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Chuck Bird

Great news!

Israeli special forces rescue four Oct 7 hostages snatched by Hamas from the Nova music festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZGFhCh5ssk
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June 9, 2024 8:01am
- Cassandra
  
  It’s great news. Unfortunately Hamas had the hostages surrounded by women and children who were then sacrificed for the PR value. As usual the media will concentrate on those casualties rather than the people who kept them there to shield the hostages or provide the favourable media when they were killed. I don’t have a solution. Killing Shinwar would be mt highest priority.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:09am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “Killing Shinwar would be mt highest priority.”
    
    Capturing him alive would be better. We would see how brave he is then.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:29am
  - kowtow
    
    The Iranian regime is behind all this.
    Qatar actively supports them , as does Turkey . Southern Lebanon is ruled by Hezbollah who’re constantly firing rockets into Israel.
    
    This is way bigger than the UN , the Greens certain Pprogessive” western govts and te media present it as .
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:33am
  - mogg
    
    Yes it’s all about PR value, Hamas are using women and children as weapons of war.
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:03am
    - I remember when
      
      This rescue shows several things that help confirm the Israeli publicity.
      One, they do have some knowledge of where to find surviving hostages.
      Secondly, the fact that it proves what Israel has been saying about Hamas using refugee areas.
      Finally, that all Hamas combatants are using the Palestinian population as a shield.
      
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      June 9, 2024 12:18pm
      - kowtow
        
        Apparently on US intelligence , but who knows.
        
        Anyway brilliantly executed operation. Pity about the IDF casualty . Real heros.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:48pm
- Bush Apologist
  
  In describing the rescue, I liked the IDF’s reference of the bravery an heroism of the forces including that of the fallen Commander Zamora being compared to Judah Maccabee.
  
  Islamist extremists will invoke the history of their disgusting destructive battles to subjugate cities as a way to stir the evil intent within their “fighters”.
  
  Israel invokes the far older historical battle of Jews defending their homeland.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:25am
- Tony Stuart
  
  This is fantastic news. Well done to the IDF teams, and sincere condolences to family and comrades of the IDF soldier killed during the raid, Commander Arnon Zamora.
  
  Teams had been planning and rehearsing the raid for weeks and their objective of returning the four hostages safely to Israel was met.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    Presented across our media as a “massacre” of civilians .
    
    Te legacy media paahti are a disgrace.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:11am
- Inandout
  
  CB, Donna Leva on ZB mentioned the hostage release but in her screechy voice emphasised lots of Palestinians were killed in the process. This of course is what Hamas wanted because many of the other hostages are now dead and by placing live ones in a refugee camp was their plan.
  
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  June 9, 2024 9:07am
  - Handyman
    
    To be precise, it was a hostage rescue, not a hostage release.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:28am
- Waipuk
  
  This are why Manas are fighting
  
  https://youtube.com/shorts/uKQftyTncQQ?si=6M0IR0fKeNDlPwW3
  
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  June 9, 2024 9:36am
- Ra Henare
  
  Good to see the rescued Hostages in physical good shape. No skinny gaunt looking people there.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:33pm
artemisia

Pricey business removing ink. One person interviewed for the below item had 6 sessions approved while in prison. The laser tech says a further 50 sessions are required at $450 per. That person with ink says he can’t afford it and anyway not his fault as he was only 27 when he got his first gang ink.

Maybe a loan would work, though probably best to drip feed it for a few sessions at a time.

Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell said he was a strong supporter of the programme for rehabilitation. It was funded earlier, 2001-2004, to the tune of $250,000. So it should not be too difficult to check work and criminal history to see how successful the rehab of those people has been and whether the $quarter mill was worth it. Good input to new funding decisions.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/corrections-funded-prisoner-tattoo-removal-funding-pool-nearly-gone/
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June 9, 2024 8:07am
- Mike
  
  I can’t be bothered to check, but I believe the previous tattoo removal programme had zero measurable effect on reoffending.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:13am
  - blue collar
    
    Agree brother Mike , and why would it ?
    I don’t want my tax dollars spent on crap like this .
    The way I see it , they are walking billboards displaying the foibles of going the whole hog when joining gangs .
    It’s great they will suffer the indignity and ostracisation for life .
    Payback for all the victims and negative effects on society until they …. Apparently …. Saw the light .
    Might make a few more reconsider going the facial tat route , or joining altogether .
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:11am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Some prisoners see removing a tattoo from their face is an opportunity to get work after release, face tattoos are extremely off putting, so removing them gives them a chance
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:36am
    - Mike
      
      20 years ago, Corrections measured the efect of tattoo removal and concluded money was better spent on other rehabilitation and reintegration programmes.
      It’s an idea that sounds good without analysis – maybs that’s why it appeals to the current minister.
      
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      June 9, 2024 11:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    The only reason to get facial tattoos removed is for employment. You are unemployable.
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:42am
    - Jack5
      
      Unemployable?
      
      That wasn’t the decision of Christopher Luxton in 2019 when he made Air NZ the world’s first airline allowing cabin staff to display tattoos.
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/391662/air-nz-changes-rules-to-allow-tattooed-employees
      
      That came after a job applicant was rejected because of tattoos not visible outside his clothes:
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politicians-maori-leaders-and-academics-call-on-air-new-zealand-to-change-outdated-racist-ta-moko-policy/V5PGMCCS3MWX2XEXASYTCR65IE/
      
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      June 9, 2024 11:11am
      - Mike
        
        You possibly are under the misapprehension that all tattoos are the same.
        I don’t particularly appreciate tattoos, but I might have differing reactions to a face tattooed with a dog picture and a face with a moko kauae.
        
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        June 9, 2024 11:46am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        All tattoos are culturally significant to the wearer and have been obtained to make a statement. If they are publically displayed then that is a public statement. Generally they are aligning the wearer with a group while simultaneously saying look at me, I am special. Unlike a hairstyle, clothing, or jewellery they are permanent statements.
        
        While gang insignia are the ultimate display of F You All, unfortunately the push on Moko are not innocent outpourings of peoples passion for their Māori culture. They are tainted by association with an aggressive agenda to create a new power structure by activists. This usually comes with the ideology that they don’t believe they are under the sovereignty of the Crown, should have complete control over their own existence while this is paid for by other NZers. They believe that they are special and superior to other NZers and should have special and superior privileges. In many ways it is not that far removed from gang ethos.
        
