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Conservatarian

Happy Banana Republic Day! You too can “Save our democracy” by applying “the rule of law” to prepare to jail your chief political rival. All you have to do is cook up charges that no one understands (least of all the jury), and hide the charges inside layers of an onion which has nothing in the centre. Best of all, the charges should relate to a book-keeping misdemeanour occurring around the 2016 election, the result of which you continue to deny.
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June 1, 2024 8:01am
- Taieri
  
  the charges should relate to a book-keeping misdemeanour occurring around the 2016 election
  ———-
  
  And if the statue of limitations applies, slightly alter the charges so it doesn’t apply anymore…
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:41am
  - Handyman
    
    New York passed a law specifically allowing people to make this claim against Trump. It allowed a three month window to raise civil and criminal accusations from any time in the past.
    As it happens, one of the NY representatives who voted for the bill got accused of sexual harassment from years ago. His defence is that the law he voted for is “unconstitutional”.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:58pm
- JackRabbit
  
  Have Mikey’s repressed multiple personalities finally broken out?
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:53am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Repressed? He has multiple sock puppet accounts on here nearly every day.
    
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    June 1, 2024 7:02pm
- peterwn
  
  His ego got in the way of mounting the optimum defence so the prosecutor had him on toast.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:01am
- jkt
  
  In America one may well be held to account for breaking the law. No-one is above the law, for now, protect your right to free speech, that is our only hope.
  
  I believe that American failure is not by design but the consequence of polarisation resulting from neo-intellectualism. (Using scientific “consensus” to drive individual and group agendas)
  
  The “King” is dead, long live the “King”!
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:25am
Matt Long

Can anyone guess who made this statement?
“It is Kiwi-centred because significant decisions have been made and implemented that we are driving right in, right now, as a baseline to a nationhood concept that gives them, regardless of race and creed, a sense of belonging as Kiwis in this great country. Our challenge is in moving forward.”

“The rise of the Māori Party is unfortunate and frustrating. It is not Māori; Māori is a generic term. The group of people who have supported the rise of the Māori Party are actually tribal fundamentalists.”

“The problem with the Māori Party is that it is led by a bunch of people who have done extraordinarily well out of protest activism, so they can tell their children why they should vote against things, why they should march against things, and why they should dislike others.”

“It is quite clear. The Māori Party is built around new-age educationalists, reconstructionists in terms of history, and the academics and the new elite around the Treaty of Waitangi chequebooks. There is no case and no space in this country for separatists. I am very proud of my Ngāti Porou tānga—very proud of that tribal background. We do not ram it down other people’s throats, but we are very proud of it. Our being proud of it does not mean to say that we can coerce others into our way of thinking. We have to acknowledge that this is a great land of diversity, difference, and opportunity.”

“The days when people could stand up and scream “treaty” and believe that they would get special rights have gone.”
https://x.com/winstonpeters/status/1796043095127347636
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June 1, 2024 8:04am
- Matt Long
  
  Hint: it was the father of this person,
  https://x.com/chrislynchmedia/status/1796427013445870041
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:06am
- Yvette
  
  Winston
  do I get the chocolate fish?
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:13am
  - Matt Long
    
    No, Winston’s X post was a quote from the President of the Maori Party when the political winds blew in the opposite direction.
    Winston is Nga Puhi for a start.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:26am
    - jkt
      
      “Front bumms”?
      Sounds like something that JT would have said.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:31am
      - AitchW
        
        Sorry Jinky, I shall present myself for re-education and cultural training first thing Tuesday. I wonder if I should wear my kilt?
        
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        June 1, 2024 2:03pm
      - pdm
        
        Helen Clark did not like him after that.
        
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        June 1, 2024 2:12pm
    - AitchW
      
      And Ngāti Caledonia through his immigrant mother.
      No idea which clan (Hapu?) she was.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:31am
      - Jinky
        
        Nga Ekoterani please get it right
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:04pm
      - Matt Long
        
        Ngati MaKini (MacInnis)
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:22pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nope, it was JT in 2005.
    I just stole your fish.
    
    That was when I liked him.
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:07pm
    - jkt
      
      I beat you by more than an hour.
      Enjoy your chocolate fish.
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:31pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I know you did now jkt, now.
        Choc fish? Um it is now a very shared choc fish
        
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        June 1, 2024 5:31pm
    - imalwaysright
      
      Greed changes people .
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:57pm
- pdm
  
  I am not sure they are tribalists ML.
  
  More random activists – backed up by some without a skerrick of Maori blood.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:42am
  - softail 1450
    
    PDM, hang on pdm ,don’t forget the cowboy heritage ?
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:27am
- Notsofast
  
  It sounds like someone with fractional Maori ancestry.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:50am
- julesnzuk
  
  Anyone who describes something in such dumbed down terms as “kiwi-centred” (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean, I’m assuming he’s not referring to a conservation programme for native birds) has to believe that he (and it’s definitely a “he”) is talking to imbeciles. Or children. These people really do think we are stupid and thus in need of re-education, Marxist-style.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:55am
  - julesnzuk
    
    I’m assuming the downtickers are John Tamihere fans who enjoy being talked down to by the likes of him.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:35am
- jkt
  
  Matt Long:
  
  Critical analysis of TMP politicians. In a better time one could have called this critical TMP theory.
  
  Their tactic is clearly favouring their own “mana”, line their pockets but also seem to reach many Maori ears if not all Maori hearts.
  
  These people do not care about building a better NZ society.
  
  When one no longer values common decency, one needs to do some serious self-reflection.
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:20am
- Michael Sommerville
  
  John Tamihere, President of TPM according to Winston in his speech in reply to the budget.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:41am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  We live in strange times. When activists and minorities are free to constantly try to tear down the society that the majority are content to live in. Often they are funded by our money and enabled by foreign entities eg the UN. While this is not a new phenomenon, in pre-Alexandrian Greece there were similar factions being bribed by Xerxes to support Persian expansionism, it is unusual that the masses are so tolerant of it. I am happy for TPM to ratchet up their rhetoric because out in the open, eventually it will create a reaction. At some point the agitators and their globalist supporters will invoke a response that they might not be expecting.
  
  The sad thing about NZ today is that no longer are these minority activist factions having to work in the fringes of society. No, today, we have given them the keys to our institutions and watch powerlessly as they swing their hammers of destruction from within the walls. How do we protect ourselves from the barbarians within?
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:18am
  - Conservatarian
    
    It’s the achilles heel of any decent country (through liberal democracy). Its activists goad the minorities into a Marxist framing of life. And as James Lindsay says, the aim of Marxists in a decent country is to turn the decent country into a shithole country. Marxism has only been tried in shithole countries because it can only succeed in a shithole country. In a decent country, life is too good for the citizens to want to embrace Marxism.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:55pm
- ISeeRed
  
  TLDR version: they’re a hate group.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:58pm
Matt Long

The meth rehab grift has suffered a serious setback.
Incidentally what kind of “cabbage” was grown in that vegetable garden?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/mongrel-mob-president-who-became-key-figure-in-275m-meth-rehab-scheme-dies/DXLQ2BJVCRERNNAIWUQ3GYVADU/
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June 1, 2024 8:08am
- Inandout
  
  ML, in many western countries that $2.75 million would be accounted for dollar by dollar. In this country even the Coalition won’t delve into that area.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    According to the report “some” , amount not quoted ,of that nearly 3 mil in tax payers’ money was spent on his garden.
    
    In many western countries that would be called corruption and everyone involved hauled before a court of law.
    
    But in Ardern’s dystopia it passes with barely any outrage , esp from the so called fourth estate whose duty it is to hold power to account.
    
    Ardern gave our money to gangs and now Mrs Gates gives her US $20 mil for wimmin . Wimmin are possibly the greatest victims of gangs and yet Ardern gave organised crime our money .
    
    We really do live in a dysfunctional world .
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:39am
    - pdm
      
      kowtow if you mean Sonny Smith then I can assure you his garden did not see a cent of benefit from Jacinda’s generosity.
      
