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Chuck Bird

This is premium but the headline tells enough. For those who watched “Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) English”. Let us hope that Act and NZF challenge National on this nonsense.

Climate costs will hit average household by $783 a year, Treasury officials think tax or benefit changes might help

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/climate-costs-will-hit-average-household-by-783-a-year-treasury-officials-think-tax-or-benefit-changes-might-help/S6LJYJKFEFEADH6M2HMCWKBRSI/
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March 23, 2024 8:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  I can’t read the article. However I can guess at the content.
  
  Unless the Government repeals the Zero Carbon Act and withdraws from the Paris Accord nothing will change. Just like it does not matter at all who heads the Climate Change Commission. The Commission needs to implement the Act.
  
  I don’t think that Chris Luxon wants to address climate change polices in this term of government. He won’t be able to avoid it in a second term.
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:21am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Just watched the movie ‘Climate: the Movie – The Cold Facts”.
    Brilliant. It confirms what I, and many others have believed – in my case for 30 years since the Al Gore road show, which I thought was a load of bullshit. I will be getting all my family to watch it, including my 7 grandchildren – the youngest is 18 – to counter what they were indoctrinated with going through school.
    
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    March 23, 2024 4:06pm
- Souvlaki
  
  The film reinforced my belief ” The Emporer has no clothes” wrt climate fraud!
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:27am
  - ISeeRed
    
    That’s because of global boiling! It’s just too damn hot to wear any!
    
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    March 23, 2024 3:12pm
- CJames
  
  The cost will be a lot higher than that. Michael Kelly’s report just covered the electricity sector requirements but that was effectively mortgage repayments on $250k loan per family.
  And there will be uncosted lifestyle changes. No more overseas holidays. What is the value of that?
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:29am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    There will be no demand for overseas holidays; the citizens of aotearoa will be more than happy with te Tiriti led holiday havens
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:33pm
- Grunter
  
  Mike Kelly’s paper had it higher than that, probably about $1,000 pa. But that is just the financial cost of NZ going Net Zero. Most countries can not afford this tax (most Kiwis can’t either).
  
  So I propose the following in order to get the entire world to go Net Zero //
  1. Rich countries, including NZ pay a tax payer funded $5,000 per household annual tax to fund the poor countries.
  2. NZ also urgently needs about 150,000 skilled and semi skilled engineers and tradesmen to build our Net Zero energy and retrofit homes etc. We need to conscript citizens into these jobs urgently to meet our 2050 target. And we can’t bring immigrants in for this as other countries need those workers to construct their own Net Zero society.
  3. We need to make EV’s compulsory. NZ will need about 20% of the worlds cobalt to do that. So we need a free trade agreement with all West African countries where the cobalt comes from. (I’m uncertain what other countries are going to do once we’ve sowen up 20% of all cobalt?? We probably need an army???)
  
  That’s just a start. And because this will be very unpopular, no more elections until we hit Net Zero. We probably need a World Govt to force all other countries into this Net Zero plan as well.
  
  We have no choice in this – the Planet is Boiling! And we are all going to die…….
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:31am
  - jkt
    
    Fact. Average daily temperature is going up.
    Fact. The average warmest daily temperature is a flat line.
    Fact. The average coldest daily temperature is going up.
    The climate as measured by temperature is getting milder.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:34am
    - Notsofast
      
      Inconvenient.
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:53am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Everyone…please send out the fabulous film from yesterday
      
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      March 23, 2024 1:08pm
  - Grunter
    
    “How Dare You” Downtick my weak attempt at Sat morning humour! 😢
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:45am
    - jkt
      
      So you are saying that I just misunderstood …… Antonio Gutteres.
      
      Now I get it! Took me a while. Next shock will come when I get to understand what Mann is really saying. Probably, something like “suckers”.
      
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      March 23, 2024 11:54am
  - artemisia
    
    Some fantastic ideas right there. But we should add – frontload all those costs up the wazoo so we can be one of the countries the rich ones send money too, a lot of money. OPM, what’s not to like?
    
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    March 23, 2024 11:48am
  - backster
    
    Many Cosmologists believe although there will be extremes of temperature our future is cold, and the next solar cycle may herald a solar minimum and little ice age. In any case Earth is but a small element in planetary change, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=marXhyDw3i8&list=RDCMUCTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ&index=3
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:32pm
    - jkt
      
      Therefore, we should thank our lucky stars that we have helped the process along by adding a bit of human made warmth to the planet.
      
      This generation should thank those who became before us.
      
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      March 24, 2024 10:16am
  - Grumpy Silver Top
    
    Net Zero is pie in the sky bullshit.
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:52pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      It’s actually very dangerous bullshit. Once thriving western countries are starting to decay under this giant idiotic fraud. By the time the full blown crisis of wellbeing hits because of all this, there may not be enough money left in the kitty to recover. It seriously makes me consider packing up and going to spend the rest of my life in a fossil fuel rich BRICS country that doesn’t give a rats about the UN, the western loony left or the climate scam.
      
      And’s that’s not even mentioning the colossal death and suffering this delusional climate crap will cause in the developing world.
      
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      March 24, 2024 6:15pm
- PeeJay
  
  I saw a meme the other day which I thought perfectly summed up the absurdity of tax being the answer to the so called climate crisis.
  
  Went something like this. The same governments that have failed to eliminate poverty, homelessness, crime etc, now argue that if you give them some more tax, they can fix the climate.
  
  As the Tui advert would say, yeah right.
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:57am
  - kowtow
    
    They can’t /won’t control their borders .
    
    What chance the weather !
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:23am
  - jkt
    
    If we redistribute the carbon tax we can make a dent in the poverty problem.
    
    We can also use this tax to build better infrastructure and grow the economy.
    
    Or we can use the money to uplift people living in other parts of the world.
    
    Or we can waste the opportunity.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:38am
    - Taieri
      
      If we redistribute the carbon tax we can make a dent in the poverty problem.
      
      We can also use this tax to build better infrastructure and grow the economy.
      
      Or we can use the money to uplift people living in other parts of the world.
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      And the climate? What about the climate?
      Isn’t that why this tax is levied in the first place?
      
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      March 23, 2024 7:47pm
      - jkt
        
        The climate has looked after itself ….. forever.
        Humans need protection from the weather.
        
        One can actually buy climate. Look at the globe and pick a spot.
        
        Watch the YouTube movie, “Climate: The movie (The cold truth)”, then read the report by Michael Kelly “Net Zero for NZ” and if that does not convince you, nothing will.
        
