 19, 2023 8:24am
- Frank the tank
  
  Wouldn’t surprise me given that our gateway to the world resembles Mogadishi International Airport at the moment.
  
  Nadi Airport is positively first world in comparison.
  
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  January 19, 2023 8:38am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They would have taken fuel from there guaranteed
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:56am
- Keith White
  
  Maggie P, I have also heard a rumour to that effect from someone in the relevant industry. But at this stage it’s only rumour to me because he heard it from someone else.
  
  What is worrying is that it’s entirely believable. It’s what happens when you prioritise culture over competency, feelings over training, and the signalling of virtue over safety in the skies.
  
  I can vouch for the anecdote that follows, because it was witnessed not that many years back, in a neighbouring country not that very far away.
  When commercial airliners fly from A to B, they need enough fuel to get to A to B, plus more fuel than that in case they have to divert to C or D, plus an allowance for bad weather / contrary winds etc. Therefore when they land, before the fuel tanks are topped up, a reading of the remaining fuel is taken to check that that airliner did in fact have enough fuel loaded prior to takeoff, to make the range of destinations, not just the desired destination.
  
  This particular time, the captain of a rather large wide-body airliner who had had to divert that aircraft from the original destination was summoned to the control tower to explain why he had not quite 10 minutes of flying time’s fuel remaining in his tanks after landing – as this was a gross breach of aviation safety regulations. He exploded wrathfully, pointing out that (a) he should never have had to divert in the first place and (b) the fault lay with air traffic control for diverting him and (c) anyway, carrying extra fuel that was never used was a waste of money particularly when (d) fuel is so expensive at his national capital’s point of origin and much cheaper to buy upon arrival in the Current Satanic Nation (that last phrase is, yes, paraphrasing).
  
  That’s how the fight started, and in the end it became a diplomatic incident when the pilot invoked his country’s ambassador to join his side, which culminated in apologies all round purely for face-saving.
  
  As the saying goes “you cannot reason a man out of a position that he did not reason himself into”. People like this fundamentally believe they are right and evidence is irrelevant – unless and until it supports their ‘Weltanschauung’.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

Its Tuff work organising the Great Reset

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/leaders-struggle-at-the-helm-of-the-world-economy
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January 19, 2023 8:37am
- Frank the tank
  
  You mean the elite might actually have to put the hand in their own pocket for their woketopia?
  
  Surely not.
  
  The Realpolitik of a conflict during a recession means it’s really difficult to pass cost onto the working class.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:46am
- Keith White
  
  To be fair Maggy, they’re probably quite tired after the previous night.
  
  “Scores of sex workers have swarmed to the Swiss ski resort town of Davos to offer their services to the rich and powerful this week — with some said to be charging up to $2,500 a night.
  
  Every year, the World Economic Forum hosts a five-day gathering featuring CEOs, dignitaries, captains of industry, and media figures to discuss important global issues.
  
  One prostitute who goes by the name “Liana” told the German newspaper Bild that she frequently provides services to an American attendee at Davos who pays $750 per hour — or $2,500 to spend the whole night.
  
  She added that she dresses in business attire in order to blend in with the crowd at the World Economic Forum gathering.”
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:33am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Elon Musk.
https://patriotunitednews.com/high-risk-of-assassination-leaving-him-terrified-3/
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January 19, 2023 8:40am
- Frank the tank
  
  Klaus is not very happy with him! Would explain why Elon is spending most of his time in Texas and Florida!
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:47am
Suze Wainwright

Poor Cam Slater. He gets quite huffy when people take the piss out of his momentous announcements; and now Labour’s Twitterati are trumpeting his proclamations.

(Then again, he is a serious, balanced and impartial journalist).
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January 19, 2023 8:43am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He will be doing the dirt for Peters again
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:57am
  - Colville
    
    Peters must be in funds then.
    We know Cam dosent ever have an opinion for free!
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:24am
- Media hater
  
  The last I heard he had suffered a stroke and was unable to defend himself during some libel hearing.
  
