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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
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Step up to the mike …
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.
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
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…
And some fellow far right fascists…
I read the Israeli Haaretz…it gives an alternative view
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."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/591372/interislander-expects-hours-long-delays-over-by-the-weekend
I comend labour for not barking at every car, but these are to good a opportunities to miss,
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.
Tough gig Pam Bondi.
Wouldn't want to be Una Jagose with Bishop as new Attorney General.
Noem – gone. Bondi – gone. Now attention turns to Gabbard:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/trump-tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-chief
Anyone else noticing a pattern here?
IMO any of his cabal of creeps who has seen Trumps Black Spot messages would be squirming. (well, even more than usual…)
However who he has replaced dodgy Pam with? Corruption expert Todd Blanche…
Further on Trump Criminal defence lawyer Todd,now leading the US Justice Dept. FFS.
Firing the Chair of the Joint Chiefs last month and today firing the Army Chief of Staff is what an accelerating coup looks like.
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.
Kay gets the chocolate fish (orange-flavoured, of course).
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
musingsreckons 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.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.
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?
Would have to see the policies….but I'm a deeper shade of Green.
In my opinion, a Labour-National grand-coalition à la Wayne Brown’s view of the world (and himself) doesn’t fit well with the Green Party values (https://www.greens.org.nz/our_values). The Greens also want/wanted to lower the electoral seat threshold of 5%.
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.
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.
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.
I have relatives with families who are grateful for the support and have no travel alterative. Best not to get to righteous on it.
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.
Just picked up on this RNZ headline:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/591515/sailors-trapped-by-iran-s-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-plead-for-help
And who have we got to blame for this potential catastrophe? Trump of course. And who will he blame? Europe and the UK of course.