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NeverMindTheBollocks

It gets on my tits that this fraudulent doctor is described as a Kiwi.

She was born in Tehran and arrived in NZ in 1986 aged 21. She studied for and failed her medical degree, after which she headed to the UK in 1995. She forged medical credentials & practiced there as a psychiatrist for nearly 30 years. She’s about 60, lived here for less than a decade and yet it’s our good name that’s dragged through the mud.

You just have to hope that the Poms don’t deport her here. If only because she’d be a shoo-in for the Greens.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523483/cunning-fake-doctor-fails-to-have-convictions-overturned-after-she-forged-auckland-uni-degree
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July 30, 2024 8:01am
- Burtland
  
  similar to The Honorable James Shaw
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:31am
- peterwn
  
  Wonder how she got away with it for so long. Someone passing off as a brain or heart surgeon would not last five minutes.
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:12am
- MCōs
  
  I once worked in an office where an Australian with an architectural degree was employed in some sort of interior design position.
  After a year or so someone got suspicious, did the background check that should have been done when she applied for the job and found out she didn’t have a degree at all.
  We used to send out drawings that had been checked to the nth degree, but not always the staff personnel.
  Can you show us your degree?
  Sorry the dog ate it?
  Never mind; you’re hired.
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:23am
  - Surely Knott
    
    “got suspicious, did the background check..”
    How did they do background checks on this lady and your architect. Did they just ring the Uni? I thought Oxford said that James Shaw had to release permission to view his degree?
    Do different Uni’s have different policies? Does Auckland Uni allow anyone to check your degree?
    
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    July 30, 2024 4:05pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

From yesterday’s ‘Vegan cafe goes carnivorous’ story, but I thought that it sums up NZ since 2017:

“… it is disappointing that we are having to shift from what we thought was a bold stance and come down to an economic reality”

Except that Jacinda took the praise for the bold stance and has since shot through, and the rest of us are left holding the bill.

http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523545/vegan-cafe-turns-to-meat-to-stay-afloat
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July 30, 2024 8:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cafe owner/s have realised that humans are carnivorous.
  Takes time for some.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:51am
  - greybeard
    
    Surely we are omnivorous ?
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:16am
    - 7kiwi11
      
      I wouldn’t eat there. There’s no guarantee that your meat wasn’t contaminated with vegetables.
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:31am
      - sirknz
        
        I usually eat meat that was made from vegetables, grass, that sort of thing…
        
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        July 30, 2024 12:09pm
      - Biscuit
        
        Brilliant, 7kiwi11!
        
        I am shocked that these vegan types actually admit to killing/eating completely innocent plants!
        
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        July 30, 2024 1:08pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Omnivorous, yep. I like my fush n chups.
      Don’t call me shirley.
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:41am
    - NothingLeft
      
      Our stomach acid ph is lower than most omnivores, and actually closer to that of scavengers suggesting that we were predominantly carnivorous prior to Holocene agricultural revolution.
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:51am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Cave man diet!
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:48am
- Countrygirl
  
  Makes me think about this zero carbon idea when NZs economic reality is that we need farming and food production.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:06am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Primary Industries. Earns export dollars so we don’t go broke.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:47am
  - Quail
    
    CG,
    Farmer confidence is at an all time low!
    I wonder why?
    Rampant Government ( including local Government) spending driving internal inflation has and is causing this grief!
    If inflation falls to legislated levels now it can’t help much because the economic damage has been done and remains.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:18am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      I think farmer pessimism is because of commodity prices, especially meat
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:49am
      - Gravelroad
        
        And wool.
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:22am
      - greybeard
        
        And lousy exchange rate makes imported goods much dearer, such as vehicles, machinery, chemicals, animal treatments etc
        
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        July 30, 2024 12:38pm
      - Quail
        
        No GG ,not just commodity prices, input prices as well.
        And take look at the regulations making use of the property they own more and more difficult. See the RMA etc.
        National promised to reform the “ built environment “ but Mr Luxon has also promised to sustain the “natural environment “regulations.
        There is little relief for farmers anywhere!
        
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        July 30, 2024 1:47pm
- kowtow
  
  How many are feeling that over hyped and media luvvie promoted “well being” now ………as they queue up for the ‘plane to Oz .
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:10am
- Matt Long
  
  Who would have thought that virtue signalling wasn’t a viable business plan.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:11am
- Keith White
  
  Do I loathe Ardern sufficiently?
  
  No, I do not.
  
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  July 30, 2024 5:12pm
Conservatarian

What is with top Democrats and Marxism? This must be why they love to redefine and ban words and phrases “illegal alien” or “Islamic terrorism” that are detrimental to their cause and religion.

Kamala Harris’ father, Donald J. Harris, was a Marxist economist at Stanford. Harris, famously, is an extremely inauthentic person, and is, famously, a childless cat lady who, famously, was picked solely for DEI reasons, and, famously, was appointed by the sleeping man to be the border czar who, famously, did not go to the border and so, famously, illegal immigration has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Famously, word saladry also spikes to unprecedented levels when she speaks.

Another non-achieving Biden cabinet picked for his intersectional attributes, Secretary Mayor Pete Buttigieg, is the son of Joseph Buttigieg. Buttigieg Sr was another Marxist scholar, the president of the International Gramsci Society (which publicises the works of influential early 20th Italian-Albanian communist Antonio Gramsci) and who translated Antonio Gramsci’s prison writing into English (whilst Gramsci was imprisoned by his fellow socialists).

Such non-achievement can only have been inspired by sitting around the dinner table listening to your dad fantasise about the utopian world of Marxist policy.
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July 30, 2024 8:03am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Word salad. She has not been to the border. She has not been to Europe either.
  What a bloody stupid answer!
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:54am
- alphabeatrium
  
  And yet according to Wikipedia, the argument that such people are Marxists is merely a far-right antisemitic cultural Marxist conspiracy theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:21am
artemisia

Open letter to Christopher Luxon: Stop the Treaty Principles Bill

A useful list for future reference of more than 150 organisations who want a Select Committee process to be suppressed. Because maybe it is ‘constitutionally destructive’. That would be in relation to a Bill the 150+ organisations have not seen.

Suppressed? Or would that really be Oppressed.

The letter begins with this. It is the responsibility of the people in government to meet the basic standards of conventional democracy and governance. Of course those 150+ organisations thought very carefully about ‘basic democracy’ before signing. Or maybe not.

https://medium.com/actionstation/open-letter-to-christopher-luxon-stop-the-treaty-principles-bill-f1c49ae585af
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July 30, 2024 8:04am
- Yabster
  
  150 of wokest lefty orgs in NZ! Lots of Te …..
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I started reading down the list. Number 6 jumped out.
    Annette Sykes. There ya go!
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:58am
  - Grunter
    
    They should have signed off…
    Sincerely Yours
    The Combined Leftards of Ao-T-Roa!
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:31am
    - Jack5
      
      A Woke collection. A random selection of the signatories:
      
      – Migrants Against the Acceptable Standard of Health Aotearoa.
      
      — Asylum Seekers Support Trust.
      
      – InsideOUT (an “LGBTQIA+” support group).
      
      – Moana Vā, navigators of pacific pride (this group describes itself as being for Pacific “Rainbow+ LGBTQIA+ MVPFAFF+ (mahu, vakasalewa, palopa, fa’afafine, akava’ine, fakaleiti (leiti), fakafifine) communities in the Canterbury Region”.
      
      – Coal Action Muirhiku (Murihiku is the Maori name for Southland, which sits on enough lignite to provide all NZ’s electricity for four or five centuries.) Coal Action Network Aotearoa is also on the list.
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:03am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  Probably all taxpayer funded Community Trusts and NGO’s. that area of advocacy and activism is long overdue for a clean out.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:14am
  - kowtow
    
    If there are any “charities” there then they need to be struck off ……
    
    …..oh wait that only happens to conservatives.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:12am
- Yvette
  
  Written by ActionStation
  Editor for ActionStation Aotearoa
  Community campaigning organisation bringing people together to act in powerful and coordinated ways to create a fair and flourishing Aotearoa for all.
  ■ 593 Followers
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:17am
- Blog-aholic
  
  You literally could not gather a more left leaning neo marxist, racially divisive intersectionalised group of mismatched un-unified group think CRT sheep if you tried.
  That list is a shopping list of everything that is actually wrong with the world.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:22am
- Cassandra
  
  150 “charities” my foot. They are left wing political groups with a huge number of Maori and therefore biased and compromised pressure groups. There’s not one mainstream, proper, charity. The Treaty did not establish a partnership. It has been distorted over the years and that should to be corrected.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:26am
  - mogg
    
    It’s a fairly safe bet that all of the old mainstream proper charities have now gone woke, along with all other institutions.
    