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        March 23, 2024 11:03pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  “Double digit increases in the price of electricity, petrol and food”.
  
  Solar panels keep getting cheaper so there must be a limit to how much the price of electricity can go up.
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:07am
  - CJames
    
    So you are only going to use electricity when the sun is out? Good luck with that.
    Your comments (I can’t see a sarc tag so I assume they are genuine) show the shallow teeshirt slogan thinking made by people who have no understanding of what they are talking about but feel (emphasis on feelings) they need to comment. That includes almost all politicians and many “worthies”.
    
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    March 23, 2024 9:26am
    - info@cruzpro.com
      
      No, our household will use electricity off the grid when required but help keep the grid from being overloaded.
      
      During the day when the sun is shining our solar array puts a fair amount of electricity back into the grid. That’s energy you can use.
      
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      March 23, 2024 9:34am
      - CJames
        
        Your virtue signalling comments shows you have no understanding of the system. The grid gets overloaded before dawn and just after dusk, especially in winter. Now how much energy does your solar array put into the grid then?
        
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        March 23, 2024 11:06am
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        I’m an electrical engineer and know a lot about the electric grid.
        
        The solar array does not create much energy before 6:30 AM or after 6:30 PM but while the sun is shining we are not drawing down the lake levels so there will be more available energy for you when you need it.
        
        Our solar array paid for itself in 5-1/2 years and we will now profit financially for the next 15 years or so.
        
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        March 23, 2024 12:36pm
      - CJames
        
        If you want to play credentialism, I’m a power station engineer but that isn’t relevant here.
        Over the peak periods, the hydros on the three main river systems are basically going flat out. They have to have their small headlakes filled up by staged flows (the hydros upstream). The difference between what they and geothermal generate, and what the load is has to be made up by thermal stations.
        The short-term water storage fallacy is just for those who don’t understand the grid. If there is a lot of generation from the unreliables and the thermals are on min load, water has to be spilled.
        
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        March 23, 2024 1:26pm
      - CJames
        
        Right now, the unreliables are generating less than half what coal is. And the coal can be ramped up when needed.
        
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        March 23, 2024 1:29pm
      - grumpy
        
        You are talking about “the grid being overloaded”, that happens (as CJames says) in early evening and early morning. Now you are talking about saving lake levels during the day?
        A good use of Solar is the proposed solar farm beside the Bankside substation. That GEP has a max demand in summer for irrigation. The solar farm can this be used for load shedding, especially important in times of co-incident demand – but you know all that…….
        
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        March 23, 2024 2:35pm
    - PurplePen
      
      Best and cheapest way to implement solar panels is without batteries and direct connect to bottom element of your hot water cylinder. That way you use your cylinder as a battery. Top element halfway up is connected to grid. You need a cylinder that has the second element halfway up rather than near the top so can only do if you’re a new build or replacing your cylinder. If you do it this way, payback is less than 24 months.
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:59am
      - grumpy
        
        Or some other storage system such as night store heater or in slab electric heating..,..
        
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        March 23, 2024 2:36pm
  - jkt
    
    CJames:
    
    It sounds so simple. Until one looks at the facts.
    
    Rooftop solar will make no difference to anthropogenic global warming. Without subsidies rooftop solar makes little economic sense for most residential properties.
    
    Great to build resilience. But the funds can probably be utilised better.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:42am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘Rooftop solar will make no difference to anthropogenic global warming.’
      
      Correct. Because there is no anthropogenic global warming. None.
      
      Stop worrying and enjoy the holocene.
      
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      March 23, 2024 11:20am
      - jkt
        
        Not true.
        
        Fact.
        Uptake of solar panels brings the climate effects of anthropogenic climate change forward.
        
        Selecting the right solution for you could bring economic rewards for you …… and give you a feeling of virtuousness if one has such a need.
        
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        March 23, 2024 12:02pm
- PurplePen
  
  Same as souvlaki says. I watched the film last night. Reinforced “the emperor had no clothes”.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:54am
- Michael Sommerville
  
  Has anyone else noticed that there haven’t been any Tropical Cyclones this year. Not even up in the South Pacific tropical area.
  
  Another inconvenient truth.
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:08pm
- Warren
  
  Jesus Chuck you change Political Parties like you change or underpantsand have been on record here saying you won’t vote for Act or David Seymour so who really care if you continue with your Chris Luxon hate mail or think that cruelty to Animals is wrong over what he did to Maureen Pugh .
  
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  March 23, 2024 4:26pm
Anthony Melchett

Waste Management joining the lunatics.

We don’t want every business to have a maori name.

We don’t want businesses that mutter nonsensical jargon about carbon neutral and saving the planet. This is a huge reason for the productivity gap between here an oz.

I want a rubbish collection company that takes my rubbish away, not one that speaks to me in a language 99% of the country doesn’t speak. I may as well move to Uruguay.

Kia ora,

We’re excited to introduce WM New Zealand.

Introducing WM New Zealand

It’s our new name and you’ll be seeing it increasingly on our trucks, our bins, advertising and online. There is nothing you need to do, all services remain the same, but we wanted to share this exciting news with you.

WM New Zealand, Let’s take care of it, Mā tātou katoa e tiaki reflects that we work with our stakeholders to responsibly take care of our whenua (land) and our tangata (people). And we do it in partnership with all New Zealanders.

Dropping the “waste” in our name shows our commitment to creating a carbon-neutral circular economy and adding “New Zealand” connects us to our 130-year strong Kiwi heritage.

If you have any questions about how WM New Zealand can help you make the best choices for your waste, please send us a message.

Ngā mihi

Please make it stop.

Businesses like this either have way too much money that they can waste it on virtue signaling, or they think their customers are stupid.

How much is the rebrand costing? How will that improve the service? How much extra is it going to cost me?

I don’t have to deal with this company and I wont – simply replied and cancelled.

Will be interesting to see what their numbers look like in a few months.
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March 23, 2024 8:08am
- kevn
  
  Ants.. Isn’t it majority asian owned now?
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:46am
- sirknz
  
  There will be a reason why and I suspect that it is related to central and/or local government procurement processes.
  
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  March 23, 2024 12:58pm
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Changing a company name benefits the graphics and ad agencies, maybe the lawyers and no one else. It’s cosmetic change for cosmetic change’s sake. Many companies ‘rebrand’ products, ie create new artwork for packaging etc simply to make work for their marketing departments, no change in the product, just a new look. I’ve seen it happen countless times, new marketing manager = new artwork. Money down the drain.
  
