@eurofounder You didn’t have travel insurance? Are you insane.
If I come to Germany without insurance then I presume I have to pay for health care, should the German taxpayer pick up the bill ?
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Pongo
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My wife collapsed in our hotel room in New York today
“Call an ambulance, I can’t breathe” she was screaming
My heart dropped
If she ends up in an American hospital we are financially ruined
I went on the Lufthansa app to book a flight back to Frankfurt, but unfortunately pilots are on strike today
“Please I’m begging you” she was lying on the floor
I sighed and called 911
She is now in surgery as apparently her appendix “almost burst”
I am extremely scared
This is going to cost us at least $100,000
She could have received much better care, for free, in Germany
I will never visit this barbaric country ever again
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@CathyYoung63 @clairlemon If that’s all it was then they have to disclose that as part of their charitable operation and to why they are opening a bank account
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@clairlemon It's payments to informants. x.com/ChuckModi1/sta…
I've got a lot of issues with the SPLC, but this looks like persecution.
#StopCopCity@ChuckModi1
DOJ framing leaves out monster omission. SPLC says it has paid INFORMANTS risking their lives to expose hate groups, the SAME tactic FBI has notoriously used! Now ppl can agree or disagree w/that tactic—but that’s a WHOLE diff convo. SPLC vows to “vigorously defend ourselves” It seems people in this thread don’t have time to can’t read past a deliberately poorly framed tweet. And this administration has shown over & over again it would weaponize itself to take down any perceived enemy. So I welcome a trial on this, and if I’m wrong, I’ll say so, but leave out that they were paying INFORMANTS is ridiculous.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills
x.com/TheJusticeDept…
U.S. Department of Justice@TheJusticeDept
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.
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@clairlemon Scott Adams predicted this yrs ago. If you provide financial rewards for finding neo nazis there is a big incentive to find them and if they aren’t there then you create them.
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@SandeChin My undertile heating is doing the same. The ducted heating is exhibiting wild mood swings too.
Could be a long winter
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I feel this house is out to break me...
My new oven is not working.....
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@PronouncedHare Well done, make sure you keep your protein intake high.
My BP moved down with just a tiny weight loss and avoiding salt,
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@aniobrien @SandeChin She was also the OG when it came to climate change which is as funny.
Imagine Chloe with a Thatcher tee shirt on.
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The left still hasn’t forgiven Margaret Thatcher for “shutting the mines.”
But today’s Greens are actively campaigning to shut down farming, mining, and energy sectors, industries that employ thousands of working-class Kiwis.
Strange what counts as compassion now.
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@PronouncedHare @eleludemann Careful there that would actually involve doing some work and some original thinking and analysis
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@PronouncedHare The media look stupid by keeping going. Hopefully Luxon now legislates as per his manifesto rather than appeasing the left wing press gallery
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@Strange_G That happens way too often and it’s rare to see an Indian in the Koru lounge
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Haha
Koru lounge food supply is Indian today 😉
Free trade vibe.
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NEWS: Australia’s birth rate hits another record low 🚨
Fertility falls to ~1.48 in 2025 — **2nd straight record low since 1924**
• Projected to drop further to ~1.42
• Far below the 2.1 replacement level
Australia is now nowhere near replacement level.
This is exactly the decline @elonmusk has been warning about for years.
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@TaxpayersUnion Just shut it down, if there was one thing Willis could do with zero blowback is abolish this thing
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𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 % 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲
Ministry for Women.
+31.47% Average.
We'll just leave this one here.
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@PronouncedHare You wonder who the shareholders appoint as CEO who appoints weak editors who enable journalists to peddle utter rubbish
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Lisa Bloom, lawyer for the woman who accused Swalwell of drugging and raping her last week, says after two meetings with law enforcement, the woman still has to locate evidence in a storage unit, including the names of purported witnesses she talked to after the incident? Huh...?
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So the Indian trade agreement how can it be signed off next week has a labour agreed to help get it over the line? Does it need Parliamentary support?
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@the_salty_one_ @dbseymour Drs are really reluctant to prescribe it for men here, quite common overseas
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Why do women get HRT prescribed easily by their GP but men don't @dbseymour when they get older?
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@EricCrampton I am old enough to remember this being an election promise. Along with many other promises tha seem extraordinarily simple to implement unfulfilled.
The blob remains undefeated and our CEO PM KPI lies in ruins
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Superb news.
Abrysvo is authorised in the UK and US for administration during pregnancy.
It sharply cuts RSV hospitalisation among infants.
Unfortunately, NZ has only authorised Arexvy.
And a search of Medsafe's database for product applications shows no records on Abrysvo.
Kit Yates@Kit_Yates_Maths
Some good news. “A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@TheZeitgeistNZ Good advice, none of which anyone aside from Simeon Brown and Chris Penk in the National party will do.
Luxon and Willis lack a killer instinct
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I will now don my political advisors hat and offer some free campaign advice to Christopher Luxon and National:
1. Start criticising the media for being biased.
2. Begin lightly criticising NZ First over their growing embrace of socialism.
3. Make the election a contest with Hipkins and Labour - criticise their dearth of policy, their wokeness and policy failures under Ardern, their desire to return to government control to manage the fuel crisis, and Hipkins personally over vaccine injuring young people.
4. Begin telling people about your policy wins a bit more - you actually have a few good ones in the bank.
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