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krazykiwi

What is Pathologized Totalitarianism ?

Now, I’m going to assume that you understand that the official “apocalyptic pandemic” narrative is predicated on propaganda, wild speculation, and mass hysteria, and that by now you are aware that we are dealing with a virus that causes mild to moderate symptoms (or absolutely no symptoms at all) in 95% of those infected, and that over 99.5% survive … thus, clearly, no cause for widespread panic or justification for the totalitarian “emergency measures” that have been imposed.

I am also going to assume that you watched as GloboCap switched off the “deadly pandemic” to accommodate the BLM protests, then switched it back on as soon as they subsided, and that you noted how their propaganda shifted to “cases” when the death count finally became a little too embarrassing to continue to hype.

So, I won’t waste your time debunking the hysteria. Let’s talk pathologized totalitarianism.

The genius of pathologized totalitarianism is like that old joke about the Devil … his greatest trick was convincing us that he doesn’t exist. Pathologized totalitarianism appears to emanate from nowhere, and everywhere, simultaneously; thus, technically, it does not exist. It cannot exist, because no one is responsible for it, because everyone is.

Mass hysteria is its lifeblood. It feeds on existential fear. “Science” is its rallying cry. Not actual science, not provable facts, but “Science” as a kind of deity whose Name is invoked to silence heretics, or to ease the discomfort of the cognitive dissonance that results from desperately trying to believe the absurdities of the official narrative.
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June 30, 2020 8:00am
- Simon
  
  Greta will be along shortly to down tick KK with a very frowning face.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    greta thumbstick?
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:52am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    Greta will be along shortly
    
    NZ has enough under-educated, self-important, brain-dead females with frowny faces.
    
    We don’t need to import them.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:34am
- Jacinda Ardhern
  
  A very interesting post Mr Krazy.
  
  Each line could be the start of a book about this mass insanity!
  
  Disclosure: 1) I am not really Jacinda Ardhern, it’s just a stage name, 2) I have no fear of coronavirus.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:21am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  An excellently thoughtful post to read over the morning cereal, thank you kk.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:00am
- SB2
  
  [Deleted – If you can’t debate without the abuse, then your comments will be deleted. Mod]
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:25am
  - Two bob
    
    hope you apply that same logic to your own posts. 🙂
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:41am
- Simon Gotlieb
  
  If you are going to try and dispute”science”, perhaps it would be helpful to actually quote some truths.
  
  For instance, according to worldometer, there are currently 10,392,555 confirmed cases and 507,373 deaths from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as at June 29, 2020, 22:51 GMT.
  
  which is a mortality rate of 4.88%.
  
  New Zealand’s population is, at the same time, 5,002,100.
  
  If we assumed that the coronavirus has the same mortality rate in New Zealand that’s 244,207 people dead.
  
  I can’t see any government in New Zealand believing that’s acceptable.
  
  And that’s just if we were as bad as the rest of the world.
  
  So don’t be so damn flippant.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:02am
  - fernglas
    
    Don’t just pick and choose your statistics. For example, the CDC head says there could be 10 times as many infections in the US as have been diagnosed. That’s the country that is doing the most testing. So in other countries the true infection rate will be way higher. Also, there has still been no proper analysis of deaths with and deaths because of coronavirus. Do some proper research.
    
    Your figure above assumes a 100% infection rate. That has happened nowhere.
    
    If you want to grovel in New Zealand with it falling to pieces around your ears on the basis of statistics like that, go ahead. Just keep it to yourself, because there are enough numpties around that some might be stupid enough to believe you.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:32am
    - Tall Man
      
      Other studies range between 20 – 50 times more infection than detected.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:42am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Simon, I’ve just stopped laughing and can now respond to your hysteria.
    
    I respectfully suggest you do some research.
    
    Perhaps start by pointing me to a published paper that shows a, um, ‘mortality rate’ (whatever that is) of 4.88%.
    
    When you can’t find it, have a look at this. It details a global IFR of 0.1%
    
    Feel free to remain alarmed, and in the dark.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:34am
    - Tall Man
      
      The left don’t do ‘math” well.
      
      What’s GDP again?
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    So don’t be so damn stupid.
    
    Your assumption that 100% of inhabitants of NZ would contract a virulent form of covid is as stupid as most of ardern’s “assumptions”.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:40am
    - Simon Gotlieb
      
      I think it’s a fair assumption. Over a long term scenario, if we were to open the borders, and no vaccine be developed we may face a situation where we have to actually have the population go through the scourge of catching the Covid-19.
      
      As for not doing math well, interesting, especially as opponents to my point of view are using speculation to dispute my math.
      
      It was a while since I went to school, but please feel free to educate me as to how we no longer derive a percentage by dividing one number by another.
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:57pm
      - fernglas
        
        If one or both of the numbers is false. In the case of this virus, the figures are very hard to ascertain. From personal experience, I was in a place where there was a lot of transmission but testing was only of people who could show contact with someone else who had tested positive. Which is a bit of a Catch-22. I caught what I am certain was the virus, which was confirmed by a doctor, but I wasn’t tested. So if my doctor’s diagnosis was correct, which I believe it to be, then I am someone who makes one of those figures wrong. In case it needs to be pointed out, it is the number of cases, not the number of deaths. It wasn’t that bad, either, if that helps allay your fears.
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:20pm
      - Tall Man
        
        And yet all health professionals have clearly stated that the majority of people who contract covid are asymptomatic. That means most in labour language.
        
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        June 30, 2020 2:08pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    IFR is about 0.5%, 60-70% for herd immunity assuming no masks worn. About 15k dead worst case scenario. With dexamethasone that goes down to about 10k. If everyone has good Vit-D levels (eg people who spend all their time indoors use supplements) then it drops further. With everyone wearing masks in public when we detect infections almost no-one would die.
    If we deliberately infected only under 50’s we could achieve herd immunity for less than 1000 dead.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:49am
- Okahu
  
  So, let me get this right. You believe in the devil, not so sure about ‘science’, have an idiots grasp of numbers, but you are here to tell your friends how everyone else has it all wrong. Mmmm. OK.
  
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  June 30, 2020 12:03pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Was that an attempted rebuttal? If so, it appears you got nothing right. Try again.
    
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    June 30, 2020 1:46pm
- Master Mariner
  
  An old Soviet saying ( I believe) , Is “take away the common enemy all you get is Kaos”.
  
  Thats what I got out of it and rings true today.
  
  Got to keep that common enemy ever present.
  Thanks KK
  
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  June 30, 2020 3:41pm
I remember when

Mastercard changes name to Equalitycard.
Does it mean they are going to make everyone poor!
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June 30, 2020 8:02am
- peterwn
  
  Interestingly BNZ (and its owner NAB) and Kiwibank have ditched Mastercard.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:21am
  - RJ
    
    Banks ditch cards and go with others, it’s nothing new.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:25am
- Ruawai
  
  Will they put money into everyone’s account? I read this yesterday and assumed it was satire.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Babylon Bee
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:35am
- Simon
  
  The left have something called the Queue Card. It allows you to queue for 5 hours to get your daily turnip ration.
  
  Queue Card has a “loyalty program” where if you say anything bad about the turnip ration you will be moved to a re-education camp.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:52am
  - Two bob
    
    Does it come with free train tickets to an all expenses paid protection camp?
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:44am
- mandk
  
  Stupid woke idea..
  
  Dropping the name Master for fear of offending black people is offensive in itself because it conveys the message that black people can’t be masters.
  
  Are we going to be told that Tiger Woods didn’t win the US Masters five times? Did he actually win the US Equality Championship.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:41am
- kowtow
  
  Visacard changing its name to Openborderscard, in solidarity with poorly paid migrant workers , forced labour , climate refugees and other minorities. ( //)
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:33am
Swifty

Ever wonder at the damage done to society by those who push the welfare state?

One of the best videos you’ll see this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s2Ishme9P0

Anyone supporting Green in this year’s election must confront these issues – and wrestle with their conscience.

One of the best quotes for me is “Don’t look at the intentions, look at the effects…”
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June 30, 2020 8:05am
- Crisplion
  
  I agree with the quote, but when it comes to the Greens, frankly, I don’t think the intentions are all that great either.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:44am
  - Swifty
    
    I quite agree Crisplion.
    
    Let me then take the liberty of editing the quote:
    
    “Don’t look at the stated intentions, look at the effects…”
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:14am
- krazykiwi
  
  Thomas Sowell is a splendid chap. We need more with his clarity of thought, his wisdom, and his readiness to speak out.
  
  To the content of the vid, I have long said they most secure, stable, and ultimately valuable social construct is the nuclear family, where a biological father and mother raise their own children. The advancement of the social welfare state has seen increased support for almost everything except the nuclear family.
  
  For local context, check out Lindsay Mitchell’s blog
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:56am
  - tf78
    
    krazykiwi, I’ve had some thoughts on the job losses happening in NZ – how about the women stay home and look after the children and extra income support going to working men to sustain a lifestyle for the family. Childcare costs would no longer be an issue just like the good old days when mum was home after school cooking a healthy meal, helping with homework and teaching the kids good manners. I think that would be a win, win for society as a whole.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:47am
    - suzieq
      
      No thanks. Until illness caused my early retirement I earned more than my husband. So should circumstances change, he can stay home to care for any children he’d be daft enough to have and I’ll go back to work …
      
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      June 30, 2020 3:12pm
  - guardianista
    
    As well as being vital for the development of the child, the two income, home owning family is the greatest instrument developed for wealth accumulation for ordinary people.
    
    Recently saw some great stats out of the US showing that a few generations ago high earning men were quite likely to marry their pretty secretaries etc, but that these days graduates from top universities are tending far more to marry other graduates from universities, realising that such unions are the secret to rapid wealth accumulation. The super 2 income family so to speak.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:08am
    - Sacha
      
      And there was a trend that got some publicity back in the 60’s – 70’s -80’s , where women who broke through the glass ceiling of business, tended to marry men who were less ambitious – more practical, down-to-earth types.
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:46am
    - tf78
      
      That’s great for those who can afford childcare – I’m talking about Joe average that in today’s world can’t afford childcare.
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:59am
  - Fletch
    
    Also, check out the interview with Larry Elder around the release of his new movie ‘Uncle Tom’ (which I’ve seen and it’s not bad, though not earth shattering).
    
