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Yvette

Graham Adams: Rawiri Waititi’s gift to the coalition
The government is always going to win a showdown between order and anarchy.
Not every government is lucky enough to be gifted a parliamentary opponent who effortlessly makes its leaders look sagacious and principled. Someone who immediately makes them look competent and sane in comparison, and very much the adults in the room.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/graham-adams-rawiri-waititi-s-gift-to-the-coalition

Labour, in over 70 hui nationwide, targeted (their word) Maori for input on “Co-governance”, and when that feedback was approved by Willie Jackson (who delayed the progress at a point when he was not happy with material) it was to be presented to Cabinet. But Jackson missed doing that, and with the Election due, it was all shoved on the back-burner for when their hopes of being re-elected would have likely seen the move resurrected.

That did not happen, so on what shelf does all that material still supposedly sit.

Why is it not relevant now that Constitutional Change is being discussed, again, by ‘te Iwi Maori’.
See – https://nwo.org.nz/resources/report-of-matike-mai-aotearoa-the-independent-working-group-on-constitutional-transformation/

Where is any value of taxpayer funding that went into the Jackson consultations?
Where even is any ‘brief’ of what was even consulted on?

Some Maori, according to Willie Jackson, threaten war (presumably civil-war) over any attempt to change the Treaty of Waitangi, but apparently ‘Maori’ have been to hui, at least 252 of them between 2012 and 2015, with the aim of Constitutional Transformation – “constitutional transformation” rather than “constitutional change” they say – but what is “transformation” if it is not “change” – plus Willie’s belated “consultation”.

But regardless of that, and following on perhaps from what Graham Adams writes, as well as “Rawiri Waititi’s gift to the coalition”, some Maori have been working on “constitutional transformation”, while others or the some group threaten they will go to war (and what war does not involve violence of some kind) if David Seymour suggests a debate about any change.
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June 6, 2024 8:00am
- jkt
  
  Let them speak.🗣️
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:53am
  - Keith White
    
    Yeah, Stetsonoid McScribbleface is the Che Gummy of his age.
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:01pm
- Grunter
  
  NZ is a very safe place to live by world standards. But if any one thing was ever going to tip us over the edge this is it. Therefore it needs to be shut down immediately before it gains real momentum.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:43am
  - jkt
    
    Just shine a light on it.
    Shining a light on it will shut this down.
    Let them speak.🗣️
    A fool who speaks can no longer pretend to not be a fool. (Replace “fool” with idiot, racist, terrorist, Marxist, sexist, feminist, chauvinist……)
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:36pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Oh dear Grunter
    You must be living in the past.
    
    NZ has fallen off the very safe place to live index.
    Check the latest murder per 100,000 figures.
    
    NZ not as safe as UK or Cambodia and many many other countries
    But Safer than USA & Russia.
    
    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?most_recent_value_desc=false
    
    PS. I am happy to walk around Cambodian cities and feel safe.at midnight,
    No bloody way I would walk around Auckland, Wellington at midnight.
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:21pm
  - Scooter
    
    Is it really? How many people would feel safe walking alone anywhere? Just look at this site, NZ murder rate in 2019 is 2.6%, Australia is 0.89% just as a comparison. Not to mention ram raids, daily robberies etc in shopping malls. Hate to imagine what the figures are up to now in 2024.
    
    https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/world/murder-homicide-rate
    
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    June 6, 2024 4:26pm
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      I would call bullshit on those figures.
      This is area (comparative crime rates for various crimes) that I have done a lot of work on over several decades. I have looked at various databases on the murder rate of the two countries. It is basically the same for both countries at 1.3 per 100,000, which was pretty much what I expected.
      New Zealand and Australia have broadly the same overall offending rates, though we have been drifting above Australia for a number of years. There is no way that New Zealand has triple the murder rate of Australia.
      Sorry, I have not done the links.
      
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      June 6, 2024 7:59pm
    - Ghost
      
      I feel safe walking alone. Since I was a teenager I’ve gone for walks after midnight. I’ve never felt unsafe.
      
      I know people like to think things are bad here, but they aren’t as bad as some want to make out. I was in a car accident recently. Several cars stopped to look after us. The idiot that hit us wrote our car off. Police were amazing, looked after us, then drove us home. Neighbour’s have been amazing. There are some bad apples in the bunch but we can’t judge nz because of them
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:07pm
peterwn

See:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-born-baby-denied-passport-and-permanent-visa-in-bureaucratic-red-tape/K3UJSQDFLJENPBXPGUK3Q3W33E/

This is yet another example of a department (MBIE/Immigration) taking the micky out of its Minister and the elected Government. An infant born in NZ faces deportation for bullshit bureaucratic reasons. Once upon a time a person born in NZ was a NZ citizen by birth despite background circumstances. This led to an abuse where a woman would come to NZ on a visitor’s visa or the like so her child would be a NZ citizen. The Government of the day wanted to close that loophole so legislated the circumstances under which a child bore in NZ would be regarded as a NZ citizen. There was concern at the time that this could mean a child born in NZ could be ‘stateless’ and an assurance was given that the legislation would not operate to leave a child born in NZ ‘stateless’. Over the years Immigration has built up various processes around the law with bright lines deadlines etc to facilitate administration of that law.
In the current situation the child is not theoretically ‘stateless’ as it is possible for the child to claim citizenship and hence obtain a passport. If the child has such a passport Immigration will consider granting the child NZ residency. However in practice it is almost impossible for the child to obtain such a passport so the child is virtually ‘stateless’.
The problem arose because the parents were not ‘residents’ at the time the child was born but their residency came through five days later. Even if Immigration considers it cannot grant the child residency for its bureaucratic reasons it can always submit to the Immigration Minister to sign off on residency.
This is the sort of thing that can annoy the heck out of voters and lead to the Government losing an election. The Bolger/Shipley government lost the 1999 election to Helen Clark because of a whole series of stupid things like this.
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June 6, 2024 8:02am
- Media hater
  
  Yes Peterwn due to the slowness of the Russian passport office in not issuing a passport to this mum and child (so that Immigration can issue a visa to the child), I definitely intend to punish the government and vote for the Labour or Green party at the next election (sarc).
  
  Of course if your rant wasn’t enough to persuade me, just seeing the adorable photo of the child in the NZ Herald was enough to have me demanding Immigration should just grant a residence visa without delay (sarc, again).
  
  Do you honestly believe that this child will be deported, rather than just having to wait a while for the passport situation to sort itself out?
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:48am
  - Ghost
    
    I saw the photo of the baby and wondered who would put that necklace on a baby. Hope baby doesn’t chew on it
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:53am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It’s presumably a Baltic amber teething necklace.
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:19am
      - Ghost
        
        It looks like a choking hazard. Read up on it, it’s too long on that baby
        
        A good, standard length for an amber teething necklace is 30 centimeters or approximately 12 inches. This fit isn’t too tight to cause discomfort, but also not too long where baby is more inclined to bite, play, or get tangled in it.
        
        Article
        
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        June 6, 2024 10:28am
  - MCōs
    
    The point is the kid can’t leave the country because it can’t get a passport to leave the country to get a passport.
    The kid’s obviously not going to be deported.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:06am
    - peterwn
      
      In other words, immigration staff are on a ‘make work’ scheme to try and keep their jobs, hence taking the micky out of their Minister. A reasonable decision maker would recognise reality (that the child could not be deported) and get the matter sorted as expeditiously as possible instead of making the Responsible Minister (Hon Erica Stanford) look an idiot. And the decision maker should remember that ‘hell hath no fury as a woman’s scorn’.
      I remember my boss complaining about the Staff Clerk (before they were called HR). He would go to the Staff Clerk with a problem. The Staff Clerk proceeded to tell him all the ways the problem could not be solved but could not advise how the problem could be sorted.
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:49am
      - peterwn
        
        It also occurred to me that Immigration staff are ‘Gaslighting’ this family.They are there to serve the people especially citizens and residents, not the bureaucracy. ‘Gaslighting’ clients is just not on. It almost seems they are dishing out informal punishments to this unfortunate family.
        
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        June 6, 2024 11:43am
      - Media hater
        
        They are in the process of applying for a Russian passport through the mother. So again, just a matter of sitting tight before INZ can issue a visa. The slowness of the Russian authorities is hardly INZ fault.
        
        Immigration will probably issue a temporary visa into a Certificate of Identity in August when the current visa is due to expire if a passport has not been issued by then.
        
        I still don’t understand why you have gone on such an emotional rant on the topic, including now claiming that INZ are gaslighting the family as a form of punishment.
        Just an unfortunate circumstance that will ultimately be resolved.
        
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        June 6, 2024 12:56pm
      - Paulus
        
        Looks currently that most Government Departments are taking the Mickey out of their Ministers.
        They hate anybody messing with their lifestyle so will ign0re any Ministerial edicts.
        They are afraid as we are seeing that the people getting outed in any restructuring are non conformists to the Department Managers and CEO edicts – the wrong people are getting done.
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:39pm
  - jkt
    
    A rational agent will make the right call.
    
    One would have thought that most officers working at immigration should be able to make this decision.
    
    However, we know that not all people (few?) have unbiased rational agency. Therefore, we need a process to ensure that the best decisions are made.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:08am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Who is going to jail?
Some of those Judges and Prosecutors could be flight risks!

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-floats-jailing-his-opponents-and-hillary-if-he-wins-in-2024/ar-BB1nH3Cl?
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June 6, 2024 8:03am
- artemisia
  
  Sow the wind and ….
  From Alex Berenson’s substack 5 June –
  
  As the New York Times wrote [paywalled] this morning: Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York… G.O.P. leaders in and out of government have demanded that elected Republicans use every available instrument of power against Democrats, including targeted investigations and prosecutions.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:37am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Merchan and his Jury of Democrat goons should never have been allowed.
    Engoron and his no Jury trial! Neither side asked for a Jury he said.
    Hillary? One of the most dangerous women on the planet.
    Then there are all of the prosecutors. The whole thing is Biden admin Election Interference.
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:09am
    - jkt
      
      Lock her up, lock her up …… everything in the world will be fine if we just lock her up! //
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:10am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Need to lock them all up, not just Killary.
        
