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Shocked Forget Ram Raids....
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 03-06-2022, 10:01 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

Diggers is where its at nowdays!
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/03/man-a...iomata-bp/

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  Currency conversion fees for online purchases
Posted by: king1 - 03-06-2022, 09:57 AM - Forum: General Discussion - Replies (2)

Was reading this article this morning...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-tr...xt-holiday


I noticed this behaviour several years ago so thought it might be worth mentioning here...

When buying stuff online from overseas, I always find it is best to allow the purchase to occur in the local currency ie GBP USD etc
The currency conversion websites do at the time of purchase is always at a higher rate and loaded with fees.


As an example, my last online purchase was for a subscription to a remote desktop support app...

The purchase cost was Ôé¼98.00 euro
Using the currency conversion offered by paypal as payment processor, the total charged would have been $176.00 NZD.
By electing to pay in euro, and allowing the conversion to happen on the credit card (ANZ) the overall cost was $168.00 NZD

Paypal seem to have a conversion fee of around 3.5% plus a decidedly obscure fixed fee...
ANZ credit card conversion fee is 1.3%

HTH

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  Shots fired as people eat dinner
Posted by: Lilith7 - 02-06-2022, 07:25 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

These guys should buy a lotto ticket, they were so lucky.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-g...ZW3AJ742A/

"An innocent construction worker says he was eating dinner with his flatmates when several bullets flew into his house.
He escaped being hit but his friend was grazed by a bullet, narrowly escaping serious injury.
The Herald understands the house was targeted in a case of mistaken identity as part of the Killer Beez - Tribesmen feud due to gang prospects who used to live there.
Abinesh Kumar said he was eating dinner when bullets flew through the living room window, narrowly missing him.

"Luckily I was sitting on the floor," he said."

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  Australia could become a republic...
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 02-06-2022, 01:45 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (4)

Perhaps this is something we should look at too?
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/06/01/could...-monarchy/

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  What these Idiots dont understand!
Posted by: Oldfellah - 01-06-2022, 04:30 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (9)

Russian state television has broadcasted an unsettling new threat, with a Duma politician boasting Russia could destroy the United States with four nukes.
While speaking on Russia's main TV channel, Rossiya 1, Alexei Zhuravlev insisted Russia is capable of eliminating the east and west coasts of the US.
"To destroy the entire east coast of the US, two Sarmat missiles are necessary and two missiles for the West coast," he told political figure and talk show host Yevgeny Popov.

"Four missiles and there'll be nothing left."
Zhuravlev said the cloud of debris, known as a mushroom, would be so large it could be visible from Mexico.

So this idiot doesn't understand that even if that happens that there wont be any retaliation, just lets say America is partially wiped out there would be someone somewhere deep in a nuke proof bunker that has been authorised to give the order to send nukes back to Russia, maybe wiping out their whole regime, why cant fuckwits like this see sense?

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  Tornados on Kapiti coast
Posted by: Lilith7 - 01-06-2022, 02:54 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

No one seems to have been hurt, but its done a lot of damage.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/we...piti-coast

"Tornadoes have hit coastal communities on the K─üpiti Coast, lifting roofs, flattening sheds and scattering debris.

Emergency services were called to at least one address in Nicholas Place about 11am, with reports of a roof being lifted."

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  Say no to 3 waters
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 01-06-2022, 01:19 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (5)

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/roadshow?ut...=taxpayers

3 waters needs to be stopped. You can help before its too late and our water assets get sold off to privatization.

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  Concern over anti-maori sentiment?
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 01-06-2022, 01:17 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (22)

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/05/31/conce...sentiment/

Why are the media/govt so surprised about this "increase" in negative sentiment when it seems that the media are provoking it through maori language every day, not just maori language week which by the looks of things should be done away with at this rate, then we have the govt forcing upon us "co-governance" and He Puapua, etc.
All the issues are just solutions looking for a problem.

All this co-governance is exactly the opposite of what it means.
Its time to treat everyone equal, no need for a race based "maori" health system.
I even have maori friends that are unhappy with the way things are going too. Its not racist.
Peeni Henare himself says here that he has been called a Kupapa by his own people!
What does that say?

Whats up with "Aotearoa New Zealand" at the moment? They should just use one name or the other. You wont even find Aotearoa written in the treaty because they didnt even come up with that word until after the treaty was signed.

T─ümaki Makaurau is not even the real maori name for Auckland, its essentially a part of the city such as east Tamaki, Manakau, Manurewa, etc.

So much maori spoken on TVNZ with no subtitles too, whats even the point of a maori channel? At least they often give subtitles unlike TVNZ! If they want us to actually learn maori, at least let us know whats being said.

The criticism of this is not racist, its the opposite, it seems some maori are trying to segregate themselves and it needs to stop.
We are one people, one nation. We are supposed to come together.
Good resources here https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/the_laws_that_separate_us

Also check out https://govt.maori.nz/
He whakaputanga is the true "maori" government where all of us are treated the same regardless of race.
Go to one of your local meetings if you want to learn more about it.
There is definitely a big division among maori right now and its not really even a maori/pakeha conflict, its happening within their own people. We can help them, but we are going about it the wrong way.

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  Funniest things the MSM has blamed on "climate change"
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 31-05-2022, 10:20 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (12)

Link below with sources...
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/vid...ate-change

AIDS, Afghan poppies destroyed, African holocaust, aged deaths, poppies more potent, Africa devastated,  Africa in conflict, African aid threatened,  aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pockets, air pressure changes,  airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaskan towns slowly destroyed, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy increase, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,  ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink,  Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk,   anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear,  Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), a rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,   atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,  Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water,  bananas grow, barbarisation, bats decline,  beer and bread prices to soar, beer better,  beer worse, beetle infestation, beef shortage,  bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths,  bird loss accelerating, bird populations dying, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds on long migrations threatened,  birds return early, birds shrink(Aus), birds shrink (USA), bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down,  blizzards, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, borders redrawn,  bluetongue, brains shrink, brewers droop, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, Britain's bananas, British monsoon,  brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague,  Buddhist temple threatened,  building collapse, .............

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  Monkeypox, next pandemic?
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 31-05-2022, 10:03 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (11)

Or should I say plandemic?
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/29/healt...index.html

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