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  March 23, 2024 1:59pm
  - crackle
    
    They prob have come the conclusion it will get them more favourable treatment in tender processes. Big private companies dont spend that kind of money without expectation of a return.
    
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    March 23, 2024 5:32pm
Grunter

A few days ago I posted some Stats NZ numbers on annual number of deaths in NZ. In summary, during 2022-23 (2 years) deaths were approx 8,000 higher than the 5 yr average 2016-2020.

Of those deaths, 2,330 were COVID deaths where COVID was deemed the primary cause of death. (Actually that’s our total COVID deaths up to the end of Mar 24, so slightly over counted).

So there are another 5,700 excess deaths caused by other things (cancer, heart attacks, etc).

As a comparison, during 5 yrs of WW2 NZ had 12,000 deaths in battle. So a similar annual death rate to our 2022-23 period.

In Q4 of 2023 our excess death rate was +16%. That’s +1,900 additional deaths in 3 months. The month of Dec it was +17%. So it seems that this problem is accelerating.

All numbers sourced from Stats NZ
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March 23, 2024 8:14am
- imalwaysright
  
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  Hard to understand why you currently have two downticks and zero rebuttals , at least the downtickers aren’t dead!
  
  Perhaps the famous A Bloomfield or Baker or or Wiles would like to comment on this. A couple of years ago we couldn’t shut them up!
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:47am
  - Grunter
    
    They can’t refute the data (but I guess “They” can change the data….)
    
    My best hunch to the excess deaths is that Global Boiling thing “They” keep warning about. 🤣🤣
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:50am
- Simon
  
  Yep they will not be able to hide the increased death count over the next few years with fake explanations like older populations.
  
  They might arrest people instead who point out the death count from the vaxx as a threat to democracy.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:01am
- Conservatarian
  
  I guess there must be a mysterious plane crash once a fortnight that kills all 250 on board. Oh well, best not look into it. Nothing to see here.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:20am
- rjay
  
  Before everyone jumps to the conclusion that the vaxx is the sole reason for excess deaths there are other potential contributions. Chief among them will be deaths arising from untreated conditions during the lockdown, deaths arising from untreated conditions due to a backlog created in the lock down, deaths arising from untreated conditions due to a poorly performing health Sector (including lack of specialist clinicians), deaths arising from declining mental health. There will be other contributors.
  
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  March 23, 2024 1:31pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Yeah there will be. Easiest way to find out is to show deaths by cax starus. The fact they won’t do so speaks volumes.
    
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    March 23, 2024 3:12pm
  - I remember when
    
    rjay:
    You mean the sort of things it was nearly being suggested the vaxx was almost/sort of preventing happening.
    
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    March 23, 2024 3:12pm
Benedict Yu

Looks like there is going to be another school children “climate strike” just after Easter.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/school-strike-for-climate-protesters-plan-biggest-strike-yet-over-government-s-climate-butchering-policies.html

They are branching out this time. They also want to “free Palestine” and to expel the Israeli ambassador.🤔

They are also mighty upset at the “abolishment” of the Maori Health Authority. I assume they mean “abolition”. 🤡 They better get back to English grammar classes once the climate striking is done with.
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March 23, 2024 8:14am
- Swifty
  
  Abolishment is fine, but abolition is more common.
  
  We went over this on KB a month or two back.
  
  🙂
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:43am
  - David Garrett
    
    Swifty: “Abolishment” might be “fine” according to some American online dictionary, but not according to my Concise Oxford!
    
    What other howlers are “fine” for you: “predate” instead of “prey” perhaps? How about “adaption” instead of “adaptation”?
    
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    March 23, 2024 9:58am
    - greybeard
      
      My pet hate is the mispronunciation of “contribute” and “distribute”, especially by radio and TV presenters who should know better.
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:09am
      - kowtow
        
        Bought instead of brought is very common.I see it even in print .
        
        Even worser (!) is people who now say brought instead of bought .
        
        If you listen carefully a lot of broadcasters can’t even pronounce that properly .
        
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        March 23, 2024 10:29am
    - Keith White
      
      You say abolish, they say abolishment, I say burn it down, bulldoze the ashes, and sow the ground with salt. That’ll sort that out 🙂
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:09am
    - Swifty
      
      Actually, DG, seeing as you asked, I struggle to think of anything as pointless as policing commentators use of words and getting all pissy when their use offends your sensibilities.
      
      But, hey, you do you.
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:39am
      - Taieri
        
        I struggle to think of anything as pointless as policing commentators use of words
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        Pointless?
        I questioning manglish also pointless?
        
        [Mod – debate the topics]
        
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        March 23, 2024 7:52pm
    - Dave
      
      A accepted pair is nutrition and nourishment, though they have slightly different meanings.
      
      Perhaps it’s just a matter of what you’re used to: accomplishment, banishment, punishment, establishment…
      
      Yet I do not look forward to * ‘the vanishment of MH370’ or * ‘the ravishment of the Sabine women’.
      
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      March 23, 2024 11:04am
      - Dave
        
        Muphry’s law strikes again – An accepted…
        
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        March 23, 2024 11:23am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Abolishment is new to me ☹️
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:37am
    - pdm
      
      Me too BY.
      
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      March 23, 2024 12:20pm
  - Grunter
    
    Swifty – are you saying “we’ve bin here before”?
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:52am
    - Swifty
      
      We have my dear Grunter.
      
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      March 23, 2024 11:20am
- imalwaysright
  
  Its amazing how politically aware are these youngsters.
  They can’t read, can’t write, and can’t count, but that doesn’t stop them having a common view on international affairs and the mechanics of planetary weather systems !
  
  Or has the ministry of education and the teachers union offered them a day off school?
  
  How about the police turn up to every school involved and arrest the principal for dereliction of the responsibility to keep children on school property.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:03am
- rouppe
  
  So bugger all to do with climate then
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Climate change is old hat… the kids have moved on.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:31am
  - kowtow
    
    I’m watching that youtube film Climate the movie .
    Excellent . the so called environmentalists have always been anti prosperity lefty loops . Now the disease has spread en mass to white priveliged middle class school pupils .
    
    But why single them out . ESG / DEI is now mainstream in the once private , capitalist sector , all seeking “free” tax payer transfers via their public sectors .
    
    Thus one answer to why Trump is so universally hated by the Luvvies , he’d end the gravy train.
    So hopefully will other “populist” movements which are slowly gaining traction.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:34am
- nathie
  
  Organised by the Green Party.
  
  Supported by the Unions.
  
  Both are “exploiting” children (which ironically they would be against if it were other organisations doing so).
  