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        June 6, 2024 11:50am
      - jkt
        
        Steve:
        Do you think the American gun lobby is contributing to Hunter Biden’s defence?
        It will be devastating if drugged up, lying Americans are denied the right to carry guns!
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:42pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        America does not have a gun problem.
        It has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.
        Look around NZ. Who has the guns? Who gets given $2.75M to sort the drug problem of those with mental health problems?
        Oh, no shit, it is those with the guns.
        A 10 year old can work this out ffs.
        
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        June 6, 2024 5:58pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Niue is a good case study for renewable energy. Perhaps they should switch off the diesel & rely on wind, solar and battery only. Being a Pacific island, I’m sure they’re worried about rising sea levels – for their low-lying neighbours if not for themselves.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/nz-government-to-contribute-more-than-20-million-to-niue-for-renewable-energy-project.html
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June 6, 2024 8:05am
- cmm
  
  More importantly they should switch off the filthy colonial money.
  
  Draw me a picture why we’re making hand outs?
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:10am
  - jkt
    
    Surely additional energy will be useful in an energy poor area.
    
    Give a man a fish or show a man how to fish?
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:15am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Because they are a clayton’s colony. Fortunately there are only about 850 actual residents on Niue. But there are 17,000 in Auckland, and they reliably vote Labour!
    
    Apparently it is vital they have a jet service, a jetty and cellphones. All paid for by you.
    
    QED.
    
    If only we treated remote settlements on the East Coast and in Northland as generously as we treat Niueans!
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:21am
    - Paulus
      
      Jacinda’s father was appointed the sort of NZ CEO of Niue, but there no longer.
      
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      June 6, 2024 1:41pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I thought he was up on another Island that you can only get to by boat – like a Navy Boat that always happens to be available.
        He flies there to another Island first of course (really?)
        
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        June 6, 2024 6:03pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Keeps the CCP out
    
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    June 6, 2024 7:42pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Niue is one of highest raised coral reefs in the World. I think it will be around for quite a few Millenia……unless someone starts mining it.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:24am
  - Master Mariner
    
    In fact most Atoll Islands are growing,
    
    Remember the speech in the water from Tuvulu?
    
    Here’s the facts, It has grown by 74 hectares.
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-growing/10627318
    
    Niue, Like you said is not going anywhere.
    https://niuepocketguide.com/how-was-niue-formed/
    
    The interesting thing too me at least is the fact there appears to be Soft Science promoting Climate Change and real science contradicting the previous claim.
    
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    June 6, 2024 12:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

MTG has Fauci in the crosshairs.
He should be in jail. Fauci is getting many more death threats now.
Wait, how many deaths is he responsible for (gain of function)

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/marjorie-taylor-greene-s-brutal-attack-on-dr-fauci-sparks-new-wave-of-death-threats/ss-BB1nFEhr?
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June 6, 2024 8:06am
- jkt
  
  I agree.
  MTG is an idiot.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If you say so jkt.
    She has a lot of clout and ain’t scared of anything.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:52am
    - Mike
      
      She ain’t scared of making an idiot of herself.
      
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      June 6, 2024 12:45pm
      - jkt
        
        Whenever, she opens her mouth!
        She carries stupid gene.🧬
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:48pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        So you and Jkt against me. 2 – 1, so you must be right.
        Thime for a beer.
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:50pm
      - jkt
        
        A beer will be 😎
        Let’s drink to your health. … I thought I was fighting on your side.
        
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        June 6, 2024 3:31pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        MTG IS an idiot
        But so is AOC, Maxine Waters, Rashaid Tlaib, Eric Swalwell, ‘Gold Bar’ Bob Menendez, Jerry ‘the wadler’ Nadler, Kamala ‘the cackler’ Harris et al
        There ain’t no shortage of idiots in US politics- or elsewhere.
        
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        June 6, 2024 4:03pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      jkt @ 3.31. You confuse me but I know why
      
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      June 6, 2024 6:06pm
      - jkt
        
        🍻
        
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        June 6, 2024 8:17pm
    - blue collar
      
      Love mtg , she just feeds it to the woke wowsers , couldn’t give a fat rats about haters , n fully sends it right up the snowflakes haemorrhoid riddled barking spiders .
      Champion of the free speaking , no fear , get that up ya common man 👌
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:01pm
alex Masterley

Today is the 80th Anniversary of D Day.
Lest we forget.
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June 6, 2024 8:06am
- Maggie Pie
  
  “We are eternally in their debt”
  
  – King Charles.
  
  (My great-grandad was there for 6 years 1939 – 45)
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:20am
  - alex Masterley
    
    My father in law was in the Medical Corps for a good part of the war.
    He served in the Desert and in Italy.
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:57am
    - Maggie Pie
      
      I’ve got my ggd’s photo album. He was in Egypt and
      Italy as well. My fave pics are of him at the Cairo zoo.
      
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      June 6, 2024 9:06am
      - Colville
        
        My Gdad was in the Pacific … no photos and he didnt talk about it at all….but we do have a Japanese kit bag with some rather gruesome souvin..ears… if you get my drift.
        
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        June 6, 2024 10:48am
  - Mike
    
    Did you sort out his medals ok?
    
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    June 6, 2024 12:49pm
- Paulus
  
  Yes, wife reminds me her Dad was there – have some photos waiting prior to take off.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:43pm
Rusty

It was 80 years ago today June 6 1944. D day/ Operation Overlord. The Allies liberation of Nazi occupied Europe.

The planning and logistics are still mind boggling today.
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June 6, 2024 8:07am
- kowtow
  
  The western Allies did liberate the territories they invaded . The Reds , not so much .
  
  Lest We Forget.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:06am
  - Rusty
    
    @kowtow – Poor old Poland 6 years under evil Nazism and 44 years under evil communism.
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:40pm
- Jethrod
  
  All done without computers and AI
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:42am
  - Mike
    
    IBM punch cards.
    
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    June 6, 2024 12:49pm
Maggie Pie

Bet Willy’s phone was ringing hot hot hot last nite 😀
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June 6, 2024 8:09am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, this may well create a large rift between the left. Apparently Labour had already complained, but sat back publicly. Willie would have known exactly what was happening. It’s time real pressure went on his mate.
  
  If they can cheat like this, then who says they were not fiddling the box at night when early voting was happening?
  
  Hosking had a person advocating for the whistle blowers, he says what has happened also is tax payer money wax paying for all of this through MSD
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:15am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Apparently Labour had already complained, but sat back publicly.’
    
    Makes one wonder if they got their mates / proxies in te media paahti to blow it open then .
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:09am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      They complained that a code for texting came from the same code asking for TPM vote as it did with Covid jab code, it means it came from the same source and they knew and never told the public
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:46am
- pdm
  
  Maggie I cannot think of anyone who would want to talk to `little Willie’.
  
  Especially as Tuku ūnderpants’ Morgan seems to be running his own crusade.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:18am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Note the so called revolution has gone very quiet
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:20am
    - jkt
      
      That is an early call!
      But yes, it was probably a stunt.
      
      Let them speak.🗣️
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:21am
  - artemisia
    
    According to Graham Adams, some will be definitely wanting to talk to little Willie and others on the left about Rawiri Waititi. And not in a good way.
    
    … it looks as if he [RW] may become a thorn in the side of Labour and the Greens, who are on notice for their refusal to call out his overt racism.
    
    https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/graham-adams-rawiri-waititi-s-gift-to-the-coalition
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:32am
    - Conservatarian
      
      From Adams’ piece referencing NewShub’s Lloyd Burr interviewing Marama Davidson and David Seymour on the “day of national action” called by Te Ethno-Nationalist Party and its guns n’ fire imagery:
      
      …Asked by Burr whether Waititi’s references to a “white government, white Budget, and white economy” sat well with her, Davidson wouldn’t answer directly, saying only that the government was “one of the most anti-Māori and anti-Tiriti governments we’ve ever seen”. Asked again, Davidson was similarly evasive, leading David Seymour to ask her testily: “How hard is it to call out racism?”
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:56am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Why is he called ‘underpants’ 😳?
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:35am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      He spent public funds on buying Hugo Boss underpants – google Tuku Morgan and Underpants for full story.
      
      Basically another with an inflated sense of importance and public money is his by right
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:47am
      - jkt
        
        In the Marxist tradition.
        
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        June 6, 2024 10:25am
      - Sparrow
        
        Never realised they were Hugo Boss knickers. He is in good company with the Gestapo their uniforms were made by Hugo Boss.
        
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        June 6, 2024 11:36am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      You can google tuku morgan underpants. It was a long time ago but has never gone away.
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:48am
    - wsk12345
      
      He bought some $89 boxer shorts on his taxpayer expenses a few decades ago. Back when $89 was a really useful amount of money, like enough to feed a family for a week.
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:48am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      When an MP he spent $80 on expensive underpants on the Govt cc.
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:48am
      - imalwaysright
        
        The good ‘ol days when MPs paid for their shopping.
        
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        June 6, 2024 9:28am
    - RoboRob
      
      Because he got in BIG trouble for buying expensive (at the time) silk underpants with tax payers money.
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:49am
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘Former New Zealand First MP Tukoroirangi Morgan also raised a storm when the scale of his expenses claims as a director of Aotearoa Television were revealed, including a pair of $89 silk boxer shorts. ‘
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/cab-bills-and-silk-boxers/
      
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      June 6, 2024 8:50am
      - Conservatarian
        
        The link didn’t work for me. But I recall the publicly funded Maori TV station quickly collapsed in a sea of incompetence and financial mismanagement (read outright corruption). I see Wikipedia described the reason for the collapse somewhat differently: “Insufficient funding and related uncertainties resulted in the closure of this pilot service in early 1997”
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa_Television_Network
        
        In the midst of the publicity of the collapse (somewhere around 1997 as I was then studying at a race Marxist learning facility), it was revealed Tuku Morgan had expensive taste in smallgoods. Note the luxury underwear prices from the mid 90s too.
        