    He covers quite a bit of the same ground here.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbhFubiFiqg
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:23am
  - Sacha
    
    krazykiwi – I agree with you on Sowell. He is a wise man with a gift for the succinct comment.
    Have you come across “Family and Civilisation” by Carle C Zimmerman – written in 1947. It’s an academic work and I am patiently working my way through it and gaining insights as I go.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:53am
    - Fletch
      
      I have reported on it on here before, but not read it. I understand it’s a very large tome.
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/12/general_debate_23_december_2019.html#comment-2613151
      
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      June 30, 2020 6:45pm
- Debsta
  
  Fantastic…thanks for sharing! It is exactly the same as what social welfare has done in NZ to Maori…patronised and weakened rather than celebrated and strengthened. The so called do-gooders have much to be ashamed of, but lack the wisdom to know it. Very sad really.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:01am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “social welfare has done in NZ to Maori“
    
    And not just to Maori but plenty of single parent Caucasians feeling entitled to benefits. Instead of waiting until properly settled with a good partner and reasonable employment.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:16am
  - gravedodger
    
    As predicted by Aparima Ngata in the thirties while the Savage 1st Labour Government embarked on cradle to grave welfare.
    Very prescient then and not much to rebut the man yet.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:47am
  - Sideoiler
    
    For you facebookers, join here https://www.facebook.com/groups/1548118158836983/ . WORK & INCOME ADVOCATES
    The sense of entitlement on display here is absolutely stunning.
    
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    June 30, 2020 7:26pm
- Random T Person
  
  Won’t matter. Socialists do not sell outcomes, they sell intentions and aspirations. And of course socialism is a superbly seductive philosophy, particularly to those on the take, impressionable youngsters with a sense of what’s ‘fair’ (somehow having your hand on money earned by someone else is ‘fair’), and grasping academics and politicians.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:10am
  - artemisia
    
    Our current government is selling inputs of OPM.
    
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    June 30, 2020 4:28pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Great video, thanks for the link. I couldn’t agree more about the deleterious effects of the welfare state both in America and here in NZ, and there’s another extremely dangerous campaign being waged on the nuclear family by the neo-Marxists.
  
  It’s discussed almost every day on KB and some other platforms – the normalisation and promotion of the idea that you can be any gender you want, that you can change your gender on a whim, that your child knows to a certainty at a very young age that they can “be whoever they want” and not surprisingly, they want to try something different.
  
  It’s no wonder kids are struggling with their identity and place in the world, when the adults literally don’t know if they’re Arthur or Martha. Schools and universities are not only actively promoting this tripe, but are also cancelling, shouting down, firing and often violently suppressing anybody with a differing view.
  
  Add the third piece of the puzzle – a global pandemic that plays right into the hands of those seeking to control us in the name of charity and benevolence, and you have the perfect recipe to keep huge chunks of the population dependent on the state and trapped in a life of poverty.
  
  I did like the quote about paying attention to the effects, not the intention, but the one I liked best was “what’s all this talk about poverty? The human race started in poverty.”
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:26am
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like some Climate Alarmists are beginning to wake up…

https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691

http://joannenova.com.au/2020/06/another-environmentalist-joins-skeptics-apologizing-for-the-climate-scare/

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/06/29/schellenberger-on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/
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June 30, 2020 8:08am
- krazykiwi
  
  I note the Forbes pulled his article. Even once-sensible publications are now woke by default.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:14am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yeah,
    but you can still locate it using some of the links in the comments attached to the above posts.
    
    It will be a worry if Amazon pulls his book.
    Still it’s here as an ebook
    https://www.harpercollins.co.nz/9780063001701/apocalypse-never/
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:28am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Here is the article that Forbes has hidden. It’s important because a leading alarmist recants and apologises. He also sets out a check catalogue of misinformation.
  https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Schellenberger-Apology.pdf
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:28am
  - SGA
    
    “a leading alarmist recants and apologises”
    
    I looked him up, and that doesn’t seem an accurate description. From what I can tell he’s no leading alarmist and has been criticising the environmental movement for 15 years.
    That’s not a comment on the validity or otherwise of what he says – from I can tell you are misrepresenting his background.
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:46am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No SGA,
      
      That’s how Shellenberger paints himself…
      
      Read the headline of his Forbe’s article…
      He’s so far up his own backside that he thinks he can apologise for every environmentalist…
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:04am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.
      In the article he sees himself as in the thick of it but keeping back a bit to avoid strife. His concern about his young daughter’s fears has brought him to writing a book.
      I don’t wish to misrepresent him. He appears to be a serious thinking person, well worthy of reading.
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:08am
    - SGA
      
      No Maggy and Kev – environmentalist (ecological modernist or eco-pragmatist) sure – but a “leading alarmist”? That’s not the impression I get here –
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger#Writings
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:33am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He has been a significant influencer of folks who have peddled the alarmist line.
        
        http://environmentalprogress.org/founder-president
        
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        June 30, 2020 12:13pm
      - SGA
        
        Maggy – here’s my original statement
        
        From what I can tell he’s no leading alarmist and has been criticising the environmental movement for 15 years.
        
        That still is my impression (and I’ve provided a link to show why).
        If you think that this recent Forbes article shows some sort of epiphany (as Kev put it – “a leading alarmist recants and apologises”) because his young daughter is fearful, fine – no skin off my nose. For myself, it looks like someone promoting his latest book (released this month) which may, or may not, be a good read.
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        He may be promoting his own book, but if you read his Forbe’s article he writes:
        
        On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
        
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        But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an “existential” threat to human civilization, and called it a “crisis.”
        
        And when he stopped being an alarmist, he didn’t speak up from his position of influence.
        
        But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.
        
        I even stood by as people in the White House and many in the news media tried to destroy the reputation and career of an outstanding scientist, good man, and friend of mine, Roger Pielke, Jr., a lifelong progressive Democrat and environmentalist who testified in favor of carbon regulations. Why did they do that? Because his research proves natural disasters aren’t getting worse.
        
        You can argue that he is not a climate alarmist; he states he was and takes responsibility for helping shape environmental policy around this issue.
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:32pm
Benedict Yu

I see that in all official communications NZTA now calls itself “Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA)”.

I just see this as pointless. People will still call it NZTA. Including Maori. Just like the New name for Housing New Zealand. “Kainga Ora”.

It is just pointless virtue signalling. If it had an impact, everyone would know these names and use them. But they do not. Despite everything that they try Tūranga is still the Christchurch Library.
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June 30, 2020 8:10am
- kowtow
  
  Same with stuffed starting with KiOra , or any gubmint publication , etc
  
  It is actually cultural appropriation( to use their own terms) and racist tokenism , pretending to care.
  
  Why , because everything that follows is in English .
  
  Same with Jacinda at her UN speech , quite a screed of Maori by way of introduction ie’ look a me , I’m so woke and in touch with the natives’ , but the guts of the message , must be delivered in a lingo that people understand .
  
  It’s whitey middle class urban guilt trip tokenism and as such is actually an insult . To all parties.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:30am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I complained to stuffed about all the Maori bullshit at the top of their new homepage.
    The response sounded like they think I’m some silly old racist who lives on another planet.
    If only they knew that about 90% of the 85% who aren’t Maori think that it’s just patronising crap.
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:44am
    - igm
      
      Do as we do, don’t subscribe to “Stuff”, don’t buy anything of expense advertised in it (letting the retailer know why) in fact, go out of your way to denigrate the communist-inspired rubbish.
      
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      June 30, 2020 8:54am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      The arrogance is so strong at stuff, fresh from their $1 MBO, I’m a little Surprised they didn’t just respond with “OK boomer”!
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:42am
    - jv
      
      Most Maoris I know are Kiwis first and they think it is crap too. Maori leadership is the biggest problem, and mostly male Maori “leadership”
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:01pm
      - kowtow
        
        Not just Maori leadership , but woke honkeys thinking they can fix the past ( was there something wrong with it) with a few ki oras and tena kotus .
        ( Not to mention illegal roadblocks )
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:12pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Most of the people driving the Maori language takeover of the state sector are middle aged white people.
        
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        June 30, 2020 4:04pm
    - Groggy
      
      Or you are in fact a silly old racist that lives on another planet (the Kiwiblog echochamber). Your posts do indicate a high probability of that being true.
      
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      June 30, 2020 4:58pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Misuse of Maori. This sort of use is appropriative, disrespectful and potentially destructive of Te Reo.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:32am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    An interesting article ..
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/06/opinion-why-i-don-t-want-compulsory-te-reo-m-ori-in-schools.html
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:57am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      I agree. The wise elders of the 1930’s knew that their people needed English for the modern world as did other nations. Te Reo is very important to tribal Maori as familial lines are described in it as well as land rights. Being oral it embeds and confers their cultural values which are very precious to those involved.
      
      Teachers cannot just be trained: they have to come with the authority of the elders to deal with matters which are culturally restricted.
      Trying to make the use of Te Reo universal is contrary to tribal authority. The kernel can never be appropriated and the basics of the exterior could be easily pidginised.
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:28am
  - igm
    
    Heard a radio announcer change the name of Tangiwai to Tarngeefy last week . . . how bloody ridiculous!
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:00am
- Ruawai
  
  Change by stealth.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:44am
- calendar girl
  
  The same NZTA (under whatever name it chooses to call itself) that can take 30 – 60 minutes to answer its 0800 phone line.
  
  When can we expect such agencies to improve their interface with the public that they purport to serve?
  
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  June 30, 2020 12:45pm
  - Nutta
    
    The copper lines to a Waka are less reliable than phone lines to a government agency?
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:22pm
Maggie Pie

Mildly interesting……?
My partner was saying word down the Viaduct last night was that PB will be taking up a board position with the CCB.

Guanzhu ci kongjian.
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June 30, 2020 8:14am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  After the problems Shipley had as a Director she should stay well clear
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:23am
- kowtow
  
  People who actively associate with them better check their consciences.
  
  ‘Chinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilisations of women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang region, according to research published on Monday.’
  
  https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1534776-20200630.htm?spTabChangeable=0
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:32am
  - DeepBlue
    
    China to test Whuhan vaccine on its soldiers. I’m sure there will be informed consent.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:28am
    - oldfella
      
      Remember, ‘Don’t trust China. China is asshole.’
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:02pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      For sure they’ve already tested it on whatever Falun Gong, and Uighers they had stashed away in their concentration camps.
      
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      June 30, 2020 5:16pm
Simon

Laugh all you like at the parade of clowns and halfwits in Labour but the Dems are running with Joe Biden who is actually senile.

And the Dems rigged their primary to get Biden as nominee.
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June 30, 2020 8:26am
- BeeJay
  
  Simon – “….Joe Biden who is actually senile.” And you know that this is a fact, how? At least Biden is not a moron like Trump. You want the facts about moron Trump? Just watch any speech he makes, and follow his moronic tweets!
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:48am
  - Tall Man
    
    Really….
    
    https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2020/04/17/joe-biden-leaves-cnn-host-confused-after-another-case-of-incoherent/
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIjPbUB-ps0
    
    https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/sad-joe-biden-wanders-off-camera-in-bizarre-campaign-video
    
    Are you sure?
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:00am
  - Simon
    
    “follow his moronic tweets!”
    
    Given the extent of Biden’s decline Trump has been very polite about Slow Joe in his tweets.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:05am
  - Blackface Twin Reverb
    
    Joe Biden top 30 blooper countdown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBdBj5QWyY
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:22am
    - SB2
      
      Blackface Twin Reverb, the facts are these 37 Trump bloopers didn’t do him any harm do there is no reason why it wont hurt Joe.,
      
      https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/trump-biggest-fatal-gaffes-mistakes-offensive-214289
      
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      June 30, 2020 1:50pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    No, he’s a lot worse. Over 50 years in politics and zero accomplishments except to make himself and his family wealthy through corrupt dealings. Sponsored legislation that targeted black youth for extra long sentences, personally said that he didn’t want his children to attend a school that was a racial jungle.
    
