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NeverMindTheBollocks

This is just embarrassing for Athletics NZ. With all due respect to them, most of their life members are unknown to me and, I’d suggest, the wider public.

The other thing is that Arch was on the telly last night and looks extraordinarily healthy and compis mentis. I would be more than happy to be similar at 80.

http://www.1news.co.nz/2024/10/31/a-long-time-coming-athletics-coach-made-a-life-member-at-102/

https://athletics.org.nz/about-us/
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November 1, 2024 8:00am
- Local Miller
  
  Now this is the sort of person who should have got honors. Why isn’t he Sir Jelley?
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:51am
  - pdm
    
    Excellent question LM.
    
    Arch Jelley was also a very good lawn bowler 20/30 years ago too.
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:53am
  - David Garrett
    
    Local: Well, for a start he’d be Sir Archibald…(I’m assuming Arch is short for Archibald)…only Americans – who don’t understand the honours system – would use the person’s surname after the “Sir”… a minor point, but you’re welcome
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:11am
    - Swifty
      
      During his fairly recent racism defamation action, in court Bob Jones’ own counsel referred to him as “Sir Jones” to which Bob expressed some dismay and said “It’s Sir Bob you great goose”.
      
      Heh.
      
      I can’t believe that Jones’ barrister could have made such a mistake but there you are.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:30am
    - Local Miller
      
      And x-South Africans who also don’t have an honours system.
      I stand corrected, it won’t happen again.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:05am
    - MCōs
      
      Albert Archibald Jelley CNZM OBE
      
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      November 1, 2024 1:52pm
  - Mike
    
    Made an OBE in 1982 and a CNZM in 2021. At that rate he would be knighted at age 13o or so and invited to join the ONZ in 2100, given good behavior. I can’t find if he has been made an NZOC Order Holder, but perhaps that too will come in time.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:31am
    - Jethrod
      
      He should be made an ONZ holder ASAP or sooner.
      At last look there was 6 vacant positions on the ONZ list. Last person appointed was Dame Anne Salmond in 2020.
      Is there no worthy people in NZ anymore or is there a move afoot to wind this order down?
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:35am
    - MCōs
      
      Not everyone who coaches an Olympic champion or world champion becomes a knight/dame otherwise Kirsten Hellier, for example, who represented NZ at the Olympics & Commonwealth Games and coached Valerie Adams for years before becoming an administrator would be a Dame.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:18pm
  - Mummy
    
    He might have turned it down. Not everyone wants to be a sir.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:53am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Taxpayers have stumped up $115m towards public housing for Pacific Islanders only in Porirua. It offers a shared ownership scheme where houses may be privatised at below market prices.

I can understand why Islanders would like to live Island-style; I’m just not sure why I’m funding it.

If a group of English immigrants wanted a Cotswold-style village, would they receive similar funding?

It seems that racial preference is alive and well under Christopher Luxon.

http://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/01/our-whare-our-fale-housing-project-brings-island-living-to-porirua/
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November 1, 2024 8:01am
- Paulus
  
  Why have the local Maori Iwi coined into this scheme as I though it was for Pacificas only ?
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:25am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They bought the land…and are lea$ing it to the Pacific Collective… so they will have $$$$ coming in as long as the collective remains on the land.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:01am
    - Jack5
      
      Yet another illustration of why Maori community ownership of land cuts off traditional loan funding. It’s no use as collateral for borrowing because it can’t be sold if there’s a default.
      
      In the rort here, funding has been given to Pacific Islanders by taxpayers, with no land put up for security for a loan.
      
      It’s relevant that the land in this case wasn’t “Maori freehold,” as always Maori-owned land is known. It is reported to have been bought by Ngati Toa. However, you can bet Ngati Toa will treat it as unalienable.
      
      Proportions of rock safe lending, such as that secured over land, are required of banks by the Reserve Bank, and indirectly by international banking organisations and by credit-ranking agencies.
      
      There is rising pressure in NZ for unsaleable, community owned land to be changed in security status, without making it alienable — able to be sold.
      
      A Labour Government under Ardern might have gone along with this, perhaps with encouragement from the present Reserve Bank governor, who has Maorified the outer shell of the organisation.
      
      This campaign isn’t over. It would make a two-tier, race-based financial environment.
      
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      November 1, 2024 8:47pm
- wsk12345
  
  I don’t get why iwi are involved. Pacific people came here more recently than most other races in NZ but they are treated as indigenous. Why?
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:26am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Because indigeneity was never the real reason for racial preferences. It was always a pretext. Nobody older than ten actually believes “I was here first” is much of an argument for anything.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:01am
  - Geri Sjovik
    
    The dictionary definition and the made-up-to-suit-their agenda UN definition are vastly different.
    
    And in case it’s not obvious, the UN redefinition is what maori are claiming to give them special rights.
    
    All thanks to John Key and is covert signing of the UN agreement.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:58am
    - Swifty
      
      That’s exactly right – and to demonstrate how perverted it’s all become, Brits in Britain don’t qualify!
      
      (Because they are not a minority group.)
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:44pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  English immigrants who had been deported from England? Sure NZ would do the same for them. Give them an income as well.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:27am
- G152
  
  What, I ask, is the definition of racism????????
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:51am
- Local Miller
  
  Did you miss the line: “Pereira and his organisation secured nearly $115 million in funding from the previous government in Budget 2022”
  
  Don’t blame Christopher Luxon for this one.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:57am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I did not miss that. National have been in power for 12 months now.
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:19pm
- Parnell Gun Club
  
  Cotswolds-style village? Count me in. Where do I sign.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:59am
  - imalwaysright
    
    England
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:53am
  - Kiwiguy
    
    Likewise! Especially if they come with the obligatory classic Ferrari parked outside.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:58am
- alphabeatrium
  
  Isn’t that simply Pasifika colonisation? Why is it only bad if whitey does it?
  
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  November 1, 2024 4:30pm
Matt Long

People on the Epstein and Diddy lists are putting their hands up.
https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1851826749358657690
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November 1, 2024 8:02am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Despite the debt horror stories emanating from Wellington City Council, the worst council in the region and indeed the country if not the WORLD turns out to be, wait for it, ta-daa- Upper Hutt!

“Standard & Poor’s has cut its rating on the council’s long-term debt from ‘A+’ to ‘A’.
No other New Zealand council had a rating below A+. S&P said it expects the council’s cash deficit in the year just passed and the coming year to set a world record among councils it tracks”.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360468675/big-drop-credit-rating-bad-news-upper-hutt
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November 1, 2024 8:02am
- Eastlander
  
  A dreadful article, not least for giving the last word to the Tory Whanau-esque buffoon spouting rubbish about rates having been ‘artificially low’.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:04am
Maggy Wassilieff

Who is the f***ing racist?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/te-pati-maori-mp-takuta-ferris-says-fing-racist-during-select-committee/UXE2JULHUBEGRCC7M6VSFLO3BE/
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November 1, 2024 8:03am
- Swifty
  
  It’s all they’ve got.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:05am
- Chuck Bird
  
  This is why we should get rid of the racist Maori seats.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:08am
  - cmm
    
    The justification for Maori seats ended on 19 December 1879 with the introduction of universal male suffrage.
    
    145 years ago.
    
    For 145 years nobody has had the balls to address this. You surely don’t expect that woke blancmange Luxon to do so do you?
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:41am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I hope that NZF and Act could push for it.
      
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      November 1, 2024 8:47am
      - cmm
        
        Dreams are free but it ain’t never gonna happen.
        
        What is far more likely is the expansion of Maori seats to 50% of parliament and the addition of Pasifika seats.
        
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        November 1, 2024 9:18am
      - RoboRob
        
        All the people in National who might once have supported removing the Maori seats are long gone. This was an actual Nat & Act policy when the Key govt was elected. Key tossed it out to get the Maori party in bed with him. Politicaly clever but a sad outcome for NZ.
        
        Now we have Luxon who is terrified to say or do anything that might offend anyone. No chance of him letting it through. If Act cant get a clarification of the treaty passed, zero chance of them removing the racist Maori seats.
        
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        November 1, 2024 9:22am
      - pdm
        
        cmm – under no circumstances should they be encouraged.
        
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        November 1, 2024 9:41am
      - Suze Wainwright
        
        cmm – Cindy did say that democracy had to get sophisticated…
        
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        November 1, 2024 9:42am
    - leoj
      
      Not just woke blancmange, he’s a maori activist, too gutless to take the treaty principles to the public.
      
      Key didn’t help when he cuddled up to the maoris in 2008.
      
      Their seats are baked in for good under the namby-pamby Nats.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:31am
    - PurplePen
      
      Yes. And 1985 Royal Commission along with MMP recommended the seats be abolished. National was in at the time and didn’t implement the recommendation.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:56pm
- AitchW
  
  God some of this crop of new MPs are a disgrace.
  No respect for the tikanga or mana of parliament, yet call any who dare disagree with them racist.
  In this case the kai Moana has certainly rotted from the head down.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:12am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I only hope that in the next election year, Thomas Coughlan publishes a detailed analysis of EXACTLY what a Labour-led coalition government with the Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Te Pati Maori would mean for the country (on ALL sectors).
  
  He was a bit concerned about TPM’s economic policies last time around – not that his concerns were made prominent.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:16am
  - H. Upmann
    
    Hosking mentioned the possibilities of that scenario on his show this morning. Scary.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:15am
  - pdm
    
    Suze – would he get such an expose past the Editors and Management?
    
    Doubt it.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:42am
  - AitchW
    
    Those who vote Labour/Green/Maori party are unlikely to read anything which drills down to the consequences of electing them. We have a large chunk of our population who will only ever vote left, which is why there is churn between these three.
    There is a similar chunk on the right.
    As young educated folk get older they often swing to the right, but sadly the left appeals to the indoctrinated, idealistic, and naive.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:08am
    - artemisia
      
      That swing to the right tends to occur when working and paying tax for the hammocks of others.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:28am
      - leoj
        
        Yes, when they suddenly develop a brain.
        
