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Warren

Is this just another trip to reward MP’s loyal to the Labour led Government before they are tossed out of power at the September 2023 General Election.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/488031/first-mission-to-the-pacific-since-covid-19-to-be-led-by-deputy-prime-minister-carmel-sepuloni
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April 16, 2023 8:05am
- Matt Long
  
  Looks like Carmel’s on witless protection too. That leaves Grant and Hipkins and the Woodses still facing the public.
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:58am
  - nathie
    
    Actually looks like Grant Robertson is also in Labour’s Witless protection scheme – has anyone heard from or seen him in the last week or so?
    
    I haven’t heard anything out of Robertson since the RBNZ lifted interest rates 50 basis points a couple of weeks ago (instead of the 25 that the pundits were predicting), which astonishingly saw the MSM wake up and they started doing stories on how this will negatively impact NZers.
    
    Recall Robertson’s gibberish response at the time was to play it down by claiming “the banks have already factored in such increases and won’t raise their home loan rates” …. trouble is a few days later ANZ did and another bank did so last week.
    
    Now with the IMF(?) stating NZ’s inflation rate will stay higher and longer compared to most other countries – Robbo seems to have disappeared!
    
    Maybe I have missed something but I seem to think he has avoided being questioned on all these “disastrous” bad news stories … which all point back to his (lack of) economic “management” by continuing to spend $billions fueling the Labour Party inflation bonfire that is incinerating NZers?
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:31am
    - Bill Felt
      
      There was a photo recently of Robertson in Washington visiting Yellen (amongst a few other Finance Ministers)
      
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      April 16, 2023 1:42pm
      - nathie
        
        Ahh that’s right … cut and run then!
        
        Followed by lots of photo ops – look how important I am???!!!
        
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        April 16, 2023 5:07pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Get all of your free shit in now. You have six months.
  Even BMW Jimmy is in on the act.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:08am
- pdm
  
  Jimmy Shaw still racking up the air miles while he can.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:39am
  - Thought Criminal
    
    “Green”
    
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    April 16, 2023 2:34pm
- rouppe
  
  Well, to be fair, Carmel is Associate Minister Foreign Affairs (Pacific Region)
  
  Whether she’ll be any good at warning those pacific nations of the danger China poses to their livelihoods and autonomy is another thing
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:48am
  - Ra Henare
    
    From an outside perspective. I think China is in a better position to improve Pacific Nations standard of living compared to morally and financially bankrupt NZ Government.
    
    But hey, dont let a good dose of Chinese biased xenophobia get in the way of a good story
    
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    April 16, 2023 1:28pm
    - rouppe
      
      Maybe ask those countries whose fishing grounds have collapsed after China came through and scooped up everything, including all the bait fish the local fishermen used
      
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      April 16, 2023 2:16pm
kiwikidsnz

This has probably been posted before however I just saw it, doesn’t seem to have been widely reported in NZ.

I haven’t any opinion on Elon Musk one way or another however this is a masterclass in owning the interview.
https://youtu.be/XqJKAnN0-gM
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April 16, 2023 8:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yes I have seen it. Total control.
  About 2.20 in Elon puts his foot on the throat and won’t let up.
  All he wanted was an example.
  See that’s why the BBC guy is where he is and Musk is where he is.
  Just clever!
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:13am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Floundering BBC interviewer, attempting to stop the inconvenient questions Musk is asking: “This interview isn’t about the BBC!”
    
    Musk: “Oh, you really thought it wasn’t?”
    
    Gold!
    
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    April 16, 2023 4:55pm
- Jim
  
  Yep lol, this one interview should totally discredit the BBC in anyone’s eyes, even those still believing the British Brainwashing Corporation is a reputable balanced media organisation (especially after being proven to promote UK Gov covid fear tyranny).
  
  Musk has nothing to hide, and always likes to free steam his interviews, yet the BBC tried to edit the sh1t out of over an hour of ‘material’ to get 8 only minutes! In which the BBC editors clearly want to misrepresent Musk as an evil Twitter spoiling, hurty word promoting, unfeeling billionaire tyrant.
  
  Yep Musk certainly breaks the globalist mould as he consistently promotes free speech, free enterprise, peace talks in Ukraine, crypto freedom, dangers of AI and genetic modification, opposes covid vaccine mandates and healthy children being covid vaccinated.
  
  Imho, in respect of contribution and consideration for humanity, Musk is the perfect antithesis of Gates.
  
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  April 16, 2023 2:26pm
Matt Long

Extraordinary stamina by high school coach if headline is correct.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-high-school-track-coach-allegedly-sex-student-year-cops
Why is it always women reported in sexual abuse cases with students these days?
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April 16, 2023 8:07am
- Nickc2
  
  Because they got caught.
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:12am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Student is 17. Having sex for ‘over’ a year. Maybe that is where this is centered. Age of consent there is 16.
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:15am
  - Matt Long
    
    The question is more why it is female teachers now, it was always male teachers 10 or 20 years ago.
    The age of consent varies from 16 – 18 in America.
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:24am
    - Mike
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      I assume you have researched the relevant statistics. Could you link to them as a preface to an informed discussion?
      
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      April 16, 2023 8:29am
      - Matt Long
        
        Sorry Mike, only my casual observation.
        I lack your deep informed empirical approach.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:02am
      - Mike
        
        That’s cool. My instinct is that your observation is completely wrong, but I’m not interested enough to research it either.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:06am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mike – instead of always asking others to provide information for you, how about you get off your lazy arse and do your own?
        I’m sure you’re capable of researching and finding the required data to refute what Matt Long has posted as an opinion. Off you go. Take as long as you like.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:27am
      - Mike
        
        Clan McLeod seems to be a fan of the reverse burden of proof.
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:20am
      - Che Guava
        
        Clan McLeod
        No, I 100% agree with Mike – if someone is going to make a statistical claim, then that someone should provide the relevant statistics, if the claim is amenable to such data. Otherwise, people can just post “Proposition X. Google it.”
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:27am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Mike the Oracle: “My instinct is that your observation is completely wrong, but I’m not interested enough to research it either.”
        
        A quick search reveals your instincts on this are completely wrong.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:33am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        What possible interest could you have in an informed discussion? All you do is snipe and demand links, presumably because you’re too lazy to do the research, and too stupid to understand it if you did.
        
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        April 16, 2023 6:10pm
      - Mike
        
        I’m open to be persuaded that fenale teachers are more likely to be sexual predators than their male counterparts. It’s not my fault that you reject notions about evidence.
        
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        April 16, 2023 6:22pm
      - Ghost
        
        It’s a fair question, because the figures I’ve seen ages ago show more male teachers are sexually abusing students than woman. So to ask for the relevant stats is fair, unless it’s Mike asking of course, then people pile on him.
        