      I know it well (from the road) as my brother in law and sister in law lived 200/300 metres from Sonny and we passed his place regularly when visiting.
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:20pm
      - kowtow
        
        pdm
        
        yes as referred to in the article
        
        “The programme was based at Tapairu Marae, outside of Waipawa, with part of the programme reportedly involving activities off the marae, including “gardening work” at the home of the 60-year-old and his wife Mahinaarangi Smith’
        
        so again , where’s the accountability for the money given and spent.
        
        this is basically straight up corruption / criminality .
        
        and the media don’t question this unrelentingly as they would if it were the blue or yellow team.
        
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        June 1, 2024 6:45pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cabbage is shit.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:09pm
- Scooter
  
  Jacinda was very generous with our money or was it hush money?
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:53pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Gates money is ok, the other money is hush money.
    
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    June 2, 2024 10:29am
Benedict Yu

I am clearly not a constitutional lawyer. However it seems problematic that an MP “declares independence”.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/te-pati-maori-protests-new-parliament-mooted-declaration-of-independence-issued/GSOV3QHFX5EQ3NS6SYFIOCMO74/

The affirmation for MPs is..

“I, …, solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, His heirs and successors, according to law.”

Surely declaring that you will set up a rival parliament breaks this affirmation? If it does not, what would?

If the Speaker ignores this action, it makes the affirmation meaningless.

It would be helpful to hear some opinions of a constitutional lawyer. If there are any sane ones. 🙁
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June 1, 2024 8:08am
- G152
  
  easy to handle.
  Ban them from Parliament and stop their pay.
  Begin long term investgations that nessesitate those under investigation to travel to different towns/cities to report under threat of arrest…
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:17am
  - jkt
    
    Stop their pay.
    Let them speak. We need to hear who they are.
    
    Stop their pay and we will know who they are.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:33am
- Mike
  
  Sure, some people would even argue that the affirmation would make it impossible for an MP to advocate for the abolition of the monarchy.
  The establishment of a rival ‘parliament’ is best treated as having no practical or legal effect. Treating it as an act of rebellion or treason, etc would bbe welcomed by TPM, etc. Many would welcome the chance to become political prisoners.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:21am
  - Matt Long
    
    “Many would welcome the chance to become political prisoners.”
    How many are sincere revolutionaries, and how many operators manipulating their followers to increase their wealth and power?
    I don’t think JT would welcome prison time or any reduction in living standards.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:24am
    - jkt
      
      Stop their pay!💰 Let them speak.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:35am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    I agree Mike – there is a definite martyrdom complex going on.
    
    TPM are daring the next move.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:27am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Is being a member of parliament when you don’t recognise the authority of parliament like being a contributor to kiwiblog that despises kiwiblog?
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:21am
    - Mike
      
      Who would despise Kiwiblog when it is such a great comedy site?
      
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      June 1, 2024 11:42am
    - julesnzuk
      
      No, it’s much more serious than that.
      
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      June 1, 2024 11:59am
  - Cassandra
    
    “The prospect of a hanging doth wonderfully concentrate the mind.” The better option, in lieu of political imprisonment.
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:04pm
  - cmm
    
    Agreed.
    
    This is why when Winston gives TMP a “serve”, it benefits both Winston First and TPM supporters. Each get to affirm their position.
    
    Likewise, when TPM gets divisive, it equally gets the other side to rally around.
    
    But while all this divisiveness might serve the interests of Winston First and TPM, it really does nothing to improve the lives of people on the ground – least of all Maori.
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:13pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Lay back and don’t worry hey Mikey? Lefties will make everything alright?
    
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    June 1, 2024 7:04pm
- Yvette
  
  If the Speaker ignores this action, it makes the affirmation meaningless.
  Benedict you are right
  
  During the swearing-in ceremony, members from different parties were wearing cultural garments including Māori traditional headdress, while some Green Party MPs are wearing keffiyeh over their shoulders, a sign of their support for Palestine amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
  
  Tākuta Ferris, the first Te Pāti Māori MP to be sworn in, began by breaking protocol in speaking from his seat, swearing to be faithful to mokopuna according to tikanga Māori and perform his functions as MP in accordance with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/maori-party-to-swear-allegiance-to-treaty-of-waitangi-during-parliament-swearing-in-amid-national-day-of-protest-action/EFB65PH4BFDYVNVIBYLBPOLNBE/#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20co%2Dleader%20Rawiri,for%20them%20to%20become%20MPs.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:39am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Benedict,
    
    Well, I did teach constitutional law some 35 years ago.
    
    There is nothing for the speaker to do here. Merely advocating for a Maori Parliament is not a breach of any laws or for that matter the oath.
    
    New Zealanders, including Parliamentarians, can advocate for all kinds of different political systems. Covered by the laws of free speech.
    
    The analogy would be the SNP. They take their seats in the Westminster parliament even though their goal is to remove themselves (or more specifically Scotland) from the very same parliament.
    
    But I am sure you actually know all this
    
    There are specific things that will disbar a Member of Parliament. Basically being convicted of a crime with a term of imprisonment of 2 years or more.
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:03am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      But I am sure you actually know all this
      
      I don’t find legalese easy to get my head around.
      
      I don’t think it is because I am dumb/thick, etc.
      
      So, I always appreciate it when a lawyer &/or an ex MP comes on KB and writes in plain English.
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:13pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      I agree with you. However he did not just idly ponder a Maori parliament. He said..
      
      “We now begin the process of establishing our own Parliament.*
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:51pm
      - jkt
        
        Imagine that talk shop……
        
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        June 1, 2024 3:23pm
- Michael Sommerville
  
  To me, he has broken his oath/affirmation. It should be plain and simple that he no longer qualifies to be in Parliament.
  
  I agree that the Speaker must take action otherwise oaths and affirmations are meaningless. This undermines the whole justice system. This affirmation is exactly the same one that Judges and Justices of the Peace make on their appointment/swearing in.
  
  Parliament is the highest court in the land. If this affirmation is not upheld, it undermines our whole justice system.
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:12am
  - Flossie
    
    I am inclined to think ignoring it would be the best plan. Rather like you ignore a toddler throwing a tantrum. Any “punishment” would make martyrs of them in some eyes.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:08am
  - jkt
    
    The penalty of banishment creates a martyr.
    Dock their pay.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:36am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Does jailing a drunk driver who killed people on the road create a martyr?
      
      Break the rules, take the punishment.
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:36pm
- softail 1450
  
  Benedict Yu , that piece proves two things beyond doubt,
  (1) the Māori party are full of shit,
  ( 2) the Māori party are full of liquor or drugs or both.
  This country has now ascended to 2nd place in the race towards 3rd world status just slightly behind the USA.
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:36am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Waititi has already tried to suggest that doesn’t apply to him. In fact when he was first sworn in he refused, but quickly changed his mind when he realised he could not become an mp
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It is yet another breach of the Treaty.
  See http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:11pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    The elephant in the room is the previous government.
    They initiated a marxist regime right under our noses and undermined our democratic and human rights.
    Did no one notice?
    
    And we are worried about the painted puppets of Tamihere!
    It has already happened under labour.
    Wakey wakey folks.
    
    (The maori party are rank amateurs who will consume each other with infighting .)
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:14pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And then SHE ran!
      
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      June 1, 2024 5:34pm
- cmm
  
  Nobody takes those oaths too seriously.
  
