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Bridgenag

Friday Funnies: While Rome Burns,
Newsom plays a fish

“More wealthy millennials — defined as households of those aged 26 to 45 making more than $200,000 a year — are leaving California than anywhere else in the country, according to a recent SmartAsset report analyzing 2021 and 2022 tax return data. The Golden State lost a net of 9,181 of these wealthy millennial households in that time period, more than double the next biggest loss, which happened in New York. -SF Gate”

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/friday-funnies-while-rome-burns?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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January 11, 2025 8:05am
- Scott
  
  The fires in California appear to show a perfect storm of what happens when you have radical progressive governance.
  
  Newsom is a perfect progressive who embraces DEI, global warming and radical environmentalism.
  
  So a black woman is mayor of LA, a lesbian is LA fire chief and all around are DEI hires in key positions.
  The fire fighters budget has been cut while LA spends money on LGBT initiatives.
  The fires are blamed on global warming by Bernie Sanders.
  
  But California has stopped thinning and managing its forests so there is much more flammable material.
  Water has not been stored because of concerns about the smelt fish. So there is no water in the fire hydrants.
  
  This is what happens when leadership doesn’t really like people, they are concerned only about the trees and the animals, and their main goal is to return the state of California back to the pastoral economy of the 19th century.
  California needs to vote differently. Leftist governance is a disaster all around the world. Wellington is another example.
  Victor David Hanson who lives in California has a great analysis of the situation:
  
  https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/09/california-inferno-was-preventable-blame-malfeasance-of-newsom-bass-for-catastrophe/
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:10am
  - thirteenstars
    
    Yep, from X:
    
    This is the LA Fire Department Deputy Chief in the ‘Equity and Human Resources Bureau.’
    
    Kristine Larso, who uses She/Her pronouns, is tasked with helping push DEI in recruitment.
    
    Larso’s promotional video for the LAFD (might need to enable sound):
    
    https://x.com/i/status/1877472146978377747
    
    They’re not even trying to hide their insanity.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:27am
  - gravedodger
    
    Haven’t read the VDH link yet but it is well known that Eucalypts were introduced to California from c1850 and are now an invasive tree species and any one who has seen Australian Bush will understand the fire fuel aspects from that.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:34am
    - Scott
      
      gravedodger – fair comment. It seems that for year California cut back the underbrush and harvested the trees. This helped prevent massive wildfires because the fuel for the fire was limited.
      
      Now California is ruled by environmentalists who want nature to be left alone and really like wilderness and who sue the authorities so that the forests are not managed. Australia may be similar?
      
      These fires are largely the result of radical environmentalism that puts the trees and the animals above the people.
      
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      January 11, 2025 10:41am
- kowtow
  
  Te media always play the hyperbole .And have no sense for the truth or history.
  
  Worst evah !
  
  1906 , San Fransisco . 3000 dead . 80 % of the city razed .
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:30am
Bridgenag

Being COVID “Vaccinated” Doubles Your Risk of COVID Infection
Japanese study confirms findings of other studies, notably the Cleveland Study and a plethora of other data and analyses.

https://open.substack.com/pub/metatron/p/being-covid-vaccinated-doubles-your?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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January 11, 2025 8:05am
- pdm
  
  `Being COVID “Vaccinated” Doubles Your Risk of COVID Infection………………………….’
  
  Not sure about that Bridgee.
  
  mrspdm and I have had all but one of the vaccinations and have never had covid. I seldom wore a mask (I hate the bloody things) in the period 2020 to 2022 and have mixed with covid infected people, particularly during that period.
  
  The only time we used to take special precautions was when vising our daughter who has cervical cancer and we do that for her not ourselves.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:41am
  - JackRabbit
    
    N=2 does not translate into meaningful results of safety for 8 Billion.
    
    Taking the precautionary principle into account, if however your two next door neighbours dropped dead on the day of the vaccine, it should be enough to warn you off taking them.
    
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    January 11, 2025 8:42am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    There are so many issues with the cited study.
    
    It is small scale.
    
    Participation is not random.
    
    Results are self reported.
    
    It is run by the Yamato Project who have an agenda against COVID vaccines.
    
    … Japan studies are frequently problematic.
    
