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  So is this how the government coalition implodes?
Posted by: king1 - 6 hours ago - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (3)

Winnie is not one to back down...

Quote:Christopher Luxon to speak to Winston Peters over Nazi comments
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512...i-comments


Quote:Winston Peters doubles down on ‘Nazi Germany’ comments, promises more today
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/w...W2YALUD6A/


What happens if Winnie pulls his support?  Are we back to the polls?

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  WTB Cellphone
Posted by: piroska - Yesterday, 04:54 PM - Forum: PC World Chat - Replies (4)

Must be Android 9 or higher.
Not fussy so long as it is a smartphone and not Huawai.

My current phone (Thanks Kenj!!) Is fine, great. But certain apps I use announce they will not continue on my Android 8 and the phone cannot be updated to 9.

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  How Presidents Should Look
Posted by: zqwerty - Yesterday, 01:36 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (5)

Both have some Irish blood.

https://i.redd.it/s24cad2fmxoc1.jpeg

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  Winie bringing 'steel'...
Posted by: Lilith7 - 17-03-2024, 02:48 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (6)

Oh joy - what delights await..


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/w...ADECZDG4Y/


"New Zealand First leader and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is promising to bring “steel” to the Government as it faces tough economic times.
Hundreds of people have gathered to hear New Zealand First leader Winston Peters’ State of the Nation address today at the Palmerston North conference centre.
There was a small protest outside the conference centre where Peters gave his speech.
There were about 20 Free Palestine protestors gathered. One used a megaphone to push their message as Peters entered the premises.
He didn’t say anything to the protestors, except to look at them and shake his head.
During his address, Peters referenced the protesters as the “group outside saying ‘Winston go home’”. On the Israel-Hamas conflict, he said the Government had “done our best”.

Peters said NZ First’s absence from Parliament during the 2020-2023 term was the chief reason why the country had gone downhill."

Oh, of course it was Winnie! Rolleyes Big Grin Big Grin


"Without the handbrake, Labour cared more about feelings than the duty to competently govern our country.”

Peters railed against the media, once again claiming he wasn’t covered during the election campaign.
He said the country couldn’t be fixed until its problems were acknowledged. He claimed Labour had left a “barrage of broken promises”, citing a “crumbling, underfunded health system”.

On education, Peters spoke of the “staggering” number of classrooms New Zealand was lacking and the levels of truancy.

Peters talked of the “implosion on the left”, a reference to the Green Party launching an investigation into MP Darleen Tana, whose husband’s business has been accused of migrant exploitation.
He referenced Tana not by name but as the person who “had the moko on her chin”.
Peters criticised the recent high levels of immigration, saying there had been no proper planning by the previous Government for the number of migrants it wanted to bring in after Covid-19.


Peters said there was no greater expert on Labour’s lack of humility or understanding of democracy than he.

Such modesty Winnie... Big Grin Big Grin

He grouped Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori together, saying they were competing to see “who can be most culturally woke”. Peters said that when MPs from those parties were in the media, they were “always over-gesturing like an Italian waiter”, which received a lot of laughs from the crowd."

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  Here's a friend of ours heckling Nicola Willis
Posted by: zqwerty - 17-03-2024, 09:43 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (2)

Nicola Willis heckled about 'tax cuts for landlords' at Auckland media conference:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/511...conference

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  'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before dea
Posted by: zqwerty - 16-03-2024, 02:40 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (6)

https://wpde.com/news/local/if-anything-...ews-4-2024

United Airlines Boeing 737 makes emergency landing in Oregon after losing panel in mid-air

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1...emergency/

Here's a better headline post:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-whi...ot-suicide

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  School Haka, spitting at feet of David Seymour
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-03-2024, 06:10 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (13)

A student involved in the Haka spat at the ground near David Seymour's feet.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/511...igh-school

"A student spat on the ground in front of ACT leader David Seymour during a school visit in Palmerston North.
Seymour was visiting Freyberg High School on Thursday in his role as associate education minister.
A video shared online showed students performing the haka Ka Mate as he came outside.

At the conclusion of the haka, a student holding a tino rangatiratanga flag approached Seymour and spat at the ground by his feet.

School staff could be seen creating a human barrier between the students and Seymour.
Students then followed him to his Crown car.
Seymour had gone to Freyberg to meet with school leaders about "the impressive work they're doing around attendance", he said."



https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/students-a...7CQEYEGBU/

"Stuff reported that Seymour’s Crown car was also kicked as it drove out of the school’s gate.
Seymour told Stuff the spit did not hit him.

He said the student spat at the ground in front of him and called the incident a bit “theatrical”.


The protest came just over a week after Seymour described free school lunches as “wasteful” public spending and argued that the new Government should cut them.
Freyberg High School receives free school lunches as part of the Ka Ora, Ka Ako, programme.
Seymour attacked free school lunches during the election campaign, describing them as “wasteful”, “unaffordable”, and a “marketing stunt”. He urged National to abandon the programme if it got back into power.
As the minister responsible for the policy, Seymour told the Herald: “I take the issue of free school lunches extremely seriously, and it is under consideration as part of the Government putting together a Budget."

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  More trouble for the Greens
Posted by: Wainuiguy - 15-03-2024, 12:55 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (35)

Hot on the heels of Gharaman's pleading guilty to shoplifting here we have another Green MP behaving badly.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3502129...ion-claims

I wonder if the same poster will be along to defend this case as some kind of a sting or a way to expose corruption or greed?

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  Duncan Garner, Luxon's true colours
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-03-2024, 12:07 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (8)

Nail on head...

Big Grin Big Grin

https://www.tiktok.com/@duncangarnerpodc...xVXVE0rU8A

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  Starship Rocket launch livestream
Posted by: nzoomed - 14-03-2024, 07:46 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (23)

If all goes to plan will launch in about 4 hours.

Witness the third launch of the largest rocket and the most powerful machine man has created, more than twice the power of a Saturn V!

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