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NeverMindTheBollocks

Brace yourself, everybody: a Stuff article that acknowledges the things that KBers have been saying for some time – ie why we mistrust the MSM. Interestingly, it’s the older generation of journalists leading the criticism.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350204702/media-modern-times-and-matter-declining-trust
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March 11, 2024 8:01am
- Simon
  
  lol – this fuckwit article says google it. These regime lickspittles frame it as trust. MSM is the regime another arm of the political state. The top down forcing of narrative, censoring those with experiences different to the narrative.
  
  As the state becomes more controlling with its fake emergences, then MSM falls in line. Well and truly part of the overall clown show.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:43am
- Gravelroad
  
  Yep, as I have mentioned on here before, when I was a young reporter many years ago, the management, subscribers, advertisers and readers of the newspaper required me to report the news.
  None of the above were interested to know my opinion about it, nor my interpretation of the facts to promote a personal bias.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:46am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Gra,
    There is probably a large number of people , not just kiwis, who would be unable to interpret a purely factual report.
    Brainwashed.
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:12am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Back them journalist and reporters use to be impartial, done did not even vote because they were proud of their impartiality, now we have Dallow saying oh dear every time a hit job on the pm is delivered
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:48am
  - Keith White
    
    As one of my teachers used to say when we were undergraduates – “When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you. Until then shut up and learn – and graduate first.”
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:17pm
- redeye
  
  Prof Robert MacCulloch gives them all a real serve.
  I hope his employment contract is sound.
  
  I have proof. It’s contained in a bunch of my articles rejected between 2021 and 2023 by Big Media which constituted some of my best work – like “The Unravelling of NZ’s Economic Strategy”, “Jacindanomics Does not Exist” and “How our Kingdom of Kindness Lost its Way”. At the same time, a vast collection of writing & preaching by other academics across NZ – the Chosen Ones in cahoots with Ardern and Hipkins – was widely disseminated by that same Big Media. Not even my mild critiques of Ardern and Hipkins were permitted, whereas critiques by others describing politicians like Seymour and Luxon as “bull-shitting”, “lying” pricks was splashed across the front pages. Whenever I used a word 1% as strong to describe Ardern or Hipkins, it was edited out by Big Media.
  
  https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/03/professor-robert-macculloch-nzs.html
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:02am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Heh, Kingdom of Kindness???
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:35am
  - nathie
    
    Prof Robert MacCulloch nails it again.
    
    NZ has experienced its most incompetent, amateur and divisive Govt in history. The majority of voters turfed them out.
    
    But you wouldn’t think so from the MSM as they disparage the new Govt day after day, and make zero reference to Labour’s incompetence and policy failures that have triggered NZ’s cost of living crises, high interest rates, high rentals and housing costs, job losses etc etc …. the very things that the coalition govt are having to address (despite aspects of it being unpopular).
    
    And speaking of job losses, they are now impacting the MSM themselves.
    
    Meanwhile they continue their attacks on Luxon (as well as Seymour and Peters) and most of it seems to be based on “envy”.
    
    (Even HDPA is getting extremely tiresome by continually attacking the “man” (Luxon) and not the “ball” (policies). How I wish the original MagicTalk was still around so the listeners have choice as to who to listen to)!
    
    All despite the coalition Govt doing their best to rectify the economic (and societal) damage caused by Labour.
    
    All Labour does now is smear the govt and the MSM gleefully repeats the smears. Where is Labour’s vision for a better NZ?
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:05am
    - leoj
      
      If RCR and The Platform were to set up a radio station and call for investors, I would invest.
      
      The online thing is okay all we need is audio, not video. Calling in on the radio waves and being able to listen to radio while driving is what is missing. Having the radio on while doing other things is better too.
      
      Apart from Hosking, ZB is full of twats. Lush is one, Travis is another. I never listen to the afternoon twats. Jamie McKay is full of himself. Thinks he’s so smart.
      
      HDP is only air and Kerre is slowly figuring out that she lost Leighton’s audience because she was too timid.
      
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      March 11, 2024 11:04am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      For some reason HDA has hated Luxon for Tgd entire time he has been leader, she is one of those ACT supporters that sees 10% being the majority
      
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      March 11, 2024 11:10am
      - Ghost
        
        No she hasn’t she is just a person who actually understands her job and that is to hold politicians to account, she doesn’t pick sides and treats all politicians the same. Something that is rare in the nz media.
        
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        March 11, 2024 11:29am
      - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
        
        G bro – she hates Luxon for the same reason I hate Luxon. He is Jacinda with no hair. All talk and no action. His entitlement mentality with the housing allowance was the last straw.
        
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        March 11, 2024 6:17pm
      - leoj
        
        Luxon is full woke.
        
        Latest poll suggests people are starting to realise that.
        
        Another spineless politician trying too hard not to upset anyone.
        
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        March 11, 2024 10:28pm
- cmm
  
  A recent survey in USA found that the average cable network viewers (CNN, Fox, MSNBC etc) are in their late 60s. Hence all the ads for heart medication and incontinence supplies.
  
  The Brave New World is based on demand viewing where people want to watch just a few seconds on the segments they are interested in and get bored after 7 seconds. This is the ideal space for Youtube, Tiktok and Twitter news to thrive.
  
  Broadcast news is all but dead. Who is going to sit down and watch an hour of one channel’s news? Even those who think it is a Good Thing generally don’t view it.
  
  Nobody seems to have this mythical “time” commodity any more, but they still find a thousand ways to waste it (and get “bored” if they find themselves with more than 30 seconds minutes to fill).
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:21am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Amd that article quotes 3 Uni types extensively…
  
  But doesnt mention tht Uni types in non stem subjects are overwhelmimg left wing….. And so what ever they say leans that way. The public dont trust us but they dont understand us and how we work is ones claim which i have paraphrased.
  
  They problem is we do understand perfectly well… The current crop of journos are overwhelmingly left leaning and their biases drip out of their writings/pieces to camera
  
  Another claims commercialisation is a problem. Seriously!!! Newspapers in NZ have always been commerical… NZ Herald, The Press, ODT, the Post…
  
  How do you veiw a statement that commercialism is the problem but a left slant wanting state control…
  
  Trust is hard earned and easily squandered. Traditional media is dying… Get over it
  
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  March 11, 2024 11:14am
  - gravedodger
    
    New Zealand no longer has Newspapers, what remains are Pamphleteers, who propagate socialist Propaganda with every edition.
    Reveal, if anyone can, the last Published Cartoonist in one of the four Pamphlets listed above as a Newspaper, that is not aimed at Luxon Peters or Seymour negatively, then perhaps link to one that is derisive of That Woman.
    
