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imalwaysright

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/kaitaia-gp-130k-out-of-pocket-after-having-to-sell-occupied-land-to-council/F7RFB4VVDJFLNGZZYELBH2QXTE/

They occupy someone elses property because a tree was cut down.

Maybe they can next occupy a house in Taita where Baby Ru was tortured and murdered .

(Baby torturers and murderers still walking free. Cops have narrowed it to three suspects )
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March 6, 2024 8:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cops are scared of starting a protest by the murderer’s supporters I guess.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:40am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Maybe the Hurricanes Poua could make Justice for Baby Ru the inspiration for their haka this weekend…
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:07am
- surfing
  
  Baby Ruthless-Empire please. Don’t let the feral parents off by using a cute name.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:25am
  - Ghost
    
    Disagree with your wording, this person was anything but a parent, in life or death she doesn’t deserve that title.
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:54am
    - Paul
      
      Couldn’t agree more, Ghost. Rights, and all that.
      I suspect that you are a Sigma Male, dishonesty feels wrong. Long may you continue posting, always a reality check.
      
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      March 6, 2024 7:55pm
- cmm
  
  He is a colonial doctor. I am sure Aotearoan medical science doesn’t really need him.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:30pm
- AndyW
  
  My wife’s friend is in turmoil at the moment. A teenage Maori boy (judging by his surname) is trying to join a gang (his dad’s in the Mob) and has to smash someone up as part of his initiation: for some unknown reason he’s selected this friend’s son.
  When all the wealthy Maori tribes, elites, academics and hangers-on deal with this shit/real issues (and don’t blame colonization), then I’d be happy to listen to their grievances. Sort your own house out first.
  
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  March 6, 2024 5:59pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Eye watering all right. That would be the mote in the cyclists’ collective eye.

In my case, it’s because I’m hooting at the irony.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510930/eye-watering-amount-of-money-for-south-auckland-roading-project-cyclists-say
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March 6, 2024 8:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  When the cyclists contribute their share to the project they can have a say.
  Until then STFU.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:43am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Good point. I’m not in favour of more fees and taxes but if cyclists keep demanding cycleways and special lanes on roads (which often worsen traffic flow) they will eventually be asked to contribute directly through a registration fee on their bike/scooter/insert-annoying-conveyance.
    
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    March 6, 2024 8:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Registration, and about time.
      User pays!!!
      
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      March 6, 2024 9:20am
    - Paulus
      
      It is as much as the Green Party influencing you by wanting Cycle ways, to vote for them
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:33pm
- MCōs
  
  Regardless of who the criticism comes from the EW link is frightfully expensive and is likely to increase in cost substantially if and whenever it gets built
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:31am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Does the budget include the cost of local iwi “gifting” some unpronounceable Maori names?
    
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    March 6, 2024 11:18am
    - MCōs
      
      You’ll have to put that question to Mr S Brown
      
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      March 6, 2024 11:59am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Owners of Nissan Leafs have accused the firm of “dumping its pioneers” after it announced its app would stop working for older vehicles. Around cars made before 2016 are affected by the app being withdrawn.

2016??? In NZ, that’s practically brand new!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68426263
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March 6, 2024 8:04am
- Skippytony
  
  This is a definite thing with car makers recently. There is a subtle shift from a capex based model to an opex based model. “Sir wants heated seats with his car?” “Of course, sign up for this subscription to that service” – BMW.
  In a moment of madness I bought a new BMW I4. Dealer rep told me that in the US now, due to the prevalence of vendor finance, the new BMWs are all constantly connected to BMW. Miss a couple of payments and they know exactly where the car is and they remotely disable it, and there is nothing you can do to over ride the software.
  This car is basically an app with wheels. Like Teslas, there Are hardly any actual buttons or switches left, its all “in the app”.
  Whiches great till BMW stop supporting the version Ive got. Hmmmmm
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:31am
  - sirknz
    
    But EVs are supposed to be the future, the batteries are still good after 10 years according to some numpties on twitter…
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:19am
    - Skippytony
      
      I fully expect that you will be leasing batteries as well in the future and paying a rental charge per k under the opex model.
      
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      March 6, 2024 3:13pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    “You will own nothing”
    
    It will all be in the cloud on a leash and you will “subscribe” for the pleasure of using this or that “service”. This can be cancelled and taken away at a moment’s notice, as you say. Oh, and don’t forget their “community standards” lefty thought control.
    
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    March 6, 2024 4:21pm
- rouppe
  
  Always the risk when you buy technology. How often do you replace your phone, or continue running it after they stop updates for it. How often do people replace their TV as resolution and colour improves? I had it with my Sonos gear.
  
  Not exactly unexpected with EVs either. Wait till Musk stops updates for older Teslas
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:36am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    There are some still using Window 95 you know.
    No updates but they don’t care.//
    
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    March 6, 2024 8:46am
    - kevn
      
      SteveO… Even some medical equipment in hospitals run Win95.
      
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      March 6, 2024 8:50am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yes they do. It’s a case of ‘if it’s not broken, it doesn’t need fixing.’
        
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        March 6, 2024 9:22am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Yep – but for unsupported apps like that you need to be veeerrry careful with your firewalls etc.
        
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        March 6, 2024 10:32am
- kowtow
  
  “Electric vehicles release more toxic particles into the atmosphere and are worse for the environment than their gas-powered counterparts, according to a resurfaced study.
  
  The study, published by emissions data firm Emission Analytics, was released in 2022 but has attracted a wave of attention this week after being cited in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Sunday.
  
  It found that brakes and tires on EVs release 1,850 times more particle pollution compared to modern tailpipes, which have “efficient” exhaust filters, bringing gas-powered vehicles’ emissions to new lows.
  
  Today, most vehicle-related pollution comes from tire wear.”
  
  Source NYP
  
  Folk who drive smugmobiles and politicians who promote them ,on the back of productive taxpayers , should be given the fingers( metaphorically) .
  
  Taxpayers and “the planet” can’t afford the financial and environmental damage.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:40am
  - info@cruzpro.com
    
    I say that article is full of nonsense.
    
    The 2013 Nissan LEAF that we bought nine years ago is still using two of the iriginal tires. The polution caused by the small amount of rubber that came off the tires in their eleven years of life has to be a lot less than the pollution coming out of the tailpipe of an ICE car driven for eleven years.
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:02am
    - sirknz
      
      A 2013 Nissan Leaf?
      
      Your range now must be what, about 90, maybe 120 meters on a full charge, going downhill with the wind behind you…
      
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      March 6, 2024 9:54am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Maybe it sits in the garage & doesn’t go very far, very often.
        
        What I would say to Info is that you should change or at least check those tyres. Tyre life is not just a function of usage. Rubber ages, cracks can appear – especially with the weight of an e-car. Seriously, get down to Beaurepairs or whoever & get them checked out.
        
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        March 6, 2024 10:35am
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Only has a 24 kw battery and is down to about 120km range now. Son uses it to drive to work every day and saves on petrol.
        
        The wife and I bought a 2019 Nissan LEAF two years ago that has a larger 40 kw battery and can go about 235 km on a full charge.
        
        Btw both cars get a WOF check every year and the tires are checked.
        
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        March 6, 2024 1:00pm
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      In that case, assuming it has enough range to get to a tyre shop, get it down there.
      
      Tyres deteriorate from day one of manufacture.
      
      11 year old tyres are waaaaay past their safe use by date. You shouldn’t have got a WOF, and certainly don’t let your family in that deathtrap.
      
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      March 6, 2024 2:10pm
    - cmm
      
      An 11 year old car on 11 year old tyres (not tires) clearly isn’t getting used much. That would be very atypical usage in NZ.
      
      I doubt a set of tyres will last you much more than 80,000 with good rotation. The fact that two wore out and two are still going suggests poor rotation.
      
      80,000km in 11 years is an average of 7500 km a year or about 20km a day. Sure, that’s probably fine for a second or third run about, but not at all what most NZers will experience. Average car usage in NZ is about twice that.
      
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      March 6, 2024 2:40pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        We live in Whangarei and the distance to the CBD and shops/grocery stores is about 5 minutes. Yes, we do not have to drive very far every day. Makes the EV the best option.
        
        Other than WOF and REGO costs we drive almost for free. Our power provider is Electric Kiwi who gives us one hour of free power every day.
        
        That one hour of free power provides more juice than we need for our daily driving.
        
        Some of us EV owners are actually happy with our decision to own one.
        
        If you don’t actually own an EV then it is very difficult for you to voice an educated opinion because you have no experience to base your opinion on.
        
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        March 6, 2024 6:34pm
      - Sparrow
        
        I have a smile when I read all about the EVs and the trials and tribulations they seem to have. My question is do the drivers enjoy driving them or even fall in love with them ?
        My happiness is sitting in the garage with I suspect a smug smile as just past its wof again.
        Yes its my second (ASX outside) Happiness is a 1962 Morris Mini Cooper. Yes 62 years old not quite as old as the driver.What more can you ask for. We live on a dirt track with potholes which test driver and car. Who cares its fun with a smile.
        