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        November 1, 2024 10:33am
- Gussy Fink-Nottle
  
  It’s ‘projection’.
  A textbook example.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:47am
- David Garrett
  
  Mr Ferris looks to be about half Maori if that. “Ferris” is of course a very common Maori surname…
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:17am
  - Cantabrian
    
    He must be more than half Maori – to be so, at least one of his parents would have to be full blooded, yet there are none.remaining.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:39am
    - Paulus
      
      Did not Winston some two or so years ago say that the proportion of 1/520 could allow you to be a Maori.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:05pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    His legal name is Romaine Sydney Roland Ferris… somewhere along the line he’s adopted the Maori term for “Doctor”.
    
    https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/electorate-profiles/te-tai-tonga-electorate-profile/
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:30am
    - Taieri
      
      His legal name is Romaine Sydney Roland Ferris
      ———-
      
      Tākuta sounds much better and gives far more credence to this fine specimen of the pure and unadulterated Maoridom.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:40am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      It’s a bit of an insult to his parents, rejecting the names they gave him; not to mention any forebears whose names he shares.
      
      Trampling on their mana, you might think.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:25pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    And also another one that wears greenstone the size of a dinner plate around his neck to make sure that no one mistakes him for being European.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:38am
- sirknz
  
  “Save Ferris”…
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:44am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Take a day off, Ferris.
    
    Actually, make that two years off.
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:27pm
  - pdm
    
    “Save Ferris”…
    
    I cannot think of any good reason to.
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:37pm
- mogg
  
  If the govt is the ‘coalition of chaos’, the opposition are the coalition of desperados.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:59am
Matt Long

Mike King, well you have your empirical evidence that alcohol is harmful, and I have my feelz.
How did Doocey give him 27 million for suicide prevention treatment with alcohol?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mental-health-campaigner-mike-king-defends-claims-alcohol-is-the-solution-for-those-struggling/PM2JXBEL2JD7JPAJH2KWNMIB7Y/
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November 1, 2024 8:05am
- Yvette
  
  Mental health campaigner Mike King defends claims ‘alcohol is the solution’ for those struggling
  
  ‘I’m a drug addict, I’m an alcoholic’: King says booze the solution to mental distress
  
  Context –
  King was speaking on the issue in connection with a suicide prevention fundraising event in Dunedin struggling to gain an alcohol licence from the council. He said any alcohol ban would be “classic overreach” [pointing out the licence was for the fashion event being held to raise funds, and in that it was not for those the event was collecting for} and then claimed it was the solution for people with mental health.
  
  What was said –
  “Alcohol is not a problem for people with mental health issues.
  “It’s actually the solution to our problem and until you come with a better solution …
  “It stops those thoughts,” he explained.
  “I would suggest to you that alcohol has prevented more young people from taking their own lives than it actually makes them take their own lives.
  “I mean, I’m a drug addict, an alcoholic; my whole life, I’ve used drugs and alcohol to stop that little voice inside my head that told me that I wasn’t good enough, that I was useless.
  “It’s a release, it’s like a video game.
  “It’s like methadone, it keeps us going until some help comes along. It’s our life jacket.”
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mental-health-campaigner-mike-king-defends-claims-alcohol-is-the-solution-for-those-struggling/PM2JXBEL2JD7JPAJH2KWNMIB7Y/
  
  This is similar to the muck-raking which tore down the Mad Butcher, proclaimed to be a racist.
  Mad Butcher founder Sir Peter Leitch says “light hearted banter” he had with a young Maori woman has been misinterpreted as racist comments.
  Waiheke Island local Lara Bridger on Tuesday claimed Leitch had told her “Waiheke is a white man’s island” and she shouldn’t be there.
  … “And now, OK, I’m f…ing upset.” – although Lara was okay with the exchange of banter until, according to first reports, she recounted the ‘incident’ to her mother, and then became ‘upset’.
  
  “Social elements” were eager to cut Peter Leitch down to size, as similar elements are eager to destroy Mike King, and both Leitch and King unfortunately provided fuel in something that could have been better expressed.
  
  And on alcohol: Gabor Maté – “I ask not Why the addiction, but Why the pain?”
  
  The Herald article quoted above gives lots of “information”, but far as I can see, does not mention that “Gumboot Friday” is today – perhaps a little unCharitable of them…
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:19am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I don’t agree with him on alcohol. But that’s fine. Let’s hear the debate.
    
    Instead, everyone sets out to destroy him because he said something controversial. That is where we are at. It is sickening.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:30am
    - Phronesis
      
      Could be quite an interesting debate. It’s long been known that SSRI anti-depressants increase suicide risk. Depressants like alcohol are relatively safe in heavy users. The problem with almost any drug is that people respond differently to them. What works for one may not work for another. Decades ago when I worked in the area the buzz words were a future of “personalised medicine” based on your genetic profile. Public health in particular seems to have gone the other way. If something is harmful to a small part of the population then we must ban it for everyone.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:59am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        IIRC about half of suicide victims have been drinking excessively when they die.
        
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        November 1, 2024 10:25am
  - Matt Long
    
    I don’t imagine things will have changed, domestic violence nearly always involves alcohol abuse, and alcohol is a depressant.
    If King is an alcoholic it would perhaps explain some of the odd behavior exhibited toward former supporters and associates.
    I have gotten appointments same day with GPs or the Emergency Health Teamfor persons having voices, and appropriate medication within hours. There’s no excuse for suggesting people self medicate with alcohol, when often persuading them to seek proper treatment is a major problem.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:49am
  - Ghost
    
    Good to see he is getting some support
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360471886/mike-king-was-trying-make-valid-point-about-alcohol-mental-health-boss-says
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:14am
  - Paulus
    
    I am getting to believe it is the young so called educated young Maori women who are, and will rule the roost, to get whatever they want.
    The Maori men have been sidelined in Aotearoa as well.
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:08pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    To me it looks like King simply poorly articulated his point. The putrid NZ MSM then used this to conflate his position to being “alcohol good for depression/suicidal thoughts” etc, because he is generally not on side with their woke crap. They could have simply contacted him for further clarification but they instead were happy to build a malicious fiction, as they do.
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:21pm
- cmm
  
  I wonder whether Mike King really believes the Climate Change bit or whether the just threw that in to get funding – like pretty much every researcher does when applying for a funding grant.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:42am
  - Simon
    
    Wonder about his “stolen” magical bike.
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:59am
  - imalwaysright
    
    If Mike King has a theory about “Climate Change” increasing the chances of self harm then he should identify the true source of the mental stress, that being the fear mongers who use baseless claims or lies about the weather to frighten people into giving them money.
    It is people causing the stress, not the weather.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:19am
    - Phronesis
      
      True enough. But if it wasn’t climate change it would be some interchangeable “the end is nigh” scenario.
      Nuclear war, the next ice age, meteorites, mass extinctions, global pandemic, famine, pestilence, etc
      
      The only unique thing about climate change is that someone had the bright idea of coming up with a bogeyman that can be appeased by giving money to it. That was the clever part.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:06am
  - cmm
    
    I am sure that hype caused by climate hype does contribute to mental health issues – especially stress in the young.
    
    Some years ago the BBC had a cartoon “documentary” to explain climate change to kids. It showed water rising rapidly and waves lapping over the top of Big Ben.
    
    Big Ben is 96 metres tall and it stands a good few metres above sea level. Based on even the most outrageous projections, Big Ben won’t even get its feet wet in the next 1000 years – let alone be covered.
    
    Of course kids would get stressed by that. But stress caused by bullshit is different to stress caused by reality.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:57am
    - Paulus
      
      I would love to see an analysis of who is Mentally unwell in New Zealand, and by some ethnic and human breakdown as well.
      Billions are being poured into this but with no results, only seriously increasing numbers, and the need for more money – for what ?
      The UK has the biggest cause of increasing mental illness caused by immigration.
      Perhaps we could look at what represents the causes of Mental Illness and not just money.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:13pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Mike said that alcohol has helped to prevent suicide.
  
  It’s hard to prove a negative.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:53am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “It’s hard to prove a negative”
    
    They did tell us the covid jab stops you dying, so I suppose Mike should at least be given the benefit of the doubt.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:26am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Alcohol is a major factor in suicide. However I would like to hear his rationale. Instead he has been screamed down. Chris Hipkins piling in.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:32am
    - sirknz
      
      I would hazard a guess that the ‘alcohol being a major factor in suicide’ would be correlated with excessive use likely masking other factors, not a couple of drinks with a friend, or at a charity fundraiser.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:58am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Yes of course. However I imagine for folk with severe mental illness taking anti psychotic drugs, alcohol use would not be a great idea. Or cannabis use.
        
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        November 1, 2024 11:17am
      - imalwaysright
        
        B.Y
        We have had alcohol and cannabis for thousands of years but antipsychotic drugs are relatively new.
        Suicide seems also to be relatively new.
        I don’t think we know enough about their combined effect, however, if we revert to the time without antipsychotics, it was better. Not a proof, merely an observation of history.
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:00pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “if we revert to the time without antipsychotics, it was better.”
        
        Really? Untreated psychosis is better?
        
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        November 1, 2024 2:08pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        No, but psychosis treated with psychotics might work.
        
        There’s no need to be confrontational .
        
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        November 1, 2024 3:01pm
      - slijmbal
        
        King sort of has a point – Alcohol is a depressant as are benzodiezapines (mothers little helper). Benzos are still used for treatment of anxiety. I know I used alcohol as a crutch when I watched my mother take a year to die from cancer, badly. It does take away feelings for a while and one avoids the perceived stigma of going to the quack about mental health issues.
        
        Not a good option but you can see how it might seem better than nothing. I don’t think it’s sensible to present it as a decent option when it has so many poor side effects.
        
