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Chuck Bird

The Wind Turbine Fire Problem, By the Numbers

https://www.firetrace.com/fire-protection-blog/wind-turbine-fire-statistics
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March 18, 2024 8:02am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Building twice as many means less fire on average.//
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:14am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Please explain.
    
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    March 18, 2024 8:27am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Satire Chuck.
      
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      March 18, 2024 8:50am
- KH
  
  From the article. “…..Overall, the data shows that wind turbine fires are relatively rare…..”. (1 in 2000)
  I guess that means if you have a wind turbine for 2000 years it will catch fire. On average.
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:35am
  - MCōs
    
    That one above Brooklyn in Wellington is good for another 1970 years then
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:17am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      A new take on Towering Inferno. Would be better than the annual fireworks display!
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:43am
  - wsk12345
    
    Given they have a 20 yr life, I guess it’s 1 per 2000 turbines per 20 years. Quite different.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:34am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Its 1 out of every 2000 turbines catch fire every year so 117 fires in 2011
      ‘An estimated 200,000 wind turbines operated globally in 2011. Based on data in the IAFSS report, we can assume there were 117 fires that same year (both reported and unreported). That means 1 in every 1,710 turbines caught fire in 2011.’
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:38am
  - Lance
    
    All electric generators carry the risk of catching fire.
    I know the Manapouri power station has an entire level under the generator of fire extinguisher bottles that discharge int0 the windings when/ if required.
    
    Not sure why the wind turbines don’t have these?
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:19am
    - jkt
      
      What are the consequences of these fires?
      A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to see it, who cares!
      
      But if the tree falls on someone’s head it is not so good. If it causes an entire forest to catch fire…..
      
      If risk and consequences are managed then who cares, right? It then becomes a purely economic decision. It is not like using hormone therapy on a child as a pacifier!
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:52am
- peterwn
  
  The ‘article’ is actually a commercial for wind turbine fire extinguishing systems.
  The industry probably considers that extinguishing systems are not worth the investment for the relatively small number of fires that occur. This is especially as a fire in one unit appears to be extremely unlikely to spread to adjacent units. The issue for manufacturers is to understand what causes the fires and make design changes accordingly. Perhaps 80% of the fires could probably be avoided by minor design changes.
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:14pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

What’s wrong with the following statement?

“ The Electric Homes Report by independent energy transition charity Rewiring Aotearoa ….”

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511982/households-using-gas-petrol-could-save-thousands-by-going-electric-report
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March 18, 2024 8:04am
- Local Miller
  
  At the rate of savings they say I could get, someone would be paying me a lot of money each year so I can realize my savings. Between my Infinity Gas water heater and my ICE car, my wife and spend about $4000 a year.
  Now how the hell can I save $4500 against that?
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:47am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Aha! The answer lies here:
    
    “If you’re able to get access to sustainable finance, which might be at zero to one percent [interest rate], that could be anywhere between $4500 to $5000 a year of savings, including the cost of servicing”.
    
    Now, where can I refinance my mortgage at this sustainable rate? And my Taycan?
    
    Waddya mean, I don’t qualify???
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:40am
  - wsk12345
    
    Ditto. My power bills are under 2k pa incl electric hot water. 3 br home in Christchurch with a spa used a couple of weekends a month when power is all off peak. Plus about 400 each year for firewood.
    
    But I know people who pay $800/ mth for power. 4 heat pumps, heated pool in summer and spa year round. Still not sure how they get to that sum but I’ve seen the bills…..
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:14am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Seriously, how is it that an out & out advocacy if not activist group is a charity?
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:44am
- peterwn
  
  Seems another lobby group disguised as a charity (for tax reasons).
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:16pm
- R
  
  What’s wrong with……
  it is written by a ideologically vested interest!
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:26pm
  - jkt
    
    And the media shares it infomercial style!
    
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    March 19, 2024 8:00am
artemisia

According to Mr Hosking this morning (around 7.45 am) a company associated with a Green MP has form with employing migrants. There is a suggestion that a Green MP, no longer a director, was doing some work in the company including payroll.

Mr Hosking has been looking, mostly unsuccessfully, for the media reporting this. Including hoping for comments from relevant officials.
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March 18, 2024 8:06am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Here we go…..
  
  https://stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350214591/darleen-tana-case-employees-speak-out
  
  Honestly, it’s funny as a fart 😀
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:12am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    Oh Dear. Another lot of Holier Than Thou Greens getting their come uppance!!!
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:20am
  - greybeard
    
    Surely the IRD must get involved here ? Cash payments for work done, off the company books ?
    No tax paid by company or employee ?
    What about working with the wrong visa ?
    This is the wild west.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:35am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘This is the wild west.’
      
      Nope , it’s the Cannibal Islands.
      
      Let’s keep it local.
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:56am
  - ISeeRed
    
    I won’t ever purposely click on a stuff(ed) link. But assuming only migrants were hired, is this not racial discrimination in employment?
    
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    March 18, 2024 5:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Winston Peters is completely justified in comparing co-governance ideology to Germany in the 1930s.
There is a group in NZ who thing their DNA is superior to the rest – I refer to the Maori cowboy.
Media diverting attention to the Jewish Community, but they miss the target. This is about one group thinking they are better than all others.
Idiot box this morning had a little bit on Breakfast (NZs version of “The View.”)
Anna whatever was way out of her depth. Nek minut we are talking with the MP for Tijuana about the latest crooked Green. He was there to be used as a diversion. Anna ain’t that bright you know.
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March 18, 2024 8:10am
- Simon
  
  Yep the NSDAP were big on eugenics as well. Which Maori elite and some much lower in the hierarchy seem to relish ignoring their European heritage.
  
  Eugenics might be state policy as well.
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:22am
- Cassandra
  
  Peters’ comparison is totally apt. As usual media idiots aka journalists (do these people do this deliberately or are they just stupid?) misinterpret what he said. Hitler claimed that Aryans were a master race – special people. Ring a bell? Even Mayor Tuheita says that let alone The Cowboy. And much of NZ eg universities, government departments, go along with it. My retirement village owner, Arvida, writes to me “Kia Ora Cassandra” and signs off “Nga mihi”. Being a bi-lingual sort of fellow I reply “Rapihi”.
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:46am
  - Paulus
    
    Just stupid, but with a BA at a second rate University.
    So must be clever, and can screech loudest, and tell lies.
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:29pm
  - kowtow
    
    Hilarious .
    
    Rapihi sounds like a transliteration . If so they didn’t even have a word for that!
    So much for being the master environmentalists that DOC etc try to make out.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:30pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He has Hipkins starting the week looking as stupid as ever, drunk on a soggy wine biscuit
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:51am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Haaaa..
    
    we used to say “drunk on the sniff of a wine gum”
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:11am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      On a bar maid’s dish rag is another.
      
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      March 18, 2024 9:21am
      - Bridgenag
        
        ROFL
        
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        March 18, 2024 9:39am
- Yvette
  
  Steve – Winston Peters is completely justified in comparing co-governance ideology to Germany in the 1930s. There is a group in NZ who think their DNA is superior to the rest – I refer to the Maori cowboy..
  
  So the media let the Cowboy (and many others) get away with it
  And somehow we let the media get away with that.
  Although has sod’s law come into effect – that without an audience media dies, which may be good.
  Depends largely on what we choose as a replacement
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:56am
  - RoboRob
    
    Maori party and Labour implement separatist policies based on ethnicity. Maori party claim Maori the superior race. Media silent or in favour.
    
    Winston points out that Hitler implemented separatist policies based on ethnicity. Winston attacked by media.
    
    The media don’t even see the irony here. They are so indoctrinated in their left wing ideology.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:30am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes, and Hipkins stated the voters are dick of division, hahahaha, are we what.
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:25am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I thought the reaction of the Holocaust centre was odd.
    
    Peters was highlighting the dangers of allowing our country to emulate the conditions that lead to Nazi Germany.
    
    Surely that would be a message the Holocaust centre would support and also promote.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:44am
    - RoboRob
      
      As Winston sort of said this morning on the AM show, ‘What context did you give them?’.
      
      Likely they were just given the line, which without context they were always going to criticise. Jews, rightly, dont like everything being compared to Nazi Germany.
      
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      March 18, 2024 9:54am
    - KH
      
      The Holocaust centre does not like competition. Needs to be special.
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:53am
      - Che Guava
        
        Exactly. What’s the implication of saying “co-governance in NZ is like Germany in the 1930s”? Well, given that the “favoured” group is Maori (equivalent to 1930s Germans), it follows that the “disfavoured” group is predominantly, Europeans (equivalent to 1930s Jews).
        
        Winston is effectively saying that “Pakeha” are the Jews of New Zealand.
        
        It’s seen as bad enough when another (usually brown) “oppressed minority” is given equivalency, let alone superiority, with Jews in the victimhood hierarchy, but Jewish heads explode at the idea that Whites are the oppressed group, which is actually the case, despite our majority. Whites are meant to be hated, not given even an ounce of sympathy.
        
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        March 18, 2024 12:43pm
      - jkt
        
        Che, people used to say some see a communist behind every bush …….. what the hell is it that you see behind every bush! More importantly …… why?
        
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        March 19, 2024 8:06am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      Given that Jews are now in hiding in Central London while “palestinian” protesters run riot, one might have thought the directors of a “holocaust museum” might be a bit more aware of the zeitgeist!
      
      Perhaps Kristallnacht was simply a spontaneous youth protest?
      
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      March 18, 2024 1:07pm
- Che Guava
  
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  Well, if we’re talking a racial supremacist nationalist state, with exclusionary policies towards ethnic minorities that annexes land in the service of creating a “Greater X” based on historical states of affairs and a kind of manifest destiny, then Israel is without doubt the modern equivalent of Nazi Germany. Conceptually, what is Nazism other than Zionism for Germanics?
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:07am
  - mandk
    
    And how would you describe Gaza and all those Arab states where it is virtually impossible to live as a Jew (or even a Christian)?
    