    And he is mentally affected, look at his recent performances compared to, say 3-4 years ago or even older, and he’s just not the same guy except in very brief instances. Forgets what he is saying, gets numbers completely bollocked up, loses the thread of his remarks. He was pushed very hard by the party and their allies to exclude Bernie, but now they’re sort of stuck. Presumably the strategy is to run with him through the election as he has so far proved to be the only Dem able to get out the black vote (though you have to ask why that would be so, given his history of racist gaffes). Then to have him step down voluntarily or through the 25th amendment process so his VP can take over and appoint an even more radical VP. No doubt the GOP will be pointing this out.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:06am
    - SB2
      
      Ed Snack,
      
      .” Over 50 years in politics and zero accomplishments except to make himself and his family wealthy through corrupt dealings….”
      
      ???
      
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      June 30, 2020 1:51pm
  - Jimmy White
    
    BeeJay – “……moron like Trump” And you know that this is a fact, how?
    At least Trump knows that 120,000,000 people have not died from the Wuhan Flu and 20% of his party don’t think hes senile.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:21am
    - BeeJay
      
      And Trump said:
      – he was looking into the “oranges” of the Mueller investigation
      – he said that Revolutionary soldiers were guarding airports
      -he called Tim Cook “Tim Apple”
      – he thinks windmills cause cancer
      and you don’t think he’s a moron?
      
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      June 30, 2020 7:22pm
I remember when

“Civil Defence” style proposal could see three people hired to mitigate climate change in Hawkes Bay.
HBRC is set to consider funding at least three people who would have the sole remit of trying to mitigate climate change in the region.
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June 30, 2020 8:27am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Sometimes I think it would not be a bad idea if I get compulsorily retired at the age I am coming up to… because to keep busy one of the things I’d be doing would be to go full hammer and tongs on the local Woke Council (well populated with people who failed on the national political stage of course) with this sort of ratepayer extortion wastage BS, at every meeting they have.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:03am
- pdm
  
  Jesus I hope not – I am a HBRC rate payer.
  Actually the HBRC should be disbanded and responsibilities returned to District Councils – it is nothing more than a haven for failed lefties.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:04am
  - Paulus
    
    But to disband the HBRC like all other Councils would defeat the longer term aspirations of Socialism and pockets to be lined.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:55am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Actually, pdm, all current regional and local councils should be abolished, and replaced by 16 councils based on the statistical regions as defined by the Department of Statistics.
    
    Each of such regions would have Local Boards (covering the entirety of each region) that would ensure effective “local representation”.
    
    (Relax, Kiwibloggers; I’m not now going to set out how the members of each of these councils and Local Boards should be elected.)
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:56am
    - chukar
      
      ST,
      Totally agree,District Councils are more effective and efficient.
      While they are smaller than the two council set up there is still plenty of room for downsizing and a focus on serving ratepayers
      
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      June 30, 2020 5:42pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    pdm
    HBRC has managed to wrestle control back off the Lefties.
    But yep, the CC mitigators is silly
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  Absurd. It is not their job. We have an emissions trading scheme that prices emissions. Nothing else required. These three people will write a strategy and “engage with Iwi”. And achieve nothing.
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:09pm
Yvette

Perhaps the validity of any interview with terrorist shooter Tarrant will be in how he answers the question –
“Due to go on trial for the 15 March Christchurch mosque attacks, on 26 March 2020, you changed your earlier ‘Not guilty’ plea, and pleaded ‘Guilty’ to all the charges you faced – why did you do that?”
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June 30, 2020 8:27am
- Two bob
  
  probably a bribe/threat got tabled to change his mind.
  Crown: youll probably go into general population if you keep pleading not guilty and want a trial.
  
  Tarrant: think I just shit my pants yup ill plead guilty.
  
  He had nothing to lose and guna rot in jail either way and highly doubt he has any remorse. will be some deal done to sway his plea.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:49am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Rot in jail”…….
    
    16 years you think?
    
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    June 30, 2020 8:55am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Ah the anguish of choosing gluten-free of not as part of a balanced diet, and the vexing question of which degree qualification to pursue. So many options, so much time.
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:01am
      - Tall Man
        
        Plus write a book and wait for the lefty luvvies to discover that he was just a poor misguided young man who was abused for being a short little prick.
        
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        June 30, 2020 10:19am
    - Two bob
      
      if we let andrew little decide then tarrant would rake leaves for 100hrs and donate to harold the giraffe.
      
      how does 3 strikes work, will he just get 1strike or 51 strikes plus x strikes for attempted murder?
      Anything less then maximum sentence will indicate the stupidity and gutlessness of our justice system.
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:53am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      If Tarrant isn’t sentenced to Life Without Parole for 51 murders, no one in New Zealand will EVER be sentenced to LWOP.
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:03pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Exactly, Tony, the rationale presumably being that the possibility of an even worse crime being committed must be allowed for.
        
        In my humble, non-legally-trained, view, any crime that, today, would see the offender sentenced to, say, a non-parole period of 25 or more years, should see that offender sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
        
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        June 30, 2020 12:22pm
    - Benedict Yu
      
      My pick is that he will get life without parole.
      
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      June 30, 2020 8:31pm
- Tall Man
  
  Honestly Yvette I really don’t care.
  
  I’d rather the local constabulary explained why they failed to prod=cess his application correctly.
  
  I’d rather ardern was asked why she felt it necessary to sign off on a change in the legislation that enabled tarrant to purchase his now illegal firearms without direct contact with an arms officer and if she feels she bears any responsibility for the 51 murders she used so effectively to boost her personal political benefit.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:49am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Don’t count on ever getting a straight answer as to what motivated Tarrant.
  
  He said there was no way an unedited version of the interview would be released and that a greater danger was that the commission failed to hold the police and security services to account.
  
  The shooter’s late guilty plea meant there was a higher chance of this happening, he said.
  
  “What that did is it removed the court. It removed the ability to put, let’s say, for example, the police officers under oath to ask them what was done and not done in the lead up to this. His defense attorneys won’t have the opportunity to cross examine members of the intelligence community as well as the police.”
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/420106/mosque-shooter-interview-should-not-be-public-attack-witness-says
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:50am
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    We knew there were massive failures of screening and firearms licence vetting immediately after the massacre. That’s of course been confirmed.
    
    To my mind there is zero room for doubt that the reasons there was never going to be anything made public was to protect the police as well as to protect Ardern who changed the vetting rules the year before.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:05am
  - peterwn
    
    As it appears the Muslin community is not unanimous on this, it would be for the Commissioner to decide whether to release it in part or in whole. Releasing it to the families of the victims only is not really an option as a full version will leak sooner or later. They could be allowed to read it in a lock-up session with no cameras or phones.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:12am
  - Durden
    
    “He believed victims and their families should definitely be shown the interview with the man responsible, but not the general public, as there was too great a risk that others may be inspired by his words.”
    
    Surely far more would be repulsed by his words than those who might be inspired ?
    
    Unlike Yama Nabi, I am with those for full openness like Feroze Ditta and Anjum Rahman on this matter.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/420051/mosque-gunman-s-interview-needs-to-be-shared-with-the-wider-public
    
    It will also hold the others (Police, Jacinda for change to fast-tracking licensing) who bear responsibility for this event coming to pass to full account.
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:51am
  - rangitoto
    
    None of this matters. The most important thing for Labour and Greens is that Tarrant will have the vote in the upcoming election. It’s his human rights don’t you know.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:03am
    - Steve Todd
      
      I’m really beginning to worry about you, rangitoto. This comment is even more nonsensical than your comment yesterday that New Zealanders temporarily overseas for more than two months should not be allowed to vote.
      
      Tarrant will be sentenced to life in prison. Therefore, he will not be voting in the upcoming, or any other, election, anytime soon.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:20am
      - Tall Man
        
        Not sentenced yet so technically he’s right.
        
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        June 30, 2020 12:00pm
      - oldfella
        
        Steve: rangitoto is being sarcastic, or so I assume.
        
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        June 30, 2020 12:08pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @Tall Man @ 12:00PM
        
        Hmm: I dunno. Presumably he’s been convicted, just not yet sentenced, which, hopefully, he will be before early voting begins on 5 September.
        
        Justice Mander said it would take into account the need to bring “finality and closure” to the victims.
        
        “For these reasons, it has been necessary to delay the setting of a sentencing date until the Court has access to more complete information.
        
        “The defendant has been further remanded to a nominal date of July 13, 2020 pending the completion of the current inquiries.”
        
        (See https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/05/christchurch-mosque-attack-sentencing-of-brenton-tarrant-delayed-due-to-covid-19.html.)
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:16pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @oldfella @ 12:08PM
        
        I considered that possibility, but rejected it for three reasons:
        
        1) his comment yesterday, already referred to;
        
        2) the fact he began with “None of this matters.”; and
        
        3) as you yourself imply, his comment contained no hint of sarcasm.
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:24pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Aussies can vote in NZ? Did I miss something, or get it wrong?
        
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        June 30, 2020 3:41pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Steve, you missed nothing, nor did you get anything wrong.
        
        I would make this point, though: There is zero chance that Tarrant is currently registered on the Dunedin (North/South) electoral roll.
        
        In the absence of relevant legal knowledge, let us all hope that he is sentenced well before election time.
        
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        June 30, 2020 4:35pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    I understood he picked Muslims as a target for two reasons
    They are representative of a group which has large families and hence are bad for the Planet (eco fascism)
    He knew targeting the Muslim community would generate the controversy he wanted
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:20pm
  - SB2
    
    I think understanding Anders Brevik’ and John Ernest motivations are good places to begin.
    
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    June 30, 2020 1:55pm
- Simon
  
  ” ‘Guilty’ to all the charges you faced – why did you do that?””
  
  Probably something simple like he had just stopped smoking cannabis.
  
  Stopped being a stoner allowed his brain to make a little bit of a recovery.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:02am
- MCos
  
  I’d have thought the thought process going on in his head with regard to why he did what he did can stay right there unless it leads to the uncovering of further evil bastards who might be inclined to copy his actions or influence others to do the same.
  Apart from that I’m sure the police would be interested to see if he exploited any weaknesses in our systems that allowed him to legally obtain an arsenal of weapons and drive around the South Is with them to a rifle range and up to Chch without causing alarm. As I recall he caused suspicion at the rifle range and the chatter is the way he obtained his license was dodgy.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’d have thought the thought process going on in his head with regard to why he did what he did can stay right there unless it leads to the uncovering of further evil bastards who might be inclined to copy his actions or influence others to do the same.
    
    The thing is we don’t have a clear understanding to what shaped his deadly thinking.
    