  Has the chubby rascal effected a miraculous recovery?
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:46pm
Maggie Pie

Well, the Cobalt ain’t going to mine itself…..

https://twitter.com/KevinForBOS/status/1615486644903346176

Greta’s staged arrest.
They literally posed the doom-goblin for the photoshoot. LOL!!
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January 19, 2023 8:52am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  She has put on weight as well.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:23am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Those bugs must be fattening?
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:32am
  - Frank the tank
    
    LOL. I was thinking the same thing……
    
    I must say one think for Gret’s. At least she isn’t sucking up to Uncle Klaus like the rest of the Climatards.
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:50am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She’s been donkey-deep with the WEF Brigade.
      
      https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1088678561379176449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
      
      https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/greta-thunberg
      
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      January 19, 2023 11:21am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The “climate change” nutters are really taking the piss aren’t they?
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:24am
Maggy Wassilieff

Carbon-offset markets and Green spin

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe
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January 19, 2023 8:58am
- Matt Long
  
  Interesting because when it came to our carbon sequestration project Verra completely wasted our time, in the end rejecting the project because it had run more than 7 years (Duh, they wasted most of those years themselves. ) so didn’t represent a change of management and didn’t help developing countries.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:21am
- pussycat
  
  Notice the use of “global heating” by the left. Warming not scary enough?
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:13pm
Maggie Pie

’45’ is finally out of Twitter jail!!

Thank you Elon 😀 😀 😀
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January 19, 2023 9:16am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He has been for sometime but has vowed to never return
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:58am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    It’s not often you’re right ‘G’….but you’re wrong this time 😀
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:08am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Has he Twittered? He said he wouldn’t lower himself now he has his own platform
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:55pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        He’s preparing to……. 😀
        
        https://independent.co.uk/topic/twitter
        
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        January 19, 2023 1:20pm
Biscuit

Modern Education Standards.

Read and weep…

I bought a gate ticket at Sky Stadium yesterday afternoon for the NZL-USA Association Football game.

No idea why but tickets were $24.55.
[In effect, of course, they were $24.60 for cash customers because the smallest coin of the realm is now ten cents.]

I gave the (20-something) clerk two banknotes – a twenty and a five.

Her first, very-bemused action was to push the five back at me.

Her second, even-more-bemused action was to (presumably) work out what change I should be given from the remaining twenty.

Time stood still…

I was reminded of my favourite poem, After Years (by Ted Kooser):

Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
fell in the Cumberlands, holding only
a handful of leaves, and an old woman
scattering corn to her chickens looked up
for an instant. At the other side
of the galaxy, a star thirty-five times
the size of our own sun exploded
and vanished, leaving a small green spot
on the astronomer’s retina
as he stood on the great open dome
of my heart with no one to tell.

Good game, though, once I … f i n a l l l y … got in!
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January 19, 2023 9:22am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Biscuit – I’m presuming you mean watching the USA team was good?
  I’m not trying to be harsh on the NZ women (am I allowed to say that?) but I read the match report. This statement made me choke on my cornflakes.
  
  While the endeavour and grit of the Ferns was admirable, the inability to fashion a decent goal-scoring opportunity was a disappointment, though they finally earned a corner in the 94th minute, after a late flurry.
  
  If that was the only positive comment they could come up with for the NZ performance, it must have been a pretty dire 94 minutes.
  
  Good on you for supporting them.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:31am
  - Biscuit
    
    Clan, I like watching sporting excellence.
    
    This USA team – just as weakened as were the Black Fernz – were efficient in everything they did, had a couple of outstanding players on their right hand side and rarely, if ever, had their goal threatened by our World No. 22 mob.
    
    I counted five clear goal-scoring opportunities for Team USA in the first half and, for various reasons, none of them ‘stuck’.
    