        Here is an article from last year
        
        Men also made up the vast majority, with over 80% of the arrests.
        
        https://www.foxnews.com/politics/at-least-269-k-12-educators-arrested-child-sex-crimes-first-9-months-year
        
        Another article
        
        https://floridaactioncommittee.org/likely-sexually-abuse-child-sex-offender-teacher/
        
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        April 16, 2023 6:35pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Yes you are correct.
      The worm has changed
      
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      April 16, 2023 8:32am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        Girls can do anything…
        
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        April 16, 2023 8:53am
      - Mike
        
        Worms ‘turn’. Perhaps you were thinking of caterpillars.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:07am
      - The worm that turned
        
        Well this Worm Has Turned..
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:51am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        The worm has changed.
        I got one bite.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:59am
    - peterwn
      
      It seems the victims of male teachers generally did not consent. For female teachers (those involved seem to be in the early 20’s) and male students (often over 18) there is little age difference and the student consented (but may have regretted it later). So no crime is committed, but the Teachers Council will regard it as unacceptable conduct on part of the teacher and the teacher will be struck off. These cases are generally publicised. In UK such conduct was made a crime in recent times where the adult is considered to be in a situation of power and authority such as being a school teacher, youth leader etc. NZ should consider similar legislation.
      
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      April 16, 2023 9:15am
      - Che Guava
        
        Yes, it’s still an abuse of power and the teacher should know better and not behave this way. But I think if the teacher is a female 26 yo, and the student is male 17 yo, it is qualitatively different to if the sexes were reversed.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:31am
    - rouppe
      
      It was male teachers 10-20 years ago because most of those did involve coercion and manipulation, and the female usually ended up in a pretty bad place.
      
      It wasn’t female teachers 10-20 years ago not because it didn’t happen, but because it was perceived as “scoring”. I struggle to think of a situation where the male student would be left broken.
      
      It is female teachers now, not because male students are being harmed, but because the culture wars have meant that anyone deemed to be in a position of authority is automatically an offender.
      
      But that’s just my take on it, I have no research to back it up. Good thing we’re on the GD thread!
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:00am
      - Che Guava
        
        Is it mostly because teachers are now so overwhelmingly female, and perhaps also because women behave in ways they wouldn’t have done previously, due to a more licentious “male-like” attitude towards females having casual sex? Pure speculation though.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:35am
    - Opie
      
      Mostly because there are hardly any male teachers anymore?
      
      The ones that do remain are so dry they wouldn’t dream of stepping out of line yet the woman teachers are in full power mode after coming through the current ideological systems and think they can get away with it.
      
      Let’s be fair, if I was a 17 school boy and my 25 year old blonde teacher was texting me late at night and inviting me round, it wouldn’t be something I would report as a crime, it would more likely be defined a miracle
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:24am
    - Paulus
      
      Age of consent in the USA only depends on how much money is being sort, so states ages of consent can change where applicable.
      And any judge will change the laws where required.
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:27am
    - GT Build
      
      Maybe it’s because there are no longer any real men teaching. Christ I can remember that far back if some of the women teachers wanted me sexually I would not of been running around complaining
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:44am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “People ages 16 and older can legally consent to sexual activity with anyone they choose, as long as the other person does not have authority over them as defined in Pennsylvania’s institutional sexual assault statute.”
    
    Being a teacher could make the difference.
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:29am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The key words were “over a year” which makes it illegal.
      How the hell did they get caught anyway? Or was it a lover’s tif?
      
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      April 16, 2023 8:33am
      - Mike
        
        I’m sure you are not seeking advice on how to get away with sexual abuse. If you were, Kiwiblog is not that sort of advice forum – perhaps asking at a church, youth prison or boarding school would be more fruitful.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:10am
      - rouppe
        
        @Mike, based on your experience, which should one approach first?
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:03am
      - Paulus
        
        Probably jealousy from somebody else not getting it !
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:28am
      - peterwn
        
        The young male student possibly finds it exciting to start with then realises something is wrong especially if sports team selection, prefectships, test scores or internally assessed NCEA’s are at risk.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:47pm
  - Che Guava
    
    Shocking! Next thing you know, they’ll probably be normalising men in drag up on stage sexualising even younger children.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:23am
    - Mike
      
      Why haven’t Christmas pantomimes been banned yet?
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:35am
      - Che Guava
        
        If you are insinuating that Christmas pantomimes are equivalent to drag shows, then you’ve answered your own question. They may want to ban Christianity as an impediment to their godless degenerate utopia, but they don’t mind the gay aspects. They’d probably ban the Catholic church tomorrow if the wayward priests were straight instead of gay.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:45am
      - Jim
        
        For 20 years or so now all across the UK, many councils have rebranded the Christian celebrations of Christmas to things like ‘Winter Lights’ in order to minimise ideological tensions (which typically means one ideological following is most vocal about being offended).
        
        Sadly in the interests of inclusion, some things are never really equal, as things have moved on a foot in London 2023.
        https://www.timeout.com/london/news/london-is-lighting-up-for-ramadan-for-the-first-time-ever-032223
        
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        April 16, 2023 2:58pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  Key word in your question is “reported”. Commercially-driven media decide what to report based on whether they think it is going to interest their readership.
  
  Nothing else.
  
  So the fact that you see reports about (a) and you don’t see reports about (b) tells you absolutely nothing about the extent to which either (a) or (b) is actually going on.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:11am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  What’s unusual is that the teacher is straight. Not at all common among female PE teachers.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:28am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Did anoyone ask the student if he enjoyed it. I mean shes not that bad looking and when I was 17 I wouldnt have said no to her.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:41am
artemisia

Some media news about ‘secret’ vehicle re-registrations by folk who don’t actually own them. ‘Just an honest mistake.’

Thought might be useful and a heads up to mention a family experience. Young family member sold his car via FB. Within an hour an angry service station staffer accused him of a driveoff. Fortunately he had changed the ownership online as soon as the deal was done, and that was the end of that. Smart kid.

I won’t mention ethnicity.
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April 16, 2023 8:09am
- rouppe
  
  Guy picked up my old motorbike the other week. I insisted on the ownership change right then
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:05am
Chuck Bird

I wonder what if any reply I will get from my formal complaint to the Herald.

I am to some extent wasting my time writing to a bought and paid-for corrupt media.
We have a criminal shown on video committing his crime getting what is probably a paid position writing for the Herald which contributed to the violence against women. The MSM and some evil left-wing politicians have caused this violence against women that could have ended in fatalities.

The Herald will not allow letters that go against this atrocity where the corrupt police did not protect the woman even when asked. I am not referring to the front-line police but the senior police who gave the orders.

The Herald calls Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull an anti-trans campaigner when in fact she is a women’s rights. She argues that women should not have to compete against biological men in sports. She campaigns for woman-only spaces for women such as toilets and changing rooms.