    We’ve been fed a line that he was influenced by far-right white nationalist thought.
    However what concerns me are his ecofascist ramblings.
    
    There is no analysis or investigation of the influence of the Deep Ecology movement on him.
    Seems this is just something no-one wants to address.
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:22pm
    - SB2
      
      MW, ecofacism as Understood by Tarrant is explained more in depth below and clearly is one the belongs to extreme right wing racial ideology ,
      
      Eco-fascism: The ideology marrying environmentalism and white supremacy thriving online
      The online movement has roots in neo-Nazism – and a violent edge worth taking seriousl
      
      “..There are a number of key characteristics within the eco-fascist community, from rhetoric to specific character usage, that make them easily identifiable on social media. Tree, earth, or mountain emojis are parked next to almost every eco-fascist’s Twitter name, often accompanied by a Norse/Proto-Germanic rune – most commonly Algiz, “ᛉ” or “ᛦ”, known as the “life” rune. Algiz was used in postwar Germany as a symbol of the neo-Nazi movement in place of the actual Nazi symbols that were banned. This was drawn from its use by Heinrich Himmler’s SS. He intended it to be the logo for the notorious Lebensraum – the programme for a master race. The policy was used to justify the oppression, deportation and ultimately murder of Jews and Eastern Europeans in order to make room for those the Nazis identified as part of a German, “Aryan” race. Lebensraum was at the centre of Nazi Germany’s ultimate aims.
      
      Eco-fascists claim the rune’s historical meaning and modern appropriation work as a perfect marriage of their beliefs; a respect for all “life” (nature, animals, and white people) as well as neo-Nazi principles. Eco-fascists will often share images of the rune online, in and amongst forest scenes or as a silhouette over rural images”
      
      https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy
      
      I feel confident that Brenton Tarrance would say Amen to all that.
      
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      June 30, 2020 2:09pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Extraordinarily enuf, stephieboy
        I don’t appreciate having a little lecture from you about neo-Naziism and Master Races.
        
        Shall I remind you why?
        Because on this blog site you accused me of being associated with folks who espoused a philosophy that labelled my in-laws as sub-humans.
        
        Now I don’t know how thick you are, but yesterday on this site you wrote – “rubbish,” when someone pointed out Tarrant’s adherence to ecofascism
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/06/general_debate_29_june_2020.html#comment-2748204
        
        Now here you are, putting up a contrary version.
        
        But, it’s not the only version of twisted ecofascist thought.
        
        So why don’t you run along and start reading a bit more widely.
        
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        June 30, 2020 3:17pm
Paulus

Has Peters finally go what he wants from Ardern to agree to paying Fletchers for Ihumatao.
Today is the latest reported date for the announcement.
Yesterday Ardern said was not then (Monday) which we now now not to be a lie..
Of course it will come from the Maori Fund arranged by Shane Jones from his flush fund.
Why, as Maori will always vote Labour so no real need to throw more money around for votes.
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June 30, 2020 8:32am
- Maxx
  
  Nothing will be announced until Friday afternoon, and it will be by some third tier Government department, or by Auckland City. Cindy and Co. will be fully committed to other engagements and unable to talk to the press about it.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:00am
- Two bob
  
  today is the last day to sign off on it but does that rule apply to the disclosure of it?
  I will be interested to know if tamahere was correct and it was a done deal weeks ago and just waiting for the opportune moment to announce it.
  my bet is jacinda will leave it to be an election issue as she knows national wont entertain a ransom the protesters want. Labour are chasing the maori vote.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:01am
Nukuleka

The latest edition of the Catholic newspaper Zealandia has weighty articles and opinion pieces about the removal of statues, including religious ones, about changing our economic system away from capitalism and about the sinfulness of stating that ‘all lives matter’. As a Catholic convert who has done mission work in developing countries, who has a non white partner and a number of non white members in my extended family, I am proud of my European ancestry and no shame about being white. I would imagine that many Catholic NZers would share my concern about the white liberal guilt that is being espoused by many Catholic clergy and leaders in our country- particularly Cardinal John Drew. All lives should matter to the Catholic Church.
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June 30, 2020 8:32am
- Jacinda Ardhern
  
  Any Cardinal STILL involved in catholicism…
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:04am
- MCos
  
  Catholics are born in a state of original sin, whereby they must atone for the sins of those who have gone before, specifically Adam & Eve who committed the original sin when Eve ‘bit the apple’ of knowledge of good and evil.
  We cannot dismiss the evil that has gone before and claim only the good, as is often done.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:29am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Where is that doctrine stated in the Bible?
    Jesus endured the Cross to atone for the sins of humanity–once for all.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:53am
    - Swifty
      
      God enabled the Son of God to perform a human sacrifice to atone to God for the sins which God so tenderly gifted us in the first place? Really?
      
      But he didn’t really die did he? Cause a few days later he was seen walking around chatting to people.
      
      I am so confused Kev OB!
      
      🙂
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:01pm
    - MCos
      
      Stuff doesn’t need to be in the Bible for the Catholic Church to incorporate it into their doctrine.
      
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      June 30, 2020 1:35pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  All lives matter to God.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:33am
  - Tall Man
    
    Then maybe god should do a little more to protect them ………
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:56am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Ha!! Fat chance of that happening.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:11am
    - Ed Snack
      
      No, because one’s earthly life is what it is and ones behaviour in it is what determines one’s fate. In Christian theology, God gave humans free will, and to intervene to save lives (except in the rarest of cases presumably) would be to negate that free will.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:11am
      - Tall Man
        
        I’m not feeling the love there…….
        
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        June 30, 2020 11:59am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Which is why he condemns sinful little babies to die from a wide array of excruciating cancers, starvation or being mauled to death by rats, and also why he never gave the 100billion + humans that lived BC the chance to be saved by Christ’s teachings.
        
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        June 30, 2020 5:33pm
    - KevO'Brien
      
      Humans have free will.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:27am
      - Swifty
        
        I’ve never understood all the contradictions KevOB.
        
        A man creeps in to an open window and molests and murders a child and I ask “Why did not God stop him?” – Christians reply to me that “Men have free will.”
        
        A child falls from a 10th story window and bounces off a street-level awning and into the arms of a bystander and the same Christians say “God saved her!”
        
        How convenient.
        
        And if we have free will and God does not ever intervene, then why do you buggers waste your time praying to him/her for interventions?
        
        Your theological acrobatics will now be welcomed.
        
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        June 30, 2020 11:55am
      - Steve Todd
        
        Excellent response, Swifty.
        
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        June 30, 2020 12:09pm
      - Blackface Twin Reverb
        
        And if we have free will and God does not ever intervene, then why do you buggers waste your time praying to him/her for interventions?
        
        Hmm. Not sure Christians claim “God does not ever” intervene (#Miracles)… I mean surely you’re familiar with the intercession Not my will, but thine, be done.?
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:18pm
      - Swifty
        
        @Blackface Twin Reverb
        
        So if he does intervene then why didn’t he save the little child from molestation and death?
        
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        June 30, 2020 3:54pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        @Swifty @3:54PM
        
        Swifty, the simple fact of the matter is, you’re too good for them. They won’t come back at you, because they can’t; they have no answer to you.
        
        Once again, you have exposed the nonsense that is Religion. Thank you.
        
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        June 30, 2020 6:24pm
  - oldfella
    
    Pleased to hear Mike Pence batting away an interviewer who wanted him to say that ‘Black Lives Matter’.
    Pence instead insisted that ALL Lives Matter, which would by definition include black lives, but in some weird minds is actually a racist expression. Go figure.
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:20pm
- Kiwi Dave
  
  In yesterday’s Herald the editor, replying to a somewhat vague criticism by a reporter about the difficulties of reporting on racism, wrote that unconscious bias ‘is less conspicuous than the ignorant and appalling demand that “All lives matter”…’
  
  One doesn’t need to be a Catholic to think that all lives matter; evidence that Black deaths at the hands of the police are the product of systemic police racism rather than exceptional outcomes from a few rogue cops in a large number of varied police forces is quite weak, so it seems neither ignorant nor appalling to demand that all lives matter.
  
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  June 30, 2020 2:38pm
  - oldfella
    
    KD: I guess that’s why the Herald no longer allows readers comments (on most stories, anyway). Imagine the mocking they’d get, and how ‘hurt’ some of their snowflake reporters would be facing up to some real world push-back?
    
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    June 30, 2020 4:47pm
kowtow

This regime seized firearms from law abiding licensed owners claiming to make the country safe.
And yet their own staff can’t safely visit sentenced criminals who are deemed not dangerous enough to be in prison but safe enough to be in the community .

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300044904/home-detention-checks-suspended-due-to-gun-fears-in-auckland-northland
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June 30, 2020 8:35am
Ford Prefect

I just finished watching a programme on the History Channel about The history of the Magna Carta. Only two parts with the first part all about King John, the Barons and the serfs. The second episode was a surprise. It followed the decision making into the 20th Century, including the impacts of The New Deal (The original one not the ridiculous one flogged today by the Dems). It was a refreshing look at the impact of growing government and government dependency, and how the poor have returned to serfdom rather than the promised utopia.

Definitely worth a look if only to see a sensible, well researched argument, rather than the usual “Tax is Love”
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June 30, 2020 8:36am
- mark15
  
  I watched that.I was a bit disappointed with the second episode concentrating solely on the USA,but when they compared Churchill with MLK and Nelson Mandela…well.
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:51am
- Libertarians are right
  
  But, the Magna Carta was evil – Andrew Little says so!
  
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  June 30, 2020 8:52am
Tall Man

Recently the world decided to go insane because a police officer killed a man he was trying to restrain and arrest. A man who has a violent past and was heavily intoxicated on alcohol and a cocktail of drugs.

So far the police officer has not been convicted of any crime although looks likely that some form of conviction will happen.

That insanity spread to New Zealand with a number of “celebrities” including maori rugby players joining in to show their “solidarity” with black people, because white people don’t actually kill maori people in NZ.

What a great shame that they elected to not speak out against the real crimes within New Zealand involving the killing of maori, both young and old, including this horrendous case from last year.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12223108

One must wonder whether all they are interested in is pointless virtue signalling………
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June 30, 2020 8:45am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  I’m waiting for the first rahui to be placed indefinitely on a meth house and / or gang pad. Not holding my breath.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:07am
- RJ
  
  They don’t even speak about the real crimes in the USA. Just a political protests used by the left to try and get back into power
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:30am
- Littletramp
  
  Tall Man asks “whether all they are interested in is pointless virtue signalling”?
  Welcome to the age of Social Media.
  Schools should be teaching our kids the principles & basics of how to think and reason (maths and science), not to just mouth off about what they may feel in the moment.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:28am
  - Tall Man
    
    “just mouth off about what they may feel in the moment”
    
    We had “bigger blokes” in my day to disabuse you of that habit.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:57am
mark15

Good question.Also who has visited and contacted him in prison?
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June 30, 2020 8:50am
Durden

Its seems fascinating that the socialist George Orwell wrote “Animal Farm” and “1984” in the latter half of 1940’s. With what now seems like 2020 vision. Pigs are on top in pig utopia.