  During the opening prayer they promise to put aside all personal and promise to put the interests of NZ first, yet they immediately swing into partisan politics with petty sledging etc.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:18pm
  - jkt
    
    That is how prayer works.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:39pm
Matt Long

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY does hypocrisy like the toxic greens. “We greens offset our excessive air travel by planting trees, and we recommend other people do the same, except actually we don’t.
Thomas Cranmer does what the legacy media are too conflicted to do again.
https://x.com/CranmerWrites/status/1796317867174187165
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June 1, 2024 8:13am
- Spam
  
  It would be great if he would follow up and ask the Greens about what the IPCC says re detection and attribution of cyclone frequency and energy vis-a-vis climate change.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:17am
- jkt
  
  It demonstrates that the Greens are true capitalists and believe in the markets.
  Hypocrites ……?
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:38am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Planting trees is counterproductive, farmers plant 1000s of trees and are refused by the left to have that counted, most sheep and beef farms are now carbon neutral, but no they must cut numbers
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:06pm
  - AitchW
    
    Por old farmers, must be getting double vision from watching the last government move the goal posts so often!
    Let’s hope the coalition walks the talk about backing farmers.
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:09pm
Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: The Rule of Law
in a Kangaroo World

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-the-rule-of-law?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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June 1, 2024 8:14am
- All_on_Red
  
  https://babylonbee.com/news/kangaroos-ask-people-to-stop-unfairly-comparing-them-to-us-justice-system
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:01am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Bring on those debates. Biden will be torn to shreds.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:16pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Biden will back out and give his reason as “I wont debate a Felon”
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:34pm
    - jkt
      
      The Felon can’t debate.
      Those who believe that tweeter is a debate chamber …. also believe that a headline is an opinion.
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:43pm
Yvette

Māori parliament workings discussed at Hui Ā Motu second phase
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/518351/maori-parliament-workings-discussed-at-hui-a-motu-second-phase

– gives this not very prominent link –

Towards a Māori Nation – Hei whakatinanatia te kotahitanga
https://www.huitaumata.co.nz/_files/ugd/a0663d_d18fefd36192409a839d98eeb10b4171.pdf

– worth a look perhaps
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June 1, 2024 8:15am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  I haven’t followed your link, do any of the following apply?
  
  We, the Māori elite, will make the rules.
  
  Whitey and Asians will pay.
  
  The system will be based on pre-colonial Māori wisdom: hereditary leadership, might is right, nepotism. Would slavery and cannabilism be a step too far?
  
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  June 1, 2024 1:08pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Don’t forget raping and pillaging the environment then move on to the next untouched region and repeat.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:25pm
Chuck Bird

I know a number of National MPs who I believe are good people. I bet some of them would not support such a cruel lie but must support their lying leaders. It is not too late. Get rid of the EV charging stations or some of the offshore wind turbines too pay for the drugs.

Post-Budget snap poll gives Nicola Willis a lukewarm pass – but the cancer drug fail grates – Claire Trevett

However, when Willis does her post-mortem examination on how the Budget was handled, one issue that has left a sour taste should be noted.

That was around the question of National’s campaign promise to fund 13 new cancer treatments.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/post-budget-snap-poll-gives-nicola-willis-a-lukewarm-pass-but-the-cancer-drug-fail-grates-claire-trevett/S2MPFW2BNREADMRZNIXHSQQE3I/
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- G152
  
  If you financed every drug for every ill you would have no money for anything else
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:19am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I agree. However, parties should not promise something they cannot deliver. They could campaign on how much they will give to Phamac but not for individual drugs. What Luxon and Willis did was despicable.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:33am
    - jkt
      
      Let’s ask government to make wealthy foreign buyers to pay for these drugs.
      
      Selling over priced mansions to foreigners will create more supply of houses and fund the drugs that some need without causing inflation.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:44am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        How many of these drugs would be funded if we didn’t pay for ongoing Covid treatments?
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:10pm
      - Damocles11
        
        Let’s ask the government to keep its election promises & make cuts where no promises were made. Human life > ‘Kapa haka’ for starters, Iwi can pay for that.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:36pm
      - jkt
        
        Many.
        But treating covid is also important.
        
        The need to be vaccinated quarterly tells one a lot about the efficacy of the vaccines.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:47pm
    - cmm
      
      No, parties shouldn’t burn down the barn to deliver their promises.
      
      If they fail to deliver, then it is up to the public who care about the issue to remember and then not vote the next time.
      
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      June 1, 2024 12:19pm
      - Damocles11
        
        No need to ‘burn down the barn’ to deliver on this promise. Heaps of other things could have been cut or defunded instead.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:43pm
  - JackRabbit
    
    If you go searching on the NIH, and various cancer sites you will find numerous research articles citing parasite infections as the leading cause of cancer, something that was known several decades ago, but suppressed.
    
    Why fund cancer drugs when multiple rounds of cheap anti-parasitical compounds such as Ivermectin will knock the bulk of the cancer cases into remission?
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:59am
    - jkt
      
      They should add Invermectim to our drinking water.
      
      Or just go out to the paddocks and hug a lamb. Remember to wash your hands.
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:49pm
    - AitchW
      
      An interesting hypothesis, can you post some links to said articles? I’ll be honest, I’m sceptical about your claim. What undetected parasites are we carrying that only cause cancer? And if there is widespread and credible literature to that effect why are anthelmintics not widely and routinely prescribed as a preventive measure?
      I look forward to reading your (preferably peer reviewed) literature.
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:16pm
      - JackRabbit
        
        Seriously AitchW,
        
        I don’t give free internet lessons. I gave you the starting point.
        
        Type into your search engine ‘cancer caused by parasites’ or ‘cancer caused by parasites nih’. there are hundreds of websites, and many mainstream sites.
        
        The knowledge that infections can lead to cancer was starting to be acknowledged 25 years ago. It is not unusual for someone to get throat cancer from a dormant herpes infection 30 years earlier.
        
        Parasites are also heavily linked to seizures, epilepsy, and also MS and nerve damage.
        
        The knowledge that parasites cause cancer dates back 30+ years.
        
        The only way you will miss those articles on the internet is if you don’t look.
        
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        June 1, 2024 5:14pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Are you actually thinking of viruses? Human Papilloma Virus for example is known to cause certain cancers. Which “parasites” are reported as being linked to cancer?
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:09pm
      - Ghost
        
        The labour party’s policies made people’s cancers worse, they are a parasite, does that count?
        
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        June 1, 2024 7:11pm
    - AitchW
      
      JackRabbit, why would you reference these articles and then refuse to share them? I’m sure your skill in finding well researched, credible, and peer reviewed articles which suggest that parasites cause cancer is far ahead of mine.
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:19pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Yes. If they had already made that decision much earlier than they should have announced it immediately rather than wait until the budget as time for those that are hanging on for such drugs is very limited.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:27pm
- artemisia
  
  Still going to happen. Timing.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:20am
  - MCōs
    
    The people Mr Luxon made the promise to need those drugs now, next year or the year after is going to be too late.
    Keytruda is an unfunded drug and costs the patient about $100,000
    https://bowelcancernz.org.nz/about-bowel-cancer/treatment-options/unfunded-drugs-and-clinical-trials/#:~:text=Keytruda%20is%20given%20by%20infusion,as%20the%20patient%20needs%20Keytruda.
    
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    June 1, 2024 8:53am
    - jkt
      
      Tell government to find the money to pay for these drugs.
      You can send your tax cut to the cancer society or the Labour Party.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:46am
      - Damocles11
        
        They can find money for ‘Kapa haka’ and to lob at Auckland for ‘rail issues’, yet can’t find the money to keep election promises? Righto.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:32pm
    - Ian Boag
      
      Keytruda is not a cure for anything. Just slows it down.
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:56pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    “Timing”
    
    That’s the point.
    
    Cancer doesn’t take a break until government funding kicks in.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:32am
    - artemisia
      
      Nothing does, that is the real point.
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:02pm
      - jkt
        
        Poverty had to wait for six long years!
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:52pm
- Mike
  
  It turns out that funding more cancer drugs is not as important as it seemed a year ago. Governments have to weigh up serious priorities, which sometimes means ditching emotional appeals made in the heat of an election campaign.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:30am
  - MCōs
    
    Not so much emotion as cynical
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:07am
    - Mike
      
      Oh, it’s possible that they really did want to save a few lives at high cost, but had a genuine change of heart when they realized that they really wanted to fund other things instead and that the promise, to a small group, would soon be forgotten. Such is political choice.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:31am
      - Damocles11
        
        It won’t be ‘soon forgotten’. No way.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:34pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        You feeling OK Mike?
        