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        March 6, 2024 7:08pm
Scott

Some charge Israel with committing genocide against the people of Gaza. I believe it is reasonable to conclude that Israel is not engaging in genocide or anything like it. However some commentators may have not reached their position through reason.

The key fact that reasonable people should note is that Israel has the military capability to flatten all of Gaza. They could use their bombs and rockets to turn Gaza into glass. They could stand off and do this with no risk to their armed forces. If they did, the charge of genocide might have some merit?

However what is the IDF actually doing? They are involved in urban house to house street fighting against Hamas combatants. This is a very risky, costly type of warfare. They do this so they can target enemy combatants, not civilians.

This is even more difficult because Hamas purposely embed themselves within the local population. They store weapons in children’s bedrooms and build their bases directly under hospitals. That’s why the civilian casualties are so high. Hamas are using the local population as human shields.

Israel could completely flatten Gaza but they do not. Instead they have lost over 220 soldiers in ambushes and street fighting with Hamas. They are trying to win the war and defeat Hamas, not destroy the civilian population.
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March 6, 2024 8:05am
- Kiwiguy
  
  Well said.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:21am
- Blog-aholic
  
  A war it is not.
  A genocide it is not.
  A rat infestation elimination it is.
  
  It isn’t pretty but in conflict humans become dead very fast, We are easy to kill.
  
  Look at Syria, Sudan or Yemen for how many have died in those countries……..
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:32am
- kowtow
  
  There are many Hamas Huggers here who have questioned the facts around the Hamas/Jihad/Palestinian operatives and other criminal gangs who crossed the border to commit outrages on Oct 7 as unsubstantiated propaganda .
  
  Even the UN now finally acknowledges the outrages against women ,particularly at and around the Nova music festival and kibbutz Re’im, even raping dead bodies.
  
  This is covered in overseas media .
  
  Our te media paahti , not so much.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:33am
- mandk
  
  You are quite right Scott.
  
  The reality is that Israel has the ability to commit genocide against the Palestinians but has no intention of doing so.
  
  By contrast, the Palestinians would like to commit genocide against the people of Israel but lacks the power to carry it out.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:44am
- Matt Long
  
  Careful Simon, I’ve been reliably informed this view is wrong as it goes against the majority view, such as the Islamist world, the Regressive Socialists, the Green Party, and historical Icons of the Third Reich.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:44am
- cmm
  
  Quite.
  
  If Israel was set on killing Gazans then it would be really easy to bomb or shell high population areas with anti-personnel bombs and howitzer fire.
  
  One AP howitzer shell can pretty much kill every living thing exposed within about 70 metres. A salvo of those could kill many thousand.
  
  Clearly Israel is not doing this. They are doing pamphlet drops and warnings to deliberately get civilians away from targets. They are doing this even though it sometimes even gives the legitimate targets, Hamas, opportunity to escape.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:09am
- All_on_Red
  
  Just for Spoff the Oct 7 Denier
  ‘Credible circumstantial information, which may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence, including genital mutilation, sexualized torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, was also gathered,” read the 24-page U.N. report.’
  https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-team-says-rape-gang-rape-likely-occurred-during-hamas-attack-israel-2024-03-04/
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:57am
- Ra Henare
  
  You seem unaware of politics.
  The world would be REALLY pissed off if Israel bombed the crap out of Gaza as you suggest.
  
  That definitely would have everyone including the US stopping any support for Israel. Including huge demonstrations of Jewish peoples in Israel itself and around the world. Netanyahu would be gone before lunchtime and find himself in jail.
  
  Indeed Israel would be subject to war crime sanctions.
  
  Ask any reputable military analyst about the possibility of eliminating HAMAS and winning the war and you will get some wry smiles.
  
  Au contraire, actions speak louder than words. The Civilian population is being knowingly destroyed by the IDF.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:55pm
BarryB

Well things are coming to a head in the Ukraine.
The Ukraine acknowledges that they have lost 31 or 51,000 troops dead (number depends on who you read) and that they are having trouble finding people to take their place – no surprise in that.
Then the Germans and the French are at odds about sending their own troops to help . How bloody stupid is the French president.
Then the Russians tell us that the Germans are wondering if they should send cruise missiles. Its a bit surprising that the Germans think they would need around 15 of them to hit the bridge. I would think that these things are a bit useless if they need that many to hit the bridge. Also the German President – or whatever they call him – implied that UK troops are already on the ground in the Ukraine- apparently they organised the attack on Russian ships in the black sea. I expect the Russians wont be forgetting this in a hurry.

It seems pretty obvious that things are coming to a head – either talks will begin soon to stop the stupidity or things will escalate very quickly and the whole shambles will get out of control. Zelenskyy is an idiot and he will almost certainly do something to provoke the situation in an effort to make sure other European troops get involved in the belief that such action will help him. I feel sorry for the people of Ukraine because they are the big losers.
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March 6, 2024 8:10am
- PeterB
  
  Big losers alright. That’s Russia’s fault.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:17am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Sigh.
    If only Ukraine had stood by the Minsk agreement instead of caving in to Victoria Nulands desire to weaken Russia.
    
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    March 6, 2024 2:58pm
- Grunter
  
  It is interesting that “Baghdad Bob” (Zelensky) claims only 31,ooo Ukrainian deaths, but then says he now needs 700,000 new soldiers to replace his old army?
  
  Most other reports claim the number of Ukrainian dead is now over 500,000, which makes more sense if Baghdad Bob now wants another 700,000 to send into the meat grinder.
  
  NATO leaders are looking more idiotic by the day. And interesting to see that the very deranged Victoria Nuland has just been booted out (retired yeah right!) of the US Deep State. She has obviously been told that there is no more money for her war in Ukraine.
  
  What a waste of human life. Bring on Trump so it will stop within 24 hours!
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:28am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Zelensky decides nothing.
    Since when is an ex tv comedian qualified to run anything, let alone a war with Russia?!
    He’s literally a muppet.
    
    Baghdad Bob is a good name for a muppet.
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:01am
    - MCōs
      
      Donald Trump is an ex TV game show host
      Ronald Reagan was a movie star before he was Governor of California
      Boris Johnston was a newspaper editor
      And so on
      
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      March 6, 2024 11:18am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Mcos
        
        https://youtu.be/9FNDKdptBRY?si=uGEwqOixvh6AoSAW
        
        Is this the person you are defending ?
        
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        March 6, 2024 11:55am
      - MCōs
        
        I’m not defending anyone
        I’m pointing out that his background is not unique
        
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        March 6, 2024 2:11pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        But they all had political experience before getting the top job.!!!
        
        Zelensky had zero!!!
        
        After months of ambiguous statements, on 31 December, less than four months from the election.
        
        Zelenskyy’s presidential campaign against Poroshenko was almost entirely virtual.
        He did not release a detailed policy platform and his engagement with mainstream media was minimal;
        he instead reached out to the electorate via social media channels and YouTube clips.
        In place of traditional campaign rallies, he conducted stand-up comedy routines across Ukraine with his production company
        
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        March 6, 2024 3:04pm
  - kevn
    
    Grunter… and how many seriously injured Ukraine soldiers 1.5 mill? Or more.
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:17am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Are you acting as no more than a Putin troll?
      
      Even the most casual of analysis would show up the absurdity of asserting 1.5 million or more Ukrainian soldiers seriously wounded.
      
      The usually accepted ratio of seriously wounded to killed is around 3 to 1. So 1.5 million seriously wounded would mean about 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed. Nearly 2 million in total.
      
      No-one has suggested anything like that.
      
      It would be almost all of the military age Ukrainian soldiers (male only). Not just those in the actual combat zone (which might be as high as one third of the Ukrainian Army) but all of the logistic and support forces.
      
      I reckon General Milley’s estimates are far more sensible, and will be based on actual knowledge.
      
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      March 6, 2024 2:05pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        You may have been a Defence Minister in a previous life Wayne.
        But plenty of analysis by independent sources of vast Ukrainian casualties would disagree with you..
        
        “”in August 2023, unnamed U.S. officials shared estimates of Ukrainians killed or wounded with reporters at The New York Times. Caveating that figures were hard to estimate, they said Ukrainian figures were close to 70,000 dead and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.””
        
        Fell of my chair laughing when you quoted Milley. A politician in uniform trying to muddy the waters about Ukraine loses so the US can waste lots more billions on Ukraine support and his defence buddies (of which he will retire to the board of said entities) can get more weapons contracts.
        
        The US congress is wising up to the real situation.
        
        https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/30/why-gen-mark-milley-should-be-court-martialed/
        
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        March 6, 2024 3:17pm
      - Grunter
        
        “No one has suggested anything like that.”
        
        Seriously Wayne?
        
        Even the EU President, Von der Leyen, let it slip that 120,000 Ukrainians had been killed. And that was way back in Nov 2022. General Milley in Jan 2023 estimated 100,000 to 120,000 Ukrainians dead.
        
        Since then we’ve seen the failed Ukrainian offensive and now Russian forces blowing through the front line. Many, many more Ukrainians have been killed. So 400,000 has a high probability, and there are many saying it is now in excess of 500,000.
        