    At least Garrick Tremain kicks all who need kicking in the goolies, guess what he is no longer published in the ODT, relying on. Bassett brash and Hide and his own web page.
    
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    March 11, 2024 1:31pm
artemisia

Herald today – The pitfalls of fewer Kiwis owning homes and more renting – The realities of life in the rental market.

The renters interviewed mostly seemed to have children. Whatever happened to DINKYs – double income no kids yet – saving like mad for 4 or 5 years, starting with a studio or little do up in the burbs to build equity and then trade up later.

Also the number of rental bonds is an indicator but somewhat misleading as will include bonds paid by tenants of trust owned rentals. There are hundreds of thousands of trusts in New Zealand and plenty hold properties rented to trust beneficiaries. These are better treated as home ownership (Briggs adjustment). Same if rented to family members.
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March 11, 2024 8:08am
- Simon
  
  “saving like mad for 4 or 5 years, starting with a studio or little do up in the burbs to build equity and then trade up later. ”
  
  Cant. Unchecked immigration, near zero interest rates, GST on new housing, greedy useless “Cathedral Cove” local councils, high cost of living and insane levels of income tax.
  
  Its just saner to move to say south Brisbane.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:17am
- Blog-aholic
  
  I have it on pretty good authority that the ‘dinky’ types of the past as we see them now in the present do not want to live in do ups, they want to live in newly built low maintenance dwellings. So to that end they will avoid anything that they can retore for a capital gain maybe because they do not now how to renovate….
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:01am
  - pdm
    
    B-A.
    
    David Cunliffe may be the only New Zealander now with a `doer-upper!!!!
    
    Does he still live in it or was he kicked out?
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:41am
  - artemisia
    
    Entitled to live like their parents do (now)?
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:07am
  - RoboRob
    
    100%
    
    I am selling my parents (now deceased) house. The real-estate agent is mainly dealing with first home buyers. However most are not interested because the house needs painting and other maintenance. They say ‘I cant do the work, I don’t know how to paint’.
    
    What they cant get through their heads are that if the house was painted and the maintenance done the price would be a lot higher.
    
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    March 11, 2024 1:34pm
- cmm
  
  “DINKYs”
  
  They still exist, but they don’t understand saving.
  Instead they take their Go Pros and drones on expensive international holidays.
  
  Nor do they believe in starting on the bottom rung and building up, maybe doing up an old house working on it every night + week ends.
  
  I will say that higher house prices increase the barrier to entry but yes, two adults focused on saving should generally be able to secure a mortgage deposit within 5 years.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:31am
  - lifesgood
    
    As far as I can see watching many young people I know, they come with an instant gratification background. They live together for so long the female wants a baby. They have said baby but female still wants big fancy wedding and that becomes their saving priority. Housing seems to be last on their list and then, wah, wah, wah…we can’t afford a home. They need to get their priorities right. I have no sympathy for them.
    
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    March 11, 2024 11:38am
  - miltonF
    
    Disagree with this “avocado on toast” explanation. It doesn’t stand up to logical scrutiny. If all of the avocado eaters saved their money for housing, this would create more demand and house prices would be even higher. You can’t win.
    
    The problems are economic and socialist in nature. On the supply side, artificially restricting development thru restrictions on property rights (RMA, council zoning etc). Artificially increasing wages and restricting the materials available to be used. On the demand side, they artificially reduce the cost of debt (interest rates still too low) and borrow like drunken sailors, driving up inflation (house prices and living costs). On top of all of that, the average worker is expected to pay close to 50% of their wages in tax. All of this has the outcome of making housing unaffordable for many people. The sad part is that it appears to be all by design.
    
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    March 11, 2024 2:10pm
  - Ian Boag
    
    When I was in my 20’s a house cost about 3 years income. It was possible to get into a house on one (not all that flash) income although things would be a bit average for a while. Capitalisation of the family benefit was often a game changer.
    
    Houses now cost 8-10 years income. The can has been kicked down the road by reducing deposit requirements plus we had interest rates go through the floor for a while. Government-subsidised Kiwisaver pension savings can be ratted for a first home deposit.
    
    Eventually you get to a point where these measures run out of puff. The people who head offshore with GoPros and drones do so because they don’t have an account at the bank of Mum & Dad and think it is pointless trying to save for a house. There are workarounds like moving to Westport (where houses are cheap) and working a Christchurch job from there, but it’s not a solution that is available to a lot of people.
    
    I dunno where this urban myth about FHBs wanting new builds comes from. Naturally noone will have any meaningful figures to support (or disprove) it.
    
    Go figure
    
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    March 11, 2024 3:31pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350207837/madonna-calls-out-fan-sitting-down-it-turns-out-they-are-wheelchair
Am a bit confused about this.
I have attended the odd concert over the years and have always sat in a seat.
In fact, if you stood up, people behind complained and a bossy usher would come over and tell you off for blocking the view.
I guess you can pack more people in though if you require them to stand and Madonna and Co definitely need the extra money ….eh.
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March 11, 2024 8:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Stuff classes this as “news”
  They repeated it from The Telegraph.
  This is why Stuff will be going as well, pathetic.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:53am
  - cmm
    
    In the past, access to foreign news ‘on the wire’ was scarce and the news organisations owned the local eyeballs.
    
    That meant repeating foreign articles was vaguely useful.
    
    Now things are pretty much the other way around: access to foreign news is easy and they no longer own the eyeballs.
    
    Now repeating foreign articles is no value at all.
    
    In fact, the same applies for many things that TV and broadcast do. Foreign sitcoms and reruns? There’s zero value on putting those on TV when people can access them on Youtube and binge watch them.
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:36am
    - Paulus
      
      Certainly we see much more in the NZME as reports from bottom right corner AP (Associated Press).
      New York Agency – so called Independent, but in the USA ?
      
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      March 11, 2024 1:24pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      Good point, there are literally thousands of sites telling you what’s going on in Washington or London.
      Detailed and accurate information about what’s happening in the courthouse or council chambers on the other side of town is much harder to get.
      That’s why we need to mobilize the local citizenry.
      Bloggers of the world rise up!
      We have nothing to lose but our disinformation and infotainment!
      
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      March 11, 2024 5:40pm
  - crikey
    
    SO: Does Stuff pay the Telegraph for repeating their news? I guess they must as they wouldn’t want to be called hypocritical given their stance on requesting payment from others.
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:38am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No idea if Stuff pay or not.
      