    Israel has a sizeable Moslem population, whose members can practise their faith freely and without threat of persecution.
    
    I think you have let your thinking be clouded by your obvious Jew-hatred.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:20am
    - Che Guava
      
      What does any of that have to do with Zionism and Nazism being conceptually comparable?
      
      Tell me why I’m wrong: you’ve got that ethnic supremacism, the ingroup solidarity, the staunch nationalism, the aim of uniting the dispersed peoples, plus the historical and traditional factors ascribing legitimacy and the future vision driving the current actions.
      
      You also talk of the mistreatment and unsafety of Jews being a factor motivating the uniting of the dispersed Jews in Israel: this is also very similar to the persecution and murders of Germans pre-WW2, most notably by the Poles in the heavily Germanic Danzig region.
      
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      March 18, 2024 9:43am
      - mandk
        
        It’s very simple.
        
        The Nazis wanted to exterminate an entire race. This was never the case with Zionists.
        
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        March 18, 2024 10:04am
      - bjools
        
        You mean this “massacre”
        “Bloody Sunday”
        where 2 days after the invasion of Poland, Germans collaborating with the invading force, attacked a Polish garrison.
        They were killed.
        Investigations after the war, said 40-50 Polish citizens were killed and about 400-500 German citizens were killed.
        
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        March 18, 2024 10:22am
      - Che Guava
        
        “The Nazis wanted to exterminate an entire race. This was never the case with Zionists.”
        
        Both of these statements are arguable. But even if they are true, you still haven’t said how the conceptual framework of National Socialism was significantly different from the Zionist project.
        
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        March 18, 2024 11:10am
  - RoboRob
    
    Pre the latest conflict, Palestinians could and did work and live happily in Israel. They were afforded all the same rights is Israeli citizens. From memory ~2m Palestinians lived and worked in Israel.
    
    ZERO, Israelis lived and worked in Palestine.
    
    Tell me again which group is exclusionary?
    
    Also do you really think Muslims are the racial minority?
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:26am
  - Cassandra
    
    That really is a silly comparison, Che. Jews discriminated against for millennia, Israel established as a sanctuary. Hitler was set on taking over vast areas of lebensraum. Trying to equate the two is daft.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:39am
    - Che Guava
      
      Sorry, I’m not seeing the difference. What is Israel if it’s not “lebensraum” for Jewish people, requiring the displacement of existing populations? Moreover, Hitler saw the dire state of Weimar Germany post-WW2 as “persecution” and retribution by “Jewish international bankers” so again, the similarities are uncanny. The problem is, it’s just hard to accept the obvious reality for many.
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:00am
    - imalwaysright
      
      “Jews discriminated against for millennia…”
      
      Maybe the word mistrusted would be more accurate than the word discriminated.
      
      There would have to be an initiating reason for discrimination and it is unlikely that that would last thousands of years.
      
      Mistrust, however, is a conclusion of character judgement that can be assessed, reinforced, or reversed during normal interaction on a daily basis.
      That is unlikely to last for thousands of years. Human interaction is generally beneficial and usually desirable.
      
      If discrimination is the result of mistrust then that is justifiable.
      We all do it.
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:52am
  - cmm
    
    Che, I really suggest you read Mein Kampf. If you want to make coherent statements about something then it is informative to actually read the source material.
    
    I think I understand the point you are trying to make and I think it is extremely misinformed. Israel is not an ethnostate based on racial superiority.
    
    Are you aware that there are Arab Muslims in the Israeli army? Are you aware that there are Arab Muslims judges?
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:37am
    - Che Guava
      
      I have read Mein Kampf, otherwise how could I know what Hitler thought, at least earlier in his career? I assume everyone else here has read the book too, given the statements they purport to make about Hitler and the Nazis.
      
      “Are you aware that there are Arab Muslims in the Israeli army? Are you aware that there are Arab Muslims judges?”
      
      There were plenty of Jews in the German armed forces during WW2 as well.
      
      https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ellen-feldman-nazi-germany
      
      “According to Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers by Bryan Mark Rigg, thousands of full Jews and more than a hundred-thousand part-Jews joined the military of the Third Reich”
      
      “Some of the Jewish men who fought in Hitler’s military had been drafted. Others were patriots whose fathers, grandfathers, and uncles had served in the Imperial Army in WWI, and dutifully enlisted. One survivor described himself as a German first and a Jew second. Jewish allegiance to Germany in the early days of the Third Reich is one of the great unrequited love stories of history.
      
      Many of these Jews believed the Nuremburg racial laws and the rising tide of anti-Semitism did not apply to them. They were not Ostjuden, whom they perceived as uneducated and superstitious. German Jews were cultured. They were patriotic. Many could trace their roots in Germany back for generations.”
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:07am
      - cmm
        
        You are correct there were many German Jews like this. I know one in South Africa. Although they finally fled Germany, his family were generally pro-Nazi and had prospered well under the Nazis.
        
        Those German Jews who saw themselves as Germans first and Jews second would have likely also been opposed to the anti-German communist press etc who the Nazis really despised.
        
        Still, I don’t think Israel and Nazi Germany can really be compared.
        
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        March 18, 2024 2:08pm
      - Che Guava
        
        “Those German Jews who saw themselves as Germans first and Jews second…”
        
        Shouldn’t all German Jews see themselves as Germans first? You’ve literally got a fifth column in a nation where Jews’ loyalty is primarily to other Jews over their nation, which is obviously a serious problem when you are looking to revive the Germanic Nation. Look how obsessed with Israel and the Jewish Nation (i.e, the ethnic collective) many, if not most, Jews are. Good for them, but potentially bad for the nations they live in.
        
        What happens when you have a bunch of US Jews whose primary concern is Israel working in the Pentagon and State Department? You probably get a lot of US military action in the Middle East.
        
        “Still, I don’t think Israel and Nazi Germany can really be compared.”
        
        That’s probably just a result of propaganda and historical baggage. Don’t think of it in terms of “Nazis” and “Zionists” just neutrally call them “ideological system A” and “ideological system B” and the comparison is a lot clearer.
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:55pm
      - jkt
        
        And you still find the actions of the zionists and Israelis to defend their national boundaries and search and destroy Hamas terrorists strange?
        
        No-one celebrates collateral damage. There is a reason why society has defined what collateral damage means and what genocide means. And there is a difference ….. intent!
        
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        March 19, 2024 8:15am
    - peterwn
      
      I cannot read ‘Mein Kampf’ as the copy in my possession is in German and uses the Fraktur (Gothic) typeface.
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:25pm
      - Che Guava
        
        But you’re an astute man, peter, which is more than can be said for a lot of the other “experts” who opine on this topic.
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:57pm
      - jkt
        
        You do not have to read that book to know what motivated Hitler in order to make a judgement of him and his ideology.
        
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        March 19, 2024 8:22am
  - soundhill1
    
    Netanyahu is losing.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9TI-JHtMHY
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:18am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Your Correspondent, Scott Ritter, the convicted Sex Offender and Pedophile, has as much credibility as the Black Knight
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:00pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Is he these things? Even if he is, why does that make his take on Netanyahu wrong? Is the earth flat just because a sex offender and pedophile argues that its a globe? I wouldn’t have thought so. It’s a question of is X right and or is X wrong, not what the person is like who asserts X.
        
        Take me for instance: I get called all sorts of names for some of the propositions I assert, but none of that has anything to do with whether I’m right or not. In fact, it probably indicates that I am right.
        
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        March 18, 2024 12:52pm
      - soundhill1
        
        Attacking a source is a last ditch stand of losers.
        
        Scott was tricked by a police officer into thinking he was taking part in role playing. Scott has a stable marriage of 33 years. He has an immense knowledge of world military politics and you discredit yourself by refusing to listen.
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:31pm
      - Ghost
        
        What a load of bullshit. Ritter was caught three different times and convicted. Stop trying to excuse the behaviour of a man who was trying to hook up with children, and stop trying to make out the cop was responsible for Scott trying to hook up with a minor. Your continued attempts to excuse his behaviour is vile and disgusting. Yo7 discredit yourself for trying to defend a man convicted and then blaming the police.
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:56pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Ritter is a Putin stooge. Of course Russian supports Iran and as a Putin suck up he is Moscows boy for rubbishing Israel- which the Jew Haters lap up.
        ‘“Vladimir Putin will go down in history as one of the greatest leaders of all time,” Ritter said, waiting patiently for a translator to convey his words. “It’s only because of Vladimir Putin that Russia exists today. But Russia doesn’t just exist — Russia thrives.”
        ‘This measure of vindication was followed by his downfall. In 2011, Ritter was sentenced to up to five and a half years in prison for masturbating in view of a Pennsylvania police officer who was posing online as a 15-year-old girl. It wasn’t Ritter’s first such brush with the law: Ten years earlier, he had been arrested for attempting to lure a 16-year-old girl — actually a Colonie undercover officer — to a Burger King. The misdemeanor charge was later adjourned in contemplation of dismissal.
        That history has largely made Ritter an invisible man in the United States, despite his foreign policy expertise and his prolific writing on the subject since being released from a Pennsylvania prison in 2014. Not so in Russia, where Ritter found work on state outlets such as RT News and is presented as “a trusted expert,” one of the few Americans willing to tell the truth about his government. ‘
        https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/scott-ritter-finds-new-audience-putin-s-russia-18130243.php
        Enough said-there is plenty more out ther, although some morons talk up what he says about Ukraine too
        Lol
        ‘People like him turn to Russia and to the cold yet very confining embrace of the Russian government because they’re opportunists,” says Natalia Antonova, a longtime Moscow-based reporter and editor, as well as an OSINT researcher with a keen familiarity with Russian disinformation techniques.’
        ‘They see a financial and career opportunity by working for and with the Russians. By that I mean bad Russians, the very same bureaucrats who are enabling Russian fascists today and are enabling this attempt at a genocide in Ukraine.”
        https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/why-do-disgraced-americans-like-scott-ritter-spout-pro-putin-propaganda-in-russia/ar-AA1bBElx
        
        Low IQ Useful Idiots support scum like Ritter
        
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        March 18, 2024 6:17pm
      - soundhill1
        
        Ghost
        “Ritter took the witness stand in his own defence Wednesday and said he believed the person he met in a Yahoo chat room on Feb. 7, 2009, was an adult acting out her own fantasy.”
        