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    July 30, 2024 12:33pm
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  Quite the rogues’ gallery of signatories. Including InsideOut, the government-funded activist group that co-organized the attack on Posie Parker’s rally in Albert Park. And the delusional outfit known as “People Against Prisons Aotearoa”.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The first thing I see when clicking the link is “Honor the Treaty.”
  When will the Waitangi Tribunal “Honor the Treaty?” The real version in Maori or the English Littlewood Draft.
  They are ‘using’ the rogue James Freeman version.
  Also the 150+ oganisations listed are riddled with activists.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:37am
  - colina
    
    “Also, the 150+ oganisations listed are riddled with activist”
    Most of whom sucking on the taxpayers tit
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:42am
  - Damocles11
    
    When will Maori start honouring the Treaty by being model law-abiding citizens & acknowledging the paramount sovereignty of the government? I’m still yet to learn why the British would have signed a Treaty giving Maori all the considerable rights and protections afforded to a citizen of the British Empire in exchange for nothing in return….the simple answer is they wouldn’t have.
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:57am
    - Paulus
      
      Nor did they need to as Maori asked for the agreement !
      
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      July 30, 2024 3:05pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    I thought Honor was the woman who does TV ads for chemist shops.
    
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    July 30, 2024 11:25am
- pdm
  
  I support the Treaty Principles Bill and will be submitting in support of it.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    With you on that!
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:45am
- PurplePen
  
  Thanks for posting. I heard about this on radio this morning and thought, I want to read the letter and then send a letter to Luxon and individually the other two coalition letters refuting what I expect will be claims in the letter that are unsupported by any science nor empirical evidence.
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:17am
- PurplePen
  
  My letter to each of the coalition leaders today: In response to the open letter asking the PM to stop the Treaty Principles bill. Isn’t a letter from anyone asking a Prime Minister to halt public and open consultation by government unconstitutional. If this occurred for any awkward subject you might argue we wouldn’t have universal suffrage that includes women and homosexual acts would still be criminal along with any number of other legislative changes.
  
  QUOTE FROM LETTER
  “is highly misleading to the people of this country. It is based on an ACT policy which displays the Parties’ complete disrespect for Te Tiriti o Waitangi.”
  
  “A Bill as constitutionally destructive as this”.
  
  RESPONSE
  It is not misleading. How can it be when it is not even finalised and made public yet. If you read the ACT proposal, it is not constitutionally destructive but rather seeks to clarify what non-elected institutions have attempted to define without any input from electors, ie. the terms “partnership” and “principles” as they might apply to the Treaty.
  
  QUOTE
  “Te Tiriti o Waitangi provides the foundation for a partnership that many tauiwi, including Pākehā, are proud of. The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to destroy that foundation.”
  
  RESPONSE
  On what evidence do they make the claim that many tauiwi are proud of the partnership. Can they submit their scientific survey results supporting this. In relation to destroying the foundation for the partnership, presumably between Maori and Crown, see earlier response above.
  
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  “Te Tiriti o Waitangi is an intrinsic foundation of our democracy”
  
  RESPONSE
  It is not. See Chief Judge Prendergast section below. Dr Elizabeth Rata advises it’s an interesting historical document, nothing more. The incomplete list of documents below make up the history of the development of our democracy, but have varying degrees of relevance and influence today. The ToW is but one and not the most significant:
  
  He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni – known in English as the Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand. First signed by 34 Northern Māori rangatira (chiefs) on 28 October 1835, He Whakaputanga collected a further 18 signatures by 1839. Southern Maori were not party to this at all.
  
  Treaty of Waitangi 1840.
  
  1907 the New Zealand Parliament asked Britain to change NZ’s status from a Colony to Dominion. The proclamation issued made NZ a Dominion with effect from 26 September 1907.
  
  Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947.
  
  (NZ) Constitution Act 1986. New Zealand’s principal constitutional statute.
  
  Imperial Laws Application Act 1988 mean the three acts below continue to apply as law in New Zealand under this Act:
  The Magna Carta 1297
  Petition of Rights 1627
  Bill of Rights 1688.
  
  ————————————
  ADDITIONAL HISTORY
  If you haven’t or your advisors haven’t, it is also worth reading:
  
  CHIEF JUSTICE PRENDERGAST
  Sir James Prendergast was attorney-general from 1865 to 1875, and then chief justice of the Supreme Court until 1899. His judgment in the case of Wi Parata v The Bishop of Wellington states:
  
  “The Treaty of Waitangi was ‘worthless’ because it had been signed ‘between a civilised nation and a group of savages’ who were not capable of signing a treaty. Since the treaty had not been incorporated into domestic law, it was a ‘simple nullity’.”.
  
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/the-chief-justice-declares-that-the-treaty-of-waitangi-is-worthless-and-a-simple-nullity
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:24pm
- Nobby2
  
  150 organisations, but how many people actually belong to those organisations. I would bet very few, so their views can be ignored. Numbers matter.
  
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  July 30, 2024 4:09pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Not to mention overlapping membership
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:25pm
- leoj
  
  Luxon, the maori activist, will be impressed and influenced by this letter.
  
  That’s who we are dealing with.
  
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  July 30, 2024 5:00pm
Yvette

Is it a failure or obvious loophole in Winston Peters’ “waka-jumping” legislation that a List MP is not automatically barred from remaining in Parliament when they resign from being representive of that Party’s List Vote numbers, and therefore must unbalance the Election result?
The legislation or Standing Orders should be ammended.
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July 30, 2024 8:05am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  We have been here before, walks jumping is easier for list MPs, this 21 working days is a load of crap
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:01am
- Skippytony
  
  Apologies Yvette I just reported you by accident, meant to hit reply.
  
  Pragmatically, a list member didn’t get elected to anything. They are in Parliment representing the party that put them there. Do we all agree? EG thats the only way you can be a “list” MP.
  
  So, if a List MP makes a principled stand and resigns from the party (which is no-one’s fault, not even the Romans) what is the reasonable basis on which they stay in parliament as an independent?
  
  If you leave (or are forced to resign) from the party that nominates you, you should not be allowed to walk over and join another party.
  
  IMHO your resignation from the party as a List MP should make your resignation from Parliament effective the last day you are a Party member.
  
  The only question then becomes “How are you replaced?” Given you were nominated (not elected) by the party that lost you, they should, in all fairness, I feel, get to replace you.
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:21pm
Matt Long

An Iranian woman used forged University of Auckland degrees to practice psychiatric medicine in the UK, including medicating, and causing patients to be detained.
Strangely she didn’t use PTS as an excuse for her offending.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523483/cunning-fake-doctor-fails-to-have-convictions-overturned-after-she-forged-auckland-uni-degree
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July 30, 2024 8:07am
- G152
  
  What????
  Our university so out of touch they can be treated like that….
  As if we didnt know
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:28am
Matt Long

Amazing level of incompetence under Labour, here it’s KO, (which would be a better title for their Oranga Tamariki) spending 20 million on a block of land to build pie in the sky apartments.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga-ora-spent-20m-buying-auckland-land-for-social-housing-it-sits-vacant-six-years-later-housing-plans-scrapped/CYWP34PDRFADFD6EHC6TQ775HI/
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July 30, 2024 8:11am
- Countrygirl
  
  I feel there’s a similar parcel of land off Cambridge Road in Tauranga that would fit under the same banner.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:10am
  - Countrygirl
    
    I feel there’s a similar parcel of land off Cambridge Road in Tauranga that would fit under the same banner.
    
    https://kaingaora.govt.nz/en_NZ/news/kainga-ora-invests-in-tauranga/
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:36am
- Paulus
  
  OT bought against all local developers a huge area of land just outside Tauranga, and they paid above the odds against the locals.
  Can we assume it will be back on the market at a loss to the taxpayer ?
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:10pm
  - Don Beckett
    
    It is excellent land too. It would be a tragedy if OT builds low cost homes for the unhomed – the land would support a high quality development – elevated, views etc.
    
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    July 30, 2024 4:09pm
artemisia

The Prime Minister talking to Mike Hosking this morning, referencing MFAT, HealthNZ and local Government IT projects, said IT projects should be using off-the-shelf products rather than spending yuuuge amounts on bespoke. (And include whole-life cost, including endless changes with every new manager, not just the fun part at the start.)

100% agree. The #2 question proponents should be asked is – ‘Why are your processes not industry standard?’ (The #1 question is ‘ Did you consider and cost doing nothing?’)
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July 30, 2024 8:13am
- cmm
  
  “Why are your processes not industry standard?”
  
