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Warren

While the majority of female reporters get their knickers in a twist over the Three Party Coalition and use their own options to make News on what the Government is doing wrong we have the stale Pale Mihingarangi Forbes Maori affairs commentator on the Coalition with “i think they’ve burned the house down and are literally repealing everything they assume as race based”.
Oh how the wannabe privileged believe that it is their right .
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November 26, 2023 8:04am
- Dave
  
  This must be the same Ms Forbes who recently opined on TV, with none of her three fellow panelists dissenting, that David Seymour and pale non-indigenous NZers didn’t need a referendum on Treaty principles but if we wished to understand them, all we needed to do was go to the Waitangi Tribunal which would set us right through its historical and legal experts, thus demonstrating that she understands neither the Waitangi Tribunal nor democracy.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:58am
  - Paulus
    
    Remember Mrs Forbes is one of the leading Maori producers for the media, and has been very successful for some years.
    As a result I understand she and her production team, including her cameraman husband, and her previous husband Duncan Garner, have been highly sought for all things Maori.
    Maybe her huge income may drop but I doubt it.
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:04am
    - Close Hen Counters
      
      She is very a very attractive looking woman but I see doesn’t stretch the Māori vibe too far in getting a moko
      
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      November 26, 2023 2:58pm
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    Wittering on, she failed to understand Maori will get a chance to have their say, just as we all will, through the submission process. Again everyone being treated the same.
    And if her side’s position is right that the Treaty should be interpreted the way it is currently being so, that she can argue that fact and it’s only a minority of racists, anti-vaxxers and cookers pushing this, then her side will win this processs. But her squealing shows she doesn’t believe the first two points.
    And this buzz phrase about the tyranny of the majority – it’s how democracy works. I didn’t see her and Dita di Bonehead moaning about the tyranny of the majority in 2020.
    
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    November 26, 2023 6:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sometimes I venture over to “The Standard”…and today there’s a beaut opinion piece that some folks like Mihingarangi should digest…..although as she is a trustee of Ngati Paoa Iwi trust, I suspect she has a damn good idea of what it is saying.
  
  Maori are not owned by the left. Maori interests are not the same as the interests of the left. Maori voters will continue to vote in their own interests. Maori are now significantly in power and in power on their own terms – likely for the next six years.
  
  https://thestandard.org.nz/the-left-do-not-own-maori/
  
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  November 26, 2023 1:10pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Tried to leave a comment on The Strandard, but nope, even after all these years I am still banned.
    A badge of honour. Thanks Linda.
    
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    November 26, 2023 3:53pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      still only 12 comments – for 3 items- on that site today)….
      
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      November 26, 2023 4:17pm
- miltonF
  
  “Literally repealing everything they assume is race based”
  
  She talks about this like it’s a bad thing. Is she smart enough to realise she just outed herself as a staunch racist?
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:19pm
bennerg

Netherlands news apparently not being reported here:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1728465606553317665
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November 26, 2023 8:04am
- kowtow
  
  He has the first rights on trying to form a govt .
  
  He’ll be ( imho) rejected by each party in turn.
  
  The next highest polling party then gets a go at forming govt.
  
  Etc
  
  If our Media Muppets thought it took a long time to form a govt here they need to watch this space.
  
  Meanwhile Europe continues to be ruled by an Elite who seemed determined to destroy all things “European” . Including in the short , medium and long term , democracy.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:39am
  - hullkiwi
    
    The current govt of Germany took 7 weeks to be formed after the German Election last year. Recognising that the NZ MMP election process was based on the German. West Germany was bequeathed MMP after WWII and has never had a single party majority govt. Generally, the lesson is that proportional representation gives coalition govts. The only exception I know of is the Australian Labor govts.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:25am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The last Dutch Govt took 9 months.
      There are 14 Parties.
      I suspect Kowtow is right that Gerders will struggle.
      He needs the New Social Contract party, the Farmers Party and a lot of the smaller ones.
      Unless he abandons some of his, shall we say, more contentious policies I think he will fall short.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:52am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        I’m surprised at the result for the ‘BBB’ – the farmers-citizen party. Earlier in 2023 they won big in some provincial elections.
        
        https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-election-farmers-bbb-mark-rutte-cc59032d926a1585002ce9e10aee0886
        
        But they bombed with one percent of the vote and one seat.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dutch_general_election
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:47am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The BBB increased their seats from 1 to 7
        I think you are looking at the 2021 result in your Link
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:58am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        oops thanks for that.
        
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        November 26, 2023 12:28pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      The only exception I know of is the Australian Labor govts.
      
      I don’t understand this, hullkiwi.
      
      The 151-member Australian House of Representatives is elected by the majority-preferential vote, which we know as PV. As the name suggests, it is a majoritarian electoral system – the same system used to elect the mayors of Wellington, Dunedin, Porirua, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Hamilton, etc. – whereby the single winners receive 50%+ of the votes, not a proportional representation (PR) system.
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Where is Willie Jackson? Suspiciously quiet imo.
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November 26, 2023 8:05am
- G152
  
  On some TV program probably spreading his ‘message’ I’d imagine….
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:12am
- KH
  
  Willie is probably hiding Steve. Whilst he talks violence, he ain’t very brave.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:35am
  - kowtow
    
    A bit like most thugs , like Hamas .
    “Leading” from a position of luxury and safety while ordinary people bear the brunt of their ideologies.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:41am
- Nickc2
  
  Willie and the rest of the racist lunatics in Labour’s Maori Caucus were last seen at Akld Airport accompanied by the Green’s Party boarding an aircraft to Iran for a planning meeting with Hamas and Iran’s Ayatollah. //
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:02am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    One way tickets?
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:09am
    - Nickc2
      
      I doubt we could be so lucky.
      
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      November 26, 2023 1:44pm
  - Che Guava
    
    I wonder if they crossed paths in the departure lounge with any KBers on their way to Gaza to put their money where their mouths are and help uphold Israel’s right to defend itself.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:48am
    - Che Guava
      
      [Mod – debate without making it personal]
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:05pm
- goNZ1
  
  I bet he is plotting a waka jump to JTs gang of radicals
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:21am
- Prince
  
  You can usually catch up with him on Te Karere, every weekday at 4pm.
  He regularly appears as a ‘commentator’, chatting to the presenter Scotty Morrison as if he was a neutral observer. It’s all great fun and mateship.
  Apparently it is how indigenous news should be presented.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:44am
  - Swifty
    
    Which is the publicly-funded tv show for righties?
    
    You know, the one run, staffed and presented by righties which hosts stories of interest to righties, hosts righty guests, presents Te Ao Righty and extols the rationale, glories and benefits of rightydom to all?
    
    Just for a bit of balance against the avalanche of lefty shows.
    
    Grateful if someone would let me know and the channel I will find it.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:27am
    - Prince
      
      I’d like to say, as Madge did in that old TV Ad about Palmolive dishwashing liquid, “You’re soaking in it”.
      If the Coalition holds to their stated objectives, we may just come close to that.
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:32pm
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    Found on YouTube an interview of Mahuta when she was made Foreign Minister. It was quite North Korean with every question starting along the lines of: ‘Being such a magnificent and wise leader of our people, xxxx’.
    
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    November 26, 2023 6:58pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  Jackson being quiet is bliss and something we can hope continues for many many years.
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:30am
- Clown
  
  Crying into his blankie
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:47am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He will take the money till after Christmas as Ardern did, then he will chuck it to become radical leader of Māori rent a mob
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:25pm
Flossie

Labour is having a meltdown regarding smoking rules but if what I saw yesterday is anything to go by nobody below median income can afford to smoke! Person buying two packets of cigarettes and the cost was $96!!!!
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November 26, 2023 8:10am
- Pavel
  
  The whole smoking thing is such a load of s#!t and with Winston back (he’s a smoker) hopefully we’ll see Labors policies reversed. My local shop has warned everyone that they are going to stop selling cigarettes next year due to a stack of regulation which means I’ll have to drive 45km to get smokes, and I will. I can’t understand all the cigarette bashing as the young aren’t taking it up. I smoke an average of 30 a day and at $34.50 a pack that comes to over $340 a week and while I can afford it most people can’t. The number of smokers is so low now I just can’t see the point of taking it any further. Isn’t there anything else the politicians have got to worry about? Attacking smokers is really petty.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:18am
- G152
  
  1957 a packet of 20 Woodbines cost me 10 pence in a dairy. And a whole lot less duty free onboard
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:21am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  This is a Peters thing, he has banged on about the working man’s rights for years
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:26pm
Chuck Bird

One very smart conservative Jew.

Dennis Prager: Supporting Hamas is like supporting Nazis in WW2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OudTXT_9CzY
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November 26, 2023 8:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I will watch this afternoon. Dennis Prager is well worth it anytime, along with Dinesh D’Souza and Candace Owens.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:48am
  - Inandout
    
    SO, Candace is in her element at places where woke students are simply destroyed by her cutting responses. She cares little whether trans things feel ‘safe’ or not, she just says things like ‘that’s nice, next question’.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:24am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I like her and her attitude. I have her book “Blackout.” Also follow her on FB.
      Such an interesting person.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:12am
      - Che Guava
        
        There’s been quite a lot of friction between her and the other Christians (Walsh, Knowles etc) and their orthodox Jewish boss at the Daily Wire recently. The purported Judeo-Christian edifice is showing it’s inherent contradictions and incompatibility.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:39am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Guava,
        Candace rarely talk religion.
        The thing I support her on is “Fatherless Homes.”
        
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        November 26, 2023 4:13pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    I wouldn’t get too excited about Candace Owens. The idea of questioning everything can lead to things like her thinking the Moon landings were faked, as you can see in this video where Bill Maher (who at least invited her on his show) is staggered by her comments.
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:32am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Staged!
      
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      November 26, 2023 4:15pm
- Che Guava
  
  Dennis Prager, like Shapiro, isn’t really a conservative, he’s a Jew who uses his position in American media to convince stupid American conservatives that the latter should care deeply about Israel. The whole point of what they do is pushing Zionism, though wrapped up as it is in an outward layer of “free market” and “anti-socialism” rhetoric so it’s not so obvious, while directing viewers away from wanting to put America before Israel.
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:54am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Chuckle. You’re becoming less subtle Che. Excellent.
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:32am
    - Che Guava
      
      “Subtle”? You mean correct. Zionism is a large part of American “conservatism” simply because there are so many Zionists involved, be they Jews or otherwise. Have you failed to notice how rabidly pro-Israel both the politicians and commentators all are, when they are supposedly Americans? This is the obvious conclusion of even a cursory analysis. Facts don’t care about your feelings, after all. But happy for you to tell me why I’m wrong about this.
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:00pm
- Che Guava
  
  “Dennis Prager: Supporting Hamas is like supporting Nazis in WW2”
  
  Enough of this “if you don’t support us, you’re a Nazi” crap. But if we’re doing historical comparisons, Hamas are more like the unconventional French Resistance in occupied France, while Israel are the expansionist occupying technically advanced Germans. The only difference is, notwithstanding the occupation, France in the early 40s was still a relatively civilised and functional environment. Unlike the Israeli occupied territories. This was probably because the Germans and French were still fellow Europeans and the Germans respected France, rather than being irreconcilable demented enemies of each other.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:28am
Tomtoddy

Watching a very white journalist with a surname, Forbes, churlishly bitching about the new coalition government’s impact on Māori is revelatory. She wants to know what social benefits the coalition will be able to measure by 2024. Somehow in less than a year the coalition is supposed to deliver helpful measurable change. Yet, for 50 years governments have been pouring huge sums of money into every conceivable proposition raised by Iwi, incorporation, Māori individual and every social indices has become worse. Forbes claimed that Seymour’s plans “will divide the nation”. Really??? The nation isn’t divided now?? Overpaid, arrogant Māori elitists and Māori solo mums living in squalor is not division??