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      March 11, 2024 10:05am
      - Observer of Life
        
        SO: Am I right in thinking in recent times you have several consistent down tickers, no matter what you post. Your above comment being case in point. Too funny!
        
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        March 11, 2024 9:55pm
    - cmm
      
      Yes they do. There are various sharing networks which allow them to do this.
      
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      March 11, 2024 10:24am
- Gussy Fink-Nottle
  
  It’d be interesting to know how many wheelchair-bound audience members at Madonna concerts have got up and walked out.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:47am
  - Jethrod
    
    It was only her son who could swing that.
    
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    March 11, 2024 11:12am
Simon

Society of Snow. Crashed in the Andes, no hope of rescue, staving to death in sub freezing temperatures huge moral issue of eating the dead

In Haiti cannibalism begins the day after civil order collapses.
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March 11, 2024 8:10am
- Matt Long
  
  In the Dominican Republic Catholicism is the official religion, on the other half of Hispaniola Haiti chose voodoo. These things do matter.
  NZ is now choosing as its official religion, and writing into its laws the same religion Maori had pre colonialism, I’m sure that’s going to go just great.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:00am
  - Keith White
    
    “Toothpicks! There’s a great future in toothpicks”.
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:20pm
Maggie Pie

Just a reminder….

RAMADAN starts tonite.
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March 11, 2024 8:11am
- Matt Long
  
  Oh goody, violence and extremism month.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:16am
- Master Mariner
  
  In NZ?
  Otherwise all different dates as per the chosen date according to custom, ie not all the same date like Xmas etc.
  
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  March 11, 2024 1:53pm
BarryB

Poland openly discusses sending troops to the Ukraine.
https://www.newsweek.com/polish-official-western-troops-ukraine-1877513
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8OTppV_S1U

Now why would the poles be so keen to send troops to Ukraine?
Well the Europeans have l…o…n…g memories – as we saw in the Balkan war several decades ago
where claims of atrocities some 700 years ago were raised. (Its why the EU will never become the Unites States of Europe.)
Well in the 16th century Parts of Ukraine were part of Poland – and the Poles would like to get that area back – not that they would openly say so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine#:~:text=During%20the%2014th%20century%2C%20Poland,Podolia%20became%20part%20of%20Poland.
They were eventually kicked out by whoever took over from them – but they new victors sent the Poles on their way by practicing a good bit of genocide – ie: murdering whoever they could lay their hands on. (The Germans are Johny-come- lately when it comes to being involved in a bit of genocide…its a long established practice especially in Eastern Europe).
Over the centuries Poland has often occupied parts of Ukraine – the latest being around 1920.

Now I suspect that the Polish can see the end of the Ukraine as we currently know it soon coming to an end – and it would be very convenient if there were Polish troops ‘keeping order’ in western Ukraine when Ukrainian authority comes
to a disastrous end.
It is probable that a few Lithuanian troops would also be interested in being there along with a few Belorussian military – as they – along with several others – would be keen to pick up the pieces…….

In a rare bit of unbiased reporting Newshub says that the Pope has recommended that Ukraine “have the courage to put out the white flag” – which I think means ‘Look, those in Eastern Ukraine are Russians – they speak Russian and they are ethnic Russians and they dont want to be part of Ukraine
and Zylenskyy banned the use of the Russian language – so grow some balls and recognise reality and stop the damage to other Ukrainian people’.
Newshub also reported that Turkey has said they are willing to hold talks between Ukraine and Russia – I guess being close to the action Turkey doesnt want things to escalate.
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March 11, 2024 8:13am
- Matt Long
  
  Interesting, the Pope encouraging Eastern Orthodox Ukraine to surrender, that will really get the Ukrainians thinking seriously, with Catholic Poland just across the border.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:20am
  - Don Beckett
    
    The pope should butt out. (I’m Catholic)
    
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    March 11, 2024 11:02am
- Grunter
  
  I can not see how this ends well for anyone. Several European NATO countries now saying that they want to send boots on the ground to fight Russia. Zelensky and his cronies repeatedly say they will fight to the death. And Russia will not now pull out and release Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
  If NATO joins in, then that is WW3. A NATO conventional war, if the USA is included, attacking Russia would quickly become very destructive to both Russia and European cities. USA airpower would dominate and eventually overpower Russia.
  
  So then what would the Russian hardliners do? Sit and watch ‘The Motherland’ destroyed by The West?
  
  If Hitler had 6,000 nukes in 1945, what do you think he would have done?
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:14am
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    Not sure why the downticks for Grunter.
    This is an entirely possible outcome.
    The chance of Russia being comprehensively defeated seems very unlikely indeed.
    They are now on a war footing, manufacturing arms 24/7.
    They have been attacked on this front before and did whatever it took to successfully repel those attacks. To them, the body count was virtually immaterial.
    
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    March 11, 2024 11:11am
    - Matt Long
      
      Nobody has attacked or invaded Russia, unless you consider Putin’s history ramblings as meaning any territory a former Russian monarchy or Soviet occupied is legitimately Russian.
      
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      March 11, 2024 12:02pm
      - Gussy Fink-Nottle
        
        Nobody has attacked or invaded Russia, if you ignore Operation Barbarossa and Napoleon’s Grande Armée.
        
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        March 11, 2024 12:41pm
      - Grunter
        
        Add The Mongols to that as well (1236AD). Back then Kiev was a Russian city and that was taken over along with a stack of other Russian cities. It took them about 250 years to send The Mongols back to Mongolia.
        
        All kind of irrelevant to my comment above, and to Gussy Fink-Nottle’s comment “Why all the downticks?” I guess a bunch of KBers still disagree that Russia’s 6,000+ nukes are a genuine worry. I hope they are right and I am wrong. But still no explanation for why NATO leaders (Macron, etc) are behaving so batshit crazy.
        
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        March 11, 2024 3:36pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygXRGNzUxd0
“Inside the RNC: Lara Trump’s Bold Strategy Could Change Everything!”
In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Trump emphasized the need for the RNC to elevate its tactics, stating, “We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess.”
Trump’s appointment comes as part of a leadership shift within the RNC, with Michael Whatley taking the helm as chairman. Their mission? To revamp the party’s approach and step up the competition against the Democratic Party.
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March 11, 2024 8:19am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Play the Democrat’s game and get even more votes. Crush them.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:19am
  - sungsamning
    
    I sure hope so.
    