    I just don’t get why, nearly four years on, we are getting almost daily anti vaxxer posts on Kiwiblog. Anyway, after a couple of years of posting contrary, large scale evidence on the effectiveness of the vaccines in preventing death, I realise more is a waste of time. It is a bit like arguing with a Jehovas witness who knocks on your door. Then repeating the same argument when he returns the following week.
    
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    January 11, 2025 9:04am
    - Anthony Melchett
      
      When you are forced to do something against your will or face losing your career and your families financial security you tend to remember it and will never stop the search for the truth.
      
      Especially when the thing they made you take injured and hospitalized several of your friends and then didn’t stop you from catching the virus anyway. Maybe it did make you more likely to catch it as most I know caught covid within a month or two of their shots. This wasn’t surprising of course and matched the data already rolling in from other countries. You initially questioned the efficiency of the shots at this point Benedict, but now seem to be back to all in…
      
      You can quote all the studies and statistics you like but the real world outcomes are what they were – terrible.
      
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      January 11, 2025 9:19am
      - Dudley Quaffquaff
        
        How many, exactly, of your friends were injured or hospitalised?
        
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        January 11, 2025 9:36am
      - JackRabbit
        
        Also, proof varies with what you are looking for, and the associated logic.
        
        To prove something is safe, you need to show, for example a 99.99% safety requirement. To do that, you need to show that 9,999 out of 10,000 people were OK. i.e. 1 death. Or 99,990 out of 100,000. 10 deaths.
        
        To prove something is not safe, and therefore less than 99.99% safe, if you get 50 deaths, long before you reach 500,000 sample size, it has already failed. Or 5 deaths long before you reach 50,000 sample size.
        
        Proving that the vaccine prevented deaths is as fraudulent as asking the US government for $100Bn to stop a war in Albania.
        
        “But there was no fighting or anything in Albania.”
        “Your 100Bn was well spent then.”
        
        The vaccines were not tested with double blind studies or control groups, to prove efficacy. But from the time the vaccines were rolled out, those who did NOT get vaccinated, had a far lower incidence of “Covid”/”Covid fatalities or injuries” than those vaccinated.
        
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        January 11, 2025 9:53am
      - pdm
        
        AM – we had our vaccination on after taking advice from our GP.
        
        He has never let us down in over 20 years of having him as our family Doctor.
        
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        January 11, 2025 10:13am
      - Anthony Melchett
        
        PDM – as is your right to do so.
        
        I had my right to make a decision removed by the state under pain of losing my job and being ostrasized by society (I lost friends over even questioning whether one should take the shots).
        
        I think it’s great that your doctor was able to time travel into the future and assure you of any long term side effects of an untested treatment and allow you to make a fully informed decision.
        
        Where the issues lie is that many people observed both the ineffectiveness of the shots – early data from Israel was not good along with their mates having health problems immediately after receiving the shots and then caught covid anyway.
        
        You could understand why people wanted everybody vaccinated after being subjected to a fear campaign but ultimately, the shots didn’t stop you from getting it, it morphed into a mild seasonal cold (as all similar viruses do) and the rate of excess deaths and hugely increased cancer rates can no longer be ignored by those capable of even the slightest amount of thought.
        
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        January 11, 2025 10:41am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “You can quote all the studies and statistics….”
        
        You are just proving my point. That’s what the fundamentalist Christians say. “You can quote all the studies you like. The earth is 4000 years old.”
        
        Perhaps lobby DPF to ban studies and data. Kiwiblog can be a place solely of beliefs and anecdotes.
        
        Your belief system is equally invalid to those of the 1990s second wave hippies who decided that the MMR vaccine caused autism and that” “natural” immunity was better. 30 years later we know they were mad. Same will be the case for the COVID anti vaxxers.
        
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        January 11, 2025 11:16am
    - bennerg
      
      BY, Goebbels articulated the mantra of converting untruth into truth by stating: “Tell a big enough lie, and repeat it often enough, and it becomes the truth.”
      
      Trying to justify the “effectiveness” of the mRNA technology gene therapies redefined as “vaccines”, and casting anyone questioning their benefit as “anti-vax” (against all vaccines), is right out of the Goebbels playbook.
      
      The dictate that they were 100% effective in prevention and stopping transmission slowly got reduced, to where now many professionals now question it’s use in any way.
      
      The lies told about spike proteins remaining at the site of injection is now well proven to be false. And the massive increase in all cause death figures have yet to be explained.
      