What is the Herald’s position on the women’s demands?
Will the Herald allow me or some woman to have an article of equal length as Shaneel Lal’s?

Kind regards
Chuck Bird

Shaneel Lal: An open letter to the Immigration Minister

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shaneel-lal-an-open-letter-to-the-immigration-minister/DDBAQOIG2JGS7NA2IRN6BUHOTA/
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April 16, 2023 8:13am
- RightNow
  
  Not following any links to the Herald.
  Just let them die.
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:15am
  - Mike
    
    I’m continually surprised by how many Kiwiblog comments link to stories from the Herald, Stuff, Newsroom, Radio NZ, etc.
    I can only assume that many commenters are avid consumers of these media because they are looking for something to offend them.
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:13am
    - RightNow
      
      I like to scan the news regularly to be aware of the main topics. Any of nz’s mainstream news sites will carry the salient stories, so at the moment newshub is my goto. Don’t need to visit stuff or herald etc.
      But I actively resist giving the herald any clicks because of Lal
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:11am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      No Mike, readers of Kiwiblog are looking to see what misrepresentations, shadings, narrative expanding or otherwise dubious reportages may, or may not, be found in our traditional main platforms for general dissemination of news and opinion.
      
      Its called staying in touch so you can understand what low information people are being feed by our bought and paid for media…
      
      You know this. However you choose to indulge in a little troll.
      
      I wish you would revert to actually contributing instead of constant trolling…
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:29am
      - Mike
        
        It is probably time to review a book or two for Kiwiblog. Any suggestions from recently published works on NZ history or politics?
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:11am
      - Nickc2
        
        Mike @ 11:11AM
        Book review: Yea, try Totalitaria by Ian Wishart.
        https://www.amazon.com/Totalitaria-What-If-Enemy-State/dp/0987657356
        It’s as applicable now as it was when it was written. It’s a hard read, but you won’t be disappointed.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:26am
      - Mike
        
        I should have specified history books by actual historians or politics books by politicians.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:37am
      - Paulus
        
        Remember Sun Zsu – read what you can and “know your enemy ”
        You do not believe or accept what they say but watch from where their “news” comes fron and is going.
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:20pm
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Book review. The Musket Wars, author RD Crosby – quality NZ History
      
      Be interesting to see the committed Leftist response…
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:33am
      - Mike
        
        It’s a bit old now, but I did recently read his book on why the Musket Wars matter today.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:38am
      - Clyde
        
        Yes, a good scholarly book that laid bare the goings on of the special people. A book not favoured by modern clueless teachers, the Universities, the East Polynesian Pardee and the likes of Mike who continues to do his little bit every day for the Liemore Pardy.
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:12pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Mike the almost total corruption of the NZ media IS highly offensive to people who don’t enjoy Soviet style media capture.
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:37am
- hookerphil
  
  I feel he sums up his own status fairly quickly into the letter.
  ” many queer folk, including me,”
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:32am
  - Mike
    
    The dictionary might help you:
    
    queer
    adjective
    1. strange; odd.
    2. denoting or relating to a sexual or gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms.
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:16am
    - peterwn
      
      That was why the word ‘gay’ was hijacked in the 1970’s to replace ‘queer’ with its negative connotations.
      
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      April 16, 2023 9:54pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    hookerphil – lost me at this.
    
    “There are people who want to portray trans people as evil, violent, and dangerous.”
    
    That would be the people who attacked Posie Parker, a tiny woman advocating for nothing more than women’s rights.
    We all know what we saw. It wasn’t very nice. You reap what you sow.
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:31am
  - pdm
    
    Waste of time reading said Herald.
    
    Anything worth looking at is paywalled – eg Richard Prebble and Steven Joyces regular opinion pieces.
    
    What is worse the paywall lurgie even extends into provincial papers like HBToday which these days has virtually no local news of any consequence.
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:46am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Check out getpocket.com
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:22am
    - kowtow
      
      If you’re a member of the local library and they subscribe to pressreader ( out of your rates) then you’re already paying a sub .
      
      Check out pressreader.
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:26am
      - peterwn
        
        Some paywalled Herald stuff seems to be unavailable on pressreader eg an article about the richest New World franchisees.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:57pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Chuck Bird – good luck, I gave up writing to NZ media a year ago, same with the Media Council complaints process, a complete farce. I don’t wish to give them any more legitimacy.
  
  Bad Cattitude is an excellent blog, they have done a great post on the subject and predicts the rapid demise of the whole “woke” circus. Also some pointers in how to hasten this much needed action.
  
  how to slay a magic word cult
  
  people are just deeply, passionately bone weary of woke. it’s been far too much for far too long and just about none of it seems sympathetic, reasonable, or even tolerable anymore.
  
  It is bitter, bile filled hatred wrapped up in a rainbow. It is negatively impacting the whole LGB community.
  
  the reason it was able to persist for so long was ruthless, relentless, and instant cancel culture. speak up, you’re gang tackled off the stage by people screaming “racist,” “sexist,” “privilege,” “phobic,” and “safety.”
  
  your speech is hate and their hate is tolerance.
  
  As Musk pointed out in his destruction of the idiotic BBC reporter, “free speech is meaningless unless you allow people you don’t like to say things you don’t like.”
  
  woke can only survive if it’s shielded from criticism. there is no real ethos or ethics there and little in the way of real salients or community. it’s a rage mob of the entitled and stunted making up justifications for waging war on everything that is not them.
  
  the whole intersectionalism grievance gang has been an absurdity since day one.
  
  it was a “magic word” cult.
  
  so long as “racist” or “sexist” or “transphobic” was a spell that ended all debate it could survive.
  
  as long as you could scream “you’re making me feel unsafe” and disappear into a cloud of moralistic squid ink where none were allowed to follow or question because “my feels trump all rationality” it could survive.
  
  but any actual examination of its precepts kills it instantly because the whole woke/DEI philosophical complex is based on self-important assumptive clown world nonsense.
  
  it’s not intellectualism and justice, it’s malformed tantrum and dark-carnival misrule.
  
  and its 15 minutes are over.
  
  Magic cult words are the basis of the nonsensical world that has been imposed on us for 3 years.
  During covid the magic cult words were “misinformation”, “conspiracy theorist”, “anti vaxxer”.
  None of these have ever been defined. They are classic word salad.
  
  The BBC clown in the Trump video tries the “magic cult word” and fails dismally.
  
  he immediately retreats to those two classic tropes:
  
  misinformation and hate speech.
  
  he thinks he’s played a trump card and spoken the magic word but instead he’s just cut himself off at the knees.
  
  magic words only work if others believe in them and these words are hilariously tired and hackneyed to the point of signification so threadbare you can see right through it.
  
  all one need do is reject the premise and there is no foe left, just 3 kids standing on each other’s shoulders in a trench coat to try to get into a movie (minus the cuteness.)
  