        I’m no Putin fanboy either – all along I’ve simply stated what I consider is a realistic view of the situation. Russia with its superior manpower, airpower, and now artillery power was always going to grind out a victory over the smaller Ukrainian forces.
        
        Zelensky had a peace deal in April 2022, ripped it up and chose carnage and destruction of his country instead. He was in a no win situation, took the advice of the clown Boris Johnson, and turned it into armageddon for his country. They are both evil IMO.
        
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        March 6, 2024 3:26pm
- Handyman
  
  The US will support Ukraine to the last Ukranian soldier. The goal is to exhaust as much Russian capability as possible.
  After that, Nato will cede occupied territory to Russia and locate an “international” peace keeping force in Ukraine.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:56am
Im Right

Another day, another MSM headline full day of attacking the Govt…
Another 6-9 years of this I suppose?
I wouldn’t mind if MSM was even handed, but I think everyone can see they are all singing from the same leftie songsheet.
Left = good
Right = evil
Anything maori = sacrosanct/godly
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March 6, 2024 8:10am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yes, it is as though nobody at all voted for the National Party and it’s coalition partners.
  Nobody at all agreed with their policies and wanted a change of direction.
  Nobody at all was sick of the Labour Party hubris and their shopping sprees with no result.
  Nobody at all was tired of the sycophantic msm failing to hold their Labour government to account by asking any hard questions.
  Much of NZ is populated by kids going “whaaaaah”.
  Only their “needs” and entitlements matter.
  The rest of us out here don’t count.
  What we might want and voted for is irrelevant.
  Happened quick didn’t it – childish citizens showing their true colours.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:37am
BarryB

Im confused.
Apparently Colonisation is bad for the indigenous.
But Rugby Union (and for that matter Rugby League) are sports introduced by the colonisers……..
Surely the indigenous wouldnt use something the Colonisers brought with them to make political statements.
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March 6, 2024 8:14am
- cmm
  
  How do you make a statement with nothing?
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:10am
  - Drone
    
    Bare buttocks cmm..
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:36am
- MCōs
  
  The colonizers introduced rugby, league, football & cricket to various colonies around the world, but the ungrateful bastards have turned around and systematically used the various sports to beat their former masters, England, over the head on a regular basis.
  In the case of football other countries have joined in the fun along with the hand of God.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:23am
- artemisia
  
  I’m thinking a waltz on the field would make the right statement.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:49am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Wednesday bullshit
The Artic could be ice free by 2067, but it could happen this decade. Well it better hurry up, this decade has 6 years left. Nothing about sea levels rising – the idiots have found the truth on that one!
Further on there are predictions that were just hogwash.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/the-arctic-could-be-mostly-ice-free-in-just-10-years-and-it-means-intense-heatwaves-will-plague-earth/ar-BB1jnhQd#image=BB1jmkOI|13
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March 6, 2024 8:15am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  It’s worse than that. According to some scientists, the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months could happen as early as 2016:
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:55am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Indeed. Alarmists proven to be totally full of sh*t, yet again.
    
    I was talking to few battler normies yesterday about climate change. None had a single clue about the subject yet believed the media.
    
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    March 6, 2024 4:41pm
Simon

If someone is boosted and believes in man made climate change with all their might their opinion can be safely disregarded. Thats the standard.
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March 6, 2024 8:21am
- Taieri
  
  So, what happens when someone is boosted but doesn’t believe in the man made climate change?
  Can we safely disregard their opinions as a standard?
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:56am
- Clown
  
  It’s funny how leftie logic works:
  
  Hesitant about injecting yourself with experimental vaccine by a private for profit corrupt pharma company = anti science. While at the same time squawking about how there’s 100 different genders 😂
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:22am
Simon

NZ should be neutral in the Post-west vs BRICS. The post-West is run by the very stupid.
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March 6, 2024 8:29am
- Grunter
  
  I agree. That is the only sensible position that remains for NZ.
  
  Joining BRICS makes zero sense (they are authoritarian Statists, and culturally mostly weird). And remaining in the Western alliance that is hell-bent on self-destruction and has an equally weird woke culture is plain stupid.
  
  The world has/is turning into a madhouse. Our best position is to duck for cover and shut up. There is no upside in joining either side.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:38am
  - Bevan
    
    Your statement is illogical. NZ would fit right in with the western alliance and could easily out-woke all of them put together.
    
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    March 6, 2024 8:38pm
Maggie Pie

When I read this I didn’t know whether to LOL…… or LAL 😀

https://twitter.com/NMadeinNZ/status/1764885296494064081
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March 6, 2024 8:32am
- Blog-aholic
  
  That Kiwibank – again?
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:33am
- Matt Long
  
  If you see Kiwibank NZer of something on a resumé, run.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:35am
Simon

Luxon seems miles better than John Key. Or is it Ardern was miles worse than Clark?
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March 6, 2024 8:33am
Southern Raider

I’m not going to comment on the specific issue at Auckland Grammar, but what the article does highlight is what I’ve been concerned about for a while

The two sons live with their grandfather in zone while the mother (has citizenship in NZ) lives and works in Hong Kong. Effectively the grandfather and two sons are living off the benefits of NZ taxpayers and taking up limited educational and health system capacity, while the mother pays tax off shore.

Not sure about rest of NZ but this is very common practice in Auckland where one or both parents live and work overseas and so NZ Inc gets no income. They are effectively rorting the system (although not illegal) and will most likely return here just to retire when their need costs go up.

I’m not sure why NZ allows this and its especially prevalent amongst Chinese

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-grammar-enrolment-trouble-despite-boy-living-in-zone-school-declines-application/OTOX6NADRJF4ZGUHG6GSEQYJC4/
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March 6, 2024 8:37am
- BeaB
  
  How exactly could NZ citizens be prevented from working overseas whilst maintaining a household at home?
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:52am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Doesn’t US charge citizens tax regardless of where the income is earnt?
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:16am
    - Ghost
      
      Yes
      
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      March 6, 2024 9:23am
    - Taieri
      
      Doesn’t US charge citizens tax regardless of where the income is earnt?
      ———-
      
      As does NZ.
      To be deemed a NZ tax resident one doesn’t actually need to live in NZ full year. Apart from the residency test, the IRD decides whether such a person has an “enduring relationship with NZ”, such as social links, personal links, economic links and so on. If deemed so, such an individual is liable for tax on the income earned world-wide.
      
      Full explanation:
      
      https://www.bellinghamwallace.co.nz/news-insights/how-to-determine-if-you-are-a-new-zealand-tax-resident/
      
      With respect to the US, in practice it means furnishing an annual tax return, since the US has entered into prevention of double taxation agreements with a number of countries.
      
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      March 6, 2024 10:11am
    - Paulus
      
      As does New Zealand no matter where you live if you are considered New Zealand Domiciled.
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:38pm
    - cmm
      
      You have to do tax returns, but that does not necessarily mean they “charge” you tax. If you have paid tax in the country of residence then you get credits (ie. don’t have to pay US tax).
      
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      March 6, 2024 2:44pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  The real giveaway is this…
  
  ‘Au Yeung paid about $500,000 for the in-zone property when she first enrolled her eldest son three years ago’
  
  Must have been a one bedder leasehold apartment in a leaky hi-rise.
  We know a couple who paid over 12mill for a home just to get their boys into Grammar. And it’s not overly flash.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:56am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Yes so worked out minimum cost to get in zone to save $60K per annum for two sons at a private school
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:18am
    - Ian Boag
      
      And if she wasn’t Chinese we would be applauding her end-run on the zoning stuff. Personally I think AG should have just sucked it up seeing as the older bro has been there for three years ….
      
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      March 6, 2024 2:33pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If I wanted to find examples of NZ citizens who have kids at school here and are not contributing any tax revenue, I would not need to go looking for them in Hong Kong.
  
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  March 6, 2024 8:59am
  - Southern Raider
    
    Yes but harder to deal with bludgers who were born here
    
    I’m just raising what seems to be an acceptable pattern of behaviour which drives net cost into our economy for nill benefit
    
    Family moves to NZ and does bare minimum to gain citizenship. As soon as citizenship is granted at least one or both parents move back to their home country to run their existing businesses while kids live here leveraging off the State. Kids go through school and University paid for by taxpayer. Kids graduate and then take off to Australia or further afield. Parents eventually move back when they want to retire and once again receive taxpayer benefits
    
    I’m just raising that our economy is fragile and we can’t afford this behaviour and it’s not an isolated incident
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:23am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      There is a lot going on here.
      
      1. School zoning was always a bad idea. It should be rolled back gradually so as not to crash property values. Won’t happen of course.
      
      2. University should be funded by loans with any government contribution in the form of future tax rebates. So if you go overseas to work you owe the full amount, but no effective change if you stay here. Unarguably an improvement.
      
      3. Super should be in proportion to time spent living in NZ between age 18 and 65. Also won’t happen as it could be killed by one news story about some destitute retiree who is has never exercised an ounce of personal responsibility in their entire life.
      
