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krazykiwi

Remember when talking about The Deep State got you branded as a conspiracy theorist, a scaremongering intellectual pygmy deserving of mockery and deplatforming?

Yes, I do too.

But now the New York Times proclaims “It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind of Awesome”. Friend-of-the-bog Igor Chudov notes:-

Be assured that the New York Times still thinks that the “conspiracy theorists” alleging the existence of the “deep state” are still bad for us, despite the deep state existing just as they were alleging.

As I’ve said before, the difference between a conspiracy theory and truth is about 6 months.
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March 22, 2024 8:00am
Southern Raider

Anyone else seen Stuff now has a new donation pop up advert?

“Politicians don’t like us. Because we ask the hard questions” followed by please give us money

Clown show
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March 22, 2024 8:03am
- thirteenstars
  
  Well, under Labour it was:
  
  “Politicians give us money so we don’t ask the hard questions.”
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:29am
  - krazykiwi
    
    So much truth.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:57am
- sirknz
  
  No. I use an adblocker on that site.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:37am
- krazykiwi
  
  I’ll read Stuff immediately after I gnaw my own arm off.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:57am
  - bjools
    
    My theory is:
    The mind numbing effect of their inane rantings, must have an anesthetic effect.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:13am
    - krazykiwi
      
      You are encouraging me to read and gnaw in unison? Not. Going. To. Happen 😉
      
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      March 22, 2024 11:58am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Well Southern Rider – The lone crusader, Toxic Tova twists the knife deep into Te Reo Luxon’s back:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350221993/tova-podcast-laughing-stock-whole-police-station-police-officer-slams-prime
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:12am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Sorry SCS, the worst Tova can do in terms of stabbing, is with a carrot. You forget she is unutterably inept.
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:32am
- Damocles11
  
  Left wing politicians love ‘Stuffed’, they never ask the hard questions of them, and are always slagging off their opponents.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:15am
Simon

US military not winning the Red Sea battle vs the Houthi. Is it time for NZ ground invasion of southern Yemen? Go in and clean it out and leave.

The point is GAE keeps its ally’s weak militarily is a deliberate strategy. In the Pacific that is Taiwan, Japan, S Korea, Aust & NZ. It benefits GAE for the US military to control things otherwise other countries start to think for themselves.

Run down NZ military is what GAE wants and certainly Labo was very faithful too. Nat not far behind.
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March 22, 2024 8:04am
- stewmar
  
  Simon, You mention GAE 3 times in your post. I haven’t the slightest idea what GAE means.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:11am
  - Jack5
    
    I think/suspect “GAE” means” Global American Empire”.
    
    The world will be dangerous for a small Western country if American power plunges and the United States again becomes isolationist.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:42am
  - Swifty
    
    GAE.
    
    I think he is referring to homosexuals.
    
    😃
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:11am
    - Lance
      
      So is Simon worried GAE’s are taking over the world in a vast conspiracy?
      … maybe they are?
      
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      March 22, 2024 11:22am
  - virtualmark
    
    His posts read better in the original Russian.
    
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    March 22, 2024 4:11pm
Justitia

This important documentary, where leading scientists including Presidential Advisers and Nobel Laureates, demolish the “Climate Crisis”, was released globally only yesterday: https://youtu.be/s3Tfxiuo-oM?si=PhWZEcDX0gQiTMT0

Make time to watch “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) tonight. It runs for one hour and tweny minutes and is suitable for family viewing.
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March 22, 2024 8:05am
- Justitia
  
  Correction: “The Cold Truth”.
  
  [Mod – fixed]
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:23am
- PurplePen
  
  Thanks. Watched first 5 mins. Compelling. Will watch the rest and try and distribute elsewhere.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:47am
  - Justitia
    
    Thanks. The more people who see the film, the better. It should be shown in schools in my view. So much damage is being done to young people by “climate crisis” propaganda.
    
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    March 22, 2024 1:29pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Produced by Tom Nelson.
  That guy deserves a medal!
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:58am
G152

Evidently we are not playing the game.
Imagine how the Councils want their city wide fountains high and feathery for the tourists to view.
And we terrible citizens dare to shower for more than a couple of minutes or give the grass a drink.
We have to save water to run the councils fountains at strength.
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March 22, 2024 8:06am
Simon

Does anyone here believe the state propaganda that without mass immigration NZ’s economy would suffer. That is without mass immigration NZ would be in a constant recession.

Shitty foreign & local corporations, the banks benefit from mass immigration along with the state. But no one else would miss immigration cut back to 10%.
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March 22, 2024 8:07am
- Damocles11
  
  You’ll probably get some downticks from real estate agents and property spruikers who rely on mass immigration to keep property prices at ridiculous levels and the housing crisis humming. Also corporate employers who rely on cheap foreign labour to keep wage and salary growth suppressed. The rest of us should consider that importing people en masse into a country where the existing infrastructure already can’t cope is madness. We need new schools, hospitals, roads, water infrastructure, and are importing people to put pressure on the inadequate utilities we already have it place. We are approx 8,000 healthcare professionals short for the people we have as it is. Our GDP growth per capita is falling. We are well past the point where mass immigration made any sense. The Left love mass immigration because ‘diversity’, and we on the Right are playing into their hands for the wrong reasons.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:25am
artemisia

A strange rant from Ayesha Verrall about cost savings at Ministry of Health. She said yesterday (RNZ) –

“Ministry of Health staff led the response to the pandemic. In addition they make sure that we have safely regulated medicines. They make sure that our health regulations of all sorts – including fluoridation – are functional. And they do things like taking steps to improve cancer care in New Zealand by working across our system.”

Although MOH management were appointed and / or served under her government’s watch, she obviously does not believe those same managers have any clue about the impact of the roles actually going, or that there once was a pandemic and now is not.