        So if I have an inherent dislike of facial tattoo it is not because I have hatred for the wearer or their ethnicity. However, I do have a severe dislike of the aggression it portrays towards the rest of us that prefer to live in an egalitarian country rather than an ethnostate.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:03pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        I was thinking more of large men with “mobster” written on their face. 😂
        
        However I can imagine many customer facing businesses refusing to employ anyone with a facial tatoo. For example if you ran an art gallery in Queenstown or even a restaurant, you would be foolish to do so. Most potential Japanese customers would walk.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:09pm
      - Jack5
        
        Big change in cultural perceptions of tattoos in the last 50-60 years. In those days they were marks largely of sailors and old soldiers.
        
        The lyrics of this popular song of the 1950s and 1960s by the Kingston Trio, reflect how society of those long-ago days regarded tattoos, especially on women.
        
        https://genius.com/The-kingston-trio-the-tattooed-lady-lyrics
        
        Or you may prefer to hear it sung:
        
        https://youtu.be/21c-v3TDf6Y?si=vA9PlzKnSSY3jUGv
        
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        June 9, 2024 8:49pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Exactly
      
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      June 9, 2024 2:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Why is the Net Taxpayer footing the bill of $450 a session? $22500 for one person who got his first MM Tattoo at 27. That is just one person.
  Whoever came up with the figure of $73000 for the Corrections Dept must have been using that roving decimal point again. $73K is nor enough for four people!
  27 years old? Well if you are not grown up by then you will never grow up.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:26am
  - artemisia
    
    I think only 6 sessions funded for that person, so far, so more funding is needed for the next 50 sessions.
    
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    June 9, 2024 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      So that’s $2700 for the first six, then he has to pay.
      More numbers – the allotted $73000 still only funds 27 MM at that rate.
      Hey! Where did all of the $275,000,000 that Jacinda gave them end up?
      
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      June 9, 2024 8:41am
      - Colville
        
        $275,000,000
        
        I see that roving decimal is contagious…..
        
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        June 9, 2024 9:02am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Colville,
        
        I looked at that and did not see my mistake. I was confused but I thought it was ok.
        I put the long version to make it impress. Of course it should be $2,750,000 – or $2.75M.
        See what 5 days of sickness can do? Fuck, I own it!
        
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        June 9, 2024 11:01am
    - Countrygirl
      
      I have to wonder, having no experience of tattoos, if the operator saw lots of dollar signs as funded by the “government” and to make sure the costs used up every cent.
      
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      June 9, 2024 9:49am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Of course it was, just like every contractor getting Govt jobs.
        
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        June 9, 2024 11:03am
  - JackRabbit
    
    Send the bill to the gang.
    
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    June 9, 2024 8:34am
    - john1234
      
      Be happy to see proceeds of crime money applied here. A gang face tattoo would make employment very difficult. If a banger wants out and to become a contributing member of society it’s worth it.
      
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      June 9, 2024 9:42am
  - pdm
    
    SO – it sounds to me like the person doing the tattoo removes is capitalising on a very generous Taxpayer funded scheme. It seems to me it would be expensive at a third the cost.
    
    I say personal responsibility and pay your own way should be the basis for tattoo removal.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:23am
    - rouppe
      
      Yes. It’s possible the MM has not only tattoo parlors but laser removal shops as well.
      
      Though the laser is probably expensive and the operator includes the price of it in their rate.
      
      Wonder what the cost per session would be if corrections bought one and paid an appropriate going rate to operate it.
      
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      June 9, 2024 10:38am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m sure he’ll pay the loan back at $5 per week.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Even if it is a loan for full removal, the Net Taxpayer is financing the loan.
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:10am
- imalwaysright
  
  It would be much cheaper to just tattoo the bits that haven’t been done.
  Make their faces ink coloured.
  Dark blue could be the new black!
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Black is black. I have the “Playboy” logo on my right arm. Been black for 66 years – yeah, one of those things you do at 16 years old and stupid!
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:12am
- Philview
  
  It rings a bell that the last government was funding for prisoners to have the tattoo reference to New Zealand replaced with Aotearoa.
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:31am
- Paulus
  
  From what I have seen recently is the huge increase in the young women of Maori decent supporting a Moko.
  I always thought it was for the older mature tribal ladies, not the children telling everybody who they believe they are, and that they are now the superior race in New Zealand.
  In fact Maori have won the second Treaty of Waitangi over recent years, as we are subjected to every little thing in Maori, and we can expect it surreptitiously over time to continue.
  I see all schools are now, according to all, it appears a new road signs a Kura !
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:36am
- plc
  
  I was contracted to do the initial evaluation of the programme in 2003.
  
  It was set up in 2001-02 with an $80,000 funding grant from the Salvation Army (this provided the removal machine and the resourcing of the removal).
  
  As with all programmes a pilot was set up to allow measurement of the effects.
  
  The programme was specifically targetted at prisoners within the youth prison system who had found that the existence of prison tattoos impacted their ability to get a job upon release. Its focus was purely as a reintegrative intervention rather than rehabilitative.
  
  There were a few simple rules at the start.
  
  Prisoners eligible were to be 17-19 years old. Prisoners had a release date no longer than 6 months away. Removal could be completed in no more than 5-10 sessions.
  
  Once it got within the Corrections systems things went pear-shaped. The first 2-3 months the rules were followed but very quickly they went out the window. It was almost immediately extended to a wider age group and the proximity of release requirement was ignored.
  
  Reviewing the programme there was evidence of prisoners with 10+ years to parole being added to the intervention and also a case where a patched gang member was released with the M-O-N of Mongrel removed.
  
  The intent of the programme was well-based but mismanagement by PPS (as Prisons was called at the time) meant the trial was eventually abandoned.
  
  None of the targets were achieved due to the ignoring of the rules resulting in the sample size of the pre-ordained target group being too small.
  
