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Hydrogen, an element described as “odourless, tasteless and colourless”, is being hailed as a promising solution to the world’s reliance on fossil fuels.

Or put more accurately, hydrogen is the latest desperate clutching at straws by wind/solar power advocates, who really, really want some form of practical large-scale energy storage to overcome the inherent limitations of their beloved Gaia-approved energy sources.

Hydrogen is not exactly something new. Hydrogen powered cars have been around for decades, hydrogen fuel-cells powered the Apollo command modules, and there have even been prototype hydrogen powered aircraft. For various reasons it hasn’t been practical for most applications and hasn’t been widely adopted. There’s no particular reason to think anything has changed.
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September 3, 2019 8:01am
- slightlyrighty
  
  There has certainly been hydrogen aircraft.
  
  like the Hindenberg……
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:20am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Biggest firework display of 1937!
    
    But, like all the socialists wet dreams, it will be different when I do it properly this time . . .
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:35am
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      with someone else’s money
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:01am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “OH….The humanity”
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:21am
  - Biscuit
    
    The Hindenberg ran as well on Hydrogen as the Titanic did on Ice…
    
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    September 3, 2019 12:05pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And don’t forget the Hindenburg.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:23am
  - niggly
    
    I would suggest the young woke journos of today have no idea what a “Hindenberg” is!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:05am
    - MH
      
      It’s a gate, everyone should know that. It’s got U in it.
      
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      September 3, 2019 11:48am
- Tall Man
  
  Perhaps this example of hydrogen not working well is a clue…..
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgWHbpMVQ1U
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:25am
- srylands
  
  “Thanks to New Zealand’s abundant renewable energy, Woods said New Zealand could produce some of the cleanest green hydrogen in the world.”
  
  This implies that we have considerable surplus renewable generation capacity? Do we? I thought we had next to none. And producing hydrogen requires lots and lots and lots of electricity.
  
  Something does not stack up. It would be good to hear from an energy market expert on whether this is a viable game.
  
  Also what are the economics of transporting large volumes of pressurised hydrogen by ship? If I recall my chemistry, it is difficult and expensive to contain the gas. It is also frightenly volatile.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:32am
  - david
    
    Being No1 on the Periodic Table means that at the atomic level, Hydrogen can find its way through most materials created by man because it is smaller than the molecular gaps in container material. Lots of leakage.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:57am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Green hydrogen is dyed in the woods.
      
      Hydrogen is a hot topic at present. In the presence of some other elemental combinations and being excited strange thing are happening. Energy is being released through sub-atomic interactions. Patent wars have begun.
      
      https://e-catworld.com/2019/08/31/new-article-by-leif-holmlid-makes-the-case-for-ultra-dense-hydrogen-as-dark-matter/
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:22am
    - cmm
      
      Not just as an element, but also as an ion.
      
      A hydrogen ion is a proton. This makes it relatively easy for hydrogen to “sneak” through solids, especially metals.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:31am
    - alwyn
      
      Wikipedia doesn’t seem to agree with you. According to this article on Hydrogen storage it can have a very low permeation. Doesn’t that mean it won’t go through the walls of the container?
      “Compressed hydrogen storage can exhibit very low permeation.”
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage
      
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      September 3, 2019 3:50pm
  - niggly
    
    I heard that too yesterday – I couldn’t believe Woods would be so stupid as to say NZ has abundant renewable energy … it’s basically playing hard and loose with the truth (mind you that’s one of the Labour party’s strengths I suppose)!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:11am
  - Akarak
    
    Woods appears woefully out of touch with anything outside of New Zealand. In Australia for example there is a company already looking to play a significant role across three multi-billion dollar global markets. HAZER® technology can potentially provide an innovative solution for the global industrial hydrogen market, by producing hydrogen at lower cost than alternative options, while also reducing users’ CO2 footprint. The low-emissions associated with the HAZER® Process also potentially provides a gateway for hydrogen to more effectively penetrate the sustainable energy market for both vehicle fuel and stationary power applications. HAZER® is also looking to provide high quality synthetic graphite for energy storage and other large global graphite applications.
    The HAZER® Process takes two ubiquitous and cheap feedstocks (natural gas and iron ore), and uses these to generate two high value, high demand products (hydrogen & synthetic graphite) with global market applications. The core of their technology is the use of iron-ore as a low-cost catalyst for the gas decomposition reaction, which gives them a strong commercial advantage for accessing both hydrogen and high-quality graphite markets.
    Oh that’s right. Our CoL has banned oil and gas exploration haven’t they!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:53am
  - igm
    
    The bros will not want hydrogen as they will not be able to use an economy hose to drain other people’s tanks.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:29am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Hydrogen Production Process Technologies
    
    Today, 95% of hydrogen is produced either from wood or from fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil. Three types of production process are currently in use:
    
    The most common hydrogen production process is natural gas reforming — sometimes called steam methane reforming because it uses high-temperature steam. When exposed to steam and heat, the carbon (C) atoms of methane (CH4) separate. After two successive reactions, they reform separately to produce hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (carbon dioxide (co₂)). This operation therefore requires natural gas.
    Another process is charcoal gasification1. Charcoal consists mainly of carbon and water. Burned in a reactor at a very high temperature of between 1,200 and 1,500 °C, the charcoal releases gas that separates and reforms to produce hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO).
    Hydrogen can also be produced using electricity, through electrolysis of water. An electric current is used to split water (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2). This method is not as cost-effective as using fossil fuels. Hydrogen produced by steam methane reforming costs around €1.5 per kilogram at the plant gate (excluding distribution costs), triple the cost of natural gas. Hydrogen produced using electrolysis is currently around four times more expensive, even before the cost of the electricity required is factored in.
    Begs a couple of questions
    1.Is it cost effective to make Hydrogen as a fuel, when you are using a fuel source to make it? (electric, hydrocarbon, wood etc.)
    2. Is it really cleaner? or Is the waste just hidden? When you get bi product from the manufacture.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:39am
- cmm
  
  It is ridiculous.
  
  Hydrogen is not a fuel per se. You cannot mine it. Hydrogen has to be made – mainly in one of two ways:
  1) Take methane or other hydrocarbon (hydrogen and carbon) and react it to take out the carbon, leaving the hydrogen. Hugely wasteful and expensive process.
  2) Electrolysis: use electricity to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen. Again, very wasteful.
  
  Thus hydrogen is not an energy source. It is, at best, an energy transfer mechanism and a poor one at that.
  
  The whole “hydrogen economy” is a scam.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:38am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    So, you need electricity to make hydrogen? Better start building those dams and nuclear power plants then!
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:44am
    - Ruawai
      
      And what do they do with the carbon they take off? Will this be adding carbon to the environment?
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:25am
      - rangitoto
        
        I assume they are proposing electrolysis of water so no carbon involved (except for the coal fired power station to produce the electricity 😉 ). I see the Gween nut jobs just nixed the latest West Coast hydro power proposal.
        
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        September 3, 2019 12:49pm
  - burt
    
    At least if we used hydrogen we’d be unlike to have swivel eyed loons preaching peak hydrogen at us.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:49am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Learnt all of that in 5th form chemistry. Woods on the other hand, must have skipped that class in favour of pie day in home economics.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:56am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      It’s Woods. Every day is a new pie opportunity and, why stop at one?!
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:01am
      - notreadyet
        
        No science knowledge, just time spent doing a Phd on an obscure subject related to Maori housing and on that basis she best qualified to run kiwidontbuild
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:16am
      - sooty
        
        How is Woody going to pack hydorgen gas, when she has trouble packing pies!
        
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        September 3, 2019 12:21pm
    - cmm
      
      Well you can also get hydrogen from wood, but is is incredibly inefficient and, somehow, I don’t think she would like it :-).
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:26am
      - rangitoto
        
        Can also be made by steam reforming of coal gas. We have plenty of coal here.
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:09am
      - cmm
        
        Yup rangi, steam + methane => hydrogen + CO2.
        Scrub the CO2 and dump it into the atmosphere (or do other things with it) and you have pure, CO2-free hydrogen.
        
        So the process of burning this hydrogen still generates CO2, just not at the tailpipe.
        
        It’s a bit like driving an EV and forgetting that your tailpipe is really at Huntley.
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:46am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Coal gas is usually steam plus hydrocarbons gives a mix of CO, H2, and other products. The CO and H2 burn, with the CO being the “bad” part that made the old coal gas an effective way to commit suicide (head in the oven – lots of old stories that use this as a plot device etc). With methane that doesn’t work.
        