She talked “tyranny by the majority”. Tyranny?? All that money and preferential treatment is a “tyranny”. What other possible hand out is possible?
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November 26, 2023 8:11am
- BananaLlama
  
  When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
  
  – Some leftoid
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:18am
  - Flossie
    
    Leftoid or out and out racist?
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:54am
    - Stellaboxer
      
      It was Thomas Sowell actually you must of heard of him Flossie that notorious African American racist lol.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:35am
- Swifty
  
  A tyranny of the majority has its flaws but not as many as a tyranny of the minority.
  
  Is that what she would prefer?
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Clearly she and members of Te Maori Pati prefer Stratified Tribal Rule whereby high prestige families make decisions for the underlings.
    
    Most of our ancestors were brought up in such a system and were happy to leave it as soon as they could.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:13am
- Piticus
  
  Forbes outburst on TV3 The Nation surely did away with any notion that she is an independent journalist.
  It will extremely difficult to take any of her ramblings seriously going forward as she clearly showed her total bias and disdain for the new government.
  She did the media a real disservice – not that we really needed any more proof of their lack of objectivity
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:21am
- Benedict Yu
  
  IIRC her father is Maori.
  
  Looking at her twitter feed, she comes across as a left activist, who is clearly hostile to the new government.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:28am
  - Positan
    
    She’s been on the same track for so long her credibility (with me anyway) is lower than a cellar rat’s toenails.
    
    Journalism once meant reporting of (all) incumbent facts from a neutral and analytical perspective. This woman is neither journalist nor entertainer, she’s just a politically bent campaigner. She doesn’t attempt to reason or rationalise – so mere sight of her name or photo switches me off completely.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:55am
  - kowtow
    
    Forbes ?
    
    Scottish innit .
    But clearly not pining for the lochs .
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:43am
  - Taieri
    
    IIRC her father is Maori
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    With a Scottish name…
    Her current husband is Samoan, so the Maoriness is getting more and more diluted.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:23am
- Flossie
  
  And when said journalist was married to Duncan Garner she also had a white sounding first name.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:29am
  - Rumblestrip
    
    So birth name was actually Joanne Forbes and “Mihingarangi” is just something she ostentatiously assigned herself in university? That seems like a metaphor for something…
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:16am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Joanne Forbes is a prime example of faux white virtue signaling guilt, and the ludicrous situation where someone who’s DNA is clearly only fractionally Maori, identifies as Maori.
  
  The notion of Forbes being ‘Maori’ is almost as ludicrous as a man identifying as a woman.
  
  There is no ‘oppression’ of anyone in NZ. There is no ‘tyranny of the majority’.
  
  There WAS a young country finding it’s way in the world. Addressing historical issues. Egalitarian, peaceful, beautiful.
  Then the wrecking ball called Ardern came along and amplified and accelerated the racist underbelly that used to be on the fringes, by kowtowing to the lunatics in the Maori Party.
  
  Add to that the destruction of health and education, division during covid, tyranny, abuses of human rights. The woman should be in a cell awaiting trial, not being feted around the globe as a ‘leader’ to be admired.
  
  My contempt for that fish and chip wrapper knows no bounds.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:30am
  - KH
    
    My vote was driven in part by concern about Tyranny of the Minority.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:38am
  - Positan
    
    If she should return to this country (it’s reported she’s been looking at houses in Sydney), she’ll almost certainly be need of 24-hour security at her home and wherever she goes for the rest of her life. Not something to look forward to in any way at all.
    
    I fervently hope that, after all the carnage she is solely responsible for having inflicted, the NZ state will be in no way encumbered with the cost.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:04am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    There is a similar decolonisation wave in America. The activists were triggered by the Thanksgiving holiday, urging Americans to not celebrate the colonisation of Native Americans.
    
    Matt Walsh pointed out that getting depressed and angry about something that happened 300 years ago is literally insane. He also made a good point that 300 years ago life was brutal for most people, including white people.
    
    https://youtu.be/RjJlquB7nJc?si=VCWQouvnPOhjQ9Mv
    
    The same applies in New Zealand. In the early 19th century life was short and brutal for Maori in New Zealand. And here we are 200 years later with people wailing about the need to “decolonise”. Well that is absurd and it cannot happen. As long as this nonsense goes on, we will never be able to make New Zealand into the thriving country it should be.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:06am
    - goNZ1
      
      The refusal to admit to any of the benefits of British and European colonization of NZ is absurd and dishonest. The stopping of cannibalism and slavery for example. Clothing,lipstick,celphones,broadband,KFC, the list is endless. And even with the Special Rights enjoyed by Maori in this country e.g customary fishing, many of them who want to get ahead in life have moved to Queensland…
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:32am
      - artemisia
        
        Especially lipstick. Though there was and is the inked lips option.
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:06am
      - Paulus
        
        You mean even the learning of reading, writing and arithmetic ?
        And the wheel.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:19am
      - Beach Haven expat
        
        Don’t forget blonde hair dye as a benefit. Joanne hasn’t.
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:13pm
    - rouppe
      
      The thing is, they don’t want to decolonise, if that means remove everything colonisation brought.
      
      They want to end people with no sliver of Maori ancestry, but keep all the advantages they brought.
      
      It’s completely dishonest.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:48am
    - Taieri
      
      And here we are 200 years later with people wailing about the need to “decolonise”. Well that is absurd and it cannot happen.
      ————-
      
      What would it mean in practice anyway? Taking the country back to its pre-1840 Nirvana?
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:14am
    - Matt Long
      
      The first Thanksgiving in the merican tradition was 400 years ago.
      
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      November 26, 2023 11:25am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      This is what de-colonisation means!
      
      “These festival goers are not innocent civilians, they are settlers,” she says. “So they deserved it?” she was asked. “Yes, every settler.”
      
      The funny thing about this – if you like black comedy (“oh no, there I go again”) – is the number of people starting to wake up to what de-colonisation means for them personally, starting with Lefty Jews
      
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      November 26, 2023 11:49am
- artemisia
  
  Has she suggested what measurable social benefits – outcomes – she has in mind? Be good to see them laid on the table.
  
  Hint – inputs are not outcomes. That may come as a surprise to some.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:33am
  - rouppe
    
    And what are you going to say when she says something like “no Maori in poverty”?
    
    Because how do you achieve something like that without disadvantaging others? Forbes displays racism with a statement like that because if there is to be such a goal, it should be “no New Zealander in poverty”.
    
    Then you get to providing the tools and means for everyone to do their best, but inevitably some will not. And some of those will be Maori. Which allows people like Forbes to point to that failure, while pointing to the success of you and me, and call that difference racism.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:54am
    - Beach Haven expat
      
      She fails to see her own story (part Maori, broken home, lived in some rural area iirc) undoes the no opportunity mantra.
      Or that instead of telling Maori they can’t through her moaning, be the example that they can.
      Whatever people may think of her politics, she’s made a success of her life through her own talent and drive.. Why then limit others in their aspiration?
      
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      November 26, 2023 7:19pm
- Jethrod
  
  The social benefits will be that more Maori will be in paid employment.
  Joanne…… she with the flash blue dress and long single strand of pearls. No tiki or grass skirt for her
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:47am
- Ipanema69
  
  Completely agree. Does Joanna work for tvnz. If so how about we sell it preferably to fox news?
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:10am
  - Vinicius
    
    Forbes works currently for Red Radio RNZ.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/radionz/presenters/mihingarangi-forbes
    
    Her bio is here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihingarangi_Forbes
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:18am
- kevn
  
  Tom… She is a late arrival but has clipped on to the gravy train quickly. Just bringing in the bacon.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:25am
  - pdm
    
    kev I am pretty sure she has been around Tv docos etc for10maybe 15 years.
    
    BTW did I read last week that her husband/partner is Maori and is on one of the Labour initiated gravy trains. Maybe 3/5/10/AllWaters but not sure of the exact one.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:01am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She’s married to Afa/Arthur Rasmussen – of Samoan heritage –
      
      He’s a cameraman…..
      https://www.onemoreshot.co.nz/
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:31am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Had a row in the pub last night with an islander woman saying it’s going to get tough for Māori, I said why, she said they will get all rights taken off them, I raised my voice and said why the f…. Do they need special rights
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:30pm
- Beach Haven expat
  
  New Zealand has reached a point in its history where the Treaty needs to be debated because of the division interpretations are causing so it can move forward. All New Zealanders have to be involved in that decision.
  Yes it may not be a pleasant conversation but a people deciding how they want their country run is not a bad thing.
  
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  November 26, 2023 7:08pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/hit-and-run-murder-killer-avoids-minimum-life-in-jail-as-judge-deems-it-unduly-harsh/

A woman, whose actions were ” consistent with panic and impulsivity”, Hits her historically violent Ex a low speed with a car. He hangs on, falls off, hits his head and dies later in hospital.

She gets 17 years and is required to serve 7.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/133333761/i-hope-my-brothers-face-haunts-him-anger-at-onekick-killers-punishment

Young man kicks a stranger in the head, stranger dies in hospital days later.

Young man gets 2 years and leave to apply for home detention, and may be out by Christmas.

Welcome to the Justice system, New Zealand style. The new Minister of Justice has a lot to fix.
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November 26, 2023 8:13am
- goNZ1
  
  An outrageous outcome for harassing then murdering a random stranger !
  Even the thought of giving him HD, so he can do it again to someone else is incredible.
  The money saved from binning the Auckland light rail fantasy project would be well spent on building more prison capacity to keep these criminals locked up for longer.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:40am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Hell, no. Just triple bunk them.
    
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    November 26, 2023 7:37pm
John Loveridge

A brief scan of the country’s mainstream media websites this morning reveals almost entirely negative stories about the new Government. It looks like the new regime won’t get any sort of honeymoon period at all. Contrast this with the cringing adulation of Ardern that continued incessantly for years in the face of all her egregious failures.
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November 26, 2023 8:19am
- kowtow
  
  tv1 “news” last night also took a negative tone in substance and detail.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:45am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    You are a tiny minority, or over 70. That is the only demographic that watches TV news.
    
    Turn off, tune it out, you will be happier and better informed for doing so.
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:00am
    - kowtow
      
      And you sir are an impudent rascal who has no idea of my age , my mental status or my motivation for tuning into tv1 “news.”
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:39pm
      - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
        
        Heh
        
        It has been many years since I was last referred to as an impudent rascal – thank you!
        
        I upvoted you anyway. This Deity was taught to be respectful of his elders, even when they were shouting at clouds.
        🙂
        
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        November 26, 2023 2:22pm
sirknz

Yeah, this is hardly the average kid’s experience is it:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/301014657/astin-parore-20-says-art-business-turning-over-six-figures-there-is-a-certain-stigma

Has nothing to do with his mum and her contacts acquired by her experiences in and around the rich list…
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November 26, 2023 8:19am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Well it got him free publicity for the family business – Mum knows how to do publicity.
  