  Classic clusterfuck under the then PPS GM who key focus was establishment of Faith-based units (under the direction of his predecessor Kim Workman).
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:50am
  - lifesgood
    
    Why waste money on the idiots. Let them stew in their own stupidity. Anyway they’ll probably all be dead soon. Latest medical evidence is that people with tattoos are way more susceptible to lymphoma.
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:17pm
  - artemisia
    
    Thanks for that, plc. Most interesting. What do you think of the idea of reviewing the work and criminal histories from those early participants to see how they actually turned out. If they did OK that would be a good reason to provide some funding.
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:49pm
  - Mike
    
    That was better than my recollection that the programme was canceled because it didn’t work.
    I guess though, that tattoo removal might help in some cases, but only as a specific support for some offenders already motivated to change their behavior.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:33pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

More on the riff-raff in the City yesterday.
Times must be tough. Look at the garbage they are wearing. Lots of familiar rent a mob faces.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/fast-track-approvals-bill-protest-20-000-estimated-as-huge-demonstration-brings-auckland-to-stand-still/ar-BB1nQ2Nl?
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June 9, 2024 8:08am
- Loddenthinks
  
  The rent-a-mob brought Auckland to a standstill? Pffft – Auckland Council has been doing that for donkey’s years. Pot-holes, road cones, cycle/bus lanes and traffic. Yesterday was nothing!
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:12am
  - G152
    
    liebor and green supporters trying to look like they care. They certainly didnt do anything when they could have
    
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    June 9, 2024 8:16am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t forget speed bumps, they are hugely expensive and they damage cars
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:46pm
- John Loveridge
  
  Would that be more than Te Party got?
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:27am
- Inandout
  
  SO, it appears dial-a-flag day in that picture as anything goes. Surely a ‘Queers for Palestine’ is in that mob or even a Boy Racist wearing a tea towel. No chance of disrupting Queen St retailers though, they are long gone.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:27am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Quite sad about the retailers. It used to be fun window shopping in the City.
    Now I would not go near there.
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:18am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Window shopping? You can’t get near the windows cause dead beats
      
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      June 9, 2024 12:50pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        And it stinks!
        
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        June 9, 2024 6:09pm
- JackRabbit
  
  The 20,000 estimated will be an over estimation.
  
  And the mob have nothing specific to say.
  
  The fast track bill is predominantly to clean up Labour’s mess.
  
  When people turned out to protest in Wellington and other places over the mandates, the media either didn’t show it, or heavily played down the numbers.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:33am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Why the left think fast track is bad god knows, they were fine when Labour did it during Covid, but I know that’s different, but because that fool Hipkins says all bad now they jump on the bandwagon, same with tax threshold changes, and the cancer drugs which is still being worked on and still only Nats have this policy, and will be delivered soon
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:50pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    You could only see a few people at the front, I tuned off when I seen young kids waving signs smiling like Christmas
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:51pm
- igm
  
  Most will be worried about their benefits being cut and having to actually earn themselves a real dollar. Will be hard for them, most being unemployable Labour/Green/TPM leeches.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:53am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    All they have too do is try and find work, why would their tax payer funded benefit be cut?
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:52pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  They look to be dressed like 99 percent of folk I see on a Saturday.
  
  Sadly, none of these people understand the issues. I have not read the fast track Bill. I am sure that less than one percent of the crowd could tell you anything about it.
  
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  June 9, 2024 8:56am
  - peterwn
    
    Where was the after-party with 9 burner BBQ’s.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:00am
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      Only 3 burners required – not many attended for the flame grilled tofu sausage.
      
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      June 9, 2024 10:02am
  - artemisia
    
    Here’s a plan. All those folk who want extra environmental protection can choose one project, agree the extra protection with the project owners and fast track crowd funding the cost to cover the life of the initiative including the cost of delays caused. Blind Freddie saved. Rinse and repeat.
    
    They could donate their tax cuts.
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:20am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Most of them don’t pay tax.
      
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      June 9, 2024 10:11am
  - blue collar
    
    Agree BY and lodden , seems easy to organise a protest with social media’s linked groups and reach .
    The powers that be must be careful, these protest numbers mean nothing .
    If you want a real snapshot , roll out a referendum .
    We had that at the election , message was , let’s use our own resources
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:24am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s pretty simple really, a company approach’s, the expert panel looks, and the ministers decide, but they still must maintain high standards in environment, and building standards, just not all the hoops to jump through
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:55pm
- Colville
  
  The ginger whinger calls it an attack on democracy… typical leftard twat…dosent like it when the vote goes against what he knows is best for the serfs.
  
  The Fast Track was a key plank of Nationals policy, Bishop and Jones have grabbed it with both hands and going to use that big stick to make some shit happen.
  
  Sadly ACT is being left in the dust on this issue with Seymour (who I vote for!) being shown up as a total hypocrite on housing.
  
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  June 9, 2024 9:08am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    What has he said about housing?
    
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    June 9, 2024 9:38am
    - Colville
      
      Very anti on infill hosing in Epsom.
      Cant have that type of thing in the leafy suburbs!
      
      Forget the property rights of owners to build what they want where they want.
      
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      June 9, 2024 11:47am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        It isn’t hypocrisy for the MP for Epsom to be opposed to Government funded activism to import social housing recipients into Epsom. Particularly when there are many of these people who are anti-social. Now if it was a free market development filling up with anti-social folk and he was opposing that then you could call out hypocrisy and I would agree.
        
        Personally I don’t have a problem with social housing being spread around the suburbs. But the real issue for the majority of social housing tenants and resident neighbours is that it is Anti-social housing. I am a big advocate for creating different classes of state housing. Anti-social housing should be in the back of beyond, built of robust, durable, cleanable materials eg public toilets. If you can’t live in Social housing then you get allocated to Anti-social housing!
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:18pm
      - Colville
        
        Pineapple.
        Why does terraced housing have to be social housing?
        I would suggest that land values in Epsom preclude social housing anyways.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:36pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Colville, under the last Govt, KO was more than happy to pay whatever it took to inject social housing into nicer areas. The cost of land was irrelevant.
        
        Ironically, it was the net taxpayers in the nicer areas who were funding the destruction of their own property values – a big Marxist tick there.
        
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        June 9, 2024 2:02pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Colville – sorry if I misunderstood, is Seymour opposing commercial developments? I was referring to KO activities. There are examples of multilevel KO developments in Parnell and Epsom where the tenants are creating massive amounts of issues to other locals.
        
        The issue I see with infill housing is just the complete lack of multi-agency planning eg planning for schools, stormwater/sewerage infrastructure and other community facilities. Allowing developers to push in lots of additional housing is fine but who is going to pay to provide all the additional wraparound requirements?
        
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        June 9, 2024 3:37pm
  - Quail
    
    The Fast track legislation does not address the issues raised by the RMA .There is an essential change for the built environment but not so for the natural environment!
    Farmers and other land users have had their ability to produce severely curtailed and the cost of using the land they have purchased has skyrocketed.
    In NZ ownership of land is not legally possible.All land managers have is use rights.
    Use rights that have been, and are being ,diminished by the day .
    .Legislation like the RMA plus Council regulations etc etc are largely responsible for NZs appalling productivity .
    If NZ is to compete in the world , our land managers need the authority to manage and use the land they pay rates on!
    Freeing up land use in the natural environment must be included in Government reforms.
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:23am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Freeing up land use in the natural environment must be included in Government reforms. ”
      
      I thought they were on to it. Example…
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/513952/fresh-water-farm-plans-rollout-to-be-reviewed-work-underway-may-be-halted
      
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      June 9, 2024 10:48am
      - Quail
        
        BY .
        Well no
        Mr Luxon specifically excluded the natural environment pre election.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:04pm
      - Colville
        
        Quail.
        