Prime Minister Luxon referred to chopping ‘dumb stuff’ but sadly Ms Verrall does not seem to be aware of any in MOH.
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March 22, 2024 8:07am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Safely regulated medicines’ like the Covid vaccine right?
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:13am
- CJames
  
  Was the MoH response to the pandemic good? I thought fluoridation was now under 3 Waters. Does the cancer care have to be improved because it collapsed under Ms Verrall’s administration. And why would keeping the officials that were there during the collapse be able to fix it? Or were they totally restricted in what they could do by the Labour Government’s actions and now they are free, they can succeed? Whatever way it is looked at her statement seems to be accepting incompetence.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:15am
  - MCōs
    
    When you say cancer care has collapsed – what do you mean?
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:41am
    - Cassandra
      
      Waiting times. Eg my brother was diagnosed w prostate cancer in November, has yet to get an appointment with an oncologist.
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:50am
      - lastmanstanding
        
        This is why you need health insurance even though it costs. In the case of She Who Must be Obeyed and myself for surgical hospital $5K a year. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2022. Had an appointment with an urologist within 2 weeks. He said needed the chop but not urgent so scheduled around my work for November. In and out in 3 days. He did a great job. Didnt need mens nappies. PSA test zero. Public health system stuffed.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:52am
    - CJames
      
      The number of people being treated for cancer in the early stages has plummeted. Very hard to get through the system: GP then a number of specialist referrals and tests, even surgery. Many now don’t get treatment until S3 or S4. Talk to a GP or an oncologist.
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:53am
      - MCōs
        
        Guess I must have been lucky
        GP was concerned at my weight loss at the end of April last year. Cancer. Gone by the December, which for the particular lymphoma I had seemed to be about normal
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:27am
      - Ghost
        
        Strange, my gp’s practise manager was diagnosed with cancer and currently going through treatment, all took place rather fast. Maybe it depends on where you live and how busy the system is.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:32am
      - CJames
        
        MCos
        I had a similar experience with my DLBCL – investigated Dec, finished chemo in June. Though I had a relapse after 5 months. That was back to heavier chemo and a stem cell transplant – all over lockdown. Now I seem to be clear. However, one can’t be too optimistic.
        Like Cassanda, I know several on the prostate delay. As it mainly affects older white males, no apparent concern.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:48am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Pfizer paid $43 billion for a small company that specialises in turbo cancer caused by mRNA vaccines .
        
        Its the gift that keeps on giving.
        
        https://www.biotecnika.org/2024/01/pfizers-43-billion-bet-understanding-rise-turbo-cancers/
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:50am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Ghost – my GP’s Practice Manager got speedy care … you don’t think that the PM’s role assisted the process?
        
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        March 22, 2024 10:06am
      - Ghost
        
        No I don’t. I think it comes down to location. Last year my mother’s gp found a lump on her back that concerned the gp. The hospital removed it within a week.
        
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        March 22, 2024 10:14am
      - wsk12345
        
        Sounds like a difference between cancers treated with chemo and those that require more intervention.
        
        Btw MCos, you are aware that lymphoma doesn’t disappear aren’t you? My experience is that they seek a long remission but it’s expected to return in 10 or 15 years. It’s not gone.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:31am
      - MCōs
        
        And here was me thinking I’d have a carefree afternoon watching the cricket!
        
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        March 22, 2024 1:29pm
    - RoboRob
      
      The time between detection and treatment with Cancer is a critical factor in the success of the treatment. Under Labour the health system started failing to meet the maximum acceptable time between detection and treatment.
      
      My now deceased father had skin cancer and waited 8ths to be seen for treatment. By the time they got around to cutting it out it had spread through his body to his throat and lungs. At that point, untreatable. That MAY have not been the case if he had been seen in weeks rather then months.
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:54am
      - Ehlana
        
        I’m sorry for your loss RoboRob.
        
        One thing I never understood was the idea that you could stop other medical care during the pandemic and it would have no effect, which seems to be what happened.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:03am
      - Surely Knott
        
        Argh. I’m really sorry. That is a rough story. It shouldn’t happen. There is no excuse. It should be done immediately.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:13am
      - RoboRob
        
        Thanks for the feedback guys. If its any bonus it wasn’t the cancer that got him in the end.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:47am
    - Simon
      
      Cancer care overwhelmed due to vaxx injuries. Its been widely reported – well the overwhelmed bit – to the point where break down occurred across NZ. People died as a result. This didnt happen only a few years ago. pre-labo.
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:57am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Could you please provide some links to these wide reports?
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:10am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      The active surveillance program at North Shore Hospital has been working fine for my prostate cancer.
      It was MRI once a year and Biopsy once a year in between the MRIs. This has now been reduced to two yearly, but still PSA blood test every three months. The monitoring shows the cancer is not spreading even though malignant. Last think I want is the cancer to move to the spine or hips.
      I am one of the lucky I guess, but there are many dying from other cancers because it is found too late. Lack of specialists and surgeons is not helping. Thanks Labour.
      
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      March 22, 2024 9:29am
- Phronesis
  
  I thought the Labour cabinet led the response to the pandemic but if it was the MoH that would explain why it was such a disaster economically, socially, educationally etc etc.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:17am
  - pdm
    
    phronesis.
    
    More a combination of both I think.
    
    All inept on the issues you highlight.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:39am
- rjay
  
  Many of these people will be experienced clinicians who are now available to go back to the front line to actually treat people
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:41am
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Who’s going to tell Ardern that we don’t give a flying fcuk what she thinks anymore….
and to just keep her snout out of it?

And the same with that Helen Clark.

SHEESH!!
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March 22, 2024 8:08am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Please refer to her as
  
  Dame Dr Jacinda Ardern, DGCONZ, PhD (Harvard), PhD (Bologna), B.A. (Waikato)
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:16am
  - Taieri
    
    Mrs Gayford will do.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You forgot D.I.C.T.A.T.O.R.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:44am
  - R
    
    You forgot the DCM, awarded on 14th October 2023.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:18am
  - G152
    
    No mention of the baloney
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:44am
- imalwaysright
  
  Great to see her dimwitted media whore cheerleaders bravely holding the fort while she, Robertson , and the rest of the rabble duck out the back door to their new lives of worry free wealth.
  I’m not sure the media fully comprehend what has happened.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:24am
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Being creative. But.
  https://www.downtoearth.kiwi/post/what-subject-did-former-pm-jacinda-ardern-major-in-at-university-waikato-the-beehive-bologna-uni?
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:24am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    That is sooo HECTIC kev! 😀
    
    Even hiding the fact she’s a Morrinsville gal, chosing instead to say…. she was bred in ‘The Tron’.
    
    LOL!!
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:37am
    - In Vino Veritas
      
      I prefer “The Village of the Damned” Mags….
      
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      March 22, 2024 9:39am
      - Don Beckett
        
        That’s Christchurch.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:08am
    - lifesgood
      
      I don’t know which is worse.
      
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      March 22, 2024 11:18am
  - pdm
    
    Once again Ardern does what comes naturally to her.
    
    She distorts the truth to suit her audience and agenda.
    
    How does she lie straight in bed?
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:51am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Sleeps standing up.
      
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      March 22, 2024 9:08am
      - pdm
        
        I wondered why they called her honeysuckle.
        
        `No good in a bed but okay against a wall.’
        
        A 70 plus distant relative of my late mother in law told us that when mrspdm and I got engaged back in early 1969.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:42am
      - bjools
        
        Hanging from a coat rail, with her wings wrapped around her, for warmth.
        
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        March 22, 2024 10:22am
- pdm
  
  MP – I think Clark has been told that many times but she takes no notice.
  
