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NeverMindTheBollocks

I look forward to the usual suspects protesting against the genocide of fat brown people by American capitalists.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2024/02/popeyes-to-open-10-nz-chicken-joints-in-2024-with-25-million-investment.html
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February 26, 2024 8:03am
- imalwaysright
  
  Never,
  
  They will march on Parliament to demand that the government tells them to stop eating fried chicken.
  Same as they did to demand the government tell them to stop smoking.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:30am
  - jkt
    
    Yes, that will happen.
    
    Or
    
    Let’s put a hefty tax on the food and once we find this plan works we ban the sale of food based on age so that future generations can buy comfort products from the crime syndicates.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:05am
- Inandout
  
  NM, heard a lady called Maureen from AK Uni discussing this on Hosking this morning,
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:12am
  - imalwaysright
    
    It wasn’t Maureena was it?
    She gets a mention most mornings.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:21pm
- Colville
  
  Great.
  It will take some pressure off the KFC drivethru!
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:21am
Maggie Pie

EARLY MORNING TWEET 🙁

Wonder if there’s something Judith is trying to tell us ?

https://twitter.com/JudithCollinsMP/status/1761818415151653081
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February 26, 2024 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Is she going to wind the left up – more than usual?
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:15am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  The west is liable to be attacked on three fronts.
  
  Vlad the Invader from Russia.
  
  That nice Mr Xi from China.
  
  The one that has started the Islamic Hordes in W Europe.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:26am
  - Jethrod
    
    Who was it that started the hordes in Europe?
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:36am
  - Taieri
    
    Our worst enemy is the one within…
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:44am
  - kowtow
    
    Your last is the classic ‘Fifth Column’ .
    
    I see in Britain that MP’s likely to vote pro Israel are being given security guards .
    Funny how that most serious undermining of our democratic conventions gets so little attention .
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:47am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Islam has defeated democracy in the UK via the thugs veto
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:45am
    - mawm
      
      Kowtow – Here is a good précis of the problem in Britain. (I can’t believe that autocorrect repeatedly tries to correct “précis”)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFGuWBYITQg
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:07pm
  - Matt Long
    
    And the regressive fifth column led by the MSM.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:48am
    - igm
      
      Or the disenfranchised Mongrel Mob and their vile allies, NZ Labour/Green/TPM. Even Cahill wants to rip the patches off their backs. Cannot await the day when these leeches are having to work and grow up.
      
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      February 26, 2024 8:56am
      - kowtow
        
        Te Media Pahti is another ally .
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:32am
  - Colville
    
    Xi is easy to sort. Just stop sending him fuel and food…. and if starving half of the population dosent calm him down just bomb the 3 Gorges Dam.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:59am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      You will have to tell Russia that, that’s the problem
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:25am
      - Colville
        
        Tell Russia that have a billion Chinese are starving to death over the border? Maybe said hungry people will decide to wander over and take some food?
        
        That is two birds with one stone isnt it?
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:37pm
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      starving half the population didnt stop Mao
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:41pm
  - cmm
    
    “The west is liable to be attacked on three fronts.”
    
    Nope, I disagree. Nobody does direct attacks any more. Instead they do attacks through proxies over many fronts.
    
    For example, Russia and China can pour more support into the Houthis.
    
    But still by far the best attacks are non-military:
    * Keep feeding the USA cheap goods and let themselves destroy their economy with debt.
    * Send the west lots of cheap drugs (Fentanyl is now less than $1 a hit in USA).
    * Help the illegal “immigrants” invade USA via the Mexican border.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:33am
    - NothingLeft
      
      China and Russia would love to see the world get reliant on Europe-Asia freight trains to work around Islamic pirates.
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:49am
    - Paulus
      
      Surely it is Iran with help from North Korea who are supplying the Houthi ?
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:57am
    - 7kiwi11
      
      China is already invading the US via the southern border 37,000 just last year, mainly single young men. https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/2/22/disillusioned-about-china-more-chinese-aim-for-us-via-risky-darien-gap#:~:text=More%20than%2037%2C000%20Chinese%20citizens,of%20the%20entire%20previous%20decade.
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:01pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Not sure if there are any Charlemanges or Rolands available just at the moment.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:38am
  - Arthur Fleck
    
    I don’t think Russia or China have any intention to invade the West. Economic hegemony will suffice.
    
    And as for the “Islamic Hordes” – well, they were invited in.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:16am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    It’s being attacked from within
    https://youtu.be/jt1KotL3Z_k?si=rHogR8XS2cSdQ0HX
    Does anyone know if the PMs office is still funding Kate Hannah and her extreme views? If so why? Who funds the Christchurch Call? If it’s the taxpayers why? If this extreme nonsense isn’t stopped soon it will be too late.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:15pm
    - cmm
      
      “Who funds the Christchurch Call? ”
      
      Hint: your wallet got lighter.
      
      Luxon has already shown he’s on Team Cindy with this.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:16pm
      - Stellaboxer
        
        Yeah I thought so cmm. I resent funding these leftwing globalist quangos bent on destroying our society. Luxon needs to wake up, oh hang on he’s woke already.
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:50pm
- Grunter
  
  Maybe she read this article first…
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-will-have-right-to-strike-with-f-16s-on-legitimate-targets-in-russia-nato-chief/ar-BB1iHuMz?
  
  NATO Chief says Ukraine will soon have NATO-supplied F-16s and have full rights to attack inside Russia. Remember, these are F-16s that are part of the NATO “DEFENCE FORCE”. So this would be the first time they have been released as an attack force (NATO hasn’t been attacked….yet).
  
  So then what….? Russia responds? And if the F-16s fly from a NATO airfield (most of Ukraine is bombed or can’t handle F-16s) does that mean Russia bombs NATO airfields? And then what? NATO vs Russia kicks in…..
  
  And then what?
  
  Is NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that dumb? Of course, he isn’t. So why is he deliberately provoking the Russian hardliners as Putin heads into the March election? Medvedev is already wound up like a broken clock threatening to drop nukes on Washington, Berlin, and London. So Stolenburg comes out with this announcement??!!
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:07am
  - mawm
    
    Why is he deliberately provoking Russia? Because the US wants a major war in Europe to make more money and save Biden. And as part of the 5Eyes we’ll send our youth to die so that a certain sector of the US getting richer.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:14pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      The US initiated proxy war in Ukraine has been the biggest money laundering scheme in modern history. That’s why they keep throwing money at it and will continue to do so until the Ukrainian military is literally decimated, along with much critical civilian infrastructure.
      
      A completely avoidable tragedy except for the Victoria Nulands and John McCains of this world.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:50pm
      - NoFax
        
        US initiated? Russia attacked Ukraine not the other way around. I don’t get the Putin fanboys here when it’s clear he is an evil tyrannt that unleashed an awful war. No amount of Russia propaganda can change the facts – Putin can end the war today by going home.
        
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        February 26, 2024 2:52pm
      - Grunter
        
        NoFax
        I’m certainly no “Putin fanboy” – I think he’s one of the worst of the central planners walking. That’s not the point.
        
        Why would you send F-16s in to further stir up this “evil tyrant” when you know he has 6,000 nukes? And that there are clearly even crazier Ruskies like Medvedev lurking in the background.
        
        And if you think that Russia wasn’t provoked in any way whatsoever then I’d encourage you to read up on what has happened since the USSR was dismantled…… as a summary, both sides are bad. But NATO has had every chance to keep the peace and pharked it up big time.
        
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        February 26, 2024 4:38pm
  - cmm
    
    There’s the saying that an Army marches on its stomach. That is really a metaphor for ALL supplies not just food.
    
    Killing one enemy soldier requires on average many thousands of rounds of small arms (eg. rifle) ammo, a few howitzer shells, bombs, rockets mines etc. It adds up to around a ton of ammo per kill.
    
    One of the rate limiting steps is the production of howitzer 155mm shells. Even though they have massively ramped up production the NATO countries only produce around 400,000 shells a year. That is about enough to supply Ukraine for 3 weeks if they want to match Russia’s 20,000 shells a day.
    
    Yup, all they have is supply for 3 weeks out of the year.
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:15pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Gosh, car dealers game the EV discount scheme. Whodda thunk it?

Note that they were only outed by an EV seller, disgruntled at the undercutting of the second hand market. What buyer would complain.

Just the icing on the cake that was the EV discount rort on the taxpayer.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510159/car-yards-accused-of-cashing-in-on-ev-discount-as-scheme-wrapped-up
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February 26, 2024 8:09am
- sirknz
  
  Not those nice, honest car dealers that are more trustworthy than MSM journos…
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:02am
- Grunter
  
  Whodda thunk – used car dealers are more clever than Labour & the Greens….!
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:12am
  - Positan
    
    Certainly, far more admired and respected.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:21pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Another victim of the law of unintended but totally predictable consequences.
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Baby boomers.
So I ask what has become of all the children these boomers had? They worked, they paid Taxes, but what have sequential Governments done with all of the money. Just squandered it? There must be billions/trillions.
As the boomer retire the funds should be there, as the boomers paid Tax too. Govts saying the kids can’t afford it. No! the Governments can’t afford it, but they divert the blame to the offspring instead of themselves.
Then we have the lazy Generations Y and Z. Emasculated pansies.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/the-apocalypse-of-baby-boomers-how-retiring-seniors-will-cripple-the-economy/ss-BB1iQDmR
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February 26, 2024 8:10am
- Colville
  
  The Boomers live too long and had too few children.
  
  But no matter how bad it is here its 10X worse in China!
  
  Who wooodda though a one child/girl the girl babies policy would have an effect on demographics?
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If they had too few children why are they called ‘baby boomers?’
    
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    February 26, 2024 4:41pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      After WWII there was a surge in births – a boom in babies – so “boomers” are people born from about 45 to about 53 give or take a bit.
      