        Of course, he was quickly forgiven by the Grievance-Industrial Complex and promoted.
        
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        June 6, 2024 9:04am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Silk boxers to match his silk ties.
        
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        June 6, 2024 9:11am
      - softail 1450
        
        All On Red , With inflation that’d probably be $160,00 in 2024 what a POS that guy was and still is,💲💲💲
        
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        June 6, 2024 9:13am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Be bought very expensive boxers and the tax payer paid, $90 a pair way back in the 90s
      
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      June 6, 2024 9:17am
    - Nukuleka
      
      For someone who offers many opinions about NZ life your ignorance of our culture and history is at times mind- boggling, Ben.
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:56am
      - Ghost
        
        What? The underpants happened in 1997. It’s a minor thing that no immigrant will know about.
        
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        June 6, 2024 11:02am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        If I recall, the underpants story was only one of a series of issues involving NZ First MPs at that time.
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:59pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Sick leave to be pro rated for part timers. Work part time / 50%, accrue 5 days being 50% of the standard 10 days for full timers. Couldn’t be fairer, eh? Not according to the usual hacks.

From the reporting to date, it’s not clear how it applies those, like teachers, who have unlimited sick leave. Work one day per week, get 20% of unlimited sick leave – not bad!

http://www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/05/annual-sick-leave-changes-mooted-as-govt-seeks-holidays-act-certainty/
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June 6, 2024 8:15am
- RoboRob
  
  The current law, as I udnerstand it, is ridiculously unfair on employers and fulltime employees.
  
  A person who works one day every two weeks (26 times a year) is entitled to 10 fully paid sick days. So they can theoretically only work 16 of their 26 days. If there worked once a month they could work only 2 of the 12 to take it to the extreme.
  
  Part time employees get the exact same # of days as someone working 5 (or 7) days a week. People much more likely to get sick on a work day.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:56am
  - jkt
    
    The sad reality is that many people who work these types of jobs or are employed in these types of jobs, often do not get to use their sick leave allocation.
    
    Example: Relieving teacher or similar job. (On call type jobs) …. If the worker is sick on a day that an employer needs a worker a sick that sick worker cannot in good conscience apply for the work on that day. If that worker does apply for the job and then call in 🤢.
    
    Sometimes shit happens. I do not think anyone can get this one right. Proportional favours businesses and fixed allocation favours some of the workers.
    
    Good employers and good workers will deal with this. Only problem is that good employers and good employees are not often matched if one tries to regulate it.
    
    Markets sorts this type of thing out but there will always be victims and those who are victims often choose victimhood.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:44am
- greybeard
  
  If I remember correctly, when working during school/uni holidays years ago my final pay would include holiday pay calculated as 6% of total wages. I don’t think sick pay came into it but I may be wrong.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:42am
  - jkt
    
    You are correct.
    
    And I think that is where the problem and the solution lie. Give sick leave a commercial value and it will have to be proportional to time contracted.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:45am
- Pineapple Lumps
  
  This is a good thing and it is not simply a case of good for the employer bad for the worker. All colleagues are adversely impacted by a worker with high absenteeism. It puts a strain on the whole team and drags down morale. Having good attendance at work is good for the employer and the majority of employees. The media aren’t recognising that with their reporting on this.
  
  I had a worker who worked part time 3 days per week. They used all their sick leave to look after sick children and didn’t share this responsibility with their more highly paid partner. They tried to gear their week to maximise public holidays paid as well. The end result of this is that they were absent a far higher percentage of their working days than the rest of the team. It impacted their performance and then they weren’t happy with no/low pay increases. Needless to say we didn’t look back when they left!
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:12pm
Cassandra

The Gaza hunger strike is over. The dieter has decided he’s better off alive. It was always a gimmick but now he’s a laughing stock.
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June 6, 2024 8:19am
- Bobba Fret
  
  There needs to be more public ridiculing of him to discourage others doing the same.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:36am
- Inandout
  
  Cass, the army of ex Shortland St actors is listed here. A lot of taxpayer money to boot.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shortland_Street_characters
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:37am
  - Ghost
    
    ‘Shortland Street’ is a commercially funded show (paid for entirely by TVNZ’s advertising revenue),” a spokesperson for the show told Stuff. “Like many businesses across Aotearoa, the current recessionary environment is having a big impact on TVNZ.”
    
    Article
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:41am
    - Graeme Hall
      
      It appears the taxpayer did fund this show for its first three years. I also had an idea that NZ-On-Air also kicked in money at times as well. Vaguely recall the people complaining in the media that such a popular TV show got public money.
      
      https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/25-05-2022/the-case-for-shortland-street-being-new-zealands-most-important-tv-show
      
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      June 6, 2024 9:45pm
      - Ghost
        
        Right at the start, that was 1992. The show has stood on its own feet since and out far more money into the economy than the funding it got in 3 years.
        
        Olsberg estimates Shortland Street’s economic impact over the 10 years to 2022 as being $227m in direct economic impact, with a further $262m in supply chain impacts, and another $59m generated through spending associated with wages earned on the show.
        
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        June 6, 2024 9:57pm
- Conservatarian
  
  The Spinoff has pronounced Will Alexander to be “willing to die” and thus an heroic honorary Gazan at the heart of the NZ’s Palestinian community (99% of which are white leftists): https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-06-2024/an-interview-with-will-alexander-who-was-willing-to-die-for-the-people-of-palestine
  
  From the article: “Alexander’s been busy since he announced his hunger strike at an Ōtautahi rally on May 18.”
  
  The location “Otautahi” apparently needs no synonym in the coloniser language. I guess “Otautahi” is probably a locality in the King Country but it could be a larger centre for all I know.
  
  It appears that if you are an Ardernist or otherwise a Gen Y / millenial leftist you have an encyclopaedic command of all the towns and cities that were apparently renamed since Year 0 (c. 2020).
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:42pm
- Ra Henare
  
  and how did he organise a photo from teh rubble in Gaza asking him to stop?
  
  Well organized …
  When he realized he was on a hiding to nowhere.
  
  And we let these fruitcakes, like Minto, teach!!!
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:35pm
Maggy Wassilieff

RNZ has spent a day trying to prove that foot patrols by Police in the Auckland CBD in the last 6 months didn’t increase by 60% as Mark Mitchell claimed…..

Good sleuthing, Journos.
Police provided RNZ with the figures the minister was basing his claims on, and they show a 58 percent increase in foot patrols in March in the Auckland CBD, compared with October last year.

Love your headline:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/518783/police-foot-patrols-fell-by-6-percent-across-auckland-city-between-october-and-april-data-shows
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June 6, 2024 8:24am
- G152
  
  Is data a new name for the left?????
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:32am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Maths is hard. It’s harder when you are stupid.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:37am
- lifesgood
  
  They have definitely increased. I work downtown and I have been pleased to see foot patrols now on a regular basis. Hadn’t seen them for years.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:32am
- Gravelroad
  
  Just more anti coalition spin.
  NZ Herald still grieving the loss of one of their funders (aka Labour Party).
  Getting a bit tedious now.
  Time to move on and start being a news paper again.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:33am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Correction – should have said RNZ.
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:39am
    - Jethrod
      
      Unfortunately you maybe partly right.
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:53am
- kowtow
  
  But can anyone believe any statistics issued by the regime these days .
  
  Plod could easily include a Copper popping out to pick up the donuts as a “foot patrol”.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:53am
  - imalwaysright
    
    K,
    Yes,patrol is a loose definition.
    Logically we should expect a temporary increase in arrests, even if they are for vagrancy and breach of the peace etc.
    
    Or are they there to manage the criminals, as they do with the gangs, rather than clean up the streets.
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:33am
- MCōs
  
  There’s a whole lot of numbers in that article to prove that everybody’s right and everybody’s wrong
  Sounds like Police Minister Mitchell stood in front of meeting waving a piece of paper and proclaimed Peace in Our Time
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:26am
- SimonRAnderson
  
  I filmed the entire meeting Mark Mitchell conducted in Freyberg Place on Tuesday.
  
  The video and my analysis is available at my Substack
  
  TL;DR Mark Mitchell has gone native, regurgitating police nonsense uncritically. He needs to be replaced by a Minister prepared to root out the corruption and incompetence amongst the senior police hierarchy and replace them with individuals who aren’t captured by Woke ideology.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:17am
- Paulus
  
  Am told that Shortland Street would do better on a Maori programme.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:47pm
Maggie Pie

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“The one I will kiss on the cheek is the man,
seize him”
– Matthew 26:48
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“The whole of JT’s economy is about to crumble down.
Additional whistle-blowers have now spoken with me”.