      But I’m not sure what solution you are suggesting for kids who are NZ citizens and go to school here but parents pay tax elsewhere.
      
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      March 6, 2024 10:00am
      - Swifty
        
        Good points.
        
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        March 6, 2024 11:50am
      - MCōs
        
        The problem with zoning is it’s not enforced
        Consequently there is not a cross section of the local community at what were low decile schools because the parents send the kids out of zone to more affluent schools if they can.
        
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        March 6, 2024 12:20pm
      - wsk12345
        
        I see your point MCos – way fairer to force good parents to send their kids to the shitty local school than be proactive and go in a ballot for a decent school.
        
        In Christchurch, Sumner through to Heathcote is zoned for Linwood or Aranui which are both low decile. I know one parent who sends her kids to those schools – most go across town for private schools, take advantage of divorced parents living in a better zone, try the ballot for a better school, or last resort, they move to cashmere (still a hill suburb but with a good school). And you know – why should t they want better for their kids than drug dealing in the playground and maorification of everything?
        
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        March 6, 2024 12:59pm
      - GJM
        
        The proportionate pension scheme is the way it works in Ireland i believe, according to a friend. There is a base amount, then extra for workers, proportionate to working time. Makes a lot of sense.
        We like to mock the Paddies with Irish jokes etc, but it certainly seems their politicians and senior civil servants are much more clever than ours. A low bar to be sure…
        
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        March 7, 2024 8:41am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  Not this case specifically – don’t pay school donations, turn up to pharmacy in late model European car with community services card, kids don’t go to GPs so block emergency departments with minor stuff … many of us are just too honest
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:22pm
- cmm
  
  “I’m not sure why NZ allows this”
  
  How is it any different from the tens of thousands of other taxpayer funded kids of beneficiaries etc?
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:46pm
Matt Long

What I can’t understand is why non tradable inflation is so stubbornly high, when government monopoly service providers are so frugal and financially responsible.
Thanks Robbo for the inflation, rates hikes and interest rates increases.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/whangarei-ratepayers-facing-huge-172-per-cent-rates-hike/6LJHXA6FYVAGDICR3KUYB7FVYM/
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March 6, 2024 8:40am
- Matt Long
  
  Western governments are overwhelmingly employing the wrong people. For example 92% of counted DC votes were for Biden 2020, in New Zealand we see the greens capturing seats in Wellington as well as controlling the council.
  If these people control the levers of government the country will never recover or thrive.
  Government HR recruitment currently weeds out non woke applicants , the place to start with reform of the country is with HR, and elimination of DIE officers.
  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haley-ends-trumps-undefeated-run-with-victory-in-dc-primary
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:00am
  - sirknz
    
    Good luck. HR is basically the corporate equivalent of teachers. You might find some non-woke ones, but they are generally Labour/Greens loving folks depending on their age.
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:05am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  So they could instead use targeted rates for the wards benefiting from the “spend” or perhaps Cocu just wanted one term anyway!
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:08am
Paulus

Last evening I watched Newshub and concluded that it is possible that I feel sorry for Amelia Wade.
She had got up before dawn, by many hours to catch an Aeroplane to Melbourne, with Luxon as she calls him, for a free bee return flight.
She was many hours later giving her spiel standing on the tarmac at Wellington Airport as she said some 12 hours later and no flight.
She showed her frustration and what a bad tempered, rude so called media person she was.
As I expect that this would have been her last free bee shopping trip.
Naturally she shakily in the cold, expressed her sad role with the knowledge that she will be redundant in some 90 days, and it was because her employers lost money, principally, but lost advertising revenue and you wonder why when represented by such a presumed prima donna.
I think I felt sorry for her, in the cold day, in the open, at Wellington Airport – nothing more.
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March 6, 2024 8:47am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Should replace the aging air force planes by contracting with Air NZ for a smaller plane available for the PM but without enough room for journalists.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:01am
  - greybeard
    
    Use the $32m required for Premier House upgrade to buy a corporate jet.
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:20am
    - Cassandra
      
      Premier House is a dog. Sell it. Buy the PM a suitable (400 square metre) apartment not too far from Parliament. UK PM lives in a flat. We do not need a PM mansion. Holyoake’s Pipitea Street house was ideal.
      
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      March 6, 2024 9:49am
      - virtualmark
        
        The Prime Minister needs a house that is also suitable for entertaining.
        
        Most of Premier House is configured for holding events, with big rooms, a catering kitchen etc.
        
        The Prime Minister lives in a small apartment upstairs that’s pretty shabby to be honest … think 3-star hotel level. If I were Luxon I’d choose to stay in my own apartment too, because it’s sure to be nicer.
        
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        March 6, 2024 4:57pm
  - 70andstilllearning
    
    Not a silly idea Nigel – a number of smaller private operators are already running jet charters out of NZ. Taxpayer only ends up paying for what’s needed – not the non productive troughers.
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:28am
- Inandout
  
  Paulus, look at what I miss by never tuning into local TV.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:16am
- bennerg
  
  I suspect some friends of the PM in the Air Force organised the problem, allowing the PM to travel to Australia without the ragtag band of so called journalists. He’d be covered by a better quality of journalist over there. What a coup!
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:17am
  - Sacha
    
    I laughed when I realised that the hangers-on were left sitting on the tarmac on a cold & windy morning ‘ watching the Air Force getting on with their day’ (or words to that effect).
    Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving lot of people.
    I hope the PM allowed himself a wry smile too.
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:11am
    - Jethrod
      
      It still leaves the elephant in the room!!!! ………
      What does the Air Force use for personnel moving!!!??
      Still a hard question to be answered!
      
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      March 6, 2024 11:21am
    - Paulus
      
      If I was the PM getting up at pre dawn would be pissed off at the plane being unusable.
      But I cannot say so, as the media would accuse me of setting them up and not coming.
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:44pm
- OlderChas
  
  I have often wondered how many of these “journalists” would find it so necessary to go on these trips if they had to pay their own air fares, accommodation etc. costs.
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:14am
  - Paulus
    
    Their owners would not fund such as they are bust.
    
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    March 6, 2024 1:45pm
- cmm
  
  NZ is tiny. It has a smaller population than many cities.
  Why should the NZ PM have more toys than a mayor of a large city?
  
  Greater Cape Town has a population larger than NZ, as does Sydney. The mayors of Cape Town and Sydney don’t fly around in state planes. Why does NZ need all this pomp?
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:52pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    I’m surprised that anyone would get on one of these NZAF planes.
    
    With their history of breakdowns I would be terrified.
    
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    March 6, 2024 3:13pm
Cassandra

Message to Labour, Green and Maori Party (and National might take a look too): “Nothing makes a country wealthier than liberating the enterprise of its people through private property, free contracts, open competition and unhindered trade. Nothing immiserates it like squeezing the revenue-generating part of its economy to expand the revenue-consuming part.” President Millei. Roger Douglas said it first of course.
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March 6, 2024 8:49am
BeaB

So ‘weary’ journalists (according to Laura Walter at Newsroom) finally went home after a whole day sitting around waiting for the Air Force plane to take off, stuffing themselves on free food and snacks, courtesy of the taxpayer. Imagine the field day they’d have had if it had been MPs lazing round.
Perhaps commercial flights for our PM will end the rort of freebies for the media on overseas trips. One seat for one representative from the press pool from now on!
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March 6, 2024 8:50am
- nathie
  
  And perhaps if the MSM had the smarts they would have ensured that at least one of their journos took a commercial flight to Australia like Luxon did!
  
  But also surely the question needs to be asked of TVNZ and Newshub, why send the Parliamentary Press gallery reporters to Australia when both channels already have Australian correspondents based over there?
  
  Granted, I could understand say NewsTalk ZB or maybe RNZ may not have Australian correspondents and would like to send them, but TVNZ and Newshub don’t have that excuse!
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:05am
  - Sacha
    
    There will be a few ‘free-lance’ reporters available for spot contracting in a few months time – maybe.
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:14am
    - Keith White
      
      While I’m overseas I do need someone to clean out the gutters and scatter the hay… but I doubt factmangling comjournalistas would cope.
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:35pm
JackRabbit

Spin artists always use words like could, may, might, possibly…. 80,000 people might die.

So the sea ice pattern changed this year. If you looked up sea temperatures in any year, they may have yearly variations, but they follow an average which does not change. And even decades long variations usually follow cycles as well.

If the dolts in that article actually looked that up, they would see the annual variations and exceptions. And they would also see the Tongan volcano as impacting global sea temperatures in the last few months.

It is rather like predicting that NZ roads will be gridlocked within 6 months because of an alarming increase in traffic, and massively increased traffic delays. All caused by measuring the increase in vehicles and increased traffic delays over the last 48 hours on South Island roads, and extrapolating the increases over 6 months.

Said increase of traffic caused by fans driving to Dunedin to the Pink concert. And traffic delays caused by multiple ongoing road works, on State Highway 1.
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March 6, 2024 8:50am
nathie

In all the media chatter about the “broken down” air force 757’s and their berating of politicians for not replacing them, they seem to be missing a couple of salient facts.

