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artemisia

The Ombudman has published his decision on offshore seafarers and MIQ. They and the then Minister got it wrong. Vindication of a sort, including for some seafarer posters on this site.

I have formed the opinion that MBIE acted unreasonably in providing the advice that it did to the Minister in respect of offshore seafarers …. I also recommend that MBIE consider apologising to the complainants.

http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources/advice-managed-isolation-allocation-system-regard-offshore-seafarers
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March 29, 2023 8:02am
- mister nui
  
  What about those of us who had to give up lucrative contracts in the oil and gas industry, because we were not able to get home for our rostered time off, due to not having the security of isolation spots. Lost hundreds of thousands of $ personally and know of many others in the same boat.
  
  The government also l0st out on significant tax revenue from all of us – offshore earnings, which is exactly what our country needs. We don’t get richer selling houses to each other.
  
  Another reason to despise Cindy.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:22am
  - Keith White
    
    I will never, never forget that I was locked out of my own country for nearly 10 months, while I was working overseas, earning forex, and paying taxes in NZ.
    
    I will never, never forget I could not support my wife when she lost her mother, I could not support my family when we lost our father.
    
    I will never, never forget being taxed by the New Zealand government while I was an illegal overstayer in the country where I was stuck, while I was forced into the humiliating lottery to try and get home.
    
    I will never, never forget I had to take the jab or I could never have come home (at the time), but all the while I was taxed (yes I know I already mentioned that).
    
    I will never, never forget that as the added insult to serious injury, when I did ‘win’ a place in the lottery, on arrival ‘home’ I was imprisoned without charge, trial or appeal, and then forced to pay for my prison.
    
    I am not forgetting that, ever.
    
    I hope to live long enough to be a witness at the NZ Peace Crimes Tribunal.
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:38pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      Lots of people have already forgotten. Or are pretending to.
      
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      March 29, 2023 3:52pm
      - Scooter
        
        Yes, had a conversation with friends, apparently the delayed treatments and missed diagnosis’s, not to mention people’s mental health, during covid were OK because we were saved from a very dangerous virus.
        
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        March 30, 2023 6:23am
    - mister nui
      
      Yes, I will never ever forget either, and I certainly will not forgive a single one of the f^ckers – every political party included, as they all supported this.
      
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      March 29, 2023 4:45pm
- pdm
  
  arty – MBIE Minister at the time – was that not the now disgraced Stuart Nash?
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:42am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    MBIE – Steven Joyce’s favorite behemoth – reports to many ministers. I could guess this was a matter under the suzerainty of the minister of immigration, but I’m picking that after forty years of improving ‘accountability’ it would be impossible to sheet home the blame for a specific bad decision to any one minister or official.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:46am
    - RoboRob
      
      I think its a bit less then 40yrs, didn’t Joyce create MBIE?
      
      Your general point though, is sadly true. Most Ministers and govt agencies make sure that the structure of an organisation is as unaccountable as possible, even if this degrades the organisations performance. This is especially true under the current government. Labour have shuffled ministers around so rapidly few can be held accountable for any actions as it was always ‘under the previous minister’.
      
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      March 29, 2023 8:57am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Three separate things:
        1. A slow degradation of the concepts of ministerial responsibility over at least 45 years
        2. Reforms intended to make the public service more efficient and accountable since the mid-80s have produced the opposite effect.
        3. Restructuring (MBIE being a particularly infamous example) seldom leads to better results but creates an illusion of action.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:50am
      - rouppe
        
        @mikenmildagain
        
        Re: point 3.
        
        That’s because the wrong action is taken to the problem.
        
        Currently: Problem is that MBIE isn’t delivering.
        Solution: Restructure
        End result: Same people doing same or similar work with a new name, title, or team, ergo nothing changes.
        
        Should be: Problem is that MBIE isn’t delivering.
        Solution: Set a KPI that (e.g.) visas are processed within (e.g.) 10 working days
        End result: The battalion of managers set about making sure that this can be achieved, so that they meet their performance goals.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:00am
  - artemisia
    
    Advice was to the Minister for COVID-19 Response, who made the decision. Guess who that was.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:55am
    - Matt Long
      
      Maybe someone whose exceptional performance in all portfolios merited promotion?
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:00am
    - zulumonster
      
      Ir really doesn’t matter because:
      1/ said person is no longer the minister responsible so cannot be made to take any responsibility and;
      2/ the Ombudsman clearly states he has no jurisdiction over the minister so has only intimated MBIE apologise
      
      The clown show rolls on and this will be waved off as yesterdays news, just not something people need to worry about … they saved 80k lives dontcha know?
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:23am
- Nickc2
  
  Why is it in this country that an apology solves everything?
  Let’s face it, a sacking, court sentence, or company imposed punishment eg no promotion or demotion for…… etc means more than a mealy mouth word soup and crocodile tears performance.
  Is an apology by Marama Davidson appropriate punishment for her racist and sexist diatribe?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:07am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    It’s impossible to say since she hasn’t apologised for anything. Nobody has heard or read an apology from her, in fact she doubled down after “clarifying” what she really meant to say only her head was all confused on account of the motorbike don’cha know.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:00am
- GJM
  
  So who is losing their job over this? Not only ministers but MBIE staff. The public servants can act illegally, break the law or otherwise have the most incredible stuff ups and there are never consequences.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:21am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That is why ALL Public Sector employees need to come under the spotlight.
    Sack them all, and re-employ based on performance. If they are just there to collect a payslip – gone. Weed out the decades old deadwood.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:33am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Davidson isnt even original. Shes modelling herself on Lidia Thorpe an Australian Senator. Thorpe was recently kicked out of the Green Party for going too far even for them.
  I hope the Greens dont kick Davidson out and she continues her unhinged vile rants. Hopefully some Green supporters will dessert some will go to Labour but hopefully some wont bother to vote which will harm both the Greens and Labour.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:27am
- Master Mariner
  
  Illegitimi non carborundum.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:54am
mikenmildagain

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Time to celebrate the feast day of an important catholic demi-god: Saint Gwynllyw Milwr – the patron saint of pirates.
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March 29, 2023 8:04am
- Albert_Ross
  
  So why isn’t it today, rather than September 19, that’s designated as International Talk Like A Pirate Day?
  
  Incompetent land lubbers. Arrr.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:14am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Pastafarians have a feast to celebrate every day, just like the bogus catholic ‘church’:
    https://www.pastafariancalendar.com/holidays
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:44am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      I take it wasnt Hutt Marist you supported Mike and more HSOB’s were your club before the merge? Or did you acquire you distaste for Catholicism at a St Pats or St Bernands indoctrination centre?
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:13am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Watched the movies:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena_(film)
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_(2014_film)
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:22am
      - stiff cheese
        
        Mike, for some balance, you might try watching ‘1984’ and ‘The Lives of Others’.
        
        See where totalitarian politics leads.
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:25pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Sure, stiff cheese – as if the church isn’t totalitarian – but perhaps the pope has given up the claim to be god’s representative on Earrth.
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:51pm
      - stiff cheese
        
        And what does the Pope make you do?
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:03pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Like most totalitarians, the pope does not make me do anything, any more than Kim Jong-un of Vladimir Putin does. But perhaps he has given up his claim to divine authority to do so.
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:14pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        mikenmildagain: “Sure, stiff cheese – as if the church isn’t totalitarian”
        
        mikenmildagain: ” Like most totalitarians, the pope does not make me do anything, any more than Kim Jong-un of Vladimir Putin does.”
        
        Makes no sense Milky. Have you thought about doing some online courses in basic logic?
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:49pm
slightlyrighty

Why Marama must apologise for her “Cis White Men” comment.

While it is true, according to government stats, that White men make up 48% of sexual assault perpertrators, The percentage of New Zealanders that are European is 70.2%

Compare that to Maori, who make up 16.5% of the population, but a staggering 30% of Sexual Assault perpertrators. (According to government stats.)

When the ‘prevention violence minister’ (sic) cant even understand basic stats, and displays outwardly rascist sentiment while ignoring or misrepresenting data that does not align with her ideology, then she is not only unfit to be a minister, but also an MP.

She needs to go.
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March 29, 2023 8:07am
- G152
  
  Her brain storm came from probably her own history.
  Getting hit by a motorbike and remembering it some hours later was sure to bring back something.
  Should be gone
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:24am
  - I remember when
    
    Still waiting for the details on exactly what happened on the pedestrian crossing.
    Was it one of Bishop Brian’s motorcyclists?
    Was the motor cyclist in the worng?
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:04am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Any person driving/riding a vehicle who fails to stop at a pedestrian crossing when someone is on, or about to step onto the crossing on the same roadside as the vehicle is in the wrong.
      
      I will be very surprised if Police ever manage to locate the rider of the motorcycle.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:11pm
      - kowtow
        
        MW
        
        I’d say it could potentially depend on the circumstances .
        
        Was the road closed or in a state of chaos due to the protest / counter protest .
        
        Etc
        
        Nomally I’d agree with you but that day was different , if it happened in the middle of that mess.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:07pm
      - david
        
        Ahem Maggie,
        I believe that a vehicle that has passed the diamond painted on the road before a pedestrian steps onto the road, has right of way. Of course it does not give the motorist licence to run down an idiot pedestrian but there is a rule that is not understood, not taught and not observed.
        Look to the right, look to the left, look to the right again, then step onto the road.
        
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        March 30, 2023 7:55am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    I bet it is more likely that the police will prosecute a motor bike rider that brushed past Marama, than a person who threw juice over Posie.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:24am
    - Ghost
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-rally-police-investigating-number-of-calls-about-alleged-offending-at-auckland-protests/Q4TSI6MZ6BDFFPNA5GUS2M67XA/
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:58am
      - Nickc2
        
        IMO, if the Police did their jobs and made some arrests in Albert Park on Saturday, they could save themselves a lot of work sifting through numerous video clips.
        Then, they could have used the video clips as evidence of offences.
        I think this is an afterthought by Police in order to cover their arses.
        PS: Are the Police sifting through video clips they took, or are they sifting through video clips others provided for various reasons?
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:55pm
    - alloytoo
      
      I wonder if Marama’s Bike rider will ever be found. I somehow think an accurate timeline of her exciting day will expose a number of lies.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Before anyone else says it — you’re Racist.//
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:25am
  - sirknz
    
    You’re racist, he’s racist, she’s racist, they/them is racist, everyone is racist.
    
    Except the female co-leader of the Greens and Labour’s Maori caucus…
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:02am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Not the point, what th ex hell was she even raving about that crap, it was one woman she was protesting about, what’s it hot yo do with us white straight fullas?
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:29am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    It wasn’t “one woman”. Several women turned up wanting to speak, or just to hear what she had to say. Others might have done so but didn’t because they had been intimidated by media coverage and politicians’ determined assertions that what they had to say would not for a moment be listened to, let alone given thoughtful consideration.
    
    All were silenced through violence, actual and threatened.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:09am
    - alloytoo
      
      They were Terrorized into silence.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:37pm
    - stiff cheese
      
      The irony of it: peacefully assembled women were calling 111 in fear of their lives as angry, violent men charged into their space — and a hundred yards away, police were standing motionless like shop-window dummies.
      
      A day of shame for the NZ Police.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:00pm
      - Keith White
        
        Not Coster’s Gang’s first day of shame; I reckon that by no means will it be their last.
        
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        March 29, 2023 3:43pm
  - JohnRidd
    
    The logic she is using is that women should not be upset about men who wear dresses in women’s toilets because violence like war is caused by straight white men.
    
    I’m not sure if that’s a strawman or a non sequitur.
    
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    March 29, 2023 4:37pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Many family violence programs in New Zealand explain that colonisation caused high rates of family violence being perpetrated by Maori men. It was the white colonisers who demonstrated to the previously peaceful Maori men that it is acceptable to bash your female partner. The only way to stop family violence in Maori families is to ‘decolonise’..
  
  This publication by the Auckland Women’s Centre is a good example of this thinking.
  
  https://awc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/A-Way-Through-The-Thicket-Full-Version-Final-1.pdf
  
  I don’t want to make assumptions about the views of the Minister. However in her role she would have had extensive exposure to this view of the cause of Maori family violence, ie that it is a direct result of white male colonisers. Of course I do not know whether she agrees with this view.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:43am
  - NothingLeft
    
    about 30-50% of pre-colonial Maori died due to violence (typical numbers for neolithic semi-agrarian cultures in competition for resources). Arrival of europeans saw homicidal violence among Maori drop precipitously before end of 19th century.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:54am
  - Grunter
    
    Complete BS!
    Colonisation 250-150 years ago did not make a Maori male in 2023 commit family violence. The Maori male made a decision as an individual person.
    If it was colonisation causing the family violence then why don’t we see ALL Maori men committing family violence? I know heaps of Maori men that have not, and never will commit any violence.
    The colonisation excuss is such a dumb argument!
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:59am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Is this the same Maori men that use to eat each other, hardly makes them peaceful
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:03am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Yes but the thesis from certain groups, one of which I linked to, is that Maori men did not engage in violence towards family members until colonisation. The only way to stop Maori family violence is to decolonise. Nothing else will work.
      
      Killing and eating enemies would be put in a category of legitimate violence.
      
      I am not agreeing with this view of the world. I am simply offering this popular thesis as a plausible explanation of the Minister’s view that ‘white men caused all violence, at least family violence.’
      
      Indeed the Minister is quite specific about how she will address family violence:
      
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/guiding-star-sets-new-path-elimination-family-violence-and-sexual-violence
      
      ““We need to address the intergenerational impacts of colonisation and racism in order for us to eliminate violence. Violence that impacts whānau is rooted in the marginalisation of tangata whenua and societal changes enforced during the colonisation of Aotearoa. There are solutions within the promotion and strengthening of whānau ora that require a focus on healing, restoration, redress and a return to a state of noa – being without limitations.”
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:48am
      - herb1
        
        Hard to do a thesis on history of Maori , when unlike most other cultures, they didn’t have a written language. Written language enables the good and bad history to be recorded and available to future generations.
        Passing stories down through generations allows misinterpretation, wilful misinforming and selective memories.
        Try telling a joke to your mates and then listening to them retelling it and their listeners retelling it.Then imagine what’s it like hundreds of years down the line
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:09am
      - rouppe
        
        I believe she is using this as a wedge to create division.
        
        If we accept that pre-colonial Maori family life was completely different, and that familial violence almost unknown, explain to me what it is about current society that prevents Maori from living their lives that way now?
        
        There is nothing that prevents Maori generally adopting that approach, and certainly nothing legislative that needs changing to facilitate it. Just do it.
        
        In fact many groups – Maori and non-Maori – do that already. Wide family networks, helping each other out, looking after children, it all already happens.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:19am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        Well WC, the oral history of my family tells me that Maori men used to beat the shit out of their women and children, the Grandmothers in the mid 1800’s reported that they (and their kids) had been given some fearful hidings by their men (and that’s before any Europeans landed permanently in NZ). Not just their partner either. So there’s a fact check.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:59am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Did they have family members back then? or were they just like living in the jungle?
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:57pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It would seem Ms Davidson knows nothing of the violent Myths and Legends of her Maori and Polynesian forbears.
    
    * Tane Mahuta committing incest with his daughter Hine Tītama
    
    * Maui beating his brother-in-law Ira-waru and forcing him to eat shit (after Maui changed him into a dog).
    
    * Husband and wife Marukore and Tūhaitara fight a war with each other involving their respective families and children.
    
    etc, etc
    
    These tales of violence originated long before colonists set foot on NZ’s shores (or so we are led to believe.)
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:21am
  - cmm
    
    A historical FACT that is often overlooked is that the Mere was an object of peace. As were the Taiaha, Pouwhenua, Tewhatewha, Hoeroa, Tao, Huata, Patu,…
    
    All just fashion accessories.
    
    Then colonialism came with the inevitable violence and the peaceful Maori started bashing each other with these peaceful items.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:08pm
- Prince
  
  I see those journalists who are aligned to Davidson quietly drop the ‘white’ from their articles, and praise Davidson for drawing attention to the fact that violence is mostly perpetrated by men.
  How can the Minister be effective in her portfolio when she ignores basic stats, and sees the problem through a racist lens ?
  She needs to go, and be replaced by someone who can do the job.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:55am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Even if she hadn’t said the “white” and thus made the point entirely correct – it’s still a bizarre thing to say in support of a demonstration intended to forcibly silence women wanting to protect themselves from male violence.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I agree in some respects with Marama Davidson’s analysis of the causes/drivers of much violence and it is intertwined with power relationships.
  