        So gone are the days of people imagining or reliving their youthful past.
        
        The several charges seem to be breaking this matter down into parts.
        
        Scott sensed correctly that it was not actually an underage girl he was interacting with, and that it was an older person, but not that it was a police officer.
        
        I think a number of political speakers get taken out of circulation by these imaginary situations. Did he actually harm anyone for the years he did in jail?
        
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        March 18, 2024 6:38pm
      - Ghost
        
        Ritter got caught three times. Stop trying to defend him. He tried 3 different times to hook up with underage children, he got caught. It’s vile, it’s disgusting and so are those who defend these sick bastards.
        
        Scott didn’t sense that it was an undercover agent or he wouldn’t have done what he did. He was simply trying to come up with an excuse on why he got caught.
        
        This is your hero
        
        Mr Ritter then performed a sex act on himself in front of a web camera, despite the officer’s repeated claims that he was 15-years-old.
        
        This is what you want to stick up for
        
        And again
        
        A decade ago, Mr Ritter was charged in New York with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.
        Those charges – which Mr Ritter claimed were politically motivated – were dismissed after he completed six months of probation.
        
        The guy was caught 3 times and you want to defend him. You would no doubt defend Jeffery Epstein as well
        
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        March 18, 2024 6:51pm
      - soundhill1
        
        Ghost, as for Epstein any defence would be based on what cabal he may have been under the spell of.
        I would go for the upper controllers not like in a war killing solders convinced to be on the front line. Like Trump dealt to the top Iranian, not starting a war killing thousands of innocent pawns. Epstein died before he could tell the stories.
        
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        March 18, 2024 7:13pm
      - jkt
        
        Che.
        I do not take advice from people whose ideas I find despicable.
        
        When one hears quacking it is probably a duck. Yet, an objective person still has a look to confirm.
        
        But when it looks like shit and it stinks like shit only an idiot goes in and taste the substance to make prove it is shit.
        
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        March 19, 2024 8:29am
  - blue collar
    
    Conceptually what is nazism ?
    Great question !
    Damn near every aspiring conquerer big or small behaved in similar fashion .
    Expanded , united tribes , went extra large until collapse or defeat …..
    Whether it’s wiping out a village or massacring a million inhabitants city …. All races in all times behaved the same .
    My favourite , the mongils .
    
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    March 18, 2024 12:43pm
- kowtow
  
  Suddenly the left wanting to be seen to be backing our Jewish brethren.
  
  Odd , seeing as how they’ve made a very public stance of abandoning them , esp since Oct 7.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:59am
- leoj
  
  What the hell was the maori health authority if it wasn’t treating maori as special?
  
  Winnie has it dead right.
  
  Pleased he stuck it to ’em.
  
  When the media start bleating it just means that they know they’ve been caught out.
  
  Then again, most of the media are bereft of a functioning brain.
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:37am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Heard today that they hired about 500 staff.
    But no doctors or nurses!
    
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    March 18, 2024 12:01pm
    - Paulus
      
      Do Maori actually have Doctors and Nurses who practice Daily Medicine ?
      Have been in Hospital three times for a while, in each, and cannot believe saw any who could identify as Maori, but many from other Countries such as Scotland, England, and India who were all great plus of course the fabulous Nurses principally from the Philippines and Samoa.
      
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      March 18, 2024 1:39pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        Yeah. Hypothetically speaking, training and retaining our own medical staff would just be too hard and take too long. We’d have to start from scratch and establish medical schools etc. which we’ve never done before. Stripping poor countries of their desperately needed nurses and doctors for our own benefit is just “fabulous”, dontcha know? Their fault for being shithole countries, really.
        
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        March 18, 2024 6:16pm
    - peterwn
      
      Sounds like the new ‘Yes Minister’ hospital. They hired the administrators and anciliary staff but ran out of budget before they could hire doctors or nurses.
      
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      March 18, 2024 5:02pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    Wouldn’t be nice if the billions with the Maori trusts got spent for their special people
    
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    March 18, 2024 12:54pm
- slijmbal
  
  @Steve O
  “Winston Peters is completely justified in comparing co-governance ideology to Germany in the 1930s.”
  
  Don’t agree – any comparison with the Nazis will relate with most to attacking and killing millions in an aggressive war and attempting to perform literal genocide, mainly on Jews. The fact there was a racial aspect to Naziism and any racially based laws or treatment is wrong gets lost in the noise. A poor analogy.
  
  I suspect it suited Winston’s purposes in corralling the palpable anger of many in the attempt to create a two tier state of Maori and non-Maori. So success in that front but not exactly a cogent pithy intellectually sound argument.
  
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  March 18, 2024 1:20pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Man are you off topic!
    Winston was saying the left are a reminder of what happened in Germany in the 1930s.
    Conject what ever you want from that. Helps if you get your hand off it.
    Seems we are not allowed to compare the 2024s to history. Remember that? History taught in schools, State Schools?
    
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    March 18, 2024 5:51pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    Seems to me the Maori elite want to emulate a class system little different to their original coloniser. Weird.
    
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    March 18, 2024 6:19pm
- Master Mariner
  
  I’m with Winston Churchill on this,
  
  “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
  
  https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/winston-churchill-socialism-is-a-philosophy-of-failure-the-creed-of-ignorance-and-the-gospel-of-envy-its-inherent-virtue-is-the-equal-sharing-of-misery
  
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  March 18, 2024 2:24pm
Simon

How bad would have it got if omicron had not come along? All the hatred directed at the unvaxxed during 2021. The zero covid nut jobs went off to Christmas 2021 and came back with omicron giving the Clown Show an off ramp from the gross stupidity.

Luxon was really losing patience with the unjaxx heading into Xmas 2021. Hipkins and the Nat bozos, wanted to go house to house to hunt the unjaxxed.

How bad could it have got? Ardern said in 2020 no one forced into the jaxx but it just slid into out of control after that. The trend was not good for those who got the unsafe useless jaxx right.
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March 18, 2024 8:16am
- mandk
  
  Ardern lied.
  
  She was even filmed saying gleefully that the unvaxxed would be discriminated against.
  
  She tried to hide her glee but couldn’t resist rubbing her hands together.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:23am
  - Keith White
    
    “Yip, yip.”
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:17am
  - leoj
    
    ….and the whole of parliament hid behind her skirt.
    
    Disgusting bunch of cowards, ALL of them.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yip! Don’ even talk to your neighbours FFS!!
    
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    March 18, 2024 5:54pm
- Simon
  
  “Ardern lied.
  
  She was even filmed saying gleefully that the unvaxxed would be discriminated against.”
  
  Wrong. She saw there was no mainstream opposition against forcing the jaxx. So she changed course.
  
  It was the trend. It was getting worse for the unjaxxed. Thats down to National party who were part and parcel of the Clown Show. Shame.
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:02am
- ISeeRed
  
  I only know a handful of people who didn’t get the jab. They haven’t had Covid except for one who merely tested positive rather than getting actually sick. Many people at work who have had the jab have had Covid twice, a few three times, one guy four. Not a scientific sampling, obviously. Strangely, I don’t hear the ones who were very vocal early on ranting about “anti-vaxxers”, “super spreaders” etc. say much on the subject anymore. The “4 Times” guy was one of the worst. A true normie and NPC who Supports The Current Thing Because It’s The Current Year.
  
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  March 18, 2024 6:28pm
Grunter

Tried to watch 3 games of rugby last weekend. Got bored 3 times and went and did other stuff. Anyone else struggling to engage in this modern version of rugby?
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March 18, 2024 8:17am
- pdm
  
  Don’t Grunter – it is still the cricket season.
  
  Even if there is no International Cricket on offer first class cricket is still being played.
  
  Not that TVNZ which has the cricket coverage cares.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:36am
  - MCōs
    
    NZ Women play England starting tomorrow down in Dunedin, which is a bit of a gamble this time of year
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:09am
  - leoj
    
    NZ cricket has been ruined with all the maori crap.
    
    Totally unwatchable.
    
    NZC and its TV partners have been taken over by woke and maori woke.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:42am
- Opie
  
  Yea. Do yourself a favour and watch the nrl.
  
  And stay away from the maorified dross that tvnz calls cricket coverage.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:27am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  The Highlanders were going fine until the referee decided they weee looking good
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:28am
artemisia

The Banking Ombudsman Office is being accused of blaming scam victims. This follows their decision for some victims to own a share of the responsibility due to their actions, or lack of.

Interesting to see what risk management banks carry out now. They will not be happy if a tsunami of huge costs come their way. Maybe under some circs they can require a personal visit from the account holder, in which the risks are slowly read out to them from a multi page document, confirmed risk by risk, signed off by the account holder and the whole thing videotaped.
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March 18, 2024 8:25am
- sirknz
  
  After all of that, cue the idiots saying “But they didn’t do enough to stop me.”
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:53am
  - peterwn
    
    Reminds me of two kids on their computer. They had successfully hacked Pentagon systems and the big red button was showing ready to be pressed. One kid says to the other ‘Why does not someone stop us?’
    