  There are not off the shelf packages for everything, but worse yet they will demand that it is Maorified.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:51am
  - rouppe
    
    Agree. Time and time again I’ve seen some salesmen come in with “off the shelf” solutions which then have to be customised for the specific use, and that customisation turns into an expensive, slow and awful maintenance exercise with the vendor.
    
    The project I’m on (for 2 more days before I retire) could never have been bought off the shelf and it has now become the go-to application to manage, errr, our customers.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:19am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Enjoy your retirement, Rouppe
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:27pm
  - artemisia
    
    Agree, may not be OTS solutions, but the question should still be asked. It is possible only a few process changes could be needed to fit OTS (distributed) systems. If not why not?
    
    Processes get amended all the time, unfortunately mostly because the new broom wants what was the ‘absolute best’ from a previously life, aka gotta push the fuddy duddies into the 21st century and make my mark fast.
    
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    July 30, 2024 12:34pm
- greybeard
  
  Not just IT projects: Luxon made sense when supporting standardised design & build for school classrooms, rather than the current bespoke practice which blows out the costs.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:23am
  - Colville
    
    Rather than the $400 million that Chris Hipkins was going to spend building a school in Marlborough?
    
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    July 30, 2024 11:06am
- Handyman
  
  Fat chance. When the previous Auckland councils were merged, they couldn’t even agree on a common dog registration process.
  
  The problem was never the software. The problem was isolated council staff whose total experience is limited to “how things are done around here”.
  
  Translate that thinking to government departments.
  “Our processes have been refined over many years by the civil service. Therefore, any change, by definition, will make it worse.
  There is no government process that can’t be improved by hiring more staff, so the root cause is actually lack of funding by this government.”
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:33am
  - Swifty
    
    “When the previous Auckland councils were merged, they couldn’t even agree on a common dog registration process.”
    
    Hang on a minute. Yes, they did. I was on the team that did it.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:38am
    - Mike
      
      Came up with a dog of a process? Sold the council a pup? Much bitching about the specs?
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:25am
      - Swifty
        
        Nope, swept the field at Crufts.
        
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        July 30, 2024 12:44pm
      - Jake Dee
        
        I think you’re barking up the wrong tree there Mike, it was dogged determination, he got his teeth into it and clawed back a lot of the initial investment. Of course, that was before he was hounded out of the industry.
        
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        July 30, 2024 4:20pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  While off the shelf is great, a lot of Govt IT does have bespoke elements that no OTS package has…
  
  The drivers: NZ Laws and the Regulations that are promulgated under those laws. These drive a lot of odd data captures and require some non standard process flows to validate applications/registrations etc etc
  
  And to be frank a lot of OTS, ‘we have your process/data needs covered and if we don’t the platform has extensible process flows/Data capture’ sales pitches are based on half truths and very close to out right lies….
  
  A simple solution is to not have the IT system in the first place – by deregulating the bloody economy so the need for a Govt system is not needed….
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:01am
- Colville
  
  Council GIS/Rates online information systems.
  Every single one of them is different. Pissed about by some in house primadonna who wants to protect his job.
  
  A simple package could be sold to every council in NZ and run remotely. It cant be less reliable that Hastings system that chokes half the time anyone logs on.
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:10am
Simon

Bozo National tax doctors at 39% then have to pay them more to counter the stupid high tax rate. Vicious cycle of stupidity.

Claim spending more on health, but taxing health more. National party supporting cattle.
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July 30, 2024 8:14am
- Colville
  
  High earners shouldnt pay tax?? what?
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:06am
imalwaysright

Saw the tv1 breakfast handwringing coverage of a gang brawl in Wairoa.
Neither the tatooed one nor the mayor mentioned the young children in the car under attack, nor did they mention someone saying “Fuck the kids, kill them too”

Article :
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wairoa-rugby-game-gang-brawl-pregnant-woman-rescues-toddler-nephew-from-vehicle-amid-gang-attack/CHK5ZNP4FBE2REASQEWBRV5U3M/
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July 30, 2024 8:17am
- rouppe
  
  Did they mention any iwi affiliations?
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:21am
  - Countrygirl
    
    Might not be the appropriate time due to Maori customary rights or some such!
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:39am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Rouppe,
    No, but when the mayor seemed to grow a pair and start to tell us about how obscene and violent the brawl actually was, tv1 had technical difficulties which ended precisely when the tatooed one could thank him for his input.!
    
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    July 30, 2024 11:59am
Matt Long

“Unfortunately, at a time when both the RBNZ and the RBA need higher currency values to reduce tradable inflation (to offset the sticky/high non-tradable domestic inflation in both countries), ”
Translation, we have to keep the dollar high and blow out the balance of payments to compensate for profligacy and complete lack of discipline and competence by local and other government.
https://www.interest.co.nz/currencies/128930/roger-j-kerr-says-it-does-seem-yen-carry-trade-unwinding-may-now-have-run-its
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July 30, 2024 8:17am
- Damocles11
  
  Yes, the nitwits out there who are braying for interest rate cuts think we can just slash our rates with no heed to what the US is doing. If we tank the value of our currency relative to the USD then we are in for a world of hurt, what with oil (and therefore petrol) priced in USD.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:00am
  - greybeard
    
    Our dollar has been declining rapidly for some weeks.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:26am
    - Damocles11
      
      So how would we be able to cut the OCR? Answer: we can’t. Unfortunately the MSM (bankrolled by the property industry) doesn’t run that crucial part of the narrative.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:00am
      - Michael Sommerville
        
        The MSM can’t run that part of the narrative because all their reporters are ignorant when it comes to understanding economics.
        
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        July 30, 2024 1:44pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Because interest rates will be down this year as opposed to mid next year, the big boys deal that far ahead
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:05am
    - grumpy
      
      Our currency has declined horrifically. Currently our realised and unrealised currency losses are our biggest single expense (above wages and salaries).
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:27am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      How are those RBNZ bonds doing these days?
      
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      July 30, 2024 12:23pm
Maggie Pie

You’ll recall I’ve asked the question on previous occassions what the government collects in GST from total Rates paid to Councils each year.

Looks like we may finally have the figure….

‘New Zealanders paid $9,284,000,000.00 (Nine billion two hundred & eighty four million dollars) in District Council Rates ‘

– South Island Independence Movement.

The other question that needs to be asked… Where does it all go?
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July 30, 2024 8:17am
- john1234
  
  Roads, pipes and mostly rainbow cycleways, silly!
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:22am
  - kowtow
    
    To pay for a platoon of Plod to protect rainbow crossings.
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:54am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    And bloody road cones.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:20am
- Blog-aholic
  
  I pay over $1700 pa of GST on my rates. 6 years ago I paid only $550 pa. I get so much more for the ‘service’ from the council now than I did then….//
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:26am
  - john1234
    
    Jesus that’s cheap! Where are you? My rates in Auckland are not far off $6k now.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:28am
    - Countrygirl
      
      He said that was the gst component, not the total rates bill. Is there anywhere in NZ that only pays $1700 pa now?
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:41am
    - Swifty
      
      That’s just the GST.
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:47am
    - Colville
      
      You might want to read what he said?
      
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      July 30, 2024 9:50am
    - Bobba Fret
      
      Rates $11,333 plus 15% GST $1,700 = Total $13,033!
      And you reckon that is cheap! Where the hell do you live?
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:42am
- G152
  
  You could organise a committee to look into it..
  At current rates it should be apparent
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Working Group” not committee.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:22am
- Cassandra
  
  Karakia takes time and time is money. Plus cultural workshops, new signage, hiring co-managers, subsidising family recreation centres aka maraes etc.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:34am
  - Burtland
    
    navigators, way finders, pathfinders, boundary spanners
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:49am
- Grumpy Silver Top
  
  Empire building. Not building resilient infrastructure as it should.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:40am
- pdm
  
  `The other question that needs to be asked… Where does it all go?’
  
  For the period Oct 2017 to Oct 2023 no one would know but, probably not to any worthwhile productive projects.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:43am
- Mod88
  
  There should be NO GST on Council Rates. It’s bad enough the Councils thieving the money for everything except their Core Business/Reason for Being. Then Central Govt clips the ticket again. A Nationwide Rates Strike will have the Councils back in their box(es) within a month.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:29am
  - Colville
    
    Why no GST on rates?
    Rates pay for services.. Water sewer etc.
    Isn’t SERVICES the S IN GST?
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:52am
    - Burtland
      
      why do services attract GST ?
      – never been able to get an answer to this – maybe someone here might know?
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:13am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Because it’s “payment for services” – as in GST = Goods & Services Tax.
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:04am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Because it makes a simple system.
        