  But what Ms Davidson has failed to realise is that as a Government Minister she is the one representing those with power. That she used her position to support a physically violent protest and denigrate an entire group of her fellow man indicates that she is unfit to represent the interests of all New Zealanders in her role as Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:57am
- artemisia
  
  Minister Davidson has shown ‘they’ are a weak link. Consequences for Ministers follow …..
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:58am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Slightlyrightywhitey? You should be sorry! (Sarc)
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:09am
- Yvette
  
  70.2 ‘Europeans’ make up 48% of sexual assault perpertrators
  therefore 1 percent do 0.683 percent of that crime
  Maori 16.5 percent do 30 percent of that crime
  therefore 1 percent do 1.818 of the crime
  so Maori offences may be 2.66 time that of European
  (1.818 + 0.683)
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:16am
  - sirknz
    
    Just like voting under a cogovernance system…
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:04am
    - Jack5
      
      Or State-funded TV or radio.
      
      Maori want separate services, so they get two TV channels. They want separate radio, so they get 20 or more tribal radio stations.
      
      Then they want big slices of non-Maori channels and of State Radio NZ.
      
      And with tertiary education. They want their own system, so the State finances three wananga. But Maori are taking over universities and elevating traditional Maori “knowledge” with science and academic disciplines of the non-indigenous world.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:56pm
  - Keith White
    
    Stats an’ math be rayciss! /sarc
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:44pm
- Ehlana
  
  Convictions may not reflect actual violence levels, of course, if some people are better are avoiding reporting or conviction.
  
  But what I don’t get is this: if the Minister believes, on the evidence available to her, that “white cis men” are the perpetrators of most of the violence in this country, why is this the first the rest of us are hearing about it? Where are the culturally appropriate interventions and programs to address this? Why has her government done nothing for six years?
  
  And as for the argument that Maori men were taught domestic violence by white men – how could that be? First off, isn’t domestic violence usually hidden from people outside the home?
  
  Secondly, I don’t believe domestic violence occurs in the majority of white homes, or even Maori ones, so why did a minority of Maori men follow the example of a minority of white men while their fellow Maori followed the majority example?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:32am
  - sirknz
    
    More importantly, what is James Shaw up to behind closed doors at the Greens HQ?
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:05am
    - Clyde
      
      If you watched him during the racist’s rant yesterday at Question Time, he was looking up adoringly at her. He may come across as a reasonable man at times inbetween his “ums”, but at heart he is a watermelon – green on the outside and bright red on the inside. If he had any gumption at all he should move to have her removed as “co-leader”. But he won’t as he has no gonads. Part of the qualification to become anything in the Greens.
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:12am
      - Keith White
        
        At heart he is a Moro Bar.
        
        Wants to be coated brown, and is soft mousse inside.
        
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        March 29, 2023 3:45pm
  - rouppe
    
    A magnificent set of questions!
    
    Also, what colonial artifact is preventing any perpetrators from ceasing said violence? What law change to facilitate that change is actually required?
    
    I’d say none. It’s all individual mindset
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:35am
    - herb1
      
      If they want to decolonize that means giving up clothes, houses, education which a lot have already done. Anything using a wheel , money ,their language which is only viable because of the free use of the English Alphabet.
      But unfortunately radical Maori will only give up the parts they don’t like and will keep the taxpayers money and an ever increasing control of our rights.
      
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      March 29, 2023 2:47pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Hang on:
  
  “While it is true, according to government stats, that White men make up 48% of sexual assault perpertrators, The percentage of New Zealanders that are European is 70.2%”
  
  Those two things are true but miss the mark. You really need to compare the % of such crimes by white men compared with the % of white men in the population. That’s surely an *exact* comparison.
  
  The NZ male population is about 49.5% but a smaller % is white. It must be perhaps 40% considering 8% alone would be Maori men since Maori make up 16% of the pop. and half are men.
  
  So, unless you want to walk into a debate with your fly open, it seems NZ white men are offending above their average.
  
  But I haven’t had my coffee yet, so feel free to show otherwise. It’s too easy to get sideswiped by accidentally comparing apples and oranges.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:05am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Marama Davidson specifically stated that cis-white men are responsible for violence in the World.
    
    You’d better extend your analysis out beyond NZ.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:37am
    - thirteenstars
      
      Hang on, again. Slightyrighty specifically talked out NZ stats. That’s the context I was replying in regards to.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:20pm
      - Jack5
        
        No it wasn’t, Thirteenstars.
        
        The 84 per cent of New Zealanders who are non-Maori commit what proportion of the violent crimes in NZ?
        
        Maori New Zealanders commit what proportion of these crimes?
        
        That’s the issue. Whether the criminals are male, female, or another gender, is irrelevant.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:07pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Here are the official police figures for 2014-2023 for sexual assault.
        
        https://imgur.com/a/kGhR1Fp
        
        They show ~45% of those crimes done by white men, which to my mind is close enough to the 48% quoted by slightyrighty to make no difference. And white men make up ~40% of the population.
        
        So, 40% of the population, white men, commit 45% of the sexual assaults.
        
        That was my original point and it is the truth. Disprove it.
        
        The fact that 8% of the population, Maori men, commit 28% of the sexual assaults, is a separate fact. That they offend at a higher rate is also a fact, but separate to my original statement.
        
        Both are true and one does not disprove the other.
        
        In short, although uttered in a racist and woke manner, and despite her vile nature, if Davidson is asserting that most sexual assault in NZ is carried out by white men, then she is factually correct.
        
        And denying that fact is how you and others who argue like you tend to lose debates.
        
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        March 29, 2023 3:34pm
  - Scott
    
    No your maths are completely out. If white men make up 48% of sexual assaulters, then it depends on how much sexual assault is done by men as opposed to women?
    
    To put it another way if 70% of men in this country are white then statistically they should commit 70% of the sexual assaults done by men? Right?
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:05pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      No, my maths are not out.
      
      I’ve said white men must make up about 40% of the population (49.5% – ~8% Maori men – a few % more for Asian/Pasific Island = ~40%). If you disagree with that provide an analysis of what % white men are of the population.
      
      Failing that you’ve got no basis for saying my maths are wrong.
      
      And it’s the case that 48% of all sexual assaults are done by white men. Is that under challenge? If so, as a white man, I’m happy to see the evidence.
      
      Therefore the % of all sexual assaults done by white men, 48%, exceeds their % of the population, ~40%.
      
      Another way to say that is: while white men only make up 40% of the population they are responsible for 48% of all sexual assaults.
      
      Now which of the two figures there are you disputing?
      
      And just for the record, I don’t think I have to prove my credentials around here. I think Marama Davidson is a neo-Marxist, racist, authoritarian wastrel, but it doesn’t change the facts as presented above by slightyrighty, to which I was replying, who I assume also has no love for Davidson.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:36pm
      - slightlyrighty
        
        While the stats of Ethnic distribution I quoted (Which came from Stats NZ) are not gendered, the distribution between Male and Female, would be about 52% male and 48% female, roughly speaking.
        
        It would be logical to assume that the overwhelming majority of REPORTED sexual offending is carried out by men. While I do not doubt that women are responsible for some sexual offending, the reported incidence of this would be rather small.
        
        By your reckoning, Maori Males make up 6% of the population, yet 30% of the assaults.
        
        The proportionality aspect of my argument stands, a woman is 2.66 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a Maori than a Non Maori. Which, when expressed in this way, sounds incredibly racist.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:44pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Slightyrighty:
        
        I don’t know where your figures are coming from but as I said Maori men make about about 8% of the population:
        
        https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/maori-population-estimates-at-30-june-2022/
        
        17% Maori halved is 8.5%.
        
        And NZ men are slightly outnumbered by women. But again, let’s call it 50/50. 1 or 2% here or there in the context of this discussion is meaningless.
        
        According to police stats, Maori men (8%) commit 28% of the sexual assaults.
        
        https://imgur.com/a/kGhR1Fp
        
        “a woman is 2.66 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a Maori than a Non Maori”
        
        Then how can the above police stats be true? They clearly show that 28% of sexual assault is committed by Maori men and 72% by non-Maori men.
        
        A woman is actually 2.5 times more likely to be assaulted by a non-Maori than by a Maori (72/28). That is, if 100 sexual assaults took place today, 28 would be by Maori and 72 by non-Maori.
        
        That Maori men carry out sexual assaults at a higher *rate* is a fact, and that rate is 3.5 relative to their population (28/8). The prisons and the courts are full of them. It’s a disgrace. There’s certainly a major problem in Maori culture. But that doesn’t change the fact that a woman is far more likely to be sexually assaulted by a non-Maori than by a Maori.
        
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        March 29, 2023 4:18pm
    - Jack5
      
      Thirteen stars would get an E-minus in statistics.
      
      I hope it’s an honest mistake and not bluster to cloud the figures.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:49pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Have at it. I’m happy to be shown up.
        
        But put the actual figures up, not speculation.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:15pm
      - Jack5
        
        You are putting a spin on statistics that show, per head, Maori men are considerably more likely than non-Maori men to commit sexual violence.
        
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        March 29, 2023 5:43pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        “per head, Maori men are considerably more likely than non-Maori men to commit sexual violence.”
        
        And whoever said that wasn’t the case. In fact I said exactly in reply to slightyrighty just above, viz:
        
        “That Maori men carry out sexual assaults at a higher *rate* is a fact, and that rate is 3.5 relative to their population (28/8). The prisons and the courts are full of them. It’s a disgrace. There’s certainly a major problem in Maori culture. But that doesn’t change the fact that a woman is far more likely to be sexually assaulted by a non-Maori than by a Maori.”
        
        But that is NOT the same, as he said, that a woman is more likely (2.66 times, for some reason) to be assaulted by a Maori than a non-Maori.
        
        In fact a woman is 2.5 times more likely to be assaulted by a non-Maori than a Maori.
        
        It’s safe to make mistakes with maths and use inaccurate language on a forum like this where mostly you’re preaching to the choir but come up against a woke activist or maybe just a diligent reader of Stuff, and you’ll get nailed to the wall.
        
        The goal is to win the culture war, not be made to look like idiots by people who for the most part couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery.
        
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        March 29, 2023 6:18pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  European New Zealanders commit less than one third of violent crime in New Zealand.
  
  Some of those will be female, and many will be of a different sexual orientation. So we can say with some certainty that Davidson was wrong, and is a racist misogynist PoS.
  
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/1048576/new-zealand-share-of-assault-offenders-by-ethnicity/
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:27pm
- bco90
  
  If white men make up 48%, then that means non-white-men make up 52%. So, to say that non-white-men cause sexual violence, that can be reversed: white men do NOT cause sexual violence.
  
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  March 30, 2023 2:37am
CAKE FACE1

The daily hitjobs on Wayne Brown by the lickspittle Team of $55 million are an indication of what awaits Mr Luxon after he is elected by landslide at the next election.

One nasty hitjob can be brushed off, but when the fake communist media abuse you relentlessly on a daily basis, eventually this nasty approach wears you down.

National / ACT first need to win the election, which they will. They then must have a strategy for fighting back against these communist agitators, or they will be a one term government.

Of course, the centre right should conduct itself better than these extreme left-wing fanatics. There is no way that they should pay the media kick-backs.

National / ACT must privatise all State media. National / ACT must defund these clowns from public monies.

I sense that National / ACT do not understand how critical this situation is. Our democracy is at stake. The extremist communists are threatening our way of life.

For example, Newshub claimed that Posie Parker was making white supremacist gestures, when she was adjusting her zip.

This is the level of our Team of $55 Million. The Fourth Estate has been infiltrated by traitors, fanatical communists and activist Neo-Marxists.

These are the people who tried to get Posie Parker banned from even speaking. You cannot compromise with such people. Their goal is simply to shut down liberal democracy. They oppose free speech. They oppose capitalism, because the market economy represents the freedom to choose.

National / ACT should name and shame extreme socialists, communists and Neo-Marxists in the Team of $55 Million. These fanatics should be held accountable for their views.

If it is decided that we need to keep the ‘Disinformation Project’ (I don’t think it should be kept), then it would need to be repurposed. The main focus would need to change, to identify and unmask the extreme left agitators in the media. These extreme leftists are dangerous, and have been getting away with their disinformation in plain sight.

We must fight back against the extreme left, or our way of life will be in ruins.
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March 29, 2023 8:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  To me, Posie Parker was making the “OK” sign. Media once tried that shit with Trump and got shut down in a blaze of glory (he just ignored them after that, no questions. Think Jim Acosta.)
  Now, back to the fake communist media. After the National/Act win the fake news will have to fund themselves. I don’t want to vote for a Party that funds leftist media. Take note Luxon and Seymour.
  The new Government should just reject communicating with all media. They have a website, use that. Supporters can ask questions and suggestions via a password protected email type service, the same way Kiwiblog works. Nasty lefties can be filtered out and banned via IP Address. “identify and unmask the extreme left agitators”
  
  All rubbish? It is worth thinking about, otherwise the radical left will become a public nuisance. Fuck them. Look at what they have helped to destroy in the last 5 1/2 years.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:43am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Steve, we have to remember that it is not just the PIJF that needs to be shut down, but also all the other sources of state funding provided to the media (broadcast, social and print) and “so-called” artists and arts bodies.
    
    All of which for years have been pumping out a regular diet of leftist/socialist disinformation.
    
    Equally, no public funds should be going to any of the above for “public-interest” advertising. Which is many instances is government propaganda which more aligned to the interest of Labour & the Greens than informing the public about need to know government information.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:54am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      With a lack of material from journalists, broadcasting will have no info.
      Social media will be as it is now, leftist Marxist bullshit.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:38am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Steve, once upon a time, in a land called New Zealand, there was a state owned TV broadcaster (only), print media, a combination of public and private radio stations, and the New Zealand Press Association…..and guess what…?
        
        New Zealanders could be properly informed about matters in New Zealand and abroad. In those days (1980s), I had US colleagues who learnt more from the NZ media about what was going on in the US than they could from the US media.
        
        In the late 80s things changed. Sky & TV3 arrived. Journalists got lazy and relied on material fed to them by politicians (in particular one politician who is still about today), and corporate entities. Often what was published as news, was either “gotchas or PR releases. The media stopped giving us comprehensive news about what was happening or had happened in NZ & abroad. The NZPA was done away with, and media as a source to inform became a vehicle to advertise and sell.
        
        Hence we are where we are today, bought & paid for outlets for disinformation & click bait…
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:05am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        In reply to Hull kiwi below.
        
        The important change you dont mention is Journalist started to be trained in Polytechs and then joined the industry. The old way was a cadet reporter trained on the job by experienced professionals
        
        Result left leaning journalism academics injected activism in to the professional dna of journalists
        
        couple that with the arrival of the internet leading to downsizing in sub-editing and end result politically motivated kids running the narrative with little if any editorial correction or guidance….. and then the activist flow up the management chain as the previous professionals retire or are made redundant in cost saving exercises
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:20am
      - thirteenstars
        
        “I had US colleagues who learnt more from the NZ media about what was going on in the US than they could from the US media.”
        
        Well, I don’t know about that but this statement is certainly now true and has been for sometime:
        
        To learn about NZ now you need to view Australian, British and American news sources because NZ-based media is beset by ideological groupthink.
        
        Yet morning after morning the luvvies (of all stripes, mind you) watch their breakfast TV, and day after day they read their Stuff and their Herald, and night after night in their comfy chairs with their tea on their laps they watch their state-funded network news.
        
        And they go to bed safe in the cosy knowledge that NZ is on the right track and violent criminals are actually civil rights heroes.
        
        Night, night
        Sleep tight
        Don’t let the awful truth bite
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:14am
  - kaykaybee
    
    What she was doing was adjusting/fiddling with the zipper on her top . Camera shot illustrates end of action. There are sequential shots of the non-event all over Twitter. All essentially the usual lies from the left’s propaganda activists.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:36am
    - stiff cheese
      
      And yet Newshub told us straight-faced, it was a “white supremacist symbol” — so dangerous they had to blur it out . . LOL !! . . Was she just picking fluff off herself?
      
      Newshub’s coverage was completely irresponsible: Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes went at it, night after night, telling viewers that Posie Parker was coming to NZ; that she was “anti-trans” rights, and her supporters were “neo-Nazis”. Just shameless ‘rabble rousing’ — no wonder an angry mob went to Albert Park.
      
      An honest portrayal of her views would have said:
      1. She supports the long-standing right of women to have their own private spaces where they’re not intruded on by Biological Men (even if said men ‘feel like’ women).
      2. Her supporters are overwhelmingly NOT neo-Nazis.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:45pm
  - mandk
    
    If you want definitive proof that Jacinda Ardern is a far right extremist, just do a search for photos of her making an OK sign. They are easy to find.
    
    And, IIRC, our host showed a similar picture of Ardern the other day.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:51am
- Rich Prick
  
  What’s worse, Newshub blurred the alleged white supremacy gesture so we couldn’t judge for ourselves. Whichever Marxist infant took the editorial decision to do that should be publicly named and shamed.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:44am
  - Ehlana
    
    Who knew fiddling with your jacket zipper was a secret Nazi symbol?
    