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      February 26, 2024 5:57pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        ‘46 to ‘64
        
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        February 26, 2024 7:40pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  They didn’t have enough children, and of those they did have, many left.
  
  When NZ Super started, there were roughly four taxpayers to every superannuitant. We’re now headed towards there being two, and the superannuitants they’re supporting are living longer and longer.
  
  Raising the age of eligibility would be the least painful way of starting to address this. Bill English made a very modest start towards this and got through the (actually fairly minor) howls of rage that responded, such that by the time Jacinda got into office, it wasn’t really much of an issue any more. She had no real political need to reverse the policy and she did incalculable long-term economic and political harm by doing so.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:13am
  - MCōs
    
    “When NZ Super started, there were roughly four taxpayers to every superannuitant.”
    National Superannuation, as it was called back in 1977 at the start, paid every married couple 80% of the average wage at age 60. That would be about $3000/fortnight today; more than double the current rate.
    Anyone with a primary school education could understand that was wildly unsustainable, but there was an election to be won
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:27pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      In 2006 there were 4 earners for every pensioner. In the late 2040’s that looks like being 2. A quarter of the population will be on a UBI ….
      
      We can of course just stick our fingers in our ears and make lala noises. Use words like “affordable” and “entitlement”. Something like 25% of the over 65s are still in paid employment.
      
      Anyway – the current oldies will probably not have to deal with the consequences of this.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:53pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        “I PAID MY TAXES!!!”
        
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        February 26, 2024 5:14pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Meh. The number of workers per super-annuitant is a red herring. What’s more important is GDP per super-annuitant. After all, once AI comes along, no one will have jobs & there will still be tax collected by the Govt to pay super, just not income tax.
        
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        February 26, 2024 7:45pm
- gryfon
  
  Your answer is right here: https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/selfish-generations/
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:13pm
- Ian Boag
  
  They worked, they paid Taxes,
  
  that’s how their parents got a pension …
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:23pm
Scooter

Ginny Anderson finally said all the right things, shame it wasn’t done last week. Now it just looks like the mounting pressure got to her. Why do they not learn that the sooner you apologise the better.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/ginny-anderson-apologises-for-absolutely-unacceptable-comments-to-mark-mitchell/
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February 26, 2024 8:11am
- oldpark
  
  @Scooter 8.11 am .
  
  She left out the most important part of the apology when she spoke to the holier than thou guy .
  She refused to say “she got her facts and information wrong” . Even worse it took Five/ Six days for her almost feigned mea culpa .
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:38am
  - Positan
    
    Andersen’s apology rendered so long after the time her appalling allegations would have been clearly explained as being utterly outrageous to her, is meaningless. Patently, it was done solely for “political reasons.” She herself and the Labour leadership have acted woefully, disgracefully, scurrilously and now, pathetically. If they even begin to think this overblown attempt to cover “all the bases” will be seen for other than it is, they’re away with the fairies. Yet again, Hipkins’ “leadership” is shown as being completely lacking in substance.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:15am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    My understanding is that Mark Mitchell was there keeping people alive (protecting people) not there to kill people. Obviously if the people he is protecting are attacked, then you have to do what you must to protect them.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:41am
- cmm
  
  The devil is in the details though.
  
  Will it just be one of those “I’m sorry if you are offended.” style half-apologies?
  
  “I apologise to Mark Mitchell. It is unacceptable to personally attack someone,”
  “It is not my usual standards … I would like to apologise to any listeners who took offence to those comments I made.”
  
  So far I have not seen her admitting that she was factually incorrect or any withdrawing of the statement she made.
  Hipkins also just said she went too far. He didn’t say she was factually wrong.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:44am
  - I remember when
    
    “I apologise for my remarks which were totally unacceptable.”
    All that is needed.
    Not sorry, other than for the remarks not working out better, so why suggest otherwise.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:55am
    - cmm
      
      An admission that they were also false would not go amiss.
      
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      February 26, 2024 9:11am
  - Nobby2
    
    “It is not my usual standards”. Yes it is. Don’t forget the bullying of staff claims when she was a minister. She is a vicious, vindictive, bully and the comments she made about Mark last week, show that her attitude and opinion of others makes her unsuitable to be an MP. After she makes her apology this Wednesday morning on the Mike Hosking show, Mike should say thanks for that but we won’t be needing you anymore and will get someone else for the show who can act towards, speak to and debate with Mark in a respectful manner. I hope Mike has the cojones to drop her from the show.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:37am
  - Paulus
    
    Sounds though Hipkins did not go far enough – with this woman he would not dare.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:58am
- Clyde
  
  No, it was not a heartfelt apology – it was the normal apology saying “I’m sorry if you were offended by my remarks” apology. The Hutt bully needs to make a real apology on Hosking’s show on Wednesday.
  
  As for her remarks re gangs saying that the only way to hurt them was to hit them in the pocket – what can she point to in her time as Minister? The entire left cabal was soft as marshmallows on gangs.
  
  It will be interesting to see just what happens to the Hutt bully when the inevitable shuffle happens on Hipkin’s demise as leader.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:53am
  - igm
    
    Labour gang legacy is donating Mongrel Mob with $2.75 million of taxpayers’ money to fund their wellbeing . . . Ardern should be personally debited for this misappropriation of our money.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:52am
- Swifty
  
  I greatly encourage Labour Party functionaries to elevate Anderson to highest rungs of party leadership.
  
  What fun we’ll all have witnessing her constant fumbles, disasters, endless foot-in-mouth incidents and general nastiness to people she doesn’t personally like.
  
  Make her leader I say. Today!
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:57am
  - Paulus
    
    Andersen, I believe after Great Uncle Bill Andersen of Communist, Activist, and Union fame.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:01am
- pdm
  
  Given that Hipkins has to have his arm twisted well up his back to apologise for anything it was probably her running mate and de facto Labour leader McAnulty who forced the apology from her.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Could have gone further, but it is far better than a cowardly text.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:26am
  - mawm
    
    The stain against her character remains! We can all see what kind of apology she has given – under duress and to ensure her continued political career. She meant every word she uttered that fateful morning and even repeated it several times. It was such poor judgement and exposed of her nasty nature.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:22pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What character?
      There is only one reason she apologized. She wants to be top dog of Labour, over and above McAnulty.
      The higher that is, the Longer Labour will be out of power. We just sacked one nasty Country wrecker!
      
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      February 26, 2024 4:46pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  She will have been forced to over the weekend, pressure will have been mounting on the out of touch Hipkins, Shearers comments will have forced their hand, they will have done homework and gained egg on face.
  
  She has only stated she will apologise to Mark on Wednesday, telling Hosking she will apologise is not apologising
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:29am
- Libertarians are right
  
  This needs to be her apology:
  
  “I am sorry. I allowed myself to get caught up in the ideological belief that some people aren’t responsible for their own actions. I wrongly assumed that the warlords and terrorists that attack the people providing aid etc do so without any choice which is clearly wrong. I was wrong to assume any harm committed against those Terrorists and Warlords was the fault of Mr Mitchell and his employees instead of the fact that that harm was a direct result of their own choices to directly harm innocent people. We accept people that provide aid as inherently good people but that aid cannot be provided without people like Mr Mitchell and it is therefore wrong to condemn him for his protection.”
  
  I give her permission to use that verbatim.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You think she could read all that without throwing a virtual left hook?
    
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    February 26, 2024 4:48pm
Yabster

Simeon Brown has a bit of work to do- whether its NZTA revenue gathering with more speed cameras or controlling woke local government, from the taxpayers union:

Update from the Taxpayers’ Union

NZTA to clobber Kiwis with millions more road fines 📸🚙
Over the next decade, the New Zealand Transport Agency is planning to expand its speed and traffic camera fleet from around 150 to potentially 800 – meaning that millions more New Zealanders could be whacked with speeding tickets each and every year.

Taxpayers’ Union Investigation: Local Government Commission wastes a hundred grand on new branding 🔥📺

Documents obtained by the Taxpayers’ Union reveal that the Local Government Commission (LGC) has wasted $99,000 on a new logo and website at a time when the Government has been asking departments to cut down on their spending.

It seems to have become common practice in recent years for government agencies to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on rebrands and logo changes – even when they can’t afford them.

The Logo and website are full on Maori centric- so these public servants don’t give a toss about Government directives. Check out the three commissioners…

https://www.lgc.govt.nz/about-us/commissioners/

Close links to LGNZ- the organisation that supported 3 waters and Maori wards (and are opposing the local referendum scrapped by Mahuta being repealed )- not surprising a lot of council still pay fees to this mob.
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February 26, 2024 8:21am
- I remember when
  
  Speed cameras are always placed where they generate maximum revenue –
  not maximum safety outcomes.
  Is it time for some research to identify their traffic death reduction benefits?
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:04am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I think if you stick religiously to 100 in the passing lanes and do your overtaking in the one lane each way sections you can avoid getting fines. 95% of the speed cameras I pass driving Auckland to Whangarei are in 2 lane sections of the road, very few in the single lane sections. Same with the patrol cars – follow along behind them in the passing lane then watch them do a u-turn to patrol back the other way.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:21pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Maybe it’s time some of them were Ulezed.
    
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ulez-expansion-cameras-stolen-vandalised-london-met-police-b1098157.html
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:59pm
- Colville
  
  I have no problem with speed cameras as long as they are only located where there has been a fatal crash previously and not just on the bottom of a nice gentle downhill straight out of sight…
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:19am
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  “800 – meaning that millions more …” Well, whose fault will that be? If you speed you risk a fine. If the system catches more of those who exceed the limit good luck to them. The limits are in place for a reason and it’s not to garner income.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:28am
  - GJM
    
    AT and NZTA have lowered all the open road speed limits aroudn here to 80k from 100. These are open country roads whcih are not difficult to drive. Having lived here for 50 years,, I can assure you there is no history of traffic accidents of any sort. There are now lots of cops and speed cameras, doing very well at enforcing the new revenue limits.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:58am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Of course the main objective is to garner income (or meet quotas from the Cops perspective). If you spent any time driving the open roads you would notice that the placement of cameras is preventing drivers from passing slower vehicles in passing lanes. Where it is safe to do so notwithstanding that the inconsiderate fool you and the other 9 cars have been following through the hills has now sped up to 100.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:28pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      That has to be the most frustrating aspect of travelling through NZ.
      