  Wayne Kerrs!!
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:32am
- Grunter
  
  Lock them in a hall and make them watch the Climate Movie The Cold Truth repeatedly.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:54am
- PurplePen
  
  Just wrote to them, uncontroversially, and just presented some extracts and facts from IPCC reports, and also links to William Colenso’s diary from the ToW signing, Sir Apirana Ngata’s explanation of the ToW and a few other matters as reading their website they have been grossly misinformed and almost brainwashed – presumably by their teachers! which is borderline criminal. Is that a case for the feckless spineless Human Rights Commission perhaps?
  
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  March 23, 2024 12:28pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump finalizes deal with the Republican National Committee that will help pay his legal fees.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-finalizes-deal-with-the-republican-national-committee-that-will-help-pay-his-legal-fees-after-daughter-in-law-lara-took-top-role/ar-BB1kmNFw
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March 23, 2024 8:18am
- Conservatarian
  
  This story must be from a Central America banana republic (probably somewhere in between Honduras and Nicaragua) where the ruling regime, on extremely flimsy grounds and using a variety of surrogates within the legal system, is attempting to bar the leader of the opposition from running for office, confiscate his business and wealth, and send a message to all potential opponents (and their voters) that they will suffer the same fate if they challenge the regime. I’m sure that the western corporate press, once they get wind of this, will support the opposition leader and accuse the regime of destroying democracy.
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:47am
  - Don Beckett
    
    But its al okay. Our good host DPF will be on board with it because he prefers a zombie like Biden.
    
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    March 23, 2024 12:27pm
    - Jake Dee
      
      Probably worth pointing out that according to the mythology, a Zombie is effectively immortal, highly infectious and cannot be killed with normal weapons.
      So, when confronted with a Zombie president and a Zombie regime, the best plan to effect a change in government is to stay well clear whilst deploying Liquid Fire, and lots of it.
      
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      March 23, 2024 5:06pm
- jkt
  
  Trump will work for the betterment of society.
  Trump has a single focus – MAGA – it is his life mission and nothing will deter him!
  Yeah, right.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:52am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    When he does win there are going to be some sorry arses in DC.
    Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Fani Willis, Judge Engoron, and many more who crossed his path.
    
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    March 23, 2024 11:28am
    - jkt
      
      All of them will retain a friendships with him afterwards……..
      
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      March 23, 2024 12:04pm
      - jkt
        
        OK. So:
        Trump learned his lesson from the first time he was president. This time will be different.
        
        This time Trump will nurture his friendships with those he appoint to his administration.
        
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        March 24, 2024 10:22am
    - Inandout
      
      SO, and that Admiral who thinks he is a girl.
      
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      March 23, 2024 12:07pm
Gravelroad

Am seeing a lot of people complaining bitterly about the coalition government’s signalled pre-election policy to achieve some tax cuts.
So these same people will be all in favour of new taxes or increased taxes “for the greater good” etc?
Or will it really be only if tax increases don’t affect them personally?
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March 23, 2024 8:29am
- Conservatarian
  
  PSA union flack and former Wellington City Councillor Fleur Fitzsimons (from the majority council leftist bloc) was bitterly complaining on HDPA’s radio show about how tax cuts apparently threaten the very existence of various, specialist “highly skilled” public servants. She practically said that it is an outrage that we can keep on these public servants at $100k pa otherwise they might need to go and find a job.
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump to get $3.5B from Truth Social?

https://shorturl.at/BCP27
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March 23, 2024 8:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  In this link there is something I missed.
  Suzanne Craig interviewed by Chris Hayes. Never heard of either.
  Anyway Suzanne Craig explains the options for Trump – what could happen. She seems to know about the finance stuff.
  There is a lot that the Trump hating media are not covering.
  This is from Youtube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f7zuQvZeUwk
  
  The original 8 min is in the first link: https://shorturl.at/BCP27
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

MTG launches bid to bar Fani Willis as a Lawyer.

Two can play nasty!!

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/marjorie-taylor-greene-launches-bid-to-disbar-fani-willis-as-a-lawyer/ss-BB1kmag7?
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March 23, 2024 8:38am
- cmm
  
  Let’s face it if she wasn’t black she’d have been disbarred a long time ago.
  
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  March 23, 2024 8:59am
kiwikidsnz

We need to talk about the Supreme Court & judiciary

issues
https://garyjuddkc.substack.com/p/on-judicial-imperialism
https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/opinion/how-to-rein-in-an-activist-supreme-court/

egs (there are many more over recent years)
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/logging-company-director-has-obstructing-police-conviction-overturned-by-high-court-due-to-impact-on-his-mana.html

https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/350034091/employment-court-holds-employer-tikanga-values-first-case-its-kind

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/evidence-act-should-have-exceptions-for-m-tauranga-m-ori-and-tikanga-says-law-commission.html
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March 23, 2024 9:00am
- PurplePen
  
  Thanks. Lette to Paul Goldsmith me thinks and ACT leader as well.
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:21pm
cas

I’ve decided that dealing with Spark is worse than having Covid. With problems on my xtra mail, I managed to speak to someone yesterday who couldn’t help but was going to escalate the problem to the Xtra mail team. Nothing after that. This morning I can’t even log in with new passwords and the call back option is not available. As a shareholder I am p….d.
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March 23, 2024 9:06am
- pdm
  
  We must be among the fortunate few as regards Spark.
  
  I have had a number of messages through my GMail address indicating Spark will not accept their emails – ACT being one. Yet we have had no problems sending or receiving emails from (as far as I am aware) almost all of our usual email contacts to my preferred Xtramail address..
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What they want is other email addresses that are used on Spark to be registered with the primary email account, meaning using xtra with Gmail, hotmail etc.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:03am
- imalwaysright
  
  Buy more shares and appoint a manager who will sack them.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:06am
- peterwn
  
  I predict Spark will close down its Xtra email service in a few years just as Vodafone (as it then was) closed down Paradise, Clear, etc emails a few years ago. Introducing a monthly charge for Xtra for Spark customers was just the beginning. This will drive users away from Xtra to gmail, hotmail etc and when the Xtra customer base is diminished, Spark will kill the service off. So as well as imposing this charge, Spark will lose its customer focus with Xtra as running it is just a pain in the bum from their point of view.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:09am
Swifty

Hahahahahaha!

Martyn Bradbury, he who writes the most extreme, shrill, insane columns and regularly hysterically labelling MPs to the right of him of being Genghis Khan, Hitler and Attila the Hun all rolled into one – expresses dismay at Peters’ use of the word ‘racist’ and using it for ‘effect’:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spUsXMdRXK4

Further confirmation that self-awareness is absent in Bradbury.