        The process Abarak refers to above is supposed to extract the H2 from methane and to extract the C as graphite so there’s no immediate CO2 release. If economic it is a great idea.
        
        Hydrogen however is far from an ideal fuel for practical reasons. It is difficult to store especially long term, and it can at certain concentrations form spontaneously flammable mixtures in air.
        
        It might well be worth exploring options to create hydrocarbons from atmospheric CO2 and water and to burn those. That would be carbon neutral and could take advantage of the extensive network of existing HC distribution hardware. So far an economical way of doing this hasn’t really emerged, but if we have plentiful renewable electricity it can be done.
        
        About time NZ invested in a couple of large nuclear installations to provide baseload power and then we can use our surplus of “renewables” to start creating such a process.
        
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        September 3, 2019 11:17am
      - alloytoo
        
        I vote we devote our entire wind and solar generation to hydrogen production schemes.
        
        Since this power is free (so we’re told) it should go a long way to improving the economics of the scheme.
        
        Removing the those sources from the national grid will also have the benefit of keeping domestic power prices down.
        
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        September 3, 2019 1:47pm
  - G152
    
    One might conclude that a blimp would push for hydrogen.
    If one were unkind
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:29am
- Happychappy
  
  Just a thought didn’t Japan spend billions to get where they are today on Hydrogen, I could be wrong but if that is the case how is Taranaki going to be the hub for NZ Hydrogen eith only 38 million invested by the Coalition.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:51am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t think so…
    
    Japan is exploring the Hydrogen economy….means they will have to burn a lot of Australian coal…and the economics don’t make sense
    https://www.ft.com/content/c586475e-7260-11e9-bf5c-6eeb837566c5
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:13am
    - Jack5
      
      In the Financial Times report on hydrogen as fuel: “It starts with brown coal in Australia, which will be gasified to produce low-cost hydrogen, with the carbon pumped back underground.”
      
      We have a vast reserve of brown coal (lignite) in Southland and east Otago.
      
      Hydrogen exports? That would help NZ’s long-standing balance-of-payments deficits.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:31am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW etc , there are numerous ways to manufacture Hydrogen without coal,
      
      https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:22am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        As if I didn’t know that, stephieboy.
        
        I do remember my 3rd Science – popping a bit of Zinc into a test-tube of acid and collecting the hydrogen produced in another test-tube, then approaching the collected gas with a burning splint.
        ‘POP’
        
        Standard junior secondary school identification test for a colourless gas.
        
        But it’s the economics that count, don’t you realise?
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:45am
      - rangitoto
        
        You are right stephie. You could manufacture hydrogen via electrolysis using a diesel powered generator. No coal required. Those smart Aussie’s are already ahead of you, using diesel generators to charge electric car batteries.
        
        http://joannenova.com.au/2019/08/the-diesel-generator-behind-the-electric-car-charging-point/
        
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        September 3, 2019 12:59pm
      - alloytoo
        
        A nuclear power station would be just the ticket.
        
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        September 3, 2019 1:49pm
  - niggly
    
    Don’t forget the COL chucked a million or two to renovate an old church or build a walking track or something (easily forgettable) in the aftermath of them killing off Taranaki’s energy future.
    
    Yep that’ll show them Japanese how “we” do it (sez the dimwitted COL)!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:15am
  - Happychappy
    
    This is Winston Peter with the 950 million dollar to set up Hydogen plant in Taranaki.https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/funding-taranaki-hydrogen-infrastructure.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:53am
    - alwyn
      
      Please don’t do that to me. It was $950 thousand, not $950 million.
      The trouble is that Winnie is so eager to throw our money around via his taxpayer provided slush fund that I actually thought your number was possible and just about had a heart attack.
      
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      September 3, 2019 3:57pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  They used to produce Hydrogen gas at the BOC gases plant in Seaview, Wgtn.
  I heard it blew up and they stopped making it, a long time ago.
  Q: Where would they plan to “make” the Hydrogen and what do ya think will happen to property value near it?
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:24am
  - peterwn
    
    There was a sign in that section – “If you really must smoke then do so – then be prepared to exit through the large hole that will suddenly appear in the roof”
    
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    September 3, 2019 12:12pm
- barnacle bill
  
  There is certainly a lot of work going on to get Hydrogen tech on to the market.
  
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-30/hydrogen-cars-could-be-commercial-by-2025/11456626
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/low-carbon-technology-fund-is-a-tonic-for-scottish-gin-maker
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:49am
- freethinker
  
  Toyota & Honda are both producing albeit limited numbers of Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars and neither company is known for being financially stupid so perhaps they know something that we don’t just yet. Technology changes and improves over time and it not beyond reason that hydrogen may become an economical & practical vehicle fuel, I note that when current batteries are replaced a fuel cell replacement will do the same job effectively recycling the car.
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:45am
  - Batman
    
    Hydrogen was tested and discarded in the early 2000s, but it seems that with advances since then it might have another life left
    
    Yes the car could be recycled to an extent, but there’s no getting around the fact that they all inevitably wear out after a while
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:49am
  - hullkiwi
    
    So is Hyundai.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:04am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Most vehicle fuel cells use a hydrocarbon source for the H2, not pure H2. Experimental ones can use H2 because they don’t typically need a distribution system with all the challenges that introduces.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:21am
- CJames
  
  To add to your list of exciting things to do with hydrogen, it was the cause of the explosion at Fukushima.
  
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  September 3, 2019 6:12pm
plc

I see our Prime Minister is visiting schools in Gisborne today.

Guess that’s another Question Time she will miss.

Most open and transparent government ever.
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September 3, 2019 8:02am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  No QT this week. Parliament back on holiday.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:27am
  - emmess
    
    What? You mean it has been prorogued?
    This is an outrage, an affront to democracy, it is a coup!
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:51am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Question time is every Tuesday on Mike Hosking’s show, where the Princess of Posidividy doesn’t have Trevor Mallard running interference for her!
    
    Shows, doesn’t it!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Parliament is not sitting this week.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:29am
  - plc
    
    My apologies to our hard working PM
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:30am
  - burt
    
    That’s obvious because the PM is in the country.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:50am
  - freethinker
    
    Did you miss the h out of the fourth word Maggie?
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:47am
igm

When is Mike Hosking going to realise that clueless Ardern is ruining his programme? Bet the ratings drop when this unelected unwanted and unintelligent apparition pervades the airwaves.
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September 3, 2019 8:03am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Once again she sent me back to sleep.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:24am
- hullkiwi
  
  She is just as bad on RNZ. It was funny listening to her comment her way (she doesn’t give answers) to Dann’s questions about the measles outbreak (it’s only an outbreak in Auckland – not a national one).
  Anyhow, she was being asked why the CoL had got rid of the previous targets, while not setting new targets. This despite saying they needed to achieve a “target” of 95% of target children immunized, when we’ve only achieved 91%. So, there is a target to achieve, but we don’t have a target or a plan to achieve.
  
  Why? Because it is too bureaucratic!
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The PM is ignorant.
    The latest missive form the Ministry of Health (September 2nd)
    is entitled: 2019 Measles Outbreak information
    and states:
    There are currently outbreaks of measles in New Zealand.
    https://www.health.govt.nz/your-health/conditions-and-treatments/diseases-and-illnesses/measles/2019-measles-outbreak-information
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:50am
  - MH
    
    even the squirrels are coming down with it.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:54am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Oh no, it’s worth the listen to remind yourself how incompetent she actually is!
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:44am
  - igm
    
    It increases my detestation of Peters every time I see or hear her.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:58am
    - Tall Man
      
      I’m at capacity for both of them… In case you hadn’t noticed 😉
      
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      September 3, 2019 2:07pm
- herb1
  
  She’s an embarrassment to listen to. clearly has no idea but uses lots of words to try and cover.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:55am
  - David Garrett
    
    herb1: Well. to borrow from Mandy Rice-Davies, she would, wouldn’t she? I suppose if you learn nothing else from a degree in “communications” it’s how to string lots of words together…they may not mean very much, but hey! You can’t have everything…
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:39am
  - igm
    
    She manufactures a number of words, and seems some on radio are now following her.
    Is “T” becoming redundant in the English vocabulary?
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:57am
  - freethinker
    
    Empty vessels make the most noise.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:49am
  - Faroffsound
    
    Waffles in other words. Queen of Waffling.
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:19pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Take solace in the fact that undecided voters are also listening.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:16am
- kevn
  
  @igm… heather simpson is on-the-job/payroll. No surprises there.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:49am
plc

Also TV3/Newshub last night. Slot the story in about the Labour Youth Camp alleged assault at 6:32pm
….it was the 18th most important story of the day
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September 3, 2019 8:04am
- calendar girl
  
  Did the Judge give any reason or justification for suppressing the name of the accused?
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:32am
  - Martin Williams
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I’m hearing it’s because the alleged perpetrator was a Young Nat plant. ?
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:38am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Labour trolls are claiming that on Mike Hosking’s Facebook.
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:30am
      - Tall Man
        
        As a supporter of this current National party, there is no way I would sully myself by grabbing a lefties hairy bits.
        