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    March 11, 2024 7:34pm
Warren

You see the follow on when there is no consequences for people that allow racial disharmony to raise its head in sport when they allow teams to abuse the Government over what policy they are in acting.Because we have weak administrators in sport another Franchise has step up to continue their abuse of the Government with the Waka with the blessing of the Cheifs administration.
It’s time for those in charge of NZ Rugby to show some guts by standing up to these renegades by issuing consequences for there blatant attempts to undermine our Government.
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March 11, 2024 8:23am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjkmN7jWgNY
Massive Victory in Case Out of Nevada.
You may recall that last summer, the ACLJ stepped in to assist two parents in their fight against a Nevada public school district that forced their child to perform a pornographic script, lied to the parents, and then prohibited the mother from reading the script given to her child before the school board. Our clients’ daughter, who was 15 at the time, was required to perform a sexually explicit monologue prepared by another student, and edited by the teacher, before the entire class. The monologue – which many will find offensive – is below (edited by our attorneys by adding ***):
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March 11, 2024 8:24am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Seems the Chair is also one of the sick corrupted ones.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:27am
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, you’re right.
    
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    March 11, 2024 7:33pm
Matt Long

A mate of mine has a single beneficiary mum staying in his rental, a couple of years ago he let her know he was going to have raise the rent $50 a week or something.
She says, “why don’t you raise it $200 a week, MSD will just lift my accommodation supplement by that much.”
How many billions does the NZ taxpayer pay in accommodation supplements as a direct subsidy to banks?
Good policy by Act to lower rental costs through restoring interests costs as a tax deduction, a far less distortionary way to subsidise Australian bankers.
https://x.com/actparty/status/1766615385712054474?s=20
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March 11, 2024 8:28am
- Colville
  
  Seymour/ACT have been MIA from the housing/RMA work going on in the 100 Day Plan, its been Bishop and Jones leading the charge with the new Fast Track legislation.
  
  Government spent $5Bil last year on housing assistance.
  
  https://www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speech-wellington-chamber-commerce-5
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:32am
  - Chris R
    
    I take it you are unfamiliar with the well qualified ACT MP Simon Court. He has been front and centre with the necessary amendments to the RMA and the Local Government Act as they relate to housing development. To claim that ACT are not to be seen is essentially unfair.
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:07am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Bishop as Housing minister, and Jones as Economic Development minister have been the only ones present in media, in announcements, snd mentioned as working in this area, Brown was at the announcement in his capacity as transport minister,, which may need fast track consenting, absolutely no sign of Court at all
      
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      March 11, 2024 11:18am
      - Michael Sommerville
        
        Just because he was not front and centre at the press announcements, doesn’t mean he wasn’t working on it.
        
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        March 11, 2024 4:50pm
      - Chris R
        
        Often the hard tasks are beyond the public eye. I suggest this is the case with Mr Court’s attendances.
        
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        March 11, 2024 5:30pm
- cmm
  
  I wonder how much of that is going on…
  Increase the rent, MSD pays, split it with the tenant.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:40am
- SoloView
  
  @ Matt Long
  From the MSD site:-
  
  For 1st April 2023 (current) highest amount of accommodation supplement is for a solo parent with 2 0r more children living in Christchurch or Auckland.
  It’s a maximum of $305.
  It drops very quickly if you are outside these 2 areas.
  
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  March 11, 2024 11:54am
  - cmm
    
    Isn’t there also a slush fund thing called “hardship allowance” or such that allows them to basically do any hand outs they want.
    
    Maybe she was only getting $150 and realises there’s more to be had?
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:19pm
    - Ghost
      
      They will only pay a portion of someone’s rent.
      
      I suspect some porkies are being told in the above story.
      
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      March 11, 2024 12:25pm
Maggie Pie

We just happened to catch Bish on Q&A yesterday.

When Jack Tame asked him….. “What will happen to the Beneficiaries who keep trashing their taxpayer funded accomodation, where will they go?”

Bish SHOULD have said…. “Who gives a f**k”

😀 😀 😀
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March 11, 2024 8:31am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I thought of something similar.
  
  I don’t care.
  
  I think HDPA said that.
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:51am
- Matt Long
  
  He could have said; maybe it will encourage them to respect the taxpayer’s property that’s been given to them.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:04am
- mandk
  
  I didn’t watch the interview, so I don’t know what Bishop actually said.
  
  But what he should have said is that “beneficiaries who keep trashing their taxpayer funded accommodation only do so because they were taught by the previous government that they will not be put out of the accommodation, no matter how badly and anti-socially they behaved.”
  
  It’s simple really, if there are no consequences for bad behaviour, it will continue.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:05am
  - pdm
    
    m&k
    
    I don’t watch Q & A either.
    
    Tame will have to have a major transformation as an interviewer before I will watch him.
    
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    March 11, 2024 9:49am
    - stiff cheese
      
      I don’t watch Tame either.
      
      Last time I saw him, I was thinking he doesn’t listen properly. He’s too busy making impatient “mmm, mmm” noises, shuffling his papers, and trying to hurry on to his next “Gotcha!” question.
      
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      March 11, 2024 11:55am
Bridgenag

Sunday Strip: TSA Speed Dating
A few of my favorite things

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sunday-strip-tsa-speed-dating?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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March 11, 2024 8:32am
Bridgenag

Analysing the failed experiment of lockdown

https://open.substack.com/pub/trusttheevidence/p/analysing-the-failed-experiment-of?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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March 11, 2024 8:34am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Crikey! A former Labour Minister scored a private sector job.

Andrew Little joins Gibson Sheat Lawyers.

Who says they’re only good for public sector sinecures, eh?
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March 11, 2024 8:40am
- pdm
  
  `Andrew Little joins Gibson Sheat Lawyers.’
  
  There must have been an Office junior vacancy!!!
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:50am
  - geoff3012
    
    Tea Lady…….
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:01am
  - Keith White
    
    Was ‘Sheat’ misspelled?
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:22pm
- cmm
  
  I’m sure it’s not really private sector. Instead, Little will be bringing a bunch of government work with him.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:27am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Well he is a lawyer, but will he be filling envelopes or putting out the trash?
  
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  March 11, 2024 11:21am
  - Paulus
    
    Possible that Little has a practicing Law Society Certificate, surely it was as a University qualified BA with a Law Degree – when did he got to the Bar ? but went into Parliament via the Union (Pike River) where he was useless in everything.
    
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    March 11, 2024 1:33pm
    - Ghost
      
      Little is a lawyer.
      