        And most advanced economies have large service sectors, which consume goods subject to GST – and the principle of GST is the GST on the final output is where the tax is collected.
        
        If Services weren’t subject to GST, then service companies would need to charge more to cover the GST payments on input goods – currently GST collected is offset to GST paid by service companies and the difference is paid to the Govt when collected from the consumer…
        
        Every opt out clause on GST causes confusion, gaming and makes the collection system inefficient
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:06am
  - peterwn
    
    Rates strikes are easily broken by Councils. They simply ask the mortgage lenders to stump the unpaid rates and the lenders will stump up with the money and add it to the mortgage together with an administration fee.
    So the only ratepayers who can conduct a meaningful rates strike are those without a mortgage eg the late Penny Bright.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:57am
  - peterwn
    
    In that case why should rates be GST exempt when medical and dental bills are not GST exempt?
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:59am
- Burtland
  
  in Christchurch the rot started with Lianne Dalziel CNZM
  
  “After being elected in 2013, Dalziel recruited a team of six staff to run her office, up from the two staff former mayor Sir Bob Parker had.”
  
  DEI employment strategy then became common
  
  Dalziels CNZM is for services to local government
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/81758971/former-newspaper-editor-leaves-mayors-office-for-ministry-of-justice
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:07am
  - Burtland
    
    ex Christchurch mayor Garry Moore talked about the demotion of the skilled in council – this is essentially DEI playbook
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/former-mayor-garry-moore-slams-christchurch-city-council-restructure
    
    DEI de-skills organisations – it removes the meritocracy and replaces it with nepotism and dynasty – DEI employ DEI, the useful idiots florish. The organisation then needs expensive consultants to fill the demoted skills gap – McKinsey & Co unsurprisingly promoted this within the corporates.
    
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    July 30, 2024 12:27pm
- PurplePen
  
  What annoys me is councils essentially have a blank cheque and can just continue to demand more with no limit. Central Govt can’t do this as NZ inc resources are finite. I’ll accept that Councils should get a cut of GST or PAYE but they must also not be able to increase rates beyond the inflation rate. Any increase beyond this must require Central Govt approval because Central Govt has inceased in some way the council responsibilities, and reduce if responsibility is taken away.
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:51pm
  - Paulus
    
    Council Rates are primarily to pay the exorbitant wages of all the staff, and their pet operations within the Councils.
    Only the CEO is the employer of all Council staff remember, and is responsible for paying the wages, and supporting the way out theories, for the Councillors to rubber stamp.
    
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    July 30, 2024 3:18pm
softail 1450

I just couldn’t watch the whole cringey report so maybe I missed something but why is some mountain biker by the name of Gaze nearly crying on breakfast TV at the Olympics because he didn’t win ,WTF happened to being a good sport and accepting that winning every trophy just isn’t possible,? he came 5th or 6th and IMHO that’s pretty bloody good considering the best in the world are there.
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July 30, 2024 8:24am
- imalwaysright
  
  Soft,
  I think he is the one who had a tantrum in the previous Olympics because his team mate passed him.
  He seems to be quite sensitive and entitled, to be kind.
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:07am
Matt Long

Venezuela elections; the moderate candidate was leading but the polling stations were closed for a few hours and wouldn’t you know it, the socialist/ communist candidates won.
We can rely on the integrity of this election because no Court has accepted a case that would consider fraudulent activity.
There’s no pattern to see here.
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July 30, 2024 8:28am
- Blackbob
  
  The “moderate” candidate was leading by a large-ish percentage in most pre-election polls, so was the winning margin for Maduro high?
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:34am
- Cassandra
  
  “Vote early and often” doesn’t apply when you control the count.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:36am
- kowtow
  
  They were using their militia to attack folk too.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:58am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Standard socialist behaviour. The folk can’t fight back. Bang!
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:25am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Would have happened here too if “she” was still around.
      Remember her “hate speech” legislation was going to include “hate speech” against the government .
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Who is this “she” you speak of Kemosabe?
        Yeah OK, I know 🙂
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:39am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Sorry S.O.
        I have an aversion to attributing a name to this one that is shared by many good women.
        Hey Ho, Silver, Away!!!
        
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        July 30, 2024 12:07pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Maduro “won” 51 to 44 but the exist polls had him losing 31 to 65.
  
  The thing is, that even if it did go to court, due to the lack of controls, they couldn’t actually prove fraud and the courts would have to come down on Maduro’s side.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:03am
- Mod88
  
  “There’s no pattern to see here”
  Yes there is – Vote Socialism in – Shoot your way out.
  Civil War inbound for Venezuela – oh wait, that’s right Maduro took all their guns in 2009. Fancy that.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:31am
  - Countrygirl
    
    Is that where Jacinda got the gun idea for NZ?
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:44am
    - kowtow
      
      Maduro literally militarised the socialists there arming them and creating a personal militia .
      
      Here , in a knee jerk and under police advice she confiscated firearms off the law abiding all the while knowing the gangs would never act lawfully and hand theirs in .
      
      In fact her regime even gave money to one criminal gang while the police themselves literally facilitated gang funerals .
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:53am
- MCōs
  
  I’m not particularly familiar with Venezuela politics, but what constitutes ‘moderate’ in that country?
  A different style of authoritarian maybe?
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:28am
  - JimBobJoe
    
    LOL.
    
    Moderate means not a fake communist, but real dictator like Maduro
    
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    July 30, 2024 11:07am
Bridgenag

FOR BY

A summary of why the Czech Republic data is so devastating to the “safe and effective” narrative
Gold-standard data + simple analysis methodology + a huge safety signal (30% increased mortality) + 7 confirmatory studies –> regulatory oversight epic fail.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/a-summary-of-why-the-czech-republic?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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July 30, 2024 8:31am
Bridgenag

Teaching Children to Think Critically
This should be the #1 objective of K-12 education

“Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that may look scientific, but does not follow the scientific method. Another term for pseudoscience is false science.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/criticallythinking/p/teaching-children-to-think-critically?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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July 30, 2024 8:33am
- cmm
  
  ” This should be the #1 objective of K-12 education”
  
  Ain’t gonna happen.
  
  Education is the responsibility of parents – even if they send their kids to school. If you are not supplementing the education your kids get at school then you are failing your most fundamental role as a parent.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:54am
Chuck Bird

A 17 year old youth stabbed toddlers in the UK. Is he from the religion of peace?
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July 30, 2024 8:36am
- kowtow
  
  Even the activist lawyer who stood up for the two Manchester airport cop bashers now considers them too hot to handle .
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:57am
- Damocles11
  
  ‘Religion of death’ more like it.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:10am
- JimBobJoe
  
  He is UK born to Rwandan immigrant/refugee parents. Born in Cardiff but family moved to Merseyside when this a/hole was around 6.
  
  Re Religion: Rwanda is primarily Christian, split between Catholic and Protestant.
  
  If the thug is Muslim he would come from a small Muslim community background in parents homeland or is a recent convert
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:12am
  - greybeard
    
    Where does anyone say he was born in Cardiff , please.
    
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    July 30, 2024 12:44pm
    - Ghost
      
      A man, 17, born in Cardiff and living near Southport, has been arrested
      
      BBC
      
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      July 30, 2024 12:54pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING

‘Two children stabbed to death and nine others seriously injured at a Taylor Swift dance party in Southport, England. A 17 year old ‘boy’ arrested at the scene in connection with the incident’.

– Newstalk ZB

Suspect named as….. Ali Al Shakati, an asylum seeker who arrived by boat to the UK last year. Known to Liverpool mental health services.

(Wonder if he was working at Allens Snackbar?)
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July 30, 2024 8:36am
- NothingLeft
  
  “17 year old boy” A well known scam is for illegal immigrant men to claim to be children to make it easier for them to get refugee status and better access to services.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:40am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Interesting that the Chief Constable made it very clear that he is FROM Wales.
    Clever doublespeak, note she didn’t say he was BORN in Wales.
    Hopefully this will be the turning point for the British.
    
    Look at what the Muslims did to Leeds last week, and that was just because one of their kids was taken, from an abusive home, into care.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:35am
    - JimBobJoe
      
      The BBC reports the Local police commander as saying Born in Wales….
      
      Also… X report confirming this and being Rwandan extraction
      
      https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1818041187124789328
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:14am
      - imalwaysright
        
        50 seconds in. Hear for yourself .
        Wouldn’t trust the BBC to report anything fairly .
        https://www.youtube.com/live/TuTpLnlZqGg?si=xI60ooPaXwPzBWAo
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:20am
      - MCōs
        
        The woman in the clip said the perpetrator was originally from Cardiff, which I take to mean he was born there.
        