    A similar number of chances fell their way in the second half and, this time, four went in, go figure…
    
    Okay, so the Fernz were outclassed – but even the best teams have to start somewhere, right?
    
    Sky Stadium has 10 (of the 64) games at the World Cup and je’s cute glutes were be there for each of them.
    My must-see match?
    United States vs. Netherlands
    It’s the obvious one, with the top two seeds clashing midway through the group stage on July 27.
    These two teams didn’t just meet in the World Cup final in Lyon back in 2019, they also played out a memorable Quarterfinal tie at the 2020 Olympics.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:50am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Biscuit – I hear ya and appreciate your comments. I think my main problem was the reporting. It reeks of desperation to think that winning a corner in the dying seconds of a game is some form of notable achievement.
      
      Good luck to them, they will have trained and worked hard and as you say, everyone needs to start somewhere. Maybe the reporter could have just left that last comment out!
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:07am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Clan.
    The first paragraph you quote is code for the Ferns were shite.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:51am
  - Stu2
    
    Could have easily been 6 or 7.
    
    One of the issues the ferns had was unavailability of players at this time of year. They had players out of position at centre back who were too short, and were beaten in the air for goals twice by taller US forwards.
    
    The second match at the weekend is compromised by players out to play for the Phoenix the next day.
    
    It was really a chance for the coaches to see how some fringe players perform while up against it.
    
    Similar for the USA – that wasn’t their top line up.
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:07am
- alex Masterley
  
  That wouldnt be a problem at Eden Park as you can’t hand over cash any more.
  EP proudly proclaims that they are a cash free site, so you have to use debit or credit cards buying tickets and their overpriced food and beverage offerings.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:50am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That means I’ll never be going to Eden Park again. I don’t mind having cards, I do mind having legal tender refused as a payment method.
    
    Is it actually legal to refuse to accept cash? I find that difficult to believe.
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:09am
    - Biscuit
      
      Clan, from my US trip last year:
      
      Yankee Stadium, we learned, is fully cash-less this season. Unless you’re planning on buying swag, snacks or water bottles from vendors outside the gates, you don’t need cash. To keep transactions quick, all payments inside the stadium must be through a debit or credit card. If you don’t have a credit or debit card, exchange cash at a ‘reverse ATM’ inside the stadium, which will issue a MasterCard debit card in $1 denominations, which can be spent anywhere, even after you leave the game.
      
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      January 19, 2023 10:28am
- Paulus
  
  It is said that many got tickets for free from some of the Sponsors and sales were poor earlier in the week.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:22am
Ghost

The ego is strong with this one

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a group of attendees Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that they were part of a ‘select group of human beings’ brought together by an ‘extra-terrestrial’ force to save the plan.

The climate czar opened by thanking Børge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum in Geneva for getting him the ‘best room I ever had here in 35 years.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646103/John-Kerry-says-extra-terrestrial-force-brought-people-Davos-save-planet-speech.html
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January 19, 2023 9:31am
- ClanMcleod
  
  And with every single participant in this annual self indulgent, narcissistic wankfest.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:32am
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    trouble is these vankers get media time and the dumb humans beleive them.
    
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    January 19, 2023 9:48am
- lastmanstanding
  
  These arseholes are so far up their arses they dont see the irony of preaching to hard working citizens about emissions having flown in on their emission spewing private jets. I say just ignore them. if we all did that they would sulk away like the pond life they are.
  
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  January 19, 2023 9:41am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed!
    
    Kerry’s Twitter today:
    ‘It’s a packed set of meetings at the @WEF to continue the push for faster, stronger action on climate by public and private sector leaders. We must turn words into tangible projects that can help us hit our collective goals across mitigation, adaptation, and finance.’
    