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        June 1, 2024 7:15pm
  - Taieri
    
    Governments have to weigh up serious priorities
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    And to consider political costs. One example, what would be the political cost of abolishing provision of the “free” school lunches…
    
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    June 1, 2024 5:14pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Get rid of the EV charging stations or some of the offshore wind turbines too pay for the drugs.”
  
  There is much crazy expenditure that could be targeted. But it is now clear that the Government has no intention of going there. It will be less likely that they do so in future budgets unless there is a huge external shock that gives them no choice.
  
  BTW the government does not fund “wind turbines”.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:35am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    BTW the government does not fund “wind turbines”
    
    If they do not then why are they talking about them? I would bet there will be some sort of subsidy.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:02am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      No subsidy for wind power. Just the Emissions Trading Scheme.
      
      The last government used the ETS money for stupid grants to companies to do things like install electric boilers to replace coal. Thankfully abolished.
      
      No there is no subsidy for wind. The Government wants to speed consents.
      
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      June 1, 2024 9:44am
    - jkt
      
      The energy suppliers just acquired a large battery that will allow peak demand management. Now we just need to increase capacity to generate off peak base load more efficiently.
      
      How we transfer that peak capacity northward is still a challenge.
      
      More incentive to develop power hungry businesses down south??
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:50am
- Simon
  
  Belief in the GAE doctrine man made climate scam these are options.
  
  Either you are cattle, in on the grift, insane or have to go along with it – because its mandatory for NZ politically via GAE.
  
  A lot of National fall in the last option. They know man made climate is bat shit insane but because of GAE they go along with it.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:49am
- Damocles11
  
  The failure to fund the cancer drugs is either a disgrace, or an act of political idiocy, or perhaps both. The funding of these drugs was *promised.* To see people defending the broken promise along the lines of ‘politicians lie, get over it’ and ‘you can’t fund everything’…you’d think we’d be better than that, and more astute. The way this is being framed is ‘heartless National taking care of their rich mates while duped cancer patients are left to die’. And if you deliver on your *promise* to landlords while giving the middle finger to people dying of cancer, it’s a bad look to most people. This could have been pitched as ‘the budget of caring’, repudiating any Labour and MSM claims to contrary: “we delivered for the ‘squeezed middle’ while funding 18 new cancer drugs’. Coming around the same time as the Tiwai Point deal the message would be ‘we care about people, their jobs and their health’. Now you have dying cancer patients crying in the media, Barbara Edmonds crying in empathy on TV, and the Coalition framed as deeply callous and cruel. It doesn’t help that Luxon was answering questions about it with a smile on his face saying “we had to make tough choices”. Auckland rail gets an over $200 million handout to help it sort out problems of its own making (no heads rolling at KiwiRail still) & ‘Te Matatini receives $48.7 million over three years. This initiative will support Te Matatini to continue to deliver kapa haka to New Zealanders.’ Tough choices indeed. ‘Kapa haka’ over cancer patients folks. And there will be umpteen other areas where money could have been ‘reprioritised’ from a ‘nice to have’ to keeping dying people alive or curing them. I think we’ve seen some monumental political stupidity displayed, cold corporate management over political acumen and basic decency. Stephen Joyce calls the decision ‘inexplicable’. Many, many people will be stunned.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:06am
  - AitchW
    
    Perhaps once the coalition got to see the real state of the books there was a lot less cash available than the cooked accounts released prior to the election suggested.
    Treasury had a vested interest in keeping Labour in power after all, the governor owed his job to Grant Robertson and Chris Hipkins.
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:55pm
    - Damocles11
      
      You’ll make excuses until the cows come home. It’s a disgrace. Heaps of other stuff in there that could have been cut, ‘Kapa haka’ gets heaps of $$$$. This should be a place for honest discussion, not pitiful excuse making.
      
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      June 1, 2024 5:35pm
      - AitchW
        
        How much does kapa haka get?
        
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        June 1, 2024 8:36pm
- rouppe
  
  Foodstuffs just announced they were installing a bunch of chargers. If there’s any overlap of location some of the government ones could be withdrawn
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:23am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Are they now. More like they’re forcing their “owner operators” to install them at their own expense or else. Foodstuffs has become increasingly dictatorial to its supermarket “partners” over the years .
    
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    June 1, 2024 3:05pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Tax payers are not paying for off shore wind farms, you didn’t listen when they were tried to win the election, they want consent to change do companies can get on and build these projects, what part of that would fund cancer drugs? Reti has a fb post about this, he is pointing to the toll out with the extra pharmac of three of the drugs that Labours protesters are spouting about, breast cancer done, lung cancer done, Lymphoma partially done, blood css as necessary started, much of the outrage was bullshit, when you hear the head of breast cancer saying it is a disgrace is shocking, she knows full well that is not true
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:11pm
  - Damocles11
    
    Why has National said ‘no, we are not funding the extra cancer drugs, we had to make tough choices’? Luxon should have said, “we are actually funding those drugs” if that is true, why does he stand there and say “we had to make tough choices”? ‘Kapa haka’ got tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer cash.
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:10pm
    - ISeeRed
      
      I’m sure Maori cancer patients would prefer the former not the latter.
      
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      June 1, 2024 3:06pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Every taxpayer dollar the govt. spends on trying to fix the climate is a dollar that could have been spent on something useful instead. We cannot ‘fix’ the climate. Jesus, after a century of burning FF as fast as we can, IPCC can barely detect any human influence on the climate in the first place, let alone convince many of us that any alleged change is necessarily something that needs fixing.
  
  I wonder why the govt. thinks it needs to be in the EV charging station business. It’s not like EVs serve some massive good to the country and we all benefit from having charging stations strewn around the place, is it?
  Also, wouldn’t they (and we) be better off doing something to sort our creaking electricity system out first? We’d all be much better off if we had a grid that supplied us with cheap, abundant, electricity. Then we might have some lectrickery available for the charging stations to use.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:46pm
  - Damocles11
    
    It wasn’t a choice between ‘climate’ or ‘cancer drugs’ though, go through the budget line by line you’ll find plenty of other stuff that could have been jettisoned. This was an election promise & it was literally ‘life or death’ for the people concerned. When National shows up at the next election with its fresh swag of promises why should anyone believe them?
    
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    June 1, 2024 5:39pm
Bridgenag

TWO GOOD POSTS

Trump Guilty Verdict Open Thread

Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/trump-guilty-verdict-open-thread?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Trump NY Trial Commentary
Your rights as an American citizen are directly at stake here

https://open.substack.com/pub/criticallythinking/p/trump-ny-trial-commentary?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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- G152
  
  Okay. I give up. What is it you are trying to say?????
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:20am
  - Bridgenag
    
    Hey Too hard for you to open the links….. //
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:23pm
- Matt Long
  
  Short video by democrat Alan Dershowitz on he saw more errors in law in one day by the judge than he’s seen in trials that took months.
  https://x.com/AlanDersh/status/1796590612747256299
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:24am
  - virtualmark
    
    Simple next step then … Dershowitz should lead the appeal. Let’s see how that goes.
    
    And maybe Trump could pay him on “success fee only” basis?
    
    But can I point out, the two people Dershowitz is most well known with are OJ and Epstein. Choose your fighter …
    
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    June 1, 2024 8:30am
    - jkt
      
      He works pro-bono for Trump. I fail to see any public good in Trump but justice is important.
      
      The message that no-one is above the law should be pro-bono enough for any person to like the outcome of the trial.
      
      Let’s get to the appeal. If this is such an easy case then it can be done and dusted in no time. Right?
      
      Trumps legal team is struggling! Judge AD is full of shit.
      
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      June 1, 2024 11:02am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Professor Dershowitz is an academic and expert in criminal defense appeals, with a primary interest in rigorously upholding standards of judicial process/rule of law in context of US constitution. He’s an honest broker focussed on ethics before poltics, though he’s been a life-long Democrat (sounds like he is reevaluating that now in collapse of rule of law under Biden admin).
      