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        July 30, 2024 2:13pm
      - Ghost
        
        BBC report what they are given which is why multiple news agencies are reporting he was born in Cardiff, because he was born in Cardiff.
        
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        July 30, 2024 2:25pm
    - Jack5
      
      UK papers have moved to name suppression of the knife attacker on the children at Southport. However the Telegraph says the arrested person is 17, is originally from Cardiff, and moved to the Southport area with his Rwandan parents when he was aged six.
      
      Inter-ethnic pressure seems to be be building up in Britain. The Telegraph today reports a brawl between two groups of country walkers. From the video they seem to be of non-English ethnicity.
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/29/watch-brawl-walkers-erupts-at-peak-district-beauty-spot/
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:19am
      - Bridgenag
        
        No need for wars….just walk in and take over…..
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:54am
      - kowtow
        
        J5
        
        The comments in the Daily Mail re that particular disorder are priceless , and gives a snapshot of what people are really thinking .
        
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        July 30, 2024 12:21pm
- Damocles11
  
  The UK has fallen. Enoch Powell was 100% correct but was unfairly yet inevitably vilified as ‘racist’ for his prescient warning of what was going to happen.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:09am
  - David Garrett
    
    Damocles: Not quite right old boy…Old Enoch predicted that Britain as they then knew it was going to be destroyed by West Indian immigration, which naturally led to accusations of racism.
    
    He was wrong about that – aside from a bit of trouble 40 years ago West Indians have integrated quite well into Britain from what I can tell.
    
    If he had instead cited Muslim immigration he would have proved to be right on the money…but of course back then no-one could envisage the powers that be being stupid enough to allow scores of the bastards into the country.
    
    Even Enoch would probably have been surprised that areas of certain northern English cities are now no-go areas for plod.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:48am
    - Damocles11
      
      Thanks for the clarification. I guess he was correct in that immigration – in some shape or form – would be the undoing of the place.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:02am
      - imalwaysright
        
        I still can’t work out why they would willingly illegally enter a country that they clearly hate.
        
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        July 30, 2024 10:16am
      - pdm
        
        Ima – jihad?
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:22am
    - Cassandra
      
      He wasn’t opposed to immigration per se but rather to the quantity and its effect on social services incl health, and that the majority would not assimilate. He was right, just a bit ahead of his time. Interesting that it’s quite possible the next Conservative leader will be of Nigerian descent.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:04am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Enoch Powell’s concern was not only West Indian, but more so from the sub-continent, predominantly the Muslim countries like Pakistan, and in many way he was right.
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:11am
      - pdm
        
        `Interesting that it’s quite possible the next Conservative leader will be of Nigerian descent.’
        
        Holy hell it is not someone by the name of Michael Adeleye is it?
        
        He is a shyster and crook of the first order and I know that from personal experience because I made the mistake of trusting him and working for him in 2010. He owes me 12,5oo pounds (approx) plus accrued interest if anyone should run into him.
        
        Last I heard he absconded back to Nigeria with the Police chasing him for identity theft, and others for fraud and unpaid debts. Here he is on Nigerian TV:
        https://www.channelstv.com/2013/03/25/tackling-unemployment-most-graduates-dont-have-practical-experience-michael-adeleye/
        
        An arsehole of the first order.
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:28am
    - MCōs
      
      Mr Powell could have said there are side effects from invading other people’s countries and importing the people as cheap labour to drive the buses and such like.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:37am
    - kowtow
      
      No , his speech specifically referenced Commonwealth immigration .He also cited the case of Sikhs seeking special considerations and noted
      
      ” Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in
      the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of
      actual domination, first over fellow-immigrants and then over the rest of the population. ”
      
      His speech can only be seen in the context of the Labour 1968 Race Relations Act , that’s what it was all about, and how it would lead to discrimination against whites in a country where Commonwealth immigrants already had the legal privelige of equality.
      
      It’s worth reading as it holds so true today and is most prescient.
      
      Powell was a genius .
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:20am
    - Paulus
      
      What Enoch said was in the time before anybody in the UK (me) knew what a Muslim was, let along an immigrant or refugee.
      
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      July 30, 2024 3:23pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    Watch Enoch on YouTube giving interviews.
    Even if you disagree with him, it is an education to listen to someone of his ability and intellect.
    
    There wouldn’t be many in world politics today who would compare to him.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:41am
    - fightingtemeraire
      
      Youngest Prof of Classics at Sydney Uni,
      
      Joined British Army 1939 as a private, demobbed 1945 or 6 as the youngest Brigadier.
      
      Read his Wikipedia a v intelligent man.
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:26am
- rouppe
  
  And they say it isn’t “terrorism related”.
  
  It’s time that authorities realise that not all cultural and ethnic attacks are for the purposes of terror, but because of intolerance and incompatibility.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:24am
  - David Garrett
    
    Rouppe: Quite so…and here we are, continuing to take in people whose code for living – Islam is much more than a religion – is utterly incompatible with our way of life.
    
    When is some poli going to have the guts to state the obvious?
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:34am
    - Cassandra
      
      Enoch Powell’s point exactly. And note that the “rivers of blood” have actually arrived.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:06am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Nigel Farage has the guts.
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:20am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, another less serious stabbing was carried out in Liverpool by an immigrant “Roma’, or Gypsy as they were once known.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:37am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OMGness! Rember a couple of years back when that Gypsy family arrived here from the UK and upset half of Takapuna with their unruly antics?
    What a hoot! Pretty sure they were deported in the end.
    Thank the Lord we don’t have Aholes like that living in the country 🙁
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:05am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Gangs
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:19am
    - Taieri
      
      Gypsy family arrived here from the UK
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      They were not real Gypsies, they were what they call there “Travellers”.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:35am
      - kowtow
        
        Taieri
        
        From google
        
        ‘In an Irish context, membership of the Traveller community is named in the Equality legislation as a group in need of protection from discrimination. This is in addition to the ethnic ground. Travellers are defined as a separate category in under the Equal Status Act, 2000 so they do not come under the ethnic ground.’
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:49am
    - kowtow
      
      Irish ‘travellers’. Our te media paahti dubbed them “unruly” tourists and had quite the racist runaround making fun out of their criminal , anti social antics and getting headlines in a way they wouldn’t have dared , had they been , cough cough “ethnic”, but they got around that by designating them as British.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:59am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Correct Kowtow
        The moral high ground was standing room only.
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:25am
      - Jack5
        
        Scotland also appears to have – or to have had – indigenous “travellers” as well as Gypsies, or as some now prefer to be called Romani or Roma.
        
        https://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/articles/gypsies.html
        
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        July 30, 2024 11:26am
Maggy Wassilieff

It’s not easy being green ….

it is disappointing that we are having to shift from what we thought was a bold stance and come down to an economic reality,”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/523545/vegan-cafe-turns-to-meat-to-stay-afloat
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July 30, 2024 8:37am
- Damocles11
  
  No principles, utter hypocrites.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:06am
  - Colville
    
    Oh come on.
    They have principals and clearly those principles are for sale.
    Much like the Greens, do anything to stay at the trough.
    
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    July 30, 2024 9:57am
    - Taieri
      
      principals
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      Principles.
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:36am
      - Colville
        
        I did spend a lot of time in the principals office 🙂
        
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        July 30, 2024 3:40pm
- David Garrett
  
  Mags: I am quite seriously of the view that all vegans are mentally ill…and have you ever noticed that none of them EVER has a cheerful visage? They always look as miserable as hell…particularly the females.
  
  Personally I am one of those mentioned in the article who avoids anything labeled V as a matter of principle. Silly silly people.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:21am
  - wsk12345
    
    Come on DG. You’re a bright guy and this kind of crap is unnecessary and beneath you. I’ve been vegetarian most of my adult life with the exception of a short period when my partner was hunting and we had wild meat in the freezer. (I’m happy to eat meat that has been shot in the wild, but not that which has gone through commercial processes, filled up with antibiotics etc). I’m happy. I know heaps of vegans, all just minding their own business and living happy lives, just without meat and dairy. Some do it bc they can’t afford decent meat. Personal ethics.
    
    Yes there are radical vegans the same as there are radical Māoris pushing their barrow. But in both cases most people are just quietly getting on with their lives.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:17am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Wsk
      Good post, especially that part about eating wild meat. That shows credibility that the rabid activists and the trendys seem not to appreciate.
      