      And I’m convinced more will be coming out as the restrictions and censorship of any dissent are abandoned. Come 20th January I’m sure we will see a massive data dump of information come out.
      
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      January 11, 2025 9:30am
    - imalwaysright
      
      “… I realise more is a waste of time. ”
      
      Really? If what you are saying is saving lives then how can it be a waste of time?
      
      Unless, that is, you realise you are wrong and this is your exit plan?
      If you are going to defend/promote a drug then make sure it is safe and effective.
      
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      January 11, 2025 9:37am
    - JackRabbit
      
      … Japan studies are frequently problematic.
      
      Specifics please. A generalised statement is not evidence.
      
      Benedict,
      When people, including me and others, keep saying that they/we/I personally know people that died from the vaccine, or have permanent life shortening injuries, who the frigging hell do you think you are, to insist it’s all bullshit?
      
      You were not there.
      
      You never heard any personal accounts such as:
      “Jim and I work together at XYZ business (well known) in ABC suburb in Woolston. We are both around 35, fit and healthy. I declined the vaccine, which my boss was OK with, as we are not customer facing. Jim left work at 11am Thursday to get vaccinated, and never returned to work. Our boss told us Friday afternoon, that Jim went home because he felt very unwell immediately after the jab. He died in his sleep that night. The funeral is next Friday.”
      
      You were not at their hospital bedside.
      
      You were not in the specialists office when the specialist said: “This is a vaccine injury.”
      
      You were not there in the GP’s office when the GP said: “This is myocarditis, and in the last 18 months since the vaccine rollout, we have had hundreds of patients present with heart issues. I’m taking early retirement.”
      
      You were not present when a vaccinator(s) had a meltdown, after vaccinating an 8 year old, who dropped dead with 12 hours.
      
      You were not at the funerals.
      
      You do not present evidence, just “debunk” anything you don’t like.
      
      You are as belligerent as the JW’s you despise.
      
      Who do you think you are? An all seeing God? I doubt it. An “all seeing God” would have a decent chunk of compassion, which you are not displaying.
      
      It is rude, inhuman, and devoid of compassion to ridicule and poke fun at people suffering or dying.
      
      It is almost comparable to saying that no-one died in WW1 or WW2 and no-one got injuries, and that anyone that has a personal story of relatives that were killed or injured are all conspiracy theorists.
      
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      January 11, 2025 9:38am
- JackRabbit
  
  Thanks Bridgenag,
  
  The Japanese have been far more vigilant in being open about the damage from the vaccines than the west, including NZ.
  
  A good many NZ people have lost their lives and/or have shortened life spans due to the vaccines. If PDM and his wife are Ok, for now, we should celebrate that, as they probably got one of the less harm test variants. In addition to the three basic batch types, there were dozens of vaccine variants, as the whole world was used as a test lab.
  
  The incidence of excess deaths from cancers has doubled since 2022.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:59am
- Yvette
  
  Behavioral and Health Outcomes of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: A Case-Control Study in Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
  Introduction
  … Vaccination campaigns have played a pivotal role in controlling the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and reducing the severity of COVID-19. Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have demonstrated high efficacy in preventing symptomatic infection, hospitalization, and death.
  
  Conclusions
  The study observed a higher reported incidence of COVID-19 infection among vaccinated individuals during the pandemic period, which increased with the number of vaccine doses received. This paradoxical finding may be influenced by various factors, including immune response mechanisms, such as antibody-dependen enhancement (ADE) or original antigenic sin, behavioral changes, and exposure risk. Understanding these factors is crucial for urgently enhancing public health strategies and vaccination programs.
  https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/original_article/pdf/313843/20250109-1082254-vnzdp7.pdf
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:18am
sungsamning

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/09/exclusive-mike-waltz-clean-out-deep-staters-from-national-security-council-were-taking-resignations-1201-january-20/
National Security Council Cleanout.
Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again. [An excellent idea.]
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January 11, 2025 8:09am
artemisia

There’s a new book out Character Limit – How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac.

I haven’t read it yet but am waitlisted for it at the library. Meanwhile, I had a go at foretelling the book’s narrative. First hint – the title. Second hint the subtitle. Third hint, the reviews, such as this one – ‘The definitive account of how the world’s richest man, in a fit of unbridled vanity and arrogance, took over and destroyed our digital town square’ John Carreyrou, bestselling author of Bad Blood

But hope springs eternal and some reviews provided a counter balance. How about this one – because disruption is a good thing, right?