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    March 18, 2024 12:29pm
- RoboRob
  
  The ombudsman found in favour of the client and decided the bank needed to pay 70% of the loss.
  
  Unbelievably the customer is complaining the bank should pay it all. I understand that scams are complex but people need to take some responsibility for their actions.
  
  If the banks are always liable that just means that all bank users will have to pay more fees or earn less interest so the bank can cover this stuff. With no cost for peoples actions why would they be careful?
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:34am
  - cmm
    
    “If the banks are always liable that just means that all bank users will have to pay more fees or earn less interest so the bank can cover this stuff.”
    
    Yup, essentially everyone else has to subsidise stupidity.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:42am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Nothing new in that, CMM.
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:48am
    - Paulus
      
      This is going to happen in July ? when the banks will have to pay to indemnify any shortfall up to $100,000 from a failed bank.
      Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC)in the USA but this is different as its is more jumbled at present.
      Of course the Banks will only charge their customers for this whether they want it, or not, and reduce their return to their investors.
      
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      March 18, 2024 2:02pm
Gussy Fink-Nottle

Emigrate to where?
From time to time, I read comments here to the effect that we should encourage our children to get usefully educated and leave NZ.
I get the sentiment, and the increased choice that comes with (useful) education.
But where to?
• Britain seems to be self-immolating.
• As is much of Northern Europe.
• Southern Europe is highly debt laden and inefficient (yeah, I know, we all are, but I’m talking in relative terms).
• Canada’s full of (il)liberal bed-wetters.
• The US is probably better than reported, but still has significant issues and it’s hard to get in.
• South Africa – forget it.
• South America – ditto.
• China/HK – getting more hostile to Westerners every day.
• SE Asia – nice for retirement. Some well-functioning places (Malaysia, Singapore). Difficult to naturalise if you want to set down roots.
• Japan – whilst kind and friendly, they will dislike you on an elemental level. Spend long enough there and it’ll become reciprocal.
• UAE – great earning potential, virtually zero crime, but bloody hot and (depending on what you’re in to) not much fun.
• OZ – probably the logical choice for most.

Any contrary opinions or other suggestions?
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March 18, 2024 8:25am
- RoboRob
  
  Think you nailed it. Didn’t know about Japan.
  
  Outside of southern USA, Singapore would be my choice, but as you say not easy to get in.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:36am
- Bridgenag
  
  Too many snakes, spiders and sharks in OZ
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:41am
  - Local Miller
    
    Generally too many ways to get killed in Oz.
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:56am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      What as opposed to walking down Queen st 😃
      
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      March 18, 2024 10:30am
  - cmm
    
    Deaths by snakes in Australia is so insignificant that it isn’t worth worrying about: typically one or two a year.
    Spider deaths are even lower – zero deaths since 1980 or so. Shark deaths: 4 per year.
    
    So none of that moves the needle at all. And it does not compensate for the fact that:
    NZ’s murder rate is approx 20% higher than Australia.
    NZ’s road death rate is approx 25% higher than Australia.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:31am
    - Bridgenag
      
      A friend lived there for 30 years. Same Marxist stuff there too with lots of extra taxes
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:59pm
  - Paulus
    
    And Aussies !
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:03pm
- Zoso
  
  It’s easy to get into the USA, just walk across the border from Mexico, get a free hotel room too…
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:56am
  - kowtow
    
    I take your point but I also strongly suspectif you come from a civilised , western , democratic nation and get caught , you’ll end up quickly in some dreadfl Federal lock up prior to being deported and there’ll be no bed wetting , pinko pearl clutching ngo types to care .And definitely no Democrats , unless you’re an IRA gunman on the run from justice.
    
    How very odd.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:05am
  - RoboRob
    
    You have to be some shade of brown and preferrably from some shit-hole for that particular entry method.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:29am
  - leoj
    
    ….and free health care.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:44am
- Grunter
  
  In summary – ‘The West’ has knackered itself, and most of ‘The Rest’ either hates us or is still a bigger mess for cultural and/or financial reasons.
  
  Singapore or Malaysia may be the only realistic option. Dubai is OK but right across a narrow strait to Iran
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:56am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Malaysia is a corrupt ethnostate, a dystopian vision of NZs future under Labour/He Puapua
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:04pm
    - Master Mariner
      
      Yep, Borneo would be my pick and nearly was.
      Kota Kinabaloo.
      Malaysia has a Second Passport, Whereby expats can come and go and still buy land / Property.
      Malaysia still has the “Chosen ones” but if you can navigate this easily.
      
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      March 18, 2024 3:00pm
    - Gin and Sonic
      
      Same goes for Indonesia. Active discrimination against non-Muslims. I am acquainted with a third generation Chinese-Indonesian. They make up about 4% of the population and are a mix of Christian and Buddhist. My acquaintance says the Chinese-Indonesians are the ‘Jews’ of Indonesia, actively discriminated against with restrictions on university admission to Medicine/Dentistry, Law and STEM in particular. He was one of three non-Muslims permitted to do a Commerce degree at the University of Indonesia (one of the Big 5 universities by rank)in Indonesia) against 865 Muslim classmates.
      
      Instead the Chinese were confined to commerce, retail, banking as Islam forbids usury and the Chinese have been very successful professionally and financially and are deeply resented by the Muslims because of it. Any Chinese-Indonesian is getting any qualification they can and leaving for good knowing they will never be permitted any public or government job of any real standing and in private they are pressured to employ Muslims over anyone else to qualify for subsidies or tax breaks.
      Unsurprisingly, my Chinese-Indonesian acquaintance gave NZ a go for six years with his MCom degree, with a very good job in indeed, but was overwhelmed by a sense of dread regards the future of this country on racial grounds as he saw the active promotion of Maori and PI colleagues over other better qualified and experienced candidates in his govt department. He moved to Aussie, got a job within three days and doubled his pay with a promotion and didn’t have to racially justify himself to get it.
      
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      March 18, 2024 3:34pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Germany. Lots of high tech industry, but undergoing demographic collapse (oldest average age in world other than Japan). Need smart STEM grads and the pay pretty well. Everyone speaks English pretty well and German isn’t too far removed from English, so not too hard to learn.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:14am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Read the posts. So out of control in Europe
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:01pm
  - Grunter
    
    Thats how it use to be. Not so much nowadays. Full of immigrants/refugees (literally a few million). Manufacturers have either left of planning to leave (high energy costs), and they are the canary in the mine when it comes to “green energy” which is a disaster. Plus their neighbours in the NATO alliance seem to want to go to war with Russia.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:18pm
  - cmm
    
    Forget Japan.
    Effectively can’t live there unless you’re Japanese.
    
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    March 18, 2024 3:53pm
- Keith White
  
  Malta, Portugal, Thailand, Vietnam.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:19am
- cmm
  
  Just go where the economic opportunities are.
  
  If you live your life depending on politics then you’re stuffed.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:21am
- rouppe
  
  Pretty accurate.
  
  Only problem with Australia is that you come under the reciprocal agreement between Aus and NZ. This means to get superannuation you have to qualify under Australia’s rules.
  
  Having spent 40 years being a good boy and saving, of no longer qualify for super.
  
  So I can’t retire there, as I was relying on it to take me from an “ok” to “good” lifestyle.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:31am
  - kiwikidsnz
    
    Yes, the Oz Super means test is an issue however generally excludes the family home.
    https://www.superguide.com.au/in-retirement/age-pension-asset-test-thresholds
    
    OTOH Oz aged care is a much better option than NZ & Govt regulated. Basic Care cost is limited to 80% of pension. Accommodation payment can be done in several ways including cash up front which is 100% returned Govt guaranteed.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:14am
    - rouppe
      
      Anyone who has spent 40 years saving and investing has more than just their family home in assets…
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:59pm
      - Grunter
        
        I might be wrong, but I think Oz allows for a family home + $400k savings ($800k per couple) before the means test knocks you back.
        
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        March 18, 2024 2:35pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Costa Rica is or was a nice place to retire to. Not sure what impact the constant stream of Darien Gap travellers heading North might have had.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:51am
- artemisia
  
  Saw somewhere a reference to some good sized Jewish settlements in South America. I think dating back to the 1940s.
  
  Starter for 10?
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:49pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

John Barnett, a former Boeing employee dead.

Boeing not happy with his whistleblowing? Well Boeing not doing much for their goodwill here.

https://thepoliticalmovementofhealth.com/realloadednews/boeing-whistleblowers-untimely-death-raises-disturbing-questions/?utm_placement=realloadednews?ocxfa_tag=political
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March 18, 2024 8:26am
- All_on_Red
  
  Screwdrivers Now Permitted On Boeing Flights, To Allow Passengers To Help With Maintenance.
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  March 18, 2024 9:02am
  - imalwaysright
    
    All,
    
    Nice one.
    Complementary spanner with every bag of nuts!
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:56am
    - Don Beckett
      
      So every self identifying male qualifies. 🙂
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:43pm
  - cmm
    
    An associate of mine did that in the early 1990s. The audio jack on his arm rest was broken so he disassembled it using his pliers and screwdriver etc, used his battery powered soldering iron to fix the broken joint then reassembled the now working arm rest. The air hostess brought him double whisky as a “thank you”.
    
    If he tried that in 2024 he’d probably have been handcuffed and they’d have turned the flight around.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:19am
rouppe

Prof Paul Spoonley again

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-threat-of-far-right-extremism-in-new-zealand-the-front-page/SHAP2MZTVJGFXAQTHA5XSRVIH4/

Bollocks. The March 15 attack was not far right while nationalist. The manifesto suggested he was far left, and his targeting of Muslims more a case of “othering” that exists everywhere.