  Funny how rich kids always keep turning up – ahem, Lorde anyone – Nepo kids is I believe the term.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:02am
  - MCōs
    
    I’m not quite sure why you have referenced Lorde?
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:43pm
iMP

NAPOLEON movie, Joaquin Phoenix. Pretty disappointing after such high expectations. I think the Rod Steiger (1970) one is much better. 4/10.
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November 26, 2023 8:23am
- Biscuit
  
  Was thinking of going to see that, iMP.
  
  Might need to reappraise that thinking!
  
  Trouble is, I have $100 of movie cards to use between now and late December and, for the life of me, I can’t see a single other movie about that I’d want to sit through.
  
  And this is BEFORE those infernal ‘Transformers 69′ or similar kiddies’ flicks hit the theatres to FURTHER reduce my ‘selection’..
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:33am
  - artemisia
    
    Transformers 69 could be ummm interesting.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:47am
    - Biscuit
      
      Down, artemisia, down!
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:52am
  - pdm
    
    Better to sit at home and watch the Magnificent Seven Biscuit. The Steve McQueen version of course.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:51am
    - Ipanema69
      
      Or the Great Escape? Or for that matter anything with Steve in it!
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:11am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Followed by one of my favourites, ‘The Getaway’!
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:15am
    - OlderChas
      
      There is/are other version/s worthy of being called The Magnificent Seven pdm?
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:24am
      - pdm
        
        Don’t know chas – that was a just in case there were.
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:04am
      - kowtow
        
        The 7 Samurai, 1954 . Haven’t watched it but was the inspiration , apparently.
        
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        November 26, 2023 4:11pm
      - Beach Haven expat
        
        First or second episode of second season of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet was Return of the Magnificent Seven and was class. As were all eps of the first two series.
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:25pm
    - Biscuit
      
      Or any of the six movie I have of a Magnificent Liverpool Eleven winning one of them European Cup thingies, pdm!
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:54am
      - pdm
        
        The inevitable Liverpool video binge.
        
        You can take the man away from the scousers – but you cannot take the scouser out of Biscuit!!!
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:06am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The big headline movies are seldom the best ones, IMO. I sort of want to see Napoleon, but it has some pretty bad reviews and is 2.5 hours long. Likewise, Oppenheimer was okay, but three hours is too much. Asteroid City was about the best mainstream one I’ve seen this year – 105 minutes is okay. I’d go to Killers of the Flower Moon, but it’s well over 3 hours.
    We’re lucky to have the Lighthouse Cinema in Petone, where there is nearly always something worth watching.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:08am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I enjoyed Oppenheimer, it was probably an hour too long, but the story was well told and the acting was good.
      I didn’t know the full story re the politics behind it all. Found it very interesting. Took my 13 year old daughter and she handled it surprisingly well.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:17am
      - Lee C
        
        I rewatched Rocky (1) last night.
        
        It was pure pleasure.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:35am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Got half an hour in to Oppenheimer.
      Just people trying to be profound .
      No real humour evident.
      
      In my opinion , if you don’t have a sense of humour you shouldn’t be anywhere near a nuclear bomb.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:23am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        lol
        
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        November 26, 2023 9:55am
      - Lee C
        
        I’m actually impressed.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:36am
    - TripeWryter
      
      Mikenmild: I saw Napoleon on Friday.
      It’s fine. It might not be historically accurate but so what. It’s a movie and not a documentary.
      I didn’t notice the time or length. It’s not dull.
      That’s my take, anyway.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:46am
- CrazyIvan
  
  Cheers. I was going to wait for the 4hour version on AppleTV. But I agree that the Waterloo movie was fantastic, with a great cast including Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles, and 15,000 Ukranian extras.
  
  Napolean seems about as accurate as most of Scott’s other historical movies (ie not much unfortunately)
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:11am
- greybeard
  
  Is Joaquin Phoenix’s French accent as non-existent as Kevin Costner’s English one in “Robin Hood”?
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:12am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    It’s always seemed a bit silly to me that someone playing a foreigner in an English-language movie should on an accent. I think the audience can accept that Napoleon didn’t speak English at all, let alone with an accent from Allo Allo.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:23am
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      Good point
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:45am
- Inandout
  
  iMP, well be thanfull for small mercies in that Napoleon wasn’t cast as a black man.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:27am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Inandout – or woman…..
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:56am
    - lifesgood
      
      Having a woman as Dr Who was an absolute travesty.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:13am
    - Beach Haven expat
      
      Put a chick in it. And make her gay.
      
      South Park has had an exceptional year with Panderverse and the Harry and Meghan takedown.
      
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      November 26, 2023 7:29pm
- MCōs
  
  In my experience books are invariably far better than movies, which almost always fiddle round with the truth for dramatic effect.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:32am
  - John Loveridge
    
    Mine too. I’d rather read a couple of books I have here on Napoleon, currently working their way up to the top of my reading list, than go see the movie. Long experience has taught me that the movie is generally disappointing.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:50am
- kowtow
  
  imp
  
  The Steiger one was not about the Little Corsican , twas about his 100 days and his timely demise at Waterloo.
  
  And while admittedly very enjoyable ( music excellent) it had some pretty major inaccuracies .
  
  particularly showing British squares broken ( never happened) and those huge flaming fiery cannon explosions ( when much of their shot actually ended up in the mud, which is arguably one of the reasons the Frogs lost)
  
  Having said that , don’t let me put anyone off . Great film.Highly recommended.
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:45pm
Master Mariner

This could take on a life of its own ?

https://gcaptain.com/israeli-managed-vessel-hit-by-suspected-iranian-drone/
https://www.marinelink.com/news/us-reviewing-possible-terrorist-509649
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/25/israeli-owned-ship-targeted-in-suspected-iranian-drone-attack-reports

This will result in High Insurance premiums ( More expensive to carry cargo) and potential closure / reduction of Suez if attacks continue from Yemen.

Looking at Marine Traffic site, All vessels have turned of there tracking ( AIS) transponders.
https://www.marinetraffic.org/BAB-EL-MANDEB-STRAIT/ship-traffic-tracker

Maybe the US Carrier Group has deployed too the wrong Region ?
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November 26, 2023 8:25am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The US military is way too thinly spread around the globe. Also their recruitment drive was over 20% below what they needed just to sustain current numbers.
  So much so, they’re begging personnel mandated out of the military (for not taking the covid jabs) to come back. All is forgiven. We’ll even correct your military record so it doesn’t show a dishonourable discharge.
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-invites-back-vaccine-refusing-soldiers-amid-recruitment-crisis-2023-11
  
  Unsurprisingly, not too many have taken them up on the offer.
  
  Only 43 of more than 8,000 discharged from US military for refusing Covid vaccine have rejoined
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/us-military-covid-vaccine/index.html
  
  The lunatic covid policies have done more damage to the planet than any other event in the last hundred years or more. It’s beyond just the health aspect. It’s next level societal destruction and it has to be addressed. Soon.
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:32am
Chuck Bird

Israel-Hamas war: Violence will never deliver peace in Palestine – Is this justice?

This premium but is by Jew hating Shane Te Pou so not worth reading.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/israel-hamas-war-violence-will-never-deliver-peace-in-palestine-is-this-justice/DURMQKRAMBDXNOHKN43IX25VGI/
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November 26, 2023 8:25am
- artemisia
  
  Hamas trying to renege on the hostage/ ceasefire deal. Play silly games, win not so silly prizes.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:29am
  - Paulus
    
    What did you expect from the mad men of Hamas ?
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:22am
- MCōs
  
  What’s your problem with that opinion piece except you don’t like Shane Te Pou?
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:43am
- Chuck Bird
  
  He blames Israel for what the sub human scum did on 7 Oct. His call for a permanent cease fire makes as much sense as the US accepting a cease fire after Pearl Habour.
  
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  November 26, 2023 8:52am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That bit about the US after Pearl Harbour is mentioned in the piece below by Benjamin Netanyahu.
    Remember, without the Americans we could be speaking Japanese.
    The atom bombs were a terrible thing, but had to be done. I had an Aunty from Hiroshima.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:58am
  - MCōs
    
    He doesn’t say that in that piece.
    Conversely Netanyahu’s popularity in Israel has nosedived because he didn’t protect them from the attack.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:13am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      “I want to make clear Israel’s position regarding a ceasefire. Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of October 7.”
      
      Seems fairly clear to me. It is an opinion piece by Benjamin Netanyahu.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:29am
      - MCōs
        
        I think the general opinion is he didn’t do enough to prevent the attack in the first place.
        Makes sense
        Israel (and the US) spend billions on defence and a rag tag bunch of fanatics on motorbikes and utes can tear around killing all those people and taking a shit load of hostages.
        
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        November 26, 2023 9:44am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Mcos
        There is also the five hour delay in the Israeli response to consider.
        I thought they were pretty hot on border control.
        This delay is out of character .
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:01am
    - goNZ1
      
      Hamas were planning that attack for years so I can’t see why Bibi gets all the blame,what about the others in the lead previously?
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:45am
    - Master Mariner
      
      I think you will find the opposite.
      Netanyahu’s Popularity was dismal before the attack.
      
      Not really sure but I assume his popularity would of increased after the attack, It always does in times of Chaos and Fear to band together.
      
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      November 26, 2023 9:56am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Chuck Bird – can you reference where he blames Israel for October 7th? I’ve read it and can’t see where he says that.
    
    Also, I didn’t see anything than sounded remotely like ‘Jew hating’. Again, if you can find the part you think applies, please quote it.
    
    No, I don’t support Hamas, no, I’m not anti semitic. I think what’s happening in the ME is as terrible as what is happening in Ukraine and what is happening in Yemen. Probably a few other places that aren’t important enough to make it to mainstream media.
    
    Mainly because I dislike it when innocent people are killed for no good reason.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:53am
    - MCōs
      
      My wife said to me yesterday, why isn’t the fighting in Myanmar ever on the news?
      
      She watches Thai news every day and commented about the number of suicides over there. I googled the numbers and told her it’s worse here.
      Of course when someone kills themselves here the info is censored.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:03am
      - Che Guava
        
        The fighting in Myanmar is never on the news simply because nobody who decides what is and isn’t on the news has any interest in rallying support for a side in that conflict. This is true for the majority of the conflicts that are playing out every day around the world, often more bloody than this one.
        
        In conflicts like Ukraine and Palestine, there is a need among elite decision makers for public support for the conflicts they are waging in pursuit of their interests, which is why we are exposed to avalanches of PR slogans and propaganda telling us we must “Stand with Ukraine” and to “crush the Arab menace” and so on.
        
        This selectivity alone tells us that morality isn’t the issue, it is about interests.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:13am
      - Master Mariner
        
        Ill give you an update.
        Militias in the North and NE have bandied together and giving the Military a run for there money.
        I think the militia near Thai border as well. Southern border.
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:08pm
  - Ghost
    
    You’ve placed your own prejudice into the article when reading it.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:58am
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    He was positively unhinged of the working group podcast, citing Mandela and the IRA as proof armed struggle works – but conveniently ignoring both had to renounce violence before a peace process could progress.
    Is the inability to use the unhook credit card for, ahem, stress relief getting to Shane?
    