– Apostle Brian Tamaki

https://briantamaki.com/single-post/more-whistleblowers-from-manurewa-marae-speak-up
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June 6, 2024 8:36am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Ouch, thats a burn.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:57am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Maggie Pie, once again thanks for bringing that to our attention.
  Ten months ago I wrote on this blog about my concerns about that Waipareira Trust. That huge interest free loan to Tamihere had put my bullshit detectors upon alert. There was a pungent smell about it and I did not know exactly where the smell was coming from.
  Brian Tamaki has been roundly criticised. Possibly some of the criticism has been justified. But here he is getting right to the heart of a very ugly scene.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:23am
  - Inandout
    
    Tau, often these scandals are exposed by those at the coal face, and I note without the flowery language of say Shane Jones. To say Maoridom is one voice is total crap, they are just as diverse as the rest of our society.
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:42am
    - Sparrow
      
      Absolutely correct. A very good Māori friend of mine ( a fluent Te reo speaker) gets really fed up with all Māori being lumped together. They are no different to other ethnicities all different opinions.
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:46am
      - Paulus
        
        I heard an explanation the other day which said that the proportion of number of Maori speakers relative to new population (abt 900,000) was greater than the Samoans in which nearly all speak Samoan.
        Not sure !
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:51pm
- Oskar
  
  There is also this opinion piece
  https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/the-darkness-of-the-tamihere-fiefdom
  This is by a person who worked for the Wapareira Trust for a year. He said that the boundaries between the different parts of the Trust is fluid – and everything ends up with John Tamihere. His comments on Tamihere as a person are not flattering.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:50am
  - PeeJay
    
    Good link thanks.
    
    Very good points on the gutlessness of several organisations like the SFO. I’ve often thought the NZ approach to corruption is a variation on the three wise monkeys – see no corruption, hear no corruption, speak no corruption! We frequently top lists of least corrupt country but it’s pretty easy to say there is no corruption when the organisations tasked with finding it almost invariably completely ignore it or, at best, do the odd token investigation and conviction.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:10am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      As this Deity mentioned yesterday, JT was former labour, he has West Auckland sewn up through his web of “charities” the government funding agencies created him and the establishment are scared of him revealing that they had no processes surrounding the tens of millions they gave him to “serve” the disadvantaged communities that only his people could reach(tm).
      
      He now believes he is untouchable. Clearly the Police and the SFO are scared to go there.
      
      Perhaps, like Al Capone, it’s time for the IRD to have a go?
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:41am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        The IRS were heavily armed when they went after Al Capone. Not sure the IRD match up.
        
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        June 6, 2024 7:49pm
    - kowtow
      
      Anyoner else remember Helen Clark sternly warning all that there was no such thing as corruption in New Zealand ?
      It was almost like she was sending a message that no one should even dare mention it.
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:09pm
Colinxy

History has a moral arc (aka, the right and wrong side of history).

According to Jake Dee, I’m supposed to credit “Protestants” (specifically) Theodore Parker with coming up with it first.

Note: I never claimed Marx came up with it first.

However, since the cry of pedantry has come up, who came up with it first? Answer: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

This webpage argues against this interpretation of Hegel: https://philosophynow.org/issues/129/Hegel_on_History but it nonetheless proves my point that a fair chunk of people who studied Hegel thought history has a purpose. I’m not going to enter into the debate on whether Lawrence Evans is right or wrong, but merely to point out how Hegel has been used.

I’ll mention again that Theodore Parker knew about Hegel: https://peirce.sitehost.iu.edu/writings/v2/w2/w2_12/v2_12x.htm

As such, there is no reason to attribute to Parker that he was original on “history having a moral arc” (i.e., independent of Hegel).

Onto Marx. Firstly, Marx was a young Hegelian who accepted Hegel’s Dialectic (Abstract, Negation through struggle becomes Concrete – usually termed Thesis plus Antithesis becomes Synthesis).

At the heart of Hegel’s dialectic is the spiral of history, so in of itself the dialectic also means a ‘moral arc’.

Secondly, paraphrasing Marx, Socialism would come from Capitalist societies (and Socialism would eventually wither away to Communism); that this was inevitable. In other words, history has a purpose – a moral arc. (That his prophesy was wrong does not undermine my argument).

This https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2017/12/marx-and-the-presumption-of-a-right-side-to-history-part-1/ goes into it in more detail than I can be bothered arguing.

There’s a follow-up in https://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2017/12/a-right-side-to-history-the-failure-of-marxs-predictions-about-capitalism-part-2/ if that still interests.

In a nutshell, it is part of Marxist nomenclature to use the right and wrong sides of history and it has no allegiance to Parker.
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June 6, 2024 8:37am
Benedict Yu

Why is he called ‘underpants’ 😳?
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June 6, 2024 8:38am
- jkt
  
  Bought silk underpants and expensed it to his employer.
  
  You know: like sitting in a motel room, watching a porno and expensing it to your employer.
  
  What will he need to do to be considered rehabilitated?
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:49am
  - MCōs
    
    The expensive underpants was Tuku Morgan
    The pornography at taxpayer expense was Shane Jones
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:04am
    - jkt
      
      Now Bene also knows.
      
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      June 6, 2024 1:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hunter has been a naughty boy.
The cash withdrawals are incredible.
Even a drug fueled car crash that I did not know about. How did he escape that? Daddy?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13494621/Hunter-Bidens-wife-shakes-head-laptop-dramatically-revealed-gun-trial.html
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June 6, 2024 8:46am
- RoboRob
  
  In my opinion, Hunter is being hung out to dry by daddy. After years of being given special treatment he is now being tried to prove that Trumps trial was the simple administration of the law. Biden said ‘no man is above the law’ and to prove it his son is going to go down.
  
  Doesn’t anyone think the timing is just a little too perfect? Hunters case will end, with guilty, just before Trumps sentence is given. Dems can say, ‘no one is above the law, see we prosecuted Joes son’. Its a great defence against claims of political lawfare. Some months later Hunters ‘wimpy’ sentence will come out and no one will care.
  
  Hunter wont go down ‘bigly’, just enough to prove the point. The hunter prosecution will very carefully avoid tying Joe with any of Hunters crimes.
  
  Personally I could care less about hunters drug, porn and gun crimes. Yes he should be punished but its not really important. The issues that are important are his interactions between foreign powers (Ukraine & China) and whether any of that money was funnelled to Joe. Of course this trial isn’t about that and the investigation was very careful to avoid looking at the other allegations. Before people get up in arms, we know this to be a fact because …
  
  1) We have written proof and witnesses of 10% for the ‘big guy’. Investigators have avoided asking who the ‘big guy’ is.
  2) We have text messages saying something like ‘unless you pay as agreed my father, who is sitting beside me, will hold a grudge’. The investigation team asked for cell data to confirm whether Hunter was at Bidens house at the time and was prevented from getting it by the DOJ.
  
  Im not saying that Joe was / is taking bribes BUT how can we know when the authorities have avoided looking into it. It certainly looks like there might be something there.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:03am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Hunter if convicted will certainly be pardoned by dad, so this is all theatre, also likely that jury from Democrat Delaware will refuse to convict regardless of Hunter being caught with his pants down with all sorts of incontrovertible evidence.
    
    Biden is clearly massively corrupt with documentary evidence of 10’s of millions laundered through shell companies and payments to all his relatives for mystery services by Hunter and Jim etc. Unbelievable that with all the evidence collected the Democrats are still stonewalling any impeachment pretending it is a partisan issue rather than a crooked as fuck severely compromised/blackmailable President issue.
    
    Interesting today that there appears to be a concerted effort now from parts of the Democrat aligned media to remove Biden for senility (big Wall Street Journal article). Some deadlines approaching with regard to ballot printing which means candidates must be confirmed 90 days before election.
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:38am
    - jkt
      
      Pardon.
      That will end Biden!
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:54am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Dad is not going to win, no matter how well they cheat.
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:55am
  - kowtow
    
    Talking of Creepy Joe , the Wall Street Journal has published a damning article on his mental state .
    
    Unlike anything TDS ,our te media paahti , silence.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:15am
    - Grunter
      
      I read that WSJ article. Made me wonder why now? What are they cooking up? Sleepy Joe is about to be put to sleep maybe?
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:00am
  - Matt Long
    
    The Republicans are promising retaliatory lawfare against corrupt Dems, they’d better watch out or someone might actually start investigating genuine graft and a seat in senate would suddenly only be worth its low salary.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/speaker-johnson-vows-fight-back-everything-our-arsenal-trump-verdict
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:40am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    Yes, this is copybook “limited hangout” behaviour. The Burisma Directorship, the managing relationships with hostile foreign regimes, and always 10% for the big guy are the real story here.
    
    He was the point man for the Biden crime family, and is integral to its wealth and corruption.
    
    The drugs and weird, wildly inappropriate sexual shenanigans with family members, his brothers ex, and any number of whores passing by, are merely standard Biden peccadillos he would have learned at the Big Guy’s knee.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:46am
  - Paulus
    
    Of course Hunter will be found Not Guilty as the Judge and Jury will make sure Daddy is protected, despite being senile.
    That is US Justice = yea !
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:54pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Do you really think a Wilmington Jury is going to convict a Biden?
  https://nypost.com/2024/06/04/opinion/hunters-cynical-defense-in-gun-case-youre-not-going-to-convict-a-biden-are-you-delaware/
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:24am
  - jkt
    
    If the jury finds him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, then yes.
    
    That is how this is supposed to work.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:56am
- lifesgood
  
  He sounds like a thoroughly loathsome individual.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:45am
- Inandout
  
  SO, if Joe is to be jettisoned at the next Dem Convention I would expect pardoning Hunter will be his final act. Joe’s public appearances have become so unbelievably shambolic with his refusal to answer the most simple of questions and that constant mumbling.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:48am
  - jkt
    
    Is Hunter up on a federal charge?
    If he is found guilty by a jury and Biden pardons him that will be the end of Biden.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:59am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Shame, Joe had such a bright future!
      
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      June 6, 2024 12:01pm
      - jkt
        
        Ageist!
        
        Shame on you.
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:55pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Those pics are pretty tame SteveO compared to the ones I’ve got on file 😛
  Tried posting them on GD once but they went into moderation.
  Never to be seen again. LOL!!
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:49am
  - Biscuit
    
    Ya spoilsports, Mod(s)!!
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:52am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I have seen some things that you can’t unsee.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:57am
    - Keith White
      
      I’ve foreseen things you people wouldn’t believe
      Police cars on fire on the shoulder of State Highway Ardern
      I’ve watched raise meres glitter in the dark near the Remuera off-ramp
      All those moments will be lost in time, like years spent training
      Time to migrate
      ‘Bye
      
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      June 6, 2024 1:26pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I was referring to Hunter, you know, the smartest man Joe knows!
        