    I wonder what other secret symbols we’re all giving off without knowing it.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:49am
  - Philview
    
    I read the transcript of her live interview with Brendan O’Neill at Spiked. She said she isn’t famous and normally goes about her business and was astonished by the media and government hate she received in NZ and Australia. She mentioned the bizarre media reference to the blurred out hand signal. After seeing the biased TVNZ story on Co-Governance last night it seems that the left or whoever are now legitimising the use of force to shut down discussion they don’t like.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:27am
    - jon
      
      The bias in that report last nite on TV one was beyond belief. That Maori women reporter obviously has her own agenda. The item, like her , needs to be treated with contempt.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:05pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  CAKE FACE 1 – you are correct. Zero funding whatsoever to legacy media. Also zero advertising for political purposes as happened with the covid circus.
  
  Never mind the 55 million, many, many millions of dollars of taxpayer money was thrown at the legacy media to sell a government policy that was based on fraud, deception and lies.
  
  The vaccines were NOT safe and effective. We know this from the Thomas Cranmer substack revelations. These revelations were based on an OIA and official government information.
  
  Information regarding risk from the vaccinations was deliberately withheld from the public. Fact. Hipkins was covid minister, Ardern was PM. They are responsible for this.
  It is worth reading this in full to understand the magnitude of the deception at play.
  
  https://cranmer.substack.com/p/pfizer-vaccine-approval-in-nz-under
  
  Information was known PRIOR to the vaccine rollout that there was serious doubt about the effectiveness and durability of any limited protection from the “vaccine” that isn’t a vaccine.
  Yet Ardern went on a full on taxpayer funded media offensive to sell this lie.
  
  https://cranmer.substack.com/p/pfizer-vaccine-approval-in-nz-under
  
  Again, read that in full and understand we were lied to. Disinformation doesn’t start to describe what we have been subjected to and the fallout from it will be with this country for decades.
  
  For the rest of us, as much as possible, do not support these shills and stenographers. Do not buy their output. Do not subscribe to them. Try and not even click on their links, that is how they are being funded. Completely shun them. Starve them of oxygen.
  The politicians caused this madness, but the legacy media are the primary weapon that was used. They need to be taught a severe lesson. Do your job properly or you will not survive. No government should ever be allowed to spend taxpayer money to enable what is essentially propaganda.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:51am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Call the loans Clan, that will fix the issue. Stuff, for one, would be bankrupt immediately. And no one would miss the drivel they put forward as “news”.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:04pm
- coge
  
  Vote Luxon, get Greens. Whatever the result.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:06am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Vote Labour get Greens and MP in cabinet
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:05am
- graham
  
  These people are out of control. They are diving headlong into “Reds-under-the-bed” lunacy and paranoia – or, as we call it these days, Conspiracy Theories.
  
  Lives are being ruined as people make innocent gestures that are leapt on by these conspiracy theorists, who seem to expect that everybody should just automatically “know” that making the OK symbol – which kids have been doing since forever – is now, for some bizarre reason, a white supremacist sign.
  
  Sometimes an innocent hand gesture is, well, just an innocent hand gesture. Or someone undoing their zip.
  
  Newshub – and for that matter, Stuff, who are just as bad – need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid, take a deep breath and back away from these bizarre conspiracy theories.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:10am
- GJM
  
  There is a war happening, but only one side seems to be aware of it. The culture war is less bloody so far than the real thing, but make no mistake, real wars and oppression usually follow.
  National need to realise this and take the war to the enemy. All media subsidies stop overnight, all advertisements from government are slashed and must be signed off personally by the minister, Red Radio and TVNZ defended and told to get subscribers or go broke. Entire ministries can be axed, along with Meng Foon and friends who have a vested interest in creating trouble.
  Until they grow a spine all that happens is the left win as they rachet up changes that are never canceled.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:29am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    National need to realise this and take the war to the enemy.
    
    What enemy?:
    
    I know some commenters here view TV1 as simply the propaganda arm of Labour, but I am not one of them.
    …
    the National Party does not do culture wars.
    …
    You are right. There were (and are) a substantial number of National MP’s who would have similar views to myself.
    – Wayne Mapp (former National MP and Cabinet Minister
    
    TVNZ/RNZ and NZ On Air will continue to get a lot of funding, while National voters will get some watery review followed some equally piss-weak new “Board” or some such to supposedly keep the Leftist Luvvies in line – and whom the latter will laugh at while they carry on pushing their narratives.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:37am
- Paulus
  
  Amazingly a good Article in the Herald today about Mayor “Brownie” as he is called along with many aspects well outside his role as Mayoyor but that as family man and person.
  What he does not do is to put up with stupidity.
  Worth a read and a smile to all his haters, which he tolerates with humour.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:44am
- alloytoo
  
  They need to simply stop financing the media and sell TVNZ to Murdoch group.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:47pm
Warren

This Government is rotten to the core and this won’t be the last of their selfish ways all because the ex Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern couldn’t control her Caucus and allowed them to make the rules.
Chris Hipkins is no better and like Jacinda has been forced into a decision to help Labour try to win the next Election, this is about winning nothing else and it is showing in the time it takes for the Prime Minister Chris Hipkins to make a decision that should have been made hours before.
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March 29, 2023 8:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  If you are talking about the Nash sacking, he lost votes for not sacking him last week, sacking after the sore festered only made him look stupid.
  
  If you are talking about Davidson then a large number of Labour voters saying they don’t vote Labour over this, green voters will be green voters, but un bent shire men will have had enough last weekend.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:34am
  - Paulus
    
    Maori type Greens will still put up with Davidson as they agree withher stupidity.
    M Peka Evans page in today’s Herald gives that indication.
    Must be something hereditary !
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:47am
- hullkiwi
  
  Warren, National and Act owe Labour & Stuart Nash a huge debt of thanks. Sarc//.
  
  After years of Labour banging on about business buying influence with donations to the National/Act parties, we get a senior Labour MP (& now former cabinet minister) who:
  1. Attempted to influence the actions of the head of a govt dept;
  2. Was so unaware (ignorant/arrogant probably both) that he breached the law and the cabinet manual in his conduct by:
  a) leaking cabinet decisions;
  b) leaked the cabinet decisions not just to anyone, but donors to his personal campaign, who happened to have business concerns regarding the matters discussed at cabinet, and duly leaked by Nash.
  
  Just imagine how Labour & Greens would be crowing if this had been a National or Act MP?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:05am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And the Media have barely scraped the scab off the pus-filled boil around Nash’s connections to the exotic forestry industry.
    
    Still, the Forestry Minister received campaign funding from one of the very sectors he regulates.
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/03/questions-raised-over-donations-received-by-stuart-nash-from-timber-forestry-industry.html
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:54am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Agreed…
      
      Nash is but one.
      
      I’ve said it before, Chipkins & his government have got the whiff of the Palmer govt – ie. Accident prone! Eventually, the media I’ll not be able to avoid the stench….
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:12am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The media have been able to avoid the Stench around the Mahuta family connections for well on a couple of years.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:40am
Tony Stuart

Great to see Christopher Luxon firing up a bit last night, calling for Stuart Nash to resign from Parliament straight away. He’s probably prepared top stump up for the cost of a by-election himself if it gets rid of Nash!

What’s more of a concern of course is that if Nash resigns after 14th April, Napier could be without an MP until October, at a time when the area really needs an MP. Fortunately Katie Nimon (Napier) and Catherine Wedd (Tukituki) are doing an outstanding job an ex-officio MP’s standing for election in the respective electorates in October. Hawke’s Bay friends tell me that the MP for Tukituki is missing in action, and Wedd is their go-to person if they want action.
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March 29, 2023 8:12am
- Positan
  
  Any moves by Luxon now are far too late for me. He’s proved his inadequacy and should go too.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:18am
  - Paulus
    
    Is he in your view inadequate because he is bald ?
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:48am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Oh FFS, he was questioned the day before Seymour, he said he did not know the context of Davidsons comments, but by the next day when Seymour was an expert, Luxon had called for an apology, he called for an inquiry into the stand off attitude of the police not protecting a person in this country, while Seymour went silent
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:10am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    OMG! You want Hipkins as your prime Minister after October!
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:39am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  In some ways I think Nash is an asset for National. Surely he can’t hold his Napier seat after all the screwups?
  Labour voters will be thinking what the hell is he going to do next.
  Bear in mind his latest stunt goes back to 2020. There are more skeletons in the closet over the last 3 years.
  National’s job is to find them and keep quiet until the time comes in the Election campaign cycle to destroy Nash and Labour.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:19am
  - G152
    
    If Nash has such a history then what of others?
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:26am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I told you all Nash was never going to stand at the next election, no way will he stand as a back bencher now.
    
    He may hang around a bit, but what if another breach occurs? That’s right, it makes Hipkins look pathetic
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:38am
  - pdm
    
    Steve – Napier is a Labour strong hold. The generally anonymous Geoff Braybrook held it for at least 3 elections.
    
    It took the Tremain name to wrest it from him and as soon as Chris Tremain retired from politics it went back to Labour despite Nash being very unpopular in the electorate.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:51am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Nimon halved Nashes margin last election during one of the largest swing on election night for decades, if it was the election before Nimon probably would have won , she will win no matter who stands this time, polls showed Nats leading in Napier before Christmas, and when i was working in napier last week the chatter was all bad for Nash and Labour
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:13am
  - Nickc2
    
    I believe Nash is embarking on a book-writing career post-election. The title of his first book in the series will be ‘Things I Didn’t Say’.
    He’s looking for Ghost Writers if you’re interested.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:35am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  “What’s more of a concern of course is that if Nash resigns after 14th April, Napier could be without an MP until October…”
  
  IIRC only if National agrees to forego a by election. It requires 75 percent of MPs to agree.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:28am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Napier having no Mp for 6 months will anger the voters further, I was working there last week and you could hear people murmuring about him.
    
    P.S I looked out the window in the morning, and Nashes office was across the road from where I was staying, I also passed him at the airport, perhaps I put the lockers on him😃👍🏻
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:41am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Nash or no MP angering the voters is another asset for National.
      National will have a free ride campaigning there.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:41am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Yes, and i have heard Katie was marvellous on the ground during the floods, even though she had her own issues with flooding , and apprently all things flood related are going through the Tukiki candidate as the Labour MP was not seen once, also no show at the meeting in Napier over policing, they are gutted.
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:15am
    - rouppe
      
      The airport? Napier is EV distance from Wellington.
      
      And we know from Helen Clark that you can continue to work in the car when it is doing 170kph
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:43am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Maybe, but i came from Dunedin through CHCH, i needed to be there quicker, no time for driving 5 hours
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:03pm
      - Ghost
        
        Yeah, but she was actually rather close to a head on accident that day.
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:05pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Just maybe we have seen the real Luxon, he may well be trying not yo show a hard edge if he has one, he still has to win the centre, it was great to seem him ping the media saying don’t you try and blame me for this.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:36am
- emmess
  
  If this the sort of thing he gets fired up over, then that’s a problem.
  He should be fired up over what he referred to a ‘mostly peaceful protest’ that occurred at the weekend.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:38am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He did not call it a most peaceful protest at all , he said the majority were peaceful but a number of people were thugs or words to that effect
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:16am
    - emmess
      
      Semantics
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:12pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        No it is not, its telling you that you are not telling the truth
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:04pm
- pdm
  
  Inv – what sort of `ACTION’ are you talking about re the missing Tukituki electorate MP.
  
  She has been well known since High School for certain actions.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:47am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I believe Nash is a distraction, primarily to take the heat off Davidson and to help Hipkins look “tough and decisive”. Quite coincidentally he’s a “cis white male”.
  Luxon should be calling for both their resignations.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I have many beliefs that I can’t substantiate either.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:13am
    - Libertarians are right
      
      Like how your version of Socialism will work.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:19am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        What – left libertarianism? Likely to work just as well as right libertarianism.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:42am
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Mike – Libertarianism is the antithesis of the ideology of the Left. It relates to the primacy of the individual whereas the Left is all about the primacy of the group, usually run by a few “more equal” individuals. There is no Left Libertarianism.
        
        If you go too far with Libertarianism it’s bad but you don’t need to go very far along the road of “state ownership or control of the means of production” to have very real issues and negative consequences for the people.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:34am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Thanks for confirming what I suspected from your comments – you have no ideas what a libertarian is.
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:52pm
      - Libertarians are right
        
        Mike:
        
        Libertarianism
        “a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.”
        
        Apparently Left Libertarians exist (learn something every day) but it’s very much a “I’m a vegan but I eat bacon” situation.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:04pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That’s one definition of one strand of libertarian thinking. Your choice of username indicates you believe libertarianism to be a right-wing philosophy, but many people would dispute such facile sloganeering.
        Marx, for example, would count as a libertarian in his thinking.
        
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        March 29, 2023 5:53pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      milky – we know, you’ve demonstrated that many, many times. Indeed, every time you post.
      
      Thanks for the reminder.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:31am
    - Nickc2
      
      Your other nom de plumes are more interesting than this one!
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:41am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Milky: “I have many beliefs that I can’t substantiate either.”
      
      Aaand, does this make you question those beliefs?
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:53pm
  - emmess
    
    Also, Hipkins said yesterday on Newshub that he would have attended the counter protest on the side of violent trans activist mob, if he could have scheduled it.
    Why is that not the main story of the day?
    Sorry, no clip.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:47am
  - MCōs
    
    “I believe Nash is a distraction, primarily to take the heat off Davidson”
    
    Nash’s demise is a far bigger deal than that which Davidson said.
    She’s in the Green Party. If she was tossed out of cabinet it would be their best recruitment drive they could hope for in an election year.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:24am
- RoboRob
  
  Saw Luxon on the AM show this morning. Thought he was very good and raised valid issues. The question is around Nashes ethics and his corrupt actions (leaking confidential govt information to his donors) is damaging to NZs image as a ‘clean’ democracy. Nash should go regardless of the bi election or not.
  
  I doubt Nash is doing a lot for his constituents anyway, he is a Labour MP after all. Another minister could be assigned the task until a replacement is elected.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:04am
  - Nickc2
    
    Yep, Hipkins has declared Marama Davidson will henceforth speak for all Stuart Nash’s constituents. //
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:45am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Go and watch his words and counterattack on Nash and the media from parliament last night, he knocked it out of the park, he was very sharp with the media
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:18am
Grunter

Zelenskyy’s finally admitting what several commentators have been saying for months – NATO have run out of ammo. https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/world/europe/20230325-99649/
So there won’t be any NATO spring offensive. The entire sad situation has been a waste of 100,000’s of lives when all NATO had to do is implant the Minsk Agreement.
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- Simon
  
  “The entire sad situation has been a waste of 100,000’s of lives ”
  
  lol – its a border skirmish. 10% of the reported numbers have been killed / wounded.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:52am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Simon – you know this how?
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:15am
  - Burtland
    
    Mar27
    
    Fresh figures of losses in Ukraine have leaked out of the Kremlin – Russia has not yet known such losses in its modern history. The summary for Putin contained data on irretrievable losses –
    169,452 regular military personnel of the RF Armed Forces,
    55,161 PMC mercenaries,
    7,218 security officials of the National Guard.
    
    The total losses exceeded 230 thousand people.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:12pm
  - Burtland
    
    March 28
    Russia lost more than 2,000 officers killed in more than a year of invasion – the monitoring team of the Czech Republic (KIU)
    
    ✔️ 337 lieutenants,
    ✔️ 617 senior lieutenants,
    ✔️ 372 captains,
    ✔️ 261 Major,
    ✔️ 135 lieutenant colonels,
    ✔️ 54 colonels,
    ✔️ 4 major generals,
    ✔️ 17 junior lieutenants,
    ✔️ 83 junior reserve officers
    ✔️ 78 senior officers who were in reserve
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:44pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Russia’s supplies ain’t that flash either.
  Everything being sent to the War now is very old- and doesn’t work that well.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:53am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Brian Berletic at The New Atlas has done a detailed youtube post on this subject. He disagrees, in fact saying the opposite. The west are running out of ammunition and currently can’t match Russia’s productivity.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJdp1WPTGs&t=1927s
    
    Apparently Russia can produce more tanks in a year than the US and EU combined.
    I don’t know which is true, but results on the battlefield to date would support the Russian claims over the NATO claims.
    
    It’s all a tragedy for the people on the ground though. As usual, the plebs on both sides do the hard yards and the dying.
    
    As US Major General Smedley Butler said in his book titled “War is a Racket”.
    
    WAR is a racket. It always has been.
    
    It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
    
    As usual, a few will make billions out of this while hundreds of thousands of ordinary people bury their dead. Nothing changes.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:09am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Next you will be asking who really profited from the Second World War.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:22am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        milky – sounds interesting, I’m sure you’ll let me know the answer.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:49am
      - Paulus
        
        Who profited from WWII
        USA, Germany and Japan.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:50am
      - kowtow
        
        Paulus
        
        The US fell into a recession immediately after WW2 ended . The thinking had been that the war would go on for at least another year , fighting the Japs ( with huge losses to the Allies) as it happened the Japs collapsed unexpectedly , huge numbers of military came home to USA and were withoput jobs , while the arms industry would have collapsed.
        