Firstly numbers count – the rules of 3 again in the military. So we have one 757 “broken down” in Wellington. The air force’s second 757 isn’t available for backup as it is undertaking scheduled maintenance. But any prudent government would have at least 3 such aircraft (except for cheapskate NZ governments of course). This allows the air force to have 2 jets available when the third is undertaking maintenance.

Secondly there is an exception to this rule which is when you have a backup system in place. Take the Australian air force, although they do have two (leased) Boeing 737’s as their primary VIP aircraft, they also have 3 Dassault Falcon jets which are also capable of trans-tasman and Pacific air travel (like the 737’s). They also have an Airbus KC-30 fitted out for VIP work (think of the KC-30 as being a much larger and more capable version of the 757’s). They also have several other KC-30’s as troop transport, cargo and air-to-air refueling so there are backups if required.

Typical NZ (Govt’s) do it on the cheap with no 3rd aircraft and no backup aircraft systems. Suggest NZ look at the Aussie examples and mimic something similar (although slightly down-scaled for our situation).

True fact: In 2016 National planned to replaced the 757’s about now. But Labour in 2019 extended that out by another 5 years until the late 2020’s. Meanwhile National looks bad because they claim there is no money available to replace them (at the moment) because of the “cost of living crisis”.

Suggest that National needs to stop banging on about “cost of living crises” when it comes to not funding these sorts of issues in the news lately (eg 757’s or Premier House etc). We are not a third-world nation (well not yet anyway).

National (and ACT and NZF) need to talk about “smart investment”, not cost cutting or “cost of living crises” preventing them doing anything, because although Labour caused the problem in the first place with their excessive borrowing and spending, Labour and the Team of $55m is framing the coalition as being out of touch by slashing and burning etc.

People want to hear positive news (like the roads of national significance plans this week) not excuses about cost cutting, nor Labour’s negative slants (showing again Labour are “good” at criticising but not good on a positive vision that moves the country forward).

C’mon National, ACT, NZF, you know you got this!
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March 6, 2024 8:54am
- MCōs
  
  It’s not the various governments that are cheap
  It’s the country as a whole
  We admire the mythical bloke down on farm who can fix anything with a piece of #8 wire
  Everyone knows those planes & Premier House are rooted
  I don’t know how many people were earmarked to fly to Oz with the PM or why he didn’t go a couple of days earlier and have more meaningful meetings with the leaders of a sizable proportion of the world’s population.
  Were some business leaders slated to go with him?
  People may slag off the media, but his trip wound up with no coverage.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:58am
- Paulus
  
  I am sure that within 24 hours I could get a quote to lease two B737 or equivalent painted for the RNZAF.
  There are people in Ardmore who do this all the time.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:49pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Paulus
    
    Exactly . Lease them. Same with the Cook strait ferries.
    
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    March 6, 2024 3:18pm
Ghost

Bye bye Doritos, you morons never learn

Doritos is being slammed as the new Bud Light after hiring a trans influencer as a ‘brand ambassador’ despite the activist appearing to promote child sexual abuse in the past.

Article

Another alleged post translates to: ‘In the middle of the street in Mallorca in panties and screaming that I’m a nymphomaniac in front of a super beautiful 8-year-old girl.’

According to Newsweek, she has also been accused of mocking sexual assault victims, though Hudson herself has claimed she was sexually abused as a teenager in a 2023 interview.
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March 6, 2024 9:03am
Skippytony

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/argentina-chainsaw-man-javier-milei-slashed-rents-20pc/
What is it with lefty types and magic thinking? Every single time, everywhere that rent controls have been tried it has been an unmitigated disaster for the people they are allegedly trying to help.
Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck declared that, “rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing.”
A public figure who stands up and argues for this madness should instantly be mocked as a financial “flat earther” and never be granted a moments peace in the public square again.
How is it these fundamentally dumb ideas just refuse to die?
At least you know when you hear someone start pushing this kind of insanity they have just added “gormless idiot” to their pronouns.
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March 6, 2024 9:03am
- Ian Boag
  
  I get it that the conventional wisdom is that rent control is bad and the world will come to an end etc etc. Could someone point me at a place and time where rent controls have wrecked things?
  
  Just asking. Not Argentina …
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:39pm
  - cmm
    
    New York?
    
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    March 6, 2024 2:53pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    How about you google the economist mention above with the term rent controls and see what you find Ian…. You’re retired and can do your own research surely
    
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    March 6, 2024 2:55pm
  - Skippytony
    
    Look to Sydney. Rent controls from the 1940s to the 70s saw most of inner Sydney turned into crime ridden slums – Darlinghurst, Kings Cross, Newtown, Redfern etc. You literally could not park a car in Darlinghurst without a guard or you holden would be stripped. Rent controls ended in the 70’s by the 80s inner Sydney was what it should always have been. Well, a lot better than the burnt out dump it was. London the same. Plenty of evidence to be found all over the place.
    
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    March 6, 2024 3:32pm
  - GJM
    
    Sweden
    Berlin
    https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/03/09/after-a-year-berlins-experiment-with-rent-control-is-a-failure
    
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    March 7, 2024 9:17pm
- Ra Henare
  
  I read the article as Javier stopped rental caps!!!!!!!!!!
  Rents fell 20%.
  
  So not imposing rent controls, removing them!!!!!!!!!!
  
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  March 6, 2024 7:21pm
Clyde

How many people listened to the CEO of the Hurricanes, Avan Lee, being interviewed by the Hosk this morning?

The radicalised haka aimed at everyone who didn’t vote for Liemore and the maori lot as well as the Watermelons, was “unfortunate”. Sounds to me as though the governing body and the senior management of this lot need to take a good look at themselves. Then terminate the contracts of the rabble.
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March 6, 2024 9:06am
- Gravelroad
  
  No, didn’t hear it. But surely it is up to the Rugby Union to consult its rules and regs pertaining to on-field behaviour – especially around bringing the game into disrepute.
  Maybe time for the RFU to reassess the purpose and ethics of the haka in general.
  Who wants to pay money to go to a sports game and be subjected to insulting rhetoric?
  No thanks.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:51am
  - Swifty
    
    Quite right.
    
    Disciplinary action must follow.
    
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    March 6, 2024 12:26pm
    - Paulus
      
      It’s Maori so get a couple of wet bus tickets ready.
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:50pm
- Prince
  
  This isn’t going away. The captain of the team was quoted as saying if people don’t like it they can ‘shut up’. She is doubling down.
  It must end with suspension for her and probably half the team.
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:08am
  - Swifty
    
    I take it the captain is just not that clever.
    
    Well, the team and the club should not let her stupidity bring them all down.
    
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    March 6, 2024 12:27pm
  - Paulus
    
    Look at the size of these “ladies” I doubt if any could double down !
    
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    March 6, 2024 1:51pm
- MCōs
  
  They are part time, they don’t have contracts
  So said the same bloke on RNZ this morning
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:06am
  - Clyde
    
    I didn’t hear anything about no contracts in the interview. I heard that they were semi-professional and would be in tomorrow. Of course they will have some form of contract – its like part-time work.
    
    If I was the CEO of the franchise, this captain and main rabble rouser of the team would have been in front of my desk asap. Five minutes to explain why she should keep her job and if the answer, and a genuine apology to the people of NZ and the Government was not forthcoming, then her feet wouldn’t touch the floor on her way out.
    
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    March 6, 2024 12:12pm
    - Paulus
      
      Maori do not apologize – it says so in the Treaty of Waitangi, supported by the unelected Waitangi Tribunal – you just can’t translate properly.
      
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      March 6, 2024 1:54pm
- cmm
  
  Even less people will turn up at their non-entertaining games.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:54pm
Matt Long

This is a chilling story, while the police appear not to be over interested in crimes such as shoplifting, burglary, etc. they are putting what appears considerable effort in setting a precedent for lawfare against people who are prosecuted under OSH law. I would expect an extension of this to Environment, Employment, and DIE if the prosecution is successful.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-11m-price-tag-faced-by-business-owner-ron-salter-in-police-proceeds-of-crime-case-after-workplace-death/B4MN6OBL3VDENDMQXV5L5UNUVE/
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March 6, 2024 9:13am
- sirknz
  
  This seems like an overreach and not the original intent of the law.
  
  Be curious to know how much they have donated to particular political parties and causes.
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:14am
Maggie Pie

And here’s something I didn’t know.

Police are willing to censor a ‘Victim-Impact-Statement’ in cooperation with the DEFENDANTS Lawyer, prior to it being read out in Court by the VICTIM herself.

This happened on Monday in the case of Judith Hobson, the poor old granny who was punched in the face by that queer looking creep in Albert Park 🙁

https://twitter.com/SimonRAnderson/status/1764795430393782588
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March 6, 2024 9:14am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, our version of ‘lawfare’, despite a change of government.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:25am
- cmm
  
  OK, to be fair, the victim impact statement is supposed to be the victim explaining to the perp what the impact of the offending was.
  
  The crossed out stuff was complaining about police procedures etc. While it is valid stuff to raise, it should be raised elsewhere and it does not belong in a victim impact statement.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:58pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Cmm
    I believe she considers that the police at least enabled the crime against her. They refused to control the crowd of which the coward was a part.
    Maybe she could make a separate public statement about the police.
    It may have more impact.
    