Sums up the Left doesn’t it? Accusing others of that which you are even more guilty.
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March 23, 2024 9:21am
- Keith White
  
  Be kind to Bradbury. He once had a sixpack of nouse but long ago lost the plastic thingy that keeps it all together.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:10am
- pdm
  
  I had never heard of the foul mouthed idiot with him and hopefully never will again.
  
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  March 23, 2024 12:30pm
Notsofast

Julie Bindel gets a scorched earth article into the Telegraph on the gender cult scandal that is also destroying New Zealand communities.

Thank you Grant Robertson, Chris Hipkins, Jacinda Ardern, Ayesha Verral, and most of our Parliament.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/21/jk-rowling-has-exposed-scotlands-descent-into-dystopia/
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March 23, 2024 9:22am
Jack5

Our PM’s electorate office has been attacked by Leftist-Woke thugs who want NZ to take in Palestinian refugees.

It’s one thing to let in a hundred or more relatives of the mosques massacres about six years ago (and likely many more since).

It’s another thing to open NZ’s border to the Arabs of Gaza.

The UN controls our intake of refugees, ensuring most are Muslim. So doubtless the UN Third Worlders will ensure we’ll have some Gaza folk imposed on us that way.

The UN reckons the world has about 100 million refugees. It’s appalling that NZ pretty much delegates to the UN choice of refugees we take in.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512474/prime-minister-s-auckland-office-vandalised-for-third-time-in-six-months
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March 23, 2024 9:32am
- Swifty
  
  I read the other day that in NZ for every refugee we resettle nine others follow in the ensuing years, on average.
  
  Parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, cuzzies etc etc.
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:47am
- MCōs
  
  Not quite right
  New Zealand has a quota of 1500 refugees per annum
  To be resettled in NZ you need to be accepted as a refugee by UNHCR and Immigration New Zealand, before entering New Zealand
  https://www.cab.org.nz/article/KB00040965#
  
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  March 23, 2024 9:58am
  - Simon
    
    After coming here as refugees they will bring in additional family members not part of the quota. The also seemed to have the habit of returning to the country they fled from with NZ passports.
    
    Stop consuming offical sources on any topic. The brain washing has to stop at some point.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:07am
    - MCōs
      
      There is an annual quota of 600 family members and various conditions need to be met when applying
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:36am
      - Jack5
        
        From your link, Cossie, asylum seekers are additional to the quota.
        
        Nor, I think, were mosque massacre victims’ relatives part of the quota.
        
        A number of 1,000 used to be referred to as the quota. When the wave of Middle Eastern refugees to Europe began, an NZ radio reporter went to Europe and from there whipped up emotions for lowering NZ’s borders.
        
        On her return, at a function in Auckland, she buttonholed the then Prime Minister John Key. On the spot and off the cuff, Ardern style, Key declared the NZ quota would be doubled.
        
        There are more 100 million refugees in the world, according to the UN. On top of that a billion or two poor people from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, are either keen, or desperate, to migrate to the West. They want the richer life.
        
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        March 23, 2024 11:16am
  - Keith White
    
    Immigration NZ is staffed by fakugee reunited family members. I found that out last year when I went there to support someone who was entirely the ‘wrong color’ and ‘wrong religion’ to get through the INZ filter. A highly qualified doctor NZ could have used, but lacking enough melanin and other “points”.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:13am
- kowtow
  
  They’re a great ad for themselves , these thugs who push their wants by criminality.
  
  Why would anyone give in to their demands .
  
  Always remember how Twyford was told toleave the stage at the pro Hamas rally in Auckland (followed by the screaching extremist Swarbirck , who failed to protect his democratic rights)
  
  These are people we want here ?
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:25am
- Jake Dee
  
  “It’s appalling that NZ pretty much delegates to the UN choice of refugees we take in”
  
  You can only “delegate” to those who are subordinate to you. We are being commanded and dictated to, we are subordinate to them.
  That is the appalling thing.
  
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  March 23, 2024 5:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump Promises to Release January 6 Political Hostages on Day One.

“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”

https://rightsideoffers.com/redbloodedconservative/trump-promises-to-release-january-6-political-hostages-on-day-one/?
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March 23, 2024 9:49am
- MCōs
  
  Did he say wrongly imprisoned?
  So that wouldn’t include anyone rightfully imprisoned and I’d imagine there’s quite a few of those
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:03am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Wrongfully, not wrongly.
    It’s a different word.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:09am
    - MCōs
      
      OK
      Did he say wrongfully imprisoned?
      That is, not in accordance with the law
      
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      March 23, 2024 10:30am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Well done.
        
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        March 23, 2024 10:34am
  - Keith White
    
    “Imagining in a fact-free zone…
    It’s easy if you try…”
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:13am
Chuck Bird

Luxon, not only criticises Peters for his Nazi comment but MPs from all parties. I have not heard Peters refer to a section of the community a bottom feeders. His public treatment of Maureen Pugh was appalling.

I will never vote National with him as leader.
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March 23, 2024 10:16am
- Martonman
  
  I believe it was a leader of the Nats about four years ago. The one before Collins you are referring to. Now First Assistant Speaker.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:27am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    You are speaking in riddles.
    
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    March 23, 2024 10:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How long will it take for Luxon to realise he will lose votes for being a woke leader?
  In 2026 the coalition could go down the drain because of his patronising of lefties.
  Give it up man. You are not going to convert Greens, Labour, or Maori to vote for National.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:39am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Well, people looking at voters movements at the last election found that indeed many many life time Labour voters indeed to vote Nats, it’s a very important point
    
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    March 23, 2024 12:03pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Sure National got some Labour voters who realised the lies, but Luxon may not keep them and certainly no more will come.
      
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      March 23, 2024 2:44pm
      - Sparrow
        
        Very true. I can vouch for that.
        
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        March 23, 2024 4:01pm
      - jkt
        
        They never learn!
        
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        March 24, 2024 10:23am
Simon

GAE directly attacked Russia?? They want that war so bad.

Even BBC reporting possible link between GAE and the attacks

Why is NZ part of gunmen killing civilians. Shame.
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March 23, 2024 10:20am
- Jack5
  
  Simon, there you go again with the term “GAE,” which I’m guessing stands for Global American Empire, i.e the US, though in the second link below, someone suggests it’s Internet gaming slang with some other meaning.
  