Is Chinese targeting of Uiger Muslims far right white nationalist?

How often do you see a group of white nationalists prancing about there place versus black power or mongrel mob or killer bees or any of the other Maori gangs?

What of Willie Jackson’s overt calls for Maori nationalism?

Tosser.
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March 18, 2024 8:28am
- Jack5
  
  The Leftists trot out Spoonley as “distinguished professor Paul Spoonley”.
  
  He’s an “emeritus professor” of Massey.
  
  This title usually means he’s a retired professor, but officially allowed by the university to keep using the professor title.
  
  Massey was once internationally reknown in agricultural, horticulture, botany-sciences. Now it’s about as Woke and Left as you can get in NZ.
  
  Spoonley’s a sociologist, and by far NZ’s leader in the ideology of multiculturism, and it is an ideology.
  
  In NZ, Spoonley’s the prime leader, or inciter (take your pick), of the fear of (or the panic about) Right wing extremism.
  
  It’s worth while scanning the entry on him in Wikipedia (link follows), so you know where he’s coming from.
  
  The entry says he’s written 27 books. Spend more time thinking and less time scribbling, Professor.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spoonley
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:45am
Chuck Bird

Dr. Judith Curry on the climate | Newsmaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUX3kKoM4ao
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March 18, 2024 8:29am
- Chuck Bird
  
  It is about 25 minutes long.
  
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  March 18, 2024 8:31am
  - G152
    
    24 minutes that you will never get back
    
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    March 18, 2024 8:45am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Did you watch the video and if so do you disagree with it?
      
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      March 18, 2024 9:44am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Some people are just happy staying ignorant.
        
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        March 18, 2024 10:54am
TripeWryter

It is a tad rich of the failed ex-Minister of Education and Prime Minister ‘Chippy from the Hutt’ to accuse Winston Peters of fostering racial division in this country.
‘Chippy’, the Failed Minister of Many Portfolios, was a senior member of a government that tried to foist co-governance on us.
He really should just shut up.
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March 18, 2024 8:34am
- mandk
  
  “Failed Minister of Many Portfolios”
  
  I like it. It has a good ring about it.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:25am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He seems yo think giving seperatist rights to a few is inclusion
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:34am
- imalwaysright
  
  Remember the good ‘ol daze when Chippy was brought in to rescue failing ministries.
  Such a capable chap!
  
  Little did we know that he was effectively the undertaker administering the embalming fluid.
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:27am
- leoj
  
  Yet they succeeded in setting up a racially motivated maori health authority.
  
  The Labour Party is racist but the media cannot see that, which says a lot about the media.
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:49am
  - Paulus
    
    Are there not a huge number of Maori still heavily involved with Maori Health including the big Boss Mahuta’s sister – bet she has a huge redundancy in her contact too, like the other senior people.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:13pm
Bridgenag

Sunday Strip: Detour Ahead:
The Sky is falling…

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/sunday-strip-detour-ahead?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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March 18, 2024 8:35am
Bridgenag

Smurf Scandal Update, and Open Thread

“, I offer a brief Sunday evening post with updates on The Great Smurf Scandal from last week, wherein a 17 year-old school girl was scolded by three police officers for posting content to TikTok that appeared to support Alternative für Deutschland.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/smurf-scandal-update-and-open-thread?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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March 18, 2024 8:36am
Maggie Pie

WATCH

Before taking up his $12,000.00 per-week job as VC at the financially troubled Otago Uni, Robbo offers to take Jack Tame for a guided-tour into the bowels of Parliament…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNhVgBQqHUo&t=7s

My fave comment: “Wonder if Jack cracked a woody?”
LOL!!
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March 18, 2024 8:39am
- Keith White
  
  “Bowels of Parliament”?
  
  ISWYDT…
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:21am
G152

So we now have elections of one person for fuhrer and our media carefully reports it as ordered.
I know our media is ultra leftist but that is ridiculous.
Are they planning on pushing for that here ?????
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March 18, 2024 8:49am
Jack5

Our Leftist mainstream media seems to have turned its sights to splitting the coalition, to inciting political mutiny.

The drift …

NZ First on its election-promise targets compared with the Government’s vast financial hole, left by money-printing Labour; Coalition-captain Luxon, with dark hints that he’s been primed by Muslims, versus NZ First on guns for the law abiding.

It’s like the propaganda radio of the Nazis trying to split Americans and British, or the stirring on social media now by Putin’s team. Russians on the Net are playing on old hurts between Poles and British, rivalry between Americans and between the US, the UK, and France.
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March 18, 2024 8:55am
- Paulus
  
  Of course the so called media have been doing everything they can to split the first time New Zealand Coalition Government.
  They try and disect anything to show anything in a left wing light – then drawing it’s on whatever which they suggest.
  They are in for a shock but are still Ardernised gimme transaction.
  As they are not planning to changed they will be looking for new jobs.
  
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  March 18, 2024 2:18pm
sungsamning

https://rumble.com/v4jf3jb-fmr-trump-official-pooling-investors-to-buy-tiktok-23-states-file-briefs-su.html
Fmr Trump Official Pooling Investors To Buy TikTok, 23 States File Briefs Supporting Govt Censorship.
This might keep TikTok operating.
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March 18, 2024 9:04am
Yvette

Any constitutional system that gives different people different rights is incompatible with universal human rights which are essential for peace and prosperity. Whenever people are given different legal rights, they inevitably fight to regain their rights and dignity.

Does Winston’s reference to Nazi Germany apply as much to “we the people” as to a regime (government) which raises on ethnicity above all others – Aryanism – so superiority or exceptionalism becomes a major factor in downgrading the rest of a nation’s wellbeing, despite that being a majority.
Any change from New Zealand’s “one person, one vote” must mean some population portion gets more of a vote.
( That could be: Maori 5 votes times a non-Maori 1, if 17.5 percent Maori population portion is raised to 50, and the Non-Maori remainder reduced to 50, for a “co-governance 50–50” arrangement, and any other arrangement between 50-50 and “one person, one vote” must be somewhere between that 5:1 and 1:1 ratios – go figure)

But while a regime, the leadership (government and others) which initiates or encourages this “Aryan superiority or exceptionalism” can seem to be the focus of the “unsavoury” comparison, as in Germany through the 1930s, it was the general population that were the “frog in the pot or pan” (the clichtē that goes with Goodwin’s Law) who allowed the Nazi horror to happen.

People who shy away against Nazi references or claim diminishing of the sanctity of the Holocaust, are denying that for it never to occur again, or for the faintest echo of it, we need to constantly recognise and warn of the conditions from which such a horror can arise. You need to know it. when you see it. And another clichtē, “for it to flourish, you need only good persons to remain silent” – or something like that.

You don’t need to be another drunken wedding Aunt or Uncle to approve of or applaud Winston’s speech, as much of a ramble it, or this, may have seemed to be.
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March 18, 2024 9:05am
- greybeard
  
  Please send this post to Nick Mills on NewstalkZB in Wellington right now: he doesn’t seem to understand what Winston was saying.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:15am
  - grumpy
    
    Or the moron MacDonald on Newstalk ZB Christchurch.
    You would almost think this attack is directed…..
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:55pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK-jSp_1Ymw
The left brought this on itself!
Now perhaps you can see why muslim countries aren’t that thrilled of taking in people from Palestine? Penny dropping yet given the past? [Multiculturism has backfired on Labour.]
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March 18, 2024 9:05am
Libertarians are right

So it turns out that Don Lemon didn’t get his X deal because he’s an insane, greedy moron who asked for too much (and directly insulted Musk to his face):
$5mil upfront
$8mil per year
Equity in X
A Cybertruck
Veto power over News decisions

So, in return for him doing a little show on X he wanted to effectively control all news decisions, effectively censoring anything he didn’t agree with.

And now he’s crying that Musk is censoring him by not partnering with him and giving him effective control over the news side of X.

What a Lemon!
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March 18, 2024 9:15am
- Maggie Pie
  
  He turns my stomach!
  Remember when Don was charged with sexual assault in a bar at the Hamtons, after alledgedly putting his hand down his shorts, vigourosly rubbing his own genitalia, then putting his fingers under a guys nose?
  
  Although I think the case was eventually dropped, when the Plantiff had what was described as a ‘lapse of memory’ in court.
  
  Still revolts me tho 🙁
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:52am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

2 + 2 = 22, not 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG8KR9edp9Q
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March 18, 2024 9:21am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Surprised at the lack of comments about how fucked the other people are leading us.
  OK, it’s fucking 22. And she won in the end LOL!!
  
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  March 18, 2024 5:57pm
Grunter

The clowns running Europe seem to be in a tangled argument about NATO troops in Ukraine.

Poland’s Foreign Minister says NATO troops are already there (see link below). Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she decided Denmark would send its artillery units to Ukraine. France’s Macron threatened to send in French troops. German and UK leaders saying they will never send NATO troops…..

Luckily the US has a very experienced President to make the right decisions!

So is NATO now at war with Russia? Yes, No, Yes, No….. Oh well, it’s not a biggie is it? //

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29300
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March 18, 2024 9:22am
- All_on_Red
  
  Update for you
  https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-17-2024
  Might as well see the Maps before others copy them
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:05pm
Maggie Pie

Had to larf.
We were listening to Hosk earlier talking to the Acting-Vice-Chancellor of Otago University. She said something about the concerning massive drop in enrollments over the last financial year.
Hosk was saying he was talking to an ex-student, who described the Uni these days as being… “Grungy & Scungy”
My immediate thort it was probably his brother-in-law who was there back in the 90’s.

Seriously doubt someone like Robbo will be much of a ‘Change Agent’
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March 18, 2024 9:25am
- Paulus
  
  Why don’t they get paid according to the number of students there – not just free first year, but all hues !
  Then Robertson would really be out of a job, but Bus Drivers are need in Dunners too.
  