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        September 3, 2019 2:11pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      OMG, are you muttonbrain without an alias? Because he was stupid enough to suggest that conspiracy 17 months ago on KB and the Stannit!
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:32am
    - Tall Man
      
      It’s because, like mallard, you are hearing voices in your head and that only happens because you have nothing of substance in there… also like mallard.
      
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      September 3, 2019 2:10pm
    - herb1
      
      Correct Martin. The boy in question made a conscious decision to be an egg , fertilized by a future senior Labour party MP or partner (without giving to much away).
      got to hand it to those right wingers . much smarter than the lefties eh Martin
      
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      September 3, 2019 3:58pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Compare his name suppression with the taxi driver.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:51am
  - calendar girl
    
    Today’s “Stuff” reports:
    
    A 21-year-old man who has interim name suppression until the final determination of the trial denies five charges of indecent assault against four complainants.
    
    His trial started on Monday at the Auckland District Court in front of Judge Russell Collins and a jury.
    
    He was arrested in June 2018 after allegations arose of a man sexually assaulting four teenagers, aged 16 to 18, during the Waihi camp in February.
    
    The “Stuff” article does not provide Judge Collins’ rationale for his suppression of the defendant’s name. Be that as it may, the suppression order seems to me to imply a novel procedure that could be applied conceivably in any criminal trial:
    
    a) Charge a defendant in Court with the alleged criminal offence(s), but automatically suppress his / her name; at least until the trial verdict becomes known.
    
    b) If the defendant is found guilty, then – and only then – is his / her name permitted to be published.
    
    c) If the defendant is found not guilty, that person’s name becomes suppressed permanently.
    
    Is this the way Judge Collins’ mind is leading in respect of all criminal charges, or has he a particular, undeclared reason or justification for name suppression in this case?
    
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    September 3, 2019 1:34pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Heard his lawyers speech.
  effectively
  “it was just hijinx”
  “It happens all the time”
  “some of it never happened”
  “It is just played up on the internet”
  Begs a few questions
  1. What happened to “we must always believe the victims?
  2. Why were underage kids drunk?
  3. Who supplied the alcohol, that supposedly caused this?
  4. When did uninvited sexual touching morph from “sexual assault” to Hijinx?
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:33am
  - Lizziep
    
    RW Capitalist, Obviously since this col came to parliament as the pm is hiding one offender in her office if reports are correct.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:56am
- Paulus
  
  Labour Camp case nowhere to be seen in the MSM today as far as I can find.
  But as the Defence Counsel said – “It is Political”.
  So there – its been shut down.
  Media will not be allowed to go to New York soon if they do not do what they are told.
  I expect the perpetrator will get a short Community Service with name suppression.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:43am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    You have to look for it, but both Stuff and the Herald have coverage. There will be more today once court resumes, and evidence about the assaults is given.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115443707/labour-party-summer-camp-accused-very-drunk-on-night-of-alleged-sexual-assaults
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:59am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Tony, I hoped and thought you were right. Nothing more on the radio or in the print media. Hopefully, there will be more on the 6 pm news.
      
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      September 3, 2019 1:28pm
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    So, if you commit a crime, but it’s in a political setting, it shouldn’t be prosecuted?
    
    This explains the shenanigans on the 9th floor then!
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:15am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It is Political”.
    
    I thought they were all Labour acolytes.
    
    Is the Defence Counsel hinting that there were internal divisions in Young Labour?
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:17am
  - MH
    
    it must be a very long name to be suppressed.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:57am
  - herb1
    
    Couple of articles up now headlining the fact the first sexual assault happened in front of Jacindas “Lets do this ” sign.
    Very appropriate considering the goings on in her own office
    
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    September 3, 2019 4:01pm
- chaos
  
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  I’d be surprised if most people actually care about this case.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:47am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    A number of young people were allegedly assaulted. If people don’t care about this case, they damn well should.
    
    I think you might be wishfully thinking people didn’t care about this case, but you may find this has more media traction than you hope it does.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:17am
    - chaos
      
      I think you might be wrong and making things up. I’m interested too see the victims get justice, but the vast majority of this country won’t give a stuff about this case or even know it exists.
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:26am
  - toby1845
    
    chaos, I wouldn’t be so sure.
    
    I have told literally dozens of people what I know about this case (including the identity of the perp), ditto for the chappie in the PM’s office, and Karen Sroubek’s links to a high-placed public official. People are interested, and disgusted.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:05am
    - chaos
      
      People who are interested in politics will care, the vast majority won’t.
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:25am
      - toby1845
        
        Actually, you would be surprised. Even if people aren’t ‘interested in politics’, they tend to be concerned about rapists and drug dealers not being held to account, and the PM’s office covering up for both.
        
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        September 3, 2019 12:45pm
      - chaos
        
        Toby, show me the outrage on social media about this case, there is none, no one has rung into talkback about it that I have heard all year. Very few people care about this case. And those that do are more inclined to be pushing the political side of this than actually caring about the victims.
        
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        September 3, 2019 1:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Every father and mother with a teenage daughter will have an interest in this, especially the cover up.
        
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        September 3, 2019 2:15pm
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      tody1845
      
      This protected predator in the PMs office who is being enabled to continue offending, it is the same person as the Labour Party camp?
      
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      September 3, 2019 3:29pm
      - toby1845
        
        No, it isn’t.
        
        Which makes it worse, because it suggests a pattern of people being prepared to accept this sort of behaviour. The same people who help cover up Darren Hughes alleged sexual assault.
        
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        September 4, 2019 2:28am
  - hullkiwi
    
    That is exactly the sentiment the CoL are hoping for, and it is wrong!
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:33am
    - chaos
      
      Yeah, but that is the way it goes, unless it personally touches a persons life they won’t care. It’s why abuse, physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual is out of control. People don’t care until it involves them.
      
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      September 3, 2019 11:02am
- burt
  
  It’s not like it happened at a law firm !
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:51am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    or
    to adults with law degrees
    ie able to defend and protect themselves.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:16am
- namron
  
  Also the tiny 14 line coverage on Page 9 of this
  morning’s Herald.
  Designed to be missed by most readers!!
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:17am
- freethinker
  
  Where there any well known faces in the Gallery? Was the tuckshop stocked up with plenty of Pies?
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:50am
Yvette

Winston, “It’s my job to know”
Yesterday, with a Newshub item headlined “Paula Bennett tells Winston Peters to ‘lighten up’ and ‘get a sense of humour’ “, a video showed Winston Peters in a 2017 interview, commenting on the initial breaking of the superannuation overpayment issue, which stemmed from questions asked by Newshub’s Lloyd Burr.

Winston says [3m.30secs in] “… Lloyd wasn’t the only person privacy [sic] to this information, which by the way he said was a leak from Inland Revenue – now, that’s a crime – and frankly I was on alert when he called me, and I decided I would find out who his source was; he blurted out “IRD” – that’s criminal.” [1]

So it would seem Lloyd Burr publicly broke the story on a Saturday, and within 48 hours Winston made a statement, in which he gave fuller “private details” on the matter than any other source, at any time, appears to have done.

And as Winston states that Burr said his source was an IRD leak, one wonders why Winston currently is still suing others for that indiscretion – non IRD people – in particular Paula Bennett, and that the defence of some of those people reportedly involves taxpayer finance.