      He has a policy of only defending anyone once, and has defended Trump at impeachment in senate so won’t be representing him again. As a criminal defense lawyer he naturally rubs up alongside scumbags.
      
      Your efforts to smear by association are pathetic.
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:27pm
    - Red
      
      Dershowitz is all about Dershowitz. Period.
      
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      June 1, 2024 3:49pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        How so?
        
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        June 1, 2024 7:38pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    It was more of a B movie screenplay than a trial.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:01am
  - mogg
    
    This has been a manufactured prosecution of a political opponent by the Dems, akin to a Marxist show trial. They have to remember what goes around comes around, after this the Republicans will have to go after Hunter Biden having received money from foreign governments, and Joe’s lies surrounding it.
    Trump’s convictions will be overturned on appeal but only after the election.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:33am
    - NothingLeft
      
      That’s the real acid of this prosecution, it has burned centuries of at least the pretense of rational and unbiased even-handed criminal justice in USA for sugar-rush of nailing a political opponent on Trumped up charges in a hyper-partisan jurisdiction. The flood gates will open on lawfare, destroying functional democracy with polarisation, and creating a constitutional crisis. Damage to US could be catastrophic.
      
      I am sure the grandees of both Democrats and Republicans see this, and hope they will find common cause in working to de-escalate it somehow.
      
      Likely the Supreme Court will need to step in with some ruling to prevent this sort of excess recurring, perhaps some rule about not allowing prosecution of political figures in jurisdictions with public political sympathies significantly worse than average for defendant.
      
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      June 1, 2024 5:50pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        See in the 24 hrs. following the guilty verdict, Trump’s campaign got $52.8 million in donations. 🙂
        
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        June 1, 2024 7:48pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They had Tulsi Gabbids on Fox yesterday, she stated clearly this is a hit job by the dems, and she was a dem candidate for prez last election, she stated she will be voting for Donald Trump
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:14pm
- Philview
  
  I wonder what the US judicial system would make of the unusual techniques used in New Zealand to apparently hide political donations from Chinese sources.
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:13am
  - Mike
    
    NZ laws are much stricter, although far from strict enough.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:34am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      How so?
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:38pm
artemisia

The Employment Court orders TVNZ to comply with collective agreement clause. A win for the union and probably also a payout for impacted staff who lodge a personal grievance. TVNZ will obviously follow the court’s decision on process to the absolute letter, then follow the exact same process for the next round of layoffs.

More money going out, more costs must be saved.

A palpable hit. By the union.
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- Mike
  
  Yes, it’s a sad day when a court tells a business that it must abide by the terms of a contract.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:25am
- Conservatarian
  
  It’s somehow made greasy union thug Michael Wood look competent.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:37am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Ex Minister Slimey Wood isnt the brightest candle in town…
    
    https://twitter.com/michaelwoodnz/status/1796039948451070141
    
    Hmmm, and this man was in charge of stuff???
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:27am
    - JackRabbit
      
      Michael Would do something if he wasn’t an attention seeking lazy show pony.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:02am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    No it reminds people that weasel will be back next term
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:16pm
    - AitchW
      
      Surely not? Is the Labour Party so short of talent that it would consider him again after his appalling performance as a minister?
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:20pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Here is one the E Tu union have lost according to this Stuff article and will cost them big time.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350289342/trade-union-forced-huge-payout-sacked-staffer
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:37am
- pdm
  
  arty – the unlikeable Michael Wood wins one.
  
  His first towards salvation and the Labour Party leadership.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:49am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Joke or not, there is no-one to lead the Labour Party, never has been, never will be. Leadership has specific qualifies that are never seen in Labour or Greens. Dictators yes, leaders no.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:05am
    - AitchW
      
      I wonder if that’s because they value ideology above all else? I suspect that there may be candidates for the parliamentary wing of the party who would make outstanding leaders, but who refuse to drink the KoolAid and so never get past the first selection hurdle. I also suspect that there is a large number of potential MPs for all parties who could make positive and progressive contributions to this country but who refuse to play the petty games required of them. They undoubtedly do very well for themselves in the private sector instead, many of them overseas eventually.
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:25pm
- Simon
  
  Union hacks having wins against TVNZ? Another reason to close it down. Employment Court probably stacked with DEI hires.
  
  Unions, DEI hires and TVNZ itself. Isnt that 3 strikes.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:53am
Matt Long

Just a reminder of the sufferings of the adherents of the religion of peace across the world, Germans attacking peaceful Islamic knives with their necks, and Nigerian women victimising Islamic gentleman.
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1795934697639293042
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June 1, 2024 8:19am
- Simon
  
  This is Auckland, 3 weeks ago. The dear old soul walking toward the camera was an 88 year old non english speaking tourist. This is outside Sky City. It didn’t make the news until I sent it to TV3. They rang the cops, confirmed it, then ran the story. We’re lawless in the CBD
  
  https://x.com/LeoMolloyNZ/status/1794186870458548352
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:55am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Casual violence against old ladies is so cool, eh.
    Done by a swaggering neandathol.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:46am
    - imalwaysright
      
      I think the cops caught him so he should be at home now sleeping off a hangover.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:16am
      - PurplePen
        
        Probably received a few hugs from police as well.
        
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        June 1, 2024 1:29pm
    - kowtow
      
      That’s one hell of a dangerous character .
      Needs to be locked up , permanently .
      
      Labour would have them out among us though.
      
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      June 1, 2024 11:53am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Have a gun licence and just checked….can’t carry one [hand gun] , can’t buy taser or any other stuff as defence….. ffs
      
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      June 1, 2024 1:25pm
      - Bridgenag
        
        Just found a wikipedia home made version of pepper spray
        
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        June 1, 2024 2:02pm
  - julesnzuk
    
    This is awful!! Who was the Neanderthal offender?
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:07am
  - peterwn
    
    We are given all these impressions of the likes of Queen St with no cars but lots of people milling around in what looks like a paradise. Trouble is the artist omits the ‘For Lease’ signs on the shops.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:15am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    That would be on the national news if that was Aus. NZ’s filthy media actively cover this stuff up.
    
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    June 1, 2024 7:44pm
    - Ghost
      
      I remember posting this story a few weeks ago. Radio nz were first to publish it two days after it happened when the footage was sent to them, newshub followed. The problem was this happened the same day as the shooting in Auckland and the shooting and locating the killer took up the news
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:52pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “Radio nz were first to publish it two days after it happened when the footage was sent to them, newshub followed.”
        
        Really? And it was turd-polished with the usual far-left spin?
        
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        June 1, 2024 8:06pm
      - Ghost
        
        https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516147/watch-elderly-woman-knocked-to-the-ground-in-unprovoked-attack
        
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        June 1, 2024 8:15pm
  - julesnzuk
    
    Just watched this again. Horrific and seriously, that bloke looks like he belongs in the National Secure Unit (Mason Clinic these days, is it?)
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:49pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  There is an activist from the ROP in Aus petitioning the govt to censor the video of an adherent trying to fatally stab a Christian priest, because, wait for it, it makes the ROP look bad.
  
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  June 1, 2024 7:21pm
Chuck Bird

Is everyone happy for this government like in Oz to fund Hamas through UNRWA?
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June 1, 2024 8:37am
- pdm
  
  No.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:51am
Maggy Wassilieff

Te Reo is one of our National languages, but for some odd reason it is not for mono-lingualists like me to know what has been said in Parliament in Te Reo in recent weeks.

If anyone can find an authorised translation of the Te Reo spoken by our MPs since Tuesday May 7th, I’d be interested in viewing it.
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June 1, 2024 8:39am
- Yvette
  
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/search?criteria.Keyword=&criteria.ParliamentNumber=54&criteria.Timeframe=range&criteria.DateFrom=2024-05-07&criteria.DateTo=2024-05-07&parliamentStartDate=2023-10-14&parliamentEndDate=&criteria.Portfolio=
  Fill out filtering panel, left side of frame
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:53am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Cheers,
    
    Actually, it’s the written translation I want to view.
    
    It looks like Hansard translators are at least 3 weeks behind the daily account of Parliament.
    