  Ardern will be no different – especially with the media bias prevalent in New Zealand at the moment.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:28am
  - RoboRob
    
    Clark wouldn’t be an issue if the media didn’t report on her comments as if they are more valuable then any other New Zealander. If the media stop, she goes away.
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:58am
  - krazykiwi
    
    The slowly-dying-but-not-fast-enough-for-me media are to blame. Their sniveling obsequiousness to socialist ‘leaders’ teaches those people that they can say anything they choose because they will not be held to account.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:01am
    - kiwikidsnz
      
      Example today
      The headline is all about National’s campaign ad spending however the article confirms that Labour spent more
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/512357/social-media-agency-s-320k-bill-for-national-s-campaign-advertising
      
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      March 22, 2024 9:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Both sicken voters, let them eat cake.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:32am
- kowtow
  
  And for balance I’d chuck Chyna hugger Don Brash in there too.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:47am
  - Cassandra
    
    Brash is an enigma: right on race relations, so wrong on China, foreign affairs and defence. His advocacy of reducing our Armed Services to fisheries protection in our EEZ is laughable. Actually idiotic.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:01am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      Don is married to a chinese lady no? That maybe clouding his judgment regarding the fact that the PRC is a nasty dictatorship that regularly intimadates and/or kills those who dont bow to its superiority (claimed)
      
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      March 22, 2024 11:26am
      - Ian Boag
        
        He unmarried the Chinese lady years ago ….
        
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        March 22, 2024 3:40pm
    - kowtow
      
      He’s also doing some nonsense with gangs and drugs.
      
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      March 22, 2024 12:19pm
    - julesnzuk
      
      It’s Armed Forces, not “services” but yes, totally agree.
      
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      March 22, 2024 12:30pm
- Simon
  
  Lol – hundreds of thousands, milions?, got the jaxx because of Ardern.
  
  Ardern jaxxed the nation.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:00am
- peterwn
  
  Hey! Hey! The ladies at midweek tennis might want her to be their patron.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:03am
Grunter

A re-post from yesterday just in case you missed it. I highly recommend it as a resource for anyone brainwashed by MSM and leftist Govt’s. (And Mr Luxon).

A bunch of scientists conducting real science.

Clintels new Climate Movie – The Cold Truth

https://youtu.be/s3Tfxiuo-oM?
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March 22, 2024 8:12am
Benedict Yu

So the media continues…

David Seymour says something nasty about public service cuts.

Media runs to Nicola Willis. “Make David say sorry.” 😂

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350205276/nz-politics-live-willis-says-seymour-doesnt-need-apologise-tweet-job-cuts
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March 22, 2024 8:15am
Chuck Bird

This was posted yesterday afternoon. It is worth repeating. A bit long but once you start you should keep watching.

Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM
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March 22, 2024 8:16am
- dcrane
  
  Worth watching to see how many well-established scientists across multiple fields actually contest the so-called “consensus” on climate.
  
  My only quibble is too many cutesy film clips spliced in, but it settles down. The middle and latter sections are especially good.
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I thought the old film clips were great.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:04am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I sent the following in response to an email from Chris Severne & Grant McCallum | Bluegreens Co-Chairs
  
  Dear Chris & Grant
  
  I resigned from National due to Chris Luxon’s climate emergency nonsense. His treatment of Maureen Pugh showed me I made the right decision.
  
  Anyone who believes that some computer programs can predict what the earth’s temperature will be decades in the future is a fool or dishonest.
  
  Below is a link to a video that features many climate scientists demonstrating how this climate change alarmism is damaging economies including New Zealand’s.
  
  Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) English
  
  Most people on Kiwiblog are right of centre. Many have switched from National to Act or NZF.
  
  Nearly all of them are so called deniers. Some are very well qualified like Sean Rush.
  
  Guest Post: When the disinformation busters spread disinformation
  
  Comment on Kiwiblog and see if you can get some back supporting National.
  
  Kind regards
  Chuck
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:34am
  - krazykiwi
    
    National are lost to me. They are heading down the same leftish/woke meandering path that has shown the UK torries to be a hopeless cluster of factions with no cohesiveness, and no guiding principles.
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:44am
    - Scott
      
      Nonsense. They are busy repealing the Labour mess at warp speed. We should be grateful for them.
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:50am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Scott, do you realize the damage done to our farmers and the economy by National following the climate change hysteria?
        
        Do you think Luxon believes the climate change nonsense or he is following polls and focus groups?
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:13am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Nonsense to your nonsense. National are tinkering at the edges while staying well away from desperately needed structural reform, and while ignoring the ethnic divisiveness because addressing it would be ‘unhelpful’.
        
        I’m routinely gobsmacked at the red-lining partisanship of Natty tribals. They are every bit as blind as those from the fetid ranks of the rabid socialist.
        
        Be grateful? Hilarious.
        
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        March 22, 2024 10:10am
      - Scott
        
        Look I get it on climate change. I agree with you. However this govt didn’t run on changing our position on climate change.
        
        But again – krazy take note. This govt has repealed so much of the labour agenda in just 100 days. Every day something good. For example Kainga Ora bad tenants will be evicted. Yesterday blanket speed restrictions gone. Road to zero gone. Hate speech laws gone.
        
        So let’s give credit where credit is due.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:26am
      - dcrane
        
        I dunno…. talking up the “climate crisis” and leaving the insidious Christchurch Call in place are very concerning.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:40am
    - kowtow
      
      Interesting thing happening there .
      
      Conseravtives going down the shitter as their central HQ refuses to represent their base , so it may well be after the what looks like an inevitable electoral wipeout a third party will rise and be way more representative of the “people”.
      
      Happening already across western Europe and possibly largely driven by concern over uncontrolled mass immigration and other crazy Globalist Elite Agenda things such as the climate scam and other DEI nonsense.
      
      I suspect much of the Trump support comes from the same issues .
      
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      March 22, 2024 8:53am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The way it is going here, it wouldn’t surprise me if Winston eventually polls as preferred prime minister.
        
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        March 22, 2024 10:04am
  - Grunter
    
    Well done Chuck!
    
    In my enthusiasm I also re-posted the Movie link today 🙂
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:45am
  - pdm
    
    I have party voted ACT since 1996, except for 2014 when National got that vote, and given National my electorate vote. Again one exception when I made the mistake of thinking Rick Barker would be a good electorate MP – how wrong I was – never again.
    
    So far I like what I see of our electorate MP Catherine Wedd. She seems hard working with the best interests at Tukituki at heart and she also knows what she is talking about. I thought her speech in the General Debate on Wednesday was very good with focus on her electorate and Hawkes Bay in general.
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:58am
    - Cassandra
      
      She is well qualified, former ACT staffer. Might give National a bit of spine.
      