[1] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/paula-bennett-tells-winston-peters-to-lighten-up-and-get-a-sense-of-humour.html – yesterday.
Winston Peters confirmed the overpayment in response to media inquiries 27 August, 2017 – 736 days ago
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September 3, 2019 8:06am
- hullkiwi
  
  Yvette, this is exactly why Winston’s legal action against Bennett and co will fail. His price is too high to settle out of court when the facts are against him.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:52am
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What you people need is a good dose of Religion
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September 3, 2019 8:09am
- Swifty
  
  Why?
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:26am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  and you need a dose of salts.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:31am
- The King
  
  Yeah bro, watch me allahu akbar on your downvotes.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:41am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I hear taking a ‘clue’ pill can clear that up for you.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:53am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    If you gave him a clue
    It’d be lonely.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:17am
Maggie Pie

Whilst i didn’t watch it becos it clashed with Khloe & Lamar on E, ex PM Helen Clark was live on TV3 The Project last nite, putting the case “as to why you should vote ‘YES’ in the 2020 Cannabis Referendum”. What did people think? 🙁

https://twitter.com/HelenClarkFound/status/1168367806385016832
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September 3, 2019 8:10am
- chaos
  
  oh, has she finished transitioning to man yet?
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:36am
  - stigie
    
    H2 is the man !~
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:04am
    - PhilP
      
      Heard H2 on the radio today and my god she has a voice like H1, deep and manly!
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:46pm
- sooty
  
  Piss off hairy legs! That’s what I think.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:52am
- toby1845
  
  What do I think?
  
  “A bloke would have to be blind or gay to marry that.”
  
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  September 4, 2019 2:32am
Poppa

My head hurts!!

Now we just want kids to enjoy sport & not play to win

What the hell has happened to our country??
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September 3, 2019 8:10am
- calendar girl
  
  Ask the chameleon Peters, Poppa. He ‘appointed’ the Government.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:37am
- SGA
  
  We need a bit of both, Poppa. There are plenty of adults of all ages playing sport in social or semi-social grades or for work teams. They play to win, but it’s not the main reason for being there.
  
  I’ve coached or helped coach kid teams in a number of sports, and I always stressed the try your hardest, give it “heaps”, get stuck in, and have fun. So long as they were doing that, I didn’t care overly about the final result (but we always liked to win, that was a goal, and they were always competetive).
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:05am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    It’s a good idea to emphasize the fun and health aspects of sports to school children.
    Children will naturally be competitive.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:10am
- chaos
  
  It’s a move that is needed. As they explained kids are quitting sports because it is no longer fun to be part of them. Sport should be about fun for kids, not what it has turned into which is pushing them past their limits to make professionals out of them. Next step on making it fun, remove the parents that are taking the games too serious.
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:37am
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I arise today through a mighty strength,
the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the Threeness,
through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation.

I arise today through the strength of Christ with his Baptism,
through the strength of His Crucifixion with His Burial,
through the strength of His Resurrection with His Ascension,
through the strength of His descent for the Judgment of Doom.

I arise today through the strength of the love of Cherubim
in obedience of Angels, in the service of the Archangels,
in hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
in prayers of Patriarchs, in predictions of Prophets,
in preachings of Apostles, in faiths of Confessors,
in innocence of Holy Virgins, in deeds of righteous men.

I arise today, through the strength of Heaven;
light of Sun, brilliance of Moon, splendor of Fire,
speed of Lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea,
stability of Earth, firmness of Rock.

I arise today, through God’s strength to pilot me:
God’s might to uphold me,
God’s wisdom to guide me,
God’s eye to look before me,
God’s ear to hear me,
God’s word to speak for me,
God’s hand to guard me,
God’s way to lie before me,
God’s shield to protect me,
God’s host to secure me:
against snares of devils,
against temptations of vices,
against inclinations of nature,
against everyone who shall wish me ill,
afar and anear, alone and in a crowd.

I summon today all these powers between me (and these evils):
against every cruel and merciless power that
may oppose my body and my soul,
against incantations of false prophets,
against black laws of heathenry, against false laws of heretics,
against craft of idolatry,
against spells of witches, smiths and wizards,
against every knowledge that endangers man’s body and soul.
Christ to protect me today against poisoning,
against burning, against drowning, against wounding,
so that there may come abundance in reward.

Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ in breadth,
Christ in length,
Christ in height,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.

I arise today through a mighty strength,
the invocation of the Trinity,
through belief in the Threeness,
through confession of the Oneness of the Creator of creation.
Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of the Lord.
Salvation is of Christ.
May Thy Salvation, O Lord, be ever with us.
Amen.

the lorica (the deer’s cry) – breastplate of st. patrick – 433 c.e.
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September 3, 2019 8:11am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh my God……
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:29am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Didn’t take long for the dose of salts to work.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:39am
    - sooty
      
      Yep. He’s got the runs!
      
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      September 3, 2019 8:54am
- alloytoo
  
  https://www.venganza.org
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:45am
  - burt
    
    Ramen.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:08am
- Swifty
  
  I do hope you have cleared your shelves of the evil Harry Potter books.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/115485022/harry-potter-removed-from-us-school-library-amid-fears-it-could-conjure-evil-spirits
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:47am
  - graham
    
    As a Christian, I find it embarrassing when people come out saying Harry Potter is evil, or corrupting our young people, or whatever. It’s the same as people who complain about Enid Blyton books. These people are reading far too much into these books, and looking at them from a far too literal perspective.
    
    I rather suspect that the vast majority of children who read them actually understand the concepts of fiction and fantasy far better than these adults give them credit for. The kids KNOW that it’s made up, fictional fantasy, and a harmless bit of escapism.
    
    Adults that decry these books need to rediscover their own imagination.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:34am
    - Swifty
      
      I totally agree – well said.
      
      I’ve been re-watching the films lately with my kids – totally wonderful fun – and not to mention the fantastic writing, sets, character development, acting and visuals.
      
      Haven’t seen the kids trying to fly a broomstick off the roof as yet – but will keep an eye out.
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:41am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Jesus said to some Anglicans, “Who do you say that I am?”
  
  They replied, “You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma of which we find the ultimate meaning in our interpersonal relationships.”
  
  And Jesus said, “What?”
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:59am
- Jack5
  
  Brown Snake quoting St Patrick.
  
  Mmm … didn’t St Patrick drive the snakes from Ireland?
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:59am
  - SGA
    
    I can see why.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:12am
  - G152
    
    Drove them out in his triumph
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:33am
    - Komata
      
      G152@0933
      
      And here was I thinking it was an Austin…
      
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      September 3, 2019 12:01pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      I always thought Jehovah came forth in his Triumph…
      
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      September 3, 2019 1:58pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  I prefer it to Muslim prayers.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:27am
Tricati

Goodness me – Just heard PM being interviewed by Mike Hosking and what a farce.
She had no idea why David Parker canned the hydro dam on the West Coast, and was all over the place on the new cancer policy and measles. Absolute disgrace.
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September 3, 2019 8:17am
- tf78
  
  Don’t worry H2 is all over everything – so she’ll be right mate.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:24am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The PM had an absolute Betty Crocker this morning. Her grasp of detail is not good at the best of times, but this morning, it was abysmal.
  
  John Key and Bill English were never exposed in that manner, and although I detest Helen Clark’s politics, she always knew her stuff. I suspect she is very disappointed with that aspect of Ardern’s performance as PM.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:25am
  - plc
    
    Don’t worry Garner rolled on his back and let her tickle his tummy.
    
    To the point that Richardson call him on his weak questioning
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:32am
    - Inandout
      
      pic, Garner and TV3 are holding out for some taxpayer cash to keep the company afloat so he will be licking boots.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:04am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Boots are the starting point with the the exit port next.
        
        Socialists love a good arse licking, exercise ball, camp, secure office space . . .
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:03am
  - Colville
    
    That Comms degree is really paying off.
    
    //
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:34am
    - Jack5
      
      “Comms degree” used to mean a commerce degree and still does to many of us.
      
      To be clear, Jacinderella has a degree in communications – a field that seems to encompass public relations and journalism, without the mathematical communications theory that Shannon pioneered and led to computer science.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:08am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      Do you think it’s too late for her to apply for a refund?
      
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      September 3, 2019 1:25pm
  - kiwitoffee
    
    Indeed.
    
    Stop me if you’ve heard this before…
    
    She’s lightweight, shallow and making it up as she goes along. (And the other one, the guy with his hands on the purse strings, thinks he has a husband).
    
    As Terry-Thomas used to say, “What an absolute shower!”
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:37am
  - chaos
    
    Don’t worry, Clarke will be on his Twitter today standing up for her.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:40am
  - pdm
    
    In Clarks day Parker would not have been allowed to make that decision without running it past her first.
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:48am
  - fernglas
    
    Why don’t our politicians appear on a current affairs programme at 7:30pm on a Sunday to be asked questions by an intelligent interviewer?
    
