
Mary Smith
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Mary Smith
@CullMary
Fair minded and empathetic to others. Lover of all things wine and a tennis fanatic
เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2013
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@chrishipkins @jacindaardern @JudithCollinsMP @dbseymour is there my reason you can’t let Air NZ fly from Melbourne to NZ this weekend if all passengers have a negative COVID test. Last weeks notice to get home did not give people enough time to have a test and book flights
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Walker T Smith, 54, had 17 years unblemished experience with @waitrose, & working in Clapham Junction. He stopped to shoplifter from stealing Easter eggs.
Instead of being thanked he was sacked.

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This cannot be right.
Those who uphold the law as they do their job should be protected.
We are working on a change in the law to give good citizens like Walker Smith unambiguous protection.
theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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A MAUNDY THURSDAY APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
My dear countrymen,
I want to speak to you simply tonight.
Not as a formal address, not as something that is polished or carefully staged. Just plainly, because something about this moment doesn’t feel right!
His Majesty, King Charles III, has chosen not to issue an Easter message this year, and perhaps that will seem small to some. It may seem like just one of those things, easily overlooked.
But I don’t think it’s small, because Easter is not small.
And when something as central as that passes without a voice from where we have come to expect one, it leaves a concerning quiet behind.
I think many people can feel that, even if they can’t quite put it into words.
So, I’m not writing to you to complain, I’m writing because I don’t think we can just leave that space empty, or this silence unanswered. And more than that, I don’t think we should be waiting for someone else to fill it.
Tonight is the evening of Maundy Thursday. We’re not at the celebration yet. We’re not at the victory.
We’re in the upper room. It’s quiet there. There’s a table. Bread is being passed. Wine is being shared.
And then, Christ does something that nobody would expect. Christ kneels down and starts to wash the disciples feet.
It’s such a strange image that you don’t really stop and think about it. The one they call Lord…is there kneeling.
No performance, no announcement, just serving. And I think that’s where this really meets us.
If we’re truly honest, a lot of people are feeling like something has truly shifted in this country. Something has thinned out. Not just politically or culturally, but deeper than that. Like we’re rapidly forgetting something we one knew.
And the instinct is to look up for answers, to wait for leadership, to hole that someone will say the right things that then steadies us all.
But Maundy Thursday doesn’t point us in that direction. It brings us back down to the floor.
To Christ, with a towel in His hands.
And it asks something of us that is much closer to home. Will we follow him there? Because this doesn’t begin with institutions finding their voice again…
It begins with people…
Ordinary people, who decide, either quietly or boldly, to turn back to Christ.
To pray again, to take their faith seriously again, to live that faith, and not just talk about it.
In that decision, is where things are either lost…or found.
And there’s something else about this night that we shouldn’t ignore. Even as Christ kneels, everything is already starting to fall apart.
Betrayal is happening, denial is coming, the Cross is getting ever closer.
Christ knows it…and still He stays. Still He serves. Still He gives Himself. That matters!
It means that Christ doesn’t walk away from us when things are uncertain, or messy, or even failing…Christ remains!
Maybe this Easter, that is what we as a people need to hear the most right now!
That whatsoever has been neglected…whatever feels like it’s slipping…it’s I not beyond being restored.
But not by waiting. Not by watching.
But by returning! Personally, quietly, honestly!
So tonight, I’m simply making an appeal. Don’t wait for someone else to speak. Don’t assume it’s someone else’s responsibility.
If something has been lost in this nation, then it will be found in the same way that it has always been…one life at a time…yours included!
Come back to Christ! Or come to Him for the first time!
Take it seriously, because He is not an invented idea from the past…
He is present…
And He is still calling.
The night will soon be deep, the garden still lies ahead, but He hasn’t gone anywhere.
And if we turn to Him, and I truly mean turn, then there is more hope than we think…
Much more!
May God meet you where you are tonight, and may He draw this nation back to Himself, not beginning with the crowds, but with our hearts!
Grace and peace be unto you.
Bishop Cei Dewar
Missionary Bishop
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Meanwhile in NZ - let’s celebrate how secular we have become by erasing the last traces of our western roots so we can get drunk on Easter - the same as any other day.
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41
Holy Week in Spain is absolutely unreal
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I watched to confirm this is true, it is. Here: tvnz.co.nz/shows/breakfas…
There is no excuse for this. Tova O'Dern deliberately avoided asking Hipkins about the harms to children, despite it being the biggest news story.
It was purely a TVNZ party political broadcast for Labour.
Suit and tie@Suitandtie9999
This morning, Tova O’Brien showed exactly why TVNZ is paying her the big bucks. While RNZ and the Herald NOW pressed Chris Hipkins over the ongoing Covid saga, O’Brien sailed through the entire interview without asking him a single question about it.
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Trust Alert: Chris Hipkins would like you to believe that he can’t remember ever getting advice about the danger of COVID-19 and myocarditis. Nor did he ever give health advice, leaving it to the experts. But here he was on the 21st of December, 2021, talking about the death of a young man. This was 12 days after the paper he didn’t read, and three months before the second paper, he can’t remember either. Both papers raised the very matter he talked about, even though he didn’t know about it. See my full speech in Parliament today, linked in the comments.

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Bowen must resign in disgrace.
He is the Minister directly responsible for this fiasco.
Australia is supposed to hold a minimum of 90 days of oil reserves to meet our IEA obligations. Instead, after almost four years under Bowen’s watch, we were left dangerously exposed with a criminally negligent 35 days.
Japan, by comparison, maintains over 200 days.
While the country sat vulnerable, Bowen mindlessly chased his pointless, virtue-signalling renewable fantasy and completely ignored the 90-day IEA target he was duty-bound to meet.
This is the same story with every single portfolio this man has touched: total incompetence, followed by outright catastrophe.
Bowen has failed spectacularly. Again. He should be booted out immediately.

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Over the past year Labor has done all they could to end support for oil, coal and gas.
They banned finance for fossil fuels (s 23c).
They stopped the Environment Minister being able to approve fossil fuel projects in the national interest.
We know what Labor did last summer and last summer they tried to kill Australia's oil industry.
You can't trust the people that don't like oil to solve oil crisis.
Now Labor is running around like a "headless chook" trying to fix things.
We are happy to help them see the error of their ways but they need to remove ALL of the GREEN HANDCUFFS they have placed on Australian development and Australian sovereign capability.


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We are facing a catastrophe because these incompetent fools (aided and abetted by the Greens, Teals and piss weak Liberals) prioritised the virtue-signalling renewable energy target over the 90 day IEA oil reserve target.
The renewable energy target is a meaningless feel-good virtue signalling target.
The 90 day minimum IEA target is a matter of national survival.

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