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    March 6, 2024 3:25pm
    - cmm
      
      I agree completely that the cops enabled it.
      
      But that’s a beef to take up with the cops. It is not for the victim’s statement which should be limited to the scope of the offending.
      
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      March 6, 2024 5:23pm
Chris Nisbet

Who knew that Labour, that bunch of incompetents who wanted to bring in a ‘hate speech’ law that would make it illegal to offend people (or some such nonsense), are the great defenders of free speech?
Personally, it doesn’t bother me too much when those rugby players expose themselves as a bunch of racists, but I wish Labour could make up their minds about whether or not they think it’s OK to be mean to people.
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March 6, 2024 9:32am
Tom Hunter

The U.S. national debt is rising by $1 trillion about every 100 days”

And that’s in a growing economy.

“If Something Cannot Go on Forever, It Will Stop“

Although Japan seems to be surviving at 200% GDP debt where it’s been for years now so perhaps the USA has a ways to go?
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March 6, 2024 9:36am
- cmm
  
  Well they can “survive” it as long as nobody calls their bluff.
  
  The worse part is that this extra $1T is baked in to the current expectations and entitlement of the people.
  
  $3.5T a year is $10k a year for every man, woman, child. Stop that, let alone start paying back the debt, and the yanks will squeal about hardship.
  
  We don’t have the same debt, but we’re still living in their dumpsters. If the US economy dries up we will feel it. Badly.
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:03pm
Maggie Pie

Something that really p*sses me off 🙁
Have you noticed how that nasty newsreader on ZB Breakfast, (Neva something or other), always refers to the Prime Minister as…. “Luxon”

During the 6 long years of Liarbore, it was always “Jacinda Ardern” or “Prime Minister Ardern”. And never just….”Hipkins”

What does that tell you?
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March 6, 2024 9:43am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Amelia Wade does the same. They’ve probably had a meeting similar to the one they had about cancelling Winston Peters.
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:51am
  - OlderChas
    
    So does Jenna Lynch. Maybe instructions from ‘on high”?
    
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    March 6, 2024 11:32am
- Diogenes
  
  I once worked as a journalist for Radio NZ, but gave up listening to the State network long ago. However, in those days the newsreader only read what was provided by the journalists, never wrote it him/herself. I don’t know whether the practice has changed, but if not, then your nasty newsreader is not guilty of this infraction, Maggie. (Can’t answer for any other infringements made by said newsreader.)
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:00am
- Clyde
  
  It tells me that the people who write the story that the newsreader reads out are pathetic. Not sure how much influence a newsreader has on what is broadcast. They just read what is written for them.
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:07am
- Gravelroad
  
  It says to me that if you are the “wrong” colour eg blue or white, it doesn’t matter what elected position you hold, you will be judged by a different set of standards and a diminished standard of respect.
  Some people are really struggling to cope with change – especially when many of their handouts and positions of entitlement may be under threat.
  
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  March 6, 2024 10:31am
- Paulus
  
  She is by no means alone – they never called Ardern as such but as Prime Minister or even Chippy.
  The rotten media are all doing it as it make them able to denigrate our elected Prime Minister and try and make people realise that we should never have voted as we did, which is not their intention.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:57pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-grammar-enrolment-trouble-despite-boy-living-in-zone-school-declines-application/OTOX6NADRJF4ZGUHG6GSEQYJC4/

This woman shouldn’t be a NZ citizen. Shes just gaming the system. Dumping her kids in NZ and leaving, then expecting free schooling! I bet she doesn’t pay tax here either.
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March 6, 2024 9:58am
- rouppe
  
  paywalled
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:19am
- kowtow
  
  The boy lives in zone and the grand dad is the carer .
  Already has one brother attending .
  
  School objects cos they say grand dad is n ot a legal guardian .
  
  What’s wrong with having extended family kminding children or working abroad.
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:02pm
- Ghost
  
  Does this also apply to New Zealanders who work overseas while their children remain in NZ with relatives?
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:47pm
nathie

It’s time to get aggressive homeless people with mental health issues off the streets and into a safe and secure environment where they can receive care and attention to their needs.

It’s not fair to let them roam the streets , threatening people and also getting upset themselves that people don’t want to interact with them.

It’s also not fair on people, who are not trained to deal with mental health or violent homeless people, but are expected to put up with it.

Give the aggressive homeless an environment where they have staff looking after them and their needs. Sure let them out into the community but with supervision. But let them have a warm and secure place to stay and sleep and be fed.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/wellington-residents-fear-for-safety-amid-increase-in-aggressive-threatening-behaviour.html

I say this because of a homeless person with mental health issues trying to take (sexual) advantage of a friend of mine who happened to be cornered in a building (until someone else came in).

I also say this because of an incident I came across where a homeless person with mental health issues started screaming and threatening a diminutive Asian (international) student who just happened to walk past the homeless man. The student was visibly distressed and wanted to leave the country.

Having the aggressive homeless wander about, setting themselves up in shop fronts, lying around the pavement, sometimes demanding money does themselves and society no good. Boundaries are needed, again.
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March 6, 2024 10:16am
Maggie Pie

Don’t know what the rest of the group reckon, but I see some people are calling for this guy to be arrested for ‘Sexual Assault’

Personally, I’d luv if it happened to me….. I think it’s hilarious!! 😀

https://twitter.com/CriminalTube/status/1764592638911508526
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March 6, 2024 10:39am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  What would have been hilarious is for the lady to kick him in the balls.
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:19pm
anonymouse

Well I’ve Found another Govt department to Axe,

“Brownlee said the per-square metre rate that MBIE had put to Parliamentary Service was excessive.
A statement provided by a spokesperson for the mega ministry said government tenants in the building would be charged “total occupancy cost”, which included the fit out of offices and costs such as “electricity, cleaning, security, ICT, facilities management, office supplies” on top of rent.

The overall cost was “not directly comparable to a per square metre charge” and was cost-effective for government agencies, the spokesperson said.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350201635/parliament-gouged-over-bowen-house-rent-brownlee-says

This will have come out of the Government property Group, which was set up under the last National government to Co-ordinate renting government property to drive down the costs (as opposed to each department negotiating on their own with building owners and getting screwed)
see
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/getting-smart-about-accommodating-crown

They now appear to have become a cost+ organisation that has little interest in actually making office space affordable for the Government, and must be a candidate to be chopped or instructed by their Minister to actually do their Job.
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March 6, 2024 10:56am
Swifty

I don’t support the school lunch programme, in its current form, because this is the state intruding too deeply in the role of parents.

If our goal is to have a nation of independent, resourceful, practical people standing on their own two feet then, as much as possible, our political parties should not advance policies where the state replaces the proper function of parents.

Equally, if it is deemed a right and proper thing that the state feed kids their lunches Monday to Friday, then why stop there? Why not on weekends too? What about breakfasts? What about their dinners? Why doesn’t the state take on the role of clothing all kids? Of taking them away for school holidays? For ensuring they have a holiday overseas every few years?

Where should the line be drawn?

Where we do have a situation where parents or caregivers are unwilling or unable to equip their kids with a school lunch I would rather those families opt into a state programme where they can pickup a box of groceries from their supermarket once a week containing that sufficient to provide lunches for however many kids need them for that family.

Hell, we can even deliver it to them once a week if that is what it takes.

The advantage of this is that it allows the parents to continue to discharge their responsibility to their children, rather than just give up and hand it over to the state – and gain the personal satisfaction that comes from that.

Where this doesn’t work and, notwithstanding the grocery boxes, children are still going to school without lunches well then that would prove that it isn’t poverty behind it, as many would have us believe, it is parental neglect and clearly other actions or interventions are needed.
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March 6, 2024 11:09am
- MCōs
  
  Up to a certain age kids are dependent of others for their survival.
  What good does it do a kid if you prove they’re hungry because their parents aren’t providing them with adequate food for whatever reason?
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:56am
  - Swifty
    
    So that you can know how to remedy the situation.
    
    Handing out lunches doesn’t ‘fix’ anything – it merely papers over the cracks.
    
    Here’s a bold assertion – I reckon that the bulk of parents not supplying their kids with lunches aren’t doing it because they have inadequate resources. It’s because they either prioritise other things with their spending or they just don’t care to.
    
    Anyway, that aside, if you read my piece I’m not saying that the kids should go without. I’m saying deliver the household a grocery box with sufficient for lunches for the week. When the family are back on their feet then they’ve got lunch-making skills for life. And the kids have the memories of their parents making them their school lunches.
    
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    March 6, 2024 12:07pm
- wsk12345
  
  I keep hearing on the radio that these poor children can’t possibly learn maths on an empty stomach.
  
  I was responsible for my own lunch and breakfast from 7 years old. If I didn’t make and take lunch, I went without. As I left for high school just after 7 am, I didnt bother with breakfast or lunch for my 5 years of secondary school, I just ate when I got home after sport at 6, then had dinner.
  