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    September 3, 2019 8:51am
    - BassilFawlty
      
      Because that’s when the religious programs are on.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:27am
    - freethinker
      
      Because intelligent interviewers are extinct.
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:57am
  - Fletch
    
    It’s all right though, because she (like many lefties) adopts this condescending “aww look, it’s because..” tone, as though the interviewer doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Only it’s not working so well these days.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:00am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Ardern is so out of her depth it’s frightening her. (Headlights on the opossum syndrome.)
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:46am
  - Scooter
    
    Her get out free jail cards are:
    It’s before the courts so can’t comment.
    It’s another ministers policy.
    Doesn’t have the numbers in front of her.
    Can’t comment on other Govts policies (Australian is the exception).
    
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    September 3, 2019 7:59pm
- Grizz
  
  I really struggle to listen to those interviews now. Her answers are empty words, lots of word fillers (umming and ahhring) and absolutely no content. She is either totally useless or that her minders make her do this so she does not look even more useless.
  
  If most of the mainstream luvvies still in bed with her she would have been called on this a long time ago.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:35am
- chaos
  
  The question is with pike mine now at $36 million, how long will it take before the cost of pike mine goes past the tiny amount of money they have set aside for their cancer plan
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:38am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The woman is full of misinformation and double-speak.
  This morning when interviewed by Corin Dann she initially rejected the view that NZ has an “outbreak ” of measles.
  The government is not classing the spread of measles in New Zealand as an outbreak just yet
  
  Later when queried about making vaccination compulsory as in Victoria she stated that she thought Victoria and NSWales were also experiencing a measles outbreak . (around the 7 min mark)
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=2018711566
  This is nonsense… Victoria has recorded 4 measles cases this August.. and they originate from incoming travellers as do the few cases in NSW
  
  https://www.9news.com.au/national/measles-outbreak-third-person-diagnosed-in-two-days-news-update-health/4af09237-7dca-4f64-841c-5efee7d46f64.
  
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  September 3, 2019 8:55am
  - srylands
    
    It is very depressing. Surely she is briefed on the topic. Measles could be eradicated in New Zealand. That means no, or a tiny number, of transmissions in New Zealand. The USA achieved that 20 years ago. Then the crazies started. Nevertheless,the USA now has about the same number of cases as New Zealand with 300 million people!
    
    Measles can be eradicated in New Zealand. It simply takes politicians with the will to do it.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:30am
    - Martin Williams
      
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      Having been through the system I was always surprised by the choice put in front of you as a parent. The literature and advice certainly left the impression immunisation was preferred but not necessary.
      
      Time to make it necessasry.
      
      But to do this, and eradicate, you’d have to take personal choice away from people with is anathema to the Right.
      
      Quite the conundrum…
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:07am
      - Tall Man
        
        People also have the personal choice to commit murder but we on the right don’t like that either.
        
        You are a stunning example of the stupidity that pervades the thinking on the left which actually shows that there is little thinking involved.
        
        Your idiot leader is a classic example of “mouth led” but “brain dead”. The rest of you are so devoted you strive to achieve the same state of stupidity. Job done in my opinion.
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:27am
      - gravedodger
        
        Until the vaccine against ‘stupid’ is perfected then some means of enforcement will be needed.
        
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        September 3, 2019 10:42am
      - srylands
        
        People do not have the personal choice to harm children. The case for compulsory vaccination is at least as strong as that for compulsory child restraints in cars.
        
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        September 3, 2019 11:18am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Even if vaccination was made compulsory, there would have to be exceptions. There are some people for whom the vaccination would actually be dangerous – immune compromised children for example. So there would need to be some medical approval process.
      
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      September 3, 2019 2:14pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… Classic red herring tactic from JA.
    
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    September 3, 2019 9:53am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It seems to be a classic technique from the Lazy Left.
      
      Too bone idle to check out a bit of information for themselves.
      
      Deflect, Deny, Defer
      
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      September 3, 2019 10:27am
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, rich irony alert out on the rabid right!
        
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        September 3, 2019 1:20pm
- niggly
  
  Even Corin Dann appeared to be exasperated at times when interviewing Ardern on Morning Report (although unlike when interviewing Simon Bridges he barely interrupted her and let her get away with long waffling answers).
  
  Was pleased though that Corin had done some research on the subject matter beforehand – he landed a beauty on Ardern when he said something like in the US there are around 1000 people infected with measles but their population was 200-300 million whereas NZ also has around 1000 measles cases but our population was only 4-5 million in comparison.
  
  Cue a long blah blah blah reply from Ardern to skirt around the topic but unfortunately Corin let her waffle instead of pulling her up!
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:02am
  - hullkiwi
    
    niggly, yes. I heard the interview as well. It is always good comedy, as she often can’t answer questions (because she has already lied/put her feet in her mouth) or she has not remembered her briefing.
    
    Dann, landed 3 good ones on her:
    1. About what is a target and what is not a target and why the CoL scrapped them and then put nothing in place;
    2. About the measles outbreak in the US and there being only 1000 cases there; and then as Maggy has pointed out the question as to whether there should be compulsory vaccinations for children as in Vic and SA. Instead she resorted to misinformation (using statistics incorrectly or as Tall Man would put it – lied).
    
    Every week, she reminds us:
    1. How lacking in talent the Labour caucus is and why you shouldn’t vote Labour;
    2. Why you shouldn’t believe or trust the Toxic Gnome and should not vote NZF; and
    3. Why MMP has ensured perpetual mediocrity in NZ.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:12am
    - Faroffsound
      
      MMP has not so much ensured mediocrity as enabled incompetence to flourish. In the national interest we should be considering how to fix this.
      
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      September 3, 2019 3:40pm
- noskire
  
  It was diabolical – I had to listen twice because I couldn’t believe what was coming out of her mouth:
  Ardern on measles – “…bring in your childs…”
  Ardern on cancer – “…the issue with the cancer…”
  Calling her a lightweight is being unfair to the lightest chemical element, which just happens to be hydrogen…
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:38pm
Swifty

Lessons for NZ from Thomas Sowell:

https://youtu.be/U7hmTRT8tb4?t=1949

We are so badly let down by our leaders.
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September 3, 2019 8:24am
artemisia

Shortage of midwives, but never fear Ms Genter is here. Empathising, chatting, being aware, talking about a review “… but we are working really hard to look at how we can improve…”

Another working group coming right up. Maybe. It is the year of delivery after all.//

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/115298169/maternity-ward-staff-too-busy-to-listen-to-concerns-about-gravely-ill-baby-parents-say
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September 3, 2019 8:29am
RW Capitalist

Housing
Didn’t National, under Key and English, have a rent to buy scheme re state houses?
Didn’t Labour/Greens oppose it?
What different?
To quote Marx, badly.
I have principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.
OOHH sorry…that’s Groucho Marx.
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September 3, 2019 8:46am
- chaos
  
  I couldn’t actually remember, so googled.
  
  Is this what you mean, a foundation using rent to own in the special housing area?
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/10454687/Couple-thankful-for-rent-to-own-scheme
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:35am
Jack5

Our new Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon, in an interview on Stuff today says:

” … the right to actually voice your opinion is still very important, as long as it’s not detrimental to individuals and organisations.

So Meng Foon plans to widen his role from investigating and ruling on complaints of racial discrimination, to being the arbiter on what New Zealanders say and post.

“Detrimental to individuals and organisations?” – that’s Draconian.

With a Corbynist from the UK installed as Human Rights Commissioner and Foon’s boss, we can expect some controversial rulings.

Foon also has views on revising teaching of history in NZ.

But on freedom of speech alone, Foon is buying a fight.

Here are some pointers on how America’s courts have made decisions on freedom of speech (not that the Leftists of the Human Rights Commission care much about United States precedents):

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does
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September 3, 2019 8:46am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Detrimental to individuals and organisations?”
  So
  Just musing here:
  Who defines this?
  Does this mean, a “Vote National” bill board, could be deemed “Detrimental to individuals and organisations”……… such as the CoL party’s?
  and banned.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:11am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  ” … the right to actually voice your opinion is still very important, as long as it’s not detrimental to individuals and organisations.”
  
  So if I criticize some group (that preys on the weak), then it could be detrimental to that group? And I am not allowed to criticize them?
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:13am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Another thought.
    
