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Comment:Open mike 08/03/2024
Date published: 5:55 pm, March 8th, 2024But he didn't do it. It was his ministers what did it. He just made a lot of noise about doing it. I don't think he could do it if he tried.
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Comment:Open mike 08/03/2024
Date published: 12:44 pm, March 8th, 2024Who’s the pitch to? First and foremost the members. After that anyone prepared to watch and listen. As a member, I had issues with the last government. The main one... they didn't move fast enough in the delivery of some of their promises. But they were ...
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Comment:Open mike 08/03/2024
Date published: 11:28 am, March 8th, 2024Not earth shattering stuff but good for a start: https://www.labour.org.nz/watch-national-govt-first-100-days?utm_campaign=230308_100dayssuperhot&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nzlabour
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Comment:Daily review 06/03/2024
Date published: 10:28 am, March 7th, 2024Thank you to the moderator for apparently letting me out of moderation. I have learnt a lesson. Don't rush off an epistle when you don't have time to do it properly.
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Comment:Daily review 06/03/2024
Date published: 10:05 pm, March 6th, 2024Thanks for your support on yesterday's Daily Review Robert. I can't reply on that thread. Yes, I did not get the wording of the quote strictly correct - didn't have time due to an appointment. I have to agree with you. There is a lot of "stroppery" on this...
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Comment:Daily review 05/03/2024
Date published: 9:53 pm, March 6th, 2024I replied pointing out I might have been in error about who the woman was speaking to. Is that not good enough for you? Here is the quote: The Judge granted the discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression but ordered him to pay $1000 ...
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Comment:Daily review 05/03/2024
Date published: 7:15 pm, March 6th, 2024@ weka. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-posie-parker-protest-man-granted-discharge-without-conviction-after-punching-71-year-old-woman/RSV75S5IEBCHNNGYEH7V77BE2Q/ I did not have time to go digging out links - especially when they appeared to be all ...
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Comment:Daily review 05/03/2024
Date published: 10:31 am, March 6th, 2024Robert Guyton @ 8:44am At risk of a pounding from your detractors on this matter, I skimmed through this thread last night and had no trouble understanding what you were trying to say. There was imo fault on both sides. Of course the elderly lady was not ...
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Comment:Bene bashing 6.0
Date published: 11:20 am, March 5th, 2024weka is assuming nothing. The right are indeed working covertly to subvert democracy for their own gain and purposes. That has become obvious in recent times and if you can't see that, then I don't know where you have been these past few years. weka has ...
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Comment:Daily review 04/03/2024
Date published: 5:57 pm, March 4th, 2024https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/transport-announcement-likely-as-pm-christopher-luxon-fronts-post-cabinet-press-conference/WRDZ7RPY7BE65DG27K4C63BQFI/ Sorry. I'm at a loss for words at this stage. :cry:
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Comment:Open mike 04/03/2024
Date published: 10:31 am, March 4th, 2024This link might work: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation
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Comment:Open mike 04/03/2024
Date published: 10:09 am, March 4th, 2024@ muttonbird and DoS; Herein may lie the answer to the problem: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation In short, you go down the rabbit holes as fellow believers ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/03/2024
Date published: 1:18 pm, March 2nd, 2024A quote from a comment of mine on yesterday's Daily Review: I'm starting to get a handle on Luxon's real character. In a nutshell, he's a dangerous evangelical in all aspects of life, not just his religious beliefs. In a way I think that is what happened ...
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Comment:Open mike 02/03/2024
Date published: 10:52 am, March 2nd, 2024The insanity continues: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/brian-tamakis-freedom-and-rights-coalition-to-march-at-auckland-domain-call-for-luxon-to-defend-free-speech/LXPB3XCNUZBNHG5PFTEC4KUDLY/ He said this protest was a response to his claim the Prime ...
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Comment:Daily review 01/03/2024
Date published: 10:06 pm, March 1st, 2024I'm going to have to read it at least twice more before the full impact sinks in. I'm starting to get a handle on Luxon's real character. In a nutshell, he's a dangerous evangelical in all aspects of life, not just his religious beliefs. In a way I think ...