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    November 26, 2023 7:33pm
- Inandout
  
  CB, what in hell would STP know about that part of the Middle East? Another inane cry in the wilderness.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:30am
goNZ1

Today’s joke on taxpayers is from the CRL boss,as well as not promising a 2026 completion date says-

“Of the ever-expanding $5.5b bill, Sweeney said: “at the moment, we’re still okay and feeling we’ve got enough money but there’s no way I would guarantee”. It should be noted that this cost does not include additional operational expenses like 23 trains being built in Mexico.

“I’ve been in this game a long time and I’ve stopped guaranteeing numbers and dates because you’re actually making up you have more knowledge and control than you do,” he said. “I’ve stopped in my career some time ago promising ministers and mayors certainty.”

This little stretch of rail line is a COMPLETE CLUSTER !!
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November 26, 2023 8:29am
- JJ56
  
  I think that tells us a lot about why transport infrastructure construction has such poor performance in terms of cost and timeliness.
  
  If you are making up numbers and dates you shouldn’t have started.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:07am
KH

A long read and mostly about the war. Also this interesting line.
“…….Wokeness, she argues, runs counter to the Enlightenment’s commitment to universalism and justice and its belief in progress……”
https://archive.ph/gBitN
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November 26, 2023 8:31am
Littletramp

A para from Waikato Times article https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/politics/350118859/whose-treaty-it-anyway-national-led-government-takes-two-stage-approach-changing

“Jackson said both Seymour’s and Peters’ views on this stood in contrast to prime ministers of the past, Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern, who all supported the Cooke decision”.

Anyone spot the obvious difference between Peters & Seymour compared with notables such as Bolger/Shipley/Clark/Ardern – hint it has to do with ancestry?
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November 26, 2023 8:37am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Opinion by BY BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
If Hamas, Iran win, the rest of the civilised World is next.
“While Israel is doing everything to get Palestinian civilians out of harm’s way, Hamas is doing everything to keep Palestinian civilians in harm’s way.”
The Hamas animals want Palestinians as human shields.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/netanyahu-if-hamas-iran-win-the-rest-of-the-civilized-world-is-next-opinion/ar-AA1kvOzS?
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November 26, 2023 8:39am
- KH
  
  “…….the rest of the world is next…..”
  Sounds like the Domino Theory Steve. And we know that didn’t work out, despite lots of marketing.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I did not write this, Benjamin Netanyahu did.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:31am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  If Israel is doing everything it can to protect civilians, it’s doing a pretty lousy job. Over 4,000 children killed so far.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:12am
  - mandk
    
    If the IDF had the same murderous intent as Hamas, it would be 400,000 by now.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:18am
  - Cassandra
    
    Israel is doing a great deal more than Hamas to avoid killing children. If Hamas allowed civilians to leave the north then the war would be short and the casualties fewer.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:29am
  - Jennycraigsfailure
    
    Never ceases to amaze me that people take the so called figures put forward by Hamas as true and correct, they have been proven as liars time and again.
    Yes children have been killed, haven’t heard of any Palestinian children having their eyes gouged out, been burnt, having their throats slit in front of their parents.
    Haven’t,thank God, seen any babies cut from their mother wombs and cut up like dog food by any Israeli.
    But as long as we have Hamas to rely on for honesty and true figures I guess we can sleep soundly.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:35am
    - Ian Boag
      
      eyes gouged out, been burnt, having their throats slit
      
      Living in a building that has a ton of high explosive dropped on it has similar sort of effects. Just not as barbaric when done from an Israeli F-16 …..
      
      I am not a Hamas supporter. Israel is between a rock and a hard place in that Hamas have highlighted their problem of what to do with the 3m or so people whose ancestors were displaced in 1948.
      
      Somehow sending them all to Egypt doesn’t feel like a feasible solution that the world would go along with.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:09am
      - Taieri
        
        Somehow sending them all to Egypt
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        They can’t be “sent” to Egypt. Egypt doesn’t want them. Nobody does.
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:12am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Taieri – they aren’t even wanted in their own homeland since it was colonized and renamed.
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Exactly Ian. It doesn’t make much difference to a baby to be burned to death versus having its throat cut. Similarly, don’t expect grieving parents to be consoled by being told that their children were killed as collateral damage in a legitimate military attack.
        
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        November 26, 2023 10:24am
      - Tom Hunter
        
        “I am not in a position to isolate this occurrence from the occurrences of 1943, 1944, and 1945 where with my own hands I took children and women out of the burning asphalt myself, and with my own hands I took big blocks of stone from the stomachs of pregnant women; and with my own eyes I saw 60,000 people die within 24 hours.
        …
        The fact that individual men killed civilians face to face is looked upon as terrible and is pictured as specially gruesome because the order was clearly given to kill these people; but I cannot morally evaluate a deed any better, a deed which makes it possible, by pushing a button, to kill a much larger number of civilians, men, women, and children.”
        
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        November 26, 2023 12:13pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Would you be happier if only 2,000 children had been killed so far?
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:19am
      - Jennycraigsfailure
        
        I would have been happier if Hamas stayed home on Oct 7th, then no children would have died.
        
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        November 26, 2023 1:44pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    With the latest revelations of extensive tunnel and bunker systems under the hospital, as well as footage of medical staff interacting with Hamas and lying about it, it is clear that Palestinians are not the innocent and blameless party the marxists would like us to believe.
    
    There is no doubt that the death toll would be far greater if the IDF were not showing restraint and took a full on guns blazing approach.
    
    The Palestinian people are culpable in this war, they are not universally opposed to the goals of Hamas. Many are active supporters.
    
    Hamas are happy to use the Palestinian civilian population as its shield. Building the infrastructure it has underneath a hospital is clear evidence of this. They are quite happy to put civilians in harms way to boost their propaganda about the evil Israelis.
    
    I would rather live in a democracy like Israel than under Hamas extremist Islamic rule. So I support the Israeli right to defend their country.
    
    The only problem with this war, is that it appears to be like fighting a Hydra. If they are successful at cutting off the head of Hamas, how many other heads will grow back in its place? Some of which appear to be growing inside NZ with the help of the Marxist Greens. How do we go about getting rid of that head before it starts to hurt our people?
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:54am
    - KH
      
      It was well established yesterday Pineapple that the tunnels etc were built by the Israelis who built the hospital way back.
      See yesterday’s general blog.
      Presumably no evil intent, just part of the infrastructure.
      Both side of course do outrageous propaganda. Don’t take anything at face value from either.
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:45pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        This is not true
        You should stop telling lies. Denying that Hamas has built an extensive Tunnel system and that the Hospital is not a Hamas base is just dumb and reveals your bias and animus against Jews
        Its disgraceful
        https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/notes-from-underground.php
        
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        November 26, 2023 1:02pm
      - KH
        
        Read before ranting Red. Inventing things to rant about does not help you.
        
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        November 26, 2023 3:40pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        You didn’t even read the link did you
        Open your eyes and have a look
        Incontrovertible proof of Hamas tunnel network below the Hospital and how it was one of their main Bases.
        Thats a War Crime
        But. hey I guess if you stay in denial you wont have to confront how your views are wrong
        You’re becoming the resident poster child for Dunning Kruger effect.
        
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        November 26, 2023 4:02pm
      - KH
        
        Didn’t rant either.
        
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        November 26, 2023 5:22pm
  - CJames
    
    How do you know 4000 have been killed milky? Is that a Hamas number like all those killed in the hospital carpark by an Israeli bomb?
    And Palestinians had their homeland – it was the eastern side of the TransJordan Protectorate. The few thousand that left in 1947-48 voluntarily left because they thought they could regain their lands and much more after a victorious war. And as a starter for 10, why doesn’t Lebanon, Syria, Jordan or Egypt, want any people from West Bank of Gaza? Is that racism?
    
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    November 26, 2023 12:22pm
    - MCōs
      
      “why doesn’t (sic) Lebanon, Syria, Jordan or Egypt, want any people from West Bank of (sic) Gaza?”
      
      Easy enough for you to say. It’s not you being forced out of your homeland .
      If Samoa, or Tonga became uninhabitable would you be in favour of 1-2k of them relocating to NZ?
      
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      November 26, 2023 2:55pm
  - Beach Haven expat
    
    They’re doing as badly as they are with their genocide programme. On a population that is growing.
    Did the Israelis put Twyford in charge of their extermination programme?
    
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    November 26, 2023 7:36pm
- Che Guava
  
  “If Hamas, Iran win, the rest of the civilised World is next.”
  
  Really? I don’t think so Benny. Hamas and Iran are Israel’s problem. Beyond that, I think the rest of us will be perfectly fine.
  
  Obviously, the guy is desperate for Western support, but any objective assessment of this outrageous claim finds it is hysterical nonsense.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:18am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Love how you ignore the ongoing conflict between the Sauds and Iran.
    But its all about the Jews for you eh.
    
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    November 26, 2023 12:02pm
    - Che Guava
      
      What does that have to do with anything? The relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with Europe and the Anglosphere. Regional conflicts in the Middle East are not high on my list of priorities, actually. And moreover, it’s not all about the Jews for you? Clearly it is.
      
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      November 26, 2023 12:11pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Interesting you dont think parts of the ME like Saudi Arabia is ‘the civilised world’
        Iran is clearly a problem for the Sauds- and others in the Region.
        You wriggle a lot when you are shown up.
        Still believing those Russian Propaganda sites you love so much?
        You and KH are so funny with your sources.
        Lol
        
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        November 26, 2023 1:06pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Not too sure on that CG.
    Without many realising this is turning out to another great Crusade.
    Islam vs everyone else.
    First time in History , All Islamic leaders agreed and met in KSA.
    They put there personal grievences aside and spoke with one voice.
    This in my mind is a major issue hadly reported about.
    Having spent a lot of time in the region , I fully understand the meaning of Infidel.
    In these peoples eyes, All none Islam followers are Infidels.
    
    In my mind, It appears the war is going for 2 very different outcomes by those involved.
    
    Makes you wonder if anyone realises , and when. ?
    
    The War is turning into a Religous War.
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:54pm
Bridgenag

How Dare You Be Happy When I am Miserable?
There is a lot of shaming going on.

……..Climate change? Take shorter showers, get off the land, stop flying, and change your diet to lab-grown poison, would you? We obviously won’t—but we are in a different league. Look pla-a-a-a-anet!! Shame on you, little guy, shame on you!
The plague? Mask up, especially when having sex. Close your business. Go hungry. Hey, kill yourself for all we care as long as you comply. There are trillions at stake for us, and we really need you to go comply this time. WE are the science and the facts, so DO. YOUR. PART. Shame on you, little guy, shame on you.
Cynically, underneath each corporate campaign to shame for “public good,” there is a money trail. Why? Because the dealers of fear and angst are dishonest human beings who, on top of being dishonest, are distorting science and weaponizing pain. The tragic truth is that the people who are commanding us are predators, and they are unqualified to moralize or teach others about moralizing. We have a vortex where the formal heart of the society is supposed to be. Conformity is silly………

https://open.substack.com/pub/tessa/p/how-dare-you-be-happy-when-i-am-miserable?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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November 26, 2023 8:45am
Southern Raider

The Left has sunk to the newest of lows

They are now attacking Mike King. The guy is a legend and done more for youth mental health than any Labour government.

Jacinda “allocates” $1,5B for mental health and achieves nothing.