  The same with the language around covid. It was all a construct to shut down genuine scientific debate. It was a comms creation without any actual meaning which is why you will never be able to find any example of the “dis” and “misinformation” that the “experts” and “journalists” never stopped talking about. They know that to permit debate would mean the exposure of their narrative as the fraud that it was.
  
  simple truth:
  
  that which cannot be challenged cannot be trusted.
  
  you cannot, a priori, know what “disinformation” is before the debate takes place. science does not start from “facts” and then eliminate all else from discussion. it starts from competing hypotheses and methods and lines of argument and it works forward toward “facts” by open, adversarial engagement.
  
  The same applies to the woke lunatics as applies to the climate change lunatics and as applies to the Branch Covidians.
  
  the reason they fear free speech so much is that they know they cannot survive it.
  
  they wither and disintegrate out here.
  
  the whole of their philosophy and practice is to assume that saying “racist” or “experts say that’s misinformation” will carry the day because no one is allowed to challenge it.
  
  Their words are not “magic”. Challenge them at every opportunity.
  
  your free speech is their swansong.
  
  those who cannot compete in a marketplace of ideas will always seek to shut the marketplace down.
  
  but the side of censorship is never the side of civilization.
  
  and this fight is already over.
  
  once the questions are askable and asked, the outcome is certain.
  
  woke cannot respond because it never made sense.
  
  so keep asking.
  
  pry the door open further, move the overton window, and reject the premise that these magic words command respect and silence debate.
  
  push back and you’ll find there was never really anything there.
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-slay-a-magic-word-cult
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:17am
- Rich Prick
  
  The “new” trans crowd revealed themselves at Albert Park. They are just far left, women hating thugs who want to do over anyone they don’t agree with. I have no respect for them nor those they purport to represent. As for that Shaneel Lal creature … less said, the better.
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:09am
- C-Town
  
  In the Herald last week Lal was complaing about David Seeymour’s alleged hypocrisy over free speech. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shaneel-lal-david-seymour-backs-freedom-of-speech-unless-he-disagrees/5XX5CMSBQVHEXJJ4MBB6TVBC24/
  
  The big difference is that Seymour lets people speak and then complains about it later. He doesn’t form and an angry violent mob to shut people down before they speak.
  
  He was demanding action against Davison because she was speaking as a MP and therefore restricted to certain standards. The same ones that he has to comply with. Seymour wants consistency.
  
  Likewise the poem. It’s inciting violence against particular demographic groups, which should be illegal regardless of which group its aimed at.
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:00am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    It’s not a “poem” FFS it’s a racist dog-whistle designed to offend. Best to ignore the talentless rabble-rouser.
    
    NB: to be clear I am not referring to Mike; it’s a different talentless rabble-rouser.
    
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    April 16, 2023 6:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Many ‘queer folk’ including Lal just wanted to censor Kelli-Jay Keen’s ‘free speech’ but we can’t censor ‘Lal’s’ free speech.
This is the bastard that started all of this. The transistors became that rabid that Keen could have been killed. I watched many videos including drone footage. It was out of hand, and the Police where hiding around the corner having bee told not to intervene.
No charges against Lal. Why not?
I am totally behind Kellie-Jay Keen. I hope she does not get the impression that all Kiwis are queer.
What is wrong with this picture?
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April 16, 2023 8:26am
- Mike
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  [Mod- use the persons correct name] above admits to wasting his time complaining about media coverage of this incident.
  Have you contacted the police or the IPCA with your allegations, very serious if substantiated, about police misconduct at this event?
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:32am
  - RightNow
    
    We all know that’s a waste of time.
    Police aren’t impartial, they serve political masters.
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:56am
    - Mike
      
      Who is ‘we’?
      The IPCA regularly issues adverse reports about police conduct.
      I think I should just file your vapid assertion under ‘fact-free opinions’.
      
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      April 16, 2023 9:18am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        I file your trolling under “time wasting troll”.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:41am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I have complained to the IPCA as have many others.
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:56am
    - Mike
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      That’s great, Chuck. Good luck with that – I trust the result will be everything a reasonable person might expect.
      
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      April 16, 2023 8:58am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I’ll go with the same as Right Now.
    Police in 2023 are a waste of space just like their supreme commander.
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:20am
- Dougal10
  
  There is some kind of connection between Lal and the current PM , so nothing to see here.
  
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  April 16, 2023 8:35am
  - Mike
    
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    Can you specify the sort of connection that might alarm you?
    
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    April 16, 2023 8:56am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Mike, please stop being such an insufferable twat.
      
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      April 16, 2023 9:09am
      - Mike
        
        Just because that’s what the people of Walmington-on-Sea think of their bank manager doesn’t mean it is true of all people.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:20am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Best ignored when he is cranky.
        
        3, 2, 1, boom!
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:21am
      - Its only I
        
        Mikes sentences are written differently today. The tone, the choice of words…more disruption than contribution today.
        
        It would be easy to speculate that Mike is many, the Mike posting here is different than the one just a few days ago…or meds…shift worker… are different.
        
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        April 16, 2023 9:26am
      - kowtow
        
        Steve O
        
        Best ignored .Full stop.
        
        He constantly tries to draw posters in to play his silly games. Downtick them to oblivion.
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:36am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        Actually it’s a fair question. “Some kind of connection” could be anything from “had sex once and is now using that to blackmail”, which would be a matter for legitimate and serious concern, to “brother-in-law once worked for the same company, albeit in a different branch and not at the same time”, which would not. You can’t just state “some kind of connection” and think you’ve made any kind of point.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:19am
    - Matt Long
      
      Hey Mike, I see The Don junior stands with you, Dylan, and Bud, odd bedfellows I must say.
      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/donald-trump-jr-opposes-bud-light-boycott-citing-company-donations-republicans
      
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      April 16, 2023 9:35am
      - Mike
        
        The chances of me ever buying a Budweiser, Heineken, Corona, Peroni, Carlsberg, Asahi or any other ‘international’ shitty beer are very low.
        But if you want to make consumer choices based on your cultural perceptions – you do you.
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:10am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Watching corporate woketard stunts backfire bigtime is fun.
        
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        April 16, 2023 11:59am
      - Matt Long
        
        I wasn’t referring to your, no doubt most excellent, culinary palate Mike, I understood you to be calling into question the intellectual rigour of those calling for a boycott of Bud because of their entry into culture wars.
        As I wrote earlier Don Jr is in your camp, or you in his.
        
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        April 16, 2023 12:41pm
      - Mike
        
        I agree with you – it’s possible for a dimwit like Trump jr to be correct occasionally. #stoppedclock
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:36pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Mat, Mike has ‘craft beer’ shandies. Sprite Zero sugar.
        Can’t have him getting overactive.
        