        The fear post ’45 was Germany could have gone communist and eventually Truman was convinced to pump huge resources there ( and to many other countries , even non belligerents) to forestall the continent turning Red .
        
        Germans and Japs turned on an economic miracle post war so in that way could have been said to have won . Both countries are physically smaller though and now have their own unique major internal structural problems.
        
        In the immediate aftermath of the war I’d have said it was the Soviet Union and Stalin who won . Everyone was shit scared of him. In Korea European allies refused to back the Americans fully in the war there as they feared the Soviets would start another European war such was the mystique around their abilities then.
        
        It could be argued in the current context that it was the Chinese communists who won WW2 .
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:31pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Still too early to say
        
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        March 29, 2023 8:19pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      You’re so cute with your obscure sources
      “Putin claimed that the West cannot sustain weapons provisions to Ukraine and exaggerated Russia’s potential to mobilize its own defense industrial base (DIB) to create the false impression that further Ukrainian resistance and Western support to Ukraine is futile. Putin claimed that Ukrainian forces expend up to 5,000 shells a day, while the United States produces an average of 14,000–15,000 shells a month. Putin alleged that planned Western defense production increases will not match Russian planned increases. Putin announced that Russia will build over 1,600 new tanks by the end of 2023 and that Russia will have more than three times the number of tanks as Ukraine at that time.[2] Putin likely seized the opportunity to advance this narrative based on The Financial Times’s March 19 report that European arms manufacturers are “hobbled” by an explosives shortage.[3] Putin argued that continued Western weapons provisions to Ukraine are merely an attempt to prolong the war.[4]
      
      Putin compared the state of the Russian wartime DIB with current Western military industrial outputs, stating that the West would need to make significant sacrifices to civilian projects to increase military production to support war in Ukraine. Putin added that unlike the West, Russia does not need excessive militarization of the economy to expand its DIB capabilities. These claims are not supportable. The US GDP alone is 10 times the size of Russia’s. Germany, the UK, and France together have economies nearly five times the size of Russia’s.[5] The US and its allies certainly must make choices when considering spending the large sums required to support Ukraine, but the choices they face are nothing like as hard as those confronting Russia. The balance of overall available resources and industrial capacity is decisively weighted toward the West. Russian military industrial potential is, in fact, hopelessly outmatched by Western military industrial potential. Putin’s messaging is intended to persuade the West to commit less of that potential to supporting Ukraine by convincing the West, falsely, that it cannot match Russia. Russia must move to a full war footing to sustain its current military operations—something Putin has been very reluctant to do. The West does not need to shift to a wartime footing to continue to support Ukraine if it chooses to do so.
      
      Putin’s stated goals for Russian tank production in 2023 and comparisons with Ukrainian tank stocks also disregard Russia’s limited industrial capacity to produce more advanced tanks rapidly and ignore Russian tank losses on the battlefield. Russia’s sole tank production factory, UralVagonZavod, reportedly produces 20 tanks a month.[6] It would take over six years to meet Putin’s goal at that rate. UralVagonZavod is unlikely to expand production of modern tanks such as the T-90 rapidly enough to meet these targets in nine months due to international sanctions and shortages of skilled labor.[7] The Kremlin will thus likely continue to pull archaic tanks from storage and may attempt to refurbish some older tanks to meet the stated quota. A Kremlin pundit stated on a live broadcast on March 25 that Russia would pull old T-34 tanks from storage and monuments if needed for the war effort while attempting to justify Russia’s recent deployments of the T-54 and T-55 tanks to the frontlines.[8] These tanks are not comparable to modern Abrams, Challenger, or Leopard tanks, or even to T-72s, in either armament or armor protection.”
      https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-25-2023
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:24am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        AoR – as I said, I don’t actually know, there are differences of opinion. Your source is as obscure to me as mine apparently is to you.
        
        We’ll find out once it’s over. But my thoughts are still with the people doing the dying, not the suits playing the international 3d chess.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:35am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        milky – I didn’t mention “weapons and ammunition”, I was referring to a post that was talking about tanks. They make claims about tanks. I can’t prove or disprove it. They sound plausible, if you have alternative information supply it. AoR at least provided something other than dribble.
        
        And please, don’t start again with the “invasion of a neighbouring state” shit. What about invasion of multiple countries 10,000kms away?
        
        There would be no invasion if it wasn’t for the provocations of the US MIC. Victoria Nuland and John McCain front and centre. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Somebody smart said that and I think they were probably right.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:44am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        AoR – I see your source is completely independent and unbiased. //
        
        https://www.understandingwar.org/who-we-are
        
        Based in Washington DC……
        
        Brian Berletic is a former US Marine based in Thailand. I’m not sure what skin in the game he has to make him take an opposing view to the official narrative. If you have some insight let me know.
        
        As I said, we’ll see the outcome sooner or later. Let’s hope we’re actually around for it.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:57am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Dude, you and your source are parroting Putin’s talking points…
        Hopefully my ‘source’ is now known to you and you might learn something
        Cheers!
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:47am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Dude, you and your source are parroting Washington’s talking points…
        Hopefully my ‘source’ is now known to you and you might learn something
        Cheers!
        
        It’s all opinion. You have no more idea than I do.
        
        You have a great day! 😉
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:10am
    - kowtow
      
      Racket ?
      
      The UK Daily Telegraph had an article on the lack of artillery and the fact that Macron is holding up production ( holding them all hostage basically) waiting for a decision that will ensure French production .
      
      So yes it’s a racket . Macron is prepared to allow Ukes to die , Russia to prevail all for some production contracts .
      
      And the bigger picture in that article is that the whole EU ‘project” is another racket in itself , a French racket of France getting everything it wants and control of Europe .
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:37am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Clan your comments about Russian tank production are not correct. Russia has one tank factory, which produces circa 200 tanks per annum. Many of the Russian tanks in use are older models, not the later T-90 model.
      
      Yes, Russia is a large economy (relative to NZ), but it is not much bigger than Australia and has endured sanctions of various kinds for the past 13 months, this has helped limit Putin’s capacity to wage war. Hence his Chinese weaponry.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:50am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        hullkiwi – I gave a link to an analyst who explains in detail how the numbers work. They claim 250 new modern tanks a year and the ability to upgrade 600 older models. This may not be true. I do not know for certain. I presented it as part of a discussion.
        
        All I am seeing currently is Ukraine being dismantled and destroyed and their youth being slaughtered. Many young Russians also being slaughtered. But no matter which source you go to for news, there is very little positive from the Ukrainian perspective.
        
        It’s rapidly looking like another Iraq/Afghanistan/Libya/Yugoslavia.
        
        Have you any links to support your comments, particularly re Chinese weaponry?
        
        I’m open to any and all information, I doubt anyone has a completely reliable source. The whole thing is a tragedy as all of the others were.
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:13am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Yes. The idea that the Russian economy can produce more weapons and ammunition than actual developed economies is ludicrous: Russia’s GDP is about the same as Iran’s or Australia’s,
    Also, Grunter’s references to NATO are a transparent attempt to label the conflict as something other than a Russian invasion of a neighboring states.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:21am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      milky – the west would have to switch their general production to a war footing before your numbers make any sense. GDP has nothing to do with it.
      There is no indication currently that there are any plans afoot for western nations to take such a drastic action. If they do so we will take another step towards nuclear war. Then it won’t matter who invaded who.
      
      Stop going on about who invaded who. The US is still currently occupying a third of Syria illegally and stealing their oil. Where is your concern for that?
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:03am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Clan McLod – although some people have oddly specific concerns – like your only problem with child labor being concern for kids who mine metals for batteries – other people might be able to express concerns about multiple issues.
        I don’t think you would be able to provide instances of me supporting military interventions by the US, orRussia in Syria and Afghanistan, for example.
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:29am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        milky – my concern isn’t only for kids who mine in horrendous conditions for green ideological bullshit. I use that to point out the hypocrisy of people who push this lunatic idea that we can abandon fossil fuels and run everything from the sun and wind.
        
        I don’t know what you support, but I know I’ve never seen you OPPOSE any US military INVASIONS (interventions is so PC), but plenty opposing Russia’s actions.
        
        I’m also opposed to Russia’s actions, all I’ve ever commented on is my opinion on why those actions were inevitable. Mainly I comment on how this is causing tragic death and destruction.
        
        This is a proxy war by the US and NATO on Russia. It’s been in the pipeline since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The timeline of events leading to this war have the US fingerprints all over them.
        
        Though maybe the US should learn from Russia and stick to invading neighbours? It would do wonders for “climate change”. No more flights full of artillery, tanks and ammunition…….just a thought to try and help save the planet……
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:23am
    - Grunter
      
      I’m glad there was at least a better debate today 🙂
      
      My view is simple. There are only 3 likely outcomes to this mess that has Russia & NATO on the brink of all out war.
      1. Honour the Minsk Agreement immediately (look it up)
      2. NATO forces massively escalate and continue to threaten Russia, ultimately Russia’s only defense is nukes. If Russia is threatened then the hardliner Ruskies will takeover from Putin real fast and then we have a nightmare.
      3. Russia takes over Donbas etc and Ukraine forced into a peace deal (basically the Minsk Agreement + whatever Putin forces on them).
      
      Only option 1 results in fewer lives lost.
      
      Biden continually rejects peace negotiations (WHY FFS??). Russia has more nukes than the USA and they are as sophisticated or even bigger than what NATO has. Why risk the Russian hardliners taking over and pushing red buttons all of a sudden?? Madness….!!
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:17am
      - Burtland
        
        no mention of what sovereign Ukraine might want – apparently its not important
        
        so russia annexes Crimea then Donbas and Luhansk – kills thousands of Ukrainians including civilians, decimates their cities burying kids and their families alive and continues to terrorize the entire country
        
        40M Ukrainians now hate russians – theyve seen through the propaganda and Lavrovs lies – have you?
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:22pm
- NothingLeft
  
  It’s amazing how slow the west has been reacting to this clearly signalled shortage which has been clearly coming for 6 months. There seems to be something like 1000/day production capacity in USA+Korea+Europe, but Ukraine has need for up to 10000/day. Moves are underway to ramp up, but seems silly to be planning for large scale production in 2024-25 when war is likely to be over by then. This is likely to be the last conventional war we ever see due to improving drone tech.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:09am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Nice try.
  
  And if it was true, then all that needs to happen is for Ukraine to strike Russias main armaments factories either via modern missles or more like Special ops strikes…
  
  Putin is talking to his domestic audience trying to forestall unrest and ultimately his removal by his cabal as figurehead of the regime. His removal would be significantly more bloody than Jacindas…
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:30am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    JimBobJoe – they’d better hurry up. Ukraine is running out of time and men rapidly.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:04am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Firstly ramping up production on the Wests side will happen – its profitable and it will mean using up stockpiles that need replenishment… and once that production capacity expands then Russia is screwed even if the Chinese back them with weapons from their factories.
      
      Secondly, Ukrainians survived the Germans by going to guerilla warfare. If Putin thinks he will win by rolling over the country he will have another thing coming. Supplying a guerilla insurgency in Ukraine if Russia wins will be like Afghanistan all over again… the US will love the slow bleed potential…
      
      Thirdly, Russia is being bleed – their manpower is limited as the creation penal battalions demonstrates. Eventually enough Russia young men die that Putin will have to backdown or he will be removed
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:32am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Clan,
      
      The Ukrainians have said they need more ammunition to conduct an offensive. That is probably true. An offensive operation needs at least three times more ammunition than a defence.
      
      Russia is also running out of ammo at current expenditure rates.
      
      For the last six months the frontline has been relatively stable. Neither side can break through. The gains are measured by the meter rather than the kilometre.
      
      In short, neither side is currently capable of mounting a major offensive. You need to ask the question, who is more likely to be able to do so in the coming spring and summer. Who will have the right numbers of well trained people will the most capable equipment?
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:32am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Wayne Mapp – is Russia expending munitions at an unsustainable rate, what do you base this assessment on? I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m open to checking out any information.
        
        I’ve read that the Russians aren’t interested in taking ground so much as destroying the Ukrainian military infrastructure, manpower and capabilities. That they are happy with the way things are unfolding. Again, I have no way of knowing if that is accurate or not. But it seems plausible.
        
        As for what happens in Spring, who would know? Certainly not us. I know that German and UK MBTs are arriving, but those operating this equipment have only been training on them for a few months. Will they make any difference to the war? How are they going to maintain them?
        
        The Russians have many trained operators on the T 90 and all variants of it. They are closer to their supply lines etc. Time will tell.
        
        I wish it was over. We’ll see what happens eventually, but it was an avoidable tragedy.
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:32pm
- Nickc2
  
  The Arms Industries in Europe and the US will be working overtime.
  Think of the Dollars, Euros, and Pounds that will bring into circulation.
  Maybe a few countries will be able to pay their National debts but I’m not convinced they will. The US for example will filter a lot of that money into the Biden re-election fund and Britain will most likely refinance their NHS and ……..
  It’s a great pity we don’t have an Arms Industry. Then again, maybe not, because new demands would be forthcoming from the Treaty Industry eh?
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:00am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Nick2 – I suppose it’s one way to generate employment and “productivity”. The US National debt currently stands at 31 trillion dollars. Who’s paying for these munitions and where are they getting the money from?
    Rhetorical question. 😂
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:36pm
    - Nickc2
      
      I think they get their money from the same place as us, they print the stuff.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:39pm
Maggie Pie

Really sorry to hear about Nashie being sacked tbh 🙁

I always thort he was the best looking cis MP in the Labor Party.

Just saying.
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March 29, 2023 8:23am
- RoboRob
  
  We have all seen what happens when people are elected based on their looks / physical attributes with JA and Marama Davidson.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You’re lucky to have Jenny Salesa as your electorate MP though.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:25am
- rockape
  
  So does he !
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:25am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Most vain Hawke’s Bay politician since Michael Laws?
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:17pm
Zorba

Was our Police minister the one who stops woman speaking at select committees, if so explains allot.
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March 29, 2023 8:24am
Nukuleka

What a disappointment Chris Luxon is. In response to my email regarding the Kellie- Jay protests Mr Luxon’s office makes it clear that his and National’s priorities lie primarily with celebrating and supporting diversity in NZ as represented by the so- called ‘rainbow community’- by which he presumably means the mob of vicious misogynist folk who attempted to cause physical harm to Mrs Keen at Albert Park.

In contrast Mr Luxon tells me that he and National do not support the views of Mrs Keen and the Speak Up For Women’s campaign on the rights of biological women: that a person born a man dies a man, and that women should have safe spaces in such places as public bathrooms and women’s prisons separated from people with penises.

Can I assure Mr Luxon that the concept of a ‘rainbow community’ is a fake one. This alleged community is not some sort of Kumbaya singing band of loving folk radiating kindness to all and sundry. The real face of this hard left ‘community’ was on display for all to see at Albert Park. An out of control, vicious mob, a mob baying for blood, a mob that will never support National and Mr Luxon, and which in no way represents the bulk of gay people of all political stripes who just want to get on with their lives quietly in peace- and which very much know the difference between biogical men and women.
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March 29, 2023 8:42am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  It is clear that many gay men and women are deeply unhappy about the trans movement, particularly gay women. Lesbians who exclude ‘trans lesbians’ from their social networks face swift and vicious attacks. It is happening in the UK right now.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:50am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Yep, feedback from my friends shows LGB are NOT in line with TQ+’s.
    Most ‘old school’ feminists see the Trans movement as destroying women’s rights.
    Ironic isn’t it. The threat to women’s rights today comes from men pretending to be women.
    Toxic masculinity in drag.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:56am
    - kowtow
      
      Funny innit .
      
      Men who claim to want to be women and dress up as women actually hate real women .
      
      They are literally misogyny in drag and crazy .
      
      And what’s even crazier is the Establishment seems compelled to go along with this lunacy as if it were normal.
      
      If batflu ( and climate hysteria) has taught us anything ,surely it must be that the people “leading” us are a bunch of crazy , irrational muppets.
      
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      March 29, 2023 9:43am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        I’m not violent. I’m not an abuser. I love you. It’s just that you made me so angry
        
        Yup – women have heard that one plenty.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:13am
      - kowtow
        
        Yup .
        
        I love Big Brother.
        
        you can too.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:32am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      It makes my blood boil when I see the signs “Trans women are real women”. It begs the question of what ‘real’ means? This is why the issue has become so decisive. If “woman” does not mean “adult human female” we can all have our own definitions of what is “a woman”.
      
      My personal view is that a ‘trans woman’ is a ‘trans woman’. Taking estrogen and surgically replacing male genitals with a ‘neovagina’ does not a woman make.
      