Proof ? Here are some recent headlines.

Pigs will fly and homelessness will be eliminated.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-detail/121976629/the-detail-did-covid19-eradicate-homelessness-in-nz
Unfortunately all the usual homeless people were back on the roads in Wellington since last week.

Pigs can be beautiful…with a little bit of lipstick.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/121976743/greens-wealth-tax-will-appeal-to-labours-leftwingers

Pigs will feed at the overflowing troughs.
https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/06/22/mil-osi-new-zealand-2m-a-ride-on-shane-joness-train-set/

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/government-announces-50-million-support-package-nz-media-industry

Pigs are in total control. Piggy thought police will come for your thoughts and speech.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12339673

Even Barack is worried.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12281417

I am sure Kiwbloggers have thought about many other delicious piggy examples ?
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June 30, 2020 8:53am
Maggie Pie

Our neighbor popped over for a coffee yesterday. A really neat girl. Solo mum mid 40’s. Dyed bronze hair. Fake tan. Ex Flight Attendant with Qantas. Often see her jogging along the Avenue. Black lycra gym gear and heels.
Roux was telling us one of her bestie’s works at Watercare as PA to the CEO. Reckons if you can put up with all the woke BS, it’s a very laid back office environment. She’s pulling about 90k a year plus bonuses. Never worked for anyone quite like Raveen. On the few occasions he bothers to pop into the office, always greets the entire staff with a huge….”BULA!”

I couldn’t help but think that’s nearly twice as much as the ADHB pays its Nurses 🙁
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June 30, 2020 8:54am
- rockape
  
  You do exaggerate sometimes Maggie. Nurses pay starts at more than half that and the wife is pulling in over $140K as a nurse practitioner. That counts penal rates of course.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:28am
  - rockape
    
    Start pay for a junior nurse, $49449 plus penals,. Top rate, $130,653 plus penals. Not too bad!
    
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    June 30, 2020 9:36am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You obviously never even read my post Rocko!
    
    Those who follow me, both here, on Twitter, AND on Facebook, will know i’m not one to exaggerate.
    We’re talking 90k a year + 18k ‘performance bonus’ ….for a 35hr week. Carpark and onsite lunch thrown in as well..
    
    You do the math 😀
    
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    June 30, 2020 1:11pm
    - rockape
      
      50% of 108000 isn’t $130000, you are comparing a first year nurse not getting penal rates with a 40 year old obviously talented. What’s the average pay for a 29 year old nurse. I will bet it’s not 50 % of $108000. Maybe it’s too long since you left the profession!
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:28pm
- MCos
  
  “Black lycra gym gear and heels.“
  
  Great yarn.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:33am
JibberJabber

Baroness Margaret Thatcher speaks to us from beyond the grave,

Our aim is not just to remove our uniquely incompetent Government from office, it is to destroy the socialist fallacies – indeed the whole fallacy of socialism – that the Labour Party exists to spread.

Truly prescient (for NZ) and how if, we won`t learn from our mistakes we a doomed to repeat them…..endlessly.
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June 30, 2020 9:00am
- KevO'Brien
  
  We all need to keep working at that.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:48am
- Raphael
  
  The problem is the current narrative is that Socialism is caring and that ending Capitalism will put an end to all racism and sexism and [insert deviancy]phobia
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:27pm
Happychappy

Haven’t we heard the same spin from Jacinda Ardern before, if I remember correctly this is virtually the same sort of response as what happened with the sex deviate that worked in the Prime Ministers Office. ‘ It’s important these issues are put into prospective ‘while throwing the intern under the bus after pledging to help the young Lass that was allegedly Raped. So the same spin from the Prime Minister is at work again over the border bungle and this time there is no opology for her incompetence or those that Govern with her as she again just like the sexual assault try’s to sweep the mess under the carpet again.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/06/jacinda-ardern-defends-border-bungle-it-s-important-these-issues-are-put-into-perspective.html
When the fuck is our wannabe media going to hold her to her word .
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June 30, 2020 9:03am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  “When the fuck is our wannabe media going to hold her to her word”
  
  A first-pass answer would be, never.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:53am
Tony Norriss

Unfortunately, my DW is momentarily drunk on the Jacinda coolaid.

I asked her the other day if she would vote Labour if Jacinda was leader. She said yes.

Then I asked her if she would vote Labour if David Clark was leader. Her answer was an emphatic no.

Unfortunately, this describes the current state of NZ politics. I think a lot of people seem to vote on the basis of a popular leader without a second thought for how strong the rest of the team is.
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June 30, 2020 9:26am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Yep I agree. I always think that without Ardern, Labour would fall around 15% in the polls as I assume the only likely leader would be Robertson. (Little has already had a turn, Kelvin Davis (sorry but that would be hilarious)).
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:58am
  - kowtow
    
    Says an awful lot about the state of electors that they’ll vote for a face but not the policies of the party fronted by said face.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:29am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Yes kowtow, I guess it proves that Labour voters are basically thick.
      
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      June 30, 2020 10:43am
      - RalphT
        
        Sorry, Captain. Big fingers and small screen = accidental downtick.
        
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        June 30, 2020 11:18am
      - Tall Man
        
        Envy trumps stupidity every time.
        
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        June 30, 2020 11:24am
  - Paulus
    
    No to all of you
    Two Pie Wood is the anointed next leader – she like Cindy can do anything remember – she is really now in charge after Cindy.
    No further comment !
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:02am
    - Tall Man
      
      Two pies, pffffttttt, you’re behind the times mate.
      
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      June 30, 2020 11:55am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Good God Paulus. Surely you can’t imagine that blimp strutting the world stage!
      
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      June 30, 2020 12:29pm
      - Garbageman
        
        Well at least Woods is not the health minister hows this for a bad look
        https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/fat-health-minister-critics-attack-4435156
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:06pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Fat Studies conference an international success
        
        The photo says it all!
        
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        June 30, 2020 1:58pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Hey Nostra, is that where they sit around and gaze at each other’s navel?
        
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        June 30, 2020 2:12pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Tall Man:
        
        You’d hope that a “fat studies conference” was about healthy eating and exercise. Apparently not. The 2020 conference is currently happening and here’s a taster (if you’ll excuse the pun):
        
        Renee Taylor’s keynote is entitled, “Fat black futures: Visioning a world beyond fatphobia and anti-blackness”. She notes, “as we seem to be moving into a greater collective awareness regarding the systems and structures of oppression it feels prescient that we address the experiences of fat people, as fatness intersects with nearly every axis of marginalization. “There is much to be illuminated in this season and I believe this event is part of that essential light. The Fat Studies conference is a necessary endeavour and I am excited for what it will deepen in all of our pursuits for justice.”
        
        So a drum-beating exercise about some supposed link between “fatphobia” and “anti-blackness”. If you’ve got time, Tall Man, perhaps you can attend and let us know what we’re missing? 🙂
        
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        June 30, 2020 3:00pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Sorry Nostra would love to but am too busy doing fuckall and really need to finish 😉
        
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        June 30, 2020 4:56pm
- Steve Todd
  
  It’s been that way since the 80s, Tony, when our elections started to become more “presidential” in style.
  
  Compare, for example, the 2008, 2011 and 2014 elections, when many women voted National because of “that nice Mr Key”, and many men voted National because of him, too.
  
  Just making the point that it goes both ways.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:02am
Batman

A little bit of interesting news that may not get much coverage (because it’s boring)…

The SSC has banned all ‘unite for recovery’ branding and advertising by the public service during the pre-election period, including the ministry and health and MBIE.

So no sneaky ‘kindness’ promotion of the PMs personal brand.
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June 30, 2020 9:26am
- RJ
  
  To be honest the unite stuff was pushed so heavily in the lock down I just ignore it when I see it.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:35am
- Durden
  
  Excellent work SSC. Credit where credit is due. That the people in the current government even thought it would be OK shows the depths ignorance regarding the democratic processes and conventions that the politicians and public service have reached.
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:56am
  - Tall Man
    
    It’s not ignorance, it’s arrogance.
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:13am
- hullkiwi
  
  Batman, which means the PTPM and the Labour party spin machine have indeed been using public sector agencies to promote dear leader and her brand for the last 3 months. And the SSC knew they were indeed promoting “political advertising” for the past 3 months.
  
  This means any pretence of an independent, apolitical public service is laid bare!
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:11am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Simon and Garfunkel, Snowflakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0K5v87XrmA
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June 30, 2020 9:27am
Inandout

Mike Hosking seems to lose all sanity when he discusses Trump. Such is the dislike he quotes Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking for Trump to make masks compulsory. Mike, New York city, under DeBlasio, is in a state of chaos with businesses leaving in droves. OK, brother Chris Cuomo works for CNN and is your main news feed (budget priced), but why not reveal really what is going on in NY and Seattle with their fleeing businesses? TDS really does cloud the issues.
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June 30, 2020 9:36am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Ya gotta admit tho’ – Cuomo Teh Guvnor did a bangup job of reducing the vulnerability of nursing homes to the WuFlu in the future, by killing off 43% of their residents in the recent past.
  
  (On March 25, Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept patients regardless of their coronavirus status. Even back then, it was known that the elderly were more vulnerable to the virus, so having coronavirus patients in nursing homes allowed the virus to spread like wildfire).
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:56am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Just look at TV1 “News” for confirmation.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:43am
Bobba Fret

Fullers Ferries in the news for all the wrong reasons. I think the CEO needs to have a word to the fleet operations manager about how to communicate with staff. I guess if they need to cut costs, Megan Watson may be looking for a new job shortly.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121980915/fullers-boss-sends-3am-message-to-staff
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June 30, 2020 10:04am
- Tall Man
  
  That seems perfectly fine to me.
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:39am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    I think of lot of HR departments may disagree with you….but possibly not Fullers. It’s usually the way these things are done rather than what’s done (or said).
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:29pm
    - Tall Man
      
      The whole article focuses on her final comment.
      
      It’s a nautical company FFS, get on board or get off the boat 🙂
      
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      June 30, 2020 2:18pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Everyone’s very quick to pile on this person. The fact she sent a message at 3 a.m. and the content, especially all the mistakes, show she was “tired and emotional” at the time.
  
  What about a bit of mental health support for her, Fullers? Managers are people too, this isn’t a class struggle. People are hurting.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:11am
Maggie Pie

OMG!! 😛
this is sooo true….