        What??
        
        How can they exclude the “natural environment” and yet allow marine farms, seabed and coal mining?
        Do those things happen out outdoors in the big green spaces??
        
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        June 9, 2024 3:48pm
    - PurplePen
      
      Quail “Freeing up land use in the natural environment”. Agree. I would also include the conservation estate in that. I’ll explain. The C estate is about one third of NZ land area. There must be parts of it that actually aren’t worth conserving, and it only gets additions such as when a crowd decides there’s yet another ‘iconic’ piece of land such as that Tasman beach on the top of South Island. In parallel with allowing commercial use of conservation estate remove tracts that aren’t actually worth preserving .. sell or lease them if you like.
      
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      June 9, 2024 10:56am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Act voted against Nats RMA attempt at reform in the Key years, they had to get their last vote from the Māori party which watered it down.
    
    I must admit Seymour spoke well and acted accordingly as PM last week as Luxon and Peters were away, the media set the trap over cancer drugs and flicked it off perfectly, he answered without saying that is for Nats too answer, he stated that is being worked on through cabinet and that policy will be finalised soon
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:00pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Seemed to be more Palestinian flags in Chch than anything to do the environment
  
  The screaming skull seems to have found a new lease on life
  
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  June 9, 2024 9:26am
- Philview
  
  These types of protestors completely object to the Economy of New Zealand. A country must have an Economy.
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:35am
- rouppe
  
  Half of them were pro palestine, and Maori sovereignty protestors.
  
  The latter forcing themselves to the front and pushing the headline protest mob to the side.
  
  So much mixed messaging…
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:43am
NeverMindTheBollocks

It’s interesting that in all the coverage of the Afghan cricket team, there’s one word that I have not seen mentioned, and that word is “Taliban”.

It’s as if that twenty year shit-show has been wiped from history.
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June 9, 2024 8:29am
- kowtow
  
  Amazing .
  
  No rugby tours to SA but cricket with the floggers and murderers is ok .
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:02am
- MCōs
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/10/they-bring-us-joy-afghans-swept-up-in-cricketing-fairytale?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:42am
- Jack5
  
  You won’t see Afghan Women mentioned in cricket reports either.
  
  However, the players who could have made it, are now mainly safe in Australia:
  
  https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/65263457
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:17am
DimChappie

Simon Andersen suggests there is a new story about to break of a Green accused of assaulting a copper with a car. Due out today in his Simon TV on X:

https://x.com/simonranderson
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June 9, 2024 8:29am
- SimonRAnderson
  
  It won’t be today.
  
  Or tomorrow. Awaiting the SoF.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:01am
Maggy Wassilieff

Haimona Gray exposes the “gloves-on treatment” Te Pati Maori receives from MSM journalists

This will only get worse if journalists continue to not ask the hard questions of one political party, and its activists, that they would of any other party. One that didn’t claim to speak for Maori.

There is a phrase for this kind of gloves-on treatment: the soft bigotry of low expectations.

This all fuels division, the lack of transparency from Te Pati Maori and the lack of critical eye by media stemming from a misguided desire for allyship.

We the public, whether Maori or not, deserve better.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/haimona-gray-the-car-koi-and-partisan-activation
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June 9, 2024 9:26am
- mogg
  
  This soft treatment or nothing to see here is intentional. You only have to look at the stark contrast between reporting on 6 years of Labour
  total disorganisation in government, and the hyper critical reporting on the coalition where every little detail is being over exaggerated.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Today’s herald is a really good example of bias and general cruddiness.
    
    Screaming front page headlines about people buying guns for the gangs , this is yet another attack on Nicole McKee and the paper’s advocacy for the firearms register , which is an Ardernist , pointless and expensive exercise.
    Why ? The article itself acknowldges the licensee had gang family connections ; surely that’s a vetting failure ; likewise the police have busted the case , without the existence of the register !
    
    Then there’s a story by a journalist who got kicked out of a cafe for not spending much but taking up a table. The cafe is named and in a photo .
    Do reporters not care that real businesses have to work hard to make money .
    
    The editorial itself is more Branch Covidian promotionalism.
    
    And of course , yet again the cartoon is another attck on the coalition.
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:12pm
    - Ghost
      
      If it is the interview with Nicole McKee by Derek Cheng it is a good article
      
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      June 9, 2024 12:28pm
      - kowtow
        
        That was a reasonable article.
        
        And no I was referring to the front page story where a person with a licence had a gang connection and was selling to the gang.
        
        That’s got nothing to do with registration but is a vetting failure.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:14pm
      - Ghost
        
        Ah I think I’ve got it, the straw buyer article. Interesting article, the cases it refers to happened under minister Faafoi, Allan and Anderson. Strange article doesn’t mention any of them.
        
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        June 9, 2024 1:24pm
cas

Driving past some newly built KO homes this morning made me wonder why they didn’t put clothes lines in for the tenants. Their washing is draped over fences. Perhaps there’s not enough room for a clothes line as the sections are tiny.
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June 9, 2024 9:28am
- Benedict Yu
  
  There will be clothes lines. AFAIK they have access to clotheslines in all their new builds. They are usually attached to the fence and pull out.
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:12am
  - cas
    
    Thanks. perhaps they haven’t found them then. An awful lot of clothes on the fences.
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:34am
  - mogg
    
    I don’t think tenants in KO homes would dare to leave their washing to dry unattended. It would very quickly be seen as common property.
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:28am
  - cmm
    
    There were clothes lines. Likely now available on trademe.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:56pm
- Paulus
  
  They assume that any clothes on a line will be taken by the wind !
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:38am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    The washing line is provided but the pegs are not.
    
    Pegs cost money, you know!
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:06pm
    - sirknz
      
      Can confirm. One of the KO houses near us, the clothes line when it is used, is always without pegs. Net result is their clothes end up on the ground by the third or fourth day of being left out.
      
