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What is this group Pillar NZ? https://info.scoop.co.nz/PILLAR_NZ They state this about themselves: PILLAR stands for Protecting Individual Life, Liberty, And Rights PILLAR is a civil liberties advocacy group that exists to ensure that every New Zealander …

Mine’s waiting for me to pick and pay – $35. So will be more informed soon.

Thanks for the memory – I mean the list of concerns that we have here in NZ. Song for today – I’m reminded of The Mikado and the English National Opera have rendered The List song highly theatrically, with updated concerns. A brief laugh, soon missed. …

Please note – there is an incorrect name on this song about cicadas. Te tarakihi is a fish. https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/7644 Te tātarakihi – …The wingless cicada nymph (matua kihikihi) lives underground for at least three years, sucking roots. …

Thank you Res. There has been outrage or resignation about Phillips, but if one applies an ‘outcomes’ consideration, which must show a fail, then the systems we employ are shown to be inadequate and reflect badly our sense of practical humanity.

@tWig I feel that you are a player in the game of paint splatters. https://www.esheets.io/splatter/ But you might curb your enthusiasm by ensuring you pick the right opponent and that your aim is true. We are into serious territory here and now.

Here is what we need to take us into this election – a rousing Maori chant. This is beautifully achieved and produced and could fire up the whole of the country to go forward. Have a listen and make like cicadas, keeping the encouraging whirr of thoughts …

I thought that the ratio waz 10 times income in the past. I don’t think that would be right for now, say 8 times annual income. But three, no.

Here is also a film from the past recalled by Gordon Campbell to take interest in, touching on Jim Anderton. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00051/on-the-ongoing-relevance-of-jim-anderton.htm On The Ongoing Relevance Of Jim Anderton Monday, 21 …

Ad I didn’t realise that you had such a simple, tunnel-visioned mind. We are all under pressure in this modern age, so much is shown as being possible, when viewing the visual media, but for the individual so many doors closed. We have to learn to live …

HG Wells did some relevant thinking for now about what we need to know in truth: Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest …

We shall now sing ‘The Daleks, the Daleks, the Daleks are Best, so up with the Daleks and down with the rest.’ Paraphrasing Flanders & Swann -‘The English are Best – ‘Song of Patriotic Prejudice’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOoStY95YZc Spike Milligan …

NatFactackack seem pretty sanguine about the election, having it on Nov7 ignoring Guy Fawkes day Nov5th. Presumably if any violence happens at this time the perp will pick on closer community villeins, and we will look up and start clucking. We are no …

Feijoa one of my favourite fruits. Sweet with a bite.

hmm hmm – Good if you are a NZ supporter – no put-downs please of Nicky Hager. Some people stand above the parapet and others stay subliminal, where it’s easier and personally safer.