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  March 18, 2024 2:22pm
I remember when

When talking about colonialism why is it that no mention seems to be made of pre-colonial conditions?
In all of the countries that seem to be at the forefront of the ‘effects of colonialism’, America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, tribes were fighting each other for resources long before the arrival of Europeans.
The winner of these battles would almost invariably be the better equipped combatants.
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March 18, 2024 9:25am
- cmm
  
  The population of Africa boomed under colonialism. Clearly colonialism didn’t set them back at all. Instead all that medical science, agricultural science and law and order really made a difference.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:11am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Not to mention public sanitation
    
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    March 18, 2024 7:11pm
- rouppe
  
  When talking about Maori history, why is it that it runs into a brick wall at the arrival of the great canoes?
  
  The journey should have been legendary, but nothing. The reasons for leaving would be of great historical interest, but nothing.
  
  I find that curious
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:41am
  - cmm
    
    The only thing that I can think of that makes any sense is banishment.
    
    In many societies, the punishment for crime was to be kicked out of society – out of the protection of the village/island etc to fend for yourself. This was common in Europe during the middle ages etc and continued right up until the 1900s in parts of Africa, Pacific Islands etc.
    
    In the Pacific, people were often banished from the larger (more pleasant) islands and had to try to survive on the smaller outer islands which lacked decent water etc and lacked the comforts of society.
    
    Quite likely the early Aotearoans were a large group of people told to go far away and never come back.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:59am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Howard Morrison did a TV series on that topic in the 90’s I think. You are correct in your assessment according to Howard (Before everything was brushed clean)
      
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      March 18, 2024 12:46pm
    - rouppe
      
      Those are exactly my thoughts. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
      
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      March 18, 2024 1:02pm
- Paulus
  
  There is an new move to say that James Cook was a Coloniser,
  No wonder these people cannot read either, he only was an Explorer.
  Information is not mythical, like Maori, but in real pictures and writing.
  
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  March 18, 2024 2:26pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    “he only was an Explorer”,
    No he was a “Great Navigator and Cartographer. ” And by default a great at Maths.
    Big Difference.
    Was going to comment the other day but busy at work.
    
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    March 18, 2024 3:11pm
    - cmm
      
      It is fascinating to read some of the material behind their mathematical skills at the time. No calculators. No computers, but they were able to calculate when the transit of Venus would be visible (something that happens in a 200+ year cycle).
      
      This is true mathematics.
      
      Meanwhile Maori mathematics – which we are supposed to believe is just as good – can’t even put together a calendar.
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1769_transit_of_Venus_observed_from_Tahiti
      
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      March 18, 2024 4:06pm
      - Master Mariner
        
        Funny story from Cook doing the transit of venus,
        
        He gave 2 seaman the job of looking after equipment especially for this date and time, They got drunk and the natives stole the equipment.
        
        I think Capt Cook gave the 2 responsible for losing this equipment his total punishment for him at the time.
        They however recovered all the equipment to successfully measure the transit of Venus.
        
        Might of been Tahiti ?
        
        Try Napiers Rules, Spherical Trigonometry. IWe called the “Wheel of Doom”.
        
        My mind boggles on how he came up with this successfull formula.
        Very smart at Maths indeed.
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:04pm
In Vino Veritas

Something a wee bit scary. In Canada, medical assistance in dying has been extended to mental illness and disability. So depression, ptsd (they have been allowing x military to euthanise). Children down to the age of 12, with parental consent can be euthanised. People who turn up at a hospital suicidal, can be assisted (and often are, within 24 hours having had no psychological evaluation). Apparently even hearing loss counts as a disability that qualifies.
It appears that the Canadian Government save up to $100m of pallative care using eugenics to deal with the vulnerable.
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March 18, 2024 9:46am
- David Garrett
  
  In vino: Frankly I find this extremely difficult to believe. Do you have a source for this outlandish claim? I mean a source other than some looney religious blog.
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:52am
  - Jack5
    
    Here’s the official Canadian Government site, DG, so you can get a picture untainted by any religious bias.
    
    Bias that would deny a suffering human the release from pain that’s extended to horses, cattle and pets.
    
    https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html
    
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    March 18, 2024 9:58am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      In short, the actual law is nothing like was alleged by In vino.
      
      I voted against the NZ law. I don’t agree with euthanasia, but neither do I buy into the scare stories out of Canada. Invariably they have been grossly exaggerated.
      
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      March 18, 2024 1:51pm
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        So Wayne, are you saying that the veterans who have been reported as being offered medically assisted death by Veteran Affairs in Canada are lying? Or just trying to scare people? And those veterans are in fact grossly exaggerating what they have been told? By the way, one of the veterans offered medically assisted death is retired corporal Christine Gauthier, who represented Canada a the 2016 paralympics. Could she be lying? Exaggerating? And you might like like to read this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/13/canada-medical-assisted-death
        and this:
        https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
        Do you give these stories any credence?
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:08pm
  - Keith White
    
    Here is a researched-and-reasoned article.
    
    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/15/canada-has-revealed-the-horror-of-assisted-dying/
    
    The Slope, it be Slippery.
    
    Just like many of us warned with abortion law reform, homosexual marriage reform, and others.
    
    Now we have suicide because homeless or miserable, abortion-to-term, drag queens and toddlers, genital amputations encouraged, funded and done for the young-and-confused, and the whole Evil Clown Show.
    
    “Told ya so…”
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:27am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      That’s not a “reasoned” article. It’s an openly and blatantly biased article, of the type that we’ve so often decried when it’s done by the left in the NZ media.
      
      For example, wherever opinions in favour of assisted dying are mentioned, it’s quickly dismissed with qualifiers such as “or so the argument goes”, whereas opposing opinions are presented as statements of fact.
      
      A handful of individual horror stories are presented, in much the way the NZ media does when it wants to make out that NZ has a terrible homelessness problem, but no mention at all is made of the suffering that has been alleviated in many, many other cases.
      
      I shan’t be changing my mind on this basis.
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:05am
      - Keith White
        
        OK Dudley, you do you. The plural of anecdote can be data – but as the saying goes “you cannot reason a man out of a position he did not reason himself into.”
        
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        March 18, 2024 11:37am
      - Taieri
        
        “(…)If your only medical condition is a mental illness, you are not eligible for medical assistance in dying until March 17, 2027.(…)”
        
        “(…)If you have a mental illness along with other medical conditions, you may be eligible for medical assistance in dying.(…)”
        
        “(…)give informed consent to receive medical assistance in dying(…)”
        
        How can someone with a mental illness give an informed consent?
        
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        March 18, 2024 12:02pm
      - Taieri
        
        in much the way the NZ media does when it wants to make out that NZ has a terrible homelessness problem, but no mention at all is made of the suffering that has been alleviated in many, many other cases.
        ——————
        
        The suffering is indeed being alleviated in many, many ways…
        
        Such as this one:
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/msd-referred-homeless-volunteer-tents
        
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        March 18, 2024 1:10pm
  - Local Miller
    
    Not sure where it is now, but several months ago I watched an x-soldier in Canada suffering from PTSD testifying that when she went for counselling and support she was offered euthanasia.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:32am
    - Keith White
      
      “A Canadian armed forces veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was offered medical assistance in dying by an employee of Veterans Affairs Canada.”
      
      “According to the report, the veteran called VAC seeking support for PTSD when the employee brought up medical assistance in dying, or euthanasia, unprompted. The veteran was reportedly shocked by the suggestion. His family told Global News that the soldier had been making positive progress in his physical and mental rehabilitation and that he felt betrayed by an agency that is tasked with assisting veterans.”
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:40am
    - Keith White
      
      “A Paralympic army veteran told lawmakers in Canada a government official had offered to give her euthanasia equipment while fighting to have a wheelchair lift installed in her home.
      
      “Retired corporal Christine Gauthier, who competed at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, testified on Thursday that the unnamed veterans affairs case worker had offered in writing to provide her with a medically-assisted dying device, the CBC reported.”
      
      “I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying,” Ms Gauthier, 52, told a House of Commons veterans affairs committee, according to the CBC.
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:41am
  - Ghost
    
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/canada-backtracks-on-euthanasia-for-the-mentally-ill/ar-BB1jnQWe
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:34am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12243069/Afghanistan-veteran-slams-Canadas-push-euthanize-soldiers-PTSD.html
    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/another-case-of-a-sick-canadian-offered-death-instead-of-treatment-this-time-a-veteran
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11786697/Canada-steps-closer-euthanizing-CHILDREN-panel-says-sick-kids-suicide-rights.html
    And there are more. One just has to look for them. And there is Dying With Dignity Canada, who have made recommendations for kids down to 12:
    https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/blog/pr_mature_minors/
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:06pm
- imalwaysright
  
  InV,
  I’ve seen a letter to a Canadian patient advising that their operation is postponed indefinitely and offering euthanasia as an option.
  
  Here are other examples
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-right-to-die-laws
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:26am
- Local Miller
  
  I’d not be surprised. This is the country trying to pass a law that would punish sexual, gender, ageist, religious, etc. discrimination based on “hate” (as opposed to just string dislike) with life in prison.
  At the moment in Canada, only murder is punishable with life in prison.
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:35am
- wsk12345
  
  Great Triggernometry podcast talked about s this recently, not sure of the date but talking with a Canadian female ex soldier.near the end she talks about the expansion of MAID to include soldiers with PTSD.
  
  Also interesting was that she was sent into places with inadequate training because they needed women on the ground there (taken from her troop where she was a gunner or something and sent to go door to door in Afghanistan as under the Geneva Convention only women can search women including under burqas).
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:25am
Maggie Pie

From IZB News.