      Further, you can’t mask sexual attraction with trans dogma. If trans women were ‘real women’ you would expect many straight men to happily explore sexual relationships with trans women. The actual numbers of men who would consider a sexual relationship with a trans woman are tiny. Less than 3 percent.
      
      https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/sex-sexuality-and-romance/202104/will-straight-men-and-women-date-trans-person
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:15am
      - Close Hen Counters
        
        Trans women will never even come close to real women – we are complicated, have different wiring in our brains and no man can womensplain like a woman
        
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        March 29, 2023 3:04pm
  - Its only I
    
    The TQ+ sites with “TERF” pages are full of MSGs describing the ways the writer wants to end the life of anyone they label as a Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:21am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Don’t go there, amigo
      
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      March 29, 2023 8:31pm
  - Paulus
    
    Is this why recently there has been greater disunity about who takes preference so the combined name of the LBGTXZY is being reveted via the media to the old Collective name Queers, as it is overseas.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:54am
- Random T Person
  
  Nuku, if I am not mistaken, you are gay? My gay brother, too, has no interest in the ‘rainbow community’. He finds the whole construct embarrassing…
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:51am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  So does the National Party support surgical and medical procedures on “trans children”? How about biological men participating in women’s sports?
  
  I would be appalled if Chris Luxon thinks those are OK. They are 2 of the key parts of what KJK wants to stop.
  
  The reply you received reinforces my view that Chris Luxon is misinformed about KJK.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:55am
  - mogg
    
    Does he also agree with fully grown men parading ‘tackle out’ in front of biological women and young girls while they are getting changed before and after sporting activities.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:29am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Pretty sure they are against those things, differently against kids getting puberty blockers without consent from parents, pretty sure the fact sporting codes are now saying chicks with dicks are not to compete against chicks, so they will be on the side of the sporting codes that have seen the light
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:10pm
- Its only I
  
  Unfortunately the Lux was installed just to snag the bewildered Jacinda ticket holders.
  
  I can’t stand the guy but, he is one of many and its the overall effect of the group as a whole that’s important…kinda…maybe…nope, I’m struggling with that at the moment.
  The problem is registering a protest about the direction National are going will involve having to accept another term for the Labour mafia mob, but how do you stop National ratcheting…
  
  I’m firmly undecided.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:13am
  - kowtow
    
    Party Vote Act .
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:45am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s only I – it’s a conundrum isn’t it? It’s very difficult to figure out how National seem to be missing the boat on so many issues. Bizarre.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:37am
    - The Housekeeper
      
      What I find bizarre is why very few people see the possibility of a Labour/National coalition. Downtick all you like, but tell me why it’s impossible.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:13pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        It’s not impossible. If National wtfu and start implementing some decent strategy they will destroy Labour. Maybe they’re just too cunning for us plebs and they have squillions of powder tucked away for later on. Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe it.
        
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        March 29, 2023 12:40pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Don’t talk utter bullshit, the Nats have ruled out working with the Labour party after the election, and have now stated they will not even talk to the greens.
        
        You act voters are making fools of your selves
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:13pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        So-called ‘grand coalitions‘ typically only happen in times of national emergency, eg world wars. How ever the definition of a ‘grand coalition’ is “an arrangement in a multi-party parliamentary system in which the two largest political parties of opposing political ideologies unite in a coalition government”. Emphasis mine. This means that if Labour and National were to forces it wouldn’t be a ‘grand coalition’, but rather an honest admission that their views of socialism, culture, statism, and globalisation are broadly identical.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:18pm
    - Its only I
      
      National appear to seek approval of the MSN child journalists on most things and seem to be shit scared of upsetting the lefts effective twitter army. If they can’t cut through that intimidation now wtf are they going to be like when the heat comes on post election?
      
      I’m not sure Luxon has the best people around him though.
      Eg. Msn run hit job after hit job trying to make Luxon look like he is anti women’s rights based on his religion…ok, so…next minuit his office defends the riots shutting down a woman’s rights meeting because its anti trans…yep, nothing like living up the stereotype….
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:24pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    “The Lux”? That is perfect! “Luxxing out” was something Mum did when I was a kid. No one says that anymore.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:44am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Luxon will win the middle ground vote (and the election), all those that went to Labour last time. But in doing so will lose some long time Nat voters who have always voted right (like me) and who will now vote for Act. I would like Act to be around 20%.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      If Act is at 20%, meaning Nat’s would drop to 25%, and if Peters gets over the line he would have to go with Labour again because with Labour in the mid 30s he would be left with no alternative, weakening Nat’s will only help Labour.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:15pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        If it takes another deleterious Labour government to bring either
        (a) the complete demise of National with ACT stepping in; or,
        (b) the complete re-rebuilding of National as a party of liberty, small state, anti-woke and fiscal responsibility
        
        … then I want this. Right now National stands for nothing more than gaining power with values that flap about in the breeze.
        
        They can shape up or ship out as far as I’m concerned, and I say that having voted National most of my life.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:25pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Nukulela – that’s an astonishing statement from Luxon and another nail in the coffin of my chances of giving him any votes at all.
  How can his strategy people read this so badly wrong?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:19am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    How many times were you planning to vote for him?
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:27am
    - Matt Long
      
      Vote early and vote often.
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:16am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Perhaps I misread his intent and he is merely going to instruct his family members how to vote, rather than committing fraud himself.
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:32am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      milky – just the 2. Party and electorate. Same as everyone else.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:41pm
  - peterwn
    
    They know more about politics than you, Redbaiter, those who think National should return to so-called ‘founding principles’ etc.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:52am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I will say it again, MMP ended Nat’s ever winning another election with those principles, FFS, it’s not that hard to understand why.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:19pm
- Phronesis
  
  The rainbow community is clearly a front for white supremacy. It’s glaringly obvious. Their symbol is a rainbow. Now what do you get when you combine all the colours of light in a rainbow? It’s not black, it’s not brown, it’s WHITE. Clearly white supremacists.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:47am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Stop making light of this.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:46am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  That would not have come from him, Nats will have to govern for all , so they are supportive of all communities including woman who the left actually shat on last weekend
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:20am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    G – then he needs to find out who wrote it and sack them. The messages they are sending out are incoherent. I desperately want to give at least one vote to National but it feels like every week another piece of madness comes out from them.
    
    The messaging is awful.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:40am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Oh because an ACT voter says so.
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:35am
- mawm
  
  Nukuleka – Luxon has once again shown us how ill informed he is about subjects and just parrots the international-globalist line. Anyone who has the slightest interest in either “climate change” or the “speak up for women” campaign with just a minimum of investigation could not possibly hold his positions.
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:23pm
Maggie's partner

Excerpt from Marama Davidson’s new book, “Cooking It Up”….
“I always get my fish cooked by white cis males – that way I can be sure it will be well battered”
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March 29, 2023 8:44am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  More like Cocking it up !
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:20pm
CAKE FACE1

I must admit, I like Mr Hipkins. He seems like a decent person.

I admire that Mr Hipkins had the bottle to turn up to the interview with Mr Hosking. He also attempted to answer the questions, in a straight way. The interview was a train crash, but it is clear that Mr Hipkins is trying his best.

Of course, sadly, I know that Mr Hipkins is completely incompetent.

Nonetheless, I find Mr Hipkins refreshing, after being tortured by Cindy Ardern for what seemed like a lifetime. At least he is fairly straight, open and honest – at least compared to Cindy Ardern.

It is a shame that Cindy Ardern won’t be held accountable for her tyrannical policies at the next election.

I suppose that Cindy Ardern can be satisfied that her legacy of fermenting social division, economic collapse and instituting democratic vandalism will linger like a bad smell over the country for decades.

Thanks, Cindy!
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March 29, 2023 8:45am
- nathie
  
  Well all those zillions of school children that Ardern used to visit on what seemed like every working day and wrote to her … might grow up a tad annoyed that their country is going down the third-world divisive gurgler and remember exactly who it was who caused all this and vote anyone else but Labour??!!
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:48am
  - Matt Long
    
    It’s not St Jacinda’s fault the country is falling apart, it’s all those white cis males and the patriarchy. Teacher told me.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  At least he is fairly straight, open and honest
  
  We must be listening to two different chaps.
  
  He’s a slippery dissembler.
  I used to think he was a good guy who would fight for education, but he’s a lost cause as far as I’m concerned.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:20am
  - Yabster
    
    honest? lol- he lies almost as much as Cindy.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:06am
  - James Stephenson
    
    Agreed. He’s a snide little sh1t. If he told me it was raining, I’d still go and check.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:17am
Bernard Black

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/27/we-must-confront-this-woke-misogyny/
Tom Slater editor of Spiked calls the Auckland mob exactly what they are, spoiler, it’s one of Maramas favorite words.
Takes aim at Newshub as well.
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March 29, 2023 8:47am
- ISeeRed
  
  Can Newshub be sued for defamation about the white supremacist hand gesture that wasn’t?
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:47am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    Newspapers can be sued for defamation. KJK would need to get legal advice from a lawyer familiar with the law in New Zealand. It would not be cheap.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:55am
  - nathie
    
    No doubt there will be people laying complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
    
    https://www.bsa.govt.nz/
    
    Not that I am determining the outcome but I will be amazed if Newshub doesn’t get censured.
    
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    March 29, 2023 2:50pm
Maggie Pie

Just re-watched the vid of Marama on youtube with her saying….

“She knows who causes all the violence in the world, it’s white Cis men”

Does anyone know exactly when this was actually recorded? According to one of the girls at tennis at the rally to support Posie….. it was BEFORE she was hit by the motorbike.

Just saying.
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March 29, 2023 8:58am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I thought she was hit by the motorbike after she left the location of the protest. She looks perfectly fine in the interview. Not at all like she has just been hit by a motor bike.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:04am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Didn’t she go to A & E? If so it must have been bad………//
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:21am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I am starting to wonder if that was bullshit, apparently it was only the mirror that touched her, when she was ranting racist lies she looked clear and without injury, but there was a problem , she weas photographed just before hand and she is standing on a road
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:38am
- RoboRob
  
  It is confusing and the reporting vague, as usual. Chippie says she was hit first and spoke afterwards and that’s her excuse. BUT he also says his office communicated with her in ED about the issue. Generally if one is badly hurt they go to ED straight away, but not always.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:11am
- ClanMcleod
  
  If true, her dismissal should be instant and no comment required from Chippie.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:20am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Oh he said he is standing by her, and he would have gone to the protest if he was not so busy dealing with dodgy Nash, and he also states its all over as he does with Nash, both will fester and create more trouble, one thing the left do not get, you must lance a boil.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:40am
- nathie
  
  Marama Davidson: “violence is caused by white cis-men”!
  
  Marama Davidson: “scrub that because I’m being called out (how dare they)! I was ackshually meaning to say violence is caused by … men! Yeah men! Oh yeah, men, men, men”!
  
  Modern day woke 2023 society: “Wait a minute, what about those men that identify as woman! And what about those women that identify as men”!
  
  “Marama – you are transphobic”!!! 😉
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:21am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    She is married to a white cis man, what a hypocrite she is
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:41am
    - Nickc2
      
      Geez, ya gott feel sorry for im eh?
      
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      March 29, 2023 11:54am
- 103PapPap
  
  Yes, someone needs to do a timeline on all this. The TV shots of her mouthing her vitriole showed her well dressed – no signs of being in an accident.
  Hippy spoke of ‘talking by text’ with her ‘while she was in the emergency department’. Everyone knows that a visit to any emergency department takes a very long time.
  Lots of questions.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:23am
  - Yvette
    
    In the “cis-men” video, presumably shot later, Davidson does appear OK, although she seems to have her top on inside out – unless it is meant to read
    bɘvol ɘɿɒ uoY not You are loved
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:18am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Just having breakfast and listening to the tranny in the background.
  
  Talkback caller to 1ZB’s Francessca Rudkin @9:47am also confirms the vid of Marama spewing out her vile comments was made PRIOR to the motobike accident.
  
  Hmmm…
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:01am
  - Centrist
    
    You probably can’t use the word ‘tranny’ for transistor radio any more.
    
    Perhaps the Christians and Jews need to reclaim the rainbow symbol. After all it has been in the holy scrolls/books as a sign of God’s covenant with Noah for millennia.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:09am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Actually you can since the QT community cannot stand the old word “tranny” and now insist on “Trans”.
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:53am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Maggie Pie – Is calling it a tranny not cultural appropriation? I’m confused……..😕
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:44am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Funny, because it was stated many times it was not, if she has lied again, that’s a second strike and make Hikpins look as weak as piss yet again
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:42am
  - Nickc2
    
    You need to be careful using that word ‘tranny’ these days Maggie.
    Marama may send a delegation to your house.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:58am
  - Burtland
    
    six options here
    
    1. cis speech; accident; A&E
    2. accident; cis speech; A&E
    3. accident; A&E; cis speech
    4. ~~cis speech; A&E; accident~~
    5. ~~A&E; cis speech; accident~~
    6. ~~A&E; accident; cis speech~~
    
    time stamps in the videos would reveal all
    
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    March 29, 2023 2:23pm
- coge
  
  Davidson’s been saying the same things over many years now. On her Twitter feed. Alleged motorbike has nothing to do with it.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:21am
Rusty

Does anyone know if either of our tv news channels report the story on the trans gender person shooting dead 3 kids and 3 adults at a christian school in the USA yesterday?

I’m not picking on trans gender people but had it been a right-wing extremist who had done this then there would have been more coverage on our news about it.
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March 29, 2023 8:59am
- Ghost
  
  Yeah they did.
  
  Sounds like it may have been suicide by cop. She was recieving help for emotional problems and messaged a friend saying she didn’t want to live any more and hoped she would be forgiven
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:56am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Her Manifesto said she targeted this School because it was gun free and she didn’t go to another one because it was ‘too secure’.
    Mental illness amongst these people seems to be an issue- and prescription drugs.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:42am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Not mentally ill enough to go to a school that might have been protected though.
      
      Yes, a tragic case for all and early days, but already being discussed is the potential that transitioning drugs like testosterone and others may be a contributing factor.
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:49am
      - Ghost
        
        Isn’t there talk also around the prescription drugs other shooters have been on? Seems to be a common thing that many of them are on some form of medication.
        
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        March 29, 2023 10:56am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Ghost – probably, but testosterone is certainly known to increase aggression.
        
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        March 29, 2023 11:35am
      - mawm
        
        Ghost – there seem to 2 major issues with these school shooters – absence of a father and psychotropic drugs, the latter in an extremely high percentage. This never seems to make it into the MSM. Big pharmacy would never, ever think about paying off the media to keep quiet about it. //s
        
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        March 29, 2023 1:35pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “absence of a father and psychotropic drugs, the latter in an extremely high percentage. This never seems to make it into the MSM.”
        
        The latest thing with them is not “stigmatising” the mentally ill (and meth users, when it comes to meth, believe it or not).
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:03pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Initially described as trans, more recently described as ‘the assailant’, presumably to play down the trans angle.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:42pm
Simon

Wide boy American defense industry sold Australia expensive & militarily useless nuke subs. The poor Aust fools. Fucking Australian clowns. All on the back of a border skirmish at the arse end of Europe.
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March 29, 2023 9:02am
- James Stephenson
  
  militarily useless nuke subs.
  
  Your expertise and qualifications to make such an assessment are…?
  
  To me, it seems at least superficially sensible for a major producer of Uranium to actually make use of the stuff.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:23am
- Nickc2
  
  I suggest you know squat about nuclear submarines!
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:02pm
  - Simon
    
    “I suggest you know squat about nuclear submarines!”
    
    The Chinese! OMG! OMG!
    
    War is over if you want it
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:17pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Meanwhile the Victorian Premier goes off on his own to do secretive (alleged) trade talks with the very regime the extremely expensive nuke subs are to help defend against. Weren’t we all in the west supposed to be diversifying AWAY from that regime??? Albo says that trip’s all good. Go figure.
  
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  March 29, 2023 2:06pm
  - Nickc2
    
    That’s correct if you call trade talks being on the bludge for money. Victoria’s broke.
    Remember, Chairman Dan Andrews signed Victoria up to the Chinese Belt-and-Road initiative and this had to be canceled by the Federal Govt of Aust.
    
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    March 29, 2023 2:11pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Oh I remember alright. It is staggering that this bloke got re-elected. It really does make me wonder if the election was fiddled. People can not be that effing stupid????
      
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      March 29, 2023 2:45pm
      - Nickc2
        
        People can not be that effing stupid????
        Go to an AFL Grand Final, to find the answer to your quiestion.
        
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        March 29, 2023 4:41pm
Maggy Wassilieff

So let me get this straight…
Stuart Nash is unfit to sit in the Labour Cabinet because he is a dishonourable man.

Labour MP Stuart Nash is fine to represent the good folks of Napier because he’s a good chap who looks after his mates.
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March 29, 2023 9:02am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I guess the difference is that the PM can sack a Minister at any time. Forcing an MP to resign is next to impossible.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:06am
  - RoboRob
    
    The normal process is to kick them out of caucus and publicly state they have ‘lost faith / confidence’ in them. Hipkins has done neither. Yes Chippie cant make Nash quit but he can ‘put the ball in his court’. Its clear Nash wont be standing for Labour next election now. I think it is mistake to not give him the boot. It appears Luxon is going to take advantage of this failure, as he should.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:14am
    - MCōs
      
      Nash is gone from cabinet and I’m picking he’ll shortly be gone from parliament.
      Luxon knows that and if I were him I’d let the matter rest there as far as demanding his resignation is concerned.
      The Nats have plenty of potential skeletons in the cupboard.
      