Gripping… Through fly-on-the-wall reporting, Character Limit takes readers inside Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover and the disruption of a company, an industry, and the online public square. What a wild ride’ Bradley Hope, bestselling author of Billion Dollar Whale

And to round off the positive – an accolade. A Financial Times Best Book of 2024.

X formerly Twitter is a major global player in the social media market so it’s good to get the inside scoop. I do hope I have interpreted the above correctly. Guess I’ll have to read the book to find out. But, dear KB readers, do report back if you get to read it before me.
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January 11, 2025 8:09am
- John Loveridge
  
  Has Twitter/X been destroyed, then? It’s still there. Seems to be quite popular, tweets are everywhere.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:43am
- Philview
  
  There will be something seriously odd going on in the world if I pick up that book to read. I have never found Twitter interesting and prefer formats like this one to discuss News.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:51am
  - artemisia
    
    Suspect the book is not really about Twitter.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:37am
sungsamning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olLJ6X6x2zU
On Donald Trumps So-Called “Imperialism”.
One of Trump’s negotiation tactics is the big ask. He says he wants something big. People don’t want to give it up. So they concede something smaller, that Trump really wants. Such as Denmark makes a deal but asks that he does not try to take Greenland. Trump agrees and gets something he really was wanting and the other think they stopped him from getting something else. He did the same with the Abraham Accords.
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January 11, 2025 8:09am
- kglm
  
  The issue with Greenland is about US military security. Perhaps the smaller thing that Trump really wants is a treaty that allows the US to have military bases on Greenland.
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:41am
Cassandra

The good old days: trains were cancelled in England yesterday because drivers refused to walk through 2 inches of snow to get to their trains. Unsafe apparently. Just like microwaves – UK train staff obliged to use a microwave get paid time off for a six-monthly health check, a provision they negotiated in 1980. Before you laugh, note that NZ was like this. In Britain it’s called “the Spanish system”. No wonder Europe is going down the gurgler. Both major NZ parties, years ago, toned down the unions here but like some hibernating virus they’re waiting in the wings. They never really went away in the UkK, despite Maggie’s best efforts.
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January 11, 2025 8:11am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  A six monthly health check is not in itself a bad thing. Particularly for train drivers, who sit on their posteriors all day and, like truck drivers, generally present as well overweight and unhealthy. Just check out the drivers’ area on the freight ferries, not to mention the breakfast options.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:19am
- igm
  
  Buses in our area are sometimes cancelled because it is too cold for the drivers.
  I wonder if any of these poor petals have ever thought of famers, especially dairy, who must tolerate all conditions 24/7, yet receive daily criticism from their preferred politicians and unionists.
  What the hell is happening to “New Zealand”?
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:32am
  - pdm
    
    Sheep and cattle farmers too igm.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:14am
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    New Zealand is being emasculated by DEI women.
    Men turning into wimps.
    
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    January 11, 2025 11:23am
- JackRabbit
  
  …trains were cancelled in England yesterday because drivers refused to walk through 2 inches of snow to get to their trains.
  
  I’m surprised said train drivers are still alive. In winter, if farmers refused to walk through 6 – 18″ of snow to feed stock, there would be no pork, beef, and lamb. I assume that said train drivers don’t eat for 4 months of the year in solidarity with farmers.
  
  And I am pretty, if we had a ‘sneaky cam’ I’m sure there would be videos of that said train drivers taking their young children out in much deeper snow to play.
  
  Unions: Milking UK employers since 1867.
  
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  January 11, 2025 8:51am
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    Deep snow is not dangerous like 2 inches of snow.//
    
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    January 11, 2025 11:25am
Chuck Bird

This is very important, particularly for farmers to attend, but also for anyone who does not want our taxes to pay billions for our emissions, which will disappear somewhere and will not help reduce global warming.

State of the Nation ’25

https://www.act.org.nz/stateofthenation-2025?utm_campaign=100125_sotn_members&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actnz
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January 11, 2025 8:24am
Chuck Bird

Micheal Venus will be playing in the doubles finals at 11:15 this morning. It would be great if he and his partner win.
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January 11, 2025 8:55am
Tomtoddy

Now here’s a funny thing. Come to roadworks that close one side of the road using traffic lights and lying in the grass at both ends you will find a person dedicated to your safe passage through the affected area. Another “safety” measure.