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Comment:Who is treating taxpayers as an ATM?
Date published: 6:37 pm, March 1st, 2024As I came away [from a press conference] I thought ‘Wow, people are pretty fixated on the allowance’. I thought ‘what’s going on’ Luxon said he then listened to Newstalk ZB and heard the discussion on talkback. He then changed his mind about the allowance...
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Comment:Who is treating taxpayers as an ATM?
Date published: 5:18 pm, March 1st, 2024Wow. That must be the quickest turn-around in NZ parliamentary history. Null and voids my comment @ 12 : https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pm-christopher-luxon-says-hes-entitled-to-52k-accommodation-allowance/RHF2L5U45ZFTXM5JK5PI7EENRU/
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Comment:Who is treating taxpayers as an ATM?
Date published: 5:04 pm, March 1st, 2024The next round of polls could be quite interesting. My prediction: David Farrar's Curia poll, which tends to favour the right, will be first out of the stalls in the hope it might dampen down some of the negativity.
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 4:50 pm, March 1st, 2024"Or are you just interviewing your keyboard again." Pot/kettle. I know you think you are very clever but I have news for you. Most people here have your measure. :)
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Comment:Open mike 01/03/2024
Date published: 12:58 pm, March 1st, 2024Oh dear, alwyn is upset. This is not going to help: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510589/luxon-s-criticisms-of-profligate-spending-come-back-to-bite
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 12:02 pm, March 1st, 2024David Farrar of Kiwiblog fame - a National Party stooge - conducted that survey. He is a far right-wing mate of Atlas disciple Jordan Williams of Taxpayers Union (what isn't a union) fame. It's bullshit based on manipulated data which is Farrar's MO.
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Comment:Open mike 01/03/2024
Date published: 11:14 am, March 1st, 2024Don't know exactly what is in the bill, but what has either excuse above got to do with the assumed intent... that is, allow someone who wants to attend a meeting but is unable to because say... an air-port closure due to fog. It seems to me that the right...
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 10:23 am, March 1st, 2024Political coverage in the MSM consists largely of a handful of gallery journalists reporting on the Byzantine horse race politics of parliament. Election coverage is the same journalist courtiers following around the imperial court reporting on their take...
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Comment:Open mike 01/03/2024
Date published: 10:01 am, March 1st, 2024https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510560/christopher-luxon-claims-52k-accommodation-payment-to-live-in-own-apartment The difference between those MPs etc. mentioned in your link and Luxon is that most of them probably have mortgages to sustain and don't...
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Comment:A sad lament from the serial left
Date published: 7:21 pm, February 29th, 2024And now we also have the Atlas network criminals to contend with. Nothing changes.
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Comment:A sad lament from the serial left
Date published: 6:35 pm, February 29th, 2024In the early 1970s my father did something which, with the benefit of hindsight, was foolish. He joined the Auckland based Russian Friendship Society. He had an abiding interest in Russia due to a covert mission there as a young British soldier in the ...
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Comment:What does the Government have against Maori health?
Date published: 5:42 pm, February 29th, 2024Chloe Swarbrick's contribution to the repeal of the tobacco legislation which imo is as good as Hipkins: https://vimeo.com/917353468?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 11:40 am, February 29th, 2024Funny you should mention Walker. I remembered his famous interview with Muldoon: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/tonight-muldoon-interview-1976?collection=the-hot-seat They were the days. :)
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 11:18 am, February 29th, 2024We're talking about TV news services not political parties.
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 11:14 am, February 29th, 2024With the exception of one or two (Tame is one of them), the interviewers back then were way superior to today's bunch. I remember Ian Johnston, a superb interviewer, plus Brain Edwards (a little more controversial) and Paul Holmes could do a damn good ...
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Comment:Newshub Closes
Date published: 10:31 am, February 29th, 2024It used to be like that Sabine. I remember the current affairs programmes from the 70s, 80s and 90s where well informed individuals from both sides of the spectrum used to slug it out. And they managed to do so without fisticuffs too.
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