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Open Mike 29/11/25

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  1. mikesh 1
    29 November 2025 at 8:20 am

    I see that a Ukranian chap has now been arrested in Germany in connection with the sabotage of nordstream 2.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360903207/ukrainian-man-suspected-nord-stream-pipeline-explosions-placed-custody-germany

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  2. Drowsy M. Kram 2
    29 November 2025 at 8:46 am

    Re-posting from yesterday's Open Mike, just to publicise a colourful Shane Jones meltdown moment – maybe he is a worthy successor to Winston First.

    ‘Demonic eggbeater’: Shane Jones has a normal one on RNZ [26 Nov 2025]
    This morning wasn’t the first time Jones compared the Otago Regional Council to the Kremlin. Before the demonic eggbeater came along to make Satan’s omelettes, he had another egg-based descriptor for environmentalists, calling them “woke, riddled munchkins who want to fry eggs on solar panels”.

    Biosecurity Orcs, “green banshees“, “demonic eggbeaters" and related Entities are apparently past their ‘best before dates’ and must go – TINA sayeth the Bish.

    The real regional reform hidden behind scrapping of councils [Newsroom, 26 Nov 2025]
    The Government’s plan to remove all 11 regional councils is a red herring. The issue is the reorganisation to come, which would be subject to total government control.
    [comment excerpts]
    The ACT press release on getting rid of regional councils is revealing. It is plainly about reducing environmental protections and catering to the farming lobby
    ***
    As in any organization the rot starts at the head and the head of our governance structure is most certainly suffering from a severe state of decomposition. No good blaming everyone else Chris Bishop!
    ***
    This would have to be the most poorly thought through piece of proposed local government legislation I can recall. The ranting by Shane Jones does not add any value at all.
    ***
    At least in Canterbury, the answer is fundamental – control of the region’s water. Through the device of the ECan Act 2010, the government used the Canterbury Mayoral Form to provide a veneer of democratic legitimacy when it took Canterbury’s water for irrigation. The “theft” of the region’s water lacked economic equity.
    A concurrent disregard for the environment created Canterbury’s present Nitrate Emergency threatening public and ecosystem health.
    It seems the region’s district mayors are to again provide the “stalking horse” to privatise the water. The water that John Key assured us “nobody owns”…. This is not democracy.

    NAct1 – govt by and for the sorted – putting the moc(k) in democracy.

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    • PsyclingLeft.Always 2.1
      29 November 2025 at 8:57 am

      DMK,thanks for posting this ! I had earlier read that Spinoff article. Hayden Donnell a great writer (although in this particular, I feel he had some help from Shane/Shame hisself..: )

      I particularly liked this…: )

      “Wh… wh,” replied a momentarily stunned Dann, perhaps searching for the phrase “what the fuck?”. He eventually settled on another one more appropriate for RNZ’s 50+ target demographic. “Why do you need to use that sort of rhetoric?”

      I find that Humour is indeed a small but intrinsically necessary component of dealing with NAct1….

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  3. Ad 3
    29 November 2025 at 9:35 am

    Excellent work Lianne Dalziell.

    It would have been honest to mention Labour nearly succeeding in stripping away all water assets from councils into regional entities.

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  4. Ad 4
    29 November 2025 at 12:49 pm

    I am cosmically pissed off that Trump's Gaza plan has sailed through the UN and now has a very good chance of being implemented and succeeding. I am sure many readers here agree. A fuckwit like Trump should not succeed at all, nor on any level.

    So question for the day: could the EU actually form a convincing and executable plan for the Ukraine war that would replace the US omnishambles plan in time to save the remaining territory of Donestsk from falling to Russia?

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  5. greywarshark 5
    29 November 2025 at 9:38 pm

    Support the Reserve Bank in its decision to ensure we can use cash this is an important freedom and service. Try and get cash out regularly and use when you can I suggest.

    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2511/S00420/progress-on-cash.htm

    Progress On Cash

    Thursday, 27 November 2025, 10:49 am
    Press Release: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand

    The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua is working to ensure that New Zealanders can continue to withdraw cash, pay with cash and deposit cash as and when they want to.

    Cash is used for economic, social and cultural reasons, and as the cash steward we will keep issuing cash for as long as the public needs it. Research shows 72% of small businesses would be adversely affected if cash was unavailable as a means of payment. Our own survey tells us while over 80% of adults use cash sometimes, over half (56%) store cash and 8% rely on cash…

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