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      March 22, 2024 9:02am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Hooten is an Act staffer, but he is a whack job
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:13am
      - MCōs
        
        According to my dictionary the correct spelling is *wack job* and is defined as a nasty descriptive of someone who’s views you disagree with
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:43am
      - pdm
        
        G. Hooten lost all credibility when he backed the ill fated Muller leadership coup.
        
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        March 22, 2024 9:45am
      - lifesgood
        
        Hooten has always run with the hares and hunted with the hounds, whoever pays him the most. I don’t trust him one inch.
        
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        March 22, 2024 11:25am
  - Simon
    
    Man made climate fraud is a GAE agenda. Russia, China & India know its rubbish. That is the majority of the planet know its fake.
    
    Absurd local measures (ie NZ) will do nothing to change China etc. What Luxon & Co need to be able to answer how is implementing net zero in NZ or (UK, limited number of countries) going to change China Russia & India?
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:06am
- Justitia
  
  The “Climate Crisis” is making a lot of very rich, very powerful people even richer and ever more powerful.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:26am
Maggy Wassilieff

A really important piece about NZ Law and how the Courts are dealing with Tikanga and Maori belief systems.

Despite the obvious non-legal nature of tikanga, members of the Supreme Court tell the country that it is New Zealand’s first law, expect the country to embrace a set of beliefs that are not the beliefs of almost all of us, and that it should be used to “declare the law” of New Zealand.

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/on-judicial-imperialism-why-judges-must-stay-in-their-lane/
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March 22, 2024 8:19am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  & this report today
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350221187/conviction-overturned-due-impact-it-would-have-mans-mana
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:24am
  - Ehlana
    
    “Justice Andrew said he found no merit in the argument that Green had not obstructed the senior constable … and noted that Green had a professional and personal interest in what was going on at the crash scene.”
    
    So, he committed the offence. Apparently, “from a Māori perspective, “whakamā (shame, embarrassment, and loss of mana) is a very real and deep burden and/or penalty for a Māori person to carry and is a very real consequence of a conviction”.”
    
    So the earlier judge erred “by finding that the consequences to Green were the ordinary consequences of a conviction. ”
    
    Is shame not a real and deep burden for people from other cultures? And shouldn’t it be an ordinary consequence of a conviction?
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:14am
    - greybeard
      
      Must be the worry of being shamed which stops them handing over their many baby-killers.
      
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      March 22, 2024 10:05am
    - Chris Nisbet
      
      Shame can’t be that much of a concern, or they might not have committed the crime in the first place.
      
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      March 22, 2024 11:10am
  - pdm
    
    That man lost what little mana he obviously had when he stomped all over a possible crime scene.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:47am
- cmm
  
  Interesting you should point that out Maggy.
  
  Here’s another: A conviction was impinging on a Maori crim’s mana. Supreme court overturned it.
  
  Where will this lead? Maybe to a situation where it is a waste of time to put Maori before the courts?
  
  Baby Ru’s murderers are still thumbing their noses at the justice system.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350221187/conviction-overturned-due-impact-it-would-have-mans-mana
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:35am
  - Grunter
    
    Hmmm….. I was thinking that now the Maori Health system has been canned that I could revert back to being “All Others” when it comes to ethnicity (it’s an irrelevance what I am).
    
    But having read this piece it looks like I’m back to “identifying as a Maori”. And I’m almost certain that I have a very delicate mana that the British-based justice system should not be allowed to negatively impact.
    
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    March 22, 2024 8:51am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The mana of Baby Ru’s whanau must be taking a helluva beating
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:15am
- kowtow
  
  Here’s another very good piece .
  
  Amazing how the best stuff simply doesn’t appear in the legacy media.
  
  ‘ANTHONY WILLY: The State Owned Enterprises Case and the Partnership Fiction’
  Anthony Willy is a Barrister and Solicitor, who served as a Judge on four Courts: District, Environment, Tax and Valuation. He is a former Lecturer in Law at Canterbury
  University. He presently acts as an Arbitrator, a Commercial mediator, a Resource Management Act Commissioner, and is a Director of several companies.’
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/anthony-willy-the-state-owned-enterprises-case-and-the-partnership-fiction
  
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  March 22, 2024 8:56am
Scott

Today we can give thanks we have a new government in charge.
I note the excellent Simeon Brown has announced the end of blanket speed restrictions. This is great news.

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/direction-new-speed-limits-rule-announced#:~:text=Cabinet%20has%20agreed%20on%20the,Transport%20Minister%20Simeon%20Brown%20says.

Here in the Wairarapa we have a blanket speed restriction south of Masterton of 80km. This includes the perfectly straight road to Featherston which we could previously drive, before the soul destroying Labour government, at 100km in perfect safety and with joy in our heart.

Those of us that are older remember the blanket speed restrictions from 1973 – 1986 due to the fuel crisis where everyone complained about the lower speed limits of 50mph, “too slow for a modern car”, everyone said. It was a bad idea then and it was a bad idea now. Is there something about the Labour Party mentality that wants to suck all the joy out of life?

But today I’m happy. Sometimes you have to celebrate the win! 😎
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March 22, 2024 8:19am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Is the 80 kmh speed limit on the road to Featherston actually going to be changed back? Like soon?
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:15am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I heard it may be Christmas before the change.
    Must be an extremely complex process!
    
    Simeon should get a ladder and a can of spray paint and write 100 on the existing signs.
    
    Imagine the support he would get.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:11am
  - Scott
    
    Great question Benedict. The review of all roads is happening and the promise is the process will be completed by the end of the year.
    
    I note on Facebook Simeon Brown was criticised by some who thought these measures will lead to more deaths. But you can’t please all of the people all of the time. 😎
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:30am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Yep. You can do 100 kmph over the Rumutaka Hill but 81 kmph on the flat & straight road from Featherston to Greytown will see you pinged.
  
  Ask me how I know.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:18am
  - Scott
    
    Bollocks – I feel your pain.
    It amazes me that police cars are always able to drive along the Featherston straights. They’re always there.
    
    I do hope they’ll start to notice the Outlaw motorcycle gang cruising through Greytown with very loud bikes and full gang patches like they were today?
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:33am
rouppe

People are complaining about rises to bus fares in Napier.

“It is very disappointing for us, that we are probably going to look at driving across to [Lindisfarne College in] Hastings as often as possible, because it is probably more affordable for us to do that in a small vehicle than it is for us to take the buses,”

The bus fare is going to $3. Napier to the college is about 16km each way, so 32km to deliver said child and go back to Napier. Fuel in Napier is currently $2.557 per litre according to Gaspy.

That means $3 gets you 1.17 litres. Doing 32km on 1.17 litres means you need to be able to do better than 3.66 l/100km to better the cost of the bus.