        Good suicide stats are hard to find but if we look 100 years back in the UK, OZ and the US then suicide rates haven’t magically jumped. We see peaks during catastrophic times e.g. great depressions (interestingly they may well have dropped during World Wars) and they do appear to have dropped overall with a recent creeping (and I do mean creeping) up over the last couple of decades.
        
        We don’t have a recent suicide epidemic.
        
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        November 1, 2024 3:09pm
    - cmm
      
      “Alcohol is a major factor in suicide. ”
      
      Is it? Yes, there is significant correlation – but I am not at all convinced about causation.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:03am
    - Philview
      
      The same Chris Hipkins who was happy to pump millions into the Mongrel Mob drug rehab programme.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:06am
      - JackRabbit
        
        The word “rehab” was an unnecessary addition in your sentence.
        
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        November 1, 2024 1:35pm
  - Ghost
    
    People turn to alcohol and drugs to numb the pain and voices. I’ve known someone who used it to stop the voices telling them to commit suicide.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:38am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Yes, I think Mike has upset the puritans.
      A few, or many, drinks has certainly saved people who fear their current reality.
      I wonder how many people kill themselves with prescription drugs.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:02am
    - cmm
      
      Sure, alcohol and drugs to help dumb the pain and quite likely do sometimes take the edge off immediate thoughts of suicide.
      
      But alcohol and drugs do not fix the underlying cause and tend to make things worse in the long run.
      
      A lot of military veterans are suicidal and a lot have become alcoholics. For some, the cure for both has been the same: address the underlying issues which are common.
      
      I am sure many medications have negative impacts. I know that some of mine do – though I have never felt suicidal.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:20am
      - Ghost
        
        No one has said it is a cure, Mike king never said it, here’s what he said
        
        “I mean, I’m a drug addict, an alcoholic; my whole life, I’ve used drugs and alcohol to stop that little voice inside my head that told me that I wasn’t good enough, that I was useless.
        
        “It’s a release, it’s like a video game.
        
        “It’s like methadone, it keeps us going until some help comes along. It’s our life jacket.”
        
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        November 1, 2024 11:41am
      - JackRabbit
        
        CMM, I believe Veterans are a different case.
        
        Rightly or wrongly , a few too many drinks and a rant with mates down at the RSA have saved many veterans. Especially those that could not, and were not allowed to discuss publicly certain details of the war incl atrocities, the memories of which trouble them throughout their lives. And most never got counseling.
        
        The scars from war are more than just physical.
        
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        November 1, 2024 1:48pm
      - cmm
        
        JR: There is a huge difference between alcoholism and the amount you drink. Alcoholism is more about your relationship with alcohol than the amount you drink.
        
        My father was an alcoholic. He drank a lot. He drove drunk on average about twice a week – thankfully never killing anyone – not even his stupid self. But none of that really made him an alcoholic.
        
        What made him an alcoholic was that his whole life was designed around access to alcohol. As a lawyer, a visit to a client was always designed to incorporate liquid lunch where possible.
        
        A very memorable occasion was when he came to visit us in 1996. It was the first time he had seen us for 4 years and the first time he’d seen his new grandson. But none of that mattered – within a minute of clearing customs he was looking for a bottle shop.
        
        Getting pissed on occasion with your mates is fine – and a good release for veterans (or anyone for that matter). But for many it gets carried away and becomes more than daily release.
        
        There are a lot of South African and Rhodesian veterans who have fallen into this hole. Those that I know of that have crawled out have done so through addressing their alcoholism and PTSD etc as a single issue. Most have done so either through religion, Alcoholics Anonymous or specialised veterans’ therapy which often draws on those.
        
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        November 1, 2024 2:39pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      It temporarily provides a feeling of respite (which is the attraction to the substance for many), but obviously is a trap that makes things a lot worse if it becomes a habit and/or is used excessively. I’m guessing that was more or less his point.
      
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      November 1, 2024 8:32pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I like my drinks and I haven’t committed suicide.
    Doctor gives me lectures but I just had a liver scan and have no scarring or fat issues so he can give it a rest now. Drink water he says – beer is 90 – 96% water!
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:13am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Don’t forget all of that CO2 that you get to temporarily sequester.
      You’re saving the planet, one stubby at a time!!!
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:22am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Two so far with no sense of humour.
        Happy Friday!😀😀
        
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        November 1, 2024 1:37pm
- imalwaysright
  
  If people who claim to have “mental health issues” were instead described as mentally ill, I would say there would be far fewer of them.
  These pretenders suck the resources away from the genuinely mentally ill.
  The ones who end up killing themselves.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:47am
- KH
  
  I worked in mental health. The outfits fight each other to get money. It’s mean.
  The traditional incumbents are out to destroy Mike King because he got the money they didn’t
  Simple as that.
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:02am
Grunter

An excellent article by Don Brash. His top 5 issues for NZ and how the Government is performing on them. I agree with what Don says on all 5 issues. I would however have gone stronger on the climate change comment and made it #6 issue aimed at building energy resilience and not caving into the green BS.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/don-brash-how-are-they-going
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November 1, 2024 8:05am
- Simon
  
  NZ’s future is mid tier Latam.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:00am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Welfare should always be the number one issue. It is now 50 years since Labour started us down a track of intergenerational poverty and dependency. Low economic growth, crime, and reduced educational outcomes, all stem from that.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:42am
  - MCōs
    
    NZ has had an unemployment benefit since 1938 brought in by the first Labour government
    For a few years previous to that the United-Reform government ran a work for the dole scheme for non Māori during the depression
    United-Reform later became the National Party, which opposed the Social Security Bill that contained an unemployment benefit, state housing, subsidized healthcare and other stuff.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:10am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      There were never many people on the benefit until 1974 when the Kirk government introduced the DPB, turning welfare into a reliable career choice and making it much easier to pass the dependency mindset on to the next generation.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Welfare – 50 years since the Waitangi Tribunal was invented.
    That is what it is, welfare.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:15am
    - Conservatarian
      
      I’m not speaking for Nigel Kearney, but perhaps he is referring to it being 50 years since the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB) was introduced. The financial enabler of the career single mother aka the “Whangarei career girl” (as memorably described to me by a female colleague who grew up in Whangarei) and also a factor in the problem of the reprobate sperm donor.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:18am
- MCōs
  
  His first two points are interlinked
  Money that should be invested in production is invested in land & housing. As a result houses like mine are vastly over valued.
  Meanwhile there’s no money to hang on to GPs.
  I’m sure there’s a tie up there somewhere.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:45am
  - Taieri
    
    As a result houses like mine are vastly over valued.
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    Your house is vastly over valued because the supply doesn’t match the demand. And the demand is a function of the rapid population growth in the last 20 years or so.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:33am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      Too many people trying to incorrectly blame immigration for all sorts of things, when they actually dislike immigration for other reasons.
      
      Over the last 50 years, NZ population has gone from 3 million to 5 million. Houston metro area population has more than tripled in that time. But you can buy a nice house in Houston for NZD300k. Their salaries are higher too.
      
      So what is the difference?
      
      MCos is right that the problem is capital being tied up in residential property instead of productive activity. But tax is not the answer. Shares and property are taxed more or less the same, and even with a CGT would still be taxed the same. So tax won’t get people to switch from one to another.
      
      The core of the problem, is that people in Houston expect better returns from shares than we do. And the reason they expect that, is that the burden on businesses from tax, regulations, and employment law, is less over there.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:21am
    - Mike
      
      Yes, we have imported people at a huge rate as it boosts GDP while GDP per capita declines, so there are less houses, and also less money for public services, infrastructure, etc.
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:26am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Welcome to the right wing fascists club Mike.
        
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        November 1, 2024 8:38pm
    - cmm
      
      Increase in population is only a small part of the housing problem.
      
      A far bigger issue is the reduction in utilisation.
      
      The 10 closest houses to us on our street have an average of 4 bedrooms and only 2 inhabitants:
      * 3 have one person living in them (2 divorcees, 1 widow).
      * 1 has 4 inhabitants (couple + 2 late teenager kids – who will soon be moving out).
      * 6 have 2 inhabitants (empty-nester couples).
      * 3 have a bedroom used as a home office.
      
      30 years ago, the average occupancy of houses was higher – likely over 4 per household. Smaller families also mean the number of houses per population increases.
      
      As more and more people become empty-nesters the need for houses per population will increase.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:59pm
- nz_aj
  
  His arguments of a benign China miss the attempts at military bases in the Solomons and other pacific islands, debt trap diplomacy of the Sri Lankan Hambantota port and certainly the chinese expansion into Africa.
  The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has border conflicts with most of its neighbors, and has invaded Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, etc.
  One country, two systems, no longer exists in Hong Kong.
  The CCP ideology is not that of NZ. I’d very much prefer we pivot away and diversify our trading relationships to more similar democratic countries.
  
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  November 1, 2024 12:16pm
  - Manu-Rau
    
    While I don’t have any sympathy for the CPC (or CCP, as it is usually mistakenly called in the West), Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia are all part of China. China has not invaded them at all.
    
