Open Mike 03/04/2026

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  1. 1

    NZ Police and reality TV ? A Police insider feeding the doyenne of ditz Dame Julie reality Christie, details of the Tom Phillips case. IMO its just wrong . Mainly NZ Police need to be, and seen to be, separate from this kind of collusion for..reality entertainment.

    Inside the messages between police's media communications director and documentary boss

    On Thursday, police released 289 pages of correspondence in relation to the documentary including a series of messages between Clausen and Christie, the chief executive of a documentary production company.

    This included the message at 6.14am on 8 September which began "I'm on a flight to Hamilton now".

    "I wanted to give u a heads up.. T [redacted] were involved in another burglary this morning. T has been shot – we have [redacted] We will do media but every man n dog there."

    The messages released on Thursday reveal the two women had been messaging since at least February last year.

    The messages included conversations about the contract agreement, filming and even a message advising the documentary boss to go direct to the officer in charge, adding "everything discoverable so maybe ask for a call".

    About 5pm, Clausen emailed Police Commissioner Richard Chambers to say an agreement had been signed.

    "It's been an interesting and useful exercise to work our way through the terms of Agreement, and what's reassuring is the certainty that Police will have final sign off."

    Clausen thanked Chambers for his support.

    "It's been helpful being able to say this project had your support."

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591397/inside-the-messages-between-police-s-media-communications-director-and-documentary-boss

  2. 2

    That image of Ben-Givr and other far right law makers laughing and drinking champagne in the Knesset when they got the bill through to murder Palestinians without a fair judicial process will haunt them. (something like 98-99% of Palestinians are convicted once jailed)

    Well done the 48 Knesset member who voted against. These are the people who might oust Netanyahu in the upcoming election.

    The law is subject to legal challenge in Israel's High Court of Justice.

    https://www.newarab.com/news/champagne-knesset-israel-passes-racist-death-penalty-law

    1. 2.1

      I replied on your other comment,incl Link to Ben Gvir…anyway here is

      Indeed. I have said before, I am not against Israeli's or Jews. There are many Left Wing/Socialist,SocialDemocrats and Empathetic same.

      However I am definitely against fascist zionists. And their supporters.

      Here is a link to far right fascist Ben-Gvir…

      Israel’s parliament votes to expand death penalty for Palestinians

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591145/israel-s-parliament-votes-to-expand-death-penalty-for-palestinians

      And some fellow far right fascists…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Israel#Statements_from_far-right_ministers

      I read the Israeli Haaretz…it gives an alternative view

      https://www.haaretz.com/

      1. 2.1.1

        Yes Psych I posted it this morning on yesterday's Open Mike as a response, then I thought it was worthy of discussion today with a link.

        Thanks for the Haaretz link…this is a worry:

        "Today, Kahanism is the operational ideology of the sitting Israeli government."

    1. 3.1

      Labour needs to have their ferry option and the disastrous Niki no-boats option carefully costed side-by side for the election campaign, including contract cancellation costs, and stressing that the COC has left us with no rail ferries for at least three years.

      There are votes in this.

    1. 5.1

      IMO any of his cabal of creeps who has seen Trumps Black Spot messages would be squirming. (well, even more than usual…)

      In a social media post, Trump praised Bondi as a "Great American Patriot and a loyal friend" and said she will move to a job in the private sector.

      However who he has replaced dodgy Pam with? Corruption expert Todd Blanche…

      Trump said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer, will lead the Justice Department in the interim.

      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591408/trump-fires-pam-bondi-as-us-attorney-general-white-house-official-says

      Further on Trump Criminal defence lawyer Todd,now leading the US Justice Dept. FFS.

      Trump’s former hush money lawyer Todd Blanche is now in charge of the Epstein files release

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/todd-blanche-attorney-general-pam-bondi-trump-b2951209.html

    2. 5.2

      Firing the Chair of the Joint Chiefs last month and today firing the Army Chief of Staff is what an accelerating coup looks like.

    3. 5.3

      Anyone else noticing a pattern here?

      Well, since Kennedy and Hagseth still seem to be secure in their positions, it's pretty safe to say His Orangeness has a real problem with women who don't meet his standards, no matter how much fealty they show.

  6. 6

    Andrew Geddis has written a thought-provoking piece for The Spinoff on Labour and National forming a grand-coalition. This is not his idea but Wayne Brown’s.

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/03-04-2026/heres-the-problem-with-wayne-browns-national-labour-coalition-idea

    Personally, I think the idea is fundamentally flawed because it appears to focus on wrong things. I should really read Wayne Brown’s opinion but it’s behind a pay-wall, so there goes that idea, fortunately – there are much better ways to doom-scroll. Frankly, I can’t be bothered with the musings reckons of a man who’s so full of himself; rarely does it contain useful insights or ideas, except for confirming how ‘the man himself’ thinks about the himself, the world, and his irreplaceable role in it.

    1. 6.1

      That won't work.

      The National Party, in the form of Luxon/Willis/Brown/Bishop/Goldsmith/Watts (I could go on) has shifted well to the Right.

      1. 6.1.1

        But if they hadn’t and/or Labour wouldn’t shift to the left and widening the gap between the two main (legacy) parties, you’d be ok with the idea, in principle?

      2. 6.1.2

        IMO akin to the intermittent calls for a Blue/Green alignment. Which , to me anyway, always seems very deep… blue. Hopefully from lack of Oxygen.

    2. 6.2

      Labour, not National, has formed major bipartisan agreements with National over the last 9 years:

      – The Emissions Trading System

      – The Climate Change targets

      The Epidemic Preparedness Act and other legislative changes designed to deal with the crisis

      – The housing density accords

      These are major nation-altering policy frameworks.

      National initiated none of them.

      National has trashed them all. There is zero reason to believe that National could be trusted to form bipartisan government. And Wayne Brown is a fucking dick.

  7. 7

    For all the talk of – gosh we really should be hurrying up the green transition….

    This COC STILL won't get it. They are doubling down.

    $50 for poor families and extra for community health workers, is JUST SUBSIDISING THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY. There is not a single peep coming from this government about transitioning.

    1. 7.1

      I have relatives with families who are grateful for the support and have no travel alterative. Best not to get to righteous on it.

  8. 8

    So now we have cancelled air services to the following routes:

    Napier-Auckland and Napier-Wellington.

    Kerikeri to Auckland.

    Gisborne to Auckland.

    Tauranga to anywhere.

    Wellington to Westport

    Blenheim to Auckland or to Wellington.

    Any flight to Westport.

    Next to go will be flights for New Plymouth, flights for Chatham Islands, flights to Palmerston North, and then it will be flights to Invercargill.

    New Zealand just got a whole level darker and less connected.

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