Be interesting to hear Cossie’s view when he finally wakes up, about the 2 NZ guys that have just been arrested in Phuket for speeding, not having a licence, bribery, assaulting a Police Officer and trying to steal his gun !

Sheesh…. that could mean 20 years in the Bangkok Hilton 🙁
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March 18, 2024 10:13am
- MCōs
  
  I never had any problems bribing the police
  Must be the laughing eyes
  Also, those guys sound like proper wankers
  Probably ACT voters
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:22am
  - Keith White
    
    More likely Labour. Made the announcement but couldn’t follow through.
    
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    March 18, 2024 10:32am
    - Paulus
      
      Couldn’t be Maori as they cannot drive scooters !
      
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      March 18, 2024 2:28pm
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    I think you will find that ACT voters are not the types which assault police.
    Those types would certainly be leftists, if you were to assign criminal sympathies or anti-police tendencies as any sort of rule.
    
    A very odd comment.
    Worthy of the Daily Blog more than Kiwi Blog.
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:48pm
    - MCōs
      
      Some more information on this unfortunate incident including some family background of the assailants
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/watch-parents-of-kiwi-brothers-arrested-in-thailand-speak-as-video-shows-fight-for-control-of-cops-pistol/6CJNBFDOGFHVDB5IRKHJEICKMU/
      
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      March 18, 2024 5:07pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Their thai lawyer and the judge will be rubbing their hands together
        when they read that 😀
        
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        March 18, 2024 5:28pm
Its only I

Trumps last two Rallys has seen him spend as much time bagging DeSantis as Biden…why?

Now we know, DeSantis is releasing sealed court files in July that will hurt all those who thought their sexual depravity was buried…oh dear…something to hide Trump?
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March 18, 2024 10:32am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Trump is trying to hide this:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5aAObAxZcI
  
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  March 18, 2024 10:49am
  - Its only I
    
    You can see why Biden suggested banning AI voice overs.
    Bringing up Trumps abusive childhood is a low bow but it explains the looser behaviour.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWf0u-ivyoY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QExM4GdtXDI&list=PLmHDGpDOjacpPs35xOlIvVp_ctCBsLt32
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1sWDe5pK8
    
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    March 18, 2024 3:36pm
- All_on_Red
  
  I guess you are referring to De Santis releasing the files on the Epstein prosecution in Florida
  The one where Trump gave information to the Prosecutor about Epstein and helped the Victims with their Legal Bills
  Epic dumbness
  Lol
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:04am
  - Its only I
    
    Help? is that the 14 year old he introduced to Epstein when she was working at M Largo then put her in Trump Tower when she reached 20…that one your talking about?
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:01pm
    - Ghost
      
      Is that Jane? If so it was Epstein that introduced her to trump and Jane didn’t allege any improper behaviour from trump.
      
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      March 18, 2024 1:11pm
- sirknz
  
  We show our TDS on Wednesdays around here…
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:12am
sirknz

Prof Spoonley, who has built his career of far right extremism and white supremacists (aka the boogeyman), is claiming that ‘far right white supremacists’ are the biggest danger to NZ.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-threat-of-far-right-extremism-in-new-zealand-the-front-page/SHAP2MZTVJGFXAQTHA5XSRVIH4/

It is worth noting that he is paid a sum of money from an organisation in the UAE to promote this line of thinking, as well as a lot of his academic work being based on this premise. it seems to me that the demand for far right white supremacists far exceeds the demand, but then again I don’t know how low his bar is set for what constitutes white supremacy.
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March 18, 2024 10:45am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The demand for Nazi’s in NZ is far exceeding any supply of Nazi’s.
  How many far-right white supremacists do you bump in to, or ever meet, compared to Tino Rangatiratanga flags, bumper sticker and T shirts.
  I saw all 3 of the latter on the weekend alone, and quite a number of tattooed chins.
  
  Where are the bulk of racist-nationalists in NZ?
  Really, Mr Spoonley?
  Spoonley just knows which side of his bread is buttered, as far as being an academic and media commentator.
  
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  March 18, 2024 1:52pm
surfing

I have usually been highly critical of Winston Peters, who is very mouthy pre-election then goes to sleep for 3 years.

This time though, he’s had a good start. Hope it continues. Agree or disagree with him, he’s switched on for almost being 80.
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March 18, 2024 11:07am
- MCōs
  
  He’s got to appeal to 5%min of the voters even if it means contradicting what he’s said previously
  Furthermore
  Say what he likes, in the future he’ll team up with Labour again if it suits him
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:07pm
  - Jack5
    
    That’s a problem with MMP, Cossie.
    
    A National-Green coalition? A National-Maori Party-Green coalition? Ouch …
    
    What if Labour and ~~Labour Lite~~ National formed one? What would the headline writers call it? Labonal? Natbour?
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:24pm
  - Grunter
    
    I don’t think Winston will be around in 2036 – that’s when Labour might be competitive again.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:54pm
    - MCōs
      
      Winston would have been in the wilderness with Labour if Bill English hadn’t come to their rescue in 2017
      Come to think of it he could have been in coalition with National at the time, but he went with Labour after saying how dreadful National was
      Furthermore
      The very people who think he’s the bee’s knees now were thumbing through their Thesaurus for every variation of loathsome description they could find to describe him
      
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      March 18, 2024 5:35pm
kowtow

In the UK the Luvvies constantly attack the place as racist , systemic , slavery blah blah etc

You’d swear it was the worse than Somalia , Sudan or Gaza for nasty business against minorities and yet 3 of the four heads of regional /national gubmint are now from ‘ethnic’ minorities .Eng, Sco and Wales.

And in Northern Ireland the new boss is a woman Republican from the gun totting tradition !( maybe that qualifies my earlier sentence re shit holes)
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March 18, 2024 11:20am
Chuck Bird

Nicola Young on Wellington Mosques to Broadcast Call to Prayer Submission

https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/nicola-young-on-wellington-mosques-to-broadcast-call-to-prayer-submission
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March 18, 2024 11:21am
- cmm
  
  I have mixed feelings on this.
  
  When we lived in Cape Town (Wynberg), we could hear three or four mosques going for it across the flats in the mornings. It didn’t hassle us at all.
  
  But then Cape Town’s Malay population are a huge ingredient of what makes, or made, Cape Town a wonderful place. Cape Malay culture contributed to society in so many ways. Cape Town would not be Cape Town without them.
  
  I’m not seeing the value for NZ.
  
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  March 18, 2024 11:43am
  - Taieri
    
    I’m not seeing the value for NZ
    ———-
    
    Perhaps they can’t afford wrist watches. Or their smartphones are not very smart and don’t display time. Or…
    
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    March 18, 2024 1:52pm
- Keith White
  
  Well gosh, if that gets taken up, I will institute regular audio celebrations of my own religion. The Church of Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration.
  
  A few bros and I formed it half a century ago because if the Hare Krishna could dance around on Auckland intersections and not get moved along by the police, we couldn’t see why we got speeding tickets. But I digress.
  
  The Church of our Lady of Blessed Acceleration has a simple religious philosophy. “Salvation through Acceleration, how fast you want to be saved?” is our motto.
  
  Worship requires (safe) speeding i.e. Track Days, not on public roads.
  
  And we give voice to our worship by playing hi-revving motorcycle audio (OK then, vroom-vroom noises – but hey, we were 17 and 18 when we started the church). We can fund raise when I am back in NZ and erect scaffolding and loudspeakers and compete with the mosques.
  
  Religious freedom for one, religious freedom for all! If you don’t agree, you are intolerant! And so forth.
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:02pm
  - peterwn
    
    What sort of religion is it where they teach ‘getting off at Redfern’ at neckbreak speed?
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:01pm
    - Keith White
      
      That is a schism sect.
      
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      March 18, 2024 5:33pm
- MCōs
  
  It’s obvious this will come to nothing; it’s only a go ahead for an investigation
  However
  If it does some Catholic Church may insist on ringing the Angelus bells at 6am as happened in Timaru when I was a kid.
  
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  March 18, 2024 5:58pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The past is another country, MCos – they do things differently there.
    
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    March 18, 2024 7:21pm
I remember when

Is there enough care taken with head injuries in the Six Nations?
In the Ireland v Scotland game, somebody should have picked up signals from Tadgh Furlong that he had suffered some sort of head trauma in the 48th minute, when his try was disallowed.
He then confirmed he had a problem at least twice before he was removed in the 51st minute.
It is one area where New Zealand seem to have better control and urgency.
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March 18, 2024 11:26am
PurplePen

Groan Party website Our People .. still behind the 8 ball

https://www.greens.org.nz/our_green_people
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March 18, 2024 11:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Vaccine truth.

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/uncovering-the-truth-behind-pfizers-fake-rennet-03-17-2024/?
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March 18, 2024 11:57am
- Keith White
  
  ACAB
  
  All Communists Are Bahstahds.
  
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  March 18, 2024 12:07pm
kowtow

Oops I suspect they’re not going to come home too soon.

‘Two New Zealanders have reportedly been arrested in Phuket, Thailand, after they allegedly attacked a local police officer and tried to snatch his gun when they were pulled over for speeding.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-pair-accused-attacking-police-officer-thailand
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March 18, 2024 12:04pm
Swifty

Arrest J.K. Rowling!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ym_tAsmBZIg

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March 18, 2024 12:31pm
Jack5

Tory Whanau says, “Jesus Christ, Sean”, and hangs up on Sean Plunket at his video channel – after just one minute.

Response of Plunket, who wanted to ask her about the council move on Muslim loudspeaker calls to prayer: “I thought she would have said, “Allahu Akba” [God is great].

https://youtu.be/68tjo8MJisc?si=kYfdlAdjgCJbl59b
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March 18, 2024 12:44pm
- Scooter
  
  At the start she sounded all cheery, obvious she didn’t realise it was Sean. Then the penny drops, classic!
  