    And Hong Kong has now returned to Chinese rule. Complaining about Hong Kong being under Chinese rule is like having your car stolen, and then the thief imposing conditions on how you can use it when it is returned to you.
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:22pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      I think you are wrong about Tibet, but otherwise correct.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:40pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  I would have liked to have seen cheap energy in that list. Cheap, abundant, energy would help to make us more productive, and expensive energy will lead (and has led) to businesses failing. Cheap electricity will mean more of us can keep our homes warm (or cool), meaning we’ll be healthier.
  Solar and wind does _not_ lead to cheap (or abundant) electricity. If we look oversea to places lime L.A, U.K and Germany, we see evidence that wind and solar have led to some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
  
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  November 1, 2024 4:06pm
- NoFax
  
  Brash’s analysis of China is very poor. China, or more specifically the CCP, are a threat to peace and freedom in the region and the wider world. The economy in China is nowhere near the official figures and the reports coming out of China shows serious problems for the planned economy – and that’s even after they have been heavily censored. I would not be betting our future on China and their economy.
  China has a border dispute with every single country it borders and that includes it so-called allies of Russia and North Korea. The US never said that there is one China with Bejing as the rightful government. The US “understands” that there is one China, and the US acknowledge the sides disagree on what that means – that’s a big difference. Further, the Communists have never ran Taiwan – it has never been part of the People’s Republic of China. It was a Japanese colony from 1895 to 1945 and then run by the Republic of China. The take-over of Hong Kong has been disastrous for HK in terms of human rights as well as economically. The free people of Taiwan want nothing to do with the worse mass-murdering regime in human history. Taiwan over the previous 40 years has built themselves a free, democratic, and prosperous country – why would they abandoned that for the CCP?
  The nine-dash line that the CCP insists upon swallows up basically the entire of the South China Sea. This is not an EEZ, they insist this is their territory and will enforce it. You think our goods will be able to freely pass through this area without kowtowing to the Emperor Xi? Ask the Philippines how it went cozing up to China under the previous President. The global ambitions of the CCP are clear with their belt and road initiative – overpriced and poorly constructed infrastructure that is indebting countries in a new neo-colonial empire. Things are not looking good in Africa when the CCP turns up.
  While Brash usually has a good analysis on many things this is one where he fails miserably. It is not surprising that the Helen Clarke and himself agree on this area. Both think we live in a unique and special benign strategic environment – this is clearly not true.
  
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  November 1, 2024 5:47pm
DimChappie

Maori Party MP Takuta Ferris says “fucking racists” during Muriel and Frank Newman’s submission to the Justice Select Committee on the Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) (Customary Marine Title) Amendment Bill on Wednesday October 30, 2024.

https://youtu.be/vem9iGFAyQI

The comment is at the 46sec mark as Ferris has his final question cut off by committee chairman James Meager. Ferris’ name is displayed on screen as the speaker of the obscenity.
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November 1, 2024 8:10am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Was listening to Willie J talking to Michael Laws the other day on The Platform. Basically all TPM and fellow travelers seem to have is Privy Council Cook stating the “akin to a partnership” statement and calling everyone with a decent argument “racist”. IE they don’t have a leg to stand on.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:45pm
Chuck Bird

I see NZ has done well with trade deals with the ME. I wonder if that is the reason for National’s anti-Israel stance.
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November 1, 2024 8:15am
- Paulus
  
  Understand it has taken something like 15 years to get to this Trade Deal.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:27am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    That is one reason NZ would not want to blow it by being a little pro Israel.
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:53am
- Grunter
  
  The so-called anti-Israel stance? Do you mean saying “stop the killing and sort out a sensible 2-state solution?” I realise that’s wishful thinking and never going to happen, but that is not “anti-Israel”.
  
  The most “anti-Israel” plan at the moment is what Netanyahu is doing. He has taken Israel into a war that will result in mutual destruction. Israel has no way out of this mess and has done far more damage to itself in the last 12 months than anything that happened on Oct 7th.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:56am
  - Dudley Quaffquaff
    
    Variations on a two-state solution have been offered again, and again, and again, and every single time the Palestinian side has refused and gone on with the indiscriminate bombing and other war crimes.
    
    What is Israel supposed to do?
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:20am
  - Mike
    
    The war will continue so long as it assists Netanyahu to avoid jail.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:35am
    - Geri Sjovik
      
      What jail is that?
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:06am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Correct, he has put the citizens of Israel at risk to save his own sorry arse.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:52am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        iar, perhaps a trip to Israel and talk to a few Israelis on the street would change your mind on that?
        
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        November 1, 2024 11:42am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Probably not.
        Check out the exit flights at Ben Gurion airport. Full.
        When’s the last time you heard someone say I’m emigrating to Israel?
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:14pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        “imalwaysright” When’s the last time you heard someone say I’m emigrating to Israel?
        
        My not hearing it doesn’t mean it’s not happening in spades. It appears to be a nation of immigrants.
        
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        November 1, 2024 8:48pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “The so-called anti-Israel stance?”
    
    I mean National’s stance on UNRWA.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:28am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      The Real Story the UN Won’t Tell About UNRWA Workers
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_LkzIh8nk
      
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      November 1, 2024 11:32am
- Ehlana
  
  I suspect the protestors in the streets (are they still going?) would disagree with you on National being anti-Israel.
  
  Do those Middle Eastern countries support the Palestinians? How many civilians have they given shelter too (as the Europeans have the Ukrainians)?
  How much aid have they delivered?
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:12am
  - pdm
    
    `Do those Middle Eastern countries support the Palestinians?’
    
    My understanding is that none of those countries will take Palestinian refugees.
    
    So possibly not.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:49am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Happy to have them perpetually creating havoc for Israel though it would appear.
      
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      November 1, 2024 8:49pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Your comment does not stand up to much scrutiny. Most of the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have good, or at least neutral relations with Israel. IIRC the United Arab Emirates has full diplomatic relations with Israel.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:39am
  - Conservatarian
    
    Yes, one of the fruits of the “Abraham Accords” produced in the first term of the Evil Orange Fascist.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:21am
    - imalwaysright
      
      That’s correct Conserv, he got Arabs and Jews to shake hands and start to treat each other as human beings.
      No Nobel peace prize for Trump though.
      Obama got one, even though, in his own words :””perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the commander-in-chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.”
      
      You couldn’t make this shit up.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:22pm
kiwikidsnz

“KiwiRail told the city council it must close a 1.5km section of the Heathcote Express cycleway (open less than a year) after a safety assessment found a nearby rail crossing posed the risk of serious injury or death once every thousand years.
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KiwiRail has told the city council it must close it for up to two years so it can carry out roughly $6.5 million worth of safety upgrades to a rail crossing that runs adjacent to the cycleway.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350447027/local-outrage-over-nonsensical-cycleway-closure-christchurch
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November 1, 2024 8:15am
- RoboRob
  
  It’s a total rort. Even the initial proposed cost of $1.5m (if I recall correctly) was a joke. But $6.5m youve got to be joking. We are talking the sort of money to by a large Fendalton section and build a 5 bedroom, 2 living , 4 bath, pool, spa and tennis court McMansion. And they are needing that much money for safety upgrades on a rail rossing. F off.
  
  Also I hear kiwi rails own reports indicate the chances of injury, without upgrades, is 1 accident in ~ 10,000 years.
  
  This is Kiwi rail bludging off the council. Tell the to go F themselves.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:18am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Instead of using the word Kiwirail, the name of an inanimate organisation, perhaps we should say Peter Reidy.
    He’s the person who is responsible.
    He is the CEO of Kiwirail.
    
    Peter Reidy
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:06am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is insane. It will take two years to upgrade the crossing?
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:40am
  - rouppe
    
    Maybe there is a road cone shortage looming that we don’t know about.
    
    I was on SH59 between Porirua and the paremata roundabout the other day. Man in a truck warning of lane closure. He looked asleep. A thousand road cones that closed off a lane.
    Not one contractor visible. Not one piece of machinery. Not one piece of evidence what the closure was for. Nothing.
    
    Absolutely pointless and complete waste of taxpayer money
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:34am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  $6.5 million? You watch that decimal point jump!
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:32am
- bythesea
  
  What makes it even more stupid is they are closing the cycleway even though the cycle way does not cross the railway.
  
  If you look at a map of the area, my guess is that people from the local area are jumping onto the cycle way at Scruttons Road, and the train drivers have reported some near misses. Previously the only traffic across the crossing were the few house at the end of the road.
  
  Would be interested if any more details come out
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:55am
- cmm
  
  Meanwhile Japan was able to upgrade a station to a Metro station overnight!
  
  OK, the whole upgrade was a little over 2 days, but the trains were still running. Actual shutdown was just a few hours.
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/qg46wa/to_minimize_downtime_japan_rail_deployed_3300/
  
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  November 1, 2024 3:08pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The NZ version of “The View” (Breakfast) on TV1.
Lifeguards at Mt Maunganui talking about swimming between the flags. Reporter demonstrates how to float in the water. She has a wetsuit on! Does she not know why SCUBA divers wear a weight Belt?
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November 1, 2024 8:20am
- AitchW
  
  I suspect that I’d want a wetsuit to go in the water too. It was a demonstration, not a perfect representation. Yes TVNZ is a lefty kindergarten, but perhaps this demonstration will help someone in trouble in the surf.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:31am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If someone has a wetsuit on in the surf they will not sink.
    It never ceases to amaze me how many people in NZ can not swim. It is not hard to learn. NZ is an archipelago surrounded by water.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:36am
    - Sacha
      
      I hate ‘swimming’. Never go near water in a natural setting if it’s above my knees.
      Well, maybe a thermal hot pool –
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:54am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Dunno about that “no sink in a wetsuit” thing. Personal experience when a yacht capsized and I fell off. Got as close as I ever want to be to drowning …
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:33pm
      - cmm
        
        Buoyancy in the wrong places can actually cause drowning.
        
        This is why you should never use a diving wetsuit (designed for use with a weightbelt etc) as a general watersports wetsuit.
        
        Nor should you ever use an oversized lifejacket on a child.
        
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        November 1, 2024 3:12pm
- cmm
  
  If you take any advice from Breakfast, or TV for that matter, then Darwin is ready for you.
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:44am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    I get most of my news from Sky News Oz and Fox.
    
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    November 1, 2024 8:49am
    - Steve Todd
      
      And it shows, Chuck. Believe me, it shows.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:21am
  - RoboRob
    
    Between the four odd presenters there are almost enough brain cells for one normal person.
    