  If, by “GAE” you do mean US, what’s the source of your reference of the BBC reporting a possible link to the Moscow terrorism?
  
  The BBC is reporting that the Muslim extremists, ISIS, have claimed responsibility:
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-68642036?src_origin=BBCS_BBC
  
  Origin of “GAE”?
  
  https://digitalgadgetwave.com/what-does-gae-mean-unveiling-the-meaning-behind/
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:03am
- Grunter
  
  It’s OK, John Kirby (US National Security), has already investigated this and has just announce “that it is NOT Ukraine”. Whew…!
  
  We are soooo lucky the US can investigate a terrorist attack in Moscow and within hours conclude who didn’t do it.
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:04am
  - herb1
    
    I guess he’s able to read the newspapers claiming ISIS have claimed responsibility
    
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    March 23, 2024 11:21am
    - Che Guava
      
      How does the US know what happened within 24 hours here when, allegedly, they still don’t know (or, cannot coherently explain) what happened in the Las Vegas shooting 7 years ago?
      
      Whenever “ISIS” is claimed to be involved, you know it’s fake because ISIS is fake. ISIS is basically the US and Israeli intelligence agencies, pulled out of the drawer whenever they “need” a “terrorist attack.”
      
      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/isis-moscow-attack-concert-hall.html
      
      “A branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility on Friday for the attack in Moscow that killed at least 40 people and injured about 100 others, and U.S. officials confirmed the claim shortly afterward.
      
      The United States collected intelligence in March that Islamic State-Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, the branch of the group based in Afghanistan, had been planning an attack on Moscow, according to officials. ISIS members have been active in Russia, one U.S. official said.”
      
      “After a period of relative quiet, the Islamic State has been trying to increase its external attacks, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials.”
      
      “The attack on Friday in Moscow, like a January assault in Iran claimed by the group, could prompt a reassessment of its ability to strike outside its home territory.”
      
      Funny how, after a long “period of relative quiet” “ISIS” pops up in both Iran and now Russia, two of the biggest enemies of the Judeo-Americans. If only these “counterterrorism” experts could have had as close an eye on Hamas in the months before Oct 2023 as they apparently did on “ISIS” in the last few months.
      
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      March 23, 2024 1:03pm
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Judeo-Americans???????
        
        By Christ you jew hatred is strong Che…. When are you going to start quoting The Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the KB readership?
        
        You bigotry is bordering on personality disorder
        
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        March 23, 2024 2:53pm
      - RdM
        
        “How does the US know what happened within 24 hours here when, allegedly, they still don’t know (or, cannot coherently explain) what happened in the Las Vegas shooting 7 years ago?”
        
        What do you think about this commentary, analysis?
        
        (And others. Art as money laundering for instance.)
        
        http://mileswmathis.com/lasveg.pdf
        
        And re Dresden bombing:
        http://mileswmathis.com/dresden.pdf
        
        Regards
        
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        March 23, 2024 10:40pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        OK, first rough impression of these two pieces (by Miles W Mathis?), the guy is a loon.
        Possibly “Cluster A” Schizotypal. The windows through which most ‘normal” people perceive reality are cracked and warped, but there are signs and clues in numbers, dates, times and names which have a deeper true meaning that only he can see.
        I’m not saying he’s a bad man, if I have his website right then he appears to be an artist and art critic, possibly a very fine one, so I’m curious to hear what he has to say about art as money laundering.
        But I will not rely on him to investigate a mass shooting or a huge military campaign.
        
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        March 23, 2024 11:56pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Re RdM’s post above.
        
        PDF files can contain malware.
        
        https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/resources/can-pdfs-contain-viruses.html
        
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        March 24, 2024 6:25pm
    - kowtow
      
      Can’t have been.
      
      Afterall we’re told by te legacy media pardy that the current religious period for these people is a time of peace ,fasting, prayer , cooperation , self denial and reflection.
      
      Innit.
      
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      March 23, 2024 2:30pm
imalwaysright

Friend, 72 years old, “works” for a government ministry and also claims the pension. Six figures for fuck all plus the pension.
Offered redundancy!
I thought that was what the pension was for.
Is a government department obliged to pay redundancy after 65.
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March 23, 2024 10:26am
- MCōs
  
  “Is a government department obliged to pay redundancy after 65”
  Depends what the employee signed up to, I’d have thought. I don’t expect they’re being given free a golden handshake out of the goodness of the head of department’s heart
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Not looking good for suspended Green MP

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350222068/more-claims-emerge-against-suspended-green-mp-darleen-tana
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March 23, 2024 10:38am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Appointed as Green spokesman for ‘small business’ LOL!!
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:56am
  - mandk
    
    A bit like Ardern claiming she gained insights into small business because she worked in a fish and chip shop when she was a kid.
    
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    March 23, 2024 11:15am
    - kowtow
      
      Or locked us up and destroyed the economy , education and health systems on the advice of an overseas pal who said this ain’t good .( and we still don’t know who that was) .
      No media questions asked.
      
      Jessica , then Tova.
      
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      March 23, 2024 11:28am
    - JackRabbit
      
      A bit like Ardern claiming she gained insights into small business because she worked in a fish and chip shop when she was a kid.
      
      Based her performance over the last 6 years, her time in politics both here and overseas, and her being President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, “worked” is wrong word use.
      
      “Loitered” would be more accurate.
      
      Anyone that has actually (hard) worked in a Fish and Chip shop, either ends up owning one, or moving on to better things. It was all downhill for Ardern, and the future of New Zealand, after leaving said Fish and Chip shop.
      
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      March 23, 2024 1:54pm
  - Keith White
    
    Well, to be fair, if you give the Green Party control of big businesses, they will rapidly regulate-and-legislate them to dwarfdom…
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:08pm
  - PeterB
    
    It was once a bigger bussiness.
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:09pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  That stuff is mainly civil. I believe that paying employees cash is tax fraud. I have a friend who works for IRD. I will be speaking to her on Monday.
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:06am
- rouppe
  
  She’ll get off, like all the others.
  
  What happened to Meteria Turei after her admissions of benefit and electoral fraud? Nothing.
  
  What happened to Elizabeth Kerikeri after the accusations of bullying – not just with Chloe but in her office as well – were brought up? Nothing.
  
  What’s going to happen to Golriz? I still maintain she’ll get DWC, so nothing.
  
  Darlene Tana will be given a pass as well.
  