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EatdJcXXYAE–WH?format=jpg&name=900×900
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June 30, 2020 10:07am
- Tall Man
  
  My wife would disagree, as would the multi level storage for her shoes in her walk in wardrobe 😉
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:09am
- Two bob
  
  wheres the gumboots? My wife owns more of them then she does shoes.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:10am
  - Tall Man
    
    But maybe in her mind she identifies them as being “stilettos” ………..
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:23am
- Ed Snack
  
  Crocs are simply never acceptable, except as super lightweight Hut shoes when tramping.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:26am
  - Tall Man
    
    Or for throwing at rats that invade said hut 😉
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:54am
JibberJabber

Look at this race-baiting … [No need for that – Mod.]
https://twitter.com/RevChrisHuriwai/status/1277449520201076736

You`re damned if you do and you`re damned if you don`t.
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June 30, 2020 10:17am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  An open letter to Chris Huriwai:
  
  Dear CH
  
  Maori non-academics culturally appropriating classical European religious titles is getting really old. I don’t care how “connected” you feel to a European religion; to claim this as your own not only cancels a tradition generations and centuries older than you and yours, but also claims a relationship to me – that I should revere you – that you do not have. Don’t do it.
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:58am
- JibberJabber
  
  Yeah, sorry about that Mr Mod, but it got my Dander up ?.
  Had to go outside and weed whack half a paddock of Rushes to calm down… [Uptick – Mod.]
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:24am
- kowtow
  
  Well well and this applies to the Catholic clergy pushing BLM, which is a communist violent and race exclusive movement and telling people who believe that “all lives matter” is sinful ( see Nukus’ above)
  
  They pass themselves off as Christian , the greatest commandant for whom is “Love your neighbour as yourself” and that all Christians live in a communion with Christ as brothers and sisters.
  
  So don’t fucking well start playing the pharasee who passed the injured man on the road and leave the good works to the outsider the Good Samaritan.
  
  Excluding people is not Christian , be they “academics” coat tailing on Maori beliefs or Catholics who believe all lives matter.
  
  Amen , Alleluia and fuck ’em.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:35am
- KevO'Brien
  
  It’s funny actually–they have an app to provide cultural ritual introductions!
  If the the objects so provided for were spiritual entities how did the app developers get their permission to objectify them in software or render them as bits?
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:39am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It was a compulsory exercise for all of us doing our Teacher training in the 1990s to recite our pepeha/mihi fluently in te reo.
  
  Great that I can now revert to English.
  
  Folks should have realised that cultural appropriation would raise its head some time in NZ’s future.
  
  Michael King was delivered the message a couple of decades back.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:50am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I would never have endured that PC training.
    
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    June 30, 2020 7:13pm
- graham
  
  I didn’t even know what papeha means, so I looked it up. According to https://pepeha.nz (which I would assume is fairly authoritative – but according to Chris Huriwai, apparently not – more on that in a sec), it means “Pepeha is a way of introducing yourself in Māori. It tells people who you are by sharing your connections with the people and places that are important to you.”
  
  Sounds simple enough. The website goes on to state, “This website is here to help all New Zealanders introduce themselves in Te Reo Māori, through Pepeha. We encourage everyone to learn the stories behind their Pepeha and share them with pride.”
  
  It even takes you through creating your own papeha. It asks for your name, where you come from, and a mountain and a body of water that is special to you or one that you have lived by. And that’s it. One papeha created, based on my NZ history.
  
  Except … Chris Huriwai (and a few people on the Twitter thread) seem to claim no, no, no, it’s not as simple as that. Of course not. So at this point I gave up.
  
  Sorry to say, this seems typical of the Maori issues floating around at the moment. Even if you try to do what you think is the right thing, someone will jump on you and say oh no, you absolutely can’t do (xyz) in that way, it’s disrespectful to real Maori. Or it’s cultural appropriation. Or something.
  
  To be fair, it’s not just Maori issues. I’m steering well clear of the whole BLM movement for the very simple reason that – as a pale stale male – I know damn well that the moment I say something, even if I’m trying to support BLM, I’ll get howled down. I’m not showing enough support; I’m not being sincere enough; I’m being culturally insensitive; I’m trying to tell the BLM activists what to do (remember Taika Waititi getting slammed for that?) It’s a minefield, so why would I bother?
  
  So, I’ll treat this issue the same way I do other similar issues around Maori culture, BLM, and all the other trendy stuff.
  
  I’ll simply ignore it, and have absolutely nothing to do with it.
  
  It’s a shame, because who knows? I *might* have been interested to give it a try – maybe from the perspective of my own heritage, which is English – but as people like Chris Huriwai would seem impossible to please no matter what I try to do, then stuff ’em.
  
  They’re welcome to bicker about the correct pronounciation, what is culturally appropriate and what isn’t, who’s entitled to claim what heritage, and so on. But I’m staying well out of it. And I imagine that people like Chris Huriwai will continue to lament that Maori language is dying and Maori customs aren’t respected enough, and will never quite work out that when they INSIST on people learning the language, learning the customs, but you have to do it absolutely perfectly because if you mispronounce a word or say the wrong thing or make the wrong motion with your hand then we’re going to howl at you and call you dumb ignorant people with no appreciation of the Maori culture … that we’re just going to give up and say stuff it. It’s just not worth it.
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:11pm
  - Raphael
    
    Is Chris Huriwai one of those people who think that Europeans learning a non-European language is cultural appropriation?
    
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    June 30, 2020 1:32pm
hullkiwi

Mark Richardson this morning pointing out that no-one does hypocrisy better than hypocritical left. He and Garner were discussing the visceral attacks on Paula Bennett in the wake of her announced retirement.

As a matter of research, I wandered over to the the Standard to read what our opposites had to say. Well contrary to what “LPrent” writes, there is no holding back. The best is them accusing the “right of having our snouts in the private sector trough”.

Well as I see it, rather the private sector trough than the public sector trough aka the now seriously ill former DPM (who must have struggled with the number of boards he was appointed to), or the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Manakau DHB (the latter is very much a case of keeping it in the family).

Hypocrisy, the left, their higher standards, and the bullsh*t mantras that they repeat relentlessly to themselves.
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June 30, 2020 10:28am
- kowtow
  
  The hatred the “left” reserve for people like PB and JK is visceral . Why ? Because they are “class enemies” , they’ve come from the working classes and by dint of hard work and personal responsibility they have improved their lot , as it were.
  
  These people are anathema to socialists as their example disproves all the lies they push about capitalism oppressing workers, the poor etc
  
  “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” WSC
  
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  June 30, 2020 10:46am
Surely Knott

Police June publications of Crime at a glance. Crime against people up by 10%. Assaults up by 13%. How can this be. I thought the left said they had the answers? https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/crime-at-a-glance-apr2020.pdf
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June 30, 2020 10:28am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  This can’t be so – New Zealand had to be a safer place after they took away all the evil assaulting of the law-abiding. Also, how can it be that home detention visits are too dangerous in Northland and Auckland because of “gun crime”? why aren’t those naughty guns behaving themselves – After all, according to the police, they are all evil agents of their own device (if you’ll pardon the Eagles’ reference). Perhaps we should just make guns people, like the Wanganui River; after a once an inanimate unintelligent object has been awarded personhood, surely only blessings will flow.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:01am
- Two bob
  
  crime “dropped” through lockdown tho. yeah right it just wasnt reported.
  
  wait for our 2nd wave of crime to hit when unemployment really hits.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:12am
- burt
  
  The left do have the answer to this – the publication of these stats will cease immediately.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:26am
Maggie Pie

And yet another reason if you shop at Countdown, to check the ‘Country of Origin’ label on Pork Belly 🙁

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704
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June 30, 2020 10:38am
- Loddenthinks
  
  I choose not to shop at Countdown, mostly because they immediately scrapped all specials when Jacinda gifted them half of a duopoly during lockdown.
  
  Profiteering ought to be illegal, and their fine should have been doubled due to the pathetic excuse they gave, along the lines of “it would be unfair to advertise a special and then run out of it, so in fairness to everyone we removed the specials.”
  
  It’s almost like they forgot the words that accompany every special promotion ever – while stocks last.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:03am
  - Inandout
    
    Lodden, give CD a break, most of their house brands are sourced from Oz whereas NW go through China for much of Pams. Read the labels very carefully because Ozzies are more choosy over origins .
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:07pm
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Not a big house brand fan, unless it’s for real basics. I use Pak n Save for bulk shopping and New World for the things I like. Yes, I know it’s probably dearer than CD and certainly dearer than PnS, but I like to shop there, they stock the things I like, it’s an NZ co-operative and that the stores are owned locally.
      
      Our Mount New World owner is a very genuine guy that cares about his customers and his staff. Some of the products might be made in China but the profits stay local rather than go to Australia. Each to their own and all that, cheers for the comment.
      
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      June 30, 2020 3:15pm
Critical Thinker

Global tech giant Reddit has just gone full 1984 dystopia.
Stating that it’s now ok to be hateful towards groups of people that are from a majority identity.
So therefore: Asians, Brown people, Christians, Sunni’s, Males, Heterosexuals, legal migrants, etc ?

“Everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.

While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority”

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/account-and-community-restrictions/promoting-hate-based-identity-or

This Marxist driven hysteria is not going to end well…. ?
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June 30, 2020 11:07am
- Tall Man
  
  Yes but ….. I may hail from a sector in the majority but may have suffered a “traumatic event” that makes me vulnerable. How would they know?
  
  Or … I may hail from a sector in the majority but now choose to identify as a minority member so ……. how would they protect my fragile sensibilities?
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:20am
  - RJ
    
    Aren’t tall people a minority? You need to be shown compassion and given a substantial payment to cope with your tallness.
    
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    June 30, 2020 12:26pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Free something sounds good. Just keep giving and I’ll let you know when my hurt feelings are assuaged……
      
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      June 30, 2020 2:13pm
- cmm
  
  It does sound sensible to protect minorities from being overrun.
  
  There are less white people than many other races so surely there should be protection for white cultures, especially those who are in absurdly small minorities (eg. white Africans who are about 0.3%).
  
  Victims of violent events? Like the whole of human history? Or is it just a cherry picking of such events?
  
  Nope?
  
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  June 30, 2020 12:10pm
- Fletch
  
  They disbanded the pro-Trump reddit, with over 800,000 users.
  
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  June 30, 2020 6:41pm
Fletch

Another virus from China on the horizon as a possible pandemic…

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/another-flu-virus-detected-in-china-poses-risk-pandemic
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June 30, 2020 11:14am
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  “China is asshole”.
  
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  June 30, 2020 12:51pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    I’m going to amuse myself by asking the down ticker – do you really believe that China as a country government (entirely separate from the downtrodden and routinely lied-to and deprived average Chinese people as a people) is *not* asshole? if so, please recruit nine of your ‘friends’ and give me a total of 10 downticks by 2200 hours. Good luck.
    
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    June 30, 2020 5:46pm
- RJ
  
  I can’t help but wonder if this is why we recently saw Beijing go into lockdown.
  
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  June 30, 2020 7:58pm
Tall Man

ardern gives another warning ..

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/jacinda-arderns-warning-to-anyone-heading-overseas-you-may-be-charged-for-quarantine/

Now, if like me, you don’t believe the covid con is as serious as made out, why can we not self isolate in our own homes providing we test negative on arrival.