    For some resaon he didn’t post his next paragraph:
    ‘And if we don’t then, by golly, we will turn up at next year’s @WEF and the one after that and the one after that and the one after that and the one after that [STOP IT, BISCUIT!] and again push for faster, tronger action on climate by public and private sector leaders. We must turn words into tangible projects that can help us hit our collective goals across mitigation, adaptation, and finance…’
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:35am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Here’s a short video from Davos.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA7gTqHCYaU
  
  Ezra Levant from Rebel News tries to ask some very basic questions of some of the Blackrock people there. The responses are telling by their refusal to speak.
  Ezra asks a very simple question that needs to be answered. What gives these narcissistic arseholes the right to be discussing policy and law on a global level?
  They are not elected yet they are apparently able to direct health policy, war policy, every policy that we used to believe were directed by democratically elected representatives in each nation around the planet.
  Are we now back to the days of lords and serfs?
  
  It certainly looks that way, and we know from history, these sort of eras never end too well.
  Buckle up.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:16am
Maggie Pie

I bought a fake LV-Shoulder-Bag in Bangkok once.
Never used it. Still in the bottom of the wardrobe.

Just doesn’t look or feel right somehow 🙁

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1615789191929135104
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January 19, 2023 9:44am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Is this classified as “fake meat”? Just asking for a friend as they say…..
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:12am
ClanMcleod

San Francisco reparations committee proposes $5 million to each eligible black resident

I read that this morning and thought the satirical Babylon Bee had outdone themselves this morning.

In a spectacular display of what happens when woke politics intersects utter financial illiteracy, a San Francisco government advisory committee on reparations has recommended the city pay eligible black residents age 18 years and older $5 million apiece.

That’s just the headline recommendation of the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which was created by the city’s board of supervisors amid 2020’s nationwide racial tumult.

Tinisch Hollins, vice chair of San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee (via San Francisco Reparations)
Next on the wish list: “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans, etc.” The group said this measure will get blacks out of “an inescapable cycle of debt” so they can “build wealth.”

Rivaling the $5 million payment as an eyebrow-raiser, the committee also wants a welfare program that targets a $97,000 annual income for low-income blacks for the next 250 years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-fran-city-panel-urges-reparations-5-million-black-adult?

Turns out it’s a real story. Even the “fact checkers” have deemed it true!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/san-francisco-5-million-black-reparations/

There’s a slight problem though, somebody can’t count.

Financial acumen appears to be in short supply among the AARAC members. San Francisco’s budget is around $14 billion and there were about 47,000 African Americans in the 2020 census. If just 10,000 residents qualify, the $5 million payment alone would cost $50 billion.

But at least it’s representative?

Diversity isn’t a strength of the reparations committee either: All 14 members are black. However, there’s a vacant seat right now — available only to “an individual who has lived or is currently living in public housing.”

What could possibly go wrong? 🤡🤡🤡
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January 19, 2023 9:50am
- kevn
  
  @Clan… Moving to Florida must seem even more desirable.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:18am
- Nickc2
  
  Non-African Americans are asking if they can change their race in the same manner as they can change their gender.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:21am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Nick2 – they’ve got that covered apparently, you have to be able to prove that you have “identified” as black for at least 10 years. lol
    I can see the better forgers are going to busy in the next couple of years. 🤡
    
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    January 19, 2023 10:31am
- Matt Long
  
  Watch how many people in SF suddenly identify as descendants of slaves if this goes through.
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:25am
- Ghost
  
  Reminds me of this case
  
  https://www.insider.com/black-family-bruces-beach-sold-la-county-20-million-2023-1
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:27am
- NothingLeft
  
  It’s beyond silly. Being pushed as a means of testing the electoral water and perhaps as an opening gambit with underlying intent of softening up public for eventual determined push on a far lower number. Utterly repugnant, and a great way to drive voters away from Democrat proponents
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:08pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  And California was not even a slave state
  
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  January 19, 2023 7:56pm
Ruawai

I was on the NZTA website and noticed a tab labelled “Maori and Waka Kotahi”, curious I clicked the link and found this, silly me I thought NZTA was to help all NZers with transport solutions, but appears it is to help Maori with their aspirations:
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/
“Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency recognises and respects Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi) and will work with Māori as partners to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

Waka Kotahi is responsible for delivering an integrated transport system. We have an important role to play in finding opportunities to better respond to Māori aspirations while delivering transport solutions. We can contribute by working with Māori and other government agencies to support Māori to achieve their aspirations.

