You Know What Is Chilling?
Leaking and white-anting public servants are crying a river of tears about being held to account for their deliberate tactics to undermine a minister and government that they don’t agree with. Perhaps we need to drain the swamp.
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Quick Hit: Breach Of Trust. Then The SFO.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
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Ngarewa-Packer made the remark after Speaker Maureen Pugh told fellow Te Pāti Māori MP Oriini Kaipara to watch her language in response to her calling the government’s move-on orders “bull crap”.
This Is a Naked Inconsistency
What the reaction to another Sydney Sweeney advertisement reveals about consistency, power, and political double standards.
Quick Hit: Ten Point Eight Million. And The Veto.
Greens still sell KiwiMart at $10.8m a store with the library costing locked. Same week Seymour brings the aisle veto and National leaves ComCom out. Soft communism with a locked drawer. Campaign promise with coalition scissors.
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… catharsis (noun) - 1a: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art b: a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension 2: elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
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