    It didn’t use to be this slow to get a translated account up on line.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:48am
- pdm
  
  Maggy – do what I do.
  
  Switch to another channel until English is resumed. I do it for Tama Potaka too as well as some other `faux Maori’ National caucus members..
  
  If they do not have the courtesy to speak to all New Zealanders then I do not bother paying attention.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:55am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m trying to read Hansard and keep getting stuff like this:
    
    Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green):
    
    [Authorised te reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]
    
    [Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]
    
    and an entire speech on Tuesday…
    
    RAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Tēnā tātou.
    
    [Authorised te reo Māori text to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]
    
    [Authorised translation to be inserted by the Hansard Office.]
    
    etc, etc.
    
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    June 1, 2024 9:09am
    - peterwn
      
      They have probably had to make staff cuts too. It would not be worth keeping a Maori language sterno on hand all of the time so the next best is for a Maori language sterno to transcribe it from a recording. A saving grace is the audio-visuals are available for anyone to replay.
      
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      June 1, 2024 10:10am
    - kowtow
      
      Proof positive that Maori as an official language , might be de jure but most definitely is not de facto and the whole pretence that it is thing is mere theatrics and virtue signalling nonsense.
      And a huge waste of scarce tax payer resources.
      
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      June 1, 2024 12:46pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I don’t mind portals going it because he puts it up the left
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:18pm
- julesnzuk
  
  The only reason it is “one of our national languages” is because campaigners agitated for it to be made “official” and the government of the day caved. It’s nothing to with anyone actually speaking it. Proper national languages have millions of native speakers.
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:59am
  - julesnzuk
    
    I’m assuming the down tickers are under some sort of illusion that Maori is widely spoken, a bit like Afrikaans in South Africa, with millions of native speakers and a sophisticated literary tradition (on a par with English) to boot. Pretty funny.
    
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    June 1, 2024 10:39am
- imalwaysright
  
  Brownlee is trying to run a less formal Parliament by giving certain people some slack.
  Unfortunately those certain people have decided that they will use that slack to make up their own rules.
  Gerry?
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:09am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He may well do something soon about the arrogance of Waititi, he called them out over what Pugh did and stated clearly she was right
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:20pm
- MCōs
  
  NZ has two official (not national) languages; Maori & sign
  About 4% of the population is fluent in Maori and 0.5% sign
  English is a de facto official language
  Basically that means Maori or sign can be used in parliament or similar, but not mandarin for example without an interpreter, as I understand
  It’s interesting that sign is used at press conferences etc but there’s only very few viewers likely to need the facility, but nobody suggests it’s a waste of taxpayer money
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:22am
  - Mike
    
    Kiwibloggers don’t hate deaf people.
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:39am
    - cmm
      
      Who do we hate?
      I am not aware of hating any group of people.
      
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      June 1, 2024 2:33pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Is having Maori heritage a disability Milky?
      
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      June 1, 2024 7:22pm
  - Taieri
    
    It’s interesting that sign is used at press conferences etc but there’s only very few viewers likely to need the facility, but nobody suggests it’s a waste of taxpayer money
    ————–
    
    How do you write Aotearoa in sign language?
    
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    June 1, 2024 11:58am
    - MCōs
      
      Sign is not a written language
      
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      June 1, 2024 5:15pm
      - Taieri
        
        Really? Wow, I didn’t know that. May be because my two deaf and dumb uncles, despite their disability, could both, read and write…
        
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        June 1, 2024 7:21pm
  - julesnzuk
    
    No comparison – this 4% who supposedly speak Maori do so as a second language. They’re all native English speakers. But actually, re sign language, I do suggest it’s rather unnecessary (although not as pointless as Maori for which there is no need whatsoever). I also think it looks very stupid with the facials. What’s wrong with subtitles – works for the BBC so should be fine for NZ.
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:08pm
  - Cassandra
    
    Nobody? Rubbish.
    
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    June 1, 2024 12:10pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    I’ll bet it’s nowhere near 4% – Maori wonderfulness activists in govt will be torturing the numbers in an upwards directions to suit their political agendas.
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:37pm
    - MCōs
      
      It depends how you define fluent
      I’ve met many Thai people who I wouldn’t consider particularly fluent in English, but know enough that I can conduct a conversation and I’m sure that applies to all sorts of people with some knowledge of a second, third or multiple languages including Māori.
      
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      June 1, 2024 5:29pm
  - wsk12345
    
    Wouldn’t subtitles be better?
    
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    June 1, 2024 6:47pm
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  In English it’s called “Māori”, not “Te Reo”.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:16pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Run it through an AI language translator
  
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  June 1, 2024 8:10pm
Yvette

Plans for independent Māori Parliament could be over after Kiingi Tuheitia reveals the idea ‘frightens’ him
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/plans-for-independent-m-ori-parliament-could-be-over-after-kiingi-tuheitia-reveals-the-idea-frightens-him.html

And with the final speech of the hui, Kiingi Tuheitia revealed his own thoughts about a Māori Parliament.
“Actually it frightens me,” he told the crowd.
This was the third Hui ā-Motu (National Hui) of its kind this year, and before it ended, Kiingi Tuheitia said there will be a fourth hosted by Ngāi Tahu in the South Island.
Once that’s complete, they’ll take something to the Government.

David Exel, Joe Cotē, Simon Walker or Brian Edwards would have asked the King “Why? Why does it frighten you?”
No one has been reported as asking Kiingi Tuheitia anything
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June 1, 2024 9:09am
- virtualmark
  
  Parliaments tend to take power away from Kings.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:51am
- John Loveridge
  
  The Tainui King would be frightened by his own shadow.
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:53am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He is frightened because if they have to pay for it by their selves
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:21pm
- PurplePen
  
  Turns out there’s been two maybe 3 attempts over the last 180 years by Maori to have a separate legislature. Who knew. Read it somewhere but can’t remember any detail.
  
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  June 1, 2024 1:34pm
- kowtow
  
  Anything to do with internecine maori tribalism .
  
  The imbeciles pushing for this parliament are northeners while the self described “king” is Waikato .
  
  Our legacy te media paahti rarely if ever allude to what could be deep , old , rivalries among Maori tribes , as they want us to think of them , not as individual citizens but as a collective “nation” , which they aren’t.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:04pm
Sparrow

Something completely different but appropriate as it’s the King’s Birthday weekend. Always enjoyed Mark Feltons videos about WW11 his research is amazing. Just watched his “The Kings WW2 Secret-Did George V1 abuse his Power” You can feel Marks anger throughout the video and I joined him. Always regarded the Royal Family as a bunch of Germans foisted on Britain by a quirk of religious bigotry. It seems that George like his Nazi loving brother could not remove himself from his German roots. I wonder what those old soldiers remembering D Day would think of this, and my Dad who was part of the special forces who were the first to enter Bergen-Belsen. Recommend you watch the video.
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June 1, 2024 9:10am
- julesnzuk
  
  Slanderous, treasonous nonsense – there is no evidence of any of this.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:23am
- emmess
  
  Was going to upvote for the shout out to Mark Felton, he’s excellent
  But didn’t because of the weird 18th Century conspiracy theory
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:54am
- Sparrow
  
  I know many on this blog down tick Mike as a matter of principle. I am intrigued why people down tick but certainly support their right to do so. Can I ask why was my blog down ticked ? Was it because it could be seen as anti German or anti Royal Family. It’s a fact that the Hanoverians ascended the English crown on being the only Protestants who had any connection to the crown. Have the down tickers watched the video ?
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:36am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Sparrow,
    Don’t take it personally, there are some here who downtick because they find some facts uncomfortable or inconvenient to their emotion based opinion.
    And its anonymous , so they can hide and not have to substantiate their position with something as inconvenient as a counter argument .
    Don’t forget also that the last book most of them read was Dick and Jane…
    
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    June 1, 2024 1:48pm
- kowtow
  
  George VI wanted to be at the landings and Churchill had to work hard to deny him the privelige .
  The Nazi Blitz bombed his home in London allowing the Royals to be able to personally identify with their suffering subjects.
  