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      June 9, 2024 2:54pm
blue collar

Leave Martin at halfback for warriors .
Never mess with an in form winning team .
Don’t let salary payments , fans , history or any peripheral thing affect judgement
It’s what’s best for the team .
Everyone loves winners and will forgive or forget how they did it .
It will also encourage bench / fringe players . If you take your opportunity, things can change rapidly . Creates a performance based , hungry group that stays motivated and plays out of their skins . Eliminates complacency
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June 9, 2024 9:53am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  They were lacking something at the 5th tackle, Johnson’s kicks were not there, man they really could have crucified them with Johnson bombs a couple of times last night
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:04pm
blue collar

Trumps on a roll .
People are joining in droves .
They realise they don’t have to like trump , it’s what he stands for .
He stands for putting Americans first . Spending tax dollars on Americans . Protecting the average joe and their rights .
Eliminating deep state corruption
The border .
Stop foreign war involvement
MAGA .
It’s in the name . More Americans are into the MAGA movement than the GOP .
The GOP is coming across as part of the swamp , and people see it . Trump and MAGA is conservative America now
He is surging purely because of what he stands for , no one else is saying what he is saying .
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June 9, 2024 9:58am
- Taieri
  
  it’s what he stands for
  ———–
  
  Like most of politicians, himself…
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:04am
  - Inandout
    
    Tai, get it right. Trump is no politician.
    
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    June 9, 2024 10:24am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And that is why he will win. America needs a businessman, a person who understands money and building shit.
      
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      June 9, 2024 11:35am
      - Mike
        
        Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Trumpy has spent most of his adult life launching failed or fraudulent businesses in between failing at family life.
        
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        June 9, 2024 11:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe Trumps message/quote is sinking in.
  “You don’t have to like someone to respect them, and with that respect you gain respect in return” It was of course aimed at Putin, Xi and Rocket man.
  Maybe Trump is gaining supporters who may not like him, but like what he does and how.
  MAGA. Trump 2024.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:39am
- Cantabrian
  
  All you who suffer fromn TDS should read Jared Kushner’s book ‘Breaking History’. While one has to be careful because Kushner is speaking as Trump’s son-in-law, it is a very revealing picture of the Washington Machine’s reaction to having a non-politician as President. Yes, Trump is different, but there is no question he is focused on making change for the better. Kushner has examples of how Trump seeks advice from a range of people, asks probing questions in meetings, and makes decisions. This is contrasted with Obama, who regularly pushed the hard decisions into the future and wanted numerous meetings and discussions. Some interesting light is shone on foreign policy matters, particularly Mexico and Israel.
  Worth a read. Available on Kobo and Kindle.
  
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  June 9, 2024 12:12pm
  - Mike
    
    Does the book explain why he is sponsoring a war memorial in Serbia?
    
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    June 9, 2024 4:47pm
Maggie Pie

Here’s John Minto’s take on yesterdays ‘March-for-Nature’ in Chch. Looking at the flags & banners, you’d have to think most of the retards didn’t even know why they were there anyway 😀

https://x.com/JohnJohnminto/status/1799252633510924582
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June 9, 2024 10:16am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Using an old saying they wouldn’t know whether they were reamed or cleaned with a .303 pull through.
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:29am
  - G152
    
    We had 4.5 pull throughs. Would they fit?
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:07am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Minto a co may think it is just a colonoscopy
      
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      June 9, 2024 6:17pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Catch-all protest
  
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  June 9, 2024 10:36am
- PurplePen
  
  I came across a vid on X. Cant find the link. It was protesters being interviewed during their protest. They were asked questions such as which river and which sea. None of them knew the answer.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:00am
- Jack5
  
  Old protesters never die, they just rave away …
  
  John Minto, now in his 70s, once led HART protests against South African rugby tours.
  
  The police nick-named their anti-riot batons “Minto bars” after him.
  
  In any Christian life after death, John will long linger outside the Pearly Gates, megaphone in hand, whipping up a shut-out mob of the lumpen proletariat.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:03am
  - JackRabbit
    
    In any Christian life after death, John will be in Hell, subject to continuous re-runs of torture by despots and dictators that he enabled or promoted in this life.
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:45am
    - lifesgood
      
      He’s the most miserable, unhappy looking individual. What a sad life he’s had, full to the brim with unrequited anger.
      
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      June 9, 2024 12:02pm
  - kowtow
    
    Saint Peter , Keeper of the Gates , a Jewish working class fisherman whose homeland is under constant attack by hate filled rapists and murderers , sponsored by Islamic women hating clerics .
    
    Minto , an acolyte of the haters, is the last prick he’d let through.
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:02pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t mock, if the left are in, they would be stupid enough to pull the Colin Meads statue down and replace it with a bronze statue of these weasel
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:10pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    To be fair to John Minto, he has called out the corruption of the ANC. From 2013:
    
    “ Heroes of the anti-apartheid era in the 1970s and 80s like Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale have become embedded as a new black elite – as distant and dismissive of the poor as Vorster, Verwoerd or de Klerk”
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/john-minto-a-great-man-but-not-a-great-president/
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:12pm
    - cmm
      
      Yup, Minto was unlike other lefties in that.
      
      Most of them just fell in line – criticizing black people is raacist!
      
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      June 9, 2024 2:55pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  What a bunch of losers.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:41am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  As soon as you see a Palestine flag or that unofficial Māori flag you know it’s utter bullshit, what do those flags have to do with the environment?
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:08pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Isnt it great that we live in a democracy(NZ) that allows freedom of sppech and expression.
  
  This is just another version of such marches. from both left and right, Moralists & fearmongers, reglios and Unionists.
  .
  eg
  Until the 1980s street marches were largely the preserve of the political left. But in March 1981 about 50,000 people joined an anti-union march down Auckland’s Queen Street. The ‘Kiwis Care’ march was organised by Tania Harris,
  
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/parades-and-protest-marches/page-6
  
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  June 9, 2024 4:00pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Time To Bring Mainstream NZ Media To Its Knees? This guy exposes it.
The Herald can edit your post and publish it without telling you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BnoH6a_IQ
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June 9, 2024 10:20am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

IDF kills eight billion, mostly children and puppies.

https://babylonbee.com/news/gaza-health-ministry-confirms-8-billion-dead-in-israeli-hostage-rescue
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June 9, 2024 10:31am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hunter wants to go outside for a while during his trial.

https://babylonbee.com/news/as-prosecution-rests-hunter-biden-ask-if-this-is-a-good-time-to-go-out-back-behind-the-dumpsters-for-a-minute-for-no-particular-reason
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June 9, 2024 10:37am
- JackRabbit
  
  Hunter Biden had been sweating, drumming his fingers on the table, rubbing glazed eyes, and tapping his foot increasingly faster and faster…
  
  No free chocolate fish for guessing they were withdrawal symptoms…
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:51am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Hard drugs leave those traits for ever, especially P
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:12pm
  - cmm
    
    “withdrawal symptoms”
    
    Impossible. Bail conditions are no drugs. And he wouldn’t violate thse whould he?
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:53pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Daddy told him not to do any more – well a while back, some time ago, yesterday last night.
      