    If telling the truth is detrimental to some individuals and organisations, are we to keep silent?
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:48am
MCos

We departed Thailand yesterday and returned to my motherland.
At Bangkok Airport, which has an almost unpronounceable name, there is a priority Immigration lane for, among others, people over the age of seventy.
Instead of waiting in long lines we were through in no time. So if any of you other old codgers out there are visiting the Kingdom that’s handy to know.
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September 3, 2019 8:49am
slightlyrighty

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415169/Religion-political-ideals-replaced-dogma-turned-beliefs-hate-crimes.html

A great read on the new totalitarianism of the woke left.
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September 3, 2019 8:58am
Maggie Pie

People very much in the know are tweeting that sauces close to the Queen claim she is in despair that Andrew and the Jeffrey Epstein affair ‘have bought a lasting whiff of scandal to the Monarchy’ 🙁

https://twitter.com/davidicke/status/1168433503509319681
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September 3, 2019 9:08am
- chaos
  
  They survived murdering Diana, they will survivor murdering Andrew,
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:32am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    What about Jeffrey Epstein?
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:08am
    - chaos
      
      Removes are Hillary is getting set to announce her run, more likely he was removed for her. Interesting though that the lawyers are pushing it wasn’t suicide and that they have a anonymous staff member from the prison supporting that claim
      
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      September 3, 2019 11:15am
- rangitoto
  
  I’ve heard the Queen likes mint sauce.
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:35am
  - kowtow
    
    I notice that sauce was “bought” , not brought. But one wonders whether Eppers brought bought girls to his parties.
    
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    September 3, 2019 11:01am
- MH
  
  a good dose of H and P source presumably ? MW where did you put the Epsom Salt ?
  
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  September 3, 2019 12:10pm
- noskire
  
  What do you get when you cross the Queen and Prince Phillip?
  A car crash in a tunnel.
  
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  September 3, 2019 3:18pm
Right of way is Way of Right

Ah, religion, what a wonderful moderating influence on the world.
https://www.newsweek.com/no-gay-mixed-race-weddings-boones-camp-event-hall-mississippi-1457252

Here we have a wonderful example of religious freedom, where a God fearing Christian woman has refused to host a wedding because the participants conflict with her deeply held beliefs.

Goodness me, are they a same sex couple?

No, they are a multi racial couple. The groom is black, the bride is white.

Mississippi in 2019, ladies and gentlemen.

Funnily enough the wedding venue in question, (Boone’s Camp Event Hall), has suddenly shut down their Facebook page….I wonder why.
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September 3, 2019 9:25am
- Tall Man
  
  Freedom of speech and thought doesn’t always fit other people’s opinions but they are still free to have them… or are they?
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:20am
- atomic drop
  
  Why should a celebrant be forced to marry a white black couple?
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:20am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Freedom is allowing people to have such diverse views that they may appear to be in error.
  I encounter many that have strange views which they sincerely hold. Do I gain if I impose my view on them by force? Among Christians for example there are many active issues in theology almost all irrelevant.
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:31pm
lastmanstanding

IMHO Greta Thunberg is being exploited and abused. It appears she suffers from several issues. She is being used as a shield by the Climate Change trolley cases knowing that she wont be challenged or ridiculed due to her being a child who suffers from said issues.
She is a pawn in their game and I believe will ultimately pay a price from being abused.

Her backers will then blame we who are Climate Change questioners so seek to make capital out of a situation they caused.

This speaks volumes of the Left.
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September 3, 2019 9:30am
- Martin Williams
  
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  I guess in your world, people with “issues” should be shut away and silenced.
  
  This speaks volumes of the Right.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:43am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Fuck off Martin
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:07am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Only those on the left believe in restricting freedom of speech, presumably for the protection of those we disagree with.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:10am
  - Garbageman
    
    Coming from a Labour supporter thats cute “shut away & silenced” hmm Labour youth camp silenced & covered up, alleged rapist & touchy perv in Arderns inner circle silenced & covered up, then there is Mallards “rapist” comment once again covered up
    
    This speaks volumes of the left
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:30am
  - Swifty
    
    Strawman 101.
    
    You must do better
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:33am
  - softail 1450
    
    Martian Williams, you’ve obviously got a few issues Martian but here you are walking free amongst us and not “shut away and silenced”….In my opinion the white coat brigade have slipped up in your case….LOL.
    
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    September 3, 2019 12:34pm
- Jack5
  
  Echoes of the Children’s Crusade that set off in May of 1212.
  
  http://historylearning.com/medieval-england/the-crusades/childrens-crusade/
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:48am
- MCos
  
  She most certainly is being challenged and ridiculed.
  Whether the challenges and ridicule is because of what she says or who she is is significant.
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:21am
  - atomic drop
    
    Its the ploy of using kiddies to get “cut through” on a political agenda which is disgusting.
    
    But it works a treat like the tried and true “Baby Kissing Season” antics in election campaigns.
    
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    September 3, 2019 10:37am
    - MCos
      
      Greta Thunberg is not a ‘kiddy’. She is sixteen.
      Sachin Tendulkar was playing test cricket when he as sixteen. Lorde won a Grammy for music composed when she was fifteen.
      
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      September 3, 2019 4:23pm
Bobba Fret

Only one more sleep until we get the Kiwi Build reset……………I’m very excited……..not!
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September 3, 2019 10:19am
- chaos
  
  Why sleep, the greens leaked it, there will be a rent to own as part of it
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:31am
  - sooty
    
    The swarmy twit Tyford is not at the forfront!
    That is important, the trouble is the loon is on the same payrate as before!
    Judith can claim his scalp though, to hang from her belt! Who’s going to be her next one?
    
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    September 3, 2019 12:34pm
RW Capitalist

Cancer Plan
1. Create a management body to oversee it.
2. Give $60mill to Pharmac of which only a fraction will be attributed to cancer drugs….To quote the minister, he doesn’t control how Pharmac distribute the money. (OOHH yeah and that $20mill in the first year and $40mill [promised] for the second year) and they always keep their promises (housing and trees)
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September 3, 2019 10:24am
- chaos
  
  As I said before, $36 million already for pike mine, makes this announcement look like a joke when cancer is getting a small amount more than what they are wasting on pike mine
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:55am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    $36million for dead people. FFS
    But I agree with decision to let Pharmac decide where to spend money – they are in the business of saving most lives they can, not feelz.
    
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    September 3, 2019 2:04pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Pharmac do a good job rationing out scarce resources. They know what works and what is unproven.
  I suspect the delays concerning cancer is not drugs, although there is always a miracle cure being promoted. The delays are probably in diagnosis and the initial clinical stages. That is a matter for the overall health budget as DHB’s administer that and on balance do a reasonable job among all the competition for dollars.
  These delays have affected me but by comparison NZ has excellent public health services and I couldn’t expect more. If everyone can jump the queue who can afford to fund that? I sense that clinicians are very conscious of doing the best they can.
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:23pm
stephieboy

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I posted this on Sunday but without the RNZ podcast now available. Most important their visit vitally important given the unwelcome revisitation of Islamaphobia and hysteria creeping back into the debate on KB and elsewhere.

“From sworn religious enemies to peacemakers in action”

Former enemies Imam Dr Muhammad Ashafa and Pastor Dr James Wuye spent years as the leaders of violent militias fighting each other in Nigeria, but an unlikely coming together saw their worlds come together in emphatic fashion and they are now best friends. The religious leaders have been in New Zealand to meet Muslim community and other community leaders in Christchurch and speak at events in Wellington and Auckland.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018711316/from-sworn-religious-enemies-to-peacemakers-in-action
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September 3, 2019 10:27am
- atomic drop
  
  What is your point? A couple of show ponies that only emphasize what a hell hole Africa is.
  
  South Africa used to be a 1st World country but since becoming the “Rainbow Nation” has rapidly descended into 3rd World dysfunction and violence.
  
  It’s funny how stephiesoy and co never mention South Africa anymore unless they are forced to.
  
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  September 3, 2019 10:57am
  - cmm
    
    SOmehow South Africa is back to being an “emerging economy”.
    
    Surely if it was good and is now worse, it is receding, not emerging?
    
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    September 3, 2019 12:27pm
    - alloytoo
      
      It’s a country herroraging skills and capital. Infrastructure is collapsing. Zimbabwe 2.0
      
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      September 3, 2019 2:23pm
- Swifty
  
  So they have both agreed to ignore their holy books’ exhortations to violence.
  