Good luck with that. And before you say EV, if they can afford an EV then they’re pretty shallow complaining about a $3 bus fare
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March 22, 2024 8:22am
- Colville
  
  Fuel cost is around 20% of total running cost unless the vehicle is a total shitter. I would expect 30km to have a real cost of at least $20.
  
  Isnt Lindisfarne private? I would have thought $3 for the bus wouldnt be a drop in the bucket.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:36am
  - Taieri
    
    Fuel cost is around 20% of total running cost unless the vehicle is a total shitter
    ————-
    
    16 years old Kia Cerato diesel, purchased brand new in 2007.
    Just over 90K km on the clock at present. Non fuel expenses: rego, insurance, RUC, annual service (at about $340) and WOF and one set of tyres and one battery since new. Everything else is fuel.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:25am
    - rouppe
      
      1 battery since new. That’s pretty good.
      
      Just had to replace the battery in my 2018 vw.
      
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      March 22, 2024 3:21pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      You’re going to need new tyres soon.
      
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      March 22, 2024 6:44pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Factor in the time cost value of the driver also.
  
  On the other hand, are multiple children transported? Are other jobs served along the way (pop into the bakery or supermarket)?
  
  Not really enough information to form a view, except that when paying Lindisfarne’s fees, surely the travel costs are, as Colville says, a drop in the bucket.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:23am
oldpark

Could not help but wonder when I read the carpet bagger m/s Paul ex Wellington City Council who committed Wellington Ratepayers at a cost of circa
$260,000,000 to pay for bicycle tracks .
The gall of her and her Hamas Green Party born to rule mentality puts the boot into the Coalition because they have decided to make Landlords Business Costs like any other Legal Business to be Tax Deductible .
She calls them so called “Rich Landlords” .
Interesting for her as she sits in Parliament earning mega bucks circa $200,000.
Wonder how many so called “Rich Landlords” earn that type of money for doing nothing .
Just to balance her biased comments about
mum and dad Landlords if there are many left after such a massive assault on them by the previous Government which her ilk supported .
Seems at least Five of her Green Party associates were exposed as stealing any which way from hard working NZs Businesses in the recent past and no mea culpas from her or her Hamas Green Party on the thefts all we ever get is intransigence and support for the Terrorists Hamas .
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March 22, 2024 8:24am
Benedict Yu

Well this is a new level of stupid…

In 2017 Christchurch Council set a target of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030. Yesterday it was reported that by 2023, emissions had so far increased by one percent.

Much wailing 😩

Now the activists want to impose a climate levy on visiting cruise ships. 😂

https://www.thepress.co.nz/environment/350219163/good-news-or-miserable-fail-christchurch-council-discusses-emissions

For a start, international transport fuel emissions are not counted in any New Zealand obligations.

But more importantly, how does taxing cruise ships help? The ships will simply take Christchurch off the route, taking their money and emissions elsewhere. 💰😂
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March 22, 2024 8:36am
- Ehlana
  
  It helps the same way buying coal from Indonesia and shipping it to NZ is better than extracting coal, gas or oil here.
  
  Sorry, but I didn’t study physics long enough to be able to explain it. Perhaps someone else here can?
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:17am
  - peterwn
    
    It is not physics. It is logistics and whatever is reasonably possible in the given timeframe. Both count against developing and using NZ coal for Huntly. Indonesian coal can be arranged at relatively short notice and does not need long term supply contracts.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:35am
    - Cassandra
      
      No, it’s ideology combined with stupidity.
      
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      March 22, 2024 10:04am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I didn’t study physics long enough to be able to explain it. Perhaps someone else here can?
    
    It’s basic physics…
    All to do with spin, smoke and mirrors.
    
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    March 22, 2024 9:43am
  - cmm
    
    Some of it comes down to the fact that not all coal is the same and it has different uses.
    
    For example, the high quality coal uses in steel making is worth a lot more than lower grade coal. It would be a huge waste to burn steel making coal in Huntly.
    
    As I understand it, the coal being shipped from Lyttleton is mainly steel making coal going to Japan etc.
    
    But NZ has vast reserves of lignite etc. There’s enough in Southland to provide ALL of NZ’s electricity for many hundred years.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:03am
- Taieri
  
  But more importantly, how does taxing cruise ships help?
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  Why not implement such a levy on all ships calling at Lyttelton? What would happen then?
  A hint: an emission levy ultimately charged by the shipping companies to the end customers of course.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:39am
  - Don Beckett
    
    But that wouldn’t happen – the shipping companies would take Littleton off their calling list.
    
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    March 22, 2024 1:03pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Controversial Bill and Hillary Clinton Airport Shooting.

Airport Director Bryan Malinowski shot at his home.
Includes a Clinton kill list refresher course.
Is it a warning to anyone who dares to speak against them in the future?
“With the 2024 presidential election looming, it’s no secret that the Clintons have been positioning themselves for a return to the White House.”
I say she replaces Biden at the last moment.
How she is not in jail beats me.

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/the-real-truth-controversial-bill-and-hillary-clinton-airport-shooting-03-21-2024/?
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March 22, 2024 8:43am
Cassandra

Downtoearthkiwi (Prof Robert McCulloch) laments Jacinda Ardern claiming Political Science as the major subject of her Waikato University studies whereas it was probably Public Relations (it was a communications degree at Bachelor level ie slightly above School Certificate). Expecting the truth from either Ardern or the University is a big ask. She’ll be calling herself Doctor soon, on the basis of her honorary PhDs.
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March 22, 2024 8:46am
Swifty

More lefty bias on display from our (NZ On Air) publicly-funded broadcasters:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/invercargill-mayor-nobby-clark-unapologetic-for-racial-sexuality-slurs/KJRGPPTOCFCYHGH4BCFDK2OKWE/

I’m sorry but I don’t recall Guy Williams getting stuck into Waititi or Packer or Slowpoke Gonzalez for the appalling racist and divisive things they’ve spouted over the years.

No, much easier to focus all their faux-outrage and bile towards male, pale, stale NZers – they’re a much easier target. It’s basically a free hit.

I’m starting to think Guy Williams is just a coward. He hasn’t got the balls to go after the REALLY powerful like those I’ve mentioned – really powerful because in the current climate it is just so much harder to criticise them in any meaningful way.
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March 22, 2024 8:59am
- imalwaysright
  
  Soy boys look up to Guy. They think he’s a man.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:33am
- Flossie
  
  And to be called a “comedian” stretches credibility. Not funny in the slightest.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:01am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    O, I don’t know, Flossie. I find his views risible – that’s the same thing, right?
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:28am
- Damocles11
  
  The move to ram ‘Guy Williams’ down New Zealanders throats is the latest atrocity perpetrated by the MSM.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:33am
- graham
  
  Would this be the same Guy Williams who, six years ago, mocked Brooke Fraser’s religion after she won a Grammy award – her first one – for a Christian song?
  