    Acting wise they cant even hide their loathing for the govt. The look on the ‘Maori’ tattoed ladies face when she ‘interviews’ Luxon just says it all.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:09am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Darwin will not get me. I can swim. Not olympian of course.
    Anyway, the idiot box is on that channel because the speaker of the house insists and I want to stay alive today.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:41am
    - imalwaysright
      
      It has become an advertorial programme interspersed with the odd political broadcast.
      The person who identifies as Daniel seems speaks as if he is auditioning for Play School.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:29pm
- G152
  
  You have to realise the media doesn’t have a grasp on actual things. They just have an empty para and fill it with BS and hope no-one notices
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:56am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Don’t understand what you are getting at. Are you saying that people can’t drown if they’re wearing a wetsuit?
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:23am
  - Geri Sjovik
    
    Wetsuits add a lot of bouyancy. Much easier to stay afloat when wearing a wetsuit.
    
    Add in airtanks and you need a hefty set of weights to get underwater.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:09am
    - Colville
      
      Easy to get underwater with scuba gear and a full tank but no belt.
      Impossible to stay underwater with and tank going empty.
      An empty 90cuft tank is 7kg positive buoyancy.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:19pm
      - cmm
        
        “Easy to get underwater with scuba gear and a full tank but no belt.”
        
        It depends on the size of the weightbelt and other factors.
        
        The weightbelt I used in Cape Town was at least 10 kg. Likely a lot more. I once left it at home by mistake on a spearfishing trip. Didn’t go well. I had to work so hard getting down that I didn’t have much air left. Couldn’t get much deeper than 15 metres.
        
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        November 1, 2024 3:17pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ever tried to go diving without a weight belt?
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:42am
    - Dudley Quaffquaff
      
      No, but I’ve gone swimming and surfing in a wetsuit. Obviously I didn’t drown, but it would have been pretty stupid of me to assume I couldn’t.
      
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      November 1, 2024 10:48am
BeaB

Corin Dann stands in yet another queue this morning and interviews random people about who they are voting for. He then tells us America is split between Harris and Trump. Are we feeling blessed to have such erudite commentary on an election far far away by such a political genius.
A friend said she has stopped listening to RNZ because she can feel her IQ dropping. I know what she means.
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November 1, 2024 8:32am
- pdm
  
  Beab – that convinces me that we made a good decision when we decided not to watch Breakfast TV on any channel 10/15 years ago,
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:58am
- RoboRob
  
  Haven’t seen any of these slots but I do ask the question… ‘Why are our tax payer funded / owned media outlets paying for junkets to the US to ‘report’ on their elections. Surely there are enough informed local media on the ground in the US that these struggling media outlets dont need to spend 20k or so, on this sort of reporting’.
  
  TVNZ coverage of the Olympics was over the top too. They must have had at least 6 ‘reporters’ on site for weeks, let alone the crews.
  
  Then look at TVNZ playschool breakfast show. ~Four presenters. FFS if you are running out of money there are some obvious big savings available.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:06am
  - imalwaysright
    
    “Surely there are enough informed local media on the ground…”
    
    When TV3 AM show finished, their man in NY was out of a job so he decided to stay on and freelance to media companies around the world doing the local interest and breaking news stories.
    Great idea.
    Haven’t seen him on NZ tv since.
    Maybe they thought he has that too much of that stench of success about him !
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:41am
    - Ghost
      
      Mitch McCann reports for both zb and radio nz
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:46am
      - imalwaysright
        
        Yes, that’s him.
        
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        November 1, 2024 10:06am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, Dann to America on a taxpayer “junket” as journos call, or at least used to call, free trips.
    
    Can’t be without Wokies from Radio NZ in the Presidential melee when TVNZ has a team there.
    
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    November 1, 2024 10:05am
    - Jethrod
      
      Could never stand junket…. white and slimy!
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:00pm
- MCōs
  
  Most election campaigns everywhere are the same in the last few days.
  Excruciating; although this one takes the cake.
  At least Corin Dann has talked to some reasonable sounding people.
  However I don’t know why RNZ have gone to the expense of sending him there.
  Maybe if Harris wins the aftermath will make it all worthwhile
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:14am
  - RoboRob
    
    Too much tax payer money sloshing around and no fiscal cost to them for wasting money?
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:51am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Maybe if Harris wins the aftermath will make it all worthwhile
    
    Heh, heh. While I’m hoping for a “comfortable” victory for Harris, a tiny part of me would love to see her win 270–268 and lose the popular vote by, hmm, let’s say at least 1M.
    
    Can you imagine the reaction from MAGA? “No way!”, they’ll scream. “The popular vote should prevail!” Then the Trump lawyers will file motions arguing as to why going by the outcome of the popular vote is “constitutional”. It would be great fun.
    
    What such a result would almost certainly lead to, though, is another serious bi-partisan attempt — the last one was in 1969 — to do away with the Electoral College. Indeed, the Republicans being on the sharp end of a presidential loss in this way for the first time, is the only realistic way the institution can be abolished.
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:05pm
    - RoboRob
      
      I’m the opposite. I would love to see a REP win by a good enough margin that there can be no dispute. Why?
      
      So I can talk to my lefty friends and point out that the Dems are now claiming the election was stolen and point to the rioters smashing Apple stores and looting.
      
      I am so tired of the Dems / left pretending that only the right complains about or challenges election outcomes. As for rioting, the left have won the rioting cup for decades, they are the pros of marches and protest. I for one can still remember the mostly peaceful BLM protests. I am tired of lefties who have watched too much CNN / MSNBC that think the streets will be full of gun wielding rednecks if Trump looses.
      
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      November 1, 2024 1:37pm
  - Jethrod
    
    The aftermath could be a war zone…. the only advantage being they don’t have to send troops overseas.
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:03pm
- Jimbo666
  
  I heard Dann say this morning that he had interviewed a couple of Trump/Republican supporters and were quite reasonable in their views. I wonder if he expects Trump supporters to be of the frothing of the mouth kind of people?
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:45am
- mogg
  
  Trump’s garbage truck video will garner another 1M votes, as an election stunt that has to be the best I have seen in all my years.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:10am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He knows how to sell the Trump brand.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bENCFf9ghq4
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:12am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    yeah, it’s funny and clever…and seems to have been overlooked by our MSM
    
    (maybe tonight TVNZ will put up an edited clip showing Trumpy “climbing” the step up into the cab”)
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:44pm
  - MCōs
    
    If that’s correct it shows just how shallow democracy can be when it comes to deciding who should be leader of the free world.
    Your people are garbage
    No! Your people are garbage.
    As I commented above it’s excruciating
    
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    November 1, 2024 3:10pm
In Vino Veritas

Readers will be pleased to know that Cardi-B has endorsed Harris. Her reasoning? Biden f***ed up the country. With this woman (and her ability to reason!!) on the side of Harris, how can she lose?
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November 1, 2024 9:04am
- Blog-aholic
  
  One of the men that apparently she drugged and robbed has said that, that experience was way better than having to listen to her music.
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:21am
  - Conservatarian
    
    Well played sir
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:24am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Now that is really funny!!
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:41am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Oooh, you are awful. But I like you!
    
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    November 1, 2024 3:40pm
kevn

Future of msm?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tv-executive-panics-trump-winning-means-press-has-no-influence-mainstream-media-dead
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November 1, 2024 9:04am
Maggy Wassilieff

Less than 20 years for a social housing complex to be destroyed

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga-ora-demolishing-abandoned-social-housing-complex-trashed-and-covered-in-graffiti-in-auckland-suburb-of-lynfield/QD4MO2GWUNESLK7VUQBHRHTTYQ/
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November 1, 2024 9:06am
- Kiwiguy
  
  Also leaky. I frequently drove past that place over the years, and every time I thought I wonder how long until that place is condemned due weathertightness issues.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:03am
- Local Miller
  
  My son and his wife have just moved into a rental around the corner from this place, and we drive past it when we go visit them.
  It’s unbelievable that KO have allowed the place to fall apart like this. Do they have no respect for the fact that they are spending other people’s money?
  I know, rhetorical question!
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:57am
  - Paulus
    
    Easy, not their money but ours !
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:23pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  This is why so many private rentals are empty in Auckland. The dropkicks just wreck them. So expensive to repair especially if used by meth heads.
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:23am
  - OlderChas
    
    I find it pathetic that KO bought this building in 2004 – so built in the 1990s – when leaky buildings were being built all over Auckland. The KO finds “watertightness” problems in the building a few years later! Who did the pre-purchase inspection??
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The polls are so close, so close….. Sorry, I did not get this from a reputable news site like CNN or TV1 Network News.
“Trump declared that he is leading Harris “by so much” that he is broadening the electoral battleground into states that have historically been blue for decades. Apparently, Democrats’ panic mode is running on high octane, as they face the prospect of Trump’s triumphant return.”
“I’m Not Supposed to Say It, but We’re Leading by So Much”

https://patriotpowerednetwork.com/trump-targets-kamala-harris-as-he-expands-campaign-to-blue-states/?
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/24/trump-im-not-supposed-say-were-leading/?
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November 1, 2024 9:11am
- imalwaysright
  
  If you can, watch Steve Bannon’s post release interview.
  He advises the Republicans to put the hammer down and campaign as if they are 20 points behind.
  
  He also pointed out that the Dems have hired a famous lawyer who specialises in electoral law. It looks like they are already looking to overturn the result in the courts.
  
  https://youtu.be/185uyLxLi8c?si=2-MgJ0YlPOsWSacX
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:12am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Dems are now very, very desperate – and dangerous.
    Trump needs more security to be protected. They have tried twice.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:48am
Benedict Yu

This is another example of why New Zealand on Air is of questionable value.

“But Frankie and Rāwā (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kai Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) have another option available to them. Frankie, who uses they/them pronouns, is a trans man and can still carry a child….”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360469623/what-its-be-trans-and-pregnant

I have no issues with a woman wanting to appear as a man. Adults can do what they want. However it seems incongruous for the person to then decide to give birth to a child, which has for all of human history, been reserved for women.

Anyway, it happened. I would not really have any issue with a commercial TV station making a film about. What I do have an issue with is the Government funding it.