  Oh and I got the top mark in calculus in the country in 7 th form.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:24pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Imagine what mark you might of got with a decent breakfast inside you!
    
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    March 6, 2024 9:23pm
- Paulus
  
  If it is axed what are the Teachers going to get no more leftovers.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:59pm
Ghost

Interesting to see spark are now going to start charging for email
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March 6, 2024 11:20am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Only as I understand it if you do not have a broadband connection with them. Then your old xtramail address will be charged for.
  
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  March 6, 2024 11:27am
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    No, from 16th May everyone with spark email will have to start paying, just got their email about it
    
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    March 6, 2024 11:30am
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      Correct. $5.95 per month for those with broadband or phones from Spark, $9.95 otherwise.
      
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      March 6, 2024 11:38am
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      Oh, OK, that is a change from last year then when they started the process…..my guess is they want to kill their email handling off then.
      
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      March 6, 2024 11:58am
Bevan

Reason #2,678 why Newshub is failing:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/03/advocate-accuses-government-of-failing-children-slams-military-style-boot-camps-but-minister-says-youth-crime-is-out-of-control.html

How can this ‘Youth Advocate’ state that the ‘current government’ is failing kids???

The current government, not the last 6 years of failed Labour government that caused a massive increase in the number of kids living in poverty?

Not the last government that oversaw a massive rise in youth crime?

No – the current government that was only formed late November 2023 and has been in power for about 3 months.

And Newshub just let the comment stand un-challenged…..
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March 6, 2024 11:38am
- slightlyrighty
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/professor-joanna-kidman-says-coalition-government-might-be-a-death-cult-david-seymour-calls-for-resignation-of-anti-extremism-centre-director/
  
  It gets worse…..
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:03pm
Swifty

It’s funny, when I find myself in a position of responsibility in an organisation, I wouldn’t dream of using that position to advance my own political viewpoints and especially where there is a risk my doing so would reflect badly on the organisation.

While I’m in that position, in that organisation, the interest of the organisation comes first and my interests just don’t come into it.

My interests are put in a box never to be seen.

Of course, what I do in my personal life is a different matter. In my personal life I am free to do and say as I think appropriate.

How interesting it is therefore that the Hurricane women cannot see or understand this distinction – or perhaps they can see it but chose to wilfully disregard it.

Interesting that even though they were representing their club they chose to allow their personal views to override their consideration for their club. They chose to put their interests above club interests.

“Oh, Hurricanes ticket sales are down 50% since our little stunt? We don’t care! It’s our right as Wahine Toa to say what we think! Don’t you try to oppress us!”

Isn’t this illustrative of the left’s great march through our institutions – and then using their positions in our institutions to advance their personal and political interests.

It seems to be a real lefty thing, doesn’t it? You never see righties doing it.
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March 6, 2024 11:41am
- Blog-aholic
  
  And then of course they wonder why they are not paid parity to mens teams……..
  
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  March 6, 2024 12:00pm
nathie

That Ginny Andersen, telling porkies again!

I’m sure the last thing people here want to hear about are “757’s” again, but ZB keeps quoting her (from her spot with Mark Mitchell this morning) saying that Labour was “close to” upgrading the air force’s 757’s and that Labour “was ready to do so”!

Porkies!!! From this RNZ article 8 July 2023 when Labour were in Government:

The twin 757s – purchased second-hand in 2003 – are also used for NZDF operations including training pilots and transporting troops and supplies. They are now about 30 years old but are not due to be replaced until 2028-2030.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/493372/backup-plane-for-pm-hipkins-trip-more-unusual-than-nzdf-claimed

So “2028-2030” … meets Ginny Andersen’s definition of “close to upgrading” them and that Labour was “ready to go”??

What does Hipkins say of Andersen’s porkie-telling abilities?!!

Positive attributes for a future leader perhaps?!!

Or that she just can’t help herself from doing so?!!
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March 6, 2024 11:47am
- Blog-aholic
  
  She isn’t known as Gaslight Ginny for no reason.
  
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  March 6, 2024 12:00pm
- Bevan
  
  If that was the case, Labour would have made an announcement about it – we all know how they loved to make those!
  
  But note her slimy words – what does she mean by close to upgrading?
  Was the Business Case signed off?
  Funding available?
  Procurement process started? Completed?
  Contract with suppliers in place?
  Or did Chippie or Little just google other leaders VIP planes for comparison.
  
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  March 6, 2024 12:14pm
- mandk
  
  Don’t forget, though, with Labour it’s the announcement that counts.
  
  Actually, delivering on the promise? Not important.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:03pm
- Paulus
  
  Hipkins cannot control Andersen anyway as she wants his job, and may well get it.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:02pm
All_on_Red

‘Big Mike’ says she aint running.
“As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” said Crystal Carson, director of communications for her office. “Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/michelle-obama-former-first-lady-not-running-president-2024-rcna141767

She probably would have beaten Trump
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March 6, 2024 12:09pm
- virtualmark
  
  I’m not so sure about whether she’d get a lot of voter support. I think the American voter is tired of “dynasties”, after the Bushs and the Clintons.
  
  I suspect any “second go around” surname is going to face a big headwind.
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:38pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    US elections have very low turnout typically 50-60% Most potential voters clearly don’t care, and are extremely uniformed, so name recognition and any emotionally motivating factors becomes all-important.
    
    M Obama has black-chick and name recognition going for her, that might be enough even if she were a complete turnip.
    
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    March 6, 2024 6:16pm
Maggie Pie

FULL SCREEN/SOUND UP

Hate to be a little spoiler…. but the answer is ‘Birmingham’

https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1765076042799370543
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March 6, 2024 12:36pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Brainwashing the children.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-8/
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March 6, 2024 12:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump, fraud, appeal, Leticia James.

‘read it and weep said his Lawyer.’
Mar a Lago is worth 18 million according to Engoron and James. They are property valuers now. The Banks gave the loans to Trump, they never balked, they never got hurt financially.

https://conservativeundergroundnews.com/trumps-lawyer-alina-habba-uttered-six-words-that-left-new-york-ag-letitia-james-fuming/?
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March 6, 2024 12:54pm
- virtualmark
  
  Look at it this way Steve …
  
  If you believe Eric “Fredo” Trump then Mar-a-Lago is worth a billion or so, in which case Trump could sell it and clear enough money to pay all his fines, all his legal costs, and still have enough left over to self-finance a top-notch Presidential campaign.
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:41pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Rush Limbaugh’s waterfront mansion and estate in Palm Beach recently sold for $155,000,000 million. It is 2.3 acres.
    
    The Surfside land in palm beach sold for $120,000,000. That was 2 acres.
    
    What do you think the 17.5 acres that beachfront Mar-a-Lago sits upon is worth? (hint it’s more than $18million Judge decided was real value in New York Orange Man Bad witch-trial)
    
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    March 6, 2024 6:11pm
Maggie Pie

With her attitude towards ‘Luxon’ this is almost unbelieveable!

A bestie from tennis was just telling me that Jenna Lynch’s hubby is Chief-of-Staff
for ACT. Works out of David Seymour’s office she reckoned ??
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March 6, 2024 1:02pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Tis true.
  
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  March 6, 2024 1:24pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes. Just been sent more info about the situation.
    
    This is a worry….
    
    https://twitter.com/AndrewKetels/status/1731805625917526113
    
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    March 6, 2024 1:54pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td5YI27BSrU
David Seymour Talks Hurricanes Poua Haka & School Lunches.
David Seymour isn’t on Te Party Racist’s Christmas card list. He’s not likely to be invited onto the gravy train either. More liberal tears and schadenfreude.
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March 6, 2024 1:05pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgmN8IO72E
More Bad News for Fa-ni.
It ain’t looking good for the Fa-ni, and Nate show. What with geo location, and lots of embarrassing text messages. there’s eyewitness testimony too. Its from a Georgia State prosecutor. The affair began in 2019. Bye Fa-ni.
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March 6, 2024 1:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Iditarod musher forced to kill a moose.

Mushers are permitted to carry firearms for protection from wildlife.
Only a stupid person would go out in the wilderness without a firearm. Moose will kill you, so will bears. They are coming out of hibernation now and they are hungry.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sports/other/musher-forced-to-kill-gut-moose-during-2024-iditarod-trail-sled-dog-race-it-was-ugly/ar-BB1jnmqv
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March 6, 2024 1:08pm
- fernglas
  
  Next time I come across an angry moose while I am on my dog sled, I will remember your words.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:31pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If they don’t kill you they can badly injure you.
    Stand between a cow and calf and see what happens.
    
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    March 6, 2024 6:13pm
Hugh Jarse

Just pondering on the need for the coalition or should I say more likely National, to go hard on the wokeness in government departments and agencies in the capital and purge the race based daily prayers, woke naming conventions, Treaty based policy advice we read about in another thread today, whether it applies or not, it’s all that crap that makes for a fertile ground for radicalisation as we see the Hurricanes female rugby team.

I know you have been busy doing lots of good work with the 100 day plan but time is slipping away for you to keep the confidence of a lot of your voters. There is plenty of low hanging fruit for you to pick in your departments.