  And then went on to ‘apologise’, saying he thought it was funny, but he didn’t “… wanna ruin peoples day and stuff! Sorry.”
  
  Yeah, thought it was.
  
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  March 22, 2024 12:14pm
RoboRob

I see the Biden DOJ has just announced it will be suing Apple for anti trust activities.

What has changed in the last couple of years with Apple? Why is the DOJ charging them now?

The answer of course is NOTHING. Apple is still the same company it was 5 years ago. If anything appless market power is lower now then it was then. So why the DOJ charges?

The answer is an election in November this year and Biden is struggling in the polls. This gives Biden the chance to say he is pushing for the little guy. Meanwhile the DOJ will spend the next 6 mths doing precisely nothing. If Biden wins, the case is dropped. If Trump wins, who knows, this is Trump after all 🙂

p.s. I am no fan of Apple
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March 22, 2024 9:05am
Maggie Pie

People with knowledge of the matter tweeted…

Members of the Labor caucus have chewed thru taxpayers money totalling $462,000
by way of expenses in the LAST QUARTER!

Biggest of the spenders was MP Arena Williams, who spent almost $23,000.
This included $8380 on accomodation in Wellington, more than $10,000 on air travel, and about $4400 on surface travel.
And for what in return FFS?

Now what I’d like to know, is how do we get a similar breakdown of expenses for the useless Green…. ‘Member-for-Tijuana’?
What would his/her travel and Wellington accomodation be costing us for goodness sake?
Does he get to include his partner??
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March 22, 2024 9:06am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Why is Williams Spending money on accommodation? She is one of the Labour MPs claiming 45 k a year but owns her own a I’m in Wellington, the names of the MPs claiming was in the media, she is one
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:18am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    I’m sure the media will be all over that//
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:20am
  - kowtow
    
    Why ?
    
    As Bobba notes ,we’ll await te legacy media’s incisive and numerous articles on same , given their obvious obsession with pollie’s allowances……..
    
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    March 22, 2024 3:37pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yesterday Poor old Ricardo made 4 attempts to follow the Speaker’s request to shorten his question, but failed to know what to do.
  
  https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parliament-tv-on-demand/?itemId=239118
  (from 7:25)
  
  (and how Gerry managed to interpret what Chlöe was saying was truly heroic)
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:58am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    All he wanted was him to take the last arrogant remark out, he simply just kept trying re ask the question,
    
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    March 22, 2024 12:09pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    RMM just kept on and on and Erica kept telling him it didnt matter how many visa were issued the Borders were shut.
    
    They are thick
    
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    March 22, 2024 3:23pm
I remember when

Home, sweet respite home (after years of ‘not in my backyard): Kapi-Mana News.
“Three Kainga Ora houses have been joined together to become a six-bedroom respite home for tangata motuhake (Maori facing mental health challenges) who no longer require inpatient services at hospitals.”
“More than 240 organisations lease or rent about 3700 of the agency’s properties across the country to run temporary accommodation or house people with special needs.”
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March 22, 2024 9:11am
Tomtoddy

Maungawhau, Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape – names of stations on the new rail loop. Hard to pronounce, difficult to spell, confusing for locals and impossible for tourists.

This sort of arrogant, elitist, showing off is going to end in tragedy as someone gets it wrong in an emergency.
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March 22, 2024 9:14am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  I have seen this with the bridge names on the Highway One Waikato Expressway.
  The Horotiu bridge crosses the Karapiro Stream near Cambridge. Not to be confused with the Horotiu Bridge over the Waikato River near Horotiu.
  The Te Au O Waikato bridge crosses Highway 26. It is quite some distance from the Te Au O Waikato survey district near Kiwitahi.
  The Waharoa bridge crosses Peake Road near Cambridge. It is quite some distance from Waharoa which is 6 km north of Matamata on Highway 27.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:35am
  - mandk
    
    That’s the problem when you use an alphabet that comprises only 15 letters: you end up with long compound names, or oft-repeated names. Both guaranteed to cause confusion.
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:33am
- Benedict Yu
  
  This is worse.
  
  https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350097131/kapiti-coast-district-councillor-wants-roll-back-old-sh1-confusing-maori-names
  
  Good luck phoning emergency services and explaining where you need an ambulance. These Street names have been the subject a row for 7 years. The local people hate them yet the council pushes on.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:44am
SmokerGuy

I fully support shrinking the bloated public sector but wtf is wrong with ACT? Their posts showing such glee on the cuts is harsh, these are actual people with families, mortgages etc. It needs to be done but ffs show some empathy. Seems like all sides of the political spectrum have forgotten the ability to show empathy towards people. The left are even worse at this. Politicians should be leading by example, it’s pretty poor behaviour imo. I used to support ACT but this sort of stuff turns me off them.
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March 22, 2024 9:30am
- Cassandra
  
  Toughen up. The people being sacked should not have been employed in the first place. Typical Labour rort. “Increasing the number of staff improves government services” actually means “increases votes for Labour”.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:08am
  - Taieri
    
    The people being sacked should not have been employed in the first place.
    ————
    
    Perhaps. But they were. At least some of them accepted their jobs in good faith. At least some of them have done their jobs well. While I have no time for ever expanding “public service” sector or much sympathy for its employees, I don’t see any reason to be happy just because an individual lost his/her job.
    It won’t make much of a difference anyway. What’s needed is the transformation of the public sector similar to that of 1984 Roger Douglas’s reforms. That’s up to the current crop of politicians; are they up to it though?
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:36am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Agreed, but real people with mortgages & wotnot are still losing their jobs. Bear in mind also that those on the chopping block are not necessarily the most egregious hires of the last few years – from my experience, somehow, the latter seem to wriggle out of it.
    
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    March 22, 2024 10:38am
  - Swifty
    
    “Increasing the number of staff improves government services.”
    
    2017-23 proved conclusively that there is no causal relationship between these two – and in fact increasing headcount can lead to poorer outcomes, and at great additional public expense.
    
    Fancy that.
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:37am
  - SmokerGuy
    
    So you’re saying it’s their fault they are being sacked because they took a job that was on offer? I wonder how you would feel in their situation. Easy to say ‘toughen up’ when it’s not you losing your job eh? And I have never been through that but I empathise with anyone who does when it is no fault of their own. This is not to say it’s the wrong decision as I mentioned.
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:48am
- Grunter
  
  I haven’t read the actual posts you refer to. What did they say and what context?
  
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  March 22, 2024 11:16am
- JimBobJoe
  
  I worked for Telecom/Spark…. For a number of years off and on.
  
  I know lots of people made redundant there. We faced restructures constantly from 2004 onwards…. Constant.
  
  People lost jobs and had mortgages and families.
  
  Big deal was my thoughts going through it and i think the sane now.
  