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      February 26, 2024 2:01pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Those cameras will have been budgets for when the previous government was in, what’s the bet
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:30am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  $99k for a new website? You’re having a larf!
  
  You might hit that kind of cost for a basic business website.
  
  For a government website, with the security checks that entails, and with any sort of integration to business systems will cost north of $1m.
  
  And that excludes internal time that should be charged to the project.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:37am
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    It doesn’t need a whole new website.
    It just needs a few logos and such changed.
    
    Changing content is WAY cheaper than changing the security structure etc.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:21pm
RockyJ

Can we believe that the board of the Order of Saint John puts political correctness ahead of public safety? Today we learn that St. John of NZ – now renamed ‘Hato Hone’ by its ‘Knights of St John’ administrators, is having to cut back on its services (largely government funded anyway) because of financial difficulties. It is understood that many longtime annual donors have ceased their contributions because of the change to a Māori name – which St John officially refuses to alter.

Can we believe that this ancient ‘order’ was founded by Monks in Jerusalem in about 1080 to provide first aid, healthcare, and support – especially to many pilgrims- and is a movement established in about 40 countries worldwide. The teaching hospital in London founded in 1805 has had a 200 Year history of mutual cooperation with that of the St John hospital in Jerusalem.

We can see how intimately NZ Māori has had such an association with St John, that its name here has such justification to be now changed to ‘Hato Hone’ – with such tragic financial results !

I cannot provide a source of this breaking news. It came to me in an email from a friend and was apparently written by Dr Hilton Le Grice
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February 26, 2024 8:26am
- Ghost
  
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  their ambulance service is 80% government funded, the rest of their services are donation funded.
  
  I couldn’t care what they call themself or what they out in their ambulance, if you need them you aren’t going to care either.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:34am
  - David George
    
    “if you need them you aren’t going to care either”
    No; so why change the well recognised name then?
    Officially it’s “to reflect the communities we serve”.
    The people they serve are the sick and injured I would have thought. Apparently not.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:45am
    - kowtow
      
      “The people they serve ”
      
      Back to the Piper in the Beehive .Innit . And it’s across the board.
      Because so much of our society is dependant on the state in one form or another , it has given Cabinet huge power ,if it was inclined to be abusive.
      
      And if there’s one thing the last 6 years taught us…..
      
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      February 26, 2024 8:54am
  - cmm
    
    ” if you need them you aren’t going to care either.”
    
    No, but you might care if you’re going to make them a hefty donation.
    
    Would they accept a donation of the purchase of an ambulance on the condition it didn’t have Maori branding on it? Nope, I doubt they would.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:48am
    - Ghost
      
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      I personally don’t care if they have a Māori name or image on their ambulance, I will continue to donate because it’s irrelevant, the work they do is what matters. But sadly we have a small group in this country whose racism is rabid and the moment they see a Māori word or image they crap their pants. It’s sad that St John are having to take ambulances off the road because of a small group of racist would rather put lives at risk because they are scared of a Māori name. If people won’t donate because of that, they are sad pathetic people.
      
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      February 26, 2024 9:02am
      - Simon
        
        Because Maorification is political DEI agenda. Its got little to do with average Maori, who dont care if the ambulance has a maori word. So the donations will drop then it follows the staff numbers will drop. Its called the real world.
        
        Racist – lol. Ok What a cope.
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:11am
      - cmm
        
        Let me fix that for you: ” But sadly we have a small group in this country whose racism is rabid and they need to Maorify everything.”
        
        I really don’t see why the Hato Hone crowd feel the need to take over a well established service with a good name and “cleanse” it.
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:14am
      - Sparrow
        
        Hi Ghost, I totally agree with you. I just don’t understand all this angst about having Māori names alongside English. I looked up the St John’s website. Other than the heading in dual languages everything else simply said St John’s even the phone number and it was New Zealand and New Zealanders in every sentence. Frankly bloggers get over it. As long as it has a English translation with the Māori what the f.. does it matter. Suggest you travel and see dual languages all over the place such as in Wales. OK pour your scorn on me with your down ticks. We have far more important issues.
        
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        February 26, 2024 10:46am
    - Bridgenag
      
      One of the Blokes at Bowls was going to leave all his assets to them. Not anymore
      
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      February 26, 2024 2:53pm
  - Matt Long
    
    No, but when considering donating to an organisation, whether the organisation wastes your money on virtue signalling is definitely a consideration.
    
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    February 26, 2024 8:52am
    - Clyde
      
      Right on Matt. I pay for a subscription to St John but I will never donate to the organisation that indulges in woke signalling.
      
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      February 26, 2024 8:55am
      - Nobby2
        
        I also have an annual subscription , but will not make any other donation to them because of their wokeness. (A family member of mine is a volunteer ambulance driver / EMT in a rural area of NZ and they can’t tell me why the service is now called hato hone)
        
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        February 26, 2024 10:53am
    - igm
      
      St John have lost the demographic that makes donations . . . it sure as hell is not the sleeze that coerced the introduction of te lingo.
      
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      February 26, 2024 9:00am
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      No money has been wasted, the new name and images are part of the design of the new fleet. The designing of the new look was funded by asb.
      
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      February 26, 2024 9:00am
      - Yabster
        
        Ghost can you link where ASB has fully funded the redesign of St John, including website costs, vehicle signage, letterhead, brochures, business cards, uniforms, stationery, etc etc…
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:05am
      - Jethrod
        
        Ahhh…. does that mean then that we have the wrong focus, the wrong wrongdoer or should asb take some punishment also?
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:09am
      - cmm
        
        Of course the money has been wasted.
        If that money from ASB had not gone into that then it would have been available for some other purpose.
        
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        February 26, 2024 9:16am
      - Jack5
        
        No question that St John Ambulance does great work.
        
        The renaming of it and change to Maori wording and symbols are another issue.
        
        From the link below, the new design doesn’t seem to include the Red Cross – the Amalfi Cross – on the vehicles.
        
        If this is so, is the omission because it clashes with the indigenous symbolism in the design.
        
        It would be interesting to know the comparative costs of the traditional St John design and the new design.
        
        https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/311751-newly-branded-ambulances-roll-out-summer.html
        
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        February 26, 2024 11:27am
      - Taieri
        
        the new name and images are part of the design of the new fleet.
        ————
        
        Is an ambulance now a work of art?
        Or is it there to transport sick people to hospital and to attend accidents?
        
        Someone seems to have their priorities arse about face…
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t know what the payment setup is like over NZ, but here on the Shore I pay $90 per year for St Johns to cover this household. Less than $2 a week.
    Without that it will cost you $98 each time you use them. As we are older it is more important. Makes sense, insurance is a necessary evil.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:32am
    - Grunter
      
      That’s a great funding model. I didn’t realise that you could do that.
      
      Now imagine if there were competing ambulance services instead of a monopoly funded by the central planners that dictate virtual signaling Maori name changes.
      
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      February 26, 2024 11:23am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        There is in Wellington – Wellington Free Ambulance…. ya doesnt get charged if they attend to you in an emergency
        
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        February 26, 2024 8:49pm
    - Jack5
      
      For details of St John Ambulance finances etc, you can download annual reports at the link that follows, below.
      
      On Monday last week it announced cost cuttings. Effects included:
      
      ” It is possible that some low acuity patients may have to wait longer for an ambulance. It is still our objective to respond to patients as soon as possible, with immediately life-threatening calls given the highest priority.”
      
      Making “Hato Hone” the beginning of the organisation’s name creates a shorthand title – “Hato HonestJohn”
      
      Annual reports:
      
      https://www.stjohn.org.nz/News–Info/Our-Performance/Annual-Reports/
      
      Cost savings:
      
      https://www.stjohn.org.nz/news–info/news–articles/hato-hone-st-john-statement-on-financial-savings/
      
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      February 26, 2024 3:18pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Possibly, what I object to is them making unnecessary changes that will cost money, while at the same time begging for money from the public.
    
    I have limited funds to spare when it comes to donating to charity. St John used to get a little each year but no longer. I won’t fund virtue signaling.
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:06pm
  - rouppe
    
    Maori complained long and bitterly that areas with well established Maori names were renamed with English names. Mt Taranaki being a good example.
    
    Here we have a long established Order, named after a Saint, whose name was John.
    
    Why can’t the same cultural respect be shown to the original foundation, and the person it was named after?
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:51pm
- Damocles11
  
  Why the transliteration to ‘Hate Hone’ while other races in NZ get ignored? Surely the full name should also feature Samoan, Mandarin, Urdu, Tongan, Hindi transliterations as well. If ‘Hato Hone Saint John’ want to be woke then they should go the whole hog.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:02am
- Paulus
  
  Was Ordained in recent times by Queen Victoria in 1888 by many Commonwealth Countries, which included New Zealand.
  King Charles is it current Head.
  When proper name changes back my subs will re recontinued.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:05am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Thank God (and Sir Walter Norwood) for Wellington Free
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:35am
  - Arthur Fleck
    
    I don’t donate to them either. Not when the donations go to supporting overpaid executives while the paramedics get paid a pittance.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:20pm
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350191888/countdown-customers-facing-delivery-delays-left-waiting-answers

Ho hum, yet another anti-supermarket item which so excites the MSM.
And still they refer to New Zealand as that other place.