  One man’s religious “bigotry” is another man’s political freedom. By having a Protestant royal family under the control of parliament, Britain escaped the worst of French absolutism , the resulting terror and wars of the revolution and political instability that has dogged France since.
  
  While Felton’s videos ( and books) are excellent always remember he needs an audience and the more controversial one is , the better .
  
  God Save The King.
  
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  June 1, 2024 12:13pm
  - Mod88
    
    Other way around, Churchill wanted to be at the landings and King George VI had to intervene at the behest of Field Marshal Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) reference D-Day – The Battle For Normandy by Antony Beevor.
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:40pm
    - kowtow
      
      Nope .
      
      Churchill . by Robert Andrews .
      
      “At lunch with the King in late May , Churchill said he was going to be on one of the warships bombarding Normandy on D Day. The King was not surprised by this , and suggested that he would like to go too, to which Churchill ‘reacted well’. The Queen supported the idea , but Lascelles Ismay , Eisenhower and crucially Admiral Ramsay , the overall commander of the naval side of Overlord, were all adamantly opposed to either of them going ……..’
      
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      June 1, 2024 6:04pm
- Geri Sjovik
  
  Have you ever watched WW II history presented by TIKhistory.
  
  A 9 hour marathon on the battle of Gazala if you watch them all at once.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Sparrow, Felton’s WW2 material, especially Nazi German which he thrives on, is well researched.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:29pm
- Jack5
  
  Sparrow’s …. Always regarded the Royal Family as a bunch of Germans foisted on Britain by a quirk of religious bigotry …
  
  The German influence of the current Royal family is tiny compared with the effect of Britain having a Germanic language. Estimates of the proportion of Anglo-Saxon words in English ranges from 20 to 35 per cent, and the language structure is West Germanic.
  
  The language vocabulary has been greatly expanded by words from French and Latin, but four-fifths or more of the core, everyday thousand or so words in English are Germanic.
  
  The Oxford-led study linked to below is nine years old, and may have been diluted a little by recent immigration. It shows that almost 30 per cent of the DNA in the British population comes from the ancestors of modern-day Germans.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/18/genetic-study-30-percent-white-british-dna-german-ancestry#:~:text=Genetic%20study%20reveals%2030%25%20of%20white%20British%20DNA%20has%20German%20ancestry,-This%20article%20is&text=The%20Romans%2C%20Vikings%20and%20Normans,of%20British%20people%20has%20revealed.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:37pm
Yvette

“While (ACT Party leader David) Seymour and his mates talk about trying to destroy the Treaty, rather than engage in that nonsense, we want to have positive, hope-fuelled, mokopuna-centred conversations about what their future is going to look like and not have any white noise in the room”
– John Tamihere

John Tamihere, the man working on te Hoiho Torotiana – the Trojan Horse
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June 1, 2024 9:19am
- Yvette
  
  “… and not have any white noise in the room”
  
  William Mcewan, Margaret Mcewan (born Donnelly) > Ruby Tamihere (born McEwen) Wife of John Hamil Tamihere – Mother of David Wayne Tamihere; John Tamihere
  John Tamihere was born in Auckland on 8 February 1959, the 11th of 13 children of John Hamil Tamihere and Ruby Elaine Tamihere (née McEwen)
  
  DNA-denial?
  
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  June 1, 2024 9:33am
- John Loveridge
  
  And how Maori actually is John Tamihere, who seems to become increasingly racist as time goes by?
  
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  June 1, 2024 11:54am
- Damocles11
  
  Q. Why is Tamihere taking aim at Seymour?
  
  A. Because Seymour is the only one looking to take action. Winston is sounding off before his next trip overseas. Luxon is missing in action.
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:41pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350289342/trade-union-forced-huge-payout-sacked-staffer

If you still think Unions are on the side of the worker, I suggest you read this.
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June 1, 2024 9:27am
- peterwn
  
  Not at all surprised. Senior union officials resent members and others who get up their noses. Just look at the way they behave when they get into Parliament.
  
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  June 1, 2024 10:05am
Jack5

The US Supreme Court has revived a National Rifle Association law suit alleging a New York regulator unlawfully attempted to blacklist the organisation.

The Wall Street Journal reports Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for a unanimous court, said a former state official may have violated America’s constitutional First Amendment by urging banks and insurers to cut ties with the gun-rights group.

This reverses a Federal Appeals Court finding.

The NRA’s complaint, filed six years ago, alleged Maria Vullo, then superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, coerced companies to cut business with the group.

After a school shooting in 2018, Vullo told the insurer Lloyds of London that it wanted Lloyds to “dissociate” from all gun groups.

The NRA alleged banks once keen to do business with it became frightened to provide it with basic services.

The American Civil Liberties Union represented the NRA, saying First Amendment principles were at stake.
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June 1, 2024 9:32am
Surely Knott

Young woman dies of an asthma attack in 2020 because an ambulance arrives 20 minutes late.

The specific date of her death is not given by media or the health and disability commisioners full report. Just early 2020.

Health and disability commission and the herald report that it was a Triage issue. That the dispatcher marked it as code orange not code red.

But in the whole report, they never mention, covid, lockdowns, or the increased protocols or demand in 2020. Are you seriously saying that didn’t delay the response?

Were there a shortage of oxygen concentrators? Because in June 2020 RNZ reported some countries were reporting shortages of medical oxygen.

What date did this young lady die? This is an incomplete report. And there should be an independent enquiry. The govt shouldn’t be investigating itself. Did the extreme protocols of covid cost lives.

This NZ Doctor article mentions, “longer times for ambulance crews to complete 111 call-outs due to additional safety precautions that must be taken both at the scene, during transport and at hospital.” Also a 17% increase in callouts for breathing problems.

“https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/undoctored/st-john-releases-ambulance-data-2021

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mothers-anguish-after-tauranga-ambulance-arrives-too-late-to-save-asthmatic-daughter/ZTIHCOFHE5CBLNFWNXJZKUSVVA/
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June 1, 2024 9:48am
- kowtow
  
  Excellent points raised there .
  
  Brings to mind “if you don’t read the papers you’re uninformed , if you do you’re misinformed”.
  
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  June 1, 2024 1:19pm
- cmm
  
  No system is ever going to always make perfect decisions because there are always elements of unknown, probability and risk assessments.
  
  Triage can generally make the right decisions (eg. prioritising the high risk over the low risk), but that does not mean risk is eliminated.
  
  It is fine to review incidents so long as the intention is to focus on improving the processes, but if all that they are trying to do is hand out blame for specific incidents then this just becomes witch hunting – and counter productive.
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:31pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Sure. But how could you investigate A medical performance issue in 2020 without even considering covid protocols or covid lockdowns and their impact on response time.
    
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    June 1, 2024 2:48pm
- MCōs
  
  You’re making shit up to suit your own agenda.
  
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  June 1, 2024 4:27pm
  - Ghost
    
    Yes she is. It doesn’t matter when this girl died, the fact she has taken this persons death to push her crap is disgusting
    
    The report is very obvious what happened. It had nothing to do with the lock down which had gone to level 1 when this girl died (wasn’t hard to find when she died). The ambulance that was near by was sent on a break, it wasn’t busy.
    
    These posts where people don’t give a damn about the grieving family, twists things to fit their agenda are disgusting
    
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    June 1, 2024 4:39pm
    - Surely Knott
      
      Push what crap ghost. Why can’t I have an opinion on issues of the day and front page news article? That’s what general debate is for.
      
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      June 2, 2024 12:03am
      - Ghost
        
        Opinion, you are making shit up and distorting the facts to push an agenda which is obvious. You do this constantly. Also constantly show a lack of ability to have compassion for the people who are in the articles that you use to push your agenda. It states in the article and in the report the fault was with the emergency caller who wrongly classified the call but no you have to make shit up and make this about Covid, about the government, grow up. A lady lost her daughter because of a fuck up by the 111 call centre, it’s nothing you have imagined and want to push here. It’s vile the way you use these people’s deaths to push your agenda.
        