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        April 16, 2023 2:34pm
- lastmanstanding
  
  Lal spouts hate speech every Sunday in the Herald. It is a sad confused person who hates white cis males.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:44am
  - Taieri
    
    cis males
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    Do not corrupt the language…
    
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    April 16, 2023 10:09am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    We’re all cis males, every one of us born with a penis. There is nothing else except cis, rendering the term as redundant as milky’s witterings.
    
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    April 16, 2023 6:18pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Ironically the New Zealand incident has given her a very considerate boost in profile globally. She held an event in Hyde Park last week that attracted 3 times the crowd that she got before the New Zealand trip.
  
  She is planning a Canadian trip in the northern hemisphere summer. However she is uncertain she will be allowed to enter. The trans movement in Canada is even more toxic than New Zealand. She says if she is denied entry, she will instead go to the USA and hold events in USA towns on the Canadian border. 😂
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:16am
  - Mike
    
    Her trip certainly achieved her financial objectives.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:08am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Identity Crisis

In the Great Halls of Elfdom,

Peace and neurodiversity has reigned for a thousand years.

In the cloud forests of the Green Non-binary Unicorns,

Happy ewoks and other small creatures

Gambol in the sun dappled forest glades.

Beyond the Magic Walls of The Elfin Lands,

The Outside World is troubled by shadow.

Wild storms brew in the hot water of the oceans,

Posie Parker and her gruesome Orc army

Rampage through the Shire,

And great slurries of cow pats sluice

Down the once crystalline brooks of Te Wai Pounamu.

But these intimations of doom matter not today,

For today is the Day of the Green List Selection Process.

The ewoks and unicorns come together

And sit respectfully holding space in The Circle of Goodness.

But Lo! There is a grave disturbance in The Force.

Shock waves crash through the Luminiferous Ether

Which surrounds the gathering in ethereal glow.

The expressions of the gentle creatures crumple,

And eyes widen in disbelief, for throughout the chat groups

Rings out the damning indictment:

CRYBABY.

This is indeed an awkward moment.

The Shawrax attempts to crawl under his folding chair.

Lady Marama wonders how it might be possible

To blame cis white males for this outrage.

Meanwhile, Elf Princess Chloe and Purple Taniwha Elizabeth

Glare at each other from opposite ends of The Circle of Goodness

While the ewoks whimper and non-binary unicorns

crash land in flames all over the burning glade.

Thus ended the Thousand Years of Peace,

In the lush magical forests of the Green Realm.

Bard Billot on the boo-hoo shamer.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/an-ode-for-elizabeth-crybaby-kerekere
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April 16, 2023 8:30am
SmokerGuy

So McAnulty says on the nation that National’s plans for water will save nothing and then also says that National hasn’t released any figures on savings!! These idiots have to go, they are arrogant, incompetent and disingenuous like no other government before them.
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April 16, 2023 8:42am
- Mike
  
  It’s not about the savings, it’s about the feelz. No one is convinced about any particular project – be it a motorway, a bus lane or water infrastructure or whatever – by numbers or projections.
  Producing fancy calculations will only bolster someone’s existing emotional attachment to their existing opinion.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:01am
  - hullkiwi
    
    True, but McNulty is a disingenuous liar & a fraud. There are no savings, only how much the ratepayer pays or the taxpayer pays or the consumer pays. Taken together, we all pay it is just a case of how much each pot has to pay.
    
    Is it me, or has McNulty got all the sincerity of bad cross between a used car salesmen, a real estate agent, a journalist and a politician mixed in with the charm of Uriah Heep. So, like Sharma, I wouldn’t trust the honesty of the man.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:04am
    - Ruawai
      
      Spot on, at the end of the day if water infrastructure needs upgrading we the tax/rate payer has to pay. Seems they are trying to spread the cost of all upgrades across all people rather than than direct user pays.
      
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      April 16, 2023 12:34pm
    - Scooter
      
      Yes there’s definitely something robotic and untrustworthy about him.
      
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      April 17, 2023 7:37am
- Paulus
  
  Would you buy a second hand car from McNutty ?
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:32am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Read my comment above that was posted at 11.04.
    
    The answer to your question is a resounding, No!
    
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    April 16, 2023 12:13pm
- nathie
  
  Ahh McAnulty … since he is/was a betting man, what are the odds of him losing his Wairarapa seat in the election and not being high enough on the list to be re-elected – oh dear, how sad, nevermind!
  
  Party at Dr Gaurav Sharma’s that night and anyone that is against bullies will be celebrating!
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:43am
- kowtow
  
  They claim so called co governance is necessary to give effect to the so called principles of the ToW .
  
  In doing this the principles of democracy are actively, knowingly destroyed by this regime and anyone who votes for it.
  
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  April 16, 2023 12:58pm
Ghost

Someone needs to sit national candidates down and tell them that the media will get them for the slightest thing, clean up your act

“I like my Covid like I like my women. 19. And easy to spread.”

Offensive? Sexist? Inappropriate? Not for National Party candidate Stephen Jack, who shared the video which included the ‘gag’ on Facebook.

Stuff
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April 16, 2023 8:55am
- Mike
  
  As a rule of thumb, politicians should perhaps not tell or repeat jokes that would be deleted by a Kiwiblog moderator. That would still give plenty of scope.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:03am
  - emmess
    
    They can only cancel you if you allow them to
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:58am
- Nickc2
  
  National and Act candidates should be aware that the Labour, Green, and Maori Parties have a ‘Dirt Digging Squad’ paid for by you and I as Taxpayers. This Squad is paid under the guise of the PIJF.
  If anyone on KB has alternate opinions, let’s hear em eh?
  PS: I don’t think Andrea Vance, Tova O’Brien, and associates are contributors to KB.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:27am
  - Ruawai
    
    Looks like her name is Andrea Vance.
    
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    April 16, 2023 12:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Yes they do need to watch what they say and put on social media.
  People like snake Vance will tear them to bits given a chance.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:28am
  - Mike
    
    I think the main political parties have guidelines for their MPs about which social media apps to use and how to use them. Remember how one national MP was open to criticism for using Snapchat inappropriately a few years ago?
    
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    April 16, 2023 10:13am
    - nathie
      
      Why are you repeating a Labour Party smear campaign against Chris Bishop?
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:48am
      - Mike
        
        I worded that carefully as the nature of Snapchat means it is impossible to whether anyone uses it inappropriately, which is why party members were advised not to use it.
        
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        April 16, 2023 12:08pm
      - Ghost
        
        When I read Mike’s comment it made me think of the idiot national mp we had in rangitata
        
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        April 16, 2023 12:44pm
- kowtow
  
  I see , now having a sense of humour is not , as Lenin would say “politically correct”.
  
  You’re reacting exactly as the Little Red Guards of the neo Cultural Revolution expect you to .
  