I have never had my groceries delivered from Countdown, but surely when you sign up for the service there are some sort of disclaimers regarding delivery times and conditions ? I can’t imagine that Countdown would enter such an agreement without conditions.
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February 26, 2024 8:37am
- Keith White
  
  “It’s Stuffatown, Jake.”
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:45am
- Ghost
  
  Technical issues happen, what are you going to. Don’t know why these people run to the media, well, I guess we do, they want compensation.
  
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  February 26, 2024 8:49am
- fredonas
  
  Just as a general principle, when you complete your order and make payment, you have entered into a contract for Countdown to supply the goods within the agreed timeframe.
  It is unacceptable for Countdown to instead supply the goods the next day due to order fulfilment issues as this can impact people who have to miss work to be at home to receive the delayed order.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:00am
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    It will depend on what the actual conditions of the agreement are.
    I doubt very much they make a firm agreement to supply by a certain time.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:18am
    - greybeard
      
      https://www.countdown.co.nz/info/terms-and-conditions/online-shopping-website-and-app
      
      See section 4.6
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:46am
- Jethrod
  
  Oh those rats have a lot to be blamed for!
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:10am
- MCōs
  
  I’d have thought the whole point is to have stuff delivered at a fairly specific time because by their nature supermarket goods can’t be left outside for a lengthy period
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:38am
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    Yes, delivery should be within a reasonable timeframe or progressive discounts should apply.
    This take it or leave it attitude is a symptom of having a duopoly run food supply.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:50am
- kowtow
  
  More particularly it’s yet another anti Countdown/Woolies story .
  
  Smells orchestrated and deliberate .
  
  The last thing we need here is a supermarket monopoly , the duopoly is bad enough as it is.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:03am
Swifty

“Te Tiriti o Waitangi is not just a historical document – it’s a living guide that shapes how we interact with each other in Aotearoa. As businesses, we have the responsibility to understand and integrate the articles and principles into our practices, paving the way for a future that honours the vision of Te Tiriti.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350174932/why-your-business-should-care-about-treaty-waitangi

This is why I am apprehensive about the Treaty movement and deeply suspicious of the motives of its leaders.

This is, I believe, a fantastic example of how the Treaty meaning is being twisted and contorted in modern times and used by some to increasingly impose their vision upon other New Zealanders of what New Zealand should be and how they need to act and behave.

The Treaty is an agreement between the Crown and Maori Iwi.

It is not and never has been some sort of guiding light for how New Zealanders live their private lives and it certainly is not some sort of basis for running private businesses.

I fear that unless some boundaries are drawn around what the Treaty is and isn’t, and what the principles are and aren’t, the we will have this never-ending creep in the responsibilities and obligations the Treaty imposes on New Zealanders in their private lives – way, way beyond its original intent.

I am now increasingly confident we are but a short step away from people demanding automatic Maori representation on the boards and management teams of private companies (as has already been done with our public institutions) – required in order that the companies can ‘fulfill their Treaty obligations’. Treaty obligations that in my view don’t and never did exist for private companies nor private individuals – they are a modern invention.

What next? Forced inspections of private homes to ensure the occupants are fulfilling their Treaty obligations and responsibilities?

One might laugh, but who would have thought a mere twenty or even ten years ago that the Treaty placed obligations and responsibilities on private companies as this esteemed gentleman believes? Obligations and responsibilities, no doubt, that can only be understood and delivered on with some help from suitably-qualified Maori ‘advisors’ charged out at $250 per hour plus GST and ultimately requiring Board seats and management team positions with salaries to match.

This is wrong. It is not justified by the Treaty articles in any way and provides clear evidence that the Treaty is being constantly reinvented to mean whatever some people want it to mean at any point in time – and especially where it helps transfer power, control and cash to Maori elites.

My god, we’re turning into an ethnostate – if we’re not in fact there already.
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February 26, 2024 8:43am
- Yabster
  
  yep- more made up shit/interpretation by some activist- right up stuffed’s alley. Push back is starting though.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:09am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  As long as people know there is only one Treaty, the one in Maori from 1840.
  The post 1975 Waitangi Tribunal Treaty is a rogue Treaty written by James Freeman.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:38am
- Damocles11
  
  The Treaty is actually between the Crown and over 500 Maori Chiefs representing *hapū*. In Maoridom, your Iwi is your broad-based tribal umbrella affiliation, but it is at hapū level where the real connectedness, decision making, and localised power structure resides. How and when did I learn this? I learnt this from a Maori elder as recently as last week. The illusion of Iwi-level ‘Maori unity’ is pushed by Maori elites controlling Treaty settlement money at said Iwi level and by the Maori king movement. Once you understand that the hapū (subtribe) is where the true affiliation of Maori lies, you understand why such a unity is akin to ‘herding cats’.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You may enjoy this website and blog:
    
    http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:51pm
- I remember when
  
  The Treaty is a historical document.
  Often overlooked are the benefits that Maori have gained from a written language.
  Of course, where the Treaty is concerned it is often better to slip back into oral history.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:25am
- Nobby2
  
  None of the people I know who own their own business’s went into business to honour the treaty of waitangi. Honouring the treaty doesn’t create income for them nor pay the bills.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:03am
- Paulus
  
  Surely the Maori version called it Nu Tirani.
  The name Aotearoa is a recent name contributed accepted by recent Maori as they had no other name for it at the Treaty time.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    They could try “New Zealand.”
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:53pm
- Grunter
  
  We are an ethnostate already.
  
  Boards of private companies are already being “strongly encouraged” (forced) into having Maori Directors via their ESG & DEI requirements.
  
  Banks are pushing the entire ESG agenda big time.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:30am
- PurplePen
  
  In 1922, Sir Apirana Ngata was in no doubt that the chiefs had ceded sovereignty in 1840. He told his readers that if they didn’t like that reality, they should “blame your ancestors”. Here’s some relevant extracts from his explanation to others about the ToW:
  
  The Government placed in the hands of the Queen of England, the sovereignty and the authority to make laws. Some sections of the Maori people violated that authority. War arose from this and blood was spilled. The law came into operation and land was taken in payment. This it self is a Maori custom—revenge, plunder to avenge a wrong. It was their own chiefs who ceded that right to the Queen. The confiscations cannot therefore be objected to in the light of the Treaty.
  
  During the time when the Maori chiefs had authority and there was no authority of British law, the word of the chief was law to his tribe. It was he who declared war, and he who sued for peace. Here are some of the words of that period; “The fire burning yonder, go forth to put it out”. A great number of the people thus disappeared—loss of man, loss of land. The chief was separated from his daughter who was used as an offering to the invaders to bring about peace. It was the chiefs who bespoke the land and gave it away. They had the power even for life or death. These were the powers they surrendered to the Queen. This was the understanding of each tribe. The main purport was the transferring of the authority of the Maori chiefs for making laws for their respective tribes and sub-tribes under the Treaty of Waitangi to the Queen of England for ever. The embodiment today the Governor, his Ministers, the Members of the Lower House elected by the people and the Members of the House of Lords, appointed by the Governor, together they make the laws.
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:51pm
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  And there’s this also …
  William Colenso (1811 – 1899) was at the ToW signing. He was the only person in the tent who took notes of what was debated by Chiefs and others and wrote a full account of this and the signing. What is useful to read in his account is the objections from some Chiefs that signing the ToW, which was written in Maori, would mean they would be giving up their sovereignty. They didn’t like this. I’ve provided some extracts below which make this obvious.
  
  Irrespective of how anyone today interprets what was written, how the Chiefs understood it at the time is what matters. In the end they signed it knowing they were giving up their sovereignty. Not quite an equal partnership.
  
  EXTRACTS FROM COLENSO ACCOUNT
  
  Tareha, chief of the Ngatirehia Tribe, rose, and, with much of their usual national gesticulation, said, ” No Governor for me -for us Native men. We, we only are the chiefs, rulers. We will not be ruled over What! thou, a foreigner, up, and I down! Thou high, and I, Tareha, the great chief of the Ngapuhi tribes, low! No, no; never, never.
  
  As each chief affixed his name or sign to the treaty the Governor shook him by the hand, saying (in Maori), “He iwi tahi tatou” (“We are [now] one people”), at which the Natives were greatly pleased. All that were disposed having signed, the Natives gave three cheers for the Governor.
  
  After some little time Te Kemara came towards the table and affixed his sign to the parchment, stating that the Roman Catholic bishop (who had left the meeting before any of the chiefs had signed) had told him “not to write on the paper, for if he did he would be made a slave.”
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:54pm
  - Swifty
    
    I’ve never heard a rebuttal of the notion that you can gain a great understanding of what the Treaty intended by reading the reasons some chiefs refused to sign i.e. that they knew well what they were signing up to.
    
    I wonder what line(s) such a rebuttal would take?
    
    Colenso was corrupt and not to be trusted?
    Colenso’s undernstanding of Maori was insufficient for an accurate translation of the chiefs speeches at that time?
    Colenso accidentally mistranslated the chief’s words?
    Colenso deliberately mistranslated the chief’s words?
    
    When I first read about the nature of the objections of the chiefs who refused to sign, a few months ago, i thought to myself that Colenso’s recordings had an air of authenticity.
    
    If he was corrupt or on the take, wouldn’t he have been far more likely to record that everyone was happy and that there were no objections or only on minor matters?
    
    But did he do this? No, he did the opposite. He recorded the objections, and the reasons behind the objections – including that they are ceding authority to the British in return for protection and becoming British subjects etc etc.
    
    Colenso doing this lends authenticity to his record in my view. It sounds accurate and faithful to me.
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:22pm
    - PurplePen
      
      Yeah. The point with Colenso’s record is that the chiefs didn’t like the ToW and the missionaries whom they trusted said they would be turned into slaves by signing, essentially because they cede their sovereignty. But they still went ahead and signed irrespective of whether they were one of those that had concerns or not. Hence they knowingly ceded sovereignty.
      