      After graduating Little took a job as a lawyer with the Engineers’ Union (a forerunner of the EPMU), with his work including Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and employment law issues.[7] In 1997 he was appointed the union’s general counsel (chief lawyer). Two years later, he was appointed assistant national secretary, and was elected national secretary when Rex Jones stood down from the position in 2000.[8]
      
      Wiki
      
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      March 11, 2024 2:13pm
Maggie Pie

Why would the good people of Dunners allow this to happen to their kids?

https://twitter.com/PamelaTaylor000/status/1766670805700923651

As one commenter replied….
“Jesus, what a horror show.
Fat ugly militant white female socialists
who are rejected by society.
Stuff of nightmares”
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March 11, 2024 9:01am
- mandk
  
  Yep, we live in an age where good is called evil, and evil good is called good.
  
  Mind you, Isaiah saw this 3,000 years ago.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:35am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Scum don’t get into my pub, that’s all I care about
  
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  March 11, 2024 11:22am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And. Good. On. You. G
    
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    March 11, 2024 11:42am
Pope Punctilious II

International Women’s Day has seen activists hammering the so-called gender pay gap https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511149/international-women-s-day-how-can-we-have-equity-when-we-don-t-have-pockets

And recall that the previous government was planning to legislate such a requirement. I wonder, will the Nats eventually support this idea? It’s an insidious idea, because the next step will be to fine companies that don’t contrive to eliminate so-called gender pay gaps. Note that the TEC has threatened to fine universities unless they magic away ethnic disparities in pass rates.
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March 11, 2024 9:04am
- SoloView
  
  @Pope Punctilious
  
  Re TEC threatening to fine universities
  From RNZ
  “In 2012 the commission wanted to eradicate disparities in polytechnics by 2015 and in universities by 2018. But that didn’t happen. In 2018-19 the commission aimed to achieve parity within five years and fined institutions that failed to improve. But it quietly dropped that deadline and last year introduced the 10-year target.”
  
  Next target revision?
  Maybe 2100
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:06pm
- Jake Dee
  
  “The Gender Pay Gap” is one of the pieces of magical thinking that is never called a “Conspiracy Theory” or “Disinformation”.
  Other examples include “The Glass Ceiling”, “Institutional racism” and “The Right Side of History”.
  All of them pure ghosts.
  
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  March 11, 2024 5:56pm
Maggie Pie

Wonder how Marama’s feeling about having Chloe as co-leader 🙁
I thort the Green’s constitution required there be a male and female?

At least the ‘Member-for-Tijuana’ appears ecstatic about her appoinment…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Fa3BiMra4
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March 11, 2024 9:34am
- fernglas
  
  Nope, just that one has to be a female. Nothing to stop there being two women, just two men. Discrimination, huh?
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:40am
- cmm
  
  ” I thort the Green’s constitution required there be a male and female?”
  
  Not that I really care, but AFAIK, that was modified to be “at least one female”.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:44am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And a bestie asks….. “Where is Marama?”
  
  https://twitter.com/TheZeitgeistNZ/status/1766600587435499827
  
  (The replies are absolute GOLD 😀 )
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:54am
  - Swifty
    
    The recent trend of other MPs crowding around another MP giving a speech just tells me that they’ve got absolutely nothing better to do with their time.
    
    They’re just taking the piss.
    
    If it was me I’d refuse to take part in them – that it’s bad for our image to be constantly seen in these photo ops just nodding gormlessly in front of the whole world – and haven’t got real jobs to do.
    
    Do they not realise how stupid they look?
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:07am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      Sooo ghey.
      
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      March 11, 2024 10:36am
    - Graeme Hall
      
      First saw this mike crowding trend in the old WWF wrestling interviews where others around nodded & chipped in as the Macho-Man delivered his post-match dissertation. Of course the wrestlers back then were more discerning, more entertaining & less pretentious than any of our Green MP comrades.
      
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      March 11, 2024 12:45pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Covid, apparently
    
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    March 11, 2024 8:02pm
- pdm
  
  `I thort the Green’s constitution required there be a male and female?’
  
  One has to be a virtue signalling Maori.
  
  Makes Marama safe unless the big fellow in the funny hat who is now an `Assistant Speaker’ makes a move against her.
  
  Rules out the Mex unless they change the rules – again!!!
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:57am
- MCōs
  
  Nothing to stop the Nats having female leaders either except the two they did have lost elections to the two female leaders Labour had.
  I wonder what that signifies?
  Probably that things will have to get pretty bad for Nichola Willis to get the top job.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:00am
  - Cassandra
    
    It signifies nothing. National will elect another female leader whenever it’s necessary and/or justified.
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:09am
  - cmm
    
    The difference is in the co-leader stuff.
    National (and anyone sensible) understands that co-leadership is impossible.
    
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    March 11, 2024 10:28am
    - leoj
      
      Underlining what a pathetic, failed, virtue-signalling bunch they are.
      
      Chloe on Hosking: Lots of words and said stuff-all.
      
      Greens supporters are mostly mindless youth with no understanding of how the real world works.
      
      Bring back FPP and have them represented by two seats out of 120. That is their true relevancy.
      
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      March 11, 2024 2:53pm
      - Groggy
        
        And how many seats would ACT get under FPP. At best Seymour might scrape in if the Nats were feeling generous in Epsom.
        
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        March 11, 2024 4:57pm
      - leoj
        
        Groggy:
        
        True.
        
        I still like FPP which avoids messy coalition negotiations and compromise.
        
        Be a majority, get the bills passed, if a govt hasn’t kept its promises, we kick them out. Simple.
        
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        March 11, 2024 5:51pm
- Philview
  
  James Shaw could at least be sent to an international conference and chat with scientists. Chloe and Marams are good on insults but I can’t recall any credible environmental analysis coming from them.
  
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  March 11, 2024 11:23am
- Keith White
  
  None of them are biologists, so how can they know?
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Thank goodness for NZ Aotearoa Greens.

It’s difficult working out the pecking order of intersectionalism, but now we know that ethnicity trumps gender.

What was the point of having a male and a female co-leader for decades, when Greens discover that they’re perfectly happy without a male co-leader, as long as at least one of the co-leaders is Maori?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/466386/green-party-leaders-proud-of-constitution-changes

Seems it might be time for Te Pāti Māori to get with it..and discard the unnecessary male co-leadership model in favour of two wāhine.

Or just do away with co-leaders….
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March 11, 2024 9:48am
- alex Masterley
  
  Given that everything is done in the Green party by consensus why have leaders?
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:12am
  - Gravelroad
    
    You have to have leaders to Jack up what you want to have agreed on so as to achieve consensus with little or no internal party debate or questioning.
    