  Running scared .Afraid of your own shadow lest you offend some kommissar somewhere.
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:41am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I wouldn’t pay too much (or any) attention to anything that bitter hag Andrea Vance dredges up – she’s a gutter journalist of the worst kind.
  
  Didn’t her last rag (NOTW) go broke? She’s even taught Tova how to ensure the destruction of any media outlet she works for, not that she needed much help.
  
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  April 16, 2023 7:31pm
Southern Raider

NZ Justice system is so broken we are now telling cops to second guess if they should arrest someone now. Is there anything Labour hasn’t completely destroyed in 5 years? Also is it not time to completely restructure the judiciary? If the judges spent more time actually in court and not calling for
cultural reports they maybe able to get through more sentencing.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/frontline-police-told-to-consider-necessity-of-bail-arrests-as-nzs-largest-prison-nears-capacity/4NNGEWB5PNFFNIIR5F3VP2HZ5M/
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April 16, 2023 8:59am
- Mike
  
  We already have too many judges and not enough court staff who do the actual work.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:04am
  - kevn
    
    @mike… Your perception or actual inside knowledge?
    
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    April 16, 2023 9:56am
    - Mike
      
      Inside knowledge from some years ago. Basically, the court system and government in general is dominated by lawyers. As such, there is no problem that can’t be addressed by getting more lawyers involved. In the justice system, the best lawyers are judges, or want to be judges (unless they prefer loads of money), so the answer to any courts problem is appoint more judges. Sadly, this means the other parts of the system, facilities and non-lawyer personnel are routinely neglected.
      
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      April 16, 2023 10:17am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “If you touch me I will charge you wilt assault”
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:54am
  - Mike
    
    Any wilt assault will only get a limp response.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:40am
Southern Raider

Saw an official tweet from Mahuta yesterday saying something like “Aotearoa New Zealand supports …..”

How can a senior Minister of the Crown in an international role be using an unofficial name for the country she represents.
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April 16, 2023 9:01am
- Mike
  
  Have you looked at your passport lately?
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:22am
- M.Solvent
  
  “Aotearoa” has rapidly become a corporate and government brand name. I used to think it was quite a nice sounding word when it was associated with “land of the long white cloud”. But now we are five years into a concerted effort by government to make it the name of the country, with the whole push being strongly linked to their politically motivated revisionist perspective on history. The push has been embraced by the uncritical and pliant arts graduates working in media and the non-productive departments of big corporates.
  
  You only ever hear “Aotearoa” said or written in a contrived way, where the user is trying to make money, make a political point, or consciously projecting their political correctness to gain some apparent social advantage. It is so heavily used by the System that it feels like it doesn’t really belong to the Māori language anymore, it is a word that has so much more connotation connected with it in English.
  
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  April 16, 2023 2:05pm
hullkiwi

In his 7am post DPF raises questions about the honesty of the paid for media describing the President of the Maori Party as a Political Commentator. Tampere is clearly not an impartial commentator.

But why should we expect better from the media when we get
1. Lies about crime statistics in NZ?
2. Attempts to down play the govt’s continued forcing of the woke agenda eg giving a platform for politicians to utter lies about KJ K-M unchallenged?
3. The unchecked publishing of the climate change agenda, without checking what is published is accurate e.g. reports that we will be flooded by the Antarctic glacial melt caused by climate change?

Thank goodness for:
Peter Williams -TPU
Sean Plunkett – The Platform
Bob McCoskrie and his blog and finally,
Ian Wishart and Investigate Magazine NZ.

Read the latest piece on how the NZ media and Victoria University academics are subverting what is published about climate change.

https://theoutdoorphonestore.com/175635/volcanoes-melting-antarctica-why-did-un-ipcc-ar6-report-hide-the-science/
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April 16, 2023 9:20am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Add this radio show to your links.
  
  https://realitycheck.radio/
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:59am
- kowtow
  
  Karl du Fresne’s excellent blog.
  
  http://karldufresne.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-slow-motion-suicide-continues.html
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:44am
  - hullkiwi
    
    To both you and Clan, excellent calls. Thanks.
    
    My view, we need a group on the right to invest in these platforms, as without them NZ risks sinking beneath the morass of left wing propaganda that is published in the MSM. That is not to say that there are not moments when some MSM broadcasters are able to rise above the diet of left wing propaganda and call it out for what it is.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:10am
    - Mike
      
      Remember ‘Radio Liberty’ in the early 2o00s? Anything like that needs a daddy investor.
      
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      April 16, 2023 11:42am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Thanks for the link. It is worth reading.
  
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  April 16, 2023 1:59pm
- MCōs
  
  If ever there was bought a paid for media it would be ‘The Platform’
  
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  April 16, 2023 2:13pm
  - Albie
    
    That’s true, it’s a business and the money has to come from somewhere, unless you’re a socialist and it just grows on trees. Point to consider is that Plunket has editorial oversight on what goes out on The Platform, which by the way is not funded by the Labour Party’s corrupt PIJF.
    
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    April 16, 2023 5:11pm
Rusty

Can someone confirm the science of where rain comes from?

It falls from the sky from clouds to the ground I think.

There is nothing spiritual, mystical, or superstitious about that but some people in this country think it is when it falls into our waterways and rivers.
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April 16, 2023 9:27am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Obvious you aren’t Maori, so have nothing to gain from water.
  
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  April 16, 2023 9:57am
- Taieri
  
  the science of where rain comes from?
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  Matauranga.
  
  Maru, the God of Freshwater, sends it down from the Sky. Under supervision of Ranginui, the Sky Father and with permission of Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother.
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:15am
  - Rusty
    
    @Taieri, our kids will be taught that as fact in our schools soon if not already.
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:25am
  - Sacha
    
    Yes, but.
    How does it get up there?
    No-one ever tells that.
    There is a ‘missing link’.
    
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    April 16, 2023 12:10pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh, that’s the “steam” mist rising from Papatuānuku’s body as she yearns for Ranginui.
      
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      April 16, 2023 12:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Can someone confirm the science of where rain comes from?
  
  According to the Science Learning Hub it’s something to do with pools of water in the sky and one of the stars in the Pleiades constellation.
  
  https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/3126-waipunarangi-rains-frosts-and-climate
  
  It’s also something to do with Te Iho-rangi, the son of Papa and Rangi
  But, there’s also a female entity for light misty rain..
  Hine-te-ihorangi …
  
  Oh woops, that latter stuff hasn’t come from the Government run Science Learning hub site….
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:32am
- Piniwi
  
  Not to forget it isn’t really Holy water but actually went up first (in another form/body) before dropping back to the ground. Sorry that is just a bit of Sunday though not as funny as being told the natives all water is theirs.
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:36am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Time for the judiciary to put those cultural reports through the same cheat-detector software as the Uni professors do with essays.