It took me 60 seconds to find that this was funded by New Zealand on Air to the tune of $227,000.

https://www.nzonair.govt.nz/news/richness-real-life-stories-be-shared-aotearoa-screens-2022/
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November 1, 2024 9:41am
- Taieri
  
  “It blows people’s minds in a lot of ways, but actually, it’s quite simple. It’s just two men that are in love and one of them is physically able to have a baby,”
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  A man “physically able to have a baby”…strange ways of the World 2024. Can it be called The Dystopia yet?
  
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  November 1, 2024 9:46am
  - OlderChas
    
    A human who can carry through a pregnancy then deliver a baby is NOT a man!
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:44pm
- Geri Sjovik
  
  Mental illness comes in many different ways and manifests from the mild to the severe.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:13am
Grunter

I follow Doug Casey’s posts. This one definitely got me thinking. A true Libertarian wouldn’t vote in the US Election. Voting for “the lesser of two evils” is still a vote for evil.

I believe the same goes in NZ, particularly local body elections.

Note: You do need to read the full blog to understand Doug’s point of view, it is easy to misinterpret.

https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote/
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November 1, 2024 9:45am
- NothingLeft
  
  A true libertarian is therefore electorally irrelevant.
  
  Doesn’t matter if you loathe it, if you don’t vote for a candidate that has some chance of winning you are just a bystander to the democratic process.
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:24am
Jack5

Power to the people and more people …

Is the following change caused by the immigration super-surge in the dying years of the Ardern-Hipkins Mis-Government?

Power demand from homes overtakes power demand from industry.

From the October monitoring report of Transpower, the State department that runs the electricity grid:

Residential electricity consumption surpassed the industrial sector for the first time to become the largest sector.

Residential demand has been growing at around 3.3 per cent over the last 3 years. This can be largely attributed to the steady growth in the number of residential connections, combined with the decline in industrial consumption since 2019.

A new pop song for NZ: We don’t need no indust-ri-al-isation…

Lots for electricity information junkies to plug into in the monitoring reports from Transpower.

Language fanatics will first notice again the Maori title of Transpower’s future-gazing -“Whakamana i Te Mauri Hiko”. [“Whakamana” – ratification; “hiko” electricity from the word for lightning – and also used sometimes generally in “koti hiko” for power cut.]

For a report of the report:

https://www.transpower.co.nz/news/transpower-report-highlights-continued-progress-towards-highly-electrified-future

Or for the October report full caboodle:

https://static.transpower.co.nz/public/uncontrolled_docs/FINAL%20-%20Monitoring%20Report%20-%20October%202024.pdf?VersionId=1Q0o6rSAOyirxxqBjy03P_ZQo_lq6eQx
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November 1, 2024 9:47am
sirknz

Why are we letting international gang members into the country?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360470307/international-bikie-gang-members-expected-fly-national-mongols-event

No mention of INZ yanking their visas, say a few hurty words and hold some unorthodox views though and the left will try everything to prevent you setting foot here…
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November 1, 2024 10:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Indeed. You would think that immigration would know who these guys are. If they have criminal records it should be all over.
  
  Funny how no journalists are asking the question.
  
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  November 1, 2024 10:55am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘Funny how no journalists are asking the question.’
    
    Compare and contrast to when the two Canadians planned on coming here.
    
    The great and the good of te media world fell over themselves calling for cancellations and visa denials , where are they now ?
    
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    November 1, 2024 3:11pm
- imalwaysright
  
  That is a bizarre situation.
  Bear in mind that the cops down there recently pinged the New World supermarkets for selling dozen packs of beer for 26 cents less than permitted.
  There is something seriously wrong with this country.
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:24am
Ghost

We have, hmmm, I’d guess 3 weeks of supplies, longer if power doesn’t go out

People living in the European Union should stockpile emergency supplies in the event of war breaking out or another major emergency, a new report has advised.

The report on Europe’s civilian and military preparedness, published on Wednesday, was written by former Finnish President Sauli Niinistö in his capacity as Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission.

The report notes that the EU was not prepared for either the COVID-19 pandemic or Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, and that it needs to move “from reaction to proactive preparedness.”

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November 1, 2024 10:19am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Maybe it is just me but it seems precarious for New Zealand to have shut its only oil refinery and killed the oil exploration industry.
  
  It would be nice to be able to supply even 30 percent of petroleum supplies in an international conflict. That would not supply private use, but it would allow essential services.
  
  I suspect most folk have no idea what would happen with literally no petroleum products in New Zealand. No food distribution, just for a start.
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:01am
  - imalwaysright
    
    Turn off eftpos, online purchases and ATMs.
    Most would consider that to be Armageddon. They would probably be right.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:29am
  - BananaLlama
    
    It use to be that you could run cars here in NZ on LPG 🙂
    Also plans for a synthetic fuel refinery that would turn coal and nat gas into diesel fuels, i was always under the impression that the fuel could then be refined further at Marsden but have been told that Marsden could only refine oil shipped in from the middle east.
    Horribly expensive but still better than having nothing at all.
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:35am
    - Ian Boag
      
      Well we did have a gas-to-gasoline plant built as part of Think Big. The first (only) one of its kind in the world. But the sums didn’t work so they just sell the methanol which as the first step of the g-to-g plant.
      
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      November 1, 2024 2:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    Security of supply led the Australian Government to put up about $2 billion to keep two Australian oil refineries open.
    
    Overseas oil companies were in control of Marsden Point, including Ampol, which through its NZ subsidiary, Z Energy, was one of the Marsden Point refinery owners.
    
    Ampol owns one of the two now-subsidised Australian refineries.
    
    Our petroleum now comes from Singapore, but with the island republic adopting green targets, Shell, for one, is reducing its presence in this big oil centre.
    
    NZ’s Labour Government approval of closing the Marsden Point refinery was likely influenced by Green dreams of bio-fuel and electric cars.
    
    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australia-prop-up-its-last-two-refineries-with-up-179-bln-2021-05-16/
    
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    November 1, 2024 11:36am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      NZ should have bought that refinery.
      Why can’t it be up and running? Concrete in pipes, get some new pipes. We need the by-products. Bitumen, CO2, there are many. Then there are jobs.
      Greens will try to stop it. Fuck the Greens.
      
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      November 1, 2024 12:06pm
      - Colville
        
        It wasnt for sale.
        Very much in the interest of the petrol companies to import 100% refined product so they control pricing.
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:23pm
      - imalwaysright
        
        Correct, it must be easier to recommission an existing refinery than it is to plan, design, apply for permission, pay koharuption fees, construct at 5x quoted price, a dam or some climate approved scheme that doesn’t have the co benefits.
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:39pm
      - OlderChas
        
        I was told by someone who worked there during the closedown that concrete in the pipes is an urban myth.
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:47pm
      - Ghost
        
        Stuart Smith Put out a press release that it was fake, Winston was telling Winston lies
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:51pm
      - Jack5
        
        Perhaps being reliant on Singapore for fuel didn’t seem too risky to the Labour mob.
        
        But five months ago, the Bukon refinery in Singapore, one of world’s biggest oil refineries, was sold by Shell to a joint party of Indonesians and the international trader Glencore, the biggest company in Switzerland and probably the world’s biggest commodity trader.
        
        Glencore was founded by Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after being sought in the United States on charges of tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering, and doing oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis.
        
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        November 1, 2024 12:54pm
- cmm
  
  Anyone who lives in NZ and has less than a week of provisions on hand is a bloody idiot. More would be better.
  
  Even 3 days is better than nothing, but is more than most people have.
  
  I reckon we could go for three weeks before our water ran out. Apart from water we could probably go for 2 months (food & gas).
  
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  November 1, 2024 11:28am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    My impression is that as memories of the earthquakes fade, younger Christchurch folk don’t much care about preparing for natural disasters. A gas BBQ with plenty of gas, a month’s supply of canned food, 100 litres of water per person – all those make a huge difference. Also a basic first aid kit, good flashlights, etc. If you can manage it, a couple of hundred in cash in a safe place is handy too.
    
    The other thing as that folk on benefits are unlikely to have the money to accumulate stores of food.
    
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    November 1, 2024 12:28pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Water could become a problem in summer here in Gizzy.
      
      I’d rate my chances at 50:50 if famine hits.
      
      I can rule out being first-off the block to raid the local supermarket, so I’d have to start in on the ducklings, then the adult ducks and cats.
      
      I could live off my fat for a good few weeks, but I’d probably start foraging…and that should keep me going for a few more weeks, as I doubt many others around hereabouts would know how to dine off common weeds or seaweeds.
      
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      November 1, 2024 1:06pm
    - Jack5
      
      Good advice from Benedict Yu on keeping some non-digital cash in reserve.
      
      With NZ’s risk from earthquakes, tsunami, and volcanoes we need to keep traditional cash alongside digital payment systems.
      
      In a typical retail week, , the eftpos system typically “coughs” once for a minute or two, and sometimes is down for almost half an hour.
      
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      November 1, 2024 1:14pm
    - cmm
      
      “My impression is that as memories of the earthquakes fade, younger Christchurch folk don’t much care about preparing for natural disasters”
      
      It fades much faster than that!
      
      During the Christchurch clean up, I joined the Farmy Army doing a lot of shovel work etc around New Brighton.
      
      I questioned pretty much everyone I talked to as to whether they had an emergency preparations. Less than 10% had anything and only one or two had more than 48 hours worth. Most people only had what had been given to them by people giving hand outs.
      
      And that was less than 5 months after they’d all been shaken severely by the Darfield EQ.
      
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      November 1, 2024 4:09pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      A handheld CB radio (with knowledge of how to use it) would not go astray either. A decent waterproof 5W one (approx 17km range with unobstructed line of sight). Cost around $150. Disasters often knock out cell towers.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:03pm
      - Jack5
        
        A good point, NZer in Exile.
        
        Land-line phones that have survived cellphone popularity seem mainly to connect through broadband, which uses powered routers in homes.
        
        The Christchurch quakes cut power in many suburbs.
        