If you don’t start doing so, David Seymour is going to have a very good election in 2027.
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March 6, 2024 1:41pm
Paulus

Media will and are trying very hard to get a split in the Coalition however possible.
Next try !
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March 6, 2024 2:05pm
Yabster

Peter Williams gives it to simple Willie- apparently if you have a mortgage the accommodation supplement is ok- – but he is laughing all the way to the bank- 4 properties- and one “mortgage” -it also tells us how pathetic the press gallery are for not digging into who else gets the supplement- but that wouldn’t suit the agenda. “clown” is not fair on clowns….

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/peter-williams-seriously-willie
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March 6, 2024 2:10pm
Muttonbird

Mark Mitchell doing a great job. Where’s the Lawn Order?

Five petrol stations robbed in four days in Auckland

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350202316/five-petrol-stations-robbed-four-days-auckland

That’s 1.25 petrol stations robbed every single day! Anyone think things have got worse under National? Sheesh.
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March 6, 2024 2:11pm
- cmm
  
  You are 100% correct that this needs to be turned around.
  
  There need to be far more harsh consequences for offenders.
  
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  March 6, 2024 2:27pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  As always Muttonbird wants instant solutions to a situation that 6 long, painful, underperforming except at encouraging crims, years of Labour and the Greens being in power created.
  
  Unfortunately it takes time to catch, convict and jail the scum your Left parties give a free pass to….
  
  Nothing matters to Lefties but their mob having power – no matter what the people they claim to care about have to suffer. Your parties have lost their way Mutty…. they are an empty vessel incapable of anything except destruction and lots of smoke and noise
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:06pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Thank you for pointing out how bad Labour did at everything.
  National have a lot of work to do to fix all the damage Labour caused. Anyone who voted for that Labour government should be ashamed of the damage done on their behalf.
  
  Labour claimed 9 years of Neglect 6 years into their being in Government.
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:06pm
- Swifty
  
  Wow.
  
  In the past you’ve posted some good pieces. Thoughtful pieces. Probing pieces. Stuff that certainly made me think – I can’t speak for others.
  
  But this?
  
  After making excuse after excuse for Labour not delivering after six full years you’re having a go at National after a mere few months?
  
  What’s happened to you?
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:08pm
cmm

Deliberately getting a person drunk, then stomping them to death is just manslaughter in NZ?

Manslaughter is defined as “an unlawful killing is done without an intention to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm,”

How the hell can stomping an incapacitated person not be intentional? How can this not be murder?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350202368/twins-sorrow-after-his-brother-lev-nemkin-died-after-gratuitous-beating
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March 6, 2024 2:25pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Another graduate of Mongrel Mob wrap-around care.
  
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  March 6, 2024 5:44pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

The next Ukraine? Or Falklands? You can bet the SAS are dusting off their tropical gear.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Oil-Riches-Fuel-Heated-Dispute-Between-Venezuela-and-Guyana.html
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March 6, 2024 2:42pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  Smells like Iraq and Kuwait. A baited trap which will bring the US military along with the British Military down on Venezuelas Leftist regime….
  
  I am sure even Senile Joe would love to knock Maduro and his communists over and reestablish Venezuela as a US ally…
  
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  March 6, 2024 3:54pm
Maggie Pie

Fox calling ‘Colarado’ and ‘Vermont’ for Trumpy 😀

45 & 47 MAGA!!
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March 6, 2024 3:13pm
- virtualmark
  
  It really doesn’t matter who the GOP puts up as their Presidential candidate in Colorado or Vermont … they could nominate Donald Trump, or a taco, and still get the same result in November.
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:51pm
Maggie Pie

AND THINK ABOUT THIS…..
Fox reporting by 2030 the World will be SHORT 62,000 Helicopter pilots.
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March 6, 2024 3:53pm
- cmm
  
  Basically short anyone with skill.
  
  Programmers, pilots, doctors, nurses, truck drivers,…
  
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  March 6, 2024 5:25pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/tauranga-ratepayers-face-average-158-per-cent-rates-hike/DT6GLSFAP5CH3MTZAU26YZXPXA/

My rates rise at Tauranga council last year was about 15%, the previous 5 years the increases have been around 20% per year. That was because of either changes in their rating system , increases in property value — there was always some justification made by the council.

This year, average rates rises are 15.8%…. although mine will be closer to 20% because they only quote ‘average’ .

I haven’t had a sub 10% rates increase less for probably a decade ….

It makes me laugh when some Hamiltonian or Wellingtonian complains about a one off big jump in rates, when mine were fairly reasonable back in 2010, but, will now be approaching 14k a year.
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March 6, 2024 3:56pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Amazing!
  
  $14K a year is huge.
  
  What services does the Tauranga council provide you that is worth $14K a year?
  
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  March 6, 2024 6:42pm
  - MCōs
    
    Doesn’t work that way
    The rates in Tauranga are based on property values and use of the property
    To pay about $14k rates the property must be valued at about $4.5-5mil if it’s residential
    
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    March 6, 2024 10:00pm
Chris Nisbet

Anti-extremism centre director seems a little bit, well, extreme, to me…
NZ Herald headline (couldn’t bring myself to click on the link): “Anti-extremism centre director says Govt might be child hating ‘death cult’, calls for resignation”
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March 6, 2024 4:25pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “Govt might be child hating ‘death cult’”
  
  And they said Alex Jones was a nutter!!!
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:47pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I see Joanna was appointed to the role by Cindy in 2022 for a 3 year term.
  She’s chosen to ‘protect-her-tweets’ so even I can’t access them. LOL!
  
  Sounds to me like the wheels on her bus don’t go round and round.
  As David Seymour said…. “Best to just ignore her”
  
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  March 6, 2024 4:52pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Dear, how sad….

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/511018/tvnz-to-make-announcement-about-future-tomorrow-staff-told
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March 6, 2024 5:58pm
- graham
  
  Turns out that the world has changed from a time when families would gather around the TV and watch the news, or indeed any programme, together.
  
  The idea of simply waiting for a programme to be played on the broadcaster’s schedule is disappearing. TV channels with fixed schedules seem as old-fashioned as a VHS player.
  
  The world has moved on. Broadcast television needs to as well, and the people who have been comfortably ensconced there may just need to take a look at the realities of life. People have more choices than just TV1 or TV2 these days.
  
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  March 6, 2024 6:25pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  OMG! So hopping we see the back of John CampBell, Simon Shallow, Maiki Sermon, Lloyd Burp, Jenna Lynchmob…. and that horroble little Whetherman Dan.
  And thats just for startres 😀
  
  I think Ryan Bridge culd easilyfill at least 3 of those slots.
  Love Ryan.
  
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  March 6, 2024 7:17pm
greybeard

I know bugger-all about cricket, but I do think that Wagner should be in the team, that Southee is past his use-by date and that Williamson should remove that riciculous beard which he uses as a mask.
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March 6, 2024 7:37pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  You’re just jealous of Kane’s luscious face-pelt
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:30pm
- MCōs
  
  I’m sorry but Neil Wagner doesn’t have the pace to menace anyone anymore
  Even the South African team had no trouble
  Having said, Mister Tim’s time is almost nigh
  
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  March 6, 2024 9:37pm
Keith White

“‘Stay away’: Explosive device found at Auckland reserve, police responding…”

‘It’s nuts’: Huge response to Auckland Council rubbish bin cull…

Auckland Grammar: Mother disgruntled with enrolment zone clash protests outside school

What are y’all smoking back home? Here is boring by comparison!
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March 6, 2024 7:44pm
alex Masterley

Been out to Westhaven today admiring the Squaddies new youth training fleet. Thanks ETNZ.
Apparently the koha sought to bless the fleet was $5k a boat. So guess what, no blessing. Given that a couple of distant relatives have been bishops of Sydney and, oddly enough, Eastern Zambia respectively I felt that I should offer my services to bless the fleet for a couple of peroni’s and a toasted sarnie. The offer is being considered so I best find the dog collar.
And then I see Eke Panuku are rebuilding (channelling Canute if you ask me) the northern seawall at westhaven to protect buildings and marina infrastructure from king tides and storm surges. Apparently representatives of 4 Iwi turned up to bless the rebuild this morning. My source told me the police had to be called to keep the peace as an unseemly scuffle was in prospect.
I suggested to the Squaddie that it should ask Eke Panuku for a volunteer from senior management to be sacrificed, ala burning man, to ensure the project is completed on time and within budget. I dont think they thought i was serious.
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March 6, 2024 8:17pm
Ra Henare

I read the article as Javier stopped rental caps!!!!!!!!!!
Rents fell 20%.

So not imposing rent controls, removing them!!!!!!!!!!
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March 6, 2024 8:32pm
Scooter

Prof Joanna Kidman Anti-Extremism Centre director says govt might be a death cult. The insane really are running the asylum where she’s concerned.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/professor-joanna-kidman-says-coalition-government-might-be-a-death-cult-david-seymour-calls-for-resignation-of-anti-extremism-centre-director/G4D4O5EJPNCKJDMDGOCHHSHU6M/
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