We invest time and effort that reflects the importance of this partnership. Both Treaty partners benefit from working closely together, focusing on long-term outcomes and building strong and enduring relationships.”
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January 19, 2023 9:52am
- Ghost
  
  That’s great news. Just imagine the savings to roads if Māori can roll out the air nz sky waka nationwide. Although I see it had no seatbelts, or airbags so not sure would happen if two Sky Waka collided. The seats look pretty uncomfortable and no roof on it I wonder if it can fly in the rain.
  
  Hmmm what’s the difference between making roads safe for everyone and making the safe for Māori.
  
  https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/maori-road-safety-outcomes-report/
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:04am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Sky Waka’s flight……Huias in delight…… lalalalala
    
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    January 19, 2023 11:41am
    - Biscuit
      
      Brillz, Blog-aholic.
      
      I just may now treat the neighbourhood to a half hour or so of ‘Starland Vocal Band’.
      
      The neighbourhood are FANS, I should add, of decent music. Just ask them next time Liverpool do well and you see them stting on their front lawns waiting for ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ on repeat!
      
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      January 19, 2023 3:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Racist shit from Waka Coathanger.
  Make the roads safe for Maori but not Ngati Pakeha?
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:09am
  - Blog-aholic
    
    You should read the Te Tiriti framework for NZ news media ……
    
    Especially the ‘Rationale’ behind it…….
    
    It is made up unhistorically factual garbage and basically calls anyone who is non-ethnic a racist.
    
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    January 19, 2023 11:44am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      It is all in http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
      
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      January 19, 2023 12:24pm
Nickc2

Why can’t this has-been PM STFU?
Restoring Russell to the original name of Kororāreka: Former Prime Minister Dame Jenny Shipley backs proposal
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-prime-minister-dame-jenny-shipley-backs-proposal-to-restore-russells-original-name-of-kororareka/WCZ6AFD7ZVFO7LCCNWPMVCMRFM/
This is behind a Herald Paywall but you no doubt get the message.
IMO, this Maorification of NZ has gone too far already. I don’t give a big rat’s arse what the Maori name for Russell was (if there was such a thing). Russell was NZ’s first Capital and as such should remain in NZ’s history as given. Changing the name will invariably require another re-write of our History and various scholastic curricula along with never ending drama as self appointed Elites jockey for position.
In short, leave well enough alone eh.
PS: More Koha required for hurty feelings?
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January 19, 2023 10:02am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Yup, as per the San Francisco story I posted up the thread.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:21am
- Don Beckett
  
  Actually, Russell has always been know as Kororareka, also. I learnt that in 1949 when I was at primary school, so its not a new “Maori Agenda” thingie.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:38am
  - Nickc2
    
    Known by a few perhaps. I was in Primary School in the 50s in Hikurangi and I have never heard of it.
    
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    January 19, 2023 11:46am
    - greybeard
      
      I was at primary school in Kamo in the late 1950’s.
      Lived on Snake Hill.
      You ?
      
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      January 19, 2023 5:45pm
      - Nickc2
        
        George St Hikurangi next door to Dr Cook.
        
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        January 19, 2023 8:08pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Both names are used and are based on real history. No need to change anything.
    