        Only older telephones still connected by copper lines remained in use. I think they run on very mild power those lines carry.
        
        Such phones are becoming almost rare.
        
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        November 1, 2024 9:49pm
Scooter

There was massive flooding in the Spanish region of Valencia on Tues with 158 so far dead. However this news item contradicts itself when it says weather events are becoming more destructive, when the death tolls seem to be decreasing at least according to the 3 flood events they mention.

“The tragedy is already Spain’s worst flood-related disaster in modern history, and meteorologists say human-driven climate change is making such extreme weather events more frequent and destructive.
In 2021, at least 185 people died in heavy flooding in Germany. Prior to that, 209 people died in Romania in 1970 and floods in Portugal in 1967 killed nearly 500 people.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-rescue-teams-hunt-missing-after-deadly-floods-2024-10-31/
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- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s a news clip of the aftermath of the 1957 Valencia floods
  
  https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/valencias-floods-in-1957/
  
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  November 1, 2024 1:09pm
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Rogan chatting with JD Vance…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRyyTAs1XY8
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November 1, 2024 11:21am
- imalwaysright
  
  Kevn, as of 12.42 two intellectual giants have downticked you.
  
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  November 1, 2024 12:43pm
  - Manu-Rau
    
    No, it’s one incredibly stupid leftie with multiple profiles.
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:31pm
- sirknz
  
  Listening to it right now.
  
  He is a very good choice.
  
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  November 1, 2024 12:51pm
  - kevn
    
    sirkz… Indeed, and the rest of Trumps team.
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:11pm
    - lifesgood
      
      He’ll be president one day in the not too distant future. He’ll make an excellent one.
      
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    Same
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:40pm
NothingLeft

30% of a small sample of 18 non-citizens in Maine are registered to vote. A cross-check against leaked medical records revealed that, of the 18 legal and illegal aliens, six were registered to vote and five had votes cast under their names since 2016. (knowingly or not)

There are 65-75k non-citizens of voting age in Maine.

Another example of likely widespread voting fraud in a Democrat controlled state with lax checks – the state and govt has access to more than enough information to assess the validity of voting enrollments using other data bases. Yet studiously refuses to.

https://www.themainewire.com/2024/10/top-maine-democrats-decline-to-investigate-full-scope-of-noncitizen-voting/
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November 1, 2024 11:32am
- peterwn
  
  I think that in Republican controlled states, there would also be a few non citizens, deceased people, etc who vote when they should not.
  
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  November 1, 2024 2:49pm
  - NothingLeft
    
    Possibly true. I think there is a market throughout USA for local politicians in tight races to buy a few percent of total turnout in the form of fraudulent votes to secure a victory. Republican or Democrat, but all levels of race are for sale, from local to federal.
    
    And democrats as party of corporates and elites have by far the largest budgets – generally 2-3x republican at presidential level – making them the primary benefactors.
    
    That means that in many many cases winners of elections are there through fraudulent means, and so highly motivated (and in future blackmailable) to prevent investigations of their or other’s elections.
    
    Which is why the fraud infrastructure exists in more than just swing states. There is money to be made (for power and opportunities to enrich via political corruption) in every state.
    
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    November 1, 2024 4:54pm
cmm

Another display of power by gangs. This time the Mongols.

It seems bizarre to me that known members of criminal enterprises can travel to NZ when many people are banned from entering NZ merely for saying a few words that some don’t like.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360470307/international-bikie-gang-members-expected-fly-national-mongols-event
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November 1, 2024 11:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump wears Gold and Black MAGA hat in New Mexico. Says he thinks he can win NM.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/donald-trump-wears-gold-and-black-maga-hat-in-new-mexico/vi-AA1ti5a9?
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November 1, 2024 12:22pm
Steve Todd

This in three hours ago: “Trump’s brain is QUICKLY getting worse, says psychologist”: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RehzE1B0L1c [16:05].

As we all now well suspect/know, Trump suffers from a severe personality disorder, being malignant narcissism with sociopathic features. He is also experiencing cognitive decline, which is evidenced by his linguistic decline. (See the video, from 13:38.)

He is also becoming increasingly feeble, as evidenced by his stumbling and near face-plant when getting into the rubbish truck in Green Bay, WI.

In addition to his increasingly obvious unsuitability for the job, I have several concerns about a second Trump presidency, including his undisguised autocratic tendencies and my fear that the ghastly, ambitious, JD Vance will “25” him before the end of 2026 and assume the presidency for himself, for perhaps 10 years.

We can only hope the American people do not cede power to the Trump-Putin-Musk triumvirate next week, for all our sakes. (What am I talking about? See this at election forecast E-7: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/10/us_presidential_election_forecast_e-7.html/comment-page-1#comment-3637268.)

I’m hoping that not only will Trump’s campaigning, to get “lower-propensity-to-vote” voters to the polling booths, is largely unsuccessful, but that we also see the emergence of a new phenomenon in US elections, what I refer to as the “shy-Harris” voter. I imagine such voters would primarily be Republican-leaning women who are appalled by the effects of the Supreme Court’s “Dobbs” ruling, which “tore away [women’s] constitutional right to privacy and bodily autonomy by giving states increased rights to limit and even outlaw abortions”, but they could be anyone who would not normally vote Democrat but who simply cannot countenance another Trump presidency, one that will be unconstrained by further electoral considerations.

In this regard, I’m cautiously hopeful, because early-voting data suggests women are out-voting men by as much as 11-13 points in states like Pennsylvania (13), Michigan (12), Georgia (12), and North Carolina (11) – see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mk3ND_aX58 from 13:50.

We will see.
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November 1, 2024 12:33pm
- sirknz
  
  How does one get diagnosed with ‘autocratic tendencies’?
  
  [Mod – unnecessary comment deleted]
  
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  November 1, 2024 12:55pm
  - newview
    
    When one rules by listening to no one but themselves that’s autocratic. You don’t need a diagnosis. You can see it.
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:34pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Where exactly can you see it?
      
      5 clear and concise examples?
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:08pm
- kevn
  
  SteveT… Last week Trump chatted very lucidly and wide ranging with Rogan for 3 hours non-stop. have a listen then comment.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY&t=17s
  Harris declined the opportuniddy so JD Vance stepped in for the 3 hour chat.
  
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  November 1, 2024 1:40pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    kevn: That conversation took place in a friendly, comfortable, relaxed, non-stressful setting. I have seen a couple of short extracts from it.
    
    More importantly, I have seen snippets/portions of many of his campaign speeches. He loses his way; he often fails to complete sentences – even words – and he is increasingly slurring his words.
    
    You ask me to watch a 3-hour video without giving any indication that you at least watched the 16-minute video I linked to in my first paragraph. No thanks: I might watch some of it some other time.
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:12pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      You mean like Biden?
      You’ve been listening to the wrong video. 😆
      
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      November 1, 2024 3:08pm
      - kevn
        
        Just a refresher from only 4 years ago… like the 3 hour chats, but wordy. Optional viewing of course.
        https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/
        
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        November 1, 2024 5:04pm
    - Manu-Rau
      
      Slurring and incoherence? You mean like the alcoholic Karamel?
      
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      November 1, 2024 3:23pm
- imalwaysright
  
  “women are out-voting men by as much as 11-13”
  
  Yeah, perhaps learn to count.
  
  Also realise that each woman is capable of independent
  thought.
  
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  November 1, 2024 1:49pm
Benedict Yu

“G the Giant from Dunedin” pointed out the other day that the Government had made major changes to the management of water, including kicking out “Te Mana o te Wai” as a guiding principle of water management. I was skeptical.

Today a very senior position has been advertised in a Government department that deals with these matters. This is how it starts:

“Te Mana o te Wai and Te Tiriti o Waitangi …. are central to our mahi.”

I keep hearing about these significant changes that are being made in such areas by the Government. then I look into it and it is mostly a mirage.
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November 1, 2024 12:36pm
- Mike
  
  NZ hasn’t had radical changes since WW2. It’s a consensus society.
  
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  November 1, 2024 1:05pm
  - imalwaysright
    
    That’s probably the best post I’ve read on this site.
    
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    November 1, 2024 1:51pm
  - Jack5
    
    Mike/Milky: you don’t think the move to MMP was radical?
    
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    November 1, 2024 2:02pm
    - Mike
      
      It clearly wasn’t.
      
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      November 1, 2024 5:49pm
      - Jack5
        
        The German electoral system from which Hitler rose to power wasn’t radical for New Zealand?
        
        It seems the main amendment West Germans made when they re-adopted their MMP after World War 2 was to introduce the 5 per cent voting threshold.
        
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        November 1, 2024 8:32pm
  - cmm
    
    “consensus society.”
    
    Yes, Cindy and all her mates agree. That sort of consensus.
    
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    November 1, 2024 3:19pm
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Between 1984 and 1990 a socially conservative but rather socialist NZ turned into a progressive neoliberal country. Not radical enough for you milkey?
    
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    November 1, 2024 4:00pm
    - Mike
      
      Not radical at all. Barely changed anything fundamental.
      
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      November 1, 2024 5:51pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    More a captain’s call society. Direct democracy could fix that though.
    
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    November 1, 2024 9:09pm
- RoboRob
  
  This is the deep state in action. The people running water still believe in this stuff so regardless of govt policy they keep pushing the same line.
  
  Went to an award ceremony for my son last night (good on him) and had the principal in his speech talk about the challenges kids have faced this year, amongst them ‘the coalition governments ban on cell phones’.
  
  Note not ‘the governments ban on cell phones’ the ‘coalition governments’. Since the school waited until the very last second to implement the ban I take it the leadership strongly disagrees with it. Under MMP the govt is (almost) always a coalition but normally we just call them the government.
  
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  November 1, 2024 1:44pm
  - Manu-Rau
    
    Can you tell us which school it was?
    
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    November 1, 2024 3:29pm
  - cmm
    
    I expect it is one of those useless schools with even more useless teachers that allow the kids to play with their phones as a reward.
    