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  March 18, 2024 9:52pm
Maggie Pie

My partner has aways been an amazing judge of people.
Reckons you can pick a Green or Labor retard just from the way they look!

OMG… put it to the test.
Went on the ZB website and checked out that Andrew Dickinson.
Could see immediately he’d still be a Jacinda fanboi.
He’s been critcizing Winston’s SOTN and National every chance he gets today.
LEFTY PLONKER!!
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March 18, 2024 1:06pm
- mandk
  
  But Darcy Waldegrave and Jason Pine look like the sort of blokes you’d want to have a beer with.
  
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  March 18, 2024 3:20pm
Jack5

The Winston Peters speech at Palmerston North yesterday has been watched-listened to more than 17,000 times, with more than 550 “likes”.

No figures on how many of the viewers got through the whole one hour and 18 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/live/rA61gxX3_uw?si=i44UwKf2Ao8VakwW
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March 18, 2024 1:11pm
Terry Dalee

It’s been very enlightening over the last week watching the LATAM event unfold in regards to the mainstream news media.

Having been connected to the industry, the cause of the inflight upset was pretty much confirmed by about the 14th March, in regards of the captain ‘s seat rocker switch being the cause. Video on YouTube even surfaced on the 15th of the test itself, with the seat seen to be going full forward by itself with the faulty switch.
All this without a mention of a ‘air pocket’ in sight…

https://youtube.com/shorts/7DLNKU2wEjM?si=3Fauxvl7MKnVHARf

No computers blanked, no software failed. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. An RAF A330 did something similar when a camera got stuck on the side stick controller.

What is telling though, is that the NZ MSM, despite its location of being where the event aircraft landed, were incapable of breaking the story on the cause. The story was broken by The Air Current and the Australian. That occurred on the 15th March.

It illustrates why MSM in NZ is going broke. They can’t even do proper journalism if a big story fell into their lap. It took overseas news media to break the story on a story in NZ…. with real journalists in real newsrooms.
There doesn’t appear to be any real journalists in NZ, only activists.

But go ahead, blame COVID and how everyone wants to take it out on media Petra Bagust. The NZ MSM has become irrelevant and completely useless at the job they’re meant to be doing.. you had one job….
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March 18, 2024 1:28pm
- peterwn
  
  But it seems a hostess accidentally knocked the switch when bringing a meal to the flight deck. Poor hostess will be feeling really bad about that. Designers probably thought that as the switch was for a relatively minor function, its location was not too important. So it seems these switches need to be covered or relocated on all 787’s.
  
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  March 18, 2024 1:57pm
  - kowtow
    
    I hope the meal wasn’t ruined .That would be such a waste.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:20pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Okay, after scaping it off the windscreen. 🙂
      
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      March 18, 2024 2:42pm
    - peterwn
      
      That poor hostess was probably one of the casualties as she would not have been strapped in at the time.
      
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      March 18, 2024 5:08pm
  - Terry Dalee
    
    The switches are covered. You have to normally lift up a cover to access the switch on the back of the seat.
    That switch is there to move the seat out of the way after flight.
    The switch rocker itself was rumoured to be broken and this allowed the cover to activate the forward command on the switch. The flight attendant would have had no idea that the switch was there. There’s no report how the captain recovered but there is a second switch bottom left on the underside which is also available if your seated in the seat.
    
    The main thing is that the switch was broken that allowed this event to occur.
    
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    March 18, 2024 2:41pm
  - peterwn
    
    Sorry, I have not got this quite right. Piranha lawyers will be looking for anything to hang their lawsuits on.
    
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    March 18, 2024 5:11pm
- Master Mariner
  
  An “Air Pocket” to yourself has the same meaning as a “Freak Wave” to me as reported by media.
  
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  March 18, 2024 3:24pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  You beat me to it. The media here will not report on the cause of the event because they have just moved on. In contrast there are excellent YouTube channels that explain the cause in detail. I highly recommend Blancolirio. First class informed reporting.
  
  BTW if I recall correctly, the pilot of the RAF A330 was court martialed and dismissed for using a personal device on the flight deck and then trying to hide his involvement in the plane suddenly diving.
  
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  March 18, 2024 4:41pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Welcome back, Benedict
    
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    March 18, 2024 7:25pm
  - Terry Dalee
    
    I don’t know if the media had just “moved on”.
    Here they are bleeting on about how the cause needs to be identified quickly…
    
    NZ Herald – 14 March 2024
    Editorial: Cause of terrifying Latam incident needs to be found quickly
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/editorial-cause-of-terrifying-latam-incident-needs-to-be-found-quickly/RHFVGMVXWJAZ3FQR4L7HRIHWEA/
    
    They just lacked the ability to report on it.
    
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    March 18, 2024 11:31pm
    - Ghost
      
      They have still been reporting
      
      Air New Zealand checks pilot seats on Dreamliners after Latam flight plunge
      
      Latam plunge blamed on clumsy cockpit mishap, Boeing issues warning
      
      Report reveals likely reason behind mid-air horror plunge on Latam Airlines plane
      
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      March 18, 2024 11:34pm
Maggie Pie

And no wonder The Capital’s infrastructure is in such a parlous state 🙁

Not only is the Mayor a fully-fledged member of the Greens cult…. but 50% of the Green Partys ‘local government representatives’ are also on the Wellington City Council!

https://greens.org.nz/our_local_government_representatives

I get the feeling we dodged a bullet up here with Efeso.
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March 18, 2024 1:53pm
Chuck Bird

This is an example of a very smart American. There are plenty of smart Americans. Why can they not have presidential candidates smarter and more ethical than Trump and Biden?

“We Don’t Know How Long We Have Left” Eric Weinstein On Nuclear Threat To Humanity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8y5_gGF9H8
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March 18, 2024 3:08pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Well, according to Greta, we had 5 years left 5 years ago. My maths is a bit shakey, but I think that means we don’t have much time left.
  
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  March 18, 2024 6:00pm
Grunter

IMO this is a very good interview – I posted it last week but I’m glad that you’ve posted again Chuck.

If nothing else, it at least gets you thinking.

And it’s refreshing to watch the manner Morgan goes about the interview. Often he gets too emotive and self-important, but Weinstein is too clever to let him get away with that, particularly near the end with Morgan’s attempted ‘quick-fire’ nonsense. Weinstein just calmly says “No, I refuse to do that.”

Weisteins thoughts on the ‘nuclear game theory’ is worth watching. He points out that this is now a ‘multi-player game theory’ in action (not one-on-one), and that makes it a significantly more complex and dangerous situation. He doesn’t believe humans are capable of working such a complex system.

I agree with him – particularly when you look at the players involved (our beloved world leaders).
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March 18, 2024 3:29pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Anyone with half a brain would work out that and a nuclear war with Russia is a far greater concern than global warming.
  
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  March 18, 2024 5:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

TV1 News. Something has been bugging me about Winston Peters’ comment about 1930s Germany.
Hipkins – “Kiwis deserve better than a deputy prime minister who behaves like a drunk uncle at a wedding.”
OK. Now have a look at todays TV1 midday news where Benedict Colins comes in and says Chris Hipkins said “Racist drunk uncle at a wedding.”

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/one-news-at-midday/live.

Where did the word “Racist” come in? It was not said, but TV1 made shit up.
Does this deserve a complaint to the Broadcasting Authorities?
When will the NZ media get a deserved kick up the arse for this behaviour?
Page not found. You have to log in to TV1 – baaa.
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March 18, 2024 3:37pm
- kowtow
  
  Trump is right .
  
  Lying media .
  
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  March 18, 2024 4:55pm
Benedict Yu

These stuff journalists. 😑

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350205276/nz-politics-live-government-pushes-kainga-ora-evict-abusive-antisocial-tenants

So tenants who cause mayhem are going to be evicted. The stuff headline is “How many will be homeless?” 😳

Well of course the answer is “zero”. Because every violent maniac who is made homeless will create a vacancy for a well behaved homeless person. Net effect on numbers of homeless will be zero.
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March 18, 2024 4:33pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Bene! Sooo fab to see you back….
  
  Thort of you the other day when an old model white Celica with an Asian driver, pulled up hard behind me at the lights on Tamaki Drive.
  
  You and the ginga haven’t moved up here by any chance?
  
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  March 18, 2024 5:22pm
Sparrow

On a totally different subject. I attempted to listen to HDPA on 1ZB this afternoon as had not tuned in for ages. I know she is mentioned a lot on this blog. After about 20 mins I realised why I had not tuned in for ages and will not again. Was bombarded with adverts with many being spoken at breakneck speed. I doubt if HDPA was even on air 50% of the time I was attempting to listen. Yes I know adverts help to pay her wages but should they not be limited. How people can listen to this for hours is beyond me.
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March 18, 2024 5:13pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  1ZB went off the air about 30 years ago. Tune your radio.
  
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  March 18, 2024 7:03pm
kevn

SteveO… Gotta love (not) the media…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leftist-corporate-media-unleash-bloodbath-hoax-after-trumps-speech
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March 18, 2024 5:26pm
Maggie Pie

Think I just heard HDPA say……
“Barry gets around home during the summer with nothing on the bottom”

LOL!!
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March 18, 2024 6:00pm
- Ghost
  
  Gulp, i might try some trump therapy and inject bleach to get rid of that mental image
  
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  March 18, 2024 6:08pm
greybeard

Place your bets folks: Crusaders vs Blues next weekend.
I say: Crusaders by no more than 3 points.
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March 18, 2024 7:17pm
- mandk
  
  Why not focus on the top 2 NZ teams, instead?
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