  Govt departments are full of time wasters and do nothings. Labour made it much worse.
  
  Cutting back govt. jobs is a good thing and should be celebrated. It frees resources and allows them to be applied elsewhere. Hell those sacked govt. employees could actually become productive inthe private sector, if they can unlearn govt. style do nothing well or quickly work habits!
  
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  March 22, 2024 11:40am
  - SmokerGuy
    
    I broadly agree with what you say but it’s still not a pleasant experience to go through is it? Especially when you have things like a mortgage, family etc.
    
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    March 22, 2024 11:50am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I agree with you somewhat.
  
  However these public servants brought this on. The senior managers, presented with a fire hose of money, built bloated empires.
  
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  March 22, 2024 11:59am
  - SmokerGuy
    
    Yeah but it’s not only them is it? Labour should be castigated for this shit show we find ourselves in yet the media give them a free ride yet again. Public servants should be angry at the previous government for letting it get to this point.
    
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    March 22, 2024 12:32pm
  - rouppe
    
    Are the senior managers losing their jobs?
    
    The only people losing their jobs where I work are the engineers on contract.
    
    If that’s a winning strategy to improving productivity, performance, or improvements for front line services, I must have been reading the wrong books.
    
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    March 22, 2024 3:37pm
- kowtow
  
  No. That was a one word sentence , followed by another with the context.
  
  In the context of the massively bloated , useless and expensive public service she’s right .
  
  There is now , more thanever a legacy media war being waged against the coalition.
  
  For balance and context , tune in to Barry Soper. He’s right onto this.
  
  Not hard .Don’t fall for the lefty propaganda shit .
  
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  March 22, 2024 1:17pm
Surely Knott

This is the message we are giving young women.

“‘My boobs were a hindrance’: How breast reduction saved Rosie Galligan’s rugby career”

The breast reduction story was not behind a paywall and the article was shared globally including on stuff NZ, as a career enhancing choice.

“The result has been transformative. Galligan no longer suffers chronic back and neck aches, while her athletic ability has improved beyond measure.”

I mean I get it but it also has issues for women and for sports.

“What would her advice be to any young girls or women considering a breast reduction? “Do your research,” she says, matter-of-factly. “Get the right people on board and make sure you have support afterwards. It’s definitely a journey but it’s also one of the best things I’ve ever done. It helped me progress in my career and I wouldn’t change it for the world, get into the Red Roses squad, go to a World Cup and win medals.”

This is the message they are giving young women. To win medals cut your boobs off.

But it raises a few questions. I mean we ban chemical body enhancement but are people allowed to surgically modify their bodies to play in sports.

This 2005 Gymnica article talks about how an athlete repaired a ligament and found he was a better baseball pitcher. So other athletes without injury are also getting these ligaments installed. Athletes are fixing their noses to get more oxygen. Lasik surgery to get better than 20/20 vision. And Breasts reduced.

It’s possible we could see “The distance of a golfer’s drive could be bettered through elective ligament elbow surgery. It seems inevitable power lifters who use ergogenic means such as tight fitting suits and wraps will someday have metal knee joints implanted. It is not inconceivable for an athlete to consider elective tendon surgery to become faster”

He discusses the ethics in sports of Body modifications and surgical adaptions including transgenderism he discusses the issues in sport as we move into the era of Transhumanism and transhumanist technology.

But re a woman reducing her boobs to make the team. It’s not just a choice for her. When one athlete modifies their body it puts pressure on others to do the same to compete.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2024/03/21/rosie-galligan-breast-reduction-england-red-roses/

https://www.gymnica.upol.cz/pdfs/gym/2006/02/06.pdf
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March 22, 2024 9:36am
- cmm
  
  This sort of thing has been going on forever. Chemical enhancement, such as using asthma medication, is banned unless you really suffer asthma, wink, wink.
  Soon sports people are over represented as asthmatics.
  
  While there is a benefit to be had, people will do these things.
  
  Where do you draw the line?
  
  Some will call it cheating but others would turn that around and ask why they should be disadvantaged by having problems with their body.
  
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  March 22, 2024 9:56am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  To be fair, the story goes on to say that pre op her measurement was 32 HH, which is a big weight on a small frame. Irrespective of rugby, it’s understandable that she would have back & neck problems.
  
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  March 22, 2024 10:45am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I disagree totally. Her breasts were ‘HH’. She would have been a good candidate for this procedure regardless of whether she was active in sport.
  
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  March 22, 2024 12:02pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic for kids Part 24.
What the Treaty says, and what the activists say.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-24/
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March 22, 2024 9:40am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYpbJeZsOfU
Winston 1 Fake Newshub 0.
If Chumbawamba goes to court, will Fake Newshub still be around to report the case?
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March 22, 2024 9:48am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81mFfOzkd_c
Seymour’s ACT Party tweets ‘good’ as axe hangs over hundreds of jobs at govt ministries .
The Government has revealed plans to slash more than 350 jobs at the Ministry of Primary Industries and 180 at the Ministry of Health. In response to the hundreds of people losing their jobs, David Seymour reposted an ACT Party tweet saying: “Good”. [It’s a good start. There should be 100% job cuts at Disarmament, Wimmins Affairs, Maori Affairs etc.]
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March 22, 2024 9:49am
- julesnzuk
  
  Keep Maori Affairs – and that’s where the Maori stuff should be contained. Probably still need Women’s Affairs (sadly) – as long as they do their job properly and ensure biological sex is sacrosanct and the integrity of appropriate single sex spaces is maintained. Disarmament (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean) is disgraceful, embarrassing and should be kicked into touch immediately.
  
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  March 22, 2024 12:44pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Ministry for women has been in existence for nearly 40 years. The private sector has done more for women in their own. Replace it and all the other such as PI, geriatric (on my way there btw) et al with a single Ministry for Equality. Danish did this.
    
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    March 22, 2024 4:44pm
    - julesnzuk
      
      Yep same in Britain also – it’s called “Ministry for Women and Equalities”. I’d be happy with that (still need women specified though, private sector has indeed done a lot but it’s not quite enough to rely on that I feel).
      
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      March 22, 2024 10:04pm
Maggie Pie

Thort I should let the group know I’ll be taking a break from KB.
Today is the girls ‘show-me-yours-and-I’ll-show-you-mine’ lunch, where we all take our highest monthly Power bill in the last 6 months to compare. The one with the biggest gets her lunch paid for by the others. Anyway it’s nearly 10 so I’m off to get my face on.
Should be back around 6. Bysie.
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March 22, 2024 9:58am
- Don Beckett
  
  Just make sure its only your power bill Maggie. 😆
  
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  March 22, 2024 11:34am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Roger that 😛
    
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    March 22, 2024 5:26pm
Jack5

Five months in jail and now home detention after stabbing a man to death in a mistaken-identity confrontation after a road-rage incident.