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    January 19, 2023 1:55pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Konstantin Kisin challenges the bright, young minds at Oxford University to start thinking for themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJdqJu-6ZPo
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January 19, 2023 10:14am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/now-is-the-time-to-think-of-what-you-want-written-on-your-grave-stone/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/How-the-goverment-propaganda-is-working-1.pdf
Booklet. 1st Draft.
https://issuu.com/esisite/docs/chris_flyer_first_draft_9b9e293442ebf8
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January 19, 2023 10:18am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “How dare the government dupe / brainwash
  kiwis in order to steal their country! This is war! ”
  
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  January 19, 2023 10:19am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Here’s what our news media have been told about their Treaty obligations. Sean Plunket. 25 min.
What NZ on Air does with your Taxes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOTSY_38Ik
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January 19, 2023 10:25am
- NothingLeft
  
  A clear declaration that recipient media have totally abandoned journalism and are now nothing but govt propagandists.
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:13pm
Maggy Wassilieff

An unsustainable green venture …

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/18/uk-green-jobs-narrative-unravelling-battery-collapse-parliamentary-inquiry/
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January 19, 2023 10:26am
Wayne Mapp

Good move for Chris Luxon to put Judith at n0 10 and Todd at no 12. Also with the right portfolios. Both should be in a National led Cabinet, which this clearly signals.
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January 19, 2023 10:42am
- rouppe
  
  How can anyone have confidence that Muller won’t crack under pressure and just do what the ministry tells him.
  
  He’s a liability
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:20pm
- MCōs
  
  Probably two of the most disliked people in the caucus. For completely different reasons.
  He pushed himself into the leadership roll and didn’t know what to do next.
  She took over and ran the most inept campaign in the history of the National Party.
  Praying in church, meet and greet down Ponsonby Rd and the patronizing Aigagalefili Fepulea’i Tapua’i during the leaders debate.
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:04pm
kevn

muller? Really?
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January 19, 2023 10:52am
Maggie Pie

My partner’s mum was just saying the clown ZB have got filling in for Kerry Woodham is sooo bad, she’s tuned in to Duncan Garner.
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January 19, 2023 10:57am
- Ghost
  
  Oh no, do you think you should call her dr
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:01am
- Muttonbird
  
  Worse than Kerre? Wow!
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:22am
- Aquarius
  
  I agree re ZB…..but Michael Laws on the Platform is better; just did a good interview with Wayne Brown and now VFF
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:51am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This must be where Jaspinda wants to take us. NZ multi-millionaires?
Socialism success. Venezuela has the most millionaires of any country. Only trouble is that a million bollivars is about 300 bucks.
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January 19, 2023 11:06am
Frank the tank

Signals 2 things:
-National are going to go on the attack (Collins)
-Road to power leads through Climatardia and having Captain Planet as your idol.
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January 19, 2023 11:13am
Maggie Pie

Had to larf. Ma was just saying in her day it used to be old Zephyrs 😀

https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/1615830156425273356
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January 19, 2023 11:26am
- Keith White
  
  To be resolutely fair, that all looks like postcolonial rubbish… No native artefacts to be seen.
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:37am
- Don Beckett
  
  Aww, c’mon Maggie. Back in 1962 I had a 1956 Mk.I Zephyr Convertible – great car – called the ‘Vacuum cleaner’ – picked up all the stray fluff along the road. :-).
  Then in 1967 I had a Mk II Zephyr.
  Then in 1970 I had a 1966 Mk.IV Zephyr – excellent car, but the 2.5 ltr. V.6 was a bit under powered.
  Then in 1974 had a 1970 Mk.IV Zephyr Zodiac – great car, much better with the 3 ltr. V.6.
  Them were the good old days. 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2023 11:48am
  - mogg
    
    Were you in the Mongrel Mob??
    
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    January 19, 2023 11:55am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Mongrel mob never existed then. My Maori mates were all part of the deal – although I must say that in the 1960’s there were a few ‘anti’ young Maori guys, & in Rotorua in the 1970’s, there was a drug problem among young Maori, and the start of gang influence – the Filthy Few were quite active then, but weren’t confrontational as the gangs are today.
      
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      January 19, 2023 7:36pm
  - Paulus
    
    Don
    These are the Good Old Days I say to my Grandchildren.
    Sorry we have let this mess happen for you to sort ot if possible.
    