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        June 6, 2024 1:52pm
JimBobJoe

https://www.breastcancerfoundation.org.nz/news-articles/article/maori-surgeon-awarded-300-000-research-boost-to-close-breast-cancer-survival-gap/856

Seems a good grant, but before starting the research what are the stats for maori v non maori women getting a mammogram? The earlier that breast cancer is found the more curable it is.

And the government is already running awareness campaigns targeting Maori women around regular breast screen – ‘hook us up’ being a memorable bit of the ad (kids on bikes telling the women to get checked)

Seems 300k to find what we already probably know and have campaigns to fix: Maori women dont get mammograms – ergo breast cancer kills more of them…

What am I missing here?
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- imalwaysright
  
  Jbj,
  This looks like another smokescreen to enable maori to blame something or someone else for not bothering to accept free medical treatment.
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:44am
- cmm
  
  “What am I missing here?”
  
  $300k
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:13am
Yvette

blood in the water …
and it is perhaps not Mana o te Wai –

Brian Tamaki, opinion piece – John Tamihere
[…]
It’s time for the Serious Fraud Office to come in and comb through every inch of John Tamihere’s personal finances, Te Pāti Māori finances, Takutai Tarsh Kemp’s finances, Manurewa Marae finances, all Urban Māori Authorities, Waipareira Trust and every other single entity that John Tamihere has even the slightest connection with.

And while these investigations take place the whole of Te Pāti Māori need to be put on leave without pay from Parliament, and a halt put on any further government money flowing to all of these organisations.
https://www.briantamaki.com/single-post/more-whistleblowers-from-manurewa-marae-speak-up
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June 6, 2024 9:10am
- Biscuit
  
  John will accuse Brian of being waysist!
  
  But it is very telling, isn’t it? that even TPM’s natural allies on the left are saying things need to be investigated…
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:55am
Conservatarian

Brokers are advising BUY NOW on popcorn stocks during Hunter Biden’s trial.

Joe Biden on his son Hunter: “He’s the smartest person I know.”
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June 6, 2024 9:12am
- jkt
  
  So, clearly, Biden does not know Donald Trump.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:01am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Donald Trump? He doesn’t know Ronald McDonald!
    
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    June 6, 2024 7:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump gets a reprieve in Georgia. The trial could be pushed off until after November.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/georgia-court-halts-trump-trial-so-it-can-hear-fani-willis-challenge/ar-BB1nHs2A?
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June 6, 2024 9:21am
- MCōs
  
  I’d have thought if the guy was obviously not guilty as you no doubt believe it would be better to get it over and done with and lift this cloud off his spotless reputation
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:34am
  - NothingLeft
    
    We have seen it clearly demonstrated in New York that fair hearings are not obtainable for a high profile Republican presidential candidate in partisan Democrat jurisdictions where DAs and Judges are elected by Democrats- which includes most large metropolitan areas in USA.
    
    One good suggestion was that there should be an option for political figures like Trump of being able to request a jury pool and judge from outside the unfavorably partisan jurisdiction. Perhaps the prosecution and defense should have to agree upon a judge.
    
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    June 6, 2024 9:42am
    - Inandout
      
      NL, even Hosking in his interview with Bryant this morning had to start his dialogue with ‘convicted felon Trump’. This will be the Dem catch cry until it runs out of steam. I note Bryant has released a new book and Joe apparently has one copy in the Oval Office. This of course has Bryant gushing but no mention of Joe’s lack of memory and probably was unaware of who wrote the book.
      
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      June 6, 2024 9:55am
    - RoboRob
      
      Its part of the reason that presidents haven’t been tried before. It is practically impossible to fine an non partisan jury. The OJ trial is a good example of how celebrity can bias a jury.
      
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      June 6, 2024 10:04am
      - MCōs
        
        ‘Fine’ or ‘find’?
        
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        June 6, 2024 12:02pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Fine, find or fund?
        
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        June 6, 2024 7:54pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He doesn’t want to sit in courts for weeks and not get to electioneer
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    It’s a game Trump plays. 3D chess and all that.
    34 guilty convictions that he will appeal when the time is right. 24 hours after the convictions the campaign fund went up US$52.8M.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:59am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Its over $200 million now.
      
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      June 6, 2024 12:04pm
Taieri

The Climate Hell is coming to your town soon…

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/world-hits-streak-record-temperatures-un-warns-climate-hell
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June 6, 2024 9:22am
- jkt
  
  I saw the photo of Mr ThePlanetIsBoiling.
  
  If someone wants to make a point about climate change and uses that photo or one of Greta …….. I switch off.
  
  I hope I did not miss something important.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:04am
- imalwaysright
  
  He alway looks pissed.
  Speaks like he is addressing a class of 8 year olds.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:06pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He is.
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:58pm
- Master Mariner
  
  There goes that organisation again,
  “In a separate report, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO)”
  They should seriously change there name too the UN World Climate Organisation.
  They seriously underscore Meteorological Organisations World Wide. Next thing NIWA will gushing out there “Script” as all good “satelite / Umbrella” organsations should//.
  When are people going to wake regarding anything from a United Nations Organisation is nothing but propaganda supported by Soft science and Terror reporting.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:47pm
  - jkt
    
    MM:
    They hide it right there in their charter.
    So it is quite understandable why so few know this.
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:58pm
emmess

Reform Party just 2% behind the Conservatives in the latest Yougov poll from the UK.
Come on, lets hope Reform can becone the official opposition.
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June 6, 2024 9:27am
- MCōs
  
  More likely win minimal seats, but take a lot of votes off the Tories and gifting previously safe conservative seats to Labour
  Refer NZ in 1984 when Bob Jones took 10+% votes off the Nats, won no seats and Labour won in a landslide
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:48am
  - Inandout
    
    MC, I heard this morning that many Reform voters despise the Tories so they may hail from the traditional Labour side. Starmer/Sunak debate apparently had Rishi leading so who knows?
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:00am
  - kowtow
    
    Very likely . But if they can win a few seats, it’s a start .A good start .
    
    And the Wet Conservatives might get the genuine wake up call they need , to become conservatives again.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:18am
- mogg
  
  Under their FPP system, Reform will start winning seats when they get to about 20% support, this is according to YouGov polling. Currently they are at 17% support. They could easily be the second biggest party and no representation in parliament.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:20am
  - MCōs
    
    In 1984 NZ Social Credit won two seats with about 8% of the popular vote
    In 1981 they also won two seats with more than 20% of the popular vote overall
    They lost a lot of support over the Clyde Dam, but it didn’t effect their numbers in parliament
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:24am
- emmess
  
  How is this for a scenario?
  In terms of seats
  1st Labour
  2nd Liberal Democrats
  3rd Conservative
  4th SNP
  5th Reform
  
  But it close enough beyween 2nd and 5th, that close to half the Conservative defect, pushing Reform into second.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump was right about NATO.
2% or you are a bludger. America should just pull of of NATO but it seems they can’t.
How about America contributing 1%? That would wake Europe up.
America first – DJT.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-was-right-about-nato-a-breakdown-of-nato-defense-spending/ss-BB1i9m0c?
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June 6, 2024 9:32am
- MCōs
  
  So you’d be quite happy if Russia with support from China/Iran/North Korea attacked Europe next year and Donald Trump stood on the sidelines while his kids figured out where to build some new golf courses and hotels on the Black Sea?
  
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  June 6, 2024 9:56am
  - kowtow
    
    Why should Americans die or be impoverished to defend Europeans , grown fat on welfare and deindustrialisation, who refuse to defend themselves.
    
    Ironic , this D Day anniversary.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:21am
    - MCōs
      
      America did extremely well economically out of WWII
      Europe was impoverished for years
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:35am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Yeah! Germans even needed motors for tanks – made by Henry Ford.
        Just business.
        
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        June 6, 2024 2:00pm
      - Paulus
        
        And the US violently screwed and bankrupted Britain after the war, reneging of promises made during the war on Lend Lease, culminating in Suez debacle.
        Lest we forget.
        
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        June 6, 2024 2:01pm
      - Mod88
        
        America rebuilt Europe after WW2 and it kept the US Economy steaming as they transitioned out of the War Production. It was called the Marshall Plan and is one of the most generous deeds done between Nation states.
        
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        June 6, 2024 2:40pm
  - mogg
    
    Faced with that prospect very wealthy European countries might start paying for their own defence.
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:27am
    - Grunter
      
      “very wealthy European countries”
      
      Which ones are they again? They are all up to their eye-balls in debt. House of cards waiting to happen
      
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      June 6, 2024 11:31am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No no no no. The Countries are broke, but the Elite are not. They are keeping their dosh, fuck you lot!
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:04pm
  - Ghost
    
    Europe is already being attacked by immigrants, legal and illegal. No one is going to their rescue. RIP Europe. Hopefully we wake up before we are next
    
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    June 6, 2024 10:30am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I am so happy Jaspinda is not here to import more, legal and illegal.
      Nothing wrong with needed immigrants coming to NZ as long as they go through the right process.
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:10pm
  - cmm
    
    No you have this the wrong way around.
    
    Everyone else (including us) seems happy hiding behind the USA’s skirts.
    
    Why should USA be sponsoring this?
    