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      February 26, 2024 5:14pm
- PurplePen
  
  And lastly
  
  The New Zealand Constitution Act [1852] passed by British Parliament superseded the ToW. This act set up a parliament and government system for NZ. Section 71 in this act …
  
  71. And Whereas it may be expedient that the laws, customs, and usages of the aboriginal or native inhabitants of New Zealand, so far as they are not repugnant to the general principles of humanity, should for the present be maintained for the government of themselves, in all their relations to and dealings with each other, and that particular districts should be set apart within which such laws, customs, or usages should be so observed:
  
  The words to note here are “should for the present” which confirms the arrangement is temporary.
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:00pm
Matt Long

Wayne Mapp’s comment from yesterday was thought provoking, if Wayne at 80 would consider moving to Australia to avoid a wealth tax when the next far left government is elected, how should farmers react, when the last potentially more moderate government was going to take half my grazing land and the more moderate current government is looking at “only” a tenth?
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/02/general_debate_25_february_2024.html/comment-page-1#comment-3519800
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February 26, 2024 8:59am
- cmm
  
  The real question is whether that would be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
  
  Sure, there are many reasons to consider moving to Australia (and if I was in my 40’s I would have moved), but there is no commitment from Australia to avoid wealth taxes.
  
  Wealth taxes are unavoidably coming to NZ. Who says they won’t come to Oz too?
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:40am
  - Damocles11
    
    Wealth taxes are unavoidably coming to NZ? Says who? The Left wing rabble are unelectable. Surely the voters – many of them in the ‘silent majority’ – would not vote in the most radical Left wing government in this nations history in order for us to see ‘wealth taxes’.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:15am
    - GJM
      
      40% of the electorate still voted for the most despised, incompetent and destructive far left regime this country has ever seen in the last election. I can see Labour getting in again with the nutty Greens next election as the “naasty nats” have to make hard calls to rescue the country, possibly affecting beneficiaries such as public servants.
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:01pm
    - artemisia
      
      Actually many many voters would go for a wealth tax. As long as their household does not trigger it. And most wouldn’t.
      
      Of course they might change their minds if the wealth left taking their assets, income tax and GST with them. But leaving a revenue hole instead.
      
      Think I saw Gerard Depardieu became a Russian citizen …
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:11pm
    - cmm
      
      ” Says who?”
      
      As more and more competent people leave NZ there is a shortage of golden egg laying geese to kill.
      This desperation is going to force NZ into wealth tax for revenue.
      
      Only relatively few people would pay wealth tax and far more would not. They all get the same vote. Guess what is going to happen.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:28pm
- Wayne Mapp
  
  Matt,
  
  We concluded that at age 80, a 2% wealth tax would not be sufficient to cause a shift, even though it would mean a real reduction in the value of ones’ wealth.
  
  The equation might be different for younger people.
  
  To take $1 million (and whatever relevant multiple thereof) if it is invested in a typical balanced fund the gross return is 7%. Tax at the PIE rate means a net return of about 5%, so a 2% wealth tax means more like a 3% return. Probably around the level of inflation. So using any of the money to live on means wealth is being eroded.
  
  Farmers, and those with other inflexible assets, will be hard hit by a wealth tax.
  
  A higher wealth tax might change the decision about staying.
  
  cmm,
  
  We both concluded Australia is far more immune to something like a wealth tax. Their left politics is not as far left as ours. A serious exodus of people from New Zealand (10%?) would, I am sure, cause a re-evaluation in the Left about the efficacy of wealth taxes, just as it did with Mitterrand in France several decades ago.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:05am
  - artemisia
    
    Between 2000 and 2016 some 60,000 millionaires (net) left France. Some just moved across the border. Apparently no shortage of welcoming arms including Russia. Repealed 2017. France tried another one based on income in 2012. Lasted a couple of years.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:27am
  - I remember when
    
    A wealth tax always presumes that the government can produce a better result for the people than the individual.
    Is there any proof that this is the case?
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:36am
    - cmm
      
      “A wealth tax always presumes that the government can produce a better result for the people than the individual.”
      
      No it doesn’t presume they can give a better result.
      
      It presumes that they THINK they can.
      
      All governments, of all stripes, think they are wondrous beings that can do better than the the individual.
      
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      February 26, 2024 2:49pm
  - Jack5
    
    A “wealth tax” has come to mean a tax based on the market value of assets owned by a taxpayer.
    
    It’s worth remembering this differs from capital gains tax, which is on increases in the value of assets, and usually on increases when those assets are sold.
    
    A capital gains tax has other effects, such as stopping diversion of capital away from business where tax cost is on revenue and into business based on asset sales, and which is mainly tax free.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:37am
  - MCōs
    
    NZ used to have death duties, I think
    We certainly had a gift tax as Dad found out when he won the Golden Kiwi and gave most of the money away after he’d bought a new car and a couch long enough he could lie down and have a wee nap in the afternoons
    My sister had bought him the ticket for his birthday and didn’t know you needed to write ‘abc syn’ on the butt so the winnings could be divided up without paying gift tax
    It was the only ticket she ever bought
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:13am
    - Jack5
      
      NZ did have a death-duty or estate tax. It was hard on family farms because it gave the surviving family members little time to come up with the money due. This could cause the farm to be sold to pay the tax.
      
      From a Government point of view an estate or death duty tax is easy to administer and relatively cheap to calculate and collect.
      
      If the Government had given the family survivors longer to raise the cash, the tax could have been less brutal.
      
      Death duties ended in NZ on deaths from, and including, 17 December 1992.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:08pm
    - Paulus
      
      New Zealand still has a Gift Tax but it is currently set at zero.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:42pm
  - cmm
    
    I suspect you are right that Oz is less likely to go with a wealth tax than NZ.
    
    I think one thing that might drive NZ to a wealth tax is that there is revenue options are running out and the sheep will need to be shorn closer to the skin.
    
    One thing seems certain is that Kiwis have a growing sense of entitlement and that needs to be paid for with other people’s money.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:27am
- rouppe
  
  I am trying to plan for that as well.
  
  No Australia as National Super is not portable there, but there are options.
  
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  February 26, 2024 4:26pm
Matt Long

“Bill Cosby Joins Hamas so Feminists will stop condemning him for rape.”
The Babylon Bee is very clever.
https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1761480950947430542?s=20
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February 26, 2024 9:06am
Maggie Pie

Here’s something else I was told last night that I wasn’t aware of……
Winston Peters has just appointed Heather Simpson (aka H2) to the Board of Antartica New Zealand.

Some are saying it sounds like a case of jobs for the boys perhaps?
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February 26, 2024 9:06am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think it is more a case of H2 being needed to sort out the crap behind the scenes with the Construction blow-out for the new Scott Base.
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/11/antarctica-scott-base-s-half-a-billion-dollar-redevelopment-strikes-iceberg.html
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499856/concerns-raised-as-government-contractor-fall-out-stalls-antarctica-s-503m-scott-base-upgrade
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:27am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OK… but what would H2 know about cost-blowouts on Construction projects?
    My partner was saying that guy Ross Taylor from Fletchers is looking for a new job.
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:36am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She’s an economist..
      
      and I think she can recognise bullshit.
      
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      February 26, 2024 10:48am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        How did Robbo manage to get past her then? 😀
        
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        February 26, 2024 10:58am
      - Keith White
        
        She may well be excellent in recognising bullshit, but when it suits her political preferences she makes an excellent clone of Sgt Schultz.
        
        And have “we” already forgotten her oversight of Labour’s election spending in the 2005 election? “Labour spent $440,000 on printing and distributing pledge cards. Legal advice to police at the time was that if Simpson was charged for authorising the expenditure of Parliamentary Service funds for the card and a pamphlet, “such a charge would be likely to result in a conviction”, but no charges were laid “because every party does it.”
        
        Then in 2018, Simpson was selected to head a review of the New Zealand government’s health and disability system. Its interim report was released in September 2019 and its final report was released to the public on 16 June 2020. So collected 2 years’ pay for a review that accomplished less than nothing and H-washed Labour’s abysmal record.
        
        So yeah, pardon me if I see this as yet another feather for the nest.
        
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        February 26, 2024 11:01am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        That’s a very interesting question…and I’m too long gone from the Wgtn scene to answer it…
        
        but you will note that it was Winston who appointed her to the Antarctica gig…. so someone who remembers the H1 & H2 days.
        
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        February 26, 2024 11:12am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Surely a Labour retread is not the only person who could sort out Antartica NZ? Why give her oxygen?
        
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        February 26, 2024 11:40am
      - Matt Long
        
        Putting aside the theory that Antarctica is where the lizard people meet up with the aliens, is there any reason why the posting couldn’t be permanent, why H1 couldn’t be posted there with H2 too?
        Safe from noisy concerts at Eden Park and barking at seals and penguins to her heart’s desire.
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:29pm
  - wsk12345
    
    A colleague of mine applied for the original Project/ Construction Manager job there. 50 something, highly regarded, massively experienced including in highly sensitive environments.
    
    He was told that they wanted to go with someone who would “grow into the role”. I think they went with someone in their early 30s. Utterly bizarre – if there is ever a time and place for someone with experience it’s when you have to plan to fly in every bit of material and bolt on time, work with extreme seasons and in a location where environmental concerns are paramount. But no. I suspect colleague wasn’t sufficiently woke.
    
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    February 26, 2024 10:09am
- kowtow
  
  The Establishment Elites looking after each other.
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:34am
- artemisia
  
  I see what you did there.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:30am
Rusty

Looks like this supermarket in Dunedin with a rat problem may never recover its patronage even if they give the green light.