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      June 9, 2024 6:48pm
NK

https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/9th-circuit-court-rules-covid-19?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true
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June 9, 2024 10:37am
imalwaysright

Handy site listing the woke companies in New Zealand.

Unfortunately, it is depressingly long.

https://wokeup.nz/
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June 9, 2024 10:40am
- PurplePen
  
  Was referred to this earlier. Would be useful if the full list was on the front page with the red light score alongside, that way you can see without having to click through nor scroll too much. You can always then click through for more detail then.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:03am
- JackRabbit
  
  Unfortunately, it is depressingly long.
  
  And it needs a lot of work.
  
  Restaurant Brands got a green light. Despite being so woke they did major deals with the Govt to lure all the “enlightened” people into taking the unsafe and ineffective vaccines by giving them KFC vouchers.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:48am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Doing business with the government wasn’t one of the criteria for assessing wokeness. Can’t think of any legitimate business that has a stated policy of not selling to the government. Can you?
    
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    June 9, 2024 4:11pm
Maggie Pie

Been trying every minit to get onto the Lotto site
for the last hour or so. STILL says I’m in the queue.

Stuff it….. I’m not that interested anyway.
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June 9, 2024 10:43am
- PurplePen
  
  It’s your fault .. all that clicking. It’s like anything .. play with it too much and it stops responding.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:04am
- Mike
  
  It’s a shame you poors have to wait so long to have your slim hopes of prosperity dashed.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:56am
  - imalwaysright
    
    I got through right away.
    A prompt dashing of my slim hope of prosperity ensued.
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:54pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Anyone else like triggering ‘milkey’ as much as me?
  Just knew that would get him and Ross outa the sack.
  
  How was it again that SteveO described him yesterday… LOL!!!
  
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  June 9, 2024 12:30pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    I can’t see why he is getting triggered. I would have thought the Labour Party acolytes would love Lotto, because:
    
    It takes other people’s money and gives it away.
    
    It is owned and controlled by the state.
    
    The money it doesn’t give away it keeps and chooses what it gets used for, such as funding loads of commercially unviable or activist activities.
    
    It creates a few rich pricks to be able to foment envy and hatred towards.
    
    Like social welfare it doesn’t require people to do anything of significance to get paid.
    
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    June 9, 2024 4:35pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Stop it! Mike is my friend.
    
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    June 9, 2024 6:50pm
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDfFSKz5XmM
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is vowing to ditch Australia’s 2030 climate target should he be elected.

Abandoning the target would mean withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, which aims to cut 43 per cent of greenhouse emissions by 2030.
The Coalition claims the current target isn’t achievable and will damage industries in the process. Mr Dutton is still aiming to achieve net zero by 2050. [I’d like to see Shane Jones get his teeth into this. Watch Trump quit the Paris Accord again.]
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June 9, 2024 11:24am
- MCōs
  
  Dutton promising stuff when he gets elected is like me promising stuff when I win lotto
  
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  June 9, 2024 12:43pm
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Just a wild guess Mcos, math wasn’t a strong point at school?
    
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    June 9, 2024 4:37pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  2030 is within voters’ timeframes. 2050 isn’t.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:13pm
  - MCōs
    
    Or lifetime, in my case
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:42pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  NZ needs to get a wriggle on if it’s going to be a world leader by pulling out of the Paris Agreement.
  The political party that declares the cost/benefit doesn’t stack up and we’re pulling out will gain loads of voters.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:42pm
  - sungsamning
    
    Trump pulling out in 2025 would give the coalition here political cover.
    
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    June 9, 2024 6:43pm
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. [Let’s assume the film 2000 Mules is even half true. That’s it for the Democratic Party. It needs to be wound up, the leadership indicted, and the assets forfeit to the state. Next, Zuckerberg for illegal contributions to the Absentee Ballots initiative. Then the next 100 or so people who have committed actual crimes. They should be sent a letter on 1/21/25 saying: There is enough evidence to indict you. You can choose to turn States Evidence and tell us everything. Leak the news before the innagauration; say on 6/1/25. Say there are 500 ‘people of interest’. ]
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June 9, 2024 11:31am
- NothingLeft
  
  It would be spectacularly interesting if the attentions and powers of the FBI and DOJ were turned onto properly examining 2020 ballot fraud without the ability of politically appointed beneficiaries (election winning judges, DAs, and politicians of various stripes) being able to shut it down – they could for example use cell phone data to track down and take a close look at the work and income histories of people who fit the ‘mule’ profile – they will be able to see where they lived, where they went, examine their bank records etc. Find a flip a few and a bloodbath would ensue.
  
  True the vote who were organisation that stumbled upon and identified the “2000 Mules” handed over all their data to (Georgia) GBI and FBI and were then studiously ignored except in as much as GBI moved heaven and earth and put them in jail to try and force disclosure of a whistleblowers identity – someone dangerous to the powers that be who absolutely had to be made an example of to prevent others talking.
  
  Use same federal power to closely examine voter roll and mail in ballot shenannigans.
  
  Important to realise that at state level both republican and democrats are benefiting from vote fraud, and after election are well placed to shut down investigation. Deep state always wins.
  
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  June 9, 2024 5:43pm
Maggie Pie

People wih knowledge of the matter who wish to remain anonymous are saying…… TVNZ are due to report a loss of nearly 35 million this financial year, along with other signicant impairments 🙁
This is TWICE what they’d predicted!

Is there one good reason why the government shouldn’t sell it off?
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June 9, 2024 11:44am
- Ghost
  
  You mean people who read what’s reported in the news a few days ago
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:49am
  - Mike
    
    LOL
    
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    June 9, 2024 11:57am
- kevn
  
  Maggie… stuff would ‘buy’ it.
  
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  June 9, 2024 11:49am
  - peterwn
    
    For $1 ?
    
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    June 9, 2024 12:44pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  What’s the point selling, it’s worthless
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:13pm
  - cmm
    
    The point isn’t really to sell it, but to get rid of it.
    
    If we keep it around then they just keep living in our pockets.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:50pm
Colville

Its quite scary when Shane Jones seems to be the only politician who is sensible….!!

Ban on oil and gas exploration to be overturned

The Government will overturn the ban on oil and gas exploration in New Zealand Minister for Resources Shane Jones says.

“Natural gas is critical to keeping our lights on and our economy running, especially during peak electricity demand and when generation dips because of more intermittent sources like wind, solar and hydro,” Jones said in a statement.