    Unfortunately joining NATO comes with a bunch of fish hooks including having to use standardised on weaponry and buying what NATO says rather than fitting national needs.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:09am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Back in the 80s I made a few trailers for 27 foot English RIBs for the SAS (sshhh). Rigid Inflatable Boats. Glass hull and pontoons.
      Anyway they were to be towed by Unimogs. Removable lights had to have the same tail lights as Unimogs. (soft rubber bulb mounts so the ‘globe’ bulbs did not blow as you crossed rocky mountains high. (no shit) Then the best bit. A plug for wiring at the front that was some silly NATO 12 pin plug. Then special tiedown rings that were to be welded to a galvanised trailer! This is Wellinton based desk NZ Army People. No fucking idea. The rings are cast steel, they can be galvanised without heat damage to the tensile strength.
      This was all to do with lashing down inside a C130 Hercules. NZ Army SAS boats to go overseas?
      Then there was the braking stuff. Had to import drum brakes that are cam operated with an air servo. Believe it – this shit goes into salt water ffs.
      This is all NZ pandering to NATO shit.
      Back to all of this top secret shit. The Unimogs have the female 12 point plug on the back to connect the lights with the Nato male plug.
      So WOF time and I need to test the lights (no spare Unimogs and I am not allowed to drive one ffs) Try to buy a female NATO pug. Took two months before the NZ Army would release one so I could make an adapter.
      These boats never left NZ, not even to the Pacific Islands – unless that was all top secret too. I used to see them tied up at the old Hobson wharf and ramp, from my living room!
      What a lovely rant. I feel better – and fuck you Defence people completely continuing to waste the Net Taxpayer dollar.
      Over and out.
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:36pm
      - cmm
        
        Yup, having been in logistics it is absurd to see how militaries burn money.
        
        I was in logistics in South Africa. Although not part of NATO, it was somewhat NATO aligned (eg. using NATO standards for ammunition etc).
        
        As you note, where things really get expensive is:
        1) Having to be plug and play with other people’s toys. This really opens you up to being gouged by, especially, USA military suppliers. eg. want some anti-tank missiles? well you have to use something off the approved NATO list at $100k a pop.
        2) The requirement to have an expeditionary force that can deploy anywhere in the world via C130. That makes equipment extremely expensive vs stuff that is just intended for local use.
        
        From my limited understanding, the Swiss defence policy is one of the best and is also once of the cheapest.
        
        Swiss do not participate in other wars (ie. do not have expeditionary forces to attack others). They are limited to local defence and doing a bit of peacekeeping. They do that well and operate on a budget less than 1% of GDP.
        
        As any logistician will tell you, taking the war to the enemy is extremely expensive. That is why a non-expeditionary force is way, way cheaper.
        
        IMHO that is what we should aim for in NZ too.
        
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        June 6, 2024 4:16pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        You know this shit cmm.
        I was but a mere welder making shit that would never leave NZ.
        In my next life I am going to sit in an office in Wellywood working (being employed) by some shit SAS controlled NZ Army, doing nothing except piss off the NZ manufacturers.
        Yes, 45 years or more I am still angry with how my Taxes were spent!!!
        
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        June 6, 2024 6:13pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Europe has been told to pay up enough times, so who is at fault really?
    
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    June 6, 2024 12:02pm
    - cmm
      
      They’re a bit like Housing NZ “tenants”. Kick them out for behaving badly and, apparently, you’re the baddie for not thinking of the children.
      
      If Europe wants a gold plated defence package then maybe they should pay for it.
      
      I think many would prefer to go with the Swiss model (defence only) which costs Switzerland less than 1% of GDP.
      
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      June 6, 2024 4:04pm
Maggie Pie

Is the tide going out in JT’s pool?

‘Aunty Heihei’ pulls the plug……

https://x.com/AuntyHeihei/status/1797941127770968573
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June 6, 2024 9:35am
Damocles11

Wouldn’t it be great if that nebulous entity called ‘Maoridom’ turned on those jumped-up creatures like JT that have been feathering their own opulent nests while many of their ordinary people apparently ‘live in poverty’.
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June 6, 2024 9:51am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The View has been cancelled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whCG8kSsd3E
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June 6, 2024 10:13am
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Just made the mistake of reading the Post article on the universal opposition to council’s golden mile proposals.

The arrogance of the “Mayor” still knows no bounds. No interest in their views, she knows best, and of course the petition will be referred to officals or perhaps her new pet “business forum” to be whitewashed away.

The Tsunami can’t come fast enough to save Wellington from these clowns.
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June 6, 2024 10:15am
- cmm
  
  Remember that the politicians are not the cause of the problems.
  They are the symptom of the problem.
  The problem is in the voters themselves. If the voters don’t change their ways then nothing else is really going to change.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:12am
Yvette

Treaty provisions set to be scrapped from Corrections Amendment Bill
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/06/treaty-provisions-set-to-be-scrapped-from-corrections-amendment-bill/
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June 6, 2024 10:39am
Chuck Bird

It will be interesting if Kennedy Jr gets a few Electoral College votes and Trump and Biden cannot make 270.
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June 6, 2024 10:43am
- Ghost
  
  I think he has a good chance of putting this election in the hands of the house to select a president
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:47am
  - jkt
    
    What about a 269 : 269 split.
    Biden stays on for two more years and Trump takes the next two years?
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:06pm
    - Ghost
      
      Then the house selects the president
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:38pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Kennedy has been dropping in the polls, he’s down to around 10%, while Biden and Trump are in mid 40’s. Kennedy has no chance, unless, perhaps Biden or Trump drop out.
  
  https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:05am
  - Paulus
    
    With Kennedy there he can split the vote !
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:03pm
    - NothingLeft
      
      dropping in polls
      
      There will be a major enthusiasm gap this election with tribal Democrats not wanting to vote for Senile Biden they will likely stay home, or at best protest vote Kennedy. Neither eats into Trump’s vote, he’ll likely win in a landslide.
      
      Rumblings today that Dems are desperate enough to try Kamala as lead on their ticket.
      
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      June 6, 2024 3:06pm
- cmm
  
  If it was proportional representation, then maybe. But is is really winner takes all. That makes it less likely.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Bigly landslide to Trump.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:04pm
Maggy Wassilieff

One man’s view of Rawiri Waititi and TPM

As a Māori, he/they do not speak for me and many others. In the future, when he retires from Parliament and gets a handsome superannuation payout for life from the white Government, he will have done absolutely nothing for Māori.

https://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/letter/divisive-rhetoric-will-chip-away-at-our-communities
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June 6, 2024 10:43am
Sparrow

Just read Alwyn Poole’s blog of yesterday ” Failure of NZ Schools”. Could not stop having a chuckle after reworking his stats. Took the top and bottom 10 schools and rounded off %s.
The top 10 schools had a UE pass rate of 91% of pupils whilst the bottom 10 had zero.
Then 73% of pupils in the top 10 schools went on to a degree course. Took out one very low scoring school as it screwed up the figures.
Whilst the bottom 10 schools had 3% of pupils go on to a degree course. What’s interesting is StJosephs for Māori girls. They have 89% of pupils passing UE but only 41% go onto a degree course. Why did I chuckle ?
73% of these top 10 school pupils are going off to Uni or similar establishments to be brainwashed indoctrinated by leftist and woke lecturers. Whom Kiwi Bloggers just love. Oh dear !!!
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June 6, 2024 10:44am
- Paulus
  
  But from next year first year at Uni is no longer free but final year is
  – how sensible.
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:04pm
Ghost

Is there a wait around the country, what does everyone else experience? Here when my gp requests an x-ray the hospital typically ringing up with an appointment before I get out to the car. I think the longest I’ve had to wait for an X-ray is 3 days. A ct scan a week.

The Government is putting $30 million towards free and timely access to radiology services including X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds across New Zealand.

Health Minister Shane Reti made the announcement this morning during a visit to Waikanae Health Centre.

”At the moment, some New Zealanders are having to wait weeks or months to see a hospital specialist who then refers them to radiology services, where they may wait even longer,” Reti said.

Article
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June 6, 2024 10:44am
- cmm
  
  Experiences will be highly localised. An Xray machine in South Island can’t be used to xray patients in Auckland.
  
  They will also be dependent on time of day, time of year etc too.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:16am
  - Ghost
    
    No really, who would have known that an Aucklander can’t use a South Island X-ray machine. Duh
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:18am
  - MCōs
    
    I live in what was Counties Manakau DHB, but have had a CT scan at Starship and some other radiology work at Greenlane, both of which were Auckland DHB. I also had a colonoscopy at a private clinic next to Elleslie Raceway
    A friend of mine who lives at Silverdale was in line for a colonoscopy, but the wait time was so long he forked out $2-3k to have it done quickly and put his mind at ease.
    I’ve had a few over the year. The man says, watch that monitor if you want, but the next things he’s telling me no problems come back in five years.
    Except last time when I remained aware of what was happening. It was like a nature documentary complete with disconcerting squishy noises.
    Camera went along this passage, but didn’t spot any kiwis
    
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    June 6, 2024 4:38pm
- Dairy Flat
  
  I have a problem with a shoulder that is not clearing up. Got an x-ray same day as requested but it showed nothing. To get a CT/MRI I need a specialist to have a look first, and here is the issue; 2 months and counting and still can’t get a specialist appointment. I am hearing similar problems from others trying to get an appointment with specialists concerning different health issues. Central Otago.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:20am
  - Ghost
    
    It’s strange how different things are. When I’ve needed a ct scan it was the gp who requested it.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:42am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Frozen shoulder?
    
    NZ medical systems is hollowed out to extreme level due to mass exodus to high pay and better conditions in Australia. That’s an inevitable consequence from being a low productivity country as a result of several decades of anti-business, anti-mining, high-welfare and high-regulation govt.
    
    We are witnessing the high bill for the socialist policies preferred by a majority of female voters.
    
    The fix – radical downsizing of govt sector and slashing regulation as was done with such great effect in the 80’s will require a lot of bravery from the govt and will cause pain for a lot of voters. And so will never happen. NZ is destined to continue getting poorer relative to Oz and losing all it’s best and brightest to their better economy.
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:51pm
- Taieri
  
  Lucky you Timaruvians. I had to wait almost 2 years for the MRI at Dunedin hospital. And another 4 months for a follow up appointment.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:38am
  - Ghost
    
    Bloody hell. I know some Otago people were being sent up here for mri’s, not sure if they still are.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:47am
- rouppe
  
  I have been waiting for a call to get an angiogram for six MONTHS.
  