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    March 11, 2024 1:23pm
  - kevn
    
    alex 10.12am… Given what the (not a) ‘green’ party achieves, why have a ‘green’ party at all?
    Seat warmers and grifters.
    
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    March 11, 2024 2:26pm
- NothingLeft
  
  I think brown beats gay, but perhaps gay + mental health issues beats brown. but both are trumped by trans.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:25pm
Swifty

A question for Maggy if she’d care to answer it.

Maggy, I note your Te Ara articles on mushrooms, among other things. Can you please settle a discussion I’m having – are the common garden edible field mushrooms we have here in NZ native to here? I’m referring solely to the white mushrooms that generally we pick from open paddocks – in my case exclusively sheep and beef paddocks.

They’re not introduced are they?

Many thanks.
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March 11, 2024 9:54am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If the Mushroom (Agaricus species) is growing with grass (lawns, paddocks, pasture, etc), then it is bound to be an introduced species.
  
  Pasture-lands, lawns, fields, etc are not native ecosystems.
  
  https://fungalguide.landcareresearch.co.nz/WebForms/FG_Genus.aspx?Group=Agaricus&pk=24396#:~:text=Agaricus%20campestris,a%20brown%2C%20slightly%20hairy%20cap.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:54am
  - Swifty
    
    Thanks very much Maggy.
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:23pm
Notsofast

Ro Edge points out what MSM refuses to do. WPATH is both
1. Committing child abuse, sterilization and mutilation .
2. Being employed by NZ Health as the official guide to promote these practices.
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March 11, 2024 9:58am
- Notsofast
  
  Scores of links to this news that can’t be reported in New Zealand due to the poisonous rainbow tick. I would be interested if this is a wrong inference.
  But to keep it local, the whole story is outlined in the first 2 minute of this video the articulate Bob McCroskie has just posted.
  
  https://youtu.be/Nw1oDGoU7Gk?si=88PzQjMVcZCxvYLp
  
  Ask your local mp what their views are. You will not get a reply, they are all in on this, boots and all. Maybe not NZFirst but not a peep from them either.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:59pm
Maggie Pie

Does the last Labor/Greens gubmint have blood on their hands? 🙁

They spent six years forcing leftard Mayors like the useless Phil Goff to spend hundreds-of-millions of Ratepayers dollars on ridiculous ‘Cycle Lanes’ and ‘Traffic-Calming’ measures all over Auckland.

Now we have the city’s Firefighters raising concerns on Speed Bumps slowing down emergency crews, and saying…. “It makes the difference between life and death”

– NZHerald 11/3/24 (paywalled)
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March 11, 2024 10:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Chivalry Rd on the Shore has two raised pedestrian crossings. There were two speed humps before and one after (12 in total for two crossings) that have now been removed
  I wonder who had the bright idea of installing them and who decided to remove them?
  The Council seems to know nothing.
  
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  March 11, 2024 10:43am
- NothingLeft
  
  Also burns a lot more petrol and does wear and tear damage to cars. They’re expensive and higher maintenance too with impact loads on adjacent paved roads.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:28pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    I lost 2 underbody air-scoops in the space of a few months.
    Same place in Arney Rd both times.
    Insurance refused to pay out on the second one.
    
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    March 11, 2024 1:12pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Traffic is self-regulating to a large extent.
  When there is lots of traffic people naturally slow down, often well below the posted limit. When there is little traffic people will get along at a sensible rate of knots.
  Of course there needs to be limits, but what the idjuts have done now is say that no matter how clear the roads are, and no matter the conditions, the maximum speed allowed is ridiculously slow.
  Oh, while I’m at it, who was it decided it was a good idea to plonk (raised) pedestrian crossings just after the exit of roundabouts? I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen close calls due to pedestrians suddenly blocking the exit of a roundabout. I have seen an old lady get knocked to the ground on one of the crossings too – blood everywhere.
  
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  March 11, 2024 3:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

Comic Part 13.
The British did not gate crash New Zealand, they were invited by Maori who wanted protection from both themselves and the French.

There is a link to the speeches of 14 Chiefs in 1840.
There is also a link to the Chiefs asking King William for help in 1831.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-13/
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March 11, 2024 10:52am
Pope Punctilious II

A fine piece of equivocation from a kaumatua about the Hurricanes’ haka.
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March 11, 2024 11:08am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s the problem:
  
  Te Reo is an official language of NZ.
  
  As such, it should be ok for anyone to use it… that means speak it, hear it, read it, understand it, etc….
  
  but this chap – the New Zealand Rugby Kaihautu – reckons only Maori Experts can interpret what words mean in certain contexts.
  
  individual words inside the haka are merely representative of a far deeper body of Māori knowledge, language and thinking which are not easily deciphered without the assistance of Pukenga Māori (Experts).
  
  https://www.hurricanes.co.nz/news/article/hurricanes-poua-haka-statement
  
  So, just another example of fudge and spin….or in plain speak… bull’s wool.
  
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  March 11, 2024 1:48pm
  - Jack5
    
    From Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass.
    
    “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
    
    ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
    
    ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
    
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    March 11, 2024 6:04pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Kiwiblog is very slow today. Takes a while to open posts and change posts, and if I click on a link it takes a while to come back to the post.
Or is it just my laptop. The rest of Windows is working fine.
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March 11, 2024 11:22am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Yes for me too.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:51pm
Ghost

Something seems to be going on with Catherine. Last weeks photo she didn’t look right, todays photo withdrawn by the media for being photoshopped

A photo of the Princess of Wales has been withdrawn by news agencies AP (Associated Press) and Reuters amid speculation it has been edited.

Article
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March 11, 2024 11:24am
- MCōs
  
  The royal family isn’t doing anyone any favours with all this secrecy
  They got away with it in the past, but those days are gone
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:42pm
Maggie Pie

Remember a few years back when just about every shifty developer in Auckland was spruiking….. that buying an ‘Apartment’ was either a fantastic investment, or the best way to get on the Property-Ladder. LOL!!

There’s thousands of owners still out there today regretting the decision…..

https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/multi-million-dollar-apartments-under-plastic-wrap-again-15-years-after-leaky-building-fix-45110
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March 11, 2024 11:38am
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Not just an Akld issue. Check out this proposed demo project in Papamoa.
  https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/dismantle-and-rebuild-leaky-home-on-prime-papamoa-site-for-sale-45116
  
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  March 11, 2024 2:30pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I look at all that plastic and ask ‘how many straws or supermarket bags would that amount of cover make?’
  