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    January 19, 2023 1:52pm
mogg

The Bermuda Triangle forLabour’s chances of staying above the 30% polling mark. Falling house values, sky high interest rates, record food price increases. Come on Grant tell us how lucky we are.
Expect more supermarket bashing from Jacinda.

Food Price Index released by Stats NZ on Thursday morning shows food prices continued to rise in December by 11.3% annually, breaking the previous record of 11.4% recorded in April 1990.
Grocery food prices rose 11% in December when compared with the same month in 2021, and fruit and vegetable prices rose a staggering 23% annually. Kiwifruit, potatoes, and tomatoes influenced this movement the most, Stats NZ said in a release.
Stats NZ said the increases were due to rises “across the board” in all the categories measured.
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January 19, 2023 11:53am
- slightlyrighty
  
  My household income is about 170K per annum, (Household of 4),
  
  The other day my wife came home moaning about how much food is now after our usual weekly shop.
  
  I struggle to think how those on lower incomes are doing, or those with larger families. If you’re living hand to mouth, and fuel, Power, Rent and food are all going up, as are interest rates, you will be shitting bricks.
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:35pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Very soon there will be hundreds of health officials saying “It was your choice, no one made you take it” Those who lost employment because of the control freak Jaspinda, should be compensated.
Safe and effective my left tit.
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January 19, 2023 11:54am
- Keith White
  
  Well, the Prime Medical … [No, inappropriate. mod.] of our time can front up to the tribunal first, but won’t be the last.
  
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  January 19, 2023 2:10pm
kevn

@Maggie… Then came the broken Jappas. I remember a pile of (probably stolen) rotories in the bush all stuffed and rusted, we used them for target practice.
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January 19, 2023 11:54am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

https://babylonbee.com/news/fourth-stash-of-classified-documents-discovered-during-bidens-colonoscopy
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January 19, 2023 12:11pm
- I remember when
  
  Just when Joe was thinking that bad luck always comes in threes!
  
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  January 19, 2023 2:11pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Stuff bemoans large donations freely given by individuals to National.

Not a word on Union donations to Labour neither cash nor time of Union staff working without charge on Labour’s behalf.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131005019/wealthy-donors-set-national-and-act-up-for-election-year
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January 19, 2023 12:20pm
- kowtow
  
  The Whoreald ran that yesterday .
  
  MSM advancing on a broad front.
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:35pm
- MCōs
  
  Stuff aren’t complaining in that article. You’re making shit up to suit your persecution complex.
  Furthermore
  This happens every election.
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:50pm
- I remember when
  
  The difference is that the Unions don’t want, or expect, anything back in return
  
  do they?
  
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  January 19, 2023 2:10pm
MCōs

Some fool of a real estate agent molests a client in the bedroom of a house he was showing her.
My wife didn’t think that was too bad
And then she saw his face
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/prominent-kiwi-real-estate-agent-murray-alfred-bright-charged-with-misconduct-for-hugging-woman-kissing-her-on-cheek-at-home-viewing.html
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January 19, 2023 12:42pm
Maggie Pie

“The entire North-Pole-Ice-Cap will disappear in 5 years”

– Al Gore, 2008

https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1615735349971673093

He has to be on drugs!! WEF 2023 😀
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January 19, 2023 12:44pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He also said Manhattan would be under water by 2006 my partners sister who lives in Newyork says the ferry is still at the same level when she first went there in 1999
  
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  January 19, 2023 12:59pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Hmm, G. You know that boats float, right?
    
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    January 19, 2023 8:07pm
Swifty

Idiots. Morons.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/200000-royal-oak-shopping-mall-heist-aidan-webster-raimona-tehau-plead-guilty-to-jewellery-store-smash-and-grab/XGY6REDGUVAP7EAIBMYOPXTRUE/

I remember the days when there was a bit of ingenuity in NZ crime. Miraculous feats of derring-do featuring inventiveness and meticulous planning.