The Appeal Court in reducing the sentence is reported as saying: “‘The victim, Mr Jopson, was a loving and protective father. His death has had a devastating effect on his family.”

I wonder what the family feels about the Appeal Court and its decision.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512384/convicted-killer-to-leave-prison-serve-rest-of-sentence-at-home
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March 22, 2024 10:47am
Bridgenag

This one a bit scary

Human Development and Abortion.
Social discomfort does not excuse a failure to discuss

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/human-development-and-abortion?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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March 22, 2024 11:18am
Swifty

Prolonged and sickening violence that resulted in a man’s death:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tamati-wilson-tipa-jailed-for-life-for-murdering-his-south-taranaki-flatmate/X64JRNXOPZBPFEJOPJAJM3NOGE/

And by a Te Ao Maori and tikanga practitioner.

I’m just lost for words. I could make some points about the appalling levels of Polynesian violence in NZ today and the fact that I can barely go a single day without reading of it in the press – but that would just make me a racist and, anyway, colonisation is the root cause; there’s no point looking at any other factors.

Just imagine the fear Lionel Peat lived with in his final months let alone his final hours.

But New Zealanders will March in the streets and protest about George Floyd, a person who had never set foot in this country and lived half the world away.

Where is the hikoi for Lionel Peat? Where is the outrage? Where are the speeches in Parliament? Where are the weeks of stories in the media?

There are none, because there’s no political capital in it for the Left.
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March 22, 2024 1:37pm
I remember when

Hawke’s Bay shoplifting sting: Police operation sees more than 70 charges laid: HB Today.
“Police said 80 charges have been laid against 20 offenders as part of the rebooted operation Makipai in Hawke’s Bay, which began in early March.”
“Offenders face charges including shoplifting, breach of bail, breach of release conditions, wilful trespass, aggravated wounding, threatening to kill, offensive language, and robbery.”
“(The) police focus is on targeting recidivist shoplifters, deterring them from continuing…”

Has there been an increase in police activity with the new government?
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March 22, 2024 2:12pm
I remember when

Does abortion mean the female gender have total control of the fate of the human race?
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March 22, 2024 2:16pm
Elli

Alwyn,

Re-run the logic but exchange the perspective that people are mirrors with the idea that we are prisms recieving light (also capable of reflecting back to source). The beginning of an argument is imperative. The premise cannot begin at the point of bastardisation, it begins at a point of light.

Best Wishes.
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March 22, 2024 3:45pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350222815/young-siblings-found-broken-bones-brain-bleeds
Dear God, more of the same.
What sort of ferals do this to little kids.
I want to see names and faces, as part of their punishment.
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March 22, 2024 4:05pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Meth heads, thugs, drunks, criminals and people who cannot control their tempers are more important than kids in New Zealand.
  It is never the adults fault.
  It is always the naughty crying and whining kids and babies to blame for making the big grown-up give them the bash.
  Them and the missus not doing what she’s told. Somehow that is also the kids’ fault and they must pay for disturbing and annoying the “adult”,
  Time to start admitting the huge feral problem we have and stop making excuses for it.
  Many of these criminals blame and justify their adult behaviour on their own upbringing.
  Let’s hear from their parents then, if they know who they are. Get them into court and show them the problem they have allegedly created and ask them what they are going to do about it.
  
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  March 22, 2024 5:04pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Looks like all that wrap-around care we are told Oranga Tamariki provides was just another myth.
    
    The children were known to police and Oranga Tamariki. Police had been to the family’s home previously, but there were no concerns for their safety.
    
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512426/police-previously-visited-house-of-siblings-hospitalised-with-very-severe-injuries
    
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    March 22, 2024 5:39pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Driving home and caught HDPA talking to the Police liasion girl about this.
  
  She said….. “Police would lijke to hear from anyone with info on how the injuries were sustained by these 4 & 5 year old siblings ” 🙁
  
  I actually thort about calling 111 and letting her know.
  
  Honestly – it’s a jungle out there in the Hutt!!
  
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  March 22, 2024 5:22pm
  - surfing
    
    Just another Ruthless empire, they live pretty close too.
    
    Generally the kids of abusers grow up to repeat the cycle.
    
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    March 22, 2024 5:44pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The ongoing problem for society of course, is that these kids will grow up to be just like their retadred parents. And will go on to be violent crims themselves.
    You can just see the contents of their ‘Cultural Reports’ now when they also end up before some woke lefty dudge in the next 10 or 15 yeras.
    
    The cycle needs to be broken… but those with the power to do so refuze to listen.
    
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    March 22, 2024 6:50pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  We all know it is SOCKs.
  
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  March 22, 2024 5:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fact checker,
fact checker,
fact checker.
Never mind.

You wanted “Build Back Better”? . . .
Well…Here it is!!!
Walmart is closing 23 stores in 8 states (all blue).
Target is closing 9 stores in 4 states (all blue).
Walgreens is closing 900 stores (mostly blue)
Bed bath and beyond is closing its remaining 360 stores.
Lowes has closed 50 stores.
Macy’s is closing 150 stores (mainly blue)
Starbucks has closed 61 stores (mainly blue)
Home Depot is closing 15 stores
Dollar Tree is closing 1,000 stores
Foot Locker is closing 400 stores
Gap is closing 350 stores
Party City is closing 24 stores (mainly blue)
Big Lots is closing stores in Cali and Colorado
Burger King is closing 400 stores
Best Buy is closing 20 stores
Boston Market is closing 27 stores
Kmart only has 2 stores left
Sears closed all but 22 stores
Regal Cinemas has closed 429 movie theaters
Kroger grocery chain has closed 413 stores
US Bank is closing 23 branches
Wells Fargo is closing over 60 branches
Capital One is closing 50 branches
Bank of America is closing 20 branches
All because the economy is so wonderful.

Best you eat your did dins and have a lie down.
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March 22, 2024 6:08pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  According to CBER website there’s more than 34 shops to lease in Newmarket!
  
  🙁
  
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  March 22, 2024 7:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

New Real Estate seller on the block.
Mar A Lago is for sale, and guess who changed their job?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFZxearaAtQ

Oh, the Devil was down in Georga.
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March 22, 2024 6:19pm
leoj

I hope this is not a repeat of what I saw online recently….. If so, the mod can delete if it was on KB.

Apparently, Hollywood airhead Alyssa Milano was once a huge fan of Elon Musk due to the green (it’s not) Tesla car and she owned one because of Musk’s company.

When Musk bought Twitter and exposed the company for what it was – a leftist haven of corrupt staff that were anti conservatism, she suddenly believed that Musk was a fascist and sold her Tesla.

She bought a Volkswagen instead.

You can’t make this stuff up.
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