Thinking about pests in supermarkets what about the pigeon problem?

My local always seems to have them munching away under a bakery cabinet and staff not doing anything about it.
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February 26, 2024 9:13am
I remember when

Hastings: UK polo player impressed by Burchleigh polo in schools programme: HB Today.
“He said he was impressed by the programme and what it offers the students from Flaxmere College.
The young Brit has been in New Zealand for three months and has enjoyed his work with the school kids.
He said, “its been rewarding to work with these kids and see their confidence grow, from never being on a horse before to getting into the sport.”

If I wanted a College to enrich polo playing numbers Flaxmere College wouldn’t be a consideration.
A bit of publicity for Birchleigh Polo Club and Flaxmere College.
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February 26, 2024 9:15am
Yabster

More from the TU – sums up Robbos legacy- OU is screwed (more).

LEAKED: a former senior Treasury official on Robertson’s legacy 😬
Your humble Taxpayers’ Union was accidentally CC’d into an excellent appraisal by a former senior Treasury official we ought not name.

Robertson’s departure is a reminder of how much worse what seems like everything has become under his watch – monetary policy mess ($12 billion lost and inflation to boot) including pathetic RBNZ appointments, neutering the Productivity Commission, banning gas and oil exploration, making us more dependent on Australian coal, fiscal balance in “structural deficit”, spending up by about 6% of GDP since 2017, net core Crown debt up by about 22% of GDP, working age welfare dependency up alarmingly, school truancy and under-achievement, hospitals an organisational mess, nurses and others fleeing to Australia, GP shortages developing, tertiary vocational training a shambles, 6 years on RMA a wasted effort, Treasury looking anaemic. Perhaps $30 billion to buy overseas carbon credits to 2030, while major countries will not keep to Paris Agreement net zero targets. No material difference to climate change, so at a major cost of NZers material wellbeing. Add to that the destablising’ co-governance that increasingly really meant a co-sovereignty ‘partnership’. And this guy apparently wanted a wealth tax.

To what extent was he a restraining influence? I have no idea.

But he and Labour MPs will now jeer at this government for failing to fix these problems fast.
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February 26, 2024 9:15am
I remember when

Valparaiso wildfire:
Large forests – which are dominated by non-native and highly flammable trees – have also been planted for logging and paper production, and quickly became engulfed.” Daily Telegraph.

These are dense forests of mainly pine and eucalyptus.
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February 26, 2024 9:23am
- Jack5
  
  Big forests of Pinus radiata in Chile.
  
  By 2010, 1.5 million hectares of these trees, which were developed in Rotorua by NZ State researchers from the Monterey pine, which is now an endangered species in its California homeland.
  
  NZ scientists, using enhanced breeding techniques for speed, over decades produced a more desirable tree for milling with fewer branches, straight trunk, and fast growing Our radiata pine.
  
  Now in plantations in Australia, and even Spain, as well as in Chile.
  
  https://www.nzffa.org.nz/farm-forestry-model/resource-centre/tree-grower-articles/may-2010/radiata-pine-silviculture-in-chile/
  
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  February 26, 2024 5:35pm
MCōs

The Conservatives in this UK are really struggling
https://x.com/shippersunbound/status/1761775790994124958?s=46&t=XZLqGbhN-xeYzprhTaktsg
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February 26, 2024 9:26am
- kowtow
  
  That’s cos they’re no longer conservative ( or Unionist).
  
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  February 26, 2024 9:33am
imalwaysright

The first step to removing the treaty albatross around the neck of New Zealand is to remove all references to race in all legislation , regulations, and publically funded communication.

When that happens we will have equality and it will be a lot easier to spot the racists
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February 26, 2024 9:26am
imalwaysright

What happened to forcing the judiciary to enforce the law as Parliament intended?
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February 26, 2024 9:28am
Inandout

Maggie, so long as she permanently resides down there.
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February 26, 2024 9:35am
Biscuit

I have been astonishingly restrained thus far today.

But no longer.

Caribou Cup Final
Wembley, London, this morning

Chelsea: 0
Liverpool: 1

When you walk through a storm
Keep your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of a storm is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho’ your dreams
Be tossed and blown

Walk on
Walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
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February 26, 2024 9:39am
- plc
  
  Alan Hansen: “You’ll never win anything with kids”
  
  Well, actually……
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:22am
- royce987
  
  You do realise that left wing politics is a core part of supporting Liverpool football Club. Unsurprising since the people of Liverpool are born and breed Socialists.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:20am
  - pdm
    
    royce I think Biscuit may be an exception to your theory.
    
    He can put the boot into socialists as well as the rest of us.
    
    Bloody hell – born and breed you say!!!!
    
    Biscuit is just putting on an act – a quisling among us!!!
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:51pm
- pdm
  
  Walk on yourself Biscuit.
  
  Would you believe it I found another bloody Scouser in Hastings yesterday – having thought previously that he was just a `common pom’.
  
  That makes 3 I know of in the country now – we are doomed!!!!
  
  Doomed I say!!!
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:28am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not exactly the crushing that Klopmania expects, my crumbly friend.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:42am
  - pdm
    
    Bollocks – they just don’t make Biscuits like they used to do they?
    
    Mind you are there any born and bred scousers in that team?
    Any born and bred poms even – I ask?
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:55pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      More than you might realise pdm. Probably more than most PL teams. These are all first team players.
      
      Trent Alexander Arnold, scouser!
      Harvey Elliot, English.
      Jarrell Quansah, English.
      Joe Gomez, English.
      Rhys Williams, English.
      Curtis Jones, English.
      
      These are all UK/Ireland – not poms, but close!
      Conor Bradley, Northern Ireland.
      Andy Robertson, Scottish.
      Ben Doak, Scottish.
      Kelleher, Irish.
      
      Of the younguns that weren’t regular but played in this final.
      
      Bobbie Clark, English.
      James McConnell, English.
      
      TBH I’d never heard of Danns, Clark or McDonnell prior to this game.
      
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      February 26, 2024 2:42pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Bradley, Quansah, Clark, McConnell, Danns – never heard of any of them a month ago.
  
  The future’s so bright I have to wear shades…..!
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
  
  And wasn’t Kelleher brilliant!
  
  My favourite version of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is this one.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5_LQArLa0&pp=ygUXeW91J2xsIG5ldmVyIHdhbGsgYWxvbmU%3D
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:24pm
Argonath

Christpher Luxon need to take lessons from the Canadian Conservative leader on how to deal with the left wing idiots in the MSM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEj7WLsWbk starts getting juicy about 2 mins in.

https://youtube.com/shorts/trAn5nkecq8?si=dAacr-hfUvYliEh7

Love how this guy handles the media.
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February 26, 2024 9:45am
- Colville
  
  Its all easy as LOTO… wait till he has something to lose.
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:07pm
Maggie Pie

Caller to ZB’s Kerry Woodham says she and her kids are intimidated by hoards of tattooed gang members wearing ankle-bracelets, doing bombs in the North Shore Public Pool.
They were trespassed once by the staff but never took the slightest bit of notice.

My question is… why would any normal person even go near a Public Pool?
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February 26, 2024 10:07am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, public pools have always been noted for unseemly behaviour and brown warnings not so uncommon. Every year I curse to myself that our home pool is becoming more expensive to maintain but the alternative is not even considered.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:27am
  - cas
    
    Some wise old man told me once that the best day of your life is when you put a swimming pool in. the second best day of your life is when you take it out. they are freakingly expensive to maintain.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:55am
    - peterwn
      
      Years ago a Remmers status symbol was a filled in swimming pool.
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:10pm
    - Inandout
      
      cas, the water is changed annually but not charged directly so not part of the equation. Chlorine $150, buffer $25, PH reduce $30, electricity for the pump, filter sand, test kit and hours spent vacuuming. And the 3 yearly safety inspection $160. But popping out for a dip on a hot day, exceptional.
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:21pm
    - Paulus
      
      Like I was told many years ago when buying my first boat – the best day of your life, and the second is when you finally sell that boat.
      I had many too over many years
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:47pm
    - MCōs
      
      Since I moved into this neighborhood about eleven years ago four people have put in pools and after an initial burst of enthusiasm none of them are used anymore
      There’s a public pool in Onehunga I’m familiar with and it’s constantly full of kids having fun and adults swimming lengths
      
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      February 26, 2024 9:47pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Question is if true why did the Pool not call in to Police?
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:46am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  why would any normal person even go near a Public Pool?
  
  To build up their immunity to bugs.
  
  It pissed me off no end that the Olympic Pool here in Gizzy was closed during lockdown.
  
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  February 26, 2024 10:56am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Didn’t you say youse guys had quite a big site?
    Sounded to me like you had room to put in your own pool.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:18am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep, we’ve loads of room for a decent-sized pool, but I’m lazy and couldn’t be bothered maintaining it…(not the stuff the hubby would do)
      plus I’m a poor pensioner…
      
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      February 26, 2024 11:33am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Do what I do…. get a Poolboy.
        
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        February 26, 2024 11:52am
      - Inandout
        
        Maggy, a concrete inground with a 40,000 litre capacity would now set you back $120,000. Now if you won Lotto.
        
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        February 26, 2024 12:26pm
      - Taieri
        
        Do what I do…. get a Poolboy
        ———
        
        What happened to your partner?
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:12pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        get a Poolboy.
        
        They’re all out surfing…..
        there’s only old chaps offering handy man services
        
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        February 26, 2024 1:56pm
  - cas
    
    What’s your new multi million public pool like?
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:56am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It’s pretty damn good .. there’s a couple of design flaws, I reckon, but nothing that really bothers me (at the moment).
      