I Am Hope charity gets $6M and he’s now a turn coat Māori who has never delivered anything
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November 26, 2023 8:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Time to ignore the squealing of the left.
  We won, you lost, eat shit.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:34am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Waitangi day should be fun in February. 🤡 Maybe that sex toy thrower will make a comeback.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:42am
  - goNZ1
    
    It is about time it was renamed New Zealand Day,to celebrate all the cultures that have contributed to building our nation.
    If I was Luxon and co. I wouldn’t bother going to Waitangi on 6 Feb , all that does is give the separatists a platform to abuse the govt to their faces live on TV.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:53am
Surely Knott

I am currently teaching my teen to drive and so am hyper aware of how much more difficult the road environment is with significantly more people, cycles and lime scooters. We encountered a couple of situations in the last few days: a person walking out in the middle the road despite a red light on the pedestrian crossing; crossing on the road at the multi-lane roundabout instead of the pedestrian crossing that was just installed a metre down the road; and someone standing on the flush median where cars needed to turn into from a side street when there was a lighted crossing a few metres away.

We’ve had a lot of rules in the goal of vision zero and obstacles to make the driver act more safely, but none for the pedestrian.

Should we have a rule like Australia that makes it an offence to cross a road within 20 metres of a pedestrian crossing at a place other than the pedestrian crossing.

And same for cycle paths.
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November 26, 2023 9:04am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Something that is dangerous is pedestrians crossing roads or railway tracks listening to music on headphones. They lose situational awareness.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:47am
  - Biscuit
    
    Indeed, Benedict.
    
    From my 1985 travel diaries:
    
    I day-tripped out to Windsor and did the long, long walk – it’s not called The Long Walk for nothing – from the Castle to the Copper Horse 2.6 miles km away. The road, and I should have twigged, is a closed-to-the-public road and hence is most likely to be used either by a Royal or a Royal flunky. Anyways, I was strolling along, mid road, headphones on, music blaring, and I got parped by a Landrover that wanted past, I turned around, made that gesture of apology that you do when you realise you’re being a klutz and a young, blonde woman waved as she went past. No idea if it was Princess Diana or not but hey, these are my journals and my fantasies, right, so it were her, okay!
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:14am
    - All_on_Red
      
      You were lucky she didn’t have a drunk Chauffer driving…
      You might have become a crumbed Biscuit
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:19am
- Taieri
  
  But it’s only The Speed that kills…
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:10am
- All_on_Red
  
  We do have the same Law for Jaywalking as Australia
  https://samsfaqs.com/is-jaywalking-illegal-in-nz/
  Never enforced of course.
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:16am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I recall being on a light controlled pedestrian crossing in Tokyo. There were no cars coming, so I momentarily thought about crossing against the light, which I do in New Zealand if I am confident that it is safe. Just in time I remembered where I was, and waited with everyone else 🙂
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:40am
  - miltonF
    
    My bad, didn’t see your comment. I’ve just duplicated.
    
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    November 26, 2023 3:38pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Then there are idiots like me who run diagonally across the road at Waikiki Beach. Got a lecture from a 5 ft nothing female cop. I was running to help a guy who was hit by a falling palm frond. Told the bitch she could do it herself next time. Then another lecture about being a good samaritan.
  Ha! spoke to another Cop the next day who said “yes I know who you mean.”
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:31am
- miltonF
  
  It already is an offence to cross the road within 20m of a pedestrian crossing. Jaywalking. The police never enforce it though.
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:38pm
Bridgenag

Pfizer Sues Poland, Demanding Money for Undelivered and Unwanted COVID Vaccines.
I think that Poland should SUE PFIZER

After achieving a modest 57% COVID vaccination rate and seeing the vaccines not live up to the promise, Poles refused additional Pfizer COVID vaccine doses around April 2022.
Can Pfizer explain, for example, why Sweden’s deaths continued to go up as the country was vaccinated, while Poland’s deaths went down after Poland refused COVID vaccines?

https://open.substack.com/pub/igorchudov/p/pfizer-sues-poland-demanding-money?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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November 26, 2023 9:05am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The World needs Nuremberg 2.0.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:39am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

JFK, more than one shooter?

IMO it was the Democrats who instigated this. They did not like where JFK was heading and it interfered with their corruption. The beginning of the Swamp.

https://therecorddaily.com/renowned-filmmaker-rob-reiner-unveils-new-evidence-in-jfk-assassination-claiming-multiple-shooters/?
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November 26, 2023 9:10am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Crazy. There was one shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, a failed defector with multiple grudges. See Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:15am
  - Inandout
    
    m&m, your lack of understanding knows no bounds.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:32am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Someone wrote a book so Mike must be right.
      
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      November 26, 2023 10:33am
  - Ghost
    
    Hmmm, who to believe? People who actually witnessed Kennedy’s wounds, or Mike?
    
    Was a good doco, worth watching.
    
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    November 26, 2023 9:44am
    - G152
      
      Mike has the brain capacity that JFK had after being hit by the bullet
      
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      November 26, 2023 11:36am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I’ve read ‘JFK and the unspeakable’.
      
      JFK and the Unspeakable is a book by theologian and Catholic Worker James W. Douglass that analyzes the presidency of John F. Kennedy and the events surrounding his assassination. Douglass proposes that the “unspeakable” is the multifarious modern Satan that took the form of a movement in the upper reaches of Kennedy’s own national security state to kill the president as he made a radical and inspired turn toward peace. The book provides context to understand why the assassins of JFK would take the monumental risk of killing a U.S. President, then running a cover-up for decades.0 Kennedy himself left behind hand-written notes to himself, quoting Abraham Lincoln: “I know there is a God — and I see a storm coming; If he has a place for me, I believe that I am ready.”
      
      I’m currently reading ‘The hidden history of the Kennedy years – Brothers’.
      
      Both books study the period in depth. References and quotes to key actors at the time, famous and not so famous.
      
      I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that there was a conspiracy, that this included members of the US government and security services, it included members of the underworld, and it almost certainly included members of the Cuban exile community in Florida and elsewhere.
      
      There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that Lee Harvey Oswald carried out that act on his own. As he said in his own words. “I’m a patsy”.
      
      It’s a bit like the implications of the vax experiment we’ve been subjected. Every shred of evidence indicates that the jabs are responsible for many deaths and many more injuries, but people like Mike will still claim ‘correlation is not causation’.
      
      There comes a point where irrefutable proof is no longer, there is more than enough circumstantial evidence.
      
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      November 27, 2023 7:23am
  - Eugene
    
    Oswald was a bitter loser with delusions as to his destiny for greatness and a violent disposition. The evidence that he did the shooting is overwhelming. No one put him up to it – he was a loner who rebelled angainst all authority, wouldn’t take orders and was highly unstable. Even if he accepted instructions from someone the idea that the mafia, CIA or anyone else would entrust the crime of the century and indeed their own lives to him is ridiculous. There was no realistic evidence of a second shooter – pointing out minor potential inconsistencies against the mountain of evidence doesn’t count. These doctors are trying to make a few final bucks before they shuffle off. Kennedy was only in the Parkland trauma room for minutes. There was pandemonium trying to deal with the head wound to save his life. No one investigated the throat wound and they never turned him over to see the real entrance wound in his back – they didn’t know the wound was there. Their thoughts coming 60 years later are worth nothing and the fact that this is promulgated by Rob Reiner should be enough to show this story is fake and should be ignored.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:54am
    - Ghost
      
      No, the throat wound was observed when doing the tracheotomy
      
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      November 26, 2023 11:19am
      - Eugene
        
        Yes they knew the neck wound was there. The tracheotomy was done almost immediately by Dr Perry as he could see Kennedy was struggling to breathe. He noticed there was already a small hole in the throat – which he was told was a wound. He used that hole for the tracheotomy and didn’t investigate it before doing so. He never saw the entrance wound in Kennedy’s back.
        
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        November 26, 2023 11:58am
    - Steve Todd
      
      The evidence that he did the shooting is overwhelming.
      
      This is patent nonsense. See, for example, http://22november1963.org.uk/oswald-guilty-or-not-guilty, and the first two links in my response to mikenmildagain, immediately below.
      
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      November 26, 2023 4:43pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    @mikenmildagain @ 9:15AM
    
    Lee Harvey Oswald was set up; he was a patsy. He was not even on the Sixth Floor that lunchtime. See https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/oswald-on-november-22-1963.
    
    A new-generation JFK Assassination researcher, Johnny Cairns, is currently writing a six-part essay, in which he argues for Lee Harvey Oswald’s complete innocence.
    
    “In this multi-part essay, I’ve assembled 60 critical points—both facts and queries—that not only challenge the Commission’s primary conclusions but also strongly argue for Oswald’s complete innocence. The widely accepted narrative that portrays Oswald as the assassin begins to crumble under rigorous scrutiny, especially when faced with a torrent of evidence teeming with inconsistencies and contamination.”
    
    (See the first four parts, starting here: https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/part-1-of-6-no-motive-plus-the-silenced-witnesses.)
    
    As for Case Closed, by Gerald Posner, see Martin Hay’s 5-part review / destruction of this execrable book, starting here: https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/case-closed-30-years-on-even-worse.
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:28pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I’ll go with you Steve Todd.
      Mike is here to disrupt and mislead us. We all know his antics.
      
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      November 26, 2023 5:17pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Thanks, Steve Otto(North Shore).
        
        Most Kiwibloggers will know that I am a big fan of mikenmildagain. I’ve said so several times over the last five years or so. He’s brilliant, and very funny. The fact that he enjoys having a bit of fun at the expense of the Rightoids on this blogsite is fine by me.
        
        Having said that, the simple fact is we don’t live in a perfect world. I know that to be true, because mikenmildagain and I have opposing views on the JFK Assassination tragedy.
        
        And that’s okay.
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:38pm
- bennerg
  
  To add to this, there is the case of Dorothy Kilgallen, the delightful panellist on “What’s My Line” – but also a determined and well respected journalist. She was investigating the JFK assasination, and had told others she was close to cracking it …. and then found dead in mysterious circumstances, almost “Munroe -like”.
  
  Two books have been written on the case by investigative reporter Mark Shaw, including some of her material that survived (obvious the key bits did not), and additional autopsy data.
  
  Here’s the background:
  https://padailypost.com/2018/12/03/local-author-says-columnist-cracked-the-jfk-case-in-1965-just-before-she-was-murdered/
  
  Link to book #1
  https://www.amazon.com/Denial-Justice-Compelling-Assassination-Investigation/dp/164293058X
  
  Link to book #2
  https://www.amazon.com/Reporter-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/1682610977/
  
  And this is another good background article:
  
  https://nypost.com/2016/12/04/dorothy-kilgallens-tell-all-on-a-mafia-don-might-have-got-her-killed/
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:59am
- MCōs
  
  I’m surprised you don’t claim it was Michael Robinson before he became Michelle Obama
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:19pm
  - Inandout
    
    MC, which is why Mike/Michelle won’t stand for President, the baggage would be considerable.
    
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    November 26, 2023 3:48pm
- miltonF
  
  Indeed. Jimmy Hoffa is a name that has mostly disappeared from the history books. People would do well to research this figure in regards to the JFK assasination.
  
  Jimmy Hoffa was an American Labour Union president. A very dodgy fellow and staunch socialist. He was involved in pretty much every crime you can think of. He had strong links to the mafia.
  
  The JFK administration was anti-unionism. They considered it a threat. The leading theory is that Hoffa colluded with the CIA and the mafia to assassinate JFK. It was a socialist coup of sorts and the USA has never been the same since.
  
  Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and since has been presumed dead.
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:48pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Damien Grant is checking out schools that teach…for his 10 year old.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/301014381/damien-grant-our-education-system-is-constantly-failing-our-students
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November 26, 2023 9:11am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  That is a very good article, and very true.
  
  Kids are coming home thinking that the world is ending, and that calling something “racist” is an automatic argument winner.
  
  They don’t know how to reason. But they know what to believe. This long march through the education institutions is not new, there seems to be a generation of millenial monsters, who have all failed to fire and are now in their 20s and completely unable to function. “Tomorrow’s schools” eh? Didn’t that turn out well.
  
  Fortunately the younger kids seem to be a bit savvier about the indoctrination, and consider their older peers to be “lame”.
  
  If the entire education bureaucracy was shuttered tomorrow, standards would improve.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:17am
Maggy Wassilieff

We’re in for some white-washing this parliamentary session…..

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2311/S00019/luxons-government-will-whitewash-aotearoa.htm
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November 26, 2023 9:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  As I said above, ignore the squealing left.
  We won, they lost, eat shit.
  
  The Maori Health Authority is racist! In you ear Maori Party.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:43am
- Ghost
  
  Well the country has been getting a bit dirty the past 6 years, not sure when it last had a decent wash.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:51am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yeah, but a ‘white’ wash is racist…..
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:38am
- John Loveridge
  
  I fervently hope so.
  
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  November 26, 2023 9:53am
- Rich Prick
  
  Writing an article in manglish probably underscores the need for a tidy up.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:29am
Sparrow

A sad story of the different worlds New Zealanders live in. A little girl burst out crying in her primary school class when they were talking about animals and zoos. She said her family can’t afford to go to the zoo and she wanted to see the monkeys. As it’s a two hour journey to the zoo the cost of fuel and entrance fees is beyond the family means in these tight financial times. I know there has always been the rich and poor but the gap is getting bigger every day. We are seeing what we can do.
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November 26, 2023 9:19am
- Taieri
  
  I know there has always been the rich and poor but the gap is getting bigger every day.
  ———-
  
  Yet, The Esplanade Restaurant in Dunedin’s St Clair is full every day, all day. Go figure…
  
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  November 26, 2023 10:09am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Correct, and they know how to charge, 5 cafes in the area usually all full round lunch time
    
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    November 26, 2023 12:41pm
Master Mariner

Maybe some one should remind the Chairman of NZ Super fund , Reserve Bank and certain Councils.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Dramatic-Downfall-of-ESG-Investing.html

“At the end of last year, the Florida Treasury said it would divest $2 billion worth of assets under management by BlackRock because of the ESG investing by the world’s largest asset manager.”
“If Larry, or his friends on Wall Street, want to change the world – run for office,” Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis said at the time.

Why bother, When you can “Capture” a whole Country by secretive meetings //
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November 26, 2023 9:25am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

“Maori activists are re-grouping getting ready for mass protests.”
So is that what the silent Willie Jackson is up to?

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/here-is-why-educating-kiwis-about-the-treaty-needs-to-be-the-top-priority-over-the-new-three-years/
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November 26, 2023 9:49am
- imalwaysright
  
  The treaty has accomplished its purpose.
  
  What the activists are doing is the equivalent of buying a car and going back to the dealer every year demanding the new model.
  
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  November 26, 2023 1:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Partly right.
    Now compare the Waitangi Tribunal re-written Treaty to the original Littlewood draft in 1840.
    Two things added on by SIR Hugh Kawharu. Forestry and Fisheries, and now the Net Taxpayer gives millions.
    Start here:
    http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
    
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    November 26, 2023 5:42pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Remember Kathy Griffin?
She has Trump-induced PTSD. IMO she belongs in a loony bin. FITH.

https://www.rvmnews.com/2023/11/has-been-kathy-griffin-admits-to-doing-weird-sht-to-cope-trump-induced-ptsd-video/?
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November 26, 2023 10:03am
- Inandout
  
  SO, I will make no comment.
  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58061672
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:53pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What she has is something I detest for anyone.
    Does not excuse her. She also has mental illness – did you notice?
    
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    November 26, 2023 5:48pm
goNZ1

I would like to see the new Education Minister investigate what unbalanced Climate Change ideology is being force fed to students.
Kids are suffering climate anxiety and getting radicalized by adult Green activists (Marxists) and encouraged to go on strike or marches in class time or worse. It is a form of child abuse and an extreme example of that being Greta Thurnberg (the climate goblin) .
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November 26, 2023 10:05am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

What could possibly go wrong?

I’m not to keen on this. AI?

https://www.rvmnews.com/2023/11/pentagons-autonomous-ai-killer-drone-swarms-could-soon-be-deployed-video/?
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November 26, 2023 10:06am
- NothingLeft
  
  Everyone needs to inform themselves on risks of AI. IAI superintelligence is only a few years away and will totally upend (and likely ultimately end) human existence, whether benignly or destructively. Economics as we have always understood it will soon be ended, with most humans having nothing of value to sell/trade.
  
  Let’s not go gentle (ignorantly or unthinkingly) into that good night.
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:17pm
Yvette

Tipa Mahuta?
• The ACT agreement says the parties will introduce a Treaty Principles Bill based on existing ACT policy and support it to a Select Committee as soon as practicable. However, the NZ First agreement also requires the Coalition Government to “honour the undertakings made by the Crown through past Treaty of Waitangi settlements” and says it would “amend the Waitangi Tribunal legislation to refocus the scope, purpose, and nature of its inquiries back to the original intent of that legislation”, accompanied by a review of all existing legislation to replace mentions of the Treaty principles with “specific words relating to the relevance and application of the Treaty, or repeal the references”
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Taumata Arowai took over from the Ministry of Health as the drinking water regulator on 15 November 2021. All drinking water suppliers registered with the Ministry of Health immediately before 15 November have had their recorded drinking water supplies transferred to the Taumata Arowai register. This migration happened automatically and has been followed by a rigorous process of data checking and verification to ensure that we have accurate information about water supplies.

“A key requirement of the Water Services Act 2021 is that everyone operating under it must give effect to Te Mana o te Wai, to the extent it applies to their functions and duties. This obligation applies equally to Taumata Arowai and to all suppliers under the Act.”
https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/news/articles/taumata-arowai-publishes-drinking-water-rules-and-standards/

Will “a review of all existing legislation to replace mentions of the Treaty principles with “specific words relating to the relevance and application of the Treaty, or repeal the references” remove “key requirement of the Water Services Act 2021 is that everyone operating under it must give effect to Te Mana o te Wai”?
And the Tipa Mahuta chaired Te Puna Maori Advisory Council which presides over Tamara Arowai?
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reference – Te Puna (the Māori Advisory Group) was established under the Taumata Arowai–the Water Services Regulator Act 2020 and was appointed by the Acting Minister of Local Government on 20 May 2021. Te Puna is chaired by Tipa Mahuta.

Te Poari o Taumata Arowai (the Board) is responsible for the governance of Taumata Arowai and Te Puna is integral to the success of that governance. The Memorandum of Understanding sets out their expectations and intentions to work as partners. Ministers have appointed two dual members of the Board and Te Puna to act as a bridge between the partners.
https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/about/our-team/maori-advisory-group/
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November 26, 2023 10:22am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Well this is amusing. I guess.
  
  The Maori Health Authority has 198 vacancies advertised on their website. Many of these jobs were advertised on Friday, the day the coalition was announced.
  
  “Job opportunities
  Ready to grab your paddle for whānau Māori?
  Come join our waka!”
  
  https://jobs.tewhatuora.govt.nz/jobtools/jncustomsearch.searchResults?in_organid=19739&in_jobDate=All
  
  Hopefully they have enough sense to not advertise more vacancies.
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:15am
  - kevn
    
    BY…. Can we assume the two fingered salute or just tone deaf?
    I would go with the first option.
    
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    November 26, 2023 11:19am
Ghost

One of my guilty pleasures is watching I’m a celebrity ger me out of here. I’m really liking Nigel Farage. Does the challenges, doesn’t complain. So far he’s eaten different varieties of penis and anus. No complaints. Washes naked without a care in the world.
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November 26, 2023 10:46am
- Che Guava
  
  Sounds a bit too comfortable and familiar….
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:30am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  if he had UK school dinners, he has been eating random body parts all his life!
  
  Don’t ever ask what is in the fish pie!
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:27pm
- Apteryx
  
  Serious question. Where do you watch it? Seems to not be screened in New Zealand. It’s a fun programme. Cheers.
  
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  November 26, 2023 2:30pm
  - Ghost
    
    Tvnz used to screen it over summer. You can watch it using a vpn on itv’s website
    
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    November 26, 2023 2:58pm
Swifty

It is slowly dawning on me the massive corrupting influence on NZ society by the Treaty of Waitangi and the industry it has spawned.

All around us now we see interests, threatened by the new government, now apoplectic – screaming potential Armageddon and finding no hyperbole too great in attempting to stir up opposition to their treats,
power and positions being taken away.

I will not say that all recent opposition to the new government’s Treaty and Maori policies is fuelled by self-interest, but I do say a majority of it is.

I also think the majority of New Zealanders would be amazed if they actually knew the full extent of the money on offer and roles available to folk for merely and supposedly representing Maori interests. All the hundreds of crown entities, working groups, consultation bodies, directorships, service providers, the hundreds of roles on our civil service newly created to manage relationships with Maori, media folk, funding bodies etc etc etc.

All these people and groups no longer just represent Maori interests, if they ever did – they also now have their own interests to protect and protect them they will.

They won’t want any taps turned off. They’d be aghast at the thought of having to turn to and actually look for jobs or customers like the rest of us.

The Treaty industry now has a life of its own – participants in which have roles, prestige, incomes, profits and their retirements to protect and they’ll scream blue murder if they feel that those interests are threatened – all with the language of ‘protecting Maori’ of course.

The only interests they are protecting are their own and their privileged positions influencing and directing the extraction of money from the pockets of New Zealand families into their own.

The whole thing’s corrupt. It’s a racket.
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November 26, 2023 11:06am
- artemisia
  
  There is also local government, heavily ‘invested in the bicultural. Wellington Çity Council has a strategy to be the country’s first bilingual city. Because reasons. Certainly seems to be heavily ‘invested’ in signage wonderfulness in its premises and websites.
  
  Have not checked but would be amazed if those costs are separately reported. Much more likely to be buried in other budgets. Not to worry, it’s only OPM. (Happy to be proved wrong.)
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Karen Chhour has a hell of job on her hands…

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/11/starship-doctor-speaks-out-about-child-abuse-in-new-zealand-plea-to-new-government.html
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November 26, 2023 11:12am
- imalwaysright
  
  Child murderers should be charged under the terrorism act.
  They certainly qualify under the amended legislation .
  The cops are hamstrung by due process.
  In other countries the three suspects would be paid a visit by several concerned citizens and the matter settled.
  Recidivism would not be an option.
  
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  November 26, 2023 1:14pm
  - MCōs
    
    Maybe the ‘concerned citizens’ would come off second best.
    The sort of people that killed that toddler ain’t likely to be intimidated by a bunch of ‘concerned citizens’
    
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    November 26, 2023 3:46pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Euphemism for vigilantes
      
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      November 26, 2023 4:39pm
kevn

Maggy… Never fear, the cowboy hatted one and his cohorts ‘must’ be itching step up and help address the issue… surely. Even though we haven’t heard a peep from him.
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November 26, 2023 11:20am
- Ghost
  
  His mother died during the election, I don’t think he’s said much since then
  
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  November 26, 2023 11:26am
  - kevn
    
    Ghost… Cohorts absent as well. Busy whinging about an upcoming more level for all NZers health playing field.
    