  I have offered to travel to another city at my expense to get it done. That’s not allowed, apparently
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:13pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Shouldn’t have sold that house in Wellington, Rouppe?
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:04pm
JimBobJoe

So I sauntered over to The Daily Blog and The Standard….

The allegations regarding Census forms, COVID 19 vax registrations and potential other problems related to election integrity at Manuwera Marae are conspicuously absent from the front web footprint of both of the big Left wing sites.

Very interesting that something that probably, if true, impacted directly on the NZ Labour Party in the Maori seats in 2023 generates no outrage posts or in depth reference…..

Micky Savage reads these pages (he pops up for a troll every now and then) – so Micky whats the go? Caught on the horns of a dilemma?
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June 6, 2024 10:52am
Maggie Pie

‘X’ TRENDING

Taxpayers Union writes to the ‘Privacy Commissioner’ requesting an investigation
into allegations associated with JT and Te Pardy Maori.

Jordan Williams sure has a way with words 😀

https://x.com/TaxpayersUnion/status/1798484458007658634

(Although you’d probably have to say…. GOOD LUCK with that!)
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June 6, 2024 10:57am
- Ghost
  
  Privacy commission are already investigating, as are the police.
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:59am
  - newview
    
    Colonial law doesn’t apply to them and those white colonial oppressors are picking on us again, as they do, except when they pay our salaries.
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    YEAH… but we already know the outcome of them ones. SHEEZH!!
    
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    June 6, 2024 11:09am
- mogg
  
  See where victimhood can get you.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:27pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Fani Willis has been fired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIc3_PaYT7M
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June 6, 2024 11:06am
- MCōs
  
  Nichola Willis looking for more savings to pay for those cancer drugs
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:45am
rjay

Electric vehicle sales have plumeted. Apparently they are not a good investment.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/distressing-fifth-straight-month-of-slow-new-car-sales-more-dealers-closures-likely/XWIJR6NAYRCWBPML36LDTEHBKA/
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June 6, 2024 11:11am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Cars are not a good investment. EV’s are a millstone.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:43am
- Ghost
  
  We recently had a stupid idiot on her phone crash into us. Been looking for a new car, didn’t even bother looking at electric.
  
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  June 6, 2024 11:50am
Surely Knott

Save the tower of Otara!

It’s as equally valid as the Michael parakowhai state house art piece we paid millions for. Except it’s not just rich artists riffing off the meaning of a real state house. The Tower of Otara has meaning as told by the artist, he’s painted it and got design elements like flags and the bicycle on top.

Can’t some corporate fund this artwork like the did the state house art? Can’t the uni tech send some student engineers and building students to put some steel scaffolding and cables through it to make it safer.

Much better to fund the securing of this art folly than the hateful poem the govt funded.

https://www.dezeen.com/2012/07/31/scrap-skyscraper-by-projeto-coletivo/
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June 6, 2024 11:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Amazing what mental health can make you do.
  The guy needs help.
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:13pm
Jack5

American electronics company Nvidia has passed Apple in share value, becoming the third company – after Microsoft and Apple – to reach a value of $US3 trillion. That is about $NZ4.8 trillion (4.8 million millions).

A decade ago or so or less, Nvidia was known as the maker of graphics cards for PCs, and its customers were computer builders, computer gamers, and home enthusiasts. Then it got a boost from the crypto-currency mining craze as graphics cards were adapted for cracking new currency.

But the great recent surge comes from its expertise and hardware for artificial intelligence. It has an estimated four-fifths of this market.

Tomorrow, American time, Nvidia will split its shares 10 for one. The pre-split price today, reports Yahoo, is $US1,224.40 (about $NZ1976). The share price has more than doubled this year, and the company has a bigger sharemarket value than Apple.

The company was founded by Taiwan-born American electronics engineer Jen-hsun Huang, who uses the Anglicised first name of Jensen. A year ago, Forbes ranked Huang as the world’s 14th richest person with wealth of more than $US100 billion.
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June 6, 2024 12:07pm
- mogg
  
  I am in a listed trust jggi, the share price in up more than 80% this year which is mostly due to 5% of their capital being in Nvidia. I see they are up another 5% last night. A week today Infratil investor roadshow at the old Public Trust building on Lambton Quay. ‘Be there or be square’
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:24pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Their top of the line HB200 GPU costs about $3-5k to make and sells for $40k or more, for 2e16 calculations per seconds, roughly 10,000x higher than a fast desktop computer CPU. but the market lead they hold won’t last more than a couple of years as many big players look to get in on the action with cheaper offerings.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:58pm
Maggie Pie

Imagine having to get around the ‘Big Apple’ without concealed carry?

My partner was sayng they’ve just revoked Trumpy’s
gun permit in NY due to his hush-money conviction.
He’s had to surrender his H&K45 and SW38.
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June 6, 2024 12:20pm
- Ghost
  
  Talking of hush money
  
  https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
  
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  June 6, 2024 12:22pm
- cmm
  
  And our bloke is armed with a stick!
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350301516/niues-energy-issues-are-only-start-christopher-luxon
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:56pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCvAf8nkFbc
Democrats Panic As Trump Hints At Revenge Post-election: Growing Fear Of Landslide Victory.
Concern and fear among Democrats and the left over the possibility of former President Donald Trump seeking retribution against his political opponents if he wins the 2024 presidential election is mounting.
Trump has suggested that Democrats could face prosecution if he returns to power, hinting at going after figures like Hillary Clinton for her alleged mishandling of emails during her time as Secretary of State.
The left fears that they may have created a “monster” that they may have to face if Trump secures a decisive victory in November.
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June 6, 2024 12:33pm
- Rusty
  
  @sung… Sounds like a good idea from Trump if he wins. The Dems have been asking for it.
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:29pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Yes, assuming 2000 Mules isn’t all CT junk, the Democratic Party has a lot to answer for. Things could get interesting for Face Book too. Zuckerberg gave a lot to the absentee ballot thing. That’s illegal for outside groups.
    
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    June 6, 2024 7:36pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7rLIP9zkkQ
Pride Month Is Getting Cancelled in Red States!
Its not just pro-Hamas demonstrators whe aren’t keen on Pride stuff. A lot od red states want to see it gone too. So is DEI [Didn’t Earn It.]
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June 6, 2024 12:33pm
- Notsofast
  
  He analyses very well.
  Gay rights increased liberty in the community, whereas trans is a catastrophe for traditional libertarians. Their demands are completely unconscionable for the majority of citizens.
  Those demands are well known and must cease. They must learn to cooperate with women.
  
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  June 6, 2024 3:32pm
Master Mariner

@BY
Excessive Deaths now confirmed ( More) officially.

“Conclusions Excess mortality has remained high in the Western World for three consecutive years, despite the implementation of containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines. This raises serious concerns. Government leaders and policymakers need to thoroughly investigate underlying causes of persistent excess mortality.”

https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000282

Jesus, What a shit show.
All countries that had a very little Vaccine uptake are running near average, Think African Countries, Eastern Block etc.

So “Policy Makers” in NZ , What are you going to do ?

I know one thing you can do before being vilified is too release all Vaccine data in NZ.
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June 6, 2024 1:00pm
- Inandout
  
  MM, if your theory is correct then excess deaths among the influential NZers would surface. If their families were in the ‘Saline Sally’ group then they would probably survive, and I am looking at a former PM here.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:25pm
- cmm
  
  I think it is wrong to try to compare data from Africa to the West like that. The demographics and health profiles are so different that you’re only going to end up with broken conclusions one way or another.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:37pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    Yep sort of agree, However the pertinent point is low Vax rates have far less excessive deaths than high vax rates, ie Western Countries.
    Similar to South American countries. etc.
    As the article states,
    “This raises serious concerns. Government leaders and policymakers need to thoroughly investigate underlying causes of persistent excess mortality.”
    You simply can not hide it any more. I have said before NZ Data is extremely important mainly due to High Vax Rate, And MOST importantly NZ’ers had there shots BEFORE the onset of Covid.
    NZ is an outlier in this regard.
    This would prove without any doubt whether the excessive deaths are because of Covid or Because of Vaccines, Or a combination etc without any doubt.
    Just ask yourself why they have not released the Data ?
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:12pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    You can select any countries in the Ourworldindata website for comparison.
    Eat your heart out.
    
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    June 6, 2024 2:14pm
- Grunter
  
  There is clearly something going on – and because ‘The Deciders’ are ducking for cover and/or blatantly lying, that to me says it is the jab.
  
  How many dots do we have to connect before the obvious picture can be seen?
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:50pm
Maggie Pie

O.M.G. you need to watch this!
It’s obvious why sooo many people are in love with Winnie .

Here he is during Q&A taking off the ghey Labour member from Northcote

https://twitter.com/2ETEKA/status/1796442983908487367

What would be even funnier is if he did Shaneel Lal 😀 😀 😀
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June 6, 2024 1:25pm
- cmm
  
  Witty, yes, but parliament costs us $1000 a second or such. Stop pissing around. Keep it for open mike down at Backbenchers.
  
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  June 6, 2024 1:34pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Hang on! The greens Rag n’ Bone man gave a 7 minit speech last week
    on upholding Te Tiriti. Do you mean that load of crap cost us $420k ?
    
    Give me Winnie’s 10sec take any day.
    
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    June 6, 2024 1:47pm
    - cmm
      
      Yup. Could have had 4 nurses for a year.
      
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      June 6, 2024 2:11pm
cmm

Stuff is having a (reasonable, IMHO) go at the government for how little you can buy with the tax cuts and benefit increases.