Also …

“ardern said people travelling overseas for holidays put “extra pressure on New Zealanders who need to come home”.”

Now so far it would seem that the “kiwis” returning home carrying the virus all emanate from the sub continent and fly via Doha … WTF?
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June 30, 2020 11:17am
- fernglas
  
  That’s the most recent group, because a lot of people were trapped in India and flights have just restarted. As for coming through Doha, that is about the only way back from many places. To put your mind at rest, the flight I came back on a month or so ago was all white people who spoke English as their first language and hardly any of them owned a dairy.
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:37am
  - Tall Man
    
    I wasn’t that bothered about that to be honest, more the categorisation of those returning infected as “New Zealanders” when they clearly retain citizenship of another nation does make me smile a tad.
    
    It would seem India and Pakistan are the seats of the infection of the “returnees”.
    
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    June 30, 2020 11:48am
    - kowtow
      
      The second wave that the fear mongering Media Party is making so much of in Melbourne and Leicester is related very much to non compliance with the rules and in both cities authorities have claimed it’s because the gubmint message needs to be translated or put more simply for the residents to undertand !
      
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      June 30, 2020 3:40pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I read it as “hanging around with lefty protesters makes you sick”.
        
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        June 30, 2020 4:57pm
- septic skeptic
  
  FFS, so Cindy wants to to curtail Kiwis right to travel so that overseas residents can avail themselves of the NZ bolthole they arranged. Many of these people have never really lived here or paid tax – or done anything for us other than whatever was required to fulfill the permanent resident or citizen requirement. Then they head back to the job/business in their home country.
  
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  June 30, 2020 2:03pm
  - lifesgood
    
    I am seething over this. I personally know some people doing exactly that. This stupid bloody woman supposed to be running the country refuses to see it. Why should NZ tax payers carry the can for these people gaming the system. Many have never paid taxes here. Is the govt stupid enough to think that these tens of thousands flooding into the country were just caught out on holiday? Seems to me we are handing out citizenship far too easily. Mugs, absolute mugs.
    
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    June 30, 2020 3:30pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      Well, as the saying goes, my ox is gored in this fight.
      
      I am (well, was) routinely sent offshore for 4 to 6 months of the year by my (NZ) employer, and my taxes and rates are all paid in New Zealand.
      
      I came back home and indeed arrived the very night that Level 4 Lockdown was declared, after my employer and I responded to the command from Winston Peters PBUH that we all had to come home now.
      
      I self segregated for two weeks on my lonesome in our family cottage (and by the way was never checked or called or tested or anything in those two weeks).
      
      Now, my employer is hoping that I can resume accepting overseas assignments, but Cindy is saying I can’t – and if I do leave even for work, I have to pay the full costs of my return quarantine.
      
      I note, completely relevant in my opinion, that we don’t even require actual criminal murderers, thieves, rapists, violent offenders, fraudsters, and so forth to pay the costs of their arrest, conviction and jail time.
      
      So why should I pay for the quarantine of required to undergo by the government, if I go overseas to earn foreign exchange for the government while paying full taxes and rates?
      
      Riddle me that, sweet cheeks…
      
      FFS!!!
      
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      June 30, 2020 5:53pm
burt

You see what happens when you are not a member of the Labour Party. You get named and your face splashed on the MSM after being convicted rather than discharged.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300045258/serial-groper-denied-parole-requests-psychological-counselling
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June 30, 2020 11:18am
- Tall Man
  
  He has an obvious issue that’s for sure whereas just being a member of the labour party declares to one and all that you have an issue 🙂
  
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  June 30, 2020 11:53am
- Bobba Fret
  
  He could go on the Labour list or run the youth camps.
  
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  June 30, 2020 12:26pm
  - Paulus
    
    Bobba Fret
    Only if you are named and not protected, and awaiting a judicial judgement in not declaring your name because ………..
    must be a Rugby player too !
    
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    June 30, 2020 2:22pm
Prince

Have we reached peak TDS yet ?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300045411/new-zealand-wine-mogul-gave-nearly-400000-to-trump-report
The assumption that everyone thinks like they do, and should be appalled by someone donating to a candidate, is worrying.
The author of the article had to scrap low in the barrel to get the reaction she required.
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June 30, 2020 12:24pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Blatant Doxxing exercise
  Probably to get his wine banned or sales stalled
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:22pm
- graham
  
  Excellent – that’s those wines put firmly on my “to-buy” list.
  
  Not necessarily because I support Trump.
  
  It’s just my own little protest against yet another round of “cancel culture”.
  
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  June 30, 2020 3:01pm
Raphael

Dave Armstrong is sipping the Green’s coolaid.

He thinks that the Green’s are “slight left of centre” with the “Right-wing ‘realist’ faction of the party firmly in control”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/121976743/greens-wealth-tax-will-appeal-to-labours-leftwingers

To pay the Greens’ wealth tax you have to own an asset worth more than a million dollars. Even then you only pay a small amount of tax based on the amount over a million. So all those residents of leafy Wellington suburbs, mine included, can relax – especially if you co-own a house. Even if you own a million-dollar house and a million-dollar company, you’ll more likely be paying your accountant more per year than the wealth tax.

hmmm my house I bought a year ago is sitting at just over 700k, so not the $1m mark.
But my previous house (which was my first) that I had for 7 years went from $350k to $640k (and was the sole reason I could afford to buy a smaller house in the area I was moving to).
SO it wouldn’t be too long before It’s potentially sitting at the $1m mark.
I don’t have an accountant because I can’t afford one. I live from pay check to paycheck. And just had a 20% reduction in my salary that is increasingly looking to be permanent rather than the temporary measure we were hoping for.

Armstrong is a far leftist nutter as far as I am concerned.
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June 30, 2020 12:32pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Peering into the future, the immortal words of the first person stepping foot on Mars:
“Three hundred years from now students at the University of Mars are going to tear down my statue”
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June 30, 2020 1:02pm
Maggie Pie

Will we ever reach ‘peak donut’?

Asking for a friend.
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June 30, 2020 1:19pm
- RJ
  
  No
  
  cheeseburger doughnut
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:46pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    HEY, THAT LOOKS DELISH RJ 😛
    
    where’s Motueka?
    
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    June 30, 2020 1:56pm
    - RJ
      
      Somewhere in New Zealand…..
      
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      June 30, 2020 2:13pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “where’s Motueka” …….
      
      Who cares 🙂
      
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      June 30, 2020 2:24pm
      - chukar
        
        The south is a mystery to you lot.
        Long may it remain so
        
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        June 30, 2020 5:59pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Peak Donut opened for The Maple Bacon Band back in the Coromandel in 1989… I was there.
  
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  June 30, 2020 5:54pm
igm

Does Ardern and her communist party have a hold over Stockdale from AA.
How can he condone this latest increase in fuel costs when the country is on its bloody knees?
I suppose the leeches supporting her do not care as they continue to receive increases from taxpayers, and if really short, they will pinch petrol or do a drive-off!
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June 30, 2020 1:23pm
- Paulus
  
  Petrol goes up again 4c a litre tomorrow – 1st July.
  No increase taxes – must be a Levy.
  
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  June 30, 2020 2:24pm
- Durden
  
  Yes they do. AA stopped being a driver / customer focused organisation a while ago. Or at least started taking the quiet individuals who make up the loyal AA membership for granted. NZTA give AA heaps of money to run “safety” projects.
  
  A big revenue line on their accounts. This might not provide full operational funding, but provides the “marginal income” that makes them profitable and happy. By the way the various cycling bodies including that idiot who leads them Patrick Morgan gets their salaries from running safety projects for AA.
  
  Also their marketing department has been hijacked by some cycling fanatics who seem to have been able to convince the AA that cycling is good for the car drivers because it apparently reduces traffic. Proof of all this is in the articles in AA magazine over time. Show me one project/case where cycling has reduced congestion after years of spending. The goalposts are always shifted or the excuses for lack of improvement become more creative.
  
  AA also seem to have stopped holding oil companies to account since they started making money on the AA card petrol discount marketing. AA is in their pockets too.
  
  The good old “mom and pop customers” who pay their annual dues are last in the line of people they care about. Its been a while now since I got rid of AA membership and instead depend on the roadside assistance provided by insurers. Outside of main centres it is the same people AA have contracted to provide service on their behalf anyway.
  
  There is a great opportunity for an industry body of service station owners to come up with a better product and take over the whole consumer book to lock out AA.
  
  The AA needs a CEO who is not woke and stupid.
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:57pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    Also, AA tell motorcyclists to get stuffed because apparently we’re not automatically mobile by an engine. They have been repeatedly approached to try and get our ACC levy back to normality. They repeatedly refuse. Bahstarhds.
    
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    June 30, 2020 5:55pm
Durden

The PM has fronted the 1pm Covid 19 presser after a while.

There must be the good news of no new cases then 🙂
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June 30, 2020 1:37pm
- RJ
  
  Free campaigning time for her.
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:44pm
- Steve Todd
  
  But you already knew that, didn’t you?
  
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  June 30, 2020 1:47pm
Maggie Pie

WTF?
Here i was thinking this was just another ‘BLM Activist’ following me on Twitter – turns out it’s ACTUALLY McDonald’s! 🙁

https://twitter.com/McDonalds/status/1277433235111202816
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June 30, 2020 1:51pm
RJ

How lucky are we, more tax increases to achieve bugger all by this government. Auckland hows that train your taxes went up for?

Fuel prices for Kiwi motorists are set to go up tomorrow as increases on road user charges (RUC) for light vehicles and petrol excise duty are introduced overnight.

The increase is the last in a three-year programme announced in July 2018 which has previously seen increases in September 2018 and July 2019.

According to the Ministry of Transport, the petrol excise duty will increase 3.5 cents to roughly 70 cents per litre while road user charges will increase by an “equivalent amount” of around 5 per cent. The cost of a road user charges distance licence for a light vehicle (eg a car, van, ute) will be $76 (up from $72) per 1000 km, including GST.

Article
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June 30, 2020 2:05pm
- Nostradamus
  
  RJ:
  
  Just a friendly suggestion: have you considered using blockquotes?
  
  Blockquote text looks like this.
  
  The way to do it is “[blockquote]” and “[/blockquote]” (with “less than” and “greater than” signs instead of square brackets).
  
  Another Kiwiblog reader taught me how to use blockquotes, so this is a pay-it-forward thing, in case it’s helpful.
  
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  June 30, 2020 5:50pm
Cobolt24

Remember to fill up today:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/121986064/petrol-prices-increase-tomorrow
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June 30, 2020 2:08pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Did. $175 thankyou very much Jacinda. We getting ant refund with the rail shit grounded?
  
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  June 30, 2020 3:45pm
Tall Man

Could anyone within the National party organisation tell the bitter bitch to STFU …… Please.
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June 30, 2020 2:22pm
Jack5

Wakie, wakie, the anarchists are winning …

Wake and BLM fanatics are now going after Charles Dickens, defacing a Dickens museum in England and painting over the names of some of Britain’s many Dickens streets.