Either that or just cut out the middleman & ask ChatGPT to write them.
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April 16, 2023 9:33am
- Mike
  
  ChatGPT would probably do a good job writing many judicial reports. Another question would be whether it’s already doing a good job with Kiwiblog comments.
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:24am
Suze Wainwright

With so many words and terms, such as ‘limp wristed’, poofter, pansy, faggot, dyke and ‘pillow biter’ being ‘reclaimed’ by the purely gay subset of the Rainbow community, will more letters need to be added to LGBTQI ?

(Out of interest, I know an older middle-aged gay gentleman who happens to have serious issues with the term ‘queer’, but because it’s been officially ‘reclaimed’ by his overall community, he’s all good with it now).
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April 16, 2023 9:48am
- Rusty
  
  @Suze, you left our sodomites but maybe that’s too bible connected for the alternative lifestyle people.
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:29am
  - Che Guava
    
    ‘Sodomite’ actually originally denotes any sexual behaviour that is not between a married man and woman (i.e. any sexual immorality).
    
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    April 16, 2023 11:57am
    - Mike
      
      Is that the sole definition of sexual immorality? If so, what is the source of that definition?
      
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      April 16, 2023 12:10pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Yes. God.
        
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        April 16, 2023 12:18pm
      - Mike
        
        Could you be a little more specific? Which god, and where and when was this made clear?
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:38pm
      - Che Guava
        
        There’s only one God (although with many names in the many religions) also known as the ultimate reality or the Absolute as opposed to the contingent, or the Real as opposed to the illusory. To ask questions like “when and where” with regard to the Absolute is completely meaningless and is to make a category mistake. If you are referring to the temporal world, then you’ll find it in the Bible, but this is just a record of the precept, and is quite distinct from the precept in itself.
        
        The moral law is written on our hearts (our conscience, you could say), the only distinction is whether or not people admit it to themselves. A murderer can murder, but he also knows its wrong. Self-deception is more common than we like to admit. People are able to root around and engage in all manner of sexual immorality because they have free will, but to the extent that they do this, it damages their soul and makes them miserable.
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:50pm
    - kowtow
      
      I thought it referred to the people who lived millenia ago in a Levantine settlement that was smote from on high .
      
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      April 16, 2023 1:04pm
      - Che Guava
        
        It does. The Sodomites in the Bible weren’t all exclusively practicing gay sex, they were also promiscuous unwed heterosexuals.
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:28pm
      - Mike
        
        Yes, I’m supposing it’s a reference to one of those entertaining Biblical legends.
        
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        April 16, 2023 1:42pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Hey Mike, since you have such a grudge against religion (which is your right), why not head down to your local mosque and tell the Imam and the assembled worshippers what you think of Islam’s entertaining legends? I suppose your principled grudge only extends to the religions it is safe to criticise. Read the Bible – there’s some good stuff in there about hypocrites.
        
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        April 16, 2023 2:11pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

A friend took the Northern Explorer the other day. He was surprised that it was full. Plenty of tourists, but plenty of locals too – not all of them retired.

At $200+ per seat, presumably it’s paying its way – marginal costs, anyway. Certainly, it was cheaper than the plane. Any Akld-Wgtn flight not booked a couple of weeks out is just horrendously priced at present.
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- Mike
  
  It’s a good trip. From what I know, it mainly caters for rail fans, of whom there are many.
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:44am
  - MCōs
    
    We took that ride a year or so back.
    It has some drawbacks. The Auckland terminal is poorly located and the run down to Hamilton is dull, but after that the trip is very pleasant.
    However it’s a long day.
    
    I saw a clip of the Flying Scotsman the other day, screaming through some little station with smoke everywhere and whistle blowing.
    Damn!
    That would be the thrill of a lifetime to ride on!
    
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    April 16, 2023 1:52pm
    - 103PapPap
      
      I did the Flying Scotsman in 1976. It was brilliant. Also opened my eyes to the reality of England when you went through places like Newcastle – row upon row of terrace housing all covered in coal dust.
      Makes you understand why poms want to come to NZ for a house with a garden.
      
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      April 16, 2023 4:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/psychological-warfare-how-the-media-are-trying-to-shut-down-the-stop-co-governance-tour/

There is a lot happening today in the blog. Video of Steve Biko.

There is a letter “From Maori to Pakeha” extracted from the Albertland Gazette 1st October 1863.

Then a “No Fishing Allowed” item.
“In March 2023 Stuart Nash, the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, closed the Coromandel scallop fishery to commercial and recreational harvest.””
“The fishery remains open to Māori customary harvest.”

Call this whatever you like – I call is ‘Apatheid’
“The total amount of fish set aside to enable Māori fishers to fulfil their customary needs is around 4000 tonnes per annum, nationwide.”

Who measures this??

There is a post on a US Blogger. Not sure if thirteen stars is American, I pulled his comment from ‘Kiwiblog” NZs top Blog.

As I said, there is a lot going on today. Go have a gander.
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April 16, 2023 10:44am
Warren

This Labour Government has finally achieved a plus with all the policies they have promised .
They have just put the last nail in the Justice and Prison systems by telling Frontline Police to ‘consider necessity’ of bail arrests as NZ’s largest Prison nears capacity.
How’s this making New Zealand safe and after the leniency of the punishment Ram Raider have received this Government have finally achieved the record of fucking Law and order to achieve a first goal in the six years they will have been in power.
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April 16, 2023 10:51am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Elon buys Twitter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944b5zuaoFo
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April 16, 2023 11:35am
- Mike
  
  Is it making him as much money as those electric cars do?
  
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  April 16, 2023 11:46am
  - Matt Long
    
    Unfortunately for the Twitter investment the governments of the world seem to have stopped paying Twitter their people’s money to ensure only approved disinformation gets posted.
    However it’s still full steam ahead with Robin Hood taxes to make Tesla investors rich.
    
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    April 16, 2023 1:04pm
    - Mike
      
      It can’t have been a wise move to buy Twitter if the company only exists thanks to uncertain spending like government subsidies and advertising. Surely Musk is cleverer than that.
      
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      April 16, 2023 1:45pm
Nickc2

What’s happened with the Kiri Allan, Marama Davidson, and Elizabeth KereKere vocal dramas?
Has our MSM decided it’s damaging to further investigate and report on such matters?
Alternatively, has the Minister for Maori Development (Willy Jackson) put the word out for Te MSM to can it?
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April 16, 2023 12:05pm
- kowtow
  
  Under the Ardern regime it was said that the PM’s office had a weekly conference call with the political editors .
  
  That’s a bigly story , if true .
  
  Any reason to think it’s any different under Hipkins.
  
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  April 16, 2023 1:08pm
Ghost

Time to buy a Chastity belt? Let’s hope we don’t get to the “take me to your leader” phase and we have to explain joe Biden to et

A Pentagon official who heads up a secretive unit studying unidentified flying objects has speculated that recent sightings in US airspace could actually be alien probes from a mothership sent to study Earth.

Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (Aaro), has claimed in a new academic paper that the objects, which appear to defy all physics, could be “probes” from an extra-terrestrial “parent craft”.

Stuff
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April 16, 2023 1:22pm
- Che Guava
  
  You know things are bad when the Pentagon starts talking about the existence of UFOs as a distraction from all of the terrestrial lies entering mass public consciousness.
  
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  April 16, 2023 2:19pm
- virtualmark
  
  In particular he was referring to Oumuamua
  
  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/oumuamua/in-depth/
  
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  April 16, 2023 5:16pm
Fisiani2

Dr Scott Sheerhan has been chosen today as the National party candidate for Wellington central He is a human rights law expert and will make a great mp in parliament
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April 16, 2023 1:24pm
- Ghost
  
  I’m not a fan of selecting someone who doesn’t currently live in the electorate, or in this case the country. That is where National lost Rangitata by selecting an unknown over someone who already had a good standing in our community.
  
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  April 16, 2023 1:34pm
  - Fisiani2
    
    Sheeran is going to win Wellington central and will be an excellent mp
    
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    April 16, 2023 1:43pm
  - Mike
    
    And in Wairarapa.
    
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    April 16, 2023 1:45pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Streets ahead of the other two. Will not win, it will go either Labour or Green.
  
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  April 16, 2023 5:04pm
- greybeard
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131783073/national-party-announces-wellington-central-candidate
  BTW: No comments allowed for this article !
  So I have a choice between a maori Green woman, a muslim bloke, and a white man with impressive credentials.
  Decisions, decisions……
  
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  April 16, 2023 6:49pm
NZer In Exile

Meghan and Harry told to ‘f – – k off and shut up’ by celebrity neighbor 🤣

https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/meghan-harry-told-to-f-k-off-and-shut-up-by-celeb-neighbor/
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April 16, 2023 1:27pm
- MCōs
  
  I’m reading a book about Henry XIII.
  Nobody dared call him Harry of told him to fuck off.
  
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  April 16, 2023 2:05pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Can’t be many folks who have an interest in an obscure Bavarian duke.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_XIII,_Duke_of_Bavaria
    
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    April 16, 2023 2:44pm
    - Mike
      
      Isn’t the current Duke of Bavaria the rightful heir to the English throne?
      
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      April 16, 2023 2:48pm
      - Rusty
        
        @Mike – you want to read on stuff about John Lydon/ Rottens comments on the royal family.
        
        He’s no royalist but even he respects the private lives of the royals and coming coronation without the intruding MSM including Meghan Markle trying to discredit them.
        
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        April 16, 2023 3:36pm
      - rockape
        
        No, the Stewart’s are.
        
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        April 16, 2023 4:01pm
      - Mike
        
        It seems to me that the privileges (and vast fortune) given by the UK citizenry to the Saxe-Coburg Gotha clan might come with not much expectation of a ‘private life’.
        
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        April 16, 2023 4:09pm
      - Mike
        
        Rockape
        The dukes of Bavaria are the Stuart claimants.
        
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        April 16, 2023 4:21pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Mike, not if you believe the legend that the Plantagents are the only British royal line descended from William the Conqueror. As the legend goes there are questions about Elizabeth of York’s father and his father being legitimate members of the lines stretching from William. Therefore, the question arises as to whether the issue of Henry VII had legitimate rights of succession.
        
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        April 16, 2023 10:17pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      @Maggy
      I did a post three years ago that covered that – Getting “Liz” to step in – but by accident due to the usual Internet rabbit holes, in this case the starting point being some message board “Dear Abby” request from a girl concerned about her otherwise “amazing” boyfriend’s strange political opinions on British Royalty:
      
      He claims to recognise no monarch since James II, and apparently the real legitimate successor is some guy called Francis who I’ve never heard of, who is supposedly the rightful king of France and Greece… He expressed disgust at Prince Harry’s recent engagement, I pressed him as to why (I was slightly worried it was racist in nature) and he said both Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton are commoners who have no business marrying royalty, then made some remark about the Royal Family being a “ghastly bunch of arriviste Germans anyway, so I suppose it doesn’t matter”
      
      Very cool. My favourite answer to her problem was this one:
      
      TFW your boyfriend is a 17th Century Catholic vampire who is NOT OVER the Glorious Revolution of 1688″
      
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      April 16, 2023 6:11pm
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Hmmm, broken link, Getting “Liz” to step in
      
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      April 16, 2023 6:40pm
- peterwn
  
  Doubt they will be able to have John Lydon extradited to the Tower.
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Can someone make that noisy hall monitor go away?
Please?
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April 16, 2023 2:44pm
Ghost

Strippers have called out MPs who use sex workers and then turn a blind eye to “wage theft”, “widespread labour exploitation”, and “labour trafficking”.

Members of the Fired Up Stilettos group are protesting outside Parliament against their working conditions and hope to see changes made to laws surrounding contract workers.

Newshub
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April 16, 2023 4:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The ‘witch’ hunt is real?
https://thepatriotnation.net/alert-white-house-implicated-in-move-that-proves-the-witch-hunt-is-real/
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April 16, 2023 4:32pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

A Harley Davidson ad has upset some petals.
His six year old notices this?

https://thepatriotnation.net/this-offensive-harley-billboard-has-everyone-in-town-divided/
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April 16, 2023 4:59pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  I don’t think the kid’s dad is in their target demographic. He’d like to be, sure, but he’s not.
  
  #NeverApologise #NeverExplain
  
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  April 16, 2023 7:35pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Disney. What is wrong with this lot?

https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/04/04/disney-ceo-bob-iger-confirms-company-will-continue-to-get-involved-in-politics-compares-grooming-young-children-with-gender-identity-and-sexual-orientation-to-civil-rights-and-the-holocaust/

Bullshit!
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April 16, 2023 5:16pm
- Mike
  
  Do you ever wonder about the choices you make re the media sources in which you place credence?
  
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  April 16, 2023 5:43pm
- Che Guava
  
  I am not surprised that Bob Iger advocates for these types of subversive and destructive ideologies.
  
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  April 16, 2023 6:31pm
Ghost

Two people have been seriously injured after a stabbing at a south Auckland Burger King on Sunday.

Police say they were called at around 3:10pm after a report two people were injured at the premises on Great South Road in Takanini.

It’s understood both of the victims are Burger King employees.

Newshub
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April 16, 2023 6:50pm
- peterwn
  
  The accused was quickly arrested but will probably get bail because the prisons are nearly full up. Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio would not have let that be a problem – he would quickly establish a tent prison camp. Can anyone imagine Labour taking that sort of initiative?
  
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  April 16, 2023 10:05pm
Ghost

Some good video from a trans woman

Calling out the TRANS COMMUNITY as a trans woman

Trans women and SPORT- my opinion as a trans woman
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