“You could get a small packet of tea bags from the supermarket or save your $2.16 for a few weeks and splurge on a flat white.”

I wonder whether that they have reflected that you could buy the $1uff media “empire” twice every week! Overpriced at $1.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350299361/tax-cuts-heres-how-far-your-money-might-go
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June 6, 2024 1:31pm
Maggie Pie

‘LGBTQIA pride flag to be flown outside Horowhenua District Council’

– NZ HORRID 6 June 24

Going by the Mayor’s FB page it doesn’t come as a much of a surprise…..

https://facebook.com/BernieWandenMayor/

(He’s certainly no ‘Wayne Brown’ by the sound of things 😀 )
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June 6, 2024 2:14pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, I would imagine Bernie has that flag flying at his house as well.
  
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  June 6, 2024 2:51pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    And I’d been wondering what happened to Matty McClean?
    And there he was.
    
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    June 6, 2024 3:00pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… Bernies dyed hair doesn’t quite cut the mustard either.
  
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  June 6, 2024 6:09pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!! ‘Just-for-Men’ BLACK 😀
    
    [Please leave out comments re a person’s appearance. It is very juvenile. mod.]
    
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    June 6, 2024 6:39pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Bernie played Centre for the mighty MSP, back in the ‘80s. That was such a strong team that, come Wellington (province) training night, it was just Bernie and a stray Prop left in the club shed.
  
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  June 6, 2024 8:10pm
cmm

According to this, $4bn to fix 62,000 potholes.

That’s around 15 pot holes per $1M. About $60k each!

We have 10,000 prisoners costing us $120k per year each. If each was to get off his lazy arse and fix 2 potholes per year then our prison system would, essentially, be “free” (ie. paid for by fixing pot holes).

Equally, if the unemployed were issued shovels (for “free”) we could afford to pay the minimum wage for 1.5 years per pothole they fix.

University studies? Free if you fix one pothole!

Perhaps we could get retire surgeons to do the job paying them $400 per hour. So long as they did one pothole per month we’d be winning.

These numbers really show how crazy things have become.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/pothole-repairs-on-roads-nationwide-transport-minister-simeon-brown-unveils-4-billion-fund-to-smooth-journeys-for-motorists/WS3A4ZMT3RFENEACOFJNZOF7VI/
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June 6, 2024 2:42pm
- MCōs
  
  When my busted leg comes right I’m prepared to get out there on the mean streets of Mangere Bridge and fill potholes gratis instead of spending time on this forum moaning about other buggers being lazy
  Furthermore
  Ms Willis can withhold my $4/fortnight tax cut and all the money saved can go towards those cancer drugs
  
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  June 6, 2024 4:05pm
  - cmm
    
    Good on you MCos, good to know you’ve got our backs.
    
    But maybe they can give you a wee digger or fit a wheelchair behind one of those dingo things – then you can start right away even with the busted leg.
    
    If they pay you $10k per fixed pothole it would still seem like a very good deal. You could even shout all your mates Keytruda!
    
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    June 6, 2024 4:23pm
Maggie Pie

And here’s something I never even knew until Jason Walls mentioned it…

The population of Nuie Islanders residing in NZ, is nearly *20 times* that of those
living in their own country!

God only knows what the attraction is since Ardern hoofed it?
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June 6, 2024 2:57pm
- cmm
  
  Hint… Your wallet.
  
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  June 6, 2024 3:03pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Years ago, I was doing a course and one of people was a Niuean.
  
  He reckoned it would be cheaper to move the Niuean population don to Akl. Buy them a reasonable house in the City they wanted and give them a job.
  
  Niue would be turned over to NZ mut a scientific outpost there with people doing 2 months on 2 months off.
  
  Samed in the small islands of Raro.
  
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  June 6, 2024 3:43pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Sell off the fishing rights
    
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    June 6, 2024 8:11pm
NothingLeft

Court testimony today in Hunter case showed FBI possessed and had verified that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real (and damning) a year before the 2020 election. And were therefore an implicit part of the deep-state promulgated lie and Big Tech censorship of the story.

https://youtu.be/4qJPRz_lLAA?t=556
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June 6, 2024 3:00pm
Ghost

Monkey pox failed to get any traction. Time for bird flu

WHO Confirms First Fatal Human Case of Bird Flu A (H5N2)

Article
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June 6, 2024 3:59pm
Maggie Pie

Thort this ‘X’ well worth sharing with the group.

I know I’ve banged on about this previously, but here’s yet another example
of why you should only ever fly *First Class*….. (preferably Emirates)

WATCH:

https://x.com/Morbidful/status/1798511115669811291
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June 6, 2024 4:14pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Remember that little message we always get told ..
  
  If you have to evacuate the plane, do not bring your bags, etc.
  
  Take a look at how many of those evacuators are carrying bags and coats.
  
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  June 6, 2024 5:24pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    TBF tho magz they were obviuosly ‘up front’.
    No way would I be leaving my Vircuna coat behind!
    
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    June 6, 2024 5:41pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’d be worrying that I didn’t have a spare pair of knickers for the next day.
      
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      June 6, 2024 7:11pm
Sparrow

Not sure why countries seem to have this obsession with kids attending Uni. I freely admit as going out to work at 16 I have little time for Universities. Please correct me if I am wrong on this matter. When MBA started I thought they were for people who had great experience but lacked paper qualifications and a rounding of their management skills. I worked with a number of these people and they were great value. In the meantime I had gained professional qualifications in my line of work. Then MBA became the in thing. So students were getting MBA without work or life experience. It seemed to me that Uni’s saw this as a great money making exercise. I have come across many of these graduates and frankly would never employ them they were so entitled. We know how to manage your business etc etc. They got short shift. Management Consultants have them by the bucket load. Have I got this all wrong ?
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June 6, 2024 4:19pm
Ghost

Good. I do wonder if these charges are seperate to the school case which involved a few kids

An assistant principal who gave several of his female students sex toys at school and sent them naked pictures of himself is before the courts awaiting sentencing for offending against a young person.

Article
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June 6, 2024 5:46pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  What a filthy b*stard!
  
  Still, you no the ol saying –
  “Import the 3rd world…. 🙁
  
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  June 6, 2024 6:45pm
Ghost

Made in china, better quality than made in the USA….

https://youtube.com/shorts/3aYtKzoOwXI?si=1Iz-lnJ_tAzgSLDz
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June 6, 2024 6:03pm
Jack5

With a further tester of Maorification of place names in Auckland, the question is who makes the final decision?

The Herald reports:

The New Zealand Geographic Board has opened consultations on proposals to “correct and restore” two Māori place names in Auckland.

The proposals call for the restoration of the original Māori name Te Tōangaroa to an area on Auckland CBD’s waterfront and correction in the spelling of Takanini to Takaanini.

The Geographic Board, which decides place names, comes ultimately under the Minister for Land Information, Chris Penk. He seems to have the final say. However, board recommendations or appointments seem to be the rule.

The Geographic Board site says the board consists of 10 members, then lists details for nine. Perhaps another appointment is ~~penking~~ pending.

Board membership as listed on the Net –

Chairman: Anselm Haanen, the Surveyor-General, and as you would expect a surveyor by profession – an Otago University-educated master’s degree level surveyor.

Robin Kearns, an Auckland professor of geography. The board description of Kearns includes: “He is a social and cultural geographer who is widely published on the links between health and places, and has influenced the development of the subdiscipline known as health geography”.

Paulette Tamati-Elliffe, nominated by the South Island’s Ngai Tahu tribe. The board lists her qualifaction as graduate of Te Panekiretanga o te Reo Maori – Institute of Excellence in Maori Language.

Merata Kawharu, a Maori described as a “part-time professor at the Centre for Sustainability at Otago University.” However, Kawharu has a Ph.D. in anthropology from Oxford University, and was awarded an MNZM for services to Maori education.

Jenni Vernon, a primary school teacher, and a Resource Management Act Hearings Commissioner. She chaired the Waikato Regional Council from 2004 to 2007.

Adam Greenland, the National Hydrographer. He has qualifications in hydrographic surveying and mapping, and is a former Merchant Navy deck officer.

Iaean Cranwell, the nominee of Local Government New Zealand. He has a B.Sc. in biology is described as current “co-chair” of Te Maruata, the national collective of Maori in governance roles in Local Government New Zealand. He has been Ngai Tahu councillor on Environment Canterbury.

Cadence Kaumoana, a nominee of the Minister for Maori Development. No information on her is provided on the Geographic Board web site, other than she was nominated to the board by the Minister for Maori Development. A web site shows she has a Ph.D. in education from Auckland University, and is a former chief executive of the Maniapoto Maori Trust Board.

Mahana Toka, similarly listed as “biography to be updated soon”. However, the Net shows he is half-owner of the Huntly company Niwha Ltd, which seems to be a business consultancy.

https://www.linz.govt.nz/our-work/new-zealand-geographic-board/about-new-zealand-geographic-board/board-members

Maori name changes proposed for Auckland suburbs:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maori-name-changes-for-auckland-suburbs-nz-geographic-board-opens-consultations-on-proposals/H4K5EMI7D5DRTB6WD5FPXMO7XE/
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June 6, 2024 9:25pm
- Mike
  
  Well, can you think of a better place for more ‘Maorification’ than Aotearoa?
  
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  June 6, 2024 10:05pm
  - Jack5
    
    An attempt to reverse standard patterns of dominant versus threatened languages.
    
    English is extraordinarily dominant in the world. This is being enhanced by new artificial-intelligence tools. Services such as Google Translate use these with the the following strategy in translating between non-English languages:
    
    Language X into English then English into language Y.
    
    Maori into Indonesian, for example:
    
    Step 1: Maori into English.
    Step 2: English into Indonesian.
    
    If Maori were trying to survive against a lesser language than English it might have a chance of becoming this country’s dominant language.
    
    Against English, no chance.
    
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