“When the exploration ban was introduced by the previous government in 2018, it not only halted the exploration needed to identify new sources, but it also shrank investment in further development of our known gas fields which sustain our current levels of use.

“Without this investment, we are now in a situation where our annual natural gas production is expected to peak this year and undergo a sustained decline, meaning we have a security of supply issue barrelling towards us.”

“Our petroleum and minerals sectors contributed $1.9 billion to GDP in 2020-21 and $236 million in Crown revenue in 2022-23. In 2023 mining employed around 6000 people, the majority of which are based in regional communities,” Mr Jones says.

“I want a considered discussion about how we use our natural resources to improve the security and affordability of energy and resources supplies, stimulate regional economic development opportunities, and increase New Zealand’s self-sufficiency to protect against volatile international markets.”/blockquote>
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June 9, 2024 11:56am
- JackRabbit
  
  Yes, and Arderns’ ban of said exploration made NZ heavily reliant on Blackrock backed Indonesian coal.
  
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  June 9, 2024 12:11pm
- peterwn
  
  Interesting the way these sorts of discussions are going. There were two ‘opposite’ articles in ‘The Conversation’ on this.
  1. https://theconversation.com/by-not-mining-vital-minerals-nz-is-offshoring-its-own-environmental-footprint-is-that-fair-231166
  Professor Martin Brook hit the nail right on the head with this.
  2. https://theconversation.com/how-the-fast-track-law-could-expose-future-nz-governments-to-expensive-trade-disputes-229363
  Prof Jane Kelsey warns the Government that NZ may suffer at the hands of a bunch of hypocrites on this.
  Anyway there is supposed urgency with dealing with alleged climate change. Surely with this urgency, fast tracking of resource approvals is justified. This is particularly as many of the projects in question are almost ‘shovel ready’. They do not need consents from the word go. The consenting work has been done. It now needs to be taken out of the hands of the incompetents and for someone competent to review the work and come up with a decision.
  
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  June 9, 2024 12:42pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Luxon stated from day one of becoming leader of Nats that oil and gas exploration ban would be over turned, why do people have such short memories. Yes Luzon might waffle about climate change, but he also knows you can’t knee cap the economy, I simply can’t under stand why centre right voters don’t listen
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:16pm
- PurplePen
  
  Yes, it is a little scary Shane Jones makes perfect logical sense. I find his opinion pieces and speeches both entertaining and sound!!?? I do wonder tho whether he’s not 5 in it for himself somehow than for NZ or the little people. You didn’t see him benefit the small regional businesses at all when he had the billion or so to dish out. I wouldn’t want to see him with too much power on his own.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:14pm
  - Ghost
    
    He still has his billion regional fund.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:17pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      1.2 billion over 3 years, not a billion a year like with Ardern
      
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      June 9, 2024 2:57pm
Aunty

This is an important article to read with an insightful perspective on the subversive threats facing the West and where they are coming from.

It raises an interesting question. Who are the CCP’s subversives in New Zealand, where are they, and what forums, blogs, etc., do they belong to?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: We Have Been Subverted

What is at stake in our ability to see the threat plainly? Nothing less than the preservation of our way of life.

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

June 5, 2024

https://www.thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-we-have-been-subverted
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June 9, 2024 12:50pm
- PurplePen
  
  Wow, that’s one hell of an interesting article. Thanks for the read.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:48pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Konstantin Kissin and plenty of others sing from the same song book.
    The Chinese escapees say the same about their dire world.
    And here the Green Party are communists and Islamists.
    
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    June 9, 2024 5:45pm
- wilderbeast
  
  Agree. It’s certain there are CCP operatives in NZ. There’s a lot of material about their incursions elsewhere, including into Central America where they have directly ramped up drug production and export into the USA. Private citizens sponsored into situations overseas that promote Chinese interests or undermine western interests. If you think it’s not happening you’re hopelessly naive. Meanwhile we argue amongst ourselves about woke bullshit.
  
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  June 9, 2024 7:56pm
Gussy Fink-Nottle

On the subject of the European Union and Brexit…
Tragically, the British political class did not have the capability (nor the will) to deliver on a democratic mandate and provide something useful.

From July, Blair, Campbell and Mandelson will be there in the shadows, setting the scene for a humiliating return.

My question to interested Kiwi Bloggers: if Germany had a similar referendum, do you think they would vote to leave the EU (such as it is today)?
I’m picking they would. And the Netherlands too. Possibly even France. Of course, they won’t get the chance (not for a while, at least).
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June 9, 2024 1:10pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Some countries in the EU have lowered voting age to 16.
  
  Surprise, surprise…. these youngsters aren’t flocking to the Left.
  
  The right could win big in Europe – thanks to young people
  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqqq952e3v6o
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:45pm
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    We can live in hope, Maggy.
    I’m sceptical of pretty much anything the BBC puts out these days though.
    To them, anyone who is not Socialist, is labelled ‘far right’.
    
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    June 9, 2024 1:59pm
  - PurplePen
    
    From the article “My history teachers are saying they wouldn’t be surprised if a world war happened in the future,” she says – and all her friends nod in agreement. “That really scares me”.”
    
    And that’s a reason voting shouldn’t be lowered to 16. “My teacher says…”. At 16 not only are they easily influenced, they haven’t experienced the world and life in any real way at length such that they can have an independent thought of their own. And they haven’t been away from one or their most influential for very long their school teachers. Sure, there will be exceptions.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:22pm
    - cmm
      
      Certainly kids of 16 are generally not having many independent thoughts. But then so are few university students or consumers of MSM “news” either.
      
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      June 9, 2024 2:49pm
- MCōs
  
  I’m sure there’s polls to help you find out if those countries you mention want to follow the UK into the wilderness, Gussy
  
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  June 9, 2024 1:55pm
  - Gussy Fink-Nottle
    
    If it’s a ‘wilderness’, it’s because they are being punished (including, by themselves).
    Therein lies the issue. They’re not friends really, none of them.
    They could have left it as a trading block, but Brussels wanted one, big country. It’s not.
    To date, the only serious issues they’ve had to face together is immigration, Covid, and Ukraine. And they pretty much fucked them all up.
    
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    June 9, 2024 2:10pm
- kowtow
  
  I’ve seen commentary where even in France the le Pen people realise that the French are wed to the EU and so say there won’t be Frexit under them but will try to guide it back it it’s original stated intention ie a trading block , not an tightly integrated federation.
  
  The current elections there for MEP will be interesting.
  
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  June 9, 2024 3:10pm
- Wayne Mapp
  
  The only country even remotely interested in leaving the EU was the UK. Always a difficult fit with their EU partners. Even then, the vote was quite close.
  In the rest of Europe there would be a decisive “yes” vote. The EU may not be perfect, but for continental Europe it is way better than the alternative.
  