      All summer, it’s been possible to get a lane to myself
      (I usually swim early afternoons).
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:49pm
  - kevn
    
    Maggy…. Saving lives? lol
    Fat link but it works.
    https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/former-pm-hipkins-profs-bloomfield-baker-should-be-held-accountable-for-quoting-statistics-that?
    
    [You’ve been told before about trimming links. Sort it out or get deleted. mod.]
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:01pm
    - kevn
      
      mod… Happy to do it of course, but.
      Tell me how to trim links without losing the link access, please. Thanks.
      
      [Go to the original page of your link, then copy that link rather than your source. mod.]
      
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      February 26, 2024 12:23pm
      - kevn
        
        mod…OK, thanks, let’s try this link version. We are not all equal at keyboard skills so thanks again.
        
        https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/former-pm-hipkins-profs-bloomfield-baker-should-be-held-accountable-for-quoting-statistics-that
        
        Better? It would seem so.
        
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        February 26, 2024 12:58pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That’s an easier read than the original paper.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Waiheke ferry turn around due to fight.
  
  No details.
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:00am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    IIpm Sat nite. My partner heard it was a few nasty drunks heading back to the city after an all day stag do. Gotta feel sorry for all the other passengers caught up in the delay. Skipper turned back to the Island to pick up police.
    Nothing worse than a bunch of p*ssheads who can’t handle alcohol. Not that I know any.
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:51am
    - Paulus
      
      Saw that one night in Manly, Sydney ferry similarly and it was the last boat to town when they got turfed off by the crew.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:49pm
Jack5

A scientist from the global-warming folk gives warning the panic’s gone too far.

I usually ignore global warming posts, so apologies if this has already been covered on Kiwiblog …

Cambridge University climate scientist Mike Hulme says climate extremists’ (my description) models tend to:

… ignore other changes in the environment, including “change in medical technology, military conflict between nations, pandemics, the rise of artificial intelligence and new developments in nanotechnology and materials science.”

Hulme says climatism has created a culture of radical environmental concern to the detriment of democratic debate and scientific inquiry.

https://zero-sum.org/climate-scientist-denounces-climate-emergency-as-noble-lie/
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February 26, 2024 10:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Will James Comer expose the Biden family?
It does need to happen.

https://conservativeundergroundnews.com/james-comer-is-after-a-smoking-gun-that-could-blow-the-lid-off-of-this-biden-scandal/?
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February 26, 2024 10:49am
- MCōs
  
  Expose them to what?
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Expose their corruption. 10% for the Big Guy.
    
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    February 27, 2024 8:32am
- NothingLeft
  
  It doesn’t really make any difference. The Democrat controlled Senate would never impeach Biden. The investigation is useful only as a tool in the ’24 election.
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:15pm
Maggie Pie

From Tiktok. OMG….you’ll love this!

‘PM Luxon addresses media about the governments crackdown
and how they intend to enforce the welfare sanctions’.

I’m just not sure whether Christopher suits a Mullet 😀 😀 😀

https://tiktok.com/@rnzsocial/video/7338250854736170242
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February 26, 2024 11:12am
- MCōs
  
  My hair is growing back again after chemotherapy
  A few months and there will be enough for a man bun and I’ll be able to hang around in the trendy downtown Remuera cafes again
  
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  February 26, 2024 11:30am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Ya got moobs as well cossie? 😀
    
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    February 26, 2024 11:57am
- Bernard Black
  
  Put a hat on him and you would have Fred Dagg
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:35pm
Homas

Just a random thought, but this really is one of the worst comments sections I’ve used lately in terms of trying to work out which replies link to which comments.
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February 26, 2024 11:31am
alex Masterley

I was at a function last night.
A number of OU Alumni were present as well as a former Vice Chancellor of another NZ University.
The subject of Robertsons appointment as Vice Chancellor of OU raised it’s ugly head.
Not only is Claire Curran on the council, i discovered that one Dr David Clark a former MP is Registrar of the University.
The place is full of ex-labour MPs.
It seems alot of alumni who would have been making donations to OU have decided not to do so.
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February 26, 2024 11:39am
- Rich Prick
  
  My wallet slammed shut on Robertson’s appointment. He can print my donations from now.
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:16pm
- Grunter
  
  Yep, it’s heaving with soggy wet socialists, all racking up more and more debt, spending OPM.
  
  Indoctrinating the next generation of Leftards.
  
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  February 26, 2024 3:46pm
Chuck Bird

I left National because of its climate change alarmist policies and voted Act.

David Seymour stated before the election that he would push for getting rid of the whole Climate Change Commission. I knew that Luxon would never agree to this and I suspect he did as well.

However, he could have pushed for Rod Carr’s replacement not to be another alarmist. It appears he has not and Carr’s replacement could even be James Shaw.

NZF appears not to support climate change alarmism. However, they are vague about policy.

I keep getting emails from Act and NZF saying all the great things they are doing and asking for donations.

However, when I email them for an assurance that they will strongly oppose another alarmist as Carr’s replacement I get no reply.

I think any donations I make will be to lobby groups like Maxim, Family First and Janet Dixon – a real estate agent.

Does anyone else think Carr’s replacement is very important?
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February 26, 2024 11:48am
- cmm
  
  Be careful what you wish for.
  
  Do you know who they would replace Carr with?
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:37pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I do not know but if Act and NZF do not object to another alarmist it is likely to be an alarmist.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:52pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Cb
      Just not a Carr alarmist…
      
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      February 26, 2024 2:48pm
- Grunter
  
  Chuck B
  I hear what you’re saying regards Carr’s replacement, but to be honest, the CCC is just a bunch of paid ‘experts’ that will spew out the same old nonsense no matter what.
  
  Best we can hope for under a Luxon Govt is a slightly less crooked Carr. I don’t think it will be Shaw.
  
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  February 26, 2024 3:43pm
Maggie Pie

WOW!!

Just heard ZBNews reporting Efesso Collins is having a State Funeral.
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February 26, 2024 12:05pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  How on earth is that a possibility?
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:12pm
- Colville
  
  Step away from the crack pipe Maggie !
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:13pm
- alex Masterley
  
  ZB getting jizzed up for no apparent reason?
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:19pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, that would account for the radio lady saying his body was ”lying in state’. I thought only big wigs got that privilege, like Norm Kirk.
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:31pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    Most of the previous government lied while in the employ of the state.
    
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    February 26, 2024 1:01pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  CORRECTION….my bad. Was only half listening.
  
  Yip, apparently they said he was ‘LYING IN STATE’ at an Onehunga Funeral Home.
  
  (Coincidentally, the people that do “The Casketeers” are in Onehuga. Wonder if it will be on telly?)
  
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  February 26, 2024 12:49pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “Wonder if it will be on telly?)”
    
    The Herald said that it will be live streamed.
    
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    February 26, 2024 12:51pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Thx for that Chuck. Hope it doesn’t clash with MAFS.
      
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      February 26, 2024 1:21pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    It is the Casketeers doing the funeral.
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:30pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I’ll retract my rant, should have read the whole thread first!
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:51pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    I liked their programme as it gave an insight into the Maori and PI’s way of treating death.
    
    Any Maori or PI’s words or phrases used had English sub titles and the programme was done v well.
    
    They and their team had a quirky SoH and Francis thought he was the Boss but his missus was actually!!!
    
    They went down in my estimation when they sent a letter offering their expertise for the funeral of QE11. To me that was rude.
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:26pm
- imalwaysright
  
  This is getting ridiculous.
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:20pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  This is absolutely virtue signaling bs.
  I wish the deceased and his family no ill will, but he did NOTHING to deserve this. Who made this decision? Who approved it?
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

I really wish Kiwis would wake up and take notice. Your Country is being stolen from under your nose and you are blind to it.
https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/what-every-new-zealander-needs-to-know/
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February 26, 2024 12:38pm
- MCōs
  
  The irony escapes you, does it?
  
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  February 26, 2024 1:40pm
  - Grunter
    
    Yep, some Maori tribes had decent chunks of land stolen about 150 years ago. Most of their land they actually sold to British settlers or The Crown (the best estimate I’ve seen is 90% of the land was actually sold).
    
    The known stolen land has now all been settled via The Waitangi Tribunal. Most of the stolen land was taken by The Crown as a response to a bunch of radical Maori who tried to create a separatist movement in the Waikato around 1860.
    
    Some land is claimed to have been stolen, but after almost 50 years of trying, The Waitangi Tribuanal and The Crown haven’t been able to make a clear decision on this claim. So maybe it is, maybe it isn’t stolen?
    
    MCos – do you have a different version of NZ history?
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:35pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      It really is fascinating when people can automaticaly and effortlessly identify racial supremacists only when they’re white. You could say when it comes to race they don’t see colour – but in a bad way, not a good way.
      
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      February 26, 2024 6:57pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      He won’t answer. He hit the brick wall of truth.
      
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      February 27, 2024 8:39am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

Has anyone noticed the crazy going-ons at St Johns? I hear random use of the terrio version, Hato Hone in radio and TV ads and on some of the ambulances.
However, an advert this morning on the radio, begging for donations, only referred to St Johns, as St Johns? Why is that? They appear to be a bit half hearted about the use of the terrio name, hato hone. Is the use of terrio names optional, its all very confusing
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February 26, 2024 12:46pm
- kevn
  
  Mickey… They have had the begging bowl out at supermarkets as well. Just playing cat and mouse with the govt while the CEO picks up his $800k pa. The other executives are on big bux as well.
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:26pm
- cmm
  
  They know which side of the bread has the butter on.
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:52pm
- Diogenes
  
  I have very mixed feelings about the St John Ambulance and their renaming. We have a family membership, which has repaid itself several times in the last year. A couple of Sundays ago, our eldest son suffered excruciating abdominal pains in the wee hours, and we had to call an ambulance. The attending staff were amazing — they are so well trained, and utterly professional. A&E at Christchurch Hospital was fortunately unusually quiet, and our son was admitted far faster than we expected. Again, the hospital staff were outstanding, and following a barrage of tests, whipped out his gall bladder the following day. I am full of admiration at the way in which staff at all levels do such an incredible job in the face of huge difficulties.
  