  Just listing these names, isn’t it amazing that these are all women of colour. Not one white male among the list of law breakers.
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:51pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Most extreme right wing Govt in 30 years.
  Hughes must be in that Aotearoa place – or Narnia.
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:59pm
Chuck Bird

This is a video of Sean Rush giving a 20 talk. The Q&A extends the time.

Sean would be an ideal Climate Change Commissioner.

Kapiti C.A.L.M. Meeting 19 March 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFwFoTdjz4&t=4130s
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March 23, 2024 10:42am
Maggie Pie

Bit of a late start this morning.
Upset tummy all nite. Think it might have been a noisy oyster 🙁

Do you know the thing I HATE more than woman’s Rugby?
Woman’s cricket. It is sooo boring!
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March 23, 2024 10:43am
- cmm
  
  I’ll beat DG to it. It’s women’s cricket.
  
  But what female sport isn’t boring? Hockey Australia considered changing the uniforms to skimpy mesh tops to improve the crowd appeal.
  
  In tennis most of the good female players seem pretty butch. Whenever Martina came on the telly my father would shout something about mixed singles.
  
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  March 23, 2024 12:05pm
  - greybeard
    
    I notice that Amelia Kerr is now being called “Melie” Kerr: is that some pet “sisters’ ” name , like “Jools” ?
    
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    March 23, 2024 12:28pm
    - MCōs
      
      Then there’s Richie, or Sir Ed, or Pinetree, or Razor, or Wags, or Paddles, or Fossie aka bloody Foster
      About the only person who calls Kerr Amelia is probably her mother
      
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      March 23, 2024 3:38pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    That’s why we all tend to model ourselves on Maria Sharapova.
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:15pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      One I liked watching was ‘Swiss Miss.’
      She had the ability to mix the game up so much that her opponent had no idea what would happen next. A very clever Martina Hingis. I don’t remember any tantrums from her.
      
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      March 23, 2024 3:07pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Not all that attractive as I recall. Very high forhead. A bit like Tova.
        
        Got stabbed by some nutter in the crowd 🙁
        
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        March 23, 2024 3:22pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        MP looking at images of her just now, she looks what most western blokes would describe as reasonably attractive (if not quite attractive).
        
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        March 24, 2024 6:36pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘But what female sport isn’t boring?’
    
    There’s a very good reason the “gentlemen” of the IOC insist the women’s beach volleyball unifroms are so very very skimpy ………
    
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    March 23, 2024 3:50pm
- H. Upmann
  
  Monica Seles was the stabbing victim, not Hingis.
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:57pm
  - MCōs
    
    Before she was stabbed at 20yo she’d already won nine grand slam tournaments, but that was pretty much it for her career
    https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/tennis/monica-seles-tennis-golden-girl-who-was-stabbed-out-of-jealousy-turns-50-101701670254363.html
    
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    March 23, 2024 5:49pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY8M_y2eQgA
Councillor Robert Lee on the Drag Queen Storytime Cancelled at Rotorua Library.
Common sense 1 Groomers 0.
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March 23, 2024 10:52am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYK1KuLWK-Q
What is a Woman? | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain.
Albo finds out what a woman is by becoming one.
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March 23, 2024 10:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I’ll send that to my brother in Coffs Harbour.
  He is a snivelling socialist!
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:35am
  - sungsamning
    
    You’re welcome. I hope he enjoys it.
    
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    March 23, 2024 7:23pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I put it on Hipkins’ FB Page.
  
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  March 23, 2024 12:35pm
  - sungsamning
    
    I bet his minder will remove that real fast.
    
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    March 23, 2024 7:23pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

TOW Comic Part 25.
How the James Freeman rogue version of the Treaty was adopted by the Waitangi Tribunal and why.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/analysis-treaty-of-waitangi-comic-for-high-school-students-has-been-quietly-brainwashing-away-since-2018-part-25/
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March 23, 2024 11:42am
Maggie Pie

One of the gals at lunch yesterday put us onto a new Netflix series she came across on ‘X’. She was saying it details events that took place in Commie Chynah and is based on Chairman Mau’s Little-Red-School-Book. Must say it looks real interesting.

Here’s a wee taste of what you can expect (with subtitles)….

https://twitter.com/XVanFleet/status/1770915373627371821

CAUTION: some violence
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March 23, 2024 11:55am
- MCōs
  
  How did your lunch go?
  What was the biggest electricity bill?
  
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  March 23, 2024 11:57am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    For the first time in 3 years I came second! By $11 🙁
    Amanda had a Nov account from Mercury for $1477.00.
    It was only after we all paid for her lunch that she revealed one of her kids had let the bath overflow and flooded the carpets. Apparently they had two big blower heaters running for nearly 6 days to dry it out underneath.
    Hardly ‘normal’ use, but anyway, I’ll be making a rule change for next year.
    
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    March 23, 2024 1:03pm
    - MCōs
      
      Kinda beats my paltry $203
      
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      March 23, 2024 2:12pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Is your pool not heated Cossie?
        
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        March 23, 2024 2:29pm
    - greybeard
      
      6 days !
      That is one big blow-job.
      
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      March 23, 2024 6:00pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, there used to be a bookshop in Auckland CBD {Progressive?) that kept copies of the Mao’s little red book under the counter. I got a copy and found it full of truisms like ‘power comes out of the barrel of a gun’. Or
  ‘When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill’.
  This is a good summary:
  ‘The purpose of the book was to distill the voluminous products of Mao’s mind and pen into a small volume that even a semi-literate peasant or new soldier could read, memorise, or set to music. The aphorisms therein were plucked out of context and strung together without much regard for chronology: if it was Mao’s thought, it must be coherent, went the editorial idea’.
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:31pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Mao killed more than 50 million, many times more than Hitler and is perhaps the individual responsible for the most deaths in history and yet is not treated as an evil pariah.
    
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    March 23, 2024 6:16pm
  - MCōs
    
    I bought one of the little red books over the counter at that well known subversive bookstore Whitcombe & Tombs along thousands of other baby boomers
    As I recall they were dirt cheap. I wonder why that should be?
    
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    March 23, 2024 7:05pm
- mogg
  
  It’s not that long ago since Helen Clark was wearing her Chairman Mao inspired uniform/smock, before she became PM she would regularly wear it in parliament. Unlike Corbyn I don’t think she ever wore the hat, I could be wrong.
  
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  March 23, 2024 2:32pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    Helen Clarke wore a Mao suit in parliament?
    I seriously doubt that ever happened. Now I could be wrong here but what you maybe remembering is a version of the Zhongshan jacket. A mandarin collar, a buttoned front and two pockets.
    The Mao suit has a high mandarin collar with four pockets and five large buttons.
    Zhongshan is also known as Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the nationalist revolutionary (blue), Mao was the communist revolutionary (red).
    Maybe you can link me to some evidence, or maybe you are hallucination communist infiltration where none exists.
    