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    November 26, 2023 12:15pm
Yvette

Sorry about the length – perhaps just flick an eye over the bits in bold type

NAU MAI HAERE MAI E TE IWI! TE PĀTI MĀORI
Luxon’s Government will whitewash Aotearoa
NZ First has gotten their wish to ‘take our country back’ to the 1800s with a policy program that will white-wash Aotearoa and erase tangata whenua rights.
By disestablishing the Māori Health Authority this Government has condemned Māori to die seven years earlier than Pākehā.
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/luxon_s_government_will_whitewash_aotearoa

Kiri Allan reveals she has 13 pct chance of surviving cervical cancer
Speaking to The Hui on Monday, Allan said she found out about the low survival rate of cervical cancer for Māori women during her diagnosis.
“When I got told that I had cervical cancer, they said for somebody with stage 3C you have a 40 percent chance of survival. As a wāhine Māori, I have about a 13.3 percent chance of survival,” she says.
“Do the maths on that. I don’t know why that is, how that is, but it’s wrong. The disparity is too much, people are dying far too young. This is a korero that needs to happen again and again and again.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/kiri-allan-reveals-she-has-13-pct-chance-of-surviving-cervical-cancer.html

How much did the physical disease cancer, rather than a “cancer statistic” (part of Kelvin’s “mantra”?), her lifestyle concerns and work, endanger her life?

No mana for Māori
“After nine years of this National Government, propped up by the Māori party, there’s not a lot to brag about. Māori are more likely to be overweight, depressed, homeless, incarcerated and uneducated according to these disturbing statistics produced under National’s watch.

“There’s no mana for Māori who support a waka that’s shackled to the National Party.
“Labour won six of the seven Māori seats at the last election. Māori deserve more support than what the Nats and their hopeless helpers have delivered,” says Kelvin Davis.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1702/S00255/no-mana-for-maori.htm

Just above, Kelvin Davis used the often-quoted mantra “Maori are …” for cheap political gain, but similar often-repeated remarks, along with considerable continued attitude, has likely as much as any other influence generation to generation mentally re-colonised Kelvins “people”

How Māori use maramataka to care for mental health issues and how the practice will be incorporated into treatment by Māori Health Authority
The new Māori Health Authority has a budget of half a billion dollars and CEO Riana Manuel has allocated $100 million of that to support centuries-old treatments.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/how-maori-use-maramataka-to-care-for-mental-health-issues-and-how-the-practice-will-be-incorporated-into-treatment-by-maori-health-authority.html

What exactly “condemns Māori to die seven years earlier than Pākehā”?
And does Pākehā really mean “non-Maori” and does that include East Asians: Chinese and Japanese who tend to out-live European New Zealanders by also about seven or more years.
And perhaps .Taiwanese, supposedly of the same stock as Maori (ask Winston Peters) so what accounts for those of them who over centuries moved out across the Pacific and returned to the west to find New Zealand as its first immigrants compared to those who have immigrated recently to New Zealand by jet planes more or less straight from Taiwan?
What really accounts then for the differing death dates between the two?
Can $100 million be not better spent on that?
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November 26, 2023 11:43am
- kevn
  
  I have occasion to regularly drive past a very busy KFC outlet. The chicken is all hormone fed to really accelerate growth/processing/cooking. That is no secret. The appeal to our early settlers is astonishing.
  I guess that why it is given away as a bribe to get jabbed/enrol etc. Too bad the health element is absent.
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:22pm
  - marcw
    
    ” The chicken is all hormone fed to really accelerate growth/processing/cooking.”
    
    Absolutely incorrect (in NZ anyway). Could you supply evidence that what you have stated is true.
    
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    November 26, 2023 12:59pm
    - kevn
      
      marc and BY… OK. Wrong word. The chickens just double in size each week and are then killed at 6 weeks…
      https://animalsaotearoa.org/2023/02/02/what-do-the-labels-on-chicken-meat-mean/#:~:text=However%2C%20no%20chickens%20in%20New,faster%20than%20they%20used%20t
      and:
      https://animalsaotearoa.org/2021/08/02/antibiotics-resistance-a-key-piece-of-the-puzzle/o.
      
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      November 26, 2023 1:35pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “The chicken is all hormone fed to really accelerate growth/processing/cooking. That is no secret.”
    
    It is also incorrect 🙂
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:04pm
  - mogg
    
    One day only, great deal KFC have got a truckload of chickens going cheep
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:38pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Growth hormones have been banned by the NZ Poultry Industry for at least the last 40 years.
    
    https://www.pianz.org.nz/news/myths-legends/growth-hormones-are-used-in-the-nz-poultry-industry/
    
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    November 26, 2023 2:01pm
  - Taieri
    
    The chicken is all hormone fed to really accelerate growth/processing/cooking.
    ————–
    
    Assuming the chicken were being fed hormones (which they are not), how would it accelerate their cooking?
    
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    November 26, 2023 3:05pm
- artemisia
  
  Cervical cancer – the main cause is well known and sexually transmitted. It is also readily diagnosed and highly treatable.
  
  So. as an example, what is the root cause of a higher death rate from this cancer in one demographic. And why.
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:33pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The answer is straight forward. Maori women are a third less likely than non-Maori women to attend cervical cancer screening tests.
    
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(21)00206-0/fulltext
    
    If all teenagers were vaccinated against the HPV virus, 95 percent of all cervical cancers would be eliminated.
    
    https://bpac.org.nz/bpj/2012/april/hpv.aspx
    
    Sadly, because the word “vaccine” is now poisonous for so many people, that seems unlikely.
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:02pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Exactly .
      
      Kiri would probably have access to private health care through her job and her past jobs.
      
      I would say her personal chances of survival would actually be higher than most non maori women who are in the overstretched public system .
      
      But, Kiris not one to let a useful statistic go to waste.
      
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      November 26, 2023 1:26pm
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      But is it as simple as that BY?
      
      As an example, in my case genetics make me a greater risk of heart disease. Then there are at risk behaviours that increase the risk — lack of exercise, poor diet, consumption of alcohol etc. Not presenting for a checkup could also be a factor but not necessarily the cause of an early death from heart attack.
      
      While not getting a check-up is a factor, what impacts do at risk behaviours play in the cervical cancer outcomes?
      
      What are the potential impacts of genetics?
      
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      November 26, 2023 1:46pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes fair points. Obesity and smoking contribute to cancer risk. However it is not hard to figure out why Maori women get more cervical cancer. It is quite clear. And it has nothing to do with racism.
        
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        November 26, 2023 5:46pm
- rouppe
  
  “When I got told that I had cervical cancer, they said for somebody with stage 3C you have a 40 percent chance of survival. As a wāhine Māori, I have about a 13.3 percent chance of survival,” she says.
  
  I find this a bit confused. I’d imagine any statistics on stage 3c would be across the board. So is she saying that she has stage 3c or something else?
  
  If she has stage 3c are the statistics now collated on race?
  
  Stage 3c is pretty advanced cancer. Was it not detected in any of her regular pap smear tests or did she not undertake any? There is pretty heavy bleeding involved with cervical cancer, did she not seek any medical advice?
  
  What I really don’t understand is given a bunch of people of different ethnicities with exactly the same cancer diagnosis, is it really true that women with some Maori ancestry are the only ones that don’t respond to the same treatment?
  
  That doesn’t make sense.
  
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  November 26, 2023 1:54pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    She states that she had had a test c. 2018 (at time of Talei Morrison’s death).. i.e. 3 years before her diagnosis.
    
    She sought medical advice after 4 weeks of heavy bleeding…. then after 6 weeks of bleeding Ayesha Verrall told her to go back to her GP.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/kiri-allan-encourages-wahine-to-get-smear-test-after-cancer-diagnosis/E7HYSBLZ63UIZRCXDQGSQWEHF4/
    
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    November 26, 2023 2:12pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Evolutionary pressures. Warring Paleolithic Tribal existence with R type breeding strategies saw little survival benefit from living grandparents. Solution is more interbreeding with people of K-type breeding genetic heritage where living grandparents mattered.
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:08pm
Ghost

Perhaps Mr Marcus Amosa can address his community pulling children out of a car along with an adult and assaulting them. What the burgerfuel car may have done doesn’t even compare to a bunch of adults assaulting two children.

Christmas parade horror: BurgerFuel puts ‘immediate hold’ on cars after Avondale parade incident in which six were injured
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November 26, 2023 12:07pm
Ghost

Imagine if it were 8 years of Ardern and Hipkins…….

National’s Christopher Luxon has promised New Zealand First and ACT to introduce legislation on a referendum to extend the parliamentary term to four years.

The agreement with ACT promises to move this within the first 15 months in power.

Article
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November 26, 2023 12:17pm
- Yvette
  
  If a referendum is to be held on 4 year tenure of governments, why not at very little cost then add a question on whether there should be a similar referendum later, as David Seymour has suggested, on returning the Treaty to it original understood form without the 1986 add-ons – use one referendum as the opportunity to check out the viability of the other referendum
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:38pm
- rockape
  
  Look on the bright side. She may have been gone in 4 years not six !
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:43pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Nice thought Rockape – it is likely at the 4 year mark that they would have won the election and we would have been saddled with them until 2025. That alone is enough for me to keep the term at three years.
    
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    November 26, 2023 1:49pm
    - Colville
      
      Election would have been September ’21… by then NZ was well sick of them and they would have been out on their ear.
      
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      November 26, 2023 2:01pm
      - Ghost
        
        In September 2021 labour would have won the election
        
        Poll
        
        On these results Labour would no longer be able to govern alone but would easily be able to govern with the Greens, with 55 seats for Labour and 10 for the Greens. 61 seats are needed to govern.
        
        Roy Morgan poll that month had the left and right tied
        
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        November 26, 2023 2:12pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  This will be one to watch, because the left always said it should be 4 years, I bet they say it’s not democratic blah blah blah
  
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  November 26, 2023 12:46pm
- thirteenstars
  
  It’s easy to convince Kiwis to support some pretty stupid things. I suspect many will be convinced when both the Left and the useful idiots on the Right are keen for a 4-year term.
  
  But a 3-year term is about one of the only safeguards we have on out of control government. Imagine if Ardern/Hipkins had not had to answer to the people until October next year? How much damage would have been done? How much worse our position?
  
  Nope. Three is where it should stay. If the buggers are worth another three, let them prove it.
  
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  November 26, 2023 1:26pm
  - Ghost
    
    Yeah. By the time they would have gotten kicked out 3 waters would be well established. The division I the country would be far more than it is today. The books maybe unrecoverable as Robertson has 2 extra years to borrow like there is no tomorrow. Health, education, justice, crime. Well, the country would be empty as those who could move away
    
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    November 26, 2023 2:01pm
  - sungsamning
    
    I remember voting against a 4 year term in 1990 for just that reason.
    