    OK, do these three sums and you can play games when you’ve finished.
    
    Kid writes 3 random answers and pulls phone out…
    
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    November 1, 2024 5:02pm
- imalwaysright
  
  BY,
  Well spotted. Mirage, smoke and mirrors, delayed investigations into government departments, quangos, trusts, etc.
  At what point does the public get the right to question the prerequisites for these appointments.
  
  Perhaps , if you know the government department involved, could you publish the name of the CEO, or whatever the boss’s title is.
  We need names, not institutions.
  
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  November 1, 2024 2:00pm
Jack5

Commentator Chris Trotter is likening the decolonisers and indigenous activists of NZ to the Confederate rebels in the lead-up to the American Civil War.

Here’s Trottersky explaining why Wokies and Maori separatists may think they are on the same side as Abraham Lincoln, but in fact are in the slave owners’ team:

“When will the partisans of decolonisation and indigenisation finally notice the death’s head on their caps? That, driven by their political passion to atone for the sins of the colonial fathers, they are willing to subvert the Rule of Law, deny human equality, misrepresent their country’s history, and abandon its democratic system of government. Can they not see that the people they castigate as the direct ideological descendants of the slaveholding white supremacists of the antebellum South, are actually fighting for the same principles that animated and inspired the Northern Abolitionists?”

Perhaps the Maori Party should move on from cowboy hats to Confederate grey caps.

https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2024/10/are-we-baddies.html
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November 1, 2024 2:00pm
- rouppe
  
  The reference to a deaths head on their cap is interesting, as I believe that this was a feature of the Nazi SS-Totenkopfverbände.
  
  I didn’t think it was a feature of confederate soldiers caps.
  
  So it seems Chris Trotter agrees with me that we should refer to The Maori Party as the Mazi Party.
  
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  November 1, 2024 4:40pm
- Eastlander
  
  The Rebels gang – mostly Maori as far as one can tell – have the Confederate cross for a gang patch so you can imagine it happening. I suppose it’s an improvement on the mongrels and their stahlhelms.
  
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  November 1, 2024 5:15pm
  - Mike
    
    Without knowing, I wonder whether they adoppted the cross for the same reason others took the swastika – a rejection of contemporary values. A bit odd though, as apologists for the Confederacy don’t attract the same opprobrium as Nazi enthusiasts.
    
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    November 1, 2024 6:11pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360471778/60kg-pounamu-returned-west-coast-hapu-after-smuggling-attempts
No mention at all about the culprits: could releasing their identity be somewhat embarrassing ?
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November 1, 2024 3:12pm
cas

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/gang-crackdown-maori-leaders-push-back-on-police-tactics-rhetoric-over-mongrel-mob-raids/GGAXSXTF3VAP5B7H4XKJDSMMDY/

No acknowledgement about either why the people were arrested in the first place or the harm being done to the community I see.

The list of some of those charged and the charges are down the end of this article.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/mongrel-mob-raids-in-bay-of-plenty-waikato-auckland-defendants-appear-in-court/BZTXGBYC2VFSNB2THUIPILIVJI/
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November 1, 2024 3:41pm
- Keith White
  
  That article must be fake news. There is no mention of any of their tribal affiliations which is a must when Maori are newsworthy… Ferald, shame on your sloppiness.
  
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  November 1, 2024 4:02pm
- cmm
  
  Funny how the same people who claim that their kids are “stressed” and get PTSD from watching people getting arrested don’t seem to think the kids get stressed and PTSD from living in violent or criminal households.
  
  How about this:
  1) Stop committing crime.
  2) Leave the gangs.
  3) Focus on being a productive member of society.
  4) Focus on being a good parent for your kids.
  
  Do that and:
  A) The cops won’t come hassle you at 6 am.
  b) Your kids will thrive.
  
  Nobody in a gang really cares about their kids.
  
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  November 1, 2024 4:59pm
- Eastlander
  
  Iwi leaders overtly siding with organised crime against the government is extremely bad sign of where things are going. On the other hand it’s encouraging that they can still bring down the hammer even in bandit towns like Opotiki.
  
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  November 1, 2024 5:22pm
  - fernglas
    
    The Herald article quotes the supposed iwi leader as saying
    “There was no engagement before or after by the NZ Police with Whakatohea – a Tiriti o Waitangi partner to the Crown of which the NZ Police is a part.”
    ““If the NZ Police Head office….think that they can do what they have done again in our district again then they have another thing coming.”
    
    Whakatohea, as I understand it, is the local iwi. The spokesman is saying that the Police should have consulted with them before executing the warrants (or perhaps carrying out the investigation). He then goes on to say that they will take action against the Police if they do something similar in the future.
    For starters, the Police would, and should, never discuss a police operation with a bunch of civilians which would likely include the very targets of the operation. Second, to ensure the success of any termination, it needs to be done swiftly and at an inconvenient time for the offenders, to ensure that both they and the evidence of their offending are available. Third, if you do not want your children to be upset by having their door kicked down, their parents arrested and their house searched, then don’t sell meth to members of your iwi.
    
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    Worse yet is when MPs do it.
    
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    November 1, 2024 6:12pm
Pope Punctilious II

I had been wondering if this was in the offing: Māori conversion to Islam.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/maori-islam-ayca-arkilic/104474824
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November 1, 2024 3:46pm
- Jack5
  
  Muslims have ben proselytising at NZ prisons for quite a few years.
  
  Islam will have problems accommodating Maori tradition, from taniwha to facial tattoos.
  
  https://aboutislam.net/counseling/ask-the-scholar/women-issues/are-muslims-allowed-to-have-tattoos/
  
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  November 1, 2024 5:27pm
  - Mike
    
    Have you been studying the Koran? David Garrett once promised to, and I’ve been hoping ever since that one of the Kiwiblog regulars would be able to explain Islam.
    
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    November 1, 2024 5:47pm
    - Jack5
      
      Try this, Mike/Milky:
      
      https://islamqa.info/en/answers/20283/are-tattoos-haram-in-islam
      
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      November 1, 2024 8:21pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Since you’re posturing as an Islam know-it-all Mike, you explain it.
      
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      November 1, 2024 9:12pm
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Thanks, I didn’t know tattoos were haram. Taniwha seem like less of a problem, as belief in djinns survived the Islamization of the Middle East.
    
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    November 1, 2024 6:34pm
- greybeard
  
  Not just maori.
  Sonny Bill Williams did the deed years ago for some reason, and no doubt influenced many of the denser South Auckland inhabitants.
  
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  November 1, 2024 6:41pm
  - Swifty
    
    Thanks to his manager.
    
    The same manager who got Mundine to abandon his critical faculties previously.
    
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    November 1, 2024 6:49pm
  - Swifty
    
    I wonder whether Sunni Bill kills all lizards he comes across:
    
    https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1XTodSmd6E/?mibextid=UalRPS
    
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    November 1, 2024 7:52pm
- Inandout
  
  PP, Islamic radicalism has been around for years but these Southport killings and Starmer’s clampdown on it even being discussed in Parliament is dangerous.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uga94uWb0CU
  
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  November 1, 2024 8:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Secret Service fail at McDonalds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=kbf6AcfS51Q&fbclid=IwY2xjawGRPblleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXxNJQ5gqmPC6wOTSztzqLLCu6xAxX2LluAqwtlvEjG8vocPIVXaaget6w_aem_wcjIh7tvxN6ia9cu6YS9Gw

God what a mess that URL is – sorry.
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November 1, 2024 5:52pm
- cmm
  
  All you need is:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbf6AcfS51Q
  
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  November 1, 2024 6:10pm
Ghost

Seems like a fair judgement…..

Russia has demanded Google pay a fine worth more than the world’s GDP for blocking pro-Kremlin media outlets.

Judges in Moscow are seeking around US$20 decillion from the technology giant, many times the estimated US$100-trillion size of the global economy. If written out in full, the fine would be 20 followed by 33 zeros.

Article

Perhaps google could start a gofundme page
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November 1, 2024 5:58pm
fernglas

From Milford Asset Management:

“We have become aware of an investment scam offering a fake Heartland Bank bond. The scammers are impersonating Milford and a genuine Milford staff member to sell these bonds.”
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November 1, 2024 6:05pm
Swifty

Hooray!

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/532590/massey-university-stops-funding-students-association

Fund your own political advocacy you Labour MPs in training.
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November 1, 2024 6:18pm
Swifty

Not sure how I think about this:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/te-ao-maori/360472807/maori-academics-take-aim-royal-society-te-aparangi-open-letter

Given the Royal Society’s recent antics and the destruction of their brand, I kinda want them to continue down the Maori route and finally perish under the weight of their own bullshit.

Maybe something worthy will then arise subsequently.
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November 1, 2024 6:34pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  From the article:
  
  “If there is no visible space for Māori decision-making in this reimagined structure, the creation of an independent Māori Academy may be the path forward.”
  
  Yes please! Self-funded, naturally.
  
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  November 1, 2024 7:26pm
  - Swifty
    
    I thought about mentioning that, but thought it fanciful – that any Maori initiative would be self-funded.
    
    These Maori academics wouldn’t move an inch without taxpayer funding – they would cry that it’s a treaty obligation that the Crown funds them.
    
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    November 1, 2024 7:54pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/360472743/director-jailed-worst-its-kind-tax-offending
Well, what a surprise.
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November 1, 2024 6:37pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  No iwi descriptor, I see.
  
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  November 1, 2024 7:28pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360472808/sara-sharifs-father-forced-her-do-sit-ups-all-night
I have no words to describe what I feel, or what I want to happen.
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November 1, 2024 6:52pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Jail for cyclists who text and ride – those Japs don’t mess about!

http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqd2e1j132o
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November 1, 2024 7:47pm
Hugh Jarse

How much longer is the Speaker going to allow TPM to do as they like with no respect for parliament conventions ?. Appeasement didn’t work for Chamberlain and it won’t work for Gerry.
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