Useless, expensive and a further cost to the taxpayer. Like renting road cones.
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January 11, 2025 8:59am
Anthony Melchett

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/racial-abuse-and-assault-claims-mar-family-outing-at-cable-bay/F4WTIONABBHN7KOIRAZSETUNLY/

I feel like we are missing half the story here.

It’s just too perfect for this to have happened to a woke virtue signalling councilor and the story ticks every single buzz word.

In fact, i don’t think it happened at all…
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January 11, 2025 9:03am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I believe it.
  
  Some dog owners are very entitled folk.
  
  One of my kiddies was bowled over by a large dog bounding along a beach. The owners assured me that their doggie wouldn’t harm a fly… I told them to look at my upset toddler who’d just been charged at by an out- of- control hound.
  They just walked away…. no apology.
  
  I was bitten on the hand (not badly) by a dog on a lead as the owner & dog passed me on a footpath.
  When I yelped, the owner said it was my fault for swinging my hand down by my thigh (where it usually moves when I walk along ).
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:08am
  - kowtow
    
    Couldn’t agree more re entitled and actually dangerous dog owners .( many from the “nice” , “better” class of folk).
    
    Always someone else’s fault.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:34am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    My favourite. You are walking along and a crazed looking, large dog races towards you. The owner yells out from 50 metres away “Don’t worry he is friendly”. 🙄
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:36am
- DimChappie
  
  Anthony, I was very suspicious about the detailed quotes like “fat oompaloompa Maori bitch” and the reference to Ngati Kahu. They seemed too detailed but it seems Jones was recording it on his phone. Maybe they were taunting her. I agree it seems unreal but there has been an arrest. Now we can expect the MSM to do in depth reporting about the Masterton flag incident where a whitey was attacked by hikoi members for waving the NZ flag! Police just watched then arrested him. //
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:08am
- David Garrett
  
  Anthony: The story mentions video of part of the incident. Also the woman has been charged. I don’t believe we have quite got to the point in NZ where the police charge people in the absence of any evidence.
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:14am
  - Anthony Melchett
    
    You don’t think its too perfect that a guy described as a Maori tech innovator is “attacked” by what is described as a 63 year old “pakeha” woman?
    
    It’s a fake article designed to create division and an opportunity to group people by race.
    
    No 63 year old woman picks a fight with a group of maoris. That ends in a beating or a stabbing.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:52am
    - Ghost
      
      Right so all Maori are violent are they? It’s not a fake article.
      
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      January 11, 2025 10:57am
    - David Garrett
      
      Anthony: Have you actually read the story? The “group of Maoris” was the man’s family, and the woman was charged with common assault, which can be no more than spitting on someone.
      
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      January 11, 2025 11:28am
  - David Garrett
    
    …actually I should amend that comment to say that other than in cases of alleged domestic violence – in which no corroborating evidence is now required to justify an arrest – we have not yet got to the point where police arrest people without any evidence of a crime having been committed.
    
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    January 11, 2025 10:54am
- AitchW
  
  The language in the article is very emotive, very sympathetic to the complainant.
  The family was “enjoying a lovely day at the beach before it was rudely interrupted”.
  Not a lot of journalistic objectivity.
  Sympathy for the usual people again.
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:38am
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/anz-australias-new-zealand-dollar-to-australian-dollar-exchange-rate-shocks-kiwi-family/2IFBWIQBIFDJDN4OAL2RCCK5F4/

Guy transfers $780,000 to Australian bank account at the banks advertised exchange rate, which is always awful.

I always negotiate with the bank for transfers in the thousands. Advertised rates are for people who want $500 for their holiday or similar.

Bank onine systems are crappy though, I always had to talk to someone in their fx dealing team.

Really the bank should have talked to this guy , no one sends such large amounts at the retail rates. Obviously a newbie.
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January 11, 2025 9:05am
Maggy Wassilieff

All Climate emission funds seem to flow into unaccountable sinks

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion-world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-finds
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January 11, 2025 9:20am
- G152
  
  Meanwhile the Sun warms us
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:56am
- imalwaysright
  
  Article:
  “nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is unaccounted for due to poor record-keeping practices”
  
  Unless the bank is receiving the money in cash in shopping bags and paying it out the same way then there will be electronic records.
  