They are highlighting Dickens’ depiction of black people – and Jews, notably in the portrayal of the character Fagin.

The Jewish aspect is interesting, because in the United States there is controversy within the Jewish community about a Jewish American who was a member of the cabinet of the Confederate Government.

Two Charlottville, Virginia, synagogues are calling for the removal of a monument to Judah Benjamin, the Jewish Confederate politician, reports the Israeli news agency JTA.

A large synagogue in Northern California recently removed Benjamin’s name, along with some other prominent Jewish names, from a memorial in its religious school.

Meanwhile, more big corporates have joined the campaign to force Facebook to impose tighter controls on hate speech. That is also to say, they are pressing for tighter controls on freedom of speech. The latest big names in the boycott are Starbucks and Diageo, the world’s biggest whisky maker. Its brands include Johnny Walker scotch, Smirnoff vodka, and Bailey’s the world’s top selling liqueur.

On the other hand, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is calling for information about who is funding Antifa in North America.

Gingrich says he hopes President Trump’s designation of Antifa as a terrorist organisation will open up who is funding it.

According to Wikipedia:

In July 2019, US Republican Senators Bill Cassidy and Ted Cruz introduced a non-binding resolution that would designate antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

In June 2020, Republican Senator Tom Cotton advocated using military force to quell nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, calling for the 101st Airborne Division to be deployed to combat what he called “Antifa terrorists”.

Antifa is active in New Zealand, and if Trump’s designation becomes law, what effects will this have for New Zealand Antifackers who travel abroad? Could a planned holiday on Australia’s Gold Coast end up being a vacation at Guantanamo Bay?
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June 30, 2020 2:35pm
- Tall Man
  
  Shakespeare’s Shylock must be on their stupid list.
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:46pm
  - kowtow
    
    Wondering how many of the greatest actors of recent years committed the grave crime of “blacking up” to play Othello .
    
    And from now on only Italians can play Romeo & Juliet , Caesar , Danes Hamlet , Welshmen Henry V , and Yorkshire men Richard III.
    
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    June 30, 2020 5:36pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    A Japanese Macbeth seems very acceptable tho’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7ETIO1KB8
    
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    June 30, 2020 7:47pm
plc

I was on the NZ Police website today looking for some info.

A comment made in relation to Murder victims, caused me to dig further.

The NZ Police highlighted in one of their reports that Maori were over-represented as victims of murder. They said that while Maori only made up 14-15% of the population they made up 33% of victims.

What they didn’t look at was the ethnicity of the perpetrators.

So I did a little search into the data tables on the MoJ site.

Interestingly for the past decade 44% of those CONVICTED of murder were Maori.

Not exactly like with like (multiple murderers, multiple victims, only those convicted) but it seems the rest of the population are more at risk from Maori than Maori are from them.
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June 30, 2020 2:44pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  Wait a minute plc! you can’t quote the facts! That be raycisss / sarc.
  
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  June 30, 2020 3:53pm
  - Engelbert Humperdink
    
    This is for the downticker. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits, and the chancres of a thousand low-rent whores ulcerate your inguinal regions.
    
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    June 30, 2020 5:58pm
    - Engelbert Humperdink
      
      Downtickers – try harder. You’re not earning your Soros silver pieces.
      
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      June 30, 2020 9:16pm
Maggie Pie

Just poked holes in tonites Apple Desert Cake and poured ginger syrup over the top.
While it was cooking, I decided to watch QT.
As the product of a strict Catholic upbringing (11 years at Catholic boarding school) I can’t help but notice that whenever Trev delivers the ‘Lord’s Prayer’, he always looks and sounds like he couldn’t give a shit.

Just saying.
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June 30, 2020 3:34pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  My non-theological understanding of this is that you don’t have to give a shit if you are a shit. So Trevor is just being true to Trevor.
  
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  June 30, 2020 3:52pm
Jack5

Jian Yang, National, and even Labour in the gun over at Michael Reddell’s Croaking Cassandra blog.

https://croakingcassandra.com/2020/06/29/pursuing-jian-yang-and-the-travesty-that-is-nz-politics/
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June 30, 2020 3:43pm
- brett68
  
  I no longer believe that National has New Zealand’s best interest at heart.
  
  They’re about the money, the power and little else.
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:23pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  I admire the intellectual rigour on that site, I also think he named himself extremely accurately. The people who should listen to Cassandra, don’t.
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:24pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  One of my absolute Twitter besties. ‘Prof Anne-Marie Brady’ knows all about Jian Yang.
  Check her out.
  
  I even think it might have been him that let her tires down 🙁
  
  Just saying.
  
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  June 30, 2020 5:43pm
  - Jack5
    
    Delved into the rubbish mountain that is Twitter, Maggie, and found there are TWO people of interest:
    
    1. Professor Anne-Marie Brady, the political science academic at the University of Canterbury.
    
    2. Professor Anne-Marie Brady, head of the School of Nursing and Chronic Illness at Trinity College, Dublin.
    
    What if Jian Yang’s old colleagues in Chinese Military Intelligence get their wires crossed and send a squad to the Irish Republic? ?
    
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    June 30, 2020 10:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Liz Wheeler, OAN, One America News. How Trump can win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53Rw_iRNvE
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June 30, 2020 4:00pm
- Engelbert Humperdink
  
  I would suggest to appoint a Sigourney Weaver* character as his Head of Operations:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9aM4rH692M
  
  (*although she did get very wet’n’woke in her later reincarnation in the SJW crapfest that is ‘Avatar’, back in the day she had it together).
  
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  June 30, 2020 4:27pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Name says it all.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3f3gk3n86sfsbi/pinococinda.jpg?dl=0
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June 30, 2020 5:13pm
RJ

Wait, you could leave isolation faking a text message. Damn. I would expect that the results would be given to not only the person being tested but the Ministry Of Health would of looked and said our records show this person in isolation is negative. Not that the person in isolation has to show the ministry they were negative.

I’d like to say monkeys are running the system, but we’ve seen monkeys are more intelligent than those running things here

Staff warned Housing Minister Megan Woods on day one of her new job that returning Kiwis leaving isolation could potentially ensure their exit by faking a negative test text message.

But this possible hole was swiftly patched up, and there is no evidence that anyone attempted to exploit it.

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June 30, 2020 5:31pm
RJ

Reshuffle coming

National’s leader Todd Muller says he’ll be considering the representation of Māori when reshuffling the party’s caucus this week.

Just days into his leadership, Muller came under fire for the lack of diversity in his shadow Cabinet line-up.

There are no Māori MPs on the front bench, or of any other ethnicity, but three of National’s top four ranked MPs are women.

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June 30, 2020 5:37pm
- krazykiwi
  
  So he’ll demote experience in favour of race. Bugger ‘the content of their character’ when the colour of their skin can be exploited for, let’s face it, votes.
  
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  June 30, 2020 6:29pm
- brett68
  
  Fuckwits, you wouldn’t have this sort of stupidy if Collins was the leader.
  
  Christ, Muller certainly knows how to alienate everyone.
  
  Just out of interest, is there some sort of “optics expert” whispering in the ear of the National Leader?
  
  If there is, here’s a bit of free advice, take them out the back and put a bullet in them.
  
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  June 30, 2020 7:31pm
Nostradamus

Is Notsofast on Mr Smith’s defence team?

Former liquidator Geoffrey Smith defends himself in trial over alleged $270k theft from companies
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June 30, 2020 6:11pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Who can become a liquidator?
  What qualification/experience is required?
  
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  June 30, 2020 6:33pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    I believe it may have changed recently but anyone over the age of 18 would have been likely. The job is commonally done by accountants but no formal quals have been required.
    
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    June 30, 2020 7:19pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @Kev O’B
      Nostra
      Txs
      Yes, I read who couldn’t be one… then realised I was none the wiser as to who could be.
      
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      June 30, 2020 7:27pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Maggy:
    
    First a disclaimer: this isn’t my area of expertise.
    
    The Insolvency Practitioners Regulation Act 2019 sets out a licensing regime for insolvency practitioners.
    An “accredited body” (eg Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and, I presume, the NZ Law Society) may issue a licence to an insolvency practitioner based on minimum requirements.
    
    And then, in the real world, section 280 of the Companies Act 1993 states who can’t be appointed as a liquidator.
    
    Unless the court orders otherwise, none of the following persons may be appointed or act as a liquidator of a company[.]
    
    The list of excluded people includes the obvious (eg a person less than 18 years old) and various descriptions of people who would have a conflict of interest (eg a creditor of the company in liquidation; or a person who has, within the 2 years immediately preceding the commencement of the liquidation, been a shareholder, director, auditor, or receiver of the company or of a related company).
    
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    June 30, 2020 7:19pm
Fletch

It looks like Newshub have banned me from commenting on their Facebook posts, or liking any comments. So much for free speech…. ?
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June 30, 2020 6:37pm
RJ

Ah! No, you aren’t whistleblowers, you are low life creeps who deserved to be named and shamed, you are spies and nothing more. Stop trying to justify your actions of giving away information. Name and shame so New Zealand companies stay away from these people

The Kiwi contractors at the centre of Team New Zealand’s big spying scandal claim they’re whistleblowers, not spies.

The contractors were hired to run next year’s America’s Cup event, and they worked out of the team’s headquarters until they were fired by Team New Zealand following months of concerns confidential information was being leaked, sources confirmed to Newshub.

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June 30, 2020 6:57pm
graham

Just out of curiosity, I had a quick look at the pro-cannabis website makeitlegal.nz to see who might be behind it.

Turns out that one Nandor Tanzos is listed as a trustee (Whakatane based), and the pages all seem to be authorised by M Turei of Dunedin. Could the “M” possibly stand for Metiria, I wonder? Well, we were always curious about what she was up to now …

What a surprise. Never would have thought a couple of ex-Green MPs would be involved with this (/sarc)
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June 30, 2020 7:09pm
Happychappy

Winston Peter’s and Stuart Nash caught out again trying to get their stories the same over why there is still no camera’s on fishing trawlers in New Zealand.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/06/fisheries-minister-stuart-nash-blames-pressure-from-nz-first-for-delay-in-fishing-boat-cameras-in-recording.html
Winston won’t like the bad press but he won’t also like Michael Morrah making a fool of him which ends up with Peters call it defamatory and unethical Journalism.
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June 30, 2020 7:33pm
RJ

Another leak? I’d say bridges team is leaking like they were jami lee

The National Party caucus has sprung yet another leak.

Newshub can reveal the party’s internal polling – which was finally shown to MPs on Tuesday – and it’s not great news for leader Todd Muller.

National MPs leaking from their sealed caucus room told Newshub they were shown slides of internal poll trends but were given no numbers.

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June 30, 2020 8:36pm
- doggone7
  
  According to one headline, ‘Leaked National Party Poll – Labour 55% National 34%’
  
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  June 30, 2020 9:34pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Must watch video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=GVjketUc3qA&feature=emb_logo

We have been had! Completely planned.
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