      By the way, Russia are keen on organic food. Here’s a good article from a few years ago
      https://www.fwi.co.uk/international-agriculture/putin-wants-russia-become-world-leader-organic-food
      
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      July 30, 2024 10:56am
    - Bridgenag
      
      Think I would be careful about the worms though
      
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      July 30, 2024 12:00pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Certainly not all vegans are going to display symptoms of mental illness, however I’m seeing a lot of material about quite serious mental issues being cured by going on low carb and all meat diets.
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:20pm
  - Taieri
    
    Apparently, they had a bit of a problem at the Olympics. In the name of “sustainability” 60% of food served at the Olympic Village was to be vegan. Unfortunately, the competitors living there prefer meat. The result was long queues, with food places running out of food.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:41am
    - imalwaysright
      
      I’m 60% vegan
      Meat and two veg.
      
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      July 30, 2024 11:27am
    - Paulus
      
      Some Competitors have moved into Hotels to get decent food they want (see Goff of the USA and others).
      New Zealand took their own food I understand.
      
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      July 30, 2024 3:27pm
- Burtland
  
  its quite difficult to sustain a business based on non-economic principles
  – a friend lost a business pursuing organics
  the supermarkets dont care, its all about cheap
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:35am
  - kevn
    
    Burt… There is a guy down south who does true organic oats. Sold out every year before the seasons harvest begins.
    
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    July 30, 2024 10:47am
  - Burtland
    
    the business was making milk products – so maybe the suppliers are ok
    
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    July 30, 2024 2:24pm
Bridgenag

internet memory holes
this issue looks to extend beyond just google

““The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
anyone else getting worried that orwell was an optimist?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/internet-memory-holes?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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July 30, 2024 8:44am
Damocles11

The new Labour government in the UK has called out the Conservatives for the dire state of the set of books that they have inherited, and are axing the socialistic ‘winter fuel payments’ paid to UK pensioners. They have also signalled that tax increases are in the way.
In New Zealand the centre left National party have retained the ‘winter energy payments’ so that millionaires like Winston Peters can continue to get a hand out from taxpayers.
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July 30, 2024 9:06am
- Mod88
  
  Yet keep giving and promise more money for Ukraine. If you can afford to give money away to other Countries you are over-taxing your own Citizens.
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:35am
- Paulus
  
  I don’t get the winter payment, my wife does though.
  And I pay all the bills also.
  Working on it still !
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:29pm
Maggie Pie

**PARIS 2024** 😀 😀 😀

Palestinian Olympian wins Gold in men’s 100m.

https://x.com/ImtazMadmood/status/1817521933379928543
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July 30, 2024 9:21am
- Grunter
  
  Very funny 😂
  
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  July 30, 2024 9:43am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Knew it!
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:03am
- Libertarians are right
  
  “Palestinian” protestors are getting away with abusing the Israeli team, I wonder if people are going to get away with abusing the Dutch paedophile?
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:30am
  - Mike
    
    He’s been booed.
    
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    July 30, 2024 11:32am
- Bridgenag
  
  🤣
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:03pm
sirknz

Some upstanding citizens here who couldn’t get their dog out of the klink on time.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alleged-threats-after-auckland-councils-manukau-shelter-euthanises-much-loved-family-pet/A5KYQ4DCZRAMTFS2IIN7CNV4MA/

I feel sorry for the dog and not the pack of useless scrotes in the story. The dog had only managed to get out and be picked up by animal control 7 times before. Of course they were out of town and couldn’t get to the pound to pick up the dog themselves, their parents had gone to a funeral and couldn’t pick the dog up on the day.

Of course nobody asked the obvious question, who was looking after the dog while the owners were out of town, for more than 7 days.

Any bets on the family being known to the authorities and one or more of the kids having stupid names?

For comparison, we’ve got 3 year old dog that managed to get out twice from our beach house (with a 4′ fence and no gate) because someone (not casting aspersions but it was my wife) had not clipped her to the long lead she is supposed to be attached to when we are at the beach, we noticed each time in less than 5 minutes that the dog was not where she was supposed to be so I call BS on the ‘beloved pet’ part of their story.
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July 30, 2024 10:16am
- peterwn
  
  Council staff considered that the dog was not suitable for re-homing. This is probably a gut instinct gained from experience. This could be argued but then there is no legal requirement for staff under the Act to comsider re-homing options.
  
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  July 30, 2024 10:49am
  - wsk12345
    
    The Auckland shelters have an automatic euth policy for bull breeds. Regardless of temperament. A few years ago someone found a wee 6 week old pup and took it in and they bloody shot it (bolt gun) – assholes.
    
    In contrast, the 5 pounds in Canterbury all try to rehome including working closely with rescue orgs. They do kill some dogs but its not automatic based on breed (about as sensible as killing people of X race because they are big and strong).
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:17pm
Chuck Bird

Two excellent articles on NZCPR. One by Muriel Newman and the other by Brian Leyland.

https://www.nzcpr.com/climate-deception/

https://www.nzcpr.com/climate-change-is-not-a-major-problem/
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July 30, 2024 10:55am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The NZCPR is always on point.
  
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  July 30, 2024 11:29am
kevn

Stolen Mk2… How to.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-07-29/how-soon-we-forget
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1817999713641062811
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July 30, 2024 11:42am
kowtow

If anyone epitomises the madness of the gender thing, injustice for females and particularly vulnerable youngsters , it’s this “poster boy ” whom te media insist on designating by his chosen pronouns , all in the feminine .

What a crazy state of affairs .

‘Pierre John Parsons, who now identifies as female, was 18 when she tied up a 12-year-old girl in a public toilet and violently raped her.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/sex-offender%E2%80%99s-supervision-continue

And there are people in NZ who want to criminalise calling him , him !
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July 30, 2024 11:55am
- Taieri
  
  Judging by “her” looks “she” could take a prominent part in the Olympics opening ceremony…
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:24pm
- Swifty
  
  He can identify as a goat for all I care, he’s still a bloke and will always remain a bloke.
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:39pm
  - PurplePen
    
    Exactly. You can identify as anything but it doesn’t actually change what you are. The whole identity thing is conflated with “relates to”.
    
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    July 30, 2024 1:06pm
- I remember when
  
  Fortunately, most people will not be calling him/her either ‘him’ or ‘her’.
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:40pm
- Conservatarian
  
  I guess all the smart people are going to have to reassess the threat posed by women seeing as there seems to have been a worldwide spike in violent and sexual crime committed by “women”.
  
  The ODT has now rewritten history, and played along with the creep’s game, when it says the following:
  
  – SHE attacked the poor 12 year old in 1995
  – SHE was released from prison on parole in 2003, but was recalled two years later after staff at the supervised facility found pictures of children in HER room.
  – [repeated breaches of an order] imcluding when Parsons organised a sex worker to visit the facility at which SHE was living.
  – In June 2020, SHE was allowed internet access, but four months later was caught with illegal images.
  
  Justice Rachel Dunningham similarly plays along:
  
  “….clear pattern of MS Parsons taking the opportunity, when it arises, to give expression to HER sexual drive”.
  
  There is also an instance of “burying the lede” low down in the article, when the article states:
  
  …A health assessor said … “there was no evidence that treatment of gender dysphoria reduced the risk of sexual recidivism in transgender individuals”.
  
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  July 30, 2024 1:00pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    The question is was it a ‘him’ in 1995?
    If so how come him became her?
    The pronoun narrative is as trite as it is absurd.
    
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    July 30, 2024 1:30pm
    - Conservatarian
      
      It was definitely a him in 1995, not even the most Nostradamus-like sex offender was using the “I’m actually a woman, bigot” excuse until at least 2013. Remember, the criminals FOLLOW the communists in the universities who FOLLOW the creeps in San Francisco S&M bars.
      
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      July 30, 2024 2:12pm
    - mawm
      
      Blog. – It is and I’m quite sure that many men “change” their gender purely to be imprisoned in a women’s gaol, either for an easier life or to prey on the women. The cure would be to insist on cutting off their balls.
      
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      July 30, 2024 4:02pm
- Conservatarian
  
  The phrase “who now identifies as female” is also a fundamental gender ideology blasphemy by the article’s author Rob Kidd (or Rob’s editor).
  
  Normally, gender ideology cult members say “identifies as a woman” when clinging to the cult programming that gender is socially determined and malleable, “woman” being the so-called gender role for an adult human female. Female is the biological term or category for any species of animal. Female is a swear word, or an inconvenient truth, in gender ideology.
  
  Not good enough Rob Kidd (or Rob’s editor). You need to get your cult gender ideology straight if you want to control my thoughts and language.
  
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  July 30, 2024 1:13pm
- Keith White
  
  “Paul Kersey to the courtesy phone please. Paging Paul Kersey.”
  