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      March 29, 2023 3:14pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Whats the bet he goes in about a month.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:43am
- GJM
  
  Nash is an electorate MP, so the voters of Napier deserve to get what they voted for, good and hard. Maybe they might learn the lesson that elections have consequences.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:37am
- Albert_Ross
  
  It’s quite possible, in fact it’s more likely than not, that the same person with the same qualities will be good at one job and not at the other. A good Minister is almost bound to be a bad constituency MP, and vice versa, precisely because the requirements to do the job well are so often incompatible.
  
  Having people be Cabinet Ministers and constituency MPs at the same time is actually absurd, when you think about it.
  Why should the voters of Wellington East get the full time attention of a constituency MP (Paul Eagle) when the voters of Wellington Central get only what Grant Robertson’s able to do outside his work as Minister of Finance? Alternatively put, why is Paul getting a full time salary for doing a job which Grant is apparently able to do in his spare time?
  
  It’s a similar dilemma to the point that the qualities which make for a good Minister are often very different to, if not totally incompatible with, the qualities which make for a strong electoral candidate.
  
  The List MP system often gets stick round here, but it is one approach with the potential to address both of these issues.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:56am
  - Steve Todd
    
    The List MP system often gets stick round here, but it is one approach with the potential to address both of these issues.
    
    On the assumption that, by the “List MP” system, you are referring to List MPs under MMP (rather than suggesting MMP should be replaced by the Party List system, i.e., all MPs would be List MPs, as in Israel), then I would suggest the system you are looking for is PR/STV in large multi-member electorates – with a ballot paper designed to facilitate voting in such electorates (see https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2021/10/an_electoral_review.html/comment-page-1#comment-3039768 for a brief description).
    
    Under such a system, both National and Labour would have three or four directly-elected MPs in an enlarged Wellington area electorate. Right now, Grant Robertson, Ayesha Verrall and Barbara Edmonds would be concentrating on their portfolios, while Paul Eagle, Greg O’Connor and Ibrahim Omer would be concentrating on constituency work (bearing in mind that constituents would also have National MPs and at least one Green MP to approach).
    
    In my view, STV (whereby all MPs would have the same status, because they would all have attained the final quota), is far superior to MMP where we have two classes of MPs.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:59am
slightlyrighty

So, the day that Marama clarifies her statement by saying that Trans people are not the problem,

https://nypost.com/2023/03/27/everything-we-know-about-the-nashville-school-shooter/
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March 29, 2023 9:04am
- mawm
  
  Karma!
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:39pm
Prince

Stuart Nash broke Cabinet confidentiality a nd ‘collective responsibility’ rules by sharing detailed Cabinet discussions with his donors. He tried to push through a policy on rentals that was financially beneficial to his donors, then when he lost, he told the donors details of the discussion, and who opposed him.
He then drafted another piece of legislation, and sent it to a NZ First MP to support, then copied his donors again.
According to Stuff’s Luke Malpass, Nash was not ‘trying to get some personal advantage from something – there is no evidence that he was.’
Well I’m sorry but there is clear evidence he was providing his donors with inside knowledge of Cabinet discussions, and sending them draft legislation for their approval.
It’s hard to imagine any stronger evidence of obtaining personal advantage from his Ministerial position.
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March 29, 2023 9:09am
surfing

From Bob Jones, real estate agents must now pay $29 to watch a 1.5 hour video on the maori world view of real estate. Imagine that, if only I could make a video and have the government force everyone to buy it. This is unbelievably corrupt , no doubt this windfall will boost car sales to Maori for a bit.

https://nopunchespulled.com/2023/03/28/another-maori-wonderfulness-absurdity/

There is no figure on the total accumulated value of forced donations to maori (ceremonies, consulting, dances, RMA payoffs etc) but it is like death by 1000 swords. The cumulative amount must be astounding.
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March 29, 2023 9:12am
- Inandout
  
  Surf, if houseowners decide to sell their own properties then it behoves the government to require these people to be te reoised also.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:36am
cas

I haven’t heard of Brian Edwards for a while but he would be mortified to hear the sloppy and biased prose of our news reporters and news readers. He always used to say that objectivity and accuracy were important but the current press certainly don’t live up to his high standards. Putting aside the ” Marama Davidson was run over by a motorcycle” report which is patently a lie, I was incensed at the report on the death of the last member of the Dambusters squadron, pilot Arthur Joplin, on Newshub last night.

They managed to mention that he crashed, two of his crew were killed and he gave up flying. Didn’t manage to mention why he crashed( the airfield was not lit for landing and there was no visibility), and that he broke both his legs. The Herald at least had it correct.

That’s enough rant for now. I am sure something else will rile me by the end of the day apart from Marama.
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March 29, 2023 9:12am
igm

Hipkins is running adverts on Youtube highlighting his benevolence to bludging beneficiaries, these being no more than taxpayer-funded party political broadcasts.
This reeks of the type of thing his mentor Mallard would do . . . what the hell is going on?
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March 29, 2023 9:20am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It is electioneering. Well, to be totally honest it’s bribery. It shouldn’t be legal.
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:23am
  - hullkiwi
    
    It is debatable as to whether the message is legal. As it is political advertising about what Chipkins is doing in his capacity as PM with taxpayer money.
    
    But the message is Chipkins is a benevolent leader.
    
    At this stage, a complaint to the ASA is the only avenue, after 14th July it is the Electoral Commission.
    
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    March 29, 2023 9:30am
- nathie
  
  What’s going on is … Robbo has secured Labours election war chest and are spending, spending, spending like ~~drunken sailors~~ propagandists to (mis)inform and (dis)inform voters to vote for them as the bestest party ever!
  
  All on our dime too! Which shows what disregard Labour have for hard working taxpayers because even they know they are going to be turfed out in a landslide come October!
  
  Labour = wasters!
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:27am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Sorry igm, but isn’t your benefit going up as well? won’t your single, living alone rate of national superannuation be about $580 per week?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:30am
  - mawm
    
    Mine is going up but it doesn’t even begin to cover the cost of living increase and loss of value of the NZD under these fools.
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:45pm
hullkiwi

Now we get TVNZ and Bryce Edwards attempting to paint lipstick on a pig.

Nash sacking makes PM look ‘strong’ – analyst
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/29/nash-sacking-makes-pm-look-strong-analyst/

What don’t they get, Chipkins gave Nash 3 warnings for matters that should have got sacked, but Chipkins vassalated. How is being forced to do, what he should have done in the first place strong leadership?

Not only that, unless Chipkins front foots matters with an enquiry into the actions of Nash, he will be made to look evasive, that he is hiding matters and it will tarnish his government. How is that strong?…….

Unless you are a paid up member of the Labour Cheer party!
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March 29, 2023 9:24am
- nathie
  
  Sorry I haven’t read all the MSM stories on this – do we know yet who leaked to Stuff?
  
  Can we assume it is the same lot that have weekly zoom meetings with them (and ring them up on the phone if they occassionally go off script)? 🙂
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:33am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Good question. Every thing smacks of a job to change narratives, and Nash was the convenient fall guy.
    
    As we have witnessed within government, everything is done for maximum positive publicity or to protect the image of the PM!
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:21am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  National have called for that very inquiry, if Hipkins says no and another strike occurs and it probably will , it then makes Hipkins look as dirty
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:48am
slightlyrighty

Yesterday, Marama Davidson stood up in parliament and said “We must have the hard and uncomfortable conversations”

Does she not realise that her actions on Saturday were to deny those very same hard and uncomfortable conversations?
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March 29, 2023 9:32am
- graham
  
  When she says, “We must have the hard and uncomfortable conversations”, does she mean the conversations that she herself should be having? IE, the one where she actually personally apologises to every white man in New Zealand for slandering them?
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:40am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    I am far less angered by her slander of white men than I am by her support for an event organised to violently silence women.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:02am
Maggie's partner

Stuart Nash confirms he has been hit by at motorbike “at least 4 times, possibly more”
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March 29, 2023 9:32am
- nathie
  
  Good point he should have used Marama’s excuse! After all he has been appearing on tv stories lately with a large scratch on his nose … must have been from those darn motorbikes!
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:35am
Maggie Pie

Paywall extract ‘LUNCH WITH MAYOR BROWN’

– Shane Curry (NZ Horrid)

One-to-one, Brown is captivating company. He clearly does not suffer fools…..

When he met National Party leader and former AirNZ boss Christopher Luxon recently, he wanted to get one thing off his chest – AirNZ’s predatory pricing, he says killed off a North Shore-Kaitaia air service.
“John Key would have said ‘f**k off Brownie, get over yourself ‘ and laughed it off.

He fears that Luxon doesn’t yet have the “laugh-it-off-characteristic”……

(Story has a fab pic of Brownie standing with his wife Toni – he calls her “Princess”. Our Mayoress really is a gawjus looking lady)
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March 29, 2023 9:37am
igm

[Mod – use his correct nsme]: Get it straight, I am still working, I am married, and Nat Super is taxed to hell, so it is really not an issue.
Unlike leeching arseholed public servants our interests mean we do not actually need Super as along with income we have our private scheme.
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March 29, 2023 9:47am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Unfortunately we missed who you were referring to there IGM.
  Can you please advise the name of this reprobate?
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:12am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m sure igm is referring to mikenmildagain’s post at 9:30am, but how the dicken’s is any commenter to refer to mma’s correct name… He’s used so many on this blog.
    
    [Mod – by not using an insult instead of the name]
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:33am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Only three, so far:
      Mikenmild
      Mikenmildagain
      Mike – Patreon log on – is my preference now but sadly not working today for some reason.
      One could equally ask any commenter how many people share their user name.
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:36am
      - wilderbeast
        
        And everyone else has just one….
        
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        March 29, 2023 7:40pm
  - igm
    
    [Mod – debate what mike says, stop with the personal attacks]
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:34am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      The Stephies, on the other hand, had one log on shared by several people.
      
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      March 29, 2023 8:51pm
- MCōs
  
  If you don’t need it why did you apply for it?
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:32am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Rent gone up on the council pensioner unit?
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:37am
    - igm
      
      Smearing to try and bring people down to a low level never works. We have never even rented a property, let alone scrounged from ratepayers.
      
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      March 29, 2023 10:53am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Strawman is a fave with this one.
        
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        March 29, 2023 2:18pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    They’re just getting a partial refund on a poor 50 year investment.
    I’ll be applying for some of my money back too, especially with the poor performance in the last 5 years.
    
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    March 29, 2023 10:56am
- Yabster
  
  IGM don’t react to the troll it is how he/she gets its jollies – if anything we should be tolerant of [Mod – use his name] as he has nothing much else in his life.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:13am
sirknz

It’s an annual event. Check back daily because the scores can change rapidly.

https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/site/ramadan-bombathon.aspx

Remember this when the media and the various intelligence agencies tell you that white supremacists are the biggest threat in the world.
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March 29, 2023 9:51am
CAKE FACE1

This is simply a disgusting propaganda smear from unnamed potential communists at the Team of $55 Million:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-anti-trans-rally-attracted-a-range-of-far-right-groups-researchers-say/T6AMCXNMUFGDPBIT5SY5ALBR5U/

Notice how it was written by ‘NZ Herald’ with no author identified.

The article is simply sinister. It is clearly trying to imply that Posie Parker is a Nazi, because four Nazis attended her rally.

The Team of $55 Million will tarnish anyone who complains about their disgraceful propaganda, in the same devious manner – you will become a Nazi.

I am paying for this extreme left wing propaganda through my taxes. It is disgusting. It must stop.
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March 29, 2023 9:58am
- graham
  
  Over the last few years, the MSM who have been SO concerned about people falling into the trap of believing Conspiracy Theories ™ seem to be falling down the rabbit hole themselves.
  
  They are coming up with some quite lunatic theories, and seem intent on smearing people who don’t subscribe to their own particular way of thinking (as we saw, for example, where people who had concerns about vaccine mandates were quite deliberately conflated with anti-vaxxers, and from then on tarred with the same brush).
  
  The MSM are slowly succumbing to their very own weird Conspiracy Theories ™, and seem to be oblivious to it – which is of course the very accusation they level at others.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:34am
  - krazykiwi
    
    “The MSM are slowly succumbing to their very own weird Conspiracy Theories ™, and seem to be oblivious to it”
    
    Indeed. Here’s the BBC describing a ‘Halifax woman’ who has been jailed for stabbing and tying up ‘her’ victim.
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:05pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  CAKE – Wellington protesters all over again. Lying bastards in our mainstream media. Propagandists doesn’t begin to describe them.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:58am
- kevn
  
  @Cake 9.58am… There were no ‘nazis’ attending her rally. They were just having dressing up and having fun. They said. Idiots. Look to be imports.
  More on dailytelegraph.co.nz blog
  
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  March 29, 2023 4:10pm
  - CAKE FACE1
    
    Oh dear. Serves me right for assuming that the Team of $55 Million might get something – anything – correct.
    
    Lesson learnt.
    
    The disinformation we are getting from the Team of $55 Million is reaching absurd levels. It is concerning for the future of our democracy. I really don’t know what should be done about it (apart from defunding these clowns from any and all public monies).
    
    The government is imploding before our eyes.
    
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    March 29, 2023 4:24pm
Sparrow

Has nobody noticed the timing of the Nash sacking. Marama and Labour in trouble. Then suddenly Stuff has a leak about a Nash indiscretion some time in the past. Wow headlines about Davidson replaced by Nash. How very fortunate. Wonder where the leak came from ?
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March 29, 2023 10:05am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Letter from Bob Jones in here.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/we-are-negotiations-to-secure-large-amazing-venue-for-regular-auckland-meetings/

Here is Claudia Wyss, with her pathetic excuses on cancelling the venues. Control freak. Auckland Council is corrupt.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/211-heather-du-plessis-allan-24837940/episode/claudia-wyss-auckland-council-director-of-111654597/

Claudia Wyss lied. We pay her to tell lies?

““And we worked with the organisers to understand their safety plans and I am afraid those safety plans came up short.”

This last statement was an outright lie. Ms Wyss did not ‘work the organisers’ as most decent people would understand that phrase to mean.”
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March 29, 2023 10:06am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Chew on this Marama Davidson.

One New Zealand Foundation Inc. One New Zealand Foundation Inc. on March 28, 2023 at 10:45 am
It’s obvious the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, Marama Davidson knows little of her “brown cis men” (tangata Maori ancestors) when she proudly declared on camera: “I am the prevention [of] violence Minister, and I know who causes violence in the world, and it’s white cis men.”
Between 1820 and 1840 her “brown cis men” (tangata Maori ancestors, Hongi Hika, Te Wherowhero and Te Rauparaha) slaughtered or took as slaves over half of her tangata Maori ancestors (men, women and children) for the fun of it and the feasts that followed. Some of the Taranaki who had fled from the Waikato invaded the Chatham Islands in 1835 and slaughtered thousands of the peace loving Moriori or farmed them “like swine” into virtual extinction and she’s got the “bloody” cheek to say “white sic men” cause the violence!
She must not be allowed to get away with this. It was the “white cis men” who saved her tangata Maori ancestors from total extinction.
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March 29, 2023 10:11am
- alex Masterley
  
  Dont forget about Te Rauparaha’s visits to the South Island where Ngai Tahu were slaughtered at Kaiapoi and Akaroa.
  As an aside, the Ngai Tahu memorial at Kaipoi, is the most depressing place i have been to in NZ. It makes places like Ohai and Nightcaps look good.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:46am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  I suspect that the Minister would say that she meant that white men cause all ‘family violence’. She was not referring to warfare. It is clear from her announcement of her family violence strategy (see my link in my previous comment) that she believes that white colonisers made Maori men violent towards their partners and children, and that this did not happen pre-colonisation.
  
  Her approach to family violence prevention is called ‘Te Aorerekura’ and “intergenerational journey towards wellbeing.”
  
  [Link replicated for easy access]
  
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/guiding-star-sets-new-path-elimination-family-violence-and-sexual-violence
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:57am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What I find so disappointing in this Minister (and this Government) is her limited understanding of why and how violence can manifest.
    
    I know of a number of families in which violence arose because one of the family members descended into mental illness (through a brain tumour; as a result of increasing dementia) and know of other families with a mentally disabled child who occasionally/often inflicts harm on others.
    