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    March 23, 2024 6:06pm
Paul

Not being a frequent user, the other day at Pikes Point Transfer Station, staff with the Gold Earrings asked me my number plate going out, I thought, that’s a bit odd, and said “Don’t you have a number plate reader” ?
He plays around with his keyboard a bit more and hands over the POS Terminal.
Today at 1:02 pm, he says $243, I enter my pin thinking , that is a bit mauch, I ask Gold Earring “how many kilos?”, he said 700, I said, it cant be over 100kg,
The other staff comes over and “recalculates, 200kg, only $87, they work out the $156 refund, only after asking twice did I get the actual rubbish receipt, reluctant to give it to me.
The question is, if it happens once, the system has a back door, likely staff are in on a rort.
Such a big overcharge too, no explanation given.
Corruption is creeping in, folks.
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March 23, 2024 1:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Much corruption just goes un-noticed.
  Wasn’t the Auckland Zoo parking fee allocated to an account that was not a Council account? Nothing on the google machine now, it has been scrubbed.
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:29pm
Maggie Pie

Biggest LARF y0u’ll get this weekend 😀 😀 😀

Sen. Kennedy eviserates ‘Climate Change Xspurt’….

https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1770830505417576612

(I actually feel a bit sorry for the retard… he’s quite a spunk)
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March 23, 2024 2:27pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘X’ is the unknown quantity, and a ‘spurt’ is a drip under pressure.
  Yes, there are Green dropkicks in Alaska.
  Brainfreeze does not just come from icecream.
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:39pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Funnily enough I was talking to a 19 year old uni student the other day. A generally sensible lad but was convinced there IS a “climate emergency”. Like the kid in your vid he had absolutely NFI of what he was talking about.
  
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  March 24, 2024 6:43pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Have just located a jar of spicy tomato relish I made 10 years ago…and can’t believe how yummy it is.

I don’t remember being that impressed with it when I made it and recorded on the recipe at the time that it was too runny & too sweet.

Thank goodness tomatoes are cheap at the moment….
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March 23, 2024 3:05pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Must contain alcohol now I guess…..
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:41pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh hell, I’m TT.
    
    Na….any ethanol produced would have reacted with the original vinegar to form Ethyl acetate… (yum, yum)
    
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    March 23, 2024 3:56pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      “Oh hell, I’m TT”
      Y’know Maggy, for a moment there, I thought you were serious. 😆
      
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      March 23, 2024 5:10pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Now why would I want to put the excretory products of bugs into my body?
        
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        March 23, 2024 5:38pm
Maggie Pie

Just took a few bikkies & cheese with a glass of Red into my partner.
He’s watching that silly SailGP from Christchurch. Told me… “they had to stop the race for some stupid f**ing dolphin!”
No wonder Couttsie will never take the event to Lyttelton again.
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March 23, 2024 3:30pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Well at least it wasn’t an Orca biting the foils off.
  
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  March 23, 2024 3:46pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Tyson Foods woke?
The next Bud.

https://rumble.com/v4kwnbx-tyson-foods-went-woke-and-they-are-about-to-get-the-bud-light-treatment.html?
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March 23, 2024 3:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Truth Social, and it is brutal. Also sad. The Democrats want this man for the next 4 years?
Once Trump was accused of the crazy man with the ‘Nuclear Football.’ (there are two nuclear footballs.)
This man Biden has one of those Nuclear Footballs – and he has warmongers in the Pentagon.

https://rumble.com/v4knrnr-trump-just-posted-this-biden-video-on-his-truth-social…-and-its-brutal.html?
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March 23, 2024 4:01pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  If a Palmerston North parent enrols their child at Freyberg High School it could be considered to be child abuse.
  Similarly for the Democratic Party to consider keeping Biden on as president it could be considered to be elder abuse.
  
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  March 23, 2024 10:13pm
Maggie Pie

Been scrolling ‘X’ for some inspiration for tonites dinner.
Came across ‘Indian Street Food’… this is called MudEggCabbage

https://twitter.com/jamesnnotbond/status/1771077409107755152

Think I’ll probably run with Nigella’s ‘Chicken & Lemon Orzo’
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March 23, 2024 4:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  KFC. Some is not good, some is just excellent.
  
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  March 23, 2024 4:27pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Haven’t had it for years. Might revisit. Wot do you recom?
    
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    March 23, 2024 5:11pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350223628/sailgp-dolphins-force-christchurch-racing-be-cancelled
NZ is so lucky ! We are the only country in the world which has sea-life capable of stopping a sailing competition. As far as I can recall this is the first time this has happened.
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March 23, 2024 5:49pm
- Ghost
  
  No it’s not.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/sailing-whale-cant-stop-australia-being-crowned-sailgp-winners-in-drama-filled-final-day/FABXUTYW3S252IASHYNK2PFCS4/
  
  https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/nanaimo-dragonboat-race-delayed-so-killer-whales-can-pass-by-1487777
  
  Plenty of articles if you look
  
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  March 23, 2024 5:59pm
- westernScientist
  
  to be fair, I really wouldn’t want to hit a dolphin in one of those things at 40 odd knots….
  
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  March 23, 2024 6:35pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Nek minut no more foil sailing in NZ.
  Or boats downgraded so they have a speed restriction of 10 knots, and that means City of Sails, Auckland.
  This Country has far too many fuckwits wanting to be the fun Police.
  
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  March 23, 2024 7:13pm
  - Ghost
    
    Nothing to do with this country, perhaps you should learn to read , and even consider what happens when a boat up on its foils at speed hits a dolphin
    
    SailGP have protocols in place for when wildlife is seen or detected on or near the race course, with racing being brought to a halt until the marine life passes on.
    
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    March 23, 2024 7:26pm
NothingLeft

Western government’s targeted harassment campaign against Lauren Southern over last few years because some of her friends hold non-left-aligned views on immigration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkigVcxByg

Just appalling. She’s been through a soul crushing level of shit as a result of Canadian, Australian and US govts working to fuck her over and destroy her.
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March 23, 2024 6:12pm
SmokerGuy

So Hipkins solution to their loss is to go further left and focus even more on Maori. So basically he want to go even harder on the things that made them lose last time. Did he learn nothing from the loss? When did Labour become a party for the few? Good luck with your strategy Hipkins!
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