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  March 11, 2024 3:50pm
greenfinger

Left wing continues to promote their Princess. This time, an opinionated piece from the editorial team from the Herald pleading for the public not to be too harsh on Ardern after it was sheepishly revealed an international film about her was getting $800,000 funding from the NZ Film Commission. The Herald, sucked in by the publicists for the film, the Film Commission and possibly may be even the publicist for Ardern, attempted to claim the Film was about the rise of extremism in NZ and it was not about Ardern, and it just so happened that Ardern presided over this period. How is funding a documentary about the rise of extremism is good for promoting NZ. Hello, is there anything in between the ears? The inevitable conclusion of the so called film is that aren’t we lucky to have had Ardern under her leadership sacrificing herself for a better NZ. Left wing media, get this through your thick noggin, we have had enough of your Princess. I can’t believe how gullible some people in that industry are, or worse still, how gullible these journalists think the public is? Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on me. That is why Labour unceremoniously got booted out of office 6 months ago!!
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March 11, 2024 12:04pm
- Ghost
  
  It was shopped at Cannes Film festival last year with the working title Jacindamania, that name alone says what it will be about.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:12pm
- cmm
  
  “I can’t believe how gullible some people in that industry are”
  
  In what way are they being gullable? They’ve found a way to winkle $800k out of the taxpayer’s purse so go for it!
  
  The only people gulled here are the taxpayer.
  
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  March 11, 2024 12:21pm
  - Swifty
    
    If it turns a profit, will any of the $800k of taxpayer money be returned?
    
    If not, why not?
    
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    March 11, 2024 12:26pm
    - MCōs
      
      I don’t know how these things work, but as producers one would imagine they’d get a slice of any profit
      You can find their annual report on the internet and figure out where their revenue comes from
      
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      March 11, 2024 5:04pm
- Philview
  
  I saw the headline with a description it will ‘unify the country’. I have my doubts. It smells like another attack on critics of the last Government.
  
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  March 11, 2024 1:30pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  The same Film Commission that are making 21 unemployed……go figure.
  
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  March 11, 2024 1:34pm
- Paulus
  
  Thought I just read that total budget is starting at $3.4 million.
  How much is Ardern getting ?
  
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  March 11, 2024 2:07pm
  - Ghost
    
    Nothing, she isn’t involved with it
    
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    March 11, 2024 2:22pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    She has enough from another source.
    I say no more.
    
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    March 11, 2024 6:14pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Things that make you go hmmm…
  
  People are saying it’s interesting when you delve into
  who’s been appointed to the board of the Film Commission.
  
  Makes you wonder who’s up who and who’s paying?
  
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  March 11, 2024 2:49pm
  - Prince
    
    Don’t know who’s up who, but it’ll be the taxpayer who pays.
    
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    March 11, 2024 2:55pm
Maggie Pie

Just overheard that nasty old-dyed-in-the-wool leftard Andewr Dikinson on ZB, once again doing his ‘duty’ with undermining National Ministers whenever he gets the chance.
Today labelling them…. as “ill-informed” and “liars”.

Has he forgotten what happenned to Tova?
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March 11, 2024 12:42pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, if that is him on ZB then he has a liking for Jacinda. I just wondered if his Uni days coincided with hers. Interesting.
  
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  March 11, 2024 3:46pm
NZer In Exile

Wind and Solar CAN NOT work!

From the very good Tom Nelson podcast on all things climate and energy:

Here is a profound and quite clear talk about why Wind and Solar will not work from a Danish Engineer (Denmark has some of the highest electricity costs in the world):

https://rumble.com/v2rbwjo-soeren-hansen-why-wind-and-solar-will-not-work-tom-nelson-pod-110.html

I actually prefer the audio only podcast of this:
https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-askbe-18b0418a

Understand what this guy is saying and you will understand that deploying wind and solar on a large scale is the road to serfdom (IE comparable to the energy “abundance” of the Roman Era).
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March 11, 2024 1:05pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I think it’s obvious enough (that solar and wind aren’t the answer to the non-problem of CO2) that even politicians can understand it. Yet they still push it as though it is, which makes a thinking person wonder about their real motivations. Bowen in Aus is a prime example – he is prepared to sacrifice vast swathes of agricultural land, destroy wildlife and scenery, pollute the countryside with these environmental eyesores, pooh pooh nuclear, impose massive debt on future generations, ruin the existing grid, and none of it will make a blind bit of difference to the climate.
  He must know this, so why is he doing it?
  
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  March 11, 2024 4:41pm
Swifty

Ardern feted around the world for her Well-being Budget.

Then a few years go by…..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/350208088/countries-where-people-are-thriving-ranked-not-great-news-new-zealand

Doesn’t it just so perfectly summarise the Ardern phenomenon – huge promises, lofty talk, ‘transformation’ her watchword, woman’s magazines constantly festooned with her visage, the media all falling in behind her and then failure after failure after failure.

Actually isn’t it just the modern Left all over? All hair oil and no socks. All gong and no dinner. All fur coat and no knickers.
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March 11, 2024 1:12pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Yep. All rosy promises, followed by extremely poor/unaffordable delivery and/or complete failure.
  
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  March 11, 2024 2:54pm
Maggie Pie

OMG!

This makes me sooo jealous…the FLOOR AREA alone is over 1140m2!! 😀

https://stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350206417/stuart-nash-buys-historic-napier-building-turn-family-home
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March 11, 2024 2:42pm
- MCōs
  
  That’s all very well, but who wants to live in a cemetery like Napier?
  
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  March 11, 2024 5:09pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  There are some negatives to large houses.
  
  For five years we leased a 487 square metre house on Burgundy Park Avenue in Henderson. The one where the opening season of “Outrageous Fortune” was filmed.
  
  It was a huge amount of work to keep it clean.
  We ended up buying a robot vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets.
  
  Had some great pool parties there though!
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:12pm
NZer In Exile

Looks like a vast money-toilet to me. Great if you have tons of cash to throw around I guess.
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March 11, 2024 2:59pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  It would be a fabulous project. Absolute beach-front.
  And as my partner’s mum said when she drew it to our attention…
  “Don’t think Stewy would be short of a bob or two” 😀
  
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  March 11, 2024 3:13pm
greybeard

I am a proud New Zealander when it comes to our sports teams but you have to admit, that Australian cricket team is superb.
They won both tests, the first with a day and 2 sessions to spare and the second one with a day and one session to go.
Cricket is Australia’s national sport and they have a large pool of excellent players from which to pick.
In a different league to New Zealand, although we do have a couple of rising stars in Phillips and Sears.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the team selection in the aftermath of this series.
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March 11, 2024 4:06pm
- Piticus
  
  No surprises when we have a bowling attack consisting of Southee (way past best), Kuggeleign (how the hell was he there in the first place), Phillips (a part time spinner) and Henry and Sears (both deserving to be there). Oh and a coach who admitted that they got selection wrong in two of the last three home tests ! .
  Could have been so much better !
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:10pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Holding catches helps
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:18pm
Chuck Bird

Does any other country mislead other countries about a person’s criminal offending?