  Or maybe “poor record-keeping practices” is the new euphemism for “we’ve stolen it and deleted the evidence”.
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:59am
- JackRabbit
  
  I’m sure Bernie Madoff had unaccountable sinks as well. Most frauds do.
  
  Climate Emission funds are a fraud on an unprecedented scale, so it makes sense the funds disappear down a black hole.
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:03am
Yvette

Consideration of a Pan-Maori Te Whare o te Rangatiratanga
A hui for Ngāti Kahungunu to discuss the idea on Thursday was fiery, with hapū representatives saying there had been inadequate consultation. That theme was picked up on Friday and not just by local Māori.
Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon, of Northland’s Ngātiwai iwi, said more engagement with Māori communities across the motu was needed before iwi leaders seriously considered the proposal.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/10/rough-start-for-proposal-for-unified-maori-deliberative-body/

Ngāti Kahungunu Chair Bayden Barber said today’s hui was an opportunity to set the stage for Māori ahead of events later this month at Rātana and Waitangi.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/538594/three-hundred-leaders-gather-plan-pan-maori-assembly-to-challenge-government.

Wasn’t working under considerable pressure to comply with a February 6 deadline, a major flaw in the original Waitangi-delivered document?
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January 11, 2025 9:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I wonder why the Maori Leaders have decided that the NZ Maori Council or the National Iwi Chairs Forum are no longer the bodies to take their concerns to Parliament.
  
  Can 3 organisations do the job of one?
  
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  January 11, 2025 9:45am
- pdm
  
  I would not have too much confidence in, or give too much credence to Bayden Barber.
  
  My gut feeling is that he is an opportunist who aspires to be the John Tamihere of Hawkes Bay and maybe even the whole East Coast of the North Island.
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:43am
Swifty

A lefty tactic now all around the Western world – speak against us and we’ll label you ‘far-right’, we don’t care who you are or how inoffensive your point is, we’ll do our best to equate you with Adolf Hitler and his excesses.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sc0CNzr5St0

This tactic is vile and they should stop doing it.
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January 11, 2025 9:37am
vand

Sri Lankan Buddhist jailed for 9 months for insulting Islam. Of course the “insults”
are not listed.
We dodged a bullet with the coalition govt that doesn’t favour criminalising “hate speech “ but Islamists will still push for it with Labour /Greens
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jdy8j41lo
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January 11, 2025 10:08am
Tauhei Notts

My local farmers and businessmen’s club is getting rid of their six pokies.
The compliance costs have steadily risen to an uneconomic level.
I think this is just another example of compliance costs in our country becoming unsustainable.
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January 11, 2025 10:17am
Benedict Yu

This is a DEI video from the LA fire department.

https://mustreadalaska.com/los-angeles-fire-dept-dei-video-thats-rocking-the-world-short-version-need-rescuing-its-your-fault/

Apparently black folk want to be rescued by firefighters who “look like them”. Also women like to have their house fires extinguished by women firefighters. Carrying people out of burning buildings is not part of the job description.

On the same theme, the Maryland State Police have been successfully sued by the US Justice Department. This is because the fitness test for new police recruits discriminated against black people and women. Black people are disproportionately over weight. Women are not as strong or as fast as men.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/maryland-state-police-agree-27-million-settlement-civil-rights-lawsuit/63381102#:~:text=The%20Maryland%20State%20Police%20have,a%20certain%20written%20test%20to

This is all very amusing until a guy dies in a burning house because the firefighters are not able to carry him to safety.
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January 11, 2025 10:28am
- pdm
  
  There has been a comic strip type joke on facebook over the last few months that goes something like this.
  
  Fireman enters burning room and sees woman standing across room.
  He says – hang on lady I will be there in a second to save you.
  Woman says I identify as a man.
  Fireman turns and yells behind him – room clear.
  Final picture shows dead body on room floor.
  
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  January 11, 2025 10:57am
gravedodger

Agree Cassandra but Maggie Thatchers best efforts did rather dent the destructive worst aspects of the thuggish Bastards.
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January 11, 2025 10:42am
MCōs

President Carter’s funeral
https://x.com/talbertswan/status/1877594559321972807?s=46&t=XZLqGbhN-xeYzprhTaktsg
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