    Our Government’s support for families coping with violent, mentally challenged members is appalling.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:37pm
I remember when

We invented a lot of stuff 10-12 years ago:
All Blacks in desperate need of innovation: Rugby Pass.
Another sign of the potential problems with centralisation.
Often a brief period of improvement, sparked by the change, before ‘group think’ sets in.
Everybody starts acting along similar lines.
A reason for serious debate before 3 Waters replaces local council input.
Even wrong ideas result in discussion and deeper thought about actions.
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March 29, 2023 10:17am
- Rusty
  
  @I remember– If National wins in October then they should go back to their traditional core beliefs.
  
  Smaller govt and less interference in the private sector.
  
  Centralization (Marxism in disguise) which Labour are hell bent on, does not work in a liberal democracy and free market.
  
  But I’m being hopeful here that National will do this.
  
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  March 29, 2023 10:56am
  - Colville
    
    National can go back to core beliefs but the issue is will the electorate follow them there?
    
    I doubt it and I dont want National to be a one term government.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:41pm
Yvette

Although we have probably reached near Peak Marama –

Marama Davidson’s words were –
“I know who causes violence in the world, it is white cis men. That is white cis men who cause violence in the world.”

Then she offers –
“I have clarified what I intended to say and particularly affirm and acknowledge victims and survivors who may not have seen themselves in my comments and wanted to make sure I affirm their experiences,” Davidson said.
– which is an “inclusive” extension of what she said, but not a clarification or correction of the original statement.

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has said she apologised to him privately, but National’s Christopher Luxon wants a public apology “to the people that she caused offence to”
So in that respect she must admit a mistake to be apologising to Hipkins, but refuses to correct any of her comments publicly.

But now, apparently no longer suffering the shock from the motorcycle accident, she publicly maintains her original statement – for which she has apologised to the Prime Minister
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March 29, 2023 10:33am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Perhaps the PM is allowing her some ‘poetic licence’ 🙂
  
  “I know who causes violence in the world, it is white cis men. That is white cis men who cause violence in the world.”
  
  Perhaps her ‘world’ is ‘Aotearoa’
  
  Perhaps she meant ‘family violence’ rather than all violence.
  
  Perhaps she meant ‘white colonisers’ who demonstrated to otherwise peaceful Maori men how to be violent.
  
  These days politicians, particularly those on the left, are given considerable latitude in their use of language. The only senior MPs who always speak, in English, with absolute clarity, are David Seymour and Brooke van Velden. That is why I enjoy listening to them. For the same reason, I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins. They speak and write with precision.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:02am
- Gravelroad
  
  @Yvette-
  Ms Davidson just doesn’t care.
  She knows she can say what she likes and there will be no consequences.
  There are more outfits to which she can apply for affirmation, protection and support eg race relations conciliator, Human Rights Commissioner etc etc, than any of the rest of us have a hope in hell of influencing.
  The Green Party now represents single issue activists – and that single issue is not environment/conservation.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:30am
- Nickc2
  
  As I intimated yesterday, Labour can’t govern without support from the Greens. Davidson knows this and is pushing it for all she can.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:38am
I remember when

Coast Council send ‘action man’ packing: Newshub.
Outspoken West Coast Regional Council chair Allan Birchfield has been rolled by his colleagues in a bid to make peace with the government and stem the tide of senior staff heading for the exits.
The Greymouth gold miner – an unabashed critic of bureaucrats, greenies, climate-change activists and “Wellington” rules – was deposed as chair at an extraordinary council meeting.
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March 29, 2023 10:35am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Don’t you wish mayors could be deposed by their councils as well?
  
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  March 29, 2023 4:03pm
I remember when

If trans women have as much support as they had at the Posie Parker protest and again for the Christchurch and Wellington desmonstrations on Sunday, where is the problem?
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March 29, 2023 10:39am
Surely Knott

In response to Paul L’s very thoughtful post on Transgenderism yesterday. It’s so much more than just a bathroom or a prison cell. There are huge impacts for women and for society and medical ethical issues that should be debated.

This video is really interesting. A female intellectual who works in the tech space talking about the Trans movement and how it went from men who cross dressed , and how that changed as medical technical industries developed the technology to start to turn men into women. She talks about the tech that is coming down the line eg. transplanting wombs . She talks about the history, the power players, the changes in language and law, the changing of the word woman in the cambridge dictionary, the ethics, and the funders of the movement.

https://tube.source.news/w/aKyXuRZfLjuaTrFvda6TsR
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March 29, 2023 10:45am
- mogg
  
  Scary stuff, that is excellent, everybody has to watch this.
  Labour are a failed government trying to Wokewash their now obvious incompetence in all areas of government, exploiting division is their only hope.
  Hence their support of Trans men at the expense of real women. Thanks again for the vid.
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:05pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    MO of Dan Andrews in Victoria also. Tosses out snarky (yet illogical and unprincipled) pro-woke statements to his adoring woke idiot fans to keep them onboard. Has a program to woke-wash school children so the next generation is also captive.
    
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    March 29, 2023 2:52pm
- Burtland
  
  the Trans movement
  1. were going to wear your biology as a costume
  2. transfer your reproductive capacity to the tech sector
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:58pm
Rusty

@I remember– If National win in October then they should go back to their traditional core beliefs.

Smaller govt and less interference in the private sector.

Centralization (Marxism in disguise) which Labour are hell bent on, does not work in a liberal democracy and free market.

But I’m being hopeful here that National will do this.
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March 29, 2023 10:57am
Ghost

Hipkins to make an announcement about Nash at lunchtime

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/sacked-stuart-nash-speaks-as-pm-chris-hipkins-prepares-to-speak-to-media/5NMJLPPYIJB6FO6SFSNZP4RN6I/
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March 29, 2023 11:02am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  What he did – leak the details of Cabinet discussions to financial supporters, and to tell them that he did not agree with Cabinet decisions – is unprecedented in New Zealand, at during the time I have been in the country.
  
  He cannot be forced to resign as an MP. However his career as a politician is over.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:06am
- Yabster
  
  the timing is so dodgy- its a play out of Cindys book- bad news – distract with something else.
  
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  March 29, 2023 11:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The lunchtime timing is so Labour can avoid questions/debate in Parliament this afternoon.
    
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    March 29, 2023 11:53am
    - Cinematic
      
      There’s no avoiding the wreckage.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:03pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Looking at all the usual media outlets in NZ it’s hard not to see this as a distraction from the racist comments by Davidson. Every outlet has Nash as their main story and nothing about that abomination from Saturday.
      
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      March 29, 2023 12:44pm
kevn

@Wido… having shown his true colours, a role as an advocate for some clown outfit is assured.
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March 29, 2023 11:16am
Handyman

Nash committed several sackable offences under Ardern.
This goes to her culture of riding roughshod over the law and acting like a dictator. Think of all the court cases overturning unlawful action of Ardern’s government.

Did she know of Nash’s actions?

Would she have sacked Nash? Probably not. He was bringing in donations to the Labour Party and as long as no one knew, it was OK.
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March 29, 2023 11:53am
Ghost

Question time today

HON PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Justice: Does she agree with the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence, who said, “I know what causes violence in this world and it’s white cis men”, and are those comments consistent with the Government’s justice policy?
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March 29, 2023 12:11pm
cmm

How many white men put their lives on the line fighting to free black people from slavery? Hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Both my grandfathers did that.

Now how many Maori did the same?
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March 29, 2023 12:12pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The English, Swedes and US lost a lot fighting the Barbary Slave Trade
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
  Funnily enough it was the Vikings using their ships to travel Europe’s Rivers to raid and seize the White Slavs to sell in North Africa.
  Hence the origin of the word ‘slave’.
  It was permitted because they were Christian and could be sold to Muslims.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:22pm
- kowtow
  
  It would be interesting if the NZ ‘history’ curriculum included the fact that whitey could never have colonised NZ if it hadn’t been for the very active support given to him by huge numbers of Maoris .
  
  And that’d be the same in so many other “colonised” territories , be they the Americas , the sub Continent , Africa or Asia , without local help and support there’d have been little or no colonisation.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:47pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Please list the ‘facts’ that are contained in the curriculum.
    Or, you could admit that you have not read the curriculum and have no idea what a history curriculum actually is.
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:10pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “you could admit that you have not read the curriculum and have no idea what a history curriculum actually is.”
      
      Milky are you psychic now? When did this start?
      
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      March 29, 2023 2:20pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Well, perhaps you could list the ‘facts’ in the history curriculum.
        
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        March 29, 2023 4:01pm
Maggie Pie

I know this might come as a bit of a shock to a few others here….
but I’m actually starting to quite warm to milkey 😀
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March 29, 2023 12:25pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Warm milk and cocoa… just what you need as cold nights draw in.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:49pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No I’m serious. I even left a good-natured response along with a 😀 to a reply he left me yesterday…..but for some reason the mods deleted it.
    
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    March 29, 2023 12:56pm
- Ghost
  
  Please excuse Maggie, she recently travelled the 3rd world nation known as south Auckland, she hasn’t been the same since.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:59pm
Ghost

So reading this article this article it is one of the teenagers that got home detention for rape, sounds like it may be the one who while on home detention went on to get a job in a school

A serial Auckland sex offender who previously pleaded guilty to charges against six victims has been convicted of breaching his home detention conditions.

The man, who was sentenced to home detention and supervision for the attacks last year, appeared in the Auckland District Court today over the breach.

A court registrar confirmed to the Herald the man pleaded guilty and was convicted and discharged by Judge Kate Davenport.

Nz herald
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March 29, 2023 12:44pm
surfing

NZ Herald today…
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait
“I understand free speech, but free speech should not be speech that harms others.”

This is such a terrible sentence, and shows she an intellectual gnat.

The very essence of free speech is that it allows ideas that might hurt people’s ego’s. This woman is the very essence of everything I abhor in the woke.
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March 29, 2023 12:45pm
surfing

Troy Bowker has been under the radar for a bit, but , his name popped up here …

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/stuart-nash-dismissed-cabinet

In addition the two recipients of the email were donors; Troy Bowker and Greg Loveridge, via GRL Holdings Ltd, have both donated to Stuart Nash.

They are also commercial property owners who had an interest in the Cabinet decision
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March 29, 2023 12:49pm
Ghost

Who would have guessed…. Coster needs to go now

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says there may have been other conversations where former minister Stuart Nash called him to discuss police operations.

Stuff
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March 29, 2023 12:51pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Coster should have records of each time an MP personally contacted him.
  
  If he can’t remember, he’s an incompetent fool.
  
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  March 29, 2023 12:55pm
  - Ghost
    
    It’s strange that he has just remembered there may be more, guess he got the word to put more pressure on Nash to quit
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:22pm
    - kowtow
      
      Which in itself raises even more constitutional questions .
      
      btw “there may have been more”
      Sounds more like a naughty child confronted about nicking cookies from a jar , rather than a commissioner of police making a statement around ministerial interference with our constitutional arrangements.
      
      Just another reason to call this Muppet Show a regime , rather than a liberal democracy .
      
      Africa , here we come.
      
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      March 29, 2023 1:31pm
    - Prince
      
      Exactly. Last week he supported Nash.
      Now, he knows there are emails and texts out there, so he gets his excuses in early.
      Police HQ are more interested in protecting their own backsides than truly supporting the front line.
      
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      March 29, 2023 2:22pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I reckon most senior public servants would have little else to do if they recorded details of every stupid thing politicians said to them.
    
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    March 29, 2023 1:45pm
graham

Posie Parker rally: Police investigating ‘number of calls’ about alleged offending at Auckland protests

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-rally-police-investigating-number-of-calls-about-alleged-offending-at-auckland-protests/Q4TSI6MZ6BDFFPNA5GUS2M67XA/

Auckland Pride tweeted: “There is a narrative quickly taking hold amongst anti-trans groups and individuals that Parker abandoned her event because of violence from our community.

“We reject this narrative. We are of the firm belief that the demonstration of unity, celebration, and acceptance alongside joyous music, chanting, and noise of 5000 supporters was too loud to overcome and the reason for her departure – and not the actions of any one individual.”

I guess Auckland Pride missed the pictures of Eli Rubashkyn pouring a litre of tomato juice on Ms Parker … among many other pictures and videos that they apparently “missed”.
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March 29, 2023 12:54pm
- kowtow
  
  Given how quickly the “corporate” world is to drop anyone or anything marginally “controversial” these days , here’s hoping a boycott of all things “Pride” is coming soon seeing how intolerant , anti democratic they are and their espousal of lies , deceit and violence would not be in the interests of the big Corps to be seen as aligned with or to ……..
  
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  March 29, 2023 1:17pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I see stuff is waxing lyrical over Eli Rubashkyn’s thuggery and running with the “anti-trans” big fat lie regarding Posie Parker.
  
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  March 29, 2023 2:27pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Labour’s cosy little mate-ships are unravelling:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131634128/police-commissioner-signals-there-may-have-been-other-stuart-nash-calls
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March 29, 2023 1:01pm
kowtow

Hello , hello , third world power generation status on the horizon.

Would this happen if we hadn’t compromised our coal generation .

‘Transpower said locals should put off using washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, delay charging electronic devices – including cars – and turn off heaters and lights in rooms they were not using.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/cuts-avoided-after-south-asked-conserve-power
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March 29, 2023 1:12pm
G the giant from Dunedin

He might be cis, but he probably wairs a pinne while doing the cooking like Helen Clarks wee ferret
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March 29, 2023 1:32pm
Maggy Wassilieff

It looks like the Ministerial inquiry into Forestry and Land-use in Tairawhiti (Gisborne District) is falling apart.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/local-news/20230329/nash-sacking-another-blow-for-inquiry/
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March 29, 2023 1:40pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131635104/wadebrown-puts-her-hand-up-again-for-wairarapa-seat
It had to happen: another snout looking for another trough for a couple more years
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March 29, 2023 1:44pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’d forgotten about her
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

No tribal takeover? Stop Co-Governance says yes.
So does Dr Muriel Newman.
https://www.nzcpr.com/newsletter/

Dear NZCPR Reader,
This week…
In this NZCPR newsletter, we reveal that the tribal takeover – orchestrated by the Labour Government without any mandate from the public – that is now underway is not only targeting the state sector but the private sector as well, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Anthony Willy outlines how, against their will, lawyers are now being pressured to include the Treaty in their regulatory framework, and our poll asks whether you believe the Marine and Coastal Area Act should be repealed.
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March 29, 2023 1:46pm
emmess

Kellie-Jay Keen on GB News
https://youtu.be/Qq7UnFsFmR8
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March 29, 2023 1:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some fun. 4 crazies!!
https://libertyonenews.com/the-view-fumes-after-taking-the-bait-from-trump-again/

Yep, the one at large has a sense of humour.
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March 29, 2023 2:03pm
- mawm
  
  I just cannot watch them even for a second. Repulsive, the lot of them.
  
  The good news is Elon has decided to sue them. If I remember correctly it’s for 80 million.
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:00pm
Ghost

PM Chris Hipkins said he had asked the Cabinet press secretary to conduct a review of correspondence between Stuart Nash and his donors.

He said the review would take about two months and it would look at communications from Nash to all donors declared in his election returns.

“Stuart has advised me he will fully cooperate with that review.”

He said he had been advised the email in question had been included in consultation over an OIA request in 2020 but was deemed to be out of scope.

He said the email was considered in the wider material around the request, but was not included in what was released. It had not been flagged with then PM Jacinda Ardern.

“I have made it very clear to my office that I expect to be advised of any such matters should they arrive.

“I have made it very clear I expect to be alerted of any such communications in the future.”

Asked if the email was covered up, he said neither the PM nor her chief of staff was made aware of it in 2020.

Hipkins would not comment on what Nash had decided for his own future, saying that was for Nash to announce himself.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/sacked-stuart-nash-speaks-as-pm-chris-hipkins-prepares-to-speak-to-media/5NMJLPPYIJB6FO6SFSNZP4RN6I/
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March 29, 2023 2:03pm
- Prince
  
  Begs the question, who covered it up in 2020 ?
  Apparently not Ardern, nor her Chief of staff (if Hipkins can be believed).
  Who in her office removed it, and why ? Are they still employed there ? What sort of office allows emails to be removed without the PM or the CoS knowing ?
  
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  March 29, 2023 2:15pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He said the review would take about two months
  How convenient…
  
  The review into Forestry in Tairawhiti will have wound up by then
  
  The inquiry will investigate past and current land-use practices and the impact of woody debris and sediment on communities, livestock, buildings and the environment.
  
  It will also look at associated economic drivers and constraints, and would make recommendations by the end of April.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/prime-minister-hipkins-forestry-slash-inquiry-too-brief-to-consider-issues-industry/THIMFMKQDFF5JEXZAN2VWYKWWI/
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:17pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This lot will get a real fucking fright when they look inside my head!
https://libertyonenews.com/us-chinese-ai-technology-can-read-minds-make-drawings-from-dreams/
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March 29, 2023 2:07pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Now if they could only just pack a brain scanner into your phone! I’m sure the two phone operating system monopolies are working on it!
  
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  March 29, 2023 2:40pm
Swifty

Heh
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March 29, 2023 2:32pm
Ghost

The protester who doused Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, with tomato juice says police are seeking a warrant for her arrest.

