https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/30052144...mp-freedom

Says it all. Inept.



It has been a catastrophic miscalculation by the police and has left two plausible scenarios. One involves a potentially violent confrontation, which some protesters, already desperate to frame themselves as victims of the state, will encourage; and two, a prolonged occupation that ends when the pandemic does, and all restrictions are lifted.

For the people of Wellington, neither outcome is desirable nor acceptable.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...-contracts

"Lotus-Heart claimed more than $154,000 from the GovernmentÔÇÖs Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme."

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Should we now be prepared for all the hate?

involved in the occupation at Parliament

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-02-...occupation

This is hilarious - a fan of the old Only fools & horses series had a funeral with a batman theme from the show's famous scene.
And what's more, a Robin Reliant pulled his hearse.


https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-essex-60408222

"His daughter and a friend ran ahead of it dressed as Batman and Robin, in a nod to an episode where Del Boy and Rodney ran through the streets in those costumes after their car broke down on their way to a party.

Mr Holloway's granddaughter Kaidie Holloway said: "It doesn't take the sadness away, but to be able to sit there and have a little giggle with your family and know that that's what grandad would have loved, it was perfect."

Yes
No
Dont know

Then why aren't increases in tax brackets?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/30...pp-android

How high do daily numbers have to get before you will go into self-imposed lockdown? Interested to hear from people with no health issues.

my brothers and I used to play this game in the car
drove the old man berserk
we called it Songs about Lunch

Heres a classic
Feel Like Makin Lunch

discussing the 1960s/70s counterculture, and its descendant, the 2022 convoy. As someone who was part of the 1970s experience, I found it informative.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside...y-or-farce