  Good for them.
  
  A pity they didn’t do it much earlier.
  
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  September 3, 2019 11:36am
hullkiwi

Lessons in how to concentrate the mind – the threat of unemployment.

It seems whet Tory Remoaners (when will Tory Party Constituency Assocs do the Tory Party a favour and get rid of these people?), are threatening to side with Corbyn and force Boris to face Parliamentry votes over his negotiations. So, Boris is calling their bluff and threatening them with a General Election and possible deselection, ouch!

This is also is scarring some in the Labour who face losing their seats to a Tory/Brexit Party push, double ouch!

For three years Remoaner MPs have frustrated the result of the 2016 referendum, it is time for them to stop taking money their lobbyist patrons and start representing the people who put them in Westminster.
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September 3, 2019 10:27am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Fun in the UK.
  If they don’t like Boris they can have a general election on the 14th October. Those opposed may loose their rights to even stand.
  Boris wins because the results wont be available until after 31st October. The Govt still remains until a new Parliament is sworn in post brexit.
  
  All MP’s know the rules so why are some so daft?
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:09pm
Swifty

An excellent interview of a deeply impressive man; General Jim Mattis, The Warrior Monk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKIJKQRb53o
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September 3, 2019 10:30am
- Morrissey
  
  Mad Dog Mattis is a basket case.
  
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  September 3, 2019 12:10pm
  - Swifty
    
    Yawn. You have no credibility here.
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:13pm
atomic drop

That “young family” on Waiheke who had some crazy Mad Max-esque tale of terror have as I suspected not been telling the truth.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12262544

Not random attack, there had been a previous verbal altercation at a shop. The Herald now has a source saying no weapons involved and the couple approached the offender’s property and argued.

Crazy couple.
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September 3, 2019 10:42am
- Jules99
  
  Yeah, I suspected a fictional account as well. Given the low level of policing on the WI, I would imagine she wasted police time.
  
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  September 3, 2019 11:37am
JibberJabber

TVNZ and TV3 are in a bidding war for this Reporters services,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=be9mHcfnLF8
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September 3, 2019 11:38am
- Tall Man
  
  Sounds like steffy’s brain on a “good” day.
  
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  September 3, 2019 2:24pm
burt

So this protected Labour party predator, is the trial continuing today or has he already been granted permanent name suppression and a pay rise ?
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September 3, 2019 11:43am
Maggy Wassilieff

Do you have vegan neighbours?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2019/09/aussie-vegan-takes-neighbours-to-court-over-the-smell-from-barbecue.html
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September 3, 2019 11:55am
- sooty
  
  Another swivel eyed loon!
  
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  September 3, 2019 12:25pm
Maggy Wassilieff

God moves in mysterious ways…
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/09/02/extinction-rebellion-co-founder-reveals-she-was-inspired-to-begin-the-climate-change-protest-movement-after-taking-psychedelic-medicines/
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September 3, 2019 12:02pm
- stephieboy
  
  Anthony Watts and the Daily Mail says it all!
  
  Sigh!
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:22pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It was Dr Gail Bradbrook’s prayer that God answered…
    Gail Bradbrook, 47, a molecular biologist, said she ‘prayed in a deep way’ while taking the substances on a retreat.
    
    She told a BBC Inside Out West documentary that her prayer was answered within a month, with Extinction Rebellion formed last year.
    
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    September 3, 2019 2:39pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND HOUSING: Severely unaffordable Auckland in trouble due to ramping up new housing production and the ‘flight to affordability’ nationally …

( Auckland NZ ) Barfoot & Thompson’s sales levels were grim in August but selling prices remained steady … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/101499/barfoot-thompsons-sales-levels-were-grim-august-selling-prices-remained-steady

Auckland’s largest real estate agency had its worst August for sales in the last nine years, although selling prices remained reasonably steady.

Barfoot & Thompson sold 746 residential properties in August, down from 879 in July (-15%) and 795 in August last year (-6%)..

It was the lowest number of properties the agency has sold in the month of August since 2010.

However the low number of sales does not appear to have affected prices.

The agency’s average selling price was $930,090 in August, up from $919,648 in July and almost unchanged from $928,266 in August last year.

The median selling price was $830,000, up from $800,500 in July but down from $840,000 in August last year. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Watch as new dwelling construction ramps up going forward … competing with existing stock … in Auckland and generally throughout New Zealand…

The number of new dwellings being consented in Auckland has doubled over the last five years … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/101451/number-new-dwellings-being-consented-auckland-has-doubled-over-last-five-years

When adjusted for population differences, for the month of July, New Zealand’s consents / approvals were a rising 8.32 per 1000 population per annum … in comparison with Australia’s worrying 6.15 per 1000 population per annum.

New Zealand’s residential new build consenting during July was 34% higher than Australia’s.
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The ‘flight to affordability’ for housing and businesses is well underway to smaller urban areas as well … assisted significantly by the very successful roll – out of UFB fibre in New Zealand ( sadly not so far in Australia ) …

The UFB success story … Kiwiblog

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/09/the_ufb_success_story.html

This success must be repeated with urgency … with the proper debt financing and provision of infrastructure for desperately needed new housing and associated development … promised during this term of government.

Infrastructure related announcements from the New Zealand government are expected soon.
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September 3, 2019 12:03pm
JibberJabber

South Africa is burning, well on its way to becoming a basket case that will be the envy of all the others.
200 drivers murdered.
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00069704.html

Rioting and foreign owned shops being looted.
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00069704.html
Child kidnapped from mothers arms at school.
https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/watch-grade-r-girl-kidnapping-teacher-reportedly-chased-after-getaway-car-school-maintains-there-is-ample-security-20190902
You won`t read about any of this from any western news outlet.
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September 3, 2019 12:11pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘You won`t read about any of this from any western news outlet.’
  
  No you won’t , because the Media Party has done its job by bringing about the end of the white regime , it was evil because it was racist you see and that justified bringing it down, Now though black people are murdered and raped in the tens of thousands , but that’s OK you see as blacks now run the place. So it’s not about justice , as poor blacks and migrants have no justice there , it’s about bashing the white man in power.
  Our media are shocking hypocrites.
  
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  September 3, 2019 6:31pm
Morrissey

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Hansen knows they cheated throughout that farcical 2011 RWC Final

Not that he’s got the integrity to admit it, of course.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/397984/hansen-unruffled-by-cheats-call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBqetaCfgo
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September 3, 2019 12:19pm
- hullkiwi
  
  So Morrissey, Barnes has white washed from his mind the antics of the French in the final quarter of the QF game in 2007? Thd same game which saw the All Blacks being victims to sustained French cheating at the rucks and mauls. Barnes is yet another scribe who spins a line for copy, but nobody in authority or adjudicating rugby matches pays attention too.
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:02pm
- Tall Man
  
  Come on people. a couple more down ticks please….
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:42pm
sooty

Woody has some prerecorded press relesses to make as though she is at work this week!
Bet she is not at work this week!
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September 3, 2019 12:23pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Beware the supression orders, you may be courting disaster!
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:27pm
  - burt
    
    Why do you say this, I’m curious now about the connection between the comment you replied to and the name suppression.
    
    Thanks for highlighting that comment for further scrutiny.
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:47pm
- Happychappy
  
  Sooty she is in Gisborne today and I am pretty sure that’s where Jethro originates from.
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:35pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    She was checking out Ngati Porou’s blueberry plantings at Tolaga Bay… then took a look at the Hospital at Te Puia Springs.
    
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    September 3, 2019 4:25pm
Komata

Sooty@1223

Is she visiting Auckland? ( To do some ‘shopping’)?

(Enquiring for a friend).
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September 3, 2019 12:55pm
- Poppa
  
  Could be shopping for tents?
  
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  September 3, 2019 1:58pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Making a guest appearance at Dads Pies in Silverdale, Big Ben in Wiri, Irvings around the corner and every Asian pie making bakery in between I believe
  
  Makes Augustus Gloop seem restrained and syph like
  
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  September 3, 2019 2:23pm
  - skyblue
    
    Off to a Food Court?
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:03pm
Maggie Pie

Whenever i hear of, or get see a case like this, there is very often
a common denominator 🙁

https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1168629678615269377

Just sayung.
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September 3, 2019 1:28pm
- Tall Man
  
  Hard to spot in the dark?
  
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  September 3, 2019 2:21pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    No, silly! a dumb blonde 🙂
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:25pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Ahhh I see.
      