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        June 2, 2024 12:14am
  - Surely Knott
    
    I’m not making shit up. I’m asking why key information isn’t included in a review. Why covid protocols aren’t mentioned in 2020. And no it’s not easy to find the date of her death. I looked up and read the original report and didn’t find it. How dare ghost accuse me of not caring about this young lady. I care very much. Censorship isn’t caring. Last month I got the same crap from you two who work in tandem for asking about a dog bite death. It’s important to society to ask questions and know the truth. How do you to tag team these responses 5 minutes apart , are you both mods on this site?
    
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    June 2, 2024 12:01am
    - Ghost
      
      No you are making shit up or you are too dumb to comprehend what is right in front of you. You lack any compassion for the suffering the people are going through while you try to push a childish agenda. It is none of your business when this girl died. An investigation was done into the circumstances around the cock up with the call centre. You don’t care about this girl or the other people in articles you post. The only time you even show any thought for them is when people point it out to you of how cold and uncaring you are.
      
      Actually it was very easy to find out when she died. It’s none of your god damn business when she died but it was in the middle of July when the country was at level 1. The ambulance was not busy as was stated in the report the call was not considered a priority and they were sent on their break despite the fact they were close by.
      
      There is no censorship. Grow up. This lady has lost her daughter and your arrogance and ignorance does not help her.
      
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      June 2, 2024 12:19am
      - Surely Knott
        
        Your posts are personal attacks and weirdly stalky.
        
        We are allowed to discuss why people die. That is why there is an investigation. Because it’s in the public interest and important for health response understanding.
        
        I didn’t say anything anything at all that would be construed as unkind about the person who died. My question is why wasn’t the covid response mentioned in a report on why ambulances are delayed in 2020. It is weird because Covid was an unprecedented health issue and response.
        
        And re the dog bite issue on a previous post, I asked why the breed wasn’t disclosed. And you went off that I shouldnt be talking about a person who died right after they died. Well it’s now 6 months later and we still don’t know. So if breed. Was a factor in the death the public don’t have that information. And your suggestion is I shouldn’t ask in case it offends someone.
        
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        June 2, 2024 7:55am
      - Ghost
        
        No the posts are pointing out your lack of compassion, your agenda in using people’s deaths and your inability to get your facts right. You constantly do this without a thought for the people involved. It’s disgusting. Again you fail to comprehend anything, the Covid response had nothing to do with this, your inability to read the report or article and comprehend what it says either shows you are stupid or just want to lie. It openly states that the caller fucked up, the caller didn’t send the ambulance that was close by and instead they were sent on break. But no that isn’t good enough for you. You need to make shit up and blame Covid, blame the government. You lack the ability of personal responsibility.
        
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        June 2, 2024 9:34am
    - Ghost
      
      And actually your post about the dog bite was October 2023, not last month, can you get anything right? And it was again your inability to actually have compassion for the person who died. You didn’t care one bit about the death, you were just having your usual whinge about the media not listing the breed of the dog. Pathetic. Perhaps get your facts right, Mcos didn’t even comment on that post.
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/10/general_debate_14_october_2023.html/comment-page-1#comment-3453473
      
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      June 2, 2024 1:15am
greenfinger

Hey, to those who are paying their hard earned cash to the unions, did you see how E Tu got done in for wrongful dismissal? And you are paying for the Union’s gross inept!! Time to quit your membership!!
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June 1, 2024 10:17am
- Mike
  
  Interesting. And if KFC were prosecuted for poor food handling, would you boycott McDonald’s?
  
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  June 1, 2024 2:40pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    If MacD’s were also prosecuted for poor food handling, quite possibly. Get it Milky?
    
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    June 1, 2024 7:26pm
Ra Henare

I have been following kiwiblog for more than a dozen years.

It occurs to me that it has become a negativity pool for the 32 regular commenters who see negativity in everything.
Perhaps they had a challenging childhood.
The Neuro Science. Jump to 8:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn8Egjp_bm0

So away with you cursed negatives.
Just think, at this moment(that occurs every day).

Happiness is everywhere.

Whether it be a couple getting their rocks off.

The birth of a long awaited baby

Or the joy on the face of a toddler when it is their birthday.

For me, from now an attempt to find 2 happy stories(minimum) to offset the doom and gloom merchants.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/alaskan-inventor-is-3d-printing-tidal-power-generators-for-houseboats-just-drop-anchor-and-power-on/

Love the yellow!
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June 1, 2024 3:03pm
- MCōs
  
  I heard a fascinating story with a happy ending on RNZ about 5.30 this morning
  Someone from the BBC interviewed a Nepalese guy who had the job of lugging a suitcase full of kit to the summit of Mt Everest to measure it’s altitude and exact location
  He spent two hours collecting readings in -40° and set off back down again. He was absolutely buggered and went to sleep in the snow for a couple of hours.
  Fortunately someone gave him a kick in the arse and woke him up otherwise he would have died. As it was he had frost bitten fingers and toes, but he managed to get far enough down the mountain to where he could be helicoptered out.
  The height of Everest was the same as the last time the measured it twelve years previously
  
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  June 1, 2024 4:47pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Stop picking on Mike and his VPNs
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:37pm
cmm

Anyone hoping for massive changes in South Africa’s general election (now 96% counted) will be sorely disappointed.

There is virtually no change in outcome since the last election in 2019. About the only real difference is that voter participation is down even further with only around 35% of eligible voters bothering to get registered and then vote.

The ruling ANC party scored 57% in the last, 2019, election. The ANC has always been highly factionalised (even going back to the 1960s all the way through apartheid). This election they have fragmented into two separate parties who, combined still got 55% of the vote and will undoubtedly work together to continue their looting and mis-management.

The hot-headed EFF lost some support which surprised be a bit – likely their members joined the disillusioned 65% or so who didn’t vote.

So it looks like a continuation of business as usual – where business is primarily corruption and looting, slowly, and possibly inevitably, taking South Africa down the same road as the rest of Africa.
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June 1, 2024 3:20pm
- westernScientist
  
  With the loss from EFF, it is quite possible they will not be a viable coalition partner. Might not change much except that ANC effectively have no where else to go except to MK, which could be interesting to watch, having to shear a trough will be a new experience for them. MK might extract a pretty heavy price – like kicking Ramaphosa to the curb if the ANC’s only other alternative is the DA.
  
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  June 1, 2024 4:49pm
Ghost

Isn’t AI amazing, you can learn so much

For example

5 to 10 cockroaches will crawl into a man’s penis each year, which is how it got its name cockroaches….

For the woman, doctors recommend when you are pregnant to smoke 2 to 3 cigarettes a day….

Pizza lovers who have a problem with the cheese. Good news just add 1/8 of a cup of non toxic glue to your cheese….

Now here is one that is not very well known. Adam and Eve had two sons named Ren and Stimpy

Article
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June 1, 2024 5:08pm
- Mike
  
  So much garbage. That AI could write whole articles for Zero Hedge
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:28pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Occasional garbage and some very prescient and right on the money. Try reading it Milky.
    
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    June 1, 2024 7:27pm
- greybeard
  
  Jacinda Ardern must have been one of their main programmers.
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:34pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Where is that cockroach in your system now Ghost?
  There are also earwigs – craw in one ear and out the other…
  Trouble is they lay eggs.
  Baaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh nnnnoooooo nooooo fuck ffffffff!
  
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  June 1, 2024 5:41pm
  - Ghost
    
    I wonder if google ai knows where the ballcock came from…..
    
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    June 1, 2024 5:45pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Ball is the float, cock is the valve. AI would totally screw that up!
      
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      June 3, 2024 9:16am
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  I was wondering what you were smoking until I clicked on the link and realized you just quoted a few words from that link.
  
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  June 1, 2024 7:01pm
Tony Stuart

Trump is now raising US$2 million an hour since yesterday’s verdict, and his organisers claim that 30% of those giving donations are new donors. If that’s true, the 34 guilty verdicts might be producing unintended consequences.
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