  But the name change by St John indicates that something is not well in the bureaucratic upper echelons. I can conceive of no reason to bow down to the encroaching darkness of wokeness in this country. I have made regular donations beyond the family membership in recent years, but am now questioning about whether to continue (still ambivalent). It would have been nice if the bureaucrats had thought to ask their supporters how they feel about it — it might have provided a stay to the apparent haemorraghing of income.
  
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  February 26, 2024 5:53pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    They are very good
    I had a situation awhile ago where I had severe intestinal pain (must have been reading Che’s posts)
    They sent me an ambulance but unfortunately didnt have any pain relief on it.
    Aware of the queue at A and E they sent another to meet us half way where I changed over, got pain relief and then on to Hospital.
    Outstanding
    
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    February 26, 2024 7:34pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis just got back from a holiday in San Fran.
She was telling us that looting is sooo bad now, that if you want to go shopping at a lot of the more exclusive stores…..you need to first register at the entrance, then wait for a staff member to become available to escort you around the entire time you’re in there.

How long till we see something like that happening at Countdown etc?
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February 26, 2024 1:42pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, or perhaps high end shops in Ponsonby.
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Golly, I hope it doesn’t come to that in Remuera 🙁
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:20pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Do Green MPs shop there?
      
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      February 26, 2024 4:40pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Countdown are ‘trialling’ face recognition cameras to counter loss/theft. There is a small sign at the exits (where you won’t notice it) advising the new protocol.
  
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  February 26, 2024 2:23pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Olivia was also telling us that ‘Target’ in SF have removed all the ‘self-checkout machines’ fron their stores due to the high level of theft as well.
    
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    February 26, 2024 2:37pm
    - mogg
      
      I thought they were called Tar-Jay or Targ’zhe in
      Remuera.
      
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      February 26, 2024 3:15pm
  - Keith White
    
    I’ll be wearing my Aliens face-hugger mask – the one I bought coupla years ago when masks were mandatory. It’s leather, but identifies as H97. It weren’t cheap but the return on investment was instant and raucous 🙂
    
    Edited to update: I see they are still for sale. I paid to have mine assembled and dyed…
    
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/255304763593
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:22pm
    - kevn
      
      Keith… Cool. Nice and discreet.
      
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      February 26, 2024 3:42pm
    - greybeard
      
      Come on Keith: you always looked like this through school. Send us an updated photo.
      
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      February 26, 2024 7:03pm
- ISeeRed
  
  It will be hard for them to find enough staff as they’ll have to be fluent in te reo.
  
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  February 26, 2024 7:00pm
cmm

Sad business when adults put a 15 year old child in an overpowered rally car and let him kill himself.

It reminds me of those parents that tried to get their 7 year old daughter into the record books by flying across USA. Result: expensive crater with three bodies – including the 7 year old.

This is just vicarious fame seeking by the parents.

FFS they are kids. Let them be kids. They have their whole adult life ahead of them to live out their OWN goals when they are capable of making reasonable decisions. They are not here to live out YOUR goals!
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February 26, 2024 2:57pm
- Colville
  
  Its also a significant career path for the kid if they are good enough.
  
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  February 26, 2024 3:26pm
- kevn
  
  cmm… Not sure how old Scott Dixon was when he got into a real car. 15yo seems more a go-kart age.
  
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  February 26, 2024 3:44pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Some of the top racers were racing go karts at about 5.
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:49pm
    - kevn
      
      Chuck… Indeed, I gather there several grades of karts.
      
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      February 26, 2024 4:20pm
  - MikeS
    
    I had a full driver’s license 2 weeks after my fifteenth birthday. He was in a ‘real’ car way before he turned 15. I think he was only 13 when he rolled a Nissan in a saloon car race
    
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    February 27, 2024 4:43am
- rangitoto
  
  Max Verstappen had an FIA Super License and was racing Formula 1 cars at age 17. He came up through the ranks of karting and then formula 3. I don’t think 15 is too young for a rally car driver if they have had appropriate training and preparation.
  
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  February 26, 2024 4:50pm
ClanMcleod

The insanity on this planet just keeps hitting new and unimaginable levels.

Chicago Sues Big Oil for Climate Change As Its Weather has been Nice and Unremarkable for Years

https://www.igor-chudov.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=11s70p
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February 26, 2024 3:19pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mt-albert-emergency-incident-two-people-critically-injured/RGBBZ5EK6RC7XPTPPTVFCSW4FU/

“”We had bodyguards here for months,” he said. “There was a lot of smashing but this has been escalating and escalating.””

I have a feeling this story could explode — it could even see the end of Kianga Ora if National put their money where their mouth is!

Essentially it seems a kianga ora tenant has murdered someone in their neighbourhood. This tenant has been troublesome and kianga ora had assigned security guards to monitor his behaviour.
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February 26, 2024 3:23pm
- kevn
  
  surfing… These mutts are costing NZer’s a fortune. There will be similar stories involving KO residences around the whole country. Rotorua for sure.
  
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  February 26, 2024 4:19pm
- ISeeRed
  
  One upside of the use of te reo in organisational names is it gets associated with everything shit in our society. It will lose its cool factor and more people will visibly roll their eyes every time some poser uses a “mouldy” word or overpronounces a place name like WAAAI-KAAA-TOOOEEE.
  
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  February 26, 2024 7:06pm
Maggie Pie

WOW!
This is just amazing. There is something that screams White and Sexy.
Yet you still ask yourself….. what possible use is it?

https://twitter.com/1gawur/status/1761309197629612486
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February 26, 2024 3:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  what possible use is it?
  
  A Cure for toe jam?
  
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  February 26, 2024 3:45pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    When I was a teenager I won a medal for Archery at Club Med in Bora Bora. Everyone reckoned it was becos the G.M. fancied me.
    Still got it actually.
    
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    February 26, 2024 3:56pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Cirque du Soleil?
  
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  February 26, 2024 4:01pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Kev….
    
    Q: Whats the differnce btween Cirque du Soleil and the Labor Party?
    A: Cirque has a cunning array of stunts, while the……
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    February 26, 2024 4:59pm
    - Bernard Black
      
      Synchronised swimming is still an Olympic sport so why not hand stand foot archery next, about as useful.
      Oh and whats the difference between Jax and the Tasman Sea? The Tasman Sea is a busy ditch while Cindy is……
      
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      February 26, 2024 5:24pm
Swifty

“Hey, I know, let’s all just collude and agree to cancel Winston because we don’t like what he is saying about us.”

https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1761572652869918903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Wow. Talk about handing your opponents ammunition to shoot you with.

I struggle to understand why Jennings would be so incautious in his use of words. It seems like he’s determined to prove Winston right about media corruption.
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February 26, 2024 4:31pm
- kevn
  
  Swifty… Devisive and negative. PIJF speaketh.
  
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  February 26, 2024 5:10pm
- mogg
  
  If you remember before the last election Luxon and Winston toured the Town halls and speaking venues because they knew MSM would edit their coverage or not cover them at all. This suggested boycott shows just how confident they are, they need to be taken down a peg or two.
  
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  February 26, 2024 5:54pm
Maggie Pie

HDPA.

Good to hear Nashie crapping all over Kiri and Chippy for siding against his suggested “get tough-on-gangs” approach. .
Said the Justice Minister voted against him becos she considered…. he was being ‘anti-Maori’. Chippy agreed with her.
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February 26, 2024 5:22pm
- imalwaysright
  
  Its their pained expressions that grate.
  
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  February 26, 2024 5:50pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    ‘Kiri Allen has been contacted for comment’
    
    – NZH
    
    Why the f…k would they bother?
    SHEESH!!!!
    
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    February 26, 2024 6:53pm
Maggy Wassilieff

This is a bit peculiar

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350192964/police-set-lay-additional-charge-against-former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman

Has GG just remembered some previous misdemenour, or has someelse provided some new evidence?
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February 26, 2024 7:16pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  ‘Police are considering diversion as other issues are
  considered at this early stage in the court process’
  her lawyer Annabel Cresswell said.
  
  – NZHorrid
  
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  February 26, 2024 7:22pm
  - rouppe
    
    Police diversion scheme
    https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/adult-diversion-scheme-police-manual-chapter
    
    Page 11:
    “However, category 4 offences, or offences listed in the Crown Prosecution Regulations 2013 would usually be considered too serious to be eligible for diversion.
    
    Crown Prosecution Regulations (Schedule)
    The following offences, if the offending involves a complex transaction:
    ss 219, 223(b) (c), or (d) Theft or stealing (where, in combination with any other charges being heard together in the proceeding, the value of the property stolen is more than $1,000
    
    These are precisely the charges she is facing. Unless the “complex transaction” allows some way to wriggle out
    
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    February 26, 2024 9:49pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Sounds like a fourth charge according to NZH.
  And now pushed back to March 20th!!
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/golriz-ghahraman-facing-another-charge-as-court-date-for-former-green-mp-pushed-back-again/7P2OO3QH5JBAJLUSLY74TGBUNY/
  
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  February 27, 2024 12:29am
- ecco
  
  It was probably a habit going on for many years. You don’t just go and steel $10k worth of stuff first off. You’d have to build up some technique to do that.
  
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  February 27, 2024 2:38am
Swifty

What the hell’s it got to do with Spoonley? His ‘expertise’ is Nazis under the bed and how all misinformation comes from only the Right.

Why was he even asked for comment? It’s obvious what his response would be – he’s never met a government programme he hasn’t instantly fallen in love with.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350189854/blindsided-productivity-commission-closes-good-government-axes-22-jobs
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