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    November 26, 2023 10:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

More gang shootings in S. Auckland….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/south-auckland-shooting-two-people-taken-to-hospital-with-gunshot-wounds-following-incident-in-manurewa/ILJIQ6QT5JBKHAYG3QTJX4UWTU/

Can’t blame the Nat-Coalition Gvt….(yet)
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November 26, 2023 12:51pm
thirteenstars

Keystone Cops – Woke Edition

“4 overweight female cops try to arrest a male shoplifter for over 2 minutes. He ends up escaping. ”

Video:

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1728019626330673617

If it weren’t so pathetic it would be hilarious. These women do a slow-motion dance with this guy, eventually calling for more cars to assist.

Perhaps these four were brought up on a diet of mindless media and entertainment that portrays women mixing it up with bad dudes and winning. Girls can do anything! Our diversity is out strength!

It’s also probably how female athletes feel when a man identifies as a woman and breaks all their records by huge margins.

By the end, I was rooting for the shoplifter.
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November 26, 2023 1:38pm
- MCōs
  
  That is of course America not NZ.
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:52pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Your argument is what? That NZ female cops are stronger? Where’s the proof for that?
    
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    November 26, 2023 4:16pm
- Ghost
  
  Strange, all I see is 4 cops doing their job. Don’t know about you but I’m grateful for the job they do
  
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  November 26, 2023 4:00pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    It’s not four cops doing their job, it’s a waste of training and the huge cost of paying cops that can’t detain and arrest a criminal.
    
    One male cop would have a shot at dealing with this guy. Two male cops would have him in cuffs within seconds.
    
    But what we see is double that number of cops and double the cost to the taxpayer, and despite that the still need to call for backup, for more expensive cops to get the job done.
    
    That’s an incredible waste of resources and more importantly a *reduction* in police capability. While all these police are dealing with this one man, other crimes are going on, unattended.
    
    What are you grateful for? That the police are diverse and inclusive? I want police that can do the job. These cops can’t.
    
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    November 26, 2023 4:21pm
    - Ghost
      
      Suspects can for many reasons be hard to arrest
      
      How about this Cop getting assistance from the public?
      
      Or this cop getting a ride from a member of the public during a foot chase
      
      Or how about this This officer needing help
      
      Guess those male cops won’t meet your standards.
      
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      November 26, 2023 4:28pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        Oh, dear. The first shows a single male cop fighting an *armed* man. The second is about an officer getting a lift in a car to pursue someone, and the third is about an officer who has been shot getting help.
        
        In what way are they the same as four cops being unable to subdue one suspect who is not armed, is not running away from them and who has not shot any one of them?
        
        Pathetic excuse-making.
        
        Are you suggesting that four male cops would not have been able to restrain and arrest one man who they already had physical contact with?
        
        The inescapable fact is that in the police, military and many other occupations, men do the heavy lifting and make up for the physical deficiencies of their female co-workers.
        
        For every female frontline officer employed, we have a more expensive and less effective police force because they are less capable of physically doing the job when push comes to shove. The conceit is that females can do the same job. They can’t. Men have to subsidise them with the effect being extra costs and lower safety standards.
        
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        November 26, 2023 6:35pm
      - Ghost
        
        You might want to research the suspect who had just committed an armed robbery, at the time of his arrest he was carrying what was thought to be a gun, but turned out to be an imitation fire arm, something not known until he was arrested.
        
        Sad when you see 4 woman do their job you comment on their weight. Wow you really are a sexist pig
        
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        November 26, 2023 6:45pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        I didn’t comment on their weight, that was the video title.
        
        I’m commenting on the ability of female cops to do the job when it’s really needed. That’s not sexism. That’s about ability.
        
        You are denying the reality of the large differences in strength between men and women. You’d rather put the lives of the officers and the public at jeopardy than recognise this fact. You’d rather waste money that could be used in effective policing on ticking inclusivity and diversity boxes rather than employing the most capable to do the job. You’d rather let suspects get away than recognise that female cops are far less likely to be able to restrain and arrest them.
        
        “Sad when you see 4 woman do their job…”
        
        Four women didn’t do their jobs. They failed to restrain and arrest one offender despite overwhelming odds in their favour. It’s so wicked a failure as to be moral wrong.
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:05pm
      - Ghost
        
        Bullshit, when you include a title 4 overweight female cops try to arrest a male shoplifter for over 2 minutes. He ends up escaping., you certainly are commenting on their weight. Go educate yourself, he was arrested
        
        The subject resists police and takes off running.
        Patrick Johnson-Henry, 32, was taken into custody on the 9400 block of S Justine and was charged with 4 counts of resisting police, 1 count of possession of a replica firearm, 1 count of retail theft.
        
        Article
        
        Get your facts straight
        
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        November 26, 2023 7:36pm
      - thirteenstars
        
        “4 counts of resisting police”
        
        The line should be, escaping from female officers who if replaced by male officers would not have been able to escape and cause other officers (probably male) to later arrest the suspect requiring huge additional resources desperately needed elsewhere.
        
        That a suspect is later brought to justice in no way obviates the moral bankruptcy of employing women to do a man’s job.
        
        Your philosophy is what is driving our civilisation down to the level high of commonplace criminality and fecklessness.
        
        Make the police 100% women and see how we do. Men, women, same difference. Right?
        
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        November 26, 2023 8:55pm
Yvette

John Campbell’s “empty table”
“The government you elect is the government you deserve,” said Thomas Jefferson. And this is the government we elected.
I keep returning to that photo they posted, the first time they all met together.
Winston Peters, Chris Luxon and David Seymour. Look at them.
It was art imitating life. Everything in that photo is empty. The room. The walls. The table. The glasses (which are still upturned because Winston hasn’t yet given Chris and David permission to use them). And the men, too, as it turned out. Empty of ideas.

… The idea that a single human life will be improved by demanding that Waka Kotahi be called the New Zealand Transport Agency is the strangest fancy. This is frontier country stuff. The late-night ravings of a man alone in a bar. Except Winston’s not alone. Christopher has agreed to it.
– Opinion: Climate change dodged, child poverty ignored, landlords and gun-owners dignified. I badly wanted to be surprised by our first formal three-party coalition, writes John Campbell, and in a way I really am.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/25/john-campbell-i-hoped-to-be-surprised-actually-im-amazed/

“The late-night ravings of a man alone in a bar. Except Winston’s not alone” seems to go a little way to suggesting Campbell does not hold a journalistic impartiality when it comes to Winston Peters.
The obvious retort may be: is Campbell, with his Ardernal condescending tone, also apt to have “late-night woke ravings of a man alone in a forest” (to verbally faffel as Campbell does)? – but would rather he investigate if road signage is to be bi-lingual, why should Maori be first when the majority non-Maori language-fluent drivers need instant safety information, at the lettering size, colour and placement determined for their optimum safety, rather than a te reo lesson or language normalisation at 50 – 100 kph?
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November 26, 2023 2:13pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  The idea that a single human life will be improved by demanding that Waka Kotahi be called the New Zealand Transport Agency is the strangest fancy. This is frontier country stuff. The late-night ravings of a man alone in a bar.
  
  While a truism it’s “strange” that Campbell never asks why changing the name of the New Zealand Transport Agency to Waka Kotahi would save a single human life either. It’s only a name after all.
  
  I say “strange” because as Campbell well knows, the name change was never intended to do such a thing. It was intended to be part of an overall propaganda campaign, part of de-colonisation, and he was fine with that because he supports that concept, while seeing a reversal as the triumph of its opposite; “reactionary” White colonialism which he opposes and which he does see in mere names – when he chooses to.
  
  “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:21pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Or as O’Brien said to Winston Smith in 1984
    
    But always – do not forget this, Winston – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
    
    Mihingarangi Forbes, Jack Tame, John Campbell, all activists in journalist garb, and if given enough power and influence, all face-smashing boot-stampers.
    
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    November 26, 2023 4:30pm
- Biscuit
  
  If the idiot Camonell thinks that ‘the idea that a single human life will be improved by demanding that Waka Kotahi be called the New Zealand Transport Agency is the strangest fancy’, would he be good enough to point us to any evidence that the change from New Zealand Transport Agency to Waka Kotahi saved any lives whatsoever…
  
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  November 26, 2023 3:34pm
vand

“I am not a Hamas supporter. Israel is between a rock and a hard place in that Hamas have highlighted their problem of what to do with the 3m or so people whose ancestors were displaced in 1948.”Ian – 750,000 Arabs (colonisers )and most left as encouraged by Arab leaders to come back to take over the Jew’s property and land
Remember 750,000 Jews evicted from Arab countries after 1948.
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November 26, 2023 2:31pm
Gulag1917

Historian Max Hastings writes that Netanyahu told him in the 1970s that, “In the next war, if we do it right, we’ll have the chance to get all the Arabs out … We can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.”
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November 26, 2023 2:54pm
- thirteenstars
  
  If true, BN has been proved right.
  
  The terror organisations that hide within and are sustained by the Palestinian Arab population are like a cancer that from time to time the doctors have to beat back with terrible treatments. Yet they are never totally defeated, merely put into remission, ready to flare up again and metastasise.
  
  The two-state solution is a lie. Gaza is exactly the two-state solution. But it has shown itself not to be capable of existing as a border state with Israel. It’s function appears to be to act as a launch site for rockets and staging grounds for murderous attacks.
  
  So, BN is actually correct. In the end the cancer must be cut out, and as so often happens, other material is cut out with it. This is not the fault of the patient but survival demands it be done.
  
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  November 26, 2023 5:56pm
Biscuit

Interesting…

Just back from a stroll through the myriad streets that make up the Upper Hutt CBD…

And…

The little street office at 216 Main treet is now vacant. No signs, no nothing…

Who used to occupy same?

Christopher John Hipkins

‘In it for you’ didn’t last for long after the resounding election defeat, did it?
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November 26, 2023 3:16pm
- HeatherW
  
  Hipkins electorate office currently listed as 1195 High Street, Taita.
  Electorate office in Whanganui previously occupied by Labour’s Adrian Rurawhe and for a while Steph Lewis also seems to have had signs removed.
  
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  November 26, 2023 5:53pm
- greybeard
  
  God man, your Sundays must be so boring.
  Walking around Upper Hutt ?
  I could understand “running OUT of Upper Hutt”…
  
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  November 26, 2023 7:17pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Heh heh.
    
    Heather, Chippie used to have two offices – the one you cite and the one, now a vacant shop, at 216 Main St in Upper Hutt.
    
    They couldn’t afford to run a candidate in the by-election on the weekend so I am guessing, blessedly, that times are tough in Team Labour.
    
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    November 26, 2023 8:02pm
Jethrod

Have you any idea where the chippie will set up his office then? He needs one so he can “serve” his poor electors.
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November 26, 2023 6:06pm
- Jethrod
  
  Oh ,nice and handy to the fish and chip shop just around the corner. Perhaps he is doing it in reverse…..PM, MP, fish and chip shop worker……guess!
  
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  November 26, 2023 6:52pm
- nathie
  
  Suggest he setup next to a sausage roll bakery so they end up serving him?
  
  After all he is ex-PM royalty so it’s only “fair” he’s In It For ~~You~~ a lifetime of freebies from Labour’s long neglected and over burdened working class.
  
  How fitting of the professional modern day elitist Labour Party!
  
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  November 26, 2023 7:25pm
Swifty

We have been betrayed.

Betrayed by our elected representatives who over successive decades have used our education state monopoly to instead promote their political ideology.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/education/301014381/damien-grant-our-education-system-is-constantly-failing-our-students

Neutral public service my arse.
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