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Simon O'Neill
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Resistance is futile...
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Green-leaning and living, Rottie lover, rural dwelling Aotearoan..
...until I left the Air Force for DOC after 28 years in the military, most if not all of my career decisions had been shaped by the Airfix and Revell catalogues from the 1970s...
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Simon O'Neill
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Resistance is futile...
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Simon O'Neill
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The standard that must be met for any Capri; Escorts too probably...
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Simon O'Neill
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Can't wait...loved The Dawnhounds...
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Simon O'Neill
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Such a total difference from Jacinda's level of engagement...
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Simon O'Neill
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Not like they had too many credible contenders...
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Simon O'Neill
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Post something blue to brighten the skyline #kikorangi #BestLittleVolunteerFireBrigade #NationalPark
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Simon O'Neill
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Klown Koalition fails...again...
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Simon O'Neill
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Only for bottom feeders
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Simon O'Neill
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Same for our prem grand twins. 2 months in NICU, inter hospital transfers, all on the system...
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Simon O'Neill
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The Acolyte this week was so bad I only lasted 10 minutes...
#MillionsOfVoicesSuddenlyCriedOutInTerror
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Simon O'Neill
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Possibly but not the way the OP means. Most of the tourism businesses I work with are freehold. What hurts them is the difficulty getting local accommodation for staff because of the unregulated Airbnb market. Other than that they're hurting for the same reasons everyone else is...
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Simon O'Neill
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Not that unusual. Canada uses the same model as do many smaller defence forces.
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Simon O'Neill
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Not quite. Most if not all air forces operate helicopters. Some but not all other services eg army, marines, Navy, operate helicopters...
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Simon O'Neill
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Didn't say that at all. You're an idiot.
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Simon O'Neill
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It probably has standards...
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Have called their "customer support" for other delivery fails and it's always a circular conversation around them having no idea where the package is...
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Simon O'Neill
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Can someone please explain 'volcano' to the herald...?
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Simon O'Neill
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Everyone else in the covert ops game would have been laughing at them...
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Simon O'Neill
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Problem is it is run as a business by a a business that's not actually very good at running a business and funded by a ministry that is only interested in the cheapest bottomline - even if that means greater treatment costs in the long-term...
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Simon O'Neill
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...and that includes decent infrastructure for training...and ditching the volunteer mindset where staff are expected to work and train for no pay...
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Simon O'Neill
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Most unsurprising headline ever...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Simon O'Neill
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Still waiting, no delivery as of midday today...Aramex, you suck...
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Simon O'Neill
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PS I think you have to actually do something to get on the list...
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Simon O'Neill
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Do you think we could get him on it so he can't come back...?
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Simon O'Neill
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Unlikely to be somehting this govt will be making illegal any time soon - whatever would they do once Winston torpedoes the Koalition and they all have to find real work again...?
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Simon O'Neill
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You can count the 5th, it's the thought that counts...and the device was obviously lethal...
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Simon O'Neill
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Making crime illegal.
"Why didn't we think of this?" cry all previous govts, smacking foreheads loudly with their hands...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...
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Simon O'Neill
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On your way through, could you head up SH4 & bemoan the lack of a charging station in Owhango...? Some of our current councillors made it a campaign issue and then got cold feet. Good coffee and tasty snacks at Blue Hill Cafe across the road from the logical charging location (by the toilets)...
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Simon O'Neill
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Definitely. No different than US sponsored anti govt operations in Central America in the 70s and 80s...
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Simon O'Neill
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Use of violent means to achieve a political objective...? Acts of war tend to be overt. War crimes usually require a recognised (not necessarily declared) state of war...
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Simon O'Neill
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Won't even be hearing crickets soon unless #ExtinctionMinisterPotaka decides they are cost-efficient to save...
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Simon O'Neill
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Hopefully turns into a nice day...
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Opens up "teething issues", "bleeding edge" excuses for later non-delivery...
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Simon O'Neill
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Yeah, whatever, while the Russian Embassy still stays in Aotearoa... Weak AF.
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Simon O'Neill
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Collapse is the polite word. Fly to bits like a spinney-round catastrophic fly to bits thing is more like it...
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Simon O'Neill
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Currently the 2 "junior" and more nutcase parties are deputy pm for 18 months each. Current expectation is that the current incumbent will Torpedo the Koalition once his 18 months are up. Frog and scorpion thing...
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Simon O'Neill
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Greed is still good apparently
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No we didn't. Don't believe every thing in the media or on sm. Massive resistance to changes and unlikely this Klown govt will last more than one term, possibly kit even that long....
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Simon O'Neill
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Debts [to donors] to pay...
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Simon O'Neill
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Nek minit...
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Tonight in 1985 in Auckland, New Zealand (July 10, local time), French secret agents—in an elaborate intelligence operation codenamed Satanique—used two limpet mines to sink the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior as it prepared to return to Mururoa Atoll to protest French nuclear testing there.
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Simon O'Neill
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Sadly, common conduct for employers in employment relations investigations...so many seem surprised that they can't just bullsh*t their way out of it... Auckland Uni used the same playbook...
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Simon O'Neill
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Probs. No great loss.
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Simon O'Neill
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Yep. Another clueless first timer p/muppet...
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Probs won't have any probs getting a job with the Klown Koalition - her business ethics are clearly at the right level...
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Simon O'Neill
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"It's a really bad policy. "Everything [Brown has] said ... hasn't given any suggestion he's listening to evidence or science. He's not got science on his side."
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Simon O'Neill
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He doesn't have to, just move his mouth when the hand up his jacksy tells him to...
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Simon O'Neill
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One day, Aotearoa...
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Uphill
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