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  July 30, 2024 5:13pm
kowtow

As Enoch Powell worried , that whip hand again.

‘An RAF squadron is to drop its nickname following a complaint.
The Lincolnshire-based 14 Squadron was formed in 1915 and was nicknamed the Crusaders after flying missions in the Middle East.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97dwy7wpdpo
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July 30, 2024 12:16pm
- greybeard
  
  RAF should just tell the protesters to F*** off.
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:23pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    RAF should ask for the protesters home address
    
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    July 30, 2024 12:50pm
- Damocles11
  
  So woke that they instantly capitulate. Sad!
  It was all very well for the Islamists to conquer the Iberian Peninsular and hold it for hundreds of years, and also rampage on wars of conquest through the Balkans and Eastern Europe and add large swathes of territory to the Ottoman Empire. They were eventually driven out but part of eastern Thrace is still in Turkish hands to this day. How much of that history is focussed on today? It’s hardly ever mentioned. Yet the guilt tripping over ‘the Crusaders’ is constant.
  
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  July 30, 2024 12:33pm
  - kowtow
    
    A single complaint from within the RAF .
    
    I wonder what the reaction of “senior” RAF would be to a complaint that “Royal” is contrary to values of equality and inclusion.
    
    ps Talking of occupations ; the Turks have illegally held northern Cyprus for 50 years now . Barely mentioned. 20 July 1974.
    
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    July 30, 2024 1:22pm
    - Pope Punctilious II
      
      I’m no fan of the Turkish state, but the Turkish invasion of Cyprus didn’t happen in a vacuum. It was yet another case of Greeks being their own worst enemies. What did the Greek Cypriots and the generals in Athens imagine would happen when they tried to unite Cyprus with Greece? Turkish politicians were inevitably going to come under pressure to “do something” to protect Turkish Cypriots, and Greece was never going to win a war against Turkey.
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:24pm
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    It’s hard to understand why anyone in their right mind would down-vote this comment – I’d love to hear their rationale. The Crusader guilt baffles me too – I’m not sure why Westerners are supposed to feel guilty about a series of wars that finished 600 yrs ago, in which the Muslims usually (and ultimately) prevailed. The last two crusades were intended to halt the Ottoman advance into Europe, so were unambiguously defensive. And, contrary to what some progressives seem to think, the 1st crusade in the late 11th century was not a case of unprovoked aggression against Muslims – the trigger was the Seljuk Turk invasion of Anatolia and the Middle East.
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:19pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

More winning.

https://patriotpulse.net/donald-trump-was-jumping-for-joy-after-this-huge-win-in-court/?
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July 30, 2024 12:18pm
Damocles11

‘Party, party, party….suck, bite, suck, bite.’

Party on down, the parasites are living it up large, and taxpayers are (as usual) the hapless mugs called upon to fund the festivities.

——

‘The New Zealand Film Commission has raised eyebrows by throwing two parties apiece for its outgoing acting chief executive, and for its incoming chief executive, for a total cost of $16,431.’
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July 30, 2024 12:27pm
- Paulus
  
  Is not the outgoing acting CEO a woman and being replaced by another women.
  My wife also knows how to spend, where I am cautious.
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:34pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Was the Film Commission not paying attention to what went down at the Ministry of Pacific Peoples?
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:38pm
Taieri

No more electric and hydrogen airplanes dreams?

https://www.odt.co.nz/business/air-nz-scraps-2030-climate-targets
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July 30, 2024 12:28pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Reality bites.
  
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  July 30, 2024 2:03pm
- Grunter
  
  OMG again….!
  
  Does that mean we are all going to die..??!!!
  
  I thought 2nd hand cooking oil would work!
  
  What a scam, what a scam……
  
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  July 30, 2024 2:51pm
I remember when

An Olympics Scene Draws Scorn. Did It Really Parody ‘The Last Supper’: NY Times.

If it didn’t it sure convinced a lot of people that it had.
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July 30, 2024 12:33pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Too many “truths” obscure reason.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/30-07-2024/the-many-complex-truths-within-the-darleen-tana-saga
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July 30, 2024 1:09pm
- Conservatarian
  
  You have to admire her cunning (I was going to say “chutzpah” but, well, you know…far leftists these days…not too fond of things Jewish).
  
  You’re on the outer, the mean girls have rallied almost all of the sheep to their side and are forcing you to sit by yourself in the corner of the quadrangle. So you go on the attack: you change your pronouns and the mean girls immediately have to be seen to take this very seriously and carefully watch their every word (as is the case with pronouns).
  
  This makes a little dent, so you press on with a favourite tactic: you find some “fellow brown people” to accuse them of racism, and the mean girls again immediately have to be seen to take this very seriously.
  
  If the mean white girls don’t watch it, the mean brown girls might turn on them.
  
  This makes the quadrangle a lot of fun for a bystander like me who is just there to eat his lunch.
  
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  July 30, 2024 2:03pm
- Pope Punctilious II
  
  That article showcases the contemporary left’s diktat of equality of outcome. If brown women in the Greens get into trouble more often that their paler counterparts, the only possible explanation is “systemic racism”. Never mind that Elizabeth Kerekere and Darlene Tana plainly suffer from what might be termed “hypertrophy of the sense of entitlement”.
  
  And dragging Efeso Collins into it is really scraping the barrel. The pale Greens apparently weren’t sufficient effusive in their grieving for a man who had joined the party only a few months before his death?
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:41pm
Maggie Pie

Just back home. Met a few of the girls for morning tea up at Browns.
OMG… their Eggs Benedict are to die for.
Spent most of the time swapping all the goss about the Polkinghornes.
One thing I had long suspected was actually confirmed by a couple of the others…..
Pauline wore a wig.
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July 30, 2024 1:59pm
- Conservatarian
  
  Phil sure likes his P and strumpets.
  
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  July 30, 2024 2:09pm
kevn

Maggie… I imagine their circle of ‘friends’ would be reducing by the hour.
Sad business however.
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July 30, 2024 2:16pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Yes, very sad for Pauline. Must say the Herald coverage is amazing. We all thort the judge would suppress a lot of the photographic evidence and some of the the more ‘salacious’ testimony. None of it comes as much surprise of course…. IYKYK.
  Can hardly wait to hear what Madison Ashton has to say.
  
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  July 30, 2024 2:32pm
Ghost

Hopefully for her loved ones they have found her

Police have found human remains in their search for alleged murder victim Yanfei Bao.
On Tuesday morning, a large team of police descended on a rural property in Greenpark, about 45 minutes south of Christchurch.

Article
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July 30, 2024 2:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Christian, you won’t have to vote again!
And the media goes apeshit painting Trump as a dictator – which of course he is not.
It is all about getting rid of the Democrat Dudges, the one who have been attacking him for 8 years.
The item is put together by “Zeleb.es” who is a rabid leftie. Trump just trolls Democrat supporters and they go crazy.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/trump-s-latest-concerning-comments-spark-worry-and-unease/ss-BB1qOFrH?
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July 30, 2024 2:50pm
- MCōs
  
  I dedicate this to our defenders. I dedicate this to those athletes who cannot come here because Russia killed them.
  https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/29/fencer-olha-kharlan-wins-ukraine-first-medal-paris-olympics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:15pm
Maggie Pie

This is just WRONG on sooo many levels….

Two men, masquerading as women, are being allowed to box against REAL women
in the Olympics!

https://x.com/RichardDawkins/status/1817980972681543885
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July 30, 2024 3:16pm
- Ghost
  
  They’re intersex
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:24pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    They’d have been better off attending ‘The Last Supper’
    
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    July 30, 2024 3:34pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    It’s long established that men who have gone through testosterone fueled adolescence have major and enduring physical strength advantages over women, as well as brain differences that confer martial-prowess advantage (male brains are around 15% larger than female on average) even if they are castrated. Male to female trans athletes easily dominate all female competitions they are in.
    
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    July 30, 2024 3:35pm
    - Ghost
      
      They are intersex, not trans
      
      According to feminist website Reduxx, both are thought both are impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development (DSD), a series of medical conditions identified at birth where genitalia is atypical in relation to chromosomes.
      
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13684553/Two-boxers-CLEARED-compete-Olympics.html
      
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      July 30, 2024 3:41pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Both have XY chromosomes.
        
        They are male.
        
        https://www.outkick.com/sports/athletes-disqualified-world-championships-xy-chromosomes-womens-boxing-olympics
        
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        July 30, 2024 4:09pm
      - mawm
        
        So their gonads were internalised testes that produced testosterone, not oestrogen, prior to their removal. This gives them a muscular advantage.
        