UFC star Israel Adesanya returns to Auckland court to face music for drink-driving

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/ufc-star-israel-adesanya-returns-to-auckland-court-to-face-music-for-drink-driving/GURL7PD2Q5FWXHAYOWDLAHK4FM/
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March 11, 2024 4:21pm
Ghost

Actually this is a damn good idea

Hear me out: Demolish Premier House and make all the MPs live together

It would be a great income for New Zealand. Big Brother New Zealand. Watch 123 politicians living together

Shane Jones welcomes his new neighbour Chlöe Swarbrick. Winston Peters encounters Rawiri Waititi in the pool late at night.
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March 11, 2024 4:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Many would pay good money to watch that when they got on the piss and other stuff.
  
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  March 11, 2024 6:23pm
Maggie Pie

PM’s Press Conference is live.

Tell me again… why would Chris put up with all that crap from Maiki Sherman and Jenna Lynch?
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March 11, 2024 4:52pm
- MCōs
  
  These pressers are hardly gripping viewing no matter who’s being interrogated
  
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  March 11, 2024 5:27pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, because Chris wants to everybody’s friend like when he ran Air NZ. Soft as butter I am afraid.
  
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  March 11, 2024 6:17pm
- Ghost
  
  Because he’s doing his job answering the medias questions. Would you prefer he doesn’t answer her questions then we have articles that the pm is refusing to answer questions?
  
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  March 11, 2024 6:33pm
MCōs

Watch this song before tictok goes down the gurgler
https://x.com/visionaryvoid/status/1766852195410993507?s=46&t=XZLqGbhN-xeYzprhTaktsg
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March 11, 2024 5:25pm
- Ghost
  
  Israel has a great voice, here are some more videos
  
  https://www.youtube.com/@mountainapplecompany
  
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  March 11, 2024 5:32pm
Rumblestrip

I see Seymour had an accident and crashed his bike over the weekend. While some passers-by helped him up, one person stood there, not helping but filming him while jeering insults.

There really are some incredible arseholes in this world. If I saw a politician I really dislike – say, Chloe Swarbrick – crash her bike, my first instinct would be to help her, as would most Kiwis, I’m sure.
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March 11, 2024 5:27pm
- Swifty
  
  I had a post from Simeon Brown come up on my Facebook feed today. Nothing special just a pic of him and his family.
  
  Many of the comments on it were just vile.
  
  So kind. So caring. So inclusive. //
  
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  March 11, 2024 6:32pm
  - Rumblestrip
    
    Talking of Facebook, I saw a reasonably positive post made by a farmer about how they were trying hard to run an eco-friendly, low emissions farm. Again, the comments were just vile. Apparently the farmer was a dirty liar and a hypocrite, it was just greenwashing, farmers are inherently selfish elitists who hate the environment, etc etc.
    
    Facebook is a cesspit.
    
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    March 11, 2024 8:24pm
- Ghost
  
  Yeah I’m not sure most kiwis would. At least not some of the younger ones. Just thinking of the countless videos of fights where kids are filming and encouraging the fight and attacking the victim. Or even the comments posted on James Facebook when he was assaulted. Or the abuse thrown at politicians on both sides of the fence, including death threats
  
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  March 11, 2024 6:46pm
Scooter

This article shows perfectly how useless media are in NZ. Why is everything now described as an “incident”. When someone drowns it’s a water incident, now when there’s turbulence, it’s an incident on a plane. When I saw the heading I initially thought there was a fight on board, why can’t journalists do some reporting and say in plain English what actually happened.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/large-emergency-response-at-auckland-international-airport-after-incident-on-flight-from-sydney/
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March 11, 2024 7:44pm
- Ghost
  
  The airline actually called it an incident, so if you want to have a whinge ring up the airline and complain to them. The other thing was, and I have been watching the story since it broke, it has been a developing story that journalists have been adding to as they learn more information
  
  Here is a plane crash from 2010 which is reported by associated press who call it an incident
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiId0z5EKtk
  
  Here is a crash report from civil aviation about an incident
  https://www.aviation.govt.nz/assets/publications/fatal-accident-reports/CAA-Accident-Report-ZK-GZP.pdf
  
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  March 11, 2024 8:02pm
  - Ghost
    
    Oh and it wasn’t turbulence, the plane dropped because of an issue with the plane
    
    Latam said in a statement that the plane suffered a technical problem.
    
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    March 11, 2024 8:06pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Most likely clear air turbulence.
      
      Unless someone turned the motors off.
      
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      March 11, 2024 8:23pm
      - Ghost
        
        No
        
        “I asked him ‘what happened?’ and he said to me ‘I lost my instrumentation briefly and then it just came back all of a sudden’.
        
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        March 11, 2024 9:39pm
    - Colville
      
      a technical problem?
      
      a fucking great pothole in the sky?? 🙂
      
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      March 11, 2024 8:54pm
      - Ghost
        
        Plane went into a nose dive for 300 ft. They’ve said there was no turbulence. One passenger said after the plane landed the pilot looked in shock. Appears to be another Boeing problem perhaps.
        
        A comment from one of the passengers which is concerning
        
        “I used to be a flight attendant and this is the first time I’ve ever . . . the whole plane just froze,” she said.
        
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        March 11, 2024 9:12pm
      - Rumblestrip
        
        According to Stuff, one of the pilots told a passenger there was a control issue and his instruments went blank.
        
        Sounds strange, no doubt we will learn the full story in a few months after the CAA investigate.
        
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        March 11, 2024 9:17pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        If what is reported is true, ie the instruments freezing, that’s really serious. Think immediate grounding of all aeroplanes of that type.
        
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        March 12, 2024 7:22am
      - greybeard
        
        UFO vortex
        
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        March 12, 2024 7:52am
- Philview
  
  The media seem to be struggling to use the word ambulance tonight. The term used tonight is Hato Hone St John units.
  
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  March 11, 2024 9:50pm

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