      You are smarter than the average bear… my wife spotted the same thing.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:41pm
Happychappy

Young Labour supporters were drinking excessive amounts of alcohol “to get absolutely hammered ” on the night a man is accused of assaulting four people at the Party’s Summer Camp a court has heard.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=12264297
Why has no one been charged with serving alcohol to miners then and allowing other to drink when highly intoxicated.
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September 3, 2019 2:21pm
- burt
  
  Let’s cover this up !
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115484560/labour-youth-camp-trial-teen-allegedly-assaulted-in-front-of-lets-do-this-sign
  
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  September 3, 2019 2:44pm
  - Happychappy
    
    burt their catch phrase’s would look good on Election hoardings.
    “Let’s do this it felz so good”
    
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    September 3, 2019 5:37pm
- burt
  
  If I had a party where teenage people were hammered and four of them sexually assaulted – what chance do you think I would have of escaping a charge of providing alcohol to minors without their parents consent ?
  
  But it is different when Labour do it !
  
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  September 3, 2019 2:45pm
  - Swifty
    
    Let me guess – it’s not in the public interest to prosecute.
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      All I can say is wally……..
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:38pm
  - chaos
    
    Probably a pretty good chance, just remembering back a week or two with the case of the boy who got drunk on a school trip and sexually assaulted a girl. Let off because he is an up and coming sports star. Great news for criminals, the justice system in New Zealand is gutless
    
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    September 3, 2019 3:15pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      The young man pleaded guilty to rape and sexual violation of 2 girls (different times & locations).
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/114926932/teenager-got-off-very-lightly-after-admitting-sex-attacks-on-two-girls
      
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      September 3, 2019 4:42pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Karma Maggy… Karma.
        
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        September 3, 2019 9:39pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  My partners mum was wondering if Judge Collins was still in the running for the position of Chief District Court Judge – or has that appointment already been made?
  She said she was just asking for an elderly lawyer friend in the Village.
  
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  September 3, 2019 3:40pm
  - fernglas
    
    Him and 300 others. Don’t worry, he’s male. white and intelligent. He hasn’t a show and he knows it.
    
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    September 3, 2019 6:53pm
Jack5

The spam phone calls continue, purporting to come from Spark and threatening imminent cutting off of broadband.

For some time they have used an automated calling system, with a Western accent, as most people are now wised up to Asian-accent “Spark” calls.

Surely Spark could have nailed these pricks by now. Perhaps offering a reward would help, or some help to the police in the foreign land that the calls come from. Either that, or hire a triad.
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September 3, 2019 4:05pm
- chaos
  
  I doubt the police in India give a damn.
  
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  September 3, 2019 4:27pm
John Warren

Came back to the office earlier today just as the clock struck the hour. Turned on the radio, listened to about half of the daily Maori moanfest, and turned it off in disgust. It seems to me that the grievance industry has got the mainstream media by the short and curlies – it’s taking over the discourse.
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September 3, 2019 4:13pm
- MCos
  
  You don’t see the irony of moaning on Kiwiblog about a moanfest?
  
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  September 3, 2019 4:45pm
  - Happychappy
    
    A bit like you when Bill Englsh was the Prime Minister and Winston though he had the goods on him over the Barclay saga. But don’t let being a hypocrite stand in your way of taking shot at kiwibloggers.
    
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    September 3, 2019 5:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      A man from Timaru married to an asian being a hypocrite… Surely you jest.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:34pm
- atomic drop
  
  “it’s taking over the discourse.”
  
  It’s called “the long march through the institutions”. The Right has been losing EVERY battle in the Culture Wars since forever.
  
  Remember when they said homosexuality should be legalised because it was nobody else’s business what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedroom? A few decades later and now ( in USA and Britain at least ) you can do time behind bars for “mis gendering” a tranny or posting on social media you believe transsexuals are mentally ill.
  
  Your enemies are NEVER going to stop.
  
  Why didn’t the Right shut down this Progressive Clown Show back when you had a chance?
  
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  September 3, 2019 5:32pm
  - tranquil
    
    It’s called “the long march through the institutions.”
    Yep, spot-on! Good to see another KB reader who knows about the scumbag Rudi Dutschke and his followers –
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke
    
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    September 3, 2019 7:24pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Bounce back/payback is a bitch….
      
      2020 here we come and bye bye bullshitter.
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:36pm
chaos

good luck Max, I hope some people start to realise their inaction costs lives. Bring back the vaccination targets pretend dr Clark.

*Max has a 50 per cent chance of dying from measles: Family pleads for others to get immunised*

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12264397
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September 3, 2019 5:13pm
- chaos
  
  An interesting addition
  
  *Anti-vaxxers are not the reason for Auckland’s measles epidemic, an immunisation expert claims.
  
  “The major problem is there’s a lot of young to mid-life adults walking around who didn’t get fully vaccinated when they were young,” says Immunisation Advisory Centre head and GP Dr Nikki Turner.*
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/115506328/immunisation-expert-anti-vaxxers-are-not-the-problem-we-knew-a-measles-epidemic-was-likely
  
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  September 3, 2019 6:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Honestly, my partner is such a dork!
  He went to get a fasting blood test done this morning, but after he took his number and sat down to wait he said an Indian couple arrived with huge red measles in the middle of their foreheads.
  He decided not to wait around so left immediately and came home for breakfast.
  
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  September 3, 2019 6:59pm
  - chaos
    
    Hahahahaha, ah, thanks for the coughing fit from laughing so much. To the miserable sad sack that ticked you down, you need a life
    
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    September 3, 2019 7:51pm
    - Maggie Pie
      
      It’s the same sad dork that can never bring themselves to say a good word here about National or Simon Bridges either. LOL!!
      
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      September 3, 2019 9:10pm
chaos

Love this story and love that the Whitehouse reply was in Braille as well

*Boy born blind paints picture of American flag for President Trump*

https://www.wsbtv.com/amp/news/local/cobb-county/boy-born-blind-paints-picture-of-american-flag-for-president-trump/981889180
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September 3, 2019 7:26pm
Suze Wainwright

Serious question. Would you permit a member of the transgender community to own their own internal combustion automobile in Aotearoa?
(https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12264492)

Well, given the years of patriarchal, hetero-normative, binary-centric (reinforced by colonialism) oppression these people have suffered, then the answer would have to be a resounding YES!
Bugger climate change and the environment, I say!
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September 3, 2019 8:05pm
graham

Oh, goody, just what we needed … a university that seems to have forgotten what it’s main reason for existence is.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/115428288/lincoln-staff-and-students-free-to-join-septembers-climate-change-strike

Lincoln University has become the first tertiary provider in New Zealand to back this month’s nationwide strike against climate change.

Young people across the country will once again stay away from school on Friday, September 27 as part of the NZ Strike for Climate.

It will be the third time school students have taken to the streets this year – following demonstrations in March and May – but this time campaigners hope universities will join the action.

Acting vice-chancellor professor Bruce McKenzie said although lectures will continue, Lincoln staff and students can strike without needing to take time off or explain their non-attendance.

Call me old-fashioned, but I thought a university was first and foremost about education and research. Ye good olde Wikipedia (which probably has as much authority these days as some of the more ‘woke’ universities and other seats of learning) tells me that “the word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means “community of teachers and scholars”.

Bruce McKenzie says that lectures will continue, but in the same breath states that “Lincoln staff and students can strike without needing to take time off or explain their non-attendance.” If the STAFF can “strike” – and I presume this includes lecturers – how do they intend to deliver the lectures? Haul in some drunk off the street, pay him $200 and tell him to stand up the front and waffle on about biochemistry or whatever the class happens to be studying?

Hell, if I was a student at this university I’d be furious.
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September 3, 2019 8:14pm
tranquil

In spite of the utter moronicness of the MSM, I’m still surprised that I haven’t seen any mention in the MSM of the fact that today is the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII.

Nothing. (Disclaimer – I don’t watch the TV news).

I would have thought that the 80th anniversary of such a thing would be worth at least a **passing mention**…….
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September 3, 2019 8:38pm
- Tall Man
  
  Long time ago.. white people… don’t fucking care.
  
  ardern at her best.
  
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  September 3, 2019 9:25pm
- BrownSnake
  
  Waste of Time Look at Europe
  
  France Pack of W a n k e r s
  
  Should have sold them to Germany
  
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  September 3, 2019 11:01pm
MrTips

FOYOH

now…
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