Now all we’ve got are these retards.

Honestly, they’d be lucky to have an IQ of 50 between them.
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January 19, 2023 12:48pm
rangitoto

So she’s thrown in the towel.
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January 19, 2023 1:12pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  More like she has thrown in the shit shovel because the septic hole she was digging was about to consume her.
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:38pm
I remember when

Just been having a bit of a catch-up nap.
Anything important happen today?
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January 19, 2023 1:36pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Nothing or nobody of any real significance………
  
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  January 19, 2023 1:46pm
I remember when

Strangely, although I wasn’t expecting it I am not really surprised.
A number have predicted it and the silence, has she been abducted by aliens, was noticeable.
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January 19, 2023 1:40pm
bennerg

Piers Mogan re Prince Harry:

“”This treacherous little toad has forgotten that he is supposed to turn into a prince after being kissed by a spoiled princess – not the other way around.”
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January 19, 2023 1:51pm
I remember when

How much of their hardcore 30% support do Labour risk losing because of Jacinda’s resignation.
Will the female supporters stay onboard if a male leader is selected?
Does Grant suffer somewhat because of his ‘minority’ status?
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January 19, 2023 2:02pm
- kowtow
  
  Another 5 % taking them to 25 imho.
  
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  January 19, 2023 3:20pm
Diogenes

Surely this must be coincidence…. Just after Jacinda’s announcement, I went to our local supermarket, and the staff were flat out stocking the shelves with eggs. Hadn’t seen any there in weeks.
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January 19, 2023 2:18pm
cmm

Dudges are real suckers!

14 year old criminal finds himself in court on 84 charges.

She falls for the sob story that he’s missing school.

Dudge says OK, treducing the sentence would be good. Tells him he needs to change his ways.

“We can’t punish you to be good,” she said.

Ummm, sweetie, that’s the whole point of punishment. Punish the scrote until he’s good.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/14-year-old-sentenced-on-84-charges-following-six-month-crime-spree/QCWVFL3XLVFJXKK26L5AIHFSGQ/
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January 19, 2023 3:03pm
Ghost

One person critically injured after reported stabbing in Remuera near Ōrākei village shops

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/one-person-critically-injured-after-reported-stabbing-in-remuera-near-orakei-village-shops/NRLULVKVUVGK7CXEXOBI2E6PXI/
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January 19, 2023 3:54pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Jeez,
  
  rough area.
  
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  January 19, 2023 4:02pm
- Inandout
  
  Ghost: ‘A man shopping nearby said it was “really scary to think this sort of violent crime can happen so close to where I shop. I hope they catch the guy’.
  Maggie, what say thou?
  
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  January 19, 2023 6:10pm
Jack5

Will UK comedian Jimmy Carr get a “warm” reception at his Invercargill concert tonight?

He features in Stuff as saying from Dunedin: “I’m in Dunedin for 2 shows tonight. It’s not the end of the world, but that’s the next stop tomorrow night in Invercargill.”

Stuff, which seems to be on a campaign to drive away remaining subscribers to the Southland Times, recounts the Rolling Stones branded Invercargill as the “arsehole of the world”.

Local legend has it, and Stuff omits, that this followed the first Stones concert in the city at which locals were expecting Country and Western music from the then not-at-peak-fame musicians.

The locals, legend has it, booed and threw meat pies at the Stones.
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January 19, 2023 5:37pm
- Mike
  
  It’s his schtick. He told a Dublin audience that he “dreamed of one Ireland, united…”
  [huge applause]
  …under British rule!”
  
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  January 19, 2023 6:52pm
Taieri

branded Invercargill as the “arsehole of the world”.
———–

That’s Bluff. Invercargill is 20 miles up.
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January 19, 2023 7:33pm
- Ghost
  
  So it’s the balls then?
  
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  January 19, 2023 7:34pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    A tumour?
    
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