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        July 30, 2024 4:20pm
  - cmm
    
    “They’re intersex”
    
    So not women.
    So why are they boxing with women?
    
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    July 30, 2024 3:45pm
    - Ghost
      
      Because they qualified
      
      “All athletes participating in the boxing tournament of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 comply with the competition’s eligibility and entry regulations, as well as all applicable medical regulations,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement.
      
      https://www.nine.com.au/sport/olympics/paris-2024-female-boxers-meet-rules-after-gender-test-20240730-p5jxks.html
      
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      July 30, 2024 3:59pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        You obviously believe all the trans sex BS and think its OK. I feel sorry for you.
        
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        July 30, 2024 4:20pm
      - Ghost
        
        Do I? Intersex is not Trans, you do realize what intersex is right?
        
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        July 30, 2024 4:23pm
      - wsk12345
        
        Someone will be seriously injured. A male punch even by a mediocre male boxer is way way harder than a hard strike by a top female boxer.
        
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        July 30, 2024 8:23pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My dad was a Boxer. Mum was a Labrador 😀
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:58pm
  - Jake Dee
    
    My Grandfather was a Dalmatian, true story.
    
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    July 30, 2024 5:23pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Good people Dalmatians, hard workers, good business people. Pity about the pop singer though.
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:26pm
mandk

Nominations for Kiwibank NZer of the year award are open: https://nzawards.org.nz/nominate/

I have nominated Karen Chhour.

In the face of hostility and abuse from the left, her work for children has been heroic.
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- Ghost
  
  Read conditions before wasting your time
  
  Condtitions
  
  Elected politicians will not be eligible for nomination. Any nominations for elected politicians will be removed by the Awards office prior to Category Judging.
  
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  July 30, 2024 3:32pm
  - mandk
    
    I’m not worried about that.
    
    I would encourage anyone to do the same to make a point.
    
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    July 30, 2024 3:44pm
    - Ghost
      
      You are making no point, just wasting your time with an application that won’t be read and will be tossed
      
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      July 30, 2024 4:00pm
    - Mike
      
      How about nominating dead people, animals, or fictional characters, to make a point?
      
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      July 30, 2024 4:04pm
- pdm
  
  I second that nomination mandk.
  
  Another good performance by her at QT today.
  
  ps. Maybe we should overwhelm them with nominations for Karen.
  
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  July 30, 2024 4:50pm
Chuck Bird

I just heard that National has asked the Law Commission to look at hate speech laws. So if I say if it has a dick it ain’t a chick I could be jailed.

Another example of Labour Lite.
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July 30, 2024 4:10pm
- Sparrow
  
  With due respect uou might have the wrong end of the stick. The Free Speech Union is concerned that the Law Commission was looking at tightening the law regarding free speech ref gender. So was writing off to the PM expressing their concern. Maybe this is why the government has contacted the Law Commission.
  
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  July 30, 2024 7:39pm
Rusty

I can’t wait for the skateboarding, break dancing, and rock climbing events at the Olympics!
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July 30, 2024 4:10pm
Steve Todd

George Conway’s PsychoPAC has posted an add on Fox News and the Golf Channel, that The Don-old does not like.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTDqBO0yGPQ. It’s only 6 minutes.

So funny.
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July 30, 2024 4:37pm
- Steve Todd
  
  This is another interesting, alternative, point of view, about an hour ago from Rachel Maddow — yes, I did say alternative.
  
  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of9OP_a6MNg. Again, it’s only 6+ minutes.
  
  Trump reckons he doesn’t need votes: “We’ve got plenty of votes.” Rachel opines on what that means, at least to her.
  
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  July 30, 2024 5:33pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    It’s not just Rachel.
    
    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6HCoZoLZxY. [9:39]
    
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    July 30, 2024 6:45pm
  - Conservatarian
    
    Let me guess. Maddow thinks Trump will jail all lesbian TV commentators who earn $30m a year to work once a week. She’s a very serious journalist Steve.
    
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    July 30, 2024 7:52pm
    - Steve Todd
      
      Sorry, Conservatarian.
      
      Your jaded cynicism has no effect on me.
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:08pm
Maggie Pie

THE HOUSE TODAY 😀

“You’re not in Mexico now Ricardo, we don’t do those sort of things here”

– Todd McClay…. in response to the Member-for-Tijuana.

LOL!!!!
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July 30, 2024 4:54pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Ricardo pimps on Todd to Gerry.
  Gerry tells Todd “IF that’s what WAS said, he should withdraw an apologize”.
  Todd stands withdraws and apologizes.
  Outside the House, the Member-for-Tijuana tells journalists he/it found the remark “racist”. Sounds close to tears.
  
  Oh FFS!! 😀
  
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  July 30, 2024 5:34pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    “OMG what a crybaby”
    
    “OK Boomer”
    
    “Read the report!”
    
    “From the river to the sea”
    
    woops… perhaps it’s only Greens who are allowed to make “offensive” remarks…
    
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    July 30, 2024 6:54pm
    - Swifty
      
      “All the violence in the world is caused by white cis men!”
      
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      July 30, 2024 7:48pm
      - MCōs
        
        If you’re going to quote Marama Davidson you might at well get it right.
        She said “I am a violence prevention minister and I know who causes violence in the world, it is white, cis men.” and she was pilloried for it at the time, probably even from the same people who defend Todd McClay’s stupid remark
        BTW
        What was Minister McClay referring to?
        
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        July 30, 2024 10:35pm
  - Muttonbird
    
    Well, it was pretty racist, and that from the trade minister. I wonder if the exchange will reach the ears of Pacific trade negotiators.
    
    It will be in Hansard after all…
    
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    July 30, 2024 7:28pm
    - Swifty
      
      Please explain to us exactly how the statement was racist.
      
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      July 30, 2024 7:46pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      What is a pacific trade negotiator?
      
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      July 30, 2024 7:50pm
    - Pope Punctilious II
      
      What exactly was “racist” about the remark? If the member for Tijuana can’t cope with a simple quip like that, he’s unworthy of parliament.
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:03pm
    - Muttonbird
      
      As per usual, some people deny the obvious, genuinely perplexed.
      
      [Mod – unnecessary]
      
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      July 30, 2024 8:14pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“The Founding Fathers weren’t concerned with specific types of firearms, they were concerned with specific types of governments.”
Seems to be the same in New Zealand.
So we need a new type of Govt in New Zealand? It is in the wind……
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July 30, 2024 6:01pm
kevn

Maggie…. Cheap points score by Pedro.
Who achieves nothing for NZers.
Pure self interest/profile.
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July 30, 2024 6:02pm
Damocles11

OneEwes having been attacking the government for 12 minutes straight so far, Benedict Collins to Shane Reti: “do you think you’re making the Prime Minister look like a turkey?”, Melissa says ‘you may notice a few extra dollars in your pay packet’ referring to the tax cuts, a man in the street says tax cuts “will destroy the economy”, Labour MP’s rubbish the tax cuts, then it’s on to a Maori reporter and the local referendums on race based council wards…..ffs.
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July 30, 2024 6:14pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350359934/mother-and-daughter-among-three-victims-sh1-crash-near-hunterville
But as usual the truck drivers are seen as the “good guys” and the other people are the ones at fault.
Truck drivers are for some inexplicable reason held in high esteem: in my experience, as an old guy who for over 60 years has driven all over this country, truck drivers are bullies, they ignore speed limits, they tailgate slower traffic.
And probably half the time they are either half-asleep or on some sort of “medication”.
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July 30, 2024 6:18pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Really? I also have driven all over the country. Never had a problem with truck drivers.
  
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  July 30, 2024 7:56pm
- Ghost
  
  Bit of a strange rant when no information on the cause of this accident has been released.
  
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  July 30, 2024 8:00pm
kevn

grey… Truckies motivation is different to casual travellers. They need to keep moving. Load/unload logistics. Owner drivers/ truck leasing. A tough game.
Just give them room. Although they are great to follow for long night drives, once they figure you are not a problem and you keep well back, just pacing them..
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- kowtow
  
  Having ’em tailgate you at the speed limit is very un nerving.
  All motorists need to respect all other road users.
  
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  July 30, 2024 6:35pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Perhaps your speedo is less accurate than you think?
    
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    July 30, 2024 8:46pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Some trucks speed – just to keep with the flow.
  90 kph has always been stupid especially when twin turbo trucks are very powerful and drive just like a car. the 90 limit makes other vehicle drivers take silly risks when overtaking. Also remember a car is very light compared to a large truck/double semi unit. They hurt.
  Class 5 here so I have some idea.
  
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