Eli Rubashkyn said she has been told by police a warrant for her arrest will likely be filed in the District Court by 3pm.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-tomato-juicer-eli-rubashkyn-says-arrest-warrant-likely-to-be-filed/T7LTM7JSFVHVDKOLE37BTVDVBY/
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March 29, 2023 2:57pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Good. What about Trinity Ice who I doubt feels unsafe in mens bathrooms?
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:01pm
  - Ghost
    
    I had to Google about trinity ice to see who they were, looks to me like he was pushed
    
    https://nzissues.com/Community/threads/heres-a-drag-queen-you-wouldnt-want-reading-stories-to-your-children.41206/
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:11pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Check out what Trinity Ice is doing with her elbow in that video clip.
      
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      March 29, 2023 3:23pm
      - Ghost
        
        Is it a reaction to being pushed.
        
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        March 29, 2023 3:27pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  I think she’s buggered off to Aus (The Socialist Republic of Dan I think).
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:04pm
- nathie
  
  So will Stuff and the rest of the MSM start using headlines and story intros using the term fled or flees as in “Protester who assaulted Posie Parker flees to Australia to avoid arrest”?
  
  Just noting that MSM headlines and story intros Saturday night/Sunday were constantly along the lines of “Posie Parker flees back to the UK” etc.
  
  Implying she was a coward (and for simply escaping violence from mainly men – shame on the MSM)!
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:07pm
  - nathie
    
    Whoops should have been “rather than simply escaping violence” (not “and for”)!
    
    When will Stuff and the MSM put aside the “controversial Posie Parker” narrative and instead call out the (trans activist) violence against women speakers?
    
    Are Stuff and the MSM guilt-ridden misogynists?
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:17pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  The person will get a slap on their limp wrist. After all, criminals these days get to sit in a circle round a councillor and blame their dud mother for them shooting the local dairy owner.
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:08pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  So our police (keystone cops) are so bloody slow, and even advise that a warrant for arrest will be filed, that it gives the person a chance to escape overseas!!!! FFS!
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:17pm
In Vino Veritas

Dunno how many of you will see this, but go find Cruz v Mayorkas on southern border crisis. Phew, about as testy as it gets. Cruz: “The men and women of the Border Patrol………….they despise you,”
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March 29, 2023 3:05pm
Maggie Pie

Went over to Newmarket earlier for a little ‘retail therapy’ 😀

Asked my partner’s mum to keep an eye on ‘QT’ to see if anyone raised the matter of a TIMELINE between the recording of Marama Davidson’s revolting racist-rant and her motorbike accident.

Ma just txt to say ‘not a dicky bird – was all about nashie’

Hmmm…
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March 29, 2023 3:15pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Many obvious beggars/homeless/blatantly mentally unwell people there?
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:36pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I’ve never seen any there. Then again I never look.
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:56pm
- MCōs
  
  Today we went to St Spuke’s because I knew they have a book shop.
  Prior to that we went into the depths of Mt Eden to find my wife’s niece’s apartment. Next week they’re going to get together to make Thai sausages, talk about ghosts, the price of som tum back home and who to vote for in the coming Thai elections. There’s about twenty or more parties to chose from with few lasting more than five to ten years or so.
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:47pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Don’t they have any book shops in Mangere, Cossie?
    
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    March 29, 2023 3:59pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Good sledge Mike/Maggie!
      
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      March 29, 2023 4:16pm
    - MCōs
      
      Not even at the airport.
      
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      March 29, 2023 4:20pm
    - rockape
      
      If they did it would probably be ram raided by now.
      
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      March 29, 2023 6:04pm
      - Swifty
        
        I had to laugh back during the BLM riots in the US – saw multiple different pieces of footage in one particular area, of building, street and business damage but with one shop completely untouched. No smashed glass, no fires, no graffiti, nothing, completely fine.
        
        A bookshop.
        
        I thought to myself, there’s a lesson there.
        
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        March 29, 2023 8:53pm
Swifty

Stuff does their best to twist what Davidson said and cover her arse:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/131632938/fact-checking-marama-davidsons-white-cis-men-claims-and-followup-statement

Davidson originally said ‘violence in the world’ but Stuff in their analysis focuses only on the words in Davisson’s ‘clarification’ and then limits it to domestic violence and only in NZ.

They also give Maori a free pass by excusing their violence because of ‘colonisation’.

Stuff are just paid bullshitters. They don’t even try anymore.
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March 29, 2023 3:32pm
- Prince
  
  The Fact Check that is anything but.
  ‘White CIS men cause violence in the world.’
  So Stuff drop out the ‘white’ part and, yes, men do cause most violence in he world.
  Then…”It’s important to note there is a complex intersection of historical and contemporary factors at play here, including the ongoing impact of colonisation.”
  …and “Western approaches to responding to violence have not been effective for Māori.”
  
  So Davidson gets a pass from Stuff, and Maori women will continue to be beaten and abused by their husbands, because, you know, colonialism, and skewed reporting.
  
  Well done Stuff – another opportunity to highlight and address the elephant in the room goes by.
  
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  March 29, 2023 4:18pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    Wonder why us poms don’t get a free pass? Britain got colonized a few times!
    
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    March 29, 2023 4:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tennessee.
Yep, they need to be taken down before they can even enter the school.
America does not have a gun problem. America has a mental health problem that is disguise as a gun problem.
https://steadfastdaily.com/watch-courageous-cops-run-toward-gunfire-in-tennessee-school-shooting/?seyid=57044
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March 29, 2023 3:33pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  So why is mental health so much worse in the USA than in normal social democracies?
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:55pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Good question- although you assume its worse, not so sure about that. Look at the nutters in Extinction Rebellion and what they are prepared to do.
    Research is coming through that excessive use of Social Media is creating mental health issues and that girls are being more badly affected than boys.
    I read quite a bit about this recently.
    Ill try and find it.
    It was disturbing that (iirc) 42% of teenage girls reportedly had problems. They do tend to be on soc med more than the boys.
    
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    March 29, 2023 4:03pm
    - mawm
      
      Liberalism is a mental disease.
      
      A Pew study showed that 56% of white women between 18 and 29 who identified as liberal were medically diagnosed as having a mental disorder. The numbers for moderates – 28% and conservatives 27%.
      
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      March 29, 2023 5:14pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        That used to be a favorite claim from commenter Lee01, who also claimed to have seen an amputee’s arm regrow after a faith healing session.
        But, banter aside, would you care to define what you mean by ‘liberalism’?
        
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        March 29, 2023 5:45pm
      - Swifty
        
        KevOB could attest to a few miracles when it suited him to.
        
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        March 29, 2023 7:08pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      AoR – it was Steve who claims gun violence in the US is a mental health problem, so the logical follow on from that is that mental illness there must be more prevalent than broadly comparable countries that do not experience regular mass shootings of children.
      Couldn’t be anything to do with gun laws and a sclerotic political system, could it?
      
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      March 29, 2023 5:42pm
      - Swifty
        
        Up until the ‘60s, gun violence in the US was a mere fraction of what it is today and the country was awash with guns even then.
        
        What has changed?
        
        That is the real question.
        
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        March 29, 2023 9:17pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Since the 1970s successive supreme court majorities have prioritized the power of money in politics. Spending money to buy political influence was wrongly equated with free speech. Causes with widespread popular support, such as gun control, civil rights and access to abortion have been denied legislative support as a result anti-democratic means: control of the courts and using the inherently gerrymandered senate to block changes that do not benefit the wealthy.
        
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        March 30, 2023 7:21am
- All_on_Red
  
  The only way to stop bad guys with guns is with good guys with guns- unfortunately.
  
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  March 29, 2023 3:57pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    That trite slogan assumes that a country is completely powerless to prevent bad guys from getting guns.
    
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    March 29, 2023 5:47pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Its true though.
      How do you propose taking the guns off the bad guys?
      
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      March 30, 2023 8:10am
Libertarians are right

Honest question:

Doesn’t Marama Davidson’s (revised) statement that Cis Men are responsible for violence actually underline the importance of women’s safe spaces and show that regardless of a biological male’s intentions, it’s entirely reasonable for women to feel unsafe in their presence, especially while vulnerable?

How that biological male identifies is entirely irrelevant to how the woman feels about them being a threat.
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March 29, 2023 3:34pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Yes quite correct. There are other scenarios where just accepting any man as self identifying as a woman is problematic.
  
  A prison guard or police officer. A trans woman officer could be assigned to perform intimate body searches on women.
  
  How about nurses and health workers? Let’s say your elderly disabled mum needs help bathing. A female nurse comes daily to help out. Suddenly a trans woman nurse shows up. Complete with male genitals. Are you happy for this person to look after your mum? If you object you will be shouted down as transphobic.
  
  These are real scenarios.
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:05pm
Maggie Pie

And here’s another thing that’s gone very quiet….

Where are we at with the deportation of that violent Czech drug-smuggler back to his home country?

He was due to be gone by the end of March!

Well that’s only 48 hours away if INZ haven’t noticed.
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March 29, 2023 3:53pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He was given 3 months from the date of the IPT decision (8 Dec 2022) before he was to be deported.
  
  https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/IPTV2/Deportation/rem_20221208_600569.pdf
  (para 272)
  
  9 March 2023 has come and gone.
  
  Looks like the Government has either forgotten him… or he’s successfully managing a 3rd appeal.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483871/karel-sroubek-files-for-judicial-review-after-losing-appeal-against-deportation
  
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  March 29, 2023 4:17pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    GOOD GOD! What is it with this country Maggzie??
    
    My partner just said they might be waiting for Cindy & Co to move safely away to the UN?
    
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    March 29, 2023 4:49pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      GOOD GOD! What is it with this country Maggzie??
      
      Dunknow..
      but $ometime$ I wonda if I $huld’ve been a $oli$ita.
      
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      March 29, 2023 5:37pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear…

where did some of the Government $$$$ go to prevent family violence?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300842369/former-head-of-family-violence-prevention-charity-found-guilty-of-stealing-44k
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March 29, 2023 4:52pm
- Swifty
  
  I’ve been looking at her Twitter this afternoon.
  
  Tens and tens of retweets of all sorts of noble, virtuous statements and posts from others – and all the while ripping off not just her own charity but helping herself to the very taxpayer money given to her, in trust, to help the victims/survivors of DV.
  
  Oh, and I wonder if she will lose her gong for this?
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:38pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  It wasn’t just the former head, it was her 2IC as well, who stole 5 times that amount!
  
  ““She abused her position by taking advantage of lax financial controls to steal $44,000 for herself and turned a blind eye to the actions of Ms Uitime, who stole around $216,000.
  
  “This was prolonged offending over the course of years, and ultimately contributed to the closure of an organisation which had been recognised as providing a valuable and important service,” Chang said.
  
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  March 30, 2023 3:05pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Far from over.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/anti-trans-activist-posie-parker-announces-political-party-calls-protesters-terrorists/ar-AA19c2oZ

The germs are terrorists, the drone footage shows it.
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March 29, 2023 5:06pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Setting up a political party is a good move for grifters.
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:38pm
- rockape
  
  Bet she is a labour supporter !
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:59pm
mawm

https://westernrifleshooters.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/403fd8ab9664c57d.jpg
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March 29, 2023 5:26pm
- Swifty
  
  What’s your point there Ghost, you’ve genuinely lost me.
  
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  March 29, 2023 5:40pm
  - Swifty
    
    Why do you think that is?
    
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    March 29, 2023 6:00pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I assume plenty of people are jumping to conclusions on social media. Have you seen any of the inevitable ‘crisis actor’ claims yet? Or are folks still at the ‘just asking questions’ stage?
    
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    March 29, 2023 6:01pm
Swifty

Can anyone explain to me why in my 50 years I’ve never seen published calls for taxpayer-funded dedicated Chinese housing be built in NZ and various Chinese-dedicated social services? Nor Indian. Nor Japanese, nor Welsh, nor Filipino, nor Korean, nor anything specific for Yorkshiremen.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/131623006/thousands-of-new-homes-needed-to-improve-health-of-pasifika-children–report

I note too this report asks that the Labour Party uses the power of the state to compel NZ business owners to raise the minimum wage paid for employment to new ‘living wage’ levels and totally irrespective of the damage that would cause to businesses and the wider economy.

If it was up to me if would be unlawful for politicians to have this power. They just constantly abuse it for their own political purposes. The fact that they do have this power is just insane. It has been a huge mistake.
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March 29, 2023 5:31pm
Maggie Pie

And I meant to mention something else that really pisses me off…..
the bloody Teachers going on strike all the time!

It’s the second time this year I’ve been to the Westfield Mall during the week to find it full of feral teenagers from south auckland hoods!!
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March 29, 2023 5:40pm
- Hollyfield
  
  Auckland Transport has the traffic lights on super short phasing at the lights near my office, allowing only 1 car to go through at a time which can result in a lengthy wait when the queue is 20+ cars long. So I had lots of time to observe striking teachers at the intersection this morning.
  Scruffily dressed, a couple of older women and one older man waving signs very unenthusiastically, and a young man standing there doing nothing except occasionally shuffling his feet. Presumably those that bothered to turn up were the most dedicated of the lot. Not an inspiring bunch at all.
  
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  March 29, 2023 6:03pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes, saw a couple of them being interviewed on the Ewes tonite.
    One had a nose-ring…. and the girl looked to be dressed out of a recycled bin.
    Both gay by the sound of them too.
    
    You really have to despair for the future of kids stuck in the pubic system 🙁
    
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    March 29, 2023 7:00pm
Swifty

Nash has been shafted by members of his own Labour Party team:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131634171/jacinda-arderns-office-knew-of-stuart-nashs-2020-email-hipkins-orders-review

They’ve sat on the email and produced it now to get rid of him.

Wow. They’re all real team players aren’t they?
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March 29, 2023 5:58pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and if we are to believe PM Hipkins that Jacinda Ardern knew nothing of this matter, then it just confirms how useless and incompetent she was.
  
  and it further poses the question as to who really holds the reins in the PM’s Office.
  
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  March 29, 2023 6:42pm
CAKE FACE1

I have a feeling that huge news is going to drop at some point regarding the lack of police efforts to protect Posie Parker…
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March 29, 2023 6:14pm
Swifty

I look at Twitter from time to time and see lefty politicians, national and local, constantly slagging, abusing, labelling and questioning the provenance of righty politicians but I never see that on the front page of Stuff.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/131637368/politicians-back-councillor-after-wayne-brown-says-shes-pushing-the-boundaries

Why is that?
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March 29, 2023 7:19pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Because staff at Stuff are somewhat to the left of Marx.
  
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  March 29, 2023 8:05pm
fernglas

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/posie-parker-tomato-juicer-eli-rubashkyn-says-arrest-warrant-likely-to-be-filed/T7LTM7JSFVHVDKOLE37BTVDVBY/
The problem with this is that Police do not go to the District Court to get warrants for arrest. The Court only issues warrants for arrest for, for example, breaches of bail, failure to appear etc. where the warrant has been issued by a Judge or Registrar. So either Eli has created a false document or they have other charges presently before the court. And now they have fled to Australia, ostensibly because of death threats, but no doubt equally in an attempt to evade justice. It speaks volumes for the depth of conviction and strength of belief. Will they now seek refugee status in Australia?
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March 29, 2023 7:23pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s all a plot by National……
  
  “I will go to prison, National want to make an example, to them free speech is more important than human rights.”
  
  Eli seems to be unaware that National is not in Government.
  
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  March 29, 2023 7:34pm
  - Ghost
    
    She seems to me to be unstable, making shiT up. Doesn’t sound like the police emailed her, did she even get death threats
    
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    March 29, 2023 7:41pm
  - Swifty
    
    Free speech is a human right.
    
    A big fundamental one – without which we are nothing.
    
    Doofus. What an ignorant thing for that person to say.
    
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    March 29, 2023 8:08pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Australia is welcome to all of them
  
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  March 29, 2023 9:21pm
nathie

From the article:

However, police have denied this, saying no warrant is out for her arrest.

OTOH why haven’t the Police issued an arrest warrant? Despite the overwhelming evidence (eg video footage, the perpetrator admitting it on camera etc)?

Do they need someone to make a complaint first (if so must it be the victim Posie Parker or can anyone lay a complaint)?
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March 29, 2023 8:33pm
Swifty

No, no, Nashie, it’s not Luxon who has stabbed you in the back – it’s been the members of your own Labour team.

Your own Labour whanau have done it! And it looks like they’ve done it repeatedly. One deep thrust at a time.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/sacked-minister-stuart-nash-breaks-silence-after-dismissal-says-he-will-continue-to-be-napiers-mp/FJDZAWDQHZA6DEADOJNDID3HBQ/

And even while you’re lying bleeding on the floor you say you’re Labour to the core?

Sheesh. You need to get some better friends.
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March 29, 2023 9:31pm
- Ghost
  
  Someone lacks self responsibility for their actions
  
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