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  June 9, 2024 6:17pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    There is a difference between wanting to leave and being not happy with the current structure
    There is no doubt that people like the freedom of travel, the sense of unity etc but there is also no doubt there are high levels of dissatisfaction about the EU Governmental system.
    It is too autocratic to the point of being dictatorial.
    ‘One of the key issues which has driven discontent within the European Union over the period since the great recession and the Eurozone crisis has been dissatisfaction with how democracy works. Citizens of many European countries have expressed that they feel they have no real input into political processes, that political parties tend to represent elite interests rather than their own, and that decision are often made by technocrats rather than through democratic deliberation.’
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1359743/euroscepticism-democracy-eu-own-country-2022/
    
    The UK is better off out of it. Sure, there might be some economic pitfalls but Sovereignty has a value of its own.
    Thats why we will never see a separate Maori Parliament here. The majority wont allow it.
    Every attempt to change that will be changed back.
    
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    June 9, 2024 6:36pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Hmm. I seem to remember that the Northern Europeans weren’t too keen on bailing out Greece & other Southern Europeans.
    
    Fact is, the European project did not and does not have to continue on convergence. There’s no reason why it could not have stayed as a trading bloc, with reciprocal travel rights etc. That’s what the Brits signed up for, & why they left
    
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    June 9, 2024 7:47pm
Waipuk

Here is a clip, 1 hr 45 minutes, about a kiwi, from his time in the NZ SAS, the Middle East, and about his life.

What he says about New Zealand is so true.

https://youtu.be/mllyagCKSrc?si=4lEAlDJNw-6X8raw
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June 9, 2024 1:37pm
MCōs

Gloomy sort of day in Auckland today so I’ve been lounging around watching the cricket
Next minute
I get a message from my iPhone kicking up a fuss because I’m not walking enough
Plus these nutritionally advice & the machine knows if I’m in a bad mood
Some people aren’t happy unless they’re in a bad mood.
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June 9, 2024 1:50pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’d turn your phone off, Cosie. Remember, if you don’t measure it, you don’t have to manage it.
  
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  June 9, 2024 2:17pm
An Old Kiwi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TUVXfM1nqo

Interesting video clip about Oz, but relevant to housing shortage here. (Esp from about the 5 minute mark.)
It points out that it takes on average 111 days in NSW to get approval for single home developments (ie typical surburbia), but in Texas it takes under a week.

Cutting red tape is a step in the right direction, IMO.
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June 9, 2024 2:18pm
sirknz

Interesting that the urinalist writing this piece doesn’t once speculate what might be causing the global supply shortages of HRT drugs.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350295198/menopause-treatment-patch-supply-issue-crisis-point

If it were manufacturing problems like the equipment used to manufacture it had been damaged, it would’ve been mentioned. If it was because of Ukraine/Russia. or even Palestine they would’ve mentioned it.

But no, it is because of the massive upswing in the ‘T’ community and they are paying much more for the drugs, and pointing this out makes me a transphobe and a bigot, apparently.
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June 9, 2024 3:05pm
- Ghost
  
  Then there are ‘manufacturing issues’ – although we don’t know a whole lot about the reasons behind these. But reports suggest that supply chain problems are affecting production.
  
  Additionally, the ingredients – derived from soya beans or sweet potatoes – required to manufacture oestradiol patches are in short supply and high demand.
  
  Article
  
  And
  
  Demand for HRT has increased massively. That’s not just here in Aotearoa, but all over the globe, with shortages being documented in the UK, Canada, Australia and Europe. This is likely due to GenX women hitting their late 40s and 50s, learning more about menopause and HRT, and general education and awareness about menopause growing.
  
  Article
  
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  June 9, 2024 3:25pm
- Notsofast
  
  You are not a bigot.
  It is an international scandal giving people opposite sex hormones for cosmetic reasons.
  It should be banned.
  
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  June 9, 2024 5:33pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350291906/no-experience-necessary-5-jobs-you-can-jump-right-now

Here are 5 more they could have included:

1. Mayor of Wellington
2. Coach of Black Caps
3. Any position in the Green Party
4. NZTA Pothole/Orange Cone counter
5. Reserve Bank Governor
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June 9, 2024 3:34pm
- Taieri
  
  6. Member of Parliament
  7. Prime Minister of NZ
  
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  June 9, 2024 3:57pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I’ll go for the orange cone counter.
  That job is never ending. Not sure how many days of work – maybe work at home just counting them.
  
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  June 9, 2024 6:55pm
Sparrow

How things have changed for the better. Thought I had the flu tested negative for Covid a few days ago. Today positive, so what plenty of fluids, panadol. No lockdown, police blockades, lambasting from the pulpit, the media claiming end of the world. One person in Devonport caused Northland to be blocked off from NZ. All politicians on the bandwagon. Now oh you have Covid so what. We lost our combined minds.
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June 9, 2024 4:50pm
kevn

Sparrow… Never forget.
Remember the Teddies in house windows?
People walking alone/biking in the outdoors with (surgical) masks on?
One o’clock TV bullsh*t?
All the subliminal ‘marketing’.
Only a couple of years ago and some of it has stuck to some people. Sadly.
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June 9, 2024 5:01pm
Maggie Pie

Or, as Shane Jones just descibed the pair of them…..

“Shallow, Juvenile, Banshees”

Wish I’d said that 😀
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June 9, 2024 6:40pm
David Garrett

MP: Ms. Swarbrick is simply stating a fact – which is why, as I have said here many times, no international oil exploration and production companies will ever come back here.
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June 9, 2024 6:44pm
Muttonbird

Dreadful poll for the coalition of chaos:

The Issues Monitor polled Kiwis in the week before the Budget and it shows the coalition is still struggling to get any traction with Kiwis. They gave the Government a grade of 4.6 out of 10 – not even a pass mark.

That number hasn’t changed since they came to power last year. And it’s a whisker ahead of the previous Labour Government’s worst mark of 4.5 out of 10.

The bad news doesn’t stop.

National is also losing ground on issues to Labour. Before the election Kiwis thought the blue team were better able to manage eight of the top 10 issues facing the country – that has fallen to just four out of 10 which is even-stevens with the red team.

And this was before Nicola Willis’ Cancer Budget!

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/exclusive-top-issues-for-kiwis-revealed-and-how-they-grade-the-government.html
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June 9, 2024 8:15pm
- All_on_Red
  
  IPSOS is